It's been a long time that I haven't been here, but needed to get the factory M070 to root. Tried Motochopper from Willsters archive with no luck (pwn file not found).
Tried Kingo from Willsters archive (version 1.3.0.298), and got crazy hard freezes/BSODs/crashes on my laptop whenever it would try to root the phone.
Finally restarted the phone in Safe mode (Long Press on Power Off in menu) Ran Kingo (did NOT update to most recent version within application), and a few nailbiting minutes later, I was rooted (laptop crashed at the very end - running Windows 7 Home)
I rebooted phone from Safemode and Rootchecked it and was rooted. Installed Flashify and flashed CWM recovery.img (after unzipping and moving image to phone) I did NOT install CA-201L's firmware.
Rebooted into CWM recovery from Flashify menu and installed surprise.zip and rebooted phone- still had root.
Installed and ran surprise.apk and rebooted. Still had root. But I also had SuperUser (which wanted an update) and Kingo SuperUser which was active and granting permissions), so I uninstalled SuperUser, uninstalled surprise.apk and rebooted, and STILL have root.
I can reboot into CWM recovery using RJGlenn's method:
On my current commando I have not install the CA201L firmware and I can boot from off into recovery. Power on the phone, it will display G'Zone & Now loading. It will briefly go blank and then display it again. At that point press and hold the power+tactile key+Volume up buttons and continue to hold it all the way through the white VZW power up animation until the screen goes black. At that point the phone should reboot into the CWM recovery.
So it seems that if Kingo can effectively root the phone, it causes permanent root without need for surprise.apk. Kingo leaves two apps on the phone called Kingo ROOT and Kingo Superuser.
I'm using Playstore apps to set APNs. Offline SIM APN free version and a free app called /system/app Mover from J4velin to make Offline SIM APN a system app.
Also had to install BusyBox using a free Busybox installer app on Playstore.
I started a new thread on this subject so Doctoror and others would see it and perhaps benefit from my experience.
Thank you all for your efforts on this.
Tried Kingo from Willsters archive (version 1.3.0.298), and got crazy hard freezes/BSODs/crashes on my laptop whenever it would try to root the phone.
Finally restarted the phone in Safe mode (Long Press on Power Off in menu) Ran Kingo (did NOT update to most recent version within application), and a few nailbiting minutes later, I was rooted (laptop crashed at the very end - running Windows 7 Home)
I rebooted phone from Safemode and Rootchecked it and was rooted. Installed Flashify and flashed CWM recovery.img (after unzipping and moving image to phone) I did NOT install CA-201L's firmware.
Rebooted into CWM recovery from Flashify menu and installed surprise.zip and rebooted phone- still had root.
Installed and ran surprise.apk and rebooted. Still had root. But I also had SuperUser (which wanted an update) and Kingo SuperUser which was active and granting permissions), so I uninstalled SuperUser, uninstalled surprise.apk and rebooted, and STILL have root.
I can reboot into CWM recovery using RJGlenn's method:
On my current commando I have not install the CA201L firmware and I can boot from off into recovery. Power on the phone, it will display G'Zone & Now loading. It will briefly go blank and then display it again. At that point press and hold the power+tactile key+Volume up buttons and continue to hold it all the way through the white VZW power up animation until the screen goes black. At that point the phone should reboot into the CWM recovery.
So it seems that if Kingo can effectively root the phone, it causes permanent root without need for surprise.apk. Kingo leaves two apps on the phone called Kingo ROOT and Kingo Superuser.
I'm using Playstore apps to set APNs. Offline SIM APN free version and a free app called /system/app Mover from J4velin to make Offline SIM APN a system app.
Also had to install BusyBox using a free Busybox installer app on Playstore.
I started a new thread on this subject so Doctoror and others would see it and perhaps benefit from my experience.
Thank you all for your efforts on this.
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