Mac Rooting Problem. Please Help!

Nick7893 · April 15th, 2012, 09:46 PM

I'm attempting to root my Bionic running the new .904 leak. I've read where others have been successful, however every time I try to run motofail on my mac(10.7.3), it says

"daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully"

I'm not sure what that means. Any help would be much appreciated.

Nick7893 · April 15th, 2012, 11:16 PM

Anyone?

Bob Blaylock · April 16th, 2012, 01:03 AM

Rooting a Macintosh is not difficult at all.

Just run the application found at /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager.app

Go to the “Security” menu, select “Authenticate”, and enter the username and password for an account that has admin access.

Go to the “Security” menu again, and select “Enable Root User”.

That's it. Now your Macintosh is rooted.

Jeffery · April 16th, 2012, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

I'm attempting to root my Bionic running the new .904 leak. I've read where others have been successful, however every time I try to run motofail on my mac(10.7.3), it says

"daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully"

I'm not sure what that means. Any help would be much appreciated.

In UNIX a "daemon" is a background process. What you are seeing in the Terminal is just motofail beginning the rooting process. Just follow the steps that should appear below "* daemon started successfully" in the Terminal and you will be fine.

tehsusenoh · April 16th, 2012, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

I'm attempting to root my Bionic running the new .904 leak. I've read where others have been successful, however every time I try to run motofail on my mac(10.7.3), it says

"daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully"

I'm not sure what that means. Any help would be much appreciated.

If rooting isn't working, I would probably FXZ to 902, root, then use OTA Root Keeper and update again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Blaylock

Rooting a Macintosh is not difficult at all.

Just run the application found at /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager.app

Go to the “Security” menu, select “Authenticate”, and enter the username and password for an account that has admin access.

Go to the “Security” menu again, and select “Enable Root User”.

That's it. Now your Macintosh is rooted.

Um, this isn't remotely related to Android...

eyedea · April 16th, 2012, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

I'm attempting to root my Bionic running the new .904 leak. I've read where others have been successful, however every time I try to run motofail on my mac(10.7.3), it says

"daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully"

I'm not sure what that means. Any help would be much appreciated.

Make sure you are trying to run the Motofail for Mac.
Get it here... Security Research by Dan Rosenberg
Motofail works for .904

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 11:02 AM

After it says successful nothing happens.... I'm trying to troubleshoot, I just don't know where to begin.

eyedea · April 16th, 2012, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

After it says successful nothing happens.... I'm trying to troubleshoot, I just don't know where to begin.

After "daemon started successfully" nothing happens?
Are you using the cord that came with your phone?
Your phone is set to USB debugging?

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 02:18 PM

Yes to all of the above

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 03:18 PM

Here's what's happening, thought it'd be easier to show. I used eyedea's link, the stock usb cable, in debugging, in charge-only; and I dont know what to do. It sat idle like this for well over 30min

Satires · April 16th, 2012, 03:44 PM

This may sound stupid of me. I don't clearly remember but, I think I had my usb setting on "pc" and not "charge only" when I rooted. Sorry if I'm wrong. Maybe see if another member chimes in to see if it were to hurt your phone before trying my suggestion.

Edit: I rooted running ubuntu linux, it hung in the process kinda like yours but I don't remember what the error was. I could of swore at that point that's when I changed my usb setting to "pc" and it suddenly found my device. Again, forgive me if I'm wrong, it might be worth a try.

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 03:55 PM

I'll definitely give it a try, and I'd also like to thank everyone on this forum for how helpful they are. Truly a wonderful place

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 04:00 PM

Nothing... *sigh*

Satires · April 16th, 2012, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

Nothing... *sigh*

Sorry...

Maybe as the other member posted. Go back to. 902, root and then get that for ever root thing...

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 04:22 PM

How would I flash 902 on a mac? I know how to do it on a pc, I just don't have one.

eyedea · April 16th, 2012, 05:53 PM

Did you follow this: a Linux/OSX version of the script is available here. Same deal: USB debugging mode, attach to PC, extract zip file, change into the zip directory, and invoke “./run.sh” from a shell.

Satires · April 16th, 2012, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

How would I flash 902 on a mac? I know how to do it on a pc, I just don't have one.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure with a Mac. I run ubuntu and just happened to have a windows machine sitting around.

I wish there was a script to reflash the bionic with linux/mac cuz I hate windows.

What I do when I need to know something is just google what I need to know and gather my information from various sources and rarely just one.

Nick7893 · April 16th, 2012, 09:58 PM

Installed windows via virtual box and just did it on there. Thanks! Now.... What roms to flash

Satires · April 16th, 2012, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

Installed windows via virtual box and just did it on there. Thanks! Now.... What roms to flash

Eclipse is pretty awesome, I just loaded it last night.

I don't think I'll be going back to stock.

pleanbean · April 18th, 2012, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick7893

Installed windows via virtual box and just did it on there. Thanks!

Glad you got it to work. Just for the future, I was hanging at 'daemon started successfully' until I switched from PC mode to Charge Only mode, then found my device immediately and rooted without any problems. Good luck to everyone.