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Troubleshooting z4root

I have an Evo and tried to use z4root to temporarily root it so I can use Titanium Backup. z4root says it is rooted, but TB says it cannot get root permissions.
How can I troubleshoot z4root to see why it's failing?
I don't want to do a factory reset to use z4root, because the point to using it and TB is to backup my phone the way it is so if I ever DO have to do a factory reset I don't have to reconfigure/reinstall everything from scratch.

Do you have busy box installed? It's available in titanium backup and that might help.
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I had the same exact issues.
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are you using any kind of antivirus on your phone? You could also try using a task killer before hand

Busybox is installed. No antivirus. I did a reboot, which should kill any tasks not normally running on the phone.

I'm not familiar with how z4root works so maybe it doesn't give enough permission for titanium backup to work. I really don't know why that wouldn't work though.

When it fails you have to restart you're phone before trying again or it is guaranteed to fail.
If you post your logcat it may show something
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Superuser, Busybox, and Titanium Backup

I rooted my brothers phone for him about a year ago and I usually don't have a problem maintaining his "rootness'; except for this time.
He's running MIui and wants to switch to cyanogenmod. When he goes into titanium backup, he's getting a message that says "sorry, I can not acquire root privelages. This application *not* work. Please verify that your rom is rooted and includes busy box and try again".
I went to the superuser app and made sure he had root privelages, which he does, and also downloaded a busybox installler from the market and it is said he already had a busybox installed but i reinstalled it and the application said it has successfully installled. Yet, titanium backup continues to show the same message.
The weird part is, is that titanium backup works without a problem on sense roms.
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Try hitting the problems button within TB. It will install a good version of busybox for it. It might help. Idk
Boo

Under preferences, it only offers a superuser update not a busybox
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Try updating the su. Some of the first 3.0.? versions make you lose root. In the new version 3.0.? that problem has been fixed.
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You know I just realized I still use a really old version of TB. It's probably diff now. On mine there is a button on the main Page that just says problems? which dl a compatible version of busybox. They must have changed it. Sorry man
Boo

Its updated
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Problem solved: I went into titanium backup preferences and hit" force system busybox". I will give thanks to everyone who tried to help.
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I knew they wouldn't have ditched that feature. They just changed the name. Glad you figured it out. I'd be lost without TB.
Boo

[Q] still no root acces

Hello Hox owners,
I rooted my hox a while ago.
Just before the latest update came.
To get the last update, I needed to go back to stock recovery.
This went well I thought but since I have the Wifi problems i was looking at my phone closer and saw I got the stock recovery but SU app still installed.
I want to gain root access again, remove the superuser app, and unroot it fully because I need to send my phone back for repair soon (I hope).
The clockwork was installed succesfully, the latest version of superuser as well, update binaries also flawless but somehow still no root access according to es filemanager and titanium backup...
What do I need to do to get this fix?
Thnx in advance!
Ralph

twistednl said:
Hello Hox owners,
I rooted my hox a while ago.
Just before the latest update came.
To get the last update, I needed to go back to stock recovery.
This went well I thought but since I have the Wifi problems i was looking at my phone closer and saw I got the stock recovery but SU app still installed.
I want to gain root access again, remove the superuser app, and unroot it fully because I need to send my phone back for repair soon (I hope).
The clockwork was installed succesfully, the latest version of superuser as well, update binaries also flawless but somehow still no root access according to es filemanager and titanium backup...
What do I need to do to get this fix?
Thnx in advance!
Ralph
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Maybe those apks were denied permissions for some reason. Try going into superuser & clearing all app default settings & reboot.
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rayford85 said:
Maybe those apks were denied permissions for some reason. Try going into superuser & clearing all app default settings & reboot.
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Thnx for the reply but no apps are visible inside SuperSU.
Titanium was installed after I "rerooted" my hox.
There is no clear cache option inside SuperSU, right?

twistednl said:
Thnx for the reply but no apps are visible inside SuperSU.
Titanium was installed after I "rerooted" my hox.
There is no clear cache option inside SuperSU, right?
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Can you get root checker from the market. & confirm that the Su binaries we installed correctly? If that app says your rooted then maybe try clearing superuser data. & reopening your apps.
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rayford85 said:
Can you get root checker from the market. & confirm that the Su binaries we installed correctly? If that app says your rooted then maybe try clearing superuser data. & reopening your apps.
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Yes! Exactly what needed to be done. Thnx a lot!
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Is my phone really rooted?

Hi,
I have just reset my phone using the option in privacy settings, then I cannot root again using doomlord tools (it hangs at "waiting for device"). I tried to install superuser and somehow I can run apps require root privileges now, is my phone really rooted? Is it possible that the phone is already rooted and resetting does not un-root it?

Look for answers in the forum where you got the info to root. If you can ran titanium backup or cwm you are rooted, although you should have superuser app somewhere.
Be careful where you go from from here. If you cannot determine if you are rooted or not by yourself, you need a lot more reading and research before getting into this deeper
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There's many root checker apps on the play store, just download one of those.

superuser is denying everything

I just rooted via purpledrake and installed twrp. Installed custom rom and everythjng seemed to be fine.
About 20 minutes later superuser started denying everything. I can still access twrp, titanium backup seems to boo ok, and then it started denying everything. I tried updating binaries and it denied that to. I downloaded rootchecker and says i don't have root. I can still access twrp and flash. Any ideas?

I am a noob, but I would wipe everything and restore my back up. I just had mine get stuck in a bootloop after superuser updated binaries.
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mrvoodoodaddy69 said:
I am a noob, but I would wipe everything and restore my back up. I just had mine get stuck in a bootloop after superuser updated binaries.
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I'm sure there's an easier way. it has to be something with the permissions somewhere. I'm going to re-root for now since that seems to be the quickest fix.