NAND Testing - 05-25 Update: New LK, Recovery.img, Kernel Updates through Recovery

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by Tynictansol

I'm booting off NAND via the instructions here and have been having a noob of a time getting applications requiring root access to function, with Titanium being the main app I want so I can more easily transition between installations for testing purposes. I've attempted to download Busybox, however it fails installing due to inability to get root access, as well. I have XP Windows with ADB Drivers installed and I can get around a little bit in Droid Explorer. I don't get prompts when opening applications which require root, just them saying they failed to get access. I have USB Debugging enabled, if that matters at all. I've done some digging in the various threads here though perhaps I don't know the terminology I should be looking for. Superuser, busybox, root don't land results which have been helpful to me, unfortunately, and all discussions of the topic in forums not specific to the TP2 seem to bear only cursory relevancy to it. I have a RHOD400 type device.

Thanks in advance for any and all help provided and if there is, in fact, a thread or post which covers this in a way I might be able to follow just pointing me in that direction would be most appreciated.

Originally posted here, now posted in this thread as suggested.

I never had an issue rooting. Can you try this before you do the update lmiller posted.

install SU from market. Install busybox from maket (the jrummy version works for me) then TI

[Tynictansol]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

I never had an issue rooting. Can you try this before you do the update lmiller posted.

install SU from market. Install busybox from maket (the jrummy version works for me) then TI

Thanks for the recommendations, [ACL]. I've gone through and installed, from the market both Superuser (ChainsDD creator) and BusyBox (JRummy version). I'm still having the same issues, though again I may be just doing something wrong, I'm by no means a power user with this yet and I may be neglecting a step considered very basic. This is a link to a screencast I made showing attempting first the Busybox installer, then paging through the Superuser application, then Titanium Backup. If what I understand is correct, when I open, say Titanium, for the first time, a popup should come up asking if I want to grant root access to the application. If there's other information I can provide please let me know.

[[ACL]]

Originally Posted by Tynictansol

Thanks for the recommendations, [ACL]. I've gone through and installed, from the market both Superuser (ChainsDD creator) and BusyBox (JRummy version). I'm still having the same issues, though again I may be just doing something wrong, I'm by no means a power user with this yet and I may be neglecting a step considered very basic. This is a link to a screencast I made showing attempting first the Busybox installer, then paging through the Superuser application, then Titanium Backup. If what I understand is correct, when I open, say Titanium, for the first time, a popup should come up asking if I want to grant root access to the application. If there's other information I can provide please let me know.

i tried it again and it worked fine. Now one thing you do need to make sure of is that you remount system as RW before you do anything. try it out..

[MassStash]

Originally Posted by [ACL]

i tried it again and it worked fine. Now one thing you do need to make sure of is that you remount system as RW before you do anything. try it out..

what line to mount cuz "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /system" doesn't work anymore

[Lmiller1708]

Originally Posted by MassStash

what line to mount cuz "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /system" doesn't work anymore

Ok that is because busybox is not installed....

So your command should be:
/bin/busybox mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /system

Also I updated the "update.tgz" again... I forgot the include the su file.

update.tgz

[Tynictansol]

Originally Posted by Lmiller1708

Ok that is because busybox is not installed....

So your command should be:
/bin/busybox mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /system

Also I updated the "update.tgz" again... I forgot the include the su file.

update.tgz

For this update should we delete the file inside the data folder again prior to updating in the recovery?

Originally Posted by [ACL

]i tried it again and it worked fine. Now one thing you do need to make sure of is that you remount system as RW before you do anything. try it out..

Alright, likely simpleton question... For running these commands at a terminal, should I have a terminal emulator on the TP2 itself or is this to be run from something like ADB or Droid Explorer's Console?

[natemcnutty]

Woot, got my hands on a CDMA Topaz (Whitestone) today. Gonna move my service over to that so I can full time work on the Rhodium without having to worry about people not being able to reach me. Also gonna have to check with ACL and see what would need to be done to get NAND figured out for Topaz. I have a good feeling that it uses the same NAND as the HD2 and RHOD seeing as they were all manufactured at the same time.