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.

 

[crazyg0od33]

twrp works, but SU binary still wont flash :/

edit - the combination of this APK and TWRP gave me all I need for root + rebooting and keeping root

 

[Ink Rampant Wolf]

Yeah, I was about to say that. The TWRP recovery works like a charm, but Supersu binary won't install. But well, the KingRoot app is pretty good.

 

[Steel01]

I can confirm some problem with supersu and update 103. I flashed 2.46 and my portable wouldn't boot. Like, something broke so bad I had to reflash 101 and update again. The later might indicate backups are broke in my twrp, I'll have to look into that. For now, I'm going try kingroot as suggested here and continue other development.

 

[darkuni]

I can confirm some problem with supersu and update 103. I flashed 2.46 and my portable wouldn't boot. Like, something broke so bad I had to reflash 101 and update again. The later might indicate backups are broke in my twrp, I'll have to look into that. For now, I'm going try kingroot as suggested here and continue other development.

So you were successful in getting TWRP installed, SuperSU installed and removing KingRoot clean - leaving only SuperSU on the system, surviving a reboot?

 

[JCESAR2]

Yeah, I was about to say that. The TWRP recovery works like a charm, but Supersu binary won't install. But well, the KingRoot app is pretty good.

hey wolf, what is the easiest way to flash twrp with the 103 upgrade? thanks

 

[341464]

You might wanna include the instructions as shown here,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...how-to-root-lollipop-xperia-tablet-z-t3115107

It basically tells you how to install SuperSU and remove the entire KingRoot library after that. It worked on my Z and on my SHIELD as well.

 

[darkuni]

This was essentially what I did:

http://greenrobotgamer.com/shieldzone/root-shield-portable-lollipop-5-1/

 

[341464]

Mine seems to be working just fine, after obtaining root and installing SuperSU. I didn't bother with installing TWRP, I just hotboot the recovery. I'm rebooting my SHIELD as we speak, see if there's any issue

EDIT: Scractch that, it's not booting. How do I flash the latest image back in?

 

[Ink Rampant Wolf]

hey wolf, what is the easiest way to flash twrp with the 103 upgrade? thanks

Boot the SHIELD in fastboot and connect it to your pc, then open a command window in a folder with the adb files and the recovery image and type: fastboot flash recovery -the name of the recover-.img, and it will flash the recovery. You can do that with the stock too.

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[JCESAR2]

Boot the SHIELD in fastboot and connect it to your pc, then open a command window in a folder with the adb files and the recovery image and type: fastboot flash recovery -the name of the recover-.img, and it will flash the recovery. You can do that with the stock too.

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thanks for the reply, also, when i boot the shield into fastboot it says in the first line : boot loader version ..../ device locked, does that matter? i rooted the shield already with kingroot.

 

[341464]

thanks for the reply, also, when i boot the shield into fastboot it says in the first line : boot loader version ..../ device locked, does that matter? i rooted the shield already with kingroot.

You need to unlock your bootloader first.

 

[JCESAR2]

ok long story short: since i had the shield drivers installed and tha adb drivers installed i did the oem unlock and after a confirmation screen on the shield i did it, then i immediately flashed the twrp image from the same command line. now the shield is stuck in nvidia android boot logo. any suggestions? thanks

 

[341464]

I am in fact stuck in the boot as well. Anyone's got stock image we can flash?

 

[JCESAR2]

nevermind, after like 10 minutes the thing just booted fine, these are the perks of being a newb.

 

[Ink Rampant Wolf]

I am in fact stuck in the boot as well. Anyone's got stock image we can flash?

nevermind, after like 10 minutes the thing just booted fine, these are the perks of being a newb.

Search for the SHIELD RAM Tool, it have everything that you all need to flash recovery or old firmware to unbrick the device. It also comes with the necessary files and drivers to work ADB Fastboot.

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[341464]

Search for the SHIELD RAM Tool, it have everything that you all need to flash recovery or old firmware to unbrick the device. It also comes with the necessary files and drivers to work ADB Fastboot.

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Guess I'll have to flash the old firmware then, it's been sitting there forever.

 

[JCESAR2]

I am in fact stuck in the boot as well. Anyone's got stock image we can flash?

try this shield thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388870

 

[341464]

try this shield thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388870

I just re-flashed the system using RAM, should be fine now. I'll just have wait for the OTA all over again. UGH.
I wish someone could provide a KitKat version tho.

EDIT: Annnd battery's at 15% so the system won't let me OTA yet.

 

[Steel01]

SuperSU will work fine with my latest TWRP builds posted here. The older 2.8.5.0 builds will not work, neither will any build in the linked thread before yesterday. I used SuperSU 2.49 Beta and it worked as expected.

Side Note: The older builds will have the problem where boot will just hang. That seems to be because the older builds didn't have selinux policies built in, so some things never get set up right and the boot panics.