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[Q] Root Help myTouch 4G (SOLVED)

Hey there everyone. I have a myTouch and when I try and root using visionary it says that I am already rooted but if i go into the terminal emulator and I typer in su it says permission denied. I already wiped the os, cache, and sd. Please help
Thanks
macfan74318

Use the Manual method found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834225

But the problem is that I can not even get temp root. VISIONary says there is root but the terminal says permission denied when I try and get root access.

Try installing the superuser app from the market
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Thanks it worked perfectly.
Thanks
macfan74318

macfan74318 said:
Thanks it worked perfectly.
Thanks
macfan74318
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Edit you post as solved.

thelamacmdr said:
Try installing the superuser app from the market
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macfan74318 said:
Thanks it worked perfectly.
Thanks
macfan74318
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Seriously?! That's it? Ha!

What?
Why do you think that this is so funny. You have been their at one point and who knows someone else could have the problem and now they know what to do. Attitudes like this is what will lead to the downfall of the android developer community.

macfan74318 said:
Why do you think that this is so funny. You have been their at one point and who knows someone else could have the problem and now they know what to do. Attitudes like this is what will lead to the downfall of the android developer community.
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No dude you got me wrong. I'm just amused that the problem is really solved that simply. It would never have occurred to me to try that. I've only just started playing with visionary on my phone about half an hour ago so I have virtually zero experience rooting the mt4g so far.
Was not talking **** but I totally appreciate your supportive attitude and I agree with your statements. I was a super-noob and am still pretty darn noobish. I actually enjoy helping where I can and I put links in my sig in case they come in handy for others.

Oh... Sorry for coming off so harsh.
Do you have any questions or need any help?
macfan74318

Since this is no longer development related, I am moving to General section

Okay. Sorry for being off topic. But if you need help please ask here.
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macfan74318 said:
Oh... Sorry for coming off so harsh.
Do you have any questions or need any help?
macfan74318
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No worries, your heart was in the right place. I think I'm ok for now. Going out of town this weekend so won't be able to play with this until probably tuesday night.
Also kinda waiting for CM6 to be available for our phones.

Yup Cyanogen Mod 6.1 will be amazing. They have already booted it but the status of the ROM is unknown

macfan74318 said:
Yup Cyanogen Mod 6.1 will be amazing. They have already booted it but the status of the ROM is unknown
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Well it boots, but nothing works yet. Give them time.

Well kmobs says that "more will be released tonight". Maybe we will get a nightly build!

Can someone help me root my mt4g.i need wifi tethering.
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How to root
First Question? Do you get and OTA Update (You can check by going to System -> About Phone -> Software Information. If you have gotten the update then under Android version it would say 2.2.1.
Next you need to follow this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834225
What I did is I downloaded the program droid explorer (PC) (http://de.codeplex.com/) and it set up the whole adb system. All I did was to plug the phone in and copy the two files using Super Manager (Phone) and the ran the 2 commands minus the adb part of the command.
Download Visionary (http://android.modaco.com/content/t...350/10-nov-r12-test-visionary-one-click-root/) and then copy the apk file to your sd card.
Then mount your phone to your pc and copy the two files on to the root of your SD Card
Then open up super manager and go to settings and Enable ROOT Function, and show hidden files.
Then go the the copied files and cut them (Hi-light check box and hit the pair of scissors)
The keep navigating up one level until you cant go up anymore.
Then navigate to data
Then inside of data select local and paste the files there.
Then plug your phone in but dont mount it ( When you plug in it pull down the notification bar and select USB CONNECTION Change Type and change it to charge only.
The open Droid Explorer and it will recognize your phone
Look on the tool bar and hit the icon that looks like the command prompt icon.
The type su an on your phone you will get a prompt for superuser on your phone accept it.
Then copy and paste the following commands
insmod /data/local/wpx.ko You should get an error stating "function not implemented" this is what you want
dd if=/data/local/hboot_dhd.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
Then type sync and wait about 5 min and then reboot.
Complete Credit for this guide goes to grankin01 I just broke it down step by step.
Hope this helps
Macfan

[Release] Clockwork Recovery Port. Latest release V4 fixes graphical issues

I take no responsibility for any harm that comes to your phone as a result of applying this mod.
I suggest people start using genokolar's version instead, available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067490
Clockwork Recovery port based on Koush's 3.0.2.8 source.
Available here: http://www.multiupload.com/DQGL84P3A5
Source available on my github: https://github.com/stockwell/u8800-clockwork-recovery-port (bit messy.. will do a cleanup when I have the time)
BIG THANKS TO 357546 for creating the new kernel!!
v4 Notes:
- Now using 357546's kernel with fixed framebuffer driver capable of RGB565!
- Seems to be fully functional aside from rom manager integration
- Some small cleanups in init scripts and sbin
Detailed Installation:
- Ensure that there are no Huawei rom updates on your SD-Card in the dload folder and unplug the phone from your computer
- Boot to bootloader mode by pressing the up and down volume keys and pressing the power button. This will show a plain violet/purple screen.
- Connect the phone to your computer. In windows it will automatically mount one mass storage device which corresponds to the /cust_backup folder on your phone. If your OS supports EXT3 it will mount multiple devices, look for the one with an images directory and this is the device to use.
- In the images directory rename recovery.img to something else (ie. recovery.bak) and then copy the new recovery image in its place.
- Unmount the mass storage device to ensure all cached writes are completed and then disconnect from the computer. Exit bootloader mode by pulling out the battery.
You now have the clockwork recovery installed. Boot to recovery by holding the volume up and power buttons to turn the phone on.

wow！
hope for a perfect recovery!

Any feedback on this?
Sent from my u8800 using XDA App

good news！！！
seems that the32bpp mode is a big problem
hope to see changes!!!

Good stuff man, thanks for the work you're doing.

good job bro

Thanks for the support! I've got an issue though, I've applied the recovery but when I press the vol buttons and power I am taken to the purple screen instead of the green recovery menu. V2 worked fine though......not sure if anyone else is having the same issue?

VolUP+VolDown+Power=Purple screen
VolUp+Power=Recovery screen

Got it, thanks!
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tested, backup ok, wifi ok
thanks for your work, tested V4, backup ok, wifi is working fine, so far no problem

wmi543 said:
thanks for your work, tested, use lastest clockmod rom manager 4.0, backup ok, wifi is working fine, so far no problem
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Hey, just a question on that topic - I goto 'Backup Current ROM' and it asks me to install clockmod recovery, and asks to verify what model of phone; obviously u8800 isn't an option on the list.
So.... Aroo? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious

actually you don't need to install rom manager
just follow the instructions in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043232

Yep, so just skip using the app entirely. Got it

What's the difference between this and Reckas recovery?

blup1 said:
What's the difference between this and Reckas recovery?
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That would be v2 of my recovery port actually. As stated this version fixes usb mass storage mounting and implements off-mode charging.

made a backup without problem.. thx..

blup1 said:
What's the difference between this and Reckas recovery?
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I mentioned in mine that it was Stockwells, maybe I didn't make this clear. Sorry about that in that case.
Either way I better get this up on my site to be mirrored
http://www.apksmash.com/x5/recovery.img
New version uploaded

When you are in recovery after the last step which says so, are you just suppose to take the first option "reboot system now"?
Sorry, completely beginner with these kinds of stuff.
Edit: I guess I should choose backup and restore> backup but when i do so it says "Can't mount SD-card"

I have serious problem by finding the bootloader drivers! The driver update is failing all the time? Do some of you have the driver folder you can give me?
THX!

blup1 said:
When you are in recovery after the last step which says so, are you just suppose to take the first option "reboot system now"?
Edit: I guess I should choose backup and restore> backup but when i do so it says "Can't mount SD-card"
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Feel free to just have a poke around and see what it can do. At the moment the only really useful thing is backup and restore.
I'm not sure why it won't mount the sd. I should mention that it does not use the internal 'sd-card' so you'll get that error if you don't have an external sd-card inserted.
Playron said:
I have serious problem by finding the bootloader drivers! The driver update is failing all the time? Do some of you have the driver folder you can give me?
THX!
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I didn't think that drivers were needed, it should just come up with the mass storage device. From what I remember there are two other devices that windows detects but cannot find drivers for, but don't stress about that as it's not needed. Try it again and see how it goes, it may have mounted but you were stressing about the drivers so missed that it was working.

Major problems with downgrading GB ROM

I am trying to downgrade from stock GB 2.3.3 ROM.
My SD card has now disappeared when i tried to put the PD98img.zip file on it.
When i tried to change from USB charging to disk drive there isn't any option anymore for disk drive.
However the SD drive and it's contents is shown in Astro file manager, very strange
I did this as per instructions:
1. Download Gingerbreak, and install it. Then tap root button.
2. You might get force close errors, just click the force close button and let Gingerbreak do it's job
3. Gingerbreak will, in the end, usually say that something went wrong. Just leave it open in your phone, and connect your phone to a PC. Charge only, USB Debugging enabled!
4. Open up a cmd and go to Downgrade folder, execute commands: (after command "su", allow SuperUser in phone)
adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell
su
If you got "#" in the result, you have temporary root! Proceed with commands:
Code:
cd /data/local/tmp
./misc_version -s 1.31.405.6
Next step is to put the PD98img.zip file on SD card so i tried to change the USB connection but the option is gone to connect to the SD.
Also when i go to Settings my SD card is not available, the system can not see any SD and i can't mount it either, it's gone.
What should i do now?

put the SD into ur pc, simples

Take out the sd card and reinsert it.
Then put the PD file on the SD card before beginning the process.

I rebooted it now and now i can choose USB disk drive.
What is the cause this was happening in the first place? somehow Gingerbreak did something.

I think it was trying to remove things whilst still mid adb shell.

[EDIT] Said something that wasn't quite right so removed, thanks for the heads up jkoljo.
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That is incorrect, gingerbreak also works without S-OFF, like in the downgrade guide. The difference is, with S-OFF you get permanent root, and without it only temporary, which is enough for downgrading.
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jkoljo said:
That is incorrect, gingerbreak also works without S-OFF, like in the downgrade guide. The difference is, with S-OFF you get permanent root, and without it only temporary, which is enough for downgrading.
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My bad, I must have mis-understood something someone said to me previously.
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Ok everything fine now running latest Lee, thanks.

Anyone had success with telus dhd?
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goodrench said:
Anyone had success with telus dhd?
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What problems are you having trying to downgrade your Telus DHD?
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goodrench said:
Anyone had success with telus dhd?
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what, with gingerbread or downgrading.... in my case, both.
gingerbreak will say its attempting, let it go into standby, then go back to using the phone, gingerbreak will say there's an error, reboot the phone..... you're rooted.
If you want to go downgrade, just use the RUU, it overides everything (something that the recovery tool isnt able to do when using the p98img.zip)
Downgrading and rooting with simple steps and no code entry, Made it, and it works for the Telus DHD and Inspire 4G
(Our Telus DHD's are the exact hardware twin of the Inspire 4G; unlike the Euro/Asian DHD's which have different radio controllers)

My trouble is getting su to work. Gingerbreak gets to the error message and when I "adb shell " to the phone it will not accept su. (Permission denied)
What ruu are you referring to? I tried 1.32 and 1.84, and they both fail.
I attempted to use the ruu downloaded from the link in the previous post and it failed saying bootloader version error.
Any thoughts?

success!!!
Had an old version of superuser installed from the telus dhd permanent root files that I previously downloaded. Uninstalled superuser and downloaded from market.
Also had phone unplugged from pc while running gingerbreak. previously left it plugged in through whole procedure.
Hope this helps someone else.

Help with executing commands in adb; stuck at ".../bin/sh...No such file..." error

Help with executing commands in adb; stuck at ".../bin/sh...No such file..." error
I am out of all tricks now for reviving my Note which boots into download and recovery mode. I conclude that from what I have experienced, that factoryfs is the partition which fails to take any write commands when I odin a ROM, as it gets stuck at the factoryfs message. I have tried all the flashing of kernels and ROMs with no luck.
Working with adb seems to be the only option, to configure the partitions on my device manually. The big issue is that I am not able to execute "adb shell" command using Forest1971's guide.
So far, I have had no luck going beyond the "exec -/system/bin/sh...:No such file or directory...(2)" error message, when I type the "adb shell" command.
Can someone with the know-how of how to work through adb help with this? This is my last effort of trying to recover my Note, and if it fails, I will have no choice but to sent the device out of the US. I dread sending my phone out of the country for repairs, as I don't know just how long it will be before it gets fixed and is shipped back to me.
Please do not suggest any flash options, because as I said, I have tried all there is to do with flashing - nothing has helped.

First see if you have a /system filesystem. Looks to me that it doesn't exist. See if you can type
Code:
$ cd /system
or
Code:
$ cd /system/bin
If it complains then there's your problem - you don't have a functioning /system. Maybe type mount and show your filesystems.
I know you asked for no flash suggestions, but have you tried making the device do a hard reset - when powered off hold down home, volume up while holding down power on then release power button when screen shows life. May be worth a shot, but looking like another ICS firmware/emmc issue from here... good luck.
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should have read your post more closely. Looks like you have no /system/bin/sh at all so can't fire up a shell, so you can ignore my initial suggestion.

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First see if you have a /system filesystem. Looks to me that it doesn't exist. See if you can type
Code:
$ cd /system
or
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$ cd /system/bin
If it complains then there's your problem - you don't have a functioning /system. Maybe type mount and show your filesystems.
I know you asked for no flash suggestions, but have you tried making the device do a hard reset - when powered off hold down home, volume up while holding down power on then release power button when screen shows life. May be worth a shot, but looking like another ICS firmware/emmc issue from here... good luck.
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should have read your post more closely. Looks like you have no /system/bin/sh at all so can't fire up a shell, so you can ignore my initial suggestion.
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Suggestion ignored. Any more?

Get an iPhone?

Look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26279833
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Get an iPhone?
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I won't go the route of laughing and mocking you for saying that. I do think it's a very well put together device, but it just doesn't serve my needs of a big screen, the ability to be free...etc. By the way, you asked me to ignore your suggestion, so I did - FYI.
zviki said:
Look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26279833
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I was in that thread, and the suggestions didn't help as it is too complex a process. I was hoping to pick up from scratch, so I created this thread.

incisivekeith said:
I won't go the route of laughing and mocking you for saying that. I do think it's a very well put together device, but it just doesn't serve my needs of a big screen, the ability to be free...etc. By the way, you asked me to ignore your suggestion, so I did - FYI.
I was in that thread, and the suggestions didn't help as it is too complex a process. I was hoping to pick up from scratch, so I created this thread.
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Hi, please take a look to my post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26350317#post26350317
Just flash that kernel from cmw, and you should be able to run commands on adb shell.

matiasg85 said:
Hi, please take a look to my post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26350317#post26350317
Just flash that kernel from cmw, and you should be able to run commands on adb shell.
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Thanks for the kernel, but it seems you didn't have much luck solving the issue, even after doing everything in adb correctly. Is that the case?

incisivekeith said:
Thanks for the kernel, but it seems you didn't have much luck solving the issue, even after doing everything in adb correctly. Is that the case?
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Yes, unfortunatelly i did everything as stated on adb, but had no luck. If ssc don't replace it, i will try using the memory blocks used by the "internal sd card".
You must try it anyway, there were some users that succesfully unbricked the phone.

Did anyone try this mk2efs command with -c option ON ??
Sorry Incesivekeith
I was out of connection for past 2 days.
We have to pull Mr Forest1971 for doing this.
Let me sum up :
parted is not able to solve your issue.
mk2efs is another formating tool that comes with CWM
You are stuck up in executing commands.
Now the idea of flashing the cwm kernel is fine. Did u try that ??
Mr Forest1971 :
Did you see Dr Sumralls comments for this bug.
''He says that we have to go for a full wipe. I have a tool but I dont know I couldnt share it.''

incisivekeith said:
I won't go the route of laughing and mocking you for saying that. I do think it's a very well put together device, but it just doesn't serve my needs of a big screen, the ability to be free...etc. By the way, you asked me to ignore your suggestion, so I did - FYI.
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I asked you to ignore the initial suggestion as you've obviously not got any functioning recovery. You've not provided much info about how you got to this position, but in my similar situation I got out of it by successfully flashing a FULL WIPE factoryfs (LA4 in my case) and doing the factory reset as I mentioned in my first response. I lost a few GB of my eMMC storage but got a working device. May not help you, but may be useful info for others. Share and share alike. Good luck dude .

Root for ICS TPT! This time the REAL thing!

Hey guys, I have good news for you all. I sat down these days and tried all kinds of exploits and one, normally for the Asus Transformer Prime really works!
Debugfs automated root from sparkym3 provided me full root access to my device. Its simple to use and does all stuff automatic
So it enables Users of the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet to finally root their device, even if you had it updated to ICS. As you all know, this was not possible before, but after I ran through almost all exploits running anywhere for ICS, I found this one working like a charm.
Have fun!
WARNING!
If you dont know the slightest bit of Windows or Linux shell and never did more than USE the device, be warned... If you kill it, its dead!

emuandco said:
Hey guys, I have good news for you all. I sat down these days and tried all kinds of exploits and one, normally for the Asus Transformer Prime really works!
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I confirm it works perfectly. ICS TPT _A400_03_0070_0132_US :good:

God, this is so wonderful. CWM works, Koshu's CM10 JB Firmware, too. I LOVE THE DEVICE AGAIN!

Great news! Who might have thought that a working exploit is already out there?

This is wonderful news, a friend of mine recently lost root after he had to send his TPT in for repair and got a new board already updated to ICS.

FANTASTIC - worked on UK running OTA 3.5
Booyah! Thanks Emuandco for your diligence!

Thank you. Had lost hope of root for ICS. My TPT may finally be the tablet I paid for.

22 hours and 5 badly needed factory resets were worth it ^^

Thanks a lot :good: :good: :good:
I just rooted my ThinkPad (WE version). Works like a charm.

emuandco said:
Hey guys, I have good news for you all. I sat down these days and tried all kinds of exploits and one, normally for the Asus Transformer Prime really works!
Debugfs automated root from sparkym3 provided me full root access to my device. Its simple to use and does all stuff automatic
So it enables Users of the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet to finally root their device, even if you had it updated to ICS. As you all know, this was not possible before, but after I ran through almost all exploits running anywhere for ICS, I found this one working like a charm.
Have fun!
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wonderful!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
Just tried and it worked!!!

after some trouble installing the adb drivers it worked fine on my WE tablet..finally, awesome, thanks

Amazing how much of a difference having root on this tablet makes.:good:

Stylus and Pressure Sensitivity
Been waiting a long time for this. I had one question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I use my TPT for sketching, allot, it's why I bought the tablet. I was wondering, if I root and then upgrade to Jelly Bean, will I lose stylus and pressure sensitivity?

Can someone post the steps to get this working starting from a clean OTA 4.0.3 rom? I just started messing with the TPT. What boot options are there? I see the hold-down-rotate-and-power boot which looks like what is needed for nvflash, but I can't seem to get any other bootloaders booting here. The debugfs script seems to want to talk to a recovery boot, yes? How do I boot into recovery mode?
Sorry for the TPT newbie questions. Is there a wiki someplace with all the boot modes and other info?

First, load this one: LINK
Its the Driver needed for the TPT to communicate with the PC over ADB protocol.
Go to your TPT Settings below inside Developer Options and check USB Debugging. Attach to your PC and hand the new unknown Device in Device manager the loaded ADB Driver. Then download and unzip everything from the Exploit into a directory; then run RootDebugfs.bat from that directory. This should do it for the rooting of the Stock Firmware. You can verify it by getting "Root Checker" from Play Store. If its green, next load this one: LINK and this one LINK. Its the ClockWorkMod aka modded Recovery Mode making it possible to flash unsigned Updates and making nice Full Backups and the JB Firmware itself.
Install this way from a windows console bein inside the folder where the adb.exe from the exploit is, Step one is making a backup of your previous Recovery Mode for future reverting if you want to do so. Step two is the actual install. You need to copy the loaded recovery.img from the CWM thread to the SD in your TPT, same goes for the JB ZIP File and maybe the 3G Patch for the 3G Card you might have.
BE SURE ALL FILES ARE COPIED ON THE SD AND ITS INSIDE THE TPT AGAIN!
Code:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/mnt/external_sd/orig_recovery.img
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup
dd if=/mnt/external_sd/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
exit
exit
This should be enough. Now reboot and while the Lenovo mini Logo shows up, push Vol UP rapidly. This should boot up CWM6, our modded recover Mode. Here Vol UP is upwards, Vol DOWN is downwards and ON/OFF is Enter. First thing, DO A FULL BACKUP TO EXTERNAL SD in "backup and restore", "backup" !!! Then let it do a "wipe data/factory reset", then select "install zip from sdcard" and in there "choose zip from external sdcard". Choose the CM10 JB ZIP first, then the 3G Patch for your Card.
Reboot and youre done.

i have updated to the latest ota and i am not rooted.. A400_03_0070_0132_US
when i run it and choose option 1 the window automatically closes after like 2 seconds
am i supposed to use the asus drivers or what? if anyone can please help...

Somebody buy that man a beer.!!!!!!

Yankies77 - right click on RootDebugfs.bat and choose 'Run as Administrator'
You may get a different result.

pwstein said:
Yankies77 - right click on RootDebugfs.bat and choose 'Run as Administrator'
You may get a different result.
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I have already tried that doesn't work. when in cmd i write adb devices it shows the device is connected
i have put it to transfer files and MTP settings with unknown sources and debugging on ..when i run the .bat file
after the *demon started successfully* it suddenly closes after which nothing happens..what do you think is wrong?

Open a CMD prompt and run the bat file from there. then show us the output of the script please.
AAND be sure that theres not any adb.exe coming from the system path variable, like in system32 or syswow64. kill these