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Old July 16th, 2010, 01:44 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rajendra82 View Post
1. Rooting the galaxy involves a few steps. You need to download the android sdk (available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) and install it on your computer, install the necessary drivers to connect the phone to the computer via USB, put the update.zip in the root folder of the internal memory, then enable USB debugging on the phone in the developer tools setting, then go to a command prompt on you computer and use adb ( a program in the SDK/tools directory on your computer) to boot the phone (connected via USB to your computer) into recovery mode by typing the command above, once booted into recovery mode, you will need to apply the update to enable root and then rebbot your phone.
you don't really need adb anymore, just reboot into recovery using the hardware buttons. I'm gonna update the first post so the wording is much better lol.
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