Root superuser root problem

[quantrel]

Hi,
I know this has been talked about before but i have been searching for 2 days & im getting nowhere. I rooted my droid x through z4. You know, the easy way so i wouldnt likely screw something up. Just the other day i somehow hit accept and upgraded to 2.3.3 system verzion 4.5.605 i thought nothing of ot but noticed i was unrooted. I hate some of the apps that Verizon makes you keep so i went to re-root my phone. I check around sites and figured gingerbreak was the easiest way to go. Downloaded 1.2 and all seemed great until i hit root. Took over 25 min with no progress. To my understanding its because of superuser which i cant delete ( being unrooted) & cant re-root do to the app being present.
My question is: can i ever root this phone again? If so how? Do i need to hard reset& if so how do i get my good stuff back. Do i need a new droid to get the wonderful world of root back on my phone? I am new at this but loved my root options. Please help! Im desperate.

 

[scary alien]

quantrel,

Welcome to the AndroidForums!

I've moved your thread to the all-things-root sub-forum.

Yeah, you can't use GingerBreak on 2.3--you'll have to use the Droid 3 root method described here:

[ROOT/UNROOT] Droid 3 root instructions (One Click added for Windows/ Linux/ OSX)

This link is referenced here at the top of the Droid X root guide:

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-all-things-root/413211-motorola-droid-x-rooting-guide-updated-10-10-11-a.html

The D3 method should get you going again...

Good luck and cheers!

 

[quantrel]

The instructions have my situation proceeding w/caution do to still having superuser installed. Have there been better results for my problem. Assuming new fixes occur daily. Sorry for second guessing, but im new and bad at tghis.

 

[scary alien]

The instructions have my situation proceeding w/caution do to still having superuser installed. Have there been better results for my problem. Assuming new fixes occur daily. Sorry for second guessing, but im new and bad at tghis.

Yeah, I see the note that you referenced about having been previously rooted but got blasted by the OTA, leaving you "half-rooted".

Are you familiar at all with the Android SDK's adb utility? If so, you could manually perform the Droid 3 root and adapt to whatever issues you're presented with when trying to re-root. I actually rooted my phone manually this way instead of using the pre-packaged apps like the ones I referenced before. I don't know if there are other versions of the Droid 3 root exploit that can accommodate the issues that you describe (I actually think there should be, since I'm sure lots of folks are/were left in the same state as you--I was, too, but I used the Android SDK and the adb utility all the time).

The Droid 3 rooting exploit discovered by djrbliss utilizes the ability of the adb utility to gain root access when an adb shell is launched. Its actually pretty simple if you can get the Android SDK installed and an adb shell launched to your phone.

There are plenty of places out there that should be able to guide you through getting the Android SDK installed. You'll also need the proper Motorola USB / adb drivers for your Windows PC (if you have access to a Linux / Unix PC, these aren't needed and getting an adb shell would be cake).

Let me know if you're willing to go this route...its really not too hard, but it will take a little research and effort on your part.

You could also do a little more searching to see if there are other 1-click root apps based on the D3 root exploit that won't complain about finding some root "crumbs" already laying-around.

Cheers!

 

[scary alien]

quantrel,

Okay, I did a little more research and found Peter Souza's main web page (vs. all of the other pages that reference his stuff--these are the direct notes from psouza4 himself):

Pete's Motorola Root Tools

There are special notes / instructions for the Droid X that he tells you how to deal with:

Pete's Motorola Root Tools

which is basically giving you a mini-Android SDK and access to the adb shell like I previously mentioned.

Be sure to read and follow the instructions carefully--they're very well-written and should take care of you (and he's already / also included links to the driver files you'll need).

Good luck and cheers!

 

[quantrel]

Why the D3? Is the programming different or something? I keep getting told that I should check out how to root the D3, and you mentioned to see if there is a 1click method to root the D3 that will not have a problem with my superuser crumbs lying around. What am I missing about the D3?

 

[scary alien]

The Droid 3 root exploit was discovered by Dan J. Rosenberg (djrbliss) at the request of some Droid 3 users. Read all about the exploit process here:

Security Research by Dan Rosenberg

The exploit works on all of the Moto phones listed in the thread I linked above and is based on the fact that a shell created / invoked by the adb utility on your PC can fairly easily gain root access.

Peter Souza has created a utility to more easily allow you to perform the root exploit without needing to install the Android SDK, although if you run into trouble with the issues you mentioned, you'll have to take a little manual action yourself.

Cheers!