• darthLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

    • Post #305

    lgexalter1 Same way as EnriqueMcquade just use a device with a very similar chipset and kernel (like the at&t calypso)

        can you put a tracfone plan on a walmart family mobile phone (since walmart family mobile is owned by tracfone)?

          sdmde I need to switch the SIM card, tho?

            Biden2020prez There is a way to patch the tmobile and cricket variants' firrmwares through meta mode

            he said it is easier to add apps on those variants, so maybe he did that

              I got this phone it seems to be a really solid phone, and also no lag time!

              that's the tmobile version?

              If a modified boot.img runs, sounds like we're at the home stretch. If adb_debug.prop exist, it should be loaded if we create /force_debuggable in the boot.img ramdisk. This should run adb as root and get us started. Or maybe even just changing cmdline from "buildvariant=user" to "buildvariant=eng"
              I couldn't find a new T408DL locally so I purchased online last night. Will be a few days for me to join back in the fun.

                Yes, it worked on my flip phone without any problems but problem is, when I attempted to use su on the adb shell, it gave me a "Permission denied" error. I suspect that it's because of the operating system's file system restrictions.

                • yeti replied to this.

                  EnriqueMcquade

                  it's suspected that the su binary is denied because the magisk app isn't installed.

                  usually in a case of running su from adb shell, the magisk app will launch a prompt asking you to confirm su access for the shell application. Essentially, the device is rooted, but until we have some kind of write permission to the system, or can in some other way disable the app install block.

                  I've been experimenting with magisk's Root Directory Overlay System to achieve this but haven't found much success.

                  I've also played around with what neutronscott was talking about, but the image fails to boot on my device when the cmdline is set to eng.

                        yeti So to have the su binary running, the Magisk app must be installed?

                          Um, yes. But I don't have any problems flashing a patched image with an unlocked bootloader on my T408DL.