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Root First attempt at rooting

MikesTooLz said:
dont brick it before you meet with him or he cant show you how to root it, lol.


After my bricking today I think I'm going to back off a bit. Maybe wait and see what happens with your meeting with that guy before I start jumping into stuff that is iffy.
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no worries, im hacking away with the tester unit while mine is safe and sound in my pocket ;)
 
someone check out unlock bootloader for nexus...i cant get fastboot to work but i wonder of that would take off the nand
 
Gain root access thru rageagainstthecage binary, don't reboot though
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl10 /system
exit
adb push update.zip /system/

That is if you want update.zip in /system.
 
LightningTH said:
Gain root access thru rageagainstthecage binary, don't reboot though
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl10 /system
exit
adb push update.zip /system/

That is if you want update.zip in /system.
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just tried that. after I figured to supply the full path to the update.zip, it said it copied it. but then in the recovery, I'm still not seeing the file. Someone suggested it only shows the 1st 10 files/folders, no it shows many more, I've got like 18 showing up. don't see the darn zip in there, what a suckfest... :mad:
 
Yeah its different then what i'm used to. Also that exploit for galaxy you posted Nick, says to update the registry or something. The only option in CWM is to install an update.zip or install from SD. Now one thing I noticed IN CWM is it let me push anything with ADB without failing. Before even with souproot, there was a couple files that would deny me. But in CWM it felt like I had more control of admin. The biggest problem was using the key command. I can't imagine how you figured the buttons out Nick lol, cause i confused my self a couple times even knowing the commands.
 
Silvist said:
Yeah its different then what i'm used to. Also that exploit for galaxy you posted Nick, says to update the registry or something. The only option in CWM is to install an update.zip or install from SD. Now one thing I noticed IN CWM is it let me push anything with ADB without failing. Before even with souproot, there was a couple files that would deny me. But in CWM it felt like I had more control of admin. The biggest problem was using the key command. I can't imagine how you figured the buttons out Nick lol, cause i confused my self a couple times even knowing the commands.
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just tried them all one by one :D
no idea about exploit re registry. didn't happen to me. I'm running WinXP x86 though

still, anyone, any idea why update.zip not showing up?
LightningTH, having look at the screenshot I posted I think you said it was the contents of the data folder I was getting, right? Your script mounted /system/ though. Shouldn't I be mounting and pushing to the /data/ instead? And if so, what would be the syntax? adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl10 /data ? or how is this string modified?

Thanks,
 
im in the adb shell taking out audio files just to test...if we could find out where the NAND is stored im sure we could delete it
 
rjsweesy said:
im in the adb shell taking out audio files just to test...if we could find out where the NAND is stored im sure we could delete it
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NAND is the name of the type of flash memory in our phones. NAND lock refers to the whole memory being locked to prevent changes to it...
 
Yes the picture showed /data which is already mount read/write. You just need to be root to write to it. If you haven't already have su working then use soup or root then do

Adb push update.zip /data/
 
MikesTooLz said:
Doesnt work with this phone, I tried reading the spc with it and to reset it to 0000 but couldnt.

I just used the app in the android market to calculate what the phones SPC was.
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does it give you any functionality at all? i tried qpst but it will not read it either
 
LightningTH said:
Yes the picture showed /data which is already mount read/write. You just need to be root to write to it. If you haven't already have su working then use soup or root then do

Adb push update.zip /data/
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just tired that. I get permission denied after souproot'ing and attempting to execute the above command :( anyone else can try that to confirm?
 
if you are trying to get the spc code for your indulge i can get it for you and the following codes

(p)ESN Hex
(p)ESN Dec
MEID Hex you already have labeled as IMEI in the indulge
MEID Dec
MetroPCS MSL/SPC

interesting when you use *#06# on you indulge it displays your MEID number but when you use that MEID number in a SPC generator it says invalid number but i found out that for some reason the MEID to SPC converter is reading your IMEI number as your MEID and this will gain access to your spc code.
 
baysiderider said:
if you are trying to get the spc code for your indulge i can get it for you and the following codes

(p)ESN Hex
(p)ESN Dec
MEID Hex you already have labeled as IMEI in the indulge
MEID Dec
MetroPCS MSL/SPC

interesting when you use *#06# on you indulge it displays your MEID number but when you use that MEID number in a SPC generator it says invalid number but i found out that for some reason the MEID to SPC converter is reading your IMEI number as your MEID and this will gain access to your spc code.
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Yeah thats what the MEID Converter app does. it says enter MEID, but go to settings > about phone screen and put in the phones IMEID listed and it will work.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.splicedmedia.android.meidconverter&feature=search_result
 
Nick can ya upload the update.zip? I was able to push anything in adb while the phone was in cwm after souproot. I don't have an update.zip to try.
 
Silvist said:
Nick can ya upload the update.zip? I was able to push anything in adb while the phone was in cwm after souproot. I don't have an update.zip to try.
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Silvist: where are you uploading it to? /data/ or /system/ ?
I had 2 different versions of update.zip. As soon, as I find the other one, I might post it, as well. This one should be the most current (I think but I'm not sure...). It's from Samsung One click Root...
 

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K this is wierd. I got custom recovery CWM on my other phone i bricked first try. This new phone I can't even get that to happen. When it restarts in recovery its the exact same recovery that's stock. Talk about pain the ass. I think Thunder's trick with the:

Gain root access thru rageagainstthecage binary
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl10 /system
echo root:\$1\$uTLqFpvI\$7sqdAsiz7ID7/itfGxzZd.:0:0:root:/:/system/bin/sh > /etc/passwd
echo shell:x:2000:2000:shell:/:/system/bin/sh >> /etc/passwd
chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
rm /system/bin/su
ln -s /system/bin/busybox /system/bin/su
reboot

Did something to allow more access to my phone. Because now its not working.
 
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