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Hi,
I'm new to android and nexus S and I tried to install some applications that need to be root.
I searched a little and did find out that are many ways to root. Some of them explained in xda-developers websites.
Before I do the root process I do like to know more about the security issues of doing that. Which risks I'll soffer by doind that? May I trust the code writted "not by" google developers? What is different in that?
Thanks,
Bruno.
it has nothing to do with all of the above
it's to gain super power
you can do all kind of thing when rooted, otherwise many apps will not work
you don't need to root to use the phone, you can always find alternative app that does not require root, probably with less feature and options
non-root is to protect newbies from damaging the phone
only 1337 people root their phones to hack the innards out of it, to master control the phone to do things only imagination can provide.
I would say the main number one reason to root would be to use an app like Titanium Backup to save your settings/applications. There are also some nice utilities to have, like ad blockers and other stuff that require root privileges.
As stated, it's not really something that you need to do, it's more for power users who want total control of their device.
there are new Backup software that does not require root, like MyBackup
but it sucks compared to TitaniumBackup
however the PAID version of MyBackup Pro or something like that, can do sort of the same thing like TitaniumBackup can do without ROOT
but still shys in comparison to TB
its already been said, but the point of rooting is you gain complete super power over your device. so many things can be done with root, great custom ROMs out there. its a no brainer, and i was undecided about it at first too. but once i rooted, i'll never go back. there are too many advantages to list, and not one negative reason to avoid rooting.
No point
Another reason would be to overclock your phone.. Overclocking makes your phone "faster" but honestly i wouldnt bother. i had recently had the T-Mobile G2 and i rooted it and tried overclocking using an application called "setcpu" but it completely made the phone weird and somewhat unresponsive...
Anyways im currently using the Nexus S and i tend to think of rooting it but honestly, theres no point. this phone is in tip top shape and perfect just the way it is. i mean what ROM is out there for it besides Cyanogenmod 7? DONT ROOT! OR.. i told myself if this phone just starts to act weird and not work well, ill most likely just root it.
jeremyt727 said:
Another reason would be to overclock your phone.. Overclocking makes your phone "faster" but honestly i wouldnt bother. i had recently had the T-Mobile G2 and i rooted it and tried overclocking using an application called "setcpu" but it completely made the phone weird and somewhat unresponsive...
Anyways im currently using the Nexus S and i tend to think of rooting it but honestly, theres no point. this phone is in tip top shape and perfect just the way it is. i mean what ROM is out there for it besides Cyanogenmod 7? DONT ROOT! OR.. i told myself if this phone just starts to act weird and not work well, ill most likely just root it.
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CM7 itself is all you need to make you want to root. It's so easy to root.
Also. Voodoo Sound is another good reason, Voodoo Sound is simply amazing
Nexus S was built to be hacked. Use it for it's primary reason why it was built.
because you can is enough of a reason to
In simple words, you get administrative access to ur kernel !
How can I root my nexus S?
Explained in threads in Nexus S Android Development section
Check this thread.
So lets begin with, I have recently bought an SGS I5000 (March 25th). It has since then been working magnificent, until about 4 or 5 hours ago (lagging, force closing, and all that horrid stuff imaginable). I did indeed root via SuperOneClick and have successfully increased the performance. Linpack: 16+ (nearly eighteen at one point) and Benchmark (Antutu): 2,500 slighty above the HTC desire (including overclock; tegrak and (task killing, and freeing up as much space possible etc.). I have NOT however, flashed any kernels or ROMS. Mainly due to the fact that being this is my first official XDA forum post, I have not researched it nor have little to no knowledge of how to. Getting back to the matter at hand. My question(s) to you fellow androidians is: Is there a better way to root my phone using a different root tool? How do I get ROM manager to work? Is applanet worth the (lack) of expense? What is a "shell" root and how do I get it to work? (this part is a bit confusing because the box always pops up saying I have a temp. ADB root, and that I should reboot my phone to get rid of it. Well the problem in that area is that I need root to reboot my phone (even then it still fails to reboot using superuser) and standard reseting also fails miserably. How do I get most of my rooted apps to work? ( I've gotten the standard lagfix:v1+ to work ONE single time and then I turned it off, and it has not worked since and even before then due to not enough free space it tells me). Even though when I check my freespace I have more than enough. So it tell's me, and I was just wondering if anyone has any spare time to help me out? Now the MAIN question is! What can I do (in all general aspects of the android community) to get the ABSOLUTE best out of my mesmerize? Sincerely, David! SGS I5000 (froyo 2.2.2)
Alright you're going to have to be more clear and explain specifically whats going on...First off, did you successfully root the phone or not? If SuperOneClick successfully rooted your phone, then its rooted, thats it. There's no to be messing around in adb.
Sorry your post really is just confusing, I'm simply having a hard time deciding what your situation is.
Secondly, ROM Manager will not work on the Mesmerize, period.
Lastly, I don't know what applanet has to do with anything (it doesn't even require a rooted phone) but FYI, this is not the place to discuss pirating software (which is applanet's primary use). So, just keep that kind of jazz to yourself.
Nvm buddy, figured it out :7 thanks for the reply though! And as for the "blackmarket" apk. I have not used it, but seeing the reply you gave me about it told me everything I needed to know sorry for the confusion, I've had this thing for a month and this is the only time I've needed help, but I've got it worked out now.
No problemo man. Glad you got it up and running.
Hey so I have read a lot of the threads on rooting but I think (hope) mine is a bit original for you. I am one of those skittish goody-two-shoes type people who have a bad record of breaking their electronics. My family is updating their tmobile plan in August and I am planning on getting a lg g2x. It seems like a great phone that'll be able to keep up with the advancements of Android for a while. However I have heard the battery life is really bad (as it is for most androids) and that there are all of these great methods I could use (setCPU, Battery Calibration, etc.) and I can get rid of ads on my apps (adfree) and even use ROMs and Themes!! This sounds great EXCEPT all of the above requires rooting. So my question is, if I install Battery Calibration, setCPU, adfree, etc, while rooted and then just unroot, will they all still work??? Also, in the case that this is possible, if I have any problems with my phone and have to send it in for service, as long as it's unrooted I don't have to delete any of the apps to put it back under warranty do I? And (yes there's more) can I continuously root/unroot as I please in order to change themes and ROMs and even updating the android system once my phone is out of date (though I hope I'm not obsolete within 2 yrs) and no longer gets updates from my phone company? I know superoneclick is supposed to be really easy but as I don't have the phone yet I was wondering how fast it actually is as well.
Thanks for all of your help!!
Hmm....lots of questions young one, well 1st of all by rooting it technically voids the warranty, and yes for the programs to work properly you will need to keep it rooted because some off them actually need root access to tweak the device.
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scarlet_fire said:
Hey so I have read a lot of the threads on rooting but I think (hope) mine is a bit original for you. I am one of those skittish goody-two-shoes type people who have a bad record of breaking their electronics. My family is updating their tmobile plan in August and I am planning on getting a lg g2x. It seems like a great phone that'll be able to keep up with the advancements of Android for a while. However I have heard the battery life is really bad (as it is for most androids) and that there are all of these great methods I could use (setCPU, Battery Calibration, etc.) and I can get rid of ads on my apps (adfree) and even use ROMs and Themes!! This sounds great EXCEPT all of the above requires rooting. So my question is, if I install Battery Calibration, setCPU, adfree, etc, while rooted and then just unroot, will they all still work??? Also, in the case that this is possible, if I have any problems with my phone and have to send it in for service, as long as it's unrooted I don't have to delete any of the apps to put it back under warranty do I? And (yes there's more) can I continuously root/unroot as I please in order to change themes and ROMs and even updating the android system once my phone is out of date (though I hope I'm not obsolete within 2 yrs) and no longer gets updates from my phone company? I know superoneclick is supposed to be really easy but as I don't have the phone yet I was wondering how fast it actually is as well.
Thanks for all of your help!!
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1. If you install the root required apps, root, then unroot, they will stop working. Once an app requires root and your phone is not rooted, even if it was before but it's not now, they will not work.
2. There are many one click root apps. e.g. z4root and universal androot.
3. You will have to unroot and remove the root required apps to put it back under warranty. I say this because if you leave them, then your provider will know that you must have rooted your phone to put them on it in the first place. (It would be like sending an Iphone for servicing to AT&T with Cydia installed. They will know that you jailbroke it.
4 Superoneclick does work fast. It may take up to five minutes (depends on your phone model), but remember what I said in #2. Good luck.
I'm running the stock OS on my sidekick and am running out of memory on the internal SD card. It can't run the updates. I have only a handful of apps downloaded. T-mobile won't let me delete a whole host of stupid apps I never use. I went through and moved everything to the external SD card that would move (very few apps are willing to move, grrrrr). I even deleted the updates to all the stupid apps that can't be moved on the assumption that they always get larger over time (is this a correct assumption?) and turned off the auto en masse updating.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas. I guess this is a rant because I don't have much hope. It annoys me no end that the idea of android and having control of the device gets destroyed by the carriers.
Still loving the keyboard. I'd marry it if it was legal to.
[I just want a phone that does a few things reliably and I don't want to spend the hours I did with my last android rooting and re-rooting it, I added it up and it was 16 hours, at least, at 125 an hour for my personal time it was the single most expensive thing I've ever owned.]
Rooting this phone will fix your problem and will take a novice 20min and a pro 3-5min, choice is yours though
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As demkantor said, rooting the SK4G is not very tough even for newcomers. Pretty straightforward and once you finish the process you can use those shiny new root permissions to delete things like the app-pack, qik-vidchat, and all that other bologna. Check the dev section and it's all there.
I agree, just root and install a lightweight ROM. It's not that difficult or time-consuming. Then you can tailor the phone to your liking. Or you can try Googling "android remove bloatware without root." Quite a few how-tos will come up, although I can't vouch for any of them.
Easy remove
rareasasparagus said:
I'm running the stock OS on my sidekick and am running out of memory on the internal SD card. It can't run the updates. I have only a handful of apps downloaded. T-mobile won't let me delete a whole host of stupid apps I never use. I went through and moved everything to the external SD card that would move (very few apps are willing to move, grrrrr). I even deleted the updates to all the stupid apps that can't be moved on the assumption that they always get larger over time (is this a correct assumption?) and turned off the auto en masse updating.
Anyway, I'm out of ideas. I guess this is a rant because I don't have much hope. It annoys me no end that the idea of android and having control of the device gets destroyed by the carriers.
Still loving the keyboard. I'd marry it if it was legal to.
[I just want a phone that does a few things reliably and I don't want to spend the hours I did with my last android rooting and re-rooting it, I added it up and it was 16 hours, at least, at 125 an hour for my personal time it was the single most expensive thing I've ever owned.]
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For the easy then, SuperOneClick works for root. it's super and one click for the sk4g. "Titanium backup" can then delete everything that has a neon pink icon (TMO bundled crap, there is lots) Most of the "neon pink" is safe to remove, please someone correct me if something doesn't fit the large generalization.
Should be less than an hour.
For your problem root the phone then update superuser an download /system/app an you can delte the useless apps from tmobile or stuff you don't use
Or you can install a rom which would fix a lot of problems
P.s. also after root download clean master an run it every few days go through an delete the bs stuff you don't use folders that were not deleted
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Hi, I'm trying to root my Samsung Galaxy S T-Mobile 4G (model T959V) running Gingerbread 2.3.6 using SuperOneClick 2.3.3.
I attempted root on a Windows 7 computer with:
both Samsung Kies Mini software and Samsung USB driver installed (downloaded from Samsung product page, can't post link)
Microsoft .NET 4 Extended and Microsoft .NET 4 Client Profile (which were already installed months ago for a seperate program)
USB Debugging enabled on the phone
connection via USB cable
I hit Root on Auto exploit, and after a few minutes got stuck at step #7, the window said it was (Not Responding) and I closed it. I tried the Auto exploit a second time and got stuck at step #2, again the window was (Not Responding), and I closed it. I made a third and final attempt, this time switching the exploit to psneuter, and got the same results as the second attempt.
I decided to do some more reading on the subject, and found that others were having the same problems getting stuck at step #7. Throughout my reading I have read mixed comments which say that SOC does not root Gingerbread, and others which have stated that it does. I have no idea which of the two are true, but I have read that SOC can 'root almost any phone'.. I thought my case would be no different, especially since I'm using the latest version of SOC.
Can I get some help? Is there any way that I can root this phone? Is the recovery partition on my device still OK after the multiple exploits I've tried on it? I almost want to reinstall back to stock, but am not sure if this is still an option anymore..
It works fine, mine freeezes as well, but all you have to be is patient. Sooner or later it will not freeze, but you do have to read if one of the steps failed though just in case.
When I rooted my wife's it did the same thing. Just need some patience. What I ended up doing was hitting run and walked away from my computer so it could do it's thing
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Thanks for the comments guys, I really appreciate them.
Is waiting really all there is to it?? Ever since I disconnected the cable after the third attempt, my Galaxy S has been feeling a little abnormal. I noticed the appearance of my launcher (GO launcher) changed to a different color scheme, and a few shortcuts wouldn't execute until the phone was rebooted, the phone even shuts down 5-10 seconds faster (which wouldn't be bad if I knew I was rooted). Could all this be due to the fact that SOC just didn't finish writing to the phone?
If I try it a 4th time, will SOC overwrite the data that it had tried to put in the last 3 attempts?
Double44 said:
Thanks for the comments guys, I really appreciate them.
Is waiting really all there is to it?? Ever since I disconnected the cable after the third attempt, my Galaxy S has been feeling a little abnormal. I noticed the appearance of my launcher (GO launcher) changed to a different color scheme, and a few shortcuts wouldn't execute until the phone was rebooted, the phone even shuts down 5-10 seconds faster (which wouldn't be bad if I knew I was rooted). Could all this be due to the fact that SOC just didn't finish writing to the phone?
If I try it a 4th time, will SOC overwrite the data that it had tried to put in the last 3 attempts?
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The only thing SOC will do is give you busybox and Superuser so it shouldn't mess with anything on your phone. (Correct me if I'm wrong people). I wait for like 5 minutes for SOC to come back up, so I guess waiting is all it is. You can always one-click back to stock if you think your phone is acting up.
AnAzyBoy9724 said:
The only thing SOC will do is give you busybox and Superuser so it shouldn't mess with anything on your phone. (Correct me if I'm wrong people). I wait for like 5 minutes for SOC to come back up, so I guess waiting is all it is. You can always one-click back to stock if you think your phone is acting up.
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Thanks so much for your comment
I successfully rooted! Or so I think I did. SOC had finished and said that I was rooted, and it asked if I wanted to test it. I did test it, but nothing really happened? I was also never asked anything about 'Busybox'. I downloaded a root checker app, and I do indeed have 'su' privileges, along with the Superuser app. So I guess that's it
Now I'm kinda wondering, what should I do next now that I'm rooted w/SOC? Do I need to back anything up? I know there are many apps specifically designed for root like Titanium Backup, and ROM toolbox pro, but I'm wondering if any of these will be useful to me?
My main reasons for rooting, is that I want to freeze/disable bloatware from running in the background, and possibly remove them from my phone. I understand the consequences in removing the wrong app, but I only want to remove apps from companies like Facebook, Slacker, and a few others, nothing else.
Also, what does Superuser do? The apps list is empty and there is only 1 log. I found an app called SuperSU Pro that seems to replace the Superuser app, but I'm really sure how that works.
If you want to freeze/delete apps in the system, use Titanium Backup.
Well before you do anything since you are on gingerbread is get clockwork recovery on there. Easiest is to download bhvuden's kernel for 2.3 and use sgs kernel flasher app. Changing kernels won't erase anything but will give OC capability and custom recovery
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