I got my Air 3G a few weeks back and have been largely impressed with it. £120 for a 3G enabled Windows 10/Android 5 tablet? Bargain.
I recently decided to get around to rooting it and then the problems occurred. I followed all of the tutorials I could find and none of them worked. The Toolbox, iRoot, vRoot, Kingroot - on device and from desktop - all said they'd worked but upon reboot none of them had.
I then tried to go straight to updating to a ROM with built in root but that didn't work either. Following the Toolbox instructions I got a "couldn’t find boot device handle" error, followed by the message "E:No valid installer medium found". I Googled them but found nothing useful. Hopefully anyone following in my footsteps will find their way here.
Eventually I discovered this thread and followed the instructions within. At last I was rooted.
Next I tried to install the Xposed framework using TecKnight's tutorial. This didn't work either, despite me running it both as an admin and from the command line directly. It said it had both times and Android even did its 'updating system apps' thing upon reboot, but the framework was nowhere to be found.
I still haven't got it working but all of these issues are leading me to wonder if there's something special about the model I have.
Should I try flashing one of the clean 5.0 ROMs? Is it even safe to do it given the issues I've had so far?
Any observations/suggestions would be gratefully received!
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First of all, just wanted to say that this is a fantastic forum and resource!
I've got a Captivate with 2.2 Froyo (build FROYO.UCKB1) on AT&T, and so far I haven't been able to root. I've followed the wiki and new users guide without having much success. It seems like Samsung or AT&T have introduced some extra barriers to rooting(?)
I initially tried dropping an update.zip tool into my /sdcard folder and rebooting. The error I received was "E:signature verification failed"
After that I tried using ADB to replace the /system/recovery file, but no luck.
So I also tried the SuperOneClick application, using VirtualBox to load a Windows XP guest (I'm running OS X Lion). Unfortunately, the phone is disabled in the list of USB devices. I tried adding it to a filter in Preferences->Ports->USB. SuperOneClick freezes on the "Waiting for device" part.
Has anyone had the same issues?
Hello Everyone, first post after several hours of research and first attempt to root and flash a device.
A little about the device, it is a Kindle Fire (non-HD)
I did a factory reset on the device before doing anything.
I followed the instruction i found on this forum to install Kindle Fire Utility 9.6
Following this, I downloaded and installed, JB-AOKP_otter_unofficial_Oct-17-12.
I followed this install with: gapps-jb-2012-0726-signed
Everything was going great. All of the sudden I got a pop-up stating Process com.android.phone has stopped. As fast as I press "OK" it returned.
The only resolution I have been able to get is to force the tablet back into TWRP and restore it, as once it appears there is no way around it.
has anyone encountered this issue and found a solution?
Thanks in advance, I am new to rooting (first shot ever) and eager to learn what I can about it.
Adam
Good morning,
As a follow up, I tried to re-install the Android system. Somehow I managed to delete too much by way of wiping the system and basically locked the KF up until I was able to mount it as a USB drive. I placed the OS file back in the directory (the original KF software was gone). I reloaded the OS and seemingly it works correctly.
Up to this point I have not had the error return, so the only real change was the complete removal of the KF software. The unfortunate part, is if I were to ever want to sell the KF I have no way to return it to stock, Atleast not that I have figured out yet.
Now on to searching for a volume control, that is easy to use....
ResqComm said:
Hello Everyone, first post after several hours of research and first attempt to root and flash a device.
A little about the device, it is a Kindle Fire (non-HD)
I did a factory reset on the device before doing anything.
I followed the instruction i found on this forum to install Kindle Fire Utility 9.6
Following this, I downloaded and installed, JB-AOKP_otter_unofficial_Oct-17-12.
I followed this install with: gapps-jb-2012-0726-signed
Everything was going great. All of the sudden I got a pop-up stating Process com.android.phone has stopped. As fast as I press "OK" it returned.
The only resolution I have been able to get is to force the tablet back into TWRP and restore it, as once it appears there is no way around it.
has anyone encountered this issue and found a solution?
Thanks in advance, I am new to rooting (first shot ever) and eager to learn what I can about it.
Adam
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[Reposting because I got no answers previously and have now been without a phone for about 3 months - please understand my frustration, it's really getting ridiculous.]
My D415 has been out of action for about two or three weeks now and it sucks having no phone. I'd like it back but all the hours I've spent trying to fix it have been pointless due to very poorly-made guides that are either difficult to understand or simply false.
If I follow this guide: http://www.lg-phones.org/how-to-flash-unbrick-lg-l90-back-to-stock.html
It gets stuck forever on step 7, with the computer refusing to recognize that I've connected the phone no matter what I do. Note that this includes skipping download #3 because I already have the stock KDZ downloaded, could this be the issue?
If I follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-l90/general/guide-flash-stock-kdz-offline-lg-l90-t2803479
It gets stuck forever on step 1, with lg-firmware-rom.com not actually existing.
If I follow other guides, other **** happens, like LG Mobile Support Tool continuously "downloading" the USB driver without the progress bar or anything actually moving.
My computer is getting cluttered with various copies of roms and KDZs and drivers and random pieces of software from all the attempts to do this, I've spent hours trying to get it done, and I'm tired of not having a phone. Could anyone give me a way to do this? The phone is currently on a 5.0.2 ROM with baseband issues and TWERP as its recovery, IIRC. I'm good with computers, though inexperienced with Android tweaking. All I need is a reasonably concise guide that actually works.
Have yout tried also this tool? http://lg-support-tool.en.lo4d.com/
Hi all,
I completed a root for my z3c following Strmy's guide from here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/guide-newbshow-to-291-mm-z3clocked-t3536395
one change I had to make to that process was to not flash the ''superuser_238_291.zip'' because every time I did, the phone kept getting stuck in a boot loop.
The process was completed successfully, and the phone worked like a charm for a day.
This morning, I found it strangely incapacitated - missing were many of the new apps I installed, along w gmail, chrome, and google play. I can't access the settings on the phone, and when connected to a computer, I can't allow file transfer.
Does anybody have an idea what may be happening and how to approach this situation?
Many thanks!
Update: I have since flashed the D5803_Customized US_23.5.A.0.570 R5D w/o any change to functionality of the phone. It also appears that I have lost access to TWRP recovery. This is all really confusing. Any advice would help.
Hello,
this is my first thread/post on this forum, if I did anything wrong please don't be super harsh and inform me to what to do better, thanks.
So why am I asking for help anyways you may ask, well I had my old Xperia Z1 laying around here for quite a while now and wondered if I could do anything productive with it.
So I came up with the idea to install a CFW like Lineage OS or something else.
This is not my first rooted and cfw phone but the first one what gives me nightmares and a headache.
So after reading all of the nice guides how to root it and how to unlock it, nothing of them is working for me, most of the threads have missing files which I cannot find on google or other just simply won't work for me.
First of all, I have rooted my phone via KingRoot in the meantime since the other methods where not working either.
I have turned on usb-debugging and also allowed installation from unknown sources.
And there we start with the first problem, downloaded the google SDK and installed all adb things I needed, did not work, then I tried it from the official sony website, downloaded the usb-driver folder and tried to install it manually, won't work either, because the device manager always gave me error code 10 "device cannot be started", I tried different sources and even die google studio thing and everything ended up with the same result.
Same error code even when I tried to activate fastboot on my phone by pressing down the volume up button, pluging the usb cable in, and yet again the same error message for this device too.
I am using windows 10 and never had such problems before with sony devices.
I hope someone of you can help me out to find a solution, if you need any further information, just let me know.
Did you solve this?
I have the same problem
snailer said:
Did you solve this?
I have the same problem
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This may sound stupid or ridiculous, but yes I managed to work it out and was able to install the CWF on my phone which is working perfectly fine.
Since nobody was willing to help me I just skipped the part where I wanted to post my solution but yeah, this may help you too.
So what did I do? Simply I stopped using Windows 10 for this project, I just used one of my older PC's which still had Windows 7 Ultimate on it.
I just rooted the phone via KingRoot, since it was the only solution what kinda worked out for me, then I was able to install all needed SDK, fastboot and ADB files on my PC and was able to use the ones from the Sony site itself this time and after plugin in the phone to the PC, it installed everything else what was needed for the device manager.
After that was done with no error I was finally able to unlock the phone via the command which you can find also on the Sony website.
If you find this helpful or need any extra information just let me know, maybe I can help you then. Oh and if you found out a solution for you what worked, would be nice to hear that too.
Greetz