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For those of you reading this and in this forum, and if you've rooted before, flashed a rom, or anything like that and got it to work, DO NOT be intimidated by using this method.

I found I actually quite liked Ubuntu (it was my first time using it myself). And it's rather easy.

This is the page I followed, and if you scroll down most of the way (use the one at post #30 ircc) there's a video too. I set up my screen so it was just like in the video, plus a "window" to watch the video too. The directions are exact, what I liked about the video is you could see it run and the results, which helped me realize where things went wrong after it failed about 3 times or so.

***Thanks to drjbliss (method), SamuriHL (HoB & more), & Tomsgt123 (video)***

Things upfront:

I used a Bootable USB, You can do it with a Bootable / "live" CD, but admittedly I thought USB was quicker to set-up and in hindsight probably was beneficial. So that's what I recommend.

Get Ubuntu (img/iso) & follow the directions from HERE.

Make the USB, then restart your computer, and at boot screen, choose boot from USB.

Here's where it saved me and and I'll recommend something else here, not in the instructions... yes it's going to take a bit longer but in the end I spent almost a whole Saturday doing this and this would've made it about an hour had I done it first. It was the solution to 2 errors I had, that took a while to realize where they were and find a fix.

In Ubuntu, open a "terminal" which is like a windows cmd / command window.

I couldn't find a button or anything on a menu to do this so I found out it's either alt + t or ctrl + alt + t.

at the Ubuntu terminal command prompt:

use these 2 commands to update Ubuntu and Samba.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

[IIRC] The Ubuntu one will tell you it needs and additional 250 (or so) MB's hit ok or accept and let it update. Then do the next and update Samba.

I'm not exactly sure but I doubt I would've been able to do this with a cd being that it couldn't write to it.

This took care of all errors I ran into using this Root method, and it was a bit frustrating because if you don't know what you're looking for or at, you can get to the end and it says exploit finished or complete or something and you think you're good to go.

On to the root instructions & Video...

I opened (2) terminal windows, you have to manually put them on the same screen or it will move them to multiple ones and that doesn't help so much.

If it does, use the button on the side that looks like (4) windows and pick & drag everything back to one screen.

Errors or what to look for:

when you run this command: sudo apt-get install samba

if it says (something) "unknown" or "Failed" - Samba didn't install, try again. (update if you skipped that part)

when you try to connect remotely over WIFI...

If you get "network connection error / failed", Samba didn't install, or Samba needs update (if you skipped that), or make sure you use the right IP address, a few of them will come up. I found for me it had nothing to with my network and I had the right IP the first time I tried.

****NOTICE****

Ubuntu will let you keep going and continue to run the commands seemingly normally. Even to the end and tell you "exploit complete" (or something like that) So if you get to the end and you don't have root go back and examine your terminal screen. Compare it to the one in the video, something won't match, and there's the issue.

I did notice the "numbers" didn't always match as it ran thru the processes, but make sure it looks like your getting the same type of results and runs thru the process.

I needed to update Ubuntu to update Samba that's why I recommend doing both first.

Once you set-up & update your USB the whole thing shouldn't take more than 15-20 mins or so.

Good luck.

It's really not hard, just follow the instructions.