Acer A110 - Rooting Tool

ZM0D · December 13th, 2012, 04:45 PM

Im here to release a rooting program for the A110 i have successfully rooted and unlocked the one ive bought two days ago so i decided to make a program for all you guys to do the same as there is not much development support on the system. I am also working on porting cwm to the device if anyone knows how to do it i would be happy to provide you with the recovery.img in which i extracted from the SOS partition on the device so here it is download the program and try it out i am happy to read and respond to comments and question. Enjoy!!!

Download Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10207749/Acer%20Iconia%20(A110)%20Root%20Method.zip

palmtree5 · December 13th, 2012, 05:33 PM

Hi, I'm moving this to the All Things Root section. Thanks!

ZM0D · December 13th, 2012, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by palmtree5

Hi, I'm moving this to the All Things Root section. Thanks!

Thanks

BryanAM7 · December 14th, 2012, 08:05 PM

It works for 4.1.2?
And waht root metod it use? thx

BryanAM7 · December 14th, 2012, 08:40 PM

I tested it on my Iconia A110 with 4.1.2 and doesn't work

ZM0D · December 15th, 2012, 10:59 AM

ill have to take a look try setting usb to camera mode

jtsanda · December 15th, 2012, 12:08 PM

I have 4.1.2. It looks like I unlocked the bootloader, but when I go to root it, it says failed to copy su to "..." read only file system.

BryanAM7 · December 15th, 2012, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by jtsanda

I have 4.1.2. It looks like I unlocked the bootloader, but when I go to root it, it says failed to copy su to "..." read only file system.

Yep that its my problem too

LoL

Screenshot:

Tryed in camera mode but nothing.

Clarke88 · December 16th, 2012, 01:52 PM

Can you please give us the step by step instructions for using this program? I tried it out and didn't work. The drivers was installed successfully. When i connect my acer iconia 110 and open the program everything loads ok. Three options are displayed, I selected "root" and my acer prompts me to restore. When I do this nothing happens, everything remains the same.My device is currently running version 4.1.2. Btw what version were you running when you rooted your acer iconia 110?

JLindy · December 16th, 2012, 10:17 PM

No joy with 4.1.2... Maddeningly close close however. It gets to the point of rebooting, and telling me I'm rooted, but alas no soap... Not rooted.

JLindy · December 17th, 2012, 03:55 PM

What file permissions does the su file need 0755? If you had a copy of the su file, and the superuser.apk you could push them with the ADB, then chmod the su file and install the .apk... Hmm, I'll have to give this some thought.

fitmodel25 · December 22nd, 2012, 03:10 PM

Why is my norton antivirus program keep telling me and flagging the program sayn its infected with a harmful Trojan inside this program of urs that i just downloaded from here!?? anybody know anything about this here??

JLindy · December 23rd, 2012, 07:59 AM

I bet if you think about it for a minute you'll figure out why a tool meant for gaining root access to a device might be detected as malware.

mlk43611 · December 23rd, 2012, 08:29 AM

I just bought the Acer A110, too, and just wanted to say I appreciate your attempts to developing a rooting program. Good luck!!!

heXi · December 31st, 2012, 12:32 PM

Hey everyone, new to this forum. I really hope this device can get root, with 4.1.2. 8Gig of memory sure filled up fast, lol, would love to use the external sd for extra app room!

I made the unfortunate mistake, of doing the 4.1.2 update out of the box...

heXi · January 2nd, 2013, 11:29 AM

Update: Some better support in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915459

For anyone with the A110 who's interested. Feel free to show your support. There are a few owners with some talent, who are working on this.

It's over at XDA. Regardless of the forum, something needs to be done with this excellent tab.

heXi · January 6th, 2013, 05:40 PM

Update! Root tutorial + custom Clockworkmod Recovery (insecure)

We have created a tutorial for manually rooting the A110 running 4.1.1. We have had a 100% success rate via this method. There are also instructions on how to partition your external SD card and prep it for compatibility with the link2sd app, which has proven successful.

Tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36272743&postcount=166

The reason the toolkit no longer works with version 4.1.2, is due to "something" (either the kernel or, possibly, the bootloader) renaming the device blocks at boot, from mmcblk* to loop* -- causing issues while attempting to mount the /system partition. We have determined that the 4.1.2 update patched the kernel, which may be the cause of this anomoly.

We're working hard on 4.1.2, and currently Skellums is working on a custom recovery of CWM, compiled from source, that's insecure with fstab and initramfs. Stay tuned!