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"Superuser Permissions" freezing (JF 1.51)

Hi all,
Whenever I go to use a program for the first time that requires root, my screen goes black and processes start freezing. Eventually, a box comes up saying that the "Activity SU Request" process has frozen.
Any idea what's causing it (could it be the amount of apps i've installed?) and/or how to remedy it?
EDIT: found this:
@Androidandy the easiest way to get it working seems to be:
turn on your phone by holding the home+end(power) key
press alt+x to enter the recovery console and then press enter when it asks you
next type:
mount data
rm /data/data/com.koushikdutta.superuser/databases/superuser.sqlite
if you have the problem where it says this file does not exist, type:
rm /data/data/koushikdutta.superuser/databases/superuser.sqlite
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Sorry for asking without looking completely thoroughly first, a mod can close this thread if they like.

blakew said:
Hi all,
Whenever I go to use a program for the first time that requires root, my screen goes black and processes start freezing. Eventually, a box comes up saying that the "Activity SU Request" process has frozen.
Any idea what's causing it (could it be the amount of apps i've installed?) and/or how to remedy it?
EDIT: found this:
Sorry for asking without looking completely thoroughly first, a mod can close this thread if they like.
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Or...... dear lord, why.... you could just go to Settings>Applications>Development and enable "USB debugging". It's a known problem with the current SuperUser.apk

Usb debugging simply isn't working with my stupid windows computer, and I'm too lazy to boot it into linux. I found out the hard way that the recovery console doesn't work on my phone, I must have forgotten to update the phone somehow. I was fiddling with all the key combinations, conveniently forgetting alt + w = wipe.
Managed to get an old backup working, and the SU popup is working again.

How to Root in Cyanogen 4.04?

Hello everyone, I apologize in advance if I've posted this in the wrong section. Ok so here is my problem, I recently got Cyanogen 4.04 (Latest stable release) on my phone. I was gonna try out the overclock app from the App market but it doesn't let me open it because i'm not ROOT. I thought users are always ROOT in modded ROM, are they not? If not then what should I do to ROOT? I used the one click method for root at the begining (to install cyanogen) and Haykuro SPL Update. Thanks.
p.s I am a complete noob so please go slow.

If you have used the 1-Click-Root method, did you follow the steps to type in telnetd using a terminal app? If not then I would go back and re-trace your steps.

NeoBlade said:
If you have used the 1-Click-Root method, did you follow the steps to type in telnetd using a terminal app? If not then I would go back and re-trace your steps.
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Yes I did the telnetd thing. After rebooting clicking on an emptyspace then RETURN, wait, RETURN then telnetd which took me to the contact list. Then Home. Then I went to the terminal app and did the 4 step thing. But I did all that before flashing the Cyanogen for the first time. Now that I have Cynogen installed, if I try to Connect in telnet it gives me an error and if I try to do the 4 step thing in Terminal emulator it says "permission denied. (are you root?)". Please tell me what should I do?

pooranimator said:
Yes I did the telnetd thing. After rebooting clicking on an emptyspace then RETURN, wait, RETURN then telnetd which took me to the contact list. Then Home. Then I went to the terminal app and did the 4 step thing. But I did all that before flashing the Cyanogen for the first time. Now that I have Cynogen installed, if I try to Connect in telnet it gives me an error and if I try to do the 4 step thing in Terminal emulator it says "permission denied. (are you root?)". Please tell me what should I do?
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type su into the terminal emulator and see what is says. if you were able to flash a custom rom then your phone is rooted, you could've gotten a bad download.

Download Better Terminal from the Maket and as david mentioned, type in "su" then press enter to see if you have root access.

if nothing pops up upon entering su does that mean a new wipe and install is nessecary??
Reason i ask is i can't get the terminal emulator to work either that came with the build....is it the same thing as better terminal????. I used a one click install and everything is running fine on my 4.0.4 build but i tried earlier as well to install the "overclock" app from market and it wouldn't work. I decided to purchase SetCPU instead for a buck and it works no problem. By the way i have a my touch 3g..

mikespy said:
if nothing pops up upon entering su does that mean a new wipe and install is nessecary??
Reason i ask is i can't get the terminal emulator to work either that came with the build....is it the same thing as better terminal????. I used a one click install and everything is running fine on my 4.0.4 build but i tried earlier as well to install the "overclock" app from market and it wouldn't work. I decided to purchase SetCPU instead for a buck and it works no problem. By the way i have a my touch 3g..
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dont think the terminal emulator works w/o a physical keyboard
better terminal will get the job done, but not the same app. You can just use that instead of terminal
but if terminal does work w/o a physical keyboard, when you type su, what does it do?
if it asks to allow or deny, click allow. if you hit always deny, go to the superuser app and erase all settings.
if it doesnt ask anything, when you type su, it should drop one line and have this symbol #

B-man007 said:
dont think the terminal emulator works w/o a physical keyboard
better terminal will get the job done, but not the same app. You can just use that instead of terminal
but if terminal does work w/o a physical keyboard, when you type su, what does it do?
if it asks to allow or deny, click allow. if you hit always deny, go to the superuser app and erase all settings.
if it doesnt ask anything, when you type su, it should drop one line and have this symbol #
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Thanks for the help....
I actually did download better terminal and when i typed in su and hit enter. It went to the screen your talking about and since i had just installed SetCPU it asked if i wished to allow i clicked yes. So i asume i have rooted correctly and guess the "overclocking" program on the market might just not download on my phone correctly with the cyan 4.0.4.

Thanks
Thanks to all of you for your replies. I think I know what the problem was. The OverclockWidget is a Widget...duh silly me. I was trying to open it as a regular app and was failing. Added it as a widget on the first screen and now everything works. I have one quick unrelated question, while downloading the latest experimental release of Cyanogen I read at the bottom of the post in read that the users should not use any Apps2SD while using Cyaogen's latest release because the ROM does it by itself or something like that. What does that mean?
@mikespy- tap and hold for a sec on your screen and add the OverclockWidget widget on your screen then tap to open. That's how you open the OC util.

[Q] JP6 doesn't recognise my SIM card???

I have gotten myself into a mess and having upgraded to JP6 my SIM card is no longer recognised. Has anyone else had this issue and does anyone know of a Fix that they could give me to sort this mess out.
Thanks

james.boot said:
I have gotten myself into a mess and having upgraded to JP6 my SIM card is no longer recognised. Has anyone else had this issue and does anyone know of a Fix that they could give me to sort this mess out.
Thanks
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Don't panic, this is easy to fix..
Do a reset, cache erase from recovery mode (Volume up + Home + Turn on).
Root the device, install busybox and run it, install andoid terminal emulator the execute the followings in terminal emulator:
- su
- busybox chown 1001:1001 /efs/nv_data.bin
- reboot
That is it.

EXCELLENT!,
When you say wipe the cache is that option called "wipe cache partition" and where can I download busybox from etc? Im a bit of a noob with the fixing my screw ups business.

james.boot said:
EXCELLENT!,
When you say wipe the cache is that option called "wipe cache partition" and where can I download busybox from etc? Im a bit of a noob with the fixing my screw ups business.
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Yes "wipe cache partition".
Root using the program from here (if not rooted yet): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Busy box and emulator from the market. run busy box and click install and wait till it installs then run emulator. You must choose allow when prompted in both programs.

Hi, did all of this, it would not accept the reboot command so I turned the phone off and on. I dont know if the reboot command is integral to solving the problem but it has not worked. Is there something else I need to do?
it says
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change the owner and/or group or each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP
Options:
-R Recurse
-h affect symlinks instead of symlink targets
-L Traverse all symlinks to directories
-H Traverse symlinks on command line only
-P Dont traverse symlinks (default)
-c List changed files
-v List all files
-f hide errors
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What does this mean?

I don't think that you have executed the commands right, maybe because that I should have written them more clearly.
Execute in emulator:
su
(hit Enter)
Choose "Allow" and exit the program when done.
Start Emulator again and execute:
su
(hit Enter)
busybox chown 1001:1001 /efs/nv_data.bin
(hit Enter)
reboot
(hit Enter)
The phone will reboot and it will accept the card if the nv_data.bin staill intact. Try the steps above and I hope that every thing is right.

Unfortunately it has not worked. Have you got any more ideas? I appreciate your help with this.

james.boot said:
Unfortunately it has not worked. Have you got any more ideas? I appreciate your help with this.
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Did the commands execute right, no errors?
If so then check the IMEI number: Click on Phone in the home screen as when you dial a number and dial *#06# see the number that comes off, is it your correct IMEI number?

There is no IMEI number there, which is slightly worrying haha
no errors either

james.boot said:
There is no IMEI number there, which is slightly worrying haha
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in this case you might need to read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780509
It might be that the nv_data.bin file in your mobile is damaged, I'm only saying that it might be that, the only way to know for sure is to check the IMEI number in the phone under "Settings"--> "About phone" --> "Status" if there is no IMEI number then a reflash might correct that, if the IMEI number is like 000044...etc then the nv_data.bin file is damaged and can only be corrected if you have backed up the /efs folder. Please read in the linked thread to find out before doing anything.

I had this problem. I just reset my phone. When it rebooted it installed Sim Toolkit and now it works fine & reconises the Sim. Do you have Sim Toolkit installed?

I had this exact problem spent 2 hours trying fixes etc, I had my SIM card in the wrong way around, I was so used to putting it in like my old phone i did not notice the little picture saying the way to put it haha I had taken it out to flash a new ROM and assumed it was the ROMS fault cause it stopped working

no mate it doesn't. Just done a quick factory reset without success.

[q] Why i can't type in Terminal Emulator

why i can't type anything on terminal emulator,i have android terminal emulator and better terminal emulator.
i want to try tweaking my build.prop but i need to type something first like this link said http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588439
any idea? my phone is SGM+ gt-s5570i rooted and using custom rom.

what do you mean by typing not able to write anything or not able to execute any command

can't type anything as in. after i open the terminal emulator and i press any letter it wont show up on the screen.

maybe the background color and text color are same

After launching Terminal Emulator ... Press Menu Key > Toggle Soft Keyboard.

in better terminal it only show > and ] when i tap the center of the screen. i already tried soft keyboard and still the same can't type anything.

it happened to me once too.just installed the latest terminal emulator from google play and it was done

the better terminal is already included on repencis v3.5 advance for sgm+ so i decided to dl the android terminal emulator and i still can't type anything.

Menu>preferences>input method>character based
Sent from Jelly Bean S5570

ok ill try it but not now because i hard bricked my phone T_T

I have your phone with repencis and better termimal emulator works good?
What is this problem
Sent from my galpop + GT-S5570I

Galaxy4Peeps said:
I have your phone with repencis and better termimal emulator works good?
What is this problem
Sent from my galpop + GT-S5570I
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i already said that i can't type anything except when i tap the center of the screen it type ] or > only.

Logcat. Also try terminal emulator in ROM toolbox.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

U wud need these 2 things in order 2 work on terminal emulator
"Hacker's Keyboard IME" n "Busy Box" in order to get the most out of this program
:silly:

ohh i need hacker's keyboard IME. uhm about busy box i think when i root my phone using universal root it already has busy box or when i install repencis v3.5 advance its already has busy box.

mickeyzkun said:
why i can't type anything on terminal emulator,i have android terminal emulator and better terminal emulator.
i want to try tweaking my build.prop but i need to type something first like this link said http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588439
any idea? my phone is SGM+ gt-s5570i rooted and using custom rom.
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change set up input methods from samsung keypad to Swype

Here's the solution
mickeyzkun said:
why i can't type anything on terminal emulator,i have android terminal emulator and better terminal emulator.
i want to try tweaking my build.prop but i need to type something first like this link said http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588439
any idea? my phone is SGM+ gt-s5570i rooted and using custom rom.
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Tap menu, Preferences, then input method. Then choose your choice. Hoped it helped

Hello,
I had the same problems with the official Terminal Emulator app. (on android-x86 v2.2 emulated with VirtualBox 6.1 on Mac Os)
Another terminal emulator app from google play store does not help.
Preferences in VirtualBox about "input method" also does not help.
SOLUTION:
Inside the loaded virtual Android -> Settings -> Language and Keyboard Settings :
Disable - LIME keyboard.
Set language to default - English (US)
Then open "Android keyboard settings" and disable all extra features:
Vibrate on keypress
Sound on keypress
Auto-capitalization
Quick fixes
Show suggestions
Save settings (or just close).
Close the running Terminal Emulator app.
Start the Terminal app again and it works!
You can type everything you need with your normal keyboard.
Also you can pass some long command string from your host machine to virtual Android with a command like this:
VBoxManage controlvm YOUR_VM_NAME keyboardputstring "dir c:\\"
I have found it here:
Input -> Keyboard -> "Paste as text (send characters)" - Page 2 - virtualbox.org
Stanislav

auto start

Hows do I automatically shut and start my phone at specific times

One option is via Tasker with Secure Settings plug-in, but your phone must be rooted.

Action > System > Reboot type: Shutdown
Change reboot type to Normal if you want the device to simply reboot.

Using an s7edge , says reboot option is unavailable

k****ij84 said:
Hows do I automatically shut and start my phone at specific times
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k****ij84 said:
Using an s7edge , says reboot option is unavailable
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You can also use the shell command "reboot" (without quotes). I don't remember properly, but I don't think you have to write "su" before. You can try and if it fails, then write "su" before.

#Henkate said:
You can also use the shell command "reboot" (without quotes). I don't remember properly, but I don't think you have to write "su" before. You can try and if it fails, then write "su" before.
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You mean "su -c"
And he can simply tick the "Use root" box.

Sorry all this is going over my head , new to tasker , can you please put in a step by step

Any help?

Action > Code > Run Shell
Tick the "Use Root" box and enter this code:
reboot

Yes but my device is unrooted , don't want to root

k****ij84 said:
Yes but my device is unrooted , don't want to root
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Try it without root.
It might work.

want to see for xperia z3.

snhfa said:
want to see for xperia z3.
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Dude, just read the other posts of this thread.

You'll have to use a method that mimics human interaction. Give auto tools a try. See this reddit post for pointers.