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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] AndyMan386:
I am sorry if this has been asked/answered elsewhere, but when we have like 5-10 threads all about root, not sure where to post.

The DT's that have been rooted so far, do we know what build dates they were running? I still run Sept 24 just to be safe, so just curious if it might finally be ok to run the update and not risk losing root in the event it wasnt possible on newer builds.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bigv5150:
You can modify thebfxz and then just re zip it. I usually unzip and change the boot logo and recovery. However you can't unzip the system and modify then re zip it won't work.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ekkoria:
To my understanding downgrading should still be possible, in any case, but you've held off this long so may as well keep it up just in case.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] chipsa964:
+1 on this. I'm running the 21.44.12 firmware, and I hope that didn't ruin my chances at root. I got this phone at launch and waited for so long, but when people in this forum said it was probably a safe update, I went through with it.

Sent from my Droid Turbo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Me too. Hope this gets released before the next soak, don't want to decline a test!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cstone1991:
Out of curiosity, does root help at all with making sunshine work?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
Is it worth attempting on my unlocked Moto X Dev Ed on 4.4.4 to see if it works on Moto X? Or do you know if it will work on the Moto X? I am more interested in the Moto X 2014 though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MoPhoMike:
Used to live in Va Beach (14 years) before I returned to NY/Canadian border lands.. I'll be "root"in for ya in the land of snow and poutine

Sent from my Root-candy locked turbo wheezer.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] timmyk465:
So what does it mean that it's still write protect? Will we not be able to mod system files (ie remove entitlement check from build.prop)?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Murd0c:
another VA here, Chesapeake.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Steve One:
I'm in Waverly
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] wadamean:
Darn it I can't root with my mac then. Just saw video. I guess I have to borrow a pc.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bigv5150:
Nope can't change system files their write protected. Its great you guys got root but it is so limited with WP on. Hopefully this will lead to WP off of BL unlocked in the future.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Now a bounty for WP off lol

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
if we make our own system.img then wp doesn't matter, right?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
nailed it
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Only if you want to create a new system image every time you want to change something in the system files....
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Nailed it

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] KevTN:
I did that last week. Heh
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
It's a step in the right direction anyway.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Doug8307:
So if Write Protect is still enabled will apps like AdAway be able to modify the hosts file and block ads? Honestly, ad blocking is the only reason I want root.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
You'll have to modify the host files in the system.img you build.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
sweet. so now i can theme everything red and black with traces of 6600FF . active display will be awesome in red
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GhostRider5666:
I have root!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Tomsgt:
yes that is true :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Woooow! Mofo just keeps crashing on me while flashing the rooted.ext4.img file. Really nice! First time it crashed at 37%, second time it crashed at 68%! Not looking good for me. :(
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Well let UA know if any closed stuff works or if you have to make your own system image with it baked in :p
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] stormfinder:
flash failed at 53% for me, no reason given, just stopped going up and prompted a new cmd line

now im softbricked.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Same thing happened to me [MENTION=4750721]stormfinder[/MENTION]. I'm on my third try, just passed 92%. First time failed at 37%, second time at 68%. Keep trying, looks like I'm going to make it this time. at 98% now!

Edit: It finished my third try. Rebooting now!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
Wait, this is a root where basic things like Adaway won't work?

Epic fail. This is a worthless root. This project is dead to me.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Are you serious?! We all just paid $20 bucks for a worthless root method? WTF?!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Murd0c:
no, we paid 20 dollars for an improvable root method, we just need this in the hands of someone who is able to find out how to disable WP. Until then, its essentially useless.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Kusakus:
So what can you do with this root? I'm thinking of buying it but not if I can't do anything.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jasoraso:
This root method should allow flashing a system image with a modified build.prop that will enable tethering. If I had had that two weeks ago, I probably wouldn't have traded my Turbo for a N6. I have rooted my N6, but the only thing I wanted root for was to modify my build.prop. That's worth $20 to me.

Hopefully it will still work when Lollipop is released. Or at least a Lollipop system image can be flashed using this method.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PILLMUZIK3600:
I'll wait till they improve it...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
My question is how easy are system images to make or come by?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
You can pass a root check :p
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Adaway worked for me! Just had to remount system as rw first :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GhostRider5666:
Root Explorer works too :rolleyes:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Wait, you can just boot it with write protection on, and then just use a terminal command or something to turn the write protection off?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
Wait - what?! http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59684471&postcount=996
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Again, the guy who made it said you wouldn't be able to modify system files. Is root browser working in the system folder?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JBag77:
Rooted without a problem
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GhostRider5666:
I can mount R/O and R/W and see everything. What should I look for?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
Open build.prop and try to modify it?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bill0405:
All that excitement for nothing imo. Sigh. Guess I'll keep waiting.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Adb shell

Su

Mount -o rw,remount /system /system

What do you mean you can't modify system files? Works great!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Seeing is nothing. We need to be able to modify/remove as well. Without that, anything is going to be pretty darn limited.

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Interesting. Try to edit the build.prop or something and reboot and see if it stuck :D
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Guess adaway didn't stick, still seeing ads in Pandora :'(
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Try to update SU binary

Or install busybox

Sent from my XT1254
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
I did, no go
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
World's most worthless root you paid $20 for. We were duped.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Agreed! I'm super pissed! LOL #****ed
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] _tek_:
Adaway works before a reboot LMAO
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] renegadeone8:
I work for em ;) The edge price on a turbo is 599.99, but if you just want to buy it without going through the edge process they will charge 749.99. Its completely stupid but that's how they do it
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Not root, you paid for a system image flasher advertised as root.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Razorbacktrack5535:
" Sorry, due to export restrictions we only sell to users in the US. "

.......................
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Just wait and some of these guys may build some interesting sys images; bloat/ad free and maybe themes.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bigv5150:
Ding ding ding give the man a cigar. Your the first person who understands what this really is. Or at least posted it. I wouldn't do this if it was free. Just a giant PITA in my opinion. Most lay persons dont know how to modify the system. To many unanswered questions when it comes to the pending 5.0 update etc. I guess if you really need root and need to modify the system this is worth it. Hopefully this leads to a better solution.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Artnig:
Anyone else keep getting stuck at 7% while trying to flash?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
Bamboozled, flimflammed, duped, etc.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Yeah I was going to say, to the "lay person" building a system image to do what they want is like rebuilding a house because you don't like the pictures on the walls.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikera67:
So, with the limited testing we have so far, do you think tethering or viper4android will work? Those and ad blocking the top three I want, hate to be disappointed already
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Possibly but you would have to "bake them in".

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mikera67:
If that's the case, I'll hold off a few days.

Really if this is true, why "root" at all
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] calarco3:
Root accomplished no issues. I only really care a lot about tethering. $20 to change that in an image. Totally worth it

sent from my handcuffed droid turbo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
This is like a first step. I'm just glad someone is working on it at all. I'm sure write protection will be disabled eventually, keep your heads up.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
so is this really a root? it was advertised as an image flasher. and the image you were suppose to flash is a rooted image. is the rooted image not really rooted? is this worth the $20?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Depends on what you want to do with it.

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
can i overwrite system files? can i save in places i cannot save? can i add fonts? or is this probably going to be phase 1 whereas now someone smarter than me writes an image to flash that does give permission.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Just wait and some of these guys may build some interesting sys images; bloat/ad free and maybe themes.

Sent from my XT1254 already stated

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] KevTN:
Have you tried to tether yet? If so what did you use? Thx
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kwyrt:
This is what I'm hoping for. If/when that happens, I will buy.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] lithium630:
Isn't the end result is everything that was promised. What are people complaining about?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dyrnych:
Anyone know how Secure Settings interacts (or doesn't interact) with this?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CtrlAltConstruct:
Sooo, does having Write Protection enabled mean no Xposed?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
That is correct. Someone has to build an image with it installed....

Or wait for BL unlock.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Murd0c:
yes, you are correct.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] robsharp78:
Does this mean I would have to build my own image how I wanted it, then flash it with this app? If that is the case this is pretty much like having a boot loader unlock it's just going to be a bit more work than it would take with write protection off and you change change things on the device.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] windraver:
So in theory, if we create a system image that is lollipop with root, this moforoot will give us lollipop with root. Does that also mean that in theory, we can sneak in a bootloader "upgrade" that deactivates write protection as well?

I'd say this is pretty significant.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Um guys. I was able to mount system as RW with terminal emulator. I rebooted after issuing the command....and now it works
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
tell us how
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jparasita:
Man this is cool and all but I would wait to see what happens next cause I will laugh when you guys start borking youre device hopefully bootloader unlock or something.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] X_man.:
WOOOHOOO! I swear I think I heard angles sing :D
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Ok guys. I am gonna throw you all a bone here. Cause I'm nice like that. I haven't been able to figure out the bootloader but I have gained write protection off already.

Heres the process I used

go to play store and download an app called BusyBox Install (No Root) and install it and install BusyBox

If you don't already go and download Android Terminal Emulator from the play store

Now after you install emulator open and enter su

Accept the superuser prompt

now go back to the busybox app and copy the link it gives you and enter in emulator by pasting and hit enter

exit out of emulator

reopen emulator and ensure su is enabled by looking for the $

enter the following command busybox mount -o rw,remount system

Wait a minute or so

Reboot and profit!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] wadamean:
Everyone is giving their opinions and or dislikes about this root method. Honestly though maiko and Tom are the only ones actually taking action in having created a method at least. Those who dislike it should then create an even better method, hmm oh wait you won't because what it takes to keep going through all the fails to then get success.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Tells me busybox isnt installed
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
The first step is to install busybox......
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
I clicked install.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
And it said installed yet when you ran the command right after with su it said not installed? That makes no sense
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mykalmunlight:
Did you open the busy box app and click install or did you just install the busy box installer? (Sorry I just had to ask)

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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] windraver:
You're awesome. I'm going to do this when I get home :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JBag77:
Clicked install in busybox. It keeps saying it is not installed for me as well. No matter what version I try to install
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Ok somebody is gonna have to look into this further. I was only able to have write protection off TEMPORARILY. It let me update the hosts once with Adaway and then when I went back later it failed. Also BusyBox is now gone. I was able to repeat my steps and get it to update again. APPARENTLY the write protection is somehow disabled for ONE command or usage and then it reenables itself. VERY ANNOYING
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
How do I make a system image file of my OG Moto X that is rooted and bootloader unlocked?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
How big is the mofo app. I do not have internet at home so if I get the link info I need and paste it into a file. Then goto McDonalds can I download it there or is it small enough to DL from phone?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bmcclure937:
What? That is not how this works... the system images from an OG Moto X will not function on a Droid Turbo....:confused:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
Also did it wipe data? I know I should alway make bkups but I am lazy.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] calarco3:
Data stays
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Sefirosu:
I can say this, nothing sticks when I delete it or convert it to a system app via titanium backup. Everytime I delete or convert it comes back after reboot.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
I know, but I want to see if this method will root a Moto X. First I need to make the rooted system images.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
I got it to work, xposed is now installed on my device. Looks like it is a line by line thing...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
That's because this is ghetto root.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
Good point. Please release your root method so that we can have everything work how you want it to....
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Can you backup and restore user apps though?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Droidavie:
Haha and the bickering begins.

This method is simply amazing and will open new doors for future devices.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
[MENTION=2746210]Harry44[/MENTION] can you post exactly what you did? I'm having trouble even replicating it now. This is very weird.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] golgothagecko:
Your logic makes no sense. A spade is a spade , irrespective of my individual coding prowess. It's an implementation that is severely crippled compared to all other root methods and functionality.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Sefirosu:
Yes, I was able to backup user apps, even system apps. I was even able to bring stuff over from my Droid Razr M.

It is just the system apps itself that keep returning.

I'm still playing around with it until I figure it out.

This is all being done through a root explorer and titanium backup.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] revolt1:
who's from oc California
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Draven10785:
Wait wait wait. How do they have a prerooted system image if root is what they were trying to accomplish? Wouldn't that mean they needed a rooted device to get the system image? I mean I'm no expert here but that just makes no sense to me. Not trying to be critical on the guys work. Well done by all means. I'm just new to Motorola devices so I'm reading before I try this.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] johnbravado:
The point is we now have something. I do not know much about the inner workings of the system but there are those that do. And for them this ghetto is awesome I am sure.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Yeah its real I installed xposed.....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15sKU9JEz4COHRydFI2c2Z1ZHM/view?usp=sharing

Thats not the plan something bigger is...coming
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cohomology:
Forgive my newbie question here. My phone is still on 21.44.8 ATM. I am wondering if the current OTA will bring my phone to 21.44.12 so I can root?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GhostRider5666:
Yes update.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
I am not an expert but adding root to an exisiting image is trivial. But once that is done you usually can't flash it because you aren't able to sign it with the manufactuer's keys. This is allowing you to flash that unsigned image. Its like how ROMs come pre-rooted, they just add it into system and then its there when you flash it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
I wondered the same thing but IIRC, some of the Verizon Moto X 2014 devices were stolen from a factory in china and they had bootloaders that were unlocked. Maybe the same thing happened with the DT? Someone got ahold of one of these "factory devices" as they are called on Tao Bao?

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Thanks, that makes sense.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Character Zero:
Thats what I think anyway . It seems like any editing system image would work. Although I have not seen a "new" modified image work yet.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PILLMUZIK3600:
Can we get a step by step of what u did brosef
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dBradghost:
It won't let me finish installing xposed
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
System is RO, so yea, it won't install unless its baked in to the system image
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dBradghost:
That's a bummeer. I've gotten most things to work with SU. I was hoping I could get xposed to work.

Is there a way to instal via emulator?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jparasita:
Really the bottom line is we need a exploit to flash the stock kernal with write protection off or bootloader unlocked.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
Yes, eventually it'll be nice to get there. But once folks start picking apart the system image and customizing it, it should get us through until everything is wide open. I was thinking about dusting off the linux VM to poke around and see what i can come up with.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Not true. I have gotten it. Just be patient.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15sKU9JEz4CbnZJNTZ3eFc1RUU/view?usp=sharing
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] brennam7:
Get it girl (just an expression)

Let me know if/when you want someone to test.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
And it's real. Credit to Harry44 and JakeDHS07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxL_DWeE28&feature=youtu.be
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PILLMUZIK3600:
Instructions?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
dude. awesome.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] theycallmerayj:
Does this stick through reboot and everything?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
This, this is what would make this tool worth the $20.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Artnig:
Can't wait til you guys get xposed working. I'm fiending for gravitybox since I've gotten this phone
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ptcfast2:
Yup....I've confirmed that it seems we have a way to disable write protection after all. This is excellent.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
And we aren't even on the team or getting paid......I just found this playing around in terminal and Harry is gonna try and make it permanent by editing the command into the init and rebuilding the img so it sets RW at boot. Hopefully giving us PERMANENT write protection disabled.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] calarco3:
I'll shoot you guys a few bucks for that

sent from my FLASHABLE!! droid turbo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
No you haven't.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CtrlAltConstruct:
Same, it wouldn't be right away (probably this weekend), but if there is a reliable way to get full functioning root with write, I would be more than willing to pay for it.