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Root The phone can be recovered from a system wipe!

Willster419

Willster419

The Casio Smartphone Guru
I just wanted to let you guys know that this phone can now be safely rooted, once some features are installed/enabled.
there are two ways for rooting currently available. The scripting exploit and the fastboot exploit. the scripting exploit is good if you want a quick root and don't plan to do any developing. However, for those that want to develop/always have a fallback, follow this:
turn on adb from settings
enable bypass booting (see rasta's thread)
go to fastboot.
install GNM recovery.img and Monkeytools modded boot.img.
nandroid backup
use rooting option.
(optional) install a rom and/or updates/themes
nandroid backup again.
then you will be all set. this is what i had on my phone, and i got it once accidentally to the point of no return. the "/system" was wiped! I can verify this because i went to "adb pull /system" and there was nothing. adb devices showed my "1234567890abcd" device. lol. thankfully, monkeytools enabled adb service in his boot.img, so i was able to adb reboot recovery. because of GNM recovery.img, i could restore a nandroid.

alternativly, you can do the script exploit, and then comence the following porcedure, skipping the rooting part. this phone should be much more open to devs now, just in time for the casio commando 2:(

i will eithor post a series of screenshots or make a youtube vid on the fastboot exploit and safe developing checklist.
 
good job willster. so the one that you system wiped is up and running. funny I tried fasted boot on my phone and couldn't get it to work. yes I have bypass booting set up. it may be me thought. I may have not had the right boot.img installed. at that point was flashing a kinds of thing that I am working on. way to go. this is good info.
 
Ok maybe just me but I thought you may have got the one that you system wiped back up and running. That is what I it sounds like in your thread. By the way there is a correction that needs to be done in your thread I made boot.img insecure not bootloader. To different thing.
 
oh sorry my bad fixed now :). and the one NOT from ebay that i system wiped did NOT have your custom boot.img. The one from ebay did, and that saved it. The phone is now more or less developer friendly!
 
ok willster I just flashed a boot.img with fastboot in bootloader. question did you try to use fastboot command like this (( fastboot -i 0x0409 boot then where you have the boot.img at. if not try it this way. here is what i did. created a folder in C:\ drive and named it casio. then put the boot.img in it. then reboot to bootloader. in your case just turn phone on. then try this command { fastboot -i 0x0409 flash boot C:\casio\boot.img hit enter. if you set it up like i did. then type fastboot continue. and see if you can get adb working then. if you did it like this disregard then. but i have flashed a boot.img with success in bootloader.
 
yeah I did it about the same, but I had fastboot and boot.img in the same folder. (cd'd to "C:\apktool") (command for me was: fastboot -i 0x0409 flash boot boot.img) You can also flash a recovery that way as well.
Tommorow (if my new phonw comes in) I will make a video on how to make the phone "developer friendly", as to try to get more people involved. the more the merrier! :D
 
I tried that to but would not work for me ether. It may not work but for the heck of it if you get time try it the way way I did it just to rule it out.
 
sorry i forgot the -i 0x0409 in my command that i had put into it.
i think that is what you meant by them being different? my bad ;)
tried it your way as well and it was fine.
 
Just trying to see figure a way to get your broken phone working. Thought if maybe we could fastboot my boot.img to it. You could get it working. Thought maybe you may have left out -
 
the phone that's called frankendroid was my old phone. it did not have the insecure boot.IMG you made. the /system was wiped. there is no way to save it.
The phone from eBay, I am typing on right now. it has the insecure boot.IMG you made. the /system was wiped as well. this phone is saveable, via adb from the insecure boot.IMG. the frankendroid is NOT saveable. trust me I have tried.
I hope this helps some confusion about which phone had what done on it :) my current phone is actually my 6th :P
 
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