I just lost root access on my XT912. I have been notified of the recent update but have been ignoring it because my phone is flashed for Page Plus. I installed and uninstalled Superuser because SuperSU is installed. Could that have done it?
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i had the same problem. I eventually had to use Matt's utility to reinstall stock ROM and root the phone (I did not install SS using Matt's utility). Then I installed SS 3.65 while in stock ROM. Then you can use VooDoo RootKeeper to backup root, then accept the OTA update, and finally use VooDoo RootKeeper to restore root. Worked great for me.
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Dwillian said:
i had the same problem. I eventually had to use Matt's utility to reinstall stock ROM and root the phone.
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The ROM is stock Android 4.1.2. The flash was just to "fool" Page Plus (a Verizon MVNO) into thinking the Razr is a 3G phone since Page Plus does not allow 4G phones.
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I have the app to help keep my root by temporarily unrooting but I also have bootstrap installed and everything set up so that my Razr will boot into recovery every time it starts up/reboots as a safety net. My question is: Will I have to uninstall Bootstrap in order to successfully update via OTA? Someone recommended it on a thread here but after I did some googling I couldn't find anything confirming or denying the need to uninstall your custom recovery.
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I have the app to help keep my root by temporarily unrooting but I also have bootstrap installed and everything set up so that my Razr will boot into recovery every time it starts up/reboots as a safety net. My question is: Will I have to uninstall Bootstrap in order to successfully update via OTA? Someone recommended it on a thread here but after I did some googling I couldn't find anything confirming or denying the need to uninstall your custom recovery.
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Im going stock and hoping it gets rooted and a CWM flashable zip is made.
My guess would be yes, remove bootstrap. You will be better off using rsd to get back to stock.
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sammyd253 said:
My guess would be yes, remove bootstrap. You will be better off using rsd to get back to stock.
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I'm already on the stock ROM, I just have a custom recovery and I'm rooted.
My Droid Razr was rooted with motofail and I had no problems until the .181 update. My device lost root (which I was expecting) so I attempted to reroot. The problem is, it will not reroot using motofail, Utility, or DooMLord. Superuser is still on my phone, and cannot be uninstalled (as if stock), but does not have root access. Suggestions?
cbilmar said:
My Droid Razr was rooted with motofail and I had no problems until the .181 update. My device lost root (which I was expecting) so I attempted to reroot. The problem is, it will not reroot using motofail, Utility, or DooMLord. Superuser is still on my phone, and cannot be uninstalled (as if stock), but does not have root access. Suggestions?
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I rooted before and after the update with Motofail with no problems. Strange, it was the same circumstance as you. The update took root away but left SU on th device. Sorry I don't have a suggestion but I wanted to let you know it can be done.
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cbilmar said:
My Droid Razr was rooted with motofail and I had no problems until the .181 update. My device lost root (which I was expecting) so I attempted to reroot. The problem is, it will not reroot using motofail, Utility, or DooMLord. Superuser is still on my phone, and cannot be uninstalled (as if stock), but does not have root access. Suggestions?
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Have you tried updating the summer binaries in the super user app?
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so last night I was rooted on. 181,and I flashed 6.14.79. had voodoo but lost root. can't restore with razr utility or motofail. any ideas or helpful suggestions? thanks.
nm, looks like I missed a step before upgrading. no root.
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marculous said:
so last night I was rooted on. 181,and I flashed 6.14.79. had voodoo but lost root. can't restore with razr utility or motofail. any ideas or helpful suggestions? thanks.
nm, looks like I missed a step before upgrading. no root.
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If you want to fastboot back to .181, you have to check updates on su and update the binary before you save root with voodoo.
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If you want to fastboot back to .181, you have to check updates on su and update the binary before you save root with voodoo.
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thank you, I found out I not only forgot to update binary, I forgot to temp unroot.
I might just rsd back to. 181 then root, then update. then set up my phone all cool again.
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marculous said:
thank you, I found out I not only forgot to update binary, I forgot to temp unroot.
I might just rsd back to. 181 then root, then update. then set up my phone all cool again.
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Got it
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If you lost root like I did you can just use matts utility version 1.6 and worked for me.
blueis300 said:
If you lost root like I did you can just use matts utility version 1.6 and worked for me.
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well I actually rsd 'd to. 173, rooted and installed voodoo, updated to. 181, then updated to 6.14.79, now with root this time. pretty happy right now.
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marculous said:
well I actually rsd 'd to. 173, rooted and installed voodoo, updated to. 181, then updated to 6.14.79, now with root this time. pretty happy right now.
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Yeah that works. For me it wasnewsier to use the utility and boom it was done. Glad you got it worked out though.
blueis300 said:
Yeah that works. For me it wasnewsier to use the utility and boom it was done. Glad you got it worked out though.
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I had tried to use the utility but because I failed to update my superuser binary I guess root didn't hold. I also noticed when selecting the zip file in es file explorer that rom manager had to have su permission, and there didn't seem to be a way to temp unroot right then before the reboot. it all worked out fine though.
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I went from .181 and jumped to .210 ICS. I used rootkeeper and tried to restore the root. I already had the superuser.apk installed and when i used rootkeeper it said root was restored, but when i use root apps it does not work and the rootkeeper also tells me i do not have root access.
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Sorry I can be more help. Did you uninstall super user and re load? I know there is a manual ADB push method that I used but you would have to use the search.
i tried uninstalling it and it wont let me
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i tried uninstalling it and it wont let me
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Hmmm. It is probably installed as a system app. Maybe you didn't update su binary before root backup? Try temp unroot and root with RAZR utility.
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Just use matts utility 1.7, it rooted .211 for me with no problem
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Hi, I have a xt912 Droid RAZR Maxx using 4.0.4 ICS and I used the root method that was provided here. I then went root app crazy and also installed the superuser.apk file with the Elite. I went and got clockwork mod touch installed after that, and when I did, the phone would say something like "system is upgrading" and after a while the custom front screen wouldn't work anymore and I lost root access. I since then did a FDR and everything except superuser left. I tried recovering the backup using recovery in fast boot, but it isn't showing as a choice from CWM. I used root checker and it says my phone is not rooted yet I can't uninstall the app only disable it. How do I take it off so I may re-root this phone later? I also used a backup from Titanium pro+root and it won't let me recover from that. Any help would be appreciated.
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