ATTN: My rom is bare basic, if your looking for a more streamlined rom
check out grdlock bluid based on the same source. Link removed because of assholes.
SNIP SNIP Several others released far more indepth and better roms, use them (like grdlock's).
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-hookerbots-rpics-twDt.aspx
I don't take donations. If you like my worth, the above app is from my favorite author, support him and of course XDA.
jcase said:
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
# busybox whoami
whoami: unknown uid 0
# busybox uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.29-564a4a15 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 25 15:56:06 CST 2010 armv6l GNU/Linux
#
Just wanted to put that out there. If not one else puts out a better rom based on OTA tomorrow, I'll release it.
Its just bare OTA with su/superuser.apk.
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That's exactly what i'm looking for an OTA with su added.
Thanks! can't wait for the upload.
i see you conquered the problem. MAGIC! well done
Thanks jcase! Will be testing tomorrow. Don't forget to rm /system/etc/security/otacerts.zip
flashing now. letting it run overnight should let me know if the stock Messages app bug is fixed. if not, Handcent it is!
So once again... no root for us that went to the 2.1 leak?
LexusBrian400 said:
So once again... no root for us that went to the 2.1 leak?
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Nope. In order to flash a new rom without root, the HTC signature needs to be valid. In order to preserve root, the rom was modified by jcase to include su which breaks the signature hash. So, while you will be able to update to the official OTA update (assuming version is higher, which I believe to be the case), you can't install this rom.
Since most people will be updating to the OTA 2.1 away from the leak or away from 1.5, I'd personally recommend installing the OTA 2.1 directly from HTC. We'll likely be targeting it for root exploits next and abandoning version 1.5.
hoban_eris said:
Since most people will be updating to the OTA 2.1 away from the leak or away from 1.5, I'd personally recommend installing the OTA 2.1 directly from HTC. We'll likely be targeting it for root exploits next and abandoning version 1.5.
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To be clear, install the otaroot rom released by jcase if you already have root. Install the OTA rom direct from HTC if you currently have the leaked 2.1.
hoban_eris said:
Nope. In order to flash a new rom without root, the HTC signature needs to be valid. In order to preserve root, the rom was modified by jcase to include su which breaks the signature hash. So, while you will be able to update to the official OTA update (assuming version is higher, which I believe to be the case), you can't install this rom.
Since most people will be updating to the OTA 2.1 away from the leak or away from 1.5, I'd personally recommend installing the OTA 2.1 directly from HTC. We'll likely be targeting it for root exploits next and abandoning version 1.5.
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Thanks for the clarification. I really appreciate it. Can't wait for OTA root
The new 2.1 is exactly what I wished the last leaked 2.1 would have been. Its working so much better with no noticeable lag at all.
Thanks again guys!
wipe data
I have root now and am currently running the .3 rom, question
1. is this just an update to what i am running now?
2. Do i need to preform a wipe?
3. if i dont wipe does the phone maintain all my apps and settings i.e email google etc?
Damn, I was just uploading my all-in-one batch script and then I noticed this had been released... I started making a rom of it, then I noticed you already did! hah!
Thanks for being a night owl and already doin the work jcase. I'm gonna incorporate this into the all-in-one script.
mv error: cross-device link
i have updated this rom, works great!
bu i can't mv from /system/app to /sdcard
error message is "cross-device link"
but i had already remount the /system partion as rw, and i notice that rm is working fine - i can remove files in /system/app, but can't move to another directory!
before update to this rom, mv is working correct
any advice?
btw, there is no busybox in this rom
liushk said:
i have updated this rom, works great!
bu i can't mv from /system/app to /sdcard
error message is "cross-device link"
but i had already remount the /system partion as rw, and i notice that rm is working fine - i can remove files in /system/app, but can't move to another directory!
before update to this rom, mv is working correct
any advice?
btw, there is no busybox in this rom
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same problem here. you can copy files and then remove the source. that's what I've been doing for my moves. As for busybox, I installed it myself, but I'm sure someone (if not me) will release an update.zip to install it sooner rather than later.
hoban_eris said:
same problem here. you can copy files and then remove the source. that's what I've been doing for my moves. As for busybox, I installed it myself, but I'm sure someone (if not me) will release an update.zip to install it sooner rather than later.
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thanks for reply
I tried install busybox myself, but it dosn't work. this is my steps:
adb push busybox /sdcard/
adb shell
remount /system
mv /sdcard/busybox /system/xbin
failed
adb shell
remount /system
switch to another console
adb push busybox /system/xbin
failed
and, there is no "cp" command, I didn't find another way to copy from /system/app to /sdcard/
Wipe??
I just want to reiterate denonlake's question, does installing rooted OTA 2.1 require a wipe of DATA and CACHE partitions like the original root process? Can we preserve settings through this flash or is it best to go through the whole setup process again?
The mv and cp commands are in busybox. I did not install busybox, so you don't have them. The Toolbox that comes with the OTA is lacking them.
Install busybox yourself, or wait for grdlock or ivan's release.
in case anyone is interested, the Messages app bug and cell standby bugs are fixed in this release too (as well as the already known gmail login bug fix) the phone also seems to power down a lot faster than previous leaks.
havent tested google voice yet, probably cant till later today. someone else feel free..
shickfaced said:
I just want to reiterate denonlake's question, does installing rooted OTA 2.1 require a wipe of DATA and CACHE partitions like the original root process? Can we preserve settings through this flash or is it best to go through the whole setup process again?
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I first tried installing from zip through recovery.
This did not appear* to work.
Next, wiped device and cache, then installed zip through recovery.
Success!
*My experience is limited. Maybe it did work, but nothing on the phone appeared changed.
Ok so this is just a rooted version of the Official OTA 2.1 right??? Nothing else has been done to it??
rustyman14 said:
Ok so this is just a rooted version of the Official OTA 2.1 right??? Nothing else has been done to it??
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All this info is in the first post... X_X
jcase said:
This is the 2.1 OTA Rom with su, a modified sh, SuperUser.apk and spare_parts.apk added (root). Thats it, nothing else modified.
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Related
Not my work, sed took ivan's rom and added the the sholes fingerprint.
Full Market should work fine in it now.
http://www.multiupload.com/X0LZ3W1RSL
Awesome. Thanks for uploading this.
jcase said:
Not my work, sed took ivan's rom and added the the sholes fingerprint.
Full Market should work fine in it now.
http://www.multiupload.com/X0LZ3W1RSL
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Thanks sed .......
and jcase
are there a few specific files that were changed so i could manually push those instead? done my own customizing and, if possible, would like to avoid pushing all those edits again
but thanks for the work
gohamstergo said:
are there a few specific files that were changed so i could manually push those instead? done my own customizing and, if possible, would like to avoid pushing all those edits again
but thanks for the work
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For existing roms, use my script.
jcase said:
For existing roms, use my script.
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ah alrighty. ill search for it. since i dont see a link in the OP.
edit: got it. twas in the later pages of your market fix thread.
EDIT2: flashing over an existing Ivan .8 with a dalvik-only wipe works great. got all my previously purchased apps now and no apps wiped
gohamstergo said:
ah alrighty. ill search for it. since i dont see a link in the OP.
edit: got it. twas in the later pages of your market fix thread.
EDIT2: flashing over an existing Ivan .8 with a dalvik-only wipe works great. got all my previously purchased apps now and no apps wiped
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Without it working, I'm 1" away from doing a wipe.
Some claim success without a wipe, some say they need it, and some say they wait a couple of days.
I'm playing the waiting game.
gohamstergo said:
ah alrighty. ill search for it. since i dont see a link in the OP.
edit: got it. twas in the later pages of your market fix thread.
EDIT2: flashing over an existing Ivan .8 with a dalvik-only wipe works great. got all my previously purchased apps now and no apps wiped
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I tried a dalvik-wipe then flash but I still couldn't find tapatalk in the market. I had to do a full wipe.
pkopalek said:
I did this, exactly, only using dalvik, from my existing 0.8t2.
adb shell
su
cd system
cd app
rm -r VVMStub_v3.apk
.... says it's Read Only.
trying to chmod it, can't it's Read-Only (despite my superuser access)
All in system/app is Read-Only. I can't even chmod.
Can't remove VVMStub_v3.apk
teeter.apk
com.android.launcher2.apk
that's all I tried, then I quit and I flashed my nandroid restore point back to the original 0.8t2 from BEFORE market fix.
Now I can manipulate my apps again.
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you forgot to mount
adb remount
adb shell
rm -r /system/app/VVMStub_v3.apk
that's it
Using the Market Fix Ivan's ROM. Having an issue with app updates now.
About 1/2 a dozen of apps had updates pop up for me today. The update would download then go into "install" then return an "insufficient memory" error. Strange thing is that if the update was 700kb or less, the update would install. Larger updates like Handcent (~1.7M) would error out.
An uninstall and redownload/install of the problematic apps would work so I wasn't stuck other than resetting up apps like Handcent.
jcase did try to help me on IRC but I'm a tard when it comes to trying to copy/paste from the cmd window.
Does an update.zip exist for the incredible to add busybox to a stock rooted Rom? Or is there anyone willing to make one? I found one for the hero where they stripped down a rom and just left busybox, apps2sd, and Su. It would be greatly appreciated by many noobs like myself.
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I believe Stericson has an app out that installs busy box for you with a single click. Just search "Busy box" in the market and it should come up. Not sure as to whether or not it works on the Incredible, as I've an Evo, but it should.
I tried that but it failed saying either I it couldn't remount or I wasn't rooted.
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bradatz said:
Does an update.zip exist for the incredible to add busybox to a stock rooted Rom? Or is there anyone willing to make one? I found one for the hero where they stripped down a rom and just left busybox, apps2sd, and Su. It would be greatly appreciated by many noobs like myself.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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I think the unrevoked tool installs it for you.
I'll try that again, but I used 3.0 to root it. Maybe 3.1 will install it, I thought that was only windows fixes from 3.0
maybe
kind of a rookie here, but couldn't you just install titanium backup and then click the problems button. I think it downloads and install busybox??
Nice call!!! Worked like a charm. Thx.
NO
ejkeebler said:
kind of a rookie here, but couldn't you just install titanium backup and then click the problems button. I think it downloads and install busybox??
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Wouldn't be permenant since NAND is still locked. Would lose it after reboot and have to do same thing over and over after every reboot.
http://www.unrevoked.com/incredible/payload-update.zip
Apply this payload-update.zip and it will install busybox. Just go to recovery and choose install zip from SD card and then choose this one
Then to test
go to cmd prompt
type adb shell
then when in shell type
busybox and you will see its now installed.
If you want the latest busybox, I've attached 1.16.2 freshly compiled.
One issue I ran into was that all the info on the forums has busybox being installed in /system/xbin. The PATH variable has /system/bin before /system/xbin, so that means the original symlinks to "toolbox" are getting picked up first - I don't know if I'm the only one who was annoyed by ls -al returning "-al: No such file or directory"
I guess "toolbox" didn't support this, so you can either install busybox to /system/bin, or leave it in /system/xbin and create a symlink called toolbox in /system/bin that points to busybox in /system/xbin.
As usual, backup your "toolbox" binary first before removing it from /system/bin.
Now ls -al returns a correct listing and I see no app breakage by the symlink method - Ti Backup runs just fine without needing to install its own busybox.
*edit - I guess this doesn't really answer the OP, but I figured I would share this anyway.
ok so I found a side effect - WiFi doesnt work after this. There seems to be a problem with dhcpcd and the new busybox, even though external dhcp support was compiled in...guess I've got some digging to do...
http://codehydra.com/Dinc/RootStock/roto-rooter.zip
that is a busybox install I ripped out of a N1 froyo root update.zip Cyanogen did, modded for the D-Inc.
Seems to work well for me.
the easy way is just to install titanium backup from the market and then click problems and it will install busybox for you in like 5 seconds
Not Really
... but it does NOT install the newest busybox; just one which is compatible with Titanium Backup.
Busybox.net shows v1.17 is the latest (unstable) release, and v1.16.2 is the latest stable. Titanium Backup pushes something in the v1.15 area.
http://www.busybox.net/
Also when I did it through titanium and went to busybox to install latest it said my system had none.
I have a busybox 1.16.2 version that I ripped from one of the posted ROMs that I can attach. It works on the Inc, and I think the whole DHCP / resolv.conf thing works too. At least it's the only version I tried where I can get wget working properly. You may need to create /system/etc/resolv.conf with some valid nameservers first though. Let me know if you want me to post it.
Hmm, nevermind. I tried with the busybox version I have, and WiFi does not get an IP address. Seems to be the same problem.
If you track it down, when you compile your version check if wget works properly also. There were some issues with that and DNS lookups. Don't forget you may need a valid resolv.conf.
Joe92T said:
the easy way is just to install titanium backup from the market and then click problems and it will install busybox for you in like 5 seconds
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I second this , I used ones off the rooting forums and it never quite worked right until I let titanium backup install it for me. Also its much easier than pushing files to your device if you are unfamiliar with doing it, because you can download tb from market and it does the work for you
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Easiest way to stay current is to install the Stericson app. It can't install it for you due to the NAND lock, but
1) It's trivial to extract it and install manually from the .apk file.
2) It will give you an easy notification via the marketplace that a new version is available.
Hi all!
First off, I'm new to xda Developers so please excuse me if this is in the wrong forum! I thought I'd post information about a tool I wrote here which roots stock 4.0.3 leak on the A500, A501 and assumingly the A200 too. Its literally one click - just enable USB debugging. "ICS Root" also installs, optionally, FaceLock and Trebuchet (although FaceLock doesn't want to work. It lets you set it up though =P)
Since version 5.0.1 this also now works with the new 0.022.00 leak!
The full post is over at TegraOwners: http://forum.tegraowners.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=350
The only real system requirements are Windows (with .Net Framework 4) and an Iconia on the stock 4.0.3 leak. I hope somebody finds this useful its been tested by myself and a couple of TegraOwners users and it works well.
In terms of the technique used, it uses the great Jay Freeman's mempodroid exploit to gain root at which point it mounts /system rw and installs su, busybox and Superuser.apk so no real surprises there. Installing Trebuchet adds that apk to /system/app and installing FaceLock installs the apk to /system/app before installing the pittpatt folder to the flexrom (mounted as /system/vendor). I plan to open source it when all the requested features have been implemented and the code has been cleaned up.
Thanks!
~blackthund3r
EDIT 14/05/2012: ICS Root 7 is out enjoy!
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk
cwm version?
why would it not work with cwm version?
With this tool does system remain writeable after rooting?
What about flashing CWM with acer recovery installer once rooted? I guess it would screw the bootloader...
lowsum said:
What about flashing CWM with acer recovery installer once rooted? I guess it would screw the bootloader...
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If you are on the cwm with the HC boot loader it should work as Its Magic will be run..
if you are on the new boot loader as in the full non modded leak.. It will give you secure boot error ..
The new boot loader Blocks its magic.
Thanks
Hey this worked easy. I had to re-install USB drivers and make sure I had the latest from Google. Other then that, hit the button, wait about 1.5 minutes, and it rebooted! No problems thus far! Thanks Again!
JeanBubu said:
why would it not work with cwm version?
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It would but the cwm one, afaik, is prerooted?
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root doesnt work like its supposed to. i know its only half root due to the bootloader, but terminal emulator flat out says i'm not rooted after this despite sixasis working and titanium backup/root checker both saying i have root and busybox. i'm going to post this on TO as well for you incase you dont check here often.
nifterific said:
root doesnt work like its supposed to. i know its only half root due to the bootloader, but terminal emulator flat out says i'm not rooted after this despite sixasis working and titanium backup/root checker both saying i have root and busybox. i'm going to post this on TO as well for you incase you dont check here often.
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That's storage cos terminal works for me and running su in an adb shell works great too.
Code:
[email protected]:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
[email protected]:/ $ su
# exit
[email protected]:/ $ su
#
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SteamBishop said:
Hey this worked easy. I had to re-install USB drivers and make sure I had the latest from Google. Other then that, hit the button, wait about 1.5 minutes, and it rebooted! No problems thus far! Thanks Again!
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You're welcome and I'm glad it worked!
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After reading the other post, I have found that I cannot write to the system directory from the device itself. The folder attributes indicate that it is set to write, however File Explorer HD will not let me. I have tried to create a folder in the /system and it will not accept the addition. The strange thing is that Root Check says it is rooted, File Explorer HD accepts putting it into Root Explore, but that is it. It is odd. I will try to reapply the Root to see if that makes a difference.
SteamBishop said:
After reading the other post, I have found that I cannot write to the system directory from the device itself. The folder attributes indicate that it is set to write, however File Explorer HD will not let me. I have tried to create a folder in the /system and it will not accept the addition. The strange thing is that Root Check says it is rooted, File Explorer HD accepts putting it into Root Explore, but that is it. It is odd. I will try to reapply the Root to see if that makes a difference.
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Please, read the op before bringing this up. This method is for half root, its the only way possible right now on stock leak ics. There is a special script you need to use to mpunt system. You can find it in the stock leak thread, run it in terminal or use rom toolbox and set it as a script to run at boot because rebooting loses write privileges.
nifterific said:
Please, read the op before bringing this up. This method is for half root, its the only way possible right now on stock leak ics. There is a special script you need to use to mpunt system. You can find it in the stock leak thread, run it in terminal or use rom toolbox and set it as a script to run at boot because rebooting loses write privileges.
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Sorry for offending you and whoever else it did. Thank you for pointing that script out in that post. My intent was to offer a second comment to your assessment..
nifterific said:
Please, read the op before bringing this up. This method is for half root, its the only way possible right now on stock leak ics. There is a special script you need to use to mpunt system. You can find it in the stock leak thread, run it in terminal or use rom toolbox and set it as a script to run at boot because rebooting loses write privileges.
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I have a better script which I'll be releasing as an update to the root app this morning hopefully. It'll be a terminal command to remount rw.
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New update out!!
blackthund3r said:
I have a better script which I'll be releasing as an update to the root app this morning hopefully. It'll be a terminal command to remount rw.
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Version 3 came out this morning
It features some bug fixes as well as a completely new remount menu which mounts /system rw properly on the fly. Tested with a busybox installer app
Enjoy!
Thanks for your tool blackthund3r !
I tried it with the new leak from this morning and it doesn't seem to work anymore
Edit :
Just to be a little more specific, the app says the process was OK and state that the tablet is rooted but the tablet doesn't reboot by itseld and su is not installed. I tried to install su manually but it's unable to find a previous su package on the system.
paugustin said:
Thanks for your tool blackthund3r !
I tried it with the new leak from this morning and it doesn't seem to work anymore
Edit :
Just to be a little more specific, the app says the process was OK and state that the tablet is rooted but the tablet doesn't reboot by itseld and su is not installed. I tried to install su manually but it's unable to find a previous su package on the system.
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ah okay it appears a completely new leak has been released. It is possible that the mempodroid exploit has been patched up. I'm gonna look into it soon. I can't much tonight - I have school work. I'll see what can be done and what the differences between leaks are.
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EDIT: mempodroid hasn't been patched See ICS Root v3.1
Hi blackthund3r
Thanks for the update 3.1 but could you please fix the problem on your hosting website? clicking on this file send to an error warning.
The other files can be downloaded though.
can someone post a mirror to the 3.1 version? current link is not working.
can somebody also confirm, if i root with this tool, i will be able to reinstall my clockworkmod recovery through 'acer recovery installer' and flash any other cwm rom? or do i have to downgrade to honeycomb 3.01, install iconiaroot for honeycomb and then acer recovery installer?
Gersma,
I'll be able to answer to your question as soon as I'll be able to download this tool and test it.
Hi!
Recieved OTA, official update today. Europe. Do not have the details, as i updated it in a hurry. Still same sense/android version. It was minor (about 6mb) "performance" update.
Anyone have any details on this?
EDIT: The update is version 2.42.405.4
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olavnn said:
Hi!
Recieved OTA, official update today. Europe. Do not have the details, as i updated it in a hurry. Still same sense/android version. It was minor (about 6mb) "performance" update.
Anyone have any details on this?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA
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same for me. this the first time i received update while rooted. i downloaded that small update but still did not run it beacuse i am afraid of having S-ON.
The cynic in me think that this may satisfy various insane Apple vs Android things rather than be of any use.
Little sad its not a better version of Android, like 2.3.5.. That would have been nice. I'm happy with Sense 2.1 though.
Any chance of someone grabbing it off their phones and uploading it somewhere?
-Nipqer
Update Archive
I've just got this update, and uploaded it here:
www_filedropper_com/otavisiongingerbreadshtcwwe2424054-2424052release258556lmz8pa872xa8ocgl
I can't post it as a link to it as I'm a noob. Oh well.
thanks
It is clearly a Gingerbread update.
My assumption is, it is in the best case Sense 3.5. Maybe not even that
Software Information:
Android Version:2.3.3
HTC Sense Version: 2.1
Build number: 2.42.405.4 CL192788 release keys
never locked Desire Z
It's still Android 2.3.3 and Sense 2.1
But I think it's a really useful update, in my case I am not having Sense restarts anymore (well, just one, after closing Temple Run). The closing app/going back to homescreen process looks really more fluid now.
could someone please check /data/local.prop for ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1??
EDIT: downloaded the file... nothing special found... just a bunch of blindness from all those Ps
Can anyone confirm whether its safe to flash if root / S-OFF?
Thanks in advance!
Craig
craiglay said:
Can anyone confirm whether its safe to flash if root / S-OFF?
Thanks in advance!
Craig
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I'm just root and S-off on 2.3 HTC ROM and installation failed.
thunderbillo said:
I'm just root and S-off on 2.3 HTC ROM and installation failed.
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Through recovery?
I've now had a look through the update.zip and it seems to patch a fair few system apps as well as firmware.zip which contains boot.img, rcdata.img and recovery.img. I'd suggest if these were successfully flashed we'd loose root and S-OFF as well as recovery (CWM or 4EXT).
I'm still really not sure what this update is about..
I have a question. Does this update eliminates resetting Sense?
craiglay said:
Through recovery?
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I've seen the error message in CWM when i were pressed POWER because i were blocked.
as007 said:
I have a question. Does this update eliminates resetting Sense?
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I have not seen the changelog, but on mine its almost gone. It happens less often after the update, in my opinion. And i also feel its running abit smoother. That might be a placebo effect
I have another bug, gallery not updating new pictures, so have to run sd scan to refresh it. The update did not fix this.
thunderbillo said:
I've seen the error message in CWM when i were pressed POWER because i were blocked.
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I'd imagine because the certificates to flash have changed... I'm not too hot on Android hacking but depending on how you got root, the certs probably got changed or invalidated. It also looks like it flashes a new kernel which may part of the issue.
However, if you've flashed something like Unity v10 like I have, its still a higher version of kernel provided in the update!
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olavnn said:
I have not seen the changelog, but on mine its almost gone. It happens less often after the update, in my opinion. And i also feel its running abit smoother. That might be a placebo effect
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I've not really seen the launcher reload issue at all before.. I've seen apps closed due to low RAM but the system stays rather stable, killing background apps. Maybe they've been playing with the figures from the Supercharger Mod which tweaks this very thing.
I have another bug, gallery not updating new pictures, so have to run sd scan to refresh it. The update did not fix this.
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I've never had this bug.. on 2.42.405.2
I was offered the update today, and I installed it on my stock Gingerbread Desire Z. As far as I can see nothing much changed, but Windows 7 doesn't seem to find the device anymore when trying to connect it as USB mass storage device. Anyone else seeing this, or could I be having some other problem here?
Cheers,
Rob
craiglay said:
Can anyone confirm whether its safe to flash if root / S-OFF?
Thanks in advance!
Craig
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i tried but the update failed may be because of S-OFF. i think phone should be s-on in order to run that update.
I just succeeded with the update on my rooted system.
Here is what can succeed for people with stock system, just with superuser+busybox installed.
Note that this update will unroot, so you have to re-install SuperUser ZIP package from the recovery menu.
These commands are needed on Linux system with root privileges (I a not sure, whether update images are UID sensitive.)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
rm -f update.zip
mkdir update
cd update
unzip -XK ../OTA_Vision_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.42.405.4-2.42.405.2_release_258556lmz8pa872xa8ocgl.zip
mkdir firmware
cd firmware
unzip ../firmware.zip
rm recovery.img
#rm rcdata.img (this part is not needed, most people leave radio and rcdata in random state during the rooting process, this just sets it to value for WWE phones)
rm ../firmware.zip
zip -r ../firmware.zip *
cd ..
rm -r firmware
zip -r ../update.zip *
cd ..
rm -r update
Then flash update.zip from the recovery menu, and then the upper mentioned SuperUser package.
(Note: Not verified! I forgot to add firmware.zip to the image, so I needed to flash system.img separately as PC10IMG.zip.)
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If there is anybody with unchanged and unrooted stock system, then it would be nice to provide patched system.img as a strart point for modders.
Steps to do it. (It should be safe.)
1. Have at least 600 MB on the sdcard mounted on the phone (and not on computer).
2. Get fre3vo from the downgrade howto
Run this on your machine with adb:
Code:
adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFFFFFFF
# Exploit should succeed.
adb shell
# You should get # prompt here
cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 >/sdcard/system.img
rm /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
Then reboot for dropping the temp root and post system.img somewhere for others.
Note: It is safe to apply this vendor update even if you plan to root sometimes in future. This update did not patch the security hole exploited by fre3vo, so this utility still works on HTC_WWE_2.42.405.4.
@qwasson: How did you get the file you posted?
Flashable ROM with this OTA merged in:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26040258&postcount=6945
Just sharing.
When apps that ask for root permissions are launched, it doesnt work, example: TI backup says that the device isnt rooted and i might have to check the SU binaries. My N7 was rooted before a update for Superuser was available, now something happen after i updated it. But i dont know what...
That's weird. After you updated your SU, did you go to SU to update its binaries?
i did that twice, and it did say to update binaries...so...
you might need SuperSu instead
What Android version are you running?
Droid_Boi86 said:
i did that twice, and it did say to update binaries...so...
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I had similar problems with "lightly rooted" stock (4.2.1/JOP40D) using a slightly older version of Superuser. Some apps could get root and others could not. But things have been in flux recently; read on...
I poked around a little bit and it appeared that the 4.2 multi-user stuff was interfering with the way that older versions of (ChainsDD's) Superuser worked, and at that time (only a couple weeks ago) ChainsDD had not released a newer update - things were still in flux.
I switched over to SuperSU, and no problems since... but....
...for me, installation of SuperSU didn't go swimmingly. As I recall the SuperSU install instructions say something like "you need to already have root to install the SuperSU `su' binary". Makes sense as it needs to write it's 'su' binary into /system, which in turn means it needs to get root privilege from a pre-existing su/Superuser installation.
So it poses a chicken-and-egg problem if you have lost root completely which I somehow managed to do... wait, I remember now! I had left the old 'su' binary in place, but had manually uninstalled "Superuser" from /system before I attempted the SuperSU install. Doh!
If you have lost root... you can manually install SuperSU offline inside the recovery via adb & the command line, which means getting both the SuperSU.apk and the 'su' binary ahead of time.
You can get the .apk from the market. You can attempt an install - it will download the 'su' binary and (no kidding) place a copy of it in /data/data/eu.chainfire.supersu/files/superuser.png
If you haven't lost root completely inside the booted OS, I suggest mounting /system in "rw" mode prior to running the SuperSU install and startup.
It looks like I am back a version or two - I have superSU v 0.99
4d7abc0eb5898cdb81bc233dcd16e052 /system/app/SuperSU.apk
0034ec008416b1c3fa7010deb8a3a758 /system/xbin/su
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 91992 Jan 10 16:40 /system/xbin/su
note the setuid,setgid bits on /system/xbin/su. Also - no symlink from /system/bin/su to xbin/su.
OK, sorry for the long post. There have been new releases from both chainfire (SuperSU) and chainsDD (Superuser) quite recently. Since I haven't had any troubles since 10 January, I haven't been following it closely - YMMV.
cheers