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[PaulOBrien]

Introducing.... Superboot - root access for your ZTE Skate / Orange Monte Carlo!

Superboot is a boot.img that when flashed, will root your device the first time you boot (installing su and the superuser APK). No need to flash the system partition, no messing with the contents of your data partition, no overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, just flash the boot image using the instructions below and you're done!

APPLY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Before download, you need to check your device 'about' screen to determine which superboot version you need.

• Superboot for OUK_P743TV1.0.0B05 - DOWNLOAD (Mediafire Pro) - MD5: 24866507d5b2819a2369f69a5783882d

The superboot image is also 'insecure', allowing you to use 'adb remount' as well as having full ADB root access to your device.

How to use Superboot - Windows, Linux and OSX

- Download the Superboot zip file above and extract to a directory
- Ensure USB debugging is enabled in 'Settings -> Development' and that, if on Windows, you have installed any requested drivers
- WINDOWS - double click 'install-superboot-windows.bat'
- MAC - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh' followed by './install-superboot-mac.sh'
- LINUX - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh' followed by 'sudo ./install-superboot-linux.sh'

That's it! Enjoy!

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[Frankish]

Great work Paul again!

[MoreLazers]

When I try to do this and recovery I get "< waiting for device >" both times.

Debug mode is on.

[PaulOBrien]

Check your device manager for missing drivers.

If your device is showing as a 'USB drive', eject it.

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[MoreLazers]

Showing up as an "AndroidPhone" under Other devices in Device Manager, will not let me install the Google USB driver from Android SDK, and when I turn USB storage off I'm still seeing "Removable Disk F:\", even though it tells me to insert something when I try to explore it.

[PaulOBrien]

MoreLazers, on 09 August 2011 - 03:38 PM, said:

Showing up as an "AndroidPhone" under Other devices in Device Manager, will not let me install the Google USB driver from Android SDK, and when I turn USB storage off I'm still seeing "Removable Disk F:\", even though it tells me to insert something when I try to explore it.

Can you right-click and eject it?

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[MoreLazers]

Paul, on 09 August 2011 - 03:58 PM, said:

Can you right-click and eject it?

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Same result, I've also removed the SD card from the phone.

EDIT: Sorted it, managed to find the correct USB drivers after a few useless ones, Superboot and Recovery both installed now.

Edited by MoreLazers, 09 August 2011 - 04:11 PM.

[lordjubblydave]

Anyone got any ideas, i am not great with the Terminal, USB Debugging is enabled
Here is my Terminal

lordjubblydave@laptop:~$ chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh
lordjubblydave@laptop:~$ ./install-superboot-linux.sh
./install-superboot-linux.sh: line 1: chmox: command not found
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
< waiting for device >

[PaulOBrien]

The ADB connection is only exposed after the 'USB driver disk' is ejected, so you'll need to do that (not sure how that's done from the Linux command line?)

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[philmein]

MoreLazers, on 09 August 2011 - 04:03 PM, said:

Same result, I've also removed the SD card from the phone.

EDIT: Sorted it, managed to find the correct USB drivers after a few useless ones, Superboot and Recovery both installed now.

any chance of a link to the drivers
waiting for device here too windows7

[sej7278]

lordjubblydave, on 09 August 2011 - 04:29 PM, said:

Anyone got any ideas, i am not great with the Terminal, USB Debugging is enabled
Here is my Terminal

lordjubblydave@laptop:~$ chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh
lordjubblydave@laptop:~$ ./install-superboot-linux.sh
./install-superboot-linux.sh: line 1: chmox: command not found
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
< waiting for device >

it should be chmod not chmox:

chmod +x adb-linux
chmod +x fastboot-linux
./adb-linux reboot bootloader
./fastboot-linux flash boot boot.superboot.img
./fastboot-linux reboot

same goes for the clockworkmod installer. the r2 zip says "chmox" instead of "chmod" and secondly, the fastboot command is missing the "flash" bit so it should be:

chmod +x adb-linux
chmod +x fastboot-linux
./adb-linux reboot bootloader
./fastboot-linux flash recovery clockworkmod.img
./fastboot-linux reboot

note that when you reboot into the bootloader its just the green android logo, its not crashed, its just sitting there waiting for a command.

Edited by sej7278, 09 August 2011 - 05:11 PM.

[lordjubblydave]

sej7278, on 09 August 2011 - 05:03 PM, said:

it should be chmod not chmox:

chmod +x adb-linux
chmod +x fastboot-linux
./adb-linux reboot bootloader
./fastboot-linux flash boot boot.superboot.img
./fastboot-linux reboot

same goes for the clockworkmod installer. the r2 zip says "chmox" instead of "chmod" and secondly, the fastboot command is missing the "flash" bit so it should be:

chmod +x adb-linux
chmod +x fastboot-linux
./adb-linux reboot bootloader
./fastboot-linux flash recovery clockworkmod.img
./fastboot-linux reboot

note that when you reboot into the bootloader its just the green android logo, its not crashed, its just sitting there waiting for a command.

Still no joy, i still get waiting for device

[sej7278]

lordjubblydave, on 09 August 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Still no joy, i still get waiting for device

i got that (on the blade) when i did it a couple of times although i'm not sure why.

did you try running it as root, using either "su -" or "sudo -s", then running the adb and fastboot commands.

does adb devices list anything like this (obviously for skate not blade):

./adb-linux devices
List of devices attached 
Blade-CM7	device

Edited by sej7278, 09 August 2011 - 05:50 PM.

[lordjubblydave]

OK Here is what i did it worked

sudo chmod +x fastboot-linux
sudo ./adb-linux reboot bootloader


adb devices
adb reboot
adb reboot bootloader
./fastboot-linux flash boot boot.superboot.img
./fastboot-linux reboot


Running Ubuntu 11.04

Hope it helps someone, Thanks Sej

[PaulOBrien]

I spotted the chmod typo, uploading fix now but it *shouldn't* affect most people.

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[PaulOBrien]

Typo fixed version uploaded.

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[sej7278]

Paul, on 09 August 2011 - 06:15 PM, said:

I spotted the chmod typo, uploading fix now but it *shouldn't* affect most people.

maybe add that it needs to be run as root (su/sudo) in the instructions?

also note the problems are in the recovery too not just superboot.

nice fast, work by the way paul, i forgot to say earlier (oh and i managed to compile cwm 4.0.1.4 for blade btw).

Edited by sej7278, 09 August 2011 - 06:20 PM.

[PaulOBrien]

I fixed it in the recovery script too.

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[todoleo]

MoreLazers, on 09 August 2011 - 03:23 PM, said:

When I try to do this and recovery I get "< waiting for device >" both times.

Debug mode is on.

Same here!

[sej7278]

Paul, on 09 August 2011 - 07:59 PM, said:

I fixed it in the recovery script too.

not wanting to be mr.whiney thread hijacker, but r3 still says "./fastboot-linux recovery clockworkmod.img" so is still missing the "flash" bit

todoleo: did you try as root?

Edited by sej7278, 09 August 2011 - 08:08 PM.