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[Q] Noob Rooting Question!

First time rooting a phone. This is of course very different then my hd2 using the sdcard to load a ROM. I tried to do a lot of reading on this and make sure I really understood what I was getting in to but I have missed something, I'm hoping small.
Here is the thread I am using to root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194 .
I have android version 2.3.6 towards the end (last 2 pages) of this someone says that 2.3.6 needs to download a different cwm and a different su version. I have downloaded these and am now trying to root.
I got the cwm to work made a backup and then installed the superuser. Every step is confirmed complete with a message that appears to be successful and then I reboot. I now have a superuser icon but when I click on it it opens and is blank. I then try to update the su binary and it tells me its legacy. I tell it to update and it tries to install busy box and then fails on gaining root access.
After writing all of this I realize they said I need su-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip and I have Superuser-3.0.7-d-signed. Before I go any farther is this my problem. Sorry this is so long I just don't know what step I messed up and thought all the info possible was best.

Not sure if this is what your looking for. But since you have the custom recovery installed, you could always down load and flash a custom rom. They are all rooted.
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yep if you want to stay stock, just flash a stock deodexed rom or something. Should be the easiest solution.

I just used the instructions in that thread you referenced to root my brand new T-Mo GS2 this morning and got it to work. I did use su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip instead of what you described you used.
I also used the CWM version that one of the posters referred to in the later parts of that thread.

Thanks guys for answering. I was very tired when I posted so I just went to sleep. After taking a fresh start today I found it was the su version. I found it after a couple of mins did it over and was rooted. Lol so close on first try.

Recovery: how to get it back

Ok so If you been following my mass posting today, I was realy excited to FINALLy get root.
I dl ics official from lg. tried to get root. tried tried. eror error.
eveyr one was telling me unbrick.
but..I dont have a brick soft or hard (wait for it......thats what she said!!!)
so yeah im the kid that plaed with fire drank the gas and stuck my finger in the electrical socket..true stories.
So yeah no root, then got root.
but I wanted the whole v2oc hip thing root delio so...more nightmares.....beer..more beer.
SUccess!!!! :good: see here
SO then i was like...ooo ooo i needs recovery .... so i read cwm wont work... I read that now it does...I read oh noes my recovery borked!!
what to do what to do....FUGGIT! IDOODIT!
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I has no more recoveries
wtf AND i paid for the premium rom manager. Kinda upset at Koush because I couldnt get a refund. fkn bs. 15 min rule. lame
any ways whatever Ill consider it a donation.
so yeah get cwm rom manager, installed recovery once...got FC message about messages fcing. k...... :unamused:
I tried installing and re-installing cwm recovery several times.
I tried saving/making a backup
same thing, got the "miss you long time" you're borked good luck loser love LG" screen
SO yeah recovery corrupted, imo, anyways. got the whole securities mesage fast boot fast boot. been a long time wth ever that message was.
I figure wth. Im gonna fix it or brick it. <----im trade marking that btw
so the whole unbvricking thing... just soo much work. maybe not for some but I have two braincells keep in mind, and they usually misfire
I was going to try to flash a recovery img but.....
I was like hey. WHy not...start over.
SO I started over reflashed the v18f kdz.
BAM
I has recovery back, confirmed via factory reset. This time no securities text just push power to recovery...BAM
I believe the key for me was: i DID NOT attempt a factory reset. I merely rebooted the phone set it up properly and ran the v18f.
I suspect that having a corrupted recovery img and doing a factory reset will likely brick your phone, best to just update right away.
DOnt be afraid its easier than the unbrick method( i may brick my phone one of these days on purpose just to try it out)
so now Im back to hear again this time... I wont be flashing cwm...on v20c again
Im goona get stupid and do it again and try to put a recovery on v18f.
wish me luck and hope this helps.
If you are looking for a valid 18f .exe see here again
All credits go to all the devs who worked on these methods. scripts and all those helping with hosting files.Im just good at fixing stuff.
Im not a dev Im just funny once in a whle. Or so my shrink tells me.
this will make over four times I have now rooted, unrooted, reflashed old firm ware, rooted flashed current v20c and rooted.
none of which ever used the unbrick.
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Jesus man, if you just read the forums you would know that you can't flash CWM when you're on official LG v18f or v20c. You have to go to gingerbread using the unbrick guide, install CWM there, and THEN install HO!NO!'s CWM-flashable LG ICS (or CM or AOKP or whatever). Your frustration is entirely your fault. Not Koush's.

Malnilion said:
Jesus man, if you just read the forums you would know that you can't flash CWM when you're on official LG v18f or v20c. You have to go to gingerbread using the unbrick guide, install CWM there, and THEN install HO!NO!'s CWM-flashable LG ICS (or CM or AOKP or whatever). Your frustration is entirely your fault. Not Koush's.
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Also, you can use the free version of ROM Manager to install CWM.

Malnilion said:
Jesus man, if you just read the forums you would know that you can't flash CWM when you're on official LG v18f or v20c. You have to go to gingerbread using the unbrick guide, install CWM there, and THEN install HO!NO!'s CWM-flashable LG ICS (or CM or AOKP or whatever). Your frustration is entirely your fault. Not Koush's.
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Jesus man I know you probably are just waiting to jump down users throats but if you actually read my post you would see that my "frustration" was with googles 15min tryout policy. And your frustration is all in your head. ALSO to cut your comment down some more i could care less whats in the forums: his app states that you CAN use this with lg nitro.
He only states that if you bork youre phone hes not liable
SO your point is.....???
ALSO if you read even more I stated I didnt care and i was fine with it....
I made this thread to help people wasnt really about my feelings, sorry if I offended you.
any ways update as was just emntioned cwm recovery FOR SURE...lol... cannot be used on v18f or v20c.
And like I said, you dont have to do the unbrick if you dont want to or want recovery.
ANyways im going to keep on truckin...

Koush's CWM works just fine on the Nitro with the bootloader that comes with Gingerbread. When he released his recovery, Gingerbread was the only version there was for our phone. What I'm saying is that you've basically gone through twice the amount of work that doing the unbricking guide would be and it's the only way to get CWM on your phone which is what you said you wanted to do. And you ended up with an outdated version of ICS. I agree that it'd be nice if Koush disabled flashing CWM or showing it as available for people on ICS, especially since it basically soft-bricks the phone.
So, my suggestion, if you want to run v20c, is to unbrick to the SU640 kdz, flash the GB nitro images, install CWM via Rom Manager (which is completely worth the money imo), and then flash the CWM-flashable v20c put out by HO!NO!. This is really the only way to unlock the potential of your phone and try out all the ROMs that are available.

Malnilion said:
Koush's CWM works just fine on the Nitro with the bootloader that comes with Gingerbread. When he released his recovery, Gingerbread was the only version there was for our phone. What I'm saying is that you've basically gone through twice the amount of work that doing the unbricking guide would be and it's the only way to get CWM on your phone which is what you said you wanted to do. And you ended up with an outdated version of ICS. I agree that it'd be nice if Koush disabled flashing CWM or showing it as available for people on ICS, especially since it basically soft-bricks the phone.
So, my suggestion, if you want to run v20c, is to unbrick to the SU640 kdz, flash the GB nitro images, install CWM via Rom Manager (which is completely worth the money imo), and then flash the CWM-flashable v20c put out by HO!NO!. This is really the only way to unlock the potential of your phone and try out all the ROMs that are available.
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THIS is absolutely, positively, 100%, correct. This man speaks the truth...think this thread should be labeled SOLVED....AGAIN and closed.
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[Q] Rooted, didn't do nandroid backup -- any chance of recovering data?

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.
smh

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.

jlmancuso said:
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.
Peace,
Love, and
Happiness

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.

Backedup
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.
Peace,
Love, and
Happiness
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big_onion said:
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.

[Q] HELP!! Have I bricked my new device!? SO WORRIED!!

Hey guys,
I'm kinda new to the HTC/Android world, found this community a damn good place to find support.. But now I've hit a road block.
Basically, I've been eager to root from day 1 of getting my first htc handset, I came across from jailbreak and loved the fact of customizability with Android.
So I had the Google play edition(I think, all geared towards Google) running Kit Kat 4.4.4. Love it, big Google user so this all tied together lovely.
Here is the Situation.
I found a video on youtube, cannot provide URL as I'm in work at the moment, but it was root guide from scratch. Fresh windows OS, seemingly a phone fresh out the box.. you get the idea.
I used the Hasoon2000 tool to root the device. Installed ADB etc on my pc, signed up as a a dev, got the Key for device, sent in and received my .bin file. I got up to actually rooting my device, well pleased and happy. Using TWRP via Hasoon2000.
But here is where **** hits the fan.
The device needed to update, It took me back to 4.4.2 but Im unsure on how to get back to most up to date OS and keep the root.
But when I reboot to install this, it goes into TWRP. no other way around this.
Queried this on another forum, decided to continue to be patient... but no replies, in the mean time I restored my apps and have a fiddle, see what the root function can do for myself.
I installed "Freedom 1.0.6" and a program called "Market Share"- Hate iAP, some games are ridiculously priced for the smallest of things, I just wanted to sandbox plague inc. ;(
Now the device is stuck in a boot loop, phone starts up, see the home screen for a bout 40 seconds/ one minute.. Some times I unlock the device and it goes back to flash screen then.. others I boot an app and its slides away once more.
This happened close to 15x before I left for work this morning and I imagine its just going to repeat this and run the battery - I tried to stop this loop by going into TWRP and possibly choosing to boot system this way may of stopped it.. but when I was on the boot screen with those options.. It said Tampered at top of screen and S-On- which has scared me quite a bit..
What the hell has happened!?
I'm desperate to know and don't want to have this damn thing bricked! Please help.. try explain like I'm 5, as said I'm new to a lot of this! >.<

first off, if the screen comes on, its not bricked.
esenfur said:
But here is where **** hits the fan.
The device needed to update, It took me back to 4.4.2 but Im unsure on how to get back to most up to date OS and keep the root.
But when I reboot to install this, it goes into TWRP. no other way around this.
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Do you mean you accepted an official OTA? I think that is what you are saying. You should not be accepting OTAs on a phone that has been bootloader unlocked, custom recovery, etc. unless you know exactly what you are doing and what the result will be (which is clearly not the case).
Stock recovery is needed to install an OTA. That is why it keeps going to TWRP, then it doesn't find stock recovery and reboots, hence the loop you are stuck in. Try to find the OTA file and delete it.

redpoint73 said:
first off, if the screen comes on, its not bricked.
Do you mean you accepted an official OTA? I think that is what you are saying. You should not be accepting OTAs on a phone that has been bootloader unlocked, custom recovery, etc. unless you know exactly what you are doing and what the result will be (which is clearly not the case).
Stock recovery is needed to install an OTA. That is why it keeps going to TWRP, then it doesn't find stock recovery and reboots, hence the loop you are stuck in. Try to find the OTA file and delete it.
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Thank you for fast response.
Official OTA - being that the phone its self said "Update the OS" - I just accepted this, hit download and began install as a reboot- didnt spot implications. As said, noob, followed a tut. If it highlighted DO NOT UPDATE or.. IF U WANT UPDATE NOW FOLLOW THIS- Great, but nothing of the sort?
Is the OTA file basically the .exe for the OS- so find it and delete it.. although I dont have enough time to navigate and establish where the file actually is located!
Or do you have any links to tutorials I could possibly follow?
Side note- when this loop started I deleted

esenfur said:
Or do you have any links to tutorials I could possibly follow?
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This is really your main issue. By following a YouTube video and using a Toolkit, you've failed to actually learn anything or gain any real understanding or knowledge. Do yourself a favor and ditch the tutorials and videos (and toolkit for that matter) and do it the old fashioned way . . . by reading. Videos and step-by-step guides do you no good when things go south (as you've now discovered). And with the prior proper knowledge (usually not gained by following tutorials) this whole mess probably would have never happened in the first place.
A cardinal rule of Android phone modding: DO NOT accept/download/install OTAs (official OS updates) on a modded device unless you know what you are doing, and what the result will be. If in any doubt, simply DO NOT do it.
esenfur said:
Is the OTA file basically the .exe for the OS- so find it and delete it.. although I dont have enough time to navigate and establish where the file actually is located!
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.exe file is Windows specific. You are looking for a zip file, and it typically starts with "OTA". Don't remember where its saved to, so you will have to search for it. If you can't keep the phone running long enough to do so, mount the memory on your computer and search that way.
Deleting the OTA file worked for me on a past device, although one M8 user in the same position said deleting the file didn't get him out of the loop. Flashing your ROM again, or wiping the internal memory (backup any important personal data first) might be options for you.

redpoint73 said:
you've failed to actually learn anything or gain any real understanding or knowledge.
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Ive seen quite a fair few ratings for Hasoon2000 and decided to go with it..
redpoint73 said:
Videos and step-by-step guides do you no good when things go south (as you've now discovered).
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agreed.. theres FAR much more I need to learn.. its scary haha.
redpoint73 said:
DO NOT accept/download/install OTAs (official OS updates)
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taken on board. I know with my jailbreaks in past it has been a pain, assumed Android would be alot more stable to over write- due to functionality of OS and unlocked features.
I was being generic when I said .exe- basically the installer..
I returned from work to see phone stopped looping.. i could stop the install and deleted the file ASAP.. but now what.. Phone is still bugging me to update, lost the root(got a checker).. so whats the correct procedure!?

I am confused to what you are trying to accomplish at this point, is it to install a OTA, or a recovery? What exactly is going down here?
Me personally to take an OTA is to relock bootloader, install stock recovery, and make sure CID matches. I am S-Off so bootloader means very little, but you can unlock and relock at will when you are S-Off. You will not lose S-Off accepting an OTA.

Try to re-flash the ROM, with stok ROM, using TWRP and clean install. It should work.

hack14u said:
I am confused to what you are trying to accomplish at this point, is it to install a OTA, or a recovery? What exactly is going down here?
Me personally to take an OTA is to relock bootloader, install stock recovery, and make sure CID matches. I am S-Off so bootloader means very little, but you can unlock and relock at will when you are S-Off. You will not lose S-Off accepting an OTA.
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I am trying to update the phone, root and then some..
What file am I looking for and how do I flash a ROM on a M8

esenfur said:
I am trying to update the phone, root and then some..
What file am I looking for and how do I flash a ROM on a M8
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First of all once the bootloader is unlocked you don't have to relock it to get OTA.
As I undersand you have done the following:
1) Unlock using HTCDev-Method
2) flashed a custom revocery (TWRP in your case)
3) flashed a supersu too!?
To install the OTA means loosing root acces. Thus you have to re-root it after the OTA is done. The other problem ist that STOCK OTAs don't work with a custom recovery. Meaning you would have to flash a stock recovery first, install the OTA second (as long as you didn't change anything an just root), and re-root third.
Let's have a look which stock recovery you would need:
1) reboot to bootloader
2) connect the phone to you PC and open cmd in you adb/fastboot folder
3) enter "fastboot getvar all"
4) paste this information here (but DELETE the IMEI and SERIAL NUMBER before posting!!)
As soon as we know which stock recovery you need we will go on.

esenfur said:
Ive seen quite a fair few ratings for Hasoon2000 and decided to go with it..
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I'm not saying there is anything "wrong" with the toolkit, per se. For the most part, it does what its intended to do.
But it also shortcuts the learning process, and facilitates folks rooting the phone without gaining the proper knowledge. This is a dangerous thing.
This is just my opinion. But I strongly believe it. If you can't accomplish these things without a toolkit, you shouldn't be rooting your phone in the first place.
Others use the toolkits, and love them. They are more than entitled to have their own opinion. But when things go south, the toolkits aren't going to help; and those folks don't have the proper knowledge and they come running here. So you tell me what is the "best" way to root the phone?
esenfur said:
I was being generic when I said .exe- basically the installer..
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I already figured this was probably the case. But I found it better to provide the exact information on what file to delete; rather than leaving it open to the possibility of you and/or others being misinformed.
esenfur said:
Phone is still bugging me to update, lost the root(got a checker).. so whats the correct procedure!?
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Sounds like you still have TWRP installed, so just flash SU or SuperSU to gain root.
After that, you can use Titanium Backup or similar app to find the update process and freeze it, to stop the update notifications.
Don't remember the exact process (this is where searching and reading comes in for you) but its something like "drm..." or "updater".

I have this situation before,what i do is find the right stock recovery and flash..after ota done flash back custom recovery..?

esenfur said:
I am trying to update the phone, root and then some..
What file am I looking for and how do I flash a ROM on a M8
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At this point after seeing this, I would suggest you take some time and start reading. All of your answers are here in the forums. Knowledge is power and within the pages of this site you will find everything you need.
To take the OTA find a stock recovery, to flash ROM's find the one you like and flash via your favorite recovery.

Recovery

Some of the Sprint Note 4 roms are pre rooted. But where are the instructions for installing TWRP recovery for this phones, Thanks

Download flashify from the play store in flashify go 1 recovery image, 2 download twrp, 3 choose twrp 2.8.1.1
Don't download the one that says zip
Sent from my SM-N910P using JellyBombed Tapatalk 2

There aren't any specific instructions for flashing TWRP recovery and CF-auto root. I think it's because most people know how to do this already. Basically since the Sprint Note 4 has an unlocked bootloader you can simply reboot into Download mode and flash these zips using Odin. Another good way to get some better instructions is to do a Google or Youtube search. Just make sure you type "Sprint Note 4 root" or "Sprint note 4 recovery" in your search query so you know you'll get results specific for your device.

tx_dbs_tx said:
There aren't any specific instructions for flashing TWRP recovery and CF-auto root. I think it's because most people know how to do this already. Basically since the Sprint Note 4 has an unlocked bootloader you can simply reboot into Download mode and flash these zips using Odin. Another good way to get some better instructions is to do a Google or Youtube search. Just make sure you type "Sprint Note 4 root" or "Sprint note 4 recovery" in your search query so you know you'll get results specific for your device.
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Sorry for asking what on the surface would seem simple to some as an easy question one should already know. Over years I have made and released a half dozen roms on different phones. And each one had it's own little quirks for obtaining root or loading a recovery system. And BTW, thanks for not flaming me for again what would appear to be simple method everyone should aldeady know.

When I first got my new Note 4 I had the exact same concerns as you do about rooting and flashing the recovery. From what I read early on, you want to flash the CR-auto root first, then the TWRP recovery. Both using Odin on your PC. But I will give you a heads up. When you root the phone all will be fine, it's not until you flash the custom recovery and flash a stock rooted rom that you will lose the Wi-Fi calling setting and the toggle for it as well as the sprint boot animations. My stock rooted rom has this stuff fixed. Hybrid Edition is my rom focused towards people who want a stock looking rom.
I would like to take this time to ask if you would download my rom and give it a theming overhaul? That would be awesome. That's if you feel like it or even have the time.

Thank you for the additional info, this is one of those little bits of info that u can spend hours reading and still not find. Or after spending those hours the information may not sink in.
At this point i am still on the fence about rooting on this phone. After getting a hard brick on the HTC EVO LTE and having to buying one full price because i couldn't wait the repair down time. I move rather slower this days before I made the root leap. Once I do take the leap, rest assured your rom is the one I will use and theme. I HATE ANDROID GREEN!

Some Links I Used
timberwolf671 said:
Thank you for the additional info, this is one of those little bits of info that u can spend hours reading and still not find. Or after spending those hours the information may not sink in.
At this point i am still on the fence about rooting on this phone. After getting a hard brick on the HTC EVO LTE and having to buying one full price because i couldn't wait the repair down time. I move rather slower this days before I made the root leap. Once I do take the leap, rest assured your rom is the one I will use and theme. I HATE ANDROID GREEN!
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Here are some links I used, rooted the same day I got the device
root; http://galaxynote4root.com/galaxy-note-4-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-4/
root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55865442&postcount=3
recovery: http://teamw.in/twrp_view_all_devices
recovery: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/266

timberwolf671 said:
Thank you for the additional info, this is one of those little bits of info that u can spend hours reading and still not find. Or after spending those hours the information may not sink in.
At this point i am still on the fence about rooting on this phone. After getting a hard brick on the HTC EVO LTE and having to buying one full price because i couldn't wait the repair down time. I move rather slower this days before I made the root leap. Once I do take the leap, rest assured your rom is the one I will use and theme. I HATE ANDROID GREEN!
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If you decide, an even easier method, is to just Odin the latest TWRP, and flash the SuperSU zip, in via TWRP. Shouldn't take more than 20 or 30 seconds, for everything.

Where can i find the stock recovery to flash?

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If you decide, an even easier method, is to just Odin the latest TWRP, and flash the SuperSU zip, in via TWRP. Shouldn't take more than 20 or 30 seconds, for everything.
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Does that give root or do you need to Odin cf-autoroot first?

tommy_2q said:
Does that give root or do you need to Odin cf-autoroot first?
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After you Odin TWRP, boot into TWRP, and flash the latest SuperSU zip, from Chainfire (Google it). You will then be stock, rooted-- no need for CF Autoroot.