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Setting Things Up with a File Manager

OK, this post is "long but vapid" - it's mostly pictures, in keeping with the "Dummies" theme. Pretty simple stuff for advanced users.

The objective of this post in the thread is to simply to unpack the "gscript.zip" file using a file manager, so that the rooting scripts end up in a folder called "gscript" underneath the root folder of the SD card. This example uses the free app "EStrongs File Explorer".

When we finish this step, we will have four files in place on the SD card like this:

/sdcard/gscript/root_part1.sh
/sdcard/gscript/root_part2.sh
/sdcard/gscript/tools/flash_image
/sdcard/gscript/tools/recovery.img

(NOTE: If you are familiar with a different file manager that can move files around and unzip .zip files, feel free to use that, but beware: the zip file must be unpacked so that it's contents end up in the folder "/sdcard/gscript")

We start with the assumption that you are not using a PC, and have downloaded the gscript.zip file using the web browser on the phone, so that it will be located in the /sdcard/download folder of the SD card.

Launch the Estrongs File Manager (ES File Manager) app; it will look like the screen below (fig. 1)


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Last edited by erisuser1; July 20th, 2010 at 09:48 AM.