ROOT for R5A [really works]

[Cat McGowan]

yeah...i worked on this after my phone was rooted and i changes some permissions by hand etc...the busybox binary was chmodded to late...but i cannot see much on the small screenshot, tell me if there are other problems, attached v3

I would like to suggest that you edit your OP and put links to your files like root-r5a-v3.zip there and update the links when you create new versions.

 

[plerzelwupp]

I tried to make a *,bat file.
It runs so far until to the cd-command in the adb shell.

I thaught about something like this:
adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp"

 

[pa.pn2]

wow thx for that.got root now
one more question now
if i use the aio tool to create custom rom su file isnt found
any idea?
how can i update to 6b for example now?

 

[smokey_joe]

I would like to suggest that you edit your OP and put links to your files like root-r5a-v3.zip there and update the links when you create new versions.

Thanks for the suggestion, i've done it.

I tried to make a *,bat file.
It runs so far until to the cd-command in the adb shell.

I thaught about something like this:
adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp"

i've uploaded a new version v4 (which contains a new script doit.sh) which you can execute on the host pc, so the rest is done automatically, perhaps you can look at that and create a pendand batch file.....
it also contains a new binary run_root_sh_script, because it was not possible to automate the whole thing before, because the script automatically stopped when the run_root_shell binary was executed.

 

[smokey_joe]

wow thx for that.got root now
one more question now
if i use the aio tool to create custom rom su file isnt found
any idea?
how can i update to 6b for example now?

hmmm i think you have to explain that to the AiO People, as far as i know there the device is rooted and the su binary should be found...it's in /system/xbin/su...thats where it is by default on android, as far as i know...and since you say you have root, i think it works with the other stuff

 

[pa.pn2]

hmmm i think you have to explain that to the AiO People, as far as i know there the device is rooted and the su binary should be found...it's in /system/xbin/su...thats where it is by default on android, as far as i know...and since you say you have root, i think it works with the other stuff

thats odd.i tried to make a custom firmware with that tool but got this error message.lol
has anyone in this thread used the AiO successfull after rooting with this method?

 

[boxkillor]

after using the root.sh from v3, which puts me out this in the CMD: "Attempt perf_swevent exploit... writing address is 8e09"
i finally get a "#"
But now, continuing the procedure list on page 1 , im stuck "at point 7":
# / Data / local / tmp / busybox mount-o rw, remount / system
even though i know, there are mistakes in the syntax. So i corrected it to this:
"# /data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o rw, remount /system"
and all i get is: "mount: cannot read etc/fstab: No such file or directory.

yes, sadly im a windows user ..... any advice? would be great, thanks in advance.
greets

 

[smokey_joe]

after using the root.sh from v3, which puts me out this in the CMD: "Attempt perf_swevent exploit... writing address is 8e09"
i finally get a "#"
But now, continuing the procedure list on page 1 , im stuck "at point 7":
# / Data / local / tmp / busybox mount-o rw, remount / system
even though i know, there are mistakes in the syntax. So i corrected it to this:
"# /data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o rw, remount /system"
and all i get is: "mount: cannot read etc/fstab: No such file or directory.

you can just execute ./root.sh like it's described in the README file, which is accesible for all users on all systems this should copy all the stuff to the system and do a reboot for you....the error in your syntax is btw, that theres a whitepspace after the , before remount, the line should be

/data/local/tmp/busybox mount -o rw,remount /system

 

[smokey_joe]

thats odd.i tried to make a custom firmware with that tool but got this error message.lol
has anyone in this thread used the AiO successfull after rooting with this method?

as far as i know the device has two system partitions, one thats booted normally and a backup partition that is booted when the first does not boot. Perhaps AiO checks both partitions for the root stuff.
I'm gonna have a look at it when i find the time.
Perhaps you can fix your error with re-rooting it with AiO once (if thats possible) i think their root method will root booth partitions, if there is a check for it in there.

 

[boxkillor]

wow, thanks bro` it worked, but now i get:
"mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system falied: Invalid argument"

but wait, i followed your readme, and executed root.sh. But my tab didnt restart, it just gave me this
"Attempt perf_swevent exploit... writing address is 8e09"

and my "$" turned to "#" (which i can only guess - that it means i have root rights)

thank you

EDIT:

Wow lol .... im so bad in this: okay now i just typed in "./root.sh"

and bam it asked me to reboot. Guess it worked thanks mate

 

[smokey_joe]

but wait, i followed your readme, and executed root.sh. But my tab didnt restart, it just gave me this
"Attempt perf_swevent exploit... writing address is 8e09"

i think you might have wrong package...try (re)download root v3...?
that shouldn't happen, the output you post is from the run_root_shell command which is not called by this script...

 

[boxkillor]

it works, i edited my post.
all i needed was to type in "./root.sh"
after it told me the exploit-thingy.

Then it friendly asked me to root my by sony abadoned tab. -> Nice shiny SU logo on my first screen. Root explorer works

Thank you for your help

 

[rickglyn]

Wow!! Got it. Thanks so much for this. I used version 3 zip and just followed the readme. The hardest part was getting the adb connection working and reminding myself of the adb commands. Just checked using Root Explorer and was able to set /system to rw! Thanks again. Now what to do next...

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[KnightOdin]

Wow!! Got it. Thanks so much for this. I used version 3 zip and just followed the readme. The hardest part was getting the adb connection working and reminding myself of the adb commands. Just checked using Root Explorer and was able to set /system to rw! Thanks again. Now what to do next...

Sent from my Sony Tablet S using xda premium

Can yo explain with details the "hardest part" please?

Thanks

 

[DudemeisterAT]

Wasn't ICS R5A the release where sony disabled adb shell? Trying to imagine how that works (have R5A with replaced hidden.img here)

 

[smokey_joe]

Wasn't ICS R5A the release where sony disabled adb shell? Trying to imagine how that works (have R5A with replaced hidden.img here)

no they never disabled adb..
they just fixed their kernel which made it impossible for the last root-method to exploit the kernel and i think they maybe fixed some bugs with importing settings via adb.
but as far as i know there also where some bootloader changes which made it impossible to flash custom zip files.

 

[DudemeisterAT]

Thank you for the quick reply, seems i got this mixed up. Glad to hear that root is now possibly on R5A, this will be my last resort on my problem with "stuck on every second reboot" (flashing OTA and hoping it fixes it, after it rooting with the new method). But that will only be if everything else fails.

 

[condi]

great news making new one-click AiO now...

 

[tcpma]

Is this method only for user that rooted before R5A and then update to R5A or for everybody (never rooted)?

 

[jumper62]

Is this method only for user that rooted before R5A and then update to R5A or for everybody (never rooted)?

If you are on r5a unrooted, this is for you, no matter if you were or weren't rooted prior to the update

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