Thanks for the quick reply!! I'll look into the one-click method you posted and keep my fingers crossed that the rest of the development community update their one-click methods now that the new update is out.
OTA to 5.5.893 and Lost Root?? Click here..
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Thanks for the quick reply!! I'll look into the one-click method you posted and keep my fingers crossed that the rest of the development community update their one-click methods now that the new update is out.
I previously rooted with Pete's Tools so I could get Titanium Backup to work. And, of course, Titanium Backup just reported lost root and wants Busy Box.
While I have application software experience and like to tweak things a bit, most of this Android stuff is black magic to me.
I'm not sure what to do at this point. If there's a painless and un-brickable solution(s), I'm game.
Suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
While I have application software experience and like to tweak things a bit, most of this Android stuff is black magic to me.
I'm not sure what to do at this point. If there's a painless and un-brickable solution(s), I'm game.
Suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
Well you didn't mention what you've done so far. I'm assuming you recently updated and now don't have root? Try out the methods I linked to in OP and mine as a last resort. We won't brick you
It doesn't go wrong it completes everything as it shoud but when I install the update it breaks the root again. I just checked my mount_ext3.sh and I am missing the third line for the 4ever root. I don't know why the program only installed the first two lines.
This is what I have:
mount -o rw,remount/dev/null/system
chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su
It appears that the 3rd line needed for 4ever root was not installed.
Like I said the program ran flawlessly it rooted my phone after the .886 then installed the .893 no problem.
I really don't want to have to do this again setting up my phone is a pita but if someone can find out what went wrong or tell me how to fix it I will give it another go.
I am guessing that after I install the .886 I need to check the mount_ext3.sh and make sure it is correct. Can someone type out the correct commands I need so I can make any corrections in the .886 mount_ext3.sh
Yep you do need the third line.. You can find them on the xda thread "ForeverRoot +.893= WINNING!". It's simple to enter and save it. I'm not at my comp or I'd link you, but you can find links to it all over threads here..
I just find it strange that there's a line missing does does the forever root script have to be in the 886 and 893 or just 886
I've just had the bionic for a few days. I rooted with Pete's Motorola Root Tools. Everything worked fine. This morning I happened to check for updates, and somehow, I did not intentionally try to install the update. Anyway it went ahead and installed the update. I went from an Original Droid to a Fascinate to the Bionic. Just not used to the button difference I think is the problem. I didn't even know what was going on until the phone started vibrating in my pocket. Got the phone and it said the update had failed. No harm, no foul, still rooted, nothing seems to have changed. I have the forever root from dhacker in my computer, but have not tried it yet. So the questions become- do I use Pete's Motorola Root Tool to unroot and then take the update and re root with forever. Or just choose to apply forever root to a rooted bionic and then try the update? Or forget Petes tool and just use the forever root to unroot, do the update and then re root. There seems a tiny bit of inconsistency with information. So I am going to get the thing straight in my head before I do something stupid. I have Liberty ROM (not installed, I'm just rooted stock I haven't even debloated yet) on the SD card, and I may just wait until that is updated with 893
OK i am back to 886 and rooted but cant install the 893 update I downloaded it put in in cwm on sd-ext and it fails to install. Can you walk me through what to do once I download 893 to my phone.
Is it in the root of your sd-ext, meaning not in any folders, just the base on your sd card? What's going on when you go to install it, what error are you getting?
Also just for safety sake.. You made triple sure foreverroot was applied before you proceed?
Ok I figured since Im on 886 why not see if I can do a system update. I checked and it said update available. So Im installing it now if this works there is no need to down load and install the 893 you can just do a ota update. I have to get an mri so I will get back to you in a few and let you know how it went.
Gottcha..thanks. That was an option I forgot to list, even though I had it in my head.
EDIT: Forever said it was done successfully, but the update failed again. Ideas? Thanks
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It worked no reason to download the. 893 update. After u run the program to go to. 886 and establish root.and 4ever root go to settings update and update through the ota. This should make it much simpler then having to download bootstrap and cwm and install the. 893 that way.
Did you run the OTA previously? Because if you had before it should have detected the new kernal and radio and not let you do it again.
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That is what I did. I had a rooted 883. I applied the forever root option #3 for already rooted phones. Everything acted like it worked, and the process told me I was successful. I then tried the update, which failed
2defmouze
Yeah, I did (inadvertently) try to apply the OTA. When I turned on the phone it said the update was ready, I just pushed the wrong blasted button on the phone. What I did for the second try was to go to updates in the settings and did it again. I guess I don't get just what I need to do to go for the update now. One reason I was kind of torqued at myself for reverting to Fascinate button pushes. I did not want to apply the update today, as I knew I needed to figure some stuff out more. Another thing is how can it have detected a new kernel, when nothing was installed? I still have System version 5.5.886.XT875 and the kernel is 2.6.35.7g790a33c, which is what I think it was when I got the phone, I looked, but didn't write down anywhere. So how to update from here? 886 works fine, I just would like to see if the 993 update will fix the data drops.
EDIT: I was looking at TB and see I somehow deleted a couple of files (dumb move and I knew better). Kindle, Blockbuster and another few, some blur stuff. This is my bad, and I guess I'll live with it because I 'm not sure how I restore those.
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@SteveC... question wasn't directed at you ^^ but thats ok...
If you have not actually installed the OTA yet, which it sounds like is your situation, you only need to root and foreverroot, then install it. However, since you deleted some files that the OTA is going to check for, the easiest thing you should do is use the ReleasedRoot tool I believe option 1... this will restore a factory 5.5.866 image with all the bloat and blur stuff you deleted (yes it will wipe your phone, but if your rooted now, you can use Titanium Backup to backup all your important data for games and stuff and restore that later.. do NOT use it to restore any system data). It will restore the stock image with all that stuff, root you, and apply foreverroot. Then you can download and apply the official OTA and you should hopefully keep root.
If you have not actually installed the OTA yet, which it sounds like is your situation, you only need to root and foreverroot, then install it. However, since you deleted some files that the OTA is going to check for, the easiest thing you should do is use the ReleasedRoot tool I believe option 1... this will restore a factory 5.5.866 image with all the bloat and blur stuff you deleted (yes it will wipe your phone, but if your rooted now, you can use Titanium Backup to backup all your important data for games and stuff and restore that later.. do NOT use it to restore any system data). It will restore the stock image with all that stuff, root you, and apply foreverroot. Then you can download and apply the official OTA and you should hopefully keep root.
I was rooted using Petes 1-click, got the OTA today (I did defrost the bloatware first), lost root. I tried rooting using Petes 1-click again and it completed successfully but Titanium said I didn't have root. So I tried the link mentioned above and it worked fine.
Updated and lost root? 1 click root is working
Updated and lost root? 1 click root is working
Yes I had ran the ota a few days before I had the updated radio and kernel and the update still worked since I was on .886
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