So I did the SuperUser root method on my Infuse and super user is now on there but I don't think its actually rooted. When I go into Superuser it doesn't list anything under apps and during the rooting process it never asked me to give superuser permission. As much as I'd hate to admit it I'm still kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff. Also I'm using a Macbook Pro('11) couldn't figure that way out so I used a windows Laptop and it got me to the point I am at now. Any suggestions, ideas or help would be great.......
-J
did you restart?
and if it doesnt work reroot it again. happened to mine i just need to restart it.
hahaha once again the total noob in me comes out, it was rooted the whole time! I was just getting superuser and "TI" confused, downloaded Titanium and was able to delete the At&T crap. Thanks for the suggestion tho!
haha happens to the all of us at some point.
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Hi there, I am new to the xda forum although I have been reading on it for quite some time. I understand all the work and time that the developers and others put in here and I would like to say thanks.
Ok so, I just bought my first smartphone(infuse) and I am wanting to root it. I have read alot on here (extremely informative forum) and have decided that by rooting I would be able to accomplish some things I wouldnt otherwise be able to do. I was hoping that some folks here would help shed some light on a few things for me. I keep reading about titanium backup and 3emod recovery and I was wondering if those are needed before I try to root my phone or if those are for rom flashing and kernels. Are there are any key things that I need to do like back up my original settings or something on my stock phone before I root it? If so, could you please explain the easiest way of doing this. Again, I am not wanting to flash roms(waiting for GB), just to root.
From what Ive read it seems all you have to do is install some samsung drivers(kies) and run a superoneclick program and thats that. Is it really this simple?
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From what Ive read it seems all you have to do is install some samsung drivers(kies) and run a superoneclick program and thats that. Is it really this simple?
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yup. it's that simple
LightItUp said:
Hi there, I am new to the xda forum although I have been reading on it for quite some time. I understand all the work and time that the developers and others put in here and I would like to say thanks.
Ok so, I just bought my first smartphone(infuse) and I am wanting to root it. I have read alot on here (extremely informative forum) and have decided that by rooting I would be able to accomplish some things I wouldnt otherwise be able to do. I was hoping that some folks here would help shed some light on a few things for me. I keep reading about titanium backup and 3emod recovery and I was wondering if those are needed before I try to root my phone or if those are for rom flashing and kernels. Are there are any key things that I need to do like back up my original settings or something on my stock phone before I root it? If so, could you please explain the easiest way of doing this. Again, I am not wanting to flash roms(waiting for GB), just to root.
From what Ive read it seems all you have to do is install some samsung drivers(kies) and run a superoneclick program and thats that. Is it really this simple?
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If all you want to do is "root" your phone. Yes, install the samsung drivers ( I downloaded kies mini and it installed them for me, from samsung ) And hook the phone up with usb debugging checked and use the superoneclick, it really is that simple.
Titanium backup is great so you don't have to go and redownload all your apps again, even saves the information, like if you were 8 levels into a game. Very useful app.
3emodd is used to get to the clockwork mod so you can install "roms", since you don't want to do this don't worry about it.
Hope this helped.
Didn't find the answer I needed via searching or the 5 suggested threads above, so here goes:
Background:
I just got a Samsung Droid Charge from my job, prior to that I had only had a Tmobile G1, completely stock, so I'm VERY new to it. I rooted it using a howto video made by OriginalDobo or whatever, so my phone currently has Root on it, as well as it's running Gummycharged 2.0? I believe.
Problem:
Anyways, the update prompt is driving me CRAZY! Especially knowing that if I'm kind of out of it and hit install while I'm not paying attention it'll messup my root, this angers me. I have Root Explorer, and I had been told (seemingly by an idiot) that if you change the name of the file (File was in the Cache folder, was something update.zip) from .zip to .bak it would 'freeze' it, therefore eliminating my update problem. I switch the name from .zip to .bak, and renaming it made it vanish, not entirely sure of the filename either......
Needless to say, still get the update prompts, just want to undo whatever damage I might have done (phone still works fine, I just dont like a file seemingly vanishing lol, would like to locate where it went..) and get rid of these stupid update prompts every single time I unlock my phone, it's obnoxious beyond belief.
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factory reset your phone and unroot it using the same method you rooted it or by uninstalling superuser app
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factory reset your phone and unroot it using the same method you rooted it or by uninstalling superuser app
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I want to stay rooted......... I don't want the update prompt, that is all.
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nobody..... seriously? -_-
but if you factory reset it you can root again
how would that help my situation with the updates, though?
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I cannot help you, but I am familiar with your question as I had the same question on a HTC phone. The answer was that the "root" programers for the HTC Android system were a little more into the HTC system than the Samsung programers have with the Samsung way. That is why I haven't rooted my Charge yet.
This is not to belittle Samsung programmers as they are in no way lesser able, but Android is used different in the Droid and Samsung is not as popular as HTC. Yet!
My feeling is to follow the above suggestions and either unroot the phone and get the update, then re-root it (which should be easy) or let it update and re-root or Factory reset and re-root. Either way should be easy and Samsung has their own way with Android. This is just in my humble opinion.
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I cannot help you, but I am familiar with your question as I had the same question on a HTC phone. The answer was that the "root" programers for the HTC Android system were a little more into the HTC system than the Samsung programers have with the Samsung way. That is why I haven't rooted my Charge yet.
This is not to belittle Samsung programmers as they are in no way lesser able, but Android is used different in the Droid and Samsung is not as popular as HTC. Yet!
My feeling is to follow the above suggestions and either unroot the phone and get the update, then re-root it (which should be easy) or let it update and re-root or Factory reset and re-root. Either way should be easy and Samsung has their own way with Android. This is just in my humble opinion.
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bah. thanks for your input at least ~
Thought this was supposed to be a place for those with Android knowledge -.-
Guess not..
As the title says, I have the Samsung Galaxy SII Sprint's variation. I rooted my phone when it was on the version before Gingerbread EL29. I used the SuperOneClick method to root my phone and after doing that, 'Superuser' was installed on my phone. Everything was going fine until I accidentally updated my phone to Gingerbread 2.3.6 EL29 via Sprint's over-the-air update. I know it sounds dumb from me but I really knew that if I updated my phone I could mess up my root privileges, but that pop up update was showing up each 5 minutes, that in one of them I accidentally pressed 'install'. Now I have tried to unroot my phone with SuperOneClick but 'Superuser' is still there and when I access an app that requires root privileges like 'Wireless Tether' it says that my phone is not rooted. I also tried to do a factory reset and root again with 'SuperOneClick' but it freezes up (I guess it's because 'Superuser' is still there?) I was also thinking on installing a rooted rom but I don't know if I can install custom roms (I don't know if I have CWM and if it will mess up because I'm not rooted?..) Right now I just want to get the latest rooted stable release possible.. Sorry for extending myself but I wanted to give all the important details as possible as I am new in handling root phones and also in this forum. I will appreciate any help, thanks!
-James E.
Btw you might want to ask in the epic forums. You will get slot more help. I would use sfhub el29 oneclick
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follow the online tutorial guide below by qbking77...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc
Thank you PakAttack1994! I watched the video and even though it didn't work at the first time, I was able to ask him my questions and he was able to answer them. If you want to see with the problems that I went through and his replies are on the video comments. I'm the user 'jamesssssss'
lol np, I just pointed you in the right direction. qbking77 deserves a whole heap of credit over me.
Hello fellow xoom owners... I've had my xoom for awhile now but was hesitant to root because of nagging wife and children who also use xoom. But I'm a "rooter" and I can't take it anymore ...lol. I'm not new to rooting except for xoom as I'm not experienced in adb and what not... so if anyone can help I would be greatly appreciative. I've looked at plenty of tutorials and only found a select few that are simple but losing data is a "requirement"... Anyways as stated earlier any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Idk how I got here...
You will lose data because when you fastboot unlock it wipes the xoom. What you can do is back up your internal data n your computer. After youre done rooting put everything back. Your apps will have to be redownloaded from the play store.
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What version of Android are you on?
Currently I'm on 4.1.1 jr003h...
Idk how I got here...
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
Its for the galaxy nexus but should work for a Xoom. Basically with 4.0+ we can now do full backups without needing to be unlocked/rooted, you just need adb to be set up.
Thanks for the link. But I'm not really familiar with adb. Guess I am a noob lol
idk how I got here...
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Thanks for the link. But I'm not really familiar with adb. Guess I am a noob lol
idk how I got here...
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There's no reason to fear adb. It's very easy to set up and to use. After installation, you basically copy-paste the instructions. When I say it's easy, I mean it, last week I didn't have any idea of the existence of adb. An hour after I read about it, I managed to start using it. It's that easy!
I paste you the links I found useful (basically how to use it and how to install it).
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=ADB
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK
I think I'm going to try to make a complete backup this weekend, just to see how much time it takes. But my device is already unlocked and rooted, so I suppose if you decide to try it, it would be on your risk.
Thanks for the links. As soon as I get home I'll read it and see where to go from there. If I'm brave enough to go through with it lol
idk how I got here...
Just word of advice, if you're rooting for the hell of rooting it and you don't need it, I did say (from personal opinion) forget it.
Ok on topic, adb is fairly safe I never heard of anyone bricking their device using adb commands unless they moved some system files (don't know if that's even possible with no root).
So this is the story and I myself cannot believe how it all happened either. So, I have an Alcatel One Touch Fierce 2. Got it almost to the day it was released. Not a bad phone at all despite all I am about to say. So, it came with a locked bootloader so not an easy root to acquire. After researching, I found a link on XDA about how to root it. It's a very unorthodox exploit and I won't get into it but will leave the link if you want to read about it. So, I used the root method which BTW is with kingroot...but not only kingroot, Antutu is needed as well. Anyway, after a dozen or so attempts, I achieved root access. Needless to say, I was happy. So, I installed Titanium, Xposed Framework, lucky patcher and so on. Well, this is where it gets complicated. Somehow, not really sure, perhaps a conflict with an app I had caused my root go fail....BUT KingUser AND SuperSU were still installed . Root checker told me my device is not properly rooted. Then I tried everything...I mean everything. Factory Reset it well, by now...I'd say 100 times. No good. KingUser and SuperSU still there and no root access. It gets stranger. Some apps I have such as Aptoide will tell me my device IS rooted and some, well...most say it is not. I cannot regain root by any method now because of those installed apps that will not uninstall. And I cannot delete them because my phone SHOULD be rooted with them installed. So that's it for the most part. If ANYONE has a solution, you will win the prize. Trust me, I would be not only grateful but extremely amazed. I have spend I'm sure hundreds of hours doing everything I know and more to repair and....NOTHING. Please HELP!!
Here is the link for the rooting method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61375481&postcount=53
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So this is the story and I myself cannot believe how it all happened either. So, I have an Alcatel One Touch Fierce 2. Got it almost to the day it was released. Not a bad phone at all despite all I am about to say. So, it came with a locked bootloader so not an easy root to acquire. After researching, I found a link on XDA about how to root it. It's a very unorthodox exploit and I won't get into it but will leave the link if you want to read about it. So, I used the root method which BTW is with kingroot...but not only kingroot, Antutu is needed as well. Anyway, after a dozen or so attempts, I achieved root access. Needless to say, I was happy. So, I installed Titanium, Xposed Framework, lucky patcher and so on. Well, this is where it gets complicated. Somehow, not really sure, perhaps a conflict with an app I had caused my root go fail....BUT KingUser AND SuperSU were still installed . Root checker told me my device is not properly rooted. Then I tried everything...I mean everything. Factory Reset it well, by now...I'd say 100 times. No good. KingUser and SuperSU still there and no root access. It gets stranger. Some apps I have such as Aptoide will tell me my device IS rooted and some, well...most say it is not. I cannot regain root by any method now because of those installed apps that will not uninstall. And I cannot delete them because my phone SHOULD be rooted with them installed. So that's it for the most part. If ANYONE has a solution, you will win the prize. Trust me, I would be not only grateful but extremely amazed. I have spend I'm sure hundreds of hours doing everything I know and more to repair and....NOTHING. Please HELP!!
Here is the link for the rooting method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61375481&postcount=53
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