I previously have had experience in rooting, getting s-off on HTC phones (legend, desire, desire z) and currently have galaxy nexus.
On these phones you usually have to unlock the bootloader/hboot by some means, then you can flash CWM and apply root or flash roms.
My wife is getting Note so been doing some research. It seems with this phone its all about flashing a modified kernel to gain root or CWM. Does this phone have a bootloader, as I can't see anything about unlocking the bootloader? Is there no option to flash images through fastboot like with the galaxy nexus?
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Hi guys,
Just sold my desire and bought a nexus, and i just want to clarify a few things
When im in the bootloader screen it has a big unlocked at the top, i suppose this means my bootloader has been unlocked?
Also i have a S-on, is this right?
I cant seem to write to my system partition in normal running of the phone, i thought this could be done on the nexus?
I just get a read/write error like its still protected... On the desire i had to boot to recovery every time i wanted to mount the system and copy files, do i have to do the same on the nexus?
Sorry if this seems silly to you guys, but coming from the desire, we did things very differently, due to our only partial rooting
JD
Yes you have an unlocked bootloader, and S-ON is the norm for a retail phone.
Just because the bootloader is unlocked doesn't mean you have SU permissions, what ROM/recovery is installed?
My rom its paul's r18 and my recovery is clockwork...
JD
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Hi,
I'm looking to root my HTC One. I know the easy way is to unlock bootloader, flash recovery, flash su, done, but there is that part about "may void your warranty". I read that HTC will still repair hardware issues even if the bootloader is unlocked, but still I'm curious about different ways to root.
So... as far as I can tell by looking at the htcdev kernel source the kernel is vulnerable to the sw_perf_event exploit (http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/121616/semtex.c), and than there is this project https://github.com/android-rooting-tools/libperf_event_exploit.
I was wondering if anyone made that exploit work on the M7 (aka found the right offset) and also if you think it would be worth rooting with that. I guess I won't be able to flash new ROMs as the bootloader would still be locked, right? Or will I be able to flash the recovery partition withoud needing to unlock the bootloader (I guess not)?
Thanks
sciepy said:
Hi,
I'm looking to root my HTC One. I know the easy way is to unlock bootloader, flash recovery, flash su, done, but there is that part about "may void your warranty". I read that HTC will still repair hardware issues even if the bootloader is unlocked, but still I'm curious about different ways to root.
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this is false. you will have to pay for any repairs performed on the device.
Blanket statements like this are troublesome. The warranty coverage varies by country. I've had warranty replaced phones that were rooted with no problem here in the US
Just wondering if it's possible to just root the device with as little intervention as possible? I want to continue getting OTAs (dont' care if they break root, I'll just re-root). I know I'll have to unlock the bootloader but does such a thing exist where I can keep the stock recovery? I know on the Nexus devices I could
Hello,
I find the rooting thing very confusing.
I have a locked bootloader, is there any way to root my device without unlocking the bootloader? (for example with oneclickroot)
If I unlock the bootloader, what functionality do I lose?
If I understand it clearly, I need to unlock the bootloader, then fastboot the TWRP recovery and then within the recovery I can flash the supersu.zip package?
Also, do I need a kernel with the Sony security disabled if I just want to root the stock ROM? (SONY RIC, SELinux)
I hope someone can clear these things up for me....
Thanks in advance.
By unlocking BL you lose X-reality,Bionz and some sound fuctions if I'm not mistaken but I think there is a way to restore them
josephnero said:
By unlocking BL you lose X-reality,Bionz and some sound fuctions if I'm not mistaken but I think there is a way to restore them
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I unlocked my BL long time ago just because I needed root, I wanted so bad because I need to install cerberus antithief app and some other features.
Then noticed that camera was so slow, video is so lag, so better don't use it and record videos, somethimes color has a lot of contrastbut automatically goes normal, in sound quality and calls I really didn't notice anything bad.
Now that I upgrade to the last firmware, ther is no safe way to root it again, untill now I think I should never unlock my BL...
I have the dual version E6533.
With galaxy and htc I could play around with Sony z3 and plus no root without sacrifying basic functionality... Next phone will be a galaxy s7 or iPhone 7... If possible both... Galaxy for sports iPhone for business and non sports
Basically, there's no way to root any Xperia devices since the Z3+ generation with BL locked. Beacuse Sony update their BL so that you can't replace the kernel even if you rooted the system.
Hello everyone. I am not new to rooting and flashing custom roms but i have never had more trouble than with these samsung phones. I have a Note 4 from TMobile( model in title of thread). I need help rooting, unlocking the bootloader, and flashing custom roms. Based on what i see this basically voids the warranty which im ok with. I just worry about bricking my phone with the wrong tools because i see 2 variants of the note 4 for Tmobile. So does anyone have any info on the root/ bootloader unlocking process for the SM-N910T3 variant?
I downloaded kingo root from the playstore, 1 click, it did it. if it dont work the first time, reboot and try it again.