Ok guys, real quick. I'm attempting to recover the data that the "ever so great OTA update" deleted the other day. (4.2.2)
I'm going to attempt the Wartickler recovery which says my phone needs root access. No problem. I've rooted every other phone I own without problem. I've never rooted this phone, (I bought it rooted and unlocked) however, apparently I lost the original root access with the update as well.
I've already read about a billion guides on rooting the GNex. But I get tripped up everytime (mind you I haven't tried it yet physically) when it says "install _______ to sdcard root". Without the physical "sdcard" since its the Nexus, how can you be sure you are putting it on the root of the card?
I know it's probably a really bvious answer. I'm just really freakin' desperate right now to recover this stuff, seeing as to how it's got numerous family pictures from the last few years.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ok guys, real quick. I'm attempting to recover the data that the "ever so great OTA update" deleted the other day. (4.2.2)
I'm going to attempt the Wartickler recovery which says my phone needs root access. No problem. I've rooted every other phone I own without problem. I've never rooted this phone, (I bought it rooted and unlocked) however, apparently I lost the original root access with the update as well.
I've already read about a billion guides on rooting the GNex. But I get tripped up everytime (mind you I haven't tried it yet physically) when it says "install _______ to sdcard root". Without the physical "sdcard" since its the Nexus, how can you be sure you are putting it on the root of the card?
I know it's probably a really bvious answer. I'm just really freakin' desperate right now to recover this stuff, seeing as to how it's got numerous family pictures from the last few years.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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if you use the path "/sdcard" you are putting the file onto what is referred to as our sdcard even though it isn't a physical, removable, sdcard.
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Hi guys, i just bought a Droid Incredible for my girlfriend yesterday out of contract. It hasn't been activated yet and i want to know if i can root and replace the stock ROM with perhaps CM7 or something else comparable BEFORE I give her the phone and it's activated on Verizon Wireless?
If this is possible, can someone recommend the best possible method for rooting and flashing a new ROM?
I own a HTC Inspire 4G and i rooted and flashed CM7 on there successfully so i'm not totally new to rooting, i just need a little shove in the right direction for the Incredible.
Thanks
Predtech
For root, try unrevoked. Since you're not new to rooting, you know the drill: READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. Then, installing a ROM is as easy as putting the zip on the sdcard, rebooting into recovery, running "choose zip from sdcard" and selecting the zip, confirming with trackpad thing, and letting it go to town. Make a nandroid backup first of course (I'm going to assume you know how to do that). Then reboot it and you should be good to go!
Thanks for the quick reply. The only other unanswered question i have left then is, can i root it WITHOUT having access to the full os because the phone is not activated yet. I was hoping to root and flash it before giving it to her this week.
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Thanks for the quick reply. The only other unanswered question i have left then is, can i root it WITHOUT having access to the full os because the phone is not activated yet. I was hoping to root and flash it before giving it to her this week.
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I haven't done anything this way, but I'm pretty sure you can root, ROM, and then activate from inside the ROM. Activation I've heard can be done over the phone, and if you take it to a Verizon store just don't replace the ROM until after activation. Sorry I don't have more info on this.
just do *228 then option 1 from the phone
but if i do *228 and option 1 to program the phone will it activate the phone and more importantly DEACTIVATE my girlfriends phone, which i don't want happening.
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but if i do *228 and option 1 to program the phone will it activate the phone and more importantly DEACTIVATE my girlfriends phone, which i don't want happening.
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So.... why not give it to her then tell her the situation and activate it right then and there?
You should activate the phone first. Why not just leave it stock for now? Last thing you want to do is give her something that is buggy. The dinc is fine for most people out of the box. Mine is rooted but my girlfriends is not just for that reason.
Thanks for all the input guys. I guess ill just leave it stock for now and root it and put cm7 on it after I give it to her.
Couldnt you do a manual root with the SDK dev pack and the command line tool that comes with it. you can install apps that way too. not an expert at all but maybe someone would know how to do it that way.
i would go the "better safe then sorry route", which means dont root it until its activated.
I had to go out and get me a tmobile g2 and now here I am wanting to root it. I am tech savvy enough to understand the directions I have found as to how to root the g2 but I have run into a few problems. I have done the adb and pushed everything to the phone I get all the way to the end and it installs super user but will not do anything with busybox. It will not and cannot find it installed even though i have used adb and sent it to the phone directory. when I look through astro i find busybox on my sd card but it never shows when i try to finish rooting. I have done a factory reset and am back to square one. I have heard so many neg things about visionary and than i read all over the place that it no longer works after the ota update. If there is someone that can work with me to maybe give more clear instructions and give me answers if there is a problem I would greatly appreciate it. This is my first time doing anything to my phones other than using them stock.
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In case anyone ever does read this,...part of the problem I think i have found is that my device is nand locked. So another wuestion here than would be is how to remove this to root my phone.
My fiancee's EVO 4g was in desperate need of replacing, so we went and got new phones. She had been playing this damned Smurf Village game for about a year and a half, and I thought I'd pull a white knight -- root the phone, back it up on Titanium, transfer the backup to the new phone, root that, restore. She insists she's okay starting over, but I thought it'd be a nice gesture. Rooting the new phone (LG Optimus G) was a piece of cake. The EVO 4g took me some time to get it to work ...
In my poor attempts at multitasking, I didn't do a nandroid backup and completely overlooked where it said it would restore to factory settings.
Is all lost? I did a search on it while it was plugged into the PC as an external drive and found a bunch of (edit: Smurf-related) files, so I feel like the data might still be there.
If not, it's all good. I learned from my mistake (I mean, c'mon, big_onion, every damn set of instructions says "make a nandroid backup") but if there's any way to get it back it might make her day.
Data restoration aside, after flashing Superuser, I still can't get TitaniumBackup to obtain superuser privileges. Any ideas what I might've done wrong? The method I used was to unlock the bootloader via HTC site, then flashboot recovery, then flash superuser. The app is there, but it doesn't seem to issue SU rights to TitaniumBackup.
Best way to gain root is to flash any custom rom here on xda. Unless it is a completely stock rom it is rooted and works without any issues. I rooted my second og evo a few days ago and had the same issue with the stock rom. After flashing a custom rom I had full root access.
Now as far as data goes most apps store that on the sdcard. I suggest installing the game on the new phone then power off and insert your old sdcard into the new phone. Hopefully it will use the old data and return your wife's game to her last state and make you look like a champ.
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jlmancuso said:
Best way to gain root is to flash any custom rom here on xda. Unless it is a completely stock rom it is rooted and works without any issues. I rooted my second og evo a few days ago and had the same issue with the stock rom. After flashing a custom rom I had full root access.
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Uhm...
You don't root android by flashing a rooted custom rom on a non root phone.
Rooting a phone must be done via a PC there is no other way.
Some stock roms ARE root.
The reason you had problems is because you were root and tried to install a non-root stock rom, if you would have installed a rooted stock rom you would of had no problems.
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Umm root is done by rom. Unlocking bootloader is the part done by pc.
You can be unlocked without root but can not root until you are unlocked. Rooting is the granting of admin rights to the user's apps.
I did not have an issue because I installed a non rooted rom. The rom was already on the phone which is the same spot the op is in. He is unlocked but not rooted. The htcdev unlock does not grant root rights to the current stock rom. Also the flashable zip did not grant the rom root rights.
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Umm root is done by rom.
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You don't go from not being rooted to being rooted by flashing a custom rom on the phone from the recovery menu, unless you accidentally flashed a non-root rom while you were already root.
Unlocking bootloader is the part done by pc.
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They're both done via PC at the same time with the same program (Unrevoked3 is only temporary nand)
Unrevoked Forever unlocks the bootloader permanently via recovery with an .img
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/UnrEVOked
Wow man this will be my last response here about this but I want to say a couple quick things. First did you even read the link you posted? Yes with unrevoked you can gain nand unlock and root at the same time but if you also read it says this.
Does unrevoked³ give me root?
Yes. It previously did not; as of version 3.0, it does.
So root and nand unlock are not the same and is not always done at the same time. It is possible to be nand unlocked and not have root. Which is the case when you use htcdev unlock. Do your homework before you go making statements please.
I am not here trying to run anyone down and start fights but I am here to spread knowledge and help out others with problems. If you give someone bad information it will cause problems down the line later. Most people will assume you know what you are talking about when you make a post even if the information is not correct. So please take the time and make sure your information is correct before you post it.
So take a look at links I have posted and see what root is, how it is used, and see the difference.
This is a general overview of the root permission (depending on os it is called many different things)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser
This is what it means with the android
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/05/rooting-for-android-what-why-and-how/
Again not fighting but giving information that is benifical to everyone.
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Fail troll is fail.
OP has the information he needs.
He already is rooted and needs permanent unlock which is what Unrevoked Forever does, which is linked in the link I posted.
Edit: The PM j sent me.
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Hey man. I am not trolling. The information is real. I am a knowledgeable dev and don't want anyone getting the wrong information. Bad information leads to big mistakes that can be a devs worst nightmare. Just read the articles and if you still don't agree well that is fine by me. I at least tried to give you the correct information.
Have a nice day and enjoy this beautiful day.
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I guess he thinks Unrevoked Forever is bad information and harmful to Evos.
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If you backed up the game, you can always download titanium backup and restore. Make sure you didn't delete the files from sd-card (they should be there). Sorry if this was already answered or i'm wrong. :fingers-crossed:
edit: if its a stock rom and you backup every app with titanium back up you could.
jlmancuso is having a hard week. i would give him a break. as far as i can tell he's genuinely trying to be helpful and is catching crap from all sides these days. eventually he will slow down and not accidentally provoke people (or take things personally). but he seems like valuable asset to the community overall so i'm rooting for him. OP good luck with your issue.
It's already unlocked, via the instructions from the HTC dev site. I didn't use Unrevoked -- I tried, and got a message about something being too new of a version. I'll dig around more, but I before I spent too much time I wanted to make sure I could restore the data on the stupid Smurf game for her.
I did NOT do a Titanium Backup of anything on there before I started. The LG Optimus G doesn't have an SD card, so I can't just swap SD cards. I can copy files from the EVO to the PC then to the LGOG. I think I might install Smurfs on the new phone, root it, then just try and copy the Smurf files from the EVO over to the Optimus G and see if overwriting the data files would restore her game.
Will report back on whether or not it works, or if I can't get superuser working.
And chill out, friends. I appreciate all sorts of info, even if it's not what I'm looking for. Y'all rock.
I am not taking it personally and dont think unrevoked is harmful. I am not going to argue with anyone about the facts. I posted the articles al5uwtqind if anyone wants to read them and learn more than cool. The information is for the benefit of everyone. Call troll or a$$ or whatever. I am here to help like most everyone.
Knowledge is power so empower someone else today.
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Data restoration aside, after flashing Superuser, I still can't get TitaniumBackup to obtain superuser privileges. Any ideas what I might've done wrong? The method I used was to unlock the bootloader via HTC site, then flashboot recovery, then flash superuser. The app is there, but it doesn't seem to issue SU rights to TitaniumBackup.
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I think he meant "Htcdev site" then "fastboot flash recovery", but it seems like Big_Onion did everything right as far as rooting the phone, but there can be other reasons why Titanium is not working properly. It could be Titanium data needs to be wiped or it could be an issue with busybox. He never said he was not rooted, he only said that superuser was not giving Titanium root permissions, which has happened to me also. I wish he would have ran the root checker app too, to verify did he really have root or not. Then it would be easier to tell which path to take.
And also, why are we arguing over unrevoked and unrevoked-forever? Those don't work on the newer stock roms, because they were patched in 2011 by the first Gingerbread update on. Since big_onion used the Htcdev site, he is likely on Gingerbread. They, unrevoked3 and forever, would only work if he downgraded the radios to the ones which came with either Eclair or Froyo, the two previous operating systems. Titanium backup only needs an unlocked bootloader from the Htcdev site, and superuser permissions from the superuser app to work. Anything else is just extra, at least on Gingerbread.
Hello guys I need some help with completely unrooting my phone, so my phone is like factor new, I would like to update my phone to 4.4.2 (right now its on 4.1.2)but when I try it says suspected rooted, I tied many different ways to unroot my phone by looking though the post but most of them are confusing to me and most of them just ended up not working for me at all. So if any one knows a "dumb" way to restore my phone to factor settings. I will be happy.
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Hello guys I need some help with completely unrooting my phone, so my phone is like factor new, I would like to update my phone to 4.4.2 (right now its on 4.1.2)but when I try it says suspected rooted, I tied many different ways to unroot my phone by looking though the post but most of them are confusing to me and most of them just ended up not working for me at all. So if any one knows a "dumb" way to restore my phone to factor settings. I will be happy.
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You can unroot with app such as super su pro. I've never tried it, so I'm not sure how effective it is. Another sure way to unroot is flash the phone with stock firmware, that will sure return the phone to a state as you first purchase it.
Just flash back to stock with odin, it'll be factory new. Keep in mind this will wipe your entire internal storage...so backup your internal SDcard if you need to.
This is what I use when I mess up my device lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2420219
Use this .tot (it takes ages to download, so find something to do haha) with above and it will put you on 4.4.2
This may work too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45953380&postcount=1
After resisting the temptation of having custom ROM on my Xperia SS c1904 since couple of years. I couldn't anymore and tried to flash cm13 yesterday.
The device was stuck in bootloop and after nearly 20 hours of continuous effort to recover the device, I was able to get it back working. FREE ADVICE : Don't play with roms on your main device.
Thanks for all the persons for sharing the ideas content. Just a small advice : please use standard websites for uploading the files. Many of the files are broken links.
Finally, I had my bootloader unlocked (shame on Sony for their worst instructions which caused nightmare). I've trying cm13, I realised that it was really not for me.
Now after flashing latest stock firmware, I was confused to root as I didn't find any threads which was for rooting an unlocked Bootloader device. I've used towel root before but I was afraid to install cwm recovery and other stuff which might brick my phone.
So, I had no choice but kingroot.. it went smoothly without any reboot and viola.. I was happy.
Then I've continued to restore all the backups I've made using titanium one by one. BUT ALL OF SUDDEN, ALL MY DATA ON SD CARD WAS LOST.
I SUSPECT KINGROOT for the issue. can anyone confirm if I'm I just worried or my data has indeed stolen? Is there any way I can check what caused the data lost? The SD card is working fine. I'm glad I've all the backups on PC. But I'm just worried that all my data is in hands of ....... U know.
Let me know your valuable feedback please. Thanks in advance.
EDIT : I have found the lost data in "lost.dir" today. so, little relief from kingroot
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After resisting the temptation of having custom ROM on my Xperia SS c1904 since couple of years. I couldn't anymore and tried to flash cm13 yesterday.
The device was stuck in bootloop and after nearly 20 hours of continuous effort to recover the device, I was able to get it back working. FREE ADVICE : Don't play with roms on your main device.
Thanks for all the persons for sharing the ideas content. Just a small advice : please use standard websites for uploading the files. Many of the files are broken links.
Finally, I had my bootloader unlocked (shame on Sony for their worst instructions which caused nightmare). I've trying cm13, I realised that it was really not for me.
Now after flashing latest stock firmware, I was confused to root as I didn't find any threads which was for rooting an unlocked Bootloader device. I've used towel root before but I was afraid to install cwm recovery and other stuff which might brick my phone.
So, I had no choice but kingroot.. it went smoothly without any reboot and viola.. I was happy.
Then I've continued to restore all the backups I've made using titanium one by one. BUT ALL OF SUDDEN, ALL MY DATA ON SD CARD WAS LOST.
I SUSPECT KINGROOT for the issue. can anyone confirm if I'm I just worried or my data has indeed stolen? Is there any way I can check what caused the data lost? The SD card is working fine. I'm glad I've all the backups on PC. But I'm just worried that all my data is in hands of ....... U know.
Let me know your valuable feedback please. Thanks in advance.
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Probably not the KingRoot's fault. I've been rooting my C1905 using KingRoot for years now and saw no problems at all.
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Probably not the KingRoot's fault. I've been rooting my C1905 using KingRoot for years now and saw no problems at all.
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Thanks for your views.. I just found too much of bad opinions on king root as spyware.. hence worried.
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Thanks for your views.. I just found too much of bad opinions on king root as spyware.. hence worried.
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KingRoot is actually half-adware, since it comes with Purify and if you uninstall it, it will come back. That's why I never use KingRoot after unlocking the bootloader and try out the SuperSU way.
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KingRoot is actually half-adware, since it comes with Purify and if you uninstall it, it will come back. That's why I never use KingRoot after unlocking the bootloader and try out the SuperSU way.
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1. I have seen purify, I have disabled it
2. I have also disabled few access rights which were enabled for kinguser app.
3. Also, found lost files in lost.dir today..
so., I'm little relieved now as the issue could be due to some other android setting.
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1. I have seen purify, I have disabled it
2. I have also disabled few access rights which were enabled for kinguser app.
3. Also, found lost files in lost.dir today..
so., I'm little relieved now as the issue could be due to some other android setting.
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Okay, god bless you