Originally Posted by Trigster

My dad just picked up this phone as well. Apparently only 3days of free-tether to use. Even using such items as pdanet etc.

Hopefully a way will be found soon.

There are couples wifi tethering apps on the market that required no root, you should check them out.

Originally Posted by VIthe3rd

I tried rooting my Aviator and wiped out the OS. Was not bricked but I couldn't get the phone into recovery mode to even try to flash another rom. And the stock rom for it is not released yet from samsung. So I had to have the store swap out another phone for me.

And I can not find anything how to enable the recovery mode anywhere.

To get into recovery from a powered off state, hold VolUp+Home+Pwr until the recovery pops up. There's not much you can do from the stock recovery though, unless you have signed stock images. From what I've read, the CWM-based recovery imnuts built for the Charge does not work correctly with the Aviator, so that'd be a no go.

There's also download mode that you get to by powering down, and then holding VolDown while plugging in USB. That mode is for flashing files via Odin, but thus far, I haven't seen anything available for the Aviator.

It would help the situation on the Aviator immensely to get a leak/release of a full stock Odin restore image, and further helped by getting the stock PIT file. At that point, at least it would be almost impossible to brick.

Originally Posted by shrike1978

To get into recovery from a powered off state, hold VolUp+Home+Pwr until the recovery pops up. There's not much you can do from the stock recovery though, unless you have signed stock images. From what I've read, the CWM-based recovery imnuts built for the Charge does not work correctly with the Aviator, so that'd be a no go.

There's also download mode that you get to by powering down, and then holding VolDown while plugging in USB. That mode is for flashing files via Odin, but thus far, I haven't seen anything available for the Aviator.

It would help the situation on the Aviator immensely to get a leak/release of a full stock Odin restore image, and further helped by getting the stock PIT file. At that point, at least it would be almost impossible to brick.

I tried that key combo plus many others for close to two hours and the only one that was working was the download mode. Makes me wonder why it would not enter recovery. I just tried it on the new one and it went right in. Hmmmm...... I guess a little more tinkering and playing with stuff..... Now I wish I knew where to start by building a custom ROM

Any word on odin files yet? I liked my mesmerize fine but the charging jack gave out and the stock experience on this phone is awful. The main thing is getting root to get rid of the bloat and changing minfree settings. This device would be bearable then.

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Rooting Samsung Aviator After Update FG04

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