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Now that i'm finally rooted :D

Now that i've finally managed to root my SNS, what should i do now? :O
(What are some good roms, etc)

Look at all of the choices available and find the rom you like the most.
I'd personally recommend,
Lightweight and speed: oxygen
Cm7 is another cool rom
Miui is good as well.
Kernel: netarchys 1.3.7 with proton voltage condolences to undervolt and use voodoo functionality
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I'm a bit confused as to what I installed while I was rooting.
I installed Clockwork 3.0.2.4 but what exactly is this?

isinisterx said:
I'm a bit confused as to what I installed while I was rooting.
I installed Clockwork 3.0.2.4 but what exactly is this?
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It allows you to flash custom Roms and perform backups (restore your phone to a given point in time)
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OK, now before I rooted my phone I backed up my entire phone (copy and paste to desktop), but I still lost all my apps in the app store? any way of getting these back?

isinisterx said:
OK, now before I rooted my phone I backed up my entire phone (copy and paste to desktop), but I still lost all my apps in the app store? any way of getting these back?
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Yes, but you'd have had enabled back up to your Google account before you rooted and have to enable it on the rooted phone again, then the market will try to restore all apps.
If you didn't you got to do it manually (recommend doing it via webside market for easier accessing old apps), then get Titanium Backup and save all your apps.

isinisterx said:
OK, now before I rooted my phone I backed up my entire phone (copy and paste to desktop), but I still lost all my apps in the app store? any way of getting these back?
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No. Redownload them and back it up using a backup apply. I'd recommend tianjin backup pro. It costs $6 but its worth it. It backs up ur apps/games and data along with it.
Every rom flash involving a factory reset will wipe your apps. With titanium backup pro, you can one click restore everything
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Ok,
Final question is that how do i go about installing the rom? I downloaded it and transferred it to the memory card.
I go into fastboot and into recovery.
Then.?

isinisterx said:
Ok,
Final question is that how do i go about installing the rom? I downloaded it and transferred it to the memory card.
I go into fastboot and into recovery.
Then.?
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1. Download the ROM
2. mount the phone's USB
3. put it on the root of the /sdcard/ while mounted
4. unmount
5. go into recovery
6. wipe factory settings, data cache, dalvk cache (advanced)
P.S. i'd recommend getting clockwork 4.0.0.2 from the dev forums, its a lot better. better organization on wipes
7. flash the ROM (if you're flashing CM7, you have to flash Gapps afterwards) [flash zip from sdcard]
this flash applies to any flashable zips including kernels/roms/radios... DO NOT FLASH BOOT ANIMATIONS. you put them in /system/media/ if you choose to do so
8. reboot

how do u install teh clockwork 4.0.0.2?

isinisterx said:
how do u install teh clockwork 4.0.0.2?
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if you can please, hit the "thanks" button for all of my posts otherwise i wont help anymore because ive been posting on a timely fashion and I think I deserve something for my help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
download respective to your phone model
put it in /sdk/tools (you need adb environment setup)
go into bootloader mode
type "fastboot flash 4002-orange.img" or whatever color you downloaded.

zephiK said:
if you can please, hit the "thanks" button for all of my posts otherwise i wont help anymore because ive been posting on a timely fashion and I think I deserve something for my help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
download respective to your phone model
put it in /sdk/tools (you need adb environment setup)
go into bootloader mode
type "fastboot flash 4002-orange.img" or whatever color you downloaded.
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Kk I thank'd all your posts.
Do I have to install the htc sync?

isinisterx said:
Kk I thank'd all your posts.
Do I have to install the htc sync?
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No? Not sure where you get "HTC Sync" from. This is a Samsung phone, not a HTC one.

First the Galaxy Tab and now we can have the 3.2 Honeycomb Xoom!

First the Galaxy Tab and now we can have the 3.2 Honeycomb Xoom.
Big Thanks to mdj and the rest of the virtuous team we already have HC3.2 Cheers guys for your fantastic work
Enjoy
Check out the link!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167391
MJ-12

I'm tempted to try that out since I'm still not getting the 3.1 update here. I hope I don't screw anything up while installing it, though.

WereCatf said:
I'm tempted to try that out since I'm still not getting the 3.1 update here. I hope I don't screw anything up while installing it, though.
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Just follow the instructions carefully and you will be fine.
Its not that hard really,
1. Root your device
2. Install Acer Recovery Installer from Market
3. Install the Clockwork image IN THE Acer Recovery Installer
4. Download the wished custom rom and place it in your EXTERNAL SD CARD
5. Enter Acer Recovery Installey either via the App itself which has the option 'enter recovery' or turn off your device and press Power and Volume - together until the recovery appears or the text in the upper left corner.
6. Once in recovery use the volume and power buttons to navigate. First highlight and press Wipe data/factory reset and then do the the same for Wipe Cache Partition.
7. Navigate to Install zip from External SD Card, enter and navigate to the zip file and press enter (power button is enter)
And thats it. Here is a video of clockwork and how to do it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG-Sj6ej_bA&feature=player_embedded#at=254

You forgot one of the vital steps.....do a FULL backup in CWM first. Absolutely essential.
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and also
use ACER RECOVERY INSTALLER it's much more easy

TFordham said:
You forgot one of the vital steps.....do a FULL backup in CWM first. Absolutely essential.
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Hi I have a quick question regarding this I am hoping you can help me. Am I able to only restore the system.img, boot.img and recover.img; I don't want/need to restore the app.img (I think that's what is called). Can I do this via CWM?

vince1979 said:
Hi I have a quick question regarding this I am hoping you can help me. Am I able to only restore the system.img, boot.img and recover.img; I don't want/need to restore the app.img (I think that's what is called). Can I do this via CWM?
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Yes. Just used Advanced Backup/Restore.

FloatingFatMan said:
Yes. Just used Advanced Backup/Restore.
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Thanks...do I have to flash the recovery.img via the Acer Recovery Installer first?

vince1979 said:
Thanks...do I have to flash the recovery.img via the Acer Recovery Installer first?
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Do that last, as you want itsmagic to calculate checksums.
Personally, though.. Why replace it? I'd leave CWM on there.

FloatingFatMan said:
Do that last, as you want itsmagic to calculate checksums.
Personally, though.. Why replace it? I'd leave CWM on there.
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Thanks again! I thought it was mandatory to replace the recovery image; but if it's not then I'd rather leave CWM. You're a good man! Thanks for the help.

My apologies guys, I wrote the whole thing pretty fast.
I actually meant Acer Recovery Installer (thats where you can boot into Recovery), I got confused.
Thanks for adding the info.
Cheers.

Are custom roms on this tab....particularly this 3.2 rom worth a try..?? I'm on stock 3.1 ota......
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vari9 said:
Are custom roms on this tab....particularly this 3.2 rom worth a try..?? I'm on stock 3.1 ota......
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For me def yes, But I went back to the virtuous galaxy rom after trying 3.2, the galaxy rom is just to smooth and pretty

Well, I finally took the plunge and installed it. Haven't played with it yet, but I have to admit that the installation went painlessly

When you do a full backup using cwm, does it backup everthing..? Like a complete image of the device in which you restore and everthing is back..? Or is it just a backup of the Operating System. Thanks

good question

shaun298 said:
When you do a full backup using cwm, does it backup everthing..? Like a complete image of the device in which you restore and everthing is back..? Or is it just a backup of the Operating System. Thanks
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Full backup stores everything, including all your settings, installed applications and so on. I just tried it myself earlier because I didn't find the answer elsewhere

Here's a question that I asked back when I was using Virtuous Galaxy and definitely applies with Virtuous Xoom: Is it possible to successfully use the Motorola Xoom recovery found in Rom Manager? I flashed it but have not had the guts to use it within Rom Manager (sticking with Acer Recovery). Thanks and sorry if it is a dumb question. BTW, I love Virtuous Xoom at least as much as Virtuous Picasso and more than Virtuous Galaxy! I upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.1.0 with only wipes of cache and Dalvik Cache......so far so great!
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shaun298 said:
When you do a full backup using cwm, does it backup everthing..? Like a complete image of the device in which you restore and everthing is back..? Or is it just a backup of the Operating System. Thanks
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I've done it a few times and it backs up everything, apps and settings and all. It makes it really easy to revert to a previous setup if you don't like the rom you just installed.

wayne8821212 said:
Here's a question that I asked back when I was using Virtuous Galaxy and definitely applies with Virtuous Xoom: Is it possible to successfully use the Motorola Xoom recovery found in Rom Manager? I flashed it but have not had the guts to use it within Rom Manager (sticking with Acer Recovery). Thanks and sorry if it is a dumb question. BTW, I love Virtuous Xoom at least as much as Virtuous Picasso and more than Virtuous Galaxy! I upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.1.0 with only wipes of cache and Dalvik Cache......so far so great!
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DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER OR YOU WILL BRICK YOUR TABLET!
The A500 uses a checksum to validate its ROM. This checksum must be recalculated when you flash and we use the "itsmagic" program to do it. Only the A500 custom version of Clockwork Mod runs that automatically. If you flash with anything else, and itsmagic isn't run, you'll have an expensive tea tray.

Went back to stock, got EL30 and phone died...

Anxious to check out the new shiznit... i odin'd back to stock and caught the EL30 OTA... upon restart i could not get any signal, nor connect to my wifi...
had to completely restock the phone, re-root and re-cwm...
Went thru hell to get back to my miui backup
had to install MarcusantROM v3, then restore the backup of miui...
So I guess the moral of this story is... wait for the rom developers to sort it out...
In short, thanks to marcusant and xboxfanj for your hard work (And all the others working on all the roms) because your roms have been my daily drivers for quite some time...

darklichny said:
Anxious to check out the new shiznit... i odin'd back to stock and caught the EL30 OTA... upon restart i could not get any signal, nor connect to my wifi...
had to completely restock the phone, re-root and re-cwm...
Went thru hell to get back to my miui backup
had to install MarcusantROM v3, then restore the backup of miui...
So I guess the moral of this story is... wait for the rom developers to sort it out...
In short, thanks to marcusant and xboxfanj for your hard work (And all the others working on all the roms) because your roms have been my daily drivers for quite some time...
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Thanks. Idk why that's been happening. Some can get signal on stock based roms and not cm7 or miui.us, and apparently some like you are the opposite.
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So if people are getting the ota shouldn't we have a link by now to the Google servers where we might go and download it ourselves to manually do the update?
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stilesja said:
So if people are getting the ota shouldn't we have a link by now to the Google servers where we might go and download it ourselves to manually do the update?
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We need people to either A) capture the URL via logcat or B) dig the update.zip out of their cache before applying it and run a SHA-160 hash on it so we could manually deduce URL on our own. Until either happens though we are in limbo waiting.

as soon as i finish the software for a customer im working on, i'll try and re-get the update and see what we end up with... Sorry but was in the middle of some work and needed to text a client...

have never done it so if someone shows me how to get to the update.zip, I'll be glad to post it and those that know get to work on it.

dbpaddler said:
have never done it so if someone shows me how to get to the update.zip, I'll be glad to post it and those that know get to work on it.
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Root it then download and install later. Then gget a file explorer like ES File Explorer and turn in root and mount as rw. Then set the folder as / (in the star menu). Then go to /cache and look for it.
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I'm rooted and running legendary. Have ES. What do you mean "turn in root and mount as rw"? I have root explorer check, and Mount File System is set as writable. And there are quite a few cache folders. The main one (just /cache) is empty. Not following the '* menu" thing. But up in the main bar at /cache I've got nada.
marcusant said:
Root it then download and install later. Then gget a file explorer like ES File Explorer and turn in root and mount as rw. Then set the folder as / (in the star menu). Then go to /cache and look for it.
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dbpaddler said:
I'm rooted and running legendary. Have ES. What do you mean "turn in root and mount as rw"? I have root explorer check, and Mount File System is set as writable. And there are quite a few cache folders. The main one (just /cache) is empty. Not following the '* menu" thing. But up in the main bar at /cache I've got nada.
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Look around cache a bit.

i got the update file...uploading now will post link in a little

well damnit...after I just went back to stock for no reason now...haha.

hope this is right....
http://www.mediafire.com/?a98i5xubp42df1p

Yeah, it works..renamed your file to update.zip, flashed and am now running 2.3.6 EL30..Thanks!!

You still can't use this update if you are rooted. You have to wait for a pre rooted version or revert to stock unrooted EC05 or stock EI22 to manually update.

The modem update is a delta file. Can anyone share as to how to repackage it as to apply it by itself?

Bliger241 said:
i got the update file...uploading now will post link in a little
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I think I love you!

Bliger241 said:
hope this is right....
http://www.mediafire.com/?a98i5xubp42df1p
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^^^^^^
HERO!

toadlife said:
^^^^^^
HERO!
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so ..... we can use this to update our modem and it WON'T mess up our root or MTD or anything else ?

TexasEpic4G said:
so ..... we can use this to update our modem and it WON'T mess up our root or MTD or anything else ?
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NO. You must be unrooted, BML, stock EI22 to use this.
I tried to swap the modem_delta with the EC05 to EI22 zip but am getting status 7...damn!

I did the same and got it working but had to first get off Cyanogenmod
So to follow (sure there are better ways but this was quickest for me), I:
1. odin'd to EC05
2. oneclickroot
3. EC05->EI22 modem delta
4. ECI22 -> EL30 modem delta (by replacing file and resigning)
5. Will flash Cyanongen next
kennyglass123 said:
NO. You must be unrooted, BML, stock EI22 to use this.
I tried to swap the modem_delta with the EC05 to EI22 zip but am getting status 7...damn!
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[ACS][How to] Update to EL30 Android 2.3.6, ROOT and Review

Just made a video for everyone on updating to stock EL30. I'll be doing more videos on El30 for sure.
How to Manually Update the Samsung Epic 4G to Stock EL30 Gingerbread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3bccIXQSrU
Review of EL30 (There are some changes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30cW2WhL0KA
HOW TO ROOT ON EL30:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE

OP updated

Super fast with the vids as always! Thanks!
Oh...and first!

Has anyone experienced the boot loop issue like the last manual update to 22? I had to wipe my phone to fix...
Not sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus

If you did did the GPS Fix (assuming you're on stock BML EI22), then you will need to replace the system/vendor/bin/gpsd file or else you will get an Error Status 7 when you try to do the update. You can extract the file from the EI22.zip (If someone can post the file and host it, even better).
I haven't tested the GPS after updating so I don't know if the new gpsd file fixes anything or reverts things back to what they were (ie locking on only 3 or 4 sats). If it has reverted it back, then you will probably have to re-run the GPS Fix again.

i got an error "verifying the script(?)" i forgot the complete error message when i tried to install it from stock ei22 and stock recovery.
Do you think it has to do with the fact that I downloaded within the phone's webbrowser, and renamed it in ES explorer within the phone?
I have trouble mounting my phone to my computer, so i either have to download files to my phone directly from within its own webbrowser, or take the sd card out and mount that seperatly.

@qbking77: you don't need to rename the update file to update.zip since the GB roms the stock reccovery allows you to choose what zip to use.
For me I copied both updates to my card as update.zip, EI22 and update-EL30.zip then I:
1- ODIN'd to EC05
2- shutdown
3- 3 finger salute
4- flashed update.zip (EI22)
5- shutdown
6- 3 finger salute
7- flashed update-EL30.zip
After that I:
A- copied the su.zip that removes the reinstall of stock recovery,
B- ODIN'd cwm 3 but unchecked reboot.
C- pulled battery
D- 3 finger salute
E- flashed the aboved mentioned su.zip
F- flashed cwm5
G- rebooted
That left me with a stock kernel with root and custom recovery. Made a NANDROID and have been tinkering with it.
Right now I'm tring to get CRT-OFF to work.
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futureprospect said:
i got an error "verifying the script(?)" i forgot the complete error message when i tried to install it from stock ei22 and stock recovery.
Do you think it has to do with the fact that I downloaded within the phone's webbrowser, and renamed it in ES explorer within the phone?
I have trouble mounting my phone to my computer, so i either have to download files to my phone directly from within its own webbrowser, or take the sd card out and mount that seperatly.
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I recomend to mount the card seperatly or use airdroid from the market to transfer files from your comp to phone over wifi
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futureprospect said:
i got an error "verifying the script(?)" i forgot the complete error message when i tried to install it from stock ei22 and stock recovery.
Do you think it has to do with the fact that I downloaded within the phone's webbrowser, and renamed it in ES explorer within the phone?
I have trouble mounting my phone to my computer, so i either have to download files to my phone directly from within its own webbrowser, or take the sd card out and mount that seperatly.
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nevermind. I dled a curropt file. After redownloading it worked.
Thanks qb for the review and install. Btw ei22 had the loop-scrolling home screens too, but no biggie.

thanks for the post qbking. So seems like no real reason to update if you arnt using a stock rom?

Updated OP... Use the SAME method to root as EI22!

qbking77 said:
Updated OP... Use the SAME method to root as EI22!
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Plus Toadlife has a prerooted kernel for this over in development which should help.
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Do I need to unroot before I update?

Falhawk said:
Do I need to unroot before I update?
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That is what the procedure does, yes.

Toadlife has both ODIN + Heimdall stock packages pre-loaded w/ kernel............these'll be especially useful to us folk that need to ODIN back to stock from MTD set-ups........then back up the chain to EL30 firmware.
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Ok I am rooted but I have the stock EI22 Gingerbread, Firmware 2.3.5 and Kernel 2.6.35.7. I recieved my update today. Forgive me I am a noob. Do I still have to unroot this to complete stock or simply update my phone over the air?
I have the ACS Recovery V1.0.0.5 CWM4 based.

fatstrat67 said:
Ok I am rooted but I have the stock EI22 Gingerbread, Firmware 2.3.5 and Kernel 2.6.35.7. I recieved my update today. Forgive me I am a noob. Do I still have to unroot this to complete stock or simply update my phone over the air?
I have the ACS Recovery V1.0.0.5 CWM4 based.
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No update from Sprint will ever work on a rooted phone.
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brooksyx said:
thanks for the post qbking. So seems like no real reason to update if you arnt using a stock rom?
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Even if you're using a stock rom I don't see much benefit in upgrading. GPS was still broken for me and they changed/removed things I liked in the older stock roms (ie: incoming call screen, the alarm screen [took me a while to figure out how to snooze this morning which meant I got to work on time ;-)], the scrolling wallpaper). All minor things but I didn't have any issues with EI22 so...

What's that EI29 build you have in your downloads folder, qbking77?

Mutiny32 said:
What's that EI29 build you have in your downloads folder, qbking77?
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E4gt
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No SuperUser prompt in (stock) ICS

I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (PT-7500R from Rogers), trying to root on the new official ICS.
I have followed the directions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239185
CWM installed and works fine. After applying "Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1_root.zip" in CWM, I boot into Android, I see SuperUser in my app menu and can bring up its interface.
However, when I try to launch a su-required function (such as Reboot Recovery in ROM Manager), I don't get a prompt for SU permissions.
I have tried this with both OTA and manual (Odin3) installs of the official ICS from Rogers, from unrooted stock Honeycomb, several times.
I don't encounter this problem with stock Honeycomb... rooting that version appears to work fine.
I have experimented with some community builds, perhaps I have installed an incompatible kernel that needs replacing? I don't know, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
diggerB

diggerb said:
I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (PT-7500R from Rogers), trying to root on the new official ICS.
I have followed the directions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239185
CWM installed and works fine. "After applying Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1_root.zip" in CWM, I boot into Android, I see SuperUser in my app menu and can bring up its interface.
However, when I try to launch a su-required function (such as Reboot Recovery in ROM Manager), I don't get a prompt for SU permissions.
I have tried this with both OTA and manual (Odin3) installs of the official ICS from Rogers, from unrooted stock Honeycomb, several times.
I don't encounter this problem with stock Honeycomb... rooting that version appears to work fine.
I have experimented with some community builds, perhaps I have installed an incompatible kernel that needs replacing? I don't know, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
diggerB
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Have you tried to see if superuser had an update in the market? I recommend to also make sure the binary is up to date in the superuser app.
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nakedninja42 said:
Have you tried to see if superuser had an update in the market? I recommend to also make sure the binary is up to date in the superuser app.
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Thank you for your reply.
I updated to the latest version in Play Store, it shows Binary v2.3.1-ef , update check shows latest version 3.1.1 but when I click Update, it fails on the step "Gaining root access..."
Cheers
diggerB

You're not rooted anymore. The superuser app is there but it can't do anything since the su is missing. You have to re-root.
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Tyxerakias said:
You're not rooted anymore. The superuser app is there but it can't do anything since the su is missing. You have to re-root.
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Thanks for the feedback... but I just went back into CWM and applied the root again, still in exactly the same boat.

Thanks to all, I found a solution in another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31179418#post31179418
Superuser just didn't want to work. The SuperSU root method referred by the OP in that thread worked great. All is well again. Until next time of course.

Hi, if you go to "www.galaxytabhacks.com" you will find the solution, there is an upgrade to superuser.