Root About Root, Need Help!

[caocon]

I rooted my phone and thought it had somehow become unrooted a few weeks ago. I didn't really care. Now I want to flash a new rom, so I tried two different root methods, and both say it's already rooted. But rom manager says it isn't and superuser says i'm not too. I don't know what's wrong

 

[Wolfedude88]

I'm sorry to hear about the experiencing you are having, I am going to move this to the All Things Root Section to see if you can get some help there.

 

[caocon]

ok, thank you

 

[Yeahha]

Can you boot in recovery?

How do you think you lost root

 

[caocon]

yeah i can. i have to go into hboot and then go to recovery from there

 

[caocon]

and i thought i did a few weeks ago because i accidently flashed something in hboot and everything was back to stock and rom manager said i didn't have root

 

[Yeahha]

Can you restore a backup you made with nandroid?

Either that or follow the sticky to manually flash a rom

 

[Yeahha]

and i thought i did a few weeks ago because i accidently flashed something in hboot and everything was back to stock and rom manager said i didn't have root

Sounds like you could flash superuser in recovery to get it back to normal. Does your recovery still say s-off?

 

[caocon]

i don't think i have any backups

and how can i flash a rom if i don't have superuser permissions?

 

[Yeahha]

You can flash it in recovery, superuser is an app

 

[caocon]

i've been trying. maybe i'm doing it wrong. it says it put the file on the sd, and i can see it, but it won't flash.

 

[Yeahha]

Do you have s-off in hboot?

 

[caocon]

yes, it says s-off

 

[Yeahha]

Try flashing this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886999 in recovery

 

[caocon]

ok hang on

 

[caocon]

it installed successfully...hang on

 

[Yeahha]

Good

 

[caocon]

success! thank you so much!

 

[Yeahha]

No problem. Remember be very careful with what you install in hboot