im trying to temp root my evo shift 4g and im not exactly sure where to put the fre3vo file? right now i have it located in C:\androidsdk\temp

Mine is in \tools.

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It doesn't really matter where fre3vo goes. You just need to push it to somewhere on your phone that you can write to without root permissions, such as /data/local/tmp .

I think that Wireless Tether may be explicitly checking to see if su is in /system/bin . When it doesn't find it there, it complains, but if you ignore it, it will use the one that's in /vendor/bin .

I guessed he meant on the computer. It would have to be located somewhere you can adb push it from, the simplest being \tools\fre3vo (same as adb.exe).

Otherwise, minneyar is right; it doesn't matter where on the phone as long as you remember where.

I got root, and used Wireless Tether successfully. I then did a full reboot (not fastboot), and now root is gone and Wireless Tether fails.

Is there some shortcut way to bring it back, or do I have to go through the whole sequence in post #1 again?

Originally Posted by lgmayka

I got root, and used Wireless Tether successfully. I then did a full reboot (not fastboot), and now root is gone and Wireless Tether fails.

Is there some shortcut way to bring it back, or do I have to go through the whole sequence in post #1 again?

Your going to have to do the whole process over. Once you reboot the everything is restored and root is lost.
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Temp root worked great - was able to follow directions with no problems.

I screw around with my phone a lot while at work. Unfortunately, while I'm at the office, Army IT policy doesn't allow me to plug my phone into a computer or install adb. Sooo....

Is there any way to run these commands through a terminal emulator on the phone itself? After I verified I could obtain temp root, I rebooted to lose root and tried following the instructions through the emulator (starting with chmod to fre3vo, then retried starting with adb shell). However, emulator said access is denied or something similar to that.

Thanks in advance!

Tom

is anyone having issue with titanium, namely restoring progs w/data, mine just seems to hang

ok im doing all the steps right i have # but i get : Unable to chmod su-3.0-alpha7: no such file ir directory. I have it in platform-tools.

Originally Posted by Stuke00

Thanks to everyone in this post who has helped get this far. You will need to have the Android SDK installed and working knowledge of ADB and basic file system structure.

Major help from minneyar

Instructions:

• Download http://tinyw.in/1lI
• Unzip if required and put in your ADB folder
• Launch command prompt and navigate to your ADB folder
• adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp/
• adb shell
• chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
• /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF
• Download these 2 files here and put them in your ADB directory: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...2#post14927732
• exit back to command prompt if you aren't there already
• adb push Superuser3-beta1.apk /data/app/
• adb push su-3.0-alpha7 /data/local/tmp
• adb shell (should now see # instead of $)
• cd /data/local/tmp
• chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7
• ./su-3.0-alpha7
• cd /
• mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs /
• rm vendor
• mkdir vendor
• mkdir vendor/bin
• cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su
• chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su

You now have temp root. Disregard any notification about outdated SU binary. Root will go away if you reboot. If you reboot your phone you can obtain root again by just running the following

• adb shell
• chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo
• /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start fbb58a00 -end FFFFFFFF
• adb shell (should now see # instead of $)
• cd /data/local/tmp
• chmod 777 su-3.0-alpha7
• ./su-3.0-alpha7
• cd /
• mount -o remount,rw -t rootfs rootfs /
• rm vendor
• mkdir vendor
• mkdir vendor/bin
• cat /data/local/tmp/su-3.0-alpha7 > /vendor/bin/su
• chmod 4755 /vendor/bin/su

I haven't found a way to re-root after rebooting without connecting to a PC

is this up to date? Just making sure that there aren't steps somewhere in the thread that are not reflected in this...thanks!