I just got my device today and rooted with WeakSauce. As expected, firewater failed. I am wonder if I need to have S-OFF in order to flash TWRP and/or some custom ROMs. If I don't need it, I'd rather save the $25 that I'd have to spend on SunShine.
himom said:
I just got my device today and rooted with WeakSauce. As expected, firewater failed. I am wonder if I need to have S-OFF in order to flash TWRP and/or some custom ROMs. If I don't need it, I'd rather save the $25 that I'd have to spend on SunShine.
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Yes you need that on this device to flash or write anything to system..
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I thought you could still flash a rom with a boot image. No?
etracyirl said:
I thought you could still flash a rom with a boot image. No?
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How do you install a recovery with weakauce root only? That would be new to me
Edit. You either need s-off or s-on with unlocked bootloader. An you need s-off on HTC VZW m8 to unlock bootloader ..
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Tigerstown said:
How do you install a recovery with weakauce root only? That would be new to me
Edit. You either need s-off or s-on with unlocked bootloader. An you need s-off on HTC VZW m8 to unlock bootloader ..
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Thanks for clearing that up. Been a while for me. Just got my M8 and last time I had to root was on my DNA when VZ still let us unlock the bootloader.
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Thanks for clearing that up. Been a while for me. Just got my M8 and last time I had to root was on my DNA when VZ still let us unlock the bootloader.
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No problem...if you can't get firewater to work yourself. I would gladly pay sunshine.
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I havent had my phone unrooted and locked for a while now I want to unlock and rooted again but I know when you unlock it wipes your phone is there anyway to unlock it with out your data being wiped?
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After searching around, it seems possible to root without unlocking the bootloader so you won't lose any data.
Here's the guide and another one.
Do note that those guides are written during gingerbread time, might not work in ics. besides, I haven't tested them myself, so do it at your own risk.
But I would still recommend you to make titanium backup after you gain root, unlock bootloader, and restore. This is in case you want to flash custom rom.
Thanks i didn't know I can root without unlocking the boot loader.
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You can root without unlocking up until 4.0.3. Out of luck beyond this.
I think I'm screwed cause I have 4.0.4 and I cant a guide for rooting. fml
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shabgard said:
I think I'm screwed cause I have 4.0.4 and I cant a guide for rooting. fml
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Just unlock the bootloader. They are just saved games. The apps are all there in Play, so just reinstall what you want.
Haha its my saved games I'm worry about well just temple run don't care about the rest. God damn you temple run. Hahaha
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Just unlock the bootloader. They are just saved games. The apps are all there in Play, so just reinstall what you want.
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shabgard said:
Haha its my saved games I'm worry about well just temple run don't care about the rest. God damn you temple run. Hahaha
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You will probably do better second time around Then you have titanium backup so you never have to worry about it again.
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What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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shabgard said:
What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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As of the time of posting there is no public way to root 4.0.4 without unlocking on the Nexus S.
shabgard said:
What the hell but is there is a guide to root 4.0.4 with unlocked boot loader?
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Use this guide to root - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
This for latest recovery - http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Superuser zip http://goo.im/superuser
Cyanogenmod thread if that is what you want? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399035
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nexus-s
Profit
I was just wondering if this would work for my moto q.
It's for the razr m
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979383
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Why would anyone have any use for it over here? It doesn't do anything we can't already do.
Plus, Safestrap is extremely device-specific.
Really I'm not sure if I. Want to unlock bootloader as of yet. And coming from the og photon with locked boot loader I have no experience with any other recovery method.
Could i unlock after rooting by the exploit method.
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dwaynet89 said:
Really I'm not sure if I. Want to unlock bootloader as of yet. And coming from the og photon with locked boot loader I have no experience with any other recovery method.
Could i unlock after rooting by the exploit method.
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Unlocking helps you to root, so you cant unlock AFTER rooting. You also need to be rooted to flash custom recoveries
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CNexus said:
Unlocking helps you to root, so you cant unlock AFTER rooting. You also need to be rooted to flash custom recoveries
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I used motofail2go to root without unlocking. So when I do get ready to unlock ido I need go unroot first?
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I used motofail2go to root without unlocking. So when I do get ready to unlock ido I need go unroot first?
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Ohh well in that case, no, just unlock the bootloader directly
My mistake, its just that the only root methods for the Photon that I've seen so far unlock your bootloader at the same time
So just ignore what I said and unlock directly
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So I tried installing this last week had trouble and got me on the screen that says something like 'this is non Verizon please take to nearest Verizon store' SOMETHING LIKE THAT, sure you'll know what I'm talking about. And I want to try over but I'm not to sure why that happened. I'm THINKING it was because phone wasn't unlocked. But I'm not to sure if it was locked of unlocked. Is there several reasons that message can come up or is there one main cause, that cause being phone wasn't unlocked??
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So I tried installing this last week had trouble and got me on the screen that says something like 'this is non Verizon please take to nearest Verizon store' SOMETHING LIKE THAT, sure you'll know what I'm talking about. And I want to try over but I'm not to sure why that happened. I'm THINKING it was because phone wasn't unlocked. But I'm not to sure if it was locked of unlocked. Is there several reasons that message can come up or is there one main cause, that cause being phone wasn't unlocked??
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Only reason why you saw this prompt is because the bootloader is still locked. Odin flash a stock image then use Casual to root and unlock or use Invisiblek's guide on Rootzwiki to root and unlock via Odin. What root utility did you use to root?
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Only reason why you saw this prompt is because the bootloader is still locked. Odin flash a stock image then use Casual to root and unlock or use Invisiblek's guide on Rootzwiki to root and unlock via Odin. What root utility did you use to root?
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Well I got it unlocked and rooted, so when I do the wipe and factory reset then flash rom it should all be fine right? The factory reset and wipe won't lock the bootloader?
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Well I got it unlocked and rooted, so when I do the wipe and factory reset then flash rom it should all be fine right? The factory reset and wipe won't lock the bootloader?
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Correct. It won't lock the bootloader.
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Thanks I got it flashed perfectly
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My XT1080 has an unlocked bootloader already. I would like help rooting it on Android 4.4.4 please. Can this be done?
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choppacha01 said:
My XT1080 has an unlocked bootloader already. I would like help rooting it on Android 4.4.4 please. Can this be done?
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The same way on the moto x, how did u get it unlocked? You have a Dev ed?
choppacha01 said:
My XT1080 has an unlocked bootloader already. I would like help rooting it on Android 4.4.4 please. Can this be done?
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If you're running official 4.4.4 firmware (SU4-21/SU5-25/SU6-7) - you must downgrade first to SU3-15 cause that's only available way to get root. Or you can install alternative firmware like CyanogenMod cause you're lucky one and have unlocked bootloader.
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My XT1080 has an unlocked bootloader already. I would like help rooting it on Android 4.4.4 please. Can this be done?
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if you already have a unlocked boot loader just flash a custom recovery
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My XT1080 has an unlocked bootloader already. I would like help rooting it on Android 4.4.4 please. Can this be done?
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With an unlocked boot loader all you have to do is flash twrp recovery then boot into recovery and when you exit it will ask if you want to install SU.
Here is a link to a tool others have used to flash twrp.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54201254
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I unlocked BL using middleman back then. Is there a way to root without custom recovery? Like running a .bat file to root my N6.
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choppacha01 said:
I unlocked BL using middleman back then. Is there a way to root without custom recovery? Like running a .bat file to root my N6.
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Try the sunshine download page there's a app there called suinstaller its for installation of su with a unlocked bl
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Just received a replacement phone from Amazon. It has a Viper Rom wallpaper (default). Is it possible this phone could have been rooted and unlocked before and Verizon didn't catch it? If so can it be re-rooted easily? Root checker app says it's not rooted.
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It i's possible, have you checked the recovery screen?
Yeah, just did. S-on locked. It is still 4.4.4 so still hope I guess. If I can keep it from updating before I use Sunshine.
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Billy3369 said:
Yeah, just did. S-on locked. It is still 4.4.4 so still hope I guess. If I can keep it from updating before I use Sunshine.
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As soon as u login to your google account it would have loaded your wall paper. So unless u did not login and it booted straight to home screen then the phone wasn't wiped before it was sent to you.
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