For people having problems here is an easy way to root your iconia a100 tablet. The commands can be copied and pasted in terminal emulator very easily. Follow the instructions bellow with the su binary in your SD card first and then if you are not successful try through adb shell in windows.
(internal memory is considered /sdcard and mnt/sdcard, to access an actual sd card requires going to mnt/external_sd/ )
Links will be in the post below since its my first post I can't add links
1st Setup android adb shell here is a link to a guide which is very simple and the link for the a100 adb drivers too if needed.
adb guide [Only registered users can view links. ]
a100 drivers [Only registered users can view links. ]
2nd Download the binary version only not the apk version of superuser at the link below. Make sure you download to sdcard not external_sd and its in the root of the sd. SD is considered the 8gb of internal memory.
[Only registered users can view links. ]
3rd Make certain usb debugging is enabled under application settings. Start adb as the guides shows. Make sure your device is installed properly and run adb shell. Once you get the "$" sign run the commands bellow minus the quotation marks:
4th check system/xbin/ for su. If su is present then install superuser.apk from the market. Test with titanium backup and dont forget to install busybox too.
ADB Guide written by VanillaTbone of XDA.The commands are thanks to sc2k and sabliss also of XDA. Thanks guys for the commands
My device is a acer iconia A101 android 3.2.1. The three commands have no effect on the device.
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`mount -o remount,rw /system`'
no modification of the attributes of /system
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`cat /mnt/sdcard/su >/system/xbin/su`'
no su in the directory /system/xbin
/system/bin/cmdclient ec_micswitch '`chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su`'
canīt work without su in xbin
The responce is always only $, no matter which shell (adb shell or a terminal emulator on the device)
Any ideas?
anyone help me pls? my a100 has al the reqierments and files are in the right place did everything exactly etc. but no root help?
I'm guessing you might have gotten the 3.2.1 update because after the update I lost root access and this method does not work to get root access back. Anyone know how to re-root on 3.2.1?
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