Got a quick question. I have a rooted Nook Color that I want to give to my dad. It has been activated and registered to my BN account and then was rooted. What is the correct way to remove my registration and register it under my Dad's account? Do I need to unroot it, wipe it, register it again and then root it or can i just do all this while my nook is still rooted with current setup?
thanks
Alex
From what I can tell, an NC can only be connected to the account it was registered with. You would need to do a wipe/reset, re-register it for your dad, then re-root it.
You shouldn't need to unroot it first, but yes, it will have to be rooted again if you need to change the account. The only way to reregister a NOOKcolor is to click "erase and deregister device" under Settings>Device info. But diing that will set it back to factory settings so it should unroot it in the process.
Perfect. Thanks guys. I wasn't sure if erase and derigster will actually bring it back to unrooted status. Thanks for the explanation
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Howdy, I am running rooted stock NC with the build.prop edit to stop the 1.1 update. This is (well finally successful due to my own errors) working out just great! However, I am unable to register my device anymore through the NC as it says there is an issue and reflashes me without any chance to stop it thus forcing me to restore it back again.
Is there a place within the com.bn.*** series of files or elsewhere that I could edit to have the device report back as being registered and such?
I thought perhaps if I did not go into the store section of the nook, I would be good to go, however when I went into magazines it threw me FOTA again.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
error DAD1202 in lower left corner?
nope, when i restored and managed to get the build.prop edit to work (i hadnt rebooted to finalize) the green N was there telling me I am updated, go into the about your nook and build is 1.1 as well. Everything is fun UNLESS I go into any aspect of the nook store, then I get an unregistered device and it makes me factory fresh again.
Here's the deal: I rooted my DROID 2 Global using Pete's Motorola Root Tools in order to perform a full backup (using MyBackupPro) as I was having what looked to be a possible HW issue and didn't want to lose App data. The backup went well.
I inadvertently did a factory reset without unrooting first. When I try to unroot now, I get an error message saying, "ERROR /restore/ backup doesn't exist or is incomplete!" The Tool says there are links to the files I needs but I cannot find them.
So I think I may be stuck in a strange state - but I don't have enough knowledge to know for sure. I have seen other threads talk about similar issues but after using different rooting tools and/or different phones. I want to get back to a state where I can now call my carrier to discuss the HW issue (the touchscreen flips out and randomly and on it's own starts registering touches/keystrokes.)
On top of this, for some reason, I can't log into my Google account from my phone to start the process of doing a data/app restore and I'm don't know if this is related to factory-reset-after-rooted state or something else.
Any and all advice is appreciated.
Here's what I learned....
After trying some more and fiddling, here is what I found.
A factory reset does not unroot. (Obvious to experts, but not so to newbies perhaps. The key observation: the "superuser" app was still installed.)
You can unroot after a factory reset. Not sure why it didn't work at first - perhaps I used the wrong options (the toolkit works with multiple Motorola phones - for non-DROID 3, do NOT say "yes" to restore /system/app; the instructions are clear on this.)
It took several times, but it was successful. Pete's Motorola Root Tools are quite good. Thanks.
BTW, the account issue I had was unrelated to rooting - I use Google 2-Step Authentication, but after the factory reset, the authentication app and credentials were lost. Had to disable 2-Step Authentication on the website to get by this.
Overall a good learning experience....
-Tim
What works with the nexus 6? Any links or videos that you guys know of that work on mac? Device is on my company line and already got notified that i need it to be stock.
thanks in advance, guys.
huxington said:
What works with the nexus 6? Any links or videos that you guys know of that work on mac? Device is on my company line and already got notified that i need it to be stock.
thanks in advance, guys.
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Do you have any company apps installed?
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You could try the full unroot option in SuperSU, or go through the process of flashing the factory images available here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Note: Flashing factory images will wipe the device
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Do you have any company apps installed?
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You could try the full unroot option in SuperSU, or go through the process of flashing the factory images available here:
Note: Flashing factory images will wipe the device
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I have exchange set up, and the first notifications were geared towards that. Third notification was "rooted device on network".
huxington said:
I have exchange set up, and the first notifications were geared towards that. Third notification was "rooted device on network".
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I'm not aware of any root cloak apps currently compatible with lollipop, I'd follow company policy until one is released.
zylstrajs said:
I'm not aware of any root cloak apps currently compatible with lollipop, I'd follow company policy until one is released.
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well, supersu worked, and root checker backed that up.
That should be enough for the company. Right?
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well, supersu worked, and root checker backed that up.
That should be enough for the company. Right?
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Can't really say. You'd have to check internally to follow up.
If you are going to stay unrooted, might as well flash factory images. That way, you can get OTA without any issues of restoring stock images first
There are a couple toolkits that make it effortless.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452
Also very easy to flash it yourself as others have said, I have oem unlocked, locked rooted unrooted by flashing about 6 or 7 times now. Have also used wugs toolkit above, and works really well, just a little slower than manual.
Running Pure Nexus which may not matter. Wife got mad and figured out my pattern lock to be nosey in my phone. She then decided to change to a password lock. I am now locked out. How can I reset my password without wiping my data? Android device manager knows it's locked so I can't use it to set a lock code. Saw a method using pc and adb to clear the password and reboot but not near my pc. Any way to use Twrp?
You SERIOUSLY can't get your wife to tell you the unlock code she put on it??? The only idea I have to get around it would to be dirty flash your current ROM over top of itself. This will retain your data and maybe/probably? take off the unlock code. On a side note, going forward I think you guys really need to work on trust and boundaries...
Hi,
Sorry to hear that happened to you. I have faced this issue before when I accidentally choose the pattern lock and forgot what it was. Could you tell me what ROM and android version you are running. The kernel also matters because if it has encryption enabled by default, the TWRP recovery would also need the same pattern/PIN for you to get in there to flash it. I guess my only other solution would be to use the Nexus Toolkit and try dirty flashing if you're running a custom ROM or checking the 'no wipe data' when flashing the official Google image.
Have a great new year!
Love,
Syed
I decided to just wipe and flash a new ROM. Took the opportunity to update to Pure Nexus Nougat. I'm still setting online accounts back up which is part of what I wanted to avoid. I really dislike not being automatically logged in to pay my bills!
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I decided to just wipe and flash a new ROM. Took the opportunity to update to Pure Nexus Nougat. I'm still setting online accounts back up which is part of what I wanted to avoid. I really dislike not being automatically logged in to pay my bills!
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Wow paying your bills on a device with root and an unlocked bootloader. You surely are brave.
As for your issue well to be honest you have bigger issues then your device.
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First of all I know this has been asked a bajillion times, but I've read a hundred bypass threads and none of them seem to work for the current update on this phone.
I have a non-rooted, locked bootloader, and the latest software as far as I know. My problem is that the google account I had on this phone was deleted BEFORE resetting the phone, thinking I wouldnt ever need it again. It is a secondary phone that I only use for testing and I didn't even know about the stupid FRP. Now when I go to put in the "Previously Used Gmail", it tells me that the account doesnt exist because it doesn't. I have an email in to Google about it but they have not gotten back to me and there is no guarantee that they will reactivate the account.
The "Motorola Privacy Protection" method doesn't work because they removed that in this update, so I can't see a way into settings. A bunch of other methods haven't worked from other threads because I can't install any apps, can't get into settings, can't do anything. Its great that Google wants to protect my device but god damn.
Anybody have any ideas? Is there a method that works on the most recent update for this device to get around this stupid thing?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=72271419
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I've confirmed this method on my non rooted XT1254 running Android 6.0.1 with security update Jan 1 2017, stock firmware and locked bootloader.
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