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Root Rooted my Commando

itsbobb said:
can anyone else confirm the factory reset?

and would it be a hassle to port it over? haha. i'm just wanting to be cautious just in case anything happens.
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It's a pain in the butt to port to linux to windows, well actually it's a lot of busy work (there are 350ish lines of code, and find/replace only gets so much done) (finals start for me on thursday, during break, I might get it done)

Factory reset *shouldn't* unroot your phone, it only effects /data, not /system...
 
paxchristos said:
Factory reset *shouldn't* unroot your phone, it only effects /data, not /system...
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I know it shouldn't, but for some reason it does. I've done a reset twice with the phone on 2.3.3 and both times Superuser & the busybox were gone when the phone booted back up. With the ease of rooting I don't consider it a problem,and it is actually probably a good thing. I am just wondering if I have an isolated case, or if this happens to others. Nobody seems to want to do a factory reset, and I don't blame them. Its such a pain having to set a phone back up after a reset.
 
rjglenn said:
I know it shouldn't, but for some reason it does. I've done a reset twice with the phone on 2.3.3 and both times Superuser & the busybox were gone when the phone booted back up. With the ease of rooting I don't consider it a problem,and it is actually probably a good thing. I am just wondering if I have an isolated case, or if this happens to others. Nobody seems to want to do a factory reset, and I don't blame them. Its such a pain having to set a phone back up after a reset.
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That's why I use mybackup pro (it allows you to save where stuff is on my launcher, along with call log, sms, etc.) and titanium backup pro (easiest way to batch backup/reinstall (to where they were installed!!) apps)

I know it's a little bit of overkill to have 2 backup apps, but both serve different functions...

When we first figured this out at xda-developers, i must've factory reset/unroot about 20x, so i understand what a pain it can be :P
 
I maybe be getting a refurb commando from verizon and will be sending my old one back to them. I have rooted 2.3 and removed bloatware. After I reinstall the bloatware, how do I unroot the phone?
 
I got my new/replacement phone since I uninstalled the apps and couldn't update to 2.3.3.
I got the simple http://db.tt/ipjtdLZB root to go. I only had a problem for a minute because I didn't extract, I ran it in the Zip program which didn't work.

I got Titanium Pro and Froze all the apps that I don't want just in case.

I like the 2.3.3 new face/backdrop what ever it is called. I just don't like the smaller keyboard. As for a few others said it is slow, it seems the same to me.

Now is it worth it to do the V6 supercharger, it sounds a little complected?
 
Verizon just forced another worthless update...trying to resturn phone to its roots and SOC pushing zergrush no longer works...getting permissions denied errors...superuser already running but still no root access...Help, please?
 
Hey all. Been reading the forum pages most of last night and this afternoon. Wow. Lots of super-users, which I am not. I want to root my Casio Commando (2.3.3) badly, but am too lazy and inexperienced to follow the command line guides. Also, I am only on a macbook and there are no one-click/batch solutions for OSX. Help! Anybody local in NYC? Plug my phone into your windows PC, root it. Might take you 10 minutes and save me a lot of pain. Want to bring your laptop to a bar, drinks on me!

Or any advice dealing with this on OSX would be appreciated.
 
ntservices said:
Verizon just forced another worthless update...trying to resturn phone to its roots and SOC pushing zergrush no longer works...getting permissions denied errors...superuser already running but still no root access...Help, please?
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You're sol, buddy. Exploits closed and patched. Until a new exploit is found, there's no chance of re-rooting.
 
AM55 said:
Hey all. Been reading the forum pages most of last night and this afternoon. Wow. Lots of super-users, which I am not. I want to root my Casio Commando (2.3.3) badly, but am too lazy and inexperienced to follow the command line guides. Also, I am only on a macbook and there are no one-click/batch solutions for OSX. Help! Anybody local in NYC? Plug my phone into your windows PC, root it. Might take you 10 minutes and save me a lot of pain. Want to bring your laptop to a bar, drinks on me!

Or any advice dealing with this on OSX would be appreciated.
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Not local, but if you download/burn a Linux live CD, you should be able to boot onto that, and run the Linux script I made over on xda
Source for Mac/Linux live CD: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1144911
 
paxchristos said:
You're sol, buddy. Exploits closed and patched. Until a new exploit is found, there's no chance of re-rooting.
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have not done any dev for quite some time but there is an obvious need...you know who is likely to be working on a new release? pm me: nt-services )at( custertel.net also you know any way to "sandbox" the future pushes from Verizon?
 
Damn, it seems as if you, paxchristos (nice screen name, by the way), are the absolute guru on the Commando/2.3.3 root world. I had a secret hope you would turn out to be my next door neighbor and just root my phone for me. Alas. I will talk to a friend who might be able to make the whole linux/boot CD thing work. Or if your one click solution works on windows, I can find someplace to plug-in. Thanks again to all.
 
AM55 said:
Damn, it seems as if you, paxchristos (nice screen name, by the way), are the absolute guru on the Commando/2.3.3 root world. I had a secret hope you would turn out to be my next door neighbor and just root my phone for me. Alas. I will talk to a friend who might be able to make the whole linux/boot CD thing work. Or if your one click solution works on windows, I can find someplace to plug-in. Thanks again to all.
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Thank you, good sir. I'm not the absolute guru, it just looks like i have the most experience with programming/messing with android, so far :P

If by next door neighbor, you mean lives in Milwaukee 900 miles away, then HORRAY, I AM :P

The problem with hooking it into windows (that I can think of) is that you'd need the drivers for the phone installed... I think if you choose charge only, they install, but i'm not 100% sure (and depending on the computer you're using, they might not like installs :P )
 
Rafael said:
What version of Android are you running?
2.2.1 can be rooted.
2.3.3 cannot be rooted.
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I am rooted, I was curious how it worked.But am using extreme caution, in the Apps I use..

And I am I do hate some of the bloat on the phone..I like the the main compass program, and the tied thing, those I can use but some of the other stuff.erg..
And I am running 2.3.3 . How ever, I did do a phone re-set prior to rooting.. not sure if that makes a difference of not. Now I have a different Market screen as well..that came up befor the root.. weird.
 
rjglenn said:
I know it shouldn't, but for some reason it does. I've done a reset twice with the phone on 2.3.3 and both times Superuser & the busybox were gone when the phone booted back up. With the ease of rooting I don't consider it a problem,and it is actually probably a good thing. I am just wondering if I have an isolated case, or if this happens to others. Nobody seems to want to do a factory reset, and I don't blame them. Its such a pain having to set a phone back up after a reset.
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Not to mention, you have to call and re-activate the Phone.
 
rjglenn said:
What rooting will allow you to do is remove any carrier apps that are on the phone that you will never use. For example, I removed all the vcast stuff and vzw navigation. I'll never use any of this stuff and there is no reason to take up memory on the phone with them. Another thing rooting will allow you to do is download an app from the market called adfree. This app is very effective in blocking those annoying pop-up ads that free ad supported apps have. The third thing rooting will allow you to do is install an app that enables wi-fi tethering. This will violate vzw's terms of service if they figure out you are doing it. There is a great deal of discussion about this all over the internet and it is not the topic of this thread. If at some point a developer develops a custom ROM for the commando you will have to be rooted to apply a ROM.

Rooting will void the warrenty of your phone but it is reversable in some cases.

Ultimately its your decision...
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I have PDA net, it didn't require a root, it also uses the Commando's native Wi-Fi. Not sure if this is still a violation or not when it comes to this. App. its not a hack.
 
paxchristos said:
Update: New batch file that works with casio commando!!

unzip, and run it, it does all the work for you!

Download here:
(Link deleted to avoid block)

Enjoy!!

Update: I have an unroot script for linux if anybody needs that (I seem to miraculously have deleted the unroot script I have for windows... stupid me... i'll see if I can't write one up...)
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I lost my rooted Commando, replaced it, have been attempting rooting to no avail. Funny, as I rooted the last one. Now any attempt to root crashes Windows. I am running XP in a partition on my Mac. Have tried rooting on the Mac side as well to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Hi Spike, will have I got one for the books for you. I downloaded a program for what was then Android Market, which is now called Google Market Play, or something very close to that title. I do not know for sure exactly what caused my phone to crash, but all hell broke loose. I lost everything, except the ability to call, other than that everything else went to hell in a hand basket. No system files, No applications, No files on the sdcard. I had made 2 backups but could not load them to the phone no matter what, I tried. Here is the something strange, on cell phone it showed no files on the sdcard; however, when I linked the cell up to the PC it showed all my files that I had backed up on the sdcard, figure that one out. Could not even do a reinstall. The computer world can be a strange one indeed. If you can come up with any ideas, I sure would be thankful for your help in the crazy matter.
 
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