Rooting the Samsung Galaxy running 2.2 (froyo), use my nice and simple guide below.
1. Check that – Settings > About Phone > USB Settings > Mass Storage is selected
2. Plug the phone into USB – make sure you have the drivers already installed from Samsung of course!
3. The phone will tell you its plugged in – click “Turn on USB storage”
4. Download this update.zip file (attached)
5. Copy the file to the root directory of your Galaxy S sd Card.
6. Power off the phone and unplug from USB
7. Boot the phone into recovery mode – press and hold vol down and the home button and tap the power button to turn the phone on. Keep vol UP and home held until the phone starts to boot into the recovery mode – it will be noticeably different! Might take a couple of attempts.
8. Once in recovery mode, use the vol down key to highlight “apply sdcard: update.zip“, press the home button to apply
9. Phone should do its thing and reboot
You’ll know it has worked if you go into the applications menu and can see “Superuser Permission”.
This is for the I900 but works for the Cellular South Showcase SCH-i500.
Props to "hamlesh" for this tutorial. I can't link websites yet, but givin' credit where credit's due.
Doesnt work.
Every thing works until i select APPLY SDCARD: UPDATE.ZIP. It says no such file or directory.
If you forgot your screen lock combination or password follow these steps.
Warning !All data will be lost!
1.Press together volume up + home button + power button
2.Release your fingers of the phone when Samsung logo appear
3.Choose with volume buutons "wipe data/factory reset" and select it with power button
5.Choose "yes" with volume buttons and select it with power button
6.Wait untiil format is complete
7.Select "reboot"
mikidan said:
If you forgot your screen lock combination or password follow these steps.
Warning !All data will be lost!
1.Press together volume up + home button + power button
2.Release your fingers of the phone when Samsung logo appear
3.Choose with volume buutons "wipe data/factory reset" and select it with power button
5.Choose "yes" with volume buttons and select it with power button
6.Wait untiil format is complete
7.Select "reboot"
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Pressing & holding down keys won't make any change my just reboots & reboot's again
tanveer4m said:
Pressing & holding down keys won't make any change my just reboots & reboot's again
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boot to recovery, that's where it will take you
I'm seriously not trying to be a ****, but that's pretty useless information. Obviously a factory reset will remove the pattern or password, along with everything else. That would be a last-ditch option... when everything else fails, this will, without a doubt work. Also, to boot into recovery just hold power + volume up. No need to hold the home button, stand on your head, and do a split while singing Hotel California just to enter recovery.
Just FYI, by typing "remove pattern unlock android site:forum.xda-developers.com" in Google, it pulls up many various techniques of doing the same thing WITHOUT losing data.
tanveer4m said:
Pressing & holding down keys won't make any change my just reboots & reboot's again
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My technique to boot into recovery / download mode:
1. Start with device all the way off.
2. Press and hold the volume down or volume up button as desired.
3. THEN Press and hold the power button until the system begins showing signs of life. Samsung logo or whatever. Release power button but keep holding volume button without fail.
4. When you get to recovery or download mode, release volume key.
If that doesn't work, consider you may have a button hardware failure or some serious other fault.
I used to have lots of trouble getting into recovery or download mode, because I tried to press power and volume keys at same time. That resulted in sporadic operation. Doing it as I describe above, starting with volume key, works every time.
Marc
Frankenscript said:
My technique to boot into recovery / download mode:
1. Start with device all the way off.
2. Press and hold the volume down or volume up button as desired.
3. THEN Press and hold the power button until the system begins showing signs of life. Samsung logo or whatever. Release power button but keep holding volume button without fail.
4. When you get to recovery or download mode, release volume key.
If that doesn't work, consider you may have a button hardware failure or some serious other fault.
I used to have lots of trouble getting into recovery or download mode, because I tried to press power and volume keys at same time. That resulted in sporadic operation. Doing it as I describe above, starting with volume key, works every time.
Marc
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You don't need to hold volume up/down before pressing power, but it doesn't hurt. You can hold the power button until the device vibrates and let off. As soon as you feel the vibration, you can then switch to holding volume up until you see the blue text in the upper-left hand corner that says "Recovery booting." Once you see that blue text you can release the volume key and you will enter recovery mode every single time. Same way with download mode. Basically, as long as you're holding whichever volume button you want when the Galaxy S4 splash screen pops up, you will enter the corresponding mode. Also, there is no real need to start from the device being powered off completely. You can actually use your basic power menu (or advanced, depending on the ROM) and select Reboot/Restart and then hold the correct volume key when the screen powers off; although with an advanced power menu the option to boot to either is obviously both there and foolproof
I have never understood why people make entering download/recovery mode a lot more complicated than it actually is... I've never had trouble getting into download or recovery mode because it's not hard at all.
How to cancel pattern password
I have set a pettern password, and i do remember the pattern but i want to cancel the pattern password, i want to keep my phone lock free. please advise.
Munna_cse
Go to settings, lock screen, none.
No spinning on your head.
Pp.
mikidan said:
If you forgot your screen lock combination or password follow these steps.
Warning !All data will be lost!
1.Press together volume up + home button + power button
2.Release your fingers of the phone when Samsung logo appear
3.Choose with volume buutons "wipe data/factory reset" and select it with power button
5.Choose "yes" with volume buttons and select it with power button
6.Wait untiil format is complete
7.Select "reboot"
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Or flash CWM, pull the /data/system/gesture.key file and open it with Revskills > Cryptoanalysis > Bruteforce android pattern lock (for pattern) - pull /data/system/password.key and /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db and open them with Revskills > Cryptoanalysis > Bruteforce android passcode
You will just need to find a Revskills.zip with key latest version is 2.08.6
can u elaborate on this
When you can't boot into recovery you can wipe your phone with the computer using ODIN
If the person can boot the phone into recovery and perform a factory wipe, Odin is not required.
Hi,
just was in need for booting into recovery because the (newly flashed) ROM was stuck at boot animation, screen turned off and the device got hot (some kind of loop) - so
The button combo in following video worked perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3YfszOPsQ
I'll (review) and write the combo down once I need it again
but if I remember correctly it was:
1) Volume Down + Power button
until you see the LG logo
2) hold Volume Down, release Power button
3) Volume Down & Up + Power button
4) now confirm the appearing question or message twice with the Power button
4) a) Power button
4) b) Power button
hope that helps
Thank you !!!
This is not simple to remember... I put your page in my favorites !
jems_47 said:
Thank you !!!
This is not simple to remember... I put your page in my favorites !
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Well, the sticky at the top of the General forum has that and more.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554121
New update(UL-K00Z-WW-6.3.9.0) for Asus FonePAD7 M175CG K00Z seems to be corrupted. My Device Boot-looped twice due to update (OTA / Manual).
Recovered thru below process
* Downloaded ME175CG_all_WW_user_V6.3.7.raw
* Transferred Raw file to the root of EXTERNAL SD card
* rebooted into DROIDBOOT mode with Vol-Up + Power
* Selected Factory Reset
* waited till it boots up then turned it off again
* again rebooted into DROIDBOOT mode with Vol-Up + Power
* selected SD Download
* Waited till the process to get complete.
Above brought back my dead device to Live - still all my data lost
Hey guys...so i got an error message for...System.img to large failed.
stupidly rebooted watch...now bricked. stuck at Huawei logo without animation...adb devices, blank.
i'm assuming this thing needs to be sent in?
NEVERMIND!
Step 1: Put the Watch to Fastboot Mode
1) Hold down the power button
2) The screen will go black for about 2 seconds and then boot into the Huawei logo. Keep holding down the power button.
3) Wait for the first vibration, release the power button and then immediately give the power button one short press.
crap...adb devices doesn't detect!
got it...did
flash-all.bat
waited for it to show waiting for devices...then reboot by hand into bootloader as shown in first post. YAY!