Hey everybody, got my HTC one 2 weeks ago and just received the 4.4.2 kit kat update from verizon. I want to root now and i realize it was really stupid to update to it and should of stayed on jellybean. Anyways I'm a complete Noob at rooting and have never done it before but i honestly hate htc sense, it looks really ugly in my opinion. I realize the risks about rooting and voiding your warranty and bricking your phone but i never had warranty on my phone so I'm only worried about the bricking part, can someone please inform me on how to root a HTC One 4.4.2 on verizon? or link me to a site when there is a one click rooting method available( if there is none currently). sorry for knowing nothing but i could really use someones help!! thanks!
Think your screwed til a method comes out for 4.4. You might have to wait awhile but who knows.
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sorry about that I thought firewater was only for 4.3 but it works for kitkat also
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Maduro78 said:
Think your screwed til a method comes out for 4.4. You might have to wait awhile but who knows.
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sorry about that I thought firewater was only for 4.3 but it works for kitkat also
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your talking about temp root right?
nty123 said:
your talking about temp root right?
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You'll use the temp root method. It doesn't just give you temporary root though...it's just to the exploit can work. You'll be s-off and ready to roll.
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brholt6 said:
You'll use the temp root method. It doesn't just give you temporary root though...it's just to the exploit can work. You'll be s-off and ready to roll.
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thanks! this should work and I'm going to try it, but... how do i go about this temporary root using the two applications that i download from the firewater soff site?(I'm new to rooting androids)
The instructions are on the firewater site.
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The instructions are on the firewater site.
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thanks for your reply but i have tried many times and i cant get any of the commands to work as stated in the instructions
nty123 said:
thanks for your reply but i have tried many times and i cant get any of the commands to work as stated in the instructions
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Do you have the working drivers? Is adb and fastboot working (if you aren't sure about these there are a few YouTube videos)? And are you in the right folder in your command prompt?
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What errors do you get ehen trying the commands?
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What errors do you get ehen trying the commands?
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haha ok sorry never mind i must of entered one wrong but they are working now, what should i do once i gain s-off?
Also what makes the temp root method different from the other methods? do you lose root once you reboot or what? (sorry I'm new to all this) and i know that s-off does not mean your rooted but have all the restrictions gone, how can i achieve root from this or do i just execute "temp root" in terminal?
UPDATE: when i attempt to execute the first command"adb reboot" it just prompts me with "error:device offline" what does this mean??
Temp root just allows the s-off exploit to work. Once s-off you flash a recovery and then superuser to get full root.
Did you try rebooting the phone and the pc?
Temp root won't work because your boot loader can not be unlocked with the temp root method. It was patched in 4.4.2
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Temp root just allows the s-off exploit to work. Once s-off you flash a recovery and then superuser to get full root.
Did you try rebooting the phone and the pc?
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yeah rebooted both and still the same error(no devices found)
Make sure you go in settings and turn on usb debugging. Also go to power settings and uncheck fast boot.
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selayan said:
Make sure you go in settings and turn on usb debugging. Also go to power settings and uncheck fast boot.
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turns out i forgot to uncheck fast boot, did everything again and after "adb reboot" now it says "device offline"
On your pc go to C:\users\your_user_name\ and look for and rename a folder named .android (to something like .android.bak.) Then reboot your pc and phone and try again.
ugh this is so annoying, i finally got "adb reboot" to work and it successfully rebooted but when i tried executing the second command i got this message "./adb wait-for-device push firewater /data/local/tmp
cannot stat 'firewater': No such file or directory"
Is the firewater file in the same folder as adb.exe, and is the cmd prompt at the same directory? Its saying it cant find the firewater file on your pc.
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Anyone got an idea about the success rate of the perm root? Is it fairly safe to do? How many people have bricked their phones so far?
100% success. Any chance of failure is due to error on the user's part. Feel confident in yourself.
only way to mess up is if you mess up
Man when I did the perm root it was strange. I didn't get the root but I did get s off. Good enough to be able to flash clockwork recovery though
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Yes 100% safe if you do it right. Take your time read for hours untill you understand what is going on. If you can get adb running you can root your phone. Just make sure you double check everything.
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It's like 4 lines to run in terminal emulator.
Don't F it up and it's 100%
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Anyone got an idea about the success rate of the perm root? Is it fairly safe to do? How many people have bricked their phones so far?
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Almost failed because of a little typo...
thenotoriouspie said:
Man when I did the perm root it was strange. I didn't get the root but I did get s off. Good enough to be able to flash clockwork recovery though
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S-Off is root.
S-off is just so it doesn't flash stock software upon startup...
I ran visionary on mine when I didn't have root access but did have s-off
been fine ever since...
I am not the greatest at android but I rooted my G1 and now my G2 and this was WAY easier and I think with all the detailed information in the forums that it's 100%.
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S-Off is root.
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If s off is root why couldn't I get su without running visionary?
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If s off is root why couldn't I get su without running visionary?
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I'm sorry, I should have clarified. S-Off is *technically* root. When people think of being rooted they think of root for what it is, not root until you reboot and then have to root again. S-Off allows a more "true root" is probably a better way to put it. I didn't mean as soon as you get s-off you have su automatically, but s-off lets it stay there.
OK I know this problem has been posted hundreds times before but i've read several of them but still can't find out what i did wrong. SO: I got my G2 rooted with S-OFF as i looked in the bootloader. I rooted the phone using rage method. So if i have my S-OFF that's obviously that i am rooted right?
And I definitely have my adb set up right cuz i could not root my phone if i didn't have adb set up. The question is Why every time I try to do adb remount, it will keep saying remount failed operation not permitted.
Even when I try doing adb shell and su it would say access denied too.
Just a little frustrating, What can i do to fix this?
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OK I know this problem has been posted hundreds times before but i've read several of them but still can't find out what i did wrong. SO: I got my G2 rooted with S-OFF as i looked in the bootloader. I rooted the phone using rage method. So if i have my S-OFF that's obviously that i am rooted right?
And I definitely have my adb set up right cuz i could not root my phone if i didn't have adb set up. The question is Why every time I try to do adb remount, it will keep saying remount failed operation not permitted.
Even when I try doing adb shell and su it would say access denied too.
Just a little frustrating, What can i do to fix this?
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I am not %100 if this is your problem but i think you need ENGINEERING HBOOT
to run adb commands ,you can do it by reading the wiki http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...Z.2FG2.2FDHD.29_-_OPTIONAL_and_UNNECESSARY.21
But if you want to do it be very very carefull becasue if you do it wrong you will brick your phone and there is no way back
S-OFF is different from having your phone rooted, so it sounds like your rooting hasn't worked. If you have S-OFF and the eng hboot, you could use fastboot to flash Clockwork recovery and then install a custom pre-rooted ROM.
Or you will need to go through the rooting procedure again to see what has gone wrong.
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If that's the case that my phone hasn't been rooted. My rom manager worked. I flashed clock work successfully and I did checked that I had it by rebooting into recovery. I even used n1 torch high brightness to make sure I was rooted. Then extra step was asking su in my terminal emulator too. But I still had hboot.img tho. Should I do an engineering hboot ?
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Or you will need to go through the rooting procedure again to see what has gone wrong.
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I did notice that while I was rooting. A command said no such file or directory. So I wonder if that was it? I thought it was supposed yo happen tho lol
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If that's the case that my phone hasn't been rooted. My rom manager worked. I flashed clock work successfully and I did checked that I had it by rebooting into recovery. I even used n1 torch high brightness to make sure I was rooted. Then extra step was asking su in my terminal emulator too. But I still had hboot.img tho. Should I do an engineering hboot ?
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If you can boot into CWM recovery just flash a custon rom they all have root built into them.
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If you can boot into CWM recovery just flash a custon rom they all have root built into them.
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It's my wifes phone so I don't wanna do something too complicated for her. I mean the easier for her to use the phone the better. But will that fix the problem? Adb remount problem? If yes than hell yeah I would flash cyan right away lol.
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wang1404 said:
It's my wifes phone so I don't wanna do something too complicated for her. I mean the easier for her to use the phone the better. But will that fix the problem? Adb remount problem? If yes than hell yeah I would flash cyan right away lol.
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Should fix any problems with mounting, heres a link for a stock rooted rom, so she wont be able to tell the diffrence, also since you can boot into CWM recovery make a backup of your current rom before flashing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042
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Should fix any problems with mounting, heres a link for a stock rooted rom, so she wont be able to tell the diffrence, also since you can boot into CWM recovery make a backup of your current rom before flashing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042
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The ADB remount command requires the ro.secure property to be set to 0 (even if you are rooted). If you want to remain on the stock ROM, flashing the linked ROM will do it for you (and is way easier than doing it yourself manually). Most (if not all) of the custom ROMs will set this property for you if you wanted to try others as well.
Thank you guys very much. I never faced this problem before since my n1 was rooted and flashed rom using the phone not adb our anything related to computer.so thanks guys. Case closed. Happy me lol
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Okay, so now I can confirm that Firewater worked great - using the temproot method. Where do I go from here? The instructions I've found for installing TWRP were extremely confusing. I had no problems following the directions for Firewater, but this is a different story. Now that I'm unlocked and S-Off, where do I go from here?
Congrats! Well you need to flash a recovery. Get a recovery.img http://flyhalf205.com/getdownload.php?file=recoveries/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-m7vzw.img and place it on your pc in the same folder as the fastboot.exe file. Open a cmd prompt and navigate to the directory where the 2 files are. Boot the phone to bootloader (hboot). Then in the cmd terminal type
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fastboot erase cache
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fastboot flash recovery nameofrecoveryimg.img
Thank you very much! I do have some questions. Do I need to be rooted? In the bootloader screen it says I am S-Off and Unlocked, but I don't think I am rooted. I have to use the temproot included with Firewater. I downloaded a twrp .img. Am I supposed to flash that? Once that is flashed, am I free to download a custom rom?
Thanks for the info
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If you are s-off and unlocked all you need to do is flash that recovery i posted, and then flash a rom of your choosing. Most every rom comes pre-rooted. I assume right now you are stock. If you want to stay stock just flash that recovery, then flash superuser thru recovery and you will be rooted.
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Where did you get the firewater download from, got a link?
Never mind i found it http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/
Cool so you were 4.3 with s on and locked boot loader and firewater now has you s off and unlocked. So you just need a custom recovery and then whatever Rom you want.
I was going to ruu back to stock locked and s on to try firewater for fun but I don't want to run into snags so I'll just stay how I am for now.
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is it normal to hang at "waiting for device"?
wwindexx said:
is it normal to hang at "waiting for device"?
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How long has it been? Windows or Linux? Turned off firewall and antivirus, and removed sync manager if on Windows?
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wronge galismt
Linux - Xubuntu to be specific. It seems to only recognize the device half of the time when connected to USB. It hangs indefinitely - 5 min was the longest I would wait. When I select Recovery from the hboot menu, I get a silhouette of my phone with a "NO" symbol through it. This is not normal.
Are you using the quick android sdk or did you download the whole sdk and install platform tools then set path in your home directory profile?
Edit: try these directions at the bottom to set your path.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/20770-gu...-adb-and-fastboot-in-linux-ubuntu-and-mint12/
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I got a error that said i don't have su binaries? anyone else?
J_Abdalla52 said:
I got a error that said i don't have su binaries? anyone else?
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yes I got that too. I didn't get around to trying it right after running temproot though.
J_Abdalla52 said:
I got a error that said i don't have su binaries? anyone else?
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Are you rooted? Or did you install twrp and it says that? You have to be root in Linux to run the command.
Ex: cd Downloads/firewater
Sudo su
Type your password
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selayan said:
Are you rooted? Or did you install twrp and it says that? You have to be root in Linux to run the command.
Ex: cd Downloads/firewater
Sudo su
Type your password
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No i just ran the temp root method then i tried to run the normal method and thats what i got.
selayan said:
Are you using the quick android sdk or did you download the whole sdk and install platform tools then set path in your home directory profile?
Edit: try these directions at the bottom to set your path.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/20770-gu...-adb-and-fastboot-in-linux-ubuntu-and-mint12/
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I installed adb and fastboot via apt. I guess assuming that was the optimal way to get it was a mistake. I am assuming now that you need to run temproot beforehand?
Yeah you need the temp root method because your stock and locked, unrooted. Make sure you are admin when you run it.
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selayan said:
Yeah you need the temp root method because your stock and locked, unrooted. Make sure you are admin when you run it.
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I used minimal adb do you think that could have tampered with the process?
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I used minimal adb do you think that could have tampered with the process?
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It should not as long as you place the firewater files in the same location of the temp adb directory and run commands as admin.
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selayan said:
It should not as long as you place the firewater files in the same location of the temp adb directory and run commands as admin.
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do you mean adding the "sudo" prefix?
wwindexx said:
do you mean adding the "sudo" prefix?
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Yeah to keep from typing Sudo before each command I usually do Sudo su before running any commands.
It will ask for your password then throw you in admin mode. Otherwise you will need to add Sudo before each command.
I use Linux mint 16 but it's built on ubuntu so it should not be different.
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Installed weaksauce and gained temporary root tried to do the s-off w/ rumrunner at the very end it said it couldnt that I had to install an unsecure kernel first which i dont know how to do since i cant install a custom recovery since its temp root and not full root so i cant flash a kernel... help anyone? please ive got the verizon varient on 4.4.2
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Installed weaksauce and gained temporary root tried to do the s-off w/ rumrunner at the very end it said it couldnt that I had to install an unsecure kernel first which i dont know how to do since i cant install a custom recovery since its temp root and not full root so i cant flash a kernel... help anyone? please ive got the verizon varient on 4.4.2
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does the computer see your phone Via fastboot?
Code:
cmd
cd *location of fastboot on pc*
fastboot devices
synisterwolf said:
does the computer see your phone Via fastboot?
Code:
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cd *location of fastboot on pc*
fastboot devices
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Yes i see it when i do the fastboot devices cmd
You need to run firewater not rumrunner to get unlocked and s off with 4.4.2.
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disconnecktie said:
You need to run firewater not rumrunner to get unlocked and s off with 4.4.2.
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Tried firewater and nothing happens after the last command you have to put in it just sits there
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Tried firewater and nothing happens after the last command you have to put in it just sits there
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I think jcase and beaups are looking into this actually. Most are having to run the tool several times before it works.
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I ran it 4 times and it finally worked. s-off and rooted, very nice. firewater
For what it's worth, firewater failed for me the first time. The second time I rebooted as normal and then opened super SU and updated binaries, then ran all remaining commands and it worked very quickly. Now running NuSense Six and loving it!
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Installed weaksauce and gained temporary root tried to do the s-off w/ rumrunner at the very end it said it couldnt that I had to install an unsecure kernel first which i dont know how to do since i cant install a custom recovery since its temp root and not full root so i cant flash a kernel... help anyone? please ive got the verizon varient on 4.4.2
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Rumrunner does not work on 4.4.2. And it sounds like you are using a non verizon version of rumrunner on top of that. You need firewater.
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Rumrunner does not work on 4.4.2. And it sounds like you are using a non verizon version of rumrunner on top of that. You need firewater.
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Firewater doesn't do anything I type in all of the commands and at the last one it just sits there it doesn't start anything
dnyor93 said:
Firewater doesn't do anything I type in all of the commands and at the last one it just sits there it doesn't start anything
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Did you use weaksauce to get temp root before running firewater?
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Firewater doesn't do anything I type in all of the commands and at the last one it just sits there it doesn't start anything
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I had the same problem.
Make sure you use a USB 2.0 port. It wont work with USB 3.0 port.
Use Weaksauce to gain root. Once you run the SU command make sure you press ok on the phone to grant it Superuser permissions.
I honestly tried it maybe 50 times until it worked. Dont give up!!!
Yes I temp root with t
Weak sauce and installed busy box I did some temp tweaks with trickster mod kernel settings but I can't seem to get Firewater to work
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Did you use weaksauce to get temp root before running firewater?
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Yes and then I run the firewater commands (all of them) and nothing happens
Try this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713449
SUCCESS (without using a PC)
my fabulous HTC one
In case you didn't see it, towelroot v3 was just released. It still does not support our device, but it does add the ability to temp root a device. Go to towelroot.com and click on the "fix your phone yourself" link.
Follow the instructions and use the string for temp root. Worked great for me. That being said, firewater s-off is now patched, and sunshine says it is incompatible with our rom/kernel. Hopefully jcase can update sunshine for us so we can obtain s-off.
It's a start!
Nvm got it.
Kernel contains HTC anti-firewater patch
Is anyone else getting "Kernel contains HTC anti-firewater patch!"?
Did they say firewater won't be updated?
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Did they say firewater won't be updated?
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Correct, no more updates to firewater. We will have to pay for sunshine once m7 is supported
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So using temproot, is it possible to install su and SuperUser to obtain permanent root?
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So using temproot, is it possible to install su and SuperUser to obtain permanent root?
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No, system is still write protected regardless of root or not
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Worked like a charm. Thanks for the heads-up.
Jcase just announced temp towelroot support for sunshine. M7 still doesn't work, but it seems most of the pieces are falling in place.
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Jcase just announced temp towelroot support for sunshine. M7 still doesn't work, but it seems most of the pieces are falling in place.
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I'll drop 25 bucks to gladly drop a rom on this phone. This is probably the longest I've gone without root in forever.
asacado said:
I'll drop 25 bucks to gladly drop a rom on this phone. This is probably the longest I've gone without root in forever.
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Me too. Always been able to root and rom immediately with every other device.
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I must be missing something because I can't get it to work. You just click the banner 3 times change the last 0 to a 1 and hit the button? It either says I have root and I use root checker and it says I don't, or it reboots which means towelroot failed
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I must be missing something because I can't get it to work. You just click the banner 3 times change the last 0 to a 1 and hit the button? It either says I have root and I use root checker and it says I don't, or it reboots which means towelroot failed
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That was happening for me as well. I tried running weaksause after towelroot said it worked and it did the trick, maybe try that.
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That was happening for me as well. I tried running weaksause after towelroot said it worked and it did the trick, maybe try that.
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hmm i wonder why this is working for some people but not others
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That was happening for me as well. I tried running weaksause after towelroot said it worked and it did the trick, maybe try that.
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So what version of Sense are you using? 5.5 or 6.0?
so, for those people that are trying towelroot on M7 with sense 6 did you make sure the modstring has:
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Temp root, HTC, Motorola: "1337 0 1 0 4 1"
what is the point of temp root vs root?
d0m_ said:
what is the point of temp root vs root?
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Basically full root will survive a reboot, where as temp root is lost on reboot and the device must be temp rooted again. You can at least still have some sort of root access with temp root rather than have to stay 100% stock.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong or want to go into more detail.
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Basically full root will survive a reboot, where as temp root is lost on reboot and the device must be temp rooted again. You can at least still have some sort of root access with temp root rather than have to stay 100% stock.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong or want to go into more detail.
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With a locked bootloader and s-on, the system and boot positions are write protected also. This means you can read system files, but not edit them. Good for titanium backups
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synisterwolf said:
so, for those people that are trying towelroot on M7 with sense 6 did you make sure the modstring has:
Code:
Temp root, HTC, Motorola: "1337 0 1 0 4 1"
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I just tried that and it does not work for sense 6. Sucks that I had to send my phone in for repair and I took the latest update. Now I can't root. Really miss the Rom section.