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Lost Root Acess after updating to the lates Cyonagen ROM Release

Superuser not work
ROM Manager saying i need to root my phone. Please help completely lost.

Open superuser, hit menu, toggle permissions on, reboot.
And get rid of ROM Manager

Need More help didn't work

I don't use CM, but if it comes with the newest version of SuperUser (3.04 I believe), then that's likely the problem. Uninstall it and install an older version.

R&R SU with one in this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297612
I too had thought I lost root access w/ latest SU (3.04 I believe).
Installed 3.0 in above link and everything back to normal now, i.e, root apps functioning normally.
Just be careful not to update app through Market to 3.04; I haven't found a way to stop it prompting me to update. Can't detach from Market via TB because SU doesn't appear in apps list.

i'm on 3.4 with no issues but ive lost root flashing other roms with 3.0. weird
Do what HipKat says.

OTA with TWRP?

this may have been asked, but i'm new to the nexus 7. i rooted it right away, and put TWRP on. probably shouldn't have but i like doing nandroids. i was excited for the OTA and want to just install it since my tab got it, but it won't obviously since i've got a custom recovery (duh i should've thought of that..) and i don't want to go flashing roms yet (i like keeping everything stock right away, it's so smooth)
so my question is, is there a way to go back and flash the stock recovery somehow so i can OTA, then put TWRP back on? i can't find the stock file to fastboot flash or anything

You can either download the OTA update manually and flash via TWRP. or do a full 4.2 stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989158
Warning: there have been mixed results from the early adopters on the OTA patch. I was running 4.1.2, TWRP, and SuperSU. I lost both SuperSU and TWRP when I upgraded and a handfull of apps are not working right with the new multi user file structure.
The way I did it was
1) Download the OTA zip from the thread I posted above
2) Moved that to SD Card (I moved via Google Drive, you can use USB if you want) I did the whole thing while waiting for a flight without a computer handy
3) Reboot to TWRP Recovery
4) Flash OTA Zip
To get Root and TWRP back I did the following (note, I have SuperSU pro and the survival mode was checked)
1) disabled SuperSU and reenabled which prompted to update Binaries
2) flashed TWRP via ROM Toolbox

kangy said:
You can either download the OTA update manually and flash via TWRP. or do a full 4.2 stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989158
Warning: there have been mixed results from the early adopters on the OTA patch. I was running 4.1.2, TWRP, and SuperSU. I lost both SuperSU and TWRP when I upgraded and a handfull of apps are not working right with the new multi user file structure.
The way I did it was
1) Download the OTA zip from the thread I posted above
2) Moved that to SD Card (I moved via Google Drive, you can use USB if you want) I did the whole thing while waiting for a flight without a computer handy
3) Reboot to TWRP Recovery
4) Flash OTA Zip
To get Root and TWRP back I did the following (note, I have SuperSU pro and the survival mode was checked)
1) disabled SuperSU and reenabled which prompted to update Binaries
2) flashed TWRP via ROM Toolbox
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thanks kangy! i also lost both when i flashed.
the reason it didn't work was that i frogot i played with my build.prop and had apps frozen on titanium.
so i disabled and reenabled SuperSU, but no prompt to update.
i'm using rom toolbox now to install but it keeps telling me install failed...basically because it doesn't have root i presume. any ideas?

Alright try this.
Go to SuperSU settings and and click on Reinstall under Cleanup, it will give you a prompt and tell you it will self close and to re-install from the market. (Mine never fully uninstalled which I assume is due to it being flashed to ROM, I checked under the App manager and it only had a downgrade option so) Anywho. If it did uninstall go ahead and redownload it from the market, if it didn't check the market anyway, the Dev published and update for it to help with 4.2 multi users.
Once you get it reinstalled and/or updated from the market go back to the settings and Toggle off Enable Superuser, close the app, re-open and then re-enable superuser. You probably will want to give it a reboot at this point. (Ive restarted my device a hundred times since going to 4.2 from trying to work through the bugs. Once you restart test a root app. I used Adaway for the test. Important, if the app fails or gives an error about not having root, try again. After I went through all of those motions SuperSU was pretty slow for a while with giving root access, usually the second request from the app wakes it up. Since then though it is back to being snappy with zero lag.
Yes, the reason you can't flash TWRP through ROM Toolbox is that requires root. Once you get your SuperSU working try flashing the latest TWRP again, it should only take a few seconds to flash. Let me know how it goes, I'm subscribed to the thread. I may not be the smartest guy on XDA but you are in the same exact boat I was last night!

jayochs said:
thanks kangy! i also lost both when i flashed.
the reason it didn't work was that i frogot i played with my build.prop and had apps frozen on titanium.
so i disabled and reenabled SuperSU, but no prompt to update.
i'm using rom toolbox now to install but it keeps telling me install failed...basically because it doesn't have root i presume. any ideas?
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First, determine if you have root or not. Open TiBackup, if it opens correctly and you can see all your apps listed, you have root. Otherwise it will say "Failed to obtain root," and quit.
If you have root, then great. If not, you can flash the SuperSU zip in TWRP/CWM: http://download.chainfire.eu/282/SuperSU/CWM-SuperSU-v0.98.zip
I haven't tried flashing superSU, I've always flashed Superuser zip [google "superuser zip"], and then installed superSU from Play store.
Once you have root..
Go to Settings > Security and check allow installation from non-market apps, and uncheck the security feature that checks all apps for being malicious.
Then try it. If you still cannot restore apps, you might have to install them with adb.
I just updated someone's N7 to 4.2, and as usual I backed up everything in TiBackup.
Then I backed up the TitaniumBackup directory [because I had to do a full factory reset].
I then extracted all the .apk.gz files with gunzip. [in linux OR adb: $ gunzip *.apk.gz -- for windows, I suppose you would have to use 7-Zip].
Then I tried to install with pm:
Code:
for i in *.apk; do pm install $i; done
But every one was giving me an error, INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI, I couldn't figure it out. Found a thread said to chmod 755 /data/local, but that did not fix it.
So what I had to do, was on my linux PC:
Code:
for i in *.apk;
do adb install "$i"
done
So I finally was able to batch install my apk files.
after that I restored all apps data.

Nandroid back ups not possible after 4.2 update
After updating my rooted N7 to 4.2 OTA I re-rooted using Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit 1.5.5 and realized that Nandroid back ups are failing.
I had no problem creating such back ups while on 4.1.2 and using his Toolkit 1.5.3. I guess the reason may be that the 1.5.5 Toolkit does not have the latest build incorporated.

Yordan5 said:
After updating my rooted N7 to 4.2 OTA I re-rooted using Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit 1.5.5 and realized that Nandroid back ups are failing.
I had no problem creating such back ups while on 4.1.2 and using his Toolkit 1.5.3. I guess the reason may be that the 1.5.5 Toolkit does not have the latest build incorporated.
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why are you even using a toolkit? it's a nexus!...
Root by flashing Superuser zip or superSU zip in CWM/TWRP.
Make nandroid backups in CWM/TWRP, and you should have no problem.

mvmacd said:
why are you even using a toolkit? it's a nexus!...
Root by flashing Superuser zip or superSU zip in CWM/TWRP.
Make nandroid backups in CWM/TWRP, and you should have no problem.
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NRTK 1.5.5 would not flash the 4.2 custom rom I fed it either. Just kept stalling out with errors that it could not find the zip file.
So I booted into TWRP and flashed it with no problem at all.
I also did backup in TWRP and checked everything but saw no mention that is was a Nandroid backup. How can I be sure?

i'm trying to nandroid back to a 4.1.2 nandroid i have, problem is, twrp has different directories for nandroids in 4.2 than 4.1.2...so it can't find the old nandroids and i can't find the 4.2 dir where twrp stores them now. ugh. such a damn headache for an update that it turns out i didn't want lol

Read my post below, I was having the same problem but got back on 4.1.2. You have to use the twrp explorer and relocate the twrp files since 4.2 moved them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992552
Nandroid Downgrade from 4.2 to 4.1.2
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How to remove supersu?

Hi
I am using miui v5 4.3.x
Since it still does not have a multirom supported kernel, I decided to install ubuntu touch by their official dual boot method. Everything went fine but it installed supersu. Since miui already has a btter superuser manager, I decided to remove it. So I went to settings in supersu app and then chose the option that removes supersu so that we can install some other superuser manager.
Now I removed supersu, but it seems like miui su app is no more in use. Even though I have enabled root in that app, apps still say no root.
Please tell me how to fix this and get back to default miui su manager.

have you tried re-rooting via the app?, its in the android market,there are usually conflicts if you have two root apps, disable/ remove one and clear the data and start from scratch.
or just restore to the backup you made before you installed ubuntu,

[How-to] root, the more easy way

hi there,
finally i found a more easy way to root my z3tc.
it works with out flashing an other firmware and it keeps the drm keys and your bootloader locked.
its not even necessary to wipe the device, so you can keep all our apps an settings.
so here are the steps i did to get root on my z3tc running the latest kitkat stock firmware.
1.) download and install kingroot 4.1 its an oneclick root, similar to towelroot.
take care that it is v4.1+ and not below !!!
2.) install superuser from playstore (just because you well be asked for it in the next step. i use kinguser for granting permissions later)
3.) download an install XZDualRecovery
(choose option 2, install for superuser.)
4.) download and flash (via recovery) SonyRICDefeat
enjoy full root on your device

nvm

stavro said:
hi there,
finally i found a more easy way to root my z3tc.
it works with out flashing an other firmware and it keeps the drm keys and your bootloader locked.
its not even necessary to wipe the device, so you can keep all our apps an settings.
so here are the steps i did to get root on my z3tc running the latest kitkat stock firmware.
1.) download and install kingroot 4.1 its an oneclick root, similar to towelroot.
take care that it is v4.1+ and not below !!!
2.) install superuser from playstore (just because you well be asked for it in the next step. i use kinguser for granting permissions later)
3.) download an install XZDualRecovery
(choose option 2, install for superuser.)
4.) download and flash (via recovery) SonyRICDefeat
enjoy full root on your device
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i concur with TS.
But be warned that kingroot's SU binary sometimes have issues with granting access to ADB even though you have allowed it by default.
I spent the entire day troubleshooting my friend's tablet trying to root via kingroot,flashing dual recovery and giving it proper root via supersu. needless to say, it was very educational as it was frustrating.
once you ran the bat file for ric defeat, you still need to dl the app called SDfix (by nextapp) to fully write to sdcard. and yes, the sdcard write bug is still there from kitkat!

Hi There,
Does this Method work with Lollipop?
Is it possible to use Supersuser instead of Kinguser to mangage permissions?
Greets nutz

nutsymtom said:
Hi There,
Does this Method work with Lollipop?
Is it possible to use Supersuser instead of Kinguser to mangage permissions?
Greets nutz
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Yes works with Lollipop. After running the latest Kingroot (KingRoot-4.1.0.249.apk ), before rebooting I installed dual recovery for locked bootloader. Then rebooted to TWRP and flashed BETA-SuperSU-v2.49.zip, which will uninstall KingUser on first run.
However I got the XignCode3 error from com2us and gamevil games. So I booted back into TWRP and flashed UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip and everything was peachy.

Teella said:
Yes works with Lollipop. After running the latest Kingroot (KingRoot-4.1.0.249.apk ), before rebooting I installed dual recovery for locked bootloader. Then rebooted to TWRP and flashed BETA-SuperSU-v2.49.zip, which will uninstall KingUser on first run.
However I got the XignCode3 error from com2us and gamevil games. So I booted back into TWRP and flashed UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip and everything was peachy.
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is there a special reason why you flashed supersu v2.49 first and v2.46 afterwards? i mean flashing just v2.46 would work as well right ?
@frostmore did you use 4.1 ? as far as i understood ric defeat gives you write access to the system on the internal storage on sony devices (for what normally root would be sufficient) and has nothing to do with the kitkat writing limitation on external cards. so you have to use one of the many apps in the store which will fix this. (or do the trick yourself in an xml file) since i installed xposed as well (this was btw the only reason why i wanted root to be able to use app settings again) i did it there.

It works !!!
Finally. Thx a lot.

Worked great on my SGP611. I didn't bother unlocking the bootloader. I performed this on 23.1.A.0.690. I first replaced with SuperSU 2.46, but it seemed to have issues removing KingRoot. I then flashed 2.49 beta, and it removed KingRoot, then I switched back to SuperSU 2.46.
Cheers!

I tried rooting my SGP611 with Android version 4.4.4 and failed. That is when I decided to manually update (flash) it to 5.0.2 with the build number 23.1.A.1.28 (currently the latest version Sony had released). And suddenly the magic happend thanks to KingRoot. On the first try I have successfully rooted my device.
Then, without rebooting, I immediately installed NUT's XDualRecovery via the second method (install on stock modded ROM with superuser).
Next thing I rebooted into TWRP recovery and flashed the latest available BETA version of SuperSU by Chainfire (2.49-BETA).
I rebooted back into system and opened the SuperSU app and removed all the KingRoot apps, updated the 'su' binary with 'Normal' mode in SuperSU and finally rebooted my device again.
The result was satisfying.
At last I have root access on my Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact 16GB Wifi model running Android 5.0.2 with Chainfire's SuperSU, XDualRecovery, Bootloader locked!
I tried RIC defeating my device and wasn't successful. But apperently that's not a big deal because XDualRecovery may have already killed RIC. (Maybe I am wrong(!), so please correct me...)
My favourite apps like AdAway, Titanium Backup, SD Maid and Busybox work flawlessly. And rebooting my device didn't remove my root for now. Well, I have to test it for some days to see if root is permanent.
A big THANK YOU to the KingRoot team.

I tried Rooting my SGP 612 with stock 5.0.2 but got stuck at the first step. Kingroot couldnt root the device succesfully.
Edit: Dont mind the commenct, worked fine on the second try.

ChiDi9901 said:
I tried RIC defeating my device and wasn't successful. But apperently that's not a big deal because XDualRecovery may have already killed RIC. (Maybe I am wrong(!), so please correct me...).
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I forgot about that part. That didn't work for me either. According to XZDualRecovery thread it does. I can confirm have r/w access to /system, haven't checked anywhere else..

arcane613 said:
I forgot about that part. That didn't work for me either. According to XZDualRecovery thread it does. I can confirm have r/w access to /system, haven't checked anywhere else..
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I wasn't able to write to my external SDCard until I ran SDFix by nextapp, now I can RW everywhere

hey guys rooted Z3 Tab with Kingoroot..
on the last step i install Supersu 2.49 and install the binaries...
but on the last step install Supersu 2.46 but after reboot
can't install the Supersu Binaries?
Anyone have s a idea for me?
Regards

This method still works on 23.1.A.28

i can't root my SGP621 with kingroot 4.1 :crying:
it says "root access is unavailable"
it's on Lollipop 5.0.2
thanks guys

sir, can i root the sameway ?
@stavro this is my device info...thx

i am not the developer of the root method nor do i have experience with rooting (via kingroot) of other devices then mine (sgp611).
its just a list of things i did to get root in a more simpler way then it was already possible before.
i would expect that it works for the sgp621 too since you have same firmware version then i have.
but if you are not sure you better go to the general kingroot thread and see if other people can confirm that root is working for your device.

Do I have to flash XZDualRecovery and SonyRIC Defeat when I only need root?

stavro said:
i am not the developer of the root method nor do i have experience with rooting (via kingroot) of other devices then mine (sgp611).
its just a list of things i did to get root in a more simpler way then it was already possible before.
i would expect that it works for the sgp621 too since you have same firmware version then i have.
but if you are not sure you better go to the general kingroot thread and see if other people can confirm that root is working for your device.
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I can confirm that this method works on sgp621!
No issues at all even starting from Lollipop 5.0.2 v23.1.A.0.690 firmware, thank you!
The only thing I can't do is flash RICDefeat patch from recovery (it fails with an error I can't remember), but even without that patch I can read and write \system folder.

Bruce666 said:
Do I have to flash XZDualRecovery and SonyRIC Defeat when I only need root?
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It's highly recommended to install
XZDualRecovery to automatically gain the RIC patch. You don't need to flash SonyRIC Defeat if you install the recovery because it's already included.
The question is, what do you want to do with root? Having system R/W access is quite important to actually have a complete root experience.

Galaxy S4 i9505- Not Rooting Through Any Apps

S4 i9505 not rooting through any apps
Hi, I recently flashed cm12.1 on my S4 i9505 and its working fine.
I need a working GApps package, I tried flashing 2 PA GApps(mini and micro), updated version which is TK GApps(mini), and also cleared calvik cache before and after flashing them as some forums suggested, but none of them worked and all Google apps keep crashing as soon as I boot in CM even the keyboard.
The 2nd issue: My phone is not rooted anymore and I tried a couple of rooting android and windows apps but none seem to root my phone, fails everytime. The errors which I faced are below.
Framaroot: "Your device seems not vulnerable to exploit included in Framaroot"
iRoot (android): "GT- i9505 No Root Permission"
iRoot (windows): "Device is connecting
eRoot (windows): Stuff written in chinese and no root button available as mentioned in different forums"
KingoRoot: "Root Strategy unavailable, just try it"
TowelRoot: Stuck on make it ra1n and after a while "towelroot stopped responding"
Root Checker: "Root checker has stopped working"
3rd Issue: I tried installing playstore apk till I get my GApps working, but it crashes everytime I open it, any solutions?
Thanks

AAF1994 said:
Hi, I recently flashed cm12.1 on my S4 i9505 and its working fine.
I need a working GApps package, I tried flashing 2 PA GApps(mini and micro), updated version which is TK GApps(mini), and also cleared calvik cache before and after flashing them as some forums suggested, but none of them worked and all Google apps keep crashing as soon as I boot in CM even the keyboard.
The 2nd issue: My phone is not rooted anymore and I tried a couple of rooting android and windows apps but none seem to root my phone, fails everytime. The errors which I faced are below.
Framaroot: "Your device seems not vulnerable to exploit included in Framaroot"
iRoot (android): "GT- i9505 No Root Permission"
iRoot (windows): "Device is connecting
eRoot (windows): Stuff written in chinese and no root button available as mentioned in different forums"
KingoRoot: "Root Strategy unavailable, just try it"
TowelRoot: Stuck on make it ra1n and after a while "towelroot stopped responding"
Root Checker: "Root checker has stopped working"
3rd Issue: I tried installing playstore apk till I get my GApps working, but it crashes everytime I open it, any solutions?
Thanks
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1. Gapps: http://opengapps.org/
2. You cannot loose root acces on CM. It's impossible. You just need to activate it in developer settings and after that flash Supersu (optional). All the apps etc you tried is completely obsolete.
3. See post number 1.

Lennyz1988 said:
1. Gapps: http://opengapps.org/
2. You cannot loose root acces on CM. It's impossible. You just need to activate it in developer settings and after that flash Supersu (optional). All the apps etc you tried is completely obsolete.
3. See post number 1.
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I already have root access set to "apps and ADB" in developer options. is this what you're referring to?

AAF1994 said:
I already have root access set to "apps and ADB" in developer options. is this what you're referring to?
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Yes.
I would suggest performing a full wipe then flash CM and then the Gapps.
or you can try to just flash Supersu and your root will probably be back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053

Lennyz1988 said:
Yes.
I would suggest performing a full wipe then flash CM and then the Gapps.
or you can try to just flash Supersu and your root will probably be back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
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I tried your suggestion, did a full wipe and flashed CM successfully through TWRP, the flashed GApps successfully, and SuperSU also, but just before rebbot, TWRP asked for "fix root" and when i swiped for yes, the reboot brought me back to Samsung logo and never rebooted CM... waited for about 15 mins before pulling the battery out...
I tried to flash CM and a stock firmware through odin then and now it says "Firmware upgrade failed, try KIES...... " odin fails to flash anything and gives error "No PIT Partition", even if I try to flash PIT files (tries 4 different files for i9505), all failed....
now I can only access download mode and lost TWRP too...
help please!

Install a stock ROM through Download Mode. This will get you back to a working state. From there get TWRP and then install CM12.1. And this time around, follow instructions! At no point were you EVER told you had to fix root, and as you found out, fixing root removes root access.

Honestly mate I was on CM for a while with my i9505 intl before deciding to try something else. I recommend this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2557353 . either the latest 5.1 or previous 5.0.1 release, they are both rock solid and there's great support for it too. They've even packaged cm addons as optional flash files.
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---------- Post added at 04:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 AM ----------
Sorry forgot to mention it's a Google play edition so rest assured your gapps come included.
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