su: permission denied, what am i doing wrong?

I would think that in order for the OS to know which copy of SU to run you would need to provide it the full path such as:

/data/local/su

but I don't know about this process on a Magic phone, so I could be wrong. Have you done this (to verify that you have succeeded in copying the new SU to your phone:

cd /data/local
ls

if you see SU in there, try launching it from there with a

./su

Oh yeah, and you have followed the instructions on this page first right?
 
i did not follow those instructions since i have the Google ion from the Developers conference and i was told it was already rooted, it just needed the root acces
 
Well... I guess that is where you might be wrong. I don't know much about the ION, but if it is already"rooted" you wouldn't have to do anything for root access, so it looks as though it is not.

Besides, your statement is very contradictory, you were told it was already rooted, it just needed the root access. The two are one in the same, if you catch my drift. Rooting has become a catch phrase for attaining root access. Once a phone is "rooted" it has root access.
 
i get to part 11-12 and i type this in:
fastboot boot recovery-new.img

than i get the waiting for device in cmd, and in 12 step it says apply update
well there is not way to apply the update?
 
what do u mean theres no way? pull the battery out and put it back in then press and hold home and power together until u go into recovery
 
it says waiting for device, and than i do this: Turn off your device and while it is off hold down volume down while pressing power. i get to the white screen with says fastboot usb in red and there are 3 green droids on the bottom with skate boards but it doesnt say anywhere apply update
 
no thats fastboot

1.connect your phone to the computer
2. on your phone it should say fastboot (or something like that) press back to enter fastboot
3.open up a command prompt on your computer and type



that should do it for step 11
 
thats what im doing, theres no update for anything >.< to enter fastboot you have to power down the device, press down volume+power rit? thats what it says in the steps
 
yeah but u already pushed the updates to the sd card so all u have to do is what i just said THEN u turn off your phone again and enter recovery (home+power)
 
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