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So Friday i went to verizon and bought me a new LG G3 phone, 32G memory 3G RAM, you know the good **** LOL. Well when i got home i wanted to root the phone but when i looked it up there was many options, IOROOT, TowelRoot, and Stump Root. So i tried towel root on the phone but when i clicked the button towel root said my device isnt compatible and my phones build is the VS98510B. So at that point i decided to try IOROOT. When i launched the batch file i made sure i made myself a developer, got the proper drivers, made it connect via usb and set the phone connection to Ethernet. Well in the batch file it said everything was good and that i just needed to click any button to continue well i did that but when i clicked a button it simply closed the batch file. All i clicked was the space bar and it closed. Stump root isnt compatible and im afraid to use bruteforce mode. Any one got any help with this? Andriod Kitkat 4.4.2
Use the brut force method in stump. Takes about 5 minutes.
TonikJDK said:
Use the brut force method in stump. Takes about 5 minutes.
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But i mean is it safe? Im kinda new to the whole android rooting scene i use to use iphones and **** so i dont wanna break this phone since i just got it
Worked for me and I have not seen a single report of any problems.
TonikJDK said:
Worked for me and I have not seen a single report of any problems.
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So when i root it do i need to back up anything? Ive heard of whats called TWRP but idk what that is
I used stump root. My phones still works. You can't install twrp because bootloader is still locked, have to wait for a way to unlock it.
ToF_Itachi said:
So when i root it do i need to back up anything? Ive heard of whats called TWRP but idk what that is
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Read a bit here TWRP is a recovery and backup software for when you flash a custom ROM.. You're not flashing any custom ROMs just yet.. So... I don't think you need to backup anything just yet. After you root the phone you can use TWRP to backup your current stock ROM .. Good luck ..
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I used ioroot with no problems. Check out this vid, pretty straight fwd on what you need to do.
sent from my VZW VS985 aka LG G3
Showtek1980 said:
Read a bit here TWRP is a recovery and backup software for when you flash a custom ROM.. You're not flashing any custom ROMs just yet.. So... I don't think you need to backup anything just yet. After you root the phone you can use TWRP to backup your current stock ROM .. Good luck ..
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Oh okay thanks! Well i guess im off to use the stump root and use brute force
R0ck.em 5ock.em said:
I used ioroot with no problems. Check out this vid, pretty straight fwd on what you need to do.
sent from my VZW VS985 aka LG G3
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how were you able to use ioroot with yours? Like when i tried to use it it would just close the batch file and wouldnt even work when i tried it.
ToF_Itachi said:
Oh okay thanks! Well i guess im off to use the stump root and use brute force
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My pleasure Hope you can find root using the desired software.. I'm in Korea..using the F400k but the latest update (v10l) couldn't find root using any of the available tools.. so.. I had to downgrade to the previous (v10g) and got root again. :victory:
Showtek1980 said:
My pleasure Hope you can find root using the desired software.. I'm in Korea..using the F400k but the latest update (v10l) couldn't find root using any of the available tools.. so.. I had to downgrade to the previous (v10g) and got root again. :victory:
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Yeah im using the Verizon Vs985 v with the 10B version. so for me idk which way to go when it comes to rooting software
After you clicked to continue in the batch file, did yout phone boot into recovery?
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ToF_Itachi said:
Yeah im using the Verizon Vs985 v with the 10B version. so for me idk which way to go when it comes to rooting software
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This has ALWAYS worked well for me (Besides with the latest version update)... But I don't know if it would work on your device.. Try what you have. If all fails then give this a shot
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After you clicked to continue in the batch file, did yout phone boot into recovery?
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no the batch file simply closed on me while my phone sat there still on the home screen
Would it be possible to divert a little more attention to this budget model? It's over all a great device and the only thing lacking is the software side of things.
A little update. Got the device into fastboot mode which lists general info on the phone(model, varient, etc.), but what I found interesting is that secure boot is listed as "?". Does this mean the bootloader comes unlocked from the factory? How hard would it me to port over twrp of cwm? Also, the fastboot/bootloader(?) interface seems to be touch based so that's nice.
EDIT: Added the bit on the touch gui.
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A little update. Got the device into fastboot mode which lists general info on the phone(model, varient, etc.), but what I found interesting is that secure boot is listed as "?". Does this mean the bootloader comes unlocked from the factory? How hard would it me to port over twrp of cwm? Also, the fastboot/bootloader(?) interface seems to be touch based so that's nice.
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I'm pretty sure the bootloader was "?" in the Zenfone 2 as well and it was locked...
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I'm pretty sure the bootloader was "?" in the Zenfone 2 as well and it was locked...
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Okay, that clears things up a bit. Do you think the zf2 bootloader unlock method would unlock this device or maybe an email to asus support?
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Okay, that clears things up a bit. Do you think the zf2 bootloader unlock method would unlock this device or maybe an email to asus support?
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No one knows, the unlock method for the ZF2 is unofficial so Asus won't support it anyways.
I need help finding the stock rom for the zenfone 2E. I was messing around with it after I rooted it and I messed something up. I can load recovery so I just thought if I could get the stock rom I might be able to just flash it from the stock recovery. I'm hoping this will fix my phone, but I can't find the stock rom ANYWHERE! Thank you.
TacoMAN545 said:
I need help finding the stock rom for the zenfone 2E. I was messing around with it after I rooted it and I messed something up. I can load recovery so I just thought if I could get the stock rom I might be able to just flash it from the stock recovery. I'm hoping this will fix my phone, but I can't find the stock rom ANYWHERE! Thank you.
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Asus usually keeps their stock firmwares here: https://www.asus.com/us/Phones/ZenFone-2E-US-ATT-exclusive/HelpDesk_Download/ so it might show up soon. Can't you reset the device from the recovery?
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Asus usually keeps their stock firmwares here: so it might show up soon. Can't you reset the device from the recovery?
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I looked through the website and I only found the Stock rom for the zenfone 2, but nothing on the zenfone 2E. I hope i'm not just missing it. I've tried a factory reset through the recovery and I also cleared the cache many times, but yet it still doesn't work. Its frustrating because its just one line of code that I added and if i could just go into the files itself and delete it then i would be just fine. btw thanks for the reply. Much Appreciated!
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I looked through the website and I only found the Stock rom for the zenfone 2, but nothing on the zenfone 2E. I hope i'm not just missing it. I've tried a factory reset through the recovery and I also cleared the cache many times, but yet it still doesn't work. Its frustrating because its just one line of code that I added and if i could just go into the files itself and delete it then i would be just fine. btw thanks for the reply. Much Appreciated!
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If you can get someone else with a zf2e to run the commands here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62211408&postcount=10 that would give you the file foran OTA update that could reset the file you edited. What did you edit?
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If you can get someone else with a zf2e to run the commands here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62211408&postcount=10 that would give you the file foran OTA update that could reset the file you edited. What did you edit?
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I was trying to change a line that's associated with the emulated sd card. I had inserted my micro sd card into the phone so I can see all the pictures I had on it/ listen to all my music, but it wouldn't read any of the files i had on my micro sd card. Like if i went into my music player it would say 0 songs when I know for a fact I have around 600 songs. the thing I thought was weird and annoing was if i go into my file manager i could find all the songs and play them directly. same with my pictures. I found this website that was showing me how to manually force the phone to read the external sd card verses the emulated one. I went into /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. Inside platform.xml i found the line " name="android.permissions.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" " Then I added <group gid="media_rw"/> right after <group gid=”sdcard_rw”/>. The more I looked at the site made me realize this was meant for kitkat...I have lollipop.
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/
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I need help finding the stock rom for the zenfone 2E. I was messing around with it after I rooted it and I messed something up. I can load recovery so I just thought if I could get the stock rom I might be able to just flash it from the stock recovery. I'm hoping this will fix my phone, but I can't find the stock rom ANYWHERE! Thank you.
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//First off, if I knew how to dump roms I would. Secondly, how did you root? Maybe with root I can make better use of any rom dumping utilities?
Correction, I do in fact need the root method you used so I can force download the ota for you.
It seems the kernel source is listed openly on the Asus website, could we get an official root method from that? Also this phone seems to be just a ze500cl with half the ram and internal storage so would the root method for that phone work here for now?
AlexBodewig said:
//First off, if I knew how to dump roms I would. Secondly, how did you root? Maybe with root I can make better use of any rom dumping utilities?
Correction, I do in fact need the root method you used so I can force download the ota for you.
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I used the Zenfone quick root file for the zf2. You can get it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/root-newbie-root-instructions-zenfone-2-t3114063 Its ment for the zf2 but it still worked for the zf2e.
Thank you. I'll root and pull and update for you.
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Still working on a romdump, the commands cmendonc2 gave me don't seem to work here.
Have you tried the bootloader unlock that the zenfone 2 has?
Nope. $120 is a little steep for my budget to replace if something goes wrong...
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Did the tethered cwm / twrp recovery work on this devices I'm looking for the dumps?
yeah I just did the tethered cwm root on my wife's phone and it worked perfectly. any specific partition you need a dump of? I don't really want to upload the whole phone.
does anyone know of a working cwm/twrp recovery replacement for the 2e?
bluemoel said:
yeah I just did the tethered cwm root on my wife's phone and it worked perfectly. any specific partition you need a dump of? I don't really want to upload the whole phone.
does anyone know of a working cwm/twrp recovery replacement for the 2e?
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i just wanna see the system.img and the fastboot.img partition, if it's like most clovertrail devices the bootloader is more than likely locked.
hi everyone after i have rooted my international lg g4 i got warning on start. it sayes
current version is not avaiable for user. can't find matched cust for NT-code mcc/mnc[FFFFFF],subset[56]
i have done everything good. i have flashed rooted international version of firmware.
how can i fix this
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how can i fix this
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A lot of us got this warning, if you use the stock launcher/home just clear the cache and data of it.
i have cleared it but i got same warning...
i cleared home app
pakitos said:
A lot of us got this warning, if you use the stock launcher/home just clear the cache and data of it.
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i have done that but i got the same warning
Has anyone found a solution to this?
I saw a post in the G3 forum suggesting to restore using a KDZ file with LG Up software, then root again. I haven't tried that yet and am hoping avoid that if possible. I can tell you that it persisted after flashing Genesis 3.6 (coming from rooted stock 10C). I did a full wipe and flashed the bootloader and modern in the order he suggests.
Anyone have ideas?
https://youtu.be/Zlieyd9CP7Q
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excellent news, thanks for sharing!
Well, excellent. I guess i will wait a little longer. I still carry along my LG G3 since i can't find any good way to backup my apps + data from LG G3 and restore it on G5. If anyone knows of a solution please kindly reply.
Thanks.
Awesome! Thanks for all the hard work on this. Waiting patiently for it to be released.
cenwesi said:
Well, excellent. I guess i will wait a little longer. I still carry along my LG G3 since i can't find any good way to backup my apps + data from LG G3 and restore it on G5. If anyone knows of a solution please kindly reply.
Thanks.
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If your LG g3 is rooted did you try Titanium back up and back up your stuff and put it in a sd card and when you get your LG g5 rooted just install Titanium backup and restore it again?
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What about:
http://theroot.ninja
igotroot said:
What about:
http://theroot.ninja
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HTC, Motorola
cenwesi said:
Well, excellent. I guess i will wait a little longer. I still carry along my LG G3 since i can't find any good way to backup my apps + data from LG G3 and restore it on G5. If anyone knows of a solution please kindly reply.
Thanks.
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Helium works to restore data from device to device without root. I used it on my gs7 when transferring without root from a rooted phone. If it's not rooted, you just have to connect it to a computer to enable restore.
Looks like I'm going to T-Mobile today to switch phones
Kyler052 said:
Helium works to restore data from device to device without root. I used it on my gs7 when transferring without root from a rooted phone. If it's not rooted, you just have to connect it to a computer to enable restore.
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Not true because this was the first one i tried and paid for it and it wants root or wants me to install app on my desktop. Luckily i was able to get a refund.
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HtcOnekid said:
If your LG g3 is rooted did you try Titanium back up and back up your stuff and put it in a sd card and when you get your LG g5 rooted just install Titanium backup and restore it again?
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That was the first thing i tried. Titanium will not get into its most used function (restore) without root. It looks like it is designed around root.....
cenwesi said:
Not true because this was the first one i tried and paid for it and it wants root or wants me to install app on my desktop. Luckily i was able to get a refund.
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If you install the computer application, it enables the non rooted phone to be able to create backups and do restores. It worked fine for me and I didn't use the paid version.
Kyler052 said:
If you install the computer application, it enables the non rooted phone to be able to create backups and do restores. It worked fine for me and I didn't use the paid version.
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Now THAT'S what's up! My only concern is that when you're going from an older phone with a different version of Android, going to a newer phone and/or version of Android, I would think that issues may occur.
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Now THAT'S what's up! My only concern is that when you're going from an older phone with a different version of Android, going to a newer phone and/or version of Android, I would think that issues may occur.
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Helium only restores data I believe, not the app. I backed up from an m7 on lollipop to a gs7 on marshmallow. As long as the app is downloaded already the new phone data transfer should be simple.
Kyler052 said:
Helium only restores data I believe, not the app. I backed up from an m7 on lollipop to a gs7 on marshmallow. As long as the app is downloaded already the new phone data transfer should be simple.
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Ok, so it's OK to log into Gmail and the Play store, allow all apps to install/restore from the Google Cloud, and THEN use Helium.... Correct?
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Ok, so it's OK to log into Gmail and the Play store, allow all apps to install/restore from the Google Cloud, and THEN use Helium.... Correct?
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I believe so. I let all my apps download from Google play, then restore with Helium and it worked perfectly.
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I believe so. I let all my apps download from Google play, then restore with Helium and it worked perfectly.
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Awesome. I will give it a try. Can you select or omit certain apps from being backed up? I'm not sure I would trust backing up my banking applications. So I would prefer to simply just log in from scratch on the new phone.
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Awesome. I will give it a try. Can you select or omit certain apps from being backed up? I'm not sure I would trust backing up my banking applications. So I would prefer to simply just log in from scratch on the new phone.
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When on your old phone, you just backup specific apps/contacts/etc you want to backup. It doesn't do anything like a nandroid backup where all are backed up
cenwesi said:
Well, excellent. I guess i will wait a little longer. I still carry along my LG G3 since i can't find any good way to backup my apps + data from LG G3 and restore it on G5. If anyone knows of a solution please kindly reply.
Thanks.
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Hello.. I used this ..HELIUM
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en
hope it works for you
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Does anybody abandon root?
It's been almost a month and nothing happened.
Hey guys,
Been searching for a few days now ive tried several root methods
the ones from playstore like
Kingroot
Kingoroot
Kingoroot desktop
Its a galaxy tab a6 running android 5.1.1
Build number LMY47V.T280XXU0APB6
All of the above say they can root it but they all failed
I have seen posts on forums such as this one offering custom roms for the device so I must assume there is a root somewhere and I just cant find it.
Any help would be extremely apreceated
ilikenoodles321 said:
Hey guys,
Been searching for a few days now ive tried several root methods
the ones from playstore like
Kingroot
Kingoroot
Kingoroot desktop
Its a galaxy tab a6 running android 5.1.1
Build number LMY47V.T280XXU0APB6
All of the above say they can root it but they all failed
I have seen posts on forums such as this one offering custom roms for the device so I must assume there is a root somewhere and I just cant find it.
Any help would be extremely apreceated
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Nope, no root for this device until an exploit is found.
Where is this custom rom you speak of?
I don't remember sorry
Is it likely one will be found a exploit I mean ?
ilikenoodles321 said:
I don't remember sorry
Is it likely one will be found a exploit I mean ?
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I've tried everything possible so far to obtain root.
Hopefully eventually one of the apps like Kingroot will work.
Why the heck Samsung locked the bootloader on this device I have no bloomin idea!
Me either no contactless pay as no cellular so why ?
I got mine direct from Samsung and the bloat is horrific
8gb model and over half of it is unusable and without a root an sd card isent really much help
In essence I have gta sa installed and can't put anything else on its infuriating!
ilikenoodles321 said:
Me either no contactless pay as no cellular so why ?
I got mine direct from Samsung and the bloat is horrific
8gb model and over half of it is unusable and without a root an sd card isent really much help
In essence I have gta sa installed and can't put anything else on its infuriating!
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It's still possible to customize the stock rom.
I have made some modifications to it and flashed no issues.
This means it can at least be debloated.
How would I do that exactly nothing I have tried has worked
Did you try with kingroot desktop?
mihailrusia said:
Did you try with kingroot desktop?
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I did indeed.
mihailrusia said:
Did you try with kingroot desktop?
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Like I said I have already tried all methods.
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ilikenoodles321 said:
How would I do that exactly nothing I have tried has worked
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Tried what?
Like all the things in android to move data and apps they all greyed out.
Cant u download the stock rom for a device modify it on your computer then flash it to your device ?
IS that a thing?
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Cant u download the stock rom for a device modify it on your computer then flash it to your device ?
IS that a thing?
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That's what I'm referring to. I have modified the stock rom image and reflashed it.
sweet! is there a guide to doing this im confident I can its just ive never done it before.
ilikenoodles321 said:
sweet! is there a guide to doing this im confident I can its just ive never done it before.
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You're going to need to use Linux, recommend Ubuntu.
ashyx said:
That's what I'm referring to. I have modified the stock rom image and reflashed it.
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ashyx said:
You're going to need to use Linux, recommend Ubuntu.
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I've just bought a SN 280 Tab A6 and I've been looking to root it to be able to take off some of the apps I don't use.
Is there any root, twrp or cusmom ROM for this device?
Thanks
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ilikenoodles321 said:
sweet! is there a guide to doing this im confident I can its just ive never done it before.
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Any news ?
gugas123 said:
I've just bought a SN 280 Tab A6 and I've been looking to root it to be able to take off some of the apps I don't use.
Is there any root, twrp or cusmom ROM for this device?
Thanks
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Any news ?
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Did you even read this thread? :banghead:
ashyx said:
It's still possible to customize the stock rom.
I have made some modifications to it and flashed no issues.
This means it can at least be debloated.
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Hello ashyx
I have the sm-T285m. Yes, I could not root it using the usual programs out there. Any way to inject root into the system image and then reflash it through odin? (as you mentioned you have managed to debloat it-maybe a dumb question as am sure you already looked into it) I recall trying to do such a thing on Huawei Mediapad x2 when there was no root but ran into issues after I accidentally overwrote my entire windows o/s and disk with linux and then gave up (had to extract files from image, add the su then recompile something like that?...from memory over a year back and was only my first and only foray into linux) The odin tar files are separate ones for modem, system, bootloader etc.
Thanks
mac231us said:
Hello ashyx
I have the sm-T285m. Yes, I could not root it using the usual programs out there. Any way to inject root into the system image and then reflash it through odin? (as you mentioned you have managed to debloat it-maybe a dumb question as am sure you already looked into it) I recall trying to do such a thing on Huawei Mediapad x2 when there was no root but ran into issues after I accidentally overwrote my entire windows o/s and disk with linux and then gave up (had to extract files from image, add the su then recompile something like that?...from memory over a year back and was only my first and only foray into linux) The odin tar files are separate ones for modem, system, bootloader etc.
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I already tried prerooting the system image.
It wont boot because the boot.img needs to be patched and you can't patch the boot.img on a bootloader locked device.
I even asked Chainfire if there was any other way and he said no.
ashyx said:
I already tried prerooting the system image.
It wont boot because the boot.img needs to be patched and you can't patch the boot.img on a bootloader locked device.
I even asked Chainfire if there was any other way and he said no.
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Thanks Ashyx...you mentioned you managed to debloat it. I tried ext4unpacker (maybe archaic now though recall it worked on 5.0.2) to separate the system.img into components but could not. I am interested in editing system image
(A) change dpi (increase the lcd density to 380 or so to get things bigger),
(B) change system font (put in a preferred ttf font),
(C) remove many unneeded (for me) google apps from the system folder, and
(D) enable mobile data auto on off for mms via the features.xml or others.xml. Do you think these could be done (you already mentioned the debloat).
typically i managed to get all of the above done if rooted.
Any advice appreciated on how to do this unpacking and repacking.
Thanks
does this help? opensouce kernel?
(again maybe preaching to the choir but thought I'd ask-not knowledgeable here but posting if it helps in getting to a semi-rooted type state somehow)
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=sm-t285
btw i 'managed' to get oem unlock to show as checked permanently...does that mean the bootloader is unlocked now? (cross flashed through odin the 285 on my 285m the system CP file...and reverted back to 285m-no difference though in network as modem was still 285m as was partition and BL-reflashed the BL as well separately for 285m-after all this shows oem unlock checked-when i got the device new it was unchecked)
edit...from what it appears, it means it CAN be unlocked, yes? but not actually unlocked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67361863&postcount=9
mac231us said:
Thanks Ashyx...you mentioned you managed to debloat it. I tried ext4unpacker (maybe archaic now though recall it worked on 5.0.2) to separate the system.img into components but could not. I am interested in editing system image
(A) change dpi (increase the lcd density to 380 or so to get things bigger),
(B) change system font (put in a preferred ttf font),
(C) remove many unneeded (for me) google apps from the system folder, and
(D) enable mobile data auto on off for mms via the features.xml or others.xml. Do you think these could be done (you already mentioned the debloat).
typically i managed to get all of the above done if rooted.
Any advice appreciated on how to do this unpacking and repacking.
Thanks
does this help? (again maybe preaching to the choir but thought I'd ask-not knowledgeable here but posting if it helps in getting to a semi-rooted type state somehow)
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=sm-t285
btw i 'managed' to get oem unlock to show as checked permanently...does that mean the bootloader is unlocked now? (cross flashed through odin the 285 on my 285m the system CP file...and reverted back to 285m-no difference though in network as modem was still 285m as was partition and BL-reflashed the BL as well separately for 285m-after all this shows oem unlock checked-when i got the device new it was unchecked)
edit...from what it appears, it means it CAN be unlocked, yes? but not actually unlocked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67361863&postcount=9
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It wont make any difference. Enabling OEM unlock doesn't unlock the bootloader.
You still wont be able to flash unsigned boot or recovery images.
It will only allow you to flash an unsigned system image.
I use Ubuntu to mount and edit Ext4 images.
You can use the windows or Linux version of simg2img to convert the sparse image to raw then mount in Linux
Tbh Samsung need to provide an unlock for this device like they do for the Chinese devices as there is no reason why this device should have a locked bootloader.