Finally with help from people from many other forums Defy with BL7 was rooted.
For now we have no script to make it on the phone without wipe but I'm very happy that it's working.
Rooting Procedure
1. Wipe phone twice (2x make Wipe Data/Cache in stock recovery)
2. Flash 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN or 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 Retail.en.EU CEE (It doesn't matter what version of this two You flash but it must be the same with version from point 4).
3. Wipe again (Data/Factory Reset)
4. Flash rooted SBF 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN Rooted SBF Part.1, 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN Rooted SBF Part.2 or 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 Retail.en.EU CEE Rooted SBF
Thanks List:
- People from http://bbs.mfunz.com for ShellRoot and Rooted SBF
- coelho_ from XDA for help and translation ShellRoot procedure
- Joe31 from XDA for CEE Rooted SBF
- Math43 from XDA for links to CN Rooted SBF
- free2livefrom XDA for testing and helping with patching under linux
- and everyone who tried to help in this thread - THANK YOU
Old Post to let everyone know what we worked here.
For now we have no script to make it on the phone without wipe but I'm very happy that it's working.
Rooting Procedure
1. Wipe phone twice (2x make Wipe Data/Cache in stock recovery)
2. Flash 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN or 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 Retail.en.EU CEE (It doesn't matter what version of this two You flash but it must be the same with version from point 4).
3. Wipe again (Data/Factory Reset)
4. Flash rooted SBF 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN Rooted SBF Part.1, 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 CN Rooted SBF Part.2 or 4.5.1-134 DFP-231 Retail.en.EU CEE Rooted SBF
Thanks List:
- People from http://bbs.mfunz.com for ShellRoot and Rooted SBF
- coelho_ from XDA for help and translation ShellRoot procedure
- Joe31 from XDA for CEE Rooted SBF
- Math43 from XDA for links to CN Rooted SBF
- free2livefrom XDA for testing and helping with patching under linux
- and everyone who tried to help in this thread - THANK YOU
Old Post to let everyone know what we worked here.
Code:
I couldn't find any thread about rooting it and only few posts under roms threads so maybe we can start here. I was making backup of rooted DFP-231 en.EU but after this by mistake I restored 2.3.5 DFP-125 and I needed to reflash my Defy with full sbf of DFP-231 cause to make OTA I had to upgrade to BL7 so any chance to restore my backup is root full sbf DFP-231.
I was trying:
Root Tools:
- (XT800+)ROOT_MOTO_2.3.6
- Defy_2.3.6Root
- DooMLoRD_v4_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su
- DROID 3 easy root script v7
- ME525 2.3.6 Root
- ROOT_MOTO_2.3.6
- root4defy134
- SuperOneClickv2.3.3-ShortFuse
- ZOC_FlashMasterV1.70
- unlockroot23-eng
- Motofail for Droid 4 and Razr
- SuperOneClick with new Exploit motofail hangs on 5th step
Downgrade to:
Every verion MB525, MB526, ME525, ME525+ starting from early versions of Eclair ending on DFP-2311 but only DFP-188 and DFP-231/DFP-2311 has BL7 and on all other verion phone is dead.
I was trying also modding sbf files by myself and few from Walter79 on DFP-188 thread and trying to force reflash under stock recovery but unfortunately still no luck and every time I had bootloader error or just dead phone.
From last few days I'm monitoring all German, Chinese, Spain and Russian forums about rooting this but still even no clue.
Only thing I learn is that every tool for root has problems with writing su app to phone so I think script to make it is wrong but I'm new in android and I have no idea how to edit it. I tried superuser under Ubuntu 11.04 also but I couldn't mount phone so another fail.
I'm screwed with BL7 so if someone have some ideas I'm opened for most options.
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