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so im having tons of reception problems... it has nothing to do with the rooting but i wanna takw the phone back... can i unroot it? i was gonna go into the emulator but i cant ge any of them to load
 
Edit: Got it to work. installed ubuntu through virtual box and followed linux instructions. got stuck where it said success enjoy the shell but still gave me the $ prompt so i unmounted the phone in linux right clicked google mass storage.....chose safely remove...went back to my terminal window and typed exit got to the regular linux shell and typed ./adb shell and poof had the # prompt. and followed the rest of the linux instructions. so much easier through linux ;)

Thanks to everyone hard at work on doing this. i am now willing to lend a helping hand.

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i followed windows directions to a "T" got stuck at step 10.

running windows 7 x64

i get

$ "/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh"
"/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh"
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh: not found
$
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ive tried the chmod 777 /data/local/asroot2 and it seems to be ok

ive also made sure the files were there and intact via cd and ls -l commands for both files and all checked out ok but i still recieve the error as above tried different usb ports turning phone on and off inserting and removing sdcard mounting and unmounting in windows nothing works. i even tried to manually copy files over. nothing works. i have terminal emulator on my phone.

help please
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I have installed and uninstalled and reinstalled PDAnet at least three times on both my computer and phone. When connected (USB debugging is on) my phone is not found by my computer. I am to c:\android\sdk\android-sdk-windows\tools. I type in adb devices and get the two daemon messages that say the service is turned on. It then says "list of devices connected" and it is blank. I have mounted and unmounted my SD card by taking it out. I have mounted the SD card through Settings. I have mounted the SD card through the USB notice that allows you to turn off or on USB storage. When I mount through USB storage, it unmounts in settings. I am totally frustrated. I have followed the instructions to the letter to get it to connect but it just isn't happening.

Help!
 
I rooted my phone with these steps last week, but i updated it through LG's update software, now when i try to root it again, this is as far as i can get, i've been messing with it for about 3 hours now

C:\android\sdk\tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
A00000212187FC device


C:\android\sdk\tools>adb push c:\android\sdk\tools\su\asroot2 /data/local
64 KB/s (74512 bytes in 1.125s)

C:\android\sdk\tools>adb push c:\android/sdk\tools\su\su /sdcard/su
87 KB/s (22128 bytes in 0.247s)

C:\android\sdk\tools>adb push c:\android\sdk\tools\su\Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
372 KB/s (38360 bytes in 0.100s)

C:\android\sdk\tools>adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/asroot2

C:\android\sdk\tools>adb shell
$ /data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
/data/local/asroot2 /system/bin/sh
[+] Using newer pipe_inode_info layout
Opening: /proc/9797/fd/3
 
If you need to "unroot", just delete the 'su' and 'Superuser.apk' programs from where you copied them to. That's all we did in the rooting process was copy and set permissions on those two files.

If you've done other stuff (e.g., I've installed busybox and bash), then you'd have to undo that, too. If you removed built-in apps, then hopefully you kept a backup so you can copy them back into place.
 
First i just want to say you guys are all geniuses for figuring this stuff out. Like i said im new to the android system and am wanting to try this "rooting" thing to make my phone better. ive got all the intructions and im stuck rite at the beginning. ive dloaded the software zip and the pdanet. during the install for the pdanet i follow the on screen instructions and when the found new hardware wizard pops up i select the install the software automatically as it says on the prompt. i click next and it tells me cannot install hardware. it says the wizrd cant find the necessary software. what am i doing wrong?
 
cdsmith said:
So just to summarize; if you are having a problem with asroot2 not giving you a root shell (i.e., a # prompt), then:

(a) Take comfort in the fact that, at least, you are having problems at the right place. This is the actual hard step of the process, where we're exploiting a flaw in the phone software to essentially trick the phone into doing something it wasn't supposed to do.

Related to this, though, realize that no one really *knows* for sure how to make asroot2 work correctly. A lot of us have gotten it to work, but if we were to have to do it again, we might be just as bad off as you.

(b) Try all sorts of things with the SD card. That seems to make a difference for a lot of people. Try toggling the option to share the SD card with the operating system (by clicking the "Ongoing" item in the notification bar). Try removing and reinserting the SD card. Try exiting and rerunning the adb shell command. And every time you change *anything*, run asroot2 again to see if it works. This really is just a matter of fiddling until something happens.

(c) It is extremely unlikely that trying a different operating system will have any effect on whether asroot2 functions. I know a lot of people are talking about getting Linux to do this, but it's almost surely not worth your time to go install Linux somewhere if you've already got this far. Unless of course you just wanted the better operating system anyway. :)

As I've reported before, I seemed to get asroot2 working consistently by ensuring that the phone was connected by USB with USB debugging enabled, and the SD card shared with the computer. That might have just been a coincidence, though. Like I said, no one really knows for sure.
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Not sure if it helped but I pushed 8a) adb push c:\android\sdk\tools\su\asroot2 /data/local/
With the SD card unmounted, and when i typed "adb shell" i got #
 
After reading BamRedWingsFan's post of the script he posted... I eventually got the # to show... seemed we had the similar problem... but after that I am only receiving

"# cat /sdcard/su > system/bin/su
cat /sdcard/su > system/bin/su
cannot create system/bin/su: read-only file system"

# cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cannot create /system/app/Superuser.apk: read-only file system
# cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cannot create /system/app/Superuser.apk: read-only file system
#



Seems like I am so close... just not sure why I do not have permission!
 
I would like to apologize for the post... I am not exactly sure what happened but I tried another code again that I previously had entered and it seemed to work. My last bit of code looked like...

"# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
# cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
# /cat /sdcard/su > /system/bin/su
/cat /sdcard/su > /system/bin/su
/cat: not found
# cat /sdcard/su > /system/bin/su
cat /sdcard/su > /system/bin/su
# chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
chmod 06755 /system/bin/su
# reboot
reboot"


Superuser shows up under the Applications now.. When I open it it appears blank, if I hit the menu it will give me two options... Tap Action & Notifcation.... is that it? Seems I am missing the 3 main things... grrrr. Could I have loaded a corrupt Superuser.apk ?
 
Try opening terminal emulator on your phone and typing su or titanium back up. if theyre installed. they should request super user permissions. if you allow them and go back to the super user icon you should see an enry for one or both those apps. and as long as the apps confirm they have root you are fine
 
thanks. i seemed to get it working just fine without knowing, i had a lot of the same problems as bamaredwings fan and honestly just kept entering the codes over and over until they seemed to work.

the new os/post-root seems a lot quicker and i like it. i have had no problems with any apps as of yet, but i however do miss the LG Home home setup. what is likely the most compatible match to that theme/home setup? i am currently using LauncherPro which gives me the dock and 4/5 icons at the bottom of the screen to help me navigate.. however when i hold the phone horizontally they stick to the right side vertically and don't flop down to the bottom of the screen... ehh if you can understand what i mean?
 
I need some help with lg ally fw 2.1-update1 recovery. I'm running ubuntu 10.04. I've installed the sdk, adb is working, I've tried following the guide but every time I restart the phone and use the recovery key press I get the stock recovery. (I don't believe my fastboot is set up, due to android.rules files I need to create.) here is the guide http://androidforums.com/ally-all-things-root/146564-ally-recovery-img-here-custom-roms.html
Thanks
PS: UBUNTU
sudo ./adb start-server
./adb devices (check for device)
./adb shell (etc/commands)
 
Please forgive the Noob question, but where do you get these downloads? I rooted my phone yesterday using the
http://bit.ly/bYPBfq method.

Very easy btw. So I have Superuser access, and I've back everything up with Titanium Backup. I've been able to remove the unnecessary programs that Verizon feels compelled to place on my Ally.

So my question is this: does everything else, including getting Android 2.2 and custom ROM's on my system, require me to put in all this complicated code that I keep seeing on this thread? And how the heck do you get to the screen where you can do this? Is it actually on the phone or on my computer?

Sorry, but I keep hearing how great it is to have your phone rooted, but I'm just not getting it.
 
HarleyChick said:
Please forgive the Noob question, but where do you get these downloads? I rooted my phone yesterday using the
http://bit.ly/bYPBfq method.

Very easy btw. So I have Superuser access, and I've back everything up with Titanium Backup. I've been able to remove the unnecessary programs that Verizon feels compelled to place on my Ally.

So my question is this: does everything else, including getting Android 2.2 and custom ROM's on my system, require me to put in all this complicated code that I keep seeing on this thread? And how the heck do you get to the screen where you can do this? Is it actually on the phone or on my computer?

Sorry, but I keep hearing how great it is to have your phone rooted, but I'm just not getting it.
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The black screen you see is called command prompt. For a lot of things you won't need to use it. Rooting your phone is basically doing whatever you want to it. 100% access, from themes to roms to added and deleting apps. that's just some of the stuff you can do
 
Nevermind I found my issue was flash_image. Now when I'm attempting to install ROMs the recovery says aborted (this is after it checks the signature)
 
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