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Deleting system apps after root?? (Root Explorer won't do it)

I used to use "Root Explorer" on my hero to delete system apps before..doesn't seem to work anymore..
solution??
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did you mount /system in rw mode? (it's ro by default)

U dont have write access to system partition in normal use if i read the tutorial right. U have to do it with an update.zip (editing the update script) or with adb both u have to do in recovery menu from modaco i think. Tell me if i am wrong.
Sry for my bad english

@cezarL yes I did
@xtcislove I wish u were wrong..seems like pain.. anyway to do it without a pc?
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Damn, you're right. Previously, I had deleted an .apk just to check if it's working, then reinstalled the app right away.
But I just tested now, it looks like after a reboot, the .apk magically reappears, and the application is running as usual

Damn, you're right. Previously, I had deleted an .apk just to check if it's working, then reinstalled the app right away.
But I just tested now, it looks like after a reboot, the .apk magically reappears, and the application is running as usual
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ye..I'm sure it has something to do with the root limitations Paul mentioned in his rooting guide. hope it'll be fixed soon.
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Try this: Boot in recovery menu and try the following commands:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/APP.apk
adb shell rm /data/app/APP.apk
where APP.apk is the filename of the apk with the .apk extention, remember case-sensitive!
for example:
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/FriendStream.apk
adb shell rm /system/app/FriendStream.odex
take a look before if your app has a odex or try this: (here u need only one command)
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/app/*FriendStream*
Good luck and have fun =)
Edit: Just find a topic =)
hxxp://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/297207/removal-of-apps-via-adb/#entry1124362
(replace hxxp with http)

I'm trying to do these things in windows at the moment. No issues getting in the recovery with the windows scripts. But when I try to open a ADB Shell after I've gone to recovery I can't really do anything with it and the recovery hangs (not controllable with the track pad).
Anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong, from what I've seen opening a new adb instance on Windows will kill the server created by the .bat file used for recovery... which means the connection to the device is lost. I haven't looked into it further, but it might be fixeable somehow.

Ah I see, so basicly you undo the patched recovery by opening a new session. It does work properly under Linux then? I run ubuntu on my netbook so It's not a big issue anyway. Thanks for the tip, gonna try under linux now!

I'm having the same problems as:
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...co-com/307401/removing-sys-apps/#entry1256015
I removed a load of HTC widgets but I get strange entries on the widget menu. Anyone know how to get rid of these?
Also, I removed Stocks (.apk and .odex), now I get a force close on 'Accounts & sync'. Anyone know how to remove Stocks properly?
Cheers.

After running the bat file to get into recovery, start a new cmd prompt in windows and use again adb-nilezon for shell commands instead of ordinary adb, and it wont be killed.
This has worked for me atleast

blackadder1000 said:
Anyone know how to remove Stocks properly?
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The best, foolproof, failsafe way is to remove them from the rom before installing it... and remember that some services are still required, weather you use them or not.
But, if a system app is already installed you need to remove:
the apk from /system/app
the data from /data/data/appname
the cache from /cache/dalvik-cache
Do not remove Accounts & Sync...

Thanks for the answer.
I guess now is a good time to bake my own ROM!

blackadder1000 said:
Thanks for the answer.
I guess now is a good time to bake my own ROM!
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Yep, that's what I do... see my sig...

Remove ALL Sprint Crapware? (Q from an ex-WinMo Poweruser)

I moved from an HD2 to the Evo this week (no more TMobile, woot!). I am very familiar with custom WMO ROMS, Hard SPL, blah blah...
I have nearly zero Android development, custom ROM knowledge, etc, however.
I'd like to flash a custom ROM based on the factory, without all the Sprint programs preloaded.
Clearly I need to root; I am on steady ground with that knowledge. After that? Not so clear. There doesn't seem to be a thread with the steps I need to proceed.
Any info would be invaluable, thanks!
(PS - side question: why does Android launch all sort of processes in the background seemingly at random?)

ifiweresolucky said:
I moved from an HD2 to the Evo this week (no more TMobile, woot!). I am very familiar with custom WMO ROMS, Hard SPL, blah blah...
I have nearly zero Android development, custom ROM knowledge, etc, however.
I'd like to flash a custom ROM based on the factory, without all the Sprint programs preloaded.
Clearly I need to root; I am on steady ground with that knowledge. After that? Not so clear. There doesn't seem to be a thread with the steps I need to proceed.
Any info would be invaluable, thanks!
(PS - side question: why does Android launch all sort of processes in the background seemingly at random?)
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This should be in Q & A.. But unless someone creates a rom with the apps removed. Its easier to just do it yourself.
If you did toasts method of rooting. Boot into recovery and type this
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
This displays all apps on the phone. Do this to delete them.
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
It is caps sensitive and make sure you type the apk exactly as its written.

Jus10o said:
This should be in Q & A.. But unless someone creates a rom with the apps removed. Its easier to just do it yourself.
If you did toasts method of rooting. Boot into recovery and type this
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
This displays all apps on the phone. Do this to delete them.
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
It is caps sensitive and make sure you type the apk exactly as its written.
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any reason adb remount isn't working for me? I do adb devices and my devices is there but when i type adb remount i get "remount faild: Invalid argument"

I started Toasts root directions, placing PC36IMG.zip on the base directory of the SD card. Shut down, loaded with the Vol Down and Power buttons. The bootloader checked the file on the SD card but then stopped on the white screen.
It seems it was supposed to proceed automatically? But I am dropped off with options on the white screen: FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE, SIMLOCK, and HBOOT USB.
Directions show Vol Up and Down for previous and next and Power for select.

Alright, I resolved this issue. I recopied the file to the SD card and made sure to eject drive before shutting the device down. Seemed to make all the difference! Proceeding with the remainder of Toast's directions now...

p-slim said:
any reason adb remount isn't working for me? I do adb devices and my devices is there but when i type adb remount i get "remount faild: Invalid argument"
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I'm running in to the same issue...

rgordon3091 said:
I'm running in to the same issue...
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i fixed it. you have to do this.
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cd /system/app
ls

Getting error trying to remove nascar..
Code:
rm Sprint_NASCAR.apk
rm failed for Sprint_NASCAR.apk, Directory not empty
Any ideas?

That's Linux trying to protect you. Essentially the rm command by default just removes one file at a time.
Try...
rm -r NameOfFolder
...to delete recursively.
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Go see the thread in the apps sub-forum about this. I have a post (#28, I believe) with the exact code to remove the bloatware. You can just copy any paste.
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nick325i said:
Getting error trying to remove nascar..
Code:
rm Sprint_NASCAR.apk
rm failed for Sprint_NASCAR.apk, Directory not empty
Any ideas?
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you shouldn't have a problem deleting the apk, because an apk is not a directory.
i deleted it without the same message.

p-slim said:
i fixed it. you have to do this.
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
cd /system/app
ls
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hmmm i put im adb shell then i got a "#" so i put in "mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system"
and i got mount:mounting /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system failed: No such file or directory
so what did i do wrong?

Found the issue. Thanks all

Jus10o said:
This should be in Q & A.. But unless someone creates a rom with the apps removed. Its easier to just do it yourself.
If you did toasts method of rooting. Boot into recovery and type this
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
ls
This displays all apps on the phone. Do this to delete them.
rm NameOfApp.apk
rm NameOfApp.odex
It is caps sensitive and make sure you type the apk exactly as its written.
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By the way, when I "cd /system/app" and then "ls" I see only NamesOfApps.apk. There are displayed no *.odex files. Is that normal?

thread dead?
IDK if this threads still monitored by anyone, but here's my question: I don't use adb, but I just rused root explorer to locate sprint crap, and added a .bak to the end of all of them to essentially 'disable' them. Is this a safe method? Will Android system waste energy looking for them anymore (they no longer show in app tray, but are they still using resources) ? Thanks much.

scottspa74 said:
IDK if this threads still monitored by anyone, but here's my question: I don't use adb, but I just rused root explorer to locate sprint crap, and added a .bak to the end of all of them to essentially 'disable' them. Is this a safe method? Will Android system waste energy looking for them anymore (they no longer show in app tray, but are they still using resources) ? Thanks much.
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I was just about to say something similar. I had uninstalled Nascar using Titanium Backup, and the found out that I cant do the 2.2 OTA unless its there. TB didn't have the ability to restore it for some reason, so I got an APK from XDA, and put it in the system/app folder via Root Explorer. Then, I had to reset the permissions to match the other APK's, and it showed up and launched perfectly. Even did an update. Much easier than all that adb stuff, I think.

I used system app uninstaller for a buck on the market.. Easy and all there with the icons for easy to find and delete sprint and gapps.
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scottspa74 said:
IDK if this threads still monitored by anyone, but here's my question: I don't use adb, but I just rused root explorer to locate sprint crap, and added a .bak to the end of all of them to essentially 'disable' them. Is this a safe method? Will Android system waste energy looking for them anymore (they no longer show in app tray, but are they still using resources) ? Thanks much.
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Thats a good way.. If something goes wrong just have to rename.
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Flash this zip and it should remove most of the Sprint apps. It will back them up to /sdx on your SD card so if anything is removed that you want, it will still be there. It's signed to work with RA.
http://grathwohl.me/uploads/android/evo/Sprint-Apps-Remover-signed.zip

I've seen a few people reference my post, but my post was really just trying to ask if anyone knew if, now that I've renamed them, and they don't run, they shouldn't be using up resources? Right, is that correct, or am I wrong in thinkin this?
And thanks cosine83, that's a really helpful post for a lot of people.

[Q] teeter.apk that installs on froyo?

I'm currently running Skyraider 2.5, but was also looking for teeter when i was on 2.2.
The fiance loves to grab my phone while we are out and play teeter. I pulled the teeter.apk from another build i found and tried to install it, but it came back always that it did not install.
Anyone able to install teeter on froyo (not sure if this is a froyo or skyraider thing, but im assuming its froyo), and have a working apk they can post please ?
We both would very much appreciate it, thanks!

if you look in the aiccucs rom v4.2 thread, the second post has a bunch of .zip files that he removed from the stock froyo rom incase you want to put them back on. teeter is in there too. idk if installing the .zip would work since your on a different rom, but if you unzip it you can access the .apk and just try intstalling that

dccoh said:
I'm currently running Skyraider 2.5, but was also looking for teeter when i was on 2.2.
The fiance loves to grab my phone while we are out and play teeter. I pulled the teeter.apk from another build i found and tried to install it, but it came back always that it did not install.
Anyone able to install teeter on froyo (not sure if this is a froyo or skyraider thing, but im assuming its froyo), and have a working apk they can post please ?
We both would very much appreciate it, thanks!
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I tried exactly what you did with the same results.
But...
If you boot into recovery and mount system, then push it to /system/app using adb shell then reboot it should work for you. It did for me.
Open a command propmt in a directory containing the teeter.apk file and run the following command:
adb push teeter.apk /system/app/teeter.apk

gadget! said:
I tried exactly what you did with the same results.
But...
If you boot into recovery and mount system, then push it to /system/app using adb shell then reboot it should work for you. It did for me.
Open a command propmt in a directory containing the teeter.apk file and run the following command:
adb push teeter.apk /system/app/teeter.apk
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I just copied it to my SD card and installed normally... Had to tick the little block in the Unknown Sources though.

Adam_NCNN said:
I just copied it to my SD card and installed normally... Had to tick the little block in the Unknown Sources though.
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Strange, that didn't work for me as well as several others. And I do have Install from unknown sources checked.
It always came back with "Application not installed".
Glad it worked for you.

[MOD] Default Froyo Launcher

This will allow you to use the default Froyo Launcher instead of using the HTC Sense Launcher included with the MT4G for those that prefer it!
This was compiled through the generic AOSP 2.2r1 source with 5 screens. I will make one with 7 screens if anyone would like it.
First of all, you will need root(VISIONary) and adb.
Second, you will need this file: http://www.4shared.com/file/Cd9kUAqL/Launcher2.html
Third, make sure your phone is in "Charge Only" mode when you connect it to your computer.
Next:
1. adb push Launcher2.apk /sdcard/
2. adb shell
Now in shell:
3. su (Superuser might pop up on your device, make sure to press "Allow")
4. stop
5. mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
6. cp /sdcard/Launcher2.apk /system/app/
7. start
8. Wait for the phone to do a "soft boot"
9. Once you pull down the Lockscreen, select Launcher instead of HTC Sense
Now, of course, this will go away once you reboot the phone, but you could use visionary.sh, a file that loads on boot if VISIONary roots your phone on every boot, and make it do these commands.
This was a simple idea I had after seeing Cyanogen's LED Notification Light Mod for the G2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797867&page=4
UPDATE: You might want to re-download the Launcher2.apk. The phone hotseat button now loads the HTC Phone app instead of not working.
UPDATE 2: This also includes the default AOSP wallpapers under Wallpaper > Wallpapers.

thank you very much. i was really looking for this. now all we need is perm root so this doesnt go away on reboot

Greatly appreciated!
Not to seem like I am spitting in your face, but I think I'll stick with LauncherPro if I want to get the stock look. Until persistent root is obtained I don't want to mess with anything that may go away.

JWhipple said:
Greatly appreciated!
Not to seem like I am spitting in your face, but I think I'll stick with LauncherPro if I want to get the stock look. Until persistent root is obtained I don't want to mess with anything that may go away.
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Ha I understand. I was using LauncherPro before I did this.

Updated Launcher2.apk so that the phone hotseat button now loads the HTC Phone app instead of not working.

travisjames said:
This will allow you to use the default Froyo Launcher instead of using the HTC Sense Launcher included with the MT4G for those that prefer it!
This was compiled through the generic AOSP 2.2r1 source with 5 screens. I will make one with 7 screens if anyone would like it.
First of all, you will need root(VISIONary) and adb.
Second, you will need this file: http://www.4shared.com/file/Cd9kUAqL/Launcher2.html
Third, make sure your phone is in "Charge Only" mode when you connect it to your computer.
Next:
1. adb push Launcher2.apk /sdcard/
2. adb shell
Now in shell:
3. su (Superuser might pop up on your device, make sure to press "Allow")
4. stop
5. mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
6. cp /sdcard/Launcher2.apk /system/app/
7. start
8. Wait for the phone to do a "soft boot"
9. Once you pull down the Lockscreen, select Launcher instead of HTC Sense
Now, of course, this will go away once you reboot the phone, but you could use visionary.sh, a file that loads on boot if VISIONary roots your phone on every boot, and make it do these commands.
This was a simple idea I had after seeing Cyanogen's LED Notification Light Mod for the G2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797867&page=4
UPDATE: You might want to re-download the Launcher2.apk. The phone hotseat button now loads the HTC Phone app instead of not working.
UPDATE 2: This also includes the default AOSP wallpapers under Wallpaper > Wallpapers.
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Dude is there anyway you can do this with the traditional sense launcher instead to replace the ugly espresso crap?

Omeer said:
Dude is there anyway you can do this with the traditional sense launcher instead to replace the ugly espresso crap?
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Since Rosie.apk already exist within /system/app, it would just throw an error when trying to copy it from the SD card to the system cache.

Lol yeah I found that out the hard way after semi bricking my phone last night. My question now is can rosie.apk that exists within the system cache be replaced by a custom one? I'm assuming no since the .apk being replaced would be in use atm...
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Ooh here's another idea. I saw a thread over at the Desire HD forums and someone ported/modded the themes into .apk files. The installation instructions are very straight forward, just install as normal .apk files or move the files to /system/app. Needless to say that just simply installing it didn't work on the MyTouch 4G. My concern now is can we use this method or any other method to push these .apk files to the /system/app folder to see if it works? A way to theme our devices will hold us eager beavers off till we get a permanent root.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Great work, thanks a ton for this. One question though, is there any advantage of using stock launcher insteat of ADW or LP? I myself love ADW, especially with 3D look that AnderWeb is trying go implement but if there's performance gain with the stock - I'm all for it.

Omeer said:
Lol yeah I found that out the hard way after semi bricking my phone last night. My question now is can rosie.apk that exists within the system cache be replaced by a custom one? I'm assuming no since the .apk being replaced would be in use atm...
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
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Even when using Launcher2.apk instead of Rosie, it failed to replace. I tried it last night after I saw your suggestion.
Omeer said:
Ooh here's another idea. I saw a thread over at the Desire HD forums and someone ported/modded the themes into .apk files. The installation instructions are very straight forward, just install as normal .apk files or move the files to /system/app. Needless to say that just simply installing it didn't work on the MyTouch 4G. My concern now is can we use this method or any other method to push these .apk files to the /system/app folder to see if it works? A way to theme our devices will hold us eager beavers off till we get a permanent root.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
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You might be able to do that with this method. All I can say is, try and see if it works.
borodin1 said:
Great work, thanks a ton for this. One question though, is there any advantage of using stock launcher insteat of ADW or LP? I myself love ADW, especially with 3D look that AnderWeb is trying go implement but if there's performance gain with the stock - I'm all for it.
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Personally, I haven't seen any advantage to using Launcher2 over ADW or LauncherPro. The only reason I made this was because I like vanilla Android over Sense. But, I don't really see any performance gain. I might do a little bit more testing and get back to you.

travisjames said:
Even when using Launcher2.apk instead of Rosie, it failed to replace. I tried it last night after I saw your suggestion.
You might be able to do that with this method. All I can say is, try and see if it works.
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OK so I followed this guide exactly as outlined except I replaced the launcher2.apk files with the commonSense.apk file. Everything goes swimmingly until I pull down the lock screen when the screen just hangs for a good a while but ultimately results in no change. What I want to try now is to push .apk files onto the /system/app folder some how and that's not what this method does. I read somewhere that it's now possible to push .apk files to root folders, any ideas as to what that might be?

travisjames said:
1. adb push Launcher2.apk /sdcard/
2. adb shell
Now in shell:
3. su (Superuser might pop up on your device, make sure to press "Allow")
4. stop
5. mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
6. cp /sdcard/Launcher2.apk /system/app/
7. start
8. Wait for the phone to do a "soft boot"
9. Once you pull down the Lockscreen, select Launcher instead of HTC Sense
Now, of course, this will go away once you reboot the phone, but you could use visionary.sh, a file that loads on boot if VISIONary roots your phone on every boot, and make it do these commands.
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I think if you replace step 6 with
"pm install /sdcard/Launcher2.apk"
it should install to /data/app which should still be fine after a reboot.

Phone doesn't work
Thanks for that!
The left button doesn't work on my desire.
Is the link on #1 up to date?

Superuser just won' work!

I rooted my kindle fire using kindle fire utility 0.9.6 (after the rooting superuser wasn't installed on my kindle), downloaded twrp, flashed hashcode jelly bean ROM from this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766829
and then flashed Superuser-3.1.3-x86-signed.zip which I downloaded from this link
http://androidsu.com/superuser/
but superuser won't work, when I check the root explorer in ES file explorer it tells me that this feature can't work on ur phone
Please I'm really dying out here
Someone Help Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease !!!!!

You need the su binary installed as well. But with that being said, why don't you just install the Superuser.apk?
[Edit:] It's late and I'm not paying attention for some reason. Custom ROMs come pre-rooted and you have Jelly Bean installed. Perhaps there's a problem with ES File Explorer?

soupmagnet said:
You need the su binary installed as well. But with that being said, why don't you just install the Superuser.apk?
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Thank you for replying so fast
how can I install su binary? and about the superuser.apk isn't that what i flashed into my device i have a superuser icon on my desktop but it just won't add any apps to its list.
Thanks again

At the Superuser website, there are three zip files. One is Superuser, one is the su binary, and the other should be both. Not that it matters at this point.

soupmagnet said:
At the Superuser website, there are three zip files. One is Superuser, one is the su binary, and the other should be both. Not that it matters at this point.
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what do you mean by not that it matters at this point?
can't I just download the zip and flash it?

soupmagnet said:
You need the su binary installed as well. But with that being said, why don't you just install the Superuser.apk?
[Edit:] It's late and I'm not paying attention for some reason. Custom ROMs come pre-rooted and you have Jelly Bean installed. Perhaps there's a problem with ES File Explorer?
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Maybe you missed this

soupmagnet said:
Maybe you missed this
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I tried another app called copy paste it and when I try to use it this message appears:
"Your Phone does not appear to be rooted or has not been given root privileges. to use this application please provide root privileges to this applications"
what should I do?
[Edit] ok now i know my device is certainly not rooted i tried orbot, market enabler and market unlocker they all dispatch the same message your device isn't rooted.
can anyone tell me how to root it?

Scarfacew said:
I tried another app called copy paste it and when I try to use it this message appears:
"Your Phone does not appear to be rooted or has not been given root privileges. to use this application please provide root privileges to this applications"
what should I do?
[Edit] ok now i know my device is certainly not rooted i tried orbot, market enabler and market unlocker they all dispatch the same message your device isn't rooted.
can anyone tell me how to root it?
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I too used the KFU to supposedly root my KF, but when I tried to install Titanium Backup, it gave me the same error message saying that my phone did not have root privileges... I wonder if there is something not installing correctly when using KFU...

"Root" consists of the su binary, which the system uses to give the user root permissions, and Superuser.apk, which keeps a database of what programs you allow to have those permissions. With "su" only, you will still have root permission, but only at the level of command line interface and your apps will not be allowed root permissions. Superuser.apk by itself is worthless. Custom ROMS come pre-rooted so the need to re-root is usually unnecessary unless something happens to one of the above mentioned programs. The only way to be sure if/which one is missing is in recovery via the command line because custom recovery will provide temporary root access.
Code:
adb shell ls /system/xbin
...look for su
Code:
adb shell ls /system/app
...look for Superuser.apk
Superuser can be installed from within the ROM using the .apk (at least in earlier versions it was possible), or in recovery using the command line or by flashing the signed .zip from the superuser website . The su binary can only be installed while in recovery.
Of course it all can be fixed by re-flashing your custom ROM.
It may also be necessary to rename the check-rooted executable, but only if you're running the stock Amazon software.
I think that pretty much covers it.

soupmagnet said:
"Root" consists of the su binary, which the system uses to give the user root permissions, and Superuser.apk, which keeps a database of what programs you allow to have those permissions. With "su" only, you will still have root permission, but only at the level of command line interface and your apps will not be allowed root permissions. Superuser.apk by itself is worthless. Custom ROMS come pre-rooted so the need to re-root is usually unnecessary unless something happens to one of the above mentioned programs. The only way to be sure if/which one is missing is in recovery via the command line because custom recovery will provide temporary root access.
Code:
adb shell ls /system/xbin
...look for su
Code:
adb shell ls /system/app
...look for Superuser.apk
Superuser can be installed from within the ROM using the .apk (at least in earlier versions it was possible), or in recovery using the command line or by flashing the signed .zip from the superuser website . The su binary can only be installed while in recovery.
Of course it all can be fixed by re-flashing your custom ROM.
It may also be necessary to rename the check-rooted executable, but only if you're running the stock Amazon software.
I think that pretty much covers it.
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Ok now things are getting worse I tried to turn the wifi on and it didn't work, I tried to reboot and power off the tablet but it just won't work
{Edit} I want to know that by re-flashing the ROM is there a guarantee that those problems won't happen again.
One more thing is that I deleted the ROM from my kindle I can't transfer it from my laptop because the kindle hasn't been recognized after the jelly bean and I can't downloaded because wifi isn't working so what should I do
Thanks in advance

Scarfacew said:
Ok now things are getting worse I tried to turn the wifi on and it didn't work, I tried to reboot and power off the tablet but it just won't work
I want to know that by re-flashing the ROM is there a guarantee that those problems won't happen again.
Thanks in advance
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There are never any guarantees when it comes to computers and system software, but the LIKELINESS is very high that the problem will be fixed.

soupmagnet said:
There are never any guarantees when it comes to computers and system software, but the LIKELINESS is very high that the problem will be fixed.
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One more thing is that I deleted the ROM from my kindle I can't transfer it from my laptop because the kindle hasn't been recognized since I flashed the jelly bean and I can't downloaded because wifi isn't working so what should I do
Thanks in advance

Boot into recovery and "mount" your sdcard to USB. The computer should still recognize it.

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Boot into recovery and "mount" your sdcard to USB. The computer should still recognize it.
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I re-flashed the Rom, wifi is working so I dl ES file explorer and checked Root explorer, but when superuser request popped, I clicked allow but it didn't work it gave me the same message, the new thing is that superuser app added es file explorer to its list but I still can't copy apps in the app/system file.
I know I bored you to death and I'm really thankful for ur help but I really need the root.

Scarfacew said:
I re-flashed the Rom, wifi is working so I dl ES file explorer and checked Root explorer, but when superuser request popped, I clicked allow but it didn't work it gave me the same message, the new thing is that superuser app added es file explorer to its list but I still can't copy apps in the app/system file.
I know I bored you to death and I'm really thankful for ur help but I really need the root.
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Ok, well try a different ROM. If the problem persists then we can try to think of something.

I flashed the Alien droid ROM it's working fine till now but I need to know how to install an arabic keyboard please
Thanks

Ok, I have a dumb question, but from where do you run the DOS commands from? (ie. what directory?)..
c:\KFU?

Right-click on your KFU folder and select properties to find the folder's path. It may be different depending on wherever you've installed it.

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Right-click on your KFU folder and select properties to find the folder's path. It may be different depending on wherever you've installed it.
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Thanks. but not sure i understand.
Here is what I'm attempting to do.. using the root method described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452 under "Getting to fastboot mode" there are a series of command line examples that seem to start with adb.... (ex. adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/fbmode).
Under Rooting the stock software, the first step command line is "adb shell mount system"
my question is from where do I start (directory) so that when I enter these commands they work?
Or are you saying that I need to fun all these from the KFU directory? (or KFU/tools) or some other directory..
I appreciate the help and feedback..

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Wherever adb is...Right-click on that folder to find it's path so you can "cd" or change directories to it. Alternatively, you can Shift + Right-click on that folder and select something like "Open command window here".