How to Root

[Dirrk]

I get how to go the 1 click root method. Should I wait until 2.2 comes out or risk doing it now? People run tons of different things, I assume they're all themes? How would I know which one would suit my needs? And can someone tell me what a kernel is?

The root method will work on 2.2 aswell so it really doesnt matter. I believe there are only two different roms out atm so I am not sure what themes are even availible yet. Again I believe its a personal preference but you should find who is making these themes or roms and check to see if they would help you. google linux kernel or android kernel. I dont really have a great explination because its hard to tell someone who doesnt know alot about computers what it does. But basically it controls your software & hardware it is the backbone to your computers OS.

 

[packerbacker]

Are kernals necessary for rooting? Really, the main reason why I want to root is just to improve its performance, customize it aesthetically with a theme, and get clockwork recovery. I'm not very savvy with the lingo, but I really am trying to learn what it's all about so I can do it.

 

[MunkinDrunky]

Feels great, like my horse if finally out of the gate. It was a great learning experience, so i have one last knowledge seeking question. I altered the batch file like you said, because my device did not have su/Superuser.apk/busybox on the sdcard and rage.bin in /data/local/tmp and it worked like a charm i am rooted once more. I am still fuzzzy with adb, so is chmod 0775 only for pushing the rage.bin to the internal phone memory, in this case to the specified: /data/local/tmp and chmod 4775 for pushing stuff to the sd card? I have to prob following the steps just curious. And thanks for all the detailed steps before!

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Does anyone know why, this keeps happening?

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* Dirrk's EZ Root v0.2 (Sebastien Krahmers Exploit) *
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* Testing if your device is connected
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* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
I5000018ff18 device

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* If you are NOT connected please follow these directions
* Install the correct drivers
* Turn On Debugging
* Check usb port, cable and phone

* Then rerun this application

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Press any key to continue . . .
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* Pushing the files to your phone
* rage.bin, busybox, Superuser.apk, su, com.sh
1165 KB/s (1867568 bytes in 1.565s)
294 KB/s (26264 bytes in 0.087s)
377 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.508s)
68 KB/s (5392 bytes in 0.077s)
4 KB/s (281 bytes in 0.060s)
* Restarting your phone to ensure the exploit will work
* When your phone comes back on please unlock it if it is locked and then
* wait
* About to exploit your device
* This will take about 3 minutes
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* If it doesn't respond after waiting 5 minutes then it probably failed,
* so you should close this and run again
*
* Start Time: 9:24:19.85

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** Successfully exploited, installing permanent root files and deleting temp fil
es
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error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
error: device not found
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* Restarting your phone now.
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* Complete
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Press any key to continue . . .

 

[Dirrk]

Feels great, like my horse if finally out of the gate. It was a great learning experience, so i have one last knowledge seeking question. I altered the batch file like you said, because my device did not have su/Superuser.apk/busybox on the sdcard and rage.bin in /data/local/tmp and it worked like a charm i am rooted once more. I am still fuzzzy with adb, so is chmod 0775 only for pushing the rage.bin to the internal phone memory, in this case to the specified: /data/local/tmp and chmod 4775 for pushing stuff to the sd card? I have to prob following the steps just curious. And thanks for all the detailed steps before!

chmod is short for change mode and it changes who has access to a file and what they can do with it.
chmod 0755 file changes means that no special permissions are required ie 0, 7 that the owner of the file can read,write,execute the first 5 means anyone in the owners group can read and execute and the last 5 means anyone else can read and execute. the 4755 is the same except that 4 sets it to a specific userid which in our case would be the superuser aka root. These modes are binary modes and very easy to deciepher.
ie 7 in binary = 111 each bit stands for a different mode read,write,execute if you want to see what i mean open up adb again and type adb shell ls -l
you will see a list like such
-rwxr-xr-x file1
0 | 111 | 101 | 101 = First zero isnt the same as used in chmod but everything else is
0 7 5 5

hope that cleared it up

 

[Michael_e223]

Dirrk,

Much thanks for your tutorial! I'm now rooted I don't mean to sound ignorant but what does your benchmark score consist of? I'm using Quadrant and ran it a couple times only find my scores are only 899. How do i get 2K+ scores like i've seen on some posts? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance

 

[Dirrk]

Dirrk,

Much thanks for your tutorial! I'm now rooted I don't mean to sound ignorant but what does your benchmark score consist of? I'm using Quadrant and ran it a couple times only find my scores are only 899. How do i get 2K+ scores like i've seen on some posts? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance

install a voodoo lagfix kernel

 

[hairy1]

The root instructions were great and it seems to have worked.

How do I now nuke Bing and replace it with google?

 

[alohasurf]

Does anyone know why, this keeps happening?

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Press any key to continue . . .

I'm getting the same thing. Goes through the process but no root. I have the DI01 update.

Any solution?

 

[Tylerhelton]

my cmd keeps closing after i push any key to continue.... It says abd is not recognized by command just befor it closes out... PLZ HELP

 

[TheSuperman]

New to the Fascinate, so what does rooting actually do?

 

[machupicchu]

New to the Fascinate, so what does rooting actually do?

Good question. As a noob, I also wanted to know how I can tell if my phone has been successfully rooted.

Thanks!

 

[TheSuperman]

Yeah, I actually have not Idea at this point why we would root and what it's for. Just need a little root 101.

But from what I've read, I need to do this to "Google" my phone.

 

[Cory Streater]

Check out this article.

If I could sum rooting up in 2 bullet points:

• Provides access to folders within the OS that are normally locked from user access. If you own a PC - imagine if every time you tried to access c:\windows, you got a permission denied message. It's sort of the same in Android, and rooting unlocks the door so you can get in.
  
• The reason you would want to do this, is so you can remove bloatware, install programs that require root, and potentially install custom ROM's or other system enhancements.

 

[machupicchu]

I've rooted my phone and now when I attempt to install the D101 update it fails by continually restarting. It's annoying that everyday I have to delay the update another 24 hrs in order to prevent the cycle of constant restarts.

Has anybody else experienced this? Has anyone else found a fix?

Thanks!

P.S.: What do you guys think about this: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-continuum-video-hands
Would you trade-in your fascinate for the Continuum if you're still in the 30-day trial period?

 

[Mrdanks]

so when i try to unzip this it tells me its unable to do so because the file is damaged... also my antivirus tells me it has a trojon on it when i download it what gives ???

 

[namebrandon]

I've rooted my phone and now when I attempt to install the D101 update it fails by continually restarting. It's annoying that everyday I have to delay the update another 24 hrs in order to prevent the cycle of constant restarts.

Has anybody else experienced this? Has anyone else found a fix?

Thanks!

P.S.: What do you guys think about this: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-continuum-video-hands
Would you trade-in your fascinate for the Continuum if you're still in the 30-day trial period?

Try the unsigned update I posted here.

http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/36287-unsigned-update-need-cwm.html

There's going to be very little dev support with the Continuum from what I can tell. It's similar enough to the fascinate that some stuff may work on it, but that second small screen more than likely will not work.

 

[Mrdanks]

Ok so I'm getting the Device not found like 6 times after the phone reboots what does that mean lol ?? also does this need to be placed on the ROOT of my sd card or just ran after i unzip it ?

 

[Mrdanks]

I'm getting the same thing. Goes through the process but no root. I have the DI01 update.

Any solution?

same thing happens to me with the error device not found message PLEASE HELP!!

 

[Mrdanks]

I'm going to go ahead and say this method will not work anymore since the last update to DIO1... unless otherwise I guess I'll be waiting for 2.2... sad the lag is so bad on this phone with out the fix.