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Root Universal Androot + Froyo

Guesst

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Sep 22, 2010
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Hey all, ive been searching and havent noticed anyone reporting anything about if universal androot still stayed after updating the froyo... so i thought id report my experience... I still have superuser permissions, and root is still there, i rooter prior to the 2.2 OTA, so everything seems fine! Everybody else have the same experience?
 
Hey all, ive been searching and havent noticed anyone reporting anything about if universal androot still stayed after updating the froyo... so i thought id report my experience... I still have superuser permissions, and root is still there, i rooter prior to the 2.2 OTA, so everything seems fine! Everybody else have the same experience?


so are u able to install & use root apps? i uninstalled all my root apps but didn't unroot before going over to ota 2.2.
 
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I executed the OTA update with rooted 2.1 (Universal Androot). No problems with the update. Now cannot run root apps. I cannot run Root Explorer because the phone isn't rooted. I'll have to figure out how to move "su" from /bin to /xbin. I thought I had done that previously. I'll keep reading for any information people have.
 
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I executed the OTA update with rooted 2.1 (Universal Androot). No problems with the update. Now cannot run root apps. I cannot run Root Explorer because the phone isn't rooted. I'll have to figure out how to move "su" from /bin to /xbin. I thought I had done that previously. I'll keep reading for any information people have.

you cant move su at this point with rerooting and once you are rooted again there is no need to move it.
 
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Yeah you guys were right, im definitely a noob, i saw the superuser icon and figured it still worked, i was wrong... Guess ill have to try the D2 method as well... or just wait a few days or week, im sure someone will release an easy click way or something... So from what i take it, its not possible to copy and paste that file that needs to be in a diff bin? Why is that? i came from a windows based phone and on that you could easily just copy/cut and paste files... not comparing the two because droid blows windows outta the water, but i still figured itd be just as easy...
 
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i cant even get the ota update after unrooting , anyone have a solution

I can't remember where I read it, but apparently the update fails if you deleted some of the bloatware while rooted in 2.1. So IF you're still in 2.1 try flashing the sbf file and then run the update. It will put the stupid bloatware back on. It worked perfectly for me once I did that. But ONLY flash the sbf if on 2.1 as I'm sure you saw in the threads. Good luck
 
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I had Universal Androot 1.6.2 beta 5 installed prior to upgrading to Froyo and still have root.

Based on what I heard in the root group, I suggested the author use xbin, which he implemented in beta 5. Nice timing too, since that was the last version he released.

If you rooted with a previous version of Androot, I could see why it would have failed since that would have used bin, not xbin for su.
 
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Im currently using my DX to respond. So its a bit hard to try and search the sbf flash instructions and links where to download. So hopefully you can find it or someone will post. I'm not 100% sure that the bloatware is what it needed, buts that's all I had done was delete cityid, kindle, and amazon. Did nothing else and I had issues updating until I flashed. I'll do some searching for you when I get home
 
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