Hi
I just bought a s2 yesterday and i want to root it. i have checked online for hours and i have found many ways to do it. however the insecure kernel which i have, i cant find it anywhere. It is the BVKJ4 one. Can somebody please please help me root my phone by telling me the simplist way to do it. I would appreciate a step by step guide because i am quite new to rooting. Many thanks
turbo94 said:
Hi
I just bought a s2 yesterday and i want to root it. i have checked online for hours and i have found many ways to do it. however the insecure kernel which i have, i cant find it anywhere. It is the BVKJ4 one. Can somebody please please help me root my phone by telling me the simplist way to do it. I would appreciate a step by step guide because i am quite new to rooting. Many thanks
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look over her i did a post of it look it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321538
And why is this urgent?
SuperOneClick is pretty easy to use and fast too
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i suggest you take your time, read and understand before flashing.
If you are in a rush, you will make mistakes.
rooting or any other major changes requires reading and understanding before flashing.
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Hi, I just got my Samsung Fascinate today, and I was looking forward to rooting it. It's my first Android device, and I've only used dumbphones until today. I've seen the rooting threads yet still have no clue how to root my phone.
Can anyone please take me step by step (starting with what apps I would need, if any) in order to root my phone successfully? Thank you very much!
i dont post much over here at xda but since iv had my d2 and now gal s iv been here much more so please dont think im a super noob (still a noob) but you really should just play with you STOCK phone for a one or two weeks and get to know it before u go and root it and the endless fun that comes after. i say this more or so because your coming from a "dumb phone" you really should get to know android and all of its fun ins and outs. enjoy your new phone and ur new addiction..prob should have tried heroin first
i've played with the captivate quite a bit, and i just want to root my phone so i can get rid of bing and stuff
can anyone help me please??
peterkim89 said:
i've played with the captivate quite a bit, and i just want to root my phone so i can get rid of bing and stuff
can anyone help me please??
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Well, let the big kids figure out how to remove Bing and make some tools that will make it easier for you to root, give it a week or so and we will have them
peterkim89 said:
Hi, I just got my Samsung Fascinate today, and I was looking forward to rooting it. It's my first Android device, and I've only used dumbphones until today. I've seen the rooting threads yet still have no clue how to root my phone.
Can anyone please take me step by step (starting with what apps I would need, if any) in order to root my phone successfully? Thank you very much!
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I posted a more in depth tutorial over here. If there is anything unclear please post a comment and I will fix it and help you out.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=337153#post337153
The first links for the drivers aren't working!!
edit:
once i started doing adb push su /sdcard/su, it says "failed to copy 'su' to '/sdcard/su': Permission denied."
i'm so lost.
Someone Else posted a link to a guide with a small update to it's instructions,
The Post is in the same forum as this one topic name is Rooted, page 3, user eleazar123 posted it..
I would just drop a link to it, but Apparently i am not verified and can not post any links :-(
Hi guys i was looking at some threads and people were talking about Omega rooting etc...
i am unsure to what root i have and was wondering if there was any way to tell.
I followed this tutorial so if anybody knows could you please tell me,
http://galaxys2root.com/galaxy-s2-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s2/
thanks
Root is root no matter how you accomplished it, there are different ways of doing the same thing.
Hello everybody,
I got myself my very first Android phone yesterday, and I'm really glad with all of it's features, but I'd like to root it, the problem is is that it's running on kernelversion XWKJ3 and I can't find any thread, post, video, etc about if it actually IS possible to root the phone on this kernel, because according to some videos I need a speciffic kernel to root the phone, and I just can't find any, and I'm out of ideas. I don't know if it doesn't matter what kernel you need, or anything, and I can't seem to find it either.
Thanks already for just taking your time to read this,
Mustaron
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1246131
Everything you need to know about rooting is here.
Basically everything you need to do to get root, is to flash a kernel, that has root enabled
It's in the 7th post of this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
Read the 1st few for institutions.
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Thanks for everything guys, it worked. My phone is now rooted and I now can install custom roms, cheers.
Mustaron
Hi guys, at first I am sorry for my english :silly:
The problem is that i want to root my S2 but there are too many guides and tutorials and I am really confused. It can be weird but I just want to root it for quite a short time like 10-15 mins (due to some game) and after this period just unroot it. I have been searching many forums for several hours but I could not find something that is easy and fits me. There were people with broken phones in every single rooting tutorial and I am little bit afraid of doing it. That is why i have posted here. So guys, I would like to ask you for your help. I would appreciate some easy guide with step by step tutorial or just a link that perfectly fits me. I do not need something special just quick access to root and then unrooting it as I said. Thanks a lot in advance and also, have a nice day! :victory:
Q: Will be there all my apps, messages, optioms etc. after the rooting?
About phone:
Andriod version: 4.0.4
Baseband version: I1900XXLQ6
Kernel version: 3.0.15-1118136
Build number: IMM76D.XWLPZ
Kenniicek said:
Hi guys, at first I am sorry for my english :silly:
The problem is that i want to root my S2 but there are too many guides and tutorials and I am really confused. It can be weird but I just want to root it for quite a short time like 10-15 mins (due to some game) and after this period just unroot it. I have been searching many forums for several hours but I could not find something that is easy and fits me. There were people with broken phones in every single rooting tutorial and I am little bit afraid of doing it. That is why i have posted here. So guys, I would like to ask you for your help. I would appreciate some easy guide with step by step tutorial or just a link that perfectly fits me. I do not need something special just quick access to root and then unrooting it as I said. Thanks a lot in advance and also, have a nice day! :victory:
Q: Will be there all my apps, messages, optioms etc. after the rooting?
About phone:
Andriod version: 4.0.4
Baseband version: I1900XXLQ6
Kernel version: 3.0.15-1118136
Build number: IMM76D.XWLPZ
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Indeed they will remain...
And don't be scared. I was the first time, but i putted the balls over the desk, and did it (very succesfully an satisfactory for myself)
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This is the way to root your device without flashing. It also includes a method to unroot. VERY easy to follow.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501719.
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f-r said:
This is the way to root your device without flashing. It also includes a method to unroot. VERY easy to follow.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501719.
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Thank you! I just want to make sure - in this step "Choose CWM.zip and wait until CWM recovery appear." ---> Where can I get this zip file and what exact should I download?
Use "installer" file to root and "uninstaller" to unroot. Read the thread, it's very straight forward.
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Kenniicek said:
Hi guys, at first I am sorry for my english :silly:
The problem is that i want to root my S2 but there are too many guides and tutorials and I am really confused. It can be weird but I just want to root it for quite a short time like 10-15 mins (due to some game) and after this period just unroot it. I have been searching many forums for several hours but I could not find something that is easy and fits me. There were people with broken phones in every single rooting tutorial and I am little bit afraid of doing it. That is why i have posted here. So guys, I would like to ask you for your help. I would appreciate some easy guide with step by step tutorial or just a link that perfectly fits me. I do not need something special just quick access to root and then unrooting it as I said. Thanks a lot in advance and also, have a nice day! :victory:
Q: Will be there all my apps, messages, optioms etc. after the rooting?
About phone:
Andriod version: 4.0.4
Baseband version: I1900XXLQ6
Kernel version: 3.0.15-1118136
Build number: IMM76D.XWLPZ
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If you want only the root access use the above method. But since you are on 4.0.4 which has the brick bug, do not wipe anything in stock recovery or temp recovery.
hey I'm sure it gets old us newbies asking what you seniors consider stupid questions, but I own the Galaxy Note i717 that was rooted but running stock rom and kernel, I just done the update to 4. 1. 2 and lost root and I live in a new town and state and do not have access to a computer at this time and ofcoarse the library will not let me download the software to be able to root and I have tried every one click method out there including poot debug apk files and still nothing. if anyone knows of any way of rooting without p.c that I could use please share. Or if someone knows if chainfire has a 1 click method to root my phone. I have checked all his post and have went over all the information on his work that I could find on the internet and here and have found nothing for my particular phone. So please don't tell me to read because I have done nothing but read for the last 4 days as I am retired. And I am now desperate thank you so much for your time in advance and any helpful answers that you could give I have been reading these forms for a very long time now and this is the first question I have asked , there is so much great advice from everyone on this site and again thanks so much in advance.
maxwellr64 said:
hey I'm sure it gets old us newbies asking what you seniors consider stupid questions, but I own the Galaxy Note i717 that was rooted but running stock rom and kernel, I just done the update to 4. 1. 2 and lost root and I live in a new town and state and do not have access to a computer at this time and ofcoarse the library will not let me download the software to be able to root and I have tried every one click method out there including poot debug apk files and still nothing. if anyone knows of any way of rooting without p.c that I could use please share. Or if someone knows if chainfire has a 1 click method to root my phone. I have checked all his post and have went over all the information on his work that I could find on the internet and here and have found nothing for my particular phone. So please don't tell me to read because I have done nothing but read for the last 4 days as I am retired. And I am now desperate thank you so much for your time in advance and any helpful answers that you could give I have been reading these forms for a very long time now and this is the first question I have asked , there is so much great advice from everyone on this site and again thanks so much in advance.
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Your best bet is to borrow a friend or family member's PC and get it over with, it'll probably take you 2 minutes to root it.