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Auto Root EL29

I had done the auto root w/o odin on EK02. I just received the OTA update for EL29 and installed it. Reading the auto root thread it makes it says if I want root +cwm I need to use odin. If I just want the root can I use the auto root or do I still need to use odin?

hammester said:
I had done the auto root w/o odin on EK02. I just received the OTA update for EL29 and installed it. Reading the auto root thread it makes it says if I want root +cwm I need to use odin. If I just want the root can I use the auto root or do I still need to use odin?
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Question, if you were rooted how did you receive the OTA update? I thought rooted devices would cause the OTA to fail?

The exploit used in auto root was plugged in EL13 + newer so it no longer works. Sfhub made a pre-rooted one click odin package that you can use. It has a no data version that doesn't overwrite any of your stuff and allows you to keep all your settings. It's just as easy as using auto root. If you want CWM after flashing this then you can go ahead and use auto root to flash whatever kernel +CWM you want.
Here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

jasone4gt said:
Question, if you were rooted how did you receive the OTA update? I thought rooted devices would cause the OTA to fail?
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Since I used the auto root it did not effect the OTA update. I just made sure any changes that I did make that I needed root access for I changed back to it's original state.

02 root cwm to el29 last few questions please

OK, i used auto root for rooting 02 and installing cwm recovery. then i installed the hotspot mod. perfect, everything working as expected. well now im getting the update nag. sorry for asking repetitive questions, but i want to be sure i have this correct first.
so if i run preroot el29 one click and preserve user data, it will be like the ota update but with root?? then i need to go back into the autoroot option c to get cwm recovery installed again??
will the nag screen go away then for the update??
doing these steps will get me back to root, cwm, and the latest "ota" update?
thanks so much for the time,
Joel

You got it! If you do exactly what you said you will be stock el29 rooted with cwm and you won't get nagged to install an update anymore.

If you'd like to test it out, I put together a rooted EL29 OTA update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473538
The advantage is it will patch your existing ROM rather than overwrite your ROM.
There are 2 versions provided. One is rooted. The other is rooted+CWM.
Keep in mind the only repacked EL29+CWM available is Rogue, which supports custom boot animations. The way it is configured, it uses the default Android logo boot animation. Nothing was changed on your ROM, the Sprint 4G animation is still there, just the initialization of the bootanimation was changed.

thanks guys, the rooted el29 and guide is in the sig odin el29 correct??
[ODIN][TAR] SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097 (EL29 Modem/Kernel/ROM - Full Restore - Rooted) ??
the rooted update sounds good, will that keep my cwm, or i need to reinstall it??
where can i find the update to patch my rom?? will i loose my root or cwm or anything with that one?? just need el29 to hotspot again, and root.
thanks again,
Joel
a14) EL29 OTA (patch EK02->EL29) - Sprint OTA [stock recovery] is that the patch method ?? then if i run the check and go that route, i loose root and cwm??
does rootkeeper work for going from 02 to 29 ??
ok found the [CWM][OTA][EK02->EL29] Rooted EL29 OTA update (patches your existing ROM) thread. soooo do i want the cwm option?? i will loose my old one or does this update it??
k, ran compliance check and failed system/framework.framework jar and odex and service odex. does that eliminate the patch?? i think the only thing was installing the hotspot hack.
42 years on the planet and i feel like its 42 days sometimes. heh

JS_racer said:
ok found the [CWM][OTA][EK02->EL29] Rooted EL29 OTA update (patches your existing ROM) thread. soooo do i want the cwm option?? i will loose my old one or does this update it??
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Yes, that is the one, I forgot to put the link earlier.
There is only one CWM repacked with EL29 right now. It is Rogue CWM. You could run CWM repacked with an earlier kernel if you'd like, but if you want the EL29 kernel, there is just one choice. They also have a recompiled kernel based on EL29.

k, ran compliance check and failed system/framework.framework jar and odex and service odex. does that eliminate the patch?? i think the only thing was installing the hotspot hack

JS_racer said:
k, ran compliance check and failed system/framework.framework jar and odex and service odex. does that eliminate the patch?? i think the only thing was installing the hotspot hack
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Well if you put the old ones back in place either because you backed up the file or did a nandroid backup prior to installing the hotspot hack, then you could put those back in place and run the rooted OTA. Otherwise go with one of the full updates that don't care what you currently have.

thanks so much, did the one click el29, still up and running so thats good.
was there anything funny with the cwm el29 from autoroot option c?? bootlogo or anything or it will look just like before. i have the hotspot files to transfer, guess just the jar files. should i do them by hand or install the cwm and install from sd and backup again ??
thanks so much for everything, much appreciated
Joel

Rogue CWM supports custom boot animation and it is initialized with the standard android bootlogo by default. That's the only stock EL29 repacked with CWM right now.
If it bothers you, you could run stock El29 and just install CWM when you need it, or you could install EL26+CWM (chris41gs repack) or I could dig up something to use the Sprint 4g animation. All the files are still there, just the initialization changed.

damn that was spooky, got stuck at the galaxy logo after a botched copy file operation. guess i need cwm to update the hotspot.
hit the oneclick 29 again, and it worked, damn.

EL29 unroot and then re-rooting

I searched and didn't get exact answer to easy my mind.
If I want to upgrade to EL29 I am rooted on stock EK02, I need to unroot and then re-root correct?
I have read some are seeing better wifi strength with EL29.
So my questions are:
(1) Is it worth it to go to EL29?
(2) Is it a simple process to unroot, do the update, then root again with the EL29 root one click? Is is the same steps as EK02

You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.

sfhub said:
You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.
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I was about to respond.. but man sfhub, you are always on top of these type of posts! I've learned a lot from reading your posts. You're always very clear on instructions and don't assume everyone knows everything.

Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
sfhub said:
You don't need to unroot, if that is all you did. If, using your root powers, you installed CWM, uninstalled bloat, otherwise made changes to your ROM, then those would need to be undone *if* you wanted to apply an OTA patch-style update to get EL29.
EL29 plugged the exploit that was being used by Auto Root to root your phone, so EL29 cannot be directly rooted right now. However there are alternatives:
1) you could use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature. After it is installed, use Option C in Auto Root to install CWM if you want it
2) you could use the rooted EL29 OTA udpate, also in my signature. Instructions are in the thread
3) you could flash the rooted EL29 update.zip that Calkulin put out, then flash the modem by hand. I don't have the link handy. Search the dev section.
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dw0d said:
Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
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There's no sense in accepting OTA updates anymore if you are rooted. We get it here on xda faster than sprint pushes them out. It will just break root anyway (assuming you haven't modified any system files, delete bloatware, ect). If you modified some stuff, the update would fail. I wouldn't bother with it. The easiest way would be to ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock in sfhub's signature. It'll update the modem, rom and stuff to EL29. Use the 'no-data' version if you want to keep all your data intact. That's what I did, coming from a stock EK02, only rooted.

Thx I will give a shot... XDA rocks
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dw0d said:
Am I clear that if I am stock rooted and accept the OTA, in order to root again I wud need a modified ROM... I wud not be able to root for just wifi tether??
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If you use the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature "modified ROM" is really just the addition of 3 files to the ROM to root it. Everything else is stock. It is exactly the same as if you ran Option A on your own ROM. It is just done for you. In fact, you could actually use Option B in Auto Root to unroot your phone and it would be 100% stock.
Same goes for the rooted EL29 OTA in my signature.

sfhub....Thanks for the tips. You showed me how to root a couple weeks ago and it has been great. I'm still cautious and didn't do many tweaks. I did freeze a few apps including voice command so I didn't have to use that every time I wanted to bluetooth dial.
So if I haven't made any major changes to the stock rooted EK02 I can just use the option #2 you said, right? And just pull it from your sig?

dw0d said:
Thx I will give a shot... XDA rocks
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And this is why I love XDA.
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jkhawk said:
I did freeze a few apps including voice command so I didn't have to use that every time I wanted to bluetooth dial.
So if I haven't made any major changes to the stock rooted EK02 I can just use the option #2 you said, right? And just pull it from your sig?
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Yes, freezing is fine. Only uninstalling or modifying would cause the OTA to fail.
In the instructions for the EL29 OTA there will be an optional step to run the EK02->EL29 OTA Compliance Check. Just run that and it will tell you if anything is missing or changed. Takes around a minute. SHA1FAIL for kernel/zImage is expected. Any other MISSING or SHA1FAIL would need to be addressed.

[Q] Remove root from custom ROM?

So here is my scenario: My work makes us use a security app on our phone in order to be able to sync Exchange data from our servers. If it detects your phone as rooted, you can't get data to sync.
I realize there are apps such as "Temp Root Remover" and such, but do they work on E4GT Roms? Otherwise, if I get my ROM setup how I like and then delete the SU libs from /system/xbin will that remove root?
Thanks...

flash a stock kernel of whatever ROM you're on.
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dante32278 said:
flash a stock kernel of whatever ROM you're on.
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So root is baked into the kernel, not the ROM?

The easiest way to unroot is using sfhub's auto root package tool at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
Option B.

steindog99 said:
So root is baked into the kernel, not the ROM?
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It can be both/either depending on what you installed.
Most of the latest stuff will have "superuser" in the ROM.
Some of the earlier stuff put it in the kernel.
If you install custom recovery, they will commonly have adb handing out shells logged in as root, which si different than having the Superuser app.

sfhub said:
It can be both/either depending on what you installed.
Most of the latest stuff will have "superuser" in the ROM.
Some of the earlier stuff put it in the kernel.
If you install custom recovery, they will commonly have adb handing out shells logged in as root, which si different than having the Superuser app.
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So what do you think is the best way to deal with my issue in the OP? Stock rooted EL29 and then just run Temp Root Remover all the time?
BTW...thanks for the info in the other thread as well...

steindog99 said:
So what do you think is the best way to deal with my issue in the OP? Stock rooted EL29 and then just run Temp Root Remover all the time?
BTW...thanks for the info in the other thread as well...
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If you are running stock rooted EL29 installed using the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN OneClick, then just run Option B in the Auto Root package and it will unroot you and return you to stock. Before doing that, while you still have root, install the stock kernel (if you want the stock kernel) using Option C.
If you installed EL29 some other way, you can prob ably just ODIN the kernel and ROM from the pre-rooted EL29 OneClick thread, 2nd post, reference section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

sfhub said:
If you are running stock rooted EL29 installed using the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN OneClick, then just run Option B in the Auto Root package and it will unroot you and return you to stock. Before doing that, while you still have root, install the stock kernel (if you want the stock kernel) using Option C.
If you installed EL29 some other way, you can prob ably just ODIN the kernel and ROM from the pre-rooted EL29 OneClick thread, 2nd post, reference section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
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So after running the pre-rooted EL29 Odin OneClick, then unrooting using Option B of your amazing Auto Root package, what is the best way to regain root without losing all my stuff? Would it be to just re-run the EL29 Odin OneClick that preserves data, or is there an even easier way to just add root access back into my setup?

steindog99 said:
So after running the pre-rooted EL29 Odin OneClick, then unrooting using Option B of your amazing Auto Root package, what is the best way to regain root without losing all my stuff? Would it be to just re-run the EL29 Odin OneClick that preserves data, or is there an even easier way to just add root access back into my setup?
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You could run the nodata version, it'll preserve your user data. I suspect you are making changes to you /system though. Does the root detector from work consider cwm to be root? If not, then install something like el29+cwm-rogue and then you can use option A to root and option B to unroot as many times as you want and it won't
Reset your rom

sfhub said:
You could run the nodata version, it'll preserve your user data. I suspect you are making changes to you /system though. Does the root detector from work consider cwm to be root? If not, then install something like el29+cwm-rogue and then you can use option A to root and option B to unroot as many times as you want and it won't
Reset your rom
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It does not consider CWM to be root. I thought in the Auto Root that it would only add root to builds up to EL13...and EL29 is newer so it wouldn't add root to it. Did I misunderstand that???

steindog99 said:
It does not consider CWM to be root. I thought in the Auto Root that it would only add root to builds up to EL13...and EL29 is newer so it wouldn't add root to it. Did I misunderstand that???
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If you have stock everything, including kernel and rom, then the root exploit Option A only works up to and including ek02.
If you have a cwm installed (like rogue) which gives the # prompt in adb shell, then the exploit itself still fails, but option A is able to chug along and install persistent root for you.
I don't publicize this because so few people are in your situation and it would probably be confusing for the general user.

sfhub said:
If you have stock everything, including kernel and rom, then the root exploit Option A only works up to and including ek02.
If you have a cwm installed (like rogue) which gives the # prompt in adb shell, then the exploit itself still fails, but option A is able to chug along and install persistent root for you.
I don't publicize this because so few people are in your situation and it would probably be confusing for the general user.
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Thanks for all the info. I can see how most some people would get that messed up. I appreciate all your info on this topic, and of course for the Auto Root package...

So I flashed my first rom and...

I lost all data/voice without WIFI. I was on a stock rooted EK02 and flashed to EL29 then a FF18 based ICS rom. Rom works great can connect to all Gapps via WIFI, however lost all phone services. Anyone know if I missed something or what I can do to fix this.

Did you flash a new modem?
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not sure. what would I have to had done to know if I did?

Big question is HOW did you go from EK02 to EL29? Then how did you get up to FF18?
If you used sfhub's One-Clicks there should be no problems at all. The one clicks contain kernel, ROM and modem.
Did you go into settings>About Phone> and update PRL and Update Profile?
You can try a ##72786# reset (which will reset nvram and cause your phone to reprovision) You won't lose user data, it just resets provisioning data. Open the dialer and punch those keys in (requires a TW dialer)
Sounds like you need to slow down and take some serious time to check out the stickies and read through the forums or you will certainly bork this device.
This device is WAY different the the HTC devices.

Ok so I flashed a modem. Didn't do that before. As to getting back to el29 you have to do the one touch root method and pick the version you want to go to or download the tar file and do it via odin.

For you the best would be to go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Download the RESET user data version. Follow the instructions on how to flash/install it. This one-click has everything. Just take you time and follow sfhub's well written and detailed instructions. Easy peasy
You'll then have a 'clean' EL29 with root.
IF you want/need CWM;
Then go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728 download the 'Full' Autoroot package and follow the instructions and choose EL29+CWM-Rogue to give you a Clockwork Mod recovery.
If you're feeling like you want to step up to ICS then you can use sfhub's One-Click here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229 to take you to the latest ICS leak (FF18) - Kernel, ROM and Modem all at one shot. The autoroot package has options for adding Agat's FF11 CWM (ICS) recovery/kernel if you want that too.
Again I would highly recommend reading a whole lot more to insure you don't turn your phone into a diving weight.