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How to Root T-Mobile Galaxy S 2

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Old 12-27-2011, 12:06 PM
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First Things you need to have:
- Samsung Kies: [Only registered users can view links. ]
- ODIN3 V_1.85: [Only registered users can view links. ]
-ClockworkMod Recvoery that you will flash via ODIN: [Only registered users can view links. ]
-Superuser Zip file: [Only registered users can view links. ]

Install Samsung Kies so that you have the proper drivers then reboot your computer.

How to Root the phone...

*Before We get things rolling, Make sure the Phone is recognized by your PC.

*Put the Superuser .zip file on your internal SD

*Take the battery out and place it back

*Hold both Vol up + Vol down, and plug the USB cable in.

*On ODIN, Select the PDA button and browse to the recovery-cwm-hercules.tar

*Select Start and see the magic do its thing.

*It should flash the file to Recovery and reboot the phone.

*Take the battery out again and now boot into recovery

*Power off phone, unplug USB, Hold Both Vol up + Vol down and Hit power

*PERFORM NANDROID BACKUP FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY*

*Select Install zip from sdcard, choose the Superuser .zip and let it finish.

*Reboot!

*Now Lets delete some bloat ok? Be careful of what you delete!





***Thanks To |Melvin| and Slayher for ROOTING the phone, i just created this small guide for you all to use.

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Old 01-11-2012, 05:30 PM
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Is there a way to do this on a mac?
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Old 01-26-2012, 09:48 PM
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Is there a way to do this on a mac?
This should do the trick: thepiratebay.org/torrent/6629819/Odin_[Samsung]_for_Mac
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Old 01-27-2012, 11:29 PM
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Thank you.
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Old 02-13-2012, 08:28 PM
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Just gotta love bad links,so you cant do anything
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Old 02-13-2012, 08:47 PM
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You would think when doing a tutorial on how to do something,you would make sure everything is working. The clockwork recovery is doing nothing but spinning around in circles.Sort of like my life...In circles and going absolutely nowhere. But i do apologize ahead of time if i'm doing something wrong. But it's just a link how can i be doing that wrong? Just click and go.right?
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Old 02-19-2012, 08:10 PM
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You would think when doing a tutorial on how to do something,you would make sure everything is working. The clockwork recovery is doing nothing but spinning around in circles.Sort of like my life...In circles and going absolutely nowhere. But i do apologize ahead of time if i'm doing something wrong. But it's just a link how can i be doing that wrong? Just click and go.right?
Check out this link: [Only registered users can view links. ]

Same directions as above post, all the links are working.
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Check out this link: [Only registered users can view links. ]

Same directions as above post, all the links are working.
This worked perfectly! Been ages since I hacked a phone. Very smooth. Thanks!!
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Old 04-02-2012, 04:26 PM
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ok, i've rooted my phone, now what?
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Old 04-05-2012, 01:55 PM
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ok, i've rooted my phone, now what?
That's my question too. I want to root tonight maybe, but I'm not sure which ROM to go with. I'm interested in the leak of ICS for the Skyrocket. Anyone know if there's an SSH server listening on that one?
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