Droid 4 Utility ICS Only

[thefever]

Damn, someone needs to mirror this somewhere. Download speeds are terrible. I'm downloading the tool right now. I may upload it somewhere if that is okay with the OP?

That speed is on 50Mbps Road Runner... Noticed that host site is usually very slow.

 

[jsnweitzel]

No problem if you want to mirror. All I have is slow dsl at home and 3g. Will be in a 4g area this week on biz. I will try an alternate site for upload.

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[Droid_Boi86]

I'll mirror also, better to have multiple mirrors right?..)

sent frm my Rooted DROID4 on ICS

 

[Montecarlo97z]

NM think i figured it out

 

[MidnightLight]

Anyone else having trouble re-rooting the phone after going to .217? I tried using the Droid 4 utility's root option, but it keeps giving me this result (tried it twice):

[*]
[*] Motorola ICS Root Exploit (Windows version)
[*] by Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss)
[*]
[*] Before continuing, ensure USB debugging is enabled, that you
[*] have the latest Motorola drivers installed, and that your phone
[*] is connected via USB.
[*]
[*] Press enter to root your phone...
Press any key to continue . . .
[*]
[*] Waiting for device...
[*] Device found.
[*] Rebooting device...
[*] Waiting for device to reboot...
[*] Rebooting device again...
[*] Waiting for device to reboot...
[*] Attemping persistence...
remount failed: Operation not permitted
failed to copy 'files\su' to '/system/bin/su': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: No such file or directory
failed to copy 'files\busybox' to '/system/xbin/busybox': Read-only file system
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
/system/bin/sh: /system/xbin/busybox: not found
failed to copy 'files\Superuser.apk' to '/system/app/Superuser.apk': Read-only f
ile system
[*] Cleaning up...
Unable to chmod /data: Operation not permitted
Unable to chmod /data: Operation not permitted
[*] Rebooting...
[*] Exploit complete!
[*] Press any key to exit.
Press any key to continue . . .

 

[jsnweitzel]

I rooted just fine after going from 215 to 217. Just a guess but are you sure that the phone isn't in usb mass storage?

 

[MidnightLight]

Hi jsnweitzel, thanks a lot for your quick reply and for providing this tool. Unfortunately, nope, I have my phone in "Camera" mode, not USB mass storage. I just tried it again a couple of times after double-checking the USB mode and explicitly re-selecting "Camera" mode, but still got the same error messages as before.

 

[jsnweitzel]

Hmmm I don't think it matters but I have had my phone in MTP when using this root method. Worth trying if you haven't done so already.

 

[MidnightLight]

MTP mode did not work either. But the good news is that I did manage to root my phone again by following these steps from XDA:

[ROOT][HOW-TO]Working Root Method for ICS 4.0.4 - xda-developers

Not sure why this was necessary in my case, but hopefully this helps other folks who run into the same issue.

 

[jsnweitzel]

Well that is different exploit, but glad you got it.

 

[jsnweitzel]

I can put something up later tonight. The old tool has it too.

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[orangechoochoo]

No worries, I just created a thread with the 1.7meg tool that Dan Rosenberg made. We'll have to be prepared to guide people who are can't get the update to work or for those jumping from an older leak to 217

 

[jsnweitzel]

I redo it with the 217 boot.img and then just a lite version too.

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[jsnweitzel]

OP instructions and tool updated with 217 stuff and lite version.

 

[calvertdw]

I think maybe you should rewrite the steps. Step 1 and Step 2 are the same, and Step 3 I think should come first. As I ended up downloading the update zip twice.