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Root Lets Get Root
- Thread starter Rampage1
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eumoria
Newbie
I went ahead and attempted to root using the 2.3.6 One-Click root method that's being used on the 3g first edition Admire.
I installed the Samsung Admire 4G drivers available from Samsung's support website and the root script seemed moderately happy with it and attempted the root but:
It does not work I'm sorry to say. It doesn't damage anything nor brick the phone pretty much doesn't do anything at all besides install Superuser.apk. You do not get root privileges.
This would lead me to believe that a modification to that script would possibly be the solution but I suppose we'll have to wait until someone with the talent can make those changes.
I installed the Samsung Admire 4G drivers available from Samsung's support website and the root script seemed moderately happy with it and attempted the root but:
It does not work I'm sorry to say. It doesn't damage anything nor brick the phone pretty much doesn't do anything at all besides install Superuser.apk. You do not get root privileges.
This would lead me to believe that a modification to that script would possibly be the solution but I suppose we'll have to wait until someone with the talent can make those changes.
Killah1994
Android Expert
I went ahead and attempted to root using the 2.3.6 One-Click root method that's being used on the 3g first edition Admire.
I installed the Samsung Admire 4G drivers available from Samsung's support website and the root script seemed moderately happy with it and attempted the root but:
It does not work I'm sorry to say. It doesn't damage anything nor brick the phone pretty much doesn't do anything at all besides install Superuser.apk. You do not get root privileges.
This would lead me to believe that a modification to that script would possibly be the solution but I suppose we'll have to wait until someone with the talent can make those changes.
You can try the attain root method for 2.3.6 and see if that works... if it doesn't you can try the s2 method. Hopefully it works... wish I could try this but my wife wont let me touch it...
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
You can try the attain root method for 2.3.6 and see if that works... if it doesn't you can try the s2 method. Hopefully it works... wish I could try this but my wife wont let me touch it...
please, please, DO NOT DO THIS.
Killah1994
Android Expert
Thanks shabby you saved me their ... lol temptation nearly made me try it on my wife's phone .
genovdot
Android Expert
That would've screwed something up bad. Lol. Ask pg about his root he has for the original 2.3.6 admire. May actually work.
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
the one where you flash CWM and root by installing a zip? i would highly suggest against flashing the admire's cwm despite the fact they share a name these phones are nothing alike...
Cogra147
Android Enthusiast
What about a update.zip? Or couldn't we just push root with adb?
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
update.zip's have to be signed, they have had that requirement for a bit
and no you cant push it as system is read only :/
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
ive got a few ideas. i dont own teh device and i have no plans on devving for it, just dont want people breaking their devices over stuff i know wont work. if everyone wanted to run superoneclick or a zillion other scripts thats fine but using odin to flash, if it goes south youve got no restore to fix it.
I tried super one click, moto fail, unlock one click root, gingerbreak, z4, and it all fails does not do anything not even install super user.
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
right and your phone is still fine, they are just simple exploits and wont cause any damage
so if we decompile a no root boot animation changer apk and swap the boot animation with the super user apk and edit the extract script with the location of system/app instead of system/media or etc or whereever its trying to extract the bootani to then it should work?
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
that wont work at all. i was quoting a different post. without root you cant write to system, without the su binary being on system you cant have root that stays.
I forgot to add casual. But yes my phone is just fine no damage at all thank God lol
eumoria
Newbie
Yes, using the One-Click Samsung Admire Root (first gen) the Superuser.apk installed but that's easy for the script to do. Superuser did not have root access so it didn't matter.
mochakingman
Lurker
has anyone tried gingerbreak??? might be a long shot but it might work...
brooklyn227
Well-Known Member
I tried all the gingerbreak, z4root and a few other APK's with NO luck.
mochakingman
Lurker
has anyone managed to get atleast a temp root??
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
temp root is full root