Is the Mi Box rooted yet?

by davidsoor
koshergoy

Insurmountable complications in rooting this puppy, for the near future.

davidsoor

I am sure someone will figure it out.

JoeKerr_

Looks like root was achieved but it still needs some work.

I was able to get this rooted, but haven't been able to unlock the bootloader.

Download MiBOX3S_USA_once_r454.zip from 4PDA.ru unrar it and put it on a USB stick.

Turn on adb from the developer options, connect, and "adb reboot recovery"

Unplug the USB cable and plug in the USB stick. Choose "Install from EXT">"From UDISK", and flash the update.

Reboot it and plug the USB cable back in. Re-enable usb debugging (if your settings were cleared) then disable dm-verity by typing "adb root" then "adb disable-verity" and then "adb reboot"

Once it reboots, you are now free to modify the system partition as you see fit by typing "adb root" then "adb remount". you are effectively 'rooted' at this point.

I went further and manually installed SuperSU to enjoy some rooted app goodness, but to be honest, it was a pain.

One thing I noticed is that the most recent OTA wipes your changes, so you may want to disable updates until I can come up with a more elegant solution:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69236926&postcount=7