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[Q] Just another root question - 2.3.6

There's so much out there I have to ask it directly. I know it's got to be in the forum somewhere but I've read probably half dozen ways to do this and it's confusing.
I have a TMob Galaxy S 4g T959VUVKJ6 running T959VUVKJ6-CL694130 kernel (hope that means something to someone!) with 2.3.6 firmware that came with the phone.
How can I get rid of bloatware?
If I have to root first is there an ez way to do that, like SOC that works on my phone?
I rooted a previous phone but with an older firmware and used SOC. Looking for the same process if I can. Thanks in advance.

SOC V2.3.3 will work on GB. If you just want to root and keep the stock ROM that's your best bet.

rogerperk said:
How can I get rid of bloatware?
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Check my signature for FB's debloater. You do need to be rooted & have CWM installed to use it.
rogerperk said:
If I have to root first is there an ez way to do that, like SOC that works on my phone?
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SOC is one way, but given that you need to have CWM installed I would suggest using the third link in bhndven's [Heimdall][One-Click][UVKJ6] The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection [12/11/2011].
After that, install [KERNEL]Subtly Modified Stock with CWM5 + Voodoo Lagfix [02/24] to get on the latest beta kernel. It has the latest CWM which resolves an issue with CWM 3 not being able to mount /system on Gingerbread.
rogerperk said:
I rooted a previous phone but with an older firmware and used SOC. Looking for the same process if I can. Thanks in advance.
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SOC will work, just make sure you have the latest version. However, to debloat you need CWM so I would forgo SOC & install the stuff above.

Nope. I downloaded SOC 2.3.3, checked USB debugging, plugged in my phone, it didn't ask my anything about my card, turned on SOC, clicked Root, it went through Killing ADB Server, daemon not running, daemon started successfully, and sat there at Starting ADB Server. Tried several times but no joy. Is it me?

It said Not Responding.

I haven't used it to root in a really long time personally. I know others have gotten it to work recently. Maybe try a different usb port. Here's a guide with some info on it. Read down a little bit and you'll see it. Sounds like your doing it right. Do you want to stay on stock and just have root? Or will you be playing with custom ROMs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716

hechoen said:
I haven't used it to root in a really long time personally. I know others have gotten it to work recently. Maybe try a different usb port. Here's a guide with some info on it. Read down a little bit and you'll see it. Sounds like your doing it right. Do you want to stay on stock and just have root? Or will you be playing with custom ROMs?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
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Same result. It stops responding. I'm probably going to keep it stock. I may do a custom ROM later but right now I can't get it to root. Can't figure it out.

You need to try a USB that you haven't used on your phone before. Follow the first link in my signature and go to the part about rooting. If fresh USB port doesn't work after following the guide it will probably be your USB cable.

lumin30 said:
You need to try a USB that you haven't used on your phone before. Follow the first link in my signature and go to the part about rooting. If fresh USB port doesn't work after following the guide it will probably be your USB cable.
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Still no joy. I think this is just too hard to do, which brings me back to my original question. I'm sure some wizard will come up with a way to do this soon - just not now I guess. Thanks for the help though! I appreciate it. I guess I'll stay stock for awhile yet.

How could you have done what I said in that short of time? I think you aren't reading thoroughly and are waiting for a specific answer you want to hear.

Just follow the second link in my signature. You will be on rooted stock with CWM and the guide is DUMMY proof.

I think your right lumin....outside of the vibrant....this is the easiest phone to root.
Sent from my SGH-T959V,SGH-T959 using xda premium.

Another simple way to get rid of bloatware is to use titanium backup or root explorer.

Because I am sitting at my computer working on this so it wasn't that hard to do. I had SOC open, had already downloaded file manager, etc. I never got a USB port to work but I'm going to try it again. Once I get a moment to take a deep breath. I really do appreciate the help but I don't want to do alot to do that. I got spoiled with SOC.

lumin30 said:
Just follow the second link in my signature. You will be on rooted stock with CWM and the guide is DUMMY proof.
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OK, I think it worked this time. The trick was to use IE and not Chrome apparently. It didn't go like the directions said but I ended up with a rebooted phone, lost all my apps and stuff, but with superuser on it so I assume I'm rooted and this won't start launching nuclear missiles or something. Thanks, Lumin! I appreciate your patience with me.

Hi. I have posted in another thread regarding problems with my Wind Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4G (SGH-T959W), which seems to be similar to rogerperk's issues, although the phone is a different model. lumin30 responded to the post saying that my phone is not supported by XDA. Being a noob, I don't understand why my phone is not supported. It is still a Galaxy S 4G, is it not; albeit with different baseband.
My original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24678919#post24678919
Is there anyone out there that may be able to help? stephen_w, lumin30, FBis251? My main goal is to root it so I can use Titanium Backup and fix the random shut-down problems.
thanks,
Billy

billyckot said:
Being a noob, I don't understand why my phone is not supported. It is still a Galaxy S 4G, is it not; albeit with different baseband.
My original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24678919#post24678919
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Billy even tho your phone is a SGS4G it is different from the T-Mobile phone. So our methods wont work. We dont know anything about your phone or even how to root it. You are probably stuck with a locked up phone.

Super One Click is not specific to our model phone. I will post a link to the website for you to read up on and determine if you want to try using it to root. I haven't read anybody messing their phone up with SOC - however, keep in mind you will not have a way to fix your phone if you do mess it up.

lumin30 said:
Super One Click is not specific to our model phone. I will post a link to the website for you to read up on and determine if you want to try using it to root. I haven't read anybody messing their phone up with SOC - however, keep in mind you will not have a way to fix your phone if you do mess it up.
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I started to link him but in his initial post he states it wouldnt work. Maybe the newest version will do the trick tho.

Here it is either way - http://shortfuse.org/?p=193

Can I still root? Got new one x today

I got the one x coming from the s3 and I like it but was wondering if I should update or am I okay to root on what I am running?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Optimizer said:
I got the one x coming from the s3 and I like it but was wondering if I should update or am I okay to root on what I am running?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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yes, currently software version 1.85 is rootable. i would strongly recommend staying away from any ONE-CLICK rooting methods, as you may inadvertently OTA yourself. one click asks you to check for updates, but back then there wasn't an update to be found. if you do one click, and you do begin to update, quickly run a factory reset to get out of the OTA
once you OTA, you can never root or unlock your phone. (that's what happened to me)

wdkingery said:
yes, currently software version 1.85 is rootable. i would strongly recommend staying away from any ONE-CLICK rooting methods, as you may inadvertently OTA yourself. one click asks you to check for updates, but back then there wasn't an update to be found. if you do one click, and you do begin to update, quickly run a factory reset to get out of the OTA
once you OTA, you can never root or unlock your phone. (that's what happened to me)
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Well does anyone know a current good root method to unlock bootloader and gain root?

Optimizer said:
Well does anyone know a current good root method to unlock bootloader and gain root?
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user "google" knows how.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/root-htc-one-xl-att-one-x-1-85-update-with-just-one-click/

Optimizer said:
Well does anyone know a current good root method to unlock bootloader and gain root?
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Use this one click:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709424
I disagree with the other poster. Sure, you're going to check for updates, and if the one-click root does not work, it will start to download the update. The update is 100's of mb, so you have plenty of time to go and manually change the date in your settings. Just add two days. This will immediately confuse the server, and it corrupts the download and stops right away. Then try the root process again. It took me many tries of adding two days (got somewhere near the end of August), but low and behold, it finally was successfully.
Also, at any point feel free to do a factory reset and start again. All of the people's recent experiences are near the end of the thread I posted above.
FYI, I did this 3 days ago on my phone.

ckombo said:
Use this one click:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709424
I disagree with the other poster. Sure, you're going to check for updates, and if the one-click root does not work, it will start to download the update. The update is 100's of mb, so you have plenty of time to go and manually change the date in your settings. Just add two days. This will immediately confuse the server, and it corrupts the download and stops right away. Then try the root process again. It took me many tries of adding two days (got somewhere near the end of August), but low and behold, it finally was successfully.
Also, at any point feel free to do a factory reset and start again. All of the people's recent experiences are near the end of the thread I posted above.
FYI, I did this 3 days ago on my phone.
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i, unfortunately, was not bright enough to realize all of this, and it was not spelled out clearly, so i ended up OTA'ing. if you are competent enough to do what is quoted here, then it works.

Got mine 3 weeks ago. ONE CLICKS not working at all for 1.85
SUPERCID is the one that worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709424
Here is the link.
I couldn't get CWM recovery to work. Flashed TWRP and very happy with that.

wdkingery said:
i, unfortunately, was not bright enough to realize all of this, and it was not spelled out clearly, so i ended up OTA'ing. if you are competent enough to do what is quoted here, then it works.
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Well, you're competent enough to be getting 2x better fuel economy than me!

How about reading a little and using the manual method? You should have no problem with that one.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

yup
wdkingery said:
i, unfortunately, was not bright enough to realize all of this, and it was not spelled out clearly, so i ended up OTA'ing. if you are competent enough to do what is quoted here, then it works.
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Same here thats what I did, 1.85 lost...also hope.....lost

SkizzMcNizz said:
How about reading a little and using the manual method? You should have no problem with that one.
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Given the fact that this thread started with a question that has been answered tens, if not hundreds of times, I suspect that "reading a little" is not an option for the OP

subarudroid said:
Got mine 3 weeks ago. ONE CLICKS not working at all for 1.85
SUPERCID is the one that worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1709424
Here is the link.
I couldn't get CWM recovery to work. Flashed TWRP and very happy with that.
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Yeah.. CWM isn't supported by the One X, TWRP is.
So if anyone new is reading this, please avoid CWM. It'll be of benefit for you.

[Q] Applying VZW system update on rooted, unlocked SG3

I have a rooted, unlocked SG3 running stock ROM and as of a couple weeks ago, continue to get prompted to install the OTA update (VRAGL7 I believe). Unsurprisingly the install fails when I try to apply it.
My question is, do I have to restore in order to apply this update? And if so, is it possible to instead defer the update indefinitely (since I dont want to restore and there doesnt appear to be anything useful in this update according to their site).
Im also sure someone else must have asked this before, but after browsing the last few pages and searching, I couldnt find anything. Feel free to direct me to a previous response if I missed it.
Thanks in advance!

This has been covered numerous times, but, here you go. If you want to take the update, lock your bootloader, Odin back to stock, take the OTA update, reroot, unlock, etc.
If you don't want to do that, freeze SDM 1.0 with Titanium and the message will stop. One thing though, you will not be able to update OTA until you restore SDM. Which, you shouldn't be updating a rooted phone to begin with unless you want a world of problems.
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

So to be clear, absolutely no way to apply the update without going back to stock first, correct?
Sorry for posting up whats probably been asked 100 times, but really couldnt track it down with a search and browse of the last few pages.
Thanks again.

timofcourse said:
So to be clear, absolutely no way to apply the update without going back to stock first, correct?
Sorry for posting up whats probably been asked 100 times, but really couldnt track it down with a search and browse of the last few pages.
Thanks again.
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I did not have to do all that...
I used Mobile Odin Pro to Pre-Inject Root into the OTA Update before flashing it, then I flashed the latest modem immediately after flashing the OTA update.
I didn't lose Root or Unlocked Bootloader status..
Best part of it was... I didn't need my PC to do any of it...
The following thread is the one you should read in detail..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887741

Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again.

timofcourse said:
Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again.
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Glad to help..

tekrhino said:
I did not have to do all that...
I used Mobile Odin Pro to Pre-Inject Root into the OTA Update before flashing it, then I flashed the latest modem immediately after flashing the OTA update.
I didn't lose Root or Unlocked Bootloader status..
Best part of it was... I didn't need my PC to do any of it...
The following thread is the one you should read in detail..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887741
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Make sure that you read it and pay attention very carefully. I tried to do the same exact thing and had problems. Had to Odin back to stock. I think my problem was that I was running a custom kernel. Anyway I got the unauthorized software message and could only get into stock recovery and download mode.
Guess I will read the thread myself and see where I screwed up at.
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Will pay for rooting.....

I have rooted two phones in the past but do not feel comfortable rooting my Verizon Galaxy S III. I'm looking to pay someone $15-$25 for their time to root my phone remotely. I'll pay through paypal, then provide my logmein user name and password so whoever can remotely complete the root while I watch. PLEASE, no first timers. I'll make a selection from those that respond. Thanks!!

follow a guide, take notes if you have to. print it out, highlight and read up. theres also videos that you can watch which you can pause and do each step alongside the video. thats how i started as I was cautious at first also.
it can be overwhelming at first, but its really not that difficult.
you can do what you want though. good luck.

ddurandSGS3 said:
follow a guide, take notes if you have to. print it out, highlight and read up. theres also videos that you can watch which you can pause and do each step alongside the video. thats how i started as I was cautious at first also.
it can be overwhelming at first, but its really not that difficult.
you can do what you want though. good luck.
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I've read over the guide multiple times and think I may just go ahead and try it. Thanks for the encouragement.... seems like that's all I needed..... lol

randino41 said:
I've read over the guide multiple times and think I may just go ahead and try it. Thanks for the encouragement.... seems like that's all I needed..... lol
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Shouldn't be too difficult, Open1your1eyes0 made a very easy to follow guide.
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

SlimSnoopOS said:
Shouldn't be too difficult, Open1your1eyes0 made a very easy to follow guide.
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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One thing I couldn't find in the thread. Is an SD card mandatory? I don't have currently have one but will get one if necessary.

sd card isnt mandatory. the larger TW roms can be close to 1gb in size though.
theyre cheap on amazon if you wanted to grab one.
use that 15-25$ you were gonna pay someone to root with and buy a case and sdcard!

Yep, like others have said, read up and follow the guide. If you have any questions, just ask.
A few tips, make sure you unlock your bootloader and only flash roms for the Verizon galaxy s3.
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bobAbooE said:
Yep, like others have said, read up and follow the guide. If you have any questions, just ask.
A few tips, make sure you unlock your bootloader and only flash roms for the Verizon galaxy s3.
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ddurandSGS3 said:
sd card isnt mandatory. the larger TW roms can be close to 1gb in size though.
theyre cheap on amazon if you wanted to grab one.
use that 15-25$ you were gonna pay someone to root with and buy a case and sdcard!
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Yal are awesome. Thanks. Ill post results later.

I walked a guy though it over the phone on XDA 2 nights ago. He fully rooted his S4. I have all the files as well for rooting the S3. If you need help PM me a number to call and I;ll assist from start to finish.

randino41 said:
One thing I couldn't find in the thread. Is an SD card mandatory? I don't have currently have one but will get one if necessary.
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ddurandSGS3 said:
sd card isnt mandatory. the larger TW roms can be close to 1gb in size though.
theyre cheap on amazon if you wanted to grab one.
use that 15-25$ you were gonna pay someone to root with and buy a case and sdcard!
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SD cards are not mandatory as mentioned before, but they are highly recommended as the only way you can lose data on them is if you explicitly tell your phone to format the card, a ROM flash will not format the card, and a ROM will never need the card to be formatted.

randino41 said:
I've read over the guide multiple times and think I may just go ahead and try it. Thanks for the encouragement.... seems like that's all I needed..... lol
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The great part is even if you mess up and brick your phone you can always Odin back.
Trust me having the ability to Odin back saved me a few times.

Back up your imei and make a nandroid after you root just in case.
clean Rom/xda powerd by zero-lemon & tweaked out Guided by the power of Zeus kernel!!

Like everyone has said before follow the guides and it really is simple. make sure you read them several times and watch the videos. it is better to understand what you are doing upfront. I made the mistake of rooting a friend's phone one time and rooting my fiance's phone. It became a nightmare because he didn't take the time to read through the forums here on xda like I had asked him and it was constantly a pain trying to help him. I figured my fiance's incredible needed all the help it could get and she loved it rooted but with rooting there is always the occasional issue and it was easier for me to get her a note 2 then keep having her upset about her phone.

rooting sch-i535
very easy to root. Just did mine this weekend, took an hour or two of reading and trying several things. don't buy the gs3 toolkit v7.4.5 as it didnt work for me.. I think it was driver related but the recovery loads never worked.
What did work is, download odin 3.07, the vralec bootchain, cwm, and superuser w/ bootloader. you have to know what version you are on. go to settings, about phone. if it is 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
follow the instructions step by step. In fact I'd highly recommend watching the video first and following it STEP BY STEP exactly how he does it.
Notes:
step3: get the Both Root and Unlocked Bootloader SuperUser. this needs to be on your External SDcard in your phone to follow the instructions per se. You are going to use 'load zip file from external SDcard' on the Recovery step.
The other files should be on your computer in your odin folder (or elsewhere that you can find them). All you need is VRALEC and CWM which will be loaded via the PDA button in Odin ONLY.
step5: I didn't restore the factory bootchain. just left it as is.. working fine for me
if you dont boot into custom recovery directly after flashing the VRALEC bootchain the phone will detect that you are screwing with it and reload the factory bootchain! it happened to me the first time. Had to flash a couple times and do things in the correct order to finally get CWM on there. You can see the difference between the factory recovery and CWM recovery (it has a little hat in the middle of the screen and text is different, etc) As long as you flash it with the PDA button ONLY you will be fine. DO NOT USE BOOTLOADER BUTTON IN ODIN AT ALL! Be very careful with Odin and triple-check that you are using the correct settings. It's very easy, but you can potentially brick your phone if you are not carefully looking at every setting. Take your time! :fingers-crossed:

Anyone tried SafeRoot? Thinking of getting a mini but not w/o root.

Is there root?
On 4.2 yes.
Btw has anyone tried saferoot? I am NOT asking if it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50374439&postcount=14
Any users here?
This is the place for now.
Also by the time I get one it will be on 4.4.
I know there is a Rzr general thread but no goodies. It is a ghost town.

aviwdoowks said:
Is there root?
Any users here?
I know there is a Rzr general thread but no goodies.
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You are in the right place, the mini, ultra, and maxx are basically the same device aside from their battery and screen size.
You can root if you are on 4.2.2. If you took the 4.4 update than you are SOL for now.
There is a nice guide on how to do everything here, Just remember to grab the fxz files for your device, not the ultra/maxx.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616104

I did the same as you, went from RAZR M to Mini.
Still going to hold onto my M to play with, but Mini is my primary now.

droid mini
i just got the phone as well. or i should say it will be here today. does anyone know can i root using 4.2.2 use voodoo to save the root then use fastboot to upgrade to 4.4 from the SBF file?

Nope. Voodoo does not work with Android 4.3 and newer.
You will need to follow the previously mentioned guide to the letter. One mistake can cost you root until someone finds a 4.4 exploit.

I am still on my old M'ini. Just considering. But may wait for root on kk. Aren't they shipping minis with kk now?
Than the lack of sd card? Is there enough memory for backups @ 3 gb each?
Is otg working for everybody & does it stand in for a external sd well?
Why did Google make such an iphonish move in the first place?

It has 11GB total available storage. I have 5.83GB free on mine, but I do have TomTom and 738MB worth of videos that take up space. I have 1.28GB worth of apps installed. I haven't found the lack of SD card to be a problem (yet). If you wanted to keep your entire music library on the phone, that could be a problem.
I haven't tried OTG, but an external drive would definitely be a good place to keep backups. Now that you mention it, I might order one to try.
I don't know why they dumped the MicroSD card. Maybe planned obsolescence or they just didn't see the point since these devices are practically disposable since most people only keep a smartphone 2yrs tops before wanting to upgrade again. They started to do the same with Nexus devices too.
Oh yeah, and compared to the M, the battery life is a lot worse. I barely get 2-days of light use and I have Wifi set to turn off when the phone is sleeping and I also keep mobile data off when I'm not using it. I tried leaving Wifi on in its default state which is "Always On" and only got 1-1/2 days out of it. On the other hand, I don't notice the bad battery life so much now that I bought a wireless charging pad for $10 which works well with the Mini. I keep it at work and I just set the phone down on the wireless charging pad when I'm at my desk.

joshuamink said:
i just got the phone as well. or i should say it will be here today. does anyone know can i root using 4.2.2 use voodoo to save the root then use fastboot to upgrade to 4.4 from the SBF file?
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4,2 is last build for voodoo.
Rzr has an xml.
So everyone's mini has come w/ rootable builds?

Just thought I'd update. Got an OTG cable and it works with KitKat. It works with a mouse and external flash drive, but there is no native support. You have to install the app StickMount (which requires root), then it will work. It mounts USB drive to /sdcard/usbStorage/sda1. As far as I can tell, FAT and FAT32 are read/write, exFAT and NTFS are read-only.
It's pretty nice for backup and restore using Titanium without using internal storage space.

GnatGoSplat said:
Just thought I'd update. Got an OTG cable and it works with KitKat. It works with a mouse and external flash drive, but there is no native support. You have to install the app StickMount (which requires root), then it will work. It mounts USB drive to /sdcard/usbStorage/sda1. As far as I can tell, FAT and FAT32 are read/write, exFAT and NTFS are read-only.
It's pretty nice for backup and restore using Titanium without using internal storage space.
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Great. What about builds that come on the phone? Rootable?

aviwdoowks said:
Great. What about builds that come on the phone? Rootable?
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Only Jelly Bean. If it ships with KitKat, still not rootable.

aviwdoowks said:
Great. What about builds that come on the phone? Rootable?
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I received my Mini on 2/12 straight from VZW and it has 4.2.2 w/ 12.7.7. OTA keeps pushing me to update to 12.15.15 I believe but I'm snoozing it till I read and get more info on rooting it. This is my first android and although I'm not new to modding, I am to android.

No root method for stock 4.4 yet. Hopefully someone releases an exploit, but AFAIK there's nobody currently working on it.. At least for the droid lineup..
Sent from my XT1080 using XDA Premium

Please do not flame me on my own thread.
If you have NOT tried it, move on, please.
Simple request.
If you have tried this let us know. I am only seeking conformation of its, empirically tested, inability to root 4.4 or 4.2. I would try it myself but I am still on the old M. Jcase says it will not work. The op of the method asures it is harmless.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48392009&postcount=1
Surely someone has tried it-That is my question?
But No false hope. It will not work....

aviwdoowks said:
Please do not flame me on my own thread.
If you have tried this let us know. I am only seeking conformation of its, empirically tested, inability to root 4.4 or 4.2. I would try it myself but I am still on the old M. Jcase says it will not work. The op of the method asures it is harmless.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48392009&postcount=1
Thanks
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AFAIK, jcases method for 4.2 used adb and that was patched in 4.4? From what I understand reading the op of that thread, it won't work and if jcase (probably the only one who ever released an exploit for our device, I'm new to the xt1080 so have only read through so much) says it won't work I'll take his word for it. Could be wrong, but I'm not willing to brick my personal phone testing it.
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Thanks but that is not the answer I am seeking.
Please no replies but: yes I tried it!
Thanks

aviwdoowks said:
Thanks but that is not the answer I am seeking.
Please no replies but: yes I tried it!
Thanks
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If jcase says it won't work I don't think ANYONE here will be willing to try it.
Anyway, good luck with this!
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xDroid4Lifex said:
If jcase says it won't work I don't think ANYONE here will be willing to try it.
Anyway, good luck with this!
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Running 4.4 means that it's fairly unlikely to work. I haven't heard of anyone succeeding in rooting a locked-bootloader 4.4 system.
However, there's no risk to trying. If it doesn't work, it won't damage anything. If someone is saying that it won't work because they know that the kernel is patched, that's one thing. But if there's a good reason to not try, I'd like to know what it is, especially if there's something bad that could happen I'd like to know what it is so I can fix it.

So I have the phone rooted, permanent root, on 4.4, using stickmount. Must be on 15.5.3 to use the tethered root. Then I just installed safestrap, booted into it, and flashed SuperSU. Permanent root. Jcase said in his post this wouldn't work, but it does and I can prove it. Then after permanent root use motoWPnomo and follow the on screen instructions to install the cracked kernel. Worked like a charm for me. I had 4.4 root before but I soft bricked my phone with a certain mod so I was stuck without root for a couple months until a new exploit came out. This is the best phone I've ever had by far. So much better than the M xt907. Better in so many ways, except boot loader unlock.