yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] seshmaru:
odd, have you tried doing this from a terminal on phone for a part?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] lordgodgeneral:
No, I've been running this 100% from a command window on the computer, tried 4 times now, and I've gotten to the same point each time, get su then stuck....

Edit:

Tried running gingerbreak via terminal on the tablet, fails copying boomsh permission denied, even with it removed, so looks like a no go
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Lintrix:
Is this Gingerbreak working or is there a problem? It's been way over 10 minutes already. lol..
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dictionary:
Ditto. Your method to get the boomsh error cleared worked great .. but again .. I keep getting stuck at that same point. Not sure what the problem is at this point.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] lordgodgeneral:
Still no luck but one other thing I've noticed is during this process something reformatted my micro SD, wiped it out, had to reformat it in windows to use it again.

To those that got it working did you have a micro SD card inserted while doing this or no?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Lintrix:
lordgodgeneral,

Could you tell me if my screen shot up above is a normal process of Gingerbreak?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dictionary:
Yes .. then at the end you'll get:

[!] dance forever my only one

#

^^^ It's at the point, that we can't type anything else.

Edit: NO!! You shouldn't be getting any faults.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Lintrix:
Thank you. I'm surprised at how long this process is taking since it said to wait 10 minutes. I think I'm up to 30 minutes now, and thats when i became worried!

We'll see if I get stuck as well when I get the #.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] caanda45:
If rooted download titanium back up hit the problems tab and it will download a busy box that is built into the program for you that is stable.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Have root and everything but doesn't seems like I have CWM recovery. Cant boot into it.:mad:

Edit: It's there, kinda tricky to get in to.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] setite:
I'm having the same damn problem. Every way I have tried to get into recovery has failed.

EDIT: I found a way to get into it. Turn it off. Vol Down + Power.. as soon as it turns on hit power up.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] hurrpancakes:
Does anyone know how I would go about rooting 8.2.3.13?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rpavich:
I need help.

I keep getting to the point where I type:

11. run “dd if=/data/local/CWM_BLOB_V4 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4″

And I get the following error"

"cannot open for write: no such file or directory."
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rpavich:
I'm stuck here:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\bob>cd c:\androidsdk

c:\AndroidSDK>cd c: \androidsdk/tools

The system cannot find the path specified.

c:\AndroidSDK>cd c:\androidsdk/tools

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

28841c743ffd1d7 device

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb push gingerbreakBB /data/local

421 KB/s (21588 bytes in 0.050s)

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/gingerbreakBB

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

$ /data/local/gingerbreakBB

/data/local/gingerbreakBB

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak

[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.

[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,

[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like

[**] Exploit may take a while!

[-] Cannot copy boomsh.: Permission denied

$ adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/boomsh

adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/boomsh

error: device not found

$ exit

exit

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/boomsh

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/sh

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

$ /data/local/gingerbreakBB

/data/local/gingerbreakBB

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak

[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.

[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,

[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like

[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Detected honeycomb! Starting honeybomb mode (scale=10).

[+] Found system: 0xaff181a1 strcmp: 0xaff37b85

[+] Found PT_DYNAMIC of size 240 (30 entries)

[+] Found GOT: 0x00017368

[+] Using device /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1

[*] vold: 1080 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000175e8

^C

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

28841c743ffd1d7 device

c:\AndroidSDK\tools>adb shell

$ /data/local/gingerbreakBB

/data/local/gingerbreakBB

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak

[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.

[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,

[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like

[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Detected honeycomb! Starting honeybomb mode (scale=10).

[+] Found system: 0xaff181a1 strcmp: 0xaff37b85

[+] Found PT_DYNAMIC of size 240 (30 entries)

[+] Found GOT: 0x00017368

[+] Using device /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1

[*] vold: 1080 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000175e8

and it's been right there for 15 minutes.

EDITED TO ADD: I just started over and all is well...so I"m continuing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rpavich:
Ok....Everything went fine this time....I'm rooted...CWM recovery-d....and Primed!

thanks for making this possible for noobs like me!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] RiffyDivine:
Glad to see hosting that OFW is helping you guys out, if anyone wants to shoot me the other 2 I will gladly put them up on my box.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mbjr:
Does this method not work on 8.2.3.13 ??? Followed the instructions to the letter, rebooted, tried again and it just sits here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell

$ /data/local/gingerbreakBB

/data/local/gingerbreakBB

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak

[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.

[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,

[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like

[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Detected honeycomb! Starting honeybomb mode (scale=10).

[+] Found PT_DYNAMIC of size 240 (30 entries)

[+] Found GOT: 0x00017368

[+] Using device /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1

[*] vold: 0000 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000175e8

Left it here for 20 mins....Please help, thank you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] tornadog:
I think you are supposed to downgrade to 8.2.3.9 first, and use BLOB ver. 5
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Jocelyn:
No, if you want rooted .13, downgrade to .9, root, then flash Prime v1.3 or v1.3r2
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] isdnmatt:
Thanks. But I was thinking that I could just copy busybox over after temp root to check the md5sum. I just didn't want to push/pull when I could just copy busybox and be able to check md5 on the device. It worked.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
im so nearly there. Got all the way down to where is says to go back to the shell that i was suppose to keep open and id closed it. So started again from the start and when i do number 4 gingerbreakbb fails sayings permission denied. Is this because Im redoing it? any ideas?

I did restart between trys too
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] isdnmatt:
I think your solution is post #376 in this thread.

Here's a quick link.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14117954&postcount=376
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
thanks alot.

Worked through all the steps rebooted but had no status bar and cant get root access??
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
Just did it all again and same thing no errors and did the turn off and on again. Still no status bar or flashing “blob”??

by reboot i guess shut down start up again is ok. and not reboot through adb?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] isdnmatt:
Just to confirm, you were on 8.2.3.9 before you started?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
I was
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
That's what I did, turn off the TF with the power button and turn back on.

try it again, hope it work for you
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mbjr:
So rather than down grade, will the be a root procedure for .13 in the near future?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
I'm sure eventually but not sure how long.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] caanda45:
Okay fellas just picked up my pad today, charging and it looks like out of the box I am on 8.2.3.9. So I will not update finish charging and then root. So if I follow the root instructions in the op I should be okay? These instructions....http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/

In as far as the files go which ones should I use....

[Files]

CWM_BLOB_V4 (md5 = d6939fb6b6cfe06a02106f63c24268d0 )

Download the file pack here

CWM_BLOB_V5 (md5 = 8c9ef19b726e76fd73de4632db7e4288)

Blob only

I think V5, one says file pack here and the other says blob only, what is the difference?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
done it 3 time now still nothing, here we go again
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] caanda45:
Okay another question, I just need to change the version 4 to a 5 and run the commands? Please let me know and thanks!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Download both of them, extract the content of the BLOB_V4 package to your ADB folder

take the BLOB_V5 (blob only) and also put it in the ADB folder (you can delete the BLOB_V4 if you want).

Remember when doing command, anytime you see "BLOB_V4" replace that with "BLOB_V5".

Couple more things to watch out for.

Step 4. run “adb shell” followed by “/data/local/gingerbreakBB” (I made the mistake of running it as one line)

it should be

run “adb shell” (enter)

“/data/local/gingerbreakBB”

also after you pull the CWM Blob in step 8 You DON'T do step 9 in the command window “md5sum cwmblob_retransfer”

what you do is open up your MD5Sum check application and navigate to the ADB folder to check the MD5SUM of the cwmblob_retransfer
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
OK fourth time i have completed the guide with no error messages, turned it off and then on again with it booting up normally. Am i suppose to boot to recovery or something?

Just double check and im definately running .9

Please help
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Did you see a blue progress bar when you turned the TF back on?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] iplayforkeeps:
I apologize for my laziness but I just received my Transformer today and I dont have time to sift through the 41+ pages on how to root my device. I have stock everything and haven't upgraded or even logged on to gmail with my device yet. If someone could inform me on the latest and greatest way to do this please let me know. Thanks very much!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
Yes is that important. Didnt see tge blob lable tho ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] caanda45:
Thanks, I added the files to my tools file in sdk and left out the cwm_4 and put the cwm_5 instead and in running the code I will change the 4 for a 5. Thanks will do this later tonight!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
That blue progress mean it's installing the blob.

On a normal boot up that bar is never there
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
Oh cool thanks I've left it and gone to bed so can I then plug it in again and finish the rest of the guide in the morning or do I start again?

Thanks again
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
I would think you can continue, since you already got CWM and insecure boot, you just need to push the Superuser stuffs.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] californiarailroader:
So what's the word on rooting the newest software update from ASUS? Has there been any progress?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] caanda45:
Cant root because cant install the pc sync from asus. Tried everything and just wont install....driving me crazy. There are issues reported with it...any ideas
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattykellyuk:
Done successfully I can now run su apps but can't get it to go into recovery from rom manager or quick boot. How do I do it manually?

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] oopsallberrys:
turn off your Transformer. Hold down the Volume Down button and turn the Transformer on with the power button. Release Volume Down when the screen turns on. You should see a small line of text in the upper left corner that says to hit Volume Up within 5 seconds to enter RCK (recovery). Hit the Volume Up button and you should be in CWM.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ghurty:
If I were to root my transformer, would that allow to me to connect to a bluetooth modem for internet access?

THanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ari197:
older firmware for US SKU

where can I get the older firmware for US SKU ? I'm waiting for my transformer, I bought them from the US so most likely they will come with the the US SKU right?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] marrob:
have the same problem help me :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] eskimoroll:
Whew! Finally got everything working last night after about 3 hours! Sigh, even though I'm an experienced rooter, this one was a pain. First I had to get ADB and sync setup on my new Mac, then I had to downgrade my version (no biggie), and everything was going smoothly until "dd if=/data/local/CWM_BLOB_V5 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4". For whatever reason, I wasn't getting this exactly right or something and I think it took me about 10 tries to get this to work just right. Oh well. Rooted, rocking the latest Prime, overclocked, etc. now. Happy again. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ¿GotJazz?:
ghurty - You don't need root for that. I haven't rooted my Tx4mer yet, and I can easily tether via Bluetooth.

Do this: Honeycomb Bluetooth Tethering

Notes:

1. You'll need this for your phone: Wireless Tether for Root Users

2. You'll also need this: ROOT. ;)

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Artood2s:
Thanks everyone for posting their issues and especially to those helping troubleshoot. After reading every post on this thread I was able to successfully root my TF on the first shot. My only other experience rooting was on my now-sold Nook Color, which was cake because I only needed to copy a file to the microSD, lol. Thankfully, the experience of loading CM7, etc. carried over to this tablet beautifully :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] cosine83:
So, odd occurrence. I had to run the root method twice because I closed the shell on the first attempt and didn't notice the "open another terminal window". Second time I did it right but it seems my microSD card was wiped somewhere in the process? No big loss because the apps can be gotten back but I've never had that happen before!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] californiarailroader:
I take it there has been no progress?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] insight76:
Wow, I just read 43 pages of posts, and I still feel like I'm going to have problems when I try to do this... Rooting my G-tab was stupid easy! this sounds tricky:( At least it doesn't sound like anyone is bricking their TFs doing this root method!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] oopsallberrys:
The Gingerbreak exploit will wipe anything on the microsd card.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] quailallstar:
Just un-boxed my Transformer & dock :eek: <-- SOLID hardware; I'm impressed!

After the un-boxing I fired it up, connected to WiFi and I was quickly prompted that an update was available for the tablet.

I checked the version and my tablet & it states the following "HRI66.US_epad-8.2.3.9-20110423"

I want to root and need to make sure that I NEED to download and USE "CWM_BLOB_V5" before I proceed and after I've downloaded the update from Asus.

Thanks for the guide devs! ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Crimton:
if you accept the update from asus you are going to have to turn around and downgrade right back to root, kind of pointless to upgrade. if you're rooting don't update
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] quailallstar:
What improvements did Asus make to the updated firmware when compared to my stock one? Thanks for the quick reply and advice.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] scoobychu:
HRI66.WW_epad-8.2.3.13-20110511 = no root
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] quailallstar:
In adb it keeps saying that my device isn't found. Tablet is plugged in, drivers updated, debugging is on and I can even take screenshots via QtADB.

I must be doing something wrong here?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Did you install the Asus sync? You probably get more help in the ADB thread on

questions about ADB

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1071584
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Crimton:
Just some bug fixes and other minor things as far as I know. Once you've rooted you can still update it to the same firmware with a custom rom
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] quailallstar:
Thanks but I ended up figuring it out after I posted. I'm almost done rooting :) (crosses fingers)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Araf:
can this SOP applied to downgrade HRI66.TW_epad-8.2.3.13-20110511 build number?

update: I believe that I need TW version of 8239, can somebody help me to give the link of TW version 8239?

Thanks you in advance..
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ProvocativeSmell:
I've been working on this for 2 days now and can't figure it out.

When I get to step 7 I can't push the file it comes back with this

[!] dance forever my only one

# adb push CWM_BLOB_V5 /data/local

adb push CWM_BLOB_V5 /data/local

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5038 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: device not found

#

I've tried killing and restarting adb which doesn't help as it doesn't see the device but I can run another command prompt and do adb devices and it shows.

I'm running 8.2.3.9-20110423 came out of the box like this.

I installed The sync software and fully updated adb, any ideas?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Did you open up a DIFFERENT terminal window?

"Run steps 7 to 9 in a new terminal window"
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ProvocativeSmell:
Umm, wow, please slap me... lol

I had a issue where it was hanging after step 4 and then completely ignored the fine simple detail of a new window after I figured out what was going on... So I'll try that now that I'm getting that far. Thank you!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] e-motion:
Sorry if this has already been answered but a search didn't return any related results.

I followed the steps from the OP's link to the letter but even though I do have full root and superuser installed, I can't boot into recovery no matter what I try (from cold boot or from using quickboot or adb reboot recovery). What am I supposed to do to get recovery ? I've tried the steps to install the Blob_V5 twice, which seemed to work, but I am still not able to boot into recovery...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Hold volume down and power on, soon as you see the 2 lines wordings at top press volume up (within 5 secs). It' tricky at 1st. I bought paul @modaco app let me boot into recovry
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] e-motion:
Thanks for your help, that did work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] vista1984:
where i can find a downgrade file to 8.2.3.9

well i found one

http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/mirror/15239/ (untested)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] djdevine2:
Gingerbreak seems to have stopped whilst rooting? Can anyone help me? Thanks, it's been stuck here for about 15mins.....
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ari197:
what firmware are you using ?

also, from the several forums I've read, it seems that Gingerbreak has a luck factor .. so just keep trying ..
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mattcoz:
This didn't work for me. I copied the ASUS directory to the root of my SD card, but I never got the update notification. I can't even browse the SD card.

edit: Nevermind, restarted and it worked.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] UKseagull:
Does rooting the Transformer invalidate the warranty as it does with Motorola?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Kasimodo:
Unable to access RCK!!

Hello,

Well I've just received ma Asus EEE Pad Transformer yesterday.

I live in France so it's the European version with 32GB and dock!

I've just upgrade to 3.01 and WW_8.2.6.13.

To root my device I've tried to access RCK mode but can't and don't know why.

I've shutted dow my TFT101, then I've press Power + Vol. Down simutanously.

So there 2 or 3 lines asking me to press Vol. Up for accessing RCK.

So i've pressed it... Afterwards there is the android logo with a progress bar (empty!!) and just afer 4 or 5 seconds, the progress bar disapears and the Android Logo is replaced by another one with "!".

After 1 minutes Asus EEE Pad reboot and start normaly but never in recovery mode.

Have you an idea about this please?

Regards,

Kasi
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] pilotbluemike:
thats because there is no root method for the current firmware yet. You have to downgrade and root an older firmware.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Kasimodo:
Thank you for your reply but are you sure?

So how can i downgrade? Is there a real method or is it better to wait for another rooting guide for this firmware?

Regards,

Kasi
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ls3mach:
What did you do?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ls3mach:
To answer my own question. You download an MD5 checker, and put it in the same folder.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Putzy:
How long should this hang?

[!] dance forever my only one

# dd if=/data/local/CWM_BLOB_V5 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4

It's been 10 minutes now. Wondering if I can close Terminal and try it again?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] bhagiratha:
I just installed version 3.1 and now want to root the tab.

It wasn't rooted before and wanted to know if this method listed at this site would work on 3.1?

http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/

thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Blackhawk163:
Nope not working, for me that is. I get a "cannot copy boomish" message. I think you would have to downgrade and then use the rooted 3.1
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] popophobia:
Hi all,

I have a TW version. Is it cool if I start using the WW or US version for a while?

Can I still revert everything back to TW by putting the TW official update from ASUS website into the microSD card, regardless of what version I would be running at that time (root US or 3.1 US version, etc...)?

I just want to know for warranty purposes.

Thanks guys.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
What firmware you on?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Putzy:
.9.

Got it sorted anyway. Took a risky chance of unplugging the tablet, restarting and trying again. Worked fine.

Perhaps not the best idea I've had to pull out a cable with the risk of a brick, but hey!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
That's good to hear. I had to do the same thing when I did mine.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] computerpro3:
Will not freaking work. Was on the latest update, but downgraded successfully to 8.2.3.9 and still no go.