Nvidia SHIELD Portable Root

[Ink Rampant Wolf]

Hi everyone!
This morning I woke up to find my SHIELD with the so waited notification of Lollipop update. I'm really happy to finally have lollipop running on my device, but sadly I found a problem after the update. I was trying to re-root my device, but neither the SHIELD RAM tool or Root Genius could do the trick. But I didn't gave up, I searched in Google any way to root my SHIELD with the still fresh update, and found that the Kinguser app can root it without trouble.

You just need to download the apk, install it on your SHIELD and open it.

Btw, the old recovery isn't working anymore, you can flash it with the RAM tool, but the device will reflash the stock recovery.

 

[kenmacker]

Downloaded and it's says shield portable android 5.1 not supported...

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[Ink Rampant Wolf]

Downloaded and it's says shield portable android 5.1 not supported...

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You need to turn on USB Debugging, and then run the app.

 

[kenmacker]

USB debugging is now turned on but it says root access is unavailable

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[hakami55]

work great

thanks

 

[astuermer]

Old recovery is working for me - it's CWM 6.0.4.4.
I had to flash it twice, first time it was reflashed to stock.

PS: TWRP 2.8.5.0 (unofficial) is working too.

 

[Ink Rampant Wolf]

USB debugging is now turned on but it says root access is unavailable

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Look if you have your SHILD's bootloader unlocked, that may be causing the problem.

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[Neoistheone2000]

I wanted a full restore/clean version of the ROM without waiting for the factory image to be updated.
I flashed the 101 Factory Image from here. I notice that 103 is there now so just skip this step and flash that now.
I noticed that after flashing the latest SuperSU the device would never boot.
So I had to use KingRoot but for me the apk method never worked so I went with the desktop version.
To get Root I went to KingRoot's XDA page and downloaded the Desktop version.
When running the program it is all in Chinese but is thankfully idiot proof with its one big button on it. Just make sure that USB Debugging is turned on and wait for it to finish, it will reboot during the process.

KingRoot installs its own version of a Super User advisor so it will prompt when something needs root access and for most people that would be enough but I prefer SuperSU, Thankfully KingRoot has a set of instructions, follow these to the letter and it will guide you through removing KingRoot and installing SuperSU. During that process you will get a lot of errors saying that files are no longer there, just ignore them, that means the initial uninstall got the files.

Once I was able to ensure that SuperSU and Root where staying after a reboot I re-installed TWRP (for some reason I couldn't get CWM to stick after a reboot but oh well I like TWRP more >_>) and made a backup of my stock rooted device.

I then went to this page and grabbed the Unofficial Xposed 5.1 .zip and went to this page and grabbed the Xposed Installer.
Rebooted and waited for the App Cache to re-build as the Xposed framework nukes it then installed my mods as normal.

Took a little bit longer than normal to update but oh well, Everything is working smoothly and I'm happy with it.

 

[astuermer]

Rooted my Shield two times wth CWM without problems.

 

[neo4uo]

Old recovery is working for me - it's CWM 6.0.4.4.
I had to flash it twice, first time it was reflashed to stock.

PS: TWRP 2.8.5.0 (unofficial) is working too.

Which cmw did you use and where did you get it? I tried using flashify with twrp and it says boot failed when booting into recover.

Rooted my Shield two times wth CWM without problems.

 

[astuermer]

Give me a few mins. I will upload my Recovery package...

Here we go. I've flashed and rooted my SHIELD successfully after OTA upgrade - and today again after flashing the clean 103 factory Image.
SHIELD-Portable-Recoveries.zip

Update: I've attached a ZIP file with 4 different recoveries. Simply execute the Batch file I've included (if you're on Windows) and select 1-4.

• stock KitKat recovery (from update 101)
• stock Lollipop recovery (from update 103)
• ClockworkMod recovery (CWM) 6.0.4.4 (somewhere from XDA, but couldn't find the link)
• TWRP recovery 2.8.5.0 (from here)

 

[Neoistheone2000]

From @Steel01 The TWRP located here may give people problems and we should be using the one in the MultiROM TWRP located here.

Source here.

EDIT: I will test tonight and see what happens when you image with the factory image and just install MultiROM's TWRP and then try SuperSU's latest BETA.
I was trying to use the other TWRP before and could never boot which is why I did the KingRoot method.

 

[The1stMaster]

If you wanted to change Kinguser to SuperSU all you have to do is download any "Control Rotation App" and set it as Portrait Mode (if it didn't work make sure that the Nvidia Shield Portable is in a sitting position and flip it , It should work , If not try installing other apps), Install "Super-Sume" , Then touch the big blue button , After that wait until the process is done , You should see SuperSU, In the other hand Kinguser has already vanished (I'm not sure if SuperSU will open automatically or not), Install the binary, Reboot, Done.
Have a nice day