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"No Tripping Flash Counter" root isn't rooted

I installed the rooted ROM at [HOWTO] [ROOT] No Tripping Flash Counter [SPR L710VPALEN] (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774722), although I stopped before installing CWM.
It appears I don't have root. I even try to let Superuser update itself from a 3.0.x version to 3.1.1. I am never prompted to grant root access, and it eventually says "Superuser has been denied Superuser permissions".
If Superuser itself cannot get root, then how can this be called a rooted ROM?
P.S., I would have posted in the thread, but I am apparently too much of a n00b per the forum settings.

I know this doesn't help you, but Superuser worked fine for me after using the same method. All I can suggest is to try flashing it again.
Edit: make sure you don't have both Superuser and SuperSU installed. They can conflict with each other.

novasource said:
I installed the rooted ROM at [HOWTO] [ROOT] No Tripping Flash Counter [SPR L710VPALEN] (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774722), although I stopped before installing CWM.
It appears I don't have root. I even try to let Superuser update itself from a 3.0.x version to 3.1.1. I am never prompted to grant root access, and it eventually says "Superuser has been denied Superuser permissions".
If Superuser itself cannot get root, then how can this be called a rooted ROM?
P.S., I would have posted in the thread, but I am apparently too much of a n00b per the forum settings.
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You need cwm.. Flash It and you will profit....
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EndlessDissent said:
I know this doesn't help you, but Superuser worked fine for me after using the same method. All I can suggest is to try flashing it again.
Edit: make sure you don't have both Superuser and SuperSU installed. They can conflict with each other.
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Thank you!
I only have Superuser installed. It's what came with the ROM. I haven't installed anything else since doing the ROM.
I already flashed twice, got the same results each time.
However, after the flash but before it started installing updates, I ran Superuser, clicked Info, and the entire line above tap to check for updates was green. However, after allowing the first update to install, the line had the left side red:
-rwxr-xr-x root shell /system/xbin/su
It was the same after the third update. I wonder if something about those two updates is disabling root?

Naddict said:
You need cwm.. Flash It and you will profit....
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Are you sure CWM is needed to get root? My understanding is you must have root before installing CWM?

novasource said:
Are you sure CWM is needed to get root? My understanding is you must have root before installing CWM?
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Track down the team epic site that walks you through... You should be able to do those steps successfully... Here found link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743780
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Naddict said:
Track down the team epic site that walks you through... You should be able to do those steps successfully... Here found link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743780
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Thanks. Just to make sure, are you saying that the original instructions (in the thread linked at top) are wrong to suggest you have a rooted ROM if you haven't installed CWM?
Also, that would mean http://www.androidauthority.com/gal...ot-l710vpalen-stock-rom-flash-counter-103351/ is incorrect.

novasource said:
Thanks. Just to make sure, are you saying that the original instructions (in the thread linked at top) are wrong to suggest you have a rooted ROM if you haven't installed CWM?
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CWM is used to install root and rooted roms. I have root for my wifes phone but I do not have CWM and all works fine. She actually would never use recovery but I do know how to flash one on there if necessary.
I am quite sure the tutorial is not incorrect and just a misunderstanding somewhere

playya said:
CWM is used to install root and rooted roms. I have root for my wifes phone but I do not have CWM and all works fine. She actually would never use recovery but I do know how to flash one on there if necessary.
I am quite sure the tutorial is not incorrect and just a misunderstanding somewhere
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I'm scratching my head because there's not much to misunderstand here. The instructions are simple; either you've installed the ROM or you haven't. Since Superuser appeared for the first time after installing the ROM, and the phone prompted me to install two updates after installing, that tells me that the ROM installed correctly.

Wonderful. Just followed the instructions for installing CWM that were linked from http://www.androidauthority.com/gal...ot-l710vpalen-stock-rom-flash-counter-103351/. Not only did that not give me a working copy of CWM, that also made CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD report Yes (1 counts).

novasource said:
Thank you!
I only have Superuser installed. It's what came with the ROM. I haven't installed anything else since doing the ROM.
I already flashed twice, got the same results each time.
However, after the flash but before it started installing updates, I ran Superuser, clicked Info, and the entire line above tap to check for updates was green. However, after allowing the first update to install, the line had the left side red:
-rwxr-xr-x root shell /system/xbin/su
It was the same after the third update. I wonder if something about those two updates is disabling root?
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I see what your problem is. You're taking the OTA updates. Those erase /system/bin/su and unroot you. Before you take either OTA, install Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the Play Store, and back up your root. Then take both updates, reopen, Rootkeeper, and restore root.
No CWM needed.

EndlessDissent said:
I see what your problem is. You're taking the OTA updates. Those erase /system/bin/su and unroot you. Before you take either OTA, install Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the Play Store, and back up your root. Then take both updates, reopen, Rootkeeper, and restore root.
No CWM needed.
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Good catch... Hard as hell to get knee deep into troubleshooting while driving
OP... If that. Doesn't work... http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html?m=1
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EndlessDissent said:
I see what your problem is. You're taking the OTA updates. Those erase /system/bin/su and unroot you. Before you take either OTA, install Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the Play Store, and back up your root. Then take both updates, reopen, Rootkeeper, and restore root.
No CWM needed.
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YOU ARE CORRECT! I'll add that to the comments of http://www.androidauthority.com/gal...ot-l710vpalen-stock-rom-flash-counter-103351/. Thank you for the help.
EDIT: Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper doesn't work. More details later.

Bad news: While it is correct that the OTA updates are killing my root, Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper won't work. Even with it installed,
When you start the app, it says it is "useless" for "Samsung phones updated via KIES or Odin...".
Will check on alternatives.

novasource said:
Bad news: While it is correct that the OTA updates are killing my root, Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper won't work. Even with it installed,
When you start the app, it says it is "useless" for "Samsung phones updated via KIES or Odin...".
Will check on alternatives.
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http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html?m=1
Have you tried this?

Naddict said:
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html?m=1
Have you tried this?
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I tried once using the instructions at .http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-sph-l710-sprint-clockworkmod-recovery-99305/. Not only did it not install, it incremented my binary counter. Fortunately I was able to use Triangle Away to reset that.
I'm still not clear how CWM will help me. This is supposed to be a rooted ROM already. Not sure why I would need CWM.

novasource said:
I tried once using the instructions at .http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-sph-l710-sprint-clockworkmod-recovery-99305/. Not only did it not install, it incremented my binary counter. Fortunately I was able to use Triangle Away to reset that.
I'm still not clear how CWM will help me. This is supposed to be a rooted ROM already. Not sure why I would need CWM.
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It is a combo deal...It is not a ROM though...Try it...you may like it
this? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7011CD883D5201B8&feature=view_all

Naddict said:
It is a combo deal...It is not a ROM though...Try it...you may like it
this? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7011CD883D5201B8&feature=view_all
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OK, I tried it, and it appears to work. I had to use Triangle Away to get rid of the binary counter increment.
It's important to note that I only got this to work by not using the "No Tripping Flash Counter" ROM.

novasource said:
OK, I tried it, and it appears to work. I had to use Triangle Away to get rid of the binary counter increment.
It's important to note that I only got this to work by not using the "No Tripping Flash Counter" ROM.
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Good?!?
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Naddict said:
Good?!?
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Yes!

Need some help with an OTA update on a STOCK ROOTED device.

I have a Stock Rooted device which is prompting me for a system update. I go to install the update, the phone reboots to CWM and it says aborted. Any advice? Thanks!

sandman512 said:
I have a Stock Rooted device which is prompting me for a system update. I go to install the update, the phone reboots to CWM and it says aborted. Any advice? Thanks!
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OTA updates don't work with CWM, you have to reinstall the stock recovery.

Thanks for the reply. If you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction for doing that. I would also like to go back to cwm
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sandman512 said:
Thanks for the reply. If you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction for doing that. I would also like to go back to cwm
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Hey wassup man, I unrooted my phone so that it runs bone stock the other day, go to qbking77 website and follow his unroot method. It works perfect.

sandman512 said:
I have a Stock Rooted device which is prompting me for a system update. I go to install the update, the phone reboots to CWM and it says aborted. Any advice? Thanks!
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The easiest way BY FAR is stay rooted and flash the LI3 equivalent to the OTA by Freeza
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743923
After flashing the ROM with CWM, also flash the Team Epic Root from Recovery. This will keep your root.
Reboot and you are good to go. Rooted with CWM and you will no longer be prompted for OTA.

MobDad said:
The easiest way BY FAR is stay rooted and flash the LI3 equivalent to the OTA by Freeza
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743923
After flashing the ROM with CWM, also flash the Team Epic Root from Recovery. This will keep your root.
Reboot and you are good to go. Rooted with CWM and you will no longer be prompted for OTA.
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No the easiest way is using mobile odin. Will patch sprints ota so it flashes. doesnt require downloading a 700mb file either

billard412 said:
No the easiest way is using mobile odin. Will patch sprints ota so it flashes. doesnt require downloading a 700mb file either
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Here here... Use billard412's suggestion. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
Billard412 is a rooting, fixing, and count resetting witch...
... (friendly witch )
And that is no slight against others either, his stuff just plain works, is recent, and easy peasy!
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Just used his pre rooted method, worked like a charm. Thanks.
Btw, I installed cowman, but if I want to go stock recovery, can I? Will this help with otay updates?
Thanks again.
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[Q] OTA'd from ICS w/Root Injected to official Jelly Bean, now root is broken - Help?

So I upgraded to Jelly Bean using the OTA on Rogers. I used Voodoo to maintain my root access but it only seemed to preserve it for the apps that already had access. I was trying to flash CWM on the phone today only to find out root is broken.
What is the easiest way for me to regain root access? I uninstalled SuperUser and reinstalled it without any luck. Now the root apps like TiBu that were working before are no longer working.
I need some guidance on how I should proceed to get it back. I really don't want to have to wipe all my data if that can be avoided. I was able to install CWM using ADB. But I'd rather have my root functionality restored in my TW ROM so that I can make a proper backup before beginning to flash custom ROMs.
My details are in my sig. Thank you.

Just re-root it. You don't uninstall and re-install Superuser.

CZ Eddie said:
Just re-root it. You don't uninstall and re-install Superuser.
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Would you think the best course of action is to flash the SuperSu.zip via CWM or reload the OS on top using Odin/MrRobinson's method and have it repair what's broken?
I noticed my flash counter is now showing 1, don't know how that happened.

Tony_YYZ said:
Would you think the best course of action is to flash the SuperSu.zip via CWM or reload the OS on top using Odin/MrRobinson's method and have it repair what's broken?
I noticed my flash counter is now showing 1, don't know how that happened.
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Did you try updating the superuser binarys first?

pizzlewizzle said:
Did you try updating the superuser binarys first?
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How would I go about doing this?
I currently have Superuser installed, not SuperSU(Although it looks like more people are using this now)

Tony_YYZ said:
How would I go about doing this?
I currently have Superuser installed, not SuperSU(Although it looks like more people are using this now)
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I would try rerooting get latest CWM and SU, flash SU, then before you reboot go into advance fix permissions, reboot go into SU and fix binaries.
Back up before all this, just in case.
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mest22 said:
I would try rerooting get latest CWM and SU, flash SU, then before you reboot go into advance fix permissions, reboot go into SU and fix binaries.
Back up before all this, just in case.
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Thank you for the reply. I will attempt this once I get home. I was able to make a CWM backup last night. But I noticed that CWM was overwritten with the stock recovery once I rebooted, is it safe to set that option within CWM to make it set itself as the default recovery?

Tony_YYZ said:
Thank you for the reply. I will attempt this once I get home. I was able to make a CWM backup last night. But I noticed that CWM was overwritten with the stock recovery once I rebooted, is it safe to set that option within CWM to make it set itself as the default recovery?
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No problem, CWM should be the default recovery. And when you go to restore make sure you choose the backup you created with CWM.
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mest22 said:
No problem, CWM should be the default recovery. And when you go to restore make sure you choose the backup you created with CWM.
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It doesn't stick. Turns out the stock recovery is set to reload itself at each boot. This is the fix:
You will need to rename or delete these two files.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
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i317 UCAMA4 update.. killed root...

Kind of figured it would... any workarounds yet? My previous root method was through the Exynos Abuse app... no update yet though. I realize it just came out, so was just wondering...

why would you install an OTA update when you are rooted?

Because I wasn't thinking. :banghead:
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So are there a question in this thread? If so, is the question how to get root back? Just use Odin and flash a custom recovery then reinstall SU.

I installed the update and kept root. When it finished downloading the package, it restarted into my custom recovery. I use ClockworkMod. Once I flashed it CWM told me that root might be lost and do I want to try to keep it. Of course, I said yes. Restarted, and everything was fine and rooted!

teslafied said:
I installed the update and kept root. When it finished downloading the package, it restarted into my custom recovery. I use ClockworkMod. Once I flashed it CWM told me that root might be lost and do I want to try to keep it. Of course, I said yes. Restarted, and everything was fine and rooted!
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So I tried to do the ota update, but when it reloads it takes me to TWRP. The frist time it took me there I selected to reboot from my recovery on my sd card, then the second time I just chose for it to reboot the system. I still don't have the update and I'm still rooted. Could u please help me to achieve what u have done, to keep root but also have the update applied?
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lilmama2879 said:
So I tried to do the ota update, but when it reloads it takes me to TWRP. The frist time it took me there I selected to reboot from my recovery on my sd card, then the second time I just chose for it to reboot the system. I still don't have the update and I'm still rooted. Could u please help me to achieve what u have done, to keep root but also have the update applied?
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You have to have stock recovery installed. U can't use twrp2 or cwm.
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borijess said:
You have to have stock recovery installed. U can't use twrp2 or cwm.
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As u can probably c I'm a total noob and I'm not sure what u mean when u say I need to have stock recovery. Could u pls point me in the right direction? I'd like to put this update on my phone and be done with it cuz it keeps popping up in my notification tray that there's an update. Pls help me, thanks in advance. I'm on a stock rom (at&t i317 4.1.2) and rooted with the CF auto root, but have the multiview mod installed also.
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borijess said:
You have to have stock recovery installed. U can't use twrp2 or cwm.
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I flashed it using CWM.

teslafied said:
I flashed it using CWM.
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I just went into my recovery for the first time since I flashed it with CWM and even though it kept my root, it did put the stock recovery back. I just re-flashed CWM Touch again and I'm all good now!

[Q] Help switching from SuperSU to Superuser, please!!!

Hello,
So, I have the T-Mobile S4, obviously, and I updated to 4.3 using Kies. Well, long story short, after the updated I couldn't use WiFi at all. I ended up using Odin and putting the stock firmware back on, and that fixed everything.
Now, I rooted it using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980683 but, the SuperSU root isn't letting me use OBackup, now. Before, when I had Superuser, it let me use it just fine.
Is there any way to switch from SuperSU to Superuser? I've been reading a few threads but they are all for 4.2.2 and I'm not sure if it'll work on 4.3. I read on one of the threads to use "CWM recovery" and use Odin and that would work, but again, that's 4.2.2.
Any ideas would be great.

Have you tried downloading it from the playstore?
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PwnYourFace said:
Hello,
So, I have the T-Mobile S4, obviously, and I updated to 4.3 using Kies. Well, long story short, after the updated I couldn't use WiFi at all. I ended up using Odin and putting the stock firmware back on, and that fixed everything.
Now, I rooted it using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980683 but, the SuperSU root isn't letting me use OBackup, now. Before, when I had Superuser, it let me use it just fine.
Is there any way to switch from SuperSU to Superuser? I've been reading a few threads but they are all for 4.2.2 and I'm not sure if it'll work on 4.3. I read on one of the threads to use "CWM recovery" and use Odin and that would work, but again, that's 4.2.2.
Any ideas would be great.
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The easiest way to solve the problem is to re-odin flash stock 4.2.2 firmware.
After that download CF-AUTOROOT and odin flash it.
After that you will be fully rooted and all apps which require root will work again.
Here is the direct download link for cf-autoroot: http://download.chainfire.eu/328/CF...jfltetmo-jfltetmo-sghm919.zip?retrieve_file=1
p.s. you might need to re-flash cwm or twrp custom recovery.
Good luck!

Android_Monsters said:
Have you tried downloading it from the playstore?
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Yeah; I tried downloading it from the playstore, but all it tells me once I open it is that the it is oudated and needs to update. I hit "Update" and then it crashes the app, and restarts the phone into recovery mode with no prompts except "reboot phone".
And the thing is I do NOT want to go back to 4.2.2. I want to find a way back to Superuser instead of SuperSU.

Misterjunky said:
The easiest way to solve the problem is to re-odin flash stock 4.2.2 firmware.
After that download CF-AUTOROOT and odin flash it.
After that you will be fully rooted and all apps which require root will work again.
Here is the direct download link for cf-autoroot
p.s. you might need to re-flash cwm or twrp custom recovery.
Good luck!
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The thing is I don't want to go back to 4.2.2. I like 4.3, I just need Superuser instead of SuperSU.
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