So appears that I have SuperSu, Superuser by koush and Superuser by Chainsdd on my Bionic. Is it safe to remove any of these and not interfere with my root, Safestrap etc?
Also Superuser by Koush asks to re-install binaries every time I reboot.
Thanks
From my experience, no. Shouldn't affect root at all, and you only need one of the three to actually grant apps root permissions. If you removed all 3 you couldn't do much with root but you would still have it.
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this is my problem. i have a rooted phone and i get this error
https://bu.mp/tEb2VB
thats supersu, what method did you used for rooting? don't you have installed and earlier superuser app? have you installed busybox?
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thats supersu, what method did you used for rooting? don't you have installed and earlier superuser app? have you installed busybox?
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i used cmw method. i think it was a busybox installer for root
Binary updater fails to update binary – This usually happens because for Superuser can’t write to the system partition where the binary is installed. This can happen for a couple reasons. First, and most common, is that your device has S-ON which prevents the system partition from being written to at runtime. Even if a remount succeeds, and the system thinks that the partition is mounted as rw, you can’t write to it. There are different solutions for different devices, but the easiest usually involves simply updating Superuser through ROM Manager.The app consists of two parts, Superuser.apk and the su binary.The su binary is what other apps call when they need superuser rights. The binary checks the database maintained by Superuser.apk to determine if you have already granted rights to the requesting app.Superuser comes pre-installed on any rooted ROM. In fact, without it, you don’t have a rooted device at all. You cannot uninstall it, it lives on the system partition with other apps that came pre-installed on your device!http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip
Sounds like I have the same issue, here's my post on chainfires kernel thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331784&page=186
I don't like using CWM out of fear of the brick bug which probably only happens when wipe is used but have stayed away from the first few warnings we had.
After updating my dream to cyanogenmod 5.0.8 ds, I realized a few problems. I have reflashed a few times, and a major gripe I have is that I can't seem to update the su binary to the latest version, it keeps failing at "gaining root access". I have also had to use the superuser update fixer to install the latest superuser version. The reason I want to install it is so that the stericson busybox installer will work, and thus metamorph will work, as it relies on the user having a semi-recent version of busybox.
P.S. I currently want to stick to cm5, as it is otherwise stable and full features. Any suggestions for another rom had better be convincing and involve a minimum of flashing.
I have the danger spl and cyanogen+jf recovery
Not sure if it's exactly what you need, but have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682828 I've noticed someone was talking about the Dream as well...
just try and uninstall super user all together and download superuser or super su from market, then try to update busbox through market app
I was able to get the su binary to update, but I'm not sure how. However, superuser is now denying everything, even freshly installed apps. What is going on?
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Not sure if it's exactly what you need, but have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682828 I've noticed someone was talking about the Dream as well...
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That is from a really early version of superuser, and it doesn't seem to fully answer my question, sorry.
can you uninstall current superuser and reinstall latest from market?
That is what I've already done. I couldn't update the su binary without doing so. All that cm5 seemed to have was the "superuser permissions" app.
When you go into the app do you have permissions denied? If your in an adb shell does it allow you su?
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When I go into any root app, superuser gives me a toast that says { } has been denied superuser permissions. The superuser app itself seems to have root access, though.
Try to just do it again, there's no reason I can think of this will happen
Just uninstall and reinstall su app, maybe try supersu, then use a busybox app to update. If this doesn't work again than try to manually do it
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Now, every time I try to do it, even after freshly flashing cm5, my phone does a boot loop.
Maybe try to extract contents of ROM and swap with new superuser
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At this point, I'm probably just going to try to get cm6 going on this thing.
Sure, check your other thread, I'll upload tonight
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I have been using a rooted bluestack in windows.
But it app comes with pre rooted with SUPER USER app.
when tried to use lucky patcher, it said to install SUPERSU
so i installed from playstore and i granded root access for SUPERSU via SUPERUSER
after this, SUPERSU suggested to remove SUPERUSER. so i uninstalled via SUPERSU
problem starts aftr this. now i cant update SU binaries from SUPERSU
so now i have no root access.
PLEASE HELP
same problem
The method I used for rooting my LG G3 (v5.0.1) installs SuperSU (2.46) as a system app. I would much prefer to have it be a regular app (as it has always been on my Android devices prior to v5.0). When I use SuperSU to clean up in preparation for "another" SU app, it removes itself and leaves behind a few files (including the su binary) in /system/xbin.
All well and good. However, after now installing SuperSU from the Google Play Store, SuperSU gives the message that there is no su binary installed, and of course refuses to work. I even tried copying su to "sux" and giving the latter 4755 privileges (while still rooted), but that didn't help.
Is this a bug in SuperSU, or is it a necessity of Android 5.x ???
ps: The XDA forum software will not let me post this as a question. Where do I post questions about SuperSU?
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The method I used for rooting my LG G3 (v5.0.1) installs SuperSU (2.46) as a system app. I would much prefer to have it be a regular app (as it has always been on my Android devices prior to v5.0). When I use SuperSU to clean up in preparation for "another" SU app, it removes itself and leaves behind a few files (including the su binary) in /system/xbin.
All well and good. However, after now installing SuperSU from the Google Play Store, SuperSU gives the message that there is no su binary installed, and of course refuses to work. I even tried copying su to "sux" and giving the latter 4755 privileges (while still rooted), but that didn't help.
Is this a bug in SuperSU, or is it a necessity of Android 5.x ???
ps: The XDA forum software will not let me post this as a question. Where do I post questions about SuperSU?
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Sorry as I don't have a solution for your problem....
But still as far as I know Super user 2.46 is not fully compatible with android 5 & above.
On other hand I would suggest you to give a try to super user 2.49 beta which is the latest but still under development.
Hope you find this useful.
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DeanGibson said:
The method I used for rooting my LG G3 (v5.0.1) installs SuperSU (2.46) as a system app. I would much prefer to have it be a regular app (as it has always been on my Android devices prior to v5.0). When I use SuperSU to clean up in preparation for "another" SU app, it removes itself and leaves behind a few files (including the su binary) in /system/xbin.
All well and good. However, after now installing SuperSU from the Google Play Store, SuperSU gives the message that there is no su binary installed, and of course refuses to work. I even tried copying su to "sux" and giving the latter 4755 privileges (while still rooted), but that didn't help.
Is this a bug in SuperSU, or is it a necessity of Android 5.x ???
ps: The XDA forum software will not let me post this as a question. Where do I post questions about SuperSU?
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If you want to make SuperSU a user app:
If SuperSU was "updated" by the Play Store (ie there's an eu.chainfire.supersu-*.apk in /data/app), then delete /system/app/SuperSU.apk and reboot. If it's flashed *and* the afore mentioned apk is *not* in /data/app, then move /system/app/SuperSU.apk to /data/app and reboot.
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DeanGibson said:
The method I used for rooting my LG G3 (v5.0.1) installs SuperSU (2.46) as a system app. I would much prefer to have it be a regular app (as it has always been on my Android devices prior to v5.0). When I use SuperSU to clean up in preparation for "another" SU app, it removes itself and leaves behind a few files (including the su binary) in /system/xbin.
All well and good. However, after now installing SuperSU from the Google Play Store, SuperSU gives the message that there is no su binary installed, and of course refuses to work. I even tried copying su to "sux" and giving the latter 4755 privileges (while still rooted), but that didn't help.
Is this a bug in SuperSU, or is it a necessity of Android 5.x ???
ps: The XDA forum software will not let me post this as a question. Where do I post questions about SuperSU?
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If all you wanted to do was make it a user app, reroot, open supersu, go to cleanup and choose for reinstallation. After choosing that, if it says to reboot then press it again, do so, else reboot and install supersu from play. Done, supersu as a user app
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If all you wanted to do was make it a user app, reroot, open supersu, go to cleanup and choose for reinstallation. After choosing that, if it says to reboot then press it again, do so, else reboot and install supersu from play. Done, supersu as a user app
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That doesn't work (v2.46 on LG G3 running v5.0.1). It loops trying to uninstall. After a couple minutes, I forced a reboot. SuperSU was still there, and as a system app.
Edit: The same thing happens when I tell SuperSU to completely unroot the LG G3. Since I needed to unroot in order to apply an LG/Verizon OTA update, I used LG's Flash Tool to replace the system partition (THAT removed SuperSU!), and then the OTA update was successful.
Since LG now supplies an on-phone backup/restore tool for the G3 as part of the Settings menu, I no longer need to run Titanium Backup, which means I no longer need root. Given the nuisance issues with rooting/unrooting/system updating/etc, I've decided to remain unrooted on the LG G3 for the time being. Quite a change for me, since this is the first Android device in well over a dozen for which I've made this decision.
Like I said, if the default action is prompt, an app seeks root access and there is no prompt to grant it. If I change to grant as default, everything works. Root Checker, for instance, will fail to detect root in prompt mode but does so in grant mode. Same for Root Browser and, most importantly, Xposed.
I've tried reinstalling SuperSU. Didn't help. I have systemless root on a Moto X Pure and SuperSU 2.82.
I really don't want to leave it with grant as the default action. Not safe. I've been able to find a few other posts with a similar problem but they don't lead to solutions. This is a new behavior. Prompt used to work. About a week ago, I installed the latest version of Sensible Android Auto in Xposed. It worked twice and then stopped. My guess is that is the time when SuperSU stopped granting root. Everything that needs root can get root but ONLY if root is granted automatically to anything that asks for it.
Just rooted my Kyocera Event and deduced it to have the same problem. SuperSU 2.8.2 was not providing prompts and thus not granting root access, however changing to grant default did provide root. I tried installing SuperSU 2.7.9 rc4 but had the same result. I'm now just waiting for a definitive fix while looking for an alternative solution.