Im new to the rooting game and was hoping someone could give me an easy way to root my galaxy s 2.2 vibrant and some good reading about the whole root experience.
A way to unroot my phone would be helpful as I have been haing some problems with my phone. I believe these to be Samsung software issues such as stuck in thee booting prosess. Im on my second phone and have had to hard reset it several times
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746129
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In the forum search look fo "z4root". I used it to root my epic . It took a few uninstall-reinstall-reboot-run-repeat cycles but I am successfully rooted and didn't even need a PC
Epic is as Epic does
Thanks ill try that.
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Is that even on the market anymore?
I used one click lag fix to root mine
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I tried the z4root and another one click root I found on the forums nneither of them worked. Probably because im running 2.2. I found a one click root using a computer so I think that will be my next attempt
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Used Odin in the end and im now rooted. Thanks for the input
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Hi all. I'm new to this. I'm looking for a fool proof way to root my hero. Not sure if it has been rooted before since I bought it used. I would like to know the best and easier root method out there plus the easiest way to load roms.
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It has not been activated yet. Does it have to be activated to root it? This is my first official post here as well.
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Hey everyone just got my new Samsung galaxy s3 yesterday , and man is this thing wicked , went from thunderbolt running cm7. What a difference! Anyways does anyone know how to root this thing , I've tried Odin 1.85 & 3.04 with the Sg3.tar file and nothing so far, I've have the correct drivers installed and usb debug is on but still nothing.any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance.
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WRONG SECTION!!!
Here
Verizon S3 has a locked bootloader.
No root yet.
Any words or rumors from devs ? Really like the phone but no root might be a deal breaker for me
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Does it really have a locked bootloader
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Yea from everything I've seen check out other forums
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root is in the house. now to get tb working with it as im not having luck.
Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Do you have stock ROM or a different ROM?
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Because my S3 on VZW is rooted fully and Unlocked.
My Droid is custom. I haven't traded for the S3 yet because I can't get casual to run on my mac. The casual thread has the errors its giving me.
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Haha. Yea honestly can't do a straight trade. Just got mine on contract 4 weeks ago and still mint with the box and papers.
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Regardless, even IF I considered (key words) it, how would we even ship these bad boys? Haha.
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No idea lol
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So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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Is your Mac on 10.8? If so, using Casual from Beanstown106 will work. You'll need Java 7 installed for Casual to work. I almost encourage you to use the Casual 634 from the Verizon GSIII section on Rootzwiki instead of the Casual 734 linked in the dev section of XDA. There seems to be some issues with r734 recognizing the device is connected but it can work even so.
Alternatively, you can do the manual route using Open1your1eyes0 root thread in the dev section. It requires Odin which works great on Windows, is incompatible on Mac, and idk about Linux.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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I'm not sure you'll be getting Casual to work on your setup. Maybe try the manual method by Open1your1eyes0 or the toolkit by mskip. Like I said there, if these don't work then you might want to find a spare laptop when available and knock this out.
Can I use the Odin method with heimdall?
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Its possible, but there is no documentation/thread that I know of that goes into detail for this device. Might have to look on the other carrier models for threads. Everyone always uses Odin.
Damn :/
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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Motochopper? Wasn't that for Motorola devices? Just asking general questions, what prompted you to try that?
Yes, you do need to be unlocked to flash roms. Are you positive you are rooted? Do you have working SU or SuperSU? If so, download EZ Unlock v1.2 from Rootwiki and press unlock.
Actually, I Google "root Verizon s3 4.1.2" and his exploit works on all american galaxy s3's
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I've found two methods on this forum for rooting my VZW GS3, the Casual root method and then there's that Toolkit found in the stickied thread that does root, recovery, roms etc etc. Which one is the best route to go for rooting.
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BackSeatSuicide said:
I've found two methods on this forum for rooting my VZW GS3, the Casual root method and then there's that Toolkit found in the stickied thread that does root, recovery, roms etc etc. Which one is the best route to go for rooting.
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Casual is newer, stick with that.
There's also a rooted stock Rom out there, just flash in odin and you should have root. But it'll wipe all of your information.
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Thanks bro. Appreciate the help
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