[Zombiehype]

yes I use the recovery to wipe.

I cant move any app to sd since there are only the system ones installed right now. but I don’t think there is any relation between my /system being full (thus no room for busybox) and the space reserved for apps. in fact, in “apps managnent” in settings I have plenty of room in “internal memory” (256 mb free). the /system folder is just unrelAted, I dont think it can be freed up by moving apps to sd.

edit: made a bit of research and I can confirm that internal app memory is in /data, so unrelated to /system, in which it seems there are strictly system apps and some useless crap (eg ringtones and alArms) that I can’t get rid of because of no root access. please tell me if I’m getting this wrong

[Zombiehype]

Richardj wrote:

Try doing a wipe data?factory reset, this will reset the phone to how it was when you first got it.
Next try framaroot, works on most Android phones from China and also works on Samsung and HTC’s.

ehy thanks for the advice but the hard reset doesnt free any space in system (already tried). And I already tried framaroot as well, and working more or less the same way as other exploits (installing busybox in system) the outcome is the same. more precisely:

Code:

failed 🙁 … Exploit work but installation of superuser and su binary have failed

[Zombiehype]

Guys, I hope someone here can help me because I’ve been smashing my head against this for months. I got a galaxy s4 phone mt6589 and I absolutely need to root it because it has half the google services fucked up (can’t update google services, maps, youtube, g+, can’t add proper google account, low internal free space…). Without root it’s just an expensive doorstop.

So I tired every mt6589 method out there (this one-step here,rootwizard, flashing a cwm recovery..) and nothing works. At best, I got the SU app icon but when I fire it up it just says there is no root access.
On few of the tests I discovered that the problem may be that there is no free space in system/xbin for the buisybox to be placed there. My clues are this from the one-click method root:

Code:

[+] success!
sh: /system/xbin/busybox: not found
cp: /system/xbin/su: No suche file or directory
[*] Cleaning up…

and this from another software (mtk droid root):

Code:

[+]success!
sh: /system/xbin/busybox: not found
cp: /system/xbin/su: No space left on device

and finally this is what I get when I try to inspect with the disk usage app (this is how far in detail I can go without a root):

Code:

/system
used 248 Mib of 248 MiB

I looked around on how to get free space on system folder but the only answer everywhere is “get root access and you can do whatever”. But of course I need free space on system to get root access.

Do anyone here have any insight or advice on this? I would be enormously grateful.

thanks

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