Yesterday, I got a LG G3, Sprint version. All was well until today, when I tried to root it. I did so successfully, using Stump. I installed a variety of root apps and somehow in one of them disabled the home/back/menu button. I decided at that point to delete all the root apps, because I'm smart like that, in hope that it would be put back to normal. It didn't work, and now I can't do any of that. On top of that, I factory reset the phone (same results) and now I'm stuck with Sprint adware. If anyone could help me fix the menu thing, and maybe get the root things I need to remove the Sprint adware, it would make my <inserttimeunithere>.
Thanks in advance,
Nate
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Without thinking, I updated my Droid with the OTA push and my previously rooted Droid 2 is now not rooted.
I did try to run the oneclick and 1-2-3 root processes. Both end with "your device is now rooted", but of course it's really not. I do have the Superuser APK, but my rooted programs are not communicating with it. And I'm not able to uninstall the Superuser program (thought I'd try to reinstall it). No go.
I had Titanium Backup, ad am wondering if I can wipe my phone and restore it, then upgrade, and root after. I'm a newbie with limited knowledge, so wondering if I've backed myself into a corner on this one.
All feedback appreciated!
Yesterday, I did the same thing you tried and I was successful in rerooting my phone after the OTA update. When you used the 1-click process did you choose option 1 or 2. I tried 2 and it didn't work. I had to chose option 1 (reload everything) to be successful. BTW, remember to make a new recovery backup of the system.
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xberry said:
I may have missed this in another thread, so please feel free to redirect me if so...
Without thinking, I updated my Droid with the OTA push and my previously rooted Droid 2 is now not rooted.
I did try to run the oneclick and 1-2-3 root processes. Both end with "your device is now rooted", but of course it's really not. I do have the Superuser APK, but my rooted programs are not communicating with it. And I'm not able to uninstall the Superuser program (thought I'd try to reinstall it). No go.
I had Titanium Backup, ad am wondering if I can wipe my phone and restore it, then upgrade, and root after. I'm a newbie with limited knowledge, so wondering if I've backed myself into a corner on this one.
All feedback appreciated!
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Same issue here - how I fixed
I had already made titanium backups of important stuff - you have to go into applications (that use root) and force stop and clear data. Once this is complete open titanium backup for instance, and you should be asked for super user and then be good to go. Same goes for rest of apps that need root
OTA update Loop?
i have my d2 rooted after the ota 2.2 update. i just received a notification to accept the most recent OTA update ... whatever it is... and assumed it was one of my apps as i didnt read it thru completely b4 tapping 'ok'. now it is stuck in a download, reboot, update, "update unsuccessfully installed", redownload, reboot...........
is there a way to cancel the update? i dont really care if i have it or not
or some way to stop this process aside from the airplane mode i had to set it to so it would stop this madness
So you can do the OTA update without having to unroot and reroot?
Great advice from all - thanks! I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but I ran DOROOT several times, did the unplug/plug when it hung for a minute, force closed/cleared data from previously rooted items, and also put phone into 'charge only' mode when USB Debugger would not run.
Finally - success! My advice to users with this same issue - try and try again.
Thanks all!
Hey guys, after trying to root my device and trying to mess with some settings I decided that I would prefer to go back to the original state. Will factory reset completely get rid of everything I've done? I used the Super One Click method. I want to completely get rid of EVERYTHING i've done and just start with a fresh device again. I tried factory reset, but I still saw Super User. How can I get rid of this? When I did unroot on Super One Click, last time it just stopped at removing the apk. So I just rerooted.
The original reason why I wanted to do this was because I was getting an error message upon installing apps (18), and then I tried to install astro and delete a file (asec) which didn't let me. So I rerooted, and it still wouldn't let me. I'm so confused! LOL!
I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions? I'm all ears!
Thanks.
Power off, hold the volume up and down and power on. you will get a menu and select fatoy reset
Hi All!
I decided to go ahead and root my Droid Razr M tonight. Everything went well and I was able to breeze through all the steps and used root checker to make sure that I had successfully rooted the phone. It said that I successfully rooted the phone, but I am not so certain right now. It was my understanding that when I successfully rooted my phone that I would be able to uninstall the bloatware that came default on the phone. I went into my settings and tried uninstalling the apps like Audible, Zappos, etc and all I get is the option to disable it. Any advice? Any help you all can offer me please?
Gunner
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Hi All!
I decided to go ahead and root my Droid Razr M tonight. Everything went well and I was able to breeze through all the steps and used root checker to make sure that I had successfully rooted the phone. It said that I successfully rooted the phone, but I am not so certain right now. It was my understanding that when I successfully rooted my phone that I would be able to uninstall the bloatware that came default on the phone. I went into my settings and tried uninstalling the apps like Audible, Zappos, etc and all I get is the option to disable it. Any advice? Any help you all can offer me please?
Gunner
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You can uninstall them, but you need to do it manually by renaming the apks in /system
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GWDPhotography said:
Hi All!
I decided to go ahead and root my Droid Razr M tonight. Everything went well and I was able to breeze through all the steps and used root checker to make sure that I had successfully rooted the phone. It said that I successfully rooted the phone, but I am not so certain right now. It was my understanding that when I successfully rooted my phone that I would be able to uninstall the bloatware that came default on the phone. I went into my settings and tried uninstalling the apps like Audible, Zappos, etc and all I get is the option to disable it. Any advice? Any help you all can offer me please?
Gunner
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How were you trying to uninstall the app? Via the app in "settings"? As far as I am aware (and I could very well be wrong), you cannot delete an app via settings.
To uninstall an app, I went through Titanium Backup (free edition) to delete. However, from what I understand, deleting an app could potentially cause issues if your carrier attempts to push an update; for that reason, I decided to freeze/disable/quarantine the app rather than deleting them altogether. By doing so, I believe that it prevents these apps from running in the background, using up precious resources.
To freeze an app, you can use Titanium Backup (the pro version) or I used an app called App Quarantine.
Using the disable option in settings also does the same thing.
I know for a fact that you can delete all the amazon apps, zappos, audible etc those all came from Google play.
Alright, I'll run down my problem and hopefully someone can help. I have looked at all of the threads and none have helped me . I am however, very confident one of you guys!!!
Alright, when I Updated to 4.3, I decided that I wanted to go to Cyanogenmod instead of the touchwiz from samsung. I had previously done it with my s3 and everything went well!! So I decided to give it a go. From the moment I tried to root my phone, a notification would pop up on my phone saying "Security information An application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. This attempt has been blocked."
It doesnt matter what method I use (mottochoper, terminal, mac, pc) I always get the same message and everything stops and whatever program I use tells me it couldn't finish.
I have a macbook, I tried uninstalling kies, rebooting my s4/mac, everything!! Nothing works because of this message.
I also tried to dissable and force stop Knox, but it just keeps happening.
I unchecked the box that allowed know to be activated under security, but it keeps happening!!!
I can't root my phone, and it makes me sad very sad ((( The closest I've come to rooting my phone was with the mac Cyanogenmod installer. It almost worked! But then, the security thing.
I have a Galaxy s4 from at&t, running 4.3, a macbook running 10.9, a bagged lunched I prepared for myself that could be yours, and internet access of course.
Someone help please!! Thank you in advance you beautiful folks you!!!!
saboracuva said:
Alright, I'll run down my problem and hopefully someone can help. I have looked at all of the threads and none have helped me . I am however, very confident one of you guys!!!
Alright, when I Updated to 4.3, I decided that I wanted to go to Cyanogenmod instead of the touchwiz from samsung. I had previously done it with my s3 and everything went well!! So I decided to give it a go. From the moment I tried to root my phone, a notification would pop up on my phone saying "Security information An application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. This attempt has been blocked."
It doesnt matter what method I use (mottochoper, terminal, mac, pc) I always get the same message and everything stops and whatever program I use tells me it couldn't finish.
And please, you have posted this question twice, the Mods will get on you for multiple posts of the same issue....so do not post this again.
I have a macbook, I tried uninstalling kies, rebooting my s4/mac, everything!! Nothing works because of this message.
I also tried to dissable and force stop Knox, but it just keeps happening.
I unchecked the box that allowed know to be activated under security, but it keeps happening!!!
I can't root my phone, and it makes me sad very sad ((( The closest I've come to rooting my phone was with the mac Cyanogenmod installer. It almost worked! But then, the security thing.
I have a Galaxy s4 from at&t, running 4.3, a macbook running 10.9, a bagged lunched I prepared for myself that could be yours, and internet access of course.
Someone help please!! Thank you in advance you beautiful folks you!!!!
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What rom are you talking about? You can either delete all know related files in the system/app dir or freeze the files using TB backup.
saboracuva said:
Alright, I'll run down my problem and hopefully someone can help. I have looked at all of the threads and none have helped me . I am however, very confident one of you guys!!!
Alright, when I Updated to 4.3, I decided that I wanted to go to Cyanogenmod instead of the touchwiz from samsung. I had previously done it with my s3 and everything went well!! So I decided to give it a go. From the moment I tried to root my phone, a notification would pop up on my phone saying "Security information An application attempted to access system on your device without authorization. This attempt has been blocked."
It doesnt matter what method I use (mottochoper, terminal, mac, pc) I always get the same message and everything stops and whatever program I use tells me it couldn't finish.
I have a macbook, I tried uninstalling kies, rebooting my s4/mac, everything!! Nothing works because of this message.
I also tried to dissable and force stop Knox, but it just keeps happening.
I unchecked the box that allowed know to be activated under security, but it keeps happening!!!
I can't root my phone, and it makes me sad very sad ((( The closest I've come to rooting my phone was with the mac Cyanogenmod installer. It almost worked! But then, the security thing.
I have a Galaxy s4 from at&t, running 4.3, a macbook running 10.9, a bagged lunched I prepared for myself that could be yours, and internet access of course.
Someone help please!! Thank you in advance you beautiful folks you!!!!
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If you're running the stock 4.3 OTA, then you can't run cyanogenmod or any AOSP ROM first of all. Second, if you do have the 4.3 MK2 system, you need to either use Saferoot or Kingo ROOT. If neither of those work, use the third post in ted77's update.zip thread to flash back to entirely stock without the security updates (it will erase data and internal sd) and then root.
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If you're running the stock 4.3 OTA, then you can't run cyanogenmod or any AOSP ROM first of all. Second, if you do have the 4.3 MK2 system, you need to either use Saferoot or Kingo ROOT. If neither of those work, use the third post in ted77's update.zip thread to flash back to entirely stock without the security updates (it will erase data and internal sd) and then root.
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Ok, i will try that, thank you so much!!!
Hello,
New to this forum and was wondering if anyone can help me out. Here's my back story. For some unknown reason my G2 did a factory restore while it was charging. So of course all of my photos, contacts, etc. that had not been backed up were lost. Now this is a company phone so I started the process of setting up my email, security, etc when I came across this forum and others that explained how to possibly restore lost data. Here is where I am running into issues.
I tried following some of the examples using various apps to restore, but since I can not use USB transfer, only MTP or PTP this caused issues. Before rooting I did some checks explained on this forum. One was using the 3845#*803# to check for root. Funny enough it showed my phone had been rooted, stating that su and busybox were installed. This was interesting since I had never actually installed these programs and never tried to root my phone before. I looked at my apps and did find su, I am guessing one of the restore programs loaded this. Anyway when I run root checker it states the device does not have root access. So after several factory resets thx to Homero2 "HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT UNROOTED" thread. I am back to were my phone now shows unrooted.
Now I am trying to root my phone to try and recover data. I am running into an issue here with binaries. I tried installing SuperSu and I am getting the following error "There is no SU binary installed". I also tried using Superuser and ran into the same issue. Any help resolving this would be much appreciated.
Here is my phone info:
LG G2
Android v. 4.4.2
Kernel v. 3.4.0
Build # KOT491.D803R20f
Software v. D803R20f
Search for stumproot. That will get you rooted.
+1 for stumproot
Strange.... Company phone.... Rooted but not by me.... Mysterious reset....
Are you sure that no one is stealing your data or spying you? Programs like cerberus can be invisible if rooted and they can remote erase your data... And much more... I advise you to deep analize the situation..
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siggey said:
Strange.... Company phone.... Rooted but not by me.... Mysterious reset....
Are you sure that no one is stealing your data or spying you? Programs like cerberus can be invisible if rooted and they can remote erase your data... And much more... I advise you to deep analize the situation..
_____________________________________Read more write less and be smart
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I was thinking the same thing that there was likely some kind of phishing, virus, etc.. program on my phone, likely downloaded through an app. Corporate espionage, probably not likely, my company,maybe, but more than likely they would just fire me if they didn't like what I had on my phone.. Most likely someone trying to steal personal info. I am not sure what I can do at this point to analyse what and how was on my phone. I am still dealing with how to recover lost data.
Also I tried the StumpRoot. Wasn't too successful. First run through it said my phone was rooted. I rebooted and loaded su, removed stump and ran a couple different apps to try and recover data unsuccessfully. When I checked su and root checker it said my phone wasn't rooted. So I ran Stumproot multiple times unsuccessfully. It kept saying my device wasn't supported, or something along those lines, I kind of was nearing the end of my frustration line by that point. So I am back to Factory Stock and pretty much at a cross roads as to whether to continue down this road of data recovery. Being a company phone I am not really interested in leaving my phone rooted. I will definitely take a more proactive approach to syncing my data more often.
This site and forum are fantastic with more information then I could ever know what to do with. It's great having moderators and posters like yourself. TY :good: