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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
did you figure out how to pull the system.img?

if not, from command prompt, type

cd [name of where your folder with ADB/fastboot is]

it will return [name of where your folder with ADB/fastboot is]

type:

adb pull system system.img

raw, unrooted system.img will end up in [name of where your folder with ADB/fastboot is]

you may know this already, and if so, i apologize. just trying to help. ;)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bigguy0691:
I'll send some coin also.....
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CyanBlob:
So, what are the chances that we can still get OTA's after doing all this?

Sent from my Droid Turbo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
Thank you!!! That is what I was looking for!

I am going to do a factory reset to remove any info of mine that maybe on the device, then root and do that. The rooted image won't have my IMEI or anything else specific to me in it will it?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] calarco3:
Holy crow is this team work

sent from my FLASHABLE!! droid turbo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
no problem. if only we could simply use the converse... ADB PUSH life would be far easier.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GhostRider5666:
GG Guys Nice:good:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Artnig:
Anyone wanna post which apps they've gotten working on root? So far Adblockplus and greenify works fine
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
I am going to do a factory reset to remove any info of mine that maybe on the device, then root and do that. The rooted image won't have my IMEI or anything else specific to me in it will it?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
You didn't disable WP. WP is set at the kernel level and you will not be able to disable it. You THINK you disabled it but these changes will be reversed on reboot, are written in ram, and cause your device to be unstable. Any system changes you made are stored in memory and then lost on reboot.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
Its set by aboot, actually.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] aFancyTickler:
you think MotoWpNoMo would do the trick ?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
A year ago, maybe. Not today.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
Okay thanks for the correction! (and for all your contributions btw)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] hipsh0t:
[MENTION=711482]beaups[/MENTION] are you saying that might have actually worked??
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
Before that WP vuln I found was patched, sure. But it was patched a long time ago.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Artnig:
Has anyone tried messing with the notification LED that was found on our phones a while back? Maybe root will let us take advantage of this
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CtrlAltConstruct:
From what I've read from Moto Maxx owners, it is accessible with root, but is only one color (green), not RGB like some other phones.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] x3demond3x:
123421342 is correct, the changes won't stick after reboot. He can play around all he wants but it starts at the kernel level.

We would have to have an unlocked bootloader to be able to modify the kernel and remove write protection.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
technically, your personal data shouldn't be in /system .. i'm not saying it isn't, id probably reset too if i planned on posting my personal image. i am fairly certain your imei isn't going to be accessible. as far as what to do next, this is old, but somewhat relevant. also, if you are like me, and prefer to mess around with things on a phone, not a computer, Zarchiver will let you break down the .7z file format. if you get into app modification, the apktool apk (sounds weird, right) is a good way to edit pesky system apps. also, zip signer comes in handy if your apk tool app (like the old version) doesn't want to sign things right. i enjoyed red Active Display on my xt1080mDEV, but i literally had to edit every image, as it couldn't be modded via simple xml.

http://www.droidviews.com/create-flashable-zip-cwmtwrp-backup/ i had found one here, but this is the same material.

As far as wp, what if, say Root Browser (paid version) was a system app as it has busy box, etc installed (or installs it if it isn't found when it boots) would that help the effort? mind you, i bought it long before now and i wouldn't put up a sys.img with it in it, bc it is really useful, but theoretically would that help anything? (i doubt it)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Yup that is correct. This in no way will sustain reboot. Temp R/W is all we can get. System becomes incredibly unstable, but things install. Even if we can get things working because of temp R/W its not worth having the instability of the phone. Another approach must be attempted, best of luck to everyone. Sorry to let everyone down but a temp R/W method will not be released.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Kyanil:
ext4fs

Hey guys im sorry if this is totally noob but I have been looking around for few hours and I cannot seem to get things working. I grabbed the rooted system image from MOFO and have been on linux trying to use simg2img to make a raw file and mount it based on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1588461 by andwise. I have been getting this error:

kyanil@ubuntu:~/Desktop/edit$ simg2img xt1254.img sys

Invalid sparse file format at header magi

Failed to read sparse file

If anyone could help me that would be great! I am just trying to remove some of the bloat so that I can have both root and a debloated phone!

Thanks in advance!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] gdtjr:
I haven't been able to do the RW with busybox/terminal emulator... just tried multiple times and nothing... Would really be great if I could get Xposed installed... I'm being hopeful.... that bootloader unlock would really be helpful.. just saying
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PureErykness:
Sry if I missed this but how exactly did y'all get temp R/W?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
dude...wrong link. apologies. look up how to make a custom rom from a CWM or TWRP backup. that is the key.

http://www.droidviews.com/create-flashable-zip-cwmtwrp-backup/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Harry44:
Sorry our methodology will not be released, it makes your phone far too unstable and will not persist any reboots thus needing to be applied at each boot. Just have to wait for someone to create a create a tool to workaround R/W. This stuff is WAY more complicated than flashing files makes it appear.

Good luck to the devs who I know will make it happen!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Kyanil:
Thank you but this isnt quite what I am looking for. I am attempting to use the mofo flashing tool with a modified system.img to root my phone and get rid of the bloat apps verizon installs. I am trying to modify a pre-existing system image that was posted to be used by the developers of the exploit as it already contains root. I am just trying to be able to edit this system image to remove those apps which is what lead me to the article i posted.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
ah. i had linked it (the link you had also) incorrectly answering someone else a couple of posts above that. cool. sorry, then.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ptcfast2:
If you want to make it light up just install this http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/general/enable-moto-x-charging-led-tasker-t2603085

I think it will only light up when charging/battery full, not for notifications or anything.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] aFancyTickler:
thats perfect! pm me !
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
The adb pull system system.img created a folder system.img. In that folder are the following subfolders:

app

bin

etc

fonts

framework

lib

media

priv-app

usr

vendor

xbin (contains daemonsu and su files)

and the build.prop file.

Now what do I do to turn it into a prerooted image file? Zip the system.img folder?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
unfortunately, i don't have a good answer without reading myself and i am pretty sure there is more to it than making zip. (archive comes to mind, but i couldn't find the link i used a few months ago that had the best info) i know that you have to package it correctly (idr if that means as an archive, zip, zipped archive) the last time i messed around with these i was pulling a TWRP backup and making a flashable zip from it after reconfiguring/tweaking system apps. i wish i had the answer on the tip of my tongue, but honestly, at this point i would be searching too. ;)

i posted a link, but it still isn't the one i used originally. I may honestly be thinking about it wrong. as far as mounting images, etc, i am fairly certain you can get around that, but don't quote me. i could be horribly wrong.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
OK, I will try to read and see what I can find out. For now at least I have all the files for a rooted Moto X 2013 system. Just need to package them up and then hopefully [MENTION=5697730]maiko1[/MENTION] will respond to my PM about whether or not I should try this on my Moto X 2013 Dev Ed running 4.4.4 after I relock the bootloader. I am not worried about bricking b/c I have the unlock code and the phone is still under warranty.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
it is a good test, i imagine, but without relocking, couldnt you just unroot?

supersu has a remove root option. you could do that, then see if ya can flash via this method. if nothing else, it will save some time.

edit 8: (jk) [MENTION=5983610]JulesJam[/MENTION] this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2746044

i am pretty sure was the thread i used.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dBradghost:
So somewhat unrelated how similar are thee bootloaders of the Droid Turbo to the Moto Maxx? Do you think developers will be able utilize that to create a bootloader unlocker? Or to find vulnerabilities?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
i wish, man. i still have all my backups (including system img of 4.4.4 rooted)

as a point of reference the most similar bl to ours i have seen is the n6, but we can't flash that.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
I don't think so b/c the whole point of this is that a locked bootloader doesn't let you flash unsigned images. An unlocked bootloader does.

AIUI, what this method does is trick a locked bootloader into thinking it is flashing a signed image when it is not. If my bootloader is unlocked when I flash, that proves nothing as an unlocked bootloader lets you flash unsigned images.

Maybe I don't understand it, but that is what I understand that it does. It works b/c you have a pre-rooted, unsigned system image, which ordinarily a locked bootloader won't let you flash. This somehow tricks the locked bootloader into thinking it is flashing a signed system image.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
ah. yes. that does make sense. [MENTION=5697730]maiko1[/MENTION] is probably busy as crap and doesn't likely have that device, so it may be why he didn't answer as to not rule it out, but not commit if it doesnt work, when so many people are complaining. either way, [MENTION=5983610]JulesJam[/MENTION] your diligence is what makes this place great.

worst case scenario, you fxz the dev image and you're golden, aside from data. (unless you edit out:

fastboot erase user data

from the xml

need sleep. apologies if I don't make sense.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
Yeah, I am not worried much about bricking the Moto X 2013 Dev Ed as I have in the past completely wiped the system partition and been able to restore no problem. But I also don't want to pay $20 to "root" a phone with an unlocked bootloader, kwim?

Once I get the pre-rooted Moto X 2013 system image in a flashable form and relock my bootloader, if [MENTION=5697730]maiko1[/MENTION] is willing to let me test his system for free, I will do it to prove that it works and then those with a locked bootloader Moto X 2013 can decide if it is worth it to them to pay or not.

Then I will work on figuring out what to do to get a pre-rooted Verizon Moto X 2014 image and go from there since that is what I really want - a rooted Verizon Moto X 2014.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
i know what you mean. i do wonder what the 2 phones (x13, x14) (and their respective 4.4.4 versions) have in common.

(boards, parts, etc)

also what the turbo has in common w/ the x14. the n6 replaced tbe turbo, so thst is my great hope of correlations. ;)

i am wondering if the method is universal, but i guess that is truly what you are trying to acertain. jocaogomez (sp still?) could probably help make an image, that dude is awesome at rooted stock images.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ranger149:
Could it work..?

So Essentially can we just temporarily mount the System as RW through terminal and busybox, Have the app we want make the changes we need, backup the system as system.img, flash the new IMG and then have our changes saved? It's not ideal but would it work?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kitcostantino:
possibly. it is another theory worth testing out. if everyone tests, we will get a greater understanding as a whole. bigger picture, finer details.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ranger149:
I'm out of town tonight, But I'll start testing it out tomorrow when I get some time. I'm by no means as experienced as others on here, but I have enough experience to try some new things.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dBradghost:
Just found out India's version of the Droid Turbo/Moto Maxx is called the Moto Turbo. If they get the same ability to unlock the bootloader that the Moto Maxx got maybe it'll be closer to the Droid Turbo. Fingers crossed.

http://www.slashgear.com/droid-turbo-moto-maxx-gets-rebranded-as-moto-turbo-in-india-09372997/
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] PureErykness:
same here. excited to see what can be accomplished now that we all have root(ish)!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Boomshakalaka
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Sefirosu:
Wait... did you get write permission?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] savagebunny:
Looks like he did... but is it a temp till a reboot or perm?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ranger149:
He was one of two I was talking about figuring it out. As far as I'm aware it's only temp and makes the phone unstable. Of course I have no idea whether or not this is something entirely different or not. However he does have USB debugging opened, from the looks of it. (Either it's just plugged into the PC or he used the pc, like adb, to enable the rw permission.)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
This actually an app I discovered on the play store which uses root to remount the system. It claims success after allowing su and even has a setting to set as rw at boot after kernel. I'm hoping this will automate the process. Still testing
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Ranger149:
In that case (If you don't already know..) you may also need to go to the SuperSU app, and under settings enable allow SU at boot. By default it's disabled, and automatically denies any requests. Hope that helps. That itself may even need to be put into a new System.IMG
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
I checked that first boot and enabled it ;)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Sefirosu:
Hm, the fact that we can work on our own .img is making me very hopeful of an exploit for a bootloader unlock.

Heck, there is likely very few limitations on this method.

Going off topic from what I'm talking about,

Greenify does not work for me for some reason.

App Opt does not work as this requires to be converted to a system app, which can't be done due to the write protection.

I found that AdFree is a good alternative to Adaway.

I'm checking a few other root apps to make sure they still work.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Ladies and gentleman I have found an app that creates the RW and automates the commands and works. Attached you will see Xposed successfully installed. Stay tuned.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
OK so here it is. If you install this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kjanku1.remount2 and grant user permissions and then tap mount rw and reboot when the phone comes back on you will get ONE command you can run before it disables itself again. It works for updating Adaway and hopefully can be made permanent at some point. Still waiting to see if changes will survive reboot. However for me its not an issue as I usually leave my phone on.

---------- Post added at 04:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:17 AM ----------

I was able to update the su binary and it survived the reboot. Doesn't prompt anymore
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JakeDHS07:
Xposed doesn't survive the reboot as it asks to be installed again. Adaway works on boot and will work as long as you don't reboot. Future updates require running this process again. Its a temp workaround till bl unlock, full write disabled, or a IMG with all these system apps is uploaded.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] r3pwn:
Fun facts: The bootloader doesn't verify system images because there is absolutely no way to. Even if they did have a signature (which they don't), it would take a while (due to large file size) to verify it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] r3pwn:
It's probably not wp-off then. I have a feeling that it's just that the filesystem's didn't sync yet, which explains how/why all changes made go away on reboot.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] matheus_sc:
Do soft reboot only, make him survive, dont need install again.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dBradghost:
I tried that and it worked!! Excellent call my friend!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Coronado is dead:
Gotta love XDA moderators. One moves the root thread to paid apps, another says its not a paid app and locks the thread ?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] frankeegee:
I haven't tried this root method, yet, waiting till I have time later. What I wanted to ask about since everyone seems to be discussing adblocking is, has anyone tried the MOAB (mother of all adblocking) written by BSDgeek_Jake (I think)?

I had this on my rooted galaxy s4 before getting the turbo. As I recall (for rooted phones only with twrp or cwm), you have to go into recovery to install it.

I absolutely loved it. Worked great, but it's been quite a while since I have kept up with it.?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] r3pwn:
Actually, I believe is was [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] one time who figured out you could flash your boot image to your recovery partition and booting to recovery would actually boot with the system as wp-off.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Razorbacktrack5535:
Little question : how can I use it in Italy?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] computerfreek274:
Full Wifi tether IMG xt1254.system.21.44.12.quark_Root_wifihotspot_RW.img will be up soon It is working 100% for native tether. I just need a place to upload it too.

I used a patched APK from http://xdaforums.com/moto-x/themes-apps/mod-native-tether-t2443562 I also added the lines to the build.prop.

I can do other work on the IMG but it takes time to do and then the time it takes to upload. So I am editing my own copy now and will post the wifi tether/hotspot one very soon I am looking for a good site to upload it too now. You guys can give me a list of what you like me to add or remove and if i get time I can build one more copy today.

I also have temp RW on /system on this IMG but it is set to go back after reboot right now I am still playing around. some Pics for all the haters. lol
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
You don't have temp RW you just are writing things into ram and they don't stick (and never have). All you are doing is destabilizing your rom. The only way to modify system is to flash an image so any changes you make, including build prop, xposed, etc, need to be flashed before hand. It's a minor inconvenience but at least we can flash system images. I don't think people appreciate that enough.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daweim0:
No, root won't let sunshine unlock the bootloader. It might speedup the process of finding a bootloader exploit, if one is ever found, but they're two separate problems.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] cstone1991:
Yeah, I know that root doesn't make bootloader unlock automatically possible, I was just curious whether it helps to possibly get us any closer. From what you said, it might, so that answers my question. I'm excited for root, but an unlocked bootloader is what I really want.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] lorta44:
yes!

Was cutting a tomato for ma sandwich when I found this thread. Long story short I now have 4 stitches so worth it though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] DireWolfAlpha:
I hope it gets released today I'm dumb broke otherwise I'd contribute without thinking twice.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] smokie11:
I am glad that it appears some progress has been made with the Verizon Droid Turbo model 1254 in regards to achieving root, but being older than the average person here I am reminded of many younger friends of mine telling me very excited " my boss told me I will be getting a raise/promotion" when I would check with them weeks later they would dejectedly comment the raise never came through. My point is: until the money is in my pocket or in this case "my phone is rooted" and working fine, nothing has happened. I get far more excited with what "I have done" than "what I may do"... the next six months will tell what is real. :fingers-crossed:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JulesJam:
bah humbug.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] 123421342:
Probably will not. This was a 0 day and for him to waste it on a simple root would be... odd. I am assuming he has reported it to Moto or whatever layer this affects and will release it after they are given a chance to patch it. DO NOT ACCEPT **ANY** PATCH UNTIL IT IS RELEASED. You have been warned.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] DireWolfAlpha:
What exactly do you mean by 0 day?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] bowers41:
I think we've all learned a valuable lesson here, or at least I have. Invest in HTC, as [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] recommended in the other forum, for those who want root soonest.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daweim0:
A zero day is an exploit that is found in the wild before the developers learn about it. The name comes from the fact that the devs have zero days to patch it.

Just a side note, this is the only community I've seen that is happy when exploits are found. Zero days are normally __very__ bad.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] DireWolfAlpha:
But if the root method hasn't been released how could they know what needs to be patched
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Gundabolu SC:
People at XDA aren't the only ones looking for security vulnerabilities... There are people in Motorola who are paid to find such vulnerabilities n patch them... :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] drmrjake:
BOOOO! :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daweim0:
123421342 seems to think that the developer of the exploit gave details to motorola which wouldn't really make it a zero day since the developers will get to patch it's used to own people. I can't vouch for the correctness of that though.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Flowah:
I should be safe waiting to buy a DT until/if the root is released right? I mean, they don't update while on the shelves in boxes I assume.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] pjd2011:
Much like everyone else I was really excited to hear about all of this. Sadly, every time I come back on here nothing has been released making me believe this is too good to be true.

Please prove me wrong.