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[General Questions and Answers] timothy0921:
Not sure exactly WHAT driver, but I'm using Win10Pro x64, and as soon as I pluggged it into my USB 3.0 port, the Autoplay dialog popped open, I clicked on the "View folders and files" option, and a Windows Explorer with a C6740N device/directory was right there. No fuss, no muss.
[General Questions and Answers] Amir8dempsey:
Same here it works anytime I plug it into a computer
[General Questions and Answers] timothy0921:
Driver...

Ok, so I looked into my driver layer and the OS is loading "Kyocera USB KC02US" when I connect the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Amir8dempsey:
Guys kingroot goes to 20% and then it says root failed now
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
developer options

Has everyone made sire to unlock developer options and check OEM unlocking first?
[General Questions and Answers] Punkycat:
Hi, I also want to root my Wave. Metro has taken up all the space in it and I can't even download anything, "out of storage space" and I have 9gb left on my data card. I have never rooted before. Can I ask a dumb question? What is ADB?
[General Questions and Answers] timothy0921:
Yes, I enabled Developer Mode, USB Debugging, and Allow OEM Bootloader Unlocking.
[General Questions and Answers] tflame:
Iv tried framaroot and king root on the Kyocera hydro wave they do not work neither wtf??!!frustrated that literally there is no rooting solution what so ever iv been looking for weeks now!

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I have been trying to root this phone for weeks now framaroot failed king root failed as well iv even tried super one click and poot. Nothing seems to work. This device is really got to have a root method.
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
Has anyone tried srsroot? I saw that they now have a root but haven't been able to try it yet.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Hmmm....

As someone whom is new to rooting, I can say that the wave seems to be un-rootable. Not being an expert or what have you. I am pretty computer savvy, so I can say I've tried most one click root programs.. No luck.. I've tried following a few guides I found. Most point back to here and I end up in this thread. So, no luck in the searches. Alas, I find myself in the same boat as all others. Although, a poster earlier referenced using adb to do certain things to this phone. I delve into a tad bit of research, and this is what I've found.

A.) ADB does allow you to boot into recovery mode. It does not, however, allow you to get into the bootloader. I have issued the command in several formats such as "adb reboot bootloader" and "adb reboot-bootloader" .

B.)Using the command "adb shell" places you into an interactive shell with the phone's os. Now, as such, you are limited. After all, you are only a user.

C.)In such shell I was able to look at some directory structure and attempt a few commands. The only ones I have found to work Are "CD" or change directory, and "LS" or list directory. Very linux/unix like.

I believe with a tad bit more experimenting I could possibly gain root access. Being that the shell is very unix like I am certain i can find a way to invoke the "su" command, if possible, gaining root access. The catch is.. What is the root password? I wish to assist in any way in the rooting of this phone. I am a firm believer in the consumer's rights. I believe that once we have purchased a device we should be able to do as we wish with it. I do understand that certain acts are going to void the warranty. I also understand that devices such as these are very computer like and can be modified through code. I am a fan of open source software. As such we should be able to have root access to all phones, irregardless of maker. But, these are just my beliefs. However, I am willing to help devs in any way.
[General Questions and Answers] tflame:
srsroot

I will try to use this srsroot and see if it works and I will get back to you. I am a very desperate Kyocera user. Regretting buying this phone :(
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
I had just a minute to try last night and was unsuccessful. Couldn't open and. Any ideas what I could have been doing wrong? I had debugging on and unknown sources on. OEM unlock on.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
I speculate it is that the copy you have was full of virus. I downloaded a copy that was slap full of virii... And your antivirus stopped you from running it.
[General Questions and Answers] JakobeSVT:
Hi,

im running a 64 bit version of windows 7

i installed the kyocera usb drivers and it wouldnt recognize it, i ended up installing the Android SDK Tools and then added the download in the program for usb support.

That got windows 7 talking fine with the C6740

SRS Root recognizes that it is a kyocera C6740 android 5.1 build LMY470, ive tried both the root options which go through the process, says "successful" and reboots my phone. SuperSU still says no SU binary installed and SuperSU cant install it. NOT ROOTED

KingRoot, this was difficult i dont speak what ever language that is... dont have your phone plugged in, pushed the button, plugged my phone in and it detected a phone and android 5.1....went through some loading stuff, pushed another button with some language barrier issues but said ROOT in the middle. It went through a root process through the usb, loaded up to about 40%-50% and rebooted the phone. Counter got to 54% before red language barrier couldnt read message showed up, kingroot didnt hit 100%, gave me a red screened message at 54%, and SuperSU cant do its thing still. NOT ROOTED.

Ive got the phone and pc talking fine. If someone builds it ill test it happily....please help de-bloat this thing :(

im on the pre-paid t-mobile version, i bought it at walmart for $100, pay $50 a month for service. Sluggish and horrible service due to a bad phone...

I emailed kyocera and told them i was mad it was locked, they replied and told me to go into the options and just disable the programs i didn't want running. i told them this is the last kyocera phone i buy now...

miss my S3 + cyanogen mod more and more every day...

-Jake
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Hello,I just bought a Kyocera wave and inserted a SD card.why is it not reading it,its a 64 SD card.is there a thread for the phone?.
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
I think it only accepts up to 32GB SD cards
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
OK,thanks
[General Questions and Answers] HawkNo1:
I need to know how to root mine also. I'm running Windows 7 on my laptop.
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
format the micro sdcard

you may have to format the microsd card to fat32 or something similar for the hydro wave to recognize the 64gb micro sd card
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
OK, do I need a computer for that?
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Yes. One that has a card reader. And you may need an sd adapter.. It allow you to insert a micro-sd into an sd card so it can be read by a reader. I'd recommend getting a 32 gig card though. As a fomer poster pointed out, it only takes a 32G nicro-sd.
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Thanks for everyone response
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
WELL...

not entirely, when I had a samsung galaxy exhibit(srry cheap as f**k) it said it was ONLY compatible with 32 gb microsd cards, but I used a 64gb microsd card W/ 3 partitions

main

swap

ext data

also, the built in formatter for windows will NOT format your microsd card to fat32 or any other form, you need to download a format program from online such as 2twarefat32 formatter or any other software will do.
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
How did you do that?
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
I used an app called aparted

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...jxCAeyVMYOfS06wxw&sig2=hpioksxqUcMsawYjSpJHsA

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Then i installed link2sd which mounts the second partition NOTE: both apps need root...(i used them both on my samsung galaxy exhibit & hydro xtrm)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...apk&pcampaignid=APPU_1_c9gtVvPPJYTu-AGf-aioAw
[General Questions and Answers] killermankrew:
I'm also on the hunt. I know nothing about rooting any device. I have the Kyocera c6740n also. I will subscribe to the thread. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Xstar410:
I tried all file formats for a 64gb micro sd card...hydro wave only accepts 32gb..
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
I hve also spent time on the phone with Kyocera. They absolutely refused to do any kind of helping when it comes to rooting the device. All I got was that metropcs had the phone built this way on purpose. It does not have a reset button either. What this boils down to is our freedoms being denied by a corporation. My suggestion? We begin turning against companies whom want their software to be exclusive to the phone model. Open source software is supposed to be modifiable by anyone with the knowledge.
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
Can anyone disable the "app store" app. My disable button is grayed out.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
App store is the way metro gains access to the phone, I believe.. a backdoor of sorts. Basically the people whom work for metro seem to be about as intelligent as a brick. Especially when it comes to knowing about their hardware. To put it lightly, they know nothing of their cellular service, nor the devices upon which run it.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
https://twitter.com/srsroot/status/637829406967377920 I found this on twitter. Does anyone know of this?
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
Yes, but it doesn't appear to work.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Yeah, I tried it.

You are correct. It did not work. I've found a lot about these phones that tell me they were ot made to be used as phones. More of a way to "spy" on people. I'm not a paranoid or anything. But I believe that Metro was made to make money. Not to help. That's like saying the pharmaceutical companies want to find a cure for cancer. No.. they don't. If they did, they'd be out of a job.

The sad thing is that when I go to Kyocera on the phone they say this is something Metro PCS handles. When I call them, they say Kyocera does. Neither the carrier or producer of the phone wants to claim any kind of responsibility for this. I personally find Metro PCS lacking when it comes to their tech support. The lady whom answered the phone last time did not even know what a bootloader was. In my eyes what this boils down to is an extortion scheme. While we enter into service on our own, they can choose to take our money... Yet they can also choose not to... This whole "customer service is tech support" is crap.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
I think i found someting...

Guys, Earlier, I was trying to connect my android phone to my mac with Android File Transfer for Mac( because I'm a mac user) anyway It wasn't working so I had went to about phone in setting and did the tapping the build number until i unlocked 'Developer Options' and guess what I saw....

OEM unlocking

Allow the bootloader to be unlocked

I haven't turned it on, I might just to see what happens

Not need to thank me all I want in return is credit for discovering this :o and a root method for this phone! :D:D:D:D
[General Questions and Answers] Ruhlmans:
Before claiming credit, give it a try, or check page 4 in the thread.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Alright. With Windows and Linux we use a similar program called ADB. With this tool we can open a shell within the handset, reboot into recovery, push items onto the phone, and various other features. As such, I am trying to touch upon the unlocked bootloader option. It is a dummy command. I have tried only turning this and usb debugging on. No luck. It has no effect. It is as useful as the "reset button" that isn't there. Now, as such, I've used adb to do several of the things that I listed off. One other thing I did was to look at the directory structure, and with a few exceptions, it is the same as any other android phone. This was from an interactive shell. I have a further explanation on pg 4 of this thread. No need to repeat it here. To sort of update that, I did happen to attempt to use "su" to gain root through the admin shell, and no dice.

Wow.. I tried calling T-Mobile at their customer service number. The rep was friendly, and sent me to their tech support. The second rep was also friendly, but had bad news. She said unlocking the bootloader meant the phone was rooted. But, she did "give me hope" in that she stated that the device was considered a "grey market device" And as such was another carrier's device. When asked if they use the same model, she said yes. I said, so in that case if it was rooted then I could format the storage and get a copy of their rom and place it on, should I switch to them. And she agreed with this. So, while the manufacturer and current carrier are not the best, there is some hope..
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Oh, sorry, my bad... I'll give it a try. If i successfully unlock it what's my next step?
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
If you get the bootloader unlocked, it's basically rooted. From there we need to develop a custom recovery and a custom rom w/o any bloatware.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Alright, Will doing this do any damage oncesoever to my phone/ bricking it?
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Note that I'm not necessarily an expert on doing this, allow me to share some knowledge of my experience. I've flashed routers before using DD-WRT. I've flashed 5 Wii's, soft modding them. I've done one or two other phones, which is why I'm here. I'm new at that. I've been working on PCs for the past 23 years. During that time I've tried both Linux, and Windows. I have a successful command line environment running Debian Linux on an i5 in my livingroom which serves webpages and a ts3 server.

Now, to your original question. In short, no. For a better explanation, yes and no. If you unlock the bootloader and there happens to be a virus or something, it could gain root access messing up your phone. But, the last phone I rooted and used I did not have that problem. So, some will say do not root a phone. My advice is to do so at your own risk. But, since I'm seeking the same thing, I cannot say not to root it. My samsung went into root easily. I even had it stuck in a boot loop with no os for a full day. I searched for a custom rom and finally found one. So if you do get the bootloader unlocked, please enlighten us as to how. From there, if we can get a dev's attention, I'd do everything in my power to assist in the custom recovery and rom. But, if you search google for "kyocera hydro unlocking bootloader" it sends you to anotherforum that have claims that they've unlocked it using poot. But I also believe this to be for an older version of Android... 4.4 I think...

Either way.. Time to stop rambling. I shall coninue my research today and will respond back with anything i happen to find.0
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Alright, I'm just trying to get that root access for stupid reasons i guess :silly::silly: (Emoji switcher, font switcher, etc) I'm yet to turn on the unlock bootloader option. Still working up the courage and downing the fear, anyway, do you also have the hydro wave and going to try this? and if the unlocking works (without ANY problems) should i install superuser?
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Note, the reasons you mention may be stupid to others, but evidently not to yourself. So, don't do that mate. Yes, I've turned it on. No luck. I am tempted to use adb to try a few things I've seen today. But, not sure if it will work. I'm still going to try and will report back here.Yes, I have the wave. And if it works, then yes, installing superuser would assist in some security, from what I've seen.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Okay, This is how I'm going to do it

1. Turn on Bootloader Unlocking

2. Restart

3. Check for Root Access W/ Root Checker

4. Root Access...? (Success!)

5. Install SuperUser

If not I'm going to turn it off and restart.

Sounds like a plan?

Did you do something like this before trying the things with ADB?
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
It does sound good. No, I have not. Although I remember a thread on here where the guy was telling you to do this under Linux, which is push programs with adb.. I shall look into this and see what happens.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Okay, I'm about to try this, wish me luck. and report with the results

by the way any chance I might get a bootloop?

really scared...
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
No, not a cance at bootloop because the procedure did nothing. when running rootchecker it say that it's not properly rooted. Although the option does stay enabled after reset. Hmmm, I'm curious though... Is this what is locking the "su" command in the shell? I'm going to look into that also.

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Hmmm, since I'm trying something here, I'd like to ask others.. Does anyone now of a way to gain admin access in the android os through a command line interface? I've tried "su" "root" "superuser" and "sudo". Nada works.
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Well, that was worth a shot. On to the next thing... Note - Kingroot & Kingoroot Doesn't work, although, It had failed at like 50 percent for kingoroot the first time but the second I got the 90% percent... very interesting...
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Ok.. Custom roms aside.. Is there a way to stop a phone from autoupdating after a factory reset? Or to possibly install an older version of android. Since we are dealing with 5.1 and there was a 5.0, could we put the rom on an sd card and reflash the phone to 5.0?
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Hello and good morning, I know this may be off topic. Is there a thread for the wave? I look and couldn't find any.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Yes. This is the one..
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Is there any other, like with talking about themes, apps, custom roms?
[General Questions and Answers] kenny54:
Guys, what if someone tried unlocking the bootloader W/ the option and then trying those one click applications, I think I try kingoroot since I got to 90% before.

Everyone Try Something & Report back here

Good Luck :)
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Alright. I tried both SRSRoot, Kingoroot, extensively. I also viewed and attempted several others. These others included Towelroot, Ministro/Poot, and Vroot. I shall list what I basically learned about each.

Kingo tossed an Error coded 0x001881dc I believe. And this was after leaving it for a bit. This was the apk and not the installer for PC. The reason why I did not use the second was that my antivirus kept popping up when downloading catching virii. It contained a few to say thee least. As such I chose not to even attempt install.

SRSRoot I tried both methods with. Even though it said root was achieved, it was not. So no luck with this one. Yet, this one was Tweeted on twitter and I made reference to it earlier. in this thread.

Ministro 2/Poot I tried this method after seeing an article here for the Rise with Android 4.4.4. I also believe I read where others may have been successful with these steps on the wave. The problem I kept having was that Poot called for extra files/libraries that Ministro 2 was to install. Ministro 2 would not download these files. While it would quickly flash a small dialog about beginning download, it did not. So, poot would repeatedly loop till you removed it from your system.

VRoot would run through till about 90%, then pop a screen up saying the phone could not be rooted. It would give you the option at this point to either keep trying or to stop. I've tried both options. I would exit the rooting program between attempts. Attempts would be performed in one of three ways. For the first I would use the option to keep rooting for 3 cycles. Then exit. The second was a variation on the first is that I would not exit the program, but would use option 2, stop rooting, and reset the program. The third was a variation on the second in that I would run it, hit stop rooting when option was given, and exit the program, then restart it. Neither method worked.

Towelroot was the final one I looked into. I did not download it. When clicking on the link it will take me to a page full of ansi characters. I am guessing this was my browser's way of interpreting the program as opposed to downloading it.

I know since I began viewing this thread when we purchased this model of phone that I have another method which is the Pwn by Bin4ry. I'm not entirely certain which versions I did try, but I know it was several. I hope this helps someone. If I knew what to look for when it comes to exploits, I would be more than willing to share any other knowledge I could glean. I know that they patched to this current version, 5.1, recently. But I was also hoping that a new patch may have broken an older one and maybe we get lucky. No luck. All in all, I can say good luck hunting.
[General Questions and Answers] ts_root78:
Ok.. Found a site today.. Was looking at it because it lists technical details of phones. Namely the Kyocera phone we are trying to root. My question is this.. Between the two phones that I will link to, the C6740N and the second Kyocera, are running Android.. The C6740N is running 5.1 and the S301 is running 4.4.4... Can we get a copy of the 4.4.4 ROM from the S301 and "downgrade" the C6740N, making it go from Android 5.1 to Android 4.4.4.... And then from there root the phone? From what I see the phones, hardware wise, are exactly the same. The only difference is the S301 is running a Japanese version of Android 4.4.4 ..... I am sure we could set them up in english.

The page I found this one was http://pdadb.net/

The stats for the C6740N

The stats for the S301

Are my thoughts wrong here?

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Ok.. Something else I've found. I was reading through this page on Season of Code, a site I found through Google. In the second section of the page, titled ADB, it mentions a piece of code in that I found in my logs AFTER trying to run SRSRoot. The code is "ro.secure=" It would normally be followed by a 1 or a 0.. In my logs it goes to 0 after running SRSRoot. Now, when it reboots it is set back to 1. So, before SRSRoot resets the phone in the rooting process, it is rooted. Once reset all system files are replaced with their default values, and bam.. Instant un-root! And, yes, I know this reply was to myself. I figure the more I can pass along in knowledge, the better our chances of rooting the phone.

~Not one person knows everything; But every person knows something.
[General Questions and Answers] shrty4luv:
Seem like your heading in the right direction... Good job.