I realize this is probably noobish, but I've been reading a lot of xda threads and getting really confused. Has anyone figured out how to root a Galaxy Ace 2, with Android 4.0.4 and ICS IMM761 firmware? I tried to do an odin flash based upon instructions I read online--if it worked, I was going to use I8160XXLD8_ready_to_root_ANT.tar.md5 and an update zip--but my attempt to do so kept backfiring when the phone froze repeatedly within 2 or 3 seconds of being put into download mode. Maybe I just got the ordering wrong?
Anyway, my underlying goal is try to get the sixaxis working on the phone--though I'm sure rooting the phone will have a lot of other uses. Any input would be appreciated.
Dejavu.
orangechoochoo said:
Dejavu.
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If this has been discussed in another thread, could you direct me to that discussion?
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If this has been discussed in another thread, could you direct me to that discussion?
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More like, why are you posting it here.
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More like, why are you posting it here.
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^Agreed.
ConradHamil said:
I realize this is probably noobish, but I've been reading a lot of xda threads and getting really confused. Has anyone figured out how to root a Galaxy Ace 2, with Android 4.0.4 and ICS IMM761 firmware? I tried to do an odin flash based upon instructions I read online--if it worked, I was going to use I8160XXLD8_ready_to_root_ANT.tar.md5 and an update zip--but my attempt to do so kept backfiring when the phone froze repeatedly within 2 or 3 seconds of being put into download mode. Maybe I just got the ordering wrong?
Anyway, my underlying goal is try to get the sixaxis working on the phone--though I'm sure rooting the phone will have a lot of other uses. Any input would be appreciated.
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This is the Droid DNA forums, as the title says. You have a Galaxy Ace 2, not a Droid DNA. Please go to the correct forums.
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This may be the wrong place but since my internet provider has went on vacation for the night, im putting it where ever i possibly can.
I rooted my skyrocket thru odin. everything looks fine. Used cwm to flash superuser.zip but titanium back up and busy box are both telling me that i am not rooted. Superuser app is installed but not asking permissions for anything.
I am running the latest android 4.0.4...could that be my problem? Thanks
absolutely the wrong place.....hell, you are in the wrong device forum.....
No, your problem is that you're in the wrong forum.
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never mind
ronald_durst said:
This may be the wrong place but since my internet provider has went on vacation for the night, im putting it where ever i possibly can.
I rooted my skyrocket thru odin. everything looks fine. Used cwm to flash superuser.zip but titanium back up and busy box are both telling me that i am not rooted. Superuser app is installed but not asking permissions for anything.
I am running the latest android 4.0.4...could that be my problem? Thanks[/QUOTE
This bit of information should probably be made aware of before more of us lose our wives to trying to root our phones without the proper files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565126
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ronald_durst said:
This bit of information should probably be made aware of before more of us lose our wives to trying to root our phones without the proper files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565126
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It obviously is available.
ronald_durst said:
ronald_durst said:
This may be the wrong place but since my internet provider has went on vacation for the night, im putting it where ever i possibly can.
I rooted my skyrocket thru odin. everything looks fine. Used cwm to flash superuser.zip but titanium back up and busy box are both telling me that i am not rooted. Superuser app is installed but not asking permissions for anything.
I am running the latest android 4.0.4...could that be my problem? Thanks[/QUOTE
This bit of information should probably be made aware of before more of us lose our wives to trying to root our phones without the proper files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565126
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No.
You should go to the right forum section. We have no use for skyrocket info here.
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Skyrocket and i777 arent related other then being on att so please go back to the correct forum :beer:
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Another slowrocket? Smh...:facepalm:
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brandonarev said:
Another slowrocket? Smh...:facepalm:
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Just like the phone with its snapdragon s3 processor the owners are also slow at processing there info lol
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Note to EVERYONE in this (and any other forum). Doing this:
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Will guarantee you a one way ticket off XDA. Take that as a strongly worded hint...
So I just installed Cyanogenmod 10 and now I have no Verizon signal as if my phone is not activated at all. Please help I really need service back asap!
Where did you get cm10? Are you trolling?
Edit. If you made a nandroid go back to that. If not search around and you'll be OK.
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Where did you get cm10? Are you trolling?
Edit. If you made a nandroid go back to that. If not search around and you'll be OK.
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I used the latest nightly build from the get.cm page.
And you said to search around? I did make a backup but won't that take me off CM10? I have been searching but all I can find are guides for old ass phones from years ago.
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I used the latest nightly build from the get.cm page.
And you said to search around? I did make a backup but won't that take me off CM10? I have been searching but all I can find are guides for old ass phones from years ago.
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There isn't a cm for this device on Verizon yet.
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Lepryy said:
So I just installed Cyanogenmod 10 and now I have no Verizon signal as if my phone is not activated at all. Please help I really need service back asap!
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Most likely you've flashed a rom that wasn't made for our VZW variant which in the process has changed your kernel. Try restoring your backup.
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I used the latest nightly build from the get.cm page.
And you said to search around? I did make a backup but won't that take me off CM10? I have been searching but all I can find are guides for old ass phones from years ago.
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There is not yet a CM10 build for the Verizon variant of the note 2. You jumped the gun on this. The only note 2 CM10 build on the get.cm site is for the international version. If that's what you flashed then that easily explains your activation problem. Restore your backup and wait for someone to put out a CM10 build specifically for this device.
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There is not yet a CM10 build for the Verizon variant of the note 2. You jumped the gun on this. The only note 2 CM10 build on the get.cm site is for the international version. If that's what you flashed then that easily explains your activation problem. Restore your backup and wait for someone to put out a CM10 build specifically for this device.
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Well what a damn shame. CM10 is one slick rom. I'm a total noob to this whole thing and had no idea that roms must be made to fit specific carriers. Oh well, bye bye CM10 it is :crying:. Restoring now.
On a side note: What are some good roms that are out now? I hate Touchwiz .
Use this rom for your Verizon galaxy note
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35089557
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There is not yet a public CM10 build for the Verizon variant of the note 2.
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FTFY as I know there is at least one build that looks to be mostly working.
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More and more people flashing things they shouldn't. This is getting scary.
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Let's look for things before calling people wrong and saying they are flashing incorrect things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2047734
To the OP: Restart and clear cache. If that doesn't work try to go to Airplane mode for a minute or so then turn it off. The post says it might take a bit to get data. I have not flashed the Alpha CM build so I'm sorry I can't help much.
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Let's look for things before calling people wrong and saying they are flashing incorrect things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2047734
To the OP: Restart and clear cache. If that doesn't work try to go to Airplane mode for a minute or so then turn it off. The post says it might take a bit to get data. I have not flashed the Alpha CM build so I'm sorry I can't help much.
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Yeah the ROOTing, Unlocking bootloader, and flashing ROMs has become a mess. Too many news websites pick up on these initial XDA announcements and then floods of people come who have no idea what they are doing. I have been doing custom ROMs for the last 2 years and I still feel hesitant with the Note 2 since the development is not there yet and everything seems unclear at the moment.
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Let's look for things before calling people wrong and saying they are flashing incorrect things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2047734
To the OP: Restart and clear cache. If that doesn't work try to go to Airplane mode for a minute or so then turn it off. The post says it might take a bit to get data. I have not flashed the Alpha CM build so I'm sorry I can't help much.
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You do realize that he posted this thread BEFORE the alpha build was posted here don't you? I'm guessing not, so maybe you should pay attention to time stamps before yelling at other people. This is why I stated there wasn't a public build available yet, as sbrissen hadn't yet posted it for everyone.
If you were me, what would you do in this situation? I had to get a replacement Note 2 and the replacement thankfully came with the VRALJB software installed. I deferred the update to L4 for 5 days.
Would you just root and unlock the bootloader now the easy way, or take the L4 update and do it the harder way? Would either way be beneficial or does it not really matter?
Thanks!
Go ahead and unlock/root. You don't have to do anything further if you don't want to and you never know how difficult it would be to unlock in the future.
When I purchased mine outright it had the older software. I used the jailbreak method and that worked like a charm.
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Either way. Just do it on the current software and save a step. Same end result.
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As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
Well if you were me you wouldnt think about it and just root when I got my phone I didnt even sign into google first I skipped all that and was rooted within half an hour of owning my phone...Lol so root away mang
mine came with the ota last Saturday night, i waited til Monday to root just because I've always had htc phones, had to get familiar with touchwiz. took me 10mins to root after i couldn't take all the bloatware anymore
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im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
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Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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Yup, I had the S3 for a while and was over there. Yeah man, I was chatting to the developer of the Jedi ROM and I sent him the meta folder of the ROM that I flashed for beta testing and he saw some problems. He said it was touching some partitions that it shouldn't be touching.
Anyhow, I guess I learned the hard way to be careful of testing ROMs from devs that I don't really recognize.
Time to root this bad boy and get back in business lol.
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kintwofan said:
Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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normally yes...i was just throwing that out there. something was corrupted since recovery was borked.
So I was trying to root my mother's samsung galaxy s 3 using the toolkit version 7.0.0.
I only backed up internal storage and apps. I forgot to do a nandroid back up before I tried the all in one.
On the toolkit, her device wasn't completely supported. It's JZO54K. Android 4.1.2 and it's sprint lte. Her build number wasn't there.
So the guy OP in the toolkit says to use the one closest to you. So I used international 4.1.2 JZO54K.
I got to the odin part, it failed the first time. So I restarted everything. Then tried again. It said RESET as the toolkit said it would. But it was blue instead of green. I though he just made a mistake in the toolkit so I closed it. But it never restarted like it said it would. So I tried to turn on the s3 and it wouldn't do anything. I did a battery pull and tried again. It just flashed samsung for about a second and disappears. Then does absolutely nothing. I tried going into download and recovery mode. Neither worked. Just flashing "samsung" for a second and does nothing.
Help me! This is my mom's device that she wanted me to root and she needs it to work.
UPDATE! I can get it into download mode but nothing else
I know I posted this literally 6 minutes ago and I don't know if anyone can help me now.
But I really need help fast. My skype is JeremyIsLate
This is the international gt-i9300 forum. We can't help. Please try your sprint s3 forum.
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rootSU said:
This is the international gt-i9300 forum. We can't help. Please try your sprint s3 forum.
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It says I may not post a new thread there and nobody there seems to have my problem.
If you can tell me anything I can do to at least get the phone to boot to android, it will be very much appreciated.
Samsung is now offering free repairs on bricked phones. The first time it's free but, the second time you'll have to pay.
I don't know if this will help you but if nothing works you can always try it
Good Luck!
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It says I may not post a new thread there and nobody there seems to have my problem.
If you can tell me anything I can do to at least get the phone to boot to android, it will be very much appreciated.
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I can't because im not familiar with your model. I could cause more damage. You can't post in dev. Only Q&A. Click the /!\ report button top right of your post to have it moved
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Ok, well I have a note 2 with verizon and had 4.1.1 and had it rooted. When then new ota update came, did it and phone went to crappers (a while back of course) So For the past month I been rooting my phone with 4.1.1 to make it "work" and phone started acting weird. Called verizon and received new phone yesterday with 4.1.2.
Now, I have been looking for ways to root it and found several, but when I try them, phone does not root.
Any help would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Have you made 100% sure that your following all the steps in the root threads? And are the drivers all installed on the computer.
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droidx2.3.3 said:
Have you made 100% sure that your following all the steps in the root threads? And are the drivers all installed on the computer.
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Yes & yes.. Again, I've done this ever since I had my S3 and never had issues rooting. But this time around with 4.1.2 it's been hard. It sounds stupid and I feel stupid because it should be that damn hard..
Was able to put Team Win Recovery Project v2.5.0.0.. Now what??
Tx_Cat said:
Yes & yes.. Again, I've done this ever since I had my S3 and never had issues rooting. But this time around with 4.1.2 it's been hard. It sounds stupid and I feel stupid because it should be that damn hard..
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Use casual. It will do everything for you. Disable Windows defender first or it will cause problems. It sees one of the apk files as malicious.
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As was mentioned above Outlers casual process is your best bet. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
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