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Here is the complete description of how to do it.
I didn't had to do this things, I got an invite from Google on the launch day, but, better than all these crazy steps, just search for those proxy sites, load music.google.com from it, accept the TOS and after that you will not be blocked anymore, even if you stop using this method.
Hello,
I have been reading many threads about rooting and sideloading and a bit confused.
I am assuming that rooting will void the warranty. Is this correct?.
Now if I sideload apps, could a software update remove the ability to sideload and remove any previous programs installed?.
Any other advantages to rooting other than having access to the full market?.
Thanks
Polar99.
Additional Question about Android Market
I would like to piggyback on this thread as I too am considering rooting my Nook to gain access to the Android Market. However, I'm reluctant to take this step as it voids the warranty, and I would only be willing to do so if I'm guaranteed access to the market.
This is my first Android-based device, so I have no other access to the market. When I try to download apps from the market webpage right now (no root) it says: "There are no Android phones associated with this account. Please sign in with a different account." So, here's my question:
If I root my Nook and browse the market using the app, will it automatically detect that I have an android device and allow me to download apps, or will I still have to "link" a device to the account? If I would have to link a device, is there a way to link the rooted Nook, or do I need another, legitimate android-based device (phone, etc.) in order to create an account. Or, for a 3rd option, is there a workaround to the linking requirement?
Thank you in advance for the replies! And, to help the original poster despite my very noob-ish status on this forum, I believe that rooting DOES void the warranty.
Shaftakovich said:
I would only be willing to do so if I'm guaranteed access to the market.
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Noone here will give you a guarantee!
We can only provide empiric data, and so far that says you will most probably (pretty close to certainty) be able to access the Android Market if you root your device following the directions given.
Thanks for the heads-up! I realize that nothing is a guarantee in this sort of situation, but I just want to make sure that I would *most likely* be able to access the market without access to some other android device.
Shaftakovich said:
Thanks for the heads-up! I realize that nothing is a guarantee in this sort of situation, but I just want to make sure that I would *most likely* be able to access the market without access to some other android device.
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Indeed! I am a Mac user and followed the instructions in the Mac thread and it worked first time, without any major problems. First time I rooted (done it a couple of times because I have fiddled beyond my level of comprehension so I have needed a factory reset) it worked perfectly! It will root your tablet and give you access to Android Market.
Good luck and let us know how it works out for you! IF you run in to trouble you can always post, people here are generally friendly if your question is humble (as in "not demanding")
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For anyone that might know: should I wait until I get my SD card before rooting the Nook, or is it okay to do it without one installed? (Or maybe it makes no difference - I don't know )
polar99 said:
Hello,
Any other advantages to rooting other than having access to the full market?.
Polar99.
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I too would love to hear some opinions on root over simply sideloading. I've been sideloading and been pretty happy, and wondering the benefits of rooting beyond acess to market. I'm not the most techy guy, and sideloading is working pretty well.
My dad has been side-loading on his Nook Tablet for a bit now. It wasn't difficult for him to get started when I directed him to the threads on xda. He installed the Amazon Market without issue and is enjoying purchasing apps and the benefits of the "Free App of the Day". He is using SlideMe instead of Google's official Android Market. He loves the ability to switch between the Nook's stock interface and his Go Launcher setup. He even has most of the Google Apps running (excluding the Market and a couple others).
All this without root.
What root gets you at this point is primarily the ability to tinker with system files and to get some items items working, such as the Google Market, that might not work otherwise. It will also allow you to do backups of all your apps using Titanium Backup or similar apps which is great. If, however, you can live without that, side-loading is a great way to avoid getting worried about "voiding your warranty".
That said, Indirect now has a one-click un-root on the market that will take your Nook Tablet back to stock and B&N will be none the wiser in the event you want to send yours back.
Shaftakovich said:
I would like to piggyback on this thread as I too am considering rooting my Nook to gain access to the Android Market. However, I'm reluctant to take this step as it voids the warranty, and I would only be willing to do so if I'm guaranteed access to the market.
This is my first Android-based device, so I have no other access to the market. When I try to download apps from the market webpage right now (no root) it says: "There are no Android phones associated with this account. Please sign in with a different account." So, here's my question:
If I root my Nook and browse the market using the app, will it automatically detect that I have an android device and allow me to download apps, or will I still have to "link" a device to the account? If I would have to link a device, is there a way to link the rooted Nook, or do I need another, legitimate android-based device (phone, etc.) in order to create an account. Or, for a 3rd option, is there a workaround to the linking requirement?
Thank you in advance for the replies! And, to help the original poster despite my very noob-ish status on this forum, I believe that rooting DOES void the warranty.
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Double piggy-backing....
I have just rooted my Nook Tablet successfully, but not get the same message as you're getting...basically that I don't have any android device associated with my Google Account...
How can I associate the Nook Tablet to the Android Market????
Thanks!,
Gizmo
PlacidCat said:
My dad has been side-loading on his Nook Tablet for a bit now. It wasn't difficult for him to get started when I directed him to the threads on xda. He installed the Amazon Market without issue and is enjoying purchasing apps and the benefits of the "Free App of the Day". He is using SlideMe instead of Google's official Android Market. He loves the ability to switch between the Nook's stock interface and his Go Launcher setup. He even has most of the Google Apps running (excluding the Market and a couple others).
All this without root.
What root gets you at this point is primarily the ability to tinker with system files and to get some items items working, such as the Google Market, that might not work otherwise. It will also allow you to do backups of all your apps using Titanium Backup or similar apps which is great. If, however, you can live without that, side-loading is a great way to avoid getting worried about "voiding your warranty".
That said, Indirect now has a one-click un-root on the market that will take your Nook Tablet back to stock and B&N will be none the wiser in the event you want to send yours back.
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It isn't on the market yet because we would have to remove the paypal donation link. :| Wondering what to do because of it. I don't want to force people to donate to me, but I don't want to be completely left without a viable way to have some kind of cash flow.
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It isn't on the market yet because we would have to remove the paypal donation link. :| Wondering what to do because of it. I don't want to force people to donate to me, but I don't want to be completely left without a viable way to have some kind of cash flow.
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Whoops, sorry about that! I thought I had read a post about it being available but I most likely mis-read it in my excitement.
In any case, un-root is possible and makes rooting simply a choice of whether or not you want to do some additional tinkering, not whether or not you are afraid of the B&N wolf.
>It isn't on the market yet because we would have to remove the paypal donation link.
I wouldn't bother putting it on the Market. Peeps who know enough to root would already be here on XDA, and those who don't know, wouldn't have Market in the first place.
And not to dampen your enthusiasm.. while there may be enough in donations to get a small pizza, calling it a "cash flow" would be a bit optimistic. Your audience size is small, and their purse string is even smaller. Dean Gibson can probably tell you something about that. Just FYI.
I have a bit of a unique situation in that I work at B&N, who have no problem with employees rooting beyond the usual warranty void. Even with one-click unroot, my store woild know it was rooted, meaning to file a claim I'd most likely have to do it behind my store's back, and that sort of thing has a tendency to come back and bite you on the ass.
That said, is there an emulator on a rooted tab that would display the default NT ui?
What software diags do B&N techs use to service NTs? Can you provide a copy?
Hi All,
I have my device SGS2 synchronized with our corporate network. Our corp uses Zenprise for MDM solution which has me running this ****ty app zenprise for employees always running on my device.
Also, when I configured the inbuilt email app - it asked me all sort of privileges and became an admin for my device.
now the question - when I rooted my device, somehow corporate admins knew about it and I got an email from them that it has been detected that I am running rooted device and I should remove the root or take it to the service station.
How do they find THIS out? Is it zenprice MDM that reports rooted device or is it Exchange Security policies???
Now this time - after a flash I did install the zenprise MDM but I have not configured email . I simply used Touchdown and now I dont have to use PIN on my device lock and I doubt how many exchange SPs are enforced anyways. But I really do not know if I should try rooting again.
So, is it the exchange or is it the MDM which detected if the device is rooted? Any ideas?
Check out the web page for Zenprice: http://www.zenprise.com/solutions/android-management
It says "Block jailbroken or rooted devices".
And,
"Maintain hardware inventory, including asset details; report on device statistics"
"Report on service details such as roaming, location, user inactivity, and expenses"
If you own the device, you should hit them up about monitoring this information about your private phone, if it's not in your corporate mobile usage policy.
awojtas said:
Check out the web page for Zenprice: http://www.zenprise.com/solutions/android-management
It says "Block jailbroken or rooted devices".
And,
"Maintain hardware inventory, including asset details; report on device statistics"
"Report on service details such as roaming, location, user inactivity, and expenses"
If you own the device, you should hit them up about monitoring this information about your private phone, if it's not in your corporate mobile usage policy.
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I know this is an old post but I wanted to add to it.
I'm an MDM administrator and I run Zenprise for MDM. Yes it is the Zenprise agent that detects whether or not a device is rooted. While the device belongs to you, you are connecting it to company resources which requires certain levels of security. In this case they block rooted devices. They can also record your screen and more. By connecting your phone to your company resources you are agreeing to their security policy. Ignorance of the policy is your fault and not theirs.
Hope this helps those of you who hate Zenprise. Being on the other side of it, I love it.
Well, but Zenprise is not differentiating between rooted and unlocked AT ALL. Unless Im misunderstanding something, this is a huge flaw in their detection mechanism which then leads to a false vilification of Android phones. In my case, I purchased a Samsung SIII aka S3 GTi9300 World Phone, so I can travel abroad and use different SIMS, so it is unlocked but NOT ROOTED. I installed the Zenprise aka Citrix Connect for Samsung app, and when it tries to login it quickly fails and reports back that "Connection failed due to a security policy". The Zenprise admins say my device is rooted, and it is not, so they dismiss it and say that well it doesnt matter from a Zenprise perspective it sees unlocked and rooted phones the same. This is so backwards I dont even know where to start. Nevermind Zenprise seems to be Apple-centric (just about every device it manages is an Apple, Androids seem despised), but getting support to care or do something about this difference in phone status (unlocked vs. rooted) is like asking a brick wall to care.
What can be done about this, what is the right setting to get Zenprise to accept a legitimate phone, or how can it be tricked into doing so. Thanks.
There's an app module called XPrivacy for the Xposed Framework, it could possibly help you guys hide your rooted and unlocked status as it is designed to feed bogus information for different permissions like for example you can spoof your mac address, imei bla bla yada yada, a little talk and contribution to the dev will possibly get you any missing features too.
P. S We can also set our desired info too for most relevant permissions or allow any specific information, and I agree with one thing privacy is too underestimated now. Orbot app can be used for connecting your device to the Tor Network thereby hiding your Internet presence to the whole world, the only thing you're admin will see is you being connected to a single IP which is random and could be anybody or anything.
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goinovr said:
I know this is an old post but I wanted to add to it.
I'm an MDM administrator and I run Zenprise for MDM. Yes it is the Zenprise agent that detects whether or not a device is rooted. While the device belongs to you, you are connecting it to company resources which requires certain levels of security. In this case they block rooted devices. They can also record your screen and more. By connecting your phone to your company resources you are agreeing to their security policy. Ignorance of the policy is your fault and not theirs.
Hope this helps those of you who hate Zenprise. Being on the other side of it, I love it.
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First of all don't easily and directly specify the root of the problem when you guy's are trying to cause the problem if a little modding and changing the apk is too difficult there will always be workarounds to virtually hide everything, lol you guy's wouldn't even understand when a security issue rises.
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We do not allow discussions regarding spoofing IMEI on xda so a few posts have been deleted.
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Understood, thanks for pointing it out, but anybody who knows a little about Xposed Framework can modify, spoof or do anything related to code level modification.
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Yes point taken. Sorry
They check SU binaries. There are serval ways to hide it. Check for hide root on Google play.
Yours,
Amiroslo
Not any more. The new version (Worx) see su even hiden...
Sysadmins & tech support guys know everything. No hiding anything from them (except maybe the lazy ones).
So I've tested around this a good bit. The latest Citrix Worx doesn't only check for su binary. Even when you use hide root on say SuperSu it doesn't work. Even a hide my root won't work. After days of testing and tinkering I found what it does look for. It looks for both su binary AND busybox. So what I did was delete the busybox and all the symlinks to it in xbin. Then used the hide root on SuperSu and it worked. So that seems to be the fix for now. Hope that helps anyone.
Dixit
dixit said:
So I've tested around this a good bit. The latest Citrix Worx doesn't only check for su binary. Even when you use hide root on say SuperSu it doesn't work. Even a hide my root won't work. After days of testing and tinkering I found what it does look for. It looks for both su binary AND busybox. So what I did was delete the busybox and all the symlinks to it in xbin. Then used the hide root on SuperSu and it worked. So that seems to be the fix for now. Hope that helps anyone.
Dixit
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Do you mind elaborating on this a bit? My company is running the latest version of Citrix Xenmobile (worx) and I'd like to accomplish this so I can use it but also keep root obviously.
cowman4000 said:
Do you mind elaborating on this a bit? My company is running the latest version of Citrix Xenmobile (worx) and I'd like to accomplish this so I can use it but also keep root obviously.
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I explained it fairly well. You have to delete Busybox, the app itself. Then using file explorer like tool like maybe root explorer you need to go to Xbin and remove all the symlinks that pointed to busybox that may have been left behind. Only delete the ones that pointed to busybox.
Sorry cant be of more help on this as I don't have this device anymore, I have a Note4 which I cannot root so I cant test this further.
Dixit
Love it when old threads like this pop up. These were the good time's on Xda....shame pretty much all my Post's was removed lol.
Good time's... Great people.
hello, two main questions for people really smart on androids.
1)is there a way to replace google photos and make the photos go to a diff gallery on a pixel 3a? (I prefer not to root my phone)
2)does using cortana with Microsoft launcher or on a samsung "bixby" instead of google assistant prevent google from listening to you?
You need to have a rooted device.
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Im open to rooting my device, its been awhile since I have,
do you have a guide or link to a way to prevent google access, using root.
I'm ok with it going some things but i just want to make its data collecting and artificial intelligence to barely know who i am.
my current set up is:
brave browser, Microsoft launcher with cortana, vpn (private internet access)
anyone have answers to the first 2 questions?
So I currently have a Tmobile Note 8 that I just found out that rooting it will prevent me from installing apps like bank apps and using samsung pay. I also have an At&t Note 10 plus for work but I dont want to root it as if something happens how will I explain it to my boss lol. So being that my Note 8 is 3 years old I decided that it's time to upgrade to a new phone. My question is what phone can I buy that I will still be able to install bank apps and keep using google or samsung pay. I'm open to any suggestions
Thank you
David
these guidelines will help
--- find out if rooting is easily available for the phone
--- take a look at extant ROMs and see what are the problems associated with those ... in the latest update and how easy it is to fix them or else live with them
--- broader the user base better it is find support available for various issues
--- coming to your question on banking apps it has nothing to do with what phone you want to buy
if you root that phone and the banking app has various checks and balances to detect root you may not be able to use it. with passage of time banking apps are clamping down on root detection and unfortunately Evasive measures are not sufficient so those fighting for root and wanting to use banking apps ... are on the losing side
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