I just got a new S5e SM-T720 128 GB version from BB and currently reading up on rooting it. While checking it out I do not seem to be able to keep the tablet from updating to July's update. My question is do I have to put off checking out the tablet until it is rooted to keep it from updating? or is there a setting I have overlooked? It seems best to not let the tablet update to July at this time.
I'm hoping TWRP recovery is right around the corner, in the meantime I have collected the needed files for root on my PC while I'm reading and re-reading the root thread so as not to mess it all up.
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Ok first off. I am going to buy this Dell Streak 7 Wi-Fi Tablet from Amazon. this coming Monday.
What I was needing cleared up for me is 2 things.
1: When I get this do I want run the Clockwork Mod 3 and then root it. Then do the update to 3.2? If so will I still have SU or will I lose that?
2nd Thing is that I have been reading here that there is no know way to root a 3.2 android phone / tab as the code has not been made open as of yet.
So here what I would like to have cleared up for me. In this post [Guide]New HC Rom: 506/507 + Installation Instructions [Including US 4G]. He talks about 2 ways of going about doing the rooting and Moding. But the 2nd one and the end of the 1st part he acts as if rooting the S7 after updating it to 3.2 is a cake walk. I would like to know a blow by blow of the best way once I get my S7 from the listed 2.2 that Amazon list it as coming per loaded with to 3.2 and to get SU ie root on it and working. With out turning an all most 300 buck toy into a doorstoper.
Thanks for all your time and work,
Michael
Oh as a side note I am not new to android or moding or rooting. As I have a T-Mobile Mythouch 3G 32B that is rooted and runs ginger yoshi 1.5. So I hope you can see that I read more that I ask. But in this case I thinks asking for some clearing up on this matter might not just help me but other users as well.
And yes I have looked for the info before I asked here.
michaelcrossland said:
Ok first off. I am going to buy this Dell Streak 7 Wi-Fi Tablet from Amazon. this coming Monday.
What I was needing cleared up for me is 2 things.
1: When I get this do I want run the Clockwork Mod 3 and then root it. Then do the update to 3.2? If so will I still have SU or will I lose that?
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To keep things simple, do not install clockwork mod or root your DS7 when you first get it. Don't even set it up or install any app, they will all be wiped after the honeycomb update. If you root it first, after the update it will be unrooted. Go straight to your settings, about phone, system updates to start downloading the Honeycomb update. When it finish download, the notification bar will notify you, drag down the notification bar and tap on the finished download notice. It will ask you if you want to run the update, answer yes and let it update. If after you download the update package and for some reason it does not start updating, follow the instruction here: http://streakblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-update-to-honeycomb-32.html
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2nd Thing is that I have been reading here that there is no know way to root a 3.2 android phone / tab as the code has not been made open as of yet.
So here what I would like to have cleared up for me. In this post [Guide]New HC Rom: 506/507 + Installation Instructions [Including US 4G]. He talks about 2 ways of going about doing the rooting and Moding. But the 2nd one and the end of the 1st part he acts as if rooting the S7 after updating it to 3.2 is a cake walk. I would like to know a blow by blow of the best way once I get my S7 from the listed 2.2 that Amazon list it as coming per loaded with to 3.2 and to get SU ie root on it and working. With out turning an all most 300 buck toy into a doorstoper.
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You got this wrong, the only way to root Honeycomb 3.2 is with clockwork mod recovery. To root your DS7 with Honeycomb, follow TheManii's post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288348
Thank you for that info. I now have a better understanding of it. And with fingers crossed I think should be able to do it with out making a doorstop out of my S7
I would not go to settings.
Instead, I would do the initial setup (language, timezone), setup wifi, and go use the link in this thread for downloading the update file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1293441
Once the file is downloaded, slide down the notification bar and select the file. It'll launch...reboot and load HC.
Make sure you charge your Streak first.
NOTE: You might want to play with FROYO first to see how you like that. Then update. If you don't like HC, you can always use NVFlash to go back to stock.
Loving HC. Haven't found too many apps that do not work. I prefer Dolphin browser, but the stock is not bad. Youtube works great. I haven't tried HULU yet.
Movies work and look awesome, too, after changing the specs with HANDBRAKE.
Thanks but I know what throw up is like on a phone and there os no way I would use it on a tab. That I have played with HC on the Acer 7" tab in walmart and loved it on there the best part of that is was just 3.2 now added anything from acer.
There are a few questions here about my gs5 and note8.0, sorry for the long post, I rarely post but need a little guidance. Sorry if this post isnt exactly up to the standards of the rules, I also tried the search feature but didnt have any luck. I have spent countless hours reading threads. Ihave successfully rooted every, all 10, of the android devices I have owned which includes two tablets. SO TO ALL WHO POST INSTRUCTIONS HERE, THANK YOU.
I rooted my gs5 with towelroot pretty much immediately when it was released. I havent had any real issues, other than the phone freezing on rare occasion, and web pages get stuck loading about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way finished, when this happens I usually toggle the apn on and off and then the page will load. This happens kind of often, I attribute it to some bug in the stock TW rom. Of course im still hoping for a way to unlock the bootloader.
I get a notified of samsung security updates here and there, I have never updated that since I rooted, I assume that updating samsung security would most likely take away my root access.
I have a note 8.0 wifi tablet also and it is rooted, I had to root with odin on the tab, towelroot didnt work. I also get secuirty update notifications on my note 8 which I also ignore.
Will samsung security updates block root>
Will the new ATT gs5 update that was released this week block towelroot? I can easily unroot and update ota then try to re root with towelroot apk, I am worried that towelroot will not work anymore if I do that.
Anyone know if the att update blocks root, and is it even worth worrying about trying to download?
My note 8 is rooted via odin, but it still has stock recovery, how do I get twrp or clockworkmod? I am pretty sure there is not a locked bootloader on this wifi tab, but I do want custom recovery.
So any help with installing clockworkmod recovery on the note 8, I know the CWM app allows you to install cwm recovery but I have only done it once and forgot to check to see if the BL was locked, well it was and It was a pain to unbrick that device.
Hello all. Just bought my first portable device in the Black friday sales so am completely new to the world of Android.
So far i've managed to use a Supertool to gain root, block OTA updates and ads from Amazon and change the launcher to something that looks better than the pile of *%@$ i was presented with when i first turned it on.
I want to install the latest stock Android that will run on it because a clean install is what i've done with every PC/Laptop i've owned in the last 20 yrs and i just hate branded apps.
I've been looking round and found several guides but when i read them there always seems to be something that applies to a different model or OS. As i said i'm a complete n00b when it comes to knowing what's meant by TWRP, custom recovery, where to copy files to etc. I've only ever used windows so having trouble even figuring out file directories.
If ayone can point me to a simple step by step i'd be eternally gratefull. (Well not eternally but almost certainly for however long the tablet lives.)
This one from android.gs//install-cm-13-on-amazon-kindle-fire-hd-7 seems to be the closest one i've found but i'm not sure. The model i have is KFFOWI which isn't the HD one. I managed to gain root etc. when it was on Fire OS 5.0.1 if that helps. Does it still apply? Do i just copy the 2 .zip files to the root of the SD card or is there a folder they need to go in?
Thanks in advance.
Hello again. not had a chance to chase up my earlier query. Since then i think i've somehow managed to re-enable OTA updates from Amazon. I thought i was just restarting it cos it seemed to be a little slow and glitchy (wireless needing turning off/on etc.) and when it was rebooting after 3-4 mins i suddenly noticed that it was doing the Amazon OTA update screen. The one that says your device....up to 10 mins.....etc. Held power button in till it shut down then managed to boot to TWRP bootloader thingy. If i just turn it off/on again it just goes straight to the Amazon update wait blah screen.
So now i'm at TWRP screen and i'm finally figuring out what it meant about taking backup etc. last time i was here. I have a .zip of CM 13.0 on the SD card as well as the GAPPS.zip from same site but they don't show anywhere i can fnd in the TWRP install flie browser.
Can anyone help or at least point me in the direction of a guide please?
I rooted and unlocked my Galaxy Tab S2 about two years ago and was hoping to update from Android 6 to 7, looking around a bit I figured I would try using Samsung's Smart Switch app to update. After updating I am now stuck in a boot-loop and my TWRP recovery install is gone. I still have the recovery file and am wondering what are the right steps I should take for recovering my files and also updating to Nougat while still having root access? I have done a bit of investigating but it looks like my tablet hasn't had much interest for the past year or so and I am uncertain what are the best new methods out there for rooting and updating ota.
I have an old NVIDIA Shield Tablet K1 that has served me very well since I bought it back in 2016.
Recently it was getting filled up and started to slow down, so I bit the bullet and restored the last factory recovery image.
That went perfectly fine except for one problem. I had zipped up my files prior to the reimage. When I unzip them back to the tablet, they wind up with current dates. This really messes things up.
After doing some searching, it seems that this is a limitation of Android 7. I've read that dates are preserved when copying to internal storage only if the device is rooted on this version of Android.
After doing some searches on rooting, I stumbled upon Magisk. Upon reading the installation instructions at https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html, I came away thinking that it sounds too good to be true. The instructions make it seem like rooting my device will be relatively straight forward.
Can it really be this simple to root? Is un-rooting as simple as flashing the original boot.img? I really don't need to be rooted normally. So after I restore my files with their proper dates I'd be happy to un-root. Unless there is some great things I can do with root that I've never needed to do before.
This latest version of Magisk is very new (just about a week at the time of this writing) so I imagine there hasn't been a lot of use of it on an old device like the K1. But if anyone has any experiences using this new Magisk to root older devices, I'd like to hear about it.
In case any other Shield owner stumbles upon this thread, just a quick follow up to say that it was indeed as simple and straight forward as the Magisk install instructions seemed to indicate.
I successfully rooted the Shield and was able to copy back my files with dates intact.
Now off to see if there is anything else handy that I can do with root!
Can you explain it step by step. I ttied, but nothing happened. I had to put some commands through the console, but the device was not found...I have the driver and everything...
Pudah said:
I have an old NVIDIA Shield Tablet K1 that has served me very well since I bought it back in 2016.
Recently it was getting filled up and started to slow down, so I bit the bullet and restored the last factory recovery image.
That went perfectly fine except for one problem. I had zipped up my files prior to the reimage. When I unzip them back to the tablet, they wind up with current dates. This really messes things up.
After doing some searching, it seems that this is a limitation of Android 7. I've read that dates are preserved when copying to internal storage only if the device is rooted on this version of Android.
After doing some searches on rooting, I stumbled upon Magisk. Upon reading the installation instructions at https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html, I came away thinking that it sounds too good to be true. The instructions make it seem like rooting my device will be relatively straight forward.
Can it really be this simple to root? Is un-rooting as simple as flashing the original boot.img? I really don't need to be rooted normally. So after I restore my files with their proper dates I'd be happy to un-root. Unless there is some great things I can do with root that I've never needed to do before.
This latest version of Magisk is very new (just about a week at the time of this writing) so I imagine there hasn't been a lot of use of it on an old device like the K1. But if anyone has any experiences using this new Magisk to root older devices, I'd like to hear about it.
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Can you explain it step by step. I ttied, but nothing happened. I had to put some commands through the console, but the device was not found...I have the driver and everything...