04-10-2022, 11:29 PM | #1 | |
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Rooting Nova Air C
Hi everyone! Over the past few days, I have been working on rooting the Nova Air C and I finally got it to work, so I figured I would write up a guide to help others.
Big big thanks to Renate for their patience and help and their awesome edl.exe utility! Note: This guide assumes you have developer mode enabled and that you have adb installed. Grabbing boot.img from your Nova Air C
From here, the steps are the pretty much the same as Cascade94's post here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=52 I copied them and put them below: Quote:
Hope this helps someone else, and thanks again Renate for your assistance! |
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04-11-2022, 04:53 PM | #2 |
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What’s advantage of rooting ?
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04-11-2022, 09:09 PM | #3 |
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There are several advantages, but the reason I did it was so I can use AFWall+ and disable any internet traffic out of the device that I didn't authorize. Unfortunately, Onyx has a history of having their devices phone home to servers in China. Since they don't release their source code (which is actually required), we don't know what is being sent in these requests to Chinese servers.
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04-12-2022, 08:27 AM | #4 |
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The advantage of rooting is that it allows you to fix things that annoy you. If you're not annoyed by anything you may not need it. OTOH, even simple things like using a keyboard with a different layout requires rooting.
I question the necessity of doing everything in one command. If there is an issue I'd like to fix it. Please try this and post the result. Download the latest version of edl.exe from this morning, 132,608 bytes. Code:
C:\>edl.exe /lq662.elf /v C:\>edl.exe /r /pboot_b boot.img /t /v |
04-12-2022, 11:30 PM | #5 | |
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Looks like it did work with the two separate commands. Not sure why I has having trouble earlier Let me know if you still want to see the output...I hesitate to post it publicly because it has chip serial numbers and other identifiers in it, but I can scrub it if needed. |
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04-15-2022, 03:05 PM | #6 |
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Firmware 3.2.1
I'm new to the forum.
I just picked up a Nova Air C and hope to root it. I unfortunately updated the firmware to 3.2.1 from 2022-03-28. Do you think this will complicate things? |
04-15-2022, 03:07 PM | #7 |
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No. Nope.
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04-15-2022, 03:15 PM | #8 |
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Nope! I was also on the latest FW when I rooted it
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04-16-2022, 12:36 PM | #9 |
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Success!
These are the steps I took under linux while following the guides here:
Code:
adb reboot edl edl r boot_b boot.img --loader=q662.elf --debugmode Code:
adb push boot.img /storage/emulated/0/Download/ Code:
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Download/magisk_patched-24300_GxIP5.img . mv magisk_patched-24300_GxIP5.img magisk_patched.img adb reboot bootloader fastboot boot magisk_patched.img Relevant links: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/tag/v24.3 https://github.com/bkerler/edl https://developer.android.com/studio...ools#downloads PS: the donor version of AFWall+ is almost essential since it allows for a light theme. |
04-19-2022, 08:44 PM | #10 |
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I'm curious about AFWall+. I imagine its purpose is to keep our Boox devices from phoning home to China for unknown reasons. Other than trial and error, how can I tell which activities I should block through AFWall and which to permit? Thanks!
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04-20-2022, 12:59 PM | #11 | |
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I just whitelisted the apps I believe should have access. Installed a different browser called "EinkBro" too, just in case. |
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04-20-2022, 01:53 PM | #12 |
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I block listed everything except installed apps by me + everything from the group “root” (adb, ssh, and some other useful stuff is there).
Most suspicious things are in onyx apps, which I disabled completely, however their UUIDs are shared with those from google apps, and in AFWall you can disable or enable them only in the same group. So I didn’t enable all those and never used Gapps or Play Store |
04-20-2022, 08:56 PM | #13 |
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A thank you to psymin and mergen3107! That is helpful! I should be able to sort it out from here.
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04-21-2022, 10:54 AM | #14 | |
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Android System(1000) all of the IPs appear to be US and Google related. (port 443) Unknown(1073) also seem to be primarily Google / US, also Alibaba / US. (port 80 and 443) Unknown(-100) is all Tencent / China traffic. (ports 8080, 80, 443, 9906 and 14000) Last edited by psymin; 04-21-2022 at 10:55 AM. Reason: typo |
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04-22-2022, 08:13 AM | #15 |
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any other advtanages of rooting, away this weekend and will get started on monday
does it make a better performance? as its sending less data across to random places |
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