How To root your San Diego

[Guest benichou]

too bad for the sd card, maybe a true android modder can help us. i will try to search on the internet :)

@Darkvicious ok, je vais réessayer alors, et je lis aussi pc inpact :)

[Guest]

Hopefully paul will get another one to play with now there is root :D

[Guest Santiago97]

Won't we need to specify a mount point for the sd card in android .fstab?

[Guest]

screen of android.fstab

[Guest Santiago97]

The existing /sdcard mounts the inbuilt memory. Maybe something like /sdcard1 mounted to mmcblk1 or similar?

[Guest MrJabbah]

Can I just check guys.... The process you guys are on about with the busy box binaries and all that, does that mean we'll have a more 'stable' and 'complete' root process without the flashing screen, etc?

What flashing screen?

[Guest]

The flashing screen that happens when rooting.

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Someone in terminal emulator type

su


df 

This will post the partitions etc

[Guest]

Screen

[Guest MrJabbah]

The flashing screen that happens when rooting.

I never had a flashing screen, it just rebooted and that was that.

[Guest]

I never had a flashing screen, it just rebooted and that was that.

And you have root confirmed ?

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Screen

Hm.

And what's the 1GB cache all about, that's crazy!

[Guest]

lol, would of been better giving that to us as storage space, what a waste ay.

Just for a more visual joke :lol:

Edited October 8, 2012 by Guest

[Guest MrJabbah]

And you have root confirmed ?

Well its installed superuser, how do you confirm if its rooted?

[Guest]

Well its installed superuser, how do you confirm if its rooted?

Download root checker from market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joeykrim.rootcheck&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5qb2V5a3JpbS5yb290Y2hlY2siXQ..

Edited October 8, 2012 by Guest

[Guest MrJabbah]

Just used Rootcheck, its confirmed my device is rooted with no flashy screen.

[Guest]

Just used Rootcheck, its confirmed my device is rooted with no flashy screen.

I assume you are on ICS and not gingerbread ?

Do not even think it works on gingerbread anyway, so scrap that question.

Strange how everyone else has screen flashing, but you did not, I love android it is one big complex puzzle :lol:

Edited October 8, 2012 by Guest

[Guest MrJabbah]

Yea, upgraded to ICS today from stock orange rom, went to Xolo gingerbread then to Xolo ICS.

[Guest Simon O]

lol, would of been better giving that to us as storage space, what a waste ay.

Just for a more visual joke

Not a waste. The Play Store downloads files to /cache before installing so a larger cache allows you to download and install larger apps. There are some games that are several hundred MBs large.

[Guest razzmataz1478]

Not a waste. The Play Store downloads files to /cache before installing so a larger cache allows you to download and install larger apps. There are some games that are several hundred MBs large.

But then what about phones with a 40mb cache e.g. my Skate. Downloads big apps fine. Doesn't it just overflow to /data or /mnt/sdcard ?

[Guest Simon O]

But then what about phones with a 40mb cache e.g. my Skate. Downloads big apps fine. Doesn't it just overflow to /data or /mnt/sdcard ?

Yes it downloads it somewhere else.

[Guest]

@Flibblesan, any ideas on what is blocking sd card, or is it as rickywyatt suggested, it is blocked at kernel level ?

[Guest Ribs85]

@Flibblesan, any ideas on what is blocking sd card, or is it as rickywyatt suggested, it is blocked at kernel level ?

dmesg from a root terminal might shed some light on it... but be prepared to do a lot of reading...

[Guest]

Yeah lol lots of reading, Adb logcat would be nicer though, we would get much more info if we could boot with it running.

Na cannot see nothing with dmesg, just a reference to usb storage being used.

I am sure there was a video with intel using sd card, but then again it was most likely not a production line device, so would have had unlocked bootloader, and everything working I guess. But why drop the sd card ?

Wait.....found a kernal command line with sdcard in it, not to good at reading these things, but it might be something.(line 108 on pastebin)

Kernel command line: init=/init pci=noearly console=logk0 earlyprintk=nologger loglevel=4 hsu_dma=7 kmemleak=off androidboot.bootmedia=sdcard androidboot.hardware=mfld_pr2 emmc_ipanic.ipanic_part_number=6 androidboot.wakesrc=05 androidboot.mode=main

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Entire Dmesg: http://pastebin.com/WAJHgkHm

Edited October 8, 2012 by Guest

[Guest stephen m]

Just used Rootcheck, its confirmed my device is rooted with no flashy screen.

So just to confirm. The root process detailed above leaves a flashing screen on some but not all. And is safe!