Evo Shift Root Exploit and Development Thread

bcnice20 · Jan 9, 2011

Please place all of your discussions about obtaining root on the Evo Shift here.

Temp root:

Temporary root can be acheived a number of ways on the shift the easiest being either z4root app or the visionary plus root app.

Z4root:
download here and install as you would any other apk
open the app and hit temporary root
let it run till you are notified of its success
you now have temporary root!!
*Note you have to reapply z4 each time you reboot your phone

Visionary:
full instructions and the link to visionary can be found here.

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...m/320722/19-nov-r14-visionary-one-click-root/

IMPORTANT NOTE!
PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OTA UPDATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they patched the root exploit on the desire z when they updated you can most definitely expect them to do the same for the shift so please for that sake of everybody being able to get proper root do not accept any updates unless further notified!!!

unless you just dont care about root that is.....

epitaphromance · Jan 9, 2011

so far, we got a temporary root.
No point in trying unrevoked as it scans for the device name and shows
"sorry, the device 'speedy' is not suppored" (paraphrasing)
wish i knew alittle more about this.
You can get to hboot by Holding down the vol down while powering on

falz · Jan 9, 2011

Also in a previous thread bubby323 requested a dump of /system and dnalevelc obliged:

* http://www.digglesworth.net/evoshift/system.7z

In another forum (androidcentral) someone noted that an app called VISIONary works to auto temp-root the Shift upon boot.

* http://android.modaco.com/content/h...m/320722/19-nov-r14-visionary-one-click-root/

Edit: Also there's code to temp root the G2 using a different exploit below. I haven't attempted to run it on my Shift. Possibly not relevant since it has a newer version but could be if an update is pushed to the Shift:

* https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2/psneuter

yokken · Jan 10, 2011

got the shift today. MAN this thing is fast! i'd love to see unrevoked release a small update that supports the shift. otherwise i can do it the long way but i can't wait to see the scores once i get a custom ROM on it.

DWake014 · Jan 10, 2011

Visonary does work, I turned on temproot on boot and then i pressed temproot now and it rebooted the phone. The phone was either taking its time or got stuck on the 4G for 2-3 mins so I pulled the battery and started the phone up again. I installed connectbot and typed su and got a #. Tried the reboot command and it wouldn't let me so I went into root explorer and it prompted the su app, gave it permission and started hacking away at bloatware..... no luck, it still came back from the grave :\

steven1022 · Jan 10, 2011

I successfully Temp rooted with z4root (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953) and I couldnt get the download off the market so I just went to 4shared.com and searched z4root and picked up 1.3.0 which is the latest version....

It worked great and I used Titanium back up and a screen shot app that both needed root.

yokken · Jan 10, 2011

does anyone think the rageagainstthecage exploit will work on this? i assume people are working on it? cause if it does, that means unrevoked3 could possibly release a new version with shift support, right? since unrevoked is just an automated rageagainstthecage, right?

edit: i mean, for permanent root, S-OFF.

rhodiggah · Jan 10, 2011

steven1022 said:
I successfully Temp rooted with z4root (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953) and I couldnt get the download off the market so I just went to 4shared.com and searched z4root and picked up 1.3.0 which is the latest version....

It worked great and I used Titanium back up and a screen shot app that both needed root.

Z4Root temp root was a success but SU is telling me to upgrade by going into recovery, How do I go about this? I can't get any permissions for Rom Manager, Titanium, BusyBox, Etc...

rhodiggah · Jan 10, 2011

rhodiggah said:
Z4Root temp root was a success but SU is telling me to upgrade by going into recovery, How do I go about this? I can't get any permissions for Rom Manager, Titanium, BusyBox, Etc...

Nevermind, figured it out. I accidentally rebooted, therefore, I lost root...

falz · Jan 10, 2011

yokken said:
does anyone think the rageagainstthecage exploit will work on this? i assume people are working on it? cause if it does, that means unrevoked3 could possibly release a new version with shift support, right? since unrevoked is just an automated rageagainstthecage, right?

edit: i mean, for permanent root, S-OFF.

yes, the rage exploit is what works and is what z4root uses. However I couldn't get the actual binary to work from the CLI using adb.

tatonka_hero · Jan 10, 2011

Just curious--with this temp root, will the wireless tether app work? At least until the phone is restarted. I use that app quite a bit with my Hero, to get on the sites blocked at work on my ipad

riggsandroid · Jan 10, 2011

tatonka_hero said:
Just curious--with this temp root, will the wireless tether app work? At least until the phone is restarted. I use that app quite a bit with my Hero, to get on the sites blocked at work on my ipad

yes as reported by others i dont have yet but want...

riggsandroid · Jan 10, 2011

http://twitter.com/unrevoked/status/24492360310198272#

tatonka_hero · Jan 10, 2011

riggsandroid said:
http://twitter.com/unrevoked/status/24492360310198272#

blocked at work (thus the wifi tether needed

)

what's it say? lol

bcnice20 · Jan 10, 2011

Yes we finally got a forum

But on to the good stuff and not so good stuff

Even though we only have temp root partitions on the shift can be flashed using dd I won't go into exactly how to do it till I get home because the commands have to be EXACT!!!! Or u risk bricking your phone... I've had to ruu a couple times now

O btw the ruu that was previously leaked appears to be exactly what was released on the shift.

Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

BrandoKC · Jan 10, 2011

"Maybe good news for people with the HTC Wildfire. We're looking at it. (Also maybe good news for people with Evo Shift 4G sooner or later.)"

BrandoKC · Jan 10, 2011

Here is a link to the thread with the leaked RUU if anyone needs it
linky

StAlphonso · Jan 10, 2011

BrandoKC said:
Here is a link to the thread with the leaked RUU if anyone needs it
linky

has this been tested? is this the stock RUU that ships with the phone? can it be flashed no problems to return to factory if i mess something up with root? (like remove an application that is integral to the OS or to sense or something)

BrandoKC · Jan 10, 2011

StAlphonso said:
has this been tested? is this the stock RUU that ships with the phone? can it be flashed no problems to return to factory if i mess something up with root? (like remove an application that is integral to the OS or to sense or something)

Take a look at bcnice's post two above mine

rhodiggah · Jan 10, 2011

riggsandroid said:
http://twitter.com/unrevoked/status/24492360310198272#

Great tip. It's just a matter of time now...

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