[Root][4.4.2 ND7]GhettoRoot (Towelroot port) v0.3.2

[makbomb]

Thank you so much for your hard work.
Will I have to install supersu myself after running the zip?
Also, is this considered a temporary root?
Again, many thanks.

 

[TCPDump]

Thank you so much for your hard work.
Will I have to install supersu myself after running the zip?
Also, is this considered a temporary root?
Again, many thanks.

No, this will install SuperSU as part of the root. The root is not temporary. It will persist through reboot, etc. When an OTA comes out it may or may not lose root. Traditionally speaking, it probably will.

 

[lifeofanomad]

I'm in the same boat with locolbd. Tried everything and no go.... Thanks for any help!

 

[shatteringlass]

Thank you so much! This helped rooting my international Note II (GT-N7100) while keeping KNOX 0x0!

 

[makbomb]

No, this will install SuperSU as part of the root. The root is not temporary. It will persist through reboot, etc. When an OTA comes out it may or may not lose root. Traditionally speaking, it probably will.

I'm on a PC without admin privileges. The PC sees the phone as a mtp device but when running ghetto root, I get "device not found". Please help if possible?
I have a Mac at home

 

[TCPDump]

I'm on a PC without admin privileges. The PC sees the phone as a mtp device but when running ghetto root, I get "device not found". Please help if possible?
I have a Mac at home

You will have to have the device drivers for your phone, or at minimum the ADB Universal Drivers by Koush. Also, make sure that you hit the "MTP" notification and select "Internet Connection > Modem", or almost anything but MTP.

 

[25yvdgpo06]

You will have to have the device drivers for your phone, or at minimum the ADB Universal Drivers by Koush. Also, make sure that you hit the "MTP" notification and select "Internet Connection > Modem", or almost anything but MTP.

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NetworkingPro, do you know if it is OK (and legal, etc.) if we were to bundle those drivers? Would we just have to ask Koush and, if it were OK with them, provide a link/credits entry? If you think this could happen and wouldn't mind helping set that into motion I would :victory:

 

[TCPDump]

NetworkingPro, do you know if it is OK (and legal, etc.) if we were to bundle those drivers? Would we just have to ask Koush and, if it were OK with them, provide a link/credits entry? If you think this could happen and wouldn't mind helping set that into motion I would :victory:

I don't think he cares, but I will ask.

 

[geneb]

You will have to have the device drivers for your phone, or at minimum the ADB Universal Drivers by Koush. Also, make sure that you hit the "MTP" notification and select "Internet Connection > Modem", or almost anything but MTP.

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I only have two options when I connect to my pc, MTP and PTP. How do I get the other two?

 

[mendez91]

After following the steps in the READ ME file. I was able to successfully root the phone!

THANKS 25yvdgpo06 and NetworkingPro

I had major issues when I downgraded to 4.3 but now being able to have root on 4.4.2 is EPIC.

Word of advice to those who might get an error that the "files" folder is not found.
Just make sure NOT to right click and run as Administrator the "INSTALL.cmd"
If you run it as admin, you will get that error.

That got fixed by just double clicking on the INSTALL.cmd without doing anything else.

 

[Droc1983]

Anybody having any luck with safestrap?

 

[mia2973]

thank you so much 25yvdgpo06 !!! i thought i was a goner without root on KK. i would get stuck when it would say communicated with device, and i almost cried because how close root was, but when i moved adb items from tools folder to were the INSTALL.cmd and worked like a charm!! many thanks again.

 

[25yvdgpo06]

thank you so much 25yvdgpo06 !!! i thought i was a goner without root on KK. i would get stuck when it would say communicated with device, and i almost cried because how close root was, but when i moved adb items from tools folder to were the INSTALL.cmd and worked like a charm!! many thanks again.

Aha, mia... Interesting information. I have the script set ADB to the path (temporarily), but maybe it doesn't work with spaces? I'm going to take a look.

 

[mia2973]

Aha, mia... Interesting information. I have the script set ADB to the path (temporarily), but maybe it doesn't work with spaces? I'm going to take a look.

yea i would try to just click install.cmd and it would stop at "Can a device be found?" and just stays there. if i try to run as admin, it would show that "Can we communicate with device?: NO!" and would do that over and over. i tried with my adb folder and checked and did adb install an apk and worked so just moved adb files to the root of folder and worked.

 

[25yvdgpo06]

yea i would try to just click install.cmd and it would stop at "Can a device be found?" and just stays there. if i try to run as admin, it would show that "Can we communicate with device?: NO!" and would do that over and over. i tried with my adb folder and checked and did adb install an apk and worked so just moved adb files to the root of folder and worked.

Ah, thank you for reporting this. I was able to verify this problem and have fixed it for the next upload (soon).

No need to run any of this as an admin from my experience, except driver installation, but I added a workaround for the admin issue. As for the admin problem, it might be a "bug" with the way Windows launches batch files as Administrator... one which I've grown accustomed to. It does not maintain the working directory (changes it to %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 if I recall correctly) which breaks most batch scripts that expect to be executing in their own directory. It looks like they work OK out of the box in 8.1 if they have the .cmd extension, but I may have fixed it myself already and forgot.

Way off-topic, but if you want to actually fix that Windows problem so other scripts will also work OK running as admin, you can navigate in regedit to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\runas\command (and later cmdfile, too) and change the (Default) value...

from: %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /C "%1" %*
to: %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /s /c pushd "%w" && "%1" %* && popd

 

[mia2973]

Ah, thank you for reporting this. I was able to verify this problem and have fixed it for the next upload (soon).

No need to run any of this as an admin from my experience, except driver installation, but I added a workaround for the admin issue. As for the admin problem, it might be a "bug" with the way Windows launches batch files as Administrator... one which I've grown accustomed to. It does not maintain the working directory (changes it to %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 if I recall correctly) which breaks most batch scripts that expect to be executing in their own directory. It looks like they work OK out of the box in 8.1 if they have the .cmd extension, but I may have fixed it myself already and forgot.

Way off-topic, but if you want to actually fix that Windows problem so other scripts will also work OK running as admin, you can navigate in regedit to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\runas\command (and later cmdfile, too) and change the (Default) value...

from: %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /C "%1" %*
to: %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /s /c pushd "%w" && "%1" %* && popd

Glad I could help. and thank you for the tip to fix my windows, always had a problem running as admin, never occurred to me that i only needed to change something so simple. definitely going to download next upload and keep in files in case i ever need to factory reset or flash stock again. was so hard not having root for a couple months haha. :good:

 

[locolbd]

Thanks for your help, I have but still no Joy

Could try checking Device Manager and removing your drivers. I'm just now noticing that my Note 2 is detected as an "ACER Device" -- an "ACER Composite ADB Interface"... Since when?! It works, though...off and on.

Try right-clicking, choosing Uninstall, and potentially even check the box to delete the driver, when you find your phone in the list. You may have to reboot. After rebooting, download and install drivers again.

It may also be worth trying a different USB cable. I didn't realize how much cables matter until recently...

 

[25yvdgpo06]

Thanks for your help, I have but still no Joy

What version of Windows do you have, and is it 32-bit or 64-bit? Try Koush's drivers now linked in the opening post. They work for me...

Is your device even detected in Device Manager at all?

v0.2.2 (just uploaded) has some better troubleshooting steps inside, so you might want to try all that it recommends when you run it.

 

[25yvdgpo06]

Anybody having any luck with safestrap?

No, no luck with Safestrap, here. It might be because we can't even flash Recovery with this new locked bootloader. Wish I knew more about how people find the exploits (and about the exploits that worked previously).

 

[makbomb]

Hi again, so I've got the phone recognized in terminal on my Mac. I also have adb installed, and I pointed Terminal to the adb folder.
I also moved the GhettoRoot folder with the GR .bat file there as well. Can I make this happen? Thanks in advance.