anon(335536)
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Hey GPOT - gonna be hard to create a ROM without root access to the phone. No way to get all the files off of the phone to create the ROM from. Also won't be able to get the file on in the right way. Unless you know of a way to root this thing, we are dead in the water.
Hey GPOT - gonna be hard to create a ROM without root access to the phone. No way to get all the files off of the phone to create the ROM from. Also won't be able to get the file on in the right way. Unless you know of a way to root this thing, we are dead in the water.
You need to run the DD command on the phone in a terminal shell (or through ADB shell). And since we don't have read permits to all the directories, we won't get all the data. And when you connect via USB, you only get access to the files on the SD card. You can also use ADB PULL to get files on the actual phone, but again, not from the directories that we don't have read access to. So we are still unable to get all the data off the phone.
I noticed I have some ability to read into a few directories that I probably shouldn't have when browsing in file expert, but I'm by no means rooted. I took a look around a noticed that I still have su, superuser, my busybox installation, etc.
The update did not delete that stuff - correct. However the kernel is booting in a mode that does not allow permissions for us to run su, which is in effect what needs to happen for us to get super user permissions in any linux environment (android runs on linux). The fact that the update did not delete those files may be of some use to us. I am investigating if there is a potential to go back to a pre GB state (I believe this can be done with the odin files we have on this forum), and re-root the phone. Then, find an exe loaded on the phone that we know will be left intact post GB update, and that we know will be called post GB update, and that we know will have root access when run. We then modify the source code for that program to give us root access on GB. Re-update to GB, and there we have it.
The problem with this approach - I don't know if there is such an exe that exists. If there is, and if there is SRC code for it, I can modify it to do that we need. I just don't know if it exists.
If anyone has time to ODIN back to pre-GB, this may be of service later.