Square Enix Chaos Rings (Force Close Root Workaround)

[rmikulus]

Hey, just in case anyone else shelled out the money for SE's new Android release, Chaos Rings and couldn't play due to being rooted...


All you need to do to be able to play is rename your SuperSU.apk/superuser.apk in the /system/app folder (I just added, ".bak" to the filename) and the force close will end. Of course, you will probably want to rename the apk back to normal once finished

EDIT:

Cooldoud has a script on post #5 which, with Script Manager, should offer a widgetable solution to quickly renaming the superuser/supersu apk

 

[garwynn]

Hey, just in case anyone else shelled out the money for SE's new Android release, Chaos Rings and couldn't play due to being rooted...


All you need to do to be able to play is rename your SuperSU.apk/superuser.apk in the /system/app folder (I just added, ".bak" to the filename) and the force close will end. Of course, you will probably want to rename the apk back to normal once finished

Sounds like a job for a bash script and Anycut. Would hate to have to do that manually all of the time...

 

[rmikulus]

Sounds like a job for a bash script and Anycut. Would hate to have to do that manually all of the time...

OOH how difficult is it to do? Would be nice to automate

 

[garwynn]

OOH how difficult is it to do? Would be nice to automate

Renaming is easy - busybox mv <source> <dest>
It's calling the app that I'm not certain about.

 

[cooldoud]

Yep found that out too... Really can't figure out why they went through the hassle of implementing such a lame system... Anyway, I wrote the below script for my gnote, it will toggle supersu so you can use the same widget to enable and disable supers.

After that install script manager, and set the script to be executed as root. You can then just create a widget to easily access the script

mount -o remount,rw /system

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Failed to remount /system as rw"
    exit
fi

if [ -f "/system/app/Superuser.apk" ]; then
    echo "Disabling Superuser App..."
    mv /system/app/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.bak
    mount -o remount,ro /system
    echo "All Done"
else
    echo "Enabling Superuser App..."
    mv /system/app/Superuser.bak /system/app/Superuser.apk
    mount -o remount,ro /system
    echo "All Done"
fi

 

[Metalshadowx2]

I tried making it into a .sh and running it on script manager but it didnt work. kept saying line errors.

 

[cooldoud]

I tried making it into a .sh and running it on script manager but it didnt work. kept saying line errors.

You must make sure you convert your newline characters to Unix format. Wondows-style newline will cause the error you're getting (well if we're talking about the same error )

You can use notepad++ or Google dos2unix for a command line tool.

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[Mattix724]

Shouldn't this be in the apps section?

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[cooldoud]

Probably yes, might also want to take it out of the Epic 4G section and move it to general Android as this is going to affect all devices

 

[Mattix724]

That's what I was just thinking...

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[rmikulus]

Yep found that out too... Really can't figure out why they went through the hassle of implementing such a lame system... Anyway, I wrote the below script for my gnote, it will toggle supersu so you can use the same widget to enable and disable supers.

After that install script manager, and set the script to be executed as root. You can then just create a widget to easily access the script

mount -o remount,rw /system

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Failed to remount /system as rw"
    exit
fi

if [ -f "/system/app/Superuser.apk" ]; then
    echo "Disabling Superuser App..."
    mv /system/app/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.bak
    mount -o remount,ro /system
    echo "All Done"
else
    echo "Enabling Superuser App..."
    mv /system/app/Superuser.bak /system/app/Superuser.apk
    mount -o remount,ro /system
    echo "All Done"
fi

Anyway, big ups to cooldaud, your script works great for me! Had to change "Superuser" to "SuperSU" but everything is great! SMWidget ftw as well

 

[EeyoreSyndrome]

Well so ironic SE would punish rooted android users and not GAF on ffxi hackers still -.- Meh I only speed hack moderately anyway...have you tried traveling otherwise? Soooo slow >.<

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[Tony84]

Hi, tried this script on galaxy note 10.1, all went well and tablet acts like non rooted, but still supersu app in the app drawer and the game crashes as usually

 

[Metalshadowx2]

You must make sure you convert your newline characters to Unix format. Wondows-style newline will cause the error you're getting (well if we're talking about the same error )

You can use notepad++ or Google dos2unix for a command line tool.

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ok i did and now i get this error

 

[cooldoud]

Looks like you're not using the busybox binaries. Maybe try replacing "mount" by "busybox mount"? Problem is I don't know what shell you'd be using so that might still not be working. Are you using the international Note? What ROM?

Also double check whether you're using SuperSU.apk or Superuser.apk as your root configuration tool.

 

[niko_droid]

I have no idea how all these scripts work, so I just tried to change the name of my superuser.apk, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. My phone insists that I have insufficient privileges to rename it...

 

[KMyers]

It seems that they finally added "*This game cannot be played on rooted devices." to the app description, it was not there yesterday

 

[niko_droid]

Well, I went and researched scripts. Got this script to work. (Had to add "busybox" before "mount")
Checked that the app does get renamed to .bak, and yet I still get a force close when i press start. I guess I'll just have wait for SE's patch.

 

[cooldoud]

It's important to check that the application is not appearing in your app drawer anymore (if your launcher can detect the app, so can SE... ) . Go there and check, if the app is still appearing it means it is still accessible (not sure whether you then need a reboot for it to disappear or something?), if it's not there... it means SE is also checking some other stuff to determine whether you're rooted, but I have no idea what that would be.

 

[niko_droid]

Ah yes, that's it. It still shows in my app drawer. Reboot didn't help. Trying searching the issue, came up with nothing. I guess I'm not meant to play this game just yet lol. Thank for trying to help!