Help rooting Droid Razr 4.1.2?

[nastybynature]

yeah but pdanet requires a program to be installed on pc and it also creates a strange network type. Wifi tether works straight out of the box with the wifi tether for root. I'd still change the entitlement check to 0 on that one though.

If I do this to get root, will I be able to revert back to bone stock in case I need to warranty replace my phone?

 

[Krenzy]

You can go back to stock but they will be able to tell it was rooted.

 

[FoxKat]

Grabbed Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip from Superuser
extracted the su and superuser.apk to root of where adb.exe is.

Some of this you can possibly cut out but I was basically just trying different things til I got it to work plus i wanted the su and superuser.apk on root of sdcard incase needed again.

I'm on win 8 pro so I had to set it to run as admin for adb to even work.

commands:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs1 /dev/block/system /system

adb push su /sdcard/
adb push superuser.apk /sdcard/
adb shell
su
cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/
cp /sdcard/superuser.apk /system/app/


Don't have to reboot I don't think but always best to so you don't have to set read-only on system again. check to see if you have root with root check basic or whatever app you want.

Let me know if it works for you. I'd even consider starting a remote session and trying it if anyone would be up for it.
I'm pretty sure that's all I had to do.

This is great info and I am going to give it a run now! Thanks SOOOOO Much for posting this. You make this community that much better with your exploration and generosity. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck! :biggrin:

Update: I ran Command and ADB'd in. It found the Spyder, then I tried the Mount command, but it failed "Operation not permitted". How do I run Command in Admin mode>?

Tried push su, ended with "error: device offline".

 

[enkryptik]

This is great info and I am going to give it a run now! Thanks SOOOOO Much for posting this. You make this community that much better with your exploration and generosity. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck! :biggrin:

Update: I ran Command and ADB'd in. It found the Spyder, then I tried the Mount command, but it failed "Operation not permitted". How do I run Command in Admin mode>?

Tried push su, ended with "error: device offline".

Right click and goto properties. Somewhere should have run as admin box.
When you enter su does it deny you?

 

[FoxKat]

Right click and goto properties. Somewhere should have run as admin box.
When you enter su does it deny you?

SU not found.

 

[YelloEye]

Perhaps something he did earlier setup something for root?

 

[enkryptik]

I had device offline before running as admin. I've verified that I had no su prior to doing this

 

[YelloEye]

SU not found.

I just tried his instructions as well, mine fails at the 2nd step with

/system/bin/sh: su: not found

Won't let me push su anywhere giving me a

error: device offline

 

[enkryptik]

You should be able to at least push it to \sdcard\ as that's not a protected area.

 

[YelloEye]

You should be able to at least push it to \sdcard\ as that's not a protected area.

Device offline if I try to push there.

I'm running CMD as admin and have ADB set to always run as admin so I don't think it's on the Windows end. Also if I try to push su to /sdcard/ from the command prompt I get a copy failed: Permission denied message.

Currently have USB debugging on and connected as mass storage.

I can LS all day around the file system, even checked /system/bin/ to look for SU, wasn't there. But I get the device offline if I try to push anything.

That mount command gives me an operation not permitted error.

 

[enkryptik]

one more thing, as i was having trial and error. i tried orignally to root via droidrazr utility 1.82 and it did the several reboots but still had no root. then i tried those commands. i think maybe it could've given su over adb which may have allowed me to continue further. Problem is that I tried a million things til I finally got it working. I do seem to recall way back in early droid days that you could have su over adb but not on the device itself.

 

[YelloEye]

I'll wait to see what you guys figure out over the next couple of days, I won't have my laptop until Tuesday. Don't want to weigh down my girlfriend's machine anymore.

 

[FoxKat]

enkryptik and I are going to give it another try on my PC, but right now I have multiple instances of ADB and they keep fighting for control. Can't push anything. I am trying to get rid of them and start clean.

 

[YelloEye]

Anxiously awaiting your results.

 

[enkryptik]

This process isn't going well. We followed same steps exactly to get jb which was stock ics, ics root, ota rootkeeper, protect root. jb update. Neither one of us did the temp unroot.
Somehow mine is rooted after this and we cannot seem to reproduce this on FoxKat's atm.