I've install Visionary + (r12) and permrooted my MT4g. Applications could request root and be authorized for about a day. Today, I tried to open Root Explorer, and it couldn't get root access. Also, apps that had already been authorized (Terminal, Titanium Backup) no longer had access. "Superuser" showed that these applications were, indeed, authorized.
Upon restoring the phone to factory settings, Visionary + still indicates that my phone is already rooted. The "unroot" option does not seem to be responding to my taps.
Any suggestions? Should I just reflash?
Same thing happened to me yesterday. What I did was temp. root it and then perm. root again.
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I may have missed this in another thread, so please feel free to redirect me if so...
Without thinking, I updated my Droid with the OTA push and my previously rooted Droid 2 is now not rooted.
I did try to run the oneclick and 1-2-3 root processes. Both end with "your device is now rooted", but of course it's really not. I do have the Superuser APK, but my rooted programs are not communicating with it. And I'm not able to uninstall the Superuser program (thought I'd try to reinstall it). No go.
I had Titanium Backup, ad am wondering if I can wipe my phone and restore it, then upgrade, and root after. I'm a newbie with limited knowledge, so wondering if I've backed myself into a corner on this one.
All feedback appreciated!
Yesterday, I did the same thing you tried and I was successful in rerooting my phone after the OTA update. When you used the 1-click process did you choose option 1 or 2. I tried 2 and it didn't work. I had to chose option 1 (reload everything) to be successful. BTW, remember to make a new recovery backup of the system.
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xberry said:
I may have missed this in another thread, so please feel free to redirect me if so...
Without thinking, I updated my Droid with the OTA push and my previously rooted Droid 2 is now not rooted.
I did try to run the oneclick and 1-2-3 root processes. Both end with "your device is now rooted", but of course it's really not. I do have the Superuser APK, but my rooted programs are not communicating with it. And I'm not able to uninstall the Superuser program (thought I'd try to reinstall it). No go.
I had Titanium Backup, ad am wondering if I can wipe my phone and restore it, then upgrade, and root after. I'm a newbie with limited knowledge, so wondering if I've backed myself into a corner on this one.
All feedback appreciated!
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Same issue here - how I fixed
I had already made titanium backups of important stuff - you have to go into applications (that use root) and force stop and clear data. Once this is complete open titanium backup for instance, and you should be asked for super user and then be good to go. Same goes for rest of apps that need root
OTA update Loop?
i have my d2 rooted after the ota 2.2 update. i just received a notification to accept the most recent OTA update ... whatever it is... and assumed it was one of my apps as i didnt read it thru completely b4 tapping 'ok'. now it is stuck in a download, reboot, update, "update unsuccessfully installed", redownload, reboot...........
is there a way to cancel the update? i dont really care if i have it or not
or some way to stop this process aside from the airplane mode i had to set it to so it would stop this madness
So you can do the OTA update without having to unroot and reroot?
Great advice from all - thanks! I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but I ran DOROOT several times, did the unplug/plug when it hung for a minute, force closed/cleared data from previously rooted items, and also put phone into 'charge only' mode when USB Debugger would not run.
Finally - success! My advice to users with this same issue - try and try again.
Thanks all!
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i was rooted, then got the auto update, it broke my root
i have tried every mothod out there, even z4, oneclick
started with manual though
nothing, root apears to work fine, but afer the reboot, no root
tried a reset, same thing
any options for me? i actually like touchwiz so i didnt want to flash, but i can
is there a way to flash a non-rooted phone with odin that will root it?
thanks
oh i have flashed before, but it was the omnia i had prior to this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
check this out, i used it last night and it does work.
finally got it
had to do the manual root until i got the # prompt
run su
delete su and busybox
reboot
then reroot
the system thought it was still rooted.
Hey Everyone -
I got my Kindle two days ago and decided to root last night.
I first upgraded to 6.2.2 and then followed the new directions for rooting.
After some hiccups getting the computer to set up ADB correctly (ran into some conflicts with the drivers installed with my Nexus) I got everything working. I followed all the directions provided and installed superuser.
Here is where my problems begin...
I side loaded root explorer but I can't switch the file system over to R/W. When I load up the app I never see it requesting root permissions or see them granted. The superuser log is 100% empty.
When I load up OTA RootKeeper in order to try and watch prime videos I see the following:
Superuser app installed - checked
Device rooted - checked
Root permission granted - unchecked
Filesystem supports root protection - checked
Protected su copy available - unchecked
It seems to me like my device is somewhere between rooted and not and I can not for the life of me figure out what to do next. I can't install the market, OTA Rootkeeper won't work so I can watch prime videos. I lost functionality and gained nothing.
Any suggestions?
hmm...
thats kinda what happened to mine, i had root explorer but not superuser. I just restored it back to factory settings and re-rooted it, and now it works just fine with no problems. Good luck!
Hi All,
For some reason, just in the past week or so, with no changes to my vs980 except updating twrp to 2.8.1, i've lost all capability of superuser apps but all the apps that have that require root access continue to work. I use Carbon ROM, am on 4.4.4 and do my own builds. It has it's own built in SU but I've been using SuperSU. When a new app tries to get su access via SuperSU, the "grant" button won't press so the app eventually gets denied.
I uninstalled SuperSU and now only using the built in SU app that comes with Carbon ROM. It doesn't seem to be doing anything. No logs are being generated (yes, they are turned on) and I get no toast notifications when apps request root access. But they all still work fine... which seems very odd.
What does all this mean? Can the new twrp be causing it? How can I get SU apps to work again? I've run "root checker" and it says I have root. But when I first run the app, it never asks for root access.
Thanks.
I have the XT907 which was successfully rooted, so I presume(d). Last night I did nothing out of the ordinary. I plugged it in to charge, as it was almost dead. I woke up and took it off the charger, went out to smoke while coffee brewed, ran Clean Master app and it asked for SU permission (SuperSu). It didn't strike me as odd because I have it set so apps that update are required to ask for SU permission again. Only this time it wouldn't accept the permission I granted it. I tried again and it still wouldn't authorize (I was using the memory boost and I was trying to stop an app from auto starting when this happened). It told me to manually check the authorization in SuperSU. I did and it's listed there, all permissions granted. I ran RootCheck and it asked and was granted SU permission. I downloaded RootChecker just for a second opinion, and it too was granted SU permissions.
Before, during and after all of this, aside from the above mentioned Root checking app, I've downloaded one app onto my XT907: WiFi Password(Root). I needed the PW for my work's WiFi. It was denied SU permission. I've removed Clean Master from SuperSU, forced stopped Clean Master, rebooted Phone. Clean Master asks for permissions, is supposedly granted said permissions, but still won't accept them.
So two apps tell me I do NOT have Root on my phone, while two root checking apps say I DO have Root. I've not uninstalled or reinstalled anything or changed any settings as to get a further opinion on the matter. I rooted my device with KingRoot and uninstalled with SuperSU about a month or so ago. This is the first issue I've had. Any idea what gives? I'm a little stumped on this one.
It seems the issue is only with some apps. I've managed to fix the issue with Clean master by disabling SuperSU, re-enabling it then rebooting. Clean Master was granted permission and accepted it. So far I've not run into other issues. All root checking apps still say I have a proper root. If the issue continues, how about a reinstall of SuperSU? If I lost root, how would I regain it?