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[Q] another which rom thread

hello
im on 2.3.6 now and fancy a change because when i click phone or messages it keeps closing and its starting to do my head in.
which rom should i go for?
could you guys point me in the direction of a good guide were i can flash with odin.
iv flashed both my phones a few times but im still a noob
thanks guys/girls

CyanogenMod (7) was fairly simple to flash and it was my first rom on the phone. I'm currently on Team ICSSGS' rom -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398223
The latest release was pulled pending wifi fixes, but I'm using it and it's working great for me.
Just need to be rooted and running CWM to flash it.

was looking at that before
ill wait till they fix it and put it back up
how do i flash it.
i dont have a clue i only know how to use odin. and to be honest i think my 3 year old son could work it lol

does anyone know a good rom that i can flash with odin no messingvaround that looks something like this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460786&highlight=2+3+6
just looking for something a little different but stalble as well

I think for the majority of the roms now you need to be rooted and have CWM installed. CM7 is a very nice rom, and not hard to install. It runs 2.3.7 iirc, and worked great for me.
Wiki for installing:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide

i flashed my phone with another rom but didnt like it so i flashed it back to the value pack 2.3.6 jvu and then rooted it with this http://www.androidauthority.com/root-galaxy-s-gt-i9000-android-2-3-6-xxjvu-48441/
but i cant uninstall all the stock apps with super manager app. last time i flashed it i could do it. but didnt use that guild and cant find it now.
so as its not rooted i cant flash with the one you have mentioned
is jvz better?

I never ran 2.3.6, I went right from a stock update at 2.3.1 (iirc) to the 2.3.7 in CM7. You should just install CWM using Odin, do a full backup using Titanium Backup and a Nandroid backup in CWM. Then flash anything you want to try.
Also, for backing up contacts, I've read not to use Titanium, use an SMS/Contacts Backup... Titanium has worked for me though.

Not bothered about backing my stuff up. only need my contacts there on kies
might try a flash with clocks recovery when i get home.
i like the rom im on but i doont have full root access as i cant delete atock apps like i could before. i need to delete them to change file format to exr4. says i dont have room if i don't delete them

I all ready have cwm so do.i.just download the cm7 zip file and extract it on my internal memory card then reboot into cwm and flash

Oops double post

Flashed it but it runs really really skow looks good tho.
search continues ha ha

Kies still connects to your phone with custom roms and such? I was lucky if it worked with the stock firmwares.
Did you do a full data wipe? CM7 ran pretty quick on my phone. Maybe try SetCPU to speed things up a little.
Titanium with root access can remove stock apps too.

ye i did a full wipe.
i tried clocking it to 1200 and still ran slow.
ICS ran a little slow as well.
flashed a few now with cwm getting quite addictive.
would like to try a few more but mega uploads comes up with some security thing saying its been removed blah blah blah

MegaUpload was shut down a little while ago now. Should be lots of Roms listed in the forums here, with active downloads I would hope.

[Q] CWM Nandroid Backup Fail? Busybox?

Finally got things up and running on CassieXL GB ROM. I did not feel secure on the ICS ROMS with the weird Kernel. I find it odd that all the active threads in development are for ICS or CM9 ROMS.
1. What GB ROM are stable and highly regarded? Cassie XL thread was closed after I flashed it!
So I wanted a good Nandroid. Powered off and started 5.0.27 CWM. Backup yields:
-messages about mounts?
-error while backing up boot image! SD Card space free xxxxx (there's plenty of space. I tried external as well as internal.
-/tmp/recovery.log copied to /sd or something
2. Cassie installed CWM Manager. Does that use the same recovery as vol up/home/power? Is CWM Manager app only compatible with certain kernels? Cassie installed Franco Kernel-9. CWM Manager v3.0 lists current kernel as CF-Root 5.0.
History:
New phone with GB
PC Odin LPY (felt unsafe... but really liked it), Su installer, CWM Installer
PC Odin CF Root Kernel
CWM flash Parnoid Android (Missed some Note things and my eyes hurt)
Triangle away
Flash Casie LC1 based ROM
That included superuser, but I ran an app that said I needed busybox so I used busy box free from the market (stericson) and the app works fine (Google Voice Full Integration). The busy box free app says symlinks applets will not be replaced in the free version? Busy box installer also states multiple versions available... fairly sure I used the default 1.20.0.
To be honest, I don't really understand what busybox actually does. But I know I need it and it's usually included in the kernel/ROM/
3. Did I create some kind of incompatibility between my busybox and rooted kernel? Titanium says: OK (BusyBox 1.18.4-Tatanium from app). Bottom Line: How do I make a nandroid?
4. Should I stick w/ Casie's inclued Franco Kernel-9? I've heard of a -10 version, but the development thread is way deep with a bunch of LPY ROMS!
5. While I'm at it, I'm not yet up to speed on modem options yet. Casie put me on LB2 when I flashed it. Seems to be working ok, but I have to toggle data sometimes.
Thanks for the help. I would like to make this a learning experience.

Howdi.
So you had gb stock. Did you make a backup of this before lpy.
I would flash a directly rootable gb rom see dr k thread.
Do that then install cassie xlr rom. Then flash franco ten yhats all you need.
Lb2 is fine but you can try any gb modem which suits your region.
If you want hassle free base then xlr v x is proven. If you want summin fancier then rocket rom or lightning rom are good choices
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

akenis said:
Finally got things up and running on CassieXL GB ROM. I did not feel secure on the ICS ROMS with the weird Kernel. I find it odd that all the active threads in development are for ICS or CM9 ROMS.
1. What GB ROM are stable and highly regarded? Cassie XL thread was closed after I flashed it!
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DarkyRom would be my choice if you don't want to stay on a discontinued Rom.
akenis said:
So I wanted a good Nandroid. Powered off and started 5.0.27 CWM. Backup yields:
-messages about mounts?
-error while backing up boot image! SD Card space free xxxxx (there's plenty of space. I tried external as well as internal.
-/tmp/recovery.log copied to /sd or something
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Haven't the faintest idea why that happened, frankly. I think I would try to flash one of the pre-rooted Roms to go all the way back, like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25285584&postcount=3
If you get into bootloop after the flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26460335&postcount=4
When all this goes well, flash whatever you like from CWMR.
akenis said:
2. Cassie installed CWM Manager. Does that use the same recovery as vol up/home/power? Is CWM Manager app only compatible with certain kernels? Cassie installed Franco Kernel-9. CWM Manager v3.0 lists current kernel as CF-Root 5.0.
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CWM Manager is just a graphic interface for your CWM Recovery. Manager uses all the CWMR functions to carry out whatever you tell it to.
And it lists your kernel as CF-Root, because Franco is 100% compatible with CF-Root.
akenis said:
That included superuser, but I ran an app that said I needed busybox so I used busy box free from the market (stericson) and the app works fine (Google Voice Full Integration). The busy box free app says symlinks applets will not be replaced in the free version? Busy box installer also states multiple versions available... fairly sure I used the default 1.20.0.
To be honest, I don't really understand what busybox actually does. But I know I need it and it's usually included in the kernel/ROM/
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Don't obsess over busybox. Suffice it to say that you need to have one, that's all.
akenis said:
3. Did I create some kind of incompatibility between my busybox and rooted kernel? Titanium says: OK (BusyBox 1.18.4-Tatanium from app). Bottom Line: How do I make a nandroid?
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See above for going all the way back.
akenis said:
4. Should I stick w/ Casie's inclued Franco Kernel-9? I've heard of a -10 version, but the development thread is way deep with a bunch of LPY ROMS!
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Download Franco 10 if you want to have it. It is CWMR flashable.
akenis said:
5. While I'm at it, I'm not yet up to speed on modem options yet. Casie put me on LB2 when I flashed it. Seems to be working ok, but I have to toggle data sometimes.[/B]
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LB2 is perfectly OK. In fact, I'm using it on Asylum ICS myself.

THANKS to both of you. Looks like its back to ODIN for a while.
Just wish I had a good nandroid so I don't have to reset stuff after titanium restore.
Maybe I'll wait for a good Tw ICS kernel. I LIKED Lpy. How's life on asalyum?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

akenis said:
How's life on asalyum?
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Can't complain. It's an ICS equivalent of Cassie's; you get a barebone Rom you
can customize to your liking.

I used that rogue app Busybox Free to uninstall busybox. Took a long time.... removing a buncch of symlinks?
Nandroid is running now... so at least I'll have some good GB DATA.
Link above for Franco kernel is dead. Current thread is all about new LPY based project. I paid him $2 for the Franco app.
Will flashing that kernel also give me busybox back, and symlinks?
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium

BigBearEvo's Stock with root

Got my Salsa yesterday, and used the great guides here HTC DEV- CWM route..all working great, custom roms are a little full for me awaiting new & faster SD card to try those again.
So reverted back to BigBearEvo nice post of Stock with root, weirdly SU doesn't seem to be allowing root access to anything, and often FC. Hrmmm am I missing something here??
any help, v.much appreciated

Try flashing root.zip via CWM, and see if that helps.
Option 1- Did you root the phone before installing the ROM ?
Option 2- Did you wipe and flash the ROM hoping for root access ?

karanparikh said:
Try flashing root.zip via CWM, and see if that helps.
Option 1- Did you root the phone before installing the ROM ?
Option 2- Did you wipe and flash the ROM hoping for root access ?
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hrmm, strange, I already tried flash root.zip late last night
and ...err yes to option one
and well option 2!
no matter the FC are more of an issue tbh, I'll just rip apart a custom one and make it a little lighter
thanks for your help

When you say well to question 2 i would assume no. Then that's the reason why its not working. It's conflicting with the previous rom. All my stock with root is .......stock with root.zip applied. That's all.
Sent from my HTC Salsa using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2

In continuation to what BB has said, if its conflicting. Try 3 wipes mandatory and then install ROM, set-up and then examine if any FC issues still persist and then report.
When I tried I was rooted before and then I did the wipes and it was up and running. As BB has said root.zip has been included with that ROM.

[Q] Multiple issues

I started out by trying to update my dads phone from 2.3.5 android on his i9000 I used odin to root and install the cwm I tried a kitkat rom first and it didnt work right so I had a bit of trouble anyway I have eventually managed to get hellybean 4.3 flashed and running fine..
Before flashing, I backed up his call logs his sms and his contacts with titanium pro. I thought I was safe to go and backed up.
Now I cant restore the contacts, I dont get any kind of fail, it says to reboot but still they are not there.
I also cant restore the sms messages, they are all there in the messaging app and I can see the messages and message count but when I click to see the full threads there is nothing there like I have never received a message from that number. Also when I send a text I cant see that one either only in the previous list that shows all messages.
BASEBAND VERSION - I9000XXJVT
MODEL NUMBER - GT-I9000
ANDROID VERSION - 4.3.1
KERNEL VERSION - [email protected] #2 Sun Oct 27 20:56:16 GMT 2013
HELLYBEAN VERSION - Hellybean-20131027-galaxysmtd
BUILD NUMBER - cm_galaxysmtd-userdebug 4.3.1 JLS36I7b9cb18c1c test-keys
Any help would be appreciated. Happy to flash a different rom, just wamted something pretty standard but newer than the stock rom 2.3.5.

Try this fix...
Hey, I assume that you tried restoring the old contact app and messaging app from stock 2.3.5 to your newer AOSP Rom. If so, it's most likely not gonna work this way with Titanium Backup. The apps from the stock rom are rely on TouchWiz that is used by Samsung on all stock roms. I'd try to flash back the old stock rom with root access, restore with Titanium Backup and back up again with another app, e.g. SMS Backup & Restore from the Play Store. In addition, you can save your restored contacts to a google account or make a vcf that you can import on any AOSP based Rom. After doing this, you can flash back your Jelly Bean Rom. Just make sure to save your all backups to external SD everytime before flashing, so that you won't lose them by flashing over another Rom.
lancsben said:
I started out by trying to update my dads phone from 2.3.5 android on his i9000 I used odin to root and install the cwm I tried a kitkat rom first and it didnt work right so I had a bit of trouble anyway I have eventually managed to get hellybean 4.3 flashed and running fine..
Before flashing, I backed up his call logs his sms and his contacts with titanium pro. I thought I was safe to go and backed up.
Now I cant restore the contacts, I dont get any kind of fail, it says to reboot but still they are not there.
I also cant restore the sms messages, they are all there in the messaging app and I can see the messages and message count but when I click to see the full threads there is nothing there like I have never received a message from that number. Also when I send a text I cant see that one either only in the previous list that shows all messages.
BASEBAND VERSION - I9000XXJVT
MODEL NUMBER - GT-I9000
ANDROID VERSION - 4.3.1
KERNEL VERSION - [email protected] #2 Sun Oct 27 20:56:16 GMT 2013
HELLYBEAN VERSION - Hellybean-20131027-galaxysmtd
BUILD NUMBER - cm_galaxysmtd-userdebug 4.3.1 JLS36I7b9cb18c1c test-keys
Any help would be appreciated. Happy to flash a different rom, just wamted something pretty standard but newer than the stock rom 2.3.5.
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zegovernator said:
Hey, I assume that you tried restoring the old contact app and messaging app from stock 2.3.5 to your newer AOSP Rom. If so, it's most likely not gonna work this way with Titanium Backup. The apps from the stock rom are rely on TouchWiz that is used by Samsung on all stock roms. I'd try to flash back the old stock rom with root access, restore with Titanium Backup and back up again with another app, e.g. SMS Backup & Restore from the Play Store. In addition, you can save your restored contacts to a google account or make a vcf that you can import on any AOSP based Rom. After doing this, you can flash back your Jelly Bean Rom. Just make sure to save your all backups to external SD everytime before flashing, so that you won't lose them by flashing over another Rom.
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Ok that sounds plausible, where would I get the stock rom from? I was on 2.3.5 and it was bloated with orangeware I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. I'm thankful for your input, hopefully I'll be able to get this sorted as the phone was so wasted on that old OS.
Many thanks.

lancsben said:
Ok that sounds plausible, where would I get the stock rom from? I was on 2.3.5 and it was bloated with orangeware I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. I'm thankful for your input, hopefully I'll be able to get this sorted as the phone was so wasted on that old OS.
Many thanks.
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You can find most Stock Roms on SAMMOBILE.com http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=GT-I9000&pcode=-1#firmware.
Just enter your carrier/country in the list to find the right one. However, you have to register at this website to download them and the roms are not pre-rooted. You have to flash them with Odin. So maybe, for making this easier try to find a already rooted Stock Rom that matches your old version and is flashable zip for installing it via CWM Recovery.

Thanks again for your reply, I thought it was the phone that got rooted and all the roms were the same, I tried a stock one via ODIN last night and got stuck in a bootloop thats when I put my current rom on the device. So confused right now. I hope to learn quick though as this is my dads phone so I'd be happy with anything on it, I have the HTC One though that I'm hoping will be fantastic for customisations

lancsben said:
Thanks again for your reply, I thought it was the phone that got rooted and all the roms were the same, I tried a stock one via ODIN last night and got stuck in a bootloop thats when I put my current rom on the device. So confused right now. I hope to learn quick though as this is my dads phone so I'd be happy with anything on it, I have the HTC One though that I'm hoping will be fantastic for customisations
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Your welcome.
(PS.: Sometimes, your phone gets stuck in bootloop when flashing different android versions because the partition layout or the bootloader change between newer and older android versions. Then, its necessary to flash the same Rom twice.)

zegovernator said:
Your welcome.
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addictivetips.com/mobile/download-official-android-2-3-5-gingerbread-rom-for-samsung-galaxy-s/
Do you think this would be correct?

lancsben said:
addictivetips.com/mobile/download-official-android-2-3-5-gingerbread-rom-for-samsung-galaxy-s/
Do you think this would be correct?
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Yep. Give it a try. It should work fine...

lancsben said:
addictivetips.com/mobile/download-official-android-2-3-5-gingerbread-rom-for-samsung-galaxy-s/
Do you think this would be correct?
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As you are coming from jelly bean so don't forget to use pit file with re-partition option clicked when flash via Odin

Hi, what is a pit file, I actually formatted the phone completely successfully installed the stock Rom with a stock Rom for Odin, and then rooted it again with Odin and a cf root file. Then I installed titanium pro again and got my data restored and backed everything up with super backup, installed MacKay 3.9.9, I had to reboot the phone and then go back in and install 4.3 gapps and then installed super backup again and my backups restored beautifully, nice clean Rom and running very smoothly fathers happy, I'm happy. Time to check out kitkat on my HTC One I think!!
Many thanks for your help @zegovernator your solution fixed my problem. Thank you I learnt a lot in this process.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

lancsben said:
Hi, what is a pit file, I actually formatted the phone completely successfully installed the stock Rom with a stock Rom for Odin, and then rooted it again with Odin and a cf root file. Then I installed titanium pro again and got my data restored and backed everything up with super backup, installed MacKay 3.9.9, I had to reboot the phone and then go back in and install 4.3 gapps and then installed super backup again and my backups restored beautifully, nice clean Rom and running very smoothly fathers happy, I'm happy. Time to check out kitkat on my HTC One I think!!
Many thanks for your help @zegovernator your solution fixed my problem. Thank you I learnt a lot in this process.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
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pit stands for partition information table. It partitions your phone in accordance with stock gingerbread.

Where do you get pit files from do you use them together with the pda packs I use with Odin too?
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

lancsben said:
Where do you get pit files from do you use them together with the pda packs I use with Odin too?
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
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Usually they come along with Odin. You might search it in folder where you unzipped the Odin software. For the Galaxy S I9000, there are only three pit files available...
512.pit, 513.pit and 803.pit ... This relates to their release date:
(2010-05-12 (12th of May 2010)
2010-05-13 (13th of May 2010)
2010-08-03 (3rd of August 2010))
Actually, it doesn't matter which one of these you flash with Odin. The difference is that there are a few small changes in the size of the two system partitions. But in all versions, both partitions add up to the same amount of storage on your device. Most commonly the 512.pit is used here in Forums.

EFS folder/IMEI problem

Hi everyone,this is my first post here on xda but i have been observing and following XDA forum for quite a while now,
Now recently I tried to install Origional CM10.2,
Steps i followed were
I had 2.3.4 ( i did installed CM9 almost an year back but then odin back to stock for reasons i dont remember now)
First i Flashed Speedmod kernel via odin 1.7, and then flashed glitch kernel zip using the recovery that came the speedmod kernel,
Wiped devlik cache and went on to install CM10.2,
Everything went fine till i noticed that i was not getting any reception and after googling a bit,identified the problem as efs folder corruption!
I immedietly flashed back to 2.3.4 using oddin and that solved the problem, and my fone was getting the signals on stock 2.3.4,
Following instructions from google, I used EFS recovery softwere to backup my EFS folder,
and then followed the same sequence to flash again to 10.2CM, but here come the tricky part, EFS pro didnt seem to work on CM10.2, i have everything installed perfectly, debugging mode is on, still cant get to restore the efs folder!
I even tried manually copying the backed up EFS folder and putting it in system folder using root explorer etc,but that didnt seem to work, I changed the permission to Read/write aswell, still it says operation failed!
EFS pro was my best hope but it just doesnt work, tried a newer verison of it(newer than the one that i used to backup the efc on GB),that opened but didnt have my device in supported list,and neither was showing any backup!!
This is what i have been doing for past two days
Now I am back to 2.3.4,and IMEI is working fine now.
and additionally just to check whether this happens only on cm10.2 or other versions as well, I flashed Cm10.1 aswell as cm9, same problem there aswell
(As far as i remember ,last year when i flashed CM9,it worked fine but was laggy so i flashed back,only thing i did differently was that i didnt install any kernel)
So any ideas how i should proceed now?
I would thankful if someone can help me ,
and sorry for the long story,i wanted to give as much precise info abt problem as possible!

MUBASHIR888 said:
Hi everyone,this is my first post here on xda but i have been observing and following XDA forum for quite a while now,
Now recently I tried to install Origional CM10.2,
Steps i followed were
I had 2.3.4 ( i did installed CM9 almost an year back but then odin back to stock for reasons i dont remember now)
First i Flashed Speedmod kernel via odin 1.7, and then flashed glitch kernel zip using the recovery that came the speedmod kernel,
Wiped devlik cache and went on to install CM10.2,
Everything went fine till i noticed that i was not getting any reception and after googling a bit,identified the problem as efs folder corruption!
I immedietly flashed back to 2.3.4 using oddin and that solved the problem, and my fone was getting the signals on stock 2.3.4,
Following instructions from google, I used EFS recovery softwere to backup my EFS folder,
and then followed the same sequence to flash again to 10.2CM, but here come the tricky part, EFS pro didnt seem to work on CM10.2, i have everything installed perfectly, debugging mode is on, still cant get to restore the efs folder!
I even tried manually copying the backed up EFS folder and putting it in system folder using root explorer etc,but that didnt seem to work, I changed the permission to Read/write aswell, still it says operation failed!
EFS pro was my best hope but it just doesnt work, tried a newer verison of it(newer than the one that i used to backup the efc on GB),that opened but didnt have my device in supported list,and neither was showing any backup!!
This is what i have been doing for past two days
Now I am back to 2.3.4,and IMEI is working fine now.
and additionally just to check whether this happens only on cm10.2 or other versions as well, I flashed Cm10.1 aswell as cm9, same problem there aswell
(As far as i remember ,last year when i flashed CM9,it worked fine but was laggy so i flashed back,only thing i did differently was that i didnt install any kernel)
So any ideas how i should proceed now?
I would thankful if someone can help me ,
and sorry for the long story,i wanted to give as much precise info abt problem as possible!
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Were you rooted when you tried to manually restore your efs folder? It should let you change it if you have the right permissions.
I would try to make a manual backup of your efs folder while you're on stock GB and try it again on the ROM you wanna use if you lose your IMEI again. Perhaps try another ROM as well, see if you get the same issue.

I have had problems with losing my imei after flashing to cm10 variants as well. In the steps that I took in this video I didn't lose it and I haven't had anybody else report that they have in the comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hmck9ES6jM

BWolf56 said:
Were you rooted when you tried to manually restore your efs folder? It should let you change it if you have the right permissions.
I would try to make a manual backup of your efs folder while you're on stock GB and try it again on the ROM you wanna use if you lose your IMEI again. Perhaps try another ROM as well, see if you get the same issue.
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Arent Cyanogen Mods are already rooted?
I used the File explorer that was included in CM10'.2 and in settings i changed its permissions to ROOT ACCES.
Still i cant copy anything to EFS folder.
To be on the safe side,i tried Rooting Cm10..2 with Vroot,one click softwere and it showed that my phone had root Permissions!
Still I CANT WRITE ANYTHING WITHIN SYSTEM FOLDER,root explorer says that I dont have Root permissions, even after i rooted with Vroot!
I am confused

MUBASHIR888 said:
Arent Cyanogen Mods are already rooted?
I used the File explorer that was included in CM10'.2 and in settings i changed its permissions to ROOT ACCES.
Still i cant copy anything to EFS folder.
To be on the safe side,i tried Rooting Cm10..2 with Vroot,one click softwere and it showed that my phone had root Permissions!
Still I CANT WRITE ANYTHING WITHIN SYSTEM FOLDER,root explorer says that I dont have Root permissions, even after i rooted with Vroot!
I am confused
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I would suggest trying with another file explorer. There are many on the Play Store (I personally like Root Explorer but there are free options).