[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Johnny-D99:
Hi everyone.

I got some good news, bad news and some terrible news.

So, this morning before I left for school I put the superuser file on

my phone (not in any folder but the ?root folder?), thinking I can

just flash it whilst on lunch break (1 ½ hours cos of my time table.) I spent a while reading the guides on paper before I went to sleep last night and took them with me to school.

At first break when I was reading the guides over again, I only just

remembered that I would need to set my environment up again. Download

android SDK and use cyanogen’s guide to set up ADB + the modified file to replace the stock file in it, set variable path and download pda net for drivers.

So I thought forget it, I’ll do it at home. Thing is, come time for P.E, our lesson was cancelled cos the teacher was not in. Cool right! Now I have 2 hours 15 minutes total till my next lesson. So I head straight for my library at school and settle down to do this!

I don’t know why but it didn’t take as long as I thought it would. It took me one hour to set up everything and that’s including forgetting to select the right samsung driver. The only reason I sorted it out was I had to keep looking at cyanogen’s guide (bottom half) to figure out why when I did adb devices it did not give me back a bunch of numbers (I think this is my serial number not too sure)

So, last night I got clockwork done. So now all I had to do was shift+right click, open command here in the folder of platform-tools and test it again with adb devices and hopefully it will work. Otherwise I would wait till I home and just do it there.

It worked! I got my bunch of numbers! I then typed in adb reboot bootloader and it worked! My phone is in recovery mode!! Now all I did was follow the guide and I installed superuser by using vol up/down.!!

It didn’t take long to do this bit at all!! And I still had 20 mins left for eating!!

Ok, so now the bad news. My IT teacher saw me messing around in device manager and cmd. I didn’t know he was watching. When I started to put everything back to normal, uninstall android sdk, set the path variable back to what it was (I copyed it to word what changes I made) and uninstall PDA net. My teacher stopped me and told me I was in big trouble and grabbed my staff and paper guides and everything.

Ok, we end up at the Head IT office and he talked with a teacher I don’t know. he starts to question me and stuff and reads my papers and then says I have to do a detention for “unauthorised modification to school property potentially damaging school machines costing hundreds” <mum remembers the line>

He then rings my mum to tell her that I have to do a Saturday detention and hopes that she didn’t have alternate plans as he would like to talk to her. Just so you guys know

I love my mum, and love her even more after today!

She asked why am I in trouble and he explained by lying abit, but not much.

My mum said that she would come to pick me up from school and would like to talk to Mr Sparey (the guys name) then.

He said ok. The thing is my mum knows about PC’s and she replaced her hard drive last year. Mum meets me at the school reception and then Mr Sparey guides us back to his office. Mr Sparey explains it again but mum then starts to say that he is wrong and no damage has been done to school PC’s because all that would need to be done is install a previous image (that’s like a nandriod right? Or is it like titian backup?)

She said that an image would fix it and he being IT professional knew it and to stop making me scared for no reason. Being honest I was really scared that we would have to buy a new machine for school.

He said that the school didn’t have any images for library PC’s and she then said not her problem. That should be your job if you knew how to do it and that as far as she was concerned, no real damage was done and said at least he is trying to learn something on his own.

End of long story – erm, I not in any trouble at school “in any official capacity” but I still have to serve 4 hours at school on Saturday at 8.30 till 12.30 one of the teachers. I don’t have to pay for a new pc. And mum said that I shouldn’t do anything like this again and said let this be a lesson in life.

But yeah, i now have super user installed.

Btw – mum helped me type this by remembering bits and stuff when she was there. she also had me show her what i did at school and on her PC sso she would know how to fix it.

Mum also says that I shouldn’t do anything else with the phone today.

Sorry guys I think I will have to wait till Saturday after school (never thought I’d say that.) she a bit mad but not alot.

anyways, this took me 3 hours to write with showing mum what i did and stuff. i hungry and tired and got school tomorrow.

i thik i did everything right because my phone still works and super user app has ROM manager with a android smiley face next to it.

recap:

super user installed: good news

got in trouble at school: bad news

got my first ever detention which is a saturday detention: terrible news cos not allowed to do anything with my phone till its done.

bye guys.