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Root Here's how you UNROOT your Captivate

vt6spd said:
Forgive a noob- what the heck is rooting and unrooting and why would I want it?
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What the heck!!?? why would you want to root:confused:.You root because it is awesome, and rainbows and stars come out of your phone and it sings :D pretty songs:D.

No just kidding, rooting allows you to gain super user access to your device. You can un-install bloatware and flash custom roms. its alot of fun.:D
 
I updated my captivate with the unofficial Froyo update and rooted. Will any of these unroot processes still work for me or should I do something different? I want to make sure Im able to get the official Froyo update when its available and dont think I can while rooted because my OTA update check doesnt work.
 
I am finding rooting my phone is almost not worth it because I have no idea how to do it. I have read, looked, downloaded, installed, moved, unzipped, restarted, rebooted, re loaded, redownloaded---get the idea? Nothing has allowed me to root my phone. Oh yeah, I did find out that android Market will not allow me to run aps out side of the market place...how do we fix this? I mean really, rooting a phone apparently is the easiest trick in the book and this user feel like failure everytime. Need some help. simple. thats all I need.
 
vt6spd said:
I am finding rooting my phone is almost not worth it because I have no idea how to do it. I have read, looked, downloaded, installed, moved, unzipped, restarted, rebooted, re loaded, redownloaded---get the idea? Nothing has allowed me to root my phone. Oh yeah, I did find out that android Market will not allow me to run aps out side of the market place...how do we fix this? I mean really, rooting a phone apparently is the easiest trick in the book and this user feel like failure everytime. Need some help. simple. thats all I need.
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As I told you in response to your other post, get the One Click Lag Fix, it's on the market - and just use it to root the phone. See the CapFAQ (linked in my signature below) for more information. Couldn't be any simpler. I was a two week owner of my first Android phone (this Captivate) and even a dummy like me could do it ;)

ETA Ryan has updated and come out with z4root - couldn't be simpler! Remember to donate to this great developer, he's coming up with better and better programs all the time!
 
Ok,
so I have a bit of a problem...

I have some type of hardware issue that is causing my Samsung Captivate to charge, but not recognize the data connection. I have tried several cables and none work. Funny thing is, I even had the USB debugging icons show up when there was nothing plugged into my phone.

Well, I need to unroot but the "One-click" unroot app doesnt see my phone ever so it cant push the update. So, I tried going to this thread on my phone and downloading the update.zip file, I used Astro File manager to move it to the SD/sdcard folder and then put my phone in recovery mode to "reinstall packages" I thought it might work, but for some reason it says

--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted.

can anyone help?? thanks so much


EDIT: ok, Im leaving this up cuz now I know you can Unroot without plugging in your phone!
I had it in Sdcard/sd
it just needs to go in SDcard,

get on your computer, download the update in the first post, email it to yourself, save it to sdcard/

then put your phone in recovery by holding the up and down volume and power buttons.

then you reinstall the packages! Bam! unrooted!

I can now take my phone into At&t to get a new one!
 
Will this work if you have a custom rom installed? or do you have to flash back to stock first then use this method?
 
Another nice way to do it is to install dropbox on your pc and put the app in your phone, launch the app, download the file and done, easily found in your dropbox folder.
 
Degoins said:
How do I get to my sdcard folder? I can't find it when I open the folder to view the phone contents.
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Where are you opening the folder? Using an app like MyFiles or Astro on the phone itself, or on a PC after connecting USB?

Are you talking about the sdcard/ folder itself, which is the internal 14GB storage? Or the external MicroSD card?
 
My SGH-I897 doesn't come up to the recovery console when I press down the volume up/down rocker switch and turn the phone on. It just ignores me. Since it IS a rocker switch, I press it squarely in the middle and make sure that both sides are actually pressed down.
 
The Unzip file worked perfectly and i am glad i found it.

Thank you..

A rooted phones works good but what is the idea anyway.

question in my keyboards i used to have the n with the little line on top to make words in spanish now it disappear and would like to know if there is a way to fix it.
 
this actually worked.
i've tried a million things & this was the only thing that worked.
thanks so much.
 
bwhite082 said:
my phone just tells me authentication failed... it won't work.. help!!!
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mine doesnt work either :confused:

mine says "E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted" after i chose reinstall packages

:( my usb is not being recognized on my computer (and i tried it on 3 different ones and none of them work either)... i have to unroot it to have it covered by warranty :(
anyone have any better ideas?
 
Yeah, I don't see an "sdcard" folder either. No worries, I just copied the file into my phone (no folder, just the main directory).

Also, copy the .zip file (don't unzip).

I'm making progress in this unrooting process, but here's my latest problem:

After I Reinstall Packages, I get:
"E:signature verification failed"
"Installation aborted"

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
sremick said:
The more you hack up and mess with your phone, the less-likely that any updates will apply.

This is the inherent responsibility you take on once you start doing stuff like rooting, replacing ROMs, lagfixes, uninstalling stock AT&T apps, etc. There are tons of people who got themselves into your exact situation who never found a solution. Don't assume there is one.

Unfortunately, those who push people to perform these hacks rarely fully-inform their victims of the risks and ramifications.

Even with root, there are several methods and most don't "unroot" properly/cleanly/successfully.
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I take it you're not a big fan of rooting. Now you got me worried.


AndroidSPCS said:
Question: why would you want to unroot your Captivate??
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Because your phone still may be under warranty.

sabesh said:
To root Captivate:

Just download Z4ROOT from applanet and click ;)

[APP] z4root - xda-developers
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Is this still current now that Gingerbread is out?

Booimthenoob said:
mine doesnt work either :confused:

mine says "E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted" after i chose reinstall packages

:( my usb is not being recognized on my computer (and i tried it on 3 different ones and none of them work either)... i have to unroot it to have it covered by warranty :(
anyone have any better ideas?
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Gawd, this is exactly why I am worried to Root.

The only reason I want to root is to lower the priority of all my apps that keep on waking up and everytime they do, they kill my battery life. No task killer will fix this.
 
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