yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
i think this wont be possible to root without a custom kernel. do you know if there exists any flash tool?

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eh, anyone tried the easy way: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=941445

???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjanice44:
Like 3 times. did not work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
:-(........
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
Anyone try getting a temp root first?

[GUIDE] Fre3vo / Fre3dom Official Thread (Discontinued)

#teamwin is proud to announce the Fre3vo tool for the HTC EVO 3D and Sensation!

What is Fre3vo: Fre3vo is a temp-root acquiring tool, allowing users access to a root shell on their HTC EVO 3D and Sensation devices.

What is Fre3dom: Fre3dom was the name of the tool being developed to enable S-OFF on the EVO 3D and Sensation. This has been abandon since AlphaRevX has announced on twitter that they've had the devices open for weeks now.

Fre3vo can be downloaded here: http://tinyw.in/1lJ

Prereqs:

1. You must be able to push files via adb to your device.

2. You must know what a shell is.

Instructions:

1. Download the fre3vo zip

2. Unzip the fre3vo binary

3. Push the binary via 'adb push fre3vo /data/local/tmp'

4. Change the permissions via 'adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo'

5. Run the binary via 'adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo'

If all goes well, you'll be kicked back to your computer's command prompt. (Some may get more messages, but it seems the Sensation buffers the stderr more than the EVO 3D)

run 'adb shell' and you should have a '#' prompt instead of '%'.

This is temporary root. A reboot will clobber it. There are many threads with scripts for doing what the community has dubbed "perma-temp root", which lets you run all your root-based apps.

you can follow the thread here: http : / / xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1150006
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
From the C skills website, C skills: Gingerbreak here is what they say:

I am attaching the GingerBreak.c program. If anyone can suggest to me where the offsets and indexes that need to be changed are, I'd be happy to try. I have the Android source code system installed and can compile and run as needed. Many thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
This is what I get when I run the fre3vo

Unfortunately, it appears that the source code is not available for this exploit.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
Thanks rprr for giving it a try, ill take a look at the gingerbreak code and see what i can find

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Have you tried this yet?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
I did try this. It is actually /abin/adbd but it fails to start. I then tried killing it from the adb shell. That does seem to restart it.

% adb shell
$ ps adbd
USER PID PPID VSIZE RSS WCHAN PC NAME
shell 153 1 3416 168 ffffffff 00000000 S /sbin/adbd

$ kill -9 153
Brings back my shell prompt
% adb shell
$ ps adbd
USER PID PPID VSIZE RSS WCHAN PC NAME
shell 20909 1 3412 172 ffffffff 00000000 S /sbin/adbd

As you can see, it restarts fine.

I also tried to restart adb within a compiled C program and that also seemed to be OK. The only time it doesn't work is when the exploit is running.

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There is a discussion of the GingerBreak.c exploit at the link below. Perhaps, it can give us some clues.

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/android-vold-mpartminors-signedness-issue/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
try this maybe?

adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FBB00000 -end FFFFFFFF

i found that in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152233
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
No go as well :(

% adb shell /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FBB00000 -end FFFFFFFF

fre3vo by #teamwin

Please wait...

Attempting to modify ro.secure property...

This device either does not support the fre3vo exploit, or this

account lacks permission to access the required devices.

An error has occured.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
Is it possible that the structure is like the Nook and something along the lines of SuperNooter or Z4Root would work?

Like this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=857529

I have no vested interested in this device (other than I own 3 Vizio big screens), but I've been following it, because the device IR software sounds interesting, and the price is definitely right...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
android 2.2-3.0 vold root exploit "mPartMinors[] (NPARTS) out of bounds write"

* (checked for upper limit but not against negative values).

*

* Exploited by changing GOT entry of strcmp(),atoi() etc. to system()

* and then triggering such call with provided pointer. :D

* We nevermind NX protections and what they call ROP.

*

* (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew

*

* Before using, insert empty formatted sdcard. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS PROGRAM

* MIGHT NOT WORK OR MAKES YOUR DEVICE USELESS/BRICKED. SO BE WARNED!

* I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE IT MIGHT CAUSE!

*

* It only works if called from adb shell since we need

* group log.

*

*/

"Before using, insert empty formatted sdcard."

I assume that this has been seen and test?

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and you did chmod 777 command?

just verifying...

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Ive rooted a few Nook Colors before using the manualnooter technique, if i remember correctly it involves burning clockworkmod recovery to a sdcard

put it in the nook and reboot and it should boot clockworkmod

then you flash an update.zip with all the root files (su, busybox, Superuser.apk)

the nook color actually boots from the sdcard before it trys booting from the internal memory.

Does anyone know if this is also true for the Vtab?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Yes

Yes

I don't know about this.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
Could you try burning an image to a spare SD Card from the Nook forum and see if you get any behavior / weird behavior out of the ordinary?

The possible cases are:

1. It does nothing

2. It won't turn on (in which case, we know it reads SD first)

3. You get CWR (profit!)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
I can do so. Could you point me to an appropriate post? Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=922870

Grab the bootable CWR appropriate for your SDCard size

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It looks like it may have moved to here: http://mrm3.net/nook-color-updated-clockwork-recovery-bootable-sd/

Sorry bout that...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Option 1. :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
Back to square one... :confused:

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I had remembered seeing that when this device came out, they claimed they were able to Gingerbreak it from day one. I guess that's no longer the case...

Edit to add a link to the story: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/24/new-vizio-tablet-rooted-well-before-launch/

I'm way tempted to buy one of these things, but root... hmm... I hear the battery life is currently atrocious.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petik:
Following that train of thought...does anyone have that pre-release ROM anywhere? You could theoretically re-write the version of the OS in that ROM, then drop it on the SD card and have the load it as an update, couldn't you? That would give you an OS which can be rooted.

I had to do a similar thing on my G2, when trying to root you first had to load an older ROM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
in theory yes, however we tried flashing an update.zip containing the su and

busybox binaries but it didnt work because of the signature verification

is there any way to could figure out what signature vizio uses?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Also, regarding GingerBreak, it is likely that this hole has been patched and that this exploit won't work. I don't know if the zergRush exploit has been closed yet. It does not work on the Vizio as is.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lzuckett:
I downloaded the driver of the Vizio support site and I was also not successful in getting the driver to install. I opened up ticket with Vizio support and they said they have a known problem with the driver. However, they did not provide a solution. I instead installed the available driver provided with the system. I selected the "Android Sooner ADB Testing Interface". So with debug on, plug in your USB cable from tablet, let windows look for the device driver. Eventually it will ask for install disk. Instead, select other options, and then select " provide me a list of devices". When the list is provided, select ADB interface and then "Android Sooner ADB testing interface. When I issue "ADB Devices" I get the following displayed:

C:\Users\lzuckett>adb devices

List of devices attached

TFCILAAM2609675 device

So it appears that it is working with this driver. However, SuperOneClick fails on the remount.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
I did find this in the readme for Gingerbreak

Please NOTE:

The softbreak is designed to be only executable by the legit

owner of the device, as it needs adb-shell access.

However, the vulnerability inside vold which is used to obtain

root privileges might be exploited by malware from inside an APK

as well.

Is there anyway we could isolate the vulnerabilities within the c code

and test each individually?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
This is what leads me to think that the this vold vulnerability has already been patched.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-1823

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/03/google-patches-gingerbreak-exploit-but-dont-worry-we-still-have-root-for-now/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManCalledX:
I've got like 6 days left to return this tablet. If we can find root within that time, I'm not going to return it. But... if we don't, I might just have to. Could really use the $200 for other things. Really hoping someone here is able to figure it out. If someone does, it's an easy $50 donation to them to become a developer for this tablet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
Id be willing to pay you the 200$ + shipping fees to austria for that thing if it has german language in its rom asnit is not possible to purchase it here.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=941445

anyone want to give this a try?

1. su http://www.magicandroidapps.com/su.zip

( Using this version of su is not as secure because it will not activate Superuser for your permission to grant root access. In fact, it can work without Superuser.apk installed at all)

Can get updated su from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953110

2. Superuser.apk http://bit.ly/su2361ef

3. busybox http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.18.2.tar.bz2

Extract the above files using your favourite program

Using adb, install all three files to /data/local:

adb push su /data/local

adb push Superuser.apk /data/local

adb push busybox /data/local

Use adb remount to open the /system directory

adb remount

or

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system

Use adb shell to move files

adb shell

cd /data/local

cat Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk

cat su > /system/bin/su

cat busybox /system/xbin/busybox

Symlink su and set permissions:

ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su

chmod 06755 /system/bin/su

Typing su should now work

su

su: access granted, courtesy of www.magicdroidapps.com

Install busybox

exit from adb shell and using a terminal application (i.e Root Explorer or Better Terminal Emulator) on the device

su

busybox --install -s /system/xbin

give me any feedback using this process
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjanice44:
tried that doesnt work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsvanhoy:
The problem is the sd card mounting /mnt/sdcard/external is where the true external drive is located. gingerbreak likely would still work if it knew where the sd was because the exploit works by un-mounting/re-mounting.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
I don't think that the problem is with the sdcard issue. Gingerbreak does find the correct location of the sdcard partition as can be seen from the output produced if you run it from adb command shell. I think that this hole has been patched in the kernel that is on the Vizio tablet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Fails at the above step which requires root access.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
thats interesting because those commands came from a honeycomb root method
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
What do you mean by interesting?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnoober:
has anyone taken this thing apart? im wondering if we can do something about the hardware inside
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
Click on the internal photos link on this page.

Edit: those working on root may want to view this thread.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjanice44:
Nothing will be gained from taking the vizio apart. See the photos I found in Marvi's link above.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
My Vizio Tab came today and I noticed doing "ls" in the root of the device, busybox

comes up but i get permission denied when i try to run it.

I do not understand why busybox would come packaged with the device if you cant run it or root it.

any thoughts?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjanice44:
You know. That is strange
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
I saw that as well. I am guessing that it is likely due to the fact that Gingerbreak did work on pre-release versions of this tablet in order to root which the Vizio devs had done. However, the exploit was patched probably by one of the OTAs. But for some reason they forgot remove the busybox directory.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnoober:
not calling you a liar at all. but can you explain this thingy? looks like it may be some kind of dip switch
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjanice44:
nice catch

Not sure what that is for. But it sure is a dip switch.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
I was dicking around and figured out how to run busybox

i ran it using the adb shell

C:\Users\Dylan\Desktop\adb>adb shell

$ /busybox/bin/busybox

/busybox/bin/busybox

BusyBox v1.14.1 (2010-01-29 17:22:20 CST) multi-call binary

Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko

and others. Licensed under GPLv2.

See source distribution for full notice.

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...

or: function [arguments]...

BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix

utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a

link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox

will act like whatever it was invoked as!

Currently defined functions:

ash, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, cpio, cttyhack, cut, date,

dd, dmesg, echo, free, gunzip, gzip, hush, ifconfig, init, insmod,

kill, killall, linuxrc, ln, ls, lsmod, mdev, mkdir, mknod, mount,

mv, ping, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, rmmod, sh, sleep, stty, switch_root,

telnetd, tftp, top, touch, umount, whoami, zcat

$

Not sure if this helps, but i found it pretty interesting
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
Sounds interresting, but without temp rout we can not push su binary to system. Btw, there is a different su binary for honeycomb i read somewhere, because froyo/gingerbread su binary is not compatible. Look for tablet root here i the forums, search is a pain with tapatalk...

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnoober:
but these tablets dont have honeycomb
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
Oh, thought so...

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnoober:
2.3.2 is the newest for it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
What languages are supported? I'd need German.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
According to Language settings it has English, Spanish, French.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnoober:
seems like i may have forgot to send the pm to you haha. but yes english/spanish/frenchy/ Germin wird nicht unterstützt
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
Oh, thats bad...

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
I'm surprised they entertained the question as deeply as they did. No possibility for root... That's not entirely impossible, but highly improbable given that you'd think they'd leave a back door open for updates.

If it's a signed update, however, it could be a long road ahead if devs even take an interest in it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsvanhoy:
agreed. but its been done before. and i still dont really know why the devs are not taking interest in it.

p.s. someone on this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340741 said he can do it but it seems sketchy to me to say the least
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/105

anyone try and compile and run these?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] majorpay:
If you're going to give up a device for free, it'd be best to put it in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing (i.e. Koush, Cubed, etc).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Root !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some Good News regarding Root for Vizio Tablet

Thanks very much to Ch4lky (a developer on zergRush), I was able to root my Vizio tablet. The code is still being debugged and will be available when ready in the next day or so. I will update this post when the binaries are updated.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManCalledX:
Of course I return my tablet 2 days before someone figures out root. Oh well.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dylanparrish:
let me know when released, ill build a program to simplify the process
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsvanhoy:
WHAAAAATTTTTTTT??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????? this is awsome awsome awsome. is it full root or temp? did you manage to push SU???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rprr:
Full root. Yes, su is pushed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KJ5ES:
THANK YOU! Cant wait to see the root here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marqi.k:
Thank you so much. I'm excited!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinosoep:
sometimes when I take my phone which is locked I have to reenter my sim code and also ofc my unlock code.

Is this a hardware/software problem? how can I fix it?

Is there a good fast stable rom (2.3.4)?

ty
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinosoep:
seems like it automatically reboots itself :( can I prevent this?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ugothakd:
What goes into making a rom? I'm not stupid. But other than theming (framework-res.apk), removing/replacing apks in /system/app, and maybe some init.d scripts, what do rom makers mess with? I'm not including the kernel.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malcolmXman:
Everything you see on your phone is frm a ROM if you have updated from stck, so everything can be changed, I know that's not what your looking for, but it is an answer.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
Keyboard mods, rotation mods, wireless and wired tether hacks, bootanimations, pretty much anything that can be modded or hacked.....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ugothakd:
Aren't all of those except the boot animation in the framework?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
Yeah i think but not in the framework-res.apk... im pretty sure those mods are in the .jar's from the system/framework
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
Init.d scripts, modifying the .jar files. Very little work is done to framework-res.apk except for themin. Then there's also changes done under the hood using source to modify the the lib files and other files alike.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ugothakd:
But those libs can't be modified without source, right? Like with the eh06 leak...I was gonna maybe do a rom off it...no source for that means all we can do is framework/jar file edits? So what .jar files are modified? Are any of them that are usually changed that aren't in the /system/framework folder?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce102:
Like the AIO mod was done through the services.jar, the settings.apk, and the framework-res.apk.....
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MysteryEmotionz:
You can modify any .jar file without source but there is only so much you can do. Smali is not legible If you don't know what your looking at.

Honestly your best bet is to use google and read up on guides.
[EVO 4G General] crbeezy:
Has anyone made a Rom or app that allows an Android phone to interact with the touchpad like the palm pre, got one in the sale and would love this feature
[EVO 4G General] spyd312:
You may want to look in the WebOS thread. There's a thread about this topic. It would be cool though. Good luck.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -=LT-United=-:
So, I deleted some stock applications, cause I needed more space in my phone. I deleted these apps with Titanium Backup, but I didn't make backup, because I was stupid :-D. So I deleted these apps:

Email

Gmail

My Files

And many other. Then I moved music to other place (using root explorer) and then I tried to listen it and... Music player gave me an error something like "File type unknown" (my phone language Lithuanian so..). And now I don't know what to do. Maybe reinstall ROM? Or maybe someone have these stock apps and can share it with me?

P.s. Sorry for my bad English :-D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -=LT-United=-:
Any help???
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Neo:
perhaps you could try downloading another music player from the app market? There are many available... Probably your easiest route right there..
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] indhimaga:
just share your phone version etc.. in right room mate they will help you...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -=LT-United=-:
I tried winamp but it didn't worked to. :-(

Kernel

Linux version 2.6.32.9-perf (root@SE-S604) (gcc version 4.4.0 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Wed Jan 19 01:10:56 KST

Hardware	: GT-S5570 Board

Revision	: 0003

Android version: stock 2.2.1

It's European S5570 version
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -=LT-United=-:
Now I know where is problem. I need only Stock email app. So someone who can, please share it with me ;-).
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] -=LT-United=-:
Please, someone give me email.apk...