I say we need to collect new bounty for root .
to be honest, and with the following OTAs, the previous root by djrbliss was total failure .

I disagree. I have root. It was easy, seamless, and is great. Tablet runs much smoother and faster. I donated even though I wasn't part of the bounty.

I agree with manuelcalavera.  Add me to the list even if I already donate.

I can't even update OTA2 NOW just because I kill some system input APP.

Before that nobody tell me ,can't root again after unroot.

I am Stucking here right now ,How can I get ICS update. And i am not alone in such a situation。

For people who already get root , please Skip this post and say nothing.

This only for people who can't not root.

I disagree. I have root. It was easy, seamless, and is great. Tablet runs much smoother and faster. I donated even though I wasn't part of the bounty.

I feel sorry for you man . It's like a community rises for gaining liberty, and someone ( like pghFL ) start saying : "Nope, no need for liberty, I'm good and I'm satisfied with my life" . So selfish .

the root process is not a failure. It doesnt work for everybody (feel sorry for them) but it work for lots of people.

And many person succeed to keep root with OTA2 with rootkeeper. So its definitely not a failure !

Now, yes. For the person who don't succeed to get root, something must be done, but there's already a thread on this subject to track issues of those persons

http://www.thinkpadtabletforums.com/thinkpad-tablet-root-hacks-mods-and-development/official-'rooting-isn't-working'-thread/

And for those persons who mess up after root/unroot/upgrade. It's not the same problem ! try to flash backup of the system (if you have CWM installed) or wipe data and send it back to lenovo saying that the OTA didn't work !

if root don't work for more than 50% of people as you said, it would be a failure.

But in the forum here and on XDA, as I see, it's only a minority of people who cannot have root (and we must remove those who messed up with system files after rooting their tablet).

So in my point of view, it is not a failure.
It's only my opinion, feel free to have another opinion.

ps: talking about engineering; for me the process works 100%, for you 0%. So here, we cannot talk about failure of the "experiment" but about failure rate (or success rate) of the process.
And for now, there's nothing concrete about this rate.

S. Prime

Can we  forget failure or not failure, and Just collect new bounty for people who can  make everybody  root ,what ever problem they got.

For people who can get ROOT from DAN now,they can Donation for dan and thanks dan.


Can we just simply do that?

While I am sorry that the root exploit did not work for you, calling it a failure is incorrect and ignores its successes.  Many people have successfully obtained root using Dan's exploit (permanently if they know what they are doing).  The original root exploit also gave some development life to the TPT: CWM recovery was quickly ported and already some developers are working on porting CM9 to the Thinkpad.  For those of us who successfully rooted we now have permanent root and even better an unlocked bootloader with a custom recovery installed.  It is unfortunate that some users caused problems for themselves by deleting important files and unrooting but there are always risks when one chooses to change system files and thus anyone choosing to do so should be extremely careful and create backups along the way (and never unroot!).  I do hope that a new exploit is found for OTA2 and that it works properly for everyone.  I will be happy to help in whatever way I can toward achieving such a goal, but root exploits are not easy to find and saying well lets just root OTA2 ignores how difficult that task is.  By all means though, start another bounty and see if you can get someone interested in taking another crack at it.  Good luck in your endeavors but please don't denigrate the hard work that has already been done.