Rooting GINGERBREAD.EK18

[GPOT]

lol its mighty nice of you to give him permission to use my work

anyways rather than boring firehak in irc i figured id offer what i could for any future phones etc etc

with samsung root is always needed, from there you can get the images and work on things like a repacked kernel with root... or cwm... etc etc. how android handers kernels/recovery is actually fairly easy to figure out the boot kernel will be anywhere from 8MB-12MB. should you open it in hex editor youll notice the big ole A.N.D.R.O.I.D header on it.

cwm wont let you r/w to the system until you go into mounts and storage... however with a kernel you can pull it off (using dd) and unpack it.. edit init.rc to tell it to lets say mount system as r/w after booting up then someone can root and then do it properlyeither with a tar or make cwm compatible.

recovery is actually another kernel but with recovery.bin stuck in it and a completely different init.rc, as such when you do dumps of the phone youll usually find 2 partitions that are the same size, the lower number partition is boot kernel, the higher is recovery

just like l2 cache and l1 cache... and l3 cache, the lower you get the smaller it is.. but the faster it passes thru it. so bml's 1-8 all boot rather fast meanwhile the kernel at 9 is what you finally see at the "samsung" splash screen.. which loads and then loads up system so it can run thru iots little set of init.rc commands (this is when you are looking at the bootanimation)

thats all i can think of right now but i hope yall find it useful

I give you permission to use my work that I stole from someone else, modified a line of code and rebranded as my own. LOL!

 

[GPOT]

Boring me? Tch, I'ma script kiddie. I'm trying to learn this stuff, and if I do release a cleaned up rom it's going out under the ACS name. You invited me, it's about time I start getting more stuff done

Same here, I wanna learn too. I am clueless. if a tool i use doesnt work i go on to the next one. I wanna be able to do this stuff myself, well most of it anyway I may only be in high school but when u get all ur homework done at luch then study hall makes great developement time.

 

[firehak]

Same here, I wanna learn too. I am clueless. if a tool i use doesnt work i go on to the next one. I wanna be able to do this stuff myself, well most of it anyway

More reason I am doing it myself without any automated tools. I'm almost done deodexing and then I'll be on to removing bloat, and adding tweaks to the rom.

 

[GPOT]

More reason I am doing it myself without any automated tools. I'm almost done deodexing and then I'll be on to removing bloat, and adding tweaks to the rom.

Make sure to reference the list dmrlook put up of apps to remove on the previous page, I would leave sprint ID though unless ur gonna replace the launcher.

 

[GPOT]

I have a server at home and its hooked up to a t1. I was wondering if you would like access to that as a file server to allow you to host things faster then you currently can on your website. I can average 3.56 megs download on the school's connection when I am downloading off of my server and I only get 500k off of yours. Just trying to help. There is one prerequisit though, you need to know how to use SSH and be familiar with bash.

 

[tentonbricks]

More reason I am doing it myself without any automated tools. I'm almost done deodexing and then I'll be on to removing bloat, and adding tweaks to the rom.

And then the grateful masses like me will bask in the glory of your work

 

[firehak]

Thanks for the offer, but even at that speed it shouldn't be more than a few minutes for users to download the images. I've got plenty other places I can host it if I really found it necessary.

 

[GPOT]

Okay, just an offer.

 

[GPOT]

Also what do u think about overclocking? Do u think its even possible on this phone and if it is will it work?

Sent from my SPH-M580 using Tapatalk

 

[anon(335536)]

Anyone having issues with google talk or updating google maps?

 

[shrekdaklown]

i did but a factory wipe fixed that

 

[firehak]

Overclocking isn't possible without custom kernels. What's wrong with Google Talk and Maps? I've had no issues at all, so I need any bugs reported. I may have a new rom thread started shortly, too.

 

[TekGai]

I did have a notice about a google talk authorization error. Did a little googling and someone mentioned clearing the cache for android market. Don't know what good that does, but I cleared that and did a factory wipe (it was around the time I just loaded the odin image, wiping didn't really matter). Haven't had the error yet. I also haven't tried updating google maps, so I don't know anything about that.

 

[anon(335536)]

Thanks folks - talk and maps working again.

 

[firehak]

Thanks folks - talk and maps working again.

Hopefully this won't be an issue now that I keep factory wiping when I do anything while working on my Phoenix ROM I keep backing up my phone and swapping between Phoenix when I work and my backup when I'm done. I must've forgotten to wipe before creating your stock images, sorry for that.

 

[GPOT]

Hopefully this won't be an issue now that I keep factory wiping when I do anything while working on my Phoenix ROM I keep backing up my phone and swapping between Phoenix when I work and my backup when I'm done. I must've forgotten to wipe before creating your stock images, sorry for that.

Could u do that for us so we arent forced to use your rom. I'm not saying I wont but it would be nice if u could give us a clean clean (yes two cleans) stock image and the rooted one too.

 

[firehak]

Could u do that for us so we arent forced to use your rom. I'm not saying I wont but it would be nice if u could give us a clean clean (yes two cleans) stock image and the rooted one too.

I don't have the internet speed to be able to keep uploading ~175MB files right now.

 

[GPOT]

I don't have the internet speed to be able to keep uploading ~175MB files right now.

I understand, I will use your directions you gave earlier in the forum to dump the files and hopefully make them into an odin image. If this works I can restart developement on my ROM. I am not sure how successful it will be with PheonixROM coming out but hey its worth a try.

 

[nerdyperdy]

I finally got the pre rooted odin package off of ACS site but have a concern.

I've flashed Android phones for years now(Had 3 G1's and 3 Captivates..plus more) and am fine with flashing it. Was wandering if this will get me rooted on GB??

I appreciate all the hard work the devs have done, and also, are there any updates for this phone from the community?? I just got my replenish yesterday and as soon as I walked out of the Sprint store, I had the GB update..lol


Edit: I just opened Odin and it dosen't have an option to do a factory wipe. Do I do that from recovery once it's done??

 

[shrekdaklown]

do it from the settings menu once u flash it