[Guide] Full system temproot (no traces) [0.11]

Note: this is a mirror post of my other post, because all executables should work on the One X or the One. I've tested this on the One X.
These are instructions (and a helper script) to root the phone without unlocking or installing a recovery partition. It's based on temproot, and is ideal for anyone who doesn't want to modify their system software, or someone without a RUU who wants to make a full dump of their phone for backup in case they want to unroot.

Prerequisites:
- USB debugging should be enabled
- Get temproot from the Firewater folks (based on code by hikezoe and fi01)
- Get the SuperSU or SuperUser APK (I got it from inside this zip): http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip
- Get a `su` executable (also inside the same zip): http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip
- full-system-temproot.zip from this post and unzip the two files

Instructions:
- The Firewater folks recommend disabling screen lock and rebooting.
- Put SuperSU.apk, su, busybox, and root.sh into /sdcard/Download
- Connect to USB and run:

Follow the instructions, which consist of waiting for the root shell to appear (wait 10 minutes, then see a command prompt starting with "#"), then typing
and hitting enter.

Note: the difference between this and the "naked" temproot hack is that the naked hack leaves you with a root shell which can run root commands, but no way for installed programs to use root capabilities.

Andy said:

I understand the instructions. Those that don't understand shouldn't do it.
I mean if people can't follow simple instructions that are posted, what chance have they got at doing anything remotely useful with a system dump.

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On the other hand, some people live in countries without strong warranty laws. temproot is nice for them, so they don't need to unlock or ever uninstall their phone's default update mechanism.

Fears said:

I will refrain from making a "instruction unclear" joke, but the instruction could really use some improvement.

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Which parts? I'm not going to multiply the length of this instruction ten-fold, but I'd like to supplement with links so people understand how to run commands in the adb shell, and other simple but necessary skills.

vbaros said:

Can you then unlock the bootloader without wiping the data?

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You most certainly can, but I don't know whether anyone knows how.
I'd guess you need S-Off to do this, because the bootloader lock-unlock state is probably stored on a locked partition. You'll most likely need to run a single command to rewrite a byte of data, but it definitely won't be on the /system or /data partitions.

One-X-master said:

No that's bot possible it will always wipe data

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Where's your ambition?