I just bought my htc evo shift...I was wondering if the z4root will work on this phone I have it downloaded n tried to install once but got scared and pulled the battery...can anyone tell me if this would be safe..I'm not trying to make my phone a paper wieght any info would be appreciated..
It works and is safe for temporary root only. Permanent root has not been established yet.
Already discussed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906711
z4root does work on evo shift
z4root worked on the evo shift, but as a temporary root exactly perfect for me I just wanted the overclock option and wifi tether...whoo I'm excited...thanks to u all who helped.
mlucero312 said:
z4root worked on the evo shift, but as a temporary root exactly perfect for me I just wanted the overclock option and wifi tether...whoo I'm excited...thanks to u all who helped.
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there is no ability to overclock.
overclock dnt work on shift
I'm disapointed tht overclock dnt work...but atleast I got tether
z4root borked my phone so badly I had to hard reset. Made it freeze up and slow down to a crawl after reboot.
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z4root borked my phone so badly I had to hard reset. Made it freeze up and slow down to a crawl after reboot.
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Happened to me the first time I tried it to. Try again and I bet it works like a charm!
shift refusing to factory reset
So I'm in need of some assistance I installed z4root n decided to unroot n just stick to my factory settings...so I uninstalled all root apps and z4root n then I tried to do a factory reset n it just refuses to do it...I tried the holding the volume button down then power on it justs gets stuck at the screen which says htc. What do I need to do?
z4root destroyed my phone :'( it lags to hell now. I tried to reapply it as was suggested, but it doesn't show up on my applications list. I can't even reinstall it... it takes a long time to try and install it and then it says "Application not installed."
If you have the Superuser APK showing up go into Settings, Applications, and uninstall it. Then pull the battery or power down and restart.
That's what helped me.
It took a while but Z4 showed back up on mine and I was able to uninstall it. I'm using +Visionary now myself and it has been great, just have to uninstall Superuser everytime I power off.
I tried to use Z4 version 1.1 (the link downloaded that one) and it didnt work. It begun to do the root process and then it froze. I reset my phone and uninstalled it. Then I found out about the newer version 1.3 and tried that one and has worked flawlessly the 2 times I had to use it.
visionary+
Worked great, correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that z4root has been blocked with the evo shift. So after I messed up my 1st phone n replaced it n rooted with visionary+ n I like it..I. havnt tried the permaroot because I don't think its been worked out yet but if anyone has permarooted the evoshift let me know....I want to overclock my phone...so ill be waiting
For those of you breaking your phones with Z4root, you should definitely Run the RUU from Sprint in order to "unroot" and not just try to delete the items you installed in order to root in the first place. Download the proper HTC drivers or HTC Sync, download the RUU that can be found on the Android Development page on the Evo Shift Forums here at XDA, and Run the Ruu straight from your computer while having your phone plugged in and USB Debugging on OR you can do it from Recovery mode OR you can do it from Fastboot. Either way, as soon as you run the RUU, everything will be done for you and you won't have to do a thing but sit back and watch! Hope this helps.
z4root
Z4root is great and I don't blame it for my stupidy I messed woth some stuff I knew nothing about...
I think I will wait for something permanent do I don't potentially mess up my phone after all the hours I put in to set it up.
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My "uptime" so far is 169:17:40 and counting since I rooted my phone with Z4Root. I can't wait for perma root...
What's your uptime so far...?
z4root works fine for me as long as I run it immediately after reboot. Otherwise, it can hang, or reboot the phone into a weird state, etc.
I'm using visionary+ now...I heard that the permaroot they use for the htc desire will work on the shift since they are basiclly the same phone...z4root takes up 24mb n visionary takes up like 2.8mb of space so I decided to stick with visionary+
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Oh n temporary root will not likely mess ur phone up since pretty much everything stays stock
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when i try to use visionary perm root, it F**ed up my phone...
i get the visionary temp root loops
Tired rage method it didnt work either.
i searched up no real solution there.
(someone said i need to downgrade, but i have S-OFF and cant not get temp root, so its a no go for me)
G2 got OTA already and i can boot .. just cant root!
can someone help my friend please.
Do you have super user installed? And what exactly does visionary do when u try and root it?
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no super user installed
visionary just keep saying rooting please wait or something like that, sometime it just exist itself out and no temp root, sometimes it will stay at that rooting screen for hours, sometimes it went to a black screen which i have to take the battery out.
tried factory reset in fastboot, no luck either.
only thing i have there is S-OFF...
note : i can temp root before i tried to perm root with visinoary r14
Look at your running apps (in the manage application menu) kill everything that isn't stock. I was having the same problem, and when most people weren't complaining, thought an app of mine might be causing a conflict. And it worked for me, so try it out.
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no super user installed
visionary just keep saying rooting please wait or something like that, sometime it just exist itself out and no temp root, sometimes it will stay at that rooting screen for hours, sometimes it went to a black screen which i have to take the battery out.
tried factory reset in fastboot, no luck either.
only thing i have there is S-OFF...
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so you have S off now? Can you get to recovery? If so download and flash a rocovery image like clockwork. After you get clockwork flashed just download and flash whatever ROM you want. They will all have root for you. If you cant get to recovery do a search for visionary boot loop fix. There was a whole post on the steps needed to fix it.
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I have done the one step root and it doesnt seem to work. I go to superuser permissions and it just force closes. This phone was rooted before perfectly fine with the same method. Even SetCPU doesnt open. Its always that dumb superuser force close.
EDIT: I dont have any one click root errors or any other errors while in samsung recovery. It said it applied the update when I go to reinstall packages. No errors whatesoever.
EDIT: I tried the 1.5.5 and it just gets stuck in the loop and says to disable usb debugged. I unplugged phone and disabled usb debugging but when I do that it gets stuck on waiting for device.
Have you used Z4root its not on market anymore but here is a link for it
http://www.4shared.com/file/HvJ7Anrq/z4root130.htm
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you can also use the OCLF app to root, thats what i always use
It worked with z4root but now how do I flash my cyanogenmod on it? I did the install rom from sd card and it took me to samsung recovery.
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It worked with z4root but now how do I flash my cyanogenmod on it? I did the install rom from sd card and it took me to samsung recovery.
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You have to install clockworkmod, then click reboot to recovery, click install from packages, then should be good (if it doesn't go to clockworkmod after that, reboot, and repeat). I have rooted several of these bad boys for co-workers the last couple weeks, and found clockworkmod didn't always take first time through as it does on other devices I have modded.
I flashed the galaxy s cm6.1.2 beta 1 and it gets stuck on boot screen and says Galaxy S GTI9000. I cant get to recovery by holding the volume key up. I dont know what to do now.
Ok Obviously Samsung fascinate...i used Odin to flash over the new DL09 to upgrade from my DI01, great cool!
Then i used Android Central rooting tool (basically cause its the only one i know of) which i have used 2or 3 times now with a successful root everytime, works like a charm like always.
However when Verizon messed up with a Emergency Call placing under lock screen they OTA EA28 to my phone, somehow i lost my root, ok still not a problem, i go back to my favorite little tool i start her up, this time, with all driver in place just fine, with my phone is USB Debugging as requested, phone restarted and unlocked everytime, my phone isn't recognized?
I've re-installed everything, even the drivers, i've removed all the superuser, all that good stuff off my phone, still no love from the phone?!
HELP!!!!
Edit- I thought about re-flashing DL09, but then the OTA will kick in re-install EA28 and i'll be back to square one!
Use superoneclick it worked for me. If you have problems using superoneclick then power your phone off and on while usb still pluged in while on debug mode
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Use superoneclick it worked for me. If you have problems using superoneclick then power your phone off and on while usb still pluged in while on debug mode
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Awesome! Not sure if the one i was using just doesnt like the EA28 version, but the Super One Click did the trick! Thanks for the quick reply and the help its runs like a charm!
Glad I could help
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Just looking around trying to figure out a way to root this update and I seen this thread tried superoneclick and now im rooted thanks
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I cannot get a temp root for my EVO Shift. Therefore, I cannot proceed with root.
I tried z4root. It reboot after I click temp root. It runs very slow and denied su.
Visionary is the same. Not able to get a temp root.
Anybody has an idea? It is the same before and after 2.3 OTA.
Ok this is what I used to do... Sometimes works sometimes doesnt , u need visionary.. perm root with shiftrr its really easy
What should happen...
Boot device
Click VISIONary icon
Phase 1 runs
Logo disappears briefly as app reloads
Phase 2 runs
App disappears and root is complete
That's what paul says the developer but this is how I got it to work... This might work I havnt done it in a while so ill try to remember
Ok...
1 turn on airplane mode (very important)
2 turn on 'root on boot' or whatever I don't really remember
3 press temp root (it should just reboot ur phone and go to the boot animation)
4 immediatly as ur phone starts up unlock and hold down power and turn off
5 turn ur phone back on
6 wait for it to boot up before unlocking (time is everything, its going to take a couple of trys probubly)
7 unlock ur device and visionary should be running... If the logo flashes on visionary its working just let it do its thing
Forum that helped me...
http://android.modaco.com/content/software/320350/19-nov-r14-visionary-one-click-root/
No I'm not using Tapatalk... I'm using the XDA Premium app, cause I got balls.
Did you take the OTA update, if so, I'm not sure anyone has rooted it yet....otherwise....
Why not perma root? I did this to my friends EVO Shift today in just a few minutes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976605&page=12
I'd recommend you watch this 8 min video if you're unsure how to proceed with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6lRDB6Ob8
You ran the OTA update from the popup msg on your phone? If you did then you will have to wait til the devs how to root that update. Sorry
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Yea, OP says he tried visionary, both before and after the 2.3 OTA update. Now that 2.3 is applied, there is no current root method or restore to 2.2 method available. Gonna have to wait until the exploit is found.
If I root my new Defy Plus using the one click root, how can I unroot it again, if I needed to send it back for example ?
Would a regular 'factory reset' take it back to unrooted state, or is there something else I'd need to do.
Try the unroot option in soc. If out don't work you can flash an avg anytime to restore the phone to 'just out of box' condition
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Hi,
Not sure if Super one click will root the Defy plus. I tried it the first defy plus I got and it would not work.
Droid3 root did work though. I had to send it back due to it continually re booting. Used Pete's Root tools (think that's what it was called to un root it). Must have worked as I was sent a replacement phone with no problems.
Mind you the touch screen was faulty on that one. On my third defy plus and it is working fine after three days, fingers crossed!
Regards
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Yes its the droid 3 root that works on the defy plus, I'll have to have a look for Pete's root tools if that's the way to unroot again.
does anyone know how can i be sure if my phone is unrooted or not? is that sure that pete's tools work?
Well, m8be a stupid question..
But what does it do ?
Can i put some other software on the root of this phone like i did on HTC ?
yes you can use new features on your phone like adblocker apps and for example you can delete apps that were installed on the device when you bought it.
Well i rooted my phone and somehow my camera (view from screen) ****ed up.
I tried a different android proggie from the market and did the same error.
So unroot did do the job and gave my camera and gave my view back.
Some1 got the same problem ?
I've never heard about such a problem before. but what program did you use to root and unroot the phone? cus we heard about a a few programs which work but let's make these things clear
DROID 3 easy root script v7
I also rooted my defy plus this afternoon, I used the newest version (2.3.1.0) of Super One Click and it worked. Both rooting and unrooting were finished and I also checked it with a few apps which need a rooted phone. Both rooting and unrooting were succesfull.
Because some apps works only on a rooted handy i tried again
with DROID 3 easy root script v7.
Superuser seems to work now.. also my camera
The only thing i didn't do is to go into boot section after the blue led thing.