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Get root features on stock ROM? (rooted phone)

I have rooted my xe via revolutionary, got the latest cwm installed and now installed superuser but how can I use root features like deleting system apks without flagging another ROM?
Thanks
SOLVED: I had just tried installing Superuser from the market. you need to flash it from http://androidsu.com/superuser/

I'm guessing this might not be possible then?

You can easily do this via something like root explorer which is a paid app, but there are other file explorers that allow root access that are free. Have a search on the market and see you come up with.

GhostXSeries said:
You can easily do this via something like root explorer which is a paid app, but there are other file explorers that allow root access that are free. Have a search on the market and see you come up with.
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He is right if you have s-off and recovery and installed su your good. Es file explorer can be used to. Just check both root access and mount system.
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Just tried es explorer, enabled root mode and it gave me an error

SuperSU

Hmm, I wonder if devs will start packaging this in their ROMs instead...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
I'd like to report that I've been using it all day with no issues. Anyone else?

estallings15 said:
Hmm, I wonder if devs will start packaging this in their ROMs instead...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
I'd like to report that I've been using it all day with no issues. Anyone else?
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I've seen it but never thought of trying it. Might include it in a experimental black ice build
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I'm using it right now.
I added it in my Kang instead of superuser.
Everything is working as expected.
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SprigganMaster said:
I'm using it right now.
I added it in my Kang instead of superuser.
Everything is working as expected.
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Nice. Yeah I haven't had a single issue.

Anything with Black Ice would be great..although I cant imagine it being better! I dont know why, but Ive tried most of the top roms from the dev section, & i absolutely love Black Ice and what it has done in terms of performance! My phone is snappy as it has ever been..
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I've tried to run this on my Desire S with Endymion and every time I open it it says...............
"There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem!"
Any ideas?

Did you uninstall super user app you had before you tried to install super su? I believe someone on the original thread had that happen and that was the problem. Worth a shot

Andy3105 said:
I've tried to run this on my Desire S with Endymion and every time I open it it says...............
"There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem!"
Any ideas?
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Did you flash the zip (found in the supersu release thread) in recovery, or just install from the market?
Just getting it from the market won't install the binary needed.
The zip also deletes the SU app and binary. Its the best method for installation.

johnson8cyl said:
Did you uninstall super user app you had before you tried to install super su? I believe someone on the original thread had that happen and that was the problem. Worth a shot
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I didn't uninstall the original Superuser app that came with rom first, no, I have just tried to and it won't let me.............????
estallings15 said:
Did you flash the zip (found in the supersu release thread) in recovery, or just install from the market?
Just getting it from the market won't install the binary needed.
The zip also deletes the SU app and binary. Its the best method for installation.
I did flash the zip files via recovery but it didn't uninstall the original SU app, any ideas?
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Obviously, you can't uninstall system apps in the usual way. You need to use something like Titanium backup, or use ADB shell.

Ok, so I went into Root Uninstaller and uninstalled the standard Superuser app but I still get the same message, what is really weird is that whenever an app launches that requires superuser access that Supersu screen pops up and everything works as usual.........
Obviously it's working but I still get that same damn message.......

Andy3105 said:
Ok, so I went into Root Uninstaller and uninstalled the standard Superuser app but I still get the same message, what is really weird is that whenever an app launches that requires superuser access that Supersu screen pops up and everything works as usual.........
Obviously it's working but I still get that same damn message.......
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Use root explorer or es file manager to copy /system/xbin/su to system/bin/

estallings15 said:
Use root explorer or es file manager to copy /system/xbin/su to system/bin/
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I rolled back to my previous backup and installed from the Market as recommended in the Supersu thread and did what you said but it still happens.....

Then I'm out of ideas. I'm sorry.

Super SU Flashed without root on evo lte?

I've searched high and low but yet to find the correct answer. I also can't post in the development thread due to the 10 post limit. It is what it is.
The question that remains to be answered is it possible to have Super SU flashed but still not have full root access?
Back-story: I have an EVO 4g LTE that I rooted using regaw_leinad's one click RegawMOD EVO LTE Rooter. Worked like a charm. Due to unforseen circumstances I received a new EVO LTE and, like a dummy, applied the latest OTA. Well, the one click rooter did not work as planned. Got the phone unlocked and that was it. I still needed to flash Super SU, which I did. I thought all was well and good until I tried using build.prop and found out that I did not have root access, or at least couldn't use build.prop to edit. I tried another build.prop editor and it flat out told me I had no root access, yet Titanium Backup says I do.
Any suggestions?

Moved to General Q&A section.

Still no luck
Some one suggested reflashing Super SU. I did, but still have the same issue.

Have you tried just regular super user instead of super su. Idk exactly how the super user really works besides allowing apps root access. Maybe not all apps have a command to signal super su, but have it to signal super user since its kinda top seat between those two.
Just a thought to try. Its in play store
dumbest thing lately.....miui roms

Did you open the APK to see if binaries need to be updated?

lowandbehold said:
Did you open the APK to see if binaries need to be updated?
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jaredw444 said:
Have you tried just regular super user instead of super su. Idk exactly how the super user really works besides allowing apps root access. Maybe not all apps have a command to signal super su, but have it to signal super user since its kinda top seat between those two.
Just a thought to try. Its in play store
dumbest thing lately.....miui roms
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Would it be wise to install Super User with SuperSU already installed or do I need uninstall SuperSU first?
Haven't checked the APK.

It wouldn't hurt, but never messed with supersu so I don't know if it'd interfere
dumbest thing lately.....miui roms

jaredw444 said:
It wouldn't hurt, but never messed with supersu so I don't know if it'd interfere
dumbest thing lately.....miui roms
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I'm at a loss. I installed Superuser and updated binaries yet still have the same result.
I get the following error running build.prop Editor...
"Error.java.io.FileNotFoundException:/mnt/sdcard/buildprop.tmp: open failed:ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Then I receive this error running BuildProp Editor (different program)...
"No root access is given! This Tool makes heavy use of it. You can't make changes, add propertys nor restore your build.prop file."

What file explorer are you using
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jaredw444 said:
What file explorer are you using
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File Expert v4.2.4 by Geek Wireless Technology and
Root Browser v1.4.0 by JRummy Apps
I'm wondering at this point if it would be possible to reset my phone to before the 1.22 update.

Download rootchecker from the market and run it to see what it says. It seems like you don't have full root.

lowandbehold said:
Download rootchecker from the market and run it to see what it says. It seems like you don't have full root.
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We may be on to something here. Used rootchecker and another app to check access. Sure enough, I have complete root access...but...busybox is a different story. Downloading busybox as we speak and will post results afterwards. (May take awhile because the Sprint network at this location is SLOW).

truetexan71 said:
We may be on to something here. Used rootchecker and another app to check access. Sure enough, I have complete root access...but...busybox is a different story. Downloading busybox as we speak and will post results afterwards. (May take awhile because the Sprint network at this location is SLOW).
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And we have liftoff...so to speak. Busybox was the culprit. I ASSUMED during the initail root process that busy box was intalled, it wasn't.
Thanks to everyone.

truetexan71 said:
And we have liftoff...so to speak. Busybox was the culprit. I ASSUMED during the initail root process that busy box was intalled, it wasn't.
Thanks to everyone.
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Nice! Glad you got it figured out.

[Q] ES File manager destroys root access until reboot

I started with stock at FP5
Used Odin to flash clockworkmod recovery.
Used clockworkmod recovery to install Tweaked3
then installed Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip and su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip
and rebooted the phone.
I used the app root checker. it says congratulations you have root access.
Then install terminal emulator from google play
i type "su" and everything works fine.
but when I use ES File explorer and try to enable root features the Superuser dialog comes up like normal. I click yes to allow, like usual, but then ES complains that I don't have root access and then everything there on out tells me I don't have root access.
Superuser reports that the su binary can't be found.
browsing to /system/bin/ and looking myself, i clearly see su sitting there.
I reboot the phone and I'm back to "normal"
I have my root access, everything is fine.
How could ES file manager trying to gain root cause this to happen?
update:
just tried "File Manager" from google play.
same problem as ES
hmmm

I would just avoid ES altogether. It is breaking functionality slowly.

Do I understand you correctly that you have two different superusers installed (Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip and su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip)? Perhaps that may the root (no pun intended) of your problem?

jusliloleme said:
Do I understand you correctly that you have two different superusers installed (Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip and su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip)? Perhaps that may the root (no pun intended) of your problem?
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haha nice pun,
well, from my understanding it's not the same thing.
there's the SU binary and then the superuser application that manages other application access to the SU binary.
I got them from androidsu.com/superuser
and installed:
binary only
md5: d78ec986923b72dfdaa71d1db731a8f3
su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip
(3.2-RC3)
md5: 6462ac14cd38ed7c539ce3e29a6b92a8
Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip

You could try starting over and using SuperSU. Tweaked moved to that and its worked fine ever since.
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jusliloleme said:
Do I understand you correctly that you have two different superusers installed (Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip and su-bin-3.1.1-arm-signed.zip)? Perhaps that may the root (no pun intended) of your problem?
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kvswim said:
You could try starting over and using SuperSU. Tweaked moved to that and its worked fine ever since.
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ahh, this is the first i'm hearing of SuperSu. I'll have to look into this more.

I agree that you should re-flash Tweaked 3.0 and then just use SuperSU and see what happens. I'm pretty sure you have multiple instances of an su binary on your phone giving both it and you heartburn.

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jusliloleme said:
I agree that you should re-flash Tweaked 3.0 and then just use SuperSU and see what happens. I'm pretty sure you have multiple instances of an su binary on your phone giving both it and you heartburn.
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Well,
I did just that and I no longer have any problems at all.
Thanks everybody

Good to hear and glad we could help.

Stay away from ES File Explorer. I use Root Explorer and it's awesome. It's a paid app though. There's another good one that's free but I don't remember the name.

Can someone tell me what to do in es file explorer to Bork my charge. I have not had any issues that I've noticed. I have used es file explorer on my tablets and all my phones including the whole time with my charge and no probs. I've changed the build.prop. so many times. I haven't tried any build.prop changes on Tweaked 3.0 though. I'm on the Steele Blue theme at the moment. Stock kernel. Holo Launcher.
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Root explorer is definitely my favorite.
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[Q] No connection play store / deleting system files

So I've been having the famous No connection error on Play Store for a few months now and really want to fix it. I've read all threads on this topic and watched all tutorials. The one thing everyone seems to be saying works is deleting the hosts file from the etc folder which is the one thing I can't seem to do.
My phone is N5 and it's rooted through CF. I use Total Commander as my file manager but it won't let me delete the file even though Total Commander has root privileges. The permissions of the hosts file are set to r/w under user but read only for group and world. Again it won't let me set it to read write for the other two. I've also tried doing this through ES explorer but it's the same thing. Can anyone please recommend a way to delete the file successfully?

xismo1 said:
So I've been having the famous No connection error on Play Store for a few months now and really want to fix it. I've read all threads on this topic and watched all tutorials. The one thing everyone seems to be saying works is deleting the hosts file from the etc folder which is the one thing I can't seem to do.
My phone is N5 and it's rooted through CF. I use Total Commander as my file manager but it won't let me delete the file even though Total Commander has root privileges. The permissions of the hosts file are set to r/w under user but read only for group and world. Again it won't let me set it to read write for the other two. I've also tried doing this through ES explorer but it's the same thing. Can anyone please recommend a way to delete the file successfully?
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I personally use FX File explorer with root add-on, works perfectly out read write. Try that. Also, do you have newest play store installed, the 4.6.17 version?

I just updated to 4.6.16 today but it made no difference. The no connection error still persists.
Regarding the permissions though it seems to be a problem on a higher level as I've tried three different file managers (ES Explorer, Total Commander and Root Explorer) and none of them let me delete the hosts file. Any idea where else the problem could be?

Have you installed an app called Freedom?

No, should I?

No. It's one of the reasons why most people can't get connection on play store.
Have you tried removing the file through ADB? This guide should help you

I haven't, guess I could give it a shot but do you think there would be any difference? I'd be effectively doing the same thing manually that the file managers are trying to do. And they're failing at it.
When I try to remount the system folder in total commander it gives me a remount error so I'm wondering if it could be successful through shell.

xismo1 said:
I haven't, guess I could give it a shot but do you think there would be any difference? I'd be effectively doing the same thing manually that the file managers are trying to do. And they're failing at it.
When I try to remount the system folder in total commander it gives me a remount error so I'm wondering if it could be successful through shell.
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I'm not sure what's wrong here, but there is a posibility you lost your root (dirty flashed and update or something) so you could try that. You can also try flashing supersu and see if that helps. That normally solves my root problems.

I was actually thinking that I may have lost root as well, but then I have a volume mod flashed and that still works fine, though not sure if that would be effected when already flashed. I haven't done any updates though so not really sure how that could happen. Is there any way to test whether I still have root for sure?

Oh and I already have SuperSU Pro, flashed that a few months ago.

Just tried checking whether I still have root via root checker and it says I do. Really not sure what's going on. Does anyone have an advice on how to grant rw permissions to the hosts file?

get rid of total commander, its garbage. get root explorer. also, youll probably have to flash the latest supersu, since you flash a few months ago. i know they updated their su binaries a few times in the last few months. you have to keep stuff like that current.

Fair enough. I actually just got the latest root explorer and was finally able to delete the hosts file only to find out that it doesn't actually solve the play store problem. What options do I have left? Factory recovery?

xismo1 said:
Fair enough. I actually just got the latest root explorer and was finally able to delete the hosts file only to find out that it doesn't actually solve the play store problem. What options do I have left? Factory recovery?
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factory reset is an option, as well as flashing the factory img.

Finally got it sorted. Thanks everyone for your help.