Do I have root?

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
Ok, so I am feeling quite ignorant...

I am running the latest Cyanogen Mod, I am overclocking my Droid, I use ROM manager and Clockwork Recovery. However, when I enter su into Terminal Emulator, I get a 'Permision Denied'.

Also, clicking the Ninja in my tray gives me a blank screen.

I have not installed busybox, nor superuser... is this the obvious missing link?

I have tried restoring to an earlier nandroid backup, but the same situation exists.

Any insights you can offer will be much appreciated.
 

LtKen

Silver Member
Joined
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
2,624
Reaction score
2
If you're overclocking, then you have root. Not sure why you're getting a terminal error. Can you do anything? cd? ls?
 
OP
jtydroid

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
I can ls, I can cd data, but when I try to ls there I get an error:

can't open '.': Permission denied

I mean, I don't get any errors from setCpu and Linpack shows high-9's, so I assume I am overclocking.

Weird, right?
 

LtKen

Silver Member
Joined
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
2,624
Reaction score
2
The SU App should list all of the apps that need root access, since you say it's blank, I'm gonna say that something is jacked. Reroot if you can, or reflash. It sounds like it's not taking the exploit properly.
 

jstafford1

Super Moderator
Rescue Squad
Joined
Nov 15, 2009
Messages
11,185
Reaction score
1,671
Location
Hebron, Oh.
Twitter
jstaff79
If you have cyanogen and rom manager working you were rooted once. What process did you use to root initially?

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
 

LtKen

Silver Member
Joined
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
2,624
Reaction score
2
Shouldnt be a problem. Backup anything important just in case.
 
OP
jtydroid

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
If you have cyanogen and rom manager working you were rooted once. What process did you use to root initially?

It was about a week ago, I went back to stock 2.01 and then combined a binary file with the stock 2.1 upgrade and upgraded.

I do recall reading that it wasn't actually rooting, but a workaround of some sort. Perhaps I never had true root?
 

jstafford1

Super Moderator
Rescue Squad
Joined
Nov 15, 2009
Messages
11,185
Reaction score
1,671
Location
Hebron, Oh.
Twitter
jstaff79
File in #5 of my sig has 2.1 with root. Just rename update.zip and should be good to go.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
 

jstafford1

Super Moderator
Rescue Squad
Joined
Nov 15, 2009
Messages
11,185
Reaction score
1,671
Location
Hebron, Oh.
Twitter
jstaff79
You did. Just sometimes flashing a new ROM breaks root. It happens, all part of the fun.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
 
OP
jtydroid

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
You know, I tried that and got about a billion FC's. (I am very poor and guestimating numbers, it was more likely 100, but they just kept coming).

I will try again, perhaps something was amiss.
 
OP
jtydroid

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
Now I get an error trying to apply sdcard:update.zip

assert failed apply_patch_check("/system/app/AccountandSyncSetting.apk", ....

Installation aborted.

Any ideas what that might mean?
 

jstafford1

Super Moderator
Rescue Squad
Joined
Nov 15, 2009
Messages
11,185
Reaction score
1,671
Location
Hebron, Oh.
Twitter
jstaff79
Also remember to wipe data and cache before flashing new rom.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
 
OP
jtydroid

jtydroid

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2010
Messages
123
Reaction score
0
Location
Milwaukee, WI
Also remember to wipe data and cache before flashing new rom.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

Oh, now I'm a bit confused. Do you mean to do that with ClockworkMod before I apply update.zip? If so, wiping the cache didn't prevent the error.

If you mean in the future as a preventative habit, I will absolutely do so.
 

jstafford1

Super Moderator
Rescue Squad
Joined
Nov 15, 2009
Messages
11,185
Reaction score
1,671
Location
Hebron, Oh.
Twitter
jstaff79
It should work in clockwork as well as sprecovery. It what I used going from 2.0.1 to 2.1, exact same file.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
 
Top