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sammyz said:
That's why shabby is messing with it :p
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I don't think he is.. i think he's just messing with us, Joking Joking, I'm willing to use my phone as a guinea pig. If i don't get root soon, this phone is going to end up out a window
 
GameTheory said:
My bad guys for being so stubborn with root...
But I found different directions for method 1 that I previously posted. Apparently you must hit restore in the stock backup app as per step 9 in the link. Was wondering if the ones that tried this came across this step.

ICS Universal Root -XDA - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
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doesn't look like this works either:(

me's think LG got's this thing all locked down. and they wonder why Samsung is becoming the phone leader.
 
skinlab said:
Is the LG Escape p870 the sister phone of the Spirit? It has root. Just curious..
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Your right in that it looks similar and even the same number, but its on AT & T so is a GSM phone. I don't think that they can share root methods.
 
Not those waiting already did all the basic udb debuggable and device was found. It's the actual rooting method after the restore dialog shows up in the phone nothing happens. Anyway just tried six different lgphone rooting method none of them worked.
 
dulal18 said:
Not those waiting already did all the basic udb debuggable and device was found. It's the actual rooting method after the restore dialog shows up in the phone nothing happens. Anyway just tried six different lgphone rooting method none of them worked.
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I tried a bunch last night also, and nothing they either just rebooted the phone, wiped the data or nothing at all.
 
exactly what is the issue with not getting root? is there a file that needs editing a system app that cant be accessed a core command not working? id like to help i do nothing ALL DAY i can read basic code so editting and compiling i can do someone just needs to point me in the right direction.

find me on palringo id 20982313 or send me an irc link to ugdtech@yahoo.com
 
So, I tried a couple more things to try and get root.

I've been thinking... Back in the day when I first start messing around with Android, most Android devices had hardware key presses to get to different parts of the Android "rescue" areas (i.e. Stock recovery, fastboot mode, etc.)

I'm using ADB to drop into the phone's shell. I tried using:

Code: 
adb reboot-bootloader

...which will reboot the phone and then restart normally.

I also tried:

Code: 
adb reboot recovery

...which I found only factory resets my phone (which is very, very odd why LG would do that).

My thinking is that if I can access recovery, fastboot, or bootloader modes, I can use ADB to manually push the su binary and superuser.apk files because in those modes we'll have root access.

Like I said, I'm able to drop into the shell and look around the filesystem:

Code: 
isaac@isaac-g4:~/Android/o4xr$ sudo ./adb-linux shell
shell@android:/ $

...but I'll need temporary root access to be able to push the "root" stuff over. If we can access temp root, we can do a number of things:

1) Flash a new recovery image (e.g. CWM)
2) Manually push and gain root access

If I'm able to gain some sort of temp root access (like I used to do with SuperOneClick), we'll be good to go. If I can find a rooting method for the phone, I'll go ahead an build a CWM recovery image. From there, we can start building up our new device folder and build CyanogenMod like I've done here: https://github.com/ikarosdev/android_device_motorola_triumph

I'll keep experimenting and see if I can find some kind of backdoor LG didn't pay attention to.
 
@isaac, it's not odd that reboot recovery causes factory reset. Every phone uses that command even when not rooted. :p
 
sammyz said:
@isaac, it's not odd that reboot recovery causes factory reset. Every phone uses that command even when not rooted. :p
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That's not true, actually. From the adb help output:

Code: 
 adb reboot [bootloader|recovery] - reboots the device, optionally into the bootloader or recovery program

Like I said, I've been out of the Android game for over a year. Understandably, things have changed, but adb reboot recovery should take you to stock recovery that allows you to wipe the phone, flash an update package, etc. It shouldn't just automatically wipe the users data just because boot the recovery. It's unusual.

bmxbubba27 said:
im at

shell@android:/system $

is that root access?
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No, unfortunately not. If we had root access it would look like this:

Code: 
shell@android:/system #

With the '#' indicating root access.

I tried the "Root using restore exploit", but it fails because when our phone uses the fake "backup" file, it doesn't seem to do anything. The script successfully moves all the applicable files over:

Code: 
shell@android:/ $ cd /data/local/tmp
shell@android:/data/local/tmp $ ls
Superuser.apk
busybox
ric
su

...and it seems the "restore" exploit seems to work, but when the script tries to finish by moving all the root stuff into the right spots, it still doesn't have the temp root access it needs...

LG really did a number on this thing.
 
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