How to gain root access to google ion rom?

hankit · Jun 17, 2009

I'm have the original ION phone with Ion Rom...
But from what i search from wiki to forum's here, mostly I see is reflashing the whole rom to get root access..

is it possible to get the root access on the rom I have now rather than reflashing it?

This is what I have right now in my phone:
HBoot-1.33.3004 (SAPP30000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.261

Amon_RA · Jun 17, 2009

Yes this is possible.

1. Download a rooted recovery image (recovery.img) with nandroid support.
2. Switch your ion to fastboot mode.
3. Execute "Fastboot boot recovery.img" (this will not flash the recovery to your Ion, it will just load it).
4. perform a nandroid backup.
5. unpack the boot.img you find in the nandroid directory on your sdcard.
6. change the ro.secure property and repack the boot.img.
7. flash the rooted boot.img image to your ion.

hankit · Jun 17, 2009

So the instruction mention is the same as the one posted on wiki?
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting

Many thanks!
Mike

Amon_RA said:
Yes this is possible.

1. Download a rooted recovery image (recovery.img) with nandroid support.
2. Switch your ion to fastboot mode.
3. Execute "Fastboot boot recovery.img" (this will not flash the recovery to your Ion, it will just load it).
4. perform a nandroid backup.
5. unpack the boot.img you find in the nandroid directory on your sdcard.
6. change the ro.secure property and repack the boot.img.
7. flash the rooted boot.img image to your ion.

Amon_RA · Jun 17, 2009

No, it's not the same, with the instructions on the wiki your are overwriting your ROM with a different one... so you basically undo the ion rom.

hankit · Jun 17, 2009

Im very new to this, do you mind bring me throught the how process?

I have just went ahead to try that process..(as i thought its just bascially rooting the magic with the recovery rom and ended up on a boot loop)

Amon_RA said:
No, it's not the same, with the instructions on the wiki your are overwriting your ROM with a different one... so you basically undo the ion rom.

ultraMX · Jun 17, 2009

5. unpack the boot.img you find in the nandroid directory on your sdcard.

How do you do that?

Amon_RA · Jun 17, 2009

ultraMX said:
How do you do that?

http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images

ultraMX · Jun 17, 2009

Thank you Amon_RA!

yochaigal · Jun 24, 2009

Hello,
Just got a google ion. Originally followed the instructions in the link above about rooting an htc magic... which allowed me to put haykuro's rootme on. Everything works fine now, I have root (I was able to add new fonts as su). However I do not have a superuser app--- and I am a bit confused about who I receive updates from now. I have read that jf1.5 does not work on this phone.
I did not need to unpack any .img files.
I have a recovery where I can flash new update.zip files, do nandroid backups, etc.
Can anyone fill me in on where I can get a superuser app, who should I receive updated update.zip fles from, etc?
The ion rom that is floating around installs but wifi doesn't work, so I'm back at rootme.zip.

colonel · Jun 24, 2009

Amon_RA said:
No, it's not the same, with the instructions on the wiki your are overwriting your ROM with a different one... so you basically undo the ion rom.

no you don't
I followed the wiki and had ROOT and Hard SPL but the rom was unchanged

yochaigal · Jun 24, 2009

When you had root, were you able to install the superuser app or a rom with it?

colonel · Jun 24, 2009

yochaigal said:
When you had root, were you able to install the superuser app or a rom with it?

haven't tried yet
root works fine when plugged into a PC

Wolfyy7 · Jun 28, 2009

I have the original Ion as well. The way I rooted my phone was by followed an excellent written tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w_Iyv7wctA (in the upper right hand corner click more details. Then after step step 17 or so continue from the guide on http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magic_Rooting

Great for noobs like me, wouldn'nt have known the commands to put into prompt up to that point and from other guides was not clear if I was supposed to input from phone terminal or prompt on PC but the combination of these two guides helped me get my phone rooted and now I have been trying out the french ROMS 1.8/1.9 and Nok2's V4 full, which is great.

pep1t0 · Jul 21, 2009

Amon_RA said:
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images

Could anyone complete this process succesfully? Can post step by step instructions? the webpage has a lot of information and can be a little confusing...

mojotexas · Jul 22, 2009

image - ination

Amon_RA said:
1. Download a rooted recovery image (recovery.img) with nandroid support.

Where could I get an image as mentioned here?

Second question: Once rooted, will my phone auto-update the system anymore?

thanks for all the thoughtful answers,
m0j0

xyzulu · Jul 22, 2009

mojotexas said:
Where could I get an image as mentioned here?

Look at the threads in this same forum...

pep1t0 · Jul 22, 2009

hankit said:
Im very new to this, do you mind bring me throught the how process?

I have just went ahead to try that process..(as i thought its just bascially rooting the magic with the recovery rom and ended up on a boot loop)

I had the same problem and had to restore from nandroid backup... did you solve this issue?

pep1t0 · Jul 23, 2009

mojotexas said:
Where could I get an image as mentioned here?

Second question: Once rooted, will my phone auto-update the system anymore?

thanks for all the thoughtful answers,
m0j0

Mojo, if the root process is done by unpacking and repacking the boot.img you won't alter the original rom so all the features will be untouched.

I've complete the root process on my original ION, if you need any help... post in this threath...

digable1 · Jan 10, 2010

The manual total-geek method on N1?

Yes, I am aware of superboot. downloaded it. Looked at it, and noticed it was an image.

I am one of the weird ones that would rather do this process with the least disruption of the stock bits as possible, or at least know exactly what this image modifies. And while I could be totally blind, I didn't see this listed in my Googling.

I tried the procedure for the ION in this thread and it appears that the Nexus One does something different (maybe an extra checksum check??). Note: I also do have an ION and this procedure worked - so it appears that the procedure is known.

Any further information either about how to modify the appropriate images manually or a description of what the superboot image actually plays with?

Thanks!

zul8er · Mar 12, 2010

I too have a ION and if 2.1 doesn't hit soon I want to root. I am confused. Can someone just post the instructions in order with out having to got a billion links to get the next step.

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