Hay guys getting my photon in a day or so and switching from my nexus if I just root and not unlock. Can I still do a normal hard reset or am I going to have to flash something to reset the phone after a reset just curious because I'm not going to unlock till we have a way not to kill 4g but verry interested in rooting
Thanks in advance for any insite
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To unroot, you just have to remove the files that are added during the root procedure and uninstall superuser, voilà! No more root.
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Well i am not rooted at the moment cause i flashed a zip that took root off and still have a custom kernal going with unlocked bootloader is that even supposed to be possible?
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Thats impossible. As soon as you flashed that "zip" it over writes everything. You need to be unlock to have a custom kernel
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well thats what i thought but i couldent use root explorer or any root access apps but when i turn off the phone it still says unlock
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well thats what i thought but i couldent use root explorer or any root access apps but when i turn off the phone it still says unlock
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Interesting. Interesting indeed. Is there anyway you could upload a vid of this?
i wouldent suggest it seeing now after it turned off it wouldent do the sbf files to fix. idk if it was dealing with that cause the sbf always finishes but ends up in a boot loop which as of right now im trying to fix it. but if it happens again ill c what i can do to show you. cause i always thought you had to be rooted to have an unlocked but idk if it was just a one time thing
Is the super user app installed?
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Yes it was
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I have this same issue right now how it happened for me is that I orginally used the one click root method I found here. Later down the road I noticed that a stable build of cm7 had come out so I decided to try it out. I flashed pudding and it worked just fine and unlocked the device when I went to go get clockwork on the device however, I noticed the my root was no longer working reading in the comments section I saw that the one click root method was not compatible with the unlocked bootloader. I tried to root the phone with the system.img file that it mentioned using in the guide it worked at least as far as pushing it to the device but still no root. I then tried to flash the device back to stock I used the sbf file provided and it did wipe the phone but I still have the unlock icon when I boot the phone and can no longer root it no matter what method I try. If anyone can help me with re locking my device, I would greatly appreciate it.
Have you tryed the depudding. Go into the pudding unlock section theres one that relocks it just like how u unlocked it
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As far as I'm aware, being unlocked and being rooted are two separate processes on this phone. You don't have to have one to have the other. I've been rooted and locked, rooted and unlocked, and unlocked with no root. Hope that helps.
And I haven't had any problems with the one-click root and unlocking or sbf-ing back to stock.
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Thanks for the help guys I got it to work now had to do a factory reset and then flash the sbf file and the seemed to unroot the device it still didn't unlock it however I think if I used the depudding method curly mentioned it would work.
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I am currently running an "unlocked bootloader" on a non- rooted system on my photon 4g. I was rooted and then unrooted because I couldn't flash cwm for some reason....I am really really looking to installing miui with the ultimate iphone theme. I love how poloshed and clean it looks!
I am trying to find a method to temporarily root an ATT SGSII for someone else. (Currently still on 2.3.4 until battery drain issue is fixed with 2.3.6)
They do not need permanent root as they would not know what to do with it.
The reason I want to do this is to simply remove the AT&T Bloatware without tripping any of the flash counters.( I know there is the kernel counter and a suspected counter reset "counter").
So essentially, here is the conceptual method I would be looking for:
1. Initiate temporary root
2. Remove bloatware
3. Reboot phone
4. Phone is bloat free without any trace of flashing and root removed
I appreciate any insight or help I can get on this. (I tried searching xda and Google, but have found little information on this(at least for this device).
Thanks
Even if they don't have any interest with using root functions why not leave it? Would leaving the phone rooted actually cause any issues?
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There are no temp roots - you'll need to use the standard permaroots, then as the last thing you do, remove the following three files:
/system/xbin/su
/system/bin/su
/system/app/Superuser.apk
to unroot
Follow this thread [GUIDE] How to Flash Custom Binaries Without Ever Incrementing the Flash Counter!!, I think u could just do step 1 and 2, then remove the Root as "Entropy512" said.
I dont think that exists. However u should just root ur phone and keep it. I was hesitant to root it myself but it's the best thing that I ever did for my phone.
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Ok that's what I thought. To just perform the standard process and remove.
Thanks guys
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Just wondering if I had phone rooted, and I choose reset the phone from settings, will it wipe data and bricked the phone?
So there's Only option I can I unroot the phone out there ?
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aawen said:
Just wondering if I had phone rooted, and I choose reset the phone from settings, will it wipe data and bricked the phone?
So there's Only option I can I unroot the phone out there ?
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If you factory reset from settings, it will not delete root and it will not delete anything off the memory card(unless something goes wrong). You will not brick it.
If you are trying to get the phone back to complete stock like when it was first bought, follow the return to stock threads in the development section. if your s-off, just flash a stock rom without root in it...
Thank you, appreciated it
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So I downloaded VooDoo Root Keeper and backed up my root. Downloaded the OTA update and let it install. Once the phone rebooted I didn't have root, but I went into VooDoo Root Keeper and clicked Restore root. And Root Checker now report I have ROOT once again...
You have to reboot after restoreing root to get apps to work that require root.
And?
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Lucky, i installed with nothing to backup root.
Even after installing complete stock, then updating it failed... I don't think this update likes my phone very much.
If I remember reading this correctly you have no problem getting root, it's just that you lose access to custom recoveries.. So therefore kind of pointless to update since you can't run custom roms
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From what I read you will lose root with the OTA and not be able to re-root with the current known method. Am I wrong?
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From what I read you will lose root with the OTA and not be able to re-root with the current known method. Am I wrong?
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nope your right they patched the previous method so if you dont have root and update its gone for a while..
Root without recovery is :thumbdown:
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Dubbsy said:
Root without recovery is :thumbdown:
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I agree the future custom roms will have the parts of the update we want and not the major part we don't. I'll never give up my custom recovery!!
Well I haven't ran any custom roms on this yet... But this is still helpful ad I do run AdAway, Faceniff and WifiKill... which all require Root .
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Root without recovery is :thumbdown:
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root without recovery is better than no root...
Not to be a party pooper, but why is this in the development section?
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It seems to have worked!
Following this process I was able to keep my root, have not tried using recovery though.
Use OTA RootKeeper to protect root, take OTA update, restore root using RootKeeper, update binaries using SuperSU. Existing apps that use root still work as expected!
Glad it worked for you too.
Has anyone else achieved this? I'm tempted to do it but obviously concerned as I do not want to lose root. I'm sure not every phone is the same.
Also, does anyone know if the OTA will work if you have frozen apps ( including frozen bloatware)?
sorry for the noob question, I got my 1st android device a couple weeks ago and I'm trying to get up to speed quickly.
I see some people saying they want to unroot to take the VRUAME7 update... and I see others saying they took the update which caused them to loose root privileges. So I'm still trying to determine if I need to (or should) unroot to take the update.
I have the stock ROM, so can I just take the update without unrooting first? If the update succeeds, what are the drawbacks of not unrooting prior to the update?
Note: I do plan to unroot first. this question is mostly just for my understanding.
If you unroot prior to the me7 update you will not be able to get it back. If you keep root with voodoo through the ota you lose custom recovery/ability to rom.
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Hey all,
I had a quick question about the reset function on the phone.
I'm having problems with a few apps just crashing outright and not working. I figured I'd just like to start from scratch but I don't want to have to root again if I can avoid it...
Plan of action so far is use HTC's own factory default reset, install HD Revolution 41 (Kit Kat) and then restore app data from Titanium Backup.
Is there a way to do all of this without having to reroot the device?
Flashing custom roms never requires root, they come rooted. Read the stickies
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xcrazydx said:
Flashing custom roms never requires root, they come rooted. Read the stickies
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Thanks for the reply... I never said however that they do require rooting. I'm saying that my device is already rooted and would like to reset without unrooting...
It wouldn't matter. Custom roms come rooted.
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