hello?
well damnI honestly don't think it will get rooted. Every easy way is patched and not too many people have this phone. So I'm saying we probably won't get root. I have tried everything I know!
Does the Windows adb driver from PDAnet work by any chance? I just remember I needed it to root the ZTE Warp
No offense, but having your phone recognized as a mass storage device (a thumb drive, essentially) and having it recognized by the Android ADB utility in debugging mode are two entirely different things. On all my Windows XP SP3 boxes I was able to just plug a USB cable into the phone and see it in mass storage mode. That driver you're using is probably similar to the the generic USB mass storage/thumb drive driver.FOR REAL, THIS is the driver i used to mount it to my computer, i would really like to get my phone rooted, but i do not know enough about program code to even begin to try. but! my computer recoginizes my phone ON windows....with that driver of course. problem is it come with unneeded software, which can be removed without obstructing the driver for the venture.
recap - i have my phone recognized by windows, and i can open the sd card when i enable the usb drive function on my phone. hence how i have music and some apps which i could not get from my phone i hope hope this helps.
oh, as you may notice, i have only one post, but i read alot of these android forums. i have been hitting google about my phone like mad! dont ask me how i came up with that driver, but i do KNOW it works on windows xp sp3 32bit
No offense, but having your phone recognized as a mass storage device (a thumb drive, essentially) and having it recognized by the Android ADB utility in debugging mode are two entirely different things. On all my Windows XP SP3 boxes I was able to just plug a USB cable into the phone and see it in mass storage mode. That driver you're using is probably similar to the the generic USB mass storage/thumb drive driver.
The problem is that no one has found a Windows driver that will allow the ADB utility to work with the phone in debug mode. That's necessary to root the phone.
However, b_randon14 and I were both independently able to get it to work with ADB in debug mode under Linux, which doesn't need an actual driver per se. It might be possible to root it under Linux, but like b_randon14 said, the easy root utilities won't work and there aren't a lot of people who have both the phone and the knowledge to work on it. I got tired of all the problems and bought an Optimus Elite, but might try some more later, if I have time.
sounds like someone needs to use that linux exploit with an windows emulator program for linux then to run the program needed to exploit it...thats all i can think of.
try installing these two apps and see if you get root
http://androidforums.com/elite-all-things-root/612914-optimus-elite-root-apk.html
Want to point me at some good tips on manual rooting? It might be within my capabilities, I used to do some linux security work so not all of it will be alien to me...
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