Hi, everyone.
I am trying to install a rom on a Samsung Captivate and having some, but not total, success.
I used the super one-click method to root, but I may have messed it up; I unplugged it too soon, when it appeared to hang pushing busybox.
However, when I rebooted the phone, it had superuser. I installed both ROM manager, one-click lag fix, and titanium backup from the market, and opened the applications. In all instances, I had no problem granting superuser permissions. In Titanium, it showed I needed to have usb debugging checked (which I had), and third-party applications (which I can't find in the menu).
However, when I ran ROM manager, I flashed Clockwork, and everything seemed to go all right, with no errors or warnings, but it won't actually boot into the Clockwork recovery. I can only get into the stock (blue) recovery, with a handful of options.
Fearful that I messed up the rooting by unplugging, I unrooted and then re-rooted. This time I didn't unplug anything, and it said it had success. The phone has a superuser app icon. It looks like superuser stuck around even after I wiped cache/data. I verified root via root checker, and it seems to be working correctly, and busy box is correctly installed. I installed ROM manager again and reran it and reflashed it, and it requested superuser, which I granted.
But then I reboot into recovery from ROM manager, and I'm pretty sure it's not clockwork. It's five options, all in blue.
I must be doing something wrong. Help, anyone?
Reinstall packages in normal recovery ... If you get an error saying signature verification failed, its because you're on froyo that has 3e recovery, search got 3e signature verification...
Also one click lag fix is pretty outdated and useless...
willentrekin said:
Hi, everyone.
I am trying to install a rom on a Samsung Captivate and having some, but not total, success.
I used the super one-click method to root, but I may have messed it up; I unplugged it too soon, when it appeared to hang pushing busybox.
However, when I rebooted the phone, it had superuser. I installed both ROM manager, one-click lag fix, and titanium backup from the market, and opened the applications. In all instances, I had no problem granting superuser permissions. In Titanium, it showed I needed to have usb debugging checked (which I had), and third-party applications (which I can't find in the menu).
However, when I ran ROM manager, I flashed Clockwork, and everything seemed to go all right, with no errors or warnings, but it won't actually boot into the Clockwork recovery. I can only get into the stock (blue) recovery, with a handful of options.
Fearful that I messed up the rooting by unplugging, I unrooted and then re-rooted. This time I didn't unplug anything, and it said it had success. The phone has a superuser app icon. It looks like superuser stuck around even after I wiped cache/data. I verified root via root checker, and it seems to be working correctly, and busy box is correctly installed. I installed ROM manager again and reran it and reflashed it, and it requested superuser, which I granted.
But then I reboot into recovery from ROM manager, and I'm pretty sure it's not clockwork. It's five options, all in blue.
I must be doing something wrong. Help, anyone?
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Have you reinstalled package??
If you get signature failed after doing so - means u're on froyo 2.2 and you need 3e recovery fix. If not, u're on eclair 2.1 and flashing will be as easy as stealing from a baby
studacris said:
Reinstall packages in normal recovery ... If you get an error saying signature verification failed, its because you're on froyo that has 3e recovery, search got 3e signature verification...
Also one click lag fix is pretty outdated and useless...
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OMG really?? you replied the same thing as I did I call JYNX!!
Beat ya! ;p
studacris said:
Reinstall packages in normal recovery ... If you get an error saying signature verification failed, its because you're on froyo that has 3e recovery, search got 3e signature verification...
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That's exactly the error I'm getting. Searched it and working on it now. Will report back.
Also one click lag fix is pretty outdated and useless...
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I figured so, but I was attempting to check root against all the sources I could, and I remembered there having been an 'unroot' option. But thanks for the confirmation. I figured it wasn't much use on a Captivate anyway.
Okay.
So I found two threads concerning the 3e recovery.
I tried the one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423
And it started okay but then failed to refind a temporary root and aborted. This was the second temporary root, though; the first time it checked, it was fine.
So I went here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213
And extracted the file and downloaded Root Explorer, but my explorer only goes dev/block/delv. There's no other folder besides delv under block, so far as I can see. No st19.
Further help? Thanks so much in advance.
No, that instuction is to how to mount the system to r/w if using a terminal ... With root explorer that is a button on the top right so press that and move on to the next step and put the file in /system/bin. Reboot ... Bam!
studacris said:
No, that instuction is to how to mount the system to r/w if using a terminal ... With root explorer that is a button on the top right so press that and move on to the next step and put the file in /system/bin. Reboot ... Bam!
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Okay. So, I moved the recovery file to my sdcard from my desktop, so it was on the phone. I ran root explorer, then first went into the sdcard to copy the file. After that, into system, then bin, which I mounted as r/w, and then pasted the recovery file there.
I got so excited I tried to do clockwork before rebooting. Now it gets to the update bit and seems about to work but sticks.
Do I need to wipe everything and retry? Just reboot?
reboot, you might want to paste the file in and reboot just for peace of mind ... also that downloaded update.zip with CWM could be bad, redownload it with rom mananger ... or take this one.
studacris said:
reboot, you might want to paste the file in and reboot just for peace of mind ... also that downloaded update.zip with CWM could be bad, redownload it with rom mananger ... or take this one.
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Ha! Got it! It looked like it might bootloop for a second, and then it came up as stock recovery, and then I reinstalled packages and it came up with the green!
Wooo!
Thanks so much. Hopefully that'll be the last of the problems. Installing purplicious now. It looks like it's working.
After a failed attempt to flash Galaxian Kernel (got stuck in bootloops), I flashed back to the chainfire root kernel. After having booted my phone, all of my apps seem to have lost root access. Superuser is still there and it listed all of my apps with access. I told it to forget them all but that did not remedy the situation. So I think I may have lost root access. CWM works, although I tried reinstall super user via a zip update but that was also unsuccessful. CWM was unable to extract it. Reinstall from the market also did not help.
My question is, would the best way forward be for me to flash stock kernel and then reflash Chainfire to regain access root (all via odin)? Any risk associated with this?
Thanks for any help
go to recovery mode and use the option advanced-->fix permissions.. this should help u..;D
Thanks for the tip unfortunately it did not seem to fix the problem Wondering if busy box got broken or something.
hmmm then try this:
1. use lippol94's ultimate cleaning script( i attached it for u)
2. flash cf kernel
3. fix permissions.
this should fix the problem...
Hey,
Followed your instructions and the script executed successfully. Reflashed CF but still the same problem unfortunately! Not sure what's going on! Thank you though
Have you got busybox installed??? If not try to dl from market, install and reboot.
S.U.R.F.A.C.E 2.something
Just tried that but thought the kernel already included it. When I attempted to install it it said that root access was denied and it could not get access from superuser.
Maybe try terminal emulator and type su?
Or fugu root?
I'd probably just clash the kernel again though.
S.U.R.F.A.C.E 2.something
Tried the emulator. Permission denied.
Would Fugu require me to flash back to stock?
I have reflashed cf twice now, no luck. Maybe reflashing back to stock Kernel (I don't have to do pda/modem files right?) would work.
Just flash kernel as pda.
S.U.R.F.A.C.E 2.something
Cheers for all the help. In the end, nothing worked. Repartitioning and reflashing stock ended up doing the trick.
Thanks again
Hi Guys,
So I finally completed my GB update and root! Only problem now is that the app "MyBackup Root" does not work anymore. It says that I do not have root access. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I have superuser, root explorer, and revotoolkit installed and they work fine. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried uninstalling, reboot, and re-installing with no luck.
Root appears to be fine for a few moments after rebooting the phone (stock 2.3.3 + latest Superuser and 3.1.1 binary recently updated from 3.0.1 which worked fine) but then it fails to grant permissions. Weird.
Am thinking about simply reflashing upd_1.zip or installing SuperSU to see if that helps.
Any advice?
Incidentally, not sure if there is a causal link, but it seems attempting to use adbWireless forces the problem. But it seems Binary is the more likely cause...
Just done a test, all root apps work perfectly fine. ADBWireless is fine too, but then when I ask for it to activate, it freezes and causes everything else to lose root.
OK, fixed. Downloaded SuperSU, rebooted phone, root access available, then SuperSU updated binary and now adbWireless (and everything else) works fine. Great stuff.
hi guys,
I'm a complete noob to all this but i have read through the q and a section and the noob guide to rooting.
I am running 4.3 on a 19305 and attempted to flash with odin 3.09.
i first tried flashing with CF-Auto-Root-m3-m3zh-gti9305.tar
and later recovery-cwmtouch-6.0.4.7-i9305
both times ive got the pass message on odin but when i check root status with root checker it says no access.
since i tried to flash i now get what i think are Knox alerts telling me its blocking things that are trying to access root or something.
i've tried copying supersu on to my sd card and installing from there and that hasn't helped.
If i put my phone in to download mode now this is what i see,
Odin mode
Product name GT-19305
Custom Binary Download: yes (6 count)
Current Binary: custom
Knox warranty void: 1
AP SWREV: AR
Can anyone tell me what to try next
thanks guys
When you flash cf auto root and you go to Play Store, do you see un update available of SuperSu? If yes, update and open SuperSu app to disable Knox.
Once you have flashed CF-Auto-Root-m3-m3zh-gti9305.tar re-boot.
Then download SU from the Google Play and install then reboot again, Root should then be ready...
I went to supersu in the play store and it only gave me the option to open it.
I tried un uninstalling the updates and re installing and rebooting.
I'm still getting this though
SOLVED
THANKS for everyone's help! ,
I booted in to recovery mode and installed the supersu zip file and then rebooted.
Loaded up supersu and this time it worked. It asked if I wanted to uninstall knox which I did.
I checked with root checker and I now have root'
Heaps happy