[How To] Easily Root your SGS2

[bustabo]

worked PERFECTLY! thank you!!!

 

[jetjock]

At first I overlooked that I needed to both uncheck and then recheck the USB debugging before plugging back in at #6. Once I overcame my own bafoonery, the rooting process finished without a flaw.

Great work and thanks for sharing.

 

[mcorrie1121]

Does it need to be Odin 1.82? I'm finding a 1.85 in another GS2 forum.

 

[boondoc]

Does it need to be Odin 1.82? I'm finding a 1.85 in another GS2 forum.

i used 1.70 and had no problems

 

[rbtconsultants]

Does it need to be Odin 1.82? I'm finding a 1.85 in another GS2 forum.

I used 1.83. no probs that I can tell

 

[yoman258]

I have been doing a lot of reading about rooting and what not and have been trying to research it as much as I can.

How would I root and keep the stock rom? I don't want anything changed, I just simply want the root access. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

 

[dayv]

Hmm..

Two issues I am having with this. The first and most important is that I cannot seem to flash any other ROMs - or even other versions of Clockwork Mod with this. I get "signature verification failed". I've checked the MD5 of the downloaded files and it all seems to check out, so I'm unsure if this is intentional or not.

I've also now got an annoying big yellow exclamation point on boot. It doesn't really impede anything, but it is... absolutely infuriating how it stares at me with its yellowness.. It really isn't a big deal, though.

I'm going to try to reflash a third time, though, maybe it will solve itself.

For your yellow triangle issue just get or make a USB jig. It will reset your counter zero. You can get one on Amazon, Ebay, our xda market forum. Or you can get diy instructions just google "diy USB jig".



Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using XDA App

 

[racon181]

Did all of you get the yellow triangle at boot? It works great though. I was just curious. Thanks

 

[jivy26]

I have been doing a lot of reading about rooting and what not and have been trying to research it as much as I can.

How would I root and keep the stock rom? I don't want anything changed, I just simply want the root access. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

All this does is adds cwm and root. The stock experience is still in tact.

 

[HTC Chris]

Did all of you get the yellow triangle at boot? It works great though. I was just curious. Thanks

Yeah, I'm wondering if there is a fix besides using the usb jig like the galaxy s2s on other networks..

 

[ljwnow]

Has anyone sim unlocked their i777?

 

[dross50]

Graci, I haz rootz now.

Ok figured it out! Somehow the drivers were corrupted, I just re-installed them and all is good. I suspected it was causing the problem. Glad to get it fixed.

How exactly did you go about doing this? Using Kies? I'm having the same problem. Odin and Kies recognize my phone when using MTP (not in debugging), but as soon as I check debugging all I can do is use explorer to navigate folders.

I'm on Vista.

 

[auswims]

Can't get s1c to root. Keep gettins os version popup. And then failure to get manufacturer. Do have yellow triangle but I do have a jig. In the air now will try the jig when I land.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using xda premium

 

[kinubic]

worked like a charm 1st time !! thanks !!

 

[yoman258]

All this does is adds cwm and root. The stock experience is still in tact.

Thank you for the quick reply. I have one more question. The step that asks to have the drivers installed. Does that refer to the drivers found in this link,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956

If not what drivers should I be looking for? I searched for the ones above and they seem like that should be correct. I would just like to double check before I do anything stupid.

 

[dross50]

Thank you for the quick reply. I have one more question. The step that asks to have the drivers installed. Does that refer to the drivers found in this link,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956

If not what drivers should I be looking for? I searched for the ones above and they seem like that should be correct. I would just like to double check before I do anything stupid.

As you can see in my previous post I had driver issues. Before I installed Kies I plugged my phone in and let Windows try to install drivers, I think that's what held me up. I deleted all drivers that had anything to do with Samsung, deleted Kies, reinstalled Kies, and let superoneclick run. After doing this I had no issues other than the step #6. Moral of the story - If you didn't plug your phone in before installing Kies (or other working drivers I guess) you should be good to go like Taco Bell.

 

[zenopzz]

I just upgraded from the Captivate and I used My Backup Pro to back up all my apps and data. When I restored no app data (saved games, etc) was restored into the new phone. Do I need rot access to restore app data?
If so, this is pretty stable right?
If its not stable, after I root and restore my apps can I go back to the factory kernel?

 

[yoman258]

As you can see in my previous post I had driver issues. Before I installed Kies I plugged my phone in and let Windows try to install drivers, I think that's what held me up. I deleted all drivers that had anything to do with Samsung, deleted Kies, reinstalled Kies, and let superoneclick run. After doing this I had no issues other than the step #6. Moral of the story - If you didn't plug your phone in before installing Kies (or other working drivers I guess) you should be good to go like Taco Bell.

I just got done eating Taco Bell for dinner, thus your post amused me. But anyways, with SuperOneClick should I leave it in the universal tab or the captivate tab?

 

[jivy26]

Universal ****10char

 

[yoman258]

Thank you for all the help guys. That was very simple and painless. Nice job on getting a walk through set up so quickly.