What is it?
This is my final gift to the Chromecast community, called Flashcast-AutoRoot. This is a special recovery image for the Chomecast v1 device that will allow it to take official Google OTA's, and then root them during the flashing process. This means you get to keep root, while staying up to date with Google images!
Features:
Q: How do I setup a custom startup script?
A: Just write your script to a file at /data/user_boot_script.sh, and set the executable bit for the file. Once done, it will be loaded on next boot.
Q: How do I setup custom DNS servers?
A: Put the IP addresses of the DNS servers in a file at /data/dns.conf, one per line. On next boot these will be used for DNS requests. Note if you are coming from EurekaROM, it will already have your old settings in place.
Q: How do I setup the EurekaROM Web Panel?
A: By default this ROM has no Web Panel, but this can be added by bootstrapping onto the custom startup script, but I will leave this up to you.
Q: Can Google unroot my device in the future?
A: Technically yes, but they would have a hard time doing so. To get technical, the bootloader partition can't be updated from the stock OS due to the kernel hard-setting it to "ro". While the recovery image can be flashed from the OS, the root process replaces the included recovery image with it's self to prevent any update. The recovery is also unable to update the bootloader partition, so you should always be able to re-flash using a OTG cable. With that said, I have also put in an update method so I can push updates to the recovery image if needed, but at this time I have no plans on doing so unless required, so use this image at your own risk.
Installation:
To install this, all you need to do is SSH/Telnet into an already rooted Chromecast, and run the following commands:
Note:
If this is ran on a different ROM than Eureka-ROM there may be an error when ran, but rest assured the flashing process will still work.
GPL/Source:
https://github.com/team-eureka/flashcast-flasher/tree/newmode-alpha
This is my final gift to the Chromecast community, called Flashcast-AutoRoot. This is a special recovery image for the Chomecast v1 device that will allow it to take official Google OTA's, and then root them during the flashing process. This means you get to keep root, while staying up to date with Google images!
Features:
- Auto roots any official Google OTA sent to your device
- Supports automatic Recovery Image updates
- Spawns a root telnet server
- Supports a custom startup script
- DHCP and Custom DNS
Q: How do I setup a custom startup script?
A: Just write your script to a file at /data/user_boot_script.sh, and set the executable bit for the file. Once done, it will be loaded on next boot.
Q: How do I setup custom DNS servers?
A: Put the IP addresses of the DNS servers in a file at /data/dns.conf, one per line. On next boot these will be used for DNS requests. Note if you are coming from EurekaROM, it will already have your old settings in place.
Q: How do I setup the EurekaROM Web Panel?
A: By default this ROM has no Web Panel, but this can be added by bootstrapping onto the custom startup script, but I will leave this up to you.
Q: Can Google unroot my device in the future?
A: Technically yes, but they would have a hard time doing so. To get technical, the bootloader partition can't be updated from the stock OS due to the kernel hard-setting it to "ro". While the recovery image can be flashed from the OS, the root process replaces the included recovery image with it's self to prevent any update. The recovery is also unable to update the bootloader partition, so you should always be able to re-flash using a OTG cable. With that said, I have also put in an update method so I can push updates to the recovery image if needed, but at this time I have no plans on doing so unless required, so use this image at your own risk.
Installation:
To install this, all you need to do is SSH/Telnet into an already rooted Chromecast, and run the following commands:
Code:
busybox wget http://pdl.team-eureka.com/recovery/install.sh -O /cache/install.sh
busybox chmod +x /cache/install.sh
/cache/install.sh
If this is ran on a different ROM than Eureka-ROM there may be an error when ran, but rest assured the flashing process will still work.
GPL/Source:
https://github.com/team-eureka/flashcast-flasher/tree/newmode-alpha
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