How to Root

[kxs783kms]

Thanks for the quick reply Dirrk. Haven't gotten it yet, but I'll keep plugging away at it.

 

[redboneqt]

Being a typical female, I can't let it go. So, I found the fascinate.rar file you referred to, save it to the C:\fascinate file. Tried the install again. It didn't work.

 

[redboneqt]

Think I figured it out. My computer isn't recognizing the .rar so the file isn't extracting into the folder. What's the way around that?

 

[dmartin1972]

Hey Everyone! I got everything to work perfectly! Wireless tether, root and even the lag fix. I appreciate everyone's help! I am absolutely loving this phone even more than before now. You guys are awesome!

 

[redboneqt]

Good for you, dmartin1972! I'm having a hard time, but I'm waiting for Dirrk to bail me out. Again.
@ Dirrk, I don't have winzip so without a self extractor, I can't get the rar file to download properly.

 

[Dirrk]

Good for you, dmartin1972! I'm having a hard time, but I'm waiting for Dirrk to bail me out. Again.
@ Dirrk, I don't have winzip so without a self extractor, I can't get the rar file to download properly.

download.com
winrar or google winrar its free

ps. I am at work atm so I am sorry I am unable to consistently keep up.

 

[Panthersfan86]

well i'm gonna go for it, but first, I cant remember if my comp is 32 bit or 64 bit, where do i check?? ANYONE??

 

[redboneqt]

I right clicked on Computer and clicked properties and found it

 

[redboneqt]

ok. made it to the wait for it screen, but nothing is happening. What's next?

 

[redboneqt]

Anyone who sucessfull installed root, can you tell me what comes after the adb connection will be reset sentence at the end of the install? Nothing has happened to my screen.

 

[kxs783kms]

Anyone who sucessfull installed root, can you tell me what comes after the adb connection will be reset sentence at the end of the install? Nothing has happened to my screen.

A $ should pop up first and then shortly after the c:\android.... should come up, then you proceed with the next step in the instructions.

 

[kxs783kms]

Hey Dirrk, can you add" reboot phone" to the end of your instructions after the Superuser.apk install success. That way the system will remount itself to r/o. I don't want anyone to try to install something right away and not have their system not be able to get back to read only. The only work around I found was to uninstall the superuser app and redo the root process.

 

[lattosimbaste#AC]

While I *want* to try rooting I haven't seen anything about restoring the fascinate to stock if needing return. Anyone have pointers on getting the phone back to a condition that might pass muster?

Thanks!

 

[Dirrk]

Hey Dirrk, can you add" reboot phone" to the end of your instructions after the Superuser.apk install success. That way the system will remount itself to r/o. I don't want anyone to try to install something right away and not have their system not be able to get back to read only. The only work around I found was to uninstall the superuser app and redo the root process.

done

 

[Dirrk]

While I *want* to try rooting I haven't seen anything about restoring the fascinate to stock if needing return. Anyone have pointers on getting the phone back to a condition that might pass muster?

Thanks!

I work at vzw and 90% of reps wouldn't know your phone was rooted unless you told them. Also the other 10% don't care. But if you want to be safe just go in type

adb shell
su
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/xbin/busybox
rm /system/xbin/su
exit

 

[redboneqt]

I have finally succeeded in installing the root, but what do I do with the phone now?

 

[lattosimbaste#AC]

Thanks Dirrk!

 

[pheatton]

I work at vzw and 90% of reps wouldn't know your phone was rooted unless you told them. Also the other 10% don't care. But if you want to be safe just go in type

adb shell
su
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/xbin/busybox
rm /system/xbin/su
exit

At what point would you type all that in? Just run the cmd, get into the SDK directory and then type all that in?

 

[Dirrk]

At what point would you type all that in? Just run the cmd, get into the SDK directory and then type all that in?

Do not type any of that. I was just telling the original poster of that msg how to remove it.

 

[40kalkillah]

Ok, so I hit a few keys by mistake while waiting for adb connection to restart. Its been about 5 mins and hasn't reset yet. Should I start over?
$_ is the current command.

**I started the commands over from scratch and it freezes now at
adb push C:\fascinate\su /sdcard/su. Any ideas?

Thanks