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I don't know if we can use the gingerbreak app to root D3?
No current root methods work on the Droid 3.
elkay said:
No current root methods work on the Droid 3.
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don't* work?
dotson817 said:
don't* work?
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Huh? They were asking a question. I answered it.
I think he was trying to correct you with a double negative?
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darkmatter34 said:
I think he was trying to correct you with a double negative?
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Except I didn't have a double negative. What he posted makes no sense, and I posted exactly what I meant to say.
Simple: dotson assumed there was a comma where there wasn't.
Original: "No current root methods work on the Droid 3."
What dotson (mis-)read: "No, current root methods work on the Droid 3."
Thus he assumed he meant to say "No, current root methods don't work on the Droid 3."
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Except I didn't have a double negative. What he posted makes no sense, and I posted exactly what I meant to say.
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He wasn't correcting for a double negative, but with a double negative. The comma theory works too.
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darkmatter34 said:
He wasn't correcting for a double negative, but with a double negative. The comma theory works too.
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move on fellas... geez
deaffob said:
I don't know if we can use the gingerbreak app to root D3?
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I have a DROID x and trued to root it with the z4mod but when it says requiring root shell it stops and it is not root what do I need to do
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From y limited understanding Gingerbreak works with 2.3.3, however the D3 comes stock with 2.3.4, which has all known exploits closed. So we just have to wait until more are found, with code as complex as an OS there's always some to be had.
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Trigonous said:
From y limited understanding Gingerbreak works with 2.3.3, however the D3 comes stock with 2.3.4, which has all known exploits closed. So we just have to wait until more are found, with code as complex as an OS there's always some to be had.
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Let's hope.
It should be even easier once the first OTA comes out, seeing how the moto devs access the OS is very likely to reveal an exploit, or at least point us in the right direction.
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This is an updated (and short) version of my guide for rooting and/or unbricking your DROID 3. This method works on Motorola phones running Android OS 2.3.4 or earlier. If you have a version of MotoBlur/Android on your DROID 3 that isn't compatible with this version, you can use the unbrick method to return your DROID 3 to MotoBlur 5.6.890 Verizon OTA first.
All instructions and downloads are linked from my website at:
www.psouza4.com/DROID3
UPDATE 9/1/2011 1.03: completely re-written, includes one-click root and unroot for practically all Motorola Gingerbread devices, /system/app fix & restore, and ADB temp root. DROID 3 fixes work for build 5.5.959 (stock) and 5.6.890 (late August OTA update).
UPDATE 9/8/2011 1.05: lots of logic testing for fixing bad root attempts/root carry-over's for DROID X, DROID 2 Global, and other devices. Some messages were made clearer, and unrooting is now open to other devices (/system/app restore optional).
UPDATE 7/8/2012 1.08: new links for the system restore features
UPDATE 6/14/2013 1.09: guide re-written, files re-uploaded, everything should be working again (I removed /system/app restore feature since it wasn't reliable and now unnecessary with unbrick/restore methods)
Thanks! That was dead easy and i'm happy that i still have root after rebooting a couple of times.
I assume that if i do a factory wipe, I will have to use this root method again, right?
nosaturn said:
Thanks! That was dead easy and i'm happy that i still have root after rebooting a couple of times.
I assume that if i do a factory wipe, I will have to use this root method again, right?
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No, you will lose superuser.apk which can be re-installed from the market as it is wiped when the /data partition is formatted, but su and busybox are installed in /system/xbin and will not be removed during a factory reset, so it will survive a factory reset (but you will just need to reinstall superuser).
oki doki.... i saw another thread on unrooting the phone and if i have to exchange it, i'll experiment there
nosaturn said:
oki doki.... i saw another thread on unrooting the phone and if i have to exchange it, i'll experiment there
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I'm in the process of writing a one-click unroot for Droid 3.
psouza4 said:
I'm in the process of writing a one-click unroot for Droid 3.
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nvm didnt read
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I'm in the process of writing a one-click unroot for Droid 3.
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Awesome!!!
Woot for root!
Thank you
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So freaking stoked to try this tomorrow.
My Droid 3 is in Tennessee and i'm too damn hyped...i've contemplated driving to go get it, DAMN!
@psouza4, is this a script made by you? I make websites and fancy stuff like that and i'm steadily compiling all my information on the Evo into web format and would be interested in including this method with my Droid 3 page in the works at your request.
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So freaking stoked to try this tomorrow.
My Droid 3 is in Tennessee and i'm too damn hyped...i've contemplated driving to go get it, DAMN!
@psouza4, is this a script made by you? I make websites and fancy stuff like that and i'm steadily compiling all my information on the Evo into web format and would be interested in including this method with my Droid 3 page in the works at your request.
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Yes it is (but don't credit me for finding the exploit, I'm just automating it).
Hey souza quick Q for you.
Does your one click modify the build.prop ?
I saw it modified something during the process but blanked out
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Edit: nevermind, it was local.prop
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Yes it is (but don't credit me for finding the exploit, I'm just automating it).
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Great job, none the less
Awesome work Mate, well done.
-smc
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I love your tool man!
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royolpunk said:
I love your tool man!
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Never admit that in public. XD
Awesome work psouza4!
BTW (DISCLAIMER : THIS IS OFF TOPIC) are you the same guy that made Media center master?
djrajir said:
Awesome work psouza4!
BTW (DISCLAIMER : THIS IS OFF TOPIC) are you the same guy that made Media center master?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Awesome, that has to be my favorite piece of software on my HTPC!
Restoring apps arent working to tell the truth im stuck at saving it to a restore folder
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5.7.893 I have never had a phone with camera as fast as this. And yes my webtop still works
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I glad too hear webtop is works
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demo333 said:
I glad too hear webtop is works
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Have webtop2sd it still works
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hdtechk said:
5.7.893 I have never had a phone with camera as fast as this. And yes my webtop still works
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can you pull the webtop files for me please?
DockService.odex
PortalApp.odex
DockService.apk
PortalApp.apk
did you upgrade to any other builds before 5.7.893?
can you pull/post the blurcamera.apk?
I agree. Instant snap.
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KidJoe said:
can you pull/post the blurcamera.apk?
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There you go http://db.tt/Z57QuxN7
Hopefully this helps...I had audio, but not sure why it didn't record. I will do another video with audio if you guys need it.
Just remember to backup originals and then replace w/ new apk or delete them after they are backed up change permissions and reboot
(if you view the video just hit the ad as a thanks or hit the thanks button here )
Agreed, could you post those 4 webtop files so those of us whom it shows up as "unavailable" can attempt to fix it?
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5.7.893 I have never had a phone with camera as fast as this. And yes my webtop still works
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I'm guessing you went straight from 886 to 5.7.893? One update?
Could someone post another link to the camera.apk because his link is down?
0mie said:
There you go https://www.box.net/shared/6l55k0z4p043xiv6a525
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thanks but you are over your bandwidth...
If someone else can post?? otherwise, I'll just wait and try again later...
Damn you guys for using all my free bandwidth
Don't use all this now lol
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Does this need to be flashed through Clock work?
smacinskyjr said:
Does this need to be flashed through Clock work?
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Just use RE and fix permissions, that should work just fine.
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mistawolfe said:
I'm guessing you went straight from 886 to 5.7.893? One update?
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If you did your research you'd know the answer right? Use the search bar
droidrev71 said:
If you did your research you'd know the answer right? Use the search bar
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LOL +1 i wonder if anyone else gets that
0mie said:
Damn you guys for using all my free bandwidth
Don't use all this now lol
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Anyone get this to work? I'm on 5.5.886
I backed up my old Blur-Camera.apk and Blur-Camera.odex to my SD card. Extracted the files from the provided zip to /system/app and fixed permissions to be rw-r--r--. Rebooted, and its' still not showing up. I reverted back to my old camera for now until someone else gets it working.
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If you did your research you'd know the answer right? Use the search bar
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You're a fool. I've cheesecaked all the way to 5.7. The kernel blocks webtop at some point in the upgrade path. The only way to keep webtop (that has been found) is to go directly from 886 and cheesecake to 5.7, one big jump. If he didn't do that, then this is crucial information in obtaining webtop back for us who did the incremental updates.
Sorry there isn't a search button to help your ignorance and lack of knowledge.
Also, show me one spot in this thread where he listed his upgrade path.
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Anyone get this to work? I'm on 5.5.886
I backed up my old Blur-Camera.apk and Blur-Camera.odex to my SD card. Extracted the files from the provided zip to /system/app and fixed permissions to be rw-r--r--. Rebooted, and its' still not showing up. I reverted back to my old camera for now until someone else gets it working.
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cant get this to work ether. i am also on 5.5.886
neckbonest said:
cant get this to work ether. i am also on 5.5.886
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I'd tell you how if you weren't arrogant.
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Hi Guys,
As promised here is the actual OTA leak .zip pulled from a staging server on 11/03. This needs to be installed via your STOCK RECOVERY, this doesn't work in Safestrap or Koush's CWRecovery.
[ WARNING: I want to repeat my earlier warning that if you plan on installing this: HAVE A ROOT KEEPER INSTALLED (mount_ext3.sh / loadpreinstall.sh modified to set suid on the su binary on boot). CURRENT 1-CLICK ROOT WILL NOT WORK. If you search the Bionic boards there are many users asking for help where they lost root applying a similar OTA leak like this one for their phones. I would hate for the D3 community to be in a similar situation. ]
** I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ILL EFFECTS OF THIS OTA LEAK OR IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE -- WHEN IN DOUBT, DON'T USE THIS **
** And, I know that the file name is our current version. It's something Verizon does with the patch filenames where they use the version of the OS that it applies to.
Details of the update:
BUILD ID: 5.5.1_84_D3G-64
BUILD DATE: Mon Oct 31 11:31:36 CDT 2011
BUILD VERSION FULL: Blur_Version.5.7.894.XT862.Verizon.en.US
BASEBAND VERSION: N_03.18.2EP
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?x6ltlt51aa98hgw
md5sum: 93f535d986b94a810a00530ea722ea69
[ Edit 11/07: added the baseband version ]
Thank you for sharing this.
Do the fastboot files that we have still work after applying this? My main concern is that it could replace the signing key making it impossible to downgrade to a rootable version.
wonder why the name of file you update is 5.6.890?
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** And, I know that the file name is our current version. It's something Verizon does with the patch filenames where they use the version of the OS that it applies to.
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Does anyone know what this file improves or breaks?
Droid 1 Rooted (ChevyNo1 0.9MV Kernel, LGB2.6)
Droid 3 Rooted (Stock Kernel, Custom lite De-bloat)
Hashcode does this update also include the update to the kernel?
Thanks.
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Hashcode does this update also include the update to the kernel?
Thanks.
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Yes, it's the full untouched update from the staging servers.
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Yes, it's the full untouched update from the staging servers.
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Thank you. And I'm assuming I need to be on the motoblur rom as well?
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Thank you. And I'm assuming I need to be on the motoblur rom as well?
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Probably, not 100% sure but i think you need to be on motoblur fully bloated. Make sure you do a forever root before you update tho cause word is the moto/vzw have patched the exploit.
is there a changelog or does anyone know any of the changes with this update?
The update won't commence even if you modified one file from /system/.
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Is this rootable using petes one click root?
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is there a changelog or does anyone know any of the changes with this update?
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The only thing i know of is a faster camera.
Yes, im curious too. Not going to play with it, unless I can still fastboot flash back to stock.
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I am WAY too new at this stuff to take a chance on bricking a brand new phone unless it really seems like it is worth it. How much better is the overall performance supposed to be with this upgrade?
I am WAY too new at this stuff to take a chance on bricking a brand new phone unless it really seems like it is worth it. How much better is the overall performance supposed to be with this upgrade?
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I would expect something pretty significant, due to the file including a kernel update..
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gkitab said:
Is this rootable using petes one click root?
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It says in the op that its not rootable using one click root, you need rootkeeper.
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Can you just flash back to the 890 SBF afterwards if you don't like it?
erismaster said:
It says in the op that its not rootable using one click root, you need rootkeeper.
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Thanks, just got it.
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It should be if its 2.3.5. Im assuming the cam is like the one in the dx2 ATRIX port. If so its good stuff the continuous focus is much faster, and has other focus options. Then we can add the camera tweaks that are already out there.
This is still 2.3.4 btw.
I found a working root for my bionic on 4.1.2. and ive tested that it does in fact work! try it your self http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...rg-cracked-root-4-1-2-root-available-now.html
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I found a working root for my bionic on 4.1.2. and ive tested that it does in fact work! try it your self:
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Don't work...
I had to do it like 3 times. But my phone is rooted now
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ModestMouse1312 said:
I had to do it like 3 times. But my phone is rooted now
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only motochopper right?
ModestMouse1312 said:
I had to do it like 3 times. But my phone is rooted now
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you lost root on update JB or you haven't root on ics and keep root on JB?
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you lost root on update JB or you haven't root on ics and keep root on JB?
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I got that same error, I was rooted, and didn't backup root before JB update.
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I got that same error, I was rooted, and didn't backup root before JB update.
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i think it because you will had root before JB update. I flash FXZ ICS and forget about root, and now i can't keep root any way.
That "Easy Root Komplete" tool found on this page uses the famed MotoChopper exploit. I just FXZ'd my Bionic to 4.1.2 and tried Motochopper on it. It managed to install Superuser but it couldn't push in the su binary so it basically failed. I tried MotoChopper 3 times in a row but root was never actually achieved unfortunately.
Save yourself the effort. Motochopper only works on snapdragon based moto phones... For which the bionic is not.
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Bionic JB Root??????
SamuriHL said:
Save yourself the effort. Motochopper only works on snapdragon based moto phones... For which the bionic is not.
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Is there anything in the works for the Bionic root?
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Is there anything in the works for the Bionic root?
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So far there are no known Bionic JB root exploits. I was told a few days ago that the Bionic Gods are looking into maybe repurposing one of the RAZR JB exploits but I've not seen or heard anything since. DJRBliss has quit so this puts us Bionic owners in a very bad position. We can HOPE an exploit is found but I wouldn't expect it.
I would go as far to say that if it happens it will be a repurposing based on RAZR Blade. The chances aren't superb, but at least conceivable.
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I would go as far to say that if it happens it will be a repurposing based on RAZR Blade. The chances aren't superb, but at least conceivable.
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I think the samba share exploit has the most promise, actually. I don't know if our smart actions would allow a razr blade style exploit.
I can attest to the fact that this exploit does not work.
i can find the download link. one on the linked page doesnt work.
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So far there are no known Bionic JB root exploits. I was told a few days ago that the Bionic Gods are looking into maybe repurposing one of the RAZR JB exploits but I've not seen or heard anything since. DJRBliss has quit so this puts us Bionic owners in a very bad position. We can HOPE an exploit is found but I wouldn't expect it.
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Thanx for the reply, greatly appreciated. Fingers crossed on an exploit!!!!!
Don't work anything what i try to do...just can't mount /system in rw.
Have little idea. We have locked bootloader, but preinstall.img not signed. I think must be something in this folder what work with su permissions, and if we moded preinstall.img, we can flash it and run script for mount /system in rw mode.
i tired and disappointed...i very need root, because without root, my phone just player....(((
Maksim_ka said:
i tired and disappointed...i very need root, because without root, my phone just player....(((
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That would be because there is NO working root exploit for JB. And there may never be.
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Don't work anything what i try to do...just can't mount /system in rw.
Have little idea. We have locked bootloader, but preinstall.img not signed. I think must be something in this folder what work with su permissions, and if we moded preinstall.img, we can flash it and run script for mount /system in rw mode.
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I hope you are right! Unfortunately it's all a bit beyond my depth. I dunno why motorola is such a stick inthe mud, especially after Google bought them. All the Google devices have been easy to root and mod (Nexus series), but it's probable that since this is an older device without a gigantic user base, it just isn't getting attention, as evidenced by it not getting the GSM unlock that other phones with the same chipset got.
So sad. Lovely phone, crippled by the manufacturer from achieving it's full potential.
There's still hope though. Meantime, I'm sticking with ICS. LiquidSmooth and Eclipse 1.3 roms work exceedingly well, and root access lets me run all the stuff I want to.