If it doesn't work for some reason. With your SD card out, reboot phone, run the BAT/sh depending on your OS(bat for windows). Try a few times and you should get root. Version 4.0!
Fixed various bugs!
Updated with some fixes and ensures EE14 compatibility
Samsung drivers if needed -> Drivers
Would not be done without the help of ShabbyPenguin, Jude, ThomasSkull666 and Vick from Samsung, nice fellow.
Exploit based on the awesome KillingInTheNameOf.
If you'd like to donate to me, I 'd appreciate it.
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#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
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*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this script
* before using it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/
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I seem to be having some problems getting this to work. I first installed the USB drivers mentioned in this thread. The phone is then able to connect to Windows Vista without issue in debug mode. However when attempting to run the batch file in either zip KMS or the ShabbyPrevailRoot it appears to fail. I have tried both with the SD card completely out of the device and also with the SD card in but unmounted.
Output from the KMS zip batch file:
Code:
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>echo "PLEASE UNMOUNT O
R REMOVE SD CARD PRIOR TO USE"
"PLEASE UNMOUNT OR REMOVE SD CARD PRIOR TO USE"
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>echo "PRESS ENTER WHEN
DONE"
"PRESS ENTER WHEN DONE"
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb wait-for-device
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb push KillingMeSoft
ly /data/local/tmp
206 KB/s (6143 bytes in 0.029s)
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb shell chmod 777 /d
ata/local/tmp/KillingMeSoftly
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb shell cd /data/loc
al/tmp; ./KillingMeSoftly[*] CVE-2010-743C Android local root exploit (C) 2010 743C[*] The Android Exploid Crew Gentlemens club - dominating robots since 2008.
[*] Donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like
[*]Modified by interdpth for the prevail and possibly other phones
[+] Found prop area @ 0x40000000[*] : 1
[+] ro.secure resetted to 0[*] Restarting adb. Please reconnect for rootshell (adb kill-server; adb -d shel
l).
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb kill-server
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb shell mount -o rem
ount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl12 /system
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
mount: Operation not permitted
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb push su /system/bi
n/
failed to copy 'su' to '/system/bin//su': Read-only file system
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb shell chmod 4755 /
system/bin/su
Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: No such file or directory
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>adb shell
$
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>echo "You should have
root!"
"You should have root!"
E:\My Dropbox\Private\Samsung Galaxy Prevail Root\KMS\KMS>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
Output from the ShabbyPrevailRoot batch file:
Code:
PLEASE REMOVE SD CARD PRIOR TO USE
PRESS ENTER WHEN DONE
You need to enable usb degubbing first
Press any key to continue . . .
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
374 KB/s (6143 bytes in 0.016s)
reboot: Operation not permitted[*] CVE-2010-743C Android local root exploit (C) 2010 743C[*] The Android Exploid Crew Gentlemens club - dominating robots since 2008.
[*] Donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like
[*]Modified by interdpth for the prevail and possibly other phones
[+] Found prop area @ 0x40000000[*] : 0
[+] ro.secure resetted to 0[*] Restarting adb. Please reconnect for rootshell (adb kill-server; adb -d she
l).
Wait for phone to reconnect...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
mount: Operation not permitted
419 KB/s (4292 bytes in 0.010s)
Copying files onto phone...
failed to copy 'su' to '/system/xbin/su': No such file or directory
failed to copy 'Superuser.apk' to '/system/app/Superuser.apk': Read-only file s
stem
failed to copy 'busybox' to '/system/xbin/busybox': No such file or directory
failed to copy 'remount' to '/system/xbin/remount': No such file or directory
Setting permissions...
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/remount: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
link failed Read-only file system
Installing busybox...
/system/xbin/busybox: not found
Cleaning up files...
reboot: Operation not permitted
"You should have root!"
Press any key to continue . . .
Is there something I am overlooking outside of the steps detailed in this thread or readme file? I think when I did my dad's droid 2 I had to set it to PC mode somewhere but haven't seen that on this device.
C:\USERS\PUGS\DOWNLO~1\KMS\KMS>adb shell cd /data/local/tmp; ./KillingMeSoftly[*] CVE-2010-743C Android local root exploit (C) 2010 743C[*] The Android Exploid Crew Gentlemens club - dominating robots since 2008.
[*] Donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like
[*]Modified by interdpth for the prevail and possibly other phones
[+] Found prop area @ 0x40000000[*] : 0
[+] ro.secure resetted to 0[*] Restarting adb. Please reconnect for rootshell (adb kill-server; adb -d shell).
C:\USERS\PUGS\DOWNLO~1\KMS\KMS>adb kill-server
* server not running *
C:\USERS\PUGS\DOWNLO~1\KMS\KMS>adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl12 /system
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully * mount: Operation not permitted
C:\USERS\PUGS\DOWNLO~1\KMS\KMS>adb push su /system/bin/
failed to copy 'su' to '/system/bin//su': Read-only file system
killingmesoftly will not work 100% of the time, this was put out so that people could have root while interdpth tweaks it more to perfect it, hence the
Quote:
f it doesn't work for some reason. With your SD card out, reboot phone, run the BAT file. Try a few times and you should get root. This is version 0.5 so there will be a new version.
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I had to try it around 10 times before my phone got rooted. My phone was in airplane mode and selected the option to keep the phone awake. I selected batch file at different times right after the the phone booted up. It failed a number of times before i got it working. Just keep trying.
Is the source for KillingMeSoftly available? I understand that KMS is based of KillingInTheNameOf, but I would like to see what was changed to make this work.
I will be releasing the source, I want to make a few more modifications, and get this working for as many as possible before I release it.
KMS is just a few bug fixes, and a weird timing issue fix. And of course the one click roots. So gimme about a week at most to release it(probably this sunday) It's also still 80% KITNO
gu1dry :O what brings you to this neck of the woods???
An acquaintance of mine was asking about rooting the Prevail. Still currently rocking my (old) HeroC, not sure when & to what I'll upgrade this bad boy next though. What phone you using these days?
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I ran this on a brand new phone, it was just delivered this afternoon, talk about awesome timing thank you.
It worked first time no problem, the instructions are so easy a blind man can do it.
I left the SD card OUT I think that may help anyone that is having trouble.
When you run this do not be fooled by it saying error shabbypenguin is not a ... what ever the rest of it said, just keep hitting "anykey" when it tells you to.
im on the nexus s 4g, after the epic this phone is amazing. still trying to convince decad3nce to switch over :P
I was trying to get Deca to get the Shift when he picked up his new phone. CM on the NS4G could use Deca's support though.
My buddy (who also had a HeroC as long as me) just picked up the NS4G & is loving it. I'm tossed between the Shift, NS4G (wasn't considering it till mu buddy gone one) or the SGS2 when it comes to Sprint, but I will require CM support, which is unknown at this point with the SGS2 phones...
I was trying to get Deca to get the Shift when he picked up his new phone. CM on the NS4G could use Deca's support though.
My buddy (who also had a HeroC as long as me) just picked up the NS4G & is loving it. I'm tossed between the Shift, NS4G (wasn't considering it till mu buddy gone one) or the SGS2 when it comes to Sprint, but I will require CM support, which is unknown at this point with the SGS2 phones...
nah nemith has joeykrim, netarchy and spiicytuna all helping. afaik the only things need to be done are make a cm7 kernel for it (they currently use the aosp based one from google) 4g toggle, and sprintmenu.apk
the sprint within seems very promising but due to unseen events i was forced back to my heroc without an sdcard.. it was just torture :P hence why i didnt just wait it out for the nexus 3. the shift is a good phone but honestly at this point i wouldnt consider it much of an option, you know toast is going to get cm on the evo3d the ns4g has what honestly could be considered a stable. who knows tho with the new developments on cm7 on the epic i wouldnt be surprised if cm supported the sgs2 fully due to the rising samsung devs
carben i told you to stop spamming earlier.. if you cant figure out a 1 click or on how to click on the link in my sig that says prevail then you really prolly shouldnt be rooting...
Last edited by Shabbypenguin; June 2nd, 2011 at 05:18 PM.
ok im new too i have wanted to root this phone sence day one i dont know much but i am retarted you can say ok i got windows 7 and i have pda net installed on my phone ok that mean i have download somthing from samsung to my computer to make it work... ok what is my next step with windows 7 i have my phone on debugging now what do i down load please help i will donate fast
nah nemith has joeykrim, netarchy and spiicytuna all helping. afaik the only things need to be done are make a cm7 kernel for it (they currently use the aosp based one from google) 4g toggle, and sprintmenu.apk
the sprint within seems very promising but due to unseen events i was forced back to my heroc without an sdcard.. it was just torture :P hence why i didnt just wait it out for the nexus 3. the shift is a good phone but honestly at this point i wouldnt consider it much of an option, you know toast is going to get cm on the evo3d the ns4g has what honestly could be considered a stable. who knows tho with the new developments on cm7 on the epic i wouldnt be surprised if cm supported the sgs2 fully due to the rising samsung devs
As far as I know the only official maintainer for the NS4G was Koush, I can't been told otherwise from the powers above. Toastcfh will only be able to get CM on the E3D is the bootloader is unlocked, and really I wouldn't want the E3D, or as I call it, the super clown phone. Keeps comments about the Epic, the SGS2 & CM to self....
Thank you all for telling me, wow I can't wait to see what this phone can do been so long since I had to root a phone I rooted the hero when it came out
-Download and install the Samsung USB drivers for your computer.
-Put your phone in USB debugging mode - settings>applications>Development>USB debugging
-Unmount and remove SD card
-Download and unzip root files and run the .bat file
It will go through the process to root your phone. If it doesn't work, reboot the phone and try again.
**May take a number of times before it works**
Not sure your phone is rooted?
To check if your phone is rooted, download "Root Checker" from the android market Root Checker
Download superuser after your phone is rooted to Grant and manage Superuser rights for your phone. Superuser
Use Titanium Backup to backup and uninstall unwanted apps (be sure you don't uninstall the wrong apps) Titanium Backup
Google is your friend.
Last edited by chrisinsocalif; June 2nd, 2011 at 06:22 PM.
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Has anyone had 3g issues after root? I have gotten deadfully slow speeds. So I did a factory reset with no change. Any sugguestions.
That's not from rooting. The boost 3g network is spotty at best. Even before I rooted my phone it would run fine then go incredibly slow then fine again then slow.
That's not from rooting. The boost 3g network is spotty at best. Even before I rooted my phone it would run fine then go incredibly slow then fine again then slow.
Yes I'm aware it is not that great but it now takes more than 45seconds just to load the plain ol' google search page.
And this is from my home where it has been decent since the day I got the phone.
I deleted all of your subsequent posts (all asking about making a video on how to perform this root). Your posts are not helpful and are disrupting the thread. Please don't troll. Consider this an official warning.
I've deleted some of the responses to carben24's posts to keep the thread clean. PM me if this becomes a problem again.
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I am new to Android, sorry if this is obvious, is it possible to return a phone to its factory state (as shipped) after it is rooted? Even if some applications are deleted while it was rooted?
anyone figured out what is ok to uninstall yet?
first android and i'm afraid of uninstalling something needed right now..
also, thanks a lot to the op and whoever else was involved.
uninstalled the following and havent had a problem...yet...:
home screen tips 1.0
layar 4.0.5
scvngr 3.5.7.spr
telenav gps navigator 6.1.6201406
twidroyd 5.0.4
Last edited by junx; June 3rd, 2011 at 09:33 AM.
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That's not from rooting. The boost 3g network is spotty at best. Even before I rooted my phone it would run fine then go incredibly slow then fine again then slow.
I keep getting this when running the prevailtoexistence.Bat file:
PLEASE REMOVE SD CARD PRIOR TO USE
PRESS ENTER WHEN DONE
You need to enable usb degubbing first
Press any key to continue . . .
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
193 KB/s (6143 bytes in 0.031s)
reboot: Operation not permitted[*] CVE-2010-743C Android local root exploit (C) 2010 743C[*] The Android Exploid Crew Gentlemens club - dominating robots since 2008.[*] Donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like[*]Modified by interdpth for the prevail and possibly other phones
[+] Found prop area @ 0x40000000[*] : 0
[+] ro.secure resetted to 0[*] Restarting adb. Please reconnect for rootshell (adb kill-server; adb -d shel
l).
Wait for phone to reconnect...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
mount: Operation not permitted
161 KB/s (4292 bytes in 0.026s)
Copying files onto phone...
failed to copy 'su' to '/system/xbin/su': No such file or directory
failed to copy 'Superuser.apk' to '/system/app/Superuser.apk': Read-only file sy
stem
failed to copy 'busybox' to '/system/xbin/busybox': No such file or directory
failed to copy 'remount' to '/system/xbin/remount': No such file or directory
Setting permissions...
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/remount: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
Unable to chmod /system/xbin/su: No such file or directory
link failed Read-only file system
Installing busybox...
/system/xbin/busybox: not found
Cleaning up files...
reboot: Operation not permitted
"You should have root!"
Press any key to continue . . .
I do not Have root though and I have the sd card unmounted and removed...Thanks
and I have tried rebooting and closing non essential programs
Update: Nevermind..Teach me to not read all the way down to the bottom of the readme file
All I had to do was reboot and open the .bat file while the samsung logo was on the screen...Thanks
Last edited by DKeathley; June 3rd, 2011 at 09:36 AM.
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the ns4g has what honestly could be considered a stable. who knows tho with the new developments on cm7 on the epic i wouldnt be surprised if cm supported the sgs2 fully due to the rising samsung devs
