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Root Noob who lost root after OTA

Jbwalton

Lurker
Greetings all. I'm a noob who recently rooted my Pantech Marauder phone. I rooted using ICS Root Unlocker 1.0. After the recent Verizon software update OTA this week, I no longer have root on my phone.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about restoring root access to my phone?

I tried the factory reset; however, it resets to the new OTA update. ICS root does not work anymore.

failed on '/data/local/tmp' - Permission denied
link failed File exists
Press any key to continue . . .
/system/bin/sh: cannot create /data/local.prop: Permission denied
Press any key to continue . . .
uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),1007(log),1009
(mount),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),300
6(net_bw_stats)
Press any key to continue . . .
remount failed: Operation not permitted
failed to copy 'files\su' to '/system/xbin/su': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
Removing changes except ROOT...
rm failed for /data/local.prop, No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/local/tmp, Permission denied
failed on '/data/local/tmp.bak' - No such file or directory
Installing superuser...
failed to copy 'files\superuser.apk' to '/system/app/superuser.apk': Read-only file system
Press any key to continue . . .
I've also tired Z4Root, and that doesn't work either.

This post here seems to indicate that folks aren't having much luck with flashboot, either: http://androidforums.com/marauder-a...attempting-develop-clockworkmod-marauder.html

Any thoughts? Or, do I need to wait and see if there is a new exploit and tool that comes out later on down the road?

Thanks!!!

EDIT:
Here's some system information in case it is helpful in any way:

Pantech Marauder
Model: ADR910L
Android Version 4.0.4
Baseband Version: S910LVWD211F.D1
Kernel Version: 3.0.8 p13684@bs195 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 5 16:02:06 KST 2013
Build number: IMM76D
Hardware version: Rev_03
Software version: S910LVWD211F.D1
 
Wtf, there was an OTA update?

Well, I'll be a son of a bitch, there is. Wonder how long my phone wanted to wait before telling me? Alright, I'll look into this. No promises. But hopefully this opens up something letting us get CWM on here.
 
I tried to update, before seeing the warning about root.
The update failed! Guess I got lucky.

BTW, this will be, without a doubt, the last phone I buy that doesn't have an active set of devs working on it.
 
The phone is rooted again, after the OTA and Jellybean updates. This is a perfectly capable phone, it was just never popular enough to get devs... I suppose we're lucky it can even be rooted.

I'm still trying to get CWM to work so we'd have that one more step closer.
 
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