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Root How to Root Your Droid (For Non-Linux/Non-Geeks)

Okay, I don't what happened. Everything seemed to have worked. At the last command line: reboot, it restarted the phone. I then downloaded android terminal emulator, typed su and got permission denied. So then I tried to redo everything through command and after I type su, it says permission denied just like in the phone.

Please help:(
 
DroidRX said:
Okay, I don't what happened. Everything seemed to have worked. At the last command line: reboot, it restarted the phone. I then downloaded android terminal emulator, typed su and got permission denied. So then I tried to redo everything through command and after I type su, it says permission denied just like in the phone.

Please help:(
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EDIT: Ok finally got it to work. Thanks OP!!!
 
So right now, the only things that root access gives us is super-user access in the terminal? How are we supposed to delete the useless apps that come with the phone (Amazon MP3, Facebook...) like this? Do we manually have to rm a specific directory via the terminal?
 
shadowdude777 said:
So right now, the only things that root access gives us is super-user access in the terminal? How are we supposed to delete the useless apps that come with the phone (Amazon MP3, Facebook...) like this? Do we manually have to rm a specific directory via the terminal?
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I'm having problems with the driver update part on windows 7. It says that the drive is already the latest. Do I just continue to the next step or is win 7 just being a pain?

And the SDK Link takes me to su.zip also.

Nevermind! su needs to be in the tools folder. and On win 7 the Motorola A855 with the ! didnt show up in device manager untill after i put it in usb debug mode.

Worked like a champ!... Thanks!
 
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Robert>cd c:\android\tools

c:\android\tools>adb push su /data/local
791 KB/s (76232 bytes in 0.094s)

c:\android\tools>adb shell
$ su
su
# mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2/dev/block/mtdblock3/system
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2/dev/block/mtdblock3/system
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
# cd/system/bin
cd/system/bin
cd/system/bin: not found
# cd system/bin
cd system/bin
# mv su osu
mv su osu
failed on 'su' - Read-only file system
#
 
FYI:

Followed your instructions, but my OSU permissions weren't the same. SU was OK though. So you might add chmod 6755 osu to the instructions as well for those who's OSU permissions differ from what you've posted.
 
Is there any reason why I can SU from a terminal and get "access granted courtesy of magicandroidapps.com"

Yet all apps I run tell me I don't have root access? It's like I have root at the terminal but not through GUI apps? Wasup with that?

NEVERMIND, PROBLEM SOLVED.

Apparently the latest droid root technique works. For some reason the original technique (posted above) didn't seem to work. This is what worked for me...


http://areacellphone.com/2009/12/motorola-droid-rooted-howto-root-droid/


Much simpler too. No adb stuff.
 
derrickonline said:
Is there any reason why I can SU from a terminal and get "access granted courtesy of magicandroidapps.com"

Yet all apps I run tell me I don't have root access? It's like I have root at the terminal but not through GUI apps? Wasup with that?

NEVERMIND, PROBLEM SOLVED.

Apparently the latest droid root technique works. For some reason the original technique (posted above) didn't seem to work. This is what worked for me...


Motorola Droid Rooted: How To Root Your Droid And Change Visual Theme Or Use Restricted Apps | areacellphone.com


Much simpler too. No adb stuff.
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The gui doesn't run as root, so the apps won't have root access either.
 
I was hoping I'd be able to use my superuser powers to be able to tweak the sqlite database for an app I'm developing rather than having to do the tweaking programmatically.

However I can't find the sqlite3 command for anything either adb shelling or using terminal emulator. All my attempts return "sqlite3: not found".

Any help?
 
so I got the cd c:\Android\tools part to work but if I put in adb push su /data local it tells me: 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external, operable command, or batch file

what am I doing wrong...:confused:
 
barry99705 said:
The gui doesn't run as root, so the apps won't have root access either.
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That isn't entirely true. If the root was done correctly, the apps should have root access. At least, that has been my experience. I am currently running Root Explorer, Drocap2, and Backup... all of which require root, and all of which work perfectly.


T0LLPHR33 said:
so I got the cd c:\Android\tools part to work but if I put in adb push su /data local it tells me: 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external, operable command, or batch file

what am I doing wrong...:confused:
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what happens if you just type "adb"? Does it bring up a list of commands?
 
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