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Superuser won't install

Hi, I'm a complete newb to rooting Android phones, so I'd like to apologize in advance. I current;y have a Galaxy S2 SGH-T989, and I wanted to flash some custom ROMS onto it. I have just rooted my phone (after many painstaking hours) and am now atempting to install superuser, which didn't come with the root. When I open clockworkmod, it cant detect the .zip file containing superuser. HOWEVER, once I moved the .zip to a subfolder (DCIM), clocworkmod could detect it, bit could not finish installation and aborted. Any tips on how to make it see it under the main directory? Or how to tell it to complete installation?

R u putting it on the external sd?
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It has to be on the root of the sd

Sometimes it takes a few times for it to stick ...

Put su in external sd, flash you will Get a error then do nandroid backup and then restore
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OK this is what u got to do... when on computer and u are dragging the su zip over to your sdcard. (Has to be external) make sure u are not sticking it in a directory ( or sub folder) just drag it and pretty much drop it under the folders make sure it does not go into any of the folders like I said. Then u should see the su zip . Now when u go into clock work mod go to install from sdcard (make sure u choose external) find the zip....again it shouldn't be in any directories (folders). Flash it it might error out....but do not leave cwm stay in there and reflash it until it says it installed correctly. Should take two or three times. Then boot up u will see su in app folder. Go to market. Dl busy box. Install it then go into app and install busy box. Now u are good to go. Also after all that is said and done go back into recovery and go to backup and restore and choose backup. Now u will have a backup of rooted stock rom in case something happens on custom rom u can always revert back to ur backup.........also did u install recovery thru Odin? U had to because rom manager needs root....anyways if u flashed recovery (cwm) thru Odin. I don't think u technically need to root. U can just flash any custom from (there all rooted). The reason y don't have to root is because unlike from manager which needs root first to install recovery. Odin didn't thus this is why u technically don't need to root if u want to tho do it and remember always make a backup! Before flashing custom roms !

Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?

gogenvy said:
Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?
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basically, no. If u don't have much money I recommend buying a really cheap one off eBay, can get them for $2 USD.

I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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zxrider1986 said:
I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that

xcrazydx said:
All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that
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thnx x, he completely missed the point

same thing happened to me but after i did a nandroid backup it worked..

First android phone, Note 2, first root

Hey there, this is my first android phone and well,,, I do not fully understand the meaning of root. I do want to delete some of my stock apps and what not so i rooted my device from a tutorial, but I don't know where to go from here. I looked at a lot of forums on roms and backup and what not, but I just do not understand any of these technicalities, but really want too.
Can someone tell me how to delete and my stock apps and how to customize my phone?
Thank you!

Download and install the paid version of titanium backup, you can use this app to freeze all the app that you want to delete and backup all current apps. Then you can download and install a custom launcher from the market.
Check out the custom ROMS in the development thread. Always make a Nandroid backup before customizing anything and backup your efs folder in case you loose your IMEI number somewhere in the flashing process.
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Rhiannon224 said:
Download and install the paid version of titanium backup, you can use this app to freeze all the app that you want to delete and backup all current apps. Then you can download and install a custom launcher from the market.
Check out the custom ROMS in the development thread. Always make a Nandroid backup before customizing anything and backup your efs folder in case you loose your IMEI number somewhere in the flashing process.
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Thanks for the reply!
I'll purchase the titanium back up.
How do I make this Nandroid back up? And how do I back up my efs folder?

dkim3 said:
Thanks for the reply!
I'll purchase the titanium back up.
How do I make this Nandroid back up? And how do I back up my efs folder?
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Go to recovery.there is a option.backup or restore.
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ROOTing my phone, want to make sure a few things

Hello,
I'm thinking about rooting my phone (HTC One X 4.1.1, CID_102) and I want to make sure a few things:
1. I'm going to use this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904
Exactly as it says there.
Is it ok?
2. When a new update is released, how can I update my device with the root? I will keep using the stock rom, only with ROOT.
3. How can I backup all of my data? Including pics, SMS, whatsapp, app settings and information and etc.
4. Is there an option that when I start my device again after it was formated, it will download all of the previous apps? if not, then I need to make a list of all of my apps.. about 35 but still.
Thanks!

1. Great choice!
2. You need to flash stock recovery. And restore any system apps you've deleted.
Then update normally and you won't lose root.
3. Do a backup in ClockWorkMod recovery or whatever recovery you use. Transfer it to your PC afterwards for safe storage.
4. Download titanium backup and back up all your apps. Then transfer the backup to PC.

TToivanen said:
1. Great choice!
2. You need to flash stock recovery. And restore any system apps you've deleted.
Then update normally and you won't lose root.
3. Do a backup in ClockWorkMod recovery or whatever recovery you use. Transfer it to your PC afterwards for safe storage.
4. Download titanium backup and back up all your apps. Then transfer the backup to PC.
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2. You will loose root by updating, but you can easily re-root. There is an app called rootkeeper but i have no experience with that
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TToivanen said:
1. Great choice!
2. You need to flash stock recovery. And restore any system apps you've deleted.
Then update normally and you won't lose root.
3. Do a backup in ClockWorkMod recovery or whatever recovery you use. Transfer it to your PC afterwards for safe storage.
4. Download titanium backup and back up all your apps. Then transfer the backup to PC.
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Thanks.
2. Can you expand a bit about that?
3. I don't have a recovery yet.. my phone is stock.
4. Same as 3
Mr Hofs said:
2. You will loose root by updating, but you can easily re-root. There is an app called rootkeeper but i have no experience with that
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How can I re-root? the bootloader stays open so all I have to do is just run the ZIP throgh the recovery again and that's it?

Yes correct, the rooting process stays the same. Or use a tool to root
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Mr Hofs said:
Yes correct, the rooting process stays the same. Or use a tool to root
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Thank you, I guess I will ask about it when there is a new update.
Can you help me with questions 3 and 4?

Well the steps are :
Unlock the bootloader
Flash a custom recovery
In that custom recovery is an option backup and restore, when you press backup it runs a complete nand backup of everything on the phone except the sdcard.
If you want to just backup parts like sms,whatsapp etc etc....then you can use titanium backup like TT said or another program called carbon. These apps allows you to backup just parts that you wantnto backup and restore after an update.
I always start with a clean install of all apps and stuff, it "feels" better to me. But that is a personal opinion
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Mr Hofs said:
Well the steps are :
Unlock the bootloader
Flash a custom recovery
In that custom recovery is an option backup and restore, when you press backup it runs a complete nand backup of everything on the phone except the sdcard.
If you want to just backup parts like sms,whatsapp etc etc....then you can use titanium backup like TT said or another program called carbon. These apps allows you to backup just parts that you wantnto backup and restore after an update.
I always start with a clean install of all apps and stuff, it "feels" better to me. But that is a personal opinion
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Thanks, but my phone is stock, so when I unlock the bootloader the phone will be formated, am I right? So I need to backup my phone before I do that.

Yes thats correct, maybe carbon comes in handy there because it does not require any root acces. Its free in the playstore
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Mr Hofs said:
Yes thats correct, maybe carbon comes in handy there because it does not require any root acces. Its free in the playstore
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Thanks I'll try using Carbon and rooting later.
I will comment here again if I'm having any trouble

rooted my device successfully it was easy, even easier than rooting the milestone lol
1. Is there a better application than "freedom" for that use?
2. I want the CM10 keyboard, because it's very good, swipe is also in my language. How can I put only the keyboard?

1 . Can you explain a bit more specific the "freedom" part ...i don't know that ....I'm a noob
2 . You want only the swiftkey keyboard ? Its a install from the playstore right ?

Mr Hofs said:
1 . Can you explain a bit more specific the "freedom" part ...i don't know that ....I'm a noob
2 . You want only the swiftkey keyboard ? Its a install from the playstore right ?
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1. Freedom is an application that lets you (with root) to get stuff from applications that costs money (in-app purchase).
2. No, the CM10 has the latinme (if I'm ont mistaken) keyboard, that Android 4.2 has as stock, and it has swipe feature. In CM10 they put swipe in more langauges so I want to use it.
I think that if I'll install the GAPPS from CM10 then it will install this keyboard also. In order to do that, I just need to put the .ZIP file in my phone, and from the recovery install it like I installed SU?
Can I delete it later? and the gapps will update also from market (and not blocked like a pirated application)

Here's the keyboard, install like normal .apk. Pulled from android 4.2.1.
http://db.tt/g7ej8rog

1 . So if i understand it right its some sort of illegal app that gets in app purchases for free ? If so .... its illegal on xda
2 . CM10 is more TT's department i never used those roms so i don't know much about them....sorry, hopefully TT is reading along with us and can shine a light on the keyboard thingy

TToivanen said:
Here's the keyboard, install like normal .apk. Pulled from android 4.2.1.
http://db.tt/g7ej8rog
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Thanks, I'll try it hopefully it has swipe in other languages too.
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1 . So if i understand it right its some sort of illegal app that gets in app purchases for free ? If so .... its illegal on xda
2 . CM10 is more TT's department i never used those roms so i don't know much about them....sorry, hopefully TT is reading along with us and can shine a light on the keyboard thingy
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1. IDK if it's illegal, but thanks anyway
2. What's TT?

My dear friend TToivanen ! who also helps people here a lot :thumbup:
Ow and about the freedom app, i don't see it in the playstore....dont actually know if its illegal....i will leave that in the grey for the moment

oh he replied to me, I will update in short if the keyboard works for me as I want or not.

This is just a warning.
Any app that allows you to download a paid app for free is classed as warez on XDA and is not allowed. You can not upload any app on XDA that is a paid app. The warez policy also includes trying to get around in-app purchases.

ok, sorry.
TT, I installed what you sent me, but for some reason the keyboard doesn't appear on Language & keyboard menu.
EDIT:
Didn't notice, it was installed but it doesn't swipe in my language, but in CM10's keyboard (at least for the Galaxy Nexus) it is.
Is there a way to put their keyboard on my phone?

Just rooted my tmo s4

Hi guys I have a question regarding my recent root of my s4 on kit kat. This is what I did, I rooted with cf-auto-root and everything went smooth supersu is installed and working, then I installed twrp 2700 amd did my 1st nandroid backup and included efs in the options in the backup. So I copied over the whole folder to my external sd to make space for a titanium backup but titanium is telling me that it cannot continue due to not having sufficient space for the whole backup. Then I tried making titanium backup to my ext. Sd but it wont allow it cause the folder is not writable or something like that. So when I try to delete the twrp folder from the device I cannot it doesnt allow me to erase it not with the my files app nor with the es file expl. App.
Soo....
1. I cannot backup with titanium because not enough space. Also I cannot make titanium backup files to my ext sd.
2. I cannot erase twrp backup with regular file manager apps includin my file app.
This is what I want to do:
Since I copied over twrp folder to ext sd, now I want to make a full titanium backup so I can factory reset my phone and then restore data from titanium.
Also I want to know:
1. Can nandroid backups be erased and how?
2. Why cant titanium make backup and save them on the ext sd? Is it possible?
If anything else rises I will post it!
Thanks in advanced guys
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Search google for 4.4.2 SD fix and after you reboot you will be able to do all that you couldn't with your SD
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Thanks bro let me try rhat, ill post results
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Really quick thou... it is an app or a flashable file? Cause its coming out as an app from the play store on google results, the reason I ask is because if its an app, after the fix is done do I still need to keep the app in order for the fix to be permanent or I can I delete it after the fix is successful?
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You can use the app or do the edit yourself.. You don't need to keep the app after its done
Edit: There's also an xposed module if you wanna go that route
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Thank you so much man, I did the app way, now I will delete it and then yes get me some xposed.... do you know if there is some sort of repo or thread where I can see all the additional to the exposed module?
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Well you don't need the module anymore since you already did it with the app
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Ok. But do you know where I can get other modules for when j get xposed. Thats my next step after installing triangle away
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Yeah within xposed you can search them there
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Ok thanks
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Ok i think something went wrong while trying to factor y restore muy s4, cause i restored it but when i went to muy internal storage al previos files were still there. So when i try reseting it through the phone settings the recovery hangs so i rebooted into recovery and wiped cache, dalvik cache, internal storage, then factor y gestores and nos muy phone is stuck at the tmobile boot screen and gets súper hoy and the les is ON BLUE al the time
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The files were supposed to be there.. If you have custom recovery reflash your ROM, or if you don't then reflash the firmware with Odin.. Or flash a custom recovery with odin and then the ROM
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im tired of twrp
serio22 said:
The files were supposed to be there.. If you have custom recovery reflash your ROM, or if you don't then reflash the firmware with Odin.. Or flash a custom recovery with odin and then the ROM
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damn man, im so tired of twrp this is so far the crappiest recovery ive seen cause the date and time are impossible to change to an accurate one cause even when you select the timezone it is not your time. also the date when you do a nandroid backup the year is all wrong.
when i recently had the accident that the phone didnt wanna boot i tried restoring from backup but no success, also when you go to the phone settings and try to factory restore the phone through the regular phone settings, it reboots the phone into the twrp recovery then it hangs and start getting HOT and never does anything. also lts say you had a folder labeled "Old Folder" on your internal sdcard/ device storage, if you do a factory restore from the recovery which is supposed to wipe the user data from the internal partition once the phone reboots and open the file manager of choice you will find that all the previous junk is still there including the "Old Folder".
thats my opinion, why i dont like this twrp recovery and the way its implemented into the SGS4.
if you or anyone can please redirect me to a Good, stable, usable, and fully working custom recovery up to date and for the Tmo US SGS4, then please fell free to give me a hand.
and im appologize to the developer of this recovery but thats my opion and why i dislike it cause i already hada bad experience with it.
Thanks in advanced and sorry again!!!

busybox
i think that my recently rooted s4 doesnt have busybox installed. so is there an specific busybox for this model or anyone would do? any recomendations since i saw a couple on the Play Store?
thanks in advanced

To wipe internal data in twrp you select wipe data or internal SD.. That's how it should be.. and for the dates and names, you can rename it to whatever you want so you can put the date yourself.. I actually like twrp.. For busybox try busybox on rail in the playstore
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Do you know what this is about?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2730316
Quick Q about Mobile Odin
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Made backup, can't find it back.

I've just made a backup with cwm but now I can't find it anywhere in my file..
Running stock ROM
Anyone knows how to remove this backup? Memory is full
Don't have root.

Probably it is in internal sd card. Search for a folder called CWM.

luisbraz said:
Probably it is in internal sd card. Search for a folder called CWM.
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Nope not there it's nowhere.. looked everywhere.

Do you still have CWM installed?
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Do you still have CWM installed?
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Nope, I did it on my friends phone, was going to flash Liquid Smooth for him, so made backup for safety but the backup took 3gb space and that was all he had left.
I used this one (CWM) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980
I stopt after step 6, only wanted CWM recovery because Liquid Smooth would give root automaticly.. I did everything right,
- CWM worked
- Made backup (didn't know it would be 3gb)
- Rebooted, phone says not enough memory
- Can't find the backup. Really NOWHERE, trust me.
- CWM was not installed anymore when I again booted in recovery.
So the problem is that cwm is not installed anymore? If I flash md5. again with odin to get cwm will I find the nandroid backup?
I really need to solve this, it's my friends phone soo..
I made backup for safety, but now the backup is the problem because it's so big and can't be found.
Thanks