Root access in the virtual device ... Shouldn't it be listed on the image download?

[Scott Duckworth]

Hi all. I just installed Genymotion today and I'm really impressed with the speed and ease of use. However initially I had a problem, that was I couldn't figure out how to enable root access inside the virtual machine.

I found someone's tutorial here:
http://www.qosmodro.me/2013/06/How-to-run-android-virtual-environment-emulator-on-pc-using-GENYMOTION.html#.Ujy5HNhF3Hc

But in his tutorial, he says the image he downloaded was pre-rooted! Unfortunately the image in his screenshot "Nexus 7 Jelly Bean with google apps - API 16 1280x800" is no longer in the cloud.

On the first two I downloaded, neither had root access:
Nexus One - 4.2.2 - with Google Apps - API 17 - 480x800
Nexus 7 - 4.2.2 - with Google Apps - API 17 - 1280x800

However I tried a third, and it ended up that the root access worked!
Galaxy Nexus - 4.1.1 - with Google Apps - API 16 - 720x1280

Wouldn't it make sense to put in the virtual image description whether or not the machine is rooted?

[Julien Bolard]

Hi Scott,

In fact its a bug ... every devices should be rooted, but it does not work right now with the 4.2.2 images.

We'll have to fix this.

Regards

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[coax]

Setting the Automatic response to Allow rather than Prompt in the Superuser app seems to fix some of it. Though it's not the most secure config.

[Roy Vij]

Is there any update to this issue?

[Julien Bolard]

Hi,

This has been fixed a long time ago.

Every devices are rooted now.

Regards

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[Sufian Babri]

S2 and Nexus S with API 10 (Android 2.3.7) are not rooted. Can you help?

[Sufian Babri]

I found the solution here.

Quinny899 says:

 

I got root like this:
Download SuperSU from the Play Store
Download the attached zip and extract the su binary out of it (I got it from SuperSU)
Open a terminal on your PC and run the following:

adb devices
adb root
adb connect <the IP that adb devices showed>
adb remount
adb push su /system/xbin/
adb push su /system/bin
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/bin/su
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su

Now root will work with SuperSU

[Jay Perere]

Could you be a bit more specific to how you did it?

I've downloaded SuperSU...it asks me to update and all that. Once that's done. I extract the zip, but where do I take the su binary to? Do I leave it in my downloads folder?

When I open up my terminal on my mac...it doesnt take the lines you posted. 

Can you help? 

[Sufian Babri]

After you extract the zip file provided, you have 2 ways:

1. move extracted su to where your adb is located, o
2. replace following 2 lines with the latter 2:

adb push path/to/su /system/xbin/
adb push path/to/su /system/bin

Does this help?

[Kunal Daga]

I didn't get this. When I plug the codes above into Terminal, it doesn't give me anything.