androidforums.com/galaxy-s4-active-all-things-root/736258-guide-root-galaxy-s4-active-sgh-i537-t.html
followed above instructions to root, including renaming the APK files
i also installed safestrap, but then removed it using the command lines from this thread:
droidforums.net/forum/samsung-galaxy-s4-development/255770-remove-safestrap.html
although the last command line didn't really take because it said it was in use or busy or something (can't remember exact message)
when i reboot safestrap is gone but it still does all the updating stuff. as far as i can see the phone is working properly after starting up, even though that last command line code didn't take from the link above
it updates 1 to 96 or 98 or so, can't remember the exact number.
i'm using the s4 active sgh i537
how do i get it to stop updating every time?
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ok i just updated to CM 5. and well none of my apps are there, now im trying
this following :
sh /sdcard/installapk.sh /sdcard/theapp.apk
and no luck i think i can b doing it wrong.
cant DL the app cause i dont have the market app ether
Download DroidExplorer and you can do a bulk install of all your apps straight to the sdcard. Works everytime!!!
Link is in my sig
yea but i have no market on the phone and i dont have adb set up on my pc is it possible trew terminal to install astro so i can go on from there?
If your market is not there then you failed to flash the gapps.
You need to flash those AFTER CM5 or BEFORE. I've heard it works different for some people. First time I flashed it, it was before. Now it's after. Before and after won't hurt.
i figured that but the link on CM page for gapps is not working for me
I'm not really sure what having the market working has to do with anything. Clearly you didn't even take the time to click the link in my sig and go to the DroidExplorer thread.
it seems like that is for computers 64bit and up i have 32
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it seems like that is for computers 64bit and up i have 32
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Are you talking about DroidExplorer? I have it installed on my 10 year old Dell and it is definitely a 32 bit machine. I'm assuming you are talking about something else.
You can use busybox if you have the latest CM ROM installed which you do. Busybox is included in the ROM so you can run busybox commands from terminal.
Put the apps you want to install on the root of your sdcard just to make them easy to find. Once in terminal, su so you have a # symbol
Then
Code:
busybox install /sdcard/yourapp.apk /sd-ext/app
great now i am F*** i tried installing the debug phone ota file that was required for CM 4.x and now i have no recovery it comes out the phone with exclamation mark
trying the droid explorer now
no luck droidexplorer seems to view the device but nothing else
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no luck droidexplorer seems to view the device but nothing else
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Well that makes sense considering Droid Explorer requires root...According to your post on the first page, you are seeing an exclamation point when booting into recovery which means you lost root access by flashing whatever it is you flashed. Time to start all over again.
There is an updated rooting post for the Dream over at theunlockr.com
ok now my thing is i cant have the phone on cause it will keep getting FC and after a few it reboots
im trying to set up ADB on my pc now will that help me fix this? the phone boots up and the it reboots on its owne
It seems pretty clear that you don't really know what you are doing when it comes to modding your G1, and it is also pretty clear that you aren't willing to listen to directions.
I told you that you could batch install applications through Droid Explorer and you blatantly ignored my directions then said that it wouldn't work because you have a 32 bit computer.
I then gave you directions on how to use busybox to install the application that you wanted and never got a response regarding whether you even tried it or not.
You responded further into the thread saying that now you are getting an exclamation point when booting into recovery which MEANS THAT YOU DON"T HAVE ROOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Installing adb and getting it working isn't going to do anything for you as far as installing applications because you lost root access which means you don't have the correct permissions to do anything anymore.
I gave you the link to an updated post on rooting so either do that or update this thread with where you stand exactly. Can you get into recovery? Is it an exclamation point? Can you launch the terminal app? When you type "su" do you get a # or an $? Does it say permission denied? ETC ETC ETC
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It seems pretty clear that you don't really know what you are doing when it comes to modding your G1, and it is also pretty clear that you aren't willing to listen to directions.
I told you that you could batch install applications through Droid Explorer and you blatantly ignored my directions then said that it wouldn't work because you have a 32 bit computer.
I then gave you directions on how to use busybox to install the application that you wanted and never got a response regarding whether you even tried it or not.
You responded further into the thread saying that now you are getting an exclamation point when booting into recovery which MEANS THAT YOU DON"T HAVE ROOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Installing adb and getting it working isn't going to do anything for you as far as installing applications because you lost root access which means you don't have the correct permissions to do anything anymore.
I gave you the link to an updated post on rooting so either do that or update this thread with where you stand exactly. Can you get into recovery? Is it an exclamation point? Can you launch the terminal app? When you type "su" do you get a # or an $? Does it say permission denied? ETC ETC ETC
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My whole point with the no market is if he would have flashed the gapps or found another way to get them he could have installed a file manager then installed the app off his sdcard.
This was a 1 - 2 minute procedure that he has not made an hour/s procedure.
I agree with droidexplorer, I use it quite constantly. However, if he would have correctly installed CM5 this issue would have never arisen.
As for OP, I strongly advise that you unroot and stick to stock. If you cannot successfully do this, there is a high chance you are going to brick and it's just not worth it.
this is not the first time i try this i have a understanding of what i am doing, for some reason i decided to try another sdcard and it magically booted fine, now the gapps link doesn't work for me, so i am trying to install astro threw terminal emulator (astro is on the root of the sdcard) so i can just install the rest of my apps
thank you busybox worked thank you so much
funny after all the stuff i tried i decided to try a diff sdcard and it booted fine and then changed back to the old sdcard and it works fine
So I have run into several problems using several different methods, none of which have worked properly and I really need some help. Now, I am by no means stupid when it comes to computer stuff but I am not a programmer nor any sort of software engineer. I understand much of the command line stuff and some simple code but I don't understand why nothing I have tried is working. So let me list the problems I've run into in my attempts to root my KFHD 7":
Root Many Android:
I am using v28 (which I believe is the latest and is reported to work on my device hardware and software).
I am unable to run the batch file as an administrator which I believe is the problem that results in the "permission denied" errors when trying to push the packages like superuser and busybox.
I am certain I have followed the tutorial to the letter so I don't know where I am going wrong. I can open the command window as an admin and cd to the C:\Root and run the batch but that doesn't fix the permissions errors.
Qemu:
I am using the latest version.
I select option 1 to root and it runs through the processes but nothing works and it just goes through several reboots so I am assuming it is running into the same issues as RMA, above.
KFFirstAide:
I am using the 64 bit as per my system. I run through option 21 to root my device using method 2 (Preferred).
It shows some success in that I can see the apps BusyBox Installer and Root Checker, however it does not push the rest of the packages necessary and this is evident by when it says I should receive a SuperSU or SuperUser popup, nothing happens and so the rest fails, though it says the root check passes in the final step.
So now I ask, is there a better way or something I am doing wrong with my Kindle Fire HD 7" 7.3.1?
Thanks in advance.
This all started with issues with my TouchPad 32MB. A while back I installed CM10/Android. Worked fine for months. Then started having issues where changes made on Android were lost after a reboot. I installed an App and it worked...if I rebooted the App was no longer there. If I updated apps...they worked fine...until I rebooted, then all the updates were gone like I never even loaded them. Loaded a ePub book and could read with no issues...agin, until I rebooted, then the book was gone. Then started having issues with Google Play..."Google Play has stopped".
So I decided to try to Uninstall Android. Followed all the onlie instruction to the tee. Went into USB mode, ran ACMSUninstaller2, screen flipped through a bazillion lines of code (noticed some errors but goes by so fast cannot get them). Rebooted...Android still there. I just can't seem to make any permanent changes on the Touchpad. Any changes are gone once I reboot. Same thing for booting up under WebOS. Add app via PreWare, install them, they work. Reboot and they are gone.
Help! Not sure what the issue is. Any help is greatly appreciated. I love my TP and dont want to have to go buy a new tablet. I am a little bit of a noob with Linux and this stuff...so please give me good directions.
Thanks in advance.
Update: I have even tried doing the reload suggested at this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426244
But even when I attempt to remove the paritions, they remain...it says they remove them, but when I execute the vcreate commands as noted, it says the /dev/store already exists (after I did the remove)!
It's like the whole filesystem is locked.
Background
Okay so the glass on my 2013 Moto X broke on September 27th I ordered a new one and while changing it I accidentally broke the digitizer so I disconnected the digitizer and the phone turned on while my digitizer with disconnected then i had no way of turning it off while my digitizer was disconnected the phone started to vibrate every 3 seconds until the battery died... so I was forced to switch over to my Nexus 6 because at the time that was my backup phone because I love the performance of my Moto X.. now a few months later yesterday to be exact my new digitizer arrived and I brought my Moto X back to life powers on and performs just fine
Problem
My wrist twitch to activate camera doesn't work
My dual chop to activate led doesn't work
Whenever I make a phone call or receive a phone call my screen turns off automatically but the phone call works just fine once the phone call has ended my screen does not turn back on I have to reboot the phone to turn on the display again
Phone info
2013 moto x on 5.1.1 stock rom locked bootloader rooted using crashes method with ultra slim root
any help or tip is greatly appreciated
Maybe, but it really depends what's actually wrong. The Moto has a TI MSP430 chip that handles all that 'motion, wave-to-wake, chop-chop' stuff and it's loaded from a /firmware folder or partition (have forgotten at this point). @masterifla figured out which files it was on 4.4.4 & 5.1 that got uploaded to the 430 and wrote a .zip file to change from 4.4.4's "wave to wake" to 5.1 "chop chop" or vice versa. I fixed some little bug in it, and stuck the working .zips up in this post although they may be elsewhere as well: (so :: these zips contain the firmware that actually does the wave-to-wake stuff and can be 'recovery-flashed')
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63616790&postcount=17
At least if that works, you'll know that it was the firmware for that chip, and if not, it might actually be the 430 chip(which you can see in the teardown). The post by me and anything by masterifla should be pretty well explained.
Cheers.
but have a locked bootloader I can't flash anything...but you gave hope maybe if I use rsd lite to flash stock I can fix this
BADDINOROX99 said:
but have a locked bootloader I can't flash anything...but you gave hope maybe if I use rsd lite to flash stock I can fix this
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There still might be a way. I keep trying to have people get this to work, but I'm not sure of the outcome yet, so give it try if you like: Here's some steps:
1) Locked bootloader / no root means mostly that you can't write system, but I'm pretty sure you should be able to temporarily boot into a PC-based copy of twrp. Once in twrp (for one time say) you are root, and you have access to anything on your gizmo. In theory, you should be able to mount system read-write and change something in the file system.
2) Get the correct copy of twrp and adb (from dev forum for this box) and put it on a PC with fastboot in the same folder. To make this easy, called twrp "twrp.img" and call "fastboot" or "mfastboot" fastboot.exe (I am for some reason assuming you've got a PC, not a mac or linux, but the ideas are similar.
3) quick explain of the files in the .zip from above ^^ : 8 files prefixed by MSP that are located when on the moto in /system/etc/firmware. Unzip them and stick them in that same folder.
4) Tricky part : (I think) : reboot into the twrp.img on your PC by getting your device into fastboot / bootloader mode: (so .. volume-up&down&power keys all held down for ~10 seconds perhaps, then if you've gotten it right (it's touchy), you'll be in the bootloader where it has a small tiny text list of stuff like "continue, recovery, etc).
5) you're good with the phone if you've made it here: now on the PC from that folder, type in "fastboot boot twrp.img" and good luck. If it works, your phone will be in TWRP with root access. If not, I don't know another option at the moment.
6) Probably the rest is most easily done from the PC command (or shell) window where the files are. Since your device is in the bootloader and awaiting further instruction, you should be able to use adb to talk to recovery now. so carry on:
7) (get the files from your PC (the MSP prefixed ones) onto the device, so first remount system r/w):
Code:
a) "adb remount" // supposedly should remount system toggling the read attribute to write
b) "adb push msp* /system/etc/firmware/" // copies files to device unless I've got syntax wrong, try one at a time if doesn't work.
c) "adb shell ls -al /system/etc/firmware/" // list all files, and post them back here to see if it even worked.
d) "adb remount" // system partition back to normal ro state.
d) "adb reboot" // moment of truth, a reboot.
8) after things settle post-reboot, check out "wave-to-wake" , camera twist, etc. This works on 4.4.4 or 5.1 (if this other stuff above works).
Note: I could be way off on my idea that rebooting into recovery will give you enough functionality to do this, but I'm not sure what other choices you've got without being able to root. I guess another thing I'm wondering about is why you wouldn't be able to root the phone from recovery regardless of how you booted into it. You still can't unlock bootloader, but I'm not clear on what difference it makes at the moment.
Good luck. It's a "hail mary" pass.
thanks I got my stuff working again ? I screwed up in the file install part freaked out and reflashed stock and rerooted so everything is good now once again thanks
Hi there,
last morning my G Watch R rebooted and after that there was some kind of bootloop, the Google animation started and after some time just stopped and the watch rebooted. I put it in Fastboot mode and charged it for some time, then i picked it up and noticed it already rebooted and this time it was working... But now I have the Problem that bluetooth is not workng anymore, in System Settings it shows the device name without the 4 numerical characters just as 'G Watch R'... After enabling developer mode and starting an ADB shell I did a 'logcat' and there seems to be an issue with the file '/data/misc/bluedroid/bt_config.conf, which can't be accessed to start the bluetooth stack. So I installed TWRP on the watch and went to the mentioned path just to see there is no single file in there... I looked on my phone in the same path and there are 3 files, 1. bt_config.conf, 2. bt_config.bak and 3. bt_fw_version.txt. Does anyone know how I could restore those files, I already tried flashing the latest firmware but I guess those files are not included in the updates because they contain data like MAC Address and so on. May be someone can take a look at his files on the watch and post them here without data like MAC and so, so I can try to put them back to where they belong with my own data... I guess my flash somehow got corrupted and so the files are gone.
Druidster