yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Hmmm, last exploit I used was SRSRoot. So, I decided to try some things. First, I found that it did drop the su and Superuser.apk from the exploit into /data/local/temp on the phone. Using adb I "pushed" the busybox onto the phone. Now, I have to set their permissions through the shell.... Note, if anyone wants to see files, I grabbed the files from here, xda-developers. Search for Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v36. I used the su and busybox from there. I was allowed to "invoke" "su" momentarily, but cannot move the executable into the system directory. Note, I am pulling bits of code from the "runme.bat" included with the zip I mentioned in this note. I also have found that "dd" is installed on the phone. This is the program the recovery uses to wipe the phone with. I think with a disc editor and a clean copy of the system after a factory reset made by "dd" would actually allow me to make a rom with "su" and "busybox" included in system. I just don't know if the bootloader for this phone will allow me to install new rom as the system. The article I mentioned a few posts ago on the Season Bytes website mentions the way the bootloader could be locked. It could be locked by the size of the image that was installed on the phone. If we were to make a custom rom, the size would have to match the original if this were the case. Or it could be locked using a manufacturer's passcode that is encrypted. In this case, getting the passcode could be illegal. Now, as for roms, there would be another way do make one. That would be to find the Android 5.0 source code and compile it. Then we'd have to find patches google intro'd. Note this source code would not include drivers for the phone, so in a sense this may brick the phone. The earlier mention of "dd" being used to create a system image from a freshly formatted phone I believe would be the same as a disc of Android 5.1 specifically from the phone's manufacturer. It would be one the manufacturer would install from. The downside to this would be if the bootloader rejected this image due to it being locked . That would mean a broken phone till the way to restore it was found.
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
Doesnt work

sorry, but the option doesn't actually exist on the hydro wave it just there since it's part of android lollipop.

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the command "su" & MANY others are NOT installed on a production device(non-rooted), but are installed on a debug device(rooted).

ALSO the device DOES NOT have FASTBOOT so the BOOTLOADER can NOT be UNLOCKED.

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I have some SAD & TROUBLING NEWS

the hydro wave DOESN'T have a bootloader that can be unlock since it DOESN'T have fastboot.

the rom build is a "production build" NOT a "debug build" which means that a production build isn't rooted which also means that it DOESN'T contain ANY "su" commands to gain root....(that's why when you gain root before you had to to install the busybox app which installs all the other commands.)

so adb won't work

trying to unlock a magical bootloader without fastboot won't work

android 5.1 root exploits are "ALL" patched or maybe they are(some could possibly still be unconfirmed)

Ill update this with more sad news...
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
Heres a site for exploits for android 5.1

http://androidvulnerabilities.org/by/version/5.1.0

These vulneralibities could "possibly" root our device if executed properly.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Yeah there's a page listing all the manufacturers that are affected at the moment

So you're telling us that we need to run this exploit by sending the message to our phones and then run a root exploit code???

Sorry I'm confused
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
The exploits gain local privilege escalations on their own.

I already compiled one of stagefrieght exploit thats roots android 5.0 & lower by creating a specially crafted mp4 file & transfer it to my device & sending it to myself VIA MMS.

But, I am working on the new stagefrieght exploit that's been recently published

That should root our device as it affects upto android 5.1.1 & since hydro wave is 5.1 the exploit could possibly work.

NOTE: the "specially crafted" mp4 file is a fake video file containing the exploit in the metadata which if proccessed could allow local code execution which "could" gain root.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
how did the 5.0 and earlier work out? And will we expect the 5.11 exploit anytime soon?? And if there's any chance I could mess it up and brick my device if I tried it, and is it safe( well I know its a exploit )
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
The only way you can brick your device trying to gain is by using a malicious root exploit that WILL do harm on purpose

The stagefrieght exploits have denial of service & local code execution/local privilege escalation.

While the former is bad, but I inspected the exploit & found no malicious code other than root escalation(which is considered "malicious" lol) it is completely safe unless someone uses it in a malicious way.

I have to check the device since the lg phone i used was my brother's...so i dont know yet if it work.

The new stagefrieght exploit has just been released so it will be a while before a new concept of the exploit will be released to the public.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
oh never mind I got 5.1

0 there won't be any need for 5.11:laugh: there's some many links for the page you post which one do I go to start off with?
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
Install stagefreight detector check the cve from the app with the ones on the provided site that will work with your device.

BUT, just know I'm already in the making of the exploit for our phone.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Sorry for rushing you but how long you think it's going to take?

The third and last cve in the app came up green saying I was valunabale.

What do I do now?
[General Questions and Answers] A Christian Guy:
Okay fanilly there is a root for this device

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What I did use the latest kingroot apk.http://androidmtk.com/download-kingroot-application...Them o use Super Sume apk to remove kingroot
[General Questions and Answers] A Christian Guy:
This is it
[General Questions and Answers] relentlesson3:
Didn't work for me. What information do you need?
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Can you resend the address without the end Part.
[General Questions and Answers] themashedpotato24:
hey im a random googler. I tried the kingroot method you said worked for you and this is what happened with mine. it ran, said it rooted, checked with root checker, said it was rooted. went to use super sume, wouldn't work, said I needed root. rechecked with root checker, root was gone. didn't restart the phone after rooting. any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] A Christian Guy:
Yea I inkow i did it like 3times before work try to run kingroot one more time and this time Gong use súper sume
[General Questions and Answers] themashedpotato24:
i took a picture of the screen and i have no idea what it means. but i have no clue how to show you the image or read it cause i dont know chinese.
[General Questions and Answers] stevenlb:
Before running KingRoot, it says "Root access is unavailable Model: C6740N

After running KingRoot, it says "Root Failed no strategy now".

Iv'e tried toggling OEM unlocking, USB debugging, and QuickBoot in dev options, no change.

Android 5.1 1.011MC

Kernel 3.10.49-g05feb4

Build LMY47O
[General Questions and Answers] stevenlb:
Update, after more than 20 attempts, I got a message saying "Successfully obtain root". Root Checker says no good. Then KingRoot tells me "Sorry! Root not access is not properly installed on this device."

No love.
[General Questions and Answers] A Christian Guy:
Yea that been happening??
[General Questions and Answers] NebulaNerd:
Hey, I just created this account but have been stocking this thread for a while. I tried the latest thing, didn't work. It said it did, then SuperSU said that it didn't have an SU binary installed. So, I restarted, and KingRoot said it wasn't rooted.

Anyway, throughout this process I realized that my phone was not a C6740N, but a "regular" C6740. Is this a problem? Am I on the wrong thread?
[General Questions and Answers] stevenlb:
From the same site, here are a gang of phones running the Snapdragon 410: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdamaster&posted=1&cpu=a8916
[General Questions and Answers] timothypayn:
sooo.....my hydro wave c6740n pissed me off. retail settings i can not pull files off from my phone onto pc. so i've decided im going to root my phone. i've read through this entire thread from page one over the past hour or so and have a few things to say. first the simple things to get out of the way. you can format your Micro SD card in any way you please using your basic operating system through PC. Learn your system. The reason you are seeing rooted then not rooted is because its setting the permissions and storing to RAM or Random access memory....its temporary and not actually saving in the phones SWS. if you look at your developer options you can see there is an option to kill actions as soon as the user leaves the action currently being used. there is obviously some sort of underlying automatic feature to this that we need to kill first. i know plenty about hacking, modding, scripting, brute forcing, and altering software. i need a program that is going to read the data running through the phone live through USB. when i see the data execution and log files i can write an exploit for the phone. I need all the information i can possibly get from these devices. from the file structure, to the hex codes of every error any of you have ever seen on a hydro wave. a list of non compatible apps both unknown source and play store. anything that's awkward or strange about the device...mine personally says hangouts has stopped responding....about 63 times a day i see that message. there's an error in the code for hangouts. aka exploit opportunity. i'm about to get my java game on....help me out ill help you out.

oh, and btw. some of you posted about seeing virus's when you try to dld your root software. well, roots use exploits, what they do is take a known error or fault in the software and manipulate it or access it using their software which to an antivirus is malicious and destructive activity. when you download software your antivirus reads the raw code to look for snippets that access other software and send/recieve data through or about that access. so yes a lot of root programs will come up as viral. its taking dead end code and using it to drop its own code into the file system...its own virus if you will. when you download your software, decompile it and proceed to examine it. in some cases you may be pleasantly surprised. :)

anyone try flooding their phone with data packets? i need something that's gonna make the phone's eye twitch.
[General Questions and Answers] justinadix:
Rooting Kyocera Hydro Wave

There is an English version of KingRoot, it will root the Kyocera Hydro Wave but having trouble keeping it rooted.
[General Questions and Answers] Hydro wave:
Do you have a link?
[General Questions and Answers] vvaldez82:
rooted twice

I've tried SRS root & kingroot. Both times it said I was rooted. But then I couldn't get any superuser privledges. I have screenshots saying its rooted on rootchecker but don't know how to post them. I don't know any other methods to try but wait.
[General Questions and Answers] tomdaniels2345:
Yea same here, rooted it a couple of times and confirmed by root checker but after a few seconds it goes back to saying unrooted. Still progress though.
[General Questions and Answers] WickedWolfie271:
Any luck on getting the stage fright exploit to work?
[General Questions and Answers] AesopRock127:
Not root but good start.

Guys I also haven't been able to root BUT I was able to remove some bloat ware and system apps with kingroot and stop a lot of things from auto starting. Not root but definitely been helpful making this $30 metro PCS special run smoother
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Where do one find king root.
[General Questions and Answers] AesopRock127:
Google it. Make sure you get the one from your language
[General Questions and Answers] Hydro wave:
Hydro Wave

I can't get Kingo or king root to work on my hydro wave does anyone have any updates on a one touch app?
[General Questions and Answers] AesopRock127:
Sir that's kind of the point of the thread. There's no root solution yet. I merely mentored kingroot as a way to delete bloat ware, system apps, and adjust the autostart programs. Sorry if I got you excited :(
[General Questions and Answers] Hydro wave:
Understood

I'm not sure how to use the program to remove the bloat ware it gives the option to root phone but that's it could you tell me how it's done?
[General Questions and Answers] AesopRock127:
The kingroot I had had four options: root, remove bloat ware, autostart programs, and one more thing after root failed. It's the apk not the computer version got it from official site. A Google search of kingroot will net you the correct site. Should be the first one
[General Questions and Answers] xdamember143:
At last guys finally I have root!!!!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Troll.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
What version of kingroot were you using? What bloatware is safe to remove? Which ones did you?

How did you adjust the autostart programs?

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If you're not fooling around... how?
[General Questions and Answers] AesopRock127:
Kenny54 I used NewKingrootV4.62_C133_B233_en_release_2015_11_24_105203 . Direct from the official site. The bloatware is labeled bloatware could not be easier but still use your judgement and the auto start programs is just a toggle simply shut off anything that you do not use or need to Auto Start with the phone . Hope I helped. The app is super easy to use and like I mentioned before it's the apk not exe
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Proof? Method?
[General Questions and Answers] rbut2112:
Kingroot will temp root the device but as soon as you try to download any root apps that they see threat roots gone super sume doesn't work on this version of android or kingroot knows how to stop it I don't think kingroot is evil but they have the market here being the first to actually temp root this beast keep trying people
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
I've tried running Antutu Benchmark in the background to force it, I can't even get it to temp root even with Kingroot. Seems as though this is the only phone with that specific snapdragon processor running 5.1 all the rest with the same model processor are running 4.4.4 and below, wonder if that has anything to do with it.
[General Questions and Answers] rbut2112:
I don't think that's the case
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Considering the rooting process a great deal to do with your CPU and in that being this model is the only model on the 5.1 Platform with this specific CPU I think that in fact is the case. How do you think it is when they create and exploit for a device that it typically works for many models similar by the same manufacturer. Considering that, that is the most plausible answer. Nobody wants to compile an exploit that can only be used on one specific device.
[General Questions and Answers] rbut2112:
Temp root is available through kingroot but I think they think it is only temp they offer options on keeping an upgrade every time I root through them it works but its only temp almost like big brother helping us out try it every time it will temp root your phone they say that you're warranty won't be affected (because it drops root so easily)

I know we want permanent root but for now this will/will not work depending on the person you can't get WiFi tethering or any other cool apps/things that make rooting your phone useful

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I would suggest anything other than 5.1 go through kingoroot had no problem with my zmax 4.4.4 or my Leon 5.1.1 seems like 5.1 is just a pain in the a**

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Then why try for any device future or past its fun
[General Questions and Answers] xdamember143:
Yeah guys I thought I had root but what rbut2112 said it only temp root. I had successfully had busybox installed which need root right ? So I decided to replace king root with supersu but when I tried to replace it said su permissions were broken so I went to kingroot and it said root failed? :(
[General Questions and Answers] rbut2112:
I was able to get titanium backup while in temp root.backed up everything rebooted and nothing no root

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You do not need busybox for root in fact you should uninstall the app until you accutally get root then download and don't even try to get kingroot to respond to SuperSU it doesn't just wait something will come around
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
At this point in time for at least the C6740 (not the N) it is on the 5.1 platform, with that being said there is the option within the Developer Options of the phone to "OEM Unlock" the Bootloader. The only way I see as a tangible method for a full root is to obtain the Recovery Image for the phone(which I cannot seem to find anywhere) and create a TWRP image. The C6740 and the C6740N are closely related as have I created some exploits for other phones with different carriers and close model numbers [LG LTE Leon] and have had successful results. If anyone can obtain the Recovery Image I'd be happy to compile a TWRP.img to boot into and root from there.
[General Questions and Answers] yenalsekim:
Noobish but willing to help.

When you say recovery image do you mean the bootloader? If so, isn't that locked up by the vendor as described in earlier posts in this thread? Or do you mean a clean factory install of everything on the phone. I'd be happy to contribute my phone if that's the case. Otherwise, I'm probably going to sacrifice this rig to the fire gods and get a brigadier again.
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Excellent response haha! In this case I have the C6740 with an OEM unlocked bootloader yes, which gives me the ability to install a custom recovery such as TWRP, what I plan to do is just that, yet I am unable to find those files via download anywhere. And there is a certain method of extracting that data off of the phone I am unable to do since I do not own the phone. If anyone can provide the stock recovery image by using one of the many methods online I will happily build a tutorial and test myself a way to gain root via recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] CultOfTheDeadCows:
Google nandroid
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Nandroid requires root. TWRP made out of the recovery image would root the phone in essentially the BIOS undermining the OS itself. The only way I see it plausible on a stock OS
[General Questions and Answers] zlost1:
Question

If you can type su in an adb shell and get a response then why hasn't anyone written a csh script to brute force Crack the su pass from a dictionary file over adb?
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
I did try ADB Shell via Windows I don't remember what the response was, point me to a tutorial on how to build said "csh" script and I'll be happy to try it out!
[General Questions and Answers] Randymanme:
Backup:.. Kyocera Hydro Life C6530N

ROM:..... Stock MetroPCS ROM (De-Bloated)

Will this backup ROM work in the Kyocera Hydro Wave? And, if so, how do I reflash with it?
[General Questions and Answers] TewSlo:
Check the specs and compare if they're exact
[General Questions and Answers] Randymanme:
So whatever happened with that?

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I'm thinking that when I do a factory reset, there's a stock recovery in there somewhere (will someone tell where it might be located?). And can I replace the C6740N's stock recovery with some other compatible recovery? Can someone recommend one?
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
bootloader can't be Unlocked

SORRY buddy, but Kyocera is giving us the middle finger here...the OEM unlock switch literally does nothing on our phone its just there because of the AOSP code.

In a VERY demanding talk with both Kyocera & metropcs(my Carrier) said that the bootloader will ship locked & stay locked...Kyocera makes consumer NOT developer phones.

I even asked for the recovery IMG from both parties since they BOTH claimed the other had such file, BUT in the end they wouldn't give it to me EVEN though its open source & they HAVE to share their rom, but the only real way to root this phone is by exploiting it.

SIDE NOTE:

The exploits I referred to in my earlier posts are not able to gain root which REALLY sucks
[General Questions and Answers] Messiah_13:
I got something almost but with boost app lol I tried the unlock program on it as option didn't work even memory card can't get reading I most got lemon / there must be with under the cover programming lol
[General Questions and Answers] Freybergers:
Root Bloated MetroPCS Kyocera

I too am trying to get this phone rooted. I put a 32g card in it to fix the storage problems. But there are so many metroPCS apps I don't want, and more. Can't move a lot of apps. I also used the same root apps listed that did not work either. I too could not read Chinese. Thanks to all working on this.
[General Questions and Answers] rselte:
Hello. Does anyone know if temp root will allow you to Uninstall bloatware?
[General Questions and Answers] rbut2112:
Should but it doesn't I honestly don't understand what kingroot thinks its doing its useless it'll root you phone but cant do anything with the root oh well someone will come up with something
[General Questions and Answers] zlost1:
What I've found

Im no expert by far so please don't laugh. I installed a terminal and was granted permission to root directory etc. I tried greping su and sudo only to find that it didn't exist in the system. This is a huge problem. So I downloaded the su binary for arm to my SD card where I have 777 permission and. Executed it with '. /' I got permission denied but I consider it a small win that the terminal worked on almost everything and I'm thinking it might be the way we exploit this phone. Ps I found the stock rom in the etc directory it's named cdrom
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
-_-

The system partition is read ONLY & the only way to copy "su files" into such partition if you change it to read & write, BUT just by copying those files into it if you were successful....doesn't mean you will gain root since the android system could reject su.

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Kyerocera didn't build each & every android version for our device since its time consuming to just build 1 version & constantly update that version. The hydro wave ROM was built only on 5.1 & NOT 5.0.x & you cant downgrade from the stock recovery since stock recoveries are a joke & our bootloader is forever locked... Even the OEM Unlocked does nothing.

(even if it glitches & we could do it kyerocera programmed our device to NEVER boot into the bootloader directly, BUT only when to start the system....of course this is just my theory based off some facts.)

In other words you guys should give up now since Kyocera doesn't care about its consumers & its developers!