My wife allowed the 2.3.4 update to run before letting me root for her. Now, she desperately wants root, but doesn't want to lose her application data (mostly she's concerned about Angry Birds I think).
I tried the temp root for the Rezound which uses zergrush and was able to get SU access via ADB and was able to momentarily install su, busybox and SuperUser, however, TiBu had a bunch of problems. A few times is wasn't able to get su access. Others it reported no hypershell. I did get everything going once, but the batch backup died at the first application.
Has anyone found a method that allows temp root on the dinc2 2.3.4? I'm perfectly willing to do the downgrade to get s-off/unlock the phone, but the wife wants her data.
Why don't you just back up the entire sdcard? My wife was big on plantz vs zombies and a couple of other games.. I just copied the whole Sdcard.. downgraded and rooted.. replaced everything back into the Sdcard once it was rooted and all I had to do then was redownload the application. All the save data was still there..
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faehsemc said:
Why don't you just back up the entire sdcard? My wife was big on plantz vs zombies and a couple of other games.. I just copied the whole Sdcard.. downgraded and rooted.. replaced everything back into the Sdcard once it was rooted and all I had to do then was redownload the application. All the save data was still there..
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To my knowledge, .android-secure doesn't just copy to a fresh ROM. If I can't find a way to temp root, I may have to try that though.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13573633
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Thanks, I've been through that thread several times and the old method doesn't work on 2.3.4.
Bump once more in the probably vain hope that someone has been successful.
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What should I know before I run z4root? What will I loose? What should I backup? Where do I need to look to find progys that need reinstalled.
Thanks again guys
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you might find your answer here. there is a 7 minute video about it.
Rooting wont cause you to lose any apps or data.
What root is.
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All root does is give you the ability to change things you couldn't change otherwise. You won't lose anything by rooting. No reinstalling necessary.
If you get the oneclick 2.5.5, it will root AND give you clockworkmod recovery which will allow you to do full back ups of your phone.
To use oneclick 2.5.5 I would need a pc correct? I currently don't have access to one so I was hopeing to use the z4root app and be able to install clockwork is this possible?
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Hello, I've searched this forum for around two days trying to find out if I can still help my friend re-root his evo... He was rooted running hardware #0003 and decided to unroot in order to return phone to sprint for the evo shift. after playing around with the shift at the store he said it's not worth giving up his evo.. now he wants to re-root his evo however sense he has been unrooted he accepted sprint's latest ota 3.70 and now for some reason we can't reroot his phone. we used unrevoked 3 to root it the first time. Is there a way to reroot his phone after accepting the new ota from sprint?? Any kind of advice would be of great help. Thank for any input that anyone can provide. btw, he never tried any new roms... he still has the stock rom.
I was able to root a new Evo with the 3.70 OTA update last week using unrevoked 3.32 without any problem at all.
Unrevoked will root 3.7 phone hw v1 2 3 or 4 and all hboots
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unrevoked worked great for me too
This is great news guys I really appreciate the quick response...I almost forgot, one more question... does it matter if we rooted his phone on a 32 bit windows system and unrooted with a 64 bit windows system? Will it effect rerooting or prevent it? Just curious. Thanks all your help. Would like to donate not sure of how to do that either.
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Um no that shouldn't matter. Valid question but the app shouldn't be affected by that.
Swyped from my Evo on steroids.
I rooted from a x64 Windows 7 box so I would sat no it does not matter.
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That did it! Thanks a bunch Just so happens I was still trying to use unrevoked 3.2. I noticed on my own phone that I don't have any system/app files after I formatted my sdcard, I've looked all through my astrology file manager and still no luck. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks.
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Oops sorry about the typo I meant astro
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Hi guys, just a quick question. I seem to have deleted my system/app file when I formatted my SD card; is there any way to get it back or am I just S.O.L? I've searched for this issue on this forum but no clear info on what my options are at this point. Any advice on what my options are would be great. I appreciate it and thanks.
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Hi guys, just a quick question. I seem to have deleted my system/app file when I formatted my SD card; is there any way to get it back or am I just S.O.L? I've searched for this issue on this forum but no clear info on what my options are at this point. Any advice on what my options are would be great. I appreciate it and thanks.
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Your /system/app files aren't stored on the SD Card, they're inside the phone. Unless you're on A2SD.
How did you delete it at? Using a file browser on the phone itself or on your PC? How's the phone/apps behaving?
Is the device S-ON right now or S-OFF? If is S-OFF all you need to do is re-install recovery and super user app. I'm on my phone so I can't post the link for you but go to unrEVOked.com, select the EVO and then unrEVOked forever. Scroll down the page and you'll see a link for ClockworkMod recovery and the su app. Place the recovery file on the root of your SD card and boot into bootloader(volume down & power). The device will find the PC36IMG and you'll be able to update your recovery image to clockwork. Now that your set, flash the su app via recovery and your once again fully rooted.
First of all guys thanks for the help and quick response. It's good to know there's help when you need it. I have s-off and I'm rooted using unrevoked 3.2 can I do all these steps from my phone or only from my laptop?
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I followed these steps and still no system/app files. btw, I formatted my SD card using my computer... I don't quite know how much a difference it would make but I remember using my computer. Any other suggestions?
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I'm not sure what you mean. System/app directory isn't on the SD card so if your looking for it on your card you won't find it. As for the instructions I provided, yes these steps are done on your device. All newer versions of unrEVOked do the same thing as unrEVOked forever, Permanent S-OFF. There's really no reason why you'll ever need your pc again as long as you have the files for recovery and su app on your SD card.
I forgot to mention, after formatting your SD card the device will automatically re create the needed directories on the card. Some folders will pop back up instantly while others will appear once you've opened the app associated with the folder. An example would be the DCIM folder. It will only appear once you open the camera application.
Ok cool, l just remember seeing system and app and I don't remember how I got there... I know that sounds pretty stupid but that's what happened... so my concern is if I need to get back there, I want to know where to find it on my phone.. I really appreciat you taking time to try to help. So looks like I need to be looking somewhere on my phone in which I have no idea of where to start..sorry about that...I guess I need to keep researching and messing with my phone more. I really do appreciate all your help.. you guys are awesome.
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It's located in the root directory. Another words, you shouldn't be looking in any folder/directory. Open your file explorer and instead of entering a directory such as SD card just locate system. Within system you'll see system/app. It looks like this
acct
app-cache
cache
config
data
dev
etc
mnt
proc
root
sbin
sdcard
sys
SYSTEM - app is located here
Cool! It worked thanks.
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Has anyone had trouble turning of the alarm for kings ultra froyo unleashed? I set my alarm to go off this morning on my phone but when it went off, it did not give me the option to snooz or disgard. Am I missing something? Omg please help..thanx
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My friend at work wants his phone(dinc, same as mine) rooted and the crap he doesnt use removed. If the bootloader is still s-on from a z4 root temp root will the phone spaz out? Also will removing any crap from the phone make it not take the gingerbread update? Sorry for the semi-noobish question, i just dont know.....
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As far as the gingerbread update question, not sure, we'll all have to wait and see. I'm guessing you'll have to go back to stock to get it. I remember with the 2.2 OTA that stock rooted phones would get the OTA message, reboot and do nothing, but the message would continually pop up. I don't see the gingerbread OTA coming soon either (soon being the next month or two).
If the temp root gives him read/write permissions to /system, I would recommend creating a directory called /system/backup or something, and then move the apk's from /system/app to that directory; or rename the apk's to .bak (ex: CityID.apk to CityID.bak), and then if it is needed just rename it back to .apk. I wouldn't just delete them, and personally I like/do the creating a new directory thing.
The s-on thing wouldn't affect this, so as long as the temp root gives read/write permissions to /system you should be able to do what I've mentioned above.
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As far as the gingerbread update question, not sure, we'll all have to wait and see. I'm guessing you'll have to go back to stock to get it. I remember with the 2.2 OTA that stock rooted phones would get the OTA message, reboot and do nothing, but the message would continually pop up. I don't see the gingerbread OTA coming soon either (soon being the next month or two).
If the temp root gives him read/write permissions to /system, I would recommend creating a directory called /system/backup or something, and then move the apk's from /system/app to that directory; or rename the apk's to .bak (ex: CityID.apk to CityID.bak), and then if it is needed just rename it back to .apk. I wouldn't just delete them, and personally I like/do the creating a new directory thing.
The s-on thing wouldn't affect this, so as long as the temp root gives read/write permissions to /system you should be able to do what I've mentioned above.
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Okay. I tried renaming apps. The phone would reboot whenever it would try to sleep. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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Okay. I tried renaming apps. The phone would reboot whenever it would try to sleep. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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I'd rename them back to their original names. Have you used/good with ADB at all? If the /system has r/w permission, then using ADB to do all of this is a lot easier. You'll need the Android SDK installed to be able to use the ADB command.
I'm thinking that if it is a temp root thing, doesn't it revert back to stock after a reboot or something like that?
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I'd rename them back to their original names. Have you used/good with ADB at all? If the /system has r/w permission, then using ADB to do all of this is a lot easier. You'll need the Android SDK installed to be able to use the ADB command.
I'm thinking that if it is a temp root thing, doesn't it revert back to stock after a reboot or something like that?
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No familiarity with adb, and yes, all apps were renamed upon reboot. Kinda like i never had r/w permission. We dont have a computer at work and bloat freezer makes the phone reboot too. :/
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What steps did you take in rooting the phone? I'd recommend rooting with unrevoked.
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No familiarity with adb, and yes, all apps were renamed upon reboot. Kinda like i never had r/w permission. We dont have a computer at work and bloat freezer makes the phone reboot too. :/
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Sounds like the temp root thing isn't going to allow what you're trying to do. You'd have to root it with Unrevoked.
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Have you tried the freeze function of Titanium? not sure if it would work in this instance, but worth a try...
Cant use unrevoked. No computer to run it at work. And my laptops useless (5min to load google chrome) :/ so ill give him temp root, and set him up with setcpu. Freezing doesnt work at all and makes the phone reboot.
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There's really no computer you could use it on? Unrevoked only takes like 5-10 minutes. I don't know anything about temp root, everyone seems to use unrevoked forever.
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There's really no computer you could use it on? Unrevoked only takes like 5-10 minutes. I don't know anything about temp root, everyone seems to use unrevoked forever.
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Pizza shop computers. Thats it. All they do is process orders...
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Oh I see, I'm familiar with those. Pretty useless for rooting a phone unfortunately..
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Cant use unrevoked. No computer to run it at work. And my laptops useless (5min to load google chrome) :/ so ill give him temp root, and set him up with setcpu. Freezing doesnt work at all and makes the phone reboot.
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Permanent root is needed, otherwise it'll give you issues, since it'll give you temp root only. Setcpu won't be able to access root on a reboot, and will cause issues.
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Oh I see, I'm familiar with those. Pretty useless for rooting a phone unfortunately..
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Lack of a real os seems to be the problem. Lol
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Hello,
How are you?
I had a problem with my nexus and I cannot use titanium backup.
It cannot gain root access, and so I am going to reset my phone and root it again. The thing is that there are some games I would like to keep the progress, such as angry birds space, hill climb racing, cut the rope.
Strangely, root explorer still works, so I need to know what is the file that keeps the progress and where is it located.
Any help please?
Thanks.
Cheers
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I'm actually curious about it as well !
gdourado said:
Hello,
How are you?
I had a problem with my nexus and I cannot use titanium backup.
It cannot gain root access, and so I am going to reset my phone and root it again. The thing is that there are some games I would like to keep the progress, such as angry birds space, hill climb racing, cut the rope.
Strangely, root explorer still works, so I need to know what is the file that keeps the progress and where is it located.
Any help please?
Thanks.
Cheers
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Some apps put their data or saved games on the sd card that you can access them from your pc etc. If its not there its under /data/data/xyz and the apk is under /data/app.
One question:
You lost root and you wanna reset your phone so why? Flash cwm and the supersu.zip on top of it and you have your root access back without the factory reset.
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Some apps put their data or saved games on the sd card that you can access them from your pc etc. If its not there its under /data/data/xyz and the apk is under /data/app.
One question:
You lost root and you wanna reset your phone so why? Flash cwm and the supersu.zip on top of it and you have your root access back without the factory reset.
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That did the trick.
Thanks!
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Earlier this week my Sensation 4g died. I bought a Note 2. Little did I know that there were issues with it that I and others have with it, ie: no easy immediate way to do app to sd for instance. Another thing I wanted was to be able to add or take away data from installed apps by connecting the phone to a computer via usb and accessing the files that way, which again doesn't happen without some work.
Since then I have rooted the phone (according to the download mode screen, which says: current binary and system status is custom.
I have left everything stock except for the rooting part and installed Superuser and SuperSU and then tried to run Titanium Backup (free) when it said 'could not access root using \something\something\su command".
I have tried several other apps and methods of trying to do what I want (from the first paragraph) but none have succeeded either due lack of documentation (and I didn't know how to do a certain step or fix something) or it just didn't work.
So where am I at now? I have factory reset my phone and am now honestly not sure where to go or what to do from here. I've Googled and Googled but nothing quite seems to be able to fix what I need and if it does then it has the lack of documentation and can't help me.
Any thoughts or guides or something that anyone could post/link to? Thanks.
I believe this lets you save to SD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960935
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funziebear said:
I believe this lets you save to SD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960935
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If I'm not mistaken but kernels don't deal with being able to save apps to sd. I could be wrong since I don't dabble in android dev. Thanks though.
We need background... 1st of all...
What way did you use to root (Cf_auto_root, Stock-root injected, etc)?
Does your phone still have exynos_exploit or did your phone come with that "OTA Update" pre installed?
What SD card are you using?
What rom/kernal are you trying to run?
Most of the time, in this particular forum, its seems best to just ask what your trying to accomplish within the various rom/kernal thread...
Like lets say im on Stick injected rom/kernal without extsd2internalsd (apps2sd) setup and lets say I want to go to Jedi Master 9.... I would then go to Jedi Master 9 thread and ask for help on how to effectively apply that rom with ExtSd2internalsd support from my current setup, and wait for the OP or seniors to reply... also while "patiently waiting" I would read/search through the hundreds of pages looking for answers/insights to my particular process... if needed might go to my own root process thread and ask for advice on how to get to jedi master 9
Id be more than willing to help you here but need some background on your phones current status and end rom/kernal to provide an answer (to be sure I dont lead you awry
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We need background... 1st of all...
What way did you use to root (Cf_auto_root, Stock-root injected, etc)?
Does your phone still have exynos_exploit or did your phone come with that "OTA Update" pre installed?
What SD card are you using?
What rom/kernal are you trying to run?
Most of the time, in this particular forum, its seems best to just ask what your trying to accomplish within the various rom/kernal thread...
Like lets say im on Stick injected rom/kernal without extsd2internalsd (apps2sd) setup and lets say I want to go to Jedi Master 9.... I would then go to Jedi Master 9 thread and ask for help on how to effectively apply that rom with ExtSd2internalsd support from my current setup, and wait for the OP or seniors to reply... also while "patiently waiting" I would read/search through the hundreds of pages looking for answers/insights to my particular process... if needed might go to my own root process thread and ask for advice on how to get to jedi master 9
Id be more than willing to help you here but need some background on your phones current status and end rom/kernal to provide an answer (to be sure I dont lead you awry
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Thanks. I did answer that I am running everything stock at the moment, just rooted, no kernel or rom. I have an 8gb class 4 microsd card. My root method was cf auto root. I also stated what I was hoping to achieve also (in my first paragraph). Hopefully this helps.
Oh, if possible I'd like the easiest way to remove or disable system apps like chat on or some of the tmobile stuff. I tried a couple different methods with that too but couldn't quite get it all to work.
I tried the qtadb app but couldn't get my device to be seen by the program on the computer and i tried that app because I had no idea where to start with regular adb, its been a long time since i've done any of this stuff.
To remove or disable system apps I use root uninstaller, sometimes it won't delete system apps on the first try just exit the app go back and do it again second attemt will do, for your data problem I'll try root browser or root Explorer
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To remove or disable system apps I use root uninstaller, sometimes it won't delete system apps on the first try just exit the app go back and do it again second attemt will do, for your data problem I'll try root browser or root Explorer
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Hmm ok thanks. I'll try those out when I get a chance. Thanks.
I always remove bloatware through Titanium Backup or with a debloated rom
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I always remove bloatware through Titanium Backup or with a debloated rom
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Doesn't that just lead back to my first problem of not being able to get Titanium Backup to run on my phone?
Are you sure your rooted (root checker)? I honestly havent heard of anyone else being unable to install rooted apps (unless they werent rooted (those people generally rerooted to solve that issue)
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Are you sure your rooted (root checker)? I honestly havent heard of anyone else being unable to install rooted apps (unless they werent rooted (those people generally rerooted to solve that issue)
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Well it turns out you can download and install apps requiring root but they just wont run correctly, if at all. I know because after my factory reset, i downloaded and ran 2 root checker apps, both of which said I no longer have root or something. So now I'm just going through the rooting process again.
Edit: I'm not rooted again, as checked by 2 root confirmation apps. Now to try to get TB running and remove bloatware.
Edit 2: Great success! I got TB to work, bought PRO and have just frozen everything i dont need or dont use.
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Well it turns out you can download and install apps requiring root but they just wont run correctly, if at all. I know because after my factory reset, i downloaded and ran 2 root checker apps, both of which said I no longer have root or something. So now I'm just going through the rooting process again.
Edit: I'm not rooted again, as checked by 2 root confirmation apps. Now to try to get TB running and remove bloatware.
Edit 2: Great success! I got TB to work, bought PRO and have just frozen everything i dont need or dont use.
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Much easier to use odin from mr robinson. Its already been prerooted
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