Adding root too stock ROM?

[Guest Sami Beck]

Im Just wondering what you have to do to give root acess to a ROM that hasnt already got it, I dont mean just for the blade but for all android devices in general?

[Guest plegdroid]

universal androot will work, you need to chk which one to use though, there's one version that will work upto android 2.2(1.6.2 beta 5) and another for above that. beta 6.

Edited August 27, 2011 by plegdroid

[Guest Sami Beck]

universal androot will work, you need to chk which one to use though, there's one version that will work upto android 2.2(1.6.2 beta 5) and another for above that. beta 6.

no i mean so when you actaully flash the rom its prerooted.

[Guest plegdroid]

misunderstood, sorry mate, all the custom roms for the racer their all hard rooted, was under the impression that all others would be too.

[Guest KonstaT]

You need to do three things:

-add/replace /system/bin/su (make sure that permissions are correct)

-add /system/app/Superuser.apk

-set ro.secure=0 in default.prop

You need to unpack boot.img to edit default.prop. There might also be lines in init.rc that give wrong permissions to /system/bin/su.

[Guest Sami Beck]

You need to do three things:

-add/replace /system/bin/su (make sure that permissions are correct)

-add /system/app/Superuser.apk

-set ro.secure=0 in default.prop

You need to unpack boot.img to edit default.prop. There might also be lines in init.rc that give wrong permissions to /system/bin/su.

How do you unpack it? I can get it to be the zimage and the ramdisk if thats what you mean?

[Guest t0mm13b]

How do you unpack it? I can get it to be the zimage and the ramdisk if thats what you mean?

Konstat is referring to the ramdisk where it needs to be ungzipped and cpio'd

gzip -dc boot.img-ramdisk.gz | cpio -i

There you can get at the default.prop. Make the changes necessary, then, to repack it -

mkbootfs ramdisk | gzip > new_ramdisk.gz

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[Guest KonstaT]

Yes, and here is good tutorial: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack%2C_Edit%2C_and_Re-Pack_Boot_Images

There is also a link to split_bootimg.pl that you need when you split boot.img to zImage and ramdisk.

[Guest unrandomsam]

You need to do three things:

-add/replace /system/bin/su (make sure that permissions are correct)

-add /system/app/Superuser.apk

-set ro.secure=0 in default.prop

You need to unpack boot.img to edit default.prop. There might also be lines in init.rc that give wrong permissions to /system/bin/su.

Permissions on su being

6755

[Guest Sami Beck]

Permissions on su being

6755

what?

[Guest t0mm13b]

what?

He meant this

chmod 6755 /system/bin/su

That's from the adb shell command line....

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