I have an odd issue with the My Verizon app. To start off, I'm on a Verizon Moto X DE. I originally installed Jcase's Pwnmymoto to gain root access, and while I had that exploit installed I was able to move My Verizon to a user app so I could Greenify it.
But now I've finally unlocked my phone (just wanted to make sure everything worked on my phone for awhile before voiding warranty), I restored everything to stock beforehand using RSDlite and everything went smoothly, flashed TWRP and made backups and whatnot.
Now the odd thing is if I try to move My Verizon to a user app, it won't "stick". I've even tried uninstalling it but that won't "stick" either after a reboot. I've been using TiBu and even tried another app Systemcleanup I think, but its the same thing each time, after a reboot My Verizon is back to a Vendor App.
I have even tried moving it with Root Explorer but I just get the message "file transfer failed" or something along those lines.
I've converted several other apps to user apps with no issues, including Youtube and Google Maps, both of which stick fine after reboots.
The odd thing is while I was running JCase's exploit I had no issue moving My Verizon, but now just the stock unlocked DE can't seem to accomplish this task.
I'm guessing this could be accomplished via ADB or Fastboot, but I'm not sure if its possible, nor would I know the commands to do so.
Jexx11 said:
I have an odd issue with the My Verizon app. To start off, I'm on a Verizon Moto X DE. I originally installed Jcase's Pwnmymoto to gain root access, and while I had that exploit installed I was able to move My Verizon to a user app so I could Greenify it.
But now I've finally unlocked my phone (just wanted to make sure everything worked on my phone for awhile before voiding warranty), I restored everything to stock beforehand using RSDlite and everything went smoothly, flashed TWRP and made backups and whatnot.
Now the odd thing is if I try to move My Verizon to a user app, it won't "stick". I've even tried uninstalling it but that won't "stick" either after a reboot. I've been using TiBu and even tried another app Systemcleanup I think, but its the same thing each time, after a reboot My Verizon is back to a Vendor App.
I have even tried moving it with Root Explorer but I just get the message "file transfer failed" or something along those lines.
I've converted several other apps to user apps with no issues, including Youtube and Google Maps, both of which stick fine after reboots.
The odd thing is while I was running JCase's exploit I had no issue moving My Verizon, but now just the stock unlocked DE can't seem to accomplish this task.
I'm guessing this could be accomplished via ADB or Fastboot, but I'm not sure if its possible, nor would I know the commands to do so.
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i can tell you how to use adb to move it. not that difficult at all. But if you successfully moved it with TiBu and then it moved back after you rebooted then I doubt adb would fix the problem. I can't think of why pwnmymoto would allow you to do this and TWRP doesn't. I bet that verizon has so many other things built into the phone that it runs checks on boot to make sure my verizon is somewhere and then moves it if it isn't. There isn't even a myverizon.apk so I'm not sure what you are moving (at least not on my phone). You would need to move the apk and the odex as well I'd assume but that might be wrong. You could try freezing it with TiBu then moving it with root explorer. I know the google maps and youtube are just apks with no odex files so that could be your problem but again im not sure.
Yeah that's the odd thing, it worked in pwnmymoto but doesn't now, that's why I'm a little confused on it. I definitely have Myverizon.apk on my phone, in fact it shows up in at least 2 spots on Root Browser. One in system/vendor/app and the other just in vendor/app.
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Still haven't gotten any farther on this, just decided to leave MyVerizon frozen for now, which really doesn't matter too much I guess since I have unlimited data anyway.
Unless someone else comes up with a solution as to why this is happening?
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Hello, i just got my first smartphone, i have AT&T and i didnt want an iphone and was more drawn toward andriod, so i got a captivate. I would really like to do alot of the things in the "Pimp my captivate" guide but i have some questions first.
1.) If i root the phone, and take off the bloatware, will i still get updates if i go to the check for updates in settings? (ex. like the gps fix and froyo update someday).
2.) Its not going to subtract any features from the phone is it ? (ex. the google syncing and everything will still work? Basically is the rooting process and or bloatware removal going to change the way the phone works besides the programs those being gone?
Ill admit i'm an andriod phone hacking noob, but i do know computers well and programming and have altered other devices in the past.
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I would like to know this as well.
stihl29 said:
1.) If i root the phone, and take off the bloatware, will i still get updates if i go to the check for updates in settings? (ex. like the gps fix and froyo update someday).
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Since no updates have come down yet, I don't think anyone is sure of the answer to this. Keep in mind that it's a good idea to make backups of the app APKs on your sdcard before you remove them (just in case you want to reinstall them).
stihl29 said:
2.) Its not going to subtract any features from the phone is it ? (ex. the google syncing and everything will still work? Basically is the rooting process and or bloatware removal going to change the way the phone works besides the programs those being gone?
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Removing AT&T's crappy apps won't affect the phone negatively at all. They simply won't be there, so you can't use them (if you find them useful). The only app that I can think of you may want to keep is the AT&T Hot Spots app so you phone can use free AT&T wifi at locations such as Starbucks.
Yes, you will still get updates as long as you do not install a custom ROM. (Rooting is ok).
The only functionality that will be removed will be that of the apps you delete
Thank you so much this clears up alot of the things I've been wondering.
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Rooting issues
I have tried everything I have found online. The superuser icon is there. I have downloaded several apps that require the device to be rooted. I turned on usb debugging, and turned it off. I've downloaded update.zip several times.
I'm not entirely a noob when it comes to tweaking phones. I flashed roms on windows mobile and performed all sorts of modifications I got off this site.
I have the superuser icon. I downloaded titanium. Titanium says it installed busybox. I downloaded the separate busybox app from the market. That app has a popup saying that a nand unlock is necessary for the app to work. When I run it in spite of the popup, it says the device is rooted, but can't find busybox. A whoami command in adb will indicate that I'm not. I went though adb to reinstall busybox. But whenever I try to run any significant commands (eg su) it gives me a permission denied error. Googling permission denied gives me a myraid of possible causes, but it seems I'm getting far afield. I just want to get rid of the bloatware for now.
Is there another program to root this thing? Did I just miss something incredibly obvious?
hello, I recently just rooted this beast, and was wondering when, why, and how often i should clear out the dalvic cache
kamots said:
hello, I recently just rooted this beast, and was wondering when, why, and how often i should clear out the dalvic cache
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You shouldn't ever need to unless you are installing a ROM that requires it. the Dalvik Cache is the Java VM that Android Runs on and it does a very good job of keeping itself cleared. It does lots of Garbage collection on its own.
gotcha! thank you
I accidently deleted a folder containing photos, I tried downloading DiskDigger, Undelete and Hexamob...all for root which I have. When I opened them they ask for root and I allow, then you are supposed to be able to choose which device you want, but there is nothing there. It says if there isn't anything there than you don't have root...but this seems to be a recurring problem after I updated my D4 using the OTA update, that even though I am rooted, a lot of the programs do not work anymore.
Does anybody know of a way I can attempt to recover those pictures I accidetly deleted??!
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I accidently deleted a folder containing photos, I tried downloading DiskDigger, Undelete and Hexamob...all for root which I have. When I opened them they ask for root and I allow, then you are supposed to be able to choose which device you want, but there is nothing there. It says if there isn't anything there than you don't have root...but this seems to be a recurring problem after I updated my D4 using the OTA update, that even though I am rooted, a lot of the programs do not work anymore.
Does anybody know of a way I can attempt to recover those pictures I accidetly deleted??!
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Did you use something like rootkeeper when you took the OTA? If not then the OTA to ICS probably caused you to lose root. You'll need to root your phone again.
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I don't think you have root if most of your programs that required root in GB no longer work after you upgraded to ICS. You need to use OTA Rootkeepr to keep root after an upgrade. So your only choice now is to root and to run those programs to try to recover the photos.
I actually flashed back to orig non-root GB before I updated because I had changed too many things and OTA would fail. I used the droid for win tool and flashed GB system to my phone then went to settings system and got the OTA. After that I rooted. since then most root programs work like rom toolbox, titanium backup for root, root explorer etc. but some programs just don't work anymore, like Droidsheep or Wireless Tether, I believe they just aren't compatable with ICS...I know that a lot of people on google play are saying that after they did their ota wireless tether would not work anymore..everything works on it except it won't switch into AD-HOC mode , which is what I'm guessing changed in the OTA.
I tried using some recovery program for mac but it didn't work, right now I'm downloading riplinux and a couple other recovery distros. since the files were on my removable sd card I am just going to plug it in and try and recover from a computer....does any one have any methods that work best?
When you pull the files off your SD card let me know which program worked for ya... please and thank you
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Has anyone had problems with their Moto X losing root? Maybe like every 2 or 3 days my phone loses its root access. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason on why it does. If i reboot my phone, my root access is back and works fine for the next few days and then its gone again until another reboot. Its so weird. It doesn't matter which app that I run. I'm running kitkat now. I had no problems rooting it. I don't recall having the problem when I was running on 4.2
No issues here, I've been rooted and stable for a few months now.
The only time I ever lost root on a phone was when I installed Airwatch for corporate email and apps and stuff. I didn't -know- I was losing root or I never would have done it. Strangely everything that was previously granted SU access worked, but any new requests were not processed.
Have you installed any apps or changed anything else in your system? What method did you use to root?
Is SuperSU just being removed, or it stops working? Sounds strange for sure.
It sounds like you're having the same problem I had, I could be wrong though. Here's the thread I created, give it a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2558916
Turbocom said:
It sounds like you're having the same problem I had, I could be wrong though. Here's the thread I created, give it a shot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2558916
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This seems to make sense. I would bet that most people that root are also running MotoWPNoMo (or whatever it is..) as well because things like Xposed and other apps that install as system apps won't work without this, or booting through recovery as described.
I ran it right away because Xposed wouldn't work, and haven't had any issues.
You're not losing root... The issue is that JCase's rooting method uses an exploit to disable write protection, and sometimes the write protection comes back.
If you're on 4.2.2, just run MotoWpNoMo from this thread - > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551113
I don't have any crazy apps or new frameworks installed. That motowpnomo is that for KitKat or 4.2.2?
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I successfully installed Android M, and things were mostly okay. Titanium Backup won't load. It force closes, and having a problem with Dolphin Browser flashing a handful of times and then erroring out...unable to use. Other than that, everything seemed to be working perfectly. However, I needed to be able to restore my app settings, and I know Titanium Backup needs root. So, I thought maybe that's why it was force closing. So, I decided the easiest way to root would probably be using the Nexus Toolkit. I used that, which seemed to go normally, but the phone won't boot now. It just goes black. ADB seems to be able to communicate with it in this black screen state (via Nexus Toolkit, for example), but I can't get anywhere. I tried re-flashing the boot and bootloader, but it didn't help. I am seeking the wisdom of the elders.
YOu are going to have to start all over. SO factory reset. to clear out everything and get a fresh M load.
The toolkit is for Android L. So it overwrote things that Android M needed.
Once you have a fresh install. Go here http://www.androidauthority.com/android-m-root-613760/ and root.
all you need to do os flash a m kernel(despair kernel) and the latest SuperSU, and youll have root. flashing the latest supersu with a m kernel will not work.
Thank you for the feedback. I am mostly in business. I can't get BusyBox to install, though. The app runs fine, but actually installing it from within the app does not work...says it was not successful. I have tried the other location, which didn't work also. Any thoughts? Thanks much; greatly appreciate the assist.
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Thank you for the feedback. I am mostly in business. I can't get BusyBox to install, though. The app runs fine, but actually installing it from within the app does not work...says it was not successful. I have tried the other location, which didn't work also. Any thoughts? Thanks much; greatly appreciate the assist.
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I'll do some more research and get back to you on this one. Not exactly sure how busybox is running on the new file structure.
The first few times I used Kingroot to achieve temp root, it worked great and then just went back to unrooted after a while. One time after rooting, it was spammed with error messages that the play store and other apps were crashing. I rebooted the phone and it seemed to fix it. The errors were gone and so was root. I tried kingroot again and I had the same problem. I did the same reboot and then deleted the kingroot app. I thought everything was fixed then until I plugged my phone in to charge. It shut down even though it was around 75%. I didnt know what i was doing so I put it in recovery mode and choose factory. I thought this would do a factory reset but now when my phone powers up all my apps and stuff is there. Please advise how to completely rid my device of kingroot. Thanks in advance
Update: When I started in factory mode, there was a testing app called commserver or something like that running. I saw in other forums to reboot to remove that and i did and it worked. Still would like advice on removing kingroot completely.
Jefff0101 said:
The first few times I used Kingroot to achieve temp root, it worked great and then just went back to unrooted after a while. One time after rooting, it was spammed with error messages that the play store and other apps were crashing. I rebooted the phone and it seemed to fix it. The errors were gone and so was root. I tried kingroot again and I had the same problem. I did the same reboot and then deleted the kingroot app. I thought everything was fixed then until I plugged my phone in to charge. It shut down even though it was around 75%. I didnt know what i was doing so I put it in recovery mode and choose factory. I thought this would do a factory reset but now when my phone powers up all my apps and stuff is there. Please advise how to completely rid my device of kingroot. Thanks in advance
Update: When I started in factory mode, there was a testing app called commserver or something like that running. I saw in other forums to reboot to remove that and i did and it worked. Still would like advice on removing kingroot completely.
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To remove Kingroot completely, you need to reflash the system partition. You can do this by plugging your phone into a computer, installing the Verizon Upgrade Assistant, and using the "repair your phone" option. Doing this will wipe your phone, so backup any data first.
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To remove Kingroot completely, you need to reflash the system partition. You can do this by plugging your phone into a computer, installing the Verizon Upgrade Assistant, and using the "repair your phone" option. Doing this will wipe your phone, so backup any data first.
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Thanks, I'm kinda a noob so could you walk through the steps like you were talking to a baby? Like do I put my phone in recovery mode and then download the version thing on the computer? How do you suggest backing up my phone? Sorry for the bother, I'm new to this stuff. Thanks again
Sure:
1. Boot your phone normally. Backup whatever data you want to preserve. Make sure that whatever backups you make are stored in a place that is outside of your phone.
The best way to backup your phone depends on what you want to backup. If you're worried about losing contacts, don't be. I'm pretty sure Google backs those up automatically. You can make sure by going to https://www.google.com/contacts/. If you see contacts there, you're good. If you're worried about losing pictures, plug your phone into a computer and use a file browser to copy the folder called DCIM to your computer. If you want to try backing up your texts, there's an app on the play store called Super Backup that might help. Just make sure that you transfer whatever backup file it makes to a cloud drive or your computer.
2. Plug your phone into a computer running Windows (I'm not sure if it what I'm about to describe works on a Mac or not, but I know that it does not work on Linux). You should get a pop-up that says something like "do you want to install the verizon upgrade assistant?" Install it. If you don't see the pop-up, install this instead: https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88481. This is the Motorola Device Manager, and it's basically the same thing.
3. If you're using the Verizon tool, select "repair device" and follow the instructions. If you're using the Motorola tool, look for something that says "repair phone" or something like that, and follow those instructions.
4. The tool will wipe your phone, along with all of that nasty Kingroot stuff that tries to make modifications to /system despite the fact that /system is write-protected until you unlock with Sunshine (which is why it messed up your phone).
5. If you decide you want it, download Sunshine from here: http://theroot.ninja/download.html.
6. Go into your phone's security settings and allow installation of apps from unknown sources.
7. Click on the Sunshine apk that you downloaded to your phone to install it.
8. Open the Sunshine app and follow the instructions. If, when your phone reboots, you see a bootloader unlocked warning message instead of the black and white Motorola M symbol that usually appears, it was successful. If it was unsuccessful, keep trying. It should get it after a few tries.