[Question] Root progress?

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Now, using my Archos 70IT machine,
After bootup, I need to run z4root (temp root) to root the machine,
then, I open up the setcpu to check the CPU frequency profiles,
repeating the steps again and again for each boot up...

Heard that it is hard to root as the system files are protected using a squashfs compressed image (with encryption?)

Cannot touch the system files make me feel sad
- I want to modify the hosts file to bypass all the advertisements
- I want to remove not-used system apps
- I want to modify the init.rc (maybe lagfix?)
- I want to apply wifi ad-hoc fix
- bla bla bla....

So, I would like to ask for the progress of rooting? Any news? Anything I can help to speedup the investigation?

Many of plenty of thanks to all those rooting gurus ~~~ !

I also have same problem. Can anyone advise how to resolve. Many thanks.

I think, though I can very easily be wrong, the problem right now is gaining write access to the partitions, the main system partition is mounted Read Only.

I'm trying to find time to look at this but I don't think I'll be able to get any time untill the weekend.

Originally Posted by DougEdey

I think, though I can very easily be wrong, the problem right now is gaining write access to the partitions, the main system partition is mounted Read Only.

I'm trying to find time to look at this but I don't think I'll be able to get any time untill the weekend.

Yeah, from following a bit of the action over at archosfans.com forums it seems the system is mounted as a read only SquashFS image.

As soon as I get my A101 I'll dig deeper into this problem. Hopefully we'll get a working solution

Originally Posted by chulri

As soon as I get my A101 I'll dig deeper into this problem. Hopefully we'll get a working solution

Yes, I've been holding my order for the Archos 70 to see if root would seem plausible and I just ordered it now. A section at XDA together with Archos release of the source should help us in search for enlightenment

Delivery in 2-4 days, final exam for some electronics course next week and then I've got 30 days off Uni to spend on this...hopefully :P

I have an A70IT 8 GB and have yet to successfully get z4root to work on it. I'm using the latest version (downloaded today).

I look forward to hearing how some people are successfully doing it, at least I get the impression on the fan site, they are doing it successfully. If anyone knows or has the time / desire to help a fellow Archos user out, please feel free to contact me.

Bert Moshier

Originally Posted by BGMArchos

I have an A70IT 8 GB and have yet to successfully get z4root to work on it. I'm using the latest version (downloaded today).

I look forward to hearing how some people are successfully doing it, at least I get the impression on the fan site, they are doing it successfully. If anyone knows or has the time / desire to help a fellow Archos user out, please feel free to contact me.

Bert Moshier

I had the same problem with Z4Root not working. I found that powering off (complete power off, no suspending or rebooting) the device and starting it back up again did the trick. I also found that I have better success getting Z4Root to run if its the first program I run after a fresh power up. Don't run anything until you Z4Root.

Let me know if this works for you or not.

I've been having inconsistent results, but just stumbled across something that might help.

set airplane mode
turn off unknown sources
turn off usb debug
power off
power on
reset airplane mode off/on (doesn't look like it is really on on reboot)
turn on unknown sources
turn on usb debug
run z4root
wait.

seems to be working more consistently. I think these tablets don't save the state of things like unknown sources and usb debug (and airplane mode) very cleanly.

does this proxy app work with z4root ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766569

i really would like to use the wifi at my university with my archos.