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Root Why is shell asking for su?

This is an expert from the link from above

It's a built-in bug report feature.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16019-keeps-asking-me-to-email-bug-report/#entry410481

This is built into Android. It is a debugging tool that lets you send a bug report. It sends to you because you manually triggered it.

It is very easy to trigger it, even accidentally. If you press both volume buttons and the power button at the same time, it will vibrate once. Then it takes nearly a full minute before the phone vibrates three times and the bug report pops up. It also doesn't seem to keep processing when the phone is asleep, so if you accidentally do it when say checking the time or something, it will not show up until the next time you unlock your phone. It is easy to trigger and I have done it by accident quite a few times when either checking the time or taking a screenshot (it is pretty easy to press both volume keys accidentally when taking a screenshot).

You can disable the bug report function by going to /system/bin/ and deleting or renaming bugreport and bugmailer.sh, but I am not sure if this will affect the ability to send bug reports for other system apps. Then it won't happen anymore. It can also be disabled in the ROM code by the developer.
 
Also when I temp unroot shell will still be granted su by pressing all three buttons but it wont show in toast. It'll just bring up the option to email the bug reportafter a min o so.
 
I tried it and it just went into fastboot. Tried twice, but don't know. I just did a start from there and this issue never happened. :confused:
 
It was up and running, then shutdown, then went into fastboot. Maybe I didn't press all three correctly. Will try again.

BTW, what version of busybox and terminal?

Oh, and do I hold the buttons or just do it quickly?

EDIT: Never mind, I was holding the buttons, not just hitting them quickly. Had the pop up, asking to send bug report. Just discarded it, but not getting the shell su request as of yet. I'm using SuperSU rather than Superuser, so maybe that's the diff?
 
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