[Q] I need help rooting Mytouch 4g - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i have rooted two glaciers with no problem but the second was a twain made device and the screen have me bugging out.
The one that i have now is perfect but i can not root. I have tried every method and after every method failed i did a master rest and tried different ones but no breakthrough.
Can you please help i get temp root but no perm root.
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tvotony said:
i have rooted two glaciers with no problem but the second was a twain made device and the screen have me bugging out.
The one that i have now is perfect but i can not root. I have tried every method and after every method failed i did a master rest and tried different ones but no breakthrough.
Can you please help i get temp root but no perm root.
All welcome to answer.
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Have you tried the ./gfree method? the root.sh script method?

I have tried the visionary way but s is still on.
Gfree gave my computer a virus so I was being on the safe side and not trying that again.
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tvotony said:
I have tried the visionary way but s is still on.
Gfree gave my computer a virus so I was being on the safe side and not trying that again.
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WTF? gfree gave you virus? care to elaborate on that? that is the first time I heard of this in XDA. Far as Visionary go did you follow it exact step by step?

I did everything they told me for visionary.
But with gfree when setting up adb the link from google some reason gave me a virus from the recommend download
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[Q] visionary on mt4g

didn't see this answered anywhere else.... how long does VISIONary take to root your device? mine's been sitting for 20 minutes with the pic up and the message "rooting device, please wait"
Download and install visionary and setup to root on boot. Make sure fastboot is disabled in settings/applications. Reboot the phone and it should only take 30 seconds or so.
Mines in the area of a minute or 2
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Yeah, I had to restart the phone, then run it... took 15 seconds or so... thanks
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Visionary+
Hello, I'm new to droid comunity, so please forgive me for propably dump question.
I've got mt4g and installed visionary +
Now I have several options temproot now......or atempt permroot now?
I've read Mr Bill Florida's post and I want to ask, if every time I restart the phone I have to root again or how is it?
Thank you guys in advance.....I hope I did well in my first post ever
Please post questions in Q&A section.
bbb1617 said:
Hello, I'm new to droid comunity, so please forgive me for propably dump question.
I've got mt4g and installed visionary +
Now I have several options temproot now......or atempt permroot now?
I've read Mr Bill Florida's post and I want to ask, if every time I restart the phone I have to root again or how is it?
Thank you guys in advance.....I hope I did well in my first post ever
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Yes, if you don't perm root you'll have to use Visionary (or set it up to do it at boot) to temp root every time you reboot.
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visionary is not intended as a perm rooter i think, its mostly for if u have a single task u need to do once and need a root access for that...
We have 2 phones here, got mine first.. used visionary+ to perm root my phone. I can temp root my other one, but for the life of me can't figure out why the 2nd one won't perma root. Is there more then one update? Both are running 2.2.1. Maybe its fastboot? Hang on.. i'll try
Answer, nope.. no difference. Perma root still fails.

[Q] How do I know if I am perm root or temp rooted

I stalled visionary from akaskriller.com since it wasnt on the market. I installed rom manger, titanium back up. Uinstalled some bloatware etc... But how do I know if im temp or perm rooted?????
Uncheck "run on boot" option in Visionary, pull your battery, restart the phone and try running su in terminal emulator. If you get permission denied - you're temp rooted.
Ok km going to try it now
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Hey, is your root ok? Can you help me root mine.
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I guess im still temp rooted I diff what u said and when I booted up it went straight to visionary and rooted it again so I guess I'll start over
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The only thing I can do Is get it to temp root so I don't think I would be much help lol sorry
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cal3thousand said:
Manual method is soooooo easy I don't understand the desire to use VISIONary+ for permroot. Its not even real permanent root.
S-OFF is NEEDED for custom ROMs... so if you don't want to use custom ROMS, stick with temproot with VISIONary+
If you DO want custom ROMS and true R/W access, do the manual method. I see 0 point in using the one click permroot.
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Jmayes1786 said:
The only thing I can do Is get it to temp root so I don't think I would be much help lol sorry
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it does not turn s-off you will have to do that youre self through terminal or adb
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834225
So if it reads "s-off" on the boot screen after reboot it's perm root?
deezndc said:
So if it reads "s-off" on the boot screen after reboot it's perm root?
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Not really, you have have s=off and not be rooted. all s=off means is the security protocol will not check to see if the phone has been tampered with. IF you have s=off and you go to visionary and click "temp toot" then "perm root" your phone will be rooted until you unroot it. Since the security protocol will not remove the SU access.

(S= ON) help???

I was hoping I could have some light for me on my issue that i'm having.
I installed Visionary / checked off temp root boot / made sure debugging was on hit temp root now and then I went in to the terminal and am able to get into SU / cd /sdcard/root sh root.sh
but after this when I Reboot and I hold down the volume button that new screen pops up but it says
S = ON
How do i get that to say off
Try grankins method. It worked for me. I couldn't get s-off with any other method and I tried them all. Did his method in one try and have had s-off since then.
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agua4417 said:
Try grankins method. It worked for me. I couldn't get s-off with any other method and I tried them all. Did his method in one try and have had s-off since then.
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thanks for the help man!
am i going to be looking for a thread that's already started?
Yea it should be a sticky in the Dec section called "true perma root and s off
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Perm Root not working

I followed multiple steps for installing perm root on a friends Mytouch and for some reason we could not get the s-off feature to work. I noticed too we do have SU access via adb or terminal but I still never could get s-off. After we got root we used rom manager to install clockwork and after the fact it installed 3.0.2 i believe it completely borked the recovery. I stepped it down to 3.0.0 and still had the same issue. The main reason i wanted to get s-off was to adb flash the recovery but I got a signature fail. Any ideas or suggestions to get this working correctly? Rom Manager will not let me install 2x cwm basically stating it can not install it period. I also tried the batch file root method same issue. Thanks for your help in advance.
Please look at the "True permaroot and S-OFF" thread in Development section, and execute step-by-step.
If your friend's MT4G is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3), you'll need to use Gingerbreak instead of Visionary+ to get root access.
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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dynamicj said:
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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If you are following the ./gfree method step by step it will root your phone.
If you are using the root.sh script and it's not working chances are you may have a bad eMMC chipset and it will not root properly.
I know HTC said they would be pushing a update to close the exploit hole that is used to root our phones but i don't think it's been pushed yet.
Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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dynamicj said:
Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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HTC isn't "becoming a Motorola". HTC, is completely different. We do have a locked bootloader. But it's easily unlock-able whereas Moto's aren't.
Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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dynamicj said:
Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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I don't know what to tell you. There are several threads out there regarding how to root your phone. Both in a .gfree form and a root.sh form. One of those 2 work for 99.9% of EVERYONE.
You might try finding someone who put together a .zip that can be flashed through the android recovery(white screen with boot options, etc.). Otherwise you can get the RUU and return to stock. After that follow the directions step by step and DO NOT mix methods. This should result in an S-OFF root, if you did your homework correctly.
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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dynamicj said:
I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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Until you have "s-off" no recovery image will stick.
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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dynamicj said:
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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What method are you using?
I have tried them all
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I have tried them all
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What errors are you getting?
Just can not get it to go soff i have root in the device otherwise. Recovery also just shows a computer and cell phone icon after Rom manager install clockwork mod 3x. I am just trying to adb install a older cwm.
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As someone already explained before, when the security is on, no matter the amount of flashing you're going to try - it won't get you anywhere, since it won't be written to the actual ROM, and will be gone on restart.
Unless you pick a guide, follow it exactly, and post here everything that doesn't look proper - I don't think the forum can help you much.
Here's one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
Follow it and post anything that doesn't look good. Including your bootloader version.
The root is sticking on reboots but still no soff that's what i have been saying and i followed the guides to a t its not my first picnic rooting or roming a phone this one just has me stumped
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What does your bootloader show when you boot into it?
For the root to stick after boot, you had to have S-OFF, otherwise the eMMC wouldn't have been written to.
Having no info from you, as I said, it's impossible to help. If all this thread is just a complaint - by all means, but in that case there's no point in helping you. If you want help - you need to provide enough details for people to help you. Obviously, nobody can figure out anything from "I can't get s-off".
I do a adb reboot bootloader and i get us fast boot up top it says s-on but if i reboot to the os i still have root access for instance in titanium backup or Rom manager of that helps any
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Root Questions/Help

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I searched up and down XDA and google for a solution. Here is the deal; Im trying to root my phone and Im having some issues. Im getting unknown user root in Terminal when I try to run the commands from this thread.I have both versions of Visionary and I believe I have temp rooted the phone. This is where it starts to get strange. Superuser.apk is installed, but Im never prompted for SU permissions. The only app that requested it was Visionary when I tried the permaroot option. Also, I got the system to be r/w via visionary, so I tried to delete some bloat. I used root explorer to do so. But the apks I deleted are still in the app drawer, and after reboot, are still in system/app. Im really super confused by all of this, and hope you guys can give me a hand. This is a little bit different then rooting my vibrant lol.
Dan_Brutal said:
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I searched up and down XDA and google for a solution. Here is the deal; Im trying to root my phone and Im having some issues. Im getting unknown user root in Terminal when I try to run the commands from this thread.I have both versions of Visionary and I believe I have temp rooted the phone. This is where it starts to get strange. Superuser.apk is installed, but Im never prompted for SU permissions. The only app that requested it was Visionary when I tried the permaroot option. Also, I got the system to be r/w via visionary, so I tried to delete some bloat. I used root explorer to do so. But the apks I deleted are still in the app drawer, and after reboot, are still in system/app. Im really super confused by all of this, and hope you guys can give me a hand. This is a little bit different then rooting my vibrant lol.
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what's your android version? 2.3.4?
saranhai said:
what's your android version? 2.3.4?
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My bad, 2.2.1. I just got this phone yesterday. Its really nice. I cant wait to get some CM goodness on it!
Dan_Brutal said:
My bad, 2.2.1. I just got this phone yesterday. Its really nice. I cant wait to get some CM goodness on it!
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hm, try using the gfree root method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
saranhai said:
hm, try using the gfree root method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
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I still get unknown user root in terminal.
Go to theunlockr.com and find the mytouch write ups there. They are root.sh method and garanteed to work. There both how to gain root and s-off write ups there.
Its what I used and is super simple. I've rooted countless mytouch with the same write up.
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coupetastic-droid said:
Go to theunlockr.com and find the mytouch write ups there. They are root.sh method and garanteed to work. There both how to gain root and s-off write ups there.
Its what I used and is super simple. I've rooted countless mytouch with the same write up.
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Im still getting unknown user root in terminal.
Posting here the exact step and command that you're typing when receiving the unexpected response would be the first necessary step for people to help you.
Jack_R1 said:
Posting here the exact step and command that you're typing when receiving the unexpected response would be the first necessary step for people to help you.
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I type su and I get the unknown user root message.
Dan_Brutal said:
I type su and I get the unknown user root message.
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Are you temp or perm rooted?
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BRKotucs said:
Are you temp or perm rooted?
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Im trying to permaroot and s-off. I believe that Im temprooted right now.
Do you run Visionary+ before typing "su" in Terminal Emulator?
Does it complete successfully?
Can you try to run any other root program (like Titanium Backup) to verify that you actually have root access?
Jack_R1 said:
Do you run Visionary+ before typing "su" in Terminal Emulator?
Does it complete successfully?
Can you try to run any other root program (like Titanium Backup) to verify that you actually have root access?
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yes
yes
and I tried with setcpu, no root was detected.
Try another version of Visionary+, because the current version doesn't root you.
Make sure that you are indeed on 2.2.1, because if you're on 2.3.4 - Visionary can't root at all.
Jack_R1 said:
Try another version of Visionary+, because the current version doesn't root you.
Make sure that you are indeed on 2.2.1, because if you're on 2.3.4 - Visionary can't root at all.
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Its 2.2.1. I have tried both visionaryplus r11 and r12, also tried the regular visionary, super one click, and z4root. I still get unknown user root in terminal. Im starting to get frustrated.
Dan_Brutal said:
Its 2.2.1. I have tried both visionaryplus r11 and r12, also tried the regular visionary, super one click, and z4root. I still get unknown user root in terminal. Im starting to get frustrated.
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I had the same problem last week when trying to root my replacement phone after downgrading it to 2.2.1. The visionary app that I used before didn't work this time. I had to download it again and this time it worked. Before deleting the current visionary app make sure to clear it's data prior to uninstalling it then reboot the phone then try again. That worked for me!
Since you've already tried rooting it with so many methods, I'll suggest you restore the phone to factory settings and start over.
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BRKotucs said:
Since you've already tried rooting it with so many methods, I'll suggest you restore the phone to factory settings and start over.
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No dice, I have tried a reset 4 or 5 times now.
Haza! I have S-Off. I followed CM Wikis guide and it took a few times, but it worked. Thanks for all your help guys!
Dan_Brutal said:
Haza! I have S-Off. I followed CM Wikis guide and it took a few times, but it worked. Thanks for all your help guys!
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Glad to hear that! Good luck flashing...
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