Hello, guy who has never rooted here. This is my first post here too, so bear with me. I'm motivated to root by my dislike of the samsung overlay; I hope to get a ROM that's like vanilla android seen on nexus devices.
I've checked out a few tutorials on rooting but always seem to hit a roadblock, like how the Odin .exe file doesn't work on mac. Perhaps somebody could point me in the direction of a mac-specific tutorial or point me in the right direction?
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I'm thinking of rooting my Samsung Galaxy S2 and I want to root it keeping everything as stock as possible for now. I was wondering if it's capable of being done using a macbook pro? And if anyone could point me into the right direction or correct thread. So far I've only seen windows only and no mac. Thank you
Hello, I have searched and read for days without an answer to this. I am a long time iPhone user, and jailbreaker/dev, who has just jumped ship over to Android. I have the US AT&T Galaxy S3. I am attempting to root it using a Mac. I have read the guides, and watched the videos from appdr0id, however, it is not working for me. When I use heimdall I get an error that it failed to initialise. I am guessing, from what I read, that it may have to do with missing Samsung USB drivers for my Mac, but I can't find them anywhere to download. Also, I would like more info about whether or not I need to place any files into the phones file system before flashing, which files, and where, as this has made no difference. I have heard great things about Cyanogen Mod, and would love to try it, but I am open to suggestions as to what to use post-root. Will someone please give some directions for rooting and flashing using my Mac, or some more detailed guides?
Here is a screenshot of the error.
Heimdal doesn't work on the US sgs3. Easiest way is either Bootcamp or a vm.
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Heimdal doesn't work on the US sgs3. Easiest way is either Bootcamp or a vm.
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Wow, thanks. I haven't read that anywhere. I think I will do it with an XP or Win7 vm, then. Now I have to search for a Windows how-to guide. Argh!
Hey guys,
Im a recent android convert after having bought an iPhone on the first day it was available, and almost all revisions since. I bought my Note II just before Xmas and cannot believe how satisfied I am with the new OS and the hardware.
Now in the android world, I'm lookign to gain the full functionality of multi-view by rooting and installing CLEANRom. However after reading all the guides I still have a couple questions.
1) By using the root injected roms (Im on Rogers), will the phone be ready to accept CleanRom? Im just unclear if root injected methods allow a custom ROM to be installed without any issue. If not, is there an alternative or easier rooting method that will allow cleanrom to be installed?
2) finally, due to my noobness, Im just wondering if there exists a very clear guide (perhaps with a video or picture step by step) that uses as few acronyms as possible (im still getting the hang of the jargon) for first root injecting/rooting a note II/similar phone and also installing a custom ROM?
Also, as Im a mac user, any tips on being able to carry on this on a mac would be appreciated. As it stands, Im boot-camping windows XP using a virtualizing software with windows 7 to be able to do this.
Thanks in advance guys, looking forward to being a part of the community.
It sounds to me like you are looking for a "laymans terms" description on the physical mechanics of installing a custom ROM. Here is a link to a post where I gave the best instruction I could to install a custom ROM (in this example the jedi rom) for someone on att. Most of the steps will be exactly the same for Cleanrom and I think there will be seperate instructions for Rogers in the actual Cleanrom thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058320
4th post in the thread I believe.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using xda app-developers app
Thanks topshelf. That thread clarifies things big time.
as a fellow Mac user, you are pretty much going to be frustrated and pissed off when trying most Mac methods to root. I dual booted mine with Windows 7 just for the purpose of screwing around with my phone(s).
I don't know about root injection or whatever. I know I used Odin on Windows to flash a single .tar file and that gave me superuser, and my cleanrom 4.05
There are several ways to root and it seems there are different methods here and there. It is quite frustrating at first.
http://galaxynote2root.com/ is a good site and I believe it is the same guy that has made like 60 videos for the Note 2.
There are different Roms and people sometimes try different ones. I like the cleanroms by scott. Just search for scotts roms on google and it will take you to his site.
You will have to do a factory reset on your phone first. It will erase everything and bring it back to how you got it out of the box. Reset won't touch your external sdcard.
I don't know how anything works with virtual windows. You may also have to download Samsung drivers to get the computer to recognize your phone.
Hey guys,
Just got my G3 yesterday after Jumping from the Nexus 5.
I was just curious, because I couldn't find anything after searching the Tmo G3 forum, is there any sort of guide to rooting the Tmo G3 manually? I understand PurpleDrake has his own root utility, which looks awesome, but I've always been one to want to see exactly what I'm doing to establish root. (I know it probably won't be as easy as rooting the Nexus 5 obviously)
If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be awesome.
Thanks guys
here follow this if you have windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtz51KgxjM
and if you have mac and linux its very straightforward just follow purpledrake method
this is the easiest android phone to root ive ever encountered seriously.
i did it on my mac and no need for drivers, and few clicks on terminal and you are done
I rooted with the zedomax video method posted above. It's super easy and only takes like 5mins to do.
First of all, I'll tell you my sob story and see if anyone else had my issue but found a solution somehow: I have a marvelous Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N900V running the long-ago leaked 5.0 OB6 firmware that I got from some XDA thread that I now cannot find for some reason. I became one of many that is stuck in this dilemma, and it's still frustrating the hell out of me. Mind you, I'm only 15, but I'm very skilled with programming computers and such, plus I have quite a bit of experience with Android modding entirely.
I am tired of waiting for some dev to figure out a method, so I'm just going to do it myself. The only problem is that I have no experience with this kind of work. Here's my question(s):
What software do I need to start my work? (I already have Android Studio if that helps.)
How would I even begin to find an exploit? What kind of research do I need to do?
What are the risks of doing this? Can I brick my phone doing this?
Is this legal? (haha)
Yes legal...Arabic tool for Windows and run program hook phone up click of1 or ob6...click phone status let it go then root....must be sm-n900v Verizon 5.0. ...wait til reboot bam rooted....