Root and recovery question

jarzy00

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Oct 7, 2011

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #1

I just figured out how to s-off/unlock with rum runner after an extremely long and frustrating day.. but I did not obtain root from it. Is that supposed to happen? So now I need root and twrp. What can or should I do? I will use adb or anything to get this moving because I wanna start flashing roms! (; thanks for your responses

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Darkmx2000

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #2

jarzy00 said:

I just figured out how to s-off/unlock with rum runner after an extremely long and frustrating day.. but I did not obtain root from it. Is that supposed to happen? So now I need root and twrp. What can or should I do? I will use adb or anything to get this moving because I wanna start flashing roms! (; thanks for your responses

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Have you flashed a custom recovery? If so all you need to do now is flash this Super SU zip and you'll gain root access.

http://download.chainfire.eu/382/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.93.zip

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Crawshayi

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #3

jarzy00 said:

I just figured out how to s-off/unlock with rum runner after an extremely long and frustrating day.. but I did not obtain root from it. Is that supposed to happen? So now I need root and twrp. What can or should I do? I will use adb or anything to get this moving because I wanna start flashing roms! (; thanks for your responses

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Custom roms are pre-rooted. As long as you flashed TWRP you can start flashing the rom of your choice. You flash TWRP in Fastboot. Refer to the TWRP thread for instructions.

 

jarzy00

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #4

Okay thanks guys I'll give it a go after work today

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jarzy00

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #5

Got twrp and root to flash on lunch break can't wait to try a Rom woot!

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HypostaticOnion

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #6

Go check out viper ROM. Rock solid and jam-packed with features.

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jarzy00

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Oct 7, 2011

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #7

Will do. Do I need to flash a kernel or anything or can I just go ahead and flash the Rom

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cmlusco

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Nov 20, 2010

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #8

A custom kernel is included in that particular rom.

 

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jpradley

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• Mar 17, 2014

• #9

cmlusco said:

A custom kernel is included in that particular rom.

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I was under the impression that *every* ROM, for this phone or any other, includes a kernel.

 

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HypostaticOnion

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #10

It does. Sometimes you may get better performance from a custom kernel. YMMV

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cmlusco

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #11

All roms contain a kernel, but only some contain a custom kernel that can be tweaked.