Hello,
I want to get root on my current stock android 4.1.1 on my Nexus S without data loss to backup the wifi settings.
I could only find this exploit for 4.1.1, which doesn't work for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
Can anybody help me by pointing out a current exploit for stock 4.1.1 on Nexus S?
I've unlocked the bootloader now and stored the wifi settings on google servers, which worked, but it also restored some other things I wanted to get rid off. Now I would like to become root on my device with the current stock system to save only the wifi settings (e.g. with titanium backup) and install cm 10 later.
Now I've flashed clockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 on my device as described in cyanogen wiki. I've found this guide for rooting the stock system with a custom recovery. Is this a good idea or is there something better?
white-gecko said:
Now I've flashed clockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 on my device as described in cyanogen wiki. I've found this guide for rooting the stock system with a custom recovery. Is this a good idea or is there something better?
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No it's a good idea, this guide was created not long ago so things haven't really changed since then.
Thank you. I rooted the device according to these instructions, installed a wifi backup tool from market and did a backup of only the wifi settings. Now I'm running CM 10.0 and I will reapply the wifi settings with this app.
Thank you
(I think this thread can be closed now, but I don't know how)
white-gecko said:
Thank you. I rooted the device according to these instructions, installed a wifi backup tool from market and did a backup of only the wifi settings. Now I'm running CM 10.0 and I will reapply the wifi settings with this app.
Thank you
(I think this thread can be closed now, but I don't know how)
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Leave it to die a peaceful death, and good job rooting your Nexus S. Enjoy it!
Hello,
I'm new to the android community and thought rooting my phone would be a good idea. I got as far as installing twrp without any problems.
I can flash with supersu perfectly fine. However, the problem comes in where when I restart, I still only get to twrp recovery instead of android.
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this.
Sorry for being a complete and utter noob (read: idiot) and for maybe making a duplicate thread - I tried to find a similar thread but couldn't.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime LTE, that I bought maybe two months ago. I had big troubles to root it and finally succeeded with KingRoot 4.0, a nifty Chinese app. What I actually wanted to do is get the OTG to work, however as it didn't my quest continued. Today I flashed Android 5.0.2 Lollipop on my phone and it's not bricked, it works, but it's unrooted so I cannot even use the apps that would make the OTG work if I find the right kernel and/or cable, whichever is the problem. No one-click-rooting apps worked except for KingRoot and now that's not working either.
Is there any way to restore the original, factory stock rom on my phone..?
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Please can u give me the name of the app that make your device to enable otg?
name or link please
just get the old firmware 4.4.4 from sammobile and flash the rom with odin then when when the phone boots it will be stuck in boot loop all you have to do is boot into recovery and wipe cache partition then reboot and give it two mins to boot up
hello,
were you able to downgrade g360f to 4.4.4?
thanks
im in need of help deodexing. i used the universal deodexer and didnt get proper start up. it became stuck on verizon logo. i reflashed the firmware so its like new again. question is how to properly deodex the stock rom so i can theme status icons? maybe some zip file that i can use in safestrap to make things easier. oh im using verizon prepaid galaxy s3 which is i535PP. any help is appreciated
bjf189 said:
im in need of help deodexing. i used the universal deodexer and didnt get proper start up. it became stuck on verizon logo. i reflashed the firmware so its like new again. question is how to properly deodex the stock rom so i can theme status icons? maybe some zip file that i can use in safestrap to make things easier. oh im using verizon prepaid galaxy s3 which is i535PP. any help is appreciated
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If root can even be obtained this might be an option, otherwise your probably out of luck
Sent from my Nexus 5
Root has been obtained @ShapesBlue
Nobody has created a ROM for i535PP users yet(the i535 roms run but no wifi/data). And you're correct about having to use safestrap to flash it.If you're comfortable with a bash terminal you can try using one of the various tools found around here to modify the stock rom. If you're not then I'll see what I can do this weekend and try to get something for us i535pp users (after a day or so of testing)
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If root can even be obtained this might be an option, otherwise your probably out of luck
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Ok, there wasn't really a need to mention me in this thread. Everytime someone does that I get an email. And just because root has been obtained doesn't mean you can flash roms via safestrap
Sent from my Nexus 5
ShapesBlue said:
Ok, there wasn't really a need to mention me in this thread. Everytime someone does that I get an email. And just because root has been obtained doesn't mean you can flash roms via safestrap
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Flashing via safestrap appears to work fine on my i535pp. The only issue I ran into was wifi not working with roms meant for the i535. And sorry for you having to receive an email for that.
OpenSourcererSweg said:
Flashing via safestrap appears to work fine on my i535pp. The only issue I ran into was wifi not working with roms meant for the i535. And sorry for you having to receive an email for that.
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Its cool. Good to see safestrap works on the prepaid version also
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I'm not sure what a bash terminal is unless it's the same thing as the terminal emulator. I tried using that rom that's called paulpizz or something like that. I used some other rom to. The paulpizz one always failed to install even after downloading it a third time. The other one i can't remember the name but it installed but wouldn't start at all. It would just go black and bootloop and goes into stock recovery for some reason. I came across the nf5 module when i found that paulpizz rom on the goo server they hosted it on. So i got the module and i figured if i were to flash the module over the i535 rom that it would fix the wifi an data problem but never got an answer because it always failed to start up properly and would just bootloop into stock recovery. Ugh Verizon is making things so difficult with modding lol. As of now I'm just using xposed to get at least some theming in and tweaks. I couldn't get any deodex program to work. Whenever i used the deodex files and pushed them to the system of apps and framework, it would restart and just stick on the Verizon logo. So i had to flash the firmware to fix the problem.
When i was on 4.3 with this phone safestrap worked and i got the wifi and data sim error. Now that i got it replaced I'm running the kernel of July 22 2014. Everyone was saying I'm out of luck but i came across kingroot and got the most recent version and it worked. I have root. Installed safestrap for 4.4 and it runs fine but can't get any custom roms to boot. I only managed to find one 4.4 touchwiz rom unfortunately
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Root has been obtained @ShapesBlue
Nobody has created a ROM for i535PP users yet(the i535 roms run but no wifi/data). And you're correct about having to use safestrap to flash it.If you're comfortable with a bash terminal you can try using one of the various tools found around here to modify the stock rom. If you're not then I'll see what I can do this weekend and try to get something for us i535pp users (after a day or so of testing)
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Flashing via safestrap appears to work fine on my i535pp. The only issue I ran into was wifi not working with roms meant for the i535. And sorry for you having to receive an email for that.
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Can you tell me what rom you have successfully flashed with safestrap? I would like to test something
bjf189 said:
Can you tell me what rom you have successfully flashed with safestrap? I would like to test something
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...iterom-v1-0-i535vrudne1-t2805797/post53919312
If you're going to try flashing an i535 rom and then the i535pp modules let me know how that goes, can't test as I won't be able to do anything till the weekend. If that's the case then there's no need for roms for the pre paid version. Cyanogenmod was also bootable but very buggy.
OpenSourcererSweg said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...iterom-v1-0-i535vrudne1-t2805797/post53919312
If you're going to try flashing an i535 rom and then the i535pp modules let me know how that goes, can't test as I won't be able to do anything till the weekend. If that's the case then there's no need for roms for the pre paid version. Cyanogenmod was also bootable but very buggy.
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I'll let you know how it goes and thank you. How is it that you were able to boot CM? From my understanding being that the bootloader is locked and has Knox for extra security to make the unlocking like impossible. But a genius came up with safestrap so we are able to use some custom roms but the down side is that it has to be the same Android OS and has to be a touchwiz based rom. So how are you getting lucky with all this? I love CM and I'd pick CM over any custom rom any day but i gave up an lost hope of ever getting CM because of the locked bootloader
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I'll let you know how it goes and thank you. How is it that you were able to boot CM? From my understanding being that the bootloader is locked and has Knox for extra security to make the unlocking like impossible. But a genius came up with safestrap so we are able to use some custom roms but the down side is that it has to be the same Android OS and has to be a touchwiz based rom. So how are you getting lucky with all this? I love CM and I'd pick CM over any custom rom any day but i gave up an lost hope of ever getting CM because of the locked bootloader
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Safestrap 3.75 had support for AOSP roms (wifi/data didn't work for them either) and 4.0 dropped support for that (there is currently no point). Read the thread for more info http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2797314
Ok i wasn't using safestrap 4.0. I had 3.75 B05 which i thought was the latest version they had. I'm updated to 4.0 now and about to test the modules on the superlite rom
Update: i have tried the super lite rom using safestrap. The boot animation won't work during start up. When it gets to the welcome screen it freezes. It still does it even without applying the nf5 module. It freezes and will keep popping up that system isn't responding. System just keeps freezing and prompting me to wait or force close. So not sure why my s3 has a problem running it but yours don't
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Update: i have tried the super lite rom using safestrap. The boot animation won't work during start up. When it gets to the welcome screen it freezes. It still does it even without applying the nf5 module. It freezes and will keep popping up that system isn't responding. System just keeps freezing and prompting me to wait or force close. So not sure why my s3 has a problem running it but yours don't
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Did you wipe cache/data after installing? Other than that I can't think of anything that would cause that
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Did you wipe cache/data after installing? Other than that I can't think of anything that would cause that
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Well no. The instructions just said to do a full wipe off everything then install and reboot so extra what i did. What version you running of the rom?
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Well no. The instructions just said to do a full wipe off everything then install and reboot so extra what i did. What version you running of the rom?
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I'm running the stock prepaid rom, not superlightrom, sorry if there's any confusion there.
When I tried out superlightrom (quite some time ago) it appeared to work fine (excluding wifi/data and nagging about no SIM card being inserted, nothing like what you're describing) and I went back to stock.
Oh ok. Well it seems that the prepaid version or the s3 in general is dead. That's unfortunate
OK first off this is my gfs phone, I had rooted it using Kingroot with no problem. I flashed a custom ROM I used cynogen 12.1 and also flashed a synthetic v3 kernel. Her phone was working just fine until she let some know it all at her work mess with it! I was wondering why the hell I couldn't get into recovery thru my twrp. I have to manually do it now. Even then everything I try to do it says it fails. So I can't back it up at all. Nor flash the old stock KitKat THST it originally came with. Her screen has been blacking out to every since that dumbass friend of hers downloaded pimp my rom. He had no clue wtf he was doing. Now thru that app it allows me to delete all added **** he did to it. But somehow her phone lost her permanent root!!?? Beats me, but it explains why I can't use device control anymore. And why I can't wipe the cache to the dalvik machine. I can't flash any roms, I can't do ****. I tried using kingroot but no work! It worked on my 4th try last time but I was using her stock Android 4.44 KitKat rom. I recall reading somewhere that kingroot doesn't support lollipop 5.2 which is what I put on her phone using Cynogen 12.1!!! So basically if I can't gain access to permanently root her phone I won't be able to fix it at all! Which is bs! Van anyone help me? I manually go into recovery mode it won't even let me do a factory reset. No matter what I do it keeps saying Fail!!! I'm growing very impatient, I need to fix her phone asap. I'd appreciate it if any of you guys can help me out please. Thank you for your time...hope someone helps me.
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OK first off this is my gfs phone, I had rooted it using Kingroot with no problem. I flashed a custom ROM I used cynogen 12.1 and also flashed a synthetic v3 kernel. Her phone was working just fine until she let some know it all at her work mess with it! I was wondering why the hell I couldn't get into recovery thru my twrp. I have to manually do it now. Even then everything I try to do it says it fails. So I can't back it up at all. Nor flash the old stock KitKat THST it originally came with. Her screen has been blacking out to every since that dumbass friend of hers downloaded pimp my rom. He had no clue wtf he was doing. Now thru that app it allows me to delete all added **** he did to it. But somehow her phone lost her permanent root!!?? Beats me, but it explains why I can't use device control anymore. And why I can't wipe the cache to the dalvik machine. I can't flash any roms, I can't do ****. I tried using kingroot but no work! It worked on my 4th try last time but I was using her stock Android 4.44 KitKat rom. I recall reading somewhere that kingroot doesn't support lollipop 5.2 which is what I put on her phone using Cynogen 12.1!!! So basically if I can't gain access to permanently root her phone I won't be able to fix it at all! Which is bs! Van anyone help me? I manually go into recovery mode it won't even let me do a factory reset. No matter what I do it keeps saying Fail!!! I'm growing very impatient, I need to fix her phone asap. I'd appreciate it if any of you guys can help me out please. Thank you for your time...hope someone helps me.
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Try to ask over here:
ZTE Zmax [Z970] ROOT GUIDE, FAQ, DISCUSSION, if permrooted with Kingroot.
Good luck!