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Rooting Samsung Galaxy S 1900m Canada

my lack of knowledge/terminology been sitting here for hours trying to root my phone with no luck. I know it is doable through ADB but I tried installing it and it didnt work. I tried the one click root method too but when it gets to the "repackage files" step, I just plain don't have the option on the menu, here are the options
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
format internal sd card
when I press the update.zip it says unverifiable whatever. ( not in the mood to reboot it just for this)
is there anything on here that actually is just straight up for a beginner?
I am completely confused past this point.

Try using Superoneclick v1.5.5
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You're on jl2 right?
Problem is: Recovery 3e is verifiing signature on update.zip file, you'll have to get on Recovery 2e in order to root from an unsigned update.zip.
you can probably use the search fonction to find the "how To" easely. It took me less than 10 minutes gettings mine rooted.
Personnaly, all I did is flash another kernel with Odin
http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-galaxy-s-how-to-install.html

K So I upgraded to the kernel you told me to and it booted up normally I have my market back and the superuser permissions but when I press superuser permissions it doesnt show anything other than settings which only have two trivial options.
what do I do from here.

butterbladez said:
K So I upgraded to the kernel you told me to and it booted up normally I have my market back and the superuser permissions but when I press superuser permissions it doesnt show anything other than settings which only have two trivial options.
what do I do from here.
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That is fine if you have the superuser app show up, that means it's rooted. You won't see anything in there until an app needs superuser permission. Download titanium backup when you first boot it you well be prompted for superuser access click allow then next time you go into superuser app you will draw titanium backup in the list.
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I love you more than anything.
How do I start adding paid apps and stuff for free? possible at all? I downloaded that and busybox

Bump i really need help im not the smartest

bump ive been trying to do this for 5 days now

super one click is the easiest way of all
make sure it is in USB Debug Mode
and that it is connected to a computer that can see your phone in ADB mode
make sure the USB drivers are installed for the Kies and Android SDK

+1 for SuperOneClick
I'm on JL2 i9000m too and rooted with SuperOneClick.

Sup guys, I've got the Bell I9000M in Canada aswell, bought it less than a month ago, and I am not on JL2.
I, instead am on JK4.
What do I have to do to root my JK4 I9000M?
Any replies would be helpful. In the end, I would love to be able to get Darkys Rom on my phone, but no one responds in that thread nor does anyone really know what to do with my phone version.
If anyone could help me out, that would be great. Thanks

Help pls
OK so to start off i had this samsung galaxy s GT-I9000M from bell and i was trying to upgrade it so that my sister could use a newer version of android and not the boring v.2 . ANYWAYS I rooted it then reboot it and it was stuck at the splash screen so i thought it was stuck and i searched for a way to fix it which was to get the PDA PHONE CSC and PIT files and put them in odin and hope for the best. well that turned out horribly wrong. i ended up getting the phone stuck in some boot loop where it flashes a white screen and turns of and it does this constantly :crying::crying::crying: I can still get to download mode but not recovery mode for some reason...... PLS HALP

Any method to root captivate 2.2 no usb needed

Is there anyway to root my 2.2 captivate without a usb cable
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Yes.
1. Go to this url http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924404&highlight=wirelessly and follow the link in that and instructions from the website listed there.
2. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364 and in teh very first post, under Download section Download the root file this will download a file called root.zip. Do not unzip it.
3. once downloaded, rename the file from root.zip to update.zip, place that file in the root of your sdcard (if you have followed the instructions in step 1, you will know where that is and how to transfer the file wirelessly).
4. Once the update.zip file has been copied over, turn off your phone.
5. Press and hold both volume buttons and while holding them down press and hold the power button (basically press and hold all three buttons and dont let them go).
6. Press and hold till AT&T log screen comes back up for a second time. Let the buttons go.
7. You will now be in recovery mood (a blue font, black background screen).
8. Using your volume down button highlight "re-install packages".
9. press the power button to select.
10. Let the process continue and let the phone reboot on its own.
11. Once the phone is booted, check your app drawer, you should have an app called "superuser".
12. Thats it, you are rooted and no USB needed.

I tried the method already but it is not letting reistall the packages.i rooted before using a similar mathod.n update from eclair to froyo im using perception 10.1 bit i try installing a dif rom and thats when i got unrooted cause i have the super user app but i cant get the root acces
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If you are on a 2.2 rom and trying to flash another rom then you should flash back to stock eclair before flashing another. So you will odin back to stock, then root then install clock work recovery and then flash via cwm if your rom presents that option.
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Do you know a method to use odin cause i tried it and it looks like the computer does not recognize my phone
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Thanxs a lot i used odin and now im rooted and enjoying paragon rom
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Glad I could help... I have Paragon.. but the calendar notification is a problem and the battery doesnt seem to be working properly for me... I need to flash something else... enjoy if it works for you!

Just to double check...
I'm running Froyo on my Samsung Captivate. (I used the official At&t update) I want to root my phone now but for some reason I have issues with my USB and no computer will recognize my phone.
If I have this version of Froyo do I need to go back to Eclair or can I just follow these instructions and be able to root my phone?

fughedaboudit said:
I'm running Froyo on my Samsung Captivate. (I used the official At&t update) I want to root my phone now but for some reason I have issues with my USB and no computer will recognize my phone.
If I have this version of Froyo do I need to go back to Eclair or can I just follow these instructions and be able to root my phone?
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Check to make sure you have the right drivers. And this version only works for eclair. But you can update to stock froyo and keep root.
*so easy a caveman can do it*

is there dirt inside the usb? are you using the official USB cable that came with it? i have a cable from my bluetooth headset that only supplies power but data wont work through that one cable. I cant use that cable to flash or exchange data.
you can use the 3e fix in my sig to fix the stock recovery to not need signature verrifacation for update.zip files. then you can find a pre-rooted/cwm 2.2 (froyo) kernel cwm.zip (or a whole custom rom) . rename to update.zip, boot into recovery, apply update.zip

oh crap no usb, no 3e fix... damn.

TRusselo said:
is there dirt inside the usb? are you using the official USB cable that came with it? i have a cable from my bluetooth headset that only supplies power but data wont work through that one cable. I cant use that cable to flash or exchange data.
you can use the 3e fix in my sig to fix the stock recovery to not need signature verrifacation for update.zip files. then you can find a pre-rooted/cwm 2.2 (froyo) kernel cwm.zip (or a whole custom rom) . rename to update.zip, boot into recovery, apply update.zip
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I don't think it's my usb. I think it's actually my internal sd card. When i tried to mount it, it would sometimes get recognized and sometimes it wouldn't. I tried reformatting my sd card (it worked once but then stopped working no matter how many times i reformatted it.) I took it to the AT&T store and got my phone replaced. Then i had the same problem all over again.
I just want to enable sideloading but i guess i'll try to bug AT&T about getting me that update instead of trying to root. Thanks for the help!

E file signature verification failed?

I am a noob an I am alittle confused with installing roms. I tried to install one and it went through everything and then it stopped and it said in yellow that the E file signature verification has failed now what does this mean. Please help.
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What was the exact name of the rom (or filename)... was it a stock rom (SBF/XML) or was it one of the custom roms?
Also was your phone rooted?

I was trying to install a couple but the one I really have been trying in the liberty 3 2.0.
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Are you using safestrap for your clockworkmodrecovery or are you using regular bootstrap?
And when you're in clockworkmod recovery what exact steps did you do to flash? You should wipe data & cache, then choose install zip from sdcard.
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I don't know how to use or get bootstrap and I don't know alot about safe strap yet. I tried different ways I tried using rom manager an downloading the rom from there then it will ask if I want to boot into recover I push ok and the phone just reboots. Nothing happens so I tried rom toolbox an did the same thing. So I tried to boot myself by pushing the power and x an I did as you said I wiped data a cache then I reset and restored my phone went back an installed zip from sd card then it starts to install then it says E file signature verification has failed.
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Ahhhh ok.
It sounds like you are trying to install zips via the stock recovery. That recovery will only install signed/official ones, not custom rom zips.
If you want to install custom roms, try this method (but I recommend browsing through the other threads. There is a lot of useful info out there). This is the safestrap method. Safestrap allows you to have your stock rom (that you are on now) in the "non-safe zone" and with safestrap you can enable the "safe zone" for installing your custom rom.
1) make sure your phone is rooted if it isn't already. There are threads about this... I used DoomLord's root (version 4) for my phone but read up.
2) install safestrap 1.08 (u can find it in the droid 3 development forum). It is an apk file.
3) when you run safestrap 1.08 from your app drawer, superuser will probably ask you if you want to allow it root access, say yes.
4) in the app, hit the first button. It will install safestrap so you can boot into safestrap recovery. When it says its done, restart phone.
5) upon restart, you will be greeted by the safestrap splashscreen. It gives u 10 seconds to hit Menu to take you into safestrap recovery. Otherwise it will just continue with booting.
6) so hit menu. Safestrap ecovery appears. It will indicate that safe mode is not enabled yet. You are in non-safe right now (your stock rom)
7) this step is optional but I'm sure everyone will recommend it (I do also). Navigate your selection with the down/up volume buttons and hit power when you get to "backup". This will back up your non-safe zone and dump it onto your sdcard (internal or external). You can restore it to your non-safe zone (only) if you happen to mess up your non-safe system. The backup will be stored in /safestrap/backup. of whatever card you select.
8) now that that's done, it will take you back to the main menu of safestrap recovery
9) Go to "safe boot menu" and hit Toggle safe zone. Don't do the quick toggle, just do the normal one (the first one)
10) when that is done, you will notice the colour of the text has changed. And at the top it will say safe zone enabled. You can now install your custom rom by going to "install zip from sdcard" from the main menu of safestrap*
*Note that when installing roms, make sure to choose Wipe Data first. It will wipe your data and cache. Then go into mounts and storage and choose "format /system" (thanks Endo). Some people also like to go into the advanced menu and wipe the dalvik cache as well (is this necessary? I do it every time because I had to back on my old htc... maybe someone can comment on this?) It doesn't seem to hurt anything when I do it, so...
So after your wipes, you can go to "install rom from sdcard" . Choose the .zip of the rom (of course) to begin install. When the rom has finished installing, you can go back to the main menu and choose reboot phone. You will be greeted by the safestrap splashscreen again. It will tell you that safe zone is enabled. Wait the 10 seconds to boot normally or you can hit the search button to go immediately.
On first boot of many roms, it may take a little longer than normal to start up. Be patient. If it never boots (and you are looking at the boot animation forever... say more than 5-10 minutes?) Then... somethings wrong, or you may have forgotten to do your wipe procedure, but go to that rom's thread and read all the posts to see if others experienced the same thing... someone could have posted a good suggestion or solution
Oh, if you want to switch back to non-safe mode, restart phone, get into safestrap recovery, go into safe boot menu, and hit toggle. Then restart phone.
If something disastrous occurs, there are Unbrick and Fastboot threads in this forum where you can download a stock rom for your phone and flash to your phone via RSD Lite, which will pretty much restore your phone to stock. (No more safestrap, no more root). Read through those to get more info.
Hope this is helpful. Good luck!
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ryanw5489 said:
I don't know how to use or get bootstrap and I don't know alot about safe strap yet. I tried different ways I tried using rom manager an downloading the rom from there then it will ask if I want to boot into recover I push ok and the phone just reboots. Nothing happens so I tried rom toolbox an did the same thing. So I tried to boot myself by pushing the power and x an I did as you said I wiped data a cache then I reset and restored my phone went back an installed zip from sd card then it starts to install then it says E file signature verification has failed.
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I'm not really sure what you are doing but uninstall any recovery you may have installed and ditch rom manage(you can keep the toolbox) go to www.hash-of-codes.blogspot.com go to downloads and get safestrap. Install it, open it and click install recovery. Reboot your phone, you'll get a screen saying pish menu to enter recovery then once it enters go to safe mode menu(or whatever it exactly says) and enter safe mode. Once safemode is active(it says at the top of the screen)go to mounts and storage and format system then do a data/cache wipe, the install zip from sd
If you're doing what I think you're doing you are new to this and I would suggest reading as much as you can in this forum and by googling the various terms you find so you don't brick your phone
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So do you want me to uninstall clockwork recovery?
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ryanw5489 said:
So do you want me to uninstall clockwork recovery?
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Yes. Safestrap will install its own CWR
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So how do I go about uninstalling cmw.
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ryanw5489 said:
So how do I go about uninstalling cmw.
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Safestrap will clean that up. Just get rid of any bootstraps and rom manager
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So I have to get rid of rom manager because I paid for it an really don't feel like losing money on it. I don't think I have any bootstrap so I should be good there. I'm sorry that I don't know alot I'm really new an I don't have the most time to even do alot of research so thanks for helping me out greatly appreciated.
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ryanw5489 said:
So I have to get rid of rom manager because I paid for it an really don't feel like losing money on it. I don't think I have any bootstrap so I should be good there. I'm sorry that I don't know alot I'm really new an I don't have the most time to even do alot of research so thanks for helping me out greatly appreciated.
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If you have your heart set on rom manager, I believe it will work, but I've never used it so I can't help you there. I recommend safestrap because once you're in safemode its pretty hard to screw up your phone in any serious manner. In safemode you'll always be able to access recovery.
In a google search of your issue I found a recommendation of turning off signature verification. I know I've seen an option for this or something really damn similar in clockwork recovery. You can try that if you like but I don't know the effects of it. As always, I'm not responsible if you brick your device
That said, I would also suggest that you look into obtaining rsdlite and the appropriate fastboot package(you may know this as an sbf, although that term isn't totally correct)so if you do brick your device you know how to recover it. There's a sticky in the dev forum about it
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Thank you I understand I wouldn't ever blame anyone for my mistakes so your good. I was thinking about using safestrap anyways just haven't had time to research it much yet. Probably would be best since I don't know much about roms anyways. Now it's not that I have it set with rom manager just seemed easy to use and I like rom toolbox alittle more anyways. I also know that not all roms are comparable with the safestrap so that's another reason why I haven't used it yet.
Now on another topic. I have downloaded safestrap on my computer all I have to do is plug my phone to the computer an put it on mass storage and place it in the sd card or internal memory and unplug it an click on it on my phone.
I really need to start some research cause this stuff is pretty hard.
But thanks for your help again
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I have installed safestrap. Is there anywhere that's best to look up how to use it.
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i have installed safe strap i rebooted my phone and now it is stuck on boot screen now what did i do to my phone and what happen can it be fixed?

Which boot screen? What does it look like? Is it the safestrap boot screen (that says you can hit Menu to get into recovery?)
I replied to this thread with instructions on how to use it. Were they not useful? Did you get stuck somewhere?

LaZiODROID said:
Which boot screen? What does it look like? Is it the safestrap boot screen (that says you can hit Menu to get into recovery?)
I replied to this thread with instructions on how to use it. Were they not useful? Did you get stuck somewhere?
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I don't know how I missed your huge write up. More detailed than mine.
I figured the same, stock recovery. I'm not sure what steps he's taken before he wrote this thread.
OP if its the boot animation, on first boot it takes a long time. 5 minutes normally but give it 10 to be sure. If its the splash screen you may have issues. Is the safestrap splash coming up, where it says press menu
You may have to use rsdlite or the fast unbrick to restore your phone to stock. If you can write us EVERYTHING you've done in as much detail as possible, and exactly what is happenig now we can come up with a solution.
I think often all the various terms can be confusing to newcomers. I have a feeling perhaps that you still have a bootstrap installed and safestrap.
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ok well first i went to hash of codes and downloaded the safestrap. Then i put the download on my sd card and i went into my files and pushed sd memory. then i went and found the apk and downloaded the safestrap. it installed fine then i pushed install recovery.then after all that i rebooted my phone and now it is stuck on the BIG RED Motorola symbol that says DUAL CORE TECHNOLGY. I even took out battery and tried that did not work. i also tried pushing power and x and restoring phone. still nothing. i must of missed something i just cant figure what that would be! Please help!

ryanw5489 said:
ok well first i went to hash of codes and downloaded the safestrap. Then i put the download on my sd card and i went into my files and pushed sd memory. then i went and found the apk and downloaded the safestrap. it installed fine then i pushed install recovery.then after all that i rebooted my phone and now it is stuck on the BIG RED Motorola symbol that says DUAL CORE TECHNOLGY. I even took out battery and tried that did not work. i also tried pushing power and x and restoring phone. still nothing. i must of missed something i just cant figure what that would be! Please help!
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No I meant with rom manager and rfom toolox. All the steps you took prior to posting on this thnread
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Bricked after rooting

After searching for hours and getting nothing but eye ache, I've desperately come to decision to start a new topic.
I wanted to install ICS (I've had 2.3.6 installed) on my P1000. I've read all the guides and figured I needed to root my phone. I wasn't sure if it was rooted before - it did boot with "overcome expirience" logo and it did have Superuser app installed. I wasn't sure however, so I decided to root it using one of the guides.
I've downloaded Odin3 v1.7, which had a PDA file named CF-Root-TAB7_XX_OXA_JQ1-v3.3-CWM3RFS.
I've rebooted my device in "download mode". I wasn't sure if I had USB debugging enabled. That was my 1st mistake, I haven't checked before I rebooted in download mode.
I followed the instructions and odin-ed my phone. I got the "green PASS" field and my tab auto-rebooted, and it stuck at 1st black screen, showing nothing but "GALAXY TAB" in the middle, and "SAMSUNG" at the bottom. Whatever I do, that's how far it goes.
I can still access download mode and CWM. Started CWM and tried factory data, but it couldn't do it. Tried deleting the cache too, and many other options, but nothing worked. CMW's errors all begin with "Unknown path". Like there's no sdcard or internal memory at all. I've tested the sd in other device, it works well and all the data is there.
So I bricked it when I rooted it. Maybe I shouldn't have used that PDA file? Is there anything I can do to fix this? PLEASE HELP.

You shouknt have.
That PDA has some possibility of bricking, and it nearly has.
Overcome is a rooted rom, why you flash cf I don't know.
Now, follow the entire overcome method or move on to ics.
Read this steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855591
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Its not bricked, just re-install a rom via ODIN.

priyana said:
Read this steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855591
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Out of seven thousand guides out there, I've managed to miss this one, the only worth it.
Thanks a million. Ever happen to be in Serbia, Imma pay dinner. Much love!

Need dummies' guide to basic root - CWM etc

Friends I'm a fairly fast learner and have a couple of devices rooted but the methods were diff from what I'm reading here about T879, so I'm stuck for the moment. I have Odin running, have the samsung drivers loaded fine and all that works well [windows 7 x64]. phone is fine.
I flashed CWM via Odin and got all that happy signs but what now? I don't see anything in the folders on my handset that looks like 'cwm'....
So I need to debug that, read a guide on how to use CWM, then need to root the handset using one of the several...
sorry for being so basic but I'm a serial-logic thinker so can read a step-by-step
thanks for your direction
EDIT: just for the record, my T879 shows up in device manager under the Portables category, as "SGH-T879" using driver 2.9.104.921.
Also, for the record, some of the guides I've read say that Odin should show a yellow port code, and identify the device by its Project name. I've never seen that. Odin always shows Blue, with no identification other than a port ID.

Download the superuser.zip to your SD card. Ok turn your phone off. Then press both volume buttons and the power button at the same time. After the Samsung logo pops up release the power button. In a few seconds you will be in CWM. Select install from Sd, then select the SU.zip from the goodies section or the pre-rooted stock ROM, and bam you're off and rooted.
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could you post where you downloaded cwm from please. everywhere I try to get cwm it doesn't work