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Root what am I doing wrong?

pcdebb

pcdebb

Android Enthusiast
I've literally been up all nite (zero sleep) trying to root my Epic. i'm now on my 4th "one click" program, but it seems that I'm not making a connection to the phone. I'm following everything to the letter, watching utube vids, I don't know what I'm not doing?? I'm just a little frustrated as I've spent 8 hours on so many different sites telling me basically the same thing :(

i've mounted/unmounted (i understand it should NOT be mounted), debugging mode is checked. I dunno?
 
Are you opposed to rooting the long way?

Worst case scenario, I'll be up in Tampa in a few weeks and can assist if you don't get it working by then.
 
did not work. device not found. something is blocking the phone from being recognized by the computer.
 
Kelmar said:
Are you opposed to rooting the long way?

Worst case scenario, I'll be up in Tampa in a few weeks and can assist if you don't get it working by then.
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I'm not opposed, I will do any method that works, but it seems NOTHING is working.

How do I get the phone to be seen??
 
so i took a few steps back. bedtime can't happen now, so i decided to reboot my computer and went and made some coffee. came back and tried the simplest of the "one clicks". it stayed at "waiting for device" for only like 2 seconds, so I have better success already. It stated it will take a moment, so i'm going to enjoy my coffee and see how this goes.

FWIW, at my earliest opportunity I'm doing one of two things:
Buy a Mac and throw this WINDOWS computer in the street
Uninstall windows and go 100% Linux

I have the stupidest problems with windows sometimes......:mad:
 
:sigh:

So it stated that my device was rooted, and one of the videos said to download a program that requires root, so i downloaded titanium backup, but when I tried to run it, it said that it needed root access. Rebooted phone. downloaded again. needs root access.

I give up :(
 
Don't give up. You Probably are rooted. Titanium backup requires busybox which you can download via the app. That is why you ar3e seeing the root error.

A mac may help, but I think you just need to be more methodical and perstistent.
 
I think I needed some sleep. Well, I still need sleep. Been awake all day but it's about to end real soon :p

I do think I am rooted. It made mention of busybox so I let it download it. I noticed in my app list I have something called "superuser", and I realize that was what was asking for permission. I think I was able to run it, and did a back up of contacts (dont know where it went tho lol)

My main reason for rooting is to delete all this Sprint bloatware that I keep killing in ATK. My google search skills arent too good apparently because I didnt find any instructions or apps that will let me do this.

with all the stuff I've been doing to attempt to clean the phone up and preserve battery life, I'm surprised it's not bricked yet *crosses fingers* and *knocks on wood* :eek:
 
Quick Boot worked :cool:

I use a prepaid visa for online purchases and I need to load it before purchasing root explorer. gonna see what other cool rooted apps I can find. and now I get to educate myself on roms and such.

the world is mine mwhahahahahaha :D
 
Kelmar said:
Alternatively, you can manually remove the bloatware doing [GUIDE] How to Remove Pre-Installed Apps for FREE - xda-developers
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Super easy. But I seem to have "remnants" of what I removed as root? Safe to just uninstall since I have the option?

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good stuff. now to find some sort of startup manager and I'll be happy for the night. I still have some things that I want to keep, but dont want starting up unless I start them manually. Sometimes I see them in ATK and I didn't run them
 
lol.....I admit it's annoying, launching it often to keep killing tasks. I'm searching "startup" or "startup monitor" and not finding anything I feel good about.

Common ones i'm seeing is voice dialer, super user is there sometimes, pdanet was there once and i've never launched it yet, and i've seen slacker a few times. I want as little as possible unless its needed, like beautiful widgets or launcher pro, gmail, etc.
 
FWIW, I don't use either so I can't assist with that (I'd advise letting android run on it's own though). :)

Oh well... at least you are rooted!!! :D
 
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