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  INTRO - READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  FIRST PAGE - INSTALLING CUSTOM RECOVERIES
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    1. INSTALL TWRP ONTO ANY AND ALL STOCK FIRMWARE OR CUSTOM ROMS
    1. HOW TO GET INTO DOWNLOAD MODE aka ODIN MODE
  • 2. HOW TO ENTER INTO RECOVERY MODE
  • 3. TROUBLESHOOTING ODIN
  • 4. WHY DO YOU NEED A "CUSTOM" RECOVERY
  • 5. DOWNLOADS AND LINKS

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  SECOND PAGE - ROOT
  
  • 1. HOW TO ROOT: WORKS ON GB, ICS & JB
  • 2. HOW TO TEMPORARLY UNROOT
  • 3. HOW TO PERMANENTLY UNROOT
  • 4. HOW TO REPAIR ROOT
  • 5. EXPLANATION OF WHAT THE SU FILES DO
  • 6. INFO ON ROOT
  • 7. DOWNLOADS AND LINKS

IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE SKYROCKET OR ARE A NEWB THEN READ EVERYTHING x2.
IF YOURE IN A HURRY, LAZY, ILLITERATE, DENSE, THE DEVIL, THEN COME BACK WHEN YOURE NOT.​

PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST BEFORE YOU PROCEED especially if your are a n00b, newb, newbie:

• Newbie, newb, n00b or noob is a slang term for a novice or newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in any profession or activity.

IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, STOP!! AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU DONT UNDERSTANT!

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READ DEVS INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THEIR ROMS RECOMMENDED RECOVERY, USUALLY LATEST

DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER FOR ANY CWM ACTIVITIES.
CUSTOM RECOVERY'S:
TWRP=TEAM WIN RECOVERY PROJECT
CWM=CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY - DEPRECIATED, NO LONGER USED

THIS IS NOT THE SAME PHONE AS THE FIRST GENERATION SG2 I9100, FLASHING ANYTHING HERE FOR THE I9100 WILL HARD BRICK THE I9100.

PLEASE DO NOT PM ME, ALL ANSWERS ARE IN THIS THREAD, PM'S WILL BE IGNORED, SORRY.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS POST IT HERE OR IN THE Q&A FORUM - BUT YOU BETTER READ THE 2 POSTS HERE BEFORE ASKING!!

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Samsung Made The Skyrocket Very Easy To Flash Custom Roms And/or Root The Phone.

There Is No Bootloader To Unlock.

The Skyrocket Has Four Main Partitions > Recovery - Radio - Kernel - System.
All Custom Roms Only Have The Kernel And The System , Which I/We Refer To As "The Rom".
No Custom Roms Include The Recovery And/or Radio Other Than Full Stock Firmwares.
The Recovery Is A Seperate Standalone File/partition And As Such It Is Not Tied/linked/combined To The Rom And/or Kernel.

Odin Is A Windows Program For Installing Stock Firmwares And Recoveries Onto Samsung Phones But We Can Use It To Install A "Custom" Recovery.

The First And Foremost Thing You Need To Do To Your Skyrocket Is To Replace The Stock Recovery Called "3e" With A Custom Recovery Called "TWRP" To Be Installed With The Program Called "Odin", Its Easy And Takes Less Than One Minute.

After Installing The TWRP Custom Recovery With Odin Your Phone Will Bootup To Exactly What You Had Before - It Does Not Touch The Android Operating System On Either Stock Firmwares Or Custom Roms, All Your Stuff Will Be Untouched, Unless You Boot Into Recovery You Would Never Know That You Had Installed It.

Once A Custom Recovery Is Installed You Can Then Install Other Custom Recoveries, Root The Phone, Flash Custom Roms, Kernels, Radios/modems, Bootanimations, Apps Or Any Other Flashable Zip File That You Find Here In The Skyrocket Xda Forum

Using Odin is Not Required Or Needed Anymore Unless You Reinstalled Stock Recovery Via Flashing Full Stock Firmware Or The Standalone Stock Recovery.

Links To The Recovery Zip Files Are In The 1stop Sticky

To Install Custom Roms On Stock Phones w/twrp installed You do Not Need To Root The Phone, Just Follow The Devs Instructions In Their Op On Installing The Custom Rom.

Root Is Only Required if You Are On Stock Samsung Att/Rogers Firmwares And Need To Remove Bloatware And/or Modify System Files, Root Is Not Needed To Install Any Roms Or Recoveries

I Reiterate: You Need To Install A Custom Recovery before You Can Flash Custom Roms Or Root The Phone, You Do not Need To Root The Phone To Install Custom Roms Or Custom Recoveries.

Stock Phones = Use Odin To Flash TWRP Custom Recovery
Staying On Stock w/Custom Recovery = Flash Root Files From 2nd Post.
Flashing Any Custom Roms = If On Stock Recovery Then Use Odin To Flash TWRP Custom Recovery, Dont Waste Your Time Rooting.


Almost Everything For And About The Skyrocket Is In The 1STOP STICKY

Read This b4 posting THE MOST Common Questions Answered HERE http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2176593

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PEREQUISTE: PHONES USB PORT WORKING AND RECOGNIZED BY PC. DRIVERS FOR USB INSTALLED CORRECTLY. IF NOT INSTALLED USE EITHER USB DRIVERS FILES OR INSTALL KIES WHICH INSTALLS USB DRIVERS
MAKE SURE KIES, ADB OR ANYTHING THAT HAS USB ACCESS LIKE VM'S ARE NOT RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND - CHECK WITH WINDOWS TASK MANAGER.
IF PHONES USB PORT IS DEAD THERES NO WAY TO INSTALL A CUSTOM RECOVERY AND AS SUCH YOUR STUCK ON STOCK FIRMWARE W/NO WAY TO ROOT THE STOCK FIRMWARE. DONT BELIEVE ANYONE THATS SAYS OTHERWISE.
NOTE: THIS METHOD IS ONLY FOR WINDOWS, ODIN IS A WINDOWS PROGRAM FOR INSTALLING STOCK FIRMWARES AND RECOVERIES ONTO SAMSUNG PHONES.
FOR MAC'S YOU NEED TO USE HEIMDALL OR USE BOOT CAMP, I DONT HAVE A MAC SO I CANT HELP YOU THERE.
NOTE: MICROSOFTS INTERNET BROWSER SOMETIMES HAS ISSUES DL'ING "TAR.MD5" FILES, IF HAVING A MD5 ERROR USE FIREFOX or CHROME BROWSERS TO DOWNLOAD THE TAR.MD5 FILES.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for your devices, these methods have been proven to work but sh*t happens!

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ENTERING IN TO RECOVERY MODE IS THE SAME METHOD FOR BOTH ATT AND ROGERS SKYROCKETS.
ENTERING IN TO RECOVERY MODE IS THE SAME METHOD FOR BOTH STOCK AND A CUSTOM RECOVERY.
RECOVERY AND DOWNLOAD(ODIN) MODES ARE NOT THE SAMETHING

• Now turn off your phone, unplugged(might work plugged in)

• Press and keep both volume keys down

• Then press the power button while still holding down the volume keys

• When you feel the phone vibrate or see a logo on the screen, release the power button but not the volume keys.

• When screen goes black release the volume keys.

• Wait a few seconds to boot in to recovery

• You are now in recovery mode

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• 1. HOW TO ROOT: WORKS ON GB, ICS AND JB
• 2. HOW TO TEMPORARLY UNROOT
• 3. HOW TO PERMANENTLY UNROOT
• 4. HOW TO REPAIR ROOT
• 5. EXPLANATION OF WHAT THE SU FILES DO
• 6. INFO ON ROOT
• 7. DOWNLOADS AND LINKS

• Newbie, newb, n00b or noob is a slang term for a novice or newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in any profession or activity.

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  MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT HAVE SUPERUSER OR BUSYBOX APPS INSTALLED
  UNINSTALL BOTH FROM SETTINGS/APPLICATION/ALL MENU (if unistalling is not available use disable and restart phone to recovery to flash the SU file before proceeding.)

• USE ONLY THE FILES THAT I LINKED IN THIS POST

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  LESS DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR POWER USERS: (what are you doing here)
  
  1. IF ON STOCK RECOVERY INSTALL TWRP(RECOMMENDED) OR CWM VIA ODIN - HOWTO IN FIRST POST
  2. FLASH SuperSU-0.93-Busybox-1.20.2.zip IN CWM/TWRP
  3. BOOT INTO ANDROID AND OPEN SUPERSU AND UPDATE BINARIES, DONE, YOUR ROOTED
  
  MORE DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR NEWBS SOON TO BE POWER USERS: KEEP READING THE WHOLE POST:
  
  1. DOWNLOAD AND PLACE THE FILE SuperSU-0.93-Busybox-1.20.2.zip TO YOUR INTERNAL SDCARD
  2. IF YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF TWRP OR CWM INSTALLED CONT. TO STEP 3. IF NOT GOTO THE FIRST PAGE: then come back here and continue w/step 3
  3. REBOOT INTO CWM/TWRP: instructions in first page.
  4. STEPS BELOW ARE FOR CWM BUT SIMILIAR FOR TWRP.
  5. HIGHLIGHT "INSTALL FROM SDCARD", HIT ENTER
  6. HIGHLIGHT "CHOOSE FILE FROM INTERNAL SDCARD", HIT ENTER
  7. SCROLL UNTIL "SuperSU-0.93-Busybox-1.20.2.zip" IS HIGHLIGHTED , HIT ENTER
  8. SCROLL UNTIL "YES" IS HIGHLIGHTED, HIT ENTER, WAIT FOR INSTALLATION TO FINISH.
  9. REBOOT PHONE
  10. GOTO APPLICATIONS ,OPEN SUPERSU, LET SuperSU UPDATE BINARIES.
  11. DONE, YOU ARE NOW ROOTED

DOWNLOAD "ROOT TESTER" AND OR "TITANIUM BACKUP" FROM PLAYSTORE AND SEE IF THEY ARE GRANTED SU PERMISSIONS
OPEN EITHER ROOT TESTER or TITANIUM BACKUP AND YOU WILL GET A POPUP MESSAGE ASKING FOR SUPERUSER ACCESS, CLICK ON "ALLOW" OR "GRANT" AS IN PIC BELOW, PIC MIGHT BE DIFFERENT IN APPEARANCE AND WORDING BUT THATS OK:

THEN THE APP WILL BE GIVEN SUPERUSER ACCESS, WHICH IS "ROOT"

• LESS DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR POWER USERS (what are you doing here)
  
  1. OPEN ESFILE EXPLORER
  2. RENAME SU FROM SYSYTEM\BIN AND/OR FROM SYSTEM\XBIN
  3. YOU ARE TEMPORARLY UNROOTED AS LONG AS YOU DONT KILL ESFILE MANGER FROM TASK MANAGER AND DONT REBOOT/RESTART THE PHONE
  4. TO RENABLE ROOT RENAME THE SU FILE(S) BACK TO "su"
     

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  MORE DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR NEWBS SOON TO BE POWER USERS: KEEP READING THE WHOLE POST:
  
  
  

  1. OPEN ESFILE EXPLORER
  2. HIT LEFT HAPTIC BUTTON
  3. HIT SETTINGS
  4. ENABLE "UP TO ROOT
  5. ENABLE "ROOT EXPLORER"
  6. ENABLE "MOUNT FILE SYSTEM"
  7. ENABLE "BACKUP SYSTEM APP"
  8. HIT THE HAPTIC BACK BUTTON
  9. HIT "UP" BUTTON ON ESFILE EXPLORER
  10. CONFIRM YOUR IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY IF YOU SEE THE "SYSTEM" FOLDER
  11. THE SU FILE CAN BE IN ONE OR TWO FOLDERS, RENAME BOTH, IF ONLY ONE IS FOUND THATS OK
  12. NAVIGATE TO SYSTEM\BIN FIND THE "SU" FILE
  13. LONG PRESS ON "SU", FROM MENU POPUP HIT RENAME
  14. RENAME "SU" TO "SUOLD" OR SOMETHING YOU CAN REMEMBER
  15. NAVIGATE TO SYSTEM\XBIN FIND THE "SU" FILE
  16. LONG PRESS ON "SU", FROM MENU POPUP HIT RENAME
  17. RENAME "SU" TO "SUOLD" OR SOMETHING YOU CAN REMEMBER
  18. HIT HOME HAPTIC BUTTON
  19. DO NOT EXIT ESFILE EXPLORER
  20. DO NOT REBOOT/SHUT SOWN PHONE
  21. TEST WITH ROOT CHECKER: SHOULD CONFIRM "NO ROOT ACCESS"
  22. DONE
  23. TO RENABLE ROOT DO THE EXACT SAME PROCEDURE AND RENAME THE SU FILES BACK TO "su"
  24. OR JUST REFLASH THE SU FILE WITH CWM

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  LESS DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR POWER USERS(what are you doing here)
  
  1. MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP
  2. OPTIONAL: DISABLE SUPERSU FROM SETTINGS\APLLICATIONS MENU
  3. DELETE SU FROM SU FROM SYSYTEM\BIN AND/OR FROM SYSTEM\XBIN
  4. YOU ARE NOW PERMANENTLY UNROOTED
  5. TO ROOT JUST FLASH SU AND INSTALL SUPERSU

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  MORE DETAILED PROCEDURE: FOR NEWBS SOON TO BE POWER USERS: KEEP READING THE WHOLE POST:
  
  
  

  1. PERFORM A NANDROID BACKUP FROM WITHIN CWM BACKUP/RESTORE MENU
  2. OPTIONAL: FROM HOMESCREEN HIT LEFT HAPTIC BUTTON GOTO /SETTINGS/APPLICATION/ALL CLICKON SUPERSU CLICKON DISABLE
  3. OPEN ESFILE EXPLORER
  4. HIT LEFT HAPTIC BUTTON
  5. HIT SETTINGS
  6. ENABLE "UP TO ROOT"
  7. ENABLE "ROOT EXPLORER"
  8. ENABLE "MOUNT FILE SYSTEM"
  9. ENABLE "BACKUP SYSTEM APP"
  10. HIT THE HAPTIC BACK BUTTON
  11. HIT "UP" BUTTON ON ESFILE EXPLORER
  12. CONFIRM YOUR IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY IF YOU SEE THE "SYSTEM" FOLDER
  13. THE SU FILE CAN BE IN ONE OR TWO FOLDERS, DELETE BOTH FILES, IF ONLY ONE IS FOUND THATS OK
  14. NAVIGATE TO SYSTEM\BIN FIND THE "SU" FILE
  15. LONG PRESS ON "SU"
  16. FROM THE POPUP MENU HIT DELETE
  17. NAVIGATE TO SYSTEM\XBIN FIND THE "SU" FILE
  18. LONG PRESS ON "SU"
  19. FROM THE POPUP MENU HIT DELETE

  • YOU ARE NOW PERMANENTLY UNROOTED
  • TEST WITH ROOT CHECKER
  • TO RENABLE ROOT JUST REFLASH THE SU FILE WITH CWM AND REINSTALL SUPERSU FROM PLAYSTORE

garydv2002 said:

I vote to sticky this thread anyone else think so

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stoopendis said:

Just 1 comment Vin. Way back I rooted my phone with odin and a file from doom lord.

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