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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
I'm totally confused how to do all this, I'm coming from an iphone :-x

My impression is that I want something like what you have -- stock ROM and kernel with root -- since people seem to be having more trouble with zedomax etc etc., but the rooting guides are written with zedomax's kernel. Is there a guide for what I want?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sk63:
Root is just having SU installed which is independent of the kernel. The problem is you need an exploit or some kind of work-around to get SU there to begin with. Samsung makes it fairly easy via ODIN.

Flash Zedo v3, included in the file you flash is a script that installs SU to the system partition. Then flash the stock kernel which doesn't remove SU. BAM, you've got stock everything plus the super-user app installed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JoeBruin32:
Thanks a lot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Zedomax v4.1 beta testers needed

For the brave souls out there, can u test out GPU overclocking?

ODIN this:

http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/...SPH-D710_Zedomax_EpicTouchKernel-v4.1beta.tar

You will need to manually overclock the GPU using ADB:

adb shell
cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/gpu_clock_control/gpu_control # To view current settings
echo 300 400 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/gpu_clock_control/gpu_control # Sets GPU clock from 160/267 to 300/400
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] enormous:
Does this persist after a reboot?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
no, it defaults to 160/267Mhz stock steps, but we can make it permanent if there's real performance improvements, which I have seen, 4576 on Quadrant at 1.504Ghz.

Maybe those of you with 1.6Ghz stable will get like 5000 hopefully.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
let me re-iterate who did get full root. zedomax! no i am not showing off, just sayin' i m good. lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kdbrown5:
it's not directly related.. but I flashed your root in odin, booted, then flashed cwm. I can get into CWM but CWM does not seem to read any files off of my micro sd cards (I have 2 working 8 & 16gb microsd).

So right now I have wiped and am without an os. Can't find a way to xfer contents or a rom onto the internal memory. Thoughts ?

nvm -- fixed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] r3a1ist:
And people using this zedo's root method and flashing the stock kernel are having no issues at all? Should I just consider it stock altogether? If that's the case I might root now and jump ship. Can you get cwm working with a stock kernel and all? Excuse me if i sound very limited in my knowledge. Just wondering if I flash the stock kernel I'll be able to back up with nandroid and flash other kernels and roms to experiment with overclocking. Wouldn't really be that worth it right now if I couldn't create a solid back up of stock and play around.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HondaCop:
All I have to say is that I flashed Zedomax's v3 and then IMMEDIATELY did a MSL reset. More than 24 hours later, I've had NO LOS issues. Not even once. I know I've probably jinxed myself but so far its working great.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G WTF BBQ
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] vlug:
When i flash this kernel using odin, will the phone be wiped clean?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m_reyna_16:
sorry for the noobish question guys, but ive searched on google and no answer...

what is the difference between pre-rooted and rooted (officially rooted i guess would be the term)?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] delao13:
I'm not having issues. Have been on Zedomax is V1.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sk63:
same difference. Pre-rooted means already rooted, not before root.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m_reyna_16:
now i understand... thanks, so basically the term doesnt make sense because i just means rooted right? lol :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ms.Dummbunny:
Hey'all!

K, here is a perfect window of opportunity for me to try rooting my ET4G with little or no risk so long as it does't brick- and yes, i know its almost impossible to brick a Sammy, but trust a dummbunny to find a way...lol)

I had got TWO ET4G last week, one for me and one for hub, but he's just too into his vintage vet and a million other things so i am returning it, cuz we both agree its just a waste (plus i gotta tell you, seeing his ET4G just sit around neglected all day pisses me off, i'm like HOW are u not playing with ur phone?! (do you know there are ppl in China who are still using a Razr??!!) But we decided he just will not benefit from all the glory ET4G has to offer, he's pretty old school, stuck somewhere between Fred Flintstone and Jeff Foxworthy...

Sooooooooooooo now that i have a 2nd ET4G to play wth before 14 day Ret policy is up, i thought i might "root the lil bugger"... and see if its worth it to Root the one i am keeping... Really, the ONLY reason i want root is to be able to change the LCD Density settings....

So my question is... (i've read almost this entire thread but still not sure if most of the kinks are worked out... Saw Zedo's post that he got full root with everything working but that was a couple of days ago (dog years in the root world : ) Are the kinks worked out yet, and is UNrooting as easy as it usually is?

Thanx y'all!

Ms. D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] WhiteZero:
The day after I flashed this is was having a lot of issues with loss of service. Today I switched to non-root with Clockworkmod Recovery and only had 1 instance of LOS.

Just sayin...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] steb0ne:
Yeah, me too... I flashed this yesterday and had to reboot like 6 times since b/c of loss of service.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] odub303:
lol wut? chars
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
Hey zedo, something I noticed on the quadrant information tab that this v3 root only shows one core, while stock shows two cores. Any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
sorry was hella drunk when i posted that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Dunno, but I will try and find out!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
shabbypenguin deserves some claps for teaching me initramfs/ramdisk. #golfclap i m a pro golfer too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] muzicman82:
OK, not sure if this is kernel related, ROM related, or phone related.. but here goes.

I know a lot of people had No Service/Signal bug after the initial kernel root. I am not completely up to date on whether that was solved or not, but I am on 2.6.35.7_ZedomazEpicTouchKernelc3-g165267b-dirty.

I was on that kernel from the time it was released until yesterday. During that time, the phone would randomly go roaming or show No Service. I would reboot and all was fine. This was all on the stock ROM.

Somewhere, I read that one possible fix was to do an MSL reset. So, I got the MSL code from a terminal program (which is NOT the same as the one Sprint gave me), and did the reset. When I did that, the phone rebooted and then was bricked - stuck in the Sprint animation loop. CRAP. I didn't do a back up. I didn't realize an MSL reset was risky. Oh well.

So then I went and downloaded StarBurst ROM v1.1 and flashed it.

Now, on this ROM, so far, my signal hasn't shown up as No Service, but I am very confused by the signal meters. Sometimes they are 4 bars gray and sometimes 4 bars green. Is grey the new No Signal indicator? It seems that the bars sometimes flash between green and gray at 4 bars. This doesn't seem normal. Also, it could be my eyes playing tricks on me, but it looked like there were two different shades of gray signal. Yes? No?

Is there somewhere in the menus or hidden menus that shows real signal strength in dBm? I do have a Sprint Mobile Broadband card (two of them) and comparing would be a good start.

What's next? Rolling back PRL?

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
Ok,

Coming from the 3d and love this phone. I've got root now by the ACS method.

No CWM. So can I just use Odin to flash this kernel? Or will it horf things up? Or can I just flash CWM? Though I can't seem to find it anywhere so I could flash it.

Thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
Never mind. I got it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ms.Dummbunny:
well i still don't : (

Is there a root out there that is fully working? Is there an easy UNroot process yet? I rooted my Vibrant, my EVO 4G, my Infuse my Viewsonic & Huawei tablet and never had a problem. I always thought the issues would be with the ROMS, and once u started changing kernals and such, but this is the 1st time i have seen issues with the rooting process itself, and now i am totally confused....Why is this so hard this time? Is it the dual core processor? (if that is a dumm q, i apologize in advance : )

c'mon guys, help a gal out with a few general answers, (yes, no, yes is fine but answerrrrr me...lol) i got about 5 more days to return the second ET4G and i want to try to root it before i do so i can see if i want to root the ET4G that i am keeping.....

Ms D

thanks y'all!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
easy unroot process here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281287

You can always flash back stock, even to day 1!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Fus3D:
What other roms are there available right now? I'm currently running star burst with zedo 4.1 beta, gonna try other kernels to compare
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
So is there a different rooting process in the works right now where you just root and that's it. I guess what im trying to say here is im new to Samsung devices and i see some folks having issues and going back and forth with different kernels v1-v5, I am just wondering if there will be a new root process that you use Odin and the newest kernel and have cwm and that's it? Voila! Itchin to develop something, LOL!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] johnkim575:
I too am dying to root this sucker. Can you tell me if there is one "best" method without issues after rooting? And which root method will allow me to unroot just as easily just in case?

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] :
The root process itself is easy and understandable. I just cant figure out if i can just jump to v4 with cwm during root process or if there is a more stable one going to be released so there are no issues that some might be having.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mbeardyc:
I keep losing my 3g connection since I rooted my phone last night. Is there anyway to fix this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] springsyeti:
Try msl reset and flash stock kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
Hiya, did you ever get this figured out?

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
try the stock version i uploaded couple hours back:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1284092
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ms.Dummbunny:
Nope and only 3 days left : (
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
This is the one I used and took me about 5 minutes. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614igPj7MkU If you want help with it let me know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kenlperry:
Where did you find it and how did you get it installed? I get a signature verification failure when I try to flash it via Rom Manager...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Storm T:
Here ya go: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1268037
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kenlperry:
Another question for you Storm T... Were you able to get Wifi Tether working? And if so, how? What kernel are you using? Whenever I setup encryption my laptop can no longer see the SSID. I can't figure out why, and I see that several others are having the same issue.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] springsyeti:
Look for a android device and not a net work. Depends on which tether you are using. Some will show ssid and some will show as a device.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wings9130:
I'm debating if I should finally root my phone yet. Is this root working properly for most people or are there still a lot of problems with it? This phone doesn't need a ton of upgrades so just rooting for wifi and ability to roam whenever I want along with titanium backup.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
Roaming in the U.S. Is free.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wings9130:
Ya I meant using the roam control app to put the phone in "always roam" mode mode when i'm in an area with bad sprint service.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texasboylaw:
recovery

can someone please tell me how to boot into clockwork mod? when i try to boot using the file thru odin it takes away my root access.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] springsyeti:
Volume up and power buttons together. Hold until cwn is present. If you flashed a stock kernal you lost cwm.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] b8ascrub:
Stock with root?

Is there a simple one click root yet? I just want my stock phone with root so I can install titanium backup and wifi-tether.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] springsyeti:
No. Root with any rooted kernel r then put stock kernel. Easier than it sounds.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] paranoid android85:
i tried the root method and at the very end i get this when i try to flash: Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/002/015: Permission denied.

libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.

ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -3

what am i doing wrong?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] andddlay:
Worked flawlessly. Thanks :)

i can't seem to make a backup.

after selecting to create a backup in rom manager it gives me an error

anyone know how to fix this? thx :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wings9130:
How to flash both cwm with root?

I rooted the phone successfully. I tried to install clockworld using rom manager. I picked samsung galaxy s 2 when it asked my phones model. I tried holding power up and volume when the phone was off and it does not load into clockworld. It takes me to the standard android recovery or whatever its called. I flashed clockworld with this method (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1287212) and it worked but I lost root. How do you get both root and cwm?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fabs109:
im getting the same thing i want to flash a new rom but want to have a good backup first. anyone have a remedy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hermeticist:
DON'T USE ROM MANAGER.

It is not set up for the Epic 4G Touch.

You'll have to use Odin. There are several links in XDA for that.

Search for clockworkmod and epic 4g touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
When I read through the posts and see the names that are working on this, I know the development is going to be top notch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Calkulin:
5 will be overwritten when you flash the gsm GSII kernel but if we can pull 6 which is the recovery, we can pull the zimage from that.

Also has anyone tried the gsm CWM recovery yet, does it work or does it have issues?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chainfire:
I seem to recall the flashable system partition file is annoying to edit on the SGS2... may be easiest for the person who has the rooted kernel to prepare the system partition on the device itself before dumping, so it can just be flashed by someone else without any editing. That's just something I feel I half remember though, not quite sure.

If I remember correctly, on the SGS2 when I first got it, the backup/recovery kernel space was simply 0'd out. If that isn't the case on the E4GT, that'll certainly make stuff easier, hehe.

(On the original SGS2 we had stock firmwares available before the device was, luckily)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
Any reason not to pull 4/5/6 at the same time for easier comparison purposes? (+9?)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
CWM works, I've got the phone rooted with CWM working just fine, the only issue is radio as the CWM flashed via ODIN writes GS2 kernel with GSM, if we can just get a working kernel, we are good to go as far as root but we would also need to add back CWM.

Once thats done, users would only have to flash the working kernel with CWM and simply flash SU files, would be piece of cake to root then.

Btw, just got back from Sprint with my new replacement, I was like, "Ummm... yeah, I got this phone yesterday and charged it all night long and when I woke up it wouldn't boot... I think it's defective."

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Here's thing you gotta also realize, I wasn't able to access adb with sgs2 kernel flashed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kn0wBuddy:
And the Oscar goes to... :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhantomPhreak53:
haha nice! :cool:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
alright well those commands can be run via terminal emulator as well
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Oh didn't think of that, good one!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
What about flashing clock work by rom manager, will it still flash the kernel or just error
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
You would need root access first, "did chicken or the egg come first?"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Chainfire:
adbWireless could also be used if ADB over USB doesn´t work.

Re: CWM working correctly, I'm surprised, as from what I've seen posted here the internal and external sdcard have different device names ...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
I installed su and it then tries to update and fails but puts flashable zip on card. I moved it to sd and tried to flash with samsung recovery but it fails signature check . I was just checking the obvious stuff maybe since its not encrypted
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
one last suggestion, anyone check to see if crash logs are world writable? djbliss just put a new exploit that should work on most samsung devices
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jolleyboy:
Inexperienced but willing.

I just picked up the E4GT yesterday (a 7 hour drive total to get it!) and I am craving root now. I am willing to do whatever I can (including risk bricking my phone) to further the cause. The only problem is that I am very inexperienced when it comes to this sort of thing. I would need very detailed and specific step by step instructions from those of you who are more experienced.

I am fairly techy, I just started learning Java with the goal of moving to Dalvik, but I'm faaaaaaaaaar away from that goal.

I'm grateful for the work and sacrifices all of you have put into this, and I want to help in any way I can!

P.S. no "thats what she said jokes" about my title. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Beejis:
My favorite Dev is here!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] deano0714:
Has anyone tried the newest gingerbreak? Im not gunna risk anything yet lol..

Edit.. Is it possible to make odin just push something to the system? And not wipe the whole thing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Trying now...

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When u flash gs2 kernel, u lose wifi, so this wouldnt work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shabbypenguin:
home and in #epic-touch4g on freenode :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dschachm:
Shabby, you switched from the photon?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Yes, DON'T USE ROM MANAGER with shift key, use Odin or Heimdall.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] efarley:
Last night I rooted my device using this method and file from zedomax and everything worked great except when I booted my device there was a yellow triangle with a black “!” in it. I figured that just indicated the device was rooted or running a 3rd party kernel so I didn’t worry about it.

Today I launched my camera app and it failed to load the interface but showed the image from the camera momentary then crashed back to the home screen. I restarted my device and when the device restarted it was very slow and unresponsive and after unlocking it my live wallpaper was gone replaced with the last background I used before selecting a live background a couple weeks back. No icons or widgets loaded and I am unable to open the settings tray. The only things I am able to do with the phone is pull down the notification bar, respond to text messages, adjust the volume and hold power to restart the phone. All of which are very slow and delayed.

When I connect the device to my computer windows is no longer able to load the drivers and Kies is unable to connect with the device. I am not sure what caused this or how to resolve this issue so any advice or known fixes would be fantastic! I am unable to get to clockwork mod to restore my backup and I am unable to get to Kies or the phone settings to do a factory reset so I really don’t know what to do they were supposed to be a last resort and now I don’t even think I can do them. I am an experienced techie but I am new to android and this is the first device I have rooted so any advice would be great no matter how basic it may be.

UPDATE: I just connected the phone via USB to my laptop at work and it was able to discover and install everything it needed to connect with the phone. I am installing Kies now so at least there is hope of a factory restore, although I really hope it doesn't come to that! I will try getting into Odin and installing the stock kernel later tonight first.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zedomax:
Weird, that's a first, I've never heard anyone with those symtoms, you can try flashing bubby's stock kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greyclear:
edit n/m :cool:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] efarley:
I tried flashing the stock ROM but touchwiz was still missing so I tried doing a factory reset with ClockworkMod but that put me into a boot loop that wouldn't go past the 4G logo.

Best Buy took my word that the device wasn't rooted and exchanged it, hopfully next time I root it will go better.

The odd thing is everything (3G, WiFi, Blue tooth, touchwiz, tethering etc) worked great until I launched the camera app, then it all went to hell in a hurry. Has anyone else had issues where the camera app wasn't working after using this method?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] halo117:
I have the same yellow triangle and the phone seems to start kind of weird.

I'm wondering if that yellow triangle is supposed to be there?

I did try and open my camera in fear the phone was going to crash when I did, but all went well.

Also there is an error when I try to wifi tether.

I didn't change the rom just left it stock.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] efarley:
I also would like to know what is up with that yellow ! symbol is it there so the sales reps can easily identify a rooted device being brought in on return or does it indicate an error? UPDATE: After some reading I have learned the yellow triangle indicates you are running an insecure rom. There are some ways to remove it if it really bugs you.

WiFi Tether worked great for me, did you try downloading a tethering app or are you using the Sprint app? the sprint app won't work you need to download a WiFi Tethering app (I used this one http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ThatJawn:
Soooo, odin gets stuck on setupconnection...

What do I do?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rafarataneneces:
Hello

Would you please tell me what method you used to root your cell phone?

I still have one week left and I really want to root my device

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How can I make a backup of my existing non-rooted kernel?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] efarley:
I used the method discussed in this thread of using Odin to flash the rooted Kernel provided.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mirra520:
Amazing

Absolutely outstanding! Perfect root and it took me 30 seconds to do. I remember spending 45 minutes rooting my Evo....You're the best!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tandxcstar1:
OMG I will be following you and others on this as it progress more. AWESOME! As many phones as I go though and ROOT via adb it is nice to have a device that takes under 30 secs to ROOT. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Question though.. Upon boot I get Galaxy logo screen but with a Yellow Triangle with Exclamation in it.. That normal? Should I try and odin to stock kernel? thx

EDIT: I fixed the annoying yellow triangle. Stayed up till 3am trying to figure it out and it was right in front of me.. If anyone else wants the fix follow HERE. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackte4:
quick question. Do this come with Clockwork recovery with the root?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
Haven't tried but the method should be pretty much the same

- flash either rooted kernel/rom in odin or flash stock with CWM and flash super user and busy box
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackte4:
i flash odin without clockwork. can i just flash clockwork?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xlGmanlx:
No, there is no stand alone flash for recovery that I am aware of, so you have to flash a kernel with your cwm of choice