Greetings!
I have put the CWM on my S4 Active (branded for T-Mobile) and then attempted to root my S4 Active, but the process failed.
Although I managed to upload everything necessary via Heimdall (I'm using Linux so Odin is not an option) and the CWM was successfully activated, the actual rooting process ultimately failed.
When I attempt to invoke su in a shell, nothing happens (no superuser privileges).
A restart of the device ran normally, therefore the attempt seems not to have bricked it.
Is there a way how to still get things going despite things having failed? Or is there any way to undo the modifications done before so I get a clean starting point to begin with?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Upon every reboot, the Galaxy Tab appears to have wiped all data. It prompts me to setup the device. Apps I install are wiped out.
Q. How do I get the device onto Honeycomb Alpha 2?
or
Q. How do I get root on FroYo to get onto Honeycomb Alpha 2.5?
A coworker dumped this device on me. I've been working with Chaos67731, using his instructions to get this Galaxy Tab restored to stock. Here is a video (in 2x and sometime 20x) of that process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNLh6wu0ZE. It was on some flavor of Honeycomb, probably a custom ROM, from an outside developer/consultant. From conversations with Chaos67731 it would appear that the recovery on the device is far from stock. After I reboot, the device prompts for setup and flashes "Force close" messages left and right. Chaos67731 mentioned something about "Fix permissions," but I'm not sure where to start with that. Do I need root access?
I attempted to temproot with Visionary+. No dice. (I tried V+ because it's how I temproot my HTC-G2 to run gfree to permroot)
I attempted to root using superoneclick. OS Version Check Failed. Running psneuter... FAILED.
I attempted to root using z4root. "...has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
Any and all help would be appreciated! I'm working mostly off adb on OSX at this point. I'm able to hop on Ubuntu 10.04 and WinVista if necessary.
Verizon Galaxy Tab 7-inch
Unsure what version of Android is installed
Hardware version: I800.0.3
Model SCH-I800
Firmware version 2.2 (this sounds discouraging)
Baseband S:I800.0.3V.EB24
Kernel 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #3
Build SCH-I800.DJ11
-- eta June 30, 2011, 3:30pm CT --
It looks like I have root access, but cannot execute root commands. Superuser.apk kicks an "unexpectedly quit" type error.
Use Super One Click. Honeycomb is Android 3.0-3.1 not 2.5. Also the Honeycomb port is still in Alpha and seeing how you don't really know what software version it is I don't know that I would really recommend you switching to it because a lot of stuff doesn't work. It takes some work to move around on it.
alforque said:
Upon every reboot, the Galaxy Tab appears to have wiped all data. It prompts me to setup the device. Apps I install are wiped out.
Q. How do I get the device onto Honeycomb A2?
or
Q. How do I get root on FroYo to get onto Honeycomb A2.5?
A coworker dumped this device on me. I've been working with Chaos67731, using his instructions to get this Galaxy Tab restored to stock. Here is a video (in 2x and sometime 20x) of that process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNLh6wu0ZE. It was on some flavor of Honeycomb, probably a custom ROM, from an outside developer/consultant. From conversations with Chaos67731 it would appear that the recovery on the device is far from stock. After I reboot, the device prompts for setup and flashes "Force close" messages left and right. Chaos67731 mentioned something about "Fix permissions," but I'm not sure where to start with that. Do I need root access?
I attempted to temproot with Visionary+. No dice. (I tried V+ because it's how I temproot my HTC-G2 to run gfree to permroot)
I attempted to root using superoneclick. OS Version Check Failed. Running psneuter... FAILED.
I attempted to root using z4root. "...has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
Any and all help would be appreciated! I'm working mostly off adb on OSX at this point. I'm able to hop on Ubuntu 10.04 and WinVista if necessary.
Verizon Galaxy Tab 7-inch
Unsure what version of Android is installed
Hardware version: I800.0.3
Model SCH-I800
Firmware version 2.2 (this sounds discouraging)
Baseband S:I800.0.3V.EB24
Kernel 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #3
Build SCH-I800.DJ11
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it's the verizon tab. so you need to download the samsung sch-i800 drivers, because the tab doesn't install them well, generally. then, run superoneclick, in psneuter mode, with usb debugging enabled. it'll get to a point where it looks like it's hung? it hasn't. leave it be. this takes longer to root for some odd reason. my impatience made me think it was unrootable, but then i had to walk away from the computer during a rooting attempt, and when i came back, it had gotten past the point where it usually 'hung' and was chugging right along. so yeah. be patient. lol.
as far as honeycomb goes, it's only in alpha mode. but once you're rooted, you can flash via the instructions found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14428575&postcount=718
or, you can run a custom FroYo mod called better than life, which is epic win. find that here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1147277
and if you brick it, you can fix it with instructions found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133590
good luck!
Thanks for the tips. I'm 90% there. I'm able to root, but I can't get root access. Perhaps that's for another thread.
i'm not really sure what you mean, that you can't get root access. if you're rooted, then use a root file explorer like root explorer, or es file manager.
New post about my current problem. When I try to run anything as root, I receive an error that Superuser has unexpectedly quit.
Hi guys, thanks for the forum and i hope to become a part of it. I've been under so much stress since yesterday, my galaxy s3 (on EE in the UK) for the first time decided it's data was corrupted yesterday after my battery died, never done this or anything like it before, and it wouldn't let me access the phone itself unless the data was reset.
I had a lot of very precious pictures in my gallery from the weekend, which unfortunately chose not to backup to google+ for the last few days, even though it always has up until recently. All night/day i've been trying to figure out and get software to recover these photos, which i think is possible as i did it a long time ago on a blackberry, but not android yet. I'm just hoping it can be done so the photos aren't forever lost, the other stuff gone doesn't bother me so much.
The guide i'm following (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705) says it needs to be rooted first, and i can't even get past step 1. I've only ever rooted my old galaxy S1 (which worked back then) but i can't seem to get the S3 to do it. And now my phone also believes there's no sim card in and i get no signal now.
this is the guide i followed: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-root-sam...-jelly-bean-official-firmware-tutorial-975812
though i think i need a newer PDA file to flash my i9305 with. I'm on the EE network running 4.3 jelly. It installed Super SU but root checker says it still isn't rooted.
So have i messed this up? And is there any hope for me getting these pictures back?
Thanks in advance for any help, it's much appreciated.
if you are running on 4.3 then you are not following the right guide to root...
use THIS ONE instead... if it fails to root use the workaround part, i used it and worked....used the workaround to install custom recovery and then flashed chainfire zip from his website and updated SU and worked.
are you still able to boot the phone?
Thanks for the response, tried that guide and still getting no signal on my phone (no mobile connection at all, sim card isn't recognised as being there) and i don't think it's rooted right. Still saying SuperSU has stopped working when i try to open it.
I put the Root_SuperSU.1.02-Busybox.1.21.0.zip on the internal SD and tried that too.
Which is the chainfire zip you're talking about, could you possibly link it? I don't really get what you mean by custom recovery, do you mean it's the same as flashing the Busybox thing from recovery mode?
And yeah it still boots up normally...
use that tutorial to install a custom recovery...then install this SuperSU - http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip?retrieve_file=1 - flash it in custom recovery....after that update app with playstore and should work.
but i suggest you get it to a specialized shop to get your photos back...
Hi there,
Just got a new S5 mini (SM-G800F) today. I've updated to latest Android version (4.4.2). I did not install any custom ROM. Build ID was KOT49H.G800FFXXU1ANJ1.
I've then rooted the phone successfully with CF-Auto-Root (http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/) and Odin. The closest file I found was KOT49H.G800FXXU1ANH2. ANJ1 to ANH2 looks like a "downgrade"... perhaps this is the issue? But read on..
I then started to install corporate access (Exchange account). Our corporation wants to have the device encrypted so I started to do that.
What basically happens is that the encryption droid symbol shows on the screen for about 20 minutes and after that the device reboots.
Yet, no encryption has happened! (is the anywhere a logfile I can look at for more info?)
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with 4.1.2, stock ROM as well and rooted with CF-Auto-Root. On that device the encryption process was more verbose and worked fine (although slowed down the phone considerably during normal usage).
So, does rooting the S5 mini with Autoroot break the encryption process? How can I encrypt the phone? Do I have to go back to pure unrooted stock, encrypt first and root later?
Thanks for any insights.
Dan
I still do not know why encryption would not work, but I found a workaround:
I reset the phone to the latest stock firmware with the help of Kies 3. I got G800FFXXU1ANG7. Obviously I lost all data, but that is ok since its a brand new phone.
Started the phone and configured WLAN to accept and install pending OTA upgrade. Just to get to the very latest release at the moment (G800FFXXU1ANJ2).
Encrypted device. I installed the corporate access tools which required the encryption...
Then I installed latest TWRP for my device with ODIN.
Last step was to install SuperSu with TWRP, using the zip file from chainfire.
Some remarks:
- I am not sure why encryption fails while the phone is rooted. Perhaps someone could explain to me?
- If I use CF-Autoroot after encryption of the device, the phone would go into a boot loop, i.e. not asking for the decrypt password and fall back to the boot logo. I thought that encryption would only touch /data. Most likely there is something that initiates decryption during boot, which is replaced by the CF-Autoroot image.
- OTA updates are not possible anymore after installing TWRP recovery (the phone complains that there are changes to the stock ROM). However, if I re-flashed with a stock recovery, OTA was not complaining anymore. If an update would actually work, I have not checked.
- If SuperSu is already installed however, even TWRP re-flashing with stock recovery would not make OTA work again. I would assume that the OTA update routine checks several components to decide if there is stock installed. Temporarily disabling SuperSu did not work, un-rooting through the SuperSu menu left me with SuperSu hanging for an hour until I switched the phone off. I also tried the OTA survival mode (I have SuperSU Pro) and it does not work either (in that try I left out step 2 above).
So for now I have a rooted S5 mini on Android 4.4.2 with encryption and I am happy. I did live without OTA with my S3 (which still is on 4.1.2) since I rooted it and frankly, I did not really miss 4.3...
Regards
Dan
If you change some files (like Recoery or rooting) OTA won't work anymore on any Samsung Rom...only pure Stock!
User_99 said:
If you change some files (like Recoery or rooting) OTA won't work anymore on any Samsung Rom...only pure Stock!
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Thanks. That is what I thought.
1 - Encryption fails if the phone (S5 mini, 4.4.2) is rooted. Why? However, encrypting a rooted S3 (4.1.2 stock) did work fine. Was there anything changed with the newer Android versions?
2 - Do we know what the OTA process is checking to decide if it can go ahead or stall? SuperSu's OTA survival surely knows a bit more on that.. but unfortunately it still won't work..
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grokit said:
Thanks. That is what I thought.
1 - Encryption fails if the phone (S5 mini, 4.4.2) is rooted. Why? However, encrypting a rooted S3 (4.1.2 stock) did work fine. Was there anything changed with the newer Android versions?
2 - ..
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Hey, please read about KNOX, hope you may get your answer...
I'm a bit slow to realize this, but after updating to T mobile's latest 20b firmware (lollipop 5.0x), it lost root. I then tried to root it, using the three methods mentioned here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732311.
Towelroot clearly doesn't work anymore. The zip file in the above thread couldn't be flashed since there's no recovery operation possible (just showing an android with ! in a triangle sign). I also tried the purpledrake, but the script doesn't run when the phone is connected with all drives installed and adb devices showing the phone. I then tried to get fastboot mode back (to install twrp/cwm recovery to flash the zip file) by following http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/general/guide-fastboot-l90-d415-t2827825 which I have done successfully before, but then couldn't do it because it requires root (doh!).
So it seems that I just lost my ability to root, unless I downgrade to a stock kitkat (10e?) from tmobile, and then towelroot/etc. assume those work.
Anyone with experience on the stock 20b firmware? Can you root it and how? I'd love to use the beautiful 12.1 Cyanogen that's available here, but the camera doesn't work right on mine. Thus stock 5.0 seems to be the best option. Many thanks.
I got a bit further on the purpledrake method, in that I had to do a clean restart on the phone and connect to usb before the script will recognize. However, it ends up giving a really quick error message after trying a temp root: "your phone is not running a compatible software version. No vulnerable mode detected. Rebooting phone."
Anyway, many thanks to @brossovitch I followed http://highonandroid.com/android-smartphones/how-to-root-lg-g-flex-2-g2-g3-on-lollipop/ and it works like a charm. I can't seem to delete this very short thread so I thought I'd wrap it up with a solution. If it seems a bit useless please remove the thread (or tell me how to do it since I can't find the "easy button"). Thanks.
This weekend, I rooted my Note 8, and I learned I had no use for it since I really cannot do much with it and mobile data will not work at all. I've tried numerous times to flash everything back to the way things were via Odin 3.14.1, but all has failed. I fear if I continue, I may cause a heard brick. Is there something I am doing wrong?
IV_Flower said:
This weekend, I rooted my Note 8, and I learned I had no use for it since I really cannot do much with it and mobile data will not work at all. I've tried numerous times to flash everything back to the way things were via Odin 3.14.1, but all has failed. I fear if I continue, I may cause a heard brick. Is there something I am doing wrong?
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Maybe. You can check with Frija for latest stock Samsung firmware files and flash it with Odin to your device.
If this does not unroot completely, you may do a factory reset. Keep in mind that this will wipe your data. So backup everything important before.
Or use another method for unfortunately your device, such as described here:
How to Root and Unroot Samsung Galaxy Note 8
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I was rooted and have tried to go back to stock. Mine passes but will not boot. Get a constant bootloop. I have flashed combination files then stock. Keep getting dm-verity fail in stock recovery. Recognized Contributor Jrkruse even tried to help but nothing. Have flashed stock so many times I lost count. Any ideas?