Hello Everyone! This is my first time here, so I may not have all terms correct. I am a rookie at rooting/unlocking. I made my first try with the Droid razr m xt907 awhile ago and was finally successful with the motochopper app. Then I discovered it was impossible to unlock the bootloader so it really didn't do much for me. yea, I know rooting still has some advantages but I just couldn't do what I wanted....
Fast forward to today. I just upgradd to the GS5 and want to sell my xt907. I would like to "unroot" it before selling, but am really not sure how or if it is possible. I do not have a stock rom, and am not sure what steps or software are involved so if anyone can explain to me it would be extremely appreciated. I can sell it as is, but it is not taking the new update available so that is a downside for selling.
Thaniks!
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Hey everyone, couple of simple questions.
So I have the droid 2 (Duh) and I want to upgrade to 2.3.20 (yes i haven't yet) and I'm pretty sure that once i upgrade I'll lose root. So do I just upgrade and reroot or is there an easier way to go about all of this?
Also, am i better off getting a rom and using that firmware instead? I haven't done a whole lot of anything with my droid recently and not too sure where to start =P
Thanks in advance.
I am thinking about getting a Droid X this afternoon. With the OTA update is it rootable and if so with what? Thank!
floridatank said:
I am thinking about getting a Droid X this afternoon. With the OTA update is it rootable and if so with what? Thank!
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Not the OTA. You will need to sbf back to froyo and then upgrade to the pre rooted GB
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bigshotrob22 said:
Not the OTA. You will need to sbf back to froyo and then upgrade to the pre rooted GB
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I went ahead and got it. It has 2.3.3 on it, Will Gingerbreak work on that? Thanks!
floridatank said:
I went ahead and got it. It has 2.3.3 on it, Will Gingerbreak work on that? Thanks!
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Nope! Like I said its unrootable
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Unrootable...
But that doesn't mean you can't root.
SBF to froyo.
Flash the 2-part gingerbread .zips.
Flash a custom rom (Liberty?)
Or stay on the froyo kernel...
and try MIUI or Cyanogen.
Be careful and read as much as you possibly can before starting. Myself and at least one other on here with the latest iteration of the X have ended up with boot looping or totally non-responsive devices.
I have started a thread with my findings. I am by no means an expert but I do have much experience with rooting devices going all the way back to the PPC6700.
Good luck.
getting stuck in a bootloop is part of the exploration process IMHO.
At least once per new ROM I'll flash something 'just to see what happens' and end up SBF'ing back. Just make backups between steps if you aren't sure about what will happen next.
it would be nice if one of the devs or people who work on rooting or someone in the know would at least comment if we are going to get a real root with the OTA
i mean im running froyo with CM7 but i sure would like the new firmwares for all the radios flashed and then be running CM7
so if someone could give us some kind of update at least saying no one is even remotely working on trying to gain root on 4.5.596 Official OTA or that yea we are working on it but it is a ***** and taken longer then we expected
that lil bit of info goes a long ways
thanks
I am not aware of any dev working on this ATM.
I don't think rooting 596 ota is critical 2nd unit has opened up alot of new doors and the attention has shifted. However I have flashed all of drew gardens latest and ran cm4dx until nightly 47. Now I'm daily MIUI and loving it, despite locked bootloader the cdma_shadow still has alot of options.
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to my understanding .596 has better battery life and signals are better for wifi and cellular (at least more stable and less drops)
i do not know if this is true but i have read/heard alot of ppl saying the battery life is better on .596
after all there is a .596 for some reason and its not a lil bump from 2.2.340 its pretty big
anyhow someone really needs to figure this out as the baseband has changed....i mean there is the pre-rooted rom .596 that works great so we know it can be done.
whats the big deal...let us have it
m16-maniac said:
anyhow someone really needs to figure this out as the baseband has changed....i mean there is the pre-rooted rom .596 that works great so we know it can be done.
whats the big deal...let us have it
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the big deal is that there isn't a readily found exploit for the ota, the pre-rooted was done with a diff. method (brute force? recompiled?) but the versions are the same regardless
no ones holding back a secret root method, there just isn't a dev interested in spending huge amounts of time to recreate what already exists
i think it would be interesting to create a batch script that sbf's a phone and installs the pre-rooted .596 but all hidden behind a random animation so the user doesn't see what's happening. if i call it a 'one click' root method lots of people who don't seem to want to take the readily available pre-rooted gb for whatever reason would likely be happy. yeah i understand that if it includes a sbf then data may get lost, but if i said in the instructions of my 'app' that it would happen and they should have backups, people would still likely use it
sorry, but i just don't understand why so many people who want root are seemingly against using the pre-rooted option, as most of them don't have the knowledge to find an exploit or a root method from scratch themselves, so they are still using the work of someone else...
<Disclaimer>I'm going out on a limb here with limited knowledge of the X. <End disclaimer>
From what I read and I don't remember where, the rooting of an X involves a 2nd init method by which it takes control of the initial init. I believe I read the original init isn't able to be exploited and this is the basis of some of the more complicated methods of rooting the X.
If someone knows more about this please correct me or chime in.
I had an Incredible prior. The rooting was more comprehensive and simple. I believe that is because the bootstrap and recovery were not as difficult to get into. That being said, personally, I may be going back to another HTC device if the folks light years smarter than me aren't interested in developing a root method like the other devices out there.
Hello, this is my first post here so bear with me...
I want to root my atrix and unlock the bootloader and (eventually) install CM9 onto it because I don't feel like waiting for the OTA to ICS, and I want to have the Vanilla ICS experience.
I know there are guides on how to root on here, but I wasn't sure if they pertain to the At&t Atrix MB860 with 2.3.6 and version 4.5.141, and I didn't want to try until anything before I was certain that it would work for my phone because like most people I am deathly scared of messing up my phone. My upgrade isn't until January, so this is the only phone I can use until then.
So can anyone help me out? What is the definitive step by step guide to rooting and unlocking the bootloader for my phone (at&t atrix, 2.3.6, 4.5.141)
Any help is greatly appreciated, many thanks!
Prashramani12 said:
Hello, this is my first post here so bear with me...
I want to root my atrix and unlock the bootloader and (eventually) install CM9 onto it because I don't feel like waiting for the OTA to ICS, and I want to have the Vanilla ICS experience.
I know there are guides on how to root on here, but I wasn't sure if they pertain to the At&t Atrix MB860 with 2.3.6 and version 4.5.141, and I didn't want to try until anything before I was certain that it would work for my phone because like most people I am deathly scared of messing up my phone. My upgrade isn't until January, so this is the only phone I can use until then.
So can anyone help me out? What is the definitive step by step guide to rooting and unlocking the bootloader for my phone (at&t atrix, 2.3.6, 4.5.141)
Any help is greatly appreciated, many thanks!
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I just had to go through the process again recently. It's actually a lot easier than when I first got the phone. Goto this thread --->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261 and follow the unlock method first. Then flash custom recovery on the phone. You should be good to go after that. PM me if you have any questions.
I have had my phone for about a year. I have been playing with the idea of rooting and running custom roms. I have done so with an Acer A500, but as its not dependent on 2 year contract, I have never had reservations after the warranty was up. Now I am really wanting to see benefits of custom roms on my Razr M, but I am not sure where to begin rooting and what ROMS are best/stable (subjective I know). Can someone point me in the direction I need to go as I am having a hard time figuring out what process to use with the latest OTA update having been applied and never rooted before. Is there one better method to unlock over another? I am trying to catch up with lots of amazing work reading through whats been done, but I feel a bit out of my zone. Thank you in advance.
lawrex said:
I have had my phone for about a year. I have been playing with the idea of rooting and running custom roms. I have done so with an Acer A500, but as its not dependent on 2 year contract, I have never had reservations after the warranty was up. Now I am really wanting to see benefits of custom roms on my Razr M, but I am not sure where to begin rooting and what ROMS are best/stable (subjective I know). Can someone point me in the direction I need to go as I am having a hard time figuring out what process to use with the latest OTA update having been applied and never rooted before. Is there one better method to unlock over another? I am trying to catch up with lots of amazing work reading through whats been done, but I feel a bit out of my zone. Thank you in advance.
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Unfortunately, you can't unlock or root at the moment. A root exploit might be found, but you probably won't ever be able to unlock...
sloosecannon said:
Unfortunately, you can't unlock or root at the moment. A root exploit might be found, but you probably won't ever be able to unlock...
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I was afraid of that. It'll be my fault for not doing it sooner. Thanks for the response.
Just got another email from Motorola to sign up for a preview of a new software release. Probably fixes issues that were discovered after the KK upgrade.
CAUTION FOR THOSE WITH LOCKED DEVICES: Considering you just got a new root method, I would steer clear from this if you want to keep root. I have a feeling Towelroot will not work after this since it only works for kernels dated before June 3, 2014. Also, this might break the current tethering hack as well for 4.4.2.
It would be nice if this were a 4.4.3 update, but I don't know at this time. Since I'm unlocked, I'm going to go ahead and sign up for it and see what happens.
Just wanted to get the word out to anyone with locked bootloaders to probably stay away from this unless you don't care about root and the tethering hack.
The bad news about this means the "can I unroot my KitKat phone" won't go away once the OTA comes out.
Pretty obvious that locked users should be careful with the new OTA, same as before, don't rush ahead of yourself and install every OTA that Moto pushes out. Also today is a great day, we've got a root and apparently locked users can unlock their bootloader while being on 183.46.10 update. So I'd rather recommend people to take root and unlock and do whatever the hell they want after that, considering rooting and unlocking is as simple as just installing and running 2 apks.
Flayzor said:
Pretty obvious that locked users should be careful with the new OTA, same as before, don't rush ahead of yourself and install every OTA that Moto pushes out. Also today is a great day, we've got a root and apparently locked users can unlock their bootloader while being on 183.46.10 update. So I'd rather recommend people to take root and unlock and do whatever the hell they want after that, considering rooting and unlocking is as simple as just installing and running 2 apks.
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What? Locked users can unlock the bootloader? How? I didn't see that. Motopocolypse, from what I understand, doesn't work with anything after 9.16 OTA. I got lucky and was able to unlock mine about a year ago (didn't have 9.18 OTA applied from the factory). Still, if people can unlock their bootloaders with the KK, that's great, but again, I have not heard nor seen anything that states this. I only knew about Towelroot and that's it.
As for it being obvious, didn't matter after this past KK upgrade. People did it anyways and we got an unflux of "how do I root this sucker?" over and over again.
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What? Locked users can unlock the bootloader? How? I didn't see that. Motopocolypse, from what I understand, doesn't work with anything after 9.16 OTA. I got lucky and was able to unlock mine about a year ago (didn't have 9.18 OTA applied from the factory). Still, if people can unlock their bootloaders with the KK, that's great, but again, I have not heard nor seen anything that states this. I only knew about Towelroot and that's it.
As for it being obvious, didn't matter after this past KK upgrade. People did it anyways and we got an unflux of "how do I root this sucker?" over and over again.
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I guess I'll be late and you've found that after upgrading to KK and rooting it, you can unlock bootloader with Motopocalypse ^^. Also idk why wouldn't anyone want to unlock BL, considering the phone is on its end of life cycle and won't get anymore android updates (e.g 4.5+) it seems rather wise to unlock and have all the goodies now and in the future.
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Also, this might break the current tethering hack as well for 4.4.2.
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I see you guys have been using the tether mod I posted for the ultra. no problem, I developed a new mod for 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 so if it does break tether and can make one for the HD.
I used to have an HD so I'll help you guys out.
Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
Topsnake said:
I see you guys have been using the tether mod I posted for the ultra. no problem, I developed a new mod for 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 so if it does break tether and can make one for the HD.
I used to have an HD so I'll help you guys out.
Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
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Awesome. Thanks a bunch for that. I'll definitely want to try it out once I the new OTA comes in. Since I have an unlocked bootloader, I'm not too frightened to do the OTAs, but to know that we can get another tether mod if it does indeed break with the next OTA, that's a relief.
tether seems broken..
Topsnake said:
I see you guys have been using the tether mod I posted for the ultra. no problem, I developed a new mod for 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 so if it does break tether and can make one for the HD.
Droid Maxx "Developer Edition"
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I used to have an HD so I'll help you guys out.
Just to confirm, from what I can tell yes the tether hack seems to have broken, I am rooted, unlocked and all that good stuff so I can always flash back, but as a warning I tried to get it working again with no success.
Now I am not ruling out the possibility that I am a dope and screwed up the procedure somewhere, in which case I pray someone can confirm it works and maybe teach a fool to fish .
Thecat1080 said:
I used to have an HD so I'll help you guys out.
Just to confirm, from what I can tell yes the tether hack seems to have broken, I am rooted, unlocked and all that good stuff so I can always flash back, but as a warning I tried to get it working again with no success.
Now I am not ruling out the possibility that I am a dope and screwed up the procedure somewhere, in which case I pray someone can confirm it works and maybe teach a fool to fish .
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Uh. the tethering hack still works. Go here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...d-native-tether-exploit-build-183-46-t2872547