This worked like a charm took the battery out for a few seconds turn my phone back on it took a few seconds and rebooted and now i have root. thanks for the tip
For the life of me I can not seem to get z4root to work for me with the v2.3.340 OTA after I lost my root from updating. I tried the battery pull method... did not change anything. Z4 root still sits there with the spinning image while it says Running exploit in order to obtain root access... this happens when I select the permanent root option. Temporary root seems to complete through... but doesn't give me root access. Should I try the unroot option and then retry? Any other tips? Is anyone else having this issue?
Well looks like it worked this time... I don't know what the deal is with the z4 root but I've seen some people say it takes up to 2 hours, and some only 15 seconds.
I was one of the first ones to update to OTA 340. When I noticed root wasn't working, I clicked on "root" and after about 10 seconds the boot animation came up, but I was rooted.
The app works fine. You just have to be patient with it. I have a droid x.
My first try was a fail. It got "stuck" at the spinning wheel for about 2 minutes then I got impatient and pulled the battery early.
Second attempt worked fine. I selected permanent root, allowed the phone to do its thing for about 15 (maybe more) minutes, then the phone rebooted itself. Once done it was rooted fine. I knew because of the super user icon in my drawer.
So when I first ran Z4root, I tapped 'temporary root,' and it seemed to work flawlessly.
I immediately installed some random Rom that looked alright from Clockworkmod. After some research, I really wanted to install the Rubix rom instead..
However my phone was no longer rooted and clockworkmod did not reboot my DX into Recovery mod, subsequently I could not install the rom.
Decided to run Z4root again however it did not work. Kept freezing, kept exiting, and even restarted my phone once however when I booted back up, phone was still not rooted. I literally went through the process about 15 times. Some BS, I know haha.
Anyways, finally installed z4root 1.1 instead of 1.3, put my phone into airplane mode, and it seems to have worked...
Still working on getting Rubix though. Good luck to all you z4root users.
The first time I tried Z4, it was stuck for about 30 minutes. Since then I reboot prior to running it and since then I have never had it take more than a few minutes.
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I always get stuck on my first try. I have always just exited with the home button and reselected z4 from the app drawer. Works fine the second time every time. I guess everybody's DX is different.
Even GingerBreak won't root GingerBread for the X...you can only get root on the DX (currently) by installing the two-part, pre-rooted .zip from P3Droid.
Z4root will work on 2.2/Froyo, though.
[edit: although I am puzzled by CraigAD89's post above...was he on Froyo?]
The first time I tried Z4, it was stuck for about 30 minutes. Since then I reboot prior to running it and since then I have never had it take more than a few minutes.
+1 for reboot phone after installing the app. Works for me everytime.
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It worked!
