Now I avoided the hell out of "Octopus" as it's an extremely scetchy application that wants literally all permissions for no good reason. I looked into something called Panda Gamepad Pro and it requires to run ADB root and run a script, however I'd like to get some more insights into what exacly it does or rather what it can do. I looked into it myself a little bit as a person that doesn't have that much experience with Android development but as far as I can tell it seems to inject something in possibly it's own process?
I uploaded the script that the ADB.bat executes with adb root and would like to get a rough idea what is going on. The application itself doesn't seem to require more than storage permissions which makes sense as it needs to know where the game executable is for custom layout, nothing scetchy there. Can someone shed some more light on this?
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at my own experience, htc phones are really hard to root, especially the legend, scince it's a mid-end device, and the effort put into hacking it isn't even half of the effort put into high-end devices such as sensation or dhd.
i came across a simple idea that may able to hack most android phones, not only the legend, in a relatively easy way, but i need expert help to make the concept functional.
part one: softroot.
the "universal androot" worked fine for a softroot, and it gave me full access to all system files and folders.
second part: finding and changing the update domain.
here is the first time i need help.
i need someone to tell me whitch file contains the update domain address, so it can be changed to a personal server address in the network we work on, so that the phone serches for a new rom in a server we decide.
third part:server preparation.
i guess this is the most difficult part, scince i first have to find out what protocol is used to make OTA updates and find a server program that works with android.
then it's simply the matter of transferring the rom file (.ruu) to the server.
the idea is still a concept, scince i am not an android developer nor windows developer, but i guess that the idea is posible and can help people change roms in a safer and faster way.
if anyone can make the idea usable, i would really like to know about it.
Dont want to spoil your enthusiasm but something like this already exist.
Its called ROM Manager...
Sent from my Legend using xda premium
I have a treadmill that uses android tablet to control everything through their app. I was able to gain adb access to the tablet and was wondering where I can start to develop on it. I don't have any kernel sources or rom for it, I just have what is on the device. Is there anything I can do to make the tablet more open to running other applications? For example I would love to get gapps working on it, I was able to copy everything over but the google accounts seems to be disabled so I have to work on that, I would also like to give it root but again dont know how to go about doing this.
Is there much possibilities without the source?
Thanks in advance!
Do you know what model the tablet is? If it's something that's been made specially for the treadmill, you might be out of luck as nobody here will have been able to get their hands on it.
That's not to say you couldn't try using z4root or something similar on it to try to get a root. But if it's a device not supported here, you could be asking for trouble.
Hi All,
I have googled this issue and searched the forums, forgive me if I haven't followed the rules (which I have read).
I have a premium app (not mine, 3rd parties), i am not looking to hack it, I have bought it.
I am trying to work out how it does some background calculations with not much luck, it uses ( I am led to believe the NDK was used, so can't be decompiled in the usual way, it has a .so library and the decompiled java doesn't show much.).
So my thought have been turned to the asm of it, and I was wondering if there was a way to attach a debugged to a running android process and be able to disassemble that running process so I can "watch" the calculation happen.
I have a rooted android device, and like I say own the game.
I believe in the iOS world with xcode and a JB device you'd would need to attach a debugger to a running process, then put a hardware watchpoint on the offset you know is the value you need then you continue, do something in the game to trigger reading that value.
I just can't find anything similar for android.
Any help would be appreciated.
If this isnt the right place to ask a question like this can anyone point towards the right place?
Hi. I'm a long time technical person and have some experience with rooting various kinds of devices. I've jail-broken iPhones, run custom firmwares on my routers (OpenWRT, Tomato and the likes) and have finally gotten an Android device for testing (an RCA 7 Voyager RCT6773W22 on 4.4.2 Kitkat) and was able to root it successfully with Kingo.
What I cannot quite figure out after doing quite a lot of searching is how to set things up a proper Linux/UNIX CLI environment. Things like OpenSSL/OpenSSH, coreutils, inetutils/, bash, perl, being able to set the root password (why is there no passwd command?), etc., etc.
I was able to do this on jail-broken iPhones just fine where I would end up with a normal looking unix/Linux like filesystem and utilities and could even manage packages via apt/dpkg which was real nice.
And so I thought this wouldn't be an issue on a system like Android once rooted. Most of what I was able to find seems to use busybox/dropbear, which I've used on routers before and was fine but seems a little light weight here.
I thought I had found the solution through a package manager called BotBrew that I came across, but couldn't get it or the Basil version of it to work (I just get Update Failed no matter what.) And I also noticed it seems to put everything in /data/botbrew and not just under /. Admittedly I'm not very familiar with the file-system of Android so maybe that's normal and I'm just missing something in that regard.
Thanks for any advise.
Learning about Android and other things. Is it possible to open up developer options and remotely root or write files to someone's phone? I mean not just apps but the bootloader and entire OS of the phone?
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Learning about Android and other things. Is it possible to open up developer options and remotely root or write files to someone's phone? I mean not just apps but the bootloader and entire OS of the phone?
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I don't think it's possible to root the phone wirelessly since it need a reboot. If you're talking about privilege escalation hacks, that's a whole other planet, that I'm not qualified to help in (and would not want to since this technique is misused very often)
Well this is happening with me I've started noticing files from 1969 and I know Android was invented in 1969 least of all system files so I dove a little deeper and I'm in need some help. I ain't the cleanest person in the world but I'm not hacking anybody I did download programs to learn more about file systems and programming so I could customize my own devices. This is twice this is happened now in the past 2 years. I'll just say anything this is just a hobby of mine to take and learn my devices and computers and the games for my kid but guys like this or just making it where I don't even want to have a computer or a phone. It says my phone is rooted and it also says that abd is used on it. I downloaded a toolbox and started looking around and system processes that I tried to disable let's just say Facebook I have uninstalled it over seven times yet it keeps appearing is it because they are installed factory version and he's using Android auto which is another dumb program I never use and I have disabled it but somehow it always is enabled with all the permissions enabled.
By the way I have many of these files saved on external cards and I have logs on this. and this is not just one device its multiple devices in my household and I don't know why this guy chose me because I don't have anything of value he can take in real life that's just being honest