Can HI12 dual boot be rooted?

[spzjulien supercowz]

yeeah hi12 will be rooted and custom rom, will be released….. but only when dualboot will be released … before ..impossible to root it … lol

[Anonymous]

You’re making lots of people very excited if true, if not there’s gonna be lots of disappointed people in return.

I’d like root access on both the Hi12 and HiBook from Chuwi if possible.

[winston smith]

That’s easy game to root if you have the stock rom at disposal. You just need to integrate su files in systen image. I did it by myself with cube i7 remix.

[spzjulien supercowz]

winston smith wrote:

That’s easy game to root if you have the stock rom at disposal. You just need to integrate su files in systen image. I did it by myself with cube i7 remix.

great you will do it for us then right ..??? very good news… thank you very much in advance…..

[Rick Starsick]

Definitely would LOVE a step-by-step when someone does this. I , personally, NEED to have my Android side rooted to run Link2SD. Gives me a ton of more storage for apps!

[winston smith]

Why not. But i first need the system.img file… And someone have to test it. Issue can happen with selinux file context policy, so you have to try to know if you have to include the su files in in the context policy. I can also malke a walktrough on xda for cube i7. All you need is Supersu.apk [1.66 i think from chainfire], a linux desktop [debian for me], android tools which allow to repack the files system in a proper ext4 format [standard ext4 is not the same as the one injected with fastboot]. you can download android tools from debian repository. The real issue was not to make it but to find the right information.[which took me a month and 1/2 to find]. I spend also a lot of time comparing rooted file system to know for sure how to make it.

[winston smith]

I even already have scripts for [+/-] automating it.

[Rick Starsick]

Awesome. Please post a step by step as to how to root it. Keep in mind I’m a noob.

[winston smith]

You need the original system image. The point is to modify the filesystem on an linux machine before repack it and flash it in the tablet with fastboot. That’s the only way to do since there is not custom recovery for intel tablet. Does Chuwi published the firmwire ?

[Rick Starsick]

I don’t know. I would REALLY love to have this thing rooted. It does report it is rooted, but when I try to use Link2SD, it reports I cannot give Superuser access to the program.

[Nick]

winston smith wrote:

You need the original system image. The point is to modify the filesystem on an linux machine before repack it and flash it in the tablet with fastboot. That’s the only way to do since there is not custom recovery for intel tablet. Does Chuwi published the firmwire ?

Do you have a guide to do this? The recently posted OS files from Chuwi has the full Android OS included with the boot.img and system.img files – keen to give it a try if you can point in the right direction

[Anonymous]

I would also be interested. Anybody have idea how to root it?

Tried already all root apps- none of them works, also chinese root apps doesn’t work.

Also I tried this Method “http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/chuwi-vi10-root-attempts/” Tablet boots to bootloader but doesn’t flash recovery.

[Michal]

Tablet will not flash this recovery, because recovery have to be created for that device. Someone create clockworkmod for vi10, so with custom recovery root is easy- TWRP for example have builded option to install root acces, later you have to just install from google play application supersu (by chainfire, the best) and it’s working.

There is also few other metod to do root, but this with custom recovery is the easiest in my opinion

I don’t know exactly the specification of vi10 and hi12, but it you will try  to install it again, and it will pass, you can brick your device, or just android will not boot.

[Rick Starsick]

Well – all root apps report that this device IS rooted – and – that SU is present, BUT we do NOT have access to SU to grant access rights. SO………………

 

………….my question is………………..

 

SINCE Root DOES exist, does anyone know hwo we can install the SU binaries for the Hi12 and get ability to grant root access to apps. All of the apps I have installed see the device as ABSOLUTELY rooted.

[winston smith]

You have to unpack the system partition and Mount it as a loop device, insert su binaries while unpacked, repack it and format it with ext2img and flash it when system.img has the proper su files in it.

or you can unpack boot img, set ro.secure=0 in defaut.prop repack it, flash it, start an adb shell to push su files in /system partition before rebooting

 

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