[APP] Voodoo OTA RootKeeper (and temporary un-root)

[B. East]

Will this work on the desire hd ?

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[Elfsiren]

I have a problem? I cannot install this from Android Market. Everytime I try it redirects me to Amazon App Store which then says that the app can't be found. Also, when I search from the Market app, it says file not found. Can you please link me to a direct download of the apk file or send it to me?
Many thanks for your great work

 

[supercurio]

Will this work on the desire hd ?

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Sorry I am not familiar with the S-OFF stuff, you tell me me


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[supercurio]

I have a problem? I cannot install this from Android Market. Everytime I try it redirects me to Amazon App Store which then says that the app can't be found. Also, when I search from the Market app, it says file not found. Can you please link me to a direct download of the apk file or send it to me?
Many thanks for your great work

Hi: on which device?

If amazon app store is messing with Android Market, I suggest installing amazon one.

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[Elfsiren]

Hi: on which device?

If amazon app store is messing with Android Market, I suggest installing amazon one.

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I have a rooted Kindle Fire. I think there may be a problem with my Android market app in general, as it tells me there is no result for anything I search for. If, using my Kindle browser, I click the link you posted, it takes me to the market, but it says I need to sign in. When I click sign in, it take me to Amazon app store and says the app is not available.

 

[suffer1989]

Will this help "re-root" the phone from Gingerbread, to the official ICS update thats begun rolling out today ?

 

[supercurio]

Will this help "re-root" the phone from Gingerbread, to the official ICS update thats begun rolling out today ?

Indeed, it's designed for that
The operation was 100% successful on my 2.3.6 -> 4.0.3 Nexus S OTA.

 

[suffer1989]

Thanks for that speedy update, but what if I do the manual update thing ? (update.zip , then recovery menu)
(I have Baseband Version : I9020XXKF1, Build : GRK39F)

Is that different in any way ?

Also, as a semi thank you/ support gesture, I intend to buy your Voodoo control plus app :
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.controlappdonate&hl=en

Does that have ICS support for the nexus s, or is that a planned update ?
Thanks


EDIT : I instaled ICS, and even though the program said it restored the rood, and titanium backup loading properly, I cant do anything with titanium backup. Further more, rootchecker app says my phone isnt rooted.

 

[haitham18]

thanx for this greet app
i have nexus s and i dont know why its not working with me
i was on ics kwiboo v3 and my device is rooted
i downloaded ota rootkeeper and i chose protect root and after this backup root
after this i download 2.3.6 and upgrade to 4.0.3
and redownload rootkeeper
when i press root restore only the filesystem supports root protection is there i download s u but still i cant have root permission
can u tell me plz where is my mistake and show me the correct procedure to have everything okay

thanx

 

[brandonyoung]

I am running the Galaxy Nexus with stock rooted ICS 4.0.2. It looks like this doesn't work for ICS.

It installs on my phone, and it asks for Superuser permissions, but it doesn't look like it detects root properly in the new OS or actually does anything. My device is rooted, Titanium backup works and other apps that require root also work, but there is no check mark next to "Device rooted". Root permissions are granted and file system supports root protection both have check marks. I click on "Protect root" and it says "root su protected" but the checkboxes don't change.

It worked great on my rooted Vibrant that is still running froyo, and my Galaxy Tab running Honeycomb, though.

 

[supercurio]

Hi guys

Multiple users report issues with ICS / Superuser after using Titanium backup.
I guess TI non-standard way of restoring files in app directories cause troubles on ICS.

I updated the description on market to reflect that, and here is my recommendations:

- Titanium backup, because of its non-standard way of restoring apps seems to have issues with Superuser.
I recommend not using this app and installing Superuser from market like any other app, from Android Market. It will just work.

Also, I suggest contacting Titanium backup to provide him useful bug reports so he can update his app for ICS.

 

[suffer1989]

Hi guys

Multiple users report issues with ICS / Superuser after using Titanium backup.
I guess TI non-standard way of restoring files in app directories cause troubles on ICS.

I updated the description on market to reflect that, and here is my recommendations:


Also, I suggest contacting Titanium backup to provide him useful bug reports so he can update his app for ICS.

Sorry for the diversion, but do you have any plans of implementing Voodoo control plus on the Nexus S, running the rooted, stock ICS kernel ?

 

[bagl0312]

Problem on Galaxy Nexus

I see the same behavior described by brandonyoung on my Galaxy Nexus.

I made some further checks: su is correctly saved to /system/su-backup,
so that part of the app works.

However in the "Status" window it says:

Superuser app installed: OK
Device rooted: NO
Root permissions granted: OK
Filesystem supports root protection: OK
Protected su copy available: NO

apparently the app is also not able to "Restore root" after a OTA

Of course, since the "su" executable is saved in /system/su-backup,
it is possible to restore by hand root with the following commands from a terminal emulator (or adb shell):

/system/su-backup
mount -o remount,rw /system
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
cp /system/su-backup /system/bin/su
chmod 06755 /system/bin/su

I was not able to find what is causing the app to fail the checks about "Device rooted" and "Protected su copy available"

Thanks

I am running the Galaxy Nexus with stock rooted ICS 4.0.2. It looks like this doesn't work for ICS.

It installs on my phone, and it asks for Superuser permissions, but it doesn't look like it detects root properly in the new OS or actually does anything. My device is rooted, Titanium backup works and other apps that require root also work, but there is no check mark next to "Device rooted". Root permissions are granted and file system supports root protection both have check marks. I click on "Protect root" and it says "root su protected" but the checkboxes don't change.

It worked great on my rooted Vibrant that is still running froyo, and my Galaxy Tab running Honeycomb, though.

 

[supercurio]

Hi bagl0312, thanks for the feedback.

su and Superuser seems to be not fully reliable yet on ICS and I get reports from issues even with latest versions of the binary and app.

I guess authors need a bit more time


Note: if you still have a copy of the logcat at this time it will show where's the issue.
Also I wrote Voodoo Report to help with debugging.

 

[bagl0312]

I looked at my logcat, below are the relevant lines (I guess).

I see that the check about su fails:

[ 12-20 06:24:10.973  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
/system/xbin/su is not set-user-ID

even if the permissions are ok, as far as I can see:

shell@android:/ # ls -l /system/xbin/su                                        
-rwsr-sr-x root     root        22364 2011-12-20 06:36 su

I attach also a more complete logcat where I did several operations with the app

[ 12-20 06:23:54.340   476:0x1dc I/System.out ]
UPDATECOUNTERS REQUEST: org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper = 0

[ 12-20 06:23:54.340   476:0x1dc I/System.out ]
UPDATINGCOUNTERS: org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper = 0

[ 12-20 06:23:54.340   199:0xd2 I/ActivityManager ]
START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10000000 pkg=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper cmp=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/.MainActivity} from pid 476

[ 12-20 06:23:54.488   199:0xd2 D/dalvikvm ]
GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 1261K, 11% free 26190K/29127K, paused 89ms

[ 12-20 06:23:54.488   199:0xe2 I/WindowManager ]
createSurface Window{4206ba90 Starting org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING

[ 12-20 06:23:54.519  9873:0x2691 I/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper MainActivity ]
Starting app

[ 12-20 06:23:54.543  9873:0x2691 I/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Device ]
/system mount point: /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0

[ 12-20 06:23:54.543  9873:0x2691 I/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Device ]
/system filesystem support extended attributes

[ 12-20 06:23:54.551  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
/system/xbin/su is not set-user-ID

[ 12-20 06:23:54.551  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Device ]
Superuser.apk installed

[ 12-20 06:23:54.566  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Device ]
attributes: 

[ 12-20 06:23:54.598  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
Run script content (with shell: su):
#!/system/bin/sh
echo SuPermsOkay

[ 12-20 06:23:54.598   476:0x1dc D/OpenGLRenderer ]
Flushing caches (mode 1)

[ 12-20 06:23:54.598   199:0x188 W/InputManagerService ]
Starting input on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@41bf44c0 (uid=10218 pid=476)

[ 12-20 06:23:54.637   476:0x1dc D/OpenGLRenderer ]
Flushing caches (mode 0)

[ 12-20 06:23:54.652  9963:0x26eb E/su       ]
sudb - Opening database

[ 12-20 06:23:54.652  9963:0x26eb E/su       ]
sudb - Database opened

[ 12-20 06:23:54.652  9963:0x26eb E/su       ]
sudb - Database closed

[ 12-20 06:23:54.652  9963:0x26eb D/su       ]
10220 org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper executing 0 /data/data/org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/files/commands.sh using shell /system/bin/sh : sh

[ 12-20 06:23:54.668  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
Superuser command auth confirmed

[ 12-20 06:23:54.699   199:0x1c37 I/WindowManager ]
createSurface Window{420ee6a0 Toast paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING

[ 12-20 06:23:54.715  9873:0x2692 D/dalvikvm ]
GC_CONCURRENT freed 374K, 4% free 14588K/15047K, paused 2ms+3ms

[ 12-20 06:23:54.730  9893:0x26a7 D/dalvikvm ]
GC_CONCURRENT freed 304K, 3% free 14220K/14599K, paused 2ms+2ms

[ 12-20 06:23:54.746   199:0x2200 I/WindowManager ]
createSurface Window{42091d98 org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper.MainActivity paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING

[ 12-20 06:23:54.894   199:0xd2 W/InputManagerService ]
Starting input on non-focused client com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@41bf44c0 (uid=10218 pid=476)

[ 12-20 06:23:55.105   199:0xe2 I/ActivityManager ]
Displayed org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/.MainActivity: +599ms

[ 12-20 06:23:59.535  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper MainActivity ]
Button pressed tag: protect

[ 12-20 06:23:59.535  9873:0x2691 I/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper ProtectedSuOperation ]
Backup to protected su

[ 12-20 06:23:59.566  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
/system/bin/su is not set-user-ID

[ 12-20 06:23:59.566  9873:0x2691 D/Voodoo OTA RootKeeper Utils ]
Run script content (with shell: su):
mount -o remount,rw /system /system
/data/data/org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/files/chattr -i /system/su-backup
cat /system/xbin/su > /system/su-backup
chmod 06755 /system/su-backup
/data/data/org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/files/chattr +i /system/su-backup
mount -o remount,ro /system /system


[ 12-20 06:23:59.660  9969:0x26f1 E/su       ]
sudb - Opening database

[ 12-20 06:23:59.660  9969:0x26f1 E/su       ]
sudb - Database opened

[ 12-20 06:23:59.668  9969:0x26f1 E/su       ]
sudb - Database closed

[ 12-20 06:23:59.668  9969:0x26f1 D/su       ]
10220 org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper executing 0 /data/data/org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper/files/commands.sh using shell /system/bin/sh : sh

[ 12-20 06:23:59.699   199:0x1e7 I/WindowManager ]
createSurface Window{421dabb0 Toast paused=false}: DRAW NOW PENDING

[ 12-20 06:24:00.113  3092:0xc16 D/dalvikvm ]
GC_CONCURRENT freed 672K, 6% free 14581K/15495K, paused 4ms+3ms

Hi bagl0312, thanks for the feedback.

su and Superuser seems to be not fully reliable yet on ICS and I get reports from issues even with latest versions of the binary and app.

I guess authors need a bit more time


Note: if you still have a copy of the logcat at this time it will show where's the issue.

 

[gls9]

I try to understand how this app is working.

A backup is made in /system/su-backup.
When an OTA is applied then all rights in /system/* are changed (for original su and backuped su), so root is gone.

How it is possible to restore su and set rights if root is gone ?
Do you not need root to restore ?

 

[supercurio]

I try to understand how this app is working.

A backup is made in /system/su-backup.
When an OTA is applied then all rights in /system/* are changed (for original su and backuped su), so root is gone.

How it is possible to restore su and set rights if root is gone ?
Do you not need root to restore ?

Hi gls9

See source code here

 

[gls9]

Hi gls9

See source code here

I already found the source code and understand how the backup is working.

But I cannot understand how the restore can work if you are not root anymore (caused by the OTA)

Hope you can explain this.

 

[supercurio]

I already found the source code and understand how the backup is working.

But I cannot understand how the restore can work if you are not root anymore (caused by the OTA)

Hope you can explain this.

Oh sorry it seemed obvious to me.
I call /system/su-backup directly instead of "su" in PATH.

 

[gls9]

Oh sorry it seemed obvious to me.
I call /system/su-backup directly instead of "su" in PATH.

But OTA update reset (mostly) file rights in /system recursive. So then suid bit is also lost in the su-backup and calling the system/su-backup don't give root anymore.

I think I made somewhere a mistake in my understanding but cannot find where it is

Try to learn everyday