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[Droid X General] wispirer:
I used Terminal Emulator, but I think it would be the same for another terminal app.

When you are running terminal as non-root, you will see a $ at the front of your prompt. After you run the bin, and have killed terminal and started it again, you should see a # at the front of your prompt. This will indicate you have a root terminal. If you don't see the #, you need to type su, this should give you a # prompt indicating a root access terminal.

If you have an su'd terminal, you will be able to run the mount command. You cannot run the mount command unless you have a root access terminal. Make sure you type it and run it exactly as you see it on the web page. Once you have successfully executed the mount command, you type cd /system/app. This changes the directory (cd) to the system/app directory where the old Superuser.apk is located. You then remove (rm) the apk with the command "rm Superuser.apk"
[Droid X General] mbh87:
If z4 isn't working do a factory reset and not set anything up but install z4, that's what I had to do to get it to work.
[Droid X General] tgmtzmx:
wispirer thank you this solved my problem.
[Droid X General] eion:
so i followed the instructions and after i kill the terminal app and reload it i still have $. when i try to type su it prompts cannot fork

*edit - so... after some messing around of killing terminal and trying again it finally worked... ty for the help and root has been done.
[Droid X General] jer1230:
"You can now simply cd to the /system/app and rm the old Superuser.apk using your terminal."

Open Terminal Emulator

type in the following commands followed by enter each line:

cd /system/app

rm Superuser.apk

rm SuperUser.apk (<-- adding this one as I had to do it after attempting z4 prior to finding these instructions)
[Droid X General] mdbowman:
THANK YOU wispirer!!!!!! I'm rooted once again... whew!
[Droid X General] floydiannyc:
Thank you for the clarification and thank you for the original post.

I followed your instructions and the instructions you linked to and have acquired my root access. Thanks!
[Droid X General] crawcraw:
works. Thanks!

Great job to all. Thanks. :D
[Droid X General] SpectroVue:
Trying Z4 Now

I got the OTA 2.2.340 (2.2.1) update a few days ago. Was rooted before (using RootMyX2, with OS 2.2). Tried RootMyX2 again after the update, but could not get it to work. Now running Z4 to root. I'm sitting at the "Running explot..." screen, progress circle circulating; been there about 1 minute, will let it run for a while, and see what happens. Will report back, success or failure...
[Droid X General] cavneb:
You rock! Thanks so much for posting this. It worked perfectly for me.
[Droid X General] SpectroVue:
Z4 hung on the Exploit screen. I connected to USB, as had been suggested in this post, but after a good 10 minutes I just turned the phone off. I pulled the battery. After rebooting, I restarted Z4 and this time selected the Unroot option. That worked. After the phone rebooted, and shut it down and pulled the battery again (superstition, maybe). After restarting, I ran Z4 again, this time the Unroot option was not offered (duh, Unroot is only displayed if Z4 thinks your phone is already rooted, which is was before I did the OTA update). I then selected Permanent Root. I was not connected to my PC. Z4 spent maybe a minute on the Exploit screen, then went on to finish and reboot. After rebooting, I was rooted. All is good. Many thanks to all the posts on this forum for the help, and the wonderful z4root app.
[Droid X General] Guitar4Him:
Yesterday, I installed the update to Froyo. I defrosted several apps with Titanium Backup and unrooted before applying the update. Then, after the update was installed, I re-rooted using Z4Root. I did notice that it hung on the "Getting exploit" for several minutes (much longer that the original rooting took), but then, it finished, rebooted and everything's fine.

Ken
[Droid X General] jvaaz:
I am having the same problem. I rooted originally with darkonion 1 click root. I did the ota update and have tried z4root at least 10 times with no root. I tried the 1 click root again but it failed as well. does anyone have any ideas on how to re-root my dx? tia
[Droid X General] emerica243:
Read, the solution was posted here by whisper.
[Droid X General] yelrah777:
OMG i have been trying to get root access back for days now!! nothing has worked!! and this did finally!!! you sir are a freaking genius!!!!!
[Droid X General] Zachcos:
I had this same issue after upgrading to. 340 tonight. The solution posted within the AndroidCentral.com link was spot-on and solved this issue the first try
[Droid X General] veidt:
Thanks wispirer!! Your instructions worked perfectly.

(DX user who terminal rooted 2.2, did OTA for 2.2.1. Z4 failed and needed to remove the extra Superuser.apk)
[Droid X General] dsc785678:
Thanks wispirer and everyone who helped out on this post,

works great, my DX got its root back :)
[Droid X General] scorpio333:
When you say 'messing around', what does that mean??? I've followed the directions and each time I relaunch terminal (Terminal Emulator) I've got the $. I'm getting tired of typing rageagainstthecage over and over...

Rebooted and tried again and it worked...finicky, finicky this phone is
[Droid X General] wispirer:
Wispirer Instructions Working

glad to hear the instructions are working.

I also was curious what "messing around" did to fix it when the instructions got you stuck?

Anyway, glad the info helped. Let me know if you have any issues.

Wispirer
[Droid X General] atifdesign:
still not getting the rooted terminal

hi,

i am doing the instructions to the letter for the first part, and when ever i restart the emulator, i am constantly getting the $ sign. even if i type the "SU" i get permission denied. any help will be appreciated.
[Droid X General] atifdesign:
did some which kind of worked

ok, so i carefully read the commands for the first step on what it is asking for us to do, is to create the tmp folder on the root of SDcard and then move the rageagainstthecage-arm5 file to the tmp folder and then run the command, was doing the everything but i was still not getting the # sign so i used the astro to view the tmp folder and saw that the file was not there, so i copied the file using the astro from the root to the tmp folder and them re-closed the emulator and opened it up again. what do you know i got the # sign. so far so good. will report again once rooted. so for the people who are not getting the # sign the above instructions.
[Droid X General] scorpio333:
Same thing was happening to me. I rebooted the phone and then everything worked the first time.

Did you just install your terminal app or was it previously installed? I had just installed mine, could be a culprit, maybe not.
[Droid X General] atifdesign:
my phone is now rooted AGAIN thanks

hi,

ok my phone is now rooted, the instruction are spot on, but there is one point the should be added to the original instructions which is

that if you don't get the # after the killing the emulator and restarting it. you wil need to copy the "rageagainsthecage-arm5.bin" file manually to the root folder. you can do it by using the astro program, which was used to extract the original zip files. then when you kill the emulator again and run it you will get the # sign.

i am assuming that for some reason the file is not getting copied over to tmp folder. even if you type the command exactly the way the instructions says to do. so please first of all thank you for the beautiful instructions on get the root back and also if the "mod" can add the above instructions as well.
[Droid X General] WaVeS:
I wasn't able to rm Superuser.apk just keeps saying it was read only. I did the tutorial all the way through and I got root. So I'm not sure why Z4 wasn't working but I noticed the differences between the two Superuser.apk files.
[Droid X General] jesus abs:
droid x

i get to the part where u go to the mount line how do you do the rest
[Droid X General] eyepopper:
Just making a list, and make it concise

hxxp://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-2/40283-how-root-droid-2-without-computer.html (This link and "the genius" on this post deserves the credit I'm just cleaning it up for our purpose)

REQUIREMENTS:

* USB Debugging must be enabled for this to work. Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging; just make sure it's checked.

o Download: Download Droid2Root.rar ( with your phone browser)

* Astro File Manager, and AndroZip if you can't get Astro to UnRar the payload.

* A Terminal emulator program. There are some in the Android Market, just do a search. Android Terminal Emulator worked for me.

# Open Astro File Manager, and navigate to the Droid2Root.rar file you downloaded. ( found it inside downloads folder for Dolphin HD browser) Hold your finger over the name of the file until a popup menu appears. Select "Extract," move or copy file rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin to the sdcard directory. That is the only one you need.

# Open your terminal emulator application, and input the following commands: (note* spacing it is important)

* cd /tmp

* cp /sdcard/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /tmp/

* chmod 777 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

* ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

# Ignore the text that this last command spits out. Once you are returned to the $ symbol, kill the terminal by hitting (4 squares hard button) and reset terminal. Now open the terminal back up, and you should have a # symbol. Last commands

* mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

* cd /system/app

* rm Superuser.apk

* rm SuperUser.apk

# Kill the terminal again. Pull the battery. You should now have no ninja (psedo unrooted).

Install Z4root. Will give you the option to unroot again. Do the unroot. Phone will restart. Go into Z4root again and do permanent root, phone will restart, enjoy root access! :D

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[Droid X General] CBX133:
Amazing! Took a few tries to get it to the # and manually installing Z4. But all's well that ends well.. Rooted again.. Thanks guys!!!!!! Awesome work!
[Droid X General] Azure_Fang:
I have an issue here that seems to be escalating. When I first made the attempt my terminal didn't change from $ to #. Went through astro and found that RATC wasn't being copied, so I manually copied and tried again. Now, any command except "cd /tmp/" is coming up as "permission denied" or "operation not permitted", even an attempt at "rm rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin". Has anyone had this issue?

EDIT: Apparently, manual copy can screw things up. I have achieved # after come trial and error copy/deletes and am in the process of (hopefully) rerooting. Thanks given :)
[Droid X General] KingAlfred:
If you download z4root, install the app on the phone, then you MUST reboot the phone. Once you reboot, run the app then choose 'root.' It will go through the process of rooting and the phone will reboot automatically. Search in your app drawer for 'Super User' (it will be a skull with bones crossed). Search for and download 'Bootstapper' app either in the market or online (online is free). Install the app then reboot the phone. Once the phone has loaded run the app. Select 'bootstrap' and the super user permissions will appear. Make sure 'always' is checked and select allow. Next you need to download the app 'ROM Manager'. Install the app then select 'Flash Clockwork Mod Recovery'. Select your phone. Next click 'Backup Current ROM'. This will allow you to make a COMPLETE BACKUP of your phone exactly. I did this for my phone and had zero issues. Worked like a charm!
[Droid X General] mav3rick478:
Thank you wispirer, your instructions worked perfectly because I originally rooted with doRoot too.

The only things I did differently was before updating, I removed the Superuser.apk, unrooted with Z4 to remove the su binaries, installed OTA, then rerooted with Z4 which only took a minute to root because I had read about all the problems everyone was having.
[Droid X General] bjhotch:
No go here....

Sounds like everyone else is finding their way, but not me. I've Z4ROOTed until I'm blue in the face. I've tried following the instructions in this post multiple times... I've pulled the battery so often my finger tips are sore. No matter what I do, the terminal is still not root. Everything follows the script up to that point. Nothing I do seems to get me a root prompt.

Any other ideas???

Brian

Update - Somehow, after running the terminal session multiple times, the root prompt FINALLY showed up! Running Z4Root now... fingers crossed!
[Droid X General] bigsap128:
THANK YOU!!!
[Droid X General] paxderomano:
Hey there, I'm having the same problem with my DX. I have the instructions but already hit a snag. My phone is not letting me download the droid2root.rar. I get a message saying "download unsuccesful: cannot download. the content is not supported on this phone". I have unknown sources checked off in app settings. Any suggestions??
[Droid X General] bigshotrob22:
You have to download that file to your computer and you can use 7-Zip to unzip it and then copy it to your sdcard. That seems like an easier way to do it.
[Droid X General] paxderomano:
Thanks again for your help. That makes sense.
[Droid X General] bigshotrob22:
Just make sure to put it in the tmp folder if your copying the instructions given.
[Droid X General] DionFDNY:
Thanks so much!! worked like a charm
[Droid X General] gregoryx:
Fantastic. Finally got this resolved thanks to your post. Thank you so much.
[Droid X General] SoDroid:
Thank you so much for posting this tutorial Wispirer! I was considering wiping and starting all over before I saw this thread. You just saved me hours of work! :D
[Droid X General] bigfoots1:
worked like a champ and took about 1 minute..

installed the streakdroid recovery, flashed the system updater zip.. then ran superoneclick...

done.. :)

not sure how people missed this but its by far the simplest/fastest solution i saw..

Thanks again..
[Nook Color General] jgr208:
Hey so I am looking around for Christmas gifts for my mom and I think I may get her the nook. So basically my questions are what are the good and the bad of the nook completely stock, and also what apps if I get it should I get her to start off with.
[Nook Color General] califrag:
Stock nC:

Pros: Reads Books & Magazines, PDFs, & Kid's Books are great. Browses the internet. Pandora Radio. Plays some video, picture and music formats. Has 'LendMe' feature.

Cons: Books & Magazines cost money (quite expensive imho). Browser is slow and limited. Pandora is a limited\outdated version. Not all file formats supported. Very limited app support at the moment (until nookDeveloper gets going). Stuck to B&N experience look\feel\theme.

Rooted nC:

Pros: Reads Books, Magazines, Comic Books, PDFs, basically any and every format of ebook and file format. Better browser experience (full browsing experience). Youtube and many other apps. Games like Angry Birds etc etc. Many apps from Market are working. Widgets and Live Wallpapers. Better device customization (theming and overfall look and feel). Still have access to all B&N applications\services etc.

Cons: Sometimes crashes. Not everything works. Interfacing issues that require 'Soft Keys' and many other fixes. Only reliable Google apps have been Google Reader and Google Books for now. Lots of things still need patching and fixing. Possible 'bricking'

My mom asked for a nookColor by name for Christmas (well she asked for a nook, but I opted for the better version). I am debating whether I want to root hers or not.. I am really considering it...
[Nook Color General] discourse:
If it was my mom, I would root it then load it with apps, music and books that she would like. ;)
[Nook Color General] graymulligan:
Buy one.

Root it.

Keep it for yourself and buy her something from bed, bath and beyond.

:D
[Nook Color General] 10equals2:
So... The NC was rooted around a week after it came out.

That seems pretty quick to me, does it usually happen that quickly?

Also how long does it take for custom ROMs to appear?

I'm just curious, not trying to rush or anything.
[Nook Color General] therealguppy:
Yeah Week for a root on Android OS, is pretty common,

As far as custom rom, thats really up to who is working on it, could be inside the month could be a year. anyones guess. I know Someone already had a very basic Froyo booting on the Nook color, but not even close to full support yet.
[Nook Color General] zdrifter:
Probably want to remember what time of year it is ... many are probably working on holiday related things as their first priority .... seems the 'high priority' items for NC would be Gapps and Market rather than ROMs unless the Gstuff can only be done with ROMs .. but expect more activity after the first of the year.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImHuge07:
It's pretty annoying when I flash new ROMS the market restores all my apps, even ones I installed a long time ago.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fermunky:
I think you're looking for Settings > Privacy > Automatic Restore.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImHuge07:
Ah nice thank you :)
[Vibrant General] Vegastouch:
This was posted in another forum and someplace in here i think. Jus wondering if anyone has tried it and if it is anygood. Here is the post that was in androidforums.com

http://androidforums.com/vibrant-all-things-root/234000-blackhole-1-0-stable-rom-now-available-rom-manager.html

Thanks to the enthusiasm and encouragement of many vibrant users over at XDA I have finally been able to release the first stable version of my rom, Blackhole 1.0 to ROM Manager. This should be able to be flashed over any existing ROM. This is JK6 android 2.2 based.

Instructions:

Open ROM Manager

Click "Download ROM"

Click "Sonofskywalker3"

Click "Blackhole 1.0 for Vibrant"

Choose your boot/shutdown animation (if you pick "No Animations" the startup will be a blank screen, don't panic)

Choose your Browser

Choose your Calendar

Choose your Desk Clock (experimental)

Choose your extra keyboards (Swype is default because if you remove it, it's a pain to get back)

Choose your Launcher

Choose your Lockscreen (experimental)

Choose your Media Player

Choose your MMS

Choose your Modem

Choose your Theme

Choose addons (Stock apps, Live wallpapers, Widgets, extras)

Select if you want to backup your current rom (YES!!) and/or wipe data (strongly recommended)

Press ok to reboot and install

The initial bootup is usually pretty long, and depending on what you chose there may be a few force closes at your first boot, but you should be fine after that.

Standard disclaimer:

Even if you follow these instructions exactly there is no guarantee that this will work. You may brick your phone. You may get stuck with a force close loop. You may lose some data. You will void your warranty. You may catch on fire. By downloading this rom you agree that none of these things is my fault, and that any damage to personal property, mental sanity, economic stability, financial impunity or anything else that happens as a direct or indirect result of you flashing this ROM cannot be blamed on me. Capish?

Please enjoy this Custom ROM, and for any feedback, problems, requests, comments, compliments, insults, poo flinging or the like please visit the official Blackhole forums at SonofSkywalker3. I check those far more often than here, but I will still try to address any concerns here brought up here as well. And i'm always available via email at sonofskywalker3@androiddoes.net and frequently online at freenode irc channel #sonofskywalker3. Happy flashing boys and girls.

And as always, if you appreciate my work, please consider showing me a little love through the donate link in my signature. If you don't like my work, please let me know how I can fix it.
[Vibrant General] zephiK:
There's a 8 page thread about this ROM on the Development forums.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867052
[Galaxy Tab General] Roufosso:
Home and applications pages still locked after I unlocked the Screen Orientation button.?????
[Galaxy Tab General] utrx:
Yeah. Today I suddenly started suffering this problem. I cannot auto rotate anymore........
[Galaxy Tab General] mniewiera:
what firmware are you using?
[Galaxy Tab General] Roufosso:
Firmware: P1000JPJJ2

It works great but that happened recently..

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab General] Justin^Tan:
it happened to me too once, then i factory reset it

working again now
[Galaxy Tab General] Roufosso:
I found it:-)

It was a screen lock widget app.

Uninstalled then reboot
[Galaxy Tab General] xoltrix2000:
Hi. I recently installed P1000JPJJ2 (latest arabic rom) and experiencing this issue. What widget were you referring to?
[Galaxy Tab General] Roufosso:
I found it's not the wodget it's After playing any kind of video youtube, games etc that home screen do not rotate...

Just reboot and it'll rotate again
[Galaxy Tab General] dbareis:
There is a bug/feature that Samsung built into their phone (perhaps all THEIR Android phones) and this may explain your issue, in any case it explained at least 2 cases I know of:

http : //dennis2centsworth.blogspot.com/2011/02/auto-rotate-not-working-on-samsung.html

Basically do not lock orientation with anything other than the Samsung's "orientation Lock"...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quadratic:
Just wondering if newer kernels take into account the two different NAND sizes out there. If not, what potential issues might one see?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] katmandu421:
Just wondering if everyone else typically get presented with the shutdown menu when waking the tablet up? I've experienced this on TnT Lite, Vegan and Zpad. Is it just me, is there a fix and does this annoy the pi$$ out of anyone else?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scsione889:
My tablet tends to just shut completely down after a couple of minutes of being in standby. Not sure why. Haven't found a solution...though I admit that I haven't really looked all that hard either.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcom222:
I have the same problem even on the stock TnT w/OTA update. I called support and they told me it was normal, but I don't believe it. I'm on my second g tab, and the first one I had didn't have this problem (I returned it because the WiFi would show error most of the time).

It's annoying enough to me that I'm thinking of exchanging it.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HKChad:
Mine does it on cmb4
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rayan:
Mine does it sometimes, but I noticed the you can avoid that by waking the tab by pressing the volume keys insead of power button.

Regards,

Rayan
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popezaphod:
Same problem here. Will try volume keys.

-=Sent from my ViewSonic G Tablet (Zpad 2.2) using Tapatalk=-
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightCrusader:
Yeah I got that issue too.

I would assume that the code that puts the device to sleep and wakes it up doesn't cancel the keypress from propagating to the rest of the system, so the system responds to the press of the power key with a shutdown menu, and wakes up.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcom222:
I ended up exchanging mine yesterday. I just ran a quick test completely stock out of the box and the sleep seems to work properly, though it's fairly sluggish after waking (no OTA updates applied yet).

The bonus was that Sears had it on sale for $349 so I got a few bucks back.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rayan:
With the Vegan Rom theres no problem talking there tablet in or out of sleep mode, maybe it's got something to do with the standard slide to unlock android feature, but it works great all the time.

Cheers,

Rayanmx
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cshehan:
I get it maybe half the time. Noticed it on tnt lite and vegan both.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzzy John:
I am having the same issue on my stock tablet. I am almost positive this started after the December 10 OTA update (3053).
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolking2k:
I have this problem every time I set g tab to sleep, I will ask for an exchange.