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Root [solved] Please help me root my Samsung Galaxy P600
- Thread starter Crinia
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Welcome to our AndroidForums, Crinia.
Perhaps you could share what you did for the benefit of other Galaxy S users?
Thanks!
Perhaps you could share what you did for the benefit of other Galaxy S users?
Thanks!
well, firstly I have to say that I am a complete and utter noob who managed to hardbrick my note last night. I tried holding down the power vol buttons, plugging it into the charger and had no response at all. After saying a prayer and calming down I held the power and volume down buttons for a good 10 sec or more and eventually android appeared so I plugged it into the pc, flashed stockrecovery and then rebooted it, as it told me to do. Its been running fine since.
as for rooting, what seemed to do the trick was freezing the knox files with titanium backup. I cant be certain as I didn't know what I was doing. I also had to uninstall rootchecker and install it again.
what really confuses me now is that I cant delete program apps through Es file explorer. I managed to delete NY Times but everytime I've tried to delete anything since it says uninstall unsuccessful. I changed the settings to read/write and it made no difference. It also says that knox is running even though I frooze it on TB. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Es file explorer. I can delete apps through TB but prefer to use Es. I've ran a number of root checkers and they all say I'm rooted. I'm using supersu with no problems. If anyone can shed some light on this it would be much appreciated
as for rooting, what seemed to do the trick was freezing the knox files with titanium backup. I cant be certain as I didn't know what I was doing. I also had to uninstall rootchecker and install it again.
what really confuses me now is that I cant delete program apps through Es file explorer. I managed to delete NY Times but everytime I've tried to delete anything since it says uninstall unsuccessful. I changed the settings to read/write and it made no difference. It also says that knox is running even though I frooze it on TB. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Es file explorer. I can delete apps through TB but prefer to use Es. I've ran a number of root checkers and they all say I'm rooted. I'm using supersu with no problems. If anyone can shed some light on this it would be much appreciated
Thank you for replying back, Crinia 
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The issue with removing files via ES File Explorer harks back to when Android started supporting multiple users (in 4.2.x I believe). That means that each user's address space was made separate / unique--at least as far as the mount settings go. So, when one app (user) remounts a filesystem like /system as read-write, another user (or app) cannot see (or benefit from) it's changed remount state.
So, while ES File Explorer does have a root explorer mode, on Android 4.2.x and higher, it doesn't behave like it used to prior to 4.2.x and allow you to remount /system or "/" as R/W for the duration of that app's life.
Root Explorer still does, though.
Also, if you know and are comfortable using adb, it will also persist (remember) the filesystem's remount state for it's lifecycle.
Remember it's also probably better to freeze/disable an app vs. actually deleting it--and having a Nandroid backup to restore from is also a very good idea.
Cheers!
:thumbup:.The issue with removing files via ES File Explorer harks back to when Android started supporting multiple users (in 4.2.x I believe). That means that each user's address space was made separate / unique--at least as far as the mount settings go. So, when one app (user) remounts a filesystem like /system as read-write, another user (or app) cannot see (or benefit from) it's changed remount state.
So, while ES File Explorer does have a root explorer mode, on Android 4.2.x and higher, it doesn't behave like it used to prior to 4.2.x and allow you to remount /system or "/" as R/W for the duration of that app's life.
Root Explorer still does, though
.Also, if you know and are comfortable using adb, it will also persist (remember) the filesystem's remount state for it's lifecycle.
Remember it's also probably better to freeze/disable an app vs. actually deleting it--and having a Nandroid backup to restore from is also a very good idea
.Cheers!