yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] gbdusty:
I was having the same issue. I downloaded Samsung USB Drivers from the driversguru site. I am too new of a user to post the link here, but it may be helpful to share for noobs like myself. The script worked perfectly after installing the new drivers. Thanks for all your hard work Shabby & friends.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] SuperSpies:
Little Help

Ok I am fairly new to this rooting android thing.

And I need a little help.

So on the guide it said to enable usb debugging and run the root batch script.

I did that and finished and then I used the root checker app and it said my phone still wasn't rooted.

Can anyone help me?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Just a few posts ago, someone said get the drivers from driverguru and that fixed it for them
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] gbdusty:
Check your PM's. I just sent you the link for the drivers.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
You can get the official Samsung drivers by installing then uninstalling Kies. During the uninstall, a popup box will allow you to keep or delete the drivers.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Daytona1445:
Maybe I missed it but what is different in the newer root you posted at that link?

I ask since I had issues with the batch file on the first one and was able to put back the original kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
thee is only one kernel to flash :P
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Ninja Samurai:
Has this method been tested? Does everything on the phone work after being rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
i havent put anything out without testing it myself since ive gotten the device. i might improve on it one last time and make it root as you boot, but im not entirely sure yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Sezri:
I've done everything suggested many times over and installed all the samsung drivers yet it still isn't rooting my device. Please help me!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
worked for me shabbeh thx (: ifya need help testing or anything just shoot me a pm xD
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Daytona1445:
Thanks, I got it all working.

Is it normal for the kernel version with the new one to show as unavailable?

Are you running the script from a command prompt or just clicking the bat file and letting it run? If you run it from a prompt you should see some type of error. I was having a problem with the bat file trying to copy SU over to my phone because I have BlueStacks android emulator installed on my laptop, once I killed the task that it keeps running I was able to run the script error free.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Ninja Samurai:
Does everything work properly on the rooted kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
Seems to be so far
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
sorry about all the changes, but the final version of root is up. ive got all the kinks worked out now :)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] wolfmitchell:
If nobody has issues in the next week or so then I'll try rooting it. Quick question though, has anyone figured out how to root it from Linux instead of from Windows?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
Weres the final version at (:?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
using heimdall its possible, but i couldnt get it to connect for teh life of me. windows rooting is now a nice easy one click exe after you install the drivers and boot into download mode.

on the galaxy light forum
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
On zeh android forums?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
correct. nothing major since version 2 and this, just now only one thing to do.

version 1 was flash root kernel and run the script and restore stock. two was flash rooted kernel and run script, now its just flash rooted kernel :)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
Any luck on cwm?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
We now have it reading from both internal and external, just internal is fishy, it opens to three seperate things before going to the internal sdcard. still working on it right now
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
Need help testing anything just gimme a pm im free all today
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
i posted already about the state of my cwm. what the others are up to, idk.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
Ok guys I have a working cwm now.

Steps:

1) Download cwm here

2) Open Odin and put cwm file in pda and flash

3) Success

The only weird thing I know is going on is that in order to go to internal sd card is you have to click sdcard then go to 0/ directory
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
If anyone has an issue with getting this to work, shoot me a message on google hangouts tazmaniondvl@gmail.com

I did all the testing for this, and i can confirm that it works flawlessly.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Daytona1445:
Does the new one click version show what the kernel version is or is it like the second one that shows unavailable?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] GJSmith3rd:
Kernel version shows...
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
it shows, although that doesnt affect anything
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
I get an error when trying to mount the internal sdcard. Any idea how to fix that?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] wolfmitchell:
Just guessing here but is it in your fstab?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
thats because its mounted to a fake partition
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
So is it possible to backup to internal storage?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
internal sdcard has been tested and does work through recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
Recovery keeps giving me this:

Can't mount backup path.

E:Can't mount sdcard

E:Can't mount /sdcard/

Error mounting /sdcard

W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (No such file or directory)

Error mounting /sdcard!

W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (No such file or directory)

Can't mount backup path.

W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (No such file or directory)

W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (No such file or directory)

Can't mount backup path.

W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 (No such file or directory)

I:Can't format unknown volume: /emmc
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
ok I am looking into sd card now. Give me some time I am at work so as long as everything is going smoothly I should be able to work on it
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
not with the recovery posted.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Demonoid111:
Awesome.

I added a log of the errors from recovery if they're any use to you.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
Ok thanks I am looking at it now
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
that error is because a random partition was picked to be internal sdcard
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
ok guys looks like i uploaded the wrong one. I am uploading the right one now taz said he can backup to internal no problem
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
here is the new link guys http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407576020

sorry for the mishap earlier
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Keep in mind he had a lot because of all the testing, so it was easy for him to get the wrong one
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] smartguy044:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50797656

ok guys new thread started here. Post all recovery related info there so I can easily find any bugs you guys find
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] clu1688:
Can we petition for a root

I just bought this Light from HSN for $149 as a back up to my GS3. Great value and features!

I remember someone suggested that we could petition to XDA developers for its own discussion channel(?) and hopefully get some senior developers attention.

I returned LG F3 (4", big battery). I really wanted to like F3, but its screen has too much glare to be usable. I did put F3 and Light side by side (inside room) and GL beats F3 hands down in terms of display quality. I thought I would like F3's square shape, but it is really hard when you hold it in hand. GL, due to its slightly curved shape, it is much easier to hold and use with one hand.

GL is a gem, hope for a root and some customs ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Classpro:
I really like the phone a lot too. Runs fast, really nice screen for the specs, wifi connects super fast. But it needs root. Lots of crapware taking up space. I didn't like the launcher, and changed to Apex. Some other issues:

Wifi teathering: Tmobile has their own teathering app that pops up and requires payment. I can teather over bluetooth and usb with pdanet+, but I think they detected my usb teathering and will block after 100mb (it shows up on my account that way). I read that changing the user agent in chrome will stop their tracking, but I have not had time to play with it. Any ideas for blocking their teacher lock?

Wifi calling: I disabled it because they apparently use my limited minutes even when using wifi. I have grooveip using google voice, which seems to work fine, although call qualify is not as good as with the native wifi calling. GroveIP also works over the data connection.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] @root@:
waste of time

Heimdall v1.4.0 wont work.

I built a custom recovery but it did not work (I lost the e3 recovery) :( .

I could not figure out all the kernel's modules but some of them like smdk4270, Exynos4412 and Mali400.

Anyway, I have uploaded the system directory and its files.

Link

You can get some useful info by pulling (/data/log/recovery_kernel_log.txt & /data/log/recovery_log.txt) files

Moreover, you can get other useful info by running

dumpstate > /mnt/sdcard/state.log
dumpsys > /mnt/sdcard/system.log

if this phone is priceless for you without root, you can also try USB to UART Bridge (Hardware hacking).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1986887&page=3

pit_check_signature (PIT) valid.
initialize_ddi_data: usable! (0:0x0)
STC3115:GasGauge_Task vol=4310, curr=0, temp=250, SOC=1000, ocv=4249, avg_vol=0, avd_curr=0, avg_temp=0, avg_soc=0, GGsts=I, STCsts=0x518, ExtTemp=0, Count=0, HRSOC=51200, CC_cnf=0x16b, VM_cnf=0x170, CC_adjTATUS2 = 0x10
PMIC_OFFSRC = 0x10
PMIC_PWRON = 0x01
PMIC_IRQ1 = 0x43
PMIC_IRQ2 = 0x10
PMIC_IRQ3 = 0x00
PMIC_RTC_SMPL = 0x23
s5p_check_keypad: 0x1110000
s5p_check_þÿ¨EÕ	(Oct 6 2013 - 14:35:17)

EXYNOS4270(EVT 1.1) / 1023MB / 7456MB / Rev 10 / T399UVUAMJ4 /(PKG_ID 0x306d808)

- read_bl1
[MMC] thereàmicrousb_get_attached_device: DEV_TYPE1:0x00, 2:0x00, 3:0x00
microusb_get_attached_device: INTR1:0x00, 2:0x00
get_charger_status: invalid charger device=0
PMIC_ID = 0x03
ðÕ¥É½ÕÍ‰}¥é MUIC: MANUAL_SW1: 0x6d

Samsung S-Boot 4.0-1611476 for SGH-T399_NA_TMB (Oct þset_charger_enable: charger disabled
miÑ}ÕÍ‰}Ù‰ÕÍ}½ÕÑé MUIC: CONTROL: 0x1b
set_usb_vbus_out: MUIC: CONTROL: 0x1b

I wasted so much time on this phone and I cannot waste any more. You might ask Chainfire for porting CF-Auto-Root to this device (not sure if it is possible) or someone who has great experience in creating a custom recovery.

Btw, the /system/etc/ recovery-resource.dat file has the recovery’s background images and scripts and it is funny to find AT&T logo in this device‘s recovery :D.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] macaumen:
Actually I only need to delete system\csc\language.xml. is there any other easier way to do it?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] zeth006:
So what's the verdict on this phone? Is it worth the price of admission of $150? I was dissuaded by the Moto G's lack of HSPA+ 42mbps and LTE, but am wary that this phone may not get future updates. Android 4.3 in the very least has trim support, which is needed!!
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] dviperbigt:
How do we petition to XDA? I want to get some support for this phone!

Thanks

TJW
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] QuadCoreV10Processor:
68854958

It's quite good for the price. It works well and muscles through most commonplace tasks with minimal lag. Gaming is a bit iffy though, and good cases are difficult to find; I had to buy one from the T-Mobile store for a cool $30. I got the GL right when it came out at the beginning of November, and cases (terrible ones) are just now popping up on Amazon. The apps Samsung and T-Mobile strap you down with are rubbish (especially the visual voicemail), but you do get 48GB of space on Dropbox for two years when you buy one!

TouchWiz is a pain as usual and you get the distinct feeling this phone would be much snappier without it, which is why I'm following this thread closely! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Classpro:
I think it's a great phone - highly recommended. I don't know whether we'll get support from Samsung, and whether the dev community will be interested. It is a Samsung Galaxy phone, so I think there is a good chance it will be supported, but who knows. I think it's a lot better than the moto g.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] zeth006:
I've decided not to get the Moto G as HSPA+ 21mbps speeds are a bit weak in my area. I would've been on the fence if it had come with HSPA+ 42mbps, even though that standard is on its way out to support LTE. The Moto G does have a few things going for it such as future guaranteed support, vanilla Android, and a bigger, higher pixel density screen. But I really can't do without an external SD card and a replaceable battery.

The deal sealer for now really is future update support. If it can at least get Kitkat support and perhaps one more update later on down the road, I'd be sold.

---------- Post added at 04:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:00 PM ----------

I have gone ahead and created a request for a separate thread section for this phone. I'm not keeping my hopes up too high, but it's still worth a shot. Let's see what comes of it.

:cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Classpro:
That's a whole lot of stuff - sd card, removable battery, lte. As far as the screen goes, you really can't tell that much about a screen from just looking at the specs. The light has an excellent screen even though the specs are not that impressive. I don't know about guaranteed upgrades. I don't think anything is guaranteed. It's an important consideration but it's just a guess. The light is very new - I don't even see it on Samsung's website yet. It has everything I wanted in a phone. It should be a hit as I know of no better value right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
Samsung's site lists the Galaxy Light here samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-T399DNATMB

It does not mention that it has dual band wifi, which a huge plus in a crowded wifi neighborhood. None of my neighbors use 5Ghz, so I have no interference.

Two weeks ago when I got this phone, there were only 2 sellers on ebay selling cases, now they're everywhere.

No luck getting root. None of the prior exploits work, adb hacks don't work (yet), no CF Autoroot. When Samsung releases a firmware update it should be easy.

Has anyone asked Chainfire about making a CF Autoroot package?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] zeth006:
Damn. That's getting me really hesitant. This phone looks so kickass! Long as it has acceptable battery life, I'd have zero qualms about keeping it for 2.5-3 years as I have been doing with my G2x. The G2x is on its last legs and needs replacing soon. I can still use its GPS reliably and read e-mails, but its tethering doesn't work anymore (stopped working out of the blue in the middle of a session, flashed new roms, no luck!) and it can't play new games.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
1.5 hours of youtube videos over wifi used less than 10% of the battery. And the battery is removable.

The screen is small, but video quality is very good.

For those who like Antutu, it scores around 17500, a bit lower than a GS3, way higher than GS2. New firmware should raise the score.

For $150 this is an outstanding phone. It's only been out for ~6 weeks, I'm sure someone will figure out how to root it soon.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
You can just turn off the bloatware but it still takes up room on the phone.

Using other phone CWM will brick the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] afsharmirzayi:
sgh-t399

hi

please upload t399 firmware

i have an phone t399 hang on samsung logo

please upload firmware
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
Try booting without microSD inserted, or factory reset from recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
You flashed it with another phone's CWM?

I would upload but I don't know how to back it up. Perhaps you know and instruct me?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] afsharmirzayi:
yes i write i9500 root file
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Baddude8:
My friend did the same to my phone. But he used Galaxy S3.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] afsharmirzayi:
what should I do ?

which one of you read flash file of the phone

please help
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
http://androidforums.com/rom-development/829798-samsung-galaxy-light-roms-needed.html

Let's give him a hand shall we =)
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
Shabby I thpught you were making a rom(:?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Proud2banoob:
Shabby, does the new kernel use a stock(ish) kernel? When I root my Light, I want to keep it as close to stock as I can. If not, I can flash the stock kernel I have already downloaded. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
its stock source and stock ramdisk with edits made to root if needed on bootup. if you wish to be able to take an ota then youll need stock kernel at the very least.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Proud2banoob:
It's not about ota. Sounds like your kernel will be fine. I had thought that flashing the stock kernel would retain root. Thanks for the clarification.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
once you flash my kernel if you are not rooted it will root you. if you are rooted it skips over and goes on, you can check by looking at /sdcard/root.txt (internal mind you). i wanted a system like this so when the one included is outdate on every bootup it isnt going to just overwrite the updated su and you get stuck with supersu crying about needing to update the binary. whatever you flash after you root uising it youll still be rooted, it copies the binaries where it needs to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] wolfmitchell:
I'll just try to get it working on my Windows laptop then... how large is all the stuff I need for it combined?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Will having root block the ota

---------- Post added at 07:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:07 PM ----------

Btw if you are using cwm you can get the su zip from http://download.chainfire.eu/382/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.93.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
the exe is around 5 MB's and the drivers are probably 15mbish?

at this time i dont know if root will block or not.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] numbapkz:
no ota
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
Rooted, with "Stock" kernel. OTA works
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] tazmaniondvl:
Thats what I get when I search for update
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] awd_fan:
Maybe numbapkz deleted/disabled something he shouldn't have?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] wolfmitchell:
Erm, I meant for the kernels :p

Also, will rooting wipe all the stuff I have on the phone?

---------- Post added at 08:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 AM ----------

Also, any chance of TWRP recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Classpro:
This thread is getting too long to find anything. It sounds like the first step to rooting and getting CWM installed is to install samsung drivers and Odin. Where are the Samsung drivers? I found a link to a version of odin that is supposed to work a bunch of pages back, but I can't find the samsung drivers that I am supposed to install.

I think what we need is a thread where on the first page we have links to all the relevant files needed.

In the mean time, can someone provide links to Samsung drivers and odin (preferably with instructions).

Am I correct that once I get the drivers, odin, CWM, and the root script, I should be able to make a nandroid, root, make another nandroid, and start deleting samsung garbage safely (because I can install second nandroid if things lock up).
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
the kernel is included in the exe, its all packaged up so that when you run it and conenct in download mode you can click start and it will flash the rooting kernel. it wont wipe a thing except your kernel partition :).

youll have to ask someone else.

there is a thread on rooting as well as a thread for cwm. you dont need the root script but yes you are correct in you can muck with stuff since you now have cwm and a nandroid.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Classpro:
OK. I'm rooted and CWM is installed. Did nandroid to external SD before rooting. Only change in ShabbyPenguin's instructions is NOT to run odin separately when using his latest install script.

If anyone is looking for the samsung usb drivers, I got them from here:

http://www.modaco.com/topic/361286-...ver-for-mobile-phones-15270-drivers-win-87xp/

Seems to work fine in windows 7 32 bit. Didn't try 64 bit or windows 8.

After rooting, I froze the application "TetheringProvision" (using app manager) and then I was able to run a wifi hotspot using pdanet+ (previously, running wifi hot spot brought up t-mobile's pay hotspot app). Freezing "TetheringProvision" seems to have eliminated the t-mobile hotspot.

I'm sure there are a lot more junk apps that need to be frozen or removed. We should keep a list of the things that are safe to freeze/remove to get rid of the bloat.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Scolova:
Mine worked well, Windows7-64bit.

after installing CWM recovery via Odin (Smartguy).

I followed shabby's instructions.

...

1) install supersu from teh market

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 rooted kernel tar

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

6) click start

7) when it boots up, enable usb debugging

8) run the rooting batch script to root your phone

9) enjoy root.

...

With '8-script' part,

I ran the adb.exe first, then the root-batch.bat .. (just double clicked them inside a windows folder)..

Then opened SuperSU on the phone, it told me it needed to reboot to install a file,

it rebooted and then I ran Root-Checker which confirmed the phone was rooted.

(ETA: Flash 'Stock-Light-Kernel-MJ4.tar' via Odin after that to get WIFI running again.)

When checking for an update I get the "Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available."

...

Thank you, to all who have worked on this (t399) so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] Spectrah:
I'm really glad to see people working on this phone. I got it awhile ago and literally the saddest thing has been no roms to mess with. If I understand correctly, now that cwm and root are here it could be relatively soon that we see a custom rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Light Questions & Answers] shabbypenguin:
i never said to run odin seperately