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Root z4 root app not working

longdaddy

longdaddy

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I can't seem to get this app to work it gets stuck on the spinning wheel then after a while it just freezes the phone any ideas?
 
When I ran z4 it took a -very- long time to finish (15-30 minutes). Others have reported that if you cycle the battery then run z4 it goes faster.

I think there's already a few threads about this, particularly in regards to the recent update?
 
mxsjw said:
Settings > Applications > Development > Make sure USB debugging is checked?
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It's checked
doniago said:
When I ran z4 it took a -very- long time to finish (15-30 minutes). Others have reported that if you cycle the battery then run z4 it goes faster.

I think there's already a few threads about this, particularly in regards to the recent update?
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What do you mean cycle the battery? Can you link me to some of those threads? thanks
 
Mine worked on the first try and took about 30 seconds with the latest OTA. It's weird that some people are having issues and some are not.

I did an SBF to stock then updated to the newest OTA. My whole system was completely stock when I ran z4root.. Maybe that's the problem?
 
For the life of me I can not seem to get z4root to work for me with the v2.3.340 OTA after I lost my root from updating. I tried the battery pull method... did not change anything. Z4 root still sits there with the spinning image while it says Running exploit in order to obtain root access... this happens when I select the permanent root option. Temporary root seems to complete through... but doesn't give me root access. Should I try the unroot option and then retry? Any other tips? Is anyone else having this issue?
 
Well looks like it worked this time... I don't know what the deal is with the z4 root but I've seen some people say it takes up to 2 hours, and some only 15 seconds.

More feedback on this subject HERE.

EDIT: I did not use the unroot method.
 
I was one of the first ones to update to OTA 340. When I noticed root wasn't working, I clicked on "root" and after about 10 seconds the boot animation came up, but I was rooted. :D
 
The first time I tried it didnt work. It froze and I had to take the battery out and reboot. When I tried it the second time It worked!!!! :D
 
It took a couple of hours the second to last time I ran it. The time after that, it crashed my phone. After rebooting, it completed in about a minute.
 
The app works fine. You just have to be patient with it. I have a droid x.

My first try was a fail. It got "stuck" at the spinning wheel for about 2 minutes then I got impatient and pulled the battery early.

Second attempt worked fine. I selected permanent root, allowed the phone to do its thing for about 15 (maybe more) minutes, then the phone rebooted itself. Once done it was rooted fine. I knew because of the super user icon in my drawer.

Its been working fine since.
 
So when I first ran Z4root, I tapped 'temporary root,' and it seemed to work flawlessly.
I immediately installed some random Rom that looked alright from Clockworkmod. After some research, I really wanted to install the Rubix rom instead..
However my phone was no longer rooted and clockworkmod did not reboot my DX into Recovery mod, subsequently I could not install the rom.
Decided to run Z4root again however it did not work. Kept freezing, kept exiting, and even restarted my phone once however when I booted back up, phone was still not rooted. I literally went through the process about 15 times. Some BS, I know haha.
Anyways, finally installed z4root 1.1 instead of 1.3, put my phone into airplane mode, and it seems to have worked...
Still working on getting Rubix though. Good luck to all you z4root users.
 
The first time I tried Z4, it was stuck for about 30 minutes. Since then I reboot prior to running it and since then I have never had it take more than a few minutes.
 
I always get stuck on my first try. I have always just exited with the home button and reselected z4 from the app drawer. Works fine the second time every time. I guess everybody's DX is different.
 
chrisvr6 said:
So i can z4 root with the ota gb?
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No.

Even GingerBreak won't root GingerBread for the X...you can only get root on the DX (currently) by installing the two-part, pre-rooted .zip from P3Droid.

Z4root will work on 2.2/Froyo, though.

[edit: although I am puzzled by CraigAD89's post above...was he on Froyo?]
 
Aypse said:
The first time I tried Z4, it was stuck for about 30 minutes. Since then I reboot prior to running it and since then I have never had it take more than a few minutes.
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+1 for reboot phone after installing the app. Works for me everytime.
 
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