Root Lets root this thing.

[radford]

I bought a coolpad, I know.

So anyways...

I've seen a supposed guide for the 5860e to root but it does not work. Besides that it's in Chinese.
dashidotcom
I installed the adb drivers from Coolpad's website.
coolpadamericasdotcom

I tried SuperOneClick v2_3_3 just for giggles, no joy. I'm assuming it has some sort of hidden bootloader. The computer (win7) does not detect the phone to load a driver in recovery. Just can't grasp that one can someone explain? In any case there does not seem to be anything to support rooting or unlocking it anywhere. I also tried various gingerbreak versions.

I emailed Coolpad's support and got the following response.

Hi Mr. *******,

Currently we do not have a process to Root our device. I have checked back with our Engineering team and we are also unable to provide this information.

I apologize for the inconvenience,
Reverse Logistics Department

Hey, it was worth a shot.

Just want to share what I've found.

 

[radford]

One update.
I followed a post that explained I had the wrong driver loaded. The solution was to manually select the drivers in google's android sdk to update the coolpad stock drivers. Sure enough, fastboot can be accessed but it's locked of course. oem unlock does not work, error message is oem unlock failed <remote failure>. So back to square one.

On another note,

Hello Mr. xxxxxx,

I have discussed this with our engineering department and we are unable to provide this information as well.

I apologize for the inconvenience again,
Reverse Logistics Department

I asked for a rom dump.

Can't say I didn't try.

 

[slutyman]

can someone help make poot.apk root this phone?

 

[giantpune]

Run "ls -l /dev" and past the output somewhere and I'll tell you if it even has a chance of working.

 

[tommymel]

giantpune im a total noob at this but can you develop a poot for the htc one or see if its even possible i know there are users on here with one

 

[Hashtag]

the pune has already said what needs to be done to check. Run ls -l /dev and give him to output. You can do with with a terminal emulator, or adb.

 

[Theo415]

Hey well thanks for offering to help - if you're still up for it then here's the code:

$ ls -l /dev
crw------- root root 7, 135 2012-10-16 16:50 vcsa7
crw------- root root 7, 7 2012-10-16 16:50 vcs7
crw-rw---- adb adb 10, 47 2012-10-16 16:50 android_adb
crw------- root root 10, 48 2012-10-16 16:50 ums_dev
crw------- root root 233, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyGS1
crwxrwxrwx root root 233, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyGS0
crw-rw---x system system 10, 49 2012-10-16 16:50 usb_change_mode
crw-rw---- adb adb 10, 50 2012-10-16 16:50 android_adb_enable
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-10-16 16:50 timer -> /dev/snd/timer
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-10-16 16:50 controlC0 -> /dev/snd/controlC0
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-10-16 16:50 pcmC0D0p -> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-10-16 16:50 pcmC0D0c -> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
drwxr-xr-x system system 2012-10-16 16:50 cpuctl
crwxrwxrwx root root 234, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 gsensor
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 3 2012-10-16 16:50 video6
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 2 2012-10-16 16:50 video5
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 video0
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 video10
crwxrwxrwx root root 235, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 DspBridge
crwxrwxrwx root root 236, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 taos
crw------- root root 237, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 lte_modem
crwxrwxrwx root root 238, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 yl_android_device
crwxrwxrwx root root 239, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 omap-prev2resz
crwxrwxrwx root root 240, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 omap-resizer
crwxrwxrwx root root 241, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 omap-previewer
crwxrwxrwx root root 242, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 tlv320aic3204
crwxrwxrwx root root 243, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 speaker_amp
crwxrwxrwx root root 244, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 echo_clear
crw------- root root 245, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 twl4030_test
crw-rw---- radio vpn 108, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 ppp
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 mtd
crw------- root root 248, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 yl_reboot_flag
crw-rw-rw- root root 249, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 yl_params
crwxrwxrwx root root 250, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 vibrator
crw-rw-rw- root root 252, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 pvrsrvkm
crw------- root root 7, 129 2012-10-16 16:50 vcsa1
crw------- root root 7, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 vcs1
crw------- root root 7, 128 2012-10-16 16:50 vcsa
crw------- root root 7, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 vcs
crw-rw-rw- root root 5, 2 2012-10-17 16:33 ptmx
crw------- root root 4, 63 2012-10-16 16:50 tty63
crw------- root root 4, 62 2012-10-16 16:50 tty62
crw------- root root 4, 61 2012-10-16 16:50 tty61
crw------- root root 4, 60 2012-10-16 16:50 tty60
crw------- root root 4, 59 2012-10-16 16:50 tty59
crw------- root root 4, 58 2012-10-16 16:50 tty58
crw------- root root 4, 57 2012-10-16 16:50 tty57
crw------- root root 4, 56 2012-10-16 16:50 tty56
crw------- root root 4, 55 2012-10-16 16:50 tty55
crw------- root root 4, 54 2012-10-16 16:50 tty54
crw------- root root 4, 53 2012-10-16 16:50 tty53
crw------- root root 4, 52 2012-10-16 16:50 tty52
crw------- root root 4, 51 2012-10-16 16:50 tty51
crw------- root root 4, 50 2012-10-16 16:50 tty50
crw------- root root 4, 49 2012-10-16 16:50 tty49
crw------- root root 4, 48 2012-10-16 16:50 tty48
crw------- root root 4, 47 2012-10-16 16:50 tty47
crw------- root root 4, 46 2012-10-16 16:50 tty46
crw------- root root 4, 45 2012-10-16 16:50 tty45
crw------- root root 4, 44 2012-10-16 16:50 tty44
crw------- root root 4, 43 2012-10-16 16:50 tty43
crw------- root root 4, 42 2012-10-16 16:50 tty42crw------- root root 4, 41 2012-10-16 16:50 tty41
crw------- root root 4, 40 2012-10-16 16:50 tty40
crw------- root root 4, 39 2012-10-16 16:50 tty39
crw------- root root 4, 38 2012-10-16 16:50 tty38
crw------- root root 4, 37 2012-10-16 16:50 tty37
crw------- root root 4, 36 2012-10-16 16:50 tty36
crw------- root root 4, 35 2012-10-16 16:50 tty35
crw------- root root 4, 34 2012-10-16 16:50 tty34
crw------- root root 4, 33 2012-10-16 16:50 tty33
crw------- root root 4, 32 2012-10-16 16:50 tty32
crw------- root root 4, 31 2012-10-16 16:50 tty31
crw------- root root 4, 30 2012-10-16 16:50 tty30
crw------- root root 4, 29 2012-10-16 16:50 tty29
crw------- root root 4, 28 2012-10-16 16:50 tty28
crw------- root root 4, 27 2012-10-16 16:50 tty27
crw------- root root 4, 26 2012-10-16 16:50 tty26
crw------- root root 4, 25 2012-10-16 16:50 tty25
crw------- root root 4, 24 2012-10-16 16:50 tty24
crw------- root root 4, 23 2012-10-16 16:50 tty23
crw------- root root 4, 22 2012-10-16 16:50 tty22
crw------- root root 4, 21 2012-10-16 16:50 tty21
crw------- root root 4, 20 2012-10-16 16:50 tty20
crw------- root root 4, 19 2012-10-16 16:50 tty19
crw------- root root 4, 18 2012-10-16 16:50 tty18
crw------- root root 4, 17 2012-10-16 16:50 tty17
crw------- root root 4, 16 2012-10-16 16:50 tty16
crw------- root root 4, 15 2012-10-16 16:50 tty15
crw------- root root 4, 14 2012-10-16 16:50 tty14
crw------- root root 4, 13 2012-10-16 16:50 tty13j
crw------- root root 4, 12 2012-10-16 16:50 tty12
crw------- root root 4, 11 2012-10-16 16:50 tty11
crw------- root root 4, 10 2012-10-16 16:50 tty10
crw------- root root 4, 9 2012-10-16 16:50 tty9
crw------- root root 4, 8 2012-10-16 16:50 tty8
crw------- root root 4, 7 2012-10-16 16:50 tty7
crw------- root root 4, 6 2012-10-16 16:50 tty6
crw------- root root 4, 5 2012-10-16 16:50 tty5
crw------- root root 4, 4 2012-10-16 16:50 tty4
crw------- root root 4, 3 2012-10-16 16:50 tty3
crw------- root root 4, 2 2012-10-16 16:50 tty2
crw------- root root 4, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 tty1
crw-rw---- root system 4, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 tty0
crw------- root root 5, 1 2012-10-17 03:37 console
crw-rw-rw- root root 5, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 tty
crw------- root root 1, 11 2012-10-16 16:50 kmsg
crw-rw-rw- root root 1, 9 2012-10-16 16:50 urandom
crw-rw-rw- root root 1, 8 2012-10-16 16:50 random
crw-rw-rw- root root 1, 7 2012-10-16 16:50 full
crw-rw-rw- root root 1, 5 2012-10-16 16:50 zero
crw-rw-rw- root root 1, 3 2012-10-16 16:50 null
crw------- root root 1, 2 2012-10-16 16:50 kmem
crw------- root root 1, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 mem
crw------- root root 10, 51 2012-10-16 16:50 network_throughput
crw------- root root 10, 52 2012-10-16 16:50 network_latency
crw------- root root 10, 53 2012-10-16 16:50 cpu_dma_latency
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 log
crw-rw-rw- root root 10, 58 2012-10-16 16:50 binder
crw------- root root 10, 59 2012-10-16 16:50 device-mapper
crw------- root root 10, 60 2012-10-16 16:50 twl4030-madc
crw-rw-r-- system radio 10, 61 2012-10-16 16:50 alarm
crw-rw---- system bluetooth 10, 223 2012-10-16 16:50 uinput
crw-rw-rw- root root 10, 62 2012-10-16 16:50 ashmem
crw------- root root 10, 63 2012-10-16 16:50 rfkill
crw------- root root 254, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 timer32k
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 snd
crw------- root root 4, 67 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyS3
crw------- root root 4, 66 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyS2
crw-rw---- bluetooth bluetooth 4, 65 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyS1
crw------- root root 4, 64 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyS0
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-17 16:33 block
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 graphics
crw------- root root 10, 130 2012-10-16 16:50 watchdog
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 5 2012-10-16 16:50 video2
crwxrwxrwx root root 81, 4 2012-10-16 16:50 video1
crwxrwxrwx system gps 188, 4 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyUSB4
crwxrwxrwx system gps 188, 3 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyUSB3
crwxrwxrwx system gps 188, 2 2012-10-17 16:25 ttyUSB2
crwxrwxrwx system gps 188, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyUSB1
crwxrwxrwx system gps 188, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyUSB0
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 bus
crw------- root root 251, 2 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyO2
crw------- root root 251, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyO1
crw------- root root 251, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 ttyO0
crw------- root root 89, 6 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-6
crw------- root root 89, 5 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-5
crw------- root root 89, 7 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-7
crw------- root root 89, 3 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-3
crw------- root root 89, 2 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-2
crw------- root root 89, 1 2012-10-16 16:50 i2c-1
crw------- root root 253, 0 2012-10-16 16:50 rtc0
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-16 16:50 input
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-10-17 16:25 socket
drwxr-xr-x root root 1969-12-31 16:00 pts
$

 

[giantpune]

Nope, Poot won't work on that one. It has to be a snapdragon chip and qualcomm kernel with lots of /dev/msm* thingies.

 

[HaTrEd360]

Lol Pune, so much intelligence but you say "thingies"

 

[radford]

What is the manufacturer

It's Coolpad or Yulong.

 

[zevas]

has the stock rom been released yet? im sure if we remove some of the locks on it and put it in an update.img we could confuse the program in installing superuser and unlocking the fastboot, etc etc etc. Possible?

 

[reppard]

I just got this phone and have found zero about rooting this thing. I use to develop a bit for the LG Optimus M when I had that phone. There were alot of us working on stuff for that particular model. Is anyone interested in helping me get this thing rooted?

Things I've discovered thus far:
I couldn't get a key combination to boot into a factory recovery but I did manage to get some sort of recovery screen using adb.

adb reboot recovery

There are no menus, it simply shows the android guy with the yellow triangle exclamation point. I would assume it checks for some sort of update.zip on the root of the sdcard...but I could be wrong.

If you hold the volume down key and power it on it says:

entering lte rf test mode....

then a simple white screen with test that says "Calibrating, please wait....".
I waited.
It never finished whatever it was doing as I removed the battery and rebooted it with no ill effect.

If you hold the volume up key and power on it says:

======Enter VIA USB======

I can only assume this is referring to recovery mode which I already covered.

I've went to Coolpad's American support page and requested the source for the current android build as it should be released under GPL but I doubt that will get anywhere unless others also request this.

Any help, feedback, or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Reppard

UPDATE:

To get into recovery press and hold volume up and volume down. Then press and hold the power button. Once you see the droid press the Home button to reveal the menu. Can't flash anything from this yet as it fails verification. We will need a custom recovery. If we can get fastboot working for this phone then we can get a dump of the recovery and possible a whole rom dump!

 

[reppard]

Just noticed there is an All Things Root section. If any mod paying attention could be kind enough to move this there it would also be greatly appreciated.

 

[reppard]

Complied and ran the Levitator exploit on the phone...no love.

 

[LoopyD]

Just want to let you know I am watching this thread. I do not have the knowhow to actually hack phones, I'm one of those guys that roots phones and installs custom ROMs on them for kicks. I've had my share of Android devices, but like I said, I'm not a dev...

I just want to show some love for this thread and any devs working on it at this point. here I go with my cheerleading flag. Rah rah. xD

Glad someone is getting around to doing it.

Yeah, I bought it because of the larger screen (I actually have a reason for this: I'm high partial legally blind, bigger screen is easier to see)

I suffered on processor power, quality of screen, and tried to take the Coolpad back to MetroPCS for a full refund, but I was two minutes over the maximum talk time, and the guy wouldn't do it.

Uh...

RAH RAH RAH!

 

[johnnyolivares]

Have you tried gingerbreak?

 

[reppard]

Have you tried gingerbreak?

Pretty sure gingerbreak doesnt work. I tried the zergberg exploit which was built from gingerbreak.

 

[reppard]

Don't know how much I'll be able to do. I haven't seen a exploit for 2.3.7 yet. I'm going to download the source to gingerbreak and see if I can make some sense of it and maybe tweak it a bit.

 

[spanky0323]

Would love to see this rooted i just upgraded from the admire. For the 4g and bigger screen and theprice you cant beat it so if i do end up bricking this its not a big loss i know lil bit and i mean a lil bit about dev but if theirs anything i can try and help with let me know

 

[spanky0323]

I did and got no where

 

[LoopyD]

I at least am certainly glad that attention (even if a little) is being brought to this device. From what I understand this device did not get very good reviews, mainly because of what you lose in hardware. I hope there is something that can be done to at least root it and get Clockworkmod working on it.

Good luck guys!

Edit:

Reppard I also had an Optimus M with Cyanogenmod 7. I sold it to a friend because he loved how much better the phone preformed with that ROM. He loves it.

 

[nthaniel]

I, too, am just a person who plays with ROMs, not a dev. I sure will be glad if anyone can figure how to make headway with this!!!!

 

[spanky0323]

We should see if the other forums like xda, etc are looking into this too. If someone has accounts with these sites please update us. If not ill look into it.

 

[LoopyD]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1860048

This is what I found, I don't really post on xda at all, but it looks like they are trying to get root over there as well

 

[spanky0323]

Hopefully some one will root this thing.