How to Root

[DroidXcon]

Ezas. I'm glad it worked out, and thank you for what you said.
Also about the drivers, I guess I'm making the assumption that most people have done this already from method two..ill def add it though.

Thank you

New rooter here. And a very cautious one. I stared with a stock phone updated to DL09 via OTA

I probably did about 4 hours of reading before starting this. I know a ROM from a Kernel but wanted to get the bigger picture about Rom Managers, ClockworkMod, ODIN, Recovery, Download mode, etc.

I'm new to phones but I use 3rd party firmware in my wireless router (WRT) 3rd party firmware in my MP3 Player Rockbox) and run Linux on my home PC, but I booted XP for this.

I followed method 3 (to a 'T' of course) and it worked exactly the way it said it would. I used method 3 for the educational benefit.

Now that I'm all done, my only question is: What exactly is the last step: Reset your phone?

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A few notes from my 'rooting' experiences

If you updated your 'software' after being prompted, after the DL09 OTA update, you do not need to install the 'samsung drivers' that is the first step in most guides to rooting.

For those that need the drivers; I saw 32bit drivers listed as x86 vs 64bit.

To help others to feel confident before starting something like this, these are some of the ways you can backup your device before starting.

OntheFlyBackup - from the market
App List Backup - from the market
Sync apps with web based Appbrain
Sync Google apps (via settings in stock calendar apps)
VZW Backup Assistant (to backup contacts)
Copy whole SD card to local PC
Backup with Astro File Manager

You might also want to consider a SMS/Call log backup if that matters to you. I have no idea if messages are backed up in any of the above methods.

I installed Odin and verified that it could see my phone even though I didn't need it for this method of rooting.

I did not know where to put my phone in 'debug mode' so here are the instructions I found:

1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Tap Applications.
4. Tap Development.
5. Check USB Debugging to enable it. Uncheck it to disable it.

This is also where you enable 'Stay Awake Mode'

I had to wait about 10 minutes to be kicked back out to the c:/FascinateRoot_v02 prompt after running rage.bin

It's hard to be patient but it worked out for me.

Also this command: mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system

that's the number '1' in stl9

Thanks to DroidXcon and to Adrynalyne for making this feel very doable. There is a lot of 'stuff' being said, some of it rather negative, but these two are all over the net giving good, simple to understand advice.

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[DroidXcon]

Hey Julie,
If you use the directions found in method 2 at the bottom that should work, ill have to try that out . Other wise you can use odin to flash back to stock and that will fix all

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[DroidXcon]

No that doesn't mean you are rooted,it means that you probably already installed super user app from the market and it cant over write it

Thanks for the earlier response - I actually went ahead and got a version of windows xp and opened it up using parallels, it seems like there's more help for windows, and that wasn't hard.

So if I get the same result you [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS] - that means my phone is already rooted, and I can go ahead and learn how to flash it?

Thanks for the step-by-step! Huge help!

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[edba_mkii]

Hi, thanks to all for providing such an excellent resource!

I have a mac and have rooted my DL09 OTA update using method #3 which corresponds to Corys update on mac howto and video. A few caveat.
If youre just downloading the android sdk (r08 was current) you wont find 'adb' untill you install a platform. at which point adb is located in platform-tools
an alternative would be to locate a copy of r07 and download that (as in Corys example).

I do have 1 problem tho, after I did the "/adb install Superuser.apk" and rebooted the phone, the app is installed (appearing in my programs screen) and apps requiring root work. however Superuser.apk is NOT in /system/app - its actually located in /data/local/tmp.

Did I miss something here? is this some kind of weird dl09 anomaly?
Is there a way to move the Superuser.apk from /data/local/tmp to /system/app?
should I care that its not in /system/app?

thanks again for all of your excellent work!

 

[girlymissjulie]

Hey Julie,
If you use the directions found in method 2 at the bottom that should work, ill have to try that out . Other wise you can use odin to flash back to stock and that will fix all

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Great! Thanks, DroidXcon for everything!


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[laxguy1314]

"Device Not Found"

I'm getting the same "device not found" error that many others have mentioned. Has anyone found a solution. I don't seem to see an answer to this issue. Thanks in advance!

 

[DroidXcon]

I'm getting the same "device not found" error that many others have mentioned. Has anyone found a solution. I don't seem to see an answer to this issue. Thanks in advance!

i just got done writing new code, would you like to try it? Before that did you download the drivers needed?

 

[laxguy1314]

Yes, i downloaded the drivers. It appears to be working but after it reboots the phone it says "device not found". Could it have something to do with the music sync that I see running?

Either way, definitely up for trying the new code.

 

[DroidXcon]

Yes, i downloaded the drivers. It appears to be working but after it reboots the phone it says "device not found". Could it have something to do with the music sync that I see running?

Either way, definitely up for trying the new code.

OK give me a couple mins im having trouble with megaupload its hanging at 96%

Got it , please let me know how this works
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H5HV9HGG

 

[DroidXcon]

Yes, i downloaded the drivers. It appears to be working but after it reboots the phone it says "device not found". Could it have something to do with the music sync that I see running?

Either way, definitely up for trying the new code.

Btw Laxguy welcome to the forums, i appreciate your faith in trying this.

any news?

 

[laxguy1314]

It looks successful, how can I determine if it in fact was?

 

[DroidXcon]

It looks successful, how can I determine if it in fact was?

It worked in the first shot? download titanium backup from the market and see if it asks you to allow or deny super user access

 

[Djeon85]

im stuck at cd/data/local/tmp......it says cd/data/local/tmp: not found. what do i do then?

 

[DroidXcon]

im stuck at cd/data/local/tmp......it says cd/data/local/tmp: not found. what do i do then?

try again

 

[Djeon85]

still nothing. i tried step 2 didnt work, tried step 3 still stuck at the same spot. ill try it again from the beginning

 

[DroidXcon]

still nothing. i tried step 2 didnt work, tried step 3 still stuck at the same spot. ill try it again from the beginning

can you download the zip file i posted 3 or 4 posts back and rename the current folder as a back up , and try the new one click

 

[Djeon85]

ok ill try that one

 

[laxguy1314]

It works! Ok, on to step 2. Thanks for all your help!

 

[DroidXcon]

It works! Ok, on to step 2. Thanks for all your help!

very welcome, good luck
and thank you

 

[Djeon85]

Thanks it worked!