OK, I have been doing some searching and I still have a few questions or things I want verified before moving forward. It looks like there are a couple ways to root the phone. Superoneclick and the rage against the cage method. The rage method seems to be more used or at least the thread was longer. It looks like you just need Kies mini installed for the best outcome. Is superoneclick frowned upon for some reason? It appears the rage method is root and unlock. What if I don't need unlock? Don't worry about it?
I am only rooting right now to try out the wifi fix of writing the dhcp exit hook which supposedly fixes the wifi reconnection issues. Anyone else use this and verify it works 100% on this phone?
If I decide to install a rom or unroot what is the best way to flash back to stock unrooted? I saw that I think there was an odin tool to go back to stock rooted. There is a gtg back to stock thread but I think that gives you UCKD5. That is a version behind now? Also found a back to stock java app someone wrote. Lastly if I just unroot it appears superoneclick can unroot.
I'm sure this may seem like 5 different threads for some but I am really only looking for a wifi reconnect solution. It is aggravating as hell to walk 10 feet out of wifi range and then not reconnect when you come back into range 5 minutes later.
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I rooted mine and my wife's Captivate and the only advantage I saw was getting rid of ATT programs. I was going to send my phone back (becasue I could not OTA update) But since used Kies to do so. My wifes remains rooted . I am back to stock JH7.
I read you can tell the phone where to install programs when rooted but I did not find a way to do that. What are the other advantages of rooting the phone.
We have one Captivate rooted and the other stock.
Came over from unbranded n97 running Symbian. This is all new to me and I hated the 2 weeks with an iPhone. So far I like this Andriod OS but I have a lot to learn. I have read it is virtually impossible to brick this phone with the propoer tools and knowledge that is readily available........true?
Apparently it is not as unbrickable as people think. Some people were seeing stock phones bricking by trying to update the recent OTA. I myself was rooted and had no troubles.
Rooting allows you to play God on your phone. But be careful and backup everything if you do decide to. Best advice, as I was new to Android as well, is to read as much as you can before trying anything.
Most people here are good about answering questions, if you post in the right forum.
Good luck and welcome!
I guess it really depends on what you want to do with your phone. The only reason I rooted was to remove bloatware. Thats pretty much where the benefit ends unless you are interested in loading different ROMs and kernels.
Also, a word of caution: Be careful what apps you load on a rooted device. Root access gives you, and applications read/write/execute access to everything on your phone.
I also have a question on this topic. Since the original poster said, he can't do OTA updates after rooting is this correct?
Can you root the phone, take the bloatware off, then unroot the phone? Will the OTA now update?
Or do you have to update the original stock rom with OTA, then root the phone?
Can you root the phone, remove bloatware, then unroot the phone?
Thanks
Ihad no problem updating with my rooted phone. All I've done is root and lagfix.
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dynastyice said:
I also have a question on this topic. Since the original poster said, he can't do OTA updates after rooting is this correct?
Can you root the phone, take the bloatware off, then unroot the phone? Will the OTA now update?
Or do you have to update the original stock rom with OTA, then root the phone?
Can you root the phone, remove bloatware, then unroot the phone?
Thanks
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I rooted my phone......removed all bloat tirf to do the update and failed...Odin back to stock.....failed even after speaking with Samsung and ATT. Of course Samsung said it was not a hardware issue (as if that is all they should be concerned with.)
the Odin process could only be doe ONE way for me and I cut and pasted the method that worked and keep it and a lot of other tips in a Samsung folder on my Notebook. Seems everything but rooting was a hassle until you get GOOD information. That is the hardest think to glean. One has to read ENTIRE threads before they find the solution and not go jumping into the experiments....LOL
A few OPs do update their initial posts with the correct "process revisions"
I likely will root after the maybe someday Froyo 2.2 update. I want to get my wife's phone stock again..........
I finally after ATT decided to replace the phone......download Kies and installed the update that was and all went well. Kies is hit and miss with this phone though, Sometimes it sees it, others it does not.
Funny thing now on my USB selections it doesn't say "Samsung Kies" It says "Samsung Kies (firmware update)" Strange.
Anyway I am a complete noob but I like to learn about the OS as I did Symbian and mess with things now and then. I Am not the type that worries about scratches though. My phones look like war toys. But I usually don't resell them after a a couple generations. I give the previous phones away and keep the current phones as back up for the NEXT phones. The N95s will be given away if we keep these past Oct 20 drop day....
The biggest advantage you gain after rooting your phone is being able to use Titanium to back up all your apps, and Clockwork ROM manager to do an entire backup your phone.
These are nice tools to have, but both require rooting and super user privileges.
if you ask that question, then you probably shouldn't. rooting is for those who constantly not satisfied with status quo of their phones, for those who like different looks and improve on system and have no patience for OTA.
Example:
I bought MyTouch 3G as 1.5 Cupcake.
Upgraded to CM 1.6
Changed back and forth between Sense 1.5 and Donut 1.6.
Upgraded to CM 1.6 with bits of 2.0
Upgraded to CM 2.0
Upgraded to CM 2.1
Upgraded to CM 2.2
My Captivate will eventually get CM 6.0 I hope soon. Who knows, perhaps Sense 2.X will be ported too.
Oh, and lag-fix, overclocking and future color fix are other pluses.
Yeah you,re right. I switched both caps back to stock. I may want something more after Iget to know Android more and find areal need rather than.
do something just because it can be done
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hey guys,
bought my samsung captivate two days ago and i love it. from reading all the posts about how rooting is awesome i finally took the plunge and rooted my phone with the one click root program. followed the directions to the teeth, everything went fine. even went as far as downloading clockwork and backing up my rom.
few hours later, im totally blown that i rooted my phone. i realized i threw away my warranty.
is there ANY way to unroot the phone and make it totally stock and make it seem like the phone was never altered? i read some answers of "yeah" and some answers of "once your rooted, you can't get back" (i remember reading about an article about how some android phones like the nexus one, once you root theres no going back period). the program i used had a unroot button but im not sure if that would wipe everything away to factory settings and erase all traces of the root.
i know im effing stupid for not thinking it threw. but hey, its good that i came to my senses before i loaded up an os.
to be clear, my phone is just rooted. nothing else. im not running cognitive rom or anything. its running the stock samsung 2.1.
so can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me solve this problem?
im a total noob when it comes to android.
it took me 20 minutes doing that one click from reading the directions over and over again lol.
i need some step by step directions for stupid people
okay, so i followed the directions to unroot. the programs that were installed when i rooted seemed to have disappear. to be extra sure, i reformatted my sd card and than factory restored the phone (from settings/privacy). quick question though, after i pressed "factory reset" my phone rebooted and than for a quick second i saw the same screen i saw when i rooted (the black screen with the yellow font? looked like a system command prompt i guess). it came on for a sec and than disappeared and it booted regularly. did that happen because i did a factory reset or did that happen because im still rooted?
wtf is wrong with me. i just want my unrooted captivate back (and my warranty lol)
odin to stock with master clear.
There's a thread under android development something with "stock rom" that should restore your phone back to factory.
If you did all of that then you are definitely back to stock now & theres no way of detecting your phone was rooted. You could of gotten away with just using one click to unroot. Thats all I did when I returned mine after a week because my gps never worked at all. I dont think they even did anything to check if it was rooted or anything. Hows your gps on the new one by the way? Mines still bad but at least it sees some satellites now. My old one had a hardware problem where gps wouldn't do anything at all.
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When you use odin to flash back to stock does that restore the AT&T bloatware as well? Or should I use TiB when I first get the phone to get the bloatware back on?
Thanks,
JOe K.
After trying to exchange my phone for another phone (thinking the GPS is a hardware issue) I had rooted and flashed a custom rom. I reverted back using ODIN master clear and ODIN 2.1 rom (Which puts bloatware and everything on it) and there's no way to detect it. The only time it will truly void your warranty (I believe) if you go into the store with a custom rom or if you go into the store with a bricked phone and they figure out you were modifying your phone.
thanks for the answers guys! why is it that you cant "unroot" a nexus one? i heard they'll always be able to tell if your rooted once you do it.
Will (auto) root & unroot. Work for the new ota 605.7 update for the HTC thunderbolt
My friend wants to root the easy way ....NEED HELP will auto root work or not ...
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Yes but he should use the manual as most soft bricks occur with auto root.
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Yes but he should use the manual as most soft bricks occur with auto root.
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This. I don't trust "auto" roots.
The manual, ADB method is proven and not NEARLY as difficult as it may seem up front. You just have to follow the steps in jcase's thread, and you'll be done in half an hour. It's at least worth reading through.
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This. I don't trust "auto" roots.
The manual, ADB method is proven and not NEARLY as difficult as it may seem up front. You just have to follow the steps in jcase's thread, and you'll be done in half an hour. It's at least worth reading through.
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Completely agree. You don't even need to learn adb to use it it's all just copy and paste.
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i was trying to root my friends phone with captains script which holds your hand...
I came across a problem... when trying to flash the downgrade pcimgfile... kept saying "Main version older, update failed"
As per him, he has not flashed anything on his phone, everything is stock andhe got his phone about a month after i did (for it launch day). The script was able to push the files and all seems good, but i have not been able to pin point whats causing the error. (i didnt get to take a screen shot with the firmware and stuff) Ive rooted 2 phones without issues with the script and on this particular phone, it seems to be working fine until i try to flash the update.
will using adb manually help in this case? I am thinking no.... but if anyone encountered this, mind sharing what you did?
I have not had any issue with the script. Its similar to the JCase's method it just issues the commands for you. Capt includes a copy of the commands the scrips runs in his thread so I found it helpful to look at it while I ran the scrip so I knew what it was doing and when. Like any set of instructions its always good to read through it all once before you preform it so you know what to expect. If you just download everything, click start, and expect it all to run smoothly then you are likely to run into problems.
JCase's method is good to learn off of tho and might be easier for people to pin point where errors occur.
The error i am seeing is with the phone itself. I think something may have gotten updated?
the script its doing its job. I also reboot my pc and did a factory restore.
Well Capt's script says it only works with software version 605.6 or 605.9 which I assume from when it was written means 1.12.605.6 or 1.12.605.9. If the phone your using is using software version 1.13.605.7 then you should use JCase's method here
The software is 1.12.605.6
Could it be Jcase maybe also updated the downgrade img file?
That first step is causijg the problem when i try to downgrade (the first time you flash the img file)
*looked at the thread and also went to the original thread, file md info is the same for the ruu on both posts **
I also have all the original exploit files on my pc from when i rooted MY phone... since he had a software version that was on the original root threads, i didnt have to change anything
This may be an issue you would want to ask in the chat room that there is a link to in the Development section. If you look at the scripts contents as well as the manual instructions from JCase they are exactly the same up the the point you are getting stuck at. The MD5's even match. So I wouldnt expect doing one method over the other would solve your problem. Maybe someone on the chat could help you out tho.
yeah... im gonna have to go in there....
Its the same software as mines. I didnt modify any files on my pc.... it should have just worked. thanks for the feed back. Guess i will try when i get home later and have more time to mess with it.
So I had an issue in hboot, i am not sure if something was unconnected or what but i think i am in a bootloop.
It happened during the first round where you unplug you phone, I did and it started to check the sd image and had the expected no image error message.
after it checked them all the phone displayed a error message the the "main version is older" that "update failed" and to press power to reboot.
when i do that it takes me to another screen. I think its the fastboot screen and my only options are bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. All of which lead me to the same problem and no way that i can figure out.
I found this while searching for a fix, would i be able to pull the sd card, flash the update, and start over again? (albe it with a different root program)
Thank you before hand for your help.
I've spent some time on the forum trying to find an answer, but obviously that didnt happen.
I have my GS4G and want to just ROOT it without installing any rom to replace the firmware.
1. If i root my phone, can i do JUST that? or are there other steps after simply rooting that are considered important for the stability of my phone?
2. After i root my phone, will i still be able to do the kiesmini/OTA gingerbread *official* (not leaked) update?
My main reason for wanting to do this is for the bloatware and increasing performance, and to just have overall more 'control' (similar to the feeling of wiping a new computer from the manufacture's preloaded poop).
I have superoneclick v1.9.5. I used it as a test on my old MT3G, and installed the GingerYoshi rom, and all worked very well. I just dont want to brick my GS4G, as i paid full price D:.
sorry if this has been asked/answered, i try to play by the rules, but just didnt find my answer.
thanks,
Greg
Super one click root 1.7 was what I used. It just roots the phone, as any other rooting method should. You can get ota fine...I always did. Never had a problem.
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Just so you know there's no one-click root method for Gingerbread for the SGS4G yet. Maybe around the time the official ROM comes out there will be.
what does:
"error:more than one device"
mean?? That pops up when i hit root. I only have one phone connected to my PC.
I'm assuming its multiple instances of ADB running? Im not sure..
*EDIT* My mistake lol. still had my MT3G plugged in, my bad!
successfully rooted. Thanks
So I somehow screwed up my phones ability to use wifi. I have already googled this for days and couldn't find anything helpful.
This is what I did:
I had originally rooted my phone (Samsung Captivate i897) when it had Froyo 2.2 but later upgraded to Gingerbread 2.3.5 via Kies.
[EDIT] (I don't know why, but I thought that I had GB 2.3.3)
A few days ago, I discovered that I know longer had superuser access and looked into it; sure enough, my phone was no longer rooted. I decided to root it again.
I put my phone into download mode w/ debug mode on and used-
Odin3 v1.7 and flashed the file "I897UCKF1-AutoRoot-DesignGears.tar"
All seemed good...until I went to enable the wifi.
Whenever I try, It turns on and automatically begins scanning for networks (normal). After a few seconds it disconnects wifi without so much as a warning.
I really need my phone's wifi back! I use it a lot in my programming classes. PLEASE HELP ME!!! YOU GUYS ARE MY LAST HOPE!!!!!
[EDIT] Also, I believe that this root was for 2.3.3. Not sure if that could be the problem and yes...I am an idiot...
That kernel is not meant to be used full time. You need to flash back to the original kernel.
Root instructions
Red_81 said:
That kernel is not meant to be used full time. You need to flash back to the original kernel.
Root instructions
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I will try this and then check back...
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IT WOOOOOORKED!!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAPSLOCK!!!!!1!11!11
Seriously though, you really saved me there!
Lol extra heads help sometimes. Had to do the same for my friends rezound
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Happy to help. You can also flash other kernels such as Corn that already have root access.
Also, in the future, questions need to go in the Q&A section not in General.