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[Q] Level 1 Root Question?

Hello all. I would just like to know if a level 1 root is sufficient enough to install wifi tethering on a HTC EVO? Thanks!

I couldn't do it till I hit level 3.

What are the different levels of root? I've never heard of them before.
If you have the super user app try downloading Wireless Tether for Root Users.

Thanks phatmanxxl!
Here they are xHausx.
Level 1: Shell Root (with ratc rooting the adb shell but no /system write access)
Level 2: Temporary Root (/system/bin/su installed but lost on reboot)
Level 3: Full Root (/system/bin/su installed and sticks)

I couldn't do it until my level was over 9000.
But seriously, it needs su to run. And I've never heard anybody refer to what type of rooting they used in terms of those "levels" before.

b.builder_1 said:
Thanks phatmanxxl!
Here they are xHausx.
Level 1: Shell Root (with ratc rooting the adb shell but no /system write access)
Level 2: Temporary Root (/system/bin/su installed but lost on reboot)
Level 3: Full Root (/system/bin/su installed and sticks)
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ohh, ok.. when most people say they have root they mean they have root permissions, it comes from Linux and root having full permission to do basically whatever it wants. The levels just sound kind of silly tbh.
To be rooted you'll need the superuser.apk installed in system/app and su installed in system/bin. You'll also need a modified boot partition.

b.builder_1 said:
Hello all. I would just like to know if a level 1 root is sufficient enough to install wifi tethering on a HTC EVO? Thanks!
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You mean like old root that unrevoked applied? It required applying the exploit every time that the phone booted up in order to get root access. This method no longer applies since it was 'fixed' by Sprint/HTC long time ago via OTA.
The only method available right now is unrevoked 3.21 which applies what you call 'root level 3' and allows you to access the /system partition. There is no more 'soft' root (or level 1 as you called it).

fenixjn said:
You mean like old root that unrevoked applied? It required applying the exploit every time that the phone booted up in order to get root access. This method no longer applies since it was 'fixed' by Sprint/HTC long time ago via OTA.
The only method available right now is unrevoked 3.21 which applies what you call 'root level 3' and allows you to access the /system partition. There is no more 'soft' root (or level 1 as you called it).
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you could use the rageagainstthecage exploit if you don't want to use unrevoked, it was how 2.2 had to be rooted at first but it is a lot more involved then unrevoked.

[Q] Use root rights

I've some basic questions about rooting:
I've already rooted my HTC Desire and it seems to work.
Did I understand correctly that the application itself has to ask for superuser rights to get root? I cannot grant it myself?
It download a console emulator application and tried to get root with
sudo su
and it did not work. I guess this is because the application did not ask for root privileges, when it started?

It should be automatic, does not have to be at startup of the app.
Download a proper terminal emulator (i use 'Android Terminal Emulator') type 'su' and hit enter, you should get the notification about superuser rights. Unless it's the first time, than you get a pop up that asks for permission.

Rooting method: When the regular way fails

You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!

what's z4root used for when visionary does temproot for you?
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You may not need it but when I was attempting to root the phone, that's what I used.
I am thinking you can follow the steps, omit the z4root steps and just use visionary.
For some reason my phone did not want to unlock just with visionary.

Dont work for me,,,,i try all the stuff here,,i dont know what im doing wrong,,cause the phone said s.off but when im reboot the phone still on
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Wait it says s-off? Then you're good, all you do after the reboot, is run z4root and perm root it

If you follow the directions that grankln posted and do it right then you wont have any problems rooting it. If someone follows that guide and correctly it will root their phone. Its proven to work so if its not working on someone's phone chances are high they aren't doing it right. This thread in unnecessary especially since there are already a few methods of rooting already posted. You are just going to confuse people more
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graffixnyc said:
If you follow the directions that grankln posted and do it right then you wont have any problems rooting it. If someone follows that guide and correctly it will root their phone. Its proven to work so if its not working on someone's phone chances are high they aren't doing it right. This thread in unnecessary especially since there are already a few methods of rooting already posted. You are just going to confuse people more
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I've never seen that guide fail when all steps are performed correctly. Even in irc, when people say that that method doesn't work, I walk them through the steps and it magically works when it failed every time before.

No luck
lumos5 said:
You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!
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well it doesn't work. i try many ways & still nothing.
still have S-ON
Hboot- 0.86.0000
this sucks. rooted about 41 G1/ Mytouch 3G never faced a problem.
smh guess someone should come out with a video for this

lumos5 said:
You will need the following software:
Superuser
Root explorer
Visionary r13
Z4Root
Terminal
and the rooting files provided in the other post...place those in the root directory of your sd card.
Why use this method?
I noticed that some phones cannot be rooted using the traditional rooting method through terminal. My phone an my friend's phone were not easy to root. My brothers rooted with the visionary method.
When that fails, you can use this one...that I discovered while trying to unroot my phone using many different methods.
The method:
- First make sure superuser is running.
- make sure usb debugging is on, and third party apps is checked.
- Open visionary, make sure the mount as R/W after root is checked and do a
temp root
- Open z4root and do a temp root.
- run terminal and type: su
- keep terminal open but switch to home screen
- open root explorer
- press mount as R/W
- navigate to that "root" folder on your sd card with the root files and open root.sh and then click execute
- switch back to terminal and type:
cd /sdcard/root
hit enter and then type:
sh root.sh
and hit enter...the phone will do some stuff and after it's done, reboot it.
Once it is off and about to start, press power button and vol down button at the same time. It should have s = off on it.
reboot again into the OS and open z4root and do a perm root.
After that is done, it will keep saying rebooting but it will not do it automatically so go ahead and reboot it with the power button.
Once the phone has booted again, uninstall z4root and visionary and anything else except root explorer.
That's it! There is no such thing as un-rootable!
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Is this the Best way to Root the MyTouch?

PMGRANDS said:
Is this the Best way to Root the MyTouch?
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Look at the past post, post count, and you will have your answer... Tried and true is the way to go though!
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This method works on 2.3.4 ?
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King350z said:
This method works on 2.3.4 ?
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No, you have to downgrade. Check the resource Bible, they're a few threads on how to do it. Then you can root your phone.
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
........Death before dishonor........

For God's sake. Having root without write access to the system partition is next to worthless. If anyone has questions regarding rooting there phone then please read the how to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996. If you can't figure it out do not go ahead with a procedure you don't understand! Not trying to be a **** but what works is posted. Its proven. It does the trick.
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[Q] Problems unrooting and flashing desire z

Hi all,
I have had my htc desire z for about two weeks now, But since i have had my phone i've been having a few problems.
I had rooted my phone using visionary +. And all was going well untill i was trying to install setcpu to overclock my cpu. After installation my phone rebooted and now every thing that i need root access for is showing up as not accessable.
Busybox installer error message:
Your phone is roote
Busybox not found
The application failed, either because your device is not nand unlocked or we were unable to remount.
Rom manager error message:
An error occured while attempting to run priviledged commands!
Is it possible(if yes, how) to unroot and flash my desire back to stock settings including the permissions back to stock.
If not how can i root my phone so i can use all of the fuctions
Regarding the phone info the spaces are actually . but the system will not allow me to enter these as of yet
Thanks in advance
All the best
Gaz

I forgot to mension in the last post that i have expiriance with mobile phone's and flashing so i'm not affraid to tackle big complicated ways of undoing the process.

It sounds like maybe you only had temp root.
Did you also do gfree? I did Visionary and gfree, and perm rooted just fine.
However, many on here believe the rage + gfree method is safer, as Visionary has been known to create some semi-bricks. I don't THINK there is any harm in doing rage + gfree at this point, but others on here can probably enlighten.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD

I tried using root checker to find the issue. It came back with an error message telling me the SU binary was not found in the correct path. I used terminal emulator to try to locate the file but with no success. Any ideas on how to find and move the binary su???

What's displayed on your screen after reboot in recovery?
As in; remove battery, insert battery, hold volume down and power button.

It will not reboot in to root. It runs Visionary and nothing happens.
And when i try to open an app that need root access it fails because it cannot gain permission from superuser. At this point i have tried to unistall all apps that had anything to do with rooting my phone but still no succes. I need to find the stock SU Binary

[Q] factory reset after permroot....still rooted or not !!!

after permroot i did factory reset and then the visionary app and superuser app went away. now even after reinstalling both of them my proxy app doesnt work , it gives an error saying failed to start redirect.sh (permission denied) . now is my DHD still rooted or not , if it is still rooted then how can i make the proxy app work ?
thanks

try to root using visionary again, if you are rooted at the moment simply nothing will happen if you use it

Edit; You shouldn't have lost root by factory reset alone, but stranger things have happened. Not sure about the proxy app.
DL Superuser again (or as suggested/implied), reintall the Visionary will install Superuser as well.
Certain apps need required SU permissions from Superuser. When prompted by Superuser, grant SU rights to that app you are running.
Alternatively;
1. DL & install Superuser & Terminal Emulator from the Market
2. Run Terminal emulator
3. Type "su"
4. When prompted give superuser rights
5. Terminal Emulator prompt will change to "#" if you still have root
Edit: If you still have root & Superuser permission for the proxy app, try reboot in CWM Recovery & "fix permissions". You can do from within ROM Manager, but I prefer to do in CWM Recovery when the phone hasn't booted the partitions.
Make a backup in CWM Recovery prior to doing anything.

Just sharing.. once I accidentally denied the permission to root access for one app and the setting was to remember it. It took me a while before I realized this and change it in superuser setting.

i tried the terminal emulator and after typing su it said permission denied , and yeah my titanium backup isnt working coz it says dat it needs root now.

Yep, you lost root.
Try visionary again, and make sure superuser rights are given when asked by superuser.
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