Need serious help!!!! I have researched!!!

[IamGov#IM]

Ok so I got the stupid update to my Fascinate the other day and dummy me forgot to unroot my device. Now, because I am a MAC user, I can not longer access the sd card to root my phone. I also tired Z4 and this is not working either.

I currently have superuser.apk still on my apps list, but it is non functional and quite annoying. Obviously I cannot remove it either unless I have root access. It is like I am in a catch 22 here......PLEASE supply me with some great wisdom I have yet to discover by googling!

 

[Sta11i0n]

Rooting Using a Mac (Video Tutorial)

 

[Johnly]

Yes AC supply this guy! I and he wait for wisdom, ha ha....hang tough bro the AC squad is coming...and if they don't I WILL help..no links required....

 

[Kevin Gossett]

I was in the same boat with my wife's Fascinate last night. ADB rooting wouldn't take, just got the "already installed" error. If you can, I would bootcamp a Windows partition so you have access to Odin for times like these. Using Adrynalyne's modified CWM/root package, I was able to fix it

 

[DroidXcon]

I was in the same boat with my wife's Fascinate last night. ADB rooting wouldn't take, just got the "already installed" error. If you can, I would bootcamp a Windows partition so you have access to Odin for times like these. Using Adrynalyne's modified CWM/root package, I was able to fix it

Yup and if that doesnt work ill see if i can help find a way to no computer root via terminal emulator

 

[Johnly]

can any one say nandroid your first root and be gold....

 

[Johnly]

If so TU works, if not it won't....

 

[Kevin Gossett]

Yup and if that doesnt work ill see if i can help find a way to no computer root via terminal emulator

Tried this too, though I'm not as savvy with ADB as I probably should be... if you can sort that out, I would love to know

 

[DroidXcon]

Tried this too, though I'm not as savvy with ADB as I probably should be... if you can sort that out, I would love to know

ill make that my project tonight and let you know

 

[Johnly]

You, reading this, learn from folly, nandroid your first root and be sbf gold.....OP solly good luck these AC guys will take full responsibility....

 

[jkurl15]

Instead of bootcamp for Mac I would use parallel desktop as it will allow you to run windows the same time as osx plus you can share your Mac folders w/ the virtual machine. This way you don't have to create separate folders. You have access to windows and osx at the same time.

 

[Kevin Gossett]

I don't believe Odin works in Parallels or VMware

 

[gunnermike53]

i have found no differance between dj05 and dl09 except that dl09 sucks and broke my phone. i will stick with dj05 thank you very much.

 

[IamGov#IM]

OK so I somehow got my Mac to push busybox and su. I had to do this in order to get su access again to remove the original root. I can delete any system file now, except superuser. Any suggestions. I just want to be stock again with dj05. I am done with Samsung!

If I acquire a windows PC and I use Odin to flash dj05 stock.....will that remove all root files?

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[Kevin Gossett]

Yes it will. While in ADB, did you try removing superuser with the commands at the bottom of Cory's first post in the "how to root on a Mac " thread?

 

[jkurl15]

I don't believe Odin works in Parallels or VMware

You might be right. When I had a blackberry and it went belly up. I tried for hours trying to get thief program to work in parallels, but that was version 4. Version 6 is a lot more advance. I have version 6 but I don't want to root my device or jack it up. Anyone else have any experience in case I get crazy and want to try this.

 

[gunnermike53]

I just want to be stock again with dj05. I am done with Samsung!

If I acquire a windows PC and I use Odin to flash dj05 stock.....will that remove all root files?

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be careful. if you are planning to return the phone, you need to have either, di01 or dl09, unrooted. dj05 is a leak rom. it will get you a $500 bill from vzw.

 

[Fyrmedic654]

If you want, I can flash my phone back to dj05 stock and make a.cwm backup for you to flash. I would think that as long as update.zip is on your sd card you should be able to get into cwm. Pm me if you would like that

 

[IamGov#IM]

Thanks to everyone! Oddly enough here is how I solved my issue.

Went through Cory's steps about 50 times....it would root, but would not unroot. Well, correction it would just not delete superuser.

I figured that since z4 created this problem I would attempt to use it to fix....yeah bad idea

Finally I rooted with Cory's steps again. I downloaded a system unistaller apparently. Unistalled superuser. Went back through Cory's steps and rooted that way.

I now have a rooted phone that can be unrooted successfully at any time! I tried already.....LOL.

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