New 100% reliable "temp root" for Titanium Backup (won't stop working until reboot!)

[amarkovits]

Doesn't work for me. Exploit failed even though I try multiple times. I have a EU Sensation with 1.35.401.1... is the updated sw the problem?

I think I recall reading in some other thread that the root exploit still should work after the update.

it is working for me even after the update.

 

[PandaKiller]

Thanks so much for the batch files you created! I hope you don't mind but I needed to modify the prepare.bat and root.bat files to get them to work on my Win7 x64 machine with my Evo 3D and I've attached the modified ones that work for me.

I downloaded and tried the batch files from this post and tried them on my Win7 x64 machine and my Evo 3D. I had already installed the Win7 x64 drivers for the phone from here for the x64 drivers (go here for the 32 bit drivers). So I knew my phone would connect.

The problem was, right after the batch file runs ./fre3vo, the phone drops it's USB connection and then about a second later reconnects as evidenced by the Windows standard USB disconnect/reconnect sounds (dee-doh...pause... doh-dee). What was happening is that all lines following ./fre3vo in the batch file would fail because the phone didn't have a chance to reconnect via USB and it was offline at the time. I simply inserted a "hacked" 5 second pause after the fre3vo execution and that fixed it for me.

Hope this helps someone else: I suspect maybe not all Windows installations have the USB disconnect/reconnect so maybe it only affects Win7 x64.

BTW, Barnacle WiFi Tether works with this setup! In settings, the first checkbox for "skip wpa_supplicant" is the only one I have checked. The other three are unchecked. It didn't work the first time until I messed with the settings but now it works every time!

Mike

You deserve a kiss man
Thanks

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

Can someone check whether Droidwall works?

 

[benko286]

Any differences between this and similar thread here ?

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

Any differences between this and similar thread here ?

As that other option notes in its Q&A:

Q. Will I lose SU Access at some point while running the OS?
A. You might, but open terminal & type fixit to get root back!.

The advantage of the method presented in this thread is that root is not lost till reboot. With that other option my "might" happen to lose it sometime before reboot.

 

[gbzbar]

As that other option notes in its Q&A:


The advantage of the method presented in this thread is that root is not lost till reboot. With that other option my "might" happen to lose it sometime before reboot.

However, in the OP of this thread, it states:

Drawbacks:
Minimalistic approach with no BusyBox.
Will only work with select root apps.

Tested with Titanium Backup only (for now).

Eugene's method should work for all root apps, and includes busybox for the apps that require it.
And honestly, the "fixit" script is only a fallback in case something weird happens and root is lost, but after running the root for hours and hours, I've not lost it yet.
But whatever method works best for you is the one you should use.

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

However, in the OP of this thread, it states:



Eugene's method should work for all root apps, and includes busybox for the apps that require it.
And honestly, the "fixit" script is only a fallback in case something weird happens and root is lost, but after running the root for hours and hours, I've not lost it yet.
But whatever method works best for you is the one you should use.

And there are other differences as well. I think someone wanting to choose needs to read for themselves instead of simply relying on our citations. But I only pointed out the one difference since the OP felt compelled to mention it in the subject. Some more root apps than just Titanium Backup have been found to work, so I felt no need to mention that. (They're also mentioned in the initial post further down.) I'm certainly not making any effort to mention all the differences and of course you're not either. I'll let them read some more of the first post in each thread, because there's plenty for them there .

 

[smakked]

Ok installed this all went ok but cant get titanium backup to work asks doe root privleges and tells me i dont have them?

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

Ok installed this all went ok but cant get titanium backup to work asks doe root privleges and tells me i dont have them?

Did you install the SuperUser app?

 

[deeoh1084]

did anyone get drocap2 to work with this root method?? because it keep saying failed to execute drocap2

 

[joel.bourquard]

did anyone get drocap2 to work with this root method?? because it keep saying failed to execute drocap2

Yes it does work, but you need to put "su" and "busybox" in the PATH. If you already have /data/bin/su, you can do this:

mount -o remount,rw rootfs /
mkdir /vendor/bin
ln -s /data/bin/su /vendor/bin/su
mount -o remount,ro rootfs /

You'll probably need to copy a version of busybox to /vendor/bin/ too. In case you have Titanium Backup you can simply use its Busybox for Drocap2:

mount -o remount,rw rootfs /
ln -s /data/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/files/busybox /vendor/bin/busybox
mount -o remount,ro rootfs /

 

[dladz]

I've now got s-off, if i run this will it be permanently rooted?

Sorry if this is a little obvious, i just want to do this all by the numbers.

Thanks

 

[joel.bourquard]

I've now got s-off, if i run this will it be permanently rooted?

Sorry if this is a little obvious, i just want to do this all by the numbers.

Thanks

Now that we have S-Off, this is pretty much obsolete. This disappears after a reboot anyway.