Felix is probably right. Basically in this case rooting the phone involves changing the boot.img so that it's debuggable. If you make your own boot.img and are able to get into fastboot mode, that's one way to make the device rooted. Granted, there's a chance you could also mess up the device.
fyi, you can probably back up the boot.img via using dd, something like : adb shell dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd0 of=/sdcard/boot.img bs=4096 (you'll have to look up which is the boot.img via looking at files like the proc/partitions or proc/mounts ) Again this is something of a "use at your own risk, this isn't supported" train of thought. If you do decide to do something like this, I would also recommend doing a bit of research and being prepared to accept the chance of bricking the phone and needing to send it to the vendor… and the vendor may not necessarily fix it... Regards, Naoki On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote: > Thanks for raising the issue here, Ralph! > > To be honest,I doubt that Alcatel would tell users how to root > devices. After all, it's not a developer device, and giving root > access raises security issues. Without the device being rooted, > however, I cannot migrate and backup OpenWapp messages. That renders > the device useless for day-to-day use. > > What could be interesting to try is rooting the device by editing the > kernel image, as has been documented for the non-C Fire: > > <http://k.japko.eu/alcatel-otf-hackers-guide-1.html> > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
