yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
I use it to, just not always on, I try everything to preserve battery life, as I use my phone quite a bit during the day. Can't wait to be able to root it so I can preserve even more and get rid of bloat! You are now my favorite person in this forum
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
so anyways, im rooted and im working on clockworkmod for everyone to be able to root. however it would be helpful if i got someone rooted as well. cuz when i rooted i wiped out my stock recovery partition, which when i push cwm everyone will be wiping out and replacing it. so i need someone to flash a very large file to get root and then use an adb command to dump stock recovery once i have that i can have an odin tar on its way, seems i was missing a lot of files for teh dump so the rom has to be restarted, but im sure you guys are happy enough with root at the moment ;P
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
If I knew anything about adb I would happily do it. But I know nothing about it
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition&hl=en

can someone please install this and let me know what the partition name is for system? i tried to flash that root file i was uploading and now my device isnt booting. install the app and click on advamced and take a screenshot (power and home) of the /system info
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mastahcow:
Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] aureljared:
I will say this again:

Have you all tried Framaroot or Motochopper?

Maybe even a SuperSU zip.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] internet tough guy:
Neither of these worked on my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] @root@:
Rooting this Samsung device could be different from all other devices. Framaroot, Motochopper, SRSROOT and Kingo did not work in rooting this device. I guess the best way to root it is to install a custom cwm then install su, busybox & superSu.apk.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mn1968:
Forgive my ignorance but don't you need to be rooted to install a custom recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] aureljared:
I am sorry. :(

No, you can install CWM with Odin, which doesn't require root.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mn1968:
Well that gives a glimmer of hope. I would be willing to try but I haven't found any good guides yet. From my quick Google seach, it appears you still need to have the bootloader unlocked and/or the guides I found are device specific. For example, for the Galaxy S4 the quide states:

"The ClockworkMod Recovery file works only on Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505. Applying this to any incorrect variant might brick the device".

I don't know enough about this yet to be trying this stuff out. So my search continues.

Those with more knowledge that can point me/us in the right direction will be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] SloppyFloppy:
I was warned not to try odin. I wouldn't risk it. There's guides in the s4 section on how to flash a recovery with Odin.

We need to find out how to adb sideload exploit it.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] J. Cyrus:
I am getting the itch to attempt installing CWM via Odin, but I can't risk bricking it =/

Will just keep an eye on this thread and see what happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] @root@:
All adb tricks are not working with this device. You can try them all by pushing files to /data/local/tmp . Unfortunately, The device's kernel is new (3.4.39) and has a new different board which make it more difficult to be rooted.

However, it is possible to create a custom recovery which can root this device. It might be risky since we are missing boot.img but It could be the best unless we obtained the socket ROM. Using other devices recovery could brick your device since they have different partition table (it might flash the wrong partition).

Partition table for SGH-T399

BOTA0 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1	4.0MB
BOTA1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2	4.0MB
EFS -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3	19.7MB	ext4
m9kefs1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4	4.0MB
m9kefs2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5	4.0MB
m9kefs3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6	4.0MB
CARRIER -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7	4.0MB
PARAM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8	8.0MB
BOOT -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9	8.0MB
RECOVERY -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10	8.0MB
OTA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11	8.0MB
CDMA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12	4.0MB
RADIO -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13	32.0MB
TOMBSTONES -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14	4.0MB
TDATA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15	4.0MB
HIDDEN -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16	4.0MB
RESERVED1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17	4.0MB
RESERVED2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18	4.0MB
CACHE -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19	492.1MB	ext4
SYSTEM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20	1378.0MB	ext4
USERDATA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21	5330.9MB	ext4

Fortunately, the I9500 has a similar table but the hardware is different (board,cpu, gpu, mem, screen resolution+ density ... etc). Also, the blocks size of SGH-T399 has not been determined and I am not sure if it equal to I9500's blocks size.

Anyway, flashing the recovery will not brick your device if the new recovery is placed in the correct partition. Otherwise, we will wait until we get the socket rom (an update) or until someone find a new exploit in JB.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mn1968:
Unfortunately all of the above is beyond what I am capable of doing/understanding. I am really good at following guides though.:) Hopefully someone figures this out. I can live with the phone un-rooted but it would be nice to get some of the bloat off.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] dragon2knight:
Hi, new here. I also just got this phone in and was wondering about rooting....and from what I'm reading here, it looks to be a tough nut to crack....at least for now. I'm fairly good at rooting other phones, and I'm not too afraid to try out something new, but even the above is a bit over my head :(

Here's to hoping for a simpler solution down the road! I, too, can live with the phone as it sits, but a rooted phone is a better phone(at least to me :D ), so my fingers are officially crossed!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
Do you guys think the zerush method would work?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] whgarner:
rooting

Got my light today, oneclickroot does not work or hurt the phone, root by danish does not work or hurt the phone. Tried adb shell and chmod system and/or bin folders they are read only. That is as far as i can go. One more thing is to turn on developer options by tapping build seven times. settings>more>about phone>build

bg

ps could only get to recovery via adb reboot recovery, could not get to bootloader, yet

pps framaroot did not work
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
It seems tough to root this one. It's like custom rom for the Exhibit I 4G.

This phone is LTE but T-Mobile only offer 4G in most area.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] el_venga:
entering download mode via "adb reboot download" and usb jig works like previous samsung devices.

regular 3 button combination worked now (vol-, home and power) and recovery works too (vol+, home and power).

it seems that you have to press them all at once.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] macaumen:
anyone has any progress on that?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
I want to backup the stock rom and bootloader, how could I do that without root? Samsung Kies?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Skipjacks:
Maybe Heimdall from a Linux or Mac machine might work to back it up.

But once its backed up I'm not sure what value it would be to you as there is no current way yo flash to the phone if you needed to restore the backup.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
I think Odin 3 will work to flash the stock rom back on.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Skipjacks:
Probably. But that won't include any of your settings or data, which I thought was what you were shooting for.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
can anyone get the pit dumped using heimdall? my phone doesnt appear to wnat to work with it. thanks for teh pic but it doesnt have what the filename should be so idk if thats what is breaking it or not :(

i plan on having you guys rooted later today regardless if im booting or not, i can guide yall through using the blacked out recovery so at least you guys can enjoy root but ideally id get a good copy of recovery.img so i can make a good cwm and of course get my phone working (this seems to be a common issues eh? :P )

crap seems i cant even get into recovery now. if someone can pull the pit file it may help. im going to ask around and see if i can get some knowledge on why it wouldnt flash
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
What is pit file and heimdall
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Daytona1445:
What needs to be done with Heimdall to try and get the info you need?

This is my only phone right now so breaking anything on it would be bad.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
Ok so here is a REALLY crappy cwm port, but i said id have root for you guys today so im gunan stick with it.

download:

Clockworkmod recovery

Odin

supersu renamed to zsuperuser

youll need samsung drivers as well, i already had mine installed and dont remember where i got them from.

Recovery instructions:

1) copy the zsuperuser.zip to your phones internal memory, if you are confused remove your sdcard and the phone storage will be teh only one displayed when you connect to the computer

2) power down your device, press and hold home and volume down then press power

3) youll be greeted with a warning screen, press up to continue

4) load up odin and click on pda to load the clockworkmod tar

5) connect your device and wait until you see a blue box with a com number

6) click start

7) once you have booted back up power off teh device again

8) hold home, volume up and then press and hold power until the text comes up (samsung galaxy light) when it displays, let go of power.

until i get recovery fully working it will just be a black screen, id work on it more today but my blood pressure is already through the roof.

Rooting instructions:

1) press volume down once, then hit power that puts you in the choose zip location menu

2) press power to get into the file list menu, press power a few more times just to verify you are there. you should have folders at the top like alarm etc that wont have zips and cwm wont enter them.

3)press up twice, then press power. you just selected zsuperuser.zip (its why i named it zsuperuser so it would be at the bottom ;) )

4) press up twice more and then press power. you just confirmed you wanted to flash it

5) it will drop you back at the second menu, so press up just once and power to select "go back"

6) youll be at the main menu, press power and the screen should darken, you are now rebooting :)

i really wish teh first way to root was easier, but this phone has been giving me absolute hell. you can use tools like online nandroid or whatever to make a backup. please dont go crazy with root i havent figured out how to make system flashable, been trying on making rooting easier and then cwm better :(. if you break your device its no ones fault but your own, so do be careful of what bloat you start zapping. at this rate teh rom might be a bit of time away.

if you appreciate the work ive done my signature contains a link to donate to me, donations are never required but always appreciated :D.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
Awesome!

Also I was wondering, do you have a copy of the original boot.img used on the device? Perhaps we can get Chainfire to make a CF auto-root + mobile odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Ok so i am doing everything word for word, even tried it a few times, this part is not working, the screen goes dark before i can get to step 4 dont know why. and when i reboot my phone i have no root...

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also this is a manual reboot btw, holding power button and zsuperuser is in the root of my device storage
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
I think it's time we got a forum for this device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=1361

Request it here!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Has anyone had luck rooting the phone? i have tried multiple times
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Proud2banoob:
I was thinking that same thing. More people to help Shabby (great job, by the way) would be awesome for getting some new roms written.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-light-all-things-root/ ill be posting all threads etc on here. xda tends to shun lesser known devices, androidforums has been an amazing home for my phones as well as many devices i work on that never would have had a froum on xda.

ill try to get a video up later
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Shabby, I have done everything over and over, so far the instructions do not work for me. I'm sure it does work. Is there a way to make it a .tar?

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I believe he will be able to help with the black screen
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
i spent the better part of today trying to make the stock kernel into a rooting kernel, and i dont know what else there is left to try. i edited the init's to coipy su and it failed. made adb run as root and that failed. i cant flash the system partition so recovery is the only way at the moment, and i dont know why its not displaying anything on screen....

here is a different recovery, see if this fixes your issues, ive repeated teh steps several times in an effort to write them down. if we could have a rooting kernel or display, or even adb in recovery it would be far easier. but im sorry ive been slamming my head against my desk all day trying to get this stuff working as best as i can. im drained and im tired of mucking with it.

https://mega.co.nz/#!0AhByaAb!eKLkFx5YSxS6DYfntPybkjJHFgTSOjx38PTCVDU6FFo

lemme know if this one works for youbetter
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
I really do appreciate the work your putting into this is such little time. The person I quoted has made recoveries for my previous device, and is willing to help

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Has anyone had luck rooting in this method? If so I know I am messing up somewhere. If you have luck please share what you did to get it working.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
did you try teh second recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
How about you just edit the stock recovery to allow installation of SuperSu?

That should be able to satisfy most users. With root, we can always get Mobile Odin working.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
got a guide on how to do that? ive always just done custom recovery.

edit: derp nevermind, doesnt matter. we dont have a way to flash stock recovery since im t he only one rooted and mine is gone :/
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
yes i did try that, and exact same outcome, like i said i dont know if im missing a step or what.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
What exactly isn't working in the recovery?

Is it just display and adb?

Also, how about you try building TWRP for the device instead? Maybe you'll have much better luck.

Thanks for all the hard work.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
Once I get the boot.img files from shabbypenguin I will be helping him work on root and recovery for you guys
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
Awesome. Remember to post on this thread if you need any testers. I'm willing to give it a try. :p
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Maybe with two heads this will be up in a couple of hours :) I have high hopes
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
Rooted kernel

Stock kernel

Root your device script

1) install supersu from teh market

2) flash rooted kernel in odin

3) boot up and enable usb debugging

4) run the rooting batch script to root your phone

5) flash stock kenrle back to get wifi etc back

6) enjoy root.

i need someone to then run this command in adb shell or teminal emulator

adb shell

su

dd if=/dev/block/platform/dw_mmc.0/by-name/RECOVERY of=/sdcard/stock-t399-recovery.img
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
Congrats man
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Success! i now have root thank you both very very much.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
I didnt get a chance to do anything ha he had it figured out before I got started
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
unfortunately if i ran that you would get exactly what you have on your phone.... we will just have to wait till someone roots their device tomorrow.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
alright wellt hanks anyways. i removed the temp cwm so no oen else flashes it :)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
I really cant thank you enough, bloatware is gone, and now im tweaking away lol. and i really cant thank you enough, i have reached my eight today. But i am going to donate as soon as i can i will be donating
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
well thank you :)

today has been pretty rough, thought for sure i was gunna have a broken phone at least 3-4 times. but got it all sorted out. gunna push through on cwm some other time, smartguy is taking a look at my device tree. i am however gunna relax and play some xbox :P
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
i was gonna play to but the wife is playing skyrim
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] yougivemerash!!!:
Rooted in just a few minutes! Thanks so much :cool:

Made a small donation earlier.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
can you pull the stock recovery for us please? and send in pm to shabby and myself :)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mastahcow:
Worked!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] WetWilly:
Good grief, I skip following this thread for a single day in the last 3 months and I miss all of the excitement.

Congrats to shabbypenguin and a Coke is on the way. Make 'er a 20-oz :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] WetWilly:
This works great! Very straight forward, just rooted the phone in 10 minutes, and 5 minutes of that was figuring out Odin - which I'd never used before - and triple checking that I didn't make a mistake that would brick the phone.

Many kudos to shabbypenguin and everybody make sure to tip a Coke his way.

About all we're missing now is a < $2 carrier unlock.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
no one has checked into dialer codes? the sgs3 and 4 and note 2/3 were all sim unlockable via dialer codes for free. i suppose ill pull the apks tomorrow and look em through.

oh yea, thanks to RWING5

https://mega.co.nz/#!9I4lmAob!7Ka2DQusWPWomr8YmUUZlodN1PiQzNF0Q3DVlZkNbPg stock odin flashable mj4 recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Daytona1445:
Thanks for all of your hard work on this.

I am not sure if I want to root now or wait and see how long KitKat takes.

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You should be able to get them to unlock it for free, they do have requirements and the only one that I am currently missing is that this phone hasn't been active on their network for over 40 days yet. You will just need a non t-mobile sim card installed to be able to enter the code they can give you.

I plan to call them in less than 2 weeks to get mine unlocked.

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1588
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
Thanks, great job!

Will root survive the KK update? Is CWM SU compatible, or only SuperSU?

For those unfamiliar with Odin, the kernel goes in the PDA tab

After flashing the rooted kernel, the "Custom" flag is set, but goes back to "Official" when you flash the stock kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] WetWilly:
I searched for lists of dialer codes a while back and tried all the ones I could find. IIRC the issue is that the menus + options that appear on the S3/S4 either don't appear or are different on the Galaxy Light.

I also have to wait a bit, but I'd pay a few bucks to unlock it now. It's just ridiculous that the LG F3/F6 (the closest comparable T-Mobile phones to the Galaxy Light) can be unlocked for ~$2 while Galaxy Light unlocks are running ~$30.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Skipjacks:
If you are rooted you likely will be unable to get the KitKat update over the air.

However, someone will probably take the update, pre root it, and make it flashable via recovery

Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] mn1968:
Never had a Samsung before and I'm unfamiliar with odin...which version should I use? When running the above steps, are steps 2-5 run through odin or is step 4 run in recovery as a flash since it's a zip?

Finally, anyone have a list of safe apps to remove once rooted? I can figure most out, however, I would like to remove carrier IQ and am not sure which would be the correct file to remove.

Am I to do anything with this stock recovery?

Thanks for all the efforts and help!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] inyork:
Are the mega links for the "Rooted kernel" and the "Root your device script" not working for anyone else?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
They work on computer, and for your phone you need the app
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] inyork:
When I click download I get a "temporary error retrying" error.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
I just downloaded them to check they work for me
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] AACH:
I downloaded everything through PC, no problem. Thanks all for the root meyhod - will try tonight
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Is quick and easy and you lose nothing
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Hey shabby, I think you should start another thread, only to make it easy for others to find everything that is posted. And have a link here for them to find it. And this thread should be closed so to not lose the place of the link
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Necivias1:
Thanks much!!!! Have not rooted yet but thanks to you I finally got this thing unbricked which is more than I could have hoped for.

UPDATE: Holy crap, that had to have been one of the easiest root procedures ever. 3 minutes, tops. Thank you again!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Proud2banoob:
Perhaps then the protocol could be in the OP, like for installing a rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
That's what I'm shooting for
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
as i mentioned i plan on posting on androidforums. at this time there isnt much need for a new thread, when i get cwm working then ill post a thread there.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] RaverX3X:
You actually have to work really hard at bricking a samsung phone.. GJ none the less.. Need any help as i have the device...
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Proud2banoob:
I'll have to look for that site. I thought this was the only one worth following. Thanks for the heads-up.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
yes well, we dont have an odin tar to restore, so any system changes are risky. the only thing im working on at the moment and could use help is cwm, aaron teach you how to do that?