Just got this Allwinner A10 (Cortex A8) based android device and already having some fun.
The device comes with a USB OTG. But unfortunately we do not have a cable for this device as you need a male to male USB cable (checking on this, not sure if it will work). The only way left to connect to the device is wifi. I performed the following steps:
1.
Enable Wifi. Connect to a Wifi access point
2.
Add a Google account and enable Play Market.
3.
Install Wifi over adb
4.
Install Busybox installer
5.
Install Superuser
6.
Start the app wifi over adb
7.
Click the Turn on Button. This will show you the
IP and the port. We need this for the next step.
8.
On your desktop/laptop, Open a cmd prompt:
adb connect 192.168.100.5.
You will get a message connected to
192.168.100.5:5555
adb shell
root@android:/ #
9.
The # prompt. This means it is already rooted.
However, there is not superuser app installed. And the apps requiring root don’t
work as expected yet.
10.
I went ahead and downloaded the Superuser app
and installed it. Still the root prompts didn’t not appear. So, the next step
was to replace the /system.xbin/su
11.
Download Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
from http://androidsu.com/superuser/ which have the relevant files (su). Extract
them in handy location. Simply put them
wherever adb.exe is present.
12.
Continuing the adb shell
adb remount
adb shell
#mv /system/xbin/su /system/xbin/su.old
#exit
adb push su /system/xbin/su
adb shell chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
adb reboot
13.
The
Device must be rooted now.
14.
Do not turn the automatically alow root access
option in superuser app. This caused me problems. Leave it at Prompt
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7 comments:
I'm stuck at step 7.
Can't turn on the WiFi ADB due to the error message: "This app requires rooted phone and superuser permission" ... Oh the irony... pls help
Sorry the title is a little misleading...my device was prerooted but there superuser.apk was missing...just installing the latest one will enable those root prompts...and you can click allow.. hoping you have a pre-rooted version but without the superuser.apk..
if it is not rooted, we might need to use tools like superoneclick root... sorry havent tried it.. but basically it uses some exploits to get root access over adb and copied the correct su and superuser.apk files...
hope this helps..
thx for your answer!
Though 'Bosybox Installer' (icon is a green colored tranparant cube) sais 'Your device is rooted' , 'Using Busybox version 1.18.13', so I assume my 'H24 TV Box a.k.a Mini X Plus', the latest 1gb ram version, is rooted, though not properly.
When trying to upgrade BusyBox to a newer version , I keep getting 'Installing failed' message, without more info... :(
Oneclick root etc needs a usb connection, so will need to buy a male-to-male usb cable first, since the minix doesn't have a regular micro usb connection for adb...
I get the same error. Pretty much any program I have tried that requires root says that I do not have root and aborts, including all the adb over wifi enablers
I get the same error.
I can confirm that the instructions posted here:
http://minixandroid.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/root-minix-plus/#comments
Actually root the mini xplus as shipped.
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