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[ReservedName]

the supreme irony being of course that all these comments are made in a thread about an exploit that will NEVER work on windows and is easily handled by mac osx

/no more on this

Edited by ReservedName, 23 April 2013 - 03:48 PM.

[cmh714]

What device are you on XT875 or XT910

Yes, system.img is generally part of the fastboot files or fxz or sbf whatever you may refer to them as.

For my XT912, I have 6 img files (boot, motoboot, preinstall, radio, recovery and system) there are also bin files as well.

 

Obviously, your device may be slightly different.

[livinginkaos]

the supreme irony being of course that all these comments are made in a thread about an exploit that will NEVER work on windows and is easily handled by mac osx

Oh, stop it.....

[jayrod]

Thanks again Dan!


Maybe this would be a good time for me to create a thread teaching members who are interested ,on how to set up a simple Linux environment.


Also your donation is greatly appreciated, every little bit counts for those folks.

That would be awesome! I'm a bit intimidated by what is involved having zero Linux experience .I haven't even tried to go to OTA on my main bionic..backup kept root..but my main is a little.. yeah...it would loose root no matter how much I protect it!

Sent from my BLU flying spyder that likes jellybeans

[livinginkaos]

That would be awesome! I'm a bit intimidated by what is involved having zero Linux experience .I haven't even tried to go to OTA on my main bionic..backup kept root..but my main is a little.. yeah...it would loose root no matter how much I protect it!

Sent from my BLU flying spyder that likes jellybeans

Jayrod, I don't think you would have any huge problem here.  I knew zero about ubuntu before I started messing with the samba exploit to root my wife's D4 with the Atrix method.  Sam has taught us Bionic users well to read, read and read again. 

[jayrod]

Jayrod, I don't think you would have any huge problem here.  I knew zero about ubuntu before I started messing with the samba exploit to root my wife's D4 with the Atrix method.  Sam has taught us Bionic users well to read, read and read again.

That backup tester you sent is smarter than my main...bless it's microchip heart! 

I'll probably move forward to OTA this weekend,even though it's already running 4.2. I'm probably making this scarier than it is..and I do have a bunch of info here and with many from the community.

[SamuriHL]

That backup tester you sent is smarter than my main...bless it's microchip heart! 

I'll probably move forward to OTA this weekend,even though it's already running 4.2. I'm probably making this scarier than it is..and I do have a bunch of info here and with many from the community.

 

Besides you can hit me or Kaos up any time.  We'll walk you through it if you need help.  Give it a shot though.  See what happens.  

[mjs27541]

I wish I had time to have a go at this myself. I have a laptop running Ubuntu but its a 64 bit system. With all the problems folks are having I'm gonna try it off a 32 bit live disc. Sometime this weekend I might have time.

[rlewis312010]

FXZ to JB, installed Ubuntu as dual boot, ran scripts, step by step, and it worked the first time.  ONLY issue was phone kept vibrating, and vibrating, no matter what I did.  I told phone to restart and found I have root;-)  Finally, thanks Sam and others who helped.  Ubuntu, 32 bit, dual boot, line by line, MTP mode, and no issues. 

 

I did have an error with JB (kept my root).  Tried bootstrap to see if it would boot as SS would not.  So after the dumb "Encryption failed" error I had to push system and preinstall from 246 then boot into recovery, then install JB update from there.  Enter rants, rages, and after an FXZ and following steps it worked.  ONE thing I did do though was to get out of the SAMBA share on phone, unplug phone (USB), re-enter that share folder on phone, then plug back in.  Wanted to make sure phone was ABSOLUTELY be detected.  Thanks again Dan/Sam/those who contacted Dan. 

[SirEagle]

When I get to the part to; Open the "Files" app and select "remote storage". Click "add storage" fill in the necessary fields as stated. I get the following error: "There is a problem in your network connection with remote host. Please repair your network connection and try again."

 

I'm not sure what I have wrong. Wireless is on, phone not plugged in to pc. Ubuntu box is not wireless but connected to a wireless router, I can ping it from another pc that's wireless.

 

Any help?

[bigtex52]

Are you by chance running Ubuntu 12.04? I had the same problem until I updated to 12.10. Old version of Samba?

[jgattonii]

Eagle. You didn't use a long password did you? If so, shortening it made that error go away for me.

[jgattonii]

Edited to remove double post

[livinginkaos]

When I get to the part to; Open the "Files" app and select "remote storage". Click "add storage" fill in the necessary fields as stated. I get the following error: "There is a problem in your network connection with remote host. Please repair your network connection and try again."
 
I'm not sure what I have wrong. Wireless is on, phone not plugged in to pc. Ubuntu box is not wireless but connected to a wireless router, I can ping it from another pc that's wireless.
 
Any help?

Did you scroll down when entering the info? I had a couple folks that didn't realize there was more.

[livinginkaos]

Eagle. You didn't use a long password did you? If so, shortening it made that error go away for me.

Yes to this as well. The password is not magic. Keep it simple. Its only for your temp share.

[SamuriHL]

When I get to the part to; Open the "Files" app and select "remote storage". Click "add storage" fill in the necessary fields as stated. I get the following error: "There is a problem in your network connection with remote host. Please repair your network connection and try again."

 

I'm not sure what I have wrong. Wireless is on, phone not plugged in to pc. Ubuntu box is not wireless but connected to a wireless router, I can ping it from another pc that's wireless.

 

Any help?

 

Any firewall that might be blocking the samba ports?  

[bigtex52]

Yes to this as well. The password is not magic. Keep it simple. Its only for your temp share.

samba works well

[SirEagle]

Are you by chance running Ubuntu 12.04? I had the same problem until I updated to 12.10. Old version of Samba?

12.10

 

Eagle. You didn't use a long password did you? If so, shortening it made that error go away for me.

4 letter password

 

Did you scroll down when entering the info? I had a couple folks that didn't realize there was more.

yes filled all fields out

 

Yes to this as well. The password is not magic. Keep it simple. Its only for your temp share.

only 4 letters

[SirEagle]

Any firewall that might be blocking the samba ports?  

fresh Ubuntu install, didn't add any or configure any.

[jgattonii]

Yes to this as well. The password is not magic. Keep it simple. Its only for your temp share.

But I was only trying Dan's advice. He said that all he had to do was yell at the phone to make it root. I just thought that "rootyoufrigginthing!" would be appropriate..