Hello, I'm new to these forums. I bought a Straight Talk Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-S960L). And i am pretty new to rooting, custom ROM's, etc. And because of that reason, along with the fact that i bricked my last Straight Talk phone after incorrectly attempting to root it, I am now quite apprehensive to go about rooting. I am not too keen on the idea of rooting my Straight Talk phone with any root that is specified to Sprint, T-Mobile or another carrier/model of phone, at least not without being sure that i am able to with no problems. I would like to have the most knowledge i can gather about rooting this specific model of phone before i go about with actually doing it. So recently i have been looking through any information i am able to find online and through the forums about how I was going to go about with rooting. However, I cant seem to find hardly anything on how to root this specific model of phone, and any information i do find seems to be iffy with reliability for my carrier, and i would really hate to mess something up. So my question is, could ANYONE help guide me through this process so i can successfully root my device without messing something up and having a $399 dollar brick on my desk. Thanks in advanced.
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I wanted to put this in the Root section, but i didnt want to get blasted for not putting it in the right forum, so I figured I would post it here.
I just got my phone, and I would love to get this thing rooted, remove some bloatware and oc'ed.
The only concern I have is that there are several methods it seems for rooting the phone, and which method are most people having the best success with?
I have read several posts in all the different methods about signal losses, no wifi or bluetooth, bricks, etc.
I just want to get some feedback from the brave souls out there that have done it, which method, and if you had any issues doing it.
This is my first Samsung phone as I came from the HTC G2, and I love the Epic Touch. Can't imagine a phone being much better and I dont want to have to go through the hassle of bricking it and having to return it to Best Buy or Sprint.
Thanks in advance!
I think you should wait for a bit, they just uploaded the stock kernel.
I know I'm gonna get sh*t for asking this. I've already been thru all the rooting threads but they are all confusing me. I'm new to the phone and love it, I'm a big texter and it runs my battery down pretty quick I have to take my charger to work with me or it wouldn't last me. I'm with AT&T and came over from Tmobile and had the G2x which I had rooted. All the Threads here for rooting confuses me. Could someone explain it alittle different please for AT&T I don't want to brick my phone. Rooting my G2x was real easy this seem alot harder
just a few posts under yours.... [GUIDE] Rooting the Samsung Captivate Glide i927/i927r
That is the perfect post for you. WATCH THE VIDEO!
if you cant find that... few posts under where you started a new thread, OR if you cant follow those directions.... DONT FLASH UNTILL YOU DO. its called research, or knowing what you are doing
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I know I'm gonna get sh*t for asking this. I've already been thru all the rooting threads but they are all confusing me. I'm new to the phone and love it, I'm a big texter and it runs my battery down pretty quick I have to take my charger to work with me or it wouldn't last me. I'm with AT&T and came over from Tmobile and had the G2x which I had rooted. All the Threads here for rooting confuses me. Could someone explain it alittle different please for AT&T I don't want to brick my phone. Rooting my G2x was real easy this seem alot harder
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The method to root the phone will get easier as more people work on it(Once CWM works,etc) so just wait until then if you can't follow the current instructions.
For the Glide right now the only method of rooting is flashing a rooted ROM. There is no 'one click' root method where your current stuff is preserved like other phones may have. I'm waiting for such a root method, no rush since my wife uses the Glide and is happy with everything stock.
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I know I'm gonna get sh*t for asking this. I've already been thru all the rooting threads but they are all confusing me. I'm new to the phone and love it, I'm a big texter and it runs my battery down pretty quick I have to take my charger to work with me or it wouldn't last me. I'm with AT&T and came over from Tmobile and had the G2x which I had rooted. All the Threads here for rooting confuses me. Could someone explain it alittle different please for AT&T I don't want to brick my phone. Rooting my G2x was real easy this seem alot harder
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I kinda felt the same way coming from HTC phones. The threads here can keep me reading for hours, i rooted Vibrant and a Captivate and i was lost the entire way.
once the rooted AT&T ROM was posted, it took just a matter of minutes, and most of that was just downloading the files needed.
Follow the instructions posted or watch the video on how to do it, and once your done, you'll love it. Then, if you like, go to the app store and download "superuser" and "titanium backup" (free versions will work for now, but paying for them is really the way to go)
And before you know it, custom ROMs will here, and then the real fun starts!
Hey there! This is my first post ever on XDA, and hopefully not my last. I have been flashing ROMs since I bought a Samsung Captivate a couple years ago. I had always heard of the potential risks involved when flashing ROMs, and therefore had taken extreme caution when flashing. However, I eventually became comfortable with the process and took less heed than I should have with my Galaxy SIII AT&T. Long story short, I hard bricked it by installing a ROM meant for the international version of the SIII instead of the AT&T version, like so many other careless souls. After looking around the forums, I found that my only options were to:
1) Have my phone JTAGed by some mobile phone repair service.
2) Cry to Samsung pretending like I know nothing about my phone's demise.
Then I found this instruction manual (Uploaded to this post) describing how to JTAG the Galaxy SIII International version. I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not this manual would apply to the AT&T version of the SIII, as I could not find any post with information on it. Also, is it possible for someone to extract the bootloaders file off his/her AT&T Galaxy SIII and upload it here? If no one can validate whether or not this JTAG process will work on my phone then I will try it and post my results. I would rather not lie to Samsung about my phone's death and I wouldn't mind paying for my stupidity, but I see this as an opportunity to discover a more forgiving solution to such a common blunder. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone had a quick tutorial on how to unroot a Canadian Telus SGH-I747 and return to stock? I'm not very knowledgeable with this sort of thing (I know, with this in mind I probably shouldn't have done anything in the first place, but...) I rooted mine a few months back at the suggestion of a friend, using the walkthrough posted this past June on the 'Honai of Android' blog, under 'How to Root Galaxy S3 (Canadian) SGH-I747M on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Firmware' (I can't post the link directly because I have too few posts). Anyway, I ended up really having little to no use for it and now I may be selling the phone anyway. Even if I don't, I'd prefer to return it to stock just so I can get regular updates, etc. I've looked around pretty extensively for a Canada/Telus-specific tutorial on how to do this, as everything I've found involves other carriers, or makes a point of warning international users, etc. so I'm a bit paranoid about screwing anything up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. :good:
Hello everyone, I have recently dropped my phone and the screen is pretty messed up, so I went by Verizon and long story short, I will be getting a new Note II tomorrow. My current one (SCH-1605) is rooted, I am unsure if they will charge me or not because it's rooted (read some horror stories). I've done some googling and it seems like the only method I have found involves mobile oden + triangle away. Isn't there a way that involves the computer, so I don't have to buy 2 apps to unroot my device?
I have also run into some problems with getting a hold of my stock rom at stockroms.net and I come across two different roms (http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyNote2/SCH-I605/official) I have no idea which one I want. I do not stay in-tune with the rooting scene but I do know I love my phone rooted and I want to thank you all for making it possible to begin with and to help out nobodies with problems you guys probably answer everyday!