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Androgenic
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I'm new here and have no rights to post in dev section.
I have tried many possible tools and tips for getting root on o4x... No success yet..
But I found out that SupeOneClick tool could write on some sections on /data.

The main problem remains that we couldn't get WRITE access to /system section.
I'm not expert on Linux but I let run some scripts on /system/bin and /root... Till now unfortunately no success.
I found interesting scripts for FOTA like lgdms.fota_update.rc.
As I see our system path is /dev/block/Platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system
can someone of devs confirm that?

That would mean all other tools trying to gain access with "mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p33 /system"
will not help us anyway.. Or I'm wrong?

cat /proc/mounts cmd brings me no other /system path...
Here what I get on "cat /proc/mounts":

app_107@android:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
app_107@android:/ $ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,resuid=1000,errors=continu e,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,nomblk_io_su bmit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,n omblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAL /cal ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MLT /mpt ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DRM /persist-lg ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,g id=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,cod epage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
app_107@android:/ $

P.S. Excuse for my bad English.
 
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I'm new here and have no rights to post in dev section.
I have tried many possible tools and tips for getting root on o4x... No success yet..
But I found out that SupeOneClick tool could write on some sections on /data.

The main problem remains that we couldn't get WRITE access to /system section.
I'm not expert on Linux but I let run some scripts on /system/bin and /root... Till now unfortunately no success.
I found interesting scripts for FOTA like lgdms.fota_update.rc.
As I see our system path is /dev/block/Platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system
can someone of devs confirm that?

That would mean all other tools trying to gain access with "mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p33 /system"
will not help us anyway.. Or I'm wrong?

cat /proc/mounts cmd brings me no other /system path...
Here what I get on "cat /proc/mounts":

app_107@android:/ $ export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
app_107@android:/ $ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,resuid=1000,errors=continu e,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,nomblk_io_su bmit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,n omblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAL /cal ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/MLT /mpt ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/DRM /persist-lg ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:17 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,g id=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,cod epage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
app_107@android:/ $

P.S. Excuse for my bad English.
Thanks for posting

I also have two files that might be worth having a look at.

http://db.tt/dPOQmB5H

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WOW!
Thanks... Thats interesting to look at...

Can you tell me how you dump sys files? I would take a look on some other too..

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Thanks for posting

I also have two files that might be worth having a look at.

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So I found a complete dump of /system... Thats fine.
Maybe there would be something that would help to gain write access to /system.