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Hello,
I have flashed a stock rom on my nexus one full of hope that Bluetooth will work fine. I have the problem that my handsfree-set in the car is not dialing the "+" (international area code) previous the phone number with the result that i don't get a connection. Do you have this problem too?
However, flashing the stock rom brought no solution, so i decided to flash the desire rom once again. unfortunately the flashing of the stock rom also flashes my recovery and I have to start from the beginning like it seems (with fastboot, superuser and so on). On work I am not able to install my nexus one due to admin rights, which I don't own. So the question is, if it is possible to run "fastboot-windows oem unlock" without usb, maybe in the terminal with "fastboot-linux oem unlock"? Of course I need to install the superuser rights without usb too...
Any Help is much appreciated! Thank you very much
Best regards
donner
donner77 said:
Hello,
I have flashed a stock rom on my nexus one full of hope that Bluetooth will work fine. I have the problem that my handsfree-set in the car is not dialing the "+" (international area code) previous the phone number with the result that i don't get a connection. Do you have this problem too?
However, flashing the stock rom brought no solution, so i decided to flash the desire rom once again. unfortunately the flashing of the stock rom also flashes my recovery and I have to start from the beginning like it seems (with fastboot, superuser and so on). On work I am not able to install my nexus one due to admin rights, which I don't own. So the question is, if it is possible to run "fastboot-windows oem unlock" without usb, maybe in the terminal with "fastboot-linux oem unlock"? Of course I need to install the superuser rights without usb too...
Any Help is much appreciated! Thank you very much
Best regards
donner
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No... because you'll need superuser access to run that in a terminal and to get su access you need to unlock your phone.
The reason this works currently is that "fastboot" runs is a su context already. So, when you run fastboot to unlock the bootloader you are effectively running as root.
Basically, you must fastboot oem unlock from another client before you can perform root actions on the phone (in a terminal).
Seeing as there is no way to relock the bootloader, I think you are confused about "having to start from the beginning" again. However, if you have the stock recovery, you will need to use fastboot to flash a new one, since you are running the stock rom as well - meaning no SU access (unless you used a superboot kernel).
BTW - this should be in the Q&A section.
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ok thanks. thread can be moved and closed.
I'm as new as they come when rooting devices, although I was able to successfully root my previous tablet, a Galaxy Tab 2 without issue but that's besides the point.
Point is I'm looking to finally root my Nexus 7, I've had it since last December and never really saw a need to do it, but the appeal of being able to customize it in any way I want to proved too much to resist and I'm ready to take that step.
However I've come across with two different methods to root my device, one that requires unlocking the bootloader and one without, the Nexus Tool Kit and djrbliss motochopper's tool kit that doesn't require unlocking the bootloader.
I myself am worried about losing my data and depending on the method suggested will back up my data using the adb backup, but what do the kind people here recommend for a first timer?
JohnathanKatz said:
I'm as new as they come when rooting devices, although I was able to successfully root my previous tablet, a Galaxy Tab 2 without issue but that's besides the point.
Point is I'm looking to finally root my Nexus 7, I've had it since last December and never really saw a need to do it, but the appeal of being able to customize it in any way I want to proved too much to resist and I'm ready to take that step.
However I've come across with two different methods to root my device, one that requires unlocking the bootloader and one without, the Nexus Tool Kit and djrbliss motochopper's tool kit that doesn't require unlocking the bootloader.
I myself am worried about losing my data and depending on the method suggested will back up my data using the adb backup, but what do the kind people here recommend for a first timer?
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Might as well unlock your bootloader now, that way when you need to flash something through fastboot someday, you won't need to worry about wiping everything.
korockinout13 said:
Might as well unlock your bootloader now, that way when you need to flash something through fastboot someday, you won't need to worry about wiping everything.
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Thanks for your help, I was able to use the Nexus Tool Kit and rooted my tablet with no issues at all.
Hi, long time lurker here. I want to start by saying how great and informative this site is. Anyway, my nexus 6 came in from the mail like 5 hours ago, did all the updates from 5.0 to 6.0 and it's now running Marshmallow mra58n. Question is should I root it immediately and if so, are there any guides I can follow? Much love to you all, I'm not exactly pro at this kind of things but I can follow instructions since I have competently rooted my past phones which were an HTC M7, M8 and a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.
Thank you.
Edit: Phone is also unlocked, I currently have no SIM card
start here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/how-to-nexus-6-one-beginners-guide-t2948481
At the least unlock the bootloader right away. Doing so will completely wipe the phone so it's the first thing I do.
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razortaz18 said:
At the least unlock the bootloader right away. Doing so will completely wipe the phone so it's the first thing I do.
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I've been looking at the Nexus Root Toolkit since I am kind of confused on how to proceed with anything at all, is that ill advised since I've read that there are problems with the USB cable disconnecting during reboot?
Also, thank you for the reply.
I used the NRT without issue. Just follow the guide step by step.
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and, dont touch the usb cable while the phone is processing your commands!
j/k, never even heard of the USB cable "problem"
I just used the toolkit today to unlock and root my N6.
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I rooted last night initially using manual method described in the first link provided, however after some driver issues ultimately used the 2.1.0 rootkit to uninstall and reinstall all drivers. That too alone saved me tons of time and either method is simple if you can follow instructions.
Totally recommend rooting and then experimenting with custom roms, its like getting a new phone everyone you install a new rom.
Have fun!
Kristine,
In answer specifically to your question "Should I...?" my answer is "No". It really depends on what you think you'll get from it - why do you want to do it? What specific benefits do you want?
The reason that I say "no" is that I've been rooted on all my several phones for years, and I've decided that for me the annoyance of having to manually flash ROMs outweighs the benefits - particularly now that Google are releasing frequent security updates. The moment you root your device the OTA (over the air) updates no longer work.
For me the major reason for rooting was to have a firewall. The other things (wakelock detection, double tap to wake, auto-hibernation...) were great but not showstoppers. Now that there is a non-root firewall (Netguard) I'm happy to leave my phone unrooted. I haven't had an OTA to apply yet, so if I have any problems then I might change my mind, but my advice would be to think hard about why you want root before you buy yourself into a world of tinkering...
razortaz18 said:
At the least unlock the bootloader right away. Doing so will completely wipe the phone so it's the first thing I do.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
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Dammit, are you kidding me? I just downloaded and setup everything, figured I'd do all everything else tomorrow... Oh, well I can do it again I suppose.
Kristine-N said:
Question is should I root it immediately....
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Because I don't want a white interface, rooting is necessary. Google forces to many things, like forced encryption, useless apps and a white interface (battery drain). When rooting was impossible I would not have bought a Nexus.
Short answer: No!
Long answer: Well, it's sill no, but you can or even should do a couple of things.
First if all, allow OEM Unlocking in development settings. There are gazillion how-tos to switch developer mode on, and tick that switch. Google has borked OTAs already, and if your phone doesn't boot, and the switch is off, then you're boned, you can send it for repair. But if you can unlock you bootloader, then you can flash a custom recovery and make your phone working again.
Second, if you do plan to root your phone in the near future, you should unlock the bootloader now, while it's still new, because it will erase everything (IMHO this would be sufficient as a security measure, the Enable OEM Unlocking is overkill).
As for the main question if you don't have any specific ideas what you want the root for, then don't root your phone. It's a clear and present security risk, and you're just one too many "Allow" taps from letting someone acquire your passwords, clone your IMEI, and download your personal stuff. My motto is, if you don't know what exactly root is, what it does, then you don't know how to prevent exploits that need it to run.
Also if you modify your phone in any way, and that includes rooting, you won't receive the monthly OTAs, and will have to flash it manually.
And finally, don't use toolkits on a Nexus. Spend another hour reading about the matter and you will find out typing adb and fastboot commands is a easy as clicking buttons on toolkits. There is nothing extra in them, they just download the images to flash, and "type" these commands for you.
Unlock bootloader and don't root it for now. After some time, if you feel like you're missing some features that you can obtain only with root, then go ahead. But for now I would strongly recommend to stay stock and see how it goes...
Hello XDA forums,
I really don't like the issue of trying to set the drivers of fastboot/google and so on....also all of these adb commands.
Is there a way to unlock bootloader & root by:
1) one of these "1 click" tools that do everything for the use? (such as "wugfresh Nexus Root Toolkit")
2) Just do everything by the phone? (if there is a possible to install some how a recovery such as twrp and than root by some app?)
Could anybody guide me through the steps, if needed?
Many thanks!
shabydog said:
Hello XDA forums,
I really don't like the issue of trying to set the drivers of fastboot/google and so on....also all of these adb commands.
Is there a way to unlock bootloader & root by:
1) one of these "1 click" tools that do everything for the use? (such as "wugfresh Nexus Root Toolkit")
2) Just do everything by the phone? (if there is a possible to install some how a recovery such as twrp and than root by some app?)
Could anybody guide me through the steps, if needed?
Many thanks!
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AFAIK you will need a pc to 1)unlock your bootloader and 2)flash TWRP. After that the rest can be done locally. I also never used any toolkit. Making it easy is making it more dangerous IMHO.
Droidphilev said:
I also never used any toolkit. Making it easy is making it more dangerous IMHO.
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Second that.
shabydog said:
2) Just do everything by the phone? (if there is a possible to install some how a recovery such as twrp and than root by some app?)
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So at least once you need to connect your phone to a desktop computer. It can be practically running anything, within reason of course: Wiindows. Mac OSX, Linux (almost any distro).
You need to unlock your bootloader with one command, but a warning here: Unlocking the bootloader will erase everything from your phone..
Then you need to install a custom recovery, preferably TWRP. After that everything can be done from the phone itself. Well at least until you soft brick it somehow, then you'll might have to use the PC again.
Also two things:
1. No OTAs for rooted phones
2. Don't lock your bootloader if you want to mess with it, because with a locked bootloader, and Enable OEM Unlocking set to off, and without TWRP, if you soft brick it accidentally, you are boned.
Hello XDA forums,
I really don't like the issue of trying to set the drivers of fastboot/google and so on.
Is there a way to unlock bootloader & root by:
1) one of these "1 click" tools that do everything for the use?
2) Just do everything by the phone? (if there is a possible to install some how a recovery such as twrp and than root by some app?)
Could anybody guide me through the steps, if needed?
And i really prefer to do it on the device and not by ADB commands.
@istperson
I dont want to mess with th BL ... only for installing dev roms (or later then the stock with root).
Many thanks!
shabydog said:
@istperson
I dont want to mess with th BL ... only for installing dev roms (or later then the stock with root).
Many thanks!
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Well, you still will have to unlock it, if you want root, or want to flash a custom recovery.
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shabydog said:
......I really don't like the issue of trying to set the drivers of fastboot/google and so on!
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Than do not 'root' your phone.
hi xda.. i want to root my phone but dont want to touch it. is there a way to root my n6 without touching it? :silly:
simms22 said:
hi xda.. i want to root my phone but dont want to touch it. is there a way to root my n6 without touching it? :silly:
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Ha ha, or I don't want my birthday to be on the day I was born every year ?
I can recommend the NTRT, the Nexus Telepathic Rooting Tools.
OK.
I want to do that with a toolkit, only bcs it install the drivers.
What Is the most recommended and easiest to use?
I do looking for the 1 click do all.
Does NTRT do that?
Thank you all.
we are eventually goung to have a "my n6 is bricked, how do i fix it with one click" thread here. seriously though, thats what happens when you use toolkits, but do no real research about modding your device.
Toolkits are fine if you first understand what they are doing. Otherwise it's like giving a hand grenade to a child to play with.
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shabydog said:
Could anybody guide me through the steps, if needed?
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<prev> step <next>
simms22 said:
seriously though, thats what happens when you use toolkits, but do no real research about modding your device.
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I seriously belive that if a user know exactly for to chose and click - yes it could be great.
wtherrell said:
Toolkits are fine if you first understand what they are doing. Otherwise it's like giving a hand grenade to a child to play with.
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It is fairly enough to read directions and slowly-slowly.
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Thanks!
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Bottom line:
Guess many users completed the unlocking & rooting by this tool
Why not?
shabydog said:
I seriously belive that if a user know exactly for to chose and click - yes it could be great.
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i agree with you. if there is somebody who knows the ins and outs already, a one click root would be great. and there will be. problem is that marshmallow just came out, and a few things have changed, like like yoe also need a custom kernel to have root on marshmallow.
shabydog said:
I seriously belive that if a user know exactly for to chose and click - yes it could be great.
It is fairly enough to read directions and slowly-slowly.
Bottom line:
Guess many users completed the unlocking & rooting by this tool
Why not?
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There is a reason you're pushing this topic, and I'm quite sure it's because you would feel safer, if there was a tool that did the scary things instead of you. Well, there's no such tool. If you were willing to search XDA, you would find out that the first two weeks after Marshmallow came out were about people bricking their Nexus 6s with toolkits. Then the toolkit got updated and suddenly it knew that is has to flash a modified boot.img too for the root not to brick the phone. But for two weeks it didn't know, because it wasn't necessary for Lollipop. And it will only work until the next security update comes out. And that's once a month.
Meanwhile those who were willing to use the search function, and learned the five minute procedure, were able to update their rooted phones to the next security update and were able to root it as soon as the new modified boot image came out.
And this above is not something somebody will put in a help, or instructions for future updates.
Actually, this is my first time and I was able to do it pretty easily.
fastboot devices
fastboot oem unlock
my bootloader was unlocked within 30 seconds of turning it on.
then, you can easily root via CF Auto root. Just put it into fastboot then doubleclick on the windows, then root, etc....
or.............go into fastboot flash recovery twrpxxxx.img, then it always offers to run SuperSU, and you get custom recovery and root at the same time, etc......
actually the biggest pain is unlocking the bootloader. My Galaxy S4 already was unlocked, so all I did was use goomanager, flash TWRP which always offers to run SuperSU if you don't have it.
Pretty easy, I did unlock bootloader, root, and custom recovery in 10 min.
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............................Then I got sick of stock Google's ROM in 15 min and wiped it and put a custom ROM instead.
Thank you all so much...
@mikeprius
Thank you so much for the info'!
But, could you plz write more details? such as:
1. How did you installed the drivers? (from my expirience, many times the pc dosent install this easily).
I just need the Google oem driver and that's it?
2. When drivers was set - did you made anything in your phones settings? Which?
3. What did you had to do before pushing the files? (Like...put all the files in the same folder? *which files?)
4. And then entered to fastboot mode and typed in these commands in pc:
fastboot devices
fastboot oem unlock
Regarding your last sentence ("or...."):
If i just flash the recovery via fastbot mode I can enter to twrp recovery and it offers to flash the SuperSU?
Sounds to me the best option.
Thanks!
1. The drivers were set from a previous device, so I didn't have to set them, but they can be downloaded and set though.
2. You need to enable developer options and select OEM unlock and USB debugging.
3. I didn't push the files, I just had them on my computer and ran fastboot commands.
4. Those commands are to unlock the bootloader.
There are a lot of different ways to do the same thing (Root, custom recovery, unlock bootloader)
1. Run CF Auto Root on a locked bootloader. It will unlock it automatically (Chainfire has it set that way), root, then download Flashify app and flash the latest img of TWRP.
2. Run fastboot commands to manually unlock the bootloader, flash TWRP, then use TWRP's SuperSU which will root it.
3. Run fastboot commands to unlock bootloader, run CF Autoroot which will root and load SuperSU, then flash TWRP via Flashify or fastboot.
There are many different ways to do the same thing. I actually just googled youtube videos and watched them.
TWRP has SuperSU and root built in. TWRP knows if you don't have it and offers to load it for you.
I went the scenic route just because, but presumably you can achieve all (3) using Option #1 without having to deal with fastboot, adb, etc.....Chainfire's script runs automatically.
I realy try to help people but users that run into problems because of the usage of tookits (and innability to solve problems and/or even lack the most basic knowledge needed) should ask the toolkit dev. for support imo, and not boughter users that have invested time and effort to gain that knowledge to clean up their mess. Period
I've been searching the forum for several hours now. I do not believe the phone I have is a developer edition and I know the bootloader is locked. Everything on it is stock (no root or anything) and it maybe running 4.4 or 5.1, but no longer boots into the OS so i'm not sure.
Ideally I'm just looking for a way to get data off the device. However, if someone could point me in the right direction for getting the whole device up and running again, that would be even better.
I've rooted / installed custom recoveries and roms on many devices before, so I'm not afraid of running any necessary commands.
Thanks in advance for any help and let me know if any more information is needed.
EDIT: Forgot to mention I could not find a place where adb would see the device. The only thing that sees it is fastboot.
J3gb3rt
I just got my bricked Moto X that wouldn't even turn the screen on and it's now downloading the last released OTA. All my data seems to be intact as well (I haven't used this phone in nearly 2 years).
If fastboot (via command prompt) can see your phone, then you should be able to get it working. The main thing that got my phone to boot was the steps in this video: https://youtu.be/njXQYn53SPc Long story short, you basically have to make a bat file that simulates what RSDLite does when installing.