G-Slate root

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There's no G-Slate forum yet, so this goes here.

How to root your T-Mobile G-Slate

This process works under Linux. The hard part under Windows would be mounting a file as an ext4 filesystem, but if you can do that you win.

You need:

• The four files in the gslate_root.zip archive attached to this post.

To root:

1. Put those four files in a directory and open a terminal to there.
2. Shut down your G-Slate and plug it into your computer via USB.
3. Hold down both volume buttons and press the power button. The G-Slate will not appear to turn on, but it'll go into APX mode.
4. Running "lsusb" should show an entry "0955:7820 NVidia Corp."
5. Run the command "sudo su" to get a root shell. Running "ls" should still show the four files.
6. ./nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --getpartitiontable ptable.txt
7. ./nvflash -r --read 8 system-orig.img
8. Wait while 400 meg of data copies.
9. cp system-orig.img system.img
10. mkdir system
11. mount -o loop system.img system
12. cp su system/bin
13. chmod 4755 system/bin/su
14. cp Superuser.apk system/app
15. umount system
16. ./nvflash -r --download 8 system.img
17. Wait while it copies back.
18. ./nvflash -r --sync
19. Press the reset button under the sim cover to reboot.

There's your rooted G-Slate. Making that process "one click" is going to suck.

Troubleshooting:

• You may need to install the package libstdc++6 or lib32stdc++6 to get nvflash to run.
• You may need to use "sudo" on the nvflash commands.
• If you want to try to make this work on Windows, the nvflash.exe binary and the APX USB drivers are are available from nvidia.com

This is unbelievable! Can't wait to give it a shot.

EDIT: For future reference, DO NOT use Virtual Box to try and root your device. There are issues getting the drivers to work properly. Lsusb will not work. The following methods have been tested and work:

1. Wubi install of Ubuntu Linux
2. VMware install of Ubuntu Linux
3. Dual-boot install of ""
4. Dedicated Linux box (duh)

And remember: If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then visit our IRC channel.

Trying this on Windows 7 is gonna be a trip. Never workt with ext4 before.

Install Ubuntu and you can dual boot into Windows or Ubuntu. That's what I do.


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This method is confirmed working. Thank you so much for the hard work Chandon. It wasn't very hard to complete on Linux. I can't believe my G-Slate is rooted!!!! Hell yes! Oh and the device is not wiped during the process either just to let everyone know!

Some More Help

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Would it be possible to pull the recovery partition off now?

Why I ask. I am in a bit of a pickle. My slate will get to the first LG boot screen and then freeze. It does not even go to the boot animation. I can still get into fastboot and APX mode and it is seen by my computer.

How did i get here. While poking around in fastboot I am pretty sure i wiped they recovery partition D'OH.

I was able to complete the steps listed (for root) with out issue but still cannot get past the boot screen since this is only modifying the system partition.

I am thinking that if that could be pulled from the device i could flash it to mine and bring my slate back to life?

Am I way off on this one?

SmellyTunic -

Attached are all the reasonably small partitions that I could pull off my device with nvflash. This should be everything except /system, /cache, and /data.

I suggest backing everything up before flashing any of these, on the off chance that there's some difference between devices.

Thanks so much for this! Is there a good linux live cd(or bootable usb flash drive) someone could suggest where this could be accomplished easily? Not ready to take the plunge actually installing linux on my system yet >.>

Here you go

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shinkinrui

Info and steps can be found here http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Pretty easy to set up a dual boot machine.

Chandon,

Any chance you know off hand which one of those partitions is the recovery?

I suggest doing a Wubi install [1], where Ubuntu pretends to be a Windows app (which you can then uninstall like any other app later). Alternatively you could try using VirtualBox [2], but that's less guaranteed to work.

The only reason I wouldn't do this with a Live CD is that you'd risk losing your backup of the stock /system partition when you reboot. It would also make losing power in the middle of the flash really annoying.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide
[2] (edit: virtual box doesn't easily see the USB device)