How to remove write protection to get rw - Huawei Mate 20 Pro Questions & Answers

Hello
Its about getting rw in erofs system OS12
I unpack rom resize it and edit some
Changes then repack and flash
But its still same after flash
Nothing changed everything back to stock conditions
I think I'm missing something or few commands to remove write protection
And make it fully rw
In cmd i get rw selcetable etc
In root explorer also change to rw but still nothing able to change
Is there anyone can able to help I'll donate

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Setting system root as RW default

Hey there?
I've got a question which I can't seem to find anywhere else and YES I have searched this forum and google. However, I may miss it.
Anyway, I've mapped my android phone as a network drive using Samba and changed the smb.conf file to show the System Root directory as well. However, system root is default set as R/O so to mange files USING my computer I need to change the permission to R/W using a file manager (such as root explorer). This is annoying, as I have to keep doing this in order to write to certail directories.
What I wish to do is create a massive guide on all of this to help out the community, however I need one little bit of information.
I would like the / directory (root) to be mounted as R/W as default so that I can quickly edit files on my PC without having to constantly change it to R/O.
If this has been answered before, I do apologize.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
xxSHABSxx
EDIT:
To make things a bit clearer.
I want something that will automatically mount my phone's root dir into rw upon boot, without custom apps/having to manually mount as rw everytime it reboots. And yes I understand there are apps that do this.
Yes, the root file system is read-only, but it's also volatile. It's restored from the initramfs in the boot image each time you reboot the phone, so only mounting it writeable, doesn't do you very much anyway.
In /init.rc you find a line:
Code:
mount rootfs rootfs / ro remount
This remounts your root read-only. Remove this, and it'll stay writeable. But again, all edits to the root file system are volatile. To change this, you must flash a new boot.img
An easier way would be a root-app remounting it writable again after boot.
kuisma said:
Yes, the root file system is read-only, but it's also volatile. It's restored from the initramfs in the boot image each time you reboot the phone, so only mounting it writeable, doesn't do you very much anyway.
In /init.rc you find a line:
Code:
mount rootfs rootfs / ro remount
This remounts your root read-only. Remove this, and it's stay writeable. But again, all edits to the root file system are volatile. To change this, you must flash a new boot.img
An easier way would be a root-app remounting it writable again after boot.
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Ahh I figured as much, since Google didn't offer any solutions to me. And flashing is way much more effort than simply having an app that does it for you.
Anyway thanks for the reply!
xxshabsxx said:
Ahh I figured as much, since Google didn't offer any solutions to me. And flashing is way much more effort than simply having an app that does it for you.
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Or do like I did, move the root to a real ext3 non-volatile file system instead.

[Q] 4.0.3 HTC Temp Root Question

Hello everybody,
i have gained root access to my phone via backup/restore method through adb where local.prop is stored in /data/. So when i log onto my phone with adb i have root access. I copied busybox, su and the superuser.apk to the right place and removed the local.prop file again. After a reboot I was hoping to remove some crapware off my phone but to my surprise the binaries i copied vanished from the filesystem. So the phone reverted the changes by itself. I did this process several times copying busybox and su to various places referred to by $PATH, but it´s everytime the same after i reboot. The files are gone.
After the first attempts failed i tried to make changes to my phone while logged in as root. I wanted to uninstall unnecessary packages with "pm uninstall" but that failed also. The command just responds "failed". Even when /system is mounted rw (it remounts itself to ro after a while though). I´ve also made changes to /init.rc but they are also gone after a reboot as other changes i´ve made. Basically i wasn´t able to accomplish anything with root access no matter what i did.
So what i want to know is how this black magic works andy why i cant do anything with root. I know how to achieve real root through htc dev and various other methods.
Thanks for reading!
nasenstueber said:
Hello everybody,
i have gained root access to my phone via backup/restore method through adb where local.prop is stored in /data/. So when i log onto my phone with adb i have root access. I copied busybox, su and the superuser.apk to the right place and removed the local.prop file again. After a reboot I was hoping to remove some crapware off my phone but to my surprise the binaries i copied vanished from the filesystem. So the phone reverted the changes by itself. I did this process several times copying busybox and su to various places referred to by $PATH, but it´s everytime the same after i reboot. The files are gone.
After the first attempts failed i tried to make changes to my phone while logged in as root. I wanted to uninstall unnecessary packages with "pm uninstall" but that failed also. The command just responds "failed". Even when /system is mounted rw (it remounts itself to ro after a while though). I´ve also made changes to /init.rc but they are also gone after a reboot as other changes i´ve made. Basically i wasn´t able to accomplish anything with root access no matter what i did.
So what i want to know is how this black magic works andy why i cant do anything with root. I know how to achieve real root through htc dev and various other methods.
Thanks for reading!
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is your RECOVERY.img
and beside i dont really think your /system is fully mounted rw
mauricio.valladolid said:
is your RECOVERY.img
and beside i dont really think your /system is fully mounted rw
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Thanks for the reply. i use mount -o remount,rw /system as mount command to get read/write permission on /system. If there is something more to do please let me know. And if the behavior i ve seen is caused by the recovery.img is there something i can do about it?
nasenstueber said:
Thanks for the reply. i use mount -o remount,rw /system as mount command to get read/write permission on /system. If there is something more to do please let me know. And if the behavior i ve seen is caused by the recovery.img is there something i can do about it?
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why dont you just install ext4 recovery and flash supersu.zip?
I really dont get it why are you trying to do it the hard way

Changing Image to get root

Hello,
i have a Wiko PULP 3G, without a working root method.
I take a look at the Firmware files, there seems no CRC Protection. Even a Satellite Receiver or a TV Firmware have such.
I changed Text in the image with a HEX Editor(ro.sys.usb.storage.type) to get Massstorage. I flashed the modified image.
The Program just done it. Okay i have still no Massstorage. But on the Mobile i can see the build.prop has really changed
like i edit it.
I wonder if i can change Textfiles, it may possible to mount system as r/w.
Its a 1.9GB image difficult to find the Init/fstab.
Questions:
1. What do i need to modify to get mass_storage ?
2. How are the typical Textlines for a phone to make system read-only?
3. If i have write access to /system i can put a "su" file(any?) to system install SuperSU and have root?
Okay i have modified a boot.img, repack it and flashed it.
I set ro.secure=0, ro.debuggable=1 and massstorage in build.prop.
I got masstorage )))))
But how do i get the su to xbin. In the extracted Boot.img or Recovery.img there is no xbin.
Other .img files cant be xtracted.
With adb push this dont work, no permission.
Ideas?
If this is a raw system partition ext4 image, you can just mount it (with -o loop) on your Linux PC and modify the contents.
_that said:
If this is a raw system partition ext4 image, you can just mount it (with -o loop) on your Linux PC and modify the contents.
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Thanks, but its not a raw image. I think its Android Sparse Image Format.
Linux cant mount it. Yaffey is not able to handle it.
I wonder why there i no tool where you can put a Firmware in and click on "Root it" and ready is the new one?!
Now i found tools to depack/pack the system image.
But the Phone dont boot, it starts and restart in Recovery.
If i do a root filecheck in Recovery it says 1 file added and 1 file changed - FAIL.
There must be something like a modify protection

Temp rooted phone but no rw on /system - please help!

Hi all,
I have gained temp root access on a japan phone, able to obtain rw access to all files & folders except /system. Edited default.prop file on ro.secure and ro.debuggable to 0 & 1, did setenforce to permissive but still unable to write on /system getting mount: permission denied, is there any advice anyone can give please?
On a seperate issue, this phone does not have fastboot or recovery mode, attempted to dd a modified boot.img to the dev/block/xxxxxxxxxx folder of where the original boot.img was resulting a bootloop, wondering under normal circumstances when there is no fastboot or recovery mode, dd a boot.img should achieve the same flash result of using fastboot?
Thanks in advance!

Build.prop file accidentally got empty and haven't rebooted yet. Any ways to restore it?

Build.prop file accidentally got empty and haven't rebooted yet. Any ways to restore it?
Am i screwed?
You have a customer recovery? Then you can dirty flash your rom
I definitely would have done that if i did.
But TWRP was never released for my phone (poco x3 gt)
Depends the device and android version I guess...
I would do getprop and edit the output to build.prop form.
Notice to chmod the file correctly, 644 or whatever..
I think you can reboot safely because build.prop is inside super partition and therefore read-only.
of course you can download stock ROM from xiaomifirmwareupdater and extract build.prop from super.img, but it's more easy to flash super.img from fastboot.
aIecxs said:
I think you can reboot safely because build.prop is inside super partition and therefore read-only.
of course you can download stock ROM from xiaomifirmwareupdater and extract build.prop from super.img, but it's more easy to flash super.img from fastboot.
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Nvm my phone just got an OTA update.
I just have to restore the root now
aIecxs said:
I think you can reboot safely because build.prop is inside super partition and therefore read-only.
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And it's empty like how? Weird crap anyway... ok now, so who cares...
Idk but /system /vendor /product /system_ext /odm are ro dynamic partitions inside super partition, either OP did re-duplicate blocks with e2fsck -E unshare_blocks and disabled avb/dm-verity to allow remount rw / system_root (would break OTA), or it simply wasn't written to build.prop at all (magisk systemless overlay)? "empty" could also mean does not exist/no permissions...
https://github.com/Yuyuko1024/device_xiaomi_chopin/blob/lineage-18.1/rootdir/etc/fstab.mt6891
TWRP is available btw
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/twrp-unofficial-3-6-0-poco-x3-gt-redmi-note-10-pro-5g.4369207

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