Recent content by TooMuchSloeGin

I was expecting that. But it was worth a try. At any rate, I do not need root often so it's NBD. Here's another idea for those who want to run AFWall+ (or rather, its rules) but w/o full root. Even w/o root the app itself installs fine and actually works in the sense that one can enable/disable...

So... after having started magisk via a modified suboot.sh and having done whatever I had to do (say a Titanium backup) I currently reboot back into a magisk-free, unrooted phone. Works. Perfect. Happiness all round. But alas, people are not built to be simply happy ;) Perhaps this whole...

Indeed. I found out late yesterday evening that it would work when I cleared Term's data and recopied everything from within the app. Before I had done the copy from within an adb shell. Interesting information about selinux, will have to have a closer look, always keeping this in mind: :D:D...

Here's another oddity:D After a clean reboot, if I start the Term app and go into /data/local/tmp/ to start ./mtk-su it gives me a nice "permission denied" message. OK, that makes sense as this directory and its files are owned by shell. So I go into an adb shell, start /data/local/tmp/mtk-su...

Yes, MM shows Magisk as active and all the options and settings are there. And root apps do ask for root and will get it if I grant it. So this all works as it should. I followed the steps as outlined in your rooting post: installed MM, started it, set the update channel, switched off updates...

As expected the manual method does work. The L1 is rooted and the apps I've tested do work.:D However, there are two questions remaining. First, in your original description you wrote that MM, after suboot.sh has been run, will ask for "Requires Additional Setup". It didn't. (This is MM 7.1.1...

Thanks for that. I'd rather start the script under my own steam than using a 3rd party app... every installed app is a(n admittedly tiny) security risk. A similar observation goes for root 24/7... I really don't need root all day long. Keep up the good work!;)

First of all a great thank you diplomatic for the temp root stuff. I have been using this to good effect on a Sony Xperia L1 which I did not want to root for various reasons. Now I've found this post of yours about bootless rooting via mtk-su and magisk. This may or may not be something I might...

Again thanks a lot, bigrammy! Those pointers and hints will help a lot, appreciate the work you've put into this! As to the tmp root method... wow! Kudos to diplomatic... it really does what it says on the tin w/o the need to unlock/change bootloaders etc. I am a great lover of CLI so having a...

Thanks bigrammy for that. The L1 is my first Sony (I've been using mostly Motos so far) so there's a certain learning curve:). Actually, I am on the fence as to rooting the L1 because I need banking apps and the like. So far Magisk has done a fine job with my Motos but I am always expecting...

A bit late to the party... I just received an almost new L1 and want(ed) to root it so here goes. The instructions in post #1 are fine, my problem is that the Magisk patched boot image is not on any mirror that androidfilehost can find. :( I've found the other patched boot image (ie the one w/o...

Seems I am the only one with that specific problem. The solution (well, not really but probably better than mucking with the CM superuser app): I've removed ES File Manager and installed X-plore File Manager instead. The interface of the latter is not that great but it seems to do most (or...

No. I'm not sure whether installing multiple superuser apps is a good idea... I may end up with a system where the two apps slug it out and I am left without root access. (OK, I do have backups so that wouldn't be a catastrophe.) Having said that, I would have tried installing another SU if I...

I have a plain vanilla CM10.1 on my HD+. The included CM File Manager runs fine with root privilege. I've also installed a newer version of Jackpal's Term (terminal emulator) which runs fine as well with root. However, the current version of ES File Manager will not run with root privilege...

So no one's ever tried to encrypt their HD/HD+? I am still investigating this "problem" and it seems that quite a few people have run into trouble after encrypting their tablet (TWRP Recovery seems to support an encrypted /data partition but CWM doesn't... correct me if I'm wrong). So here's a...