Sebastian Krahmer at [Only registered users can view links. ] for developing the code necessary to exploit the root. Please see fit to donate via Paypal to [Only registered users can view links. ].
The [Only registered users can view links. ] community for hosting the Samsung drivers
Android Central Member Dirrk for rooting this phone using Sebastians global android exploit and for making an autoroot version.
1. Download and Install Samsung Drivers
64bit: [Only registered users can view links. ] or
32bit: [Only registered users can view links. ]
2. Go to Settings > Applications > Developement > Enable Debugging then plug in your phone
3. Download the attached files FascinateRoot_v2.zip
Extract the all of the files (click on show files when done)
Run START_ROOT from the extracted folder do not touch your phone from here on out.
If you have any troubles running this 1 click root method then please follow these guidelines.
1. Check to make sure you installed the Samsung Drivers
2. Make sure your phone is connected using the original cable that came with the phone
3. Verify that debugging is enabled.
4. Try to run it again
5. If you are receiving errors then your phones drivers were not installed
6. If you are having a different please post here so we can help you.
Finally if you need more immediate help then check on irc.freenode.net #samsung-fascinate
How To Remove Root
adb shell su (its going to ask you for permission on your phone so hit allow)
mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/xbin/busybox
rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/bin/busybox
mount -t rfs -o remount,ro /dev/block/stl9 /system
exit
Latest Update 09/25/2010 @6:20 EST Updated Files and FYI this still works with the latest update so make it easy and update first Confirmed Wireless Tethering [Only registered users can view links. ]
Last edited by DroidXcon; 05-18-2011 at 05:09 AM.
Reason: Updated the tutorial and files
this is awesome.....but could someone please put this in english for those of us not so familiar with rooting and what not, and also could we maybe have a one click button like for the x lol. i realize this phone is new, but its as good or better than the x(minus Bing of course) so it would be much appreciated.
I agree, i've never rooted before...but I fully intend to get rid of Bing and get Google search/voice commands back in there. Help us noobs out!
I just updated the tutorial for you guys, if you need further explanation just let me know and I will make it clear. I did a very quick one earlier because I was at school and in between classes
I am completely new to the Fascinate, android phones in general..... Just switched over from Blackberry. Where can I find your tutorial? Sorry for the dumb question......
This is so funny to me. We cant be stoped Verizon, We cant be stoped Microsoft. All you had to do is give us the choice and it all would have been different. LOLOLOLOL
So this is my first rooting, i get all the way to the part with
cd /system/xbin
cat /sdcard/su > .
cat /sdcard/busybox > .
chmod 4755 su
chmod 4755 busybox
when i do cat, it says . is a directory
and according to your same post on a different forum someone suggests cp, i try that and it says CP: not found
Im sure its a user error, any advice?
*edit* cat /sdcard/su > su
seemed to work, same with busybox
*2nd edit* well i seemed to have messed up the superuser.apk part now, when i go to apps in my phone, it has the superuser icon, i click it, and it goes to a black screen... im trying to uninstall it now with the uninstall command and it is giving me 'Failure' message, i try the reinstall command and i get 'INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICENT_STORAGE'
and To Phyziks, all i did was make sure it was on data usb settings not media, i installed the drivers for my phone and turned on debugging mode. are you getting anything to list when you do 'adb devices' ?
Are there any settings that I need to preset on the phone itself before I start trying this? I keep getting "error: device not found" or "failed to copy 'su' to '/sdcard/su': Permission denied." I'm mounting the device and I also had USB debugging turned on.
So this is my first rooting, i get all the way to the part with
cd /system/xbin
cat /sdcard/su > .
cat /sdcard/busybox > .
chmod 4755 su
chmod 4755 busybox
when i do cat, it says . is a directory
and according to your same post on a different forum someone suggests cp, i try that and it says CP: not found
Im sure its a user error, any advice?
*edit* cat /sdcard/su > su
seemed to work, same with busybox
*2nd edit* well i seemed to have messed up the superuser.apk part now, when i go to apps in my phone, it has the superuser icon, i click it, and it goes to a black screen... im trying to uninstall it now with the uninstall command and it is giving me 'Failure' message, i try the reinstall command and i get 'INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICENT_STORAGE'
and To Phyziks, all i did was make sure it was on data usb settings not media, i installed the drivers for my phone and turned on debugging mode. are you getting anything to list when you do 'adb devices' ?
Download Uninstaller from the market and remove it that way. I had a similar problem (Superuser would load but do nothing) and it was an older version of Superuser. I used 2.3.6.1 (I posted a link in one of these posts) and that solved that problem.
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