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Not sure if it's possible, but it's the only thing I'm looking to be able to do with my phone right now since I can't root ( HBoot 1.15 problem ).
Could the manual steps outlined HERE work if I'm using a stock phone with now unlock or root? It just seems like there's no need for root with any of these steps, maybe I'm wrong?
Steps:
Manual:
Download The Google Now Apk. [Link below]
Open up Root Explorer and go to your downloaded apk.
Rename the apk to "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk"
Now go to [System - App] mount R/O and rename "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk" to "GoogleBackUp.bak"
Now copy the downloaded apk [The one you renamed to "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk"] to [System - App]
Reboot
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Why can't you root?
You can still root with the new HBOOT, you just can't get S-OFF, which is not the same thing. And those instructions you quoted won't work without root since Root Explorer requires root.
Yes sorry rather then ask I should have told them that. Use HTC dev unlock, fastboot flasg recovery and then flash root installer. My guide doesn't have any tutorials but it explains just about everything you should know about your phone, its worth a read. I explain soff, HTC dev unlock, recovery, ROM, radios, you name it and I probably already added it. I even have very specific troubleshooting scenarios and I explain the cause (and solution for the harder problems)
I don't want to HTCDev unlock. I'll wait for S-Off for 1.15. I can access the root of my device over this program on my computer without being rooted... Just figured I'd ask.
Root access and accessing the root of your phone are not the same thing. Also for this particular phone, the internal memory is considered the internal SD card, this is not the root filesystem. HTC just uses a screwy workaround. You can unlock and root or remove root relock and restore to stock at anytime and you can do most of what's possible with soff there's no reason to not do so even if waiting for soff
Hmm root some how slipped my mind, I guess I'm off to add an explanation of superuser permissions to my guide
eXplicit815 said:
I don't want to HTCDev unlock. I'll wait for S-Off for 1.15. I can access the root of my device over this program on my computer without being rooted... Just figured I'd ask.
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yes but you cant copy with out root.
You have to root. And I'd suggest dev unlocking now anyway. You can always soff later if it's found
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Yes i have done it
what you have to do is download 2 apks, but first tell what device, is it ics 4.0.3+ etc.
Hello i have an xperia tablet s i need to change bootanimation but without root
is that possible?
i searched a lot and most of people said that this is not possible, only few said that this can be done but hasn't said how to do that?
i tried to adb push but it said read only file system
so if anyone knows how , please say it in details.
the xperia tablet has an ics and is purchased from other country and it isn't supported yet in my country so i can't root.
thanks
It's impossible without root.
It's impossible without root.
Modify the folder /system/media requires root beacuse in stock is read-only.
You should mount the system as rw and try. Not sure if that needs root too.
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Hi everybody. I learned so much from this forum (and also from others) in one year and tried to share my knowledge to those who try to learn like me.
Now i would like to share one of my experiences. i dont know if someone wrote about this, yet i could not find anywhere in this forum. When we share a "port" for example "s4 keyboard for s3", we say that we need root access in order to use this port. But when i think, if this apk files replace themselves with the original ones and rom thinks that they are the originals, why should we need root access? Of course we need recovery to flash them but do we absolutely need root? And i flashed 3 separate ports (keyboard, launcher and callrecord) into a fresh installed 4.3 MK6 stock rom without root and they worked... and still do... (scripts have to delete odex files automatically)
Installing a recovery will increase the binary counter and since your binary is up why not rooting right? But those who dont want to root their phone but still want to use the visuality, can install a recovery and flash the ports without rooting... Tested and proven...
You need root access for applications/ports that will need to be installed in system directories (that only the superuser can alter). Some directories/partitions are read-only, so you have to mount the them as writable too. It all depends on the application.
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You need root access for applications/ports that will need to be installed in system directories (that only the superuser can alter). Some directories/partitions are read-only, so you have to mount the them as writable too. It all depends on the application.
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If editing apps from rom then yes. But if you are flashing them through recovery you dont need root access for read and write permitions. Script also does that itself. Thats what im talking about
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Before you read this trough : This is not a question about how to root my phone or add root access to an app. This is about how I can add root acess to my phone. I mean like ading root acess to a phone where no root is yet released. If anyone knows a github repo with the commits of adding root to the phone, please tell me. Thanks!
CTXz said:
Before you read this trough : This is not a question about how to root my phone or add root access to an app. This is about how I can add root acess to my phone. I mean like ading root acess to a phone where no root is yet released. If anyone knows a github repo with the commits of adding root to the phone, please tell me. Thanks!
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you don't want to root device (for example: kingo root, Iroot, etc) u want to compile su file or what??
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you don't want to root device (for example: kingo root, Iroot, etc) u want to compile su file or what??
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I currently don't look to compile for a specific device but I want it as basic knowledge when it comes to the case of a new device that has no root yet.
CTXz said:
Before you read this trough : This is not a question about how to root my phone or add root access to an app. This is about how I can add root acess to my phone. I mean like ading root acess to a phone where no root is yet released. If anyone knows a github repo with the commits of adding root to the phone, please tell me. Thanks!
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"How I can add root access to my phone" = root your phone? There's not much difference between the two sentences. Unless you mean adding the root path to the device without installing SuperSU or any other SU app?
popthosegaskets said:
"How I can add root access to my phone" = root your phone? There's not much difference between the two sentences. Unless you mean adding the root path to the device without installing SuperSU or any other SU app?
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Look. You have a phone that doesn't have root access. So what I would do is go to xda, find a root IMG to flash on my phone and then flash it. That would give me root access to the phone. The thing is, if there is no flashable IMG I would develop one by myself. Now I can't find any tutorials or sources of how to build a image like that.
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1. Such methods would depend on your phone, not all phones go through .img file flash.
2. Usually I would associate .img files as kernel. So I assume you want to flash a custom kernel?
3. If you indeed want to flash a custom kernel, you still need root on the ROM before the custom kernel can have root access.
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Look. You have a phone that doesn't have root access. So what I would do is go to xda, find a root IMG to flash on my phone and then flash it. That would give me root access to the phone. The thing is, if there is no flashable IMG I would develop one by myself. Now I can't find any tutorials or sources of how to build a image like that.
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There are several steps to go about to developing a rooting procedure for a device when none has been released yet. The first key step would be to identify whether the device has a looked bootloader. If it does then you will need to resort to an exploit to gain root access rather then flashing a pre-rooted boot.img for example unless you can figure you a way of bypassing the img signature check which in many cases using an exploit is easier. A good basic place to start looking for exploits is here. You will then have to do research on how to exploit the security flaw which involves knowledge of Assembly, C, and Linux. If the bootloader is unlocked you can attempt to make a superboot or autoroot type boot.img which I would suggest taking an existing .img of those types and disasembling them to learn how they were created. Let me know if you still have any questions.
Is there a way to root this phone?