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[Q] Problems rooting after downgrade

So I finally received a replacement Revo due to a bad sensor, anyway...
On the new revo it came with V6 so I followed and successfully downgraded to V4. Anyway, Ive been scouring the forum to find a way to now root it, but so far none of the exploits or tricks Ive found work. S1c with gingerbreak (with and without the usb debugging on-off thing), the manual adb method with rage both dont work. I also could never quite find if the downgraded v4 is rootable, some places it is and some its not. Is there anything Im missing?

Super one click root should work. However, from my experience, it DID freeze on me at a certain point. But it continued after turning off then turning on USB Debugging only once. The other thing you want to consider is turning off UAC if you r using 7, or Vista. I'm assuming that's probably off already since you have successfully downgraded your phone.
So my suggestion is turn on USB debugging, use super one click root, wait for it to freeze up if it does freeze, toggle your USB Debugging setup, then it should continue.
Good Luck.

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Ok >< Now I feel like a real idiot. The few times I tried that method (few, hah!) I toggled it thinking i toggle it then its able to do the exploit, so I was switching early, but whe nyou suggested that it had been frozen on step 6 since I left it out of desperation. And voila, once you said to try it and since it was stuck for that long, it worked. Maybe add this as a note somewhere, or at least something along the lines of: Wait a little while (upto 5 min) before toggling debug mode
Edit: I sincerely apologize about the original placement of this, Im never quite sure what goes where in a lot of places, not just here... ><

i just downgraded to v4 w/o any problems but for some reason i can't root
i've tried every method on this site manual/s1c/rootwiki and no luck
i even did the debug off/on while on step 6 on s1c v2.1.1 gingerbreak but when it reach step 7 it just stuck at " waiting for device "
i also did the same thing on s1c v1.7 rageagainstthecage and still no luck
any help is much appreciated
also out of curiousity do you click on " root " or " shell root " for s1c
thanxs

If I remember correctly it was just click root. I can't help on anything else sorry.
I've Revolted have you?

indyred99 thanx for the reply
Do you remember which driver you used?
I installed the lg vzw united whql v2.3.1 zip drivers
tried again twice with s1c v2.1.1 gingerbreak and it didnt root
each time before i tried again i have to restart both my pc and revo
so i tried it the 3rd time and it work like a charm, i got root with in minutes
the only thing i did differently the 3rd time is when it reach to step 6 i turn off debug and turn it back on quickly instead of waiting a few minutes before i turn off debug and turn it back on like i did the 1st 2 times
now i just have to install cwm and flash revolt 1.5

would the cwm on the market work on the revo

No. You have to use the version that Thecubed ported over.

And use s1c 1.7 with the rageagainstthecage exploit.
Sent from my VS910 4G using xda premium

ok i'll do that
thanx mtmichealson
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mtmichaelson
i'm downloading the file on my revo right now
do i have to extract the revolt 1.5 zip into to my revo?
how do i run the zip file on the revo?
thanx for your help i'll really appreciate it

You download it and place on the external sd card. Do not unzip then install through cwm.
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so i can place it in any folder on the external sd card?
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what do you mean by wipe data? is it factory reset
and do i do that on cwm?
and do i have to wipe cache?
both system and dalvik or just the system?
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for the cwm do i need to install 4.0.2-pr1?
i'm on !!revo stock!!
sorry for all the questions

bhp117 said:
so i can place it in any folder on the external sd card?
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what do you mean by wipe data? is it factory reset
and do i do that on cwm?
and do i have to wipe cache?
both system and dalvik or just the system?
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for the cwm do i need to install 4.0.2-pr1?
i'm on !!revo stock!!
sorry for all the questions
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Don't place in a folder, just put it on the sd card. You will need clockwork installed so use revotoolkit. Then wipe data inside clockwork.
Sent from my VS910 4G using xda premium

Just got some time to finish the whole process and played w revolt 1.5. Woooow what a difference it made in speed. I should of done it much sooner
Thanx again mtmichealson for all the help and a great ROM

+1 to mt and cubed.......the downgrade, root and install revolt 1.5 went perfectly

[Q] Dell streak 7 can't restore and password block

hi there,
i bought a Dell streak 7 t-mobile from ebay..when i get that i found the Dell streak 7 has a password lock on the screen..now im trying to restore it in several way..when the restore is done still getting the password lock on the main screen..i talked to a t-mobile store..the person also tried in several ways but the result is same..is there any other way to remove the password from the screen?!?plz anybody help me to get this out from this problem..thanx in advance....

Have you done a factory reset?

giveen said:
Have you done a factory reset?
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yea i did it but still getting the same problem

kollol99 said:
yea i did it but still getting the same problem
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Have you done a nvflash restore to Android 2.2?

giveen said:
Have you done a nvflash restore to Android 2.2?
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ummm..may be i didnt do that..can u tell me how to do that plz?!?

kollol99 said:
ummm..may be i didnt do that..can u tell me how to do that plz?!?
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Search, Its been stated already a hundred times.

giveen said:
Search, Its been stated already a hundred times.
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I have been looking for an nvflash solution for a while through all websites, XDA included. And although there is a lot of information out there all the links in every post on all websites lead to the same dead end, "File Does Not Exist". I have not been able to find an nvflash version of anything with working links. I have upgraded my son's Dell Streak 7 to CM 10.1 and has been having issues with it, and was trying to get it back to stock. Went through the whole process of downloading the original .pkg file and flashed that. All seemed to work, but when it rebooted it asks for a password which I do not have or know. I have read that is has to do with the partition structure for CM 10.1 (jellybean) vs. Honeycomb. Could someone who may have these files Please post them somewhere that we can access. Thank-you VERY much to whomever that is that still has that info and willing to post it. Or if you know of a good working link where I can find these. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have been looking for a while now.
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I am just looking for an nvflash to get back to Honeycomb if one exists. I want to get the tablet back to stock, not concerned about root or anything else at the moment. Just stock Honeycomb, I will even take Froyo if that is out there, and the upgrade to honeycomb.

htcinspire78 said:
I have been looking for an nvflash solution for a while through all websites, XDA included. And although there is a lot of information out there all the links in every post on all websites lead to the same dead end, "File Does Not Exist". I have not been able to find an nvflash version of anything with working links. I have upgraded my son's Dell Streak 7 to CM 10.1 and has been having issues with it, and was trying to get it back to stock. Went through the whole process of downloading the original .pkg file and flashed that. All seemed to work, but when it rebooted it asks for a password which I do not have or know. I have read that is has to do with the partition structure for CM 10.1 (jellybean) vs. Honeycomb. Could someone who may have these files Please post them somewhere that we can access. Thank-you VERY much to whomever that is that still has that info and willing to post it. Or if you know of a good working link where I can find these. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have been looking for a while now.
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I am just looking for an nvflash to get back to Honeycomb if one exists. I want to get the tablet back to stock, not concerned about root or anything else at the moment. Just stock Honeycomb, I will even take Froyo if that is out there, and the upgrade to honeycomb.
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All you looking for is here: http://d-h.st/users/TheManii and then look in the Temp folder for a file to go back to 2.2 then from the stock recovery you can update to HC.

I just got off work got my Dell Streak 7 in APX mode and flashed it with that file and perfect back to Froyo. Downloaded the update package from the wiki site loaded to my SD card and niw I am back to unrooted stock. Awesome!!! Thankyou so much for pointing me to thise files. I woild never have found it on my own. All other threads all ponted to filesharing sites that no longer had thise files! This was perfect and has now saved my sons tablet! Thankyou again so much for your kindness and direction.
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htcinspire78 said:
I just got off work got my Dell Streak 7 in APX mode and flashed it with that file and perfect back to Froyo. Downloaded the update package from the wiki site loaded to my SD card and niw I am back to unrooted stock. Awesome!!! Thankyou so much for pointing me to thise files. I woild never have found it on my own. All other threads all ponted to filesharing sites that no longer had thise files! This was perfect and has now saved my sons tablet! Thankyou again so much for your kindness and direction.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda app-developers app
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I was looking for this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_7#Official which has everything broken down with good links.

wptski said:
I was looking for this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Dell_Streak_7#Official which has everything broken down with good links.
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I'm trying to do it from the SD card, Am I supposed to install the recovery.img from the card as well?

Tikiteki said:
I'm trying to do it from the SD card, Am I supposed to install the recovery.img from the card as well?
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Any flashing is done from your PC.

Requesting Upload Backup of Lollipop rooted

Is it possible someone can upload this to see if those without a PC will be able to upgrade like this? Just a full Twrp backup of the Lollipop. Please and thank you.

That would not be advised at all.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

So can you enlighten me on how this would be bad?

chris0160 said:
So can you enlighten me on how this would be bad?
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It really won't update everything and you won't have the full COD6 update. Suggest you buy/borrow a windows computer and use odin.

Along with most backups if I made one it would have a lot of my back up info. What do you think would happen if I am using let's say twrp 2.8.4 and your not. Or it uploaded with my efs. You flash then wonder why you have a brick. Or lets say a file got curroupted in upload or download. Way to much gonna go wrong. Ur free to try but I doubt you will find this a good path.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

Somebody's got to do this. I'm pretty much screwed with work today, but it doesn't look tricky: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2163974
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Why not just flash Jovy's stock rom for now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2915737

That method is what I was trying to do, but if it was a kit Kat rom fine but every one keeps saying you have to use Odin before you can install lollipop. Also that's what led me to flashing the cod modem through twrp.

.....The name says it all. But I don't need a laptop currently, I'm away from my desktop and I don't know when I'll be near it again. I drive in a semi, throughout the states. That's why I made this unusual request. Later down the line I may get one but for now I like desktops.

That's why I was saying stock.... I should have also said before you actually complete the.......hmm times like this I wish mobile Odin would work for this phone.

What to do if you bootloop?

Title says it all. For people like myslef that sometimes play with fire and try de-bloating too much or maybe flash a bad Xposed module what can we do if we get stuck in a bootloop.
I've seen people say you should keep the stock and rooted versions of whatever version firmware your on the External SDcard.
So lets say you bootloop and you have the stock and rooted images on your phone...what then? Will we still be able to get into download mode by plugging in the USB cable and volume up? Whoever, knows for a fact please advise the steps to get the phone working again.
Appreciate any and all feedback

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Title says it all. For people like myslef that sometimes play with fire and try de-bloating too much or maybe flash a bad Xposed module what can we do if we get stuck in a bootloop.
I've seen people say you should keep the stock and rooted versions of whatever version firmware your on the External SDcard.
So lets say you bootloop and you have the stock and rooted images on your phone...what then? Will we still be able to get into download mode by plugging in the USB cable and volume up? Whoever, knows for a fact please advise the steps to get the phone working again.
Appreciate any and all feedback
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At a minimum you would want stock image on your Internal, not external.
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If download mode didn't work, the ZV6 TOT was just posted.

Yeah, meant to say Internal SDcard. Thanks for correction. Also, didn't realize a ZV6 TOT came out!

[GUIDE] Downgrade Firmware SM-G900A Lolipop

Prerequisites:
Odin 3.11.1- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711451
5.1.1- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53454972&postcount=1 (Use first link for OI5)
Kies- http://www.samsung.com/in/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/ (To backup data. Use Kies 3)
Samsung USB Driver- http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000117
NOTICE: Do not use this guide to downgrade from OC4 and above to NCE, you will brick your device. Only use this guide to downgrade to compatible firmware's for example: PA3 to OI5, PA2 to PA1, etc..Do not attempt to downgrade back to OC4 as ATT blew a qfuse. You can only downgrade to OF2 and above. This may brick your device and I am not liable. This does not trip the KNOX flag. This will wipe all data so do keep a backup.
Download the firmware you want for example OI5 from the link above. Extract the file to a directory. Then launch Odin and go into the extracted file. Select CP,CSC, and AP(PDA on Odin 3.9 and below). Do not select the BL slot. I repeat do not select the BL slot, only use AP,CP, and CSC. Also in the options tab select only Auto Restart and F. Reset Time. Turn off your phone and hold power button, home button, and volume down button. Then once it says flashing a custom firmware may..., press the volume up button. Then plug in your phone and you should see blue, if you see yellow install the USB drivers. Once you have plugged it in and the correct files are selected, press Start. This process will take about 5-10 minutes depending on the speed of the USB. Do not unplug the cable while in this process. Once it says PASS at the top, the phone will boot into recovery mode and apply the update. Once the phone has applied the update, it will reboot and be stuck at the AT&T logo. Do not panic, this just means that it is working on the operating system. This will take about 5-6 minutes. Once this is done proceed to setup the phone as usual going through the entire setup. Once the setup, is finished you can then restore your data using Kies if you had a backup. You have now successfully downgraded your phone. This process could be used to root our devices because we are exposing security holes that have been patched.

I just want to go from PA3 to.... whichever one will allow root access. Warranty possibly needed. I need to make sure this will work because.. otherwise.. my sister's phone could blow a fuse (****ing boot loaders..) and go dead.. if i can get around the warranty flag then that would be awesome. Sorry.. just not sure how to handle it; can't find people who are reliable and say it can actually downgrade without bricking.

pr3dicament said:
I just want to go from PA3 to.... whichever one will allow root access. Warranty possibly needed. I need to make sure this will work because.. otherwise.. my sister's phone could blow a fuse (****ing boot loaders..) and go dead.. if i can get around the warranty flag then that would be awesome. Sorry.. just not sure how to handle it; can't find people who are reliable and say it can actually downgrade without bricking.
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Your best option would be to downgrade to OI5, which the link is provided in the OP. Downgrade, and then try rooting with Kingroot. The vulnerability which works is CVE 2015-1805. Otherwise if Kingroot doesn't work for you you could try iovyroot, but that needs an absolute kernel address. Try searching on Github for CVE 2015-1805 . Sorry can't post links, I am a new user.

NavSad said:
Your best option would be to downgrade to OI5, which the link is provided in the OP. Downgrade, and then try rooting with Kingroot. The vulnerability which works is CVE 2015-1805. Otherwise if Kingroot doesn't work for you you could try iovyroot, but that needs an absolute kernel address. Try searching on Github for CVE 2015-1805 . Sorry can't post links, I am a new user.
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Kingroot/KingOroot was what I was about to try. I'll grab OI5, maybe just the kernel, hopefully? .. I just hate removing it, and not with SuperSUme .. never worked for me. When it comes to Kingroot, I just would rather remove it manually, I guess.. plus SuperSUme didn't work on my tablet when I tried to use it heh. There's a post somewhere with instructions but all you do is just keep a daemon running while you uninstall and then install the other, while partially keeping root before it gets the binary and updates from SuperSU.
Will post results when I can. I dont want to downgrade the entire thing if i can quickly avoid it.

NavSad said:
Your best option would be to downgrade to OI5, which the link is provided in the OP. Downgrade, and then try rooting with Kingroot. The vulnerability which works is CVE 2015-1805. Otherwise if Kingroot doesn't work for you you could try iovyroot, but that needs an absolute kernel address. Try searching on Github for CVE 2015-1805 . Sorry can't post links, I am a new user.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/iovyroot-temp-root-tool-t3349597
^ You can say it; even a post on here has it. It looks very promising. I downloaded OI5 but didn't get a chance to flash, will tonight or tomorrow.
The following could not find a known exploit for the specific OS.. Failed with the following: Kingoroot, Kingroot, and vRoot (aka iRoot) .. then I checked here to give updates .. and upon re-reading your post.. I noticed you also put iovyroot, made from an exploit based on CVE-2015-1805, as the post says. It looks EXACTLY like saferoot lol.. I can deal with temporary root, I'll take care of the rest to make sure it stays.. I'll be giving more updates. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.. I made sure all of my ADB drivers are installed correctly, as well as enabling USB debugging and doing a few things in ADB to make sure they are working and they are. RSA now saved.
My sister's phone still on PA3.. I'm glad she listened. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. I'm sure many others will appreciate this as well.

pr3dicament said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/iovyroot-temp-root-tool-t3349597
^ You can say it; even a post on here has it. It looks very promising. I downloaded OI5 but didn't get a chance to flash, will tonight or tomorrow.
The following could not find a known exploit for the specific OS.. Failed with the following: Kingoroot, Kingroot, and vRoot (aka iRoot) .. then I checked here to give updates .. and upon re-reading your post.. I noticed you also put iovyroot, made from an exploit based on CVE-2015-1805, as the post says. It looks EXACTLY like saferoot lol.. I can deal with temporary root, I'll take care of the rest to make sure it stays.. I'll be giving more updates. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.. I made sure all of my ADB drivers are installed correctly, as well as enabling USB debugging and doing a few things in ADB to make sure they are working and they are. RSA now saved.
My sister's phone still on PA3.. I'm glad she listened. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. I'm sure many others will appreciate this as well.
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Did you make any progress on this? I just rolled back to OI5. Now I need to figure out how to get the correct address and compile that code.

So, I just got this 900a AT&T phone and it already has 5.1.1 installed, which already hasent the mega locked down bootloader, correct? Everywhere else I've looked for a root method has said you CAN'T downgrade. I don't know much about downgrading or what version I can downgrade to. Can I get a bit of help or explanation?

joshua_nope said:
So, I just got this 900a AT&T phone and it already has 5.1.1 installed, which already hasent the mega locked down bootloader, correct? Everywhere else I've looked for a root method has said you CAN'T downgrade. I don't know much about downgrading or what version I can downgrade to. Can I get a bit of help or explanation?
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You can't downgrade back to 4.4.2 once you are above 5.0 . This method explained in the OP is to only downgrade back to OI5, and possibly OC4. Not NCE.

Do I go by baseband or build number?
because my baseband is OC4 but my build is OF3.

darrel12 said:
Do I go by baseband or build number?
because my baseband is OC4 but my build is OF3.
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Go by build number. For you it would be upgrading not downgrading.

Greek2me said:
Did you make any progress on this? I just rolled back to OI5. Now I need to figure out how to get the correct address and compile that code.
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Ugh it was forced through to PA4.... unbelievable. I don't know if I can roll back to OI5 with PA4. She always wants her phone back right away.. I'm sorry about the lack of time in between responses, but I have to back up her crap anyway one way or another if I'm rolling back. I wanted to try and just roll back the kernel and then give kingroot and shot. An RCA Tablet that I got about 8 months ago for $35 at Walmart wasn't able to be rooted for the longest time since it came with LP 5.0.1.. I finally was able to root that.
I think I'm the first to do it. Voyager Pro. I use FlashFire with recovery for it.. sorry, off topic.. but that exploit was very useful in that instant.
I will see what I can do to roll back.. my life is literally a mess. I don't want a bunch of people saying poor pr3dicament or some stupid ****. Oral cancer, early. Cutting it out... and then (more) awful pain after that. Second recurrence. Didn't spread. Procedure tomorrow. I'll just grab her phone and say I am fixing a bug for security or something to make sure she shuts the **** up about it. No guarantees. If I can roll back from PA3 or PA4 to OI5.. not sure if another went through.. I think it did. .. but if I can roll back to OI5 with no problems or even just the kernel to root it... even temporary root.. full root.. I have a few current binaries that it'll work with.
I temporarily rooted the RCA and now it's fully rooted with the binary I use in place... I am probably going to just write a script to make it easier if it works. Again, my apologies for the length between responses.

pr3dicament said:
Ugh it was forced through to PA4.... unbelievable. I don't know if I can roll back to OI5 with PA4. She always wants her phone back right away.. I'm sorry about the lack of time in between responses, but I have to back up her crap anyway one way or another if I'm rolling back. I wanted to try and just roll back the kernel and then give kingroot and shot. An RCA Tablet that I got about 8 months ago for $35 at Walmart wasn't able to be rooted for the longest time since it came with LP 5.0.1.. I finally was able to root that.
I think I'm the first to do it. Voyager Pro. I use FlashFire with recovery for it.. sorry, off topic.. but that exploit was very useful in that instant.
I will see what I can do to roll back.. my life is literally a mess. I don't want a bunch of people saying poor pr3dicament or some stupid ****. Oral cancer, early. Cutting it out... and then (more) awful pain after that. Second recurrence. Didn't spread. Procedure tomorrow. I'll just grab her phone and say I am fixing a bug for security or something to make sure she shuts the **** up about it. No guarantees. If I can roll back from PA3 or PA4 to OI5.. not sure if another went through.. I think it did. .. but if I can roll back to OI5 with no problems or even just the kernel to root it... even temporary root.. full root.. I have a few current binaries that it'll work with.
I temporarily rooted the RCA and now it's fully rooted with the binary I use in place... I am probably going to just write a script to make it easier if it works. Again, my apologies for the length between responses.
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Well, all I can say is that if you're successful, then you'll be a hero.
Good luck.

Yes, I rolled back from PA4 to OI5 using this guide.
I can do the root if only I can figure out how to extract the kernel from the stock OI5. Any ideas?

Greek2me said:
Yes, I rolled back from PA4 to OI5 using this guide.
I can do the root if only I can figure out how to extract the kernel from the stock OI5. Any ideas?
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Just PM'D zxz00 for help on this issue. He's developer of iovyroot.

pr3dicament said:
Ugh it was forced through to PA4.... unbelievable. I don't know if I can roll back to OI5 with PA4. She always wants her phone back right away.. I'm sorry about the lack of time in between responses, but I have to back up her crap anyway one way or another if I'm rolling back. I wanted to try and just roll back the kernel and then give kingroot and shot. An RCA Tablet that I got about 8 months ago for $35 at Walmart wasn't able to be rooted for the longest time since it came with LP 5.0.1.. I finally was able to root that.
I think I'm the first to do it. Voyager Pro. I use FlashFire with recovery for it.. sorry, off topic.. but that exploit was very useful in that instant.
I will see what I can do to roll back.. my life is literally a mess. I don't want a bunch of people saying poor pr3dicament or some stupid ****. Oral cancer, early. Cutting it out... and then (more) awful pain after that. Second recurrence. Didn't spread. Procedure tomorrow. I'll just grab her phone and say I am fixing a bug for security or something to make sure she shuts the **** up about it. No guarantees. If I can roll back from PA3 or PA4 to OI5.. not sure if another went through.. I think it did. .. but if I can roll back to OI5 with no problems or even just the kernel to root it... even temporary root.. full root.. I have a few current binaries that it'll work with.
I temporarily rooted the RCA and now it's fully rooted with the binary I use in place... I am probably going to just write a script to make it easier if it works. Again, my apologies for the length between responses.
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You can use Package Disable Pro to block OTA updates without root.

Greek2me said:
Yes, I rolled back from PA4 to OI5 using this guide.
I can do the root if only I can figure out how to extract the kernel from the stock OI5. Any ideas?
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Yeah... the kernel is all we need... after that, we can get in.. almost positive on that. Please remember that this isn't even my phone I'm talking about. My sister is a little stupid and just acts like she can't let me have it for a few minutes.. I will take your vouch and go for the kernel only.
I might be looking to do this very shortly, but here's how it was done with Odin.. not sure if it'll give the same result nowadays. It should.. it's an extraction. I didn't look through the entire process, I've been very busy, but from what I remember.. you download a stock rom and use 7zip or WinRAR and extract boot.img and convert to .tar for ODIN, place it in PDA/AP (Depends on version of Odin)
If this does NOT work, please do NOT be surprised and do NOT claim responsibility for the above. That is just what I remember doing not too long ago for S4 debugging. I know this is an S5.. so.. grab the OI5 zip/tar and extract it, then find boot.img and convert it to .tar. If you screw your phone up.. it's not my fault. That's all I can do at the moment.. Her phone is on her right now, so.. just trying to help. If this is incorrect or wrong, my apologies. There's some youtube video where it kind of shows you if you don't understand... the guy is hard to understand so turn up your volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3j7lyI_DuU
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NavSad said:
You can use Package Disable Pro to block OTA updates without root.
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I completely forgot about that..
God I feel like an idiot now. Thank you for that. When she comes home I'll disable something for her so that she will come to me with the phone with her problem Again--thank you for reminding me, and the rest of the community, about this app. I was always just keeping cache full to the point where it couldn't force it but dumb little sister thought disabling automatic updates on the Play Store was the same thing as not letting AT&T force it.
lol.. either way, I'll just try to remotely install it via her google account.
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NavSad said:
Just PM'D zxz00 for help on this issue. He's developer of iovyroot.
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Yeah... I thought maybe converting boot.img to boot.tar etc would work or something.. usually people mean boot when they say kernel, and kernel when they mean boot. There's many levels of booting, and that's why I just posted that youtube video in there. I did that a long time ago but this was before sbl1, 2, 3 (etc) ... so really i dont have an idea. I do know that you can roll back though.
If you get no response, I'll try asking. I hope I was correct.. I do not want to be seen as illiterate..
eh forget it lol if you get a response from him that is similar to mine than that'd be great. I actually want you to confirm that with him or any other developers before moving forward with a simple kernel downgrade because that could potentially cause trouble.

NavSad said:
Just PM'D zxz00 for help on this issue. He's developer of iovyroot.
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Got a reply from him, going to copy and paste it.
"For 32bit you can use kallsyms and for 64bit see here https://github.com/dosomder/iovyroot/issues/1"- Reply from zxz00

NavSad said:
Got a reply from him, going to copy and paste it.
"For 32bit you can use kallsyms and for 64bit see here https://github.com/dosomder/iovyroot/issues/1"- Reply from zxz00
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Yeah I've requested a pull from it before.. I got nothin'.. you could call me a halfassed developer but nothing like most of these guys.
I'll take another look.. I'll try another pull.
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Yeah I've requested a pull from it before.. I got nothin'.. you could call me a halfassed developer but nothing like most of these guys.
I'll take another look.. I'll try another pull.
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Oh wait a minute. Now I see why he pointed you to 1. You're looking for an *ASBOLUTE* kernel address..
Can't pull now.. ****. It's all closed. Either that or my brain had a mass that I do not know about. Alright well that exploit is already passed along.. we just need to roll back to OI5 or bust. That's basically the short answer.
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NavSad said:
Got a reply from him, going to copy and paste it.
"For 32bit you can use kallsyms and for 64bit see here https://github.com/dosomder/iovyroot/issues/1"- Reply from zxz00
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For the record.. When I used iovyroot via adb the other night, before PA4... It wasn't happy that it was "64 bit" but I can't believe I missed that.. it was right in front of me and I just did not see it. I am so so pissed. She had to take the phone anyway, I didn't get a chance to enable ADB over TCP/IP... @#)%*@%$ God. I was one line away. One.. ****ing.. line.
I'll just go get broken S5 for a few bucks and replace the motherboard.

pr3dicament said:
Yeah I've requested a pull from it before.. I got nothin'.. you could call me a halfassed developer but nothing like most of these guys.
I'll take another look.. I'll try another pull.
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Oh wait a minute. Now I see why he pointed you to 1. You're looking for an *ASBOLUTE* kernel address..
Can't pull now.. ****. It's all closed. Either that or my brain had a mass that I do not know about. Alright well that exploit is already passed along.. we just need to roll back to OI5 or bust. That's basically the short answer.
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For the record.. When I used iovyroot via adb the other night, before PA4... It wasn't happy that it was "64 bit" but I can't believe I missed that.. it was right in front of me and I just did not see it. I am so so pissed..
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I compiled for 32 bit using ndk but it won't work without absolute kernel adress.

NavSad said:
I compiled for 32 bit using ndk but it won't work without absolute kernel adress.
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Hm. Did you try a rollback yet or kernel rollback? anything like that?