Rooting on Mac

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Hi there,

I managed to root directly from my Macbook
If this can help, here are the files I used to run Method 2 mentionned in the OP.

Freely inspired from the OP, kudos to ZeroNull !

I have tested on my Mac and My Tablet, I cannot guarantee it will work for others as I don't know any other Iconia Mac users.

Binaries have been took from Android SDK for Mac
Other files haven't been changed.

Step 1 : Please refer to the OP nothing changed
Step 2 : Please refer to the OP nothing changed
Step 3 : Download patched-boot-MacOs-Version.zip. Unpack it to any place.
Step 4 : Open a terminal and navigate to the directory with the unpacked archive. Execute file:

./flash-ICS-patchedBoot.sh

Type your admin password when requested
Step 5 : Please refer to the OP nothing changed
Step 6 : Please refer to the OP nothing changed
Step 7 : Please refer to the OP nothing changed

Hope this helps.
I'm interested to know if this works for those who will try

okay now what? this is my last hurdle

Bad link to the picture

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Originally Posted by Sterist

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okay now what? this is my last hurdle

It is not possible to see a screenshot in your message.

Sorry Mate, but she ain't rooting the 701. Have tried a few different means.

Anything you want me to try?

Basically, it hangs at "download protocol", and the acer logo.

CMD window says;

Reboot in system
Waiting for device connect...



Then, that's all.

Any suggestions?

MD

I managed to root my A701 running 0.013.00. Just install CWM and flash a su.zip taken from androidsu.com.

From the recovery mount /system and kill the recovery reinstall script manually to prevent it from overwriting your custom recovery.

You'll get root but not /system remount within the OS

Originally Posted by paugustin

I managed to root my A701 running 0.013.00. Just install CWM and flash a su.zip taken from androidsu.com.

From the recovery mount /system and kill the recovery reinstall script manually to prevent it from overwriting your custom recovery.

You'll get root but not /system remount within the OS

I'll try your advice. I'm running 1.015 Gen1. No problems with recovery though. Still keeps on re-boot. The CWM flash was a bit strange, as I put in the thread. Like I got the same with the root procedure, but root failed as it said (manual reboot).

Will get it rooted tonight with System RW, Gods be willing.....

EDIT: No, doesn't matter. 701 will not get system RW. All root apps fail and won't write appropriate files.

Originally Posted by Moscow Desire

Sorry Mate, but she ain't rooting the 701. Have tried a few different means.

Anything you want me to try?

Basically, it hangs at "download protocol", and the acer logo.

CMD window says;

Reboot in system
Waiting for device connect...



Then, that's all.

Any suggestions?

MD

that's what my screenshot shows.

I'm stuck there as well

Hello,

I tried to root my A700 on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine and it does not to work.
Ubuntu 12.04. ADB Tools installed. Versions: 4.1 (API 16), 4.0.3 (API 15)
The tablet sais it is in unlocked bootloader mode.
bootloader version ICS-MR1-7173de1

If I list the device I get as user and as sudo

List of devices attached
22213707215 device


Then I send the following commands after sudo -i

adb wait-for-device
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot boot rooting.img (boot-patched.img)
fastboot reboot
adb wait-for-device
adb pull /system/xbin/su

which gives me the error that the remote object does not exist.

What am I doing wrong?

Originally Posted by twinkybot

Then I send the following commands after sudo -i

adb wait-for-device
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot boot rooting.img (boot-patched.img)
fastboot reboot
adb wait-for-device
adb pull /system/xbin/su

which gives me the error that the remote object does not exist.

What am I doing wrong?

(1. No need for "wait-for-device" if you enter each command by its own. Just wait )
2. Did the flashing process say everything went right? (fastboot boot rooting.img) Or is there an error message?

With the wait for device. I thought I didn't need it but to be safe

The terminal sais

$fastboot boot boot-patched.img 
< waiting for device >
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [  2.288s]
booting...
OKAY [  1.089s]
finished. total time: 3.377s

fastboot boot rooting.img 
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [  3.377s]
booting...
OKAY [  1.091s]
finished. total time: 4.468s