Okay so I had my myTouch rooted, and the only problem I have so far is that it keeps restarting on its own. I called up the guy who rooted it, and he told me that I needed to wipe my phone to see if that might work. He also told me that a factory reset won't work, and said something about taking out the battery? How do I wipe my phone without harming the root?
Through a custom recovery is the only way I know. Although I'm sure you can do it with terminal or via adb from your computer. Try Googling it.
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I have the latest recovery.
I also have on my sd card 2 copies of CM7.1 (RC1), and also a CM 7.1 nightly 141.
When I try to install any of these I get "Rom Manager script errors" whatever that means....
I have tried to do this after wiping data twice... So a factory reset doesn't even work.
The only thing I can think of doing is putting an update image on the root of the SD card and boot into HBOOT.... which then checks for this file automatically.
But does anyone know where I can find an update/rom in img form (and that is rooted) which will work with the update function? Otherwise I think my phone is f*cked.
EDIT: One (possible) important piece of information. When I was at the TMO store 3 days ago with this phone complaining about my wifi issue. They said I had a 2G SIM card (it's a SIM card I have had for 3+ years)... After my quite apparent frustration, they just gave me a new one--- apparently the latest type of SIM card... and also activated it (and thus deactivating my old one). Could this have anything to do with why I cannot restore backups or why my phone is so messed up now?
"Rom Manager script errors" means it can't execute the script to reboot to recovery.
Just manually reboot into recovery, do a complete wipe, flash the rom you want.
febycv said:
"Rom Manager script errors" means it can't execute the script to reboot to recovery.
Just manually reboot into recovery, do a complete wipe, flash the rom you want.
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You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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syntropic said:
You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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they do in the newest premium version, as i see you have (not sure about version). press and hold on the post, a menu will pop out, and hit thanks
syntropic said:
You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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So have you successfully flashed the CyanogenMod Rom....????
Yes... But I have to unlock radio (set it to 11111 or whatever), and also I would like to unlock the simcard...
But add far add I can tell I have a visionary free, perma root with s=off.
It was a ***** though. Doing it without a USB cable made the whole thing quite arduous.....Visionary to get temp root, then launch ADB wireless, until some ADB command (running psneuter) kicks me from shell and screws up the wireless connection. And from there I had to use the emulator which still had root to enter the gfree commands. But between the wireless issues and needing to remember to delete visionary after temp root, it was a process that took about 8 attempts. And at the end of it, I tried to flash a rom without a fresh wipe/reboot, and I was getting errors which I thought were signs I did not actually attain permanent root... But I only needed to wipe data and reboot, and all was well.
But thank you for all your suggestions along the way.
Will thank you still when I get online.
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syntropic said:
Yes... But I have to unlock radio (set it to 11111 or whatever), and also I would like to unlock the simcard...
But add far add I can tell I have a visionary free, perma root with s=off.
It was a ***** though. Doing it without a USB cable made the whole thing quite arduous.....Visionary to get temp root, then launch ADB wireless, until some ADB command (running psneuter) kicks me from shell and screws up the wireless connection. And from there I had to use the emulator which still had root to enter the gfree commands. But between the wireless issues and needing to remember to delete visionary after temp root, it was a process that took about 8 attempts. And at the end of it, I tried to flash a rom without a fresh wipe/reboot, and I was getting errors which I thought were signs I did not actually attain permanent root... But I only needed to wipe data and reboot, and all was well.
But thank you for all your suggestions along the way.
Will thank you still when I get online.
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Glad in the end, it still worked out for you
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Hold on, there are 2G sim cards? I got a 2 year old sim card, still in my phone, and I was surprised when I saw a new one in T-MO upgrade package..
ok, my brother dropped his Sprint Evo. It will boot but only into the 4g screen where it freezes. I have tried going in to the bootloader and doing a recovery but get the red caution screen. should i do a hard reset, i was trying to get around not losing any thing on here. but if a HR will work then its better than not having it at all. It is not rooted, so there are not modifications done its all stock.
any help will be appreciated
YeA try a hard reset. If that does not work then root it and try a custom rom
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Since Asus seems to have fixed the issue for the c4 serial numbers but not the few of us on c3, I'm assuming we're somewhat on our own. I don't expect asus or any devs to solve this issue(fingers crossed none the less). So I started calling asus phone support on a regular basis, I explain I'm stuck on the .17 firmware and I don't receive any ota updates. This usually leads to them telling me to update manually, to which I play the dumb computer user, "I shouldn't have to do all this complicated stuff just to get regular updates" or sometimes I said I bought this tablet instead of a computer. Mind I avoided mentioning that I tried to unlock. I always mention that I know that the issue goes beyond myself and asus solved it for the c4 users. Just today they finally caved and offered to repair it. All I have to do is pay for one way shipping to the service center. I assume they will simply exchange it though I could be wrong.
tl;dr: If you can't update and you get a network error when trying to unlock, call tech support, if they don't help, politely ask for a supervisor to show you're serious.
I also want to ask for some advice, I rooted the tablet and obviously installed the unlock apk. So if I factory reset will it be noticed? I would hate to send it in for nothing.
Factory reset should get rid of all traces of root, and since the Asus factory reset erases the SD card, the unlock app will be gone, too. Just to be sure, after the reset, use the Asus file explorer, and check /system/bin and /system/xbin for a file called "su". I think factory reset erases everything, though.
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Factory reset should get rid of all traces of root, and since the Asus factory reset erases the SD card, the unlock app will be gone, too. Just to be sure, after the reset, use the Asus file explorer, and check /system/bin and /system/xbin for a file called "su". I think factory reset erases everything, though.
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No it doesnt get rid if root it just deletes superuser which you must download again from market
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He's not trying to reroot. He wants to unroot, in which case he just needs to get rid of /system/bin/su.
Yep I know but I just mentioned that factory resets do not unroot
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If I'm rooted without superuser installed will they notice? I always thought rooting was essentially getting superuser properly installed in the root directory. But I'm certainly not the expert.
Dunno :-\
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marksman34 said:
If I'm rooted without superuser installed will they notice? I always thought rooting was essentially getting superuser properly installed in the root directory. But I'm certainly not the expert.
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If there is a someone checking the tablet they will find out. If not then they wont. I don't know if they check though so it's worth a try. but if you want to be certian you can always reflash the stock rom or unroot using the supersu app (or something like it).
marksman34 said:
If I'm rooted without superuser installed will they notice? I always thought rooting was essentially getting superuser properly installed in the root directory. But I'm certainly not the expert.
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You also need to remove the su binary from either /system/bin/su or /system/xbin/su.
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Hi,
I am stuck on AT&T logo on my Galaxy S4. I had previously installed safetrap recovery and a ROM on it, but I am always using Stock ROM. I forgot about safetrap last night when I had to encrypt and use my device for work related stuffs. So, I factory reset my phone, I encrypt the device and after that I am stuck on AT&T logo. Safetrap still shows up during booting but I can't create any ROM slot, I believe it is because of encryption. Can someone please help me?
Your not on MF3, are you...
How long do you wait on the att screen? If you factory reset it. Sometimes it takes a long time on the att logo and it should boot up back to factory. But if it deleted important files you'll have to take it to best buy to get it fixed or run the new mj6 via odin but safestrap will be on it until you manually remove it via adb or terminal emulator.
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How long do you wait on the att screen? If you factory reset it. Sometimes it takes a long time on the att logo and it should boot up back to factory. But if it deleted important files you'll have to take it to best buy to get it fixed or run the new mj6 via odin but safestrap will be on it until you manually remove it via adb or terminal emulator.
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Thanks for trying to help. I was planning to go to best buy but I tried clearing cache from stock recovery and somehow I got out of bootloop . Thanks.
I got my G2 used and didn't even realize until a few days in that I was already using CleanROM and had root. Been using it like that all along and only just tonight did I stumble across some old threads about how initially there was a root method that involved some weird Chinese exe file that people eventually feared might have installed spyware and decided not to use anymore. I just assumed all along that the previous owner had used the Loki method as that was the only one I had ever heard about. I realize I could just follow a guide to fully reset my phone, but I would hate to go through all of that for nothing if my phone is safe. Plus I seem to be one of the people who can't seem to get debug mode/adb to initialize on a Verizon G2 when plugged in so I'm not even sure how I would go about using the LG flasher a tot file to fully reset my device.
So far all I tried was installing Titanium backup and making sure I didn't see any frozen Chinese language root explorer app that apparently gets installed on your phone when using that old root method and has to be frozen afterwards.
Is there any thing I can specifically look for on my phone that would hint at which root method was used?
yep there is a way. boot into download mode and here you will see phone status unrooted or rooted..
There is no way to see what method you are using, but as far as i know, you have loki method of rooting. Cause you have another ROM, and only loki patches boot, so you can have TWRP and all that stuff. Why do you want to reset the phones root? If it is working, don't use LG tools, cause i saw some people (but only on D802) who complained that they got stucked in bootloop after using LG tools.
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yep there is a way. boot into download mode and here you will see phone status unrooted or rooted..
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Not if its rooted, HOW its rooted.
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
Don't believe there's a way to get root method.
If concerned, maybe go back to stock and redo the device with the other method?
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For peace of mind, I would backup what u need to a computer, flash stock (handy to know how to anyways) and re-root. Least then u know for sure. Just my 2¢
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