Samsung Fascinate

Monday, September 20, 2010

1 Click Lag Fix

1 Click Lag Fix for Samsung Fascinate(Credits: Dirrk)
Requirements:
BUSYBOX 1.17.1+
Rooted Samsung Fascinate

Installing latest BusyBox:
If your not sure of your version you can check by typing
busybox
into either shell or a terminal emulator

To replace your old busybox with the new one just follow these basic steps.

adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
adb shell
su
cat /sdcard/busybox > /system/xbin/busybox

If you put busybox in bin you must replace it there too

Plug your phone up and Go to settings > applications > developement > enable debugging
Download the RyanZAEXT2LagFix.zip
Unzip the file
Double click on lagfixme.bat
Now follow the onscreen steps.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Rooting Process Step 3: Setting up and rooting Samsung Fascinate

Rooting Process Step 3: Setting up and rooting Samsung Fascinate(Credits: mrdroid)

In order to use ADB commands and properly setup the drivers and utilize all the built in links we need to change/validate 3 settings on the Fascinate.

Go to the Home screen and hit the menu button.
Go to Settings
Go to Applications
Make sure 'Unkown sources' is checked.
Go to Development
Make sure 'USB debugging' is checked.
Make sure 'Allow mock locations' is checked.

You can exit back to the home screen once you've verified those 3 settings are checked.

-Driver issue
If you ran into an issue installing the drivers in the previous step, after you've checked the above 3 settings open a command window.

Go to Start > Run (XP) or Start > Search (W7) and type cmd.exe and hit enter.

At the prompt type:

Code:

adb devices

If you get

Code:

List of devices attached I500....    device

Then you're good to go.
If nothing is listed under "List of devices attached" you should be able to just unplug the Fascinate, wait about 10 seconds and then plug it back in. You should now get a message saying several drivers/features were installed successfully.

Re-run the "adb devices" and your device should now show up.

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Now the fun part....
Ok. First lets gather our files and get organized.

On your Fascinate go to the Android Market and search for Terminal
Install the App named Android Terminal Emulator by Jack Palevich

Back on your PC
Download root.zip
Create a new folder on your C:\ drive named rootfiles
Extract the contents of the root.zip file into C:\rootfiles
Make sure there is no folder inside C:\rootfiles
Inside C:\rootfiles you should see:

Code:

busybox rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin su Superuser.apk

Rooting:

Section 1.
Reboot your phone and give it a couple minutes to load everything up.
Now open a command prompt.
Start > Run (XP) Start > Search (W7) and type cmd.exe
Validate your phone is still connected by typing

Code:

adb devices

You should see your device

Code:

C:\Users\Matt>adb devices List of devices attached I500x0xx000x    device

Change your current directory to C:\rootfiles

Code:

cd C:\rootfiles

If you are not currently on your C:\ drive then type

Code:

C:\ cd C:\rootfiles

Type the following commands exactly. If you want to copy and paste then copy each line one at a time and paste each in the command window by right-clicking and clicking paste. Ctrl-V will not work.

Section 2.

Code:

adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

You should get a response that looks like the following

Code:

146 KB/s (5392 bytes in 0.036s)

Next type

Code:

adb shell

You should now be at a prompt with a $
Now type

Code:

cd /data/local/tmp chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

Section 3.
This step is important. After you type the next command there will be a pause and you will have to wait until you are kicked out of adb shell. It is important you do not touch your phone or type anything in the command window. If you do don't worry, nothing bad will happen you will most likely have to pull your battery and try to run the command again. If your phone doesn't lock up you can probably unplug it and plug it back in and start back at "adb shell"

Code:

./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

After you execute that command you should see something like this:

Code:

$ ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C[*] checking NPROC limit ... [+] RLIMIT_NPROC={3712, 3712}[*] Searching for adb ... [+] Found adb as PID 2198[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and  wait for reset![*][*] If you like what we are doing you can send us  PayPal money to[*] 7-4-3-C@web.de so we can compensate time, effort and  HW costs.[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our  work,[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD![*][*] adb connection  will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.

After several seconds the $ prompt will come back

After another 20 seconds or so you will be kicked back to the C:\rootfiles prompt.

Type

Code:

adb shell

You should now be at a # prompt
This mean you have obtained temporary root on the device.

Section 4.
Type

Code:

exit

You should now be at the C:\rootfiles prompt
Type the following commands:

Code:

adb push su /sdcard/su adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox adb shell mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system cd /system/xbin cat /sdcard/su > ./su cat /sdcard/busybox > ./busybox chmod 4755 su chmod 4755 busybox exit

You should be back at the C:\rootfiles prompt

Section 5.
Type

Code:

adb install Superuser.apk

Reboot the device and you should now have permanent root.

I should add, on the last step to install Superuser.apk it seems to hang after the install

Code:

C:\rootfiles>adb install Superuser.apk 1305 KB/s (196521 bytes in 0.147s)         pkg: /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk Success

After you see Success you do a Ctrl-C
and then reboot the device.

Rooting Process Step 2: Installing Drivers

Rooting Process Step 2: Installing Drivers(Credits: mrdroid)

Download the appropriate driver:

Windows x64

Windows x86

For the x64 version double-click the setup.exe in usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64\USB Drivers

For the x86 version just double-click the file downloaded.

Just click next throught the install (change the install path if you want).

When the install is finished plug your Fascinate into an available USB port.

It's always best to plug your phone into a port directly connected to your computer's motherboard. To make sure you have done this you can use one of the ports on the back panel of your computer.

After you plug in your phone you should get a message saying the drivers were successfully installed.

Rooting Process Step 1: Setup ADB

Rooting Process Step 1: Setup ADB(Credits: mrdroid)

First download the sdk zip file from here: Android SDK | Android Developers
The file you want to download will be named something like 'android-sdk_r07-windows.zip'.

Extract the zip file to your C:\ drive.
You should end up with a folder named 'android-sdk-windows'.
Open that folder and open the 'tools' folder inside of 'android-sdk-windows'. You should now be in:
C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
This is where the adb executable is located.

At this point ADB is installed and ready to go but won't be easy to use. To make it easy to use copy; we'll copy the path into the environment variables.

Find your My Computer or Computer icon and right-click and go to Properties.
In Windows 7 you want to click the 'Advanced system settings' on the left under 'Control Panel Home'.
In Windows XP you want to click on the 'Advanced' tab in the 'System Properties' window.

Click the 'Environment Variables' button.
In the bottom section named 'System Variables' scroll down until you find the Variable named 'Path'. Highlight Path and click 'Edit...'.

The Variable value: field should be highlighted. Click in the box to un-highlight the text and go to the end of that line.
Paste the following text at the end of the line. Make sure there are no spaces.

;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\

The entire Variable value: will look something like this. No spaces!

c:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA  Corporation\PhysX\Common;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\android-sdk-windows\tools\

Click Ok on all the open windows.

Now go to Start > Run (XP) or Start > Search (W7) and type cmd.exe and hit enter.

Type adb

You should get a bunch of command options. If your screen displays a bunch of commands, you are good to go.

Friday, September 17, 2010