[Q] Why is superuser not granting anything permissions? - Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh

So I just rooted my Motorola Droid since my contract expired with Verizon. I'm using this phone as practice so I'm not afraid to brick it. After using the superoneclick method to root the phone, it installs superuser fine, and I can access the app. I installed ROM manager for obvious reasons and every time I try to flash a recovery, it freezes at the point where the app is supposed to ask me for superuser permissions. I tried using titanium backup and it is not asking for permissions either. I then go into the superuser app and did the "Tap to check for updates" under the Su binary v3.0.3 label. The update fails every time on the "Gaining root access..." step. I tried unrooting and rerooting and everything. I went into the superuser settings and set the automatic response to "allow" and am still getting nothing. I have also force closed superuser, and then cleared all the data before restarting.
Am I just missing something important? Or am I just unlucky to the point where nothing I ever try in regards to rooting works the way it is supposed to?

furlessxp said:
So I just rooted my Motorola Droid since my contract expired with Verizon. I'm using this phone as practice so I'm not afraid to brick it. After using the superoneclick method to root the phone, it installs superuser fine, and I can access the app. I installed ROM manager for obvious reasons and every time I try to flash a recovery, it freezes at the point where the app is supposed to ask me for superuser permissions. I tried using titanium backup and it is not asking for permissions either. I then go into the superuser app and did the "Tap to check for updates" under the Su binary v3.0.3 label. The update fails every time on the "Gaining root access..." step. I tried unrooting and rerooting and everything. I went into the superuser settings and set the automatic response to "allow" and am still getting nothing. I have also force closed superuser, and then cleared all the data before restarting.
Am I just missing something important? Or am I just unlucky to the point where nothing I ever try in regards to rooting works the way it is supposed to?
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Have you tried updating the superuser app itself? not only the su binary

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One click root but not rooted >.<

I have used the one click root program to root my captivate.. the problem is I'm still cannot use those program that require root permission.
I got the superuser permission icon already but I'm still cannot use root required apps... someone pls help.
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One rooted when you try and run a program that requires root access a notification should open asking if you why to allow root access.
Click on the super user app. What happens?
nope nothing pop up to ask if i allow the access...
I have tried a two types of one click root program which is Superoneclick and another one by TGA_Gunnman..
But both act in the same way that nothing will pop up and ask whether to allow access...
What happens when you click on the super user app?
Have you tried rebooting the phone?
Have you tried replacing apk with market, search superuser in market, see if it shows installed, try to update or replace
You are on stock, correct
yeap i have tried to reboot after the rooting process...
I can open the superuser app too.
Yes im on stock.
Im thinking should i use z4root now?
Might as well. Did you check for the app in the market?
What are you looking to accomplish with root? What is your goal?
yup i checked the market too... it shows i ald installed the superuser..
Just want to root and use the rom manager to back up...
And i dunno y suddenly the root works! now im okay! Thanks for the help!
I guess we need to install again from market and reboot in order to use this...
No problem, who knows what the issue was. Enjoy, I am sure you will be flashing roms in no time

root access?

I purchased att tab one week again, rooted using superoneclick and flashed to overcome 2.3.3 as instructed, everything works out fine.
Soon after I installed Titantium backup root, it showed "not rooted access", and I tried other apps (root explorer, tweeks), same message happens, and z4root superoneclick fail to do the magic this time.
Also, I tried to flash cf-root 2.3.3 JQ1 to root this tab, still no luck.
Just want to know how to root my tab? searched the board, could not find solution, any suggestion is appreciated.
My tab information:
baseband 19000ugjk3
pda: P1000xxjq1
phone: 19000ugjk3
csc: P1000Oxajq1
When you go to the app list do you see Superuser?? If I recall correctly, all you had to do is flash the gb stock safe in odin, and that should have given u all the root you needed.
Yes, I can see superuser in app list, and having no problem opening it.
So how can I do this, restocking GB-safe, can you provide more detailed steps, thanks very very much, I desperately need to unlock this tab.
ok when u open superuser can you click on log and see if superuser is denying your apps or if you maybe unknowingly denied them superuse access? The easiest way I can think of it to redo it again. download the gingerbread stock safe on the overcome website in my sig, backup all and i mean all your apps you care about, texts whatever it is. then download odin 1.7. Follow the overcome guide and you should be fine. Once your done your tab should already have superuser. Download and install the overcome RC1 full and flash that threw recovery.. following the guide again. you should be good to go. Hopefully your titanium backups are on external sd card
thanks, I checked the log, no denying of any applications, I will try to re-flashing once again, and see what happens. The only confusion I am having is that flashing overcome Rom requires a rooted system, since my current system is not completely rooted, is it ok? will this procedure brick my tab?
Again, thanks!
restocking shouldnt brick your tab, just clear your system and start fresh. But if your worried about bricking, make sure you are using a computer that wont just turn off in the middle of the flashing process or kids running around knocking your tab off the connector while flashing. If for some reason odin is not successful, just clear odin and try again without disconecting anything. Hope this helps
restocking ROM, seems everything is ok, thanks again,
But I could not find a version of root explorer working in this version,
it keeps shutting down saying "xx stop working", wired!
busybox
have you tried to re-install busybox?
when you open Ti Backup, click the problems button on the bottom. This will usually prompt you to update busybox. Just yes to whatever it says and wait for the application to restart.
Hit thanks if I helped!
I updated busybox through ti as suggested.
Reinstall root explorer 2.12.4, once opened, granted root access, still no luck, "sorry, the application root explorer (process com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer) has stopped unexpectedly, please try again.
really bothers me right now, any alternative app for the same function?
gtechnical said:
I updated busybox through ti as suggested.
Reinstall root explorer 2.12.4, once opened, granted root access, still no luck, "sorry, the application root explorer (process com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer) has stopped unexpectedly, please try again.
really bothers me right now, any alternative app for the same function?
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Why not update root explorer from the market? seeing as the latest version is 2.15?
updated to root explorer 2.15, problem solved!
Thanks a lot, guys!

[Q] ResetNotify asking for SU permission?

Hi all,
today i was playing with my New One and suddenly this "ResetNotify" popped out asking for SU permission, anyone knows what this process/app is and what does it do?
My phone is on stock rom, rooted with SuperUser, clockwork recovery, and Xposed mod only.
Thanks!!
I tried searching "ResetNotify" but i couldnt find any information, has anyone seen/encounter this? i didnt had the chance to copy down the process but i believe its com.htc.resetnotify?
just wondering if anyone has seen this and what does this process do that requires root permission? if i never rooted my phone it would still work?
I see (or at least saw) it on a regular basis. I also did a search to try and find out what it was about. Eventually decided to ignore it unless virus apps started to scream about it.
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i decided to grant it permission permanently since it pops up everyday, although i still have no idea what it does...
mingtaoh said:
Hi all,
today i was playing with my New One and suddenly this "ResetNotify" popped out asking for SU permission, anyone knows what this process/app is and what does it do?
My phone is on stock rom, rooted with SuperUser, clockwork recovery, and Xposed mod only.
Thanks!!
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Same problems, any idea ?
Install SuperSU (update the su binary too) and wait for it to happen again. Then go into Logs and see what app called it
Well??? What called it?
I'm also facing this issue.
I'm rooted, unlocked bootloader, custom recovery (TWRP), STOCK rom.
I did not grant permission figuring this is some ploy by htc to check if their devices are rooted and perhaps unroot it? Is that even possible?
Has this happened with any other prior HTC devices? anyone have answer to this?
Ghoymakh said:
Well??? What called it?
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SuperUser Pro is required to use this feature
com.htc.resetnotify is a common one across multiple htc devices, based upon what I can glean from the forums. I just went ahead and blocked it though. If I didn't have the device rooted, it wouldn't ask me for root privileges, so I just denied it and it shouldn't make a difference vs a stock setup.
mingtaoh said:
i decided to grant it permission permanently since it pops up everyday, although i still have no idea what it does...
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If you don't know what it is, the best approach/security is to deny permanently. Think of it like the key to your house. Are you going to give a stranger a key so he can come in and do whatever, whenever?
Had this issue today, too. After granting temporary su permissions to the process I could see a toast that it was setting Filesystem rights. Unfortunately I couldn't see what permissions were ser on what file.
After that I permanently denied su permissions for resetnotify but probably changing fs rights is permanent.
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I just got this too. I've had the phone since Tuesday. Unlocked, recovery and rooted... but still on stock. I denied it too. Just wish I could find an answer as to what it actually is.
Would love to know what it is. I used to get regular requests from it but I might have granted it permanent su
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Sent from an HTC One with using xda app:
TrickDroid ROM 5.3.0
teaMSeven(stable) kernel 3.9.2
I just had the same request and I have the same concerns as others on this thread.
Is it a 3rd party app that initiated it?
If it is an HTC call, then why?
This happened first on my HTC one that I've had for a week.
Tmobile M7, unlocked,, TWRP recovery, rooted, and stock Sense 5 for five days.
It is a HTC app letting you know that your device has had an reset/data wipe and I think it wants to help you restore your data or settings.
You saw this after you unlocked your bootloader which wiped your data right?
Same problem here as well. Didnt give it rights though.
Same problem here, and I denied. It popped every day.
My guess..
mingtaoh said:
Hi all,
today i was playing with my New One and suddenly this "ResetNotify" popped out asking for SU permission, anyone knows what this process/app is and what does it do?
My phone is on stock rom, rooted with SuperUser, clockwork recovery, and Xposed mod only.
Thanks!!
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The first time I got this i assumed it was part of the "your phone has recovered from an abnormal reset send report to HTC" message that you get after rebooting from CWM. I imagine, if we didnt have root access it would just send the info to HTC with out asking for permission. I could be wrong, but it just seemed to make sense to me.
Happened to me a moment ago, denied it but now asking to "Setup the phone"...
This also happened to me just now, just after midnight local phone time. HTC One SV, newly (over 24hrs ago) rooted, stock HTC Sense.
I've looked in all apps and ResetNotify reports:
ResetNotify
version 2.10
Can be Force Closed
Cannot be Disabled
Show Notifications is ticked on and cannot be changed
Total 4.00KB
App 0.00B
USB Storage 0.00B
Data 4.00KB
Phone Storage 0.00B
Permissions:
System tools:
Prevent phone from sleeping
Run at startup
When it requested SU I hadn't rebooted my phone recently but I do recall having the "HTC phone home" messages after unlocking with CWM bootloader, but before rooting.
Obviously, I refused ResetNotify from having SU as it wasn't an app that I had manually started. No adverse affects as yet.

Randomly Lost Root? - No Updates/OTAs applied

Last night I went to open Titanium Backup and was notified that I didn't have root. I've been rooted with ioroot for over a year now without issues. Root Checker app confirmes root was lost. SuperSu gave binaries error.
HOWEVER, in About Phone > System Status it was still showing as 'Rooted'. I'm still on 4.2.2 / VS98011A. All I've done is update the same ol' apps I've had for months.
What gives? Anybody have any ideas why this would happen?
The only thing I can think of is when SuperSu updated recently it asked to use TWRP (instead of the 'normal' method) to run a script to update binaries which I obliged. It seemed to struggle with that.
Anyway, I did use TowelRoot this time since I was too lazy to refresh my memory on the ioroot process. It worked fine however I've had a few random locks and a random reboot. I never had those issues before.
Any insight would be appreciated.
newuzer1 said:
Last night I went to open Titanium Backup and was notified that I didn't have root. I've been rooted with ioroot for over a year now without issues. Root Checker app confirmes root was lost. SuperSu gave binaries error.
HOWEVER, in About Phone > System Status it was still showing as 'Rooted'. I'm still on 4.2.2 / VS98011A. All I've done is update the same ol' apps I've had for months.
What gives? Anybody have any ideas why this would happen?
The only thing I can think of is when SuperSu updated recently it asked to use TWRP (instead of the 'normal' method) to run a script to update binaries which I obliged. It seemed to struggle with that.
Anyway, I did use TowelRoot this time since I was too lazy to refresh my memory on the ioroot process. It worked fine however I've had a few random locks and a random reboot. I never had those issues before.
Any insight would be appreciated.
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Do you have TWRP installed? If so try to get it to reflash the binaries again.
mjones73 said:
Do you have TWRP installed? If so try to get it to reflash the binaries again.
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After rerooting with towelroot, i uninstalled SuperSu. Then reinstalled SuperSu and choose install binaries via 'normal' method. That appears to have worked fine.
My question relates to why did I lose su/root functionality in the first place? Is this known to happen sometimes with app updates, (not just system/os/ota updates)? That has me concerned.
newuzer1 said:
After rerooting with towelroot, i uninstalled SuperSu. Then reinstalled SuperSu and choose install binaries via 'normal' method. That appears to have worked fine.
My question relates to why did I lose su/root functionality in the first place? Is this known to happen sometimes with app updates, (not just system/os/ota updates)? That has me concerned.
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I would assume not installing the SuperSU binary updates correctly broke SuperSU. You didn't lose root per say, you broke SuperSU which apps need to be able to run as root.

Having Some Trouble. Lost my Root Access, Can't Seem to get it back

Hello,
I'm having issues with my new tablet. I followed the instructions outlined here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/wip-achieving-root-thread-t3238152
And achieved root. All was well, but about 24 hours later, my tablet decided to restart, and when it rebooted, I no longer seemed to have root access. I then confirmed this with a root checker app. I still had the Google Play store, and the SuperSU app however. I checked using a file explorer and I still have an su file under /system/xbin.
I tried a reboot using the same method as above, but it seems to be failing because the files already exist. I tried uninstalling the SuperSU app using the full unroot option inside the app, but it simply says 'uninstalling, please wait' for a few seconds and then goes back to the home screen, SuperSU still there. I then attempted to restore to factory defaults, but alas the app remains and I am still unable to reboot (as well as losing all my data sadly). I am getting a drop down notification telling me that 'the SU binary needs to be updated' but that installation fails as well.
I'm unsure how to proceed trying to reroot my device, and feel stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'm not sure what caused the device to restart and me to lose my root in the first place. From what I've read trying to figure this out, an OTA update may of caused me to lose my root, so I'm also wondering if there's anyway to prevent this from happening again if I can regain root.
Thanks
Disable OTA
Dmriskus said:
Hello,
I'm having issues with my new tablet. I followed the instructions outlined here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/wip-achieving-root-thread-t3238152
And achieved root. All was well, but about 24 hours later, my tablet decided to restart, and when it rebooted, I no longer seemed to have root access. I then confirmed this with a root checker app. I still had the Google Play store, and the SuperSU app however. I checked using a file explorer and I still have an su file under /system/xbin.
I tried a reboot using the same method as above, but it seems to be failing because the files already exist. I tried uninstalling the SuperSU app using the full unroot option inside the app, but it simply says 'uninstalling, please wait' for a few seconds and then goes back to the home screen, SuperSU still there. I then attempted to restore to factory defaults, but alas the app remains and I am still unable to reboot (as well as losing all my data sadly). I am getting a drop down notification telling me that 'the SU binary needs to be updated' but that installation fails as well.
I'm unsure how to proceed trying to reroot my device, and feel stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'm not sure what caused the device to restart and me to lose my root in the first place. From what I've read trying to figure this out, an OTA update may of caused me to lose my root, so I'm also wondering if there's anyway to prevent this from happening again if I can regain root.
Thanks
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1. Disable updates, link one post up
2. Root in TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/twrp-recovery-t3242548

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