I just upgraded to Gingerbread from Froyo. My phone was rooted on Froyo. I am attempting to root my phone using GingerBreak-v1.20.apk downloaded from the site. I followed the instructions. The rooting process seems to freeze up. I let it run for 30 minutes and finally rebooted my phone. The phone IS NOT rooted. None of my root applications work. I have several applications that need rooting. Can anyone help me? I have an LG G2x running Android 2.3.3. Thanks.
mmm try to install clockworkmod and after install cyanogen with the zip .
or if u want only root u could try root by paul ... search on modaco.com
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
i recently got a dell streak 5. the device was used by the army but i want to restore it so i can use it for personal use.i woke up this morning and the dell streak turned on and was stuck on the dell logo boot screen. never left there. it has continued to do its boot loop. i tried to flash a new android 2.2 os; didnt work. tried to flash a new rom: didnt work. i also tried to root it using superoneclick, also didnt work. im out of ideas for doing a recovery for the device. i kinda figured the root process would fail due to the fact that superoneclick needs the phone to be on and open to work and authorize but i gave it a go. any more ideas would be appreciated. thanks in advance.
You're able to get into recovery, so the device isn't bricked. You should be able to install a stock recovery using fastboot or (better) Multiflasher. From there you should be able to install a stock ROM. After that, root but do not use SuperOneClick to do so. One click root tools can do more harm than good, so use the recommended methods in the XDA wiki.
Hi,
I tried to apply the current OTA update on my Venue 7 3740 but after downloading and rebooting I get the red triangle of death and the update is not applied. The tablet boots fine afterwards though so not bricked *sigh*
Before trying to apply the update I uninstalled Xposed framework and did the SuperSU complete unroot option.
An option would be to restore a Nandroid backup to the initial state without root and xposed done via tethered CWM but I would be really glad if I could keep my current setup. On the other hand can somebody confirm the restore from tethered CWM works correctly? I don't want to brick :silly:
Any suggestions/experience concerning OTA on rooted 3740?
Thanks in advance,
slaecker
My rooted 3840 took 4 or 5 times to take the update. I think there was some discussion on this in another thread. Keep retrying, you might get lucky.
I ended up restoring my initial nandroid backup and the update was applied. Now I setup the tablet from scratch.
I have the tablet rooted via tether. An android update came up today. Could not install it. Im guessing its due to the tethered root. So I tried to reset tablet, still no luck with android update. I then unrooted via supersu, still errors on update. I don't know how to do any future android updates. Anyone have any input/ideas? thanks
If you have rooted your tablet, and did not back up those being-modified files, then restore them, definitely the OTA update will fail.
lucian.liu said:
If you have rooted your tablet, and did not back up those being-modified files, then restore them, definitely the OTA update will fail.
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didnt know what got modified with root so cant back up what i dont know it modifies.
bobtroy said:
didnt know what got modified with root so cant back up what i dont know it modifies.
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You might need to find a virgin device , it seems that with some devices that ship with lollipop installed updates will fail simply if the partition has ever been mounted rw.
On those devices you have to dd the raw image back to the system partition before doing ota updates.
Not saying its what is going on with yours what's the log say?
im assuming DD has to do with Linux stuff of which I guess I better start learning. I don't have the tablet. Dell replaced it as it didn't boot up. I was lucky. If I only knew what to do a backup, what to backup and what software, etc...I would love to root it again, but Dell has already sent out 3 updates on this tablet. Once I root it, I cant install updates. It reboots to install update, then a android robot comes up on bootup with the dreaded exclamation mark/triangle, stating update failed. I did not keep a log of it. I know windows since 3.1, maybe its time to learn some Linux
Thanks for helping this newbie
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bobtroy said:
im assuming DD has to do with Linux stuff of which I guess I better start learning. I don't have the tablet. Dell replaced it as it didn't boot up. I was lucky. If I only knew what to do a backup, what to backup and what software, etc...I would love to root it again, but Dell has already sent out 3 updates on this tablet. Once I root it, I cant install updates. It reboots to install update, then a android robot comes up on bootup with the dreaded exclamation mark/triangle, stating update failed. I did not keep a log of it. I know windows since 3.1, maybe its time to learn some Linux
Thanks for helping this newbie
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I'm actually going to be updating the tethered recovery tonight the new twrp 2.8.7.0 has some features related to this issue.
social-design-concepts said:
I'm actually going to be updating the tethered recovery tonight the new twrp 2.8.7.0 has some features related to this issue.
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Awesome...thanks Ill check it out when its up
bobtroy said:
Awesome...thanks Ill check it out when its up
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Did the new twrp get updated/uploaded somewhere? im anxious to try it out .twrp 2.8.7.0
I am unable to get any root method to work with a new 7840. I have one that I bought sometime ago that I was able to root.
The first one I bought I was able to follow the droidboots steps and successfully get a temp CWM session to flash SuperSu. No such luck with the one that was shipped with the latest firmware.
Has anyone gotten any root methods to work on a newly shipped Venue?
Post above yours;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/dell-venue/general/root-howto-dell-venue-8-7840-t3282532