[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jesterhead85:
I've been researching for 5 hours now how to try and ROOT my Phone using Z4 Root 1.3 (also tried 1.1) it results in basically the program just timing out. Ive followed the directions in the video (below). I then saw some people had some success with SuperOneClick. It seems to work for a bit, but the phone doesn't ultimately root. The code below is what results. Ive done my best to try and install the android SDK and ADB. but some of it is over my head so i might be missing something. The instructions on the ADB installation seem out of date though as the images and directions don't fully match. So thats a problem as well.

Phone : AT&T Samsung Galaxy S SGH 1897 on Froyo 2.2.

USB Debugging is enabled. Ive tried Airplane Mode, disabling Lookout. any and everything to help the process.

Im new to this. Im doing my best to figure it out. But admittedly im a noob at this. To anyone that can even point me in the right direction. The ROOT force is not strong with *this guy*

If nothing else thanks for reading.

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

$ getprop ro.product.manufacturer > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=37467

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

samsung

END:37467export PS1=""

getprop ro.product.model > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=70578

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

SAMSUNG-SGH-I897

END:70578export PS1=""

getprop ro.build.version.incremental > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=12124

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

UCKB1

END:12124export PS1=""

ls -l /system/xbin/su > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=47706

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

/system/xbin/su: No such file or directory

END:47706export PS1=""

ls -l /system/bin/su > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=91362

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

/system/bin/su: No such file or directory

END:91362adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

$ chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/busybox > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=37315

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

Unable to chmod /data/local/tmp/busybox: No such file or directory

END:37315adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

$ chmod 700 /data/local/tmp/psneuter > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=95920

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

END:95920export PS1=""

cd /data/local/tmp/ > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=12871

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

END:12871export PS1=""

export TEMPRANDOM=85977;export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;./psneuter

export PS1=""

property service neutered.

killing adbd. (should restart in a second or two)

adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

# /data/local/tmp/busybox mount > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=90391

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

/data/local/tmp/busybox: not found

END:90391export PS1=""

mount > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=45764

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0

proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0

sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0

none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0

/dev/block/stl6 /mnt/.lfs j4fs rw,relatime 0 0

tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0

none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0

/dev/block/stl9 /system rfs ro,relatime,vfat,log_off,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data rfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/block/stl10 /dbdata rfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/block/stl11 /cache rfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/block/stl3 /efs rfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

END:45764export PS1=""

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=75361

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

END:75361export PS1=""

mkdir /system/xbin > /data/local/tmp/output 2>&1

export TEMPRANDOM=92181

export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;cat /data/local/tmp/output

mkdir failed for /system/xbin, File exists

END:92181adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

#

export TEMPRANDOM=45540;export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;/data/local/tmp/busybox cat /data/local/tmp/8074631.tmp > /system/xbin/su

export PS1=""

/data/local/tmp/busybox: not found

END:45540adb server is out of date. killing...
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
export PS1=""

#

export TEMPRANDOM=64672;export PS1=END:$TEMPRANDOM;/data/local/tmp/busybox cat /data/local/tmp/6931057.tmp > /system/bin/su

export PS1=""

/data/local/tmp/busybox: not found

END:64672

Places ive checked:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/

www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u29-download-513648.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHLVF1aA0Q

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920250

and google.