Galaxy S root hack on Samsung Vibrant

[2FR35H]

Has anyone gave it a try yet?

Supposedly The original galaxy S root hack is supposed to work with all versions of which should include the Samsung Vibrant.

 

[spiz]

I haven't yet. Don't really have a need with as fast as this thing is.

 

[2FR35H]

I haven't yet. Don't really have a need with as fast as this thing is.

Yeah thats true well in any case there are already 2 developers over at XDA working on some roms one of them is working on porting cyanogenmod6 of which if I am not mistaken has 2.2 Android.

 

[DKYang]

Gonna wait for Froyo to come out first before I decide to root. All I really care about is the wireless tethering for now.

 

[Bschwartz40]

I've Done it and it works very well. To confirm I used Titanium Backup and it works. Also used ShootMe for the screen cap.

 

[HoOn]

I used it too myself when I got my Vibrant yesterday. It was easy to do! It took longer for me to make Windows 7 detect my Vibrant.

 

[coolguy949]

Are there any downsides or bugs that happen because of root like some other phones?

 

[chaoscentral]

Are there any downsides or bugs that happen because of root like some other phones?

none that ive noticed yet, better yet I removed some of the ******ed preloaded apps I will never use like avatar and Telenav

 

[Sho Nuff]

Did you have to do anything special to remove the preloaded apps? Was just an option in the superuser? After removing them, is it possible to remove the root after and keep the apps gone?

 

[noonehereyet]

yes it is possible to remove the root and keep the results of your rooting do this:

go to your terminal and run adb

Run these:
adb shell
su
rm -r /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm -r /system/xbin/busybox
rm -r /system/bin/su

or see this thread: http://androidforums.com/samsung-vibrant/126376-how-undo-root.html

 

[VegasTouch]

I've Done it and it works very well. To confirm I used Titanium Backup and it works. Also used ShootMe for the screen cap.

I miss that a lot. The iPhone did a screen shot witout having to hack it. I used it all the time and is useful in forums. Especially useful sending MMS too.

 

[Sho Nuff]

Sweet, thanks. Now, do you know if the "bloatware" apps can be deleted or removed with a simple "Click" on the phone, or searched and removed in a windows directory or have to be removed in the command promt DOS style window? I only ask because i suck at dealing with the command prompt, and will probably not even try it if its that way.
Thanks for the help.

 

[noonehereyet]

Sweet, thanks. Now, do you know if the "bloatware" apps can be deleted or removed with a simple "Click" on the phone, or searched and removed in a windows directory or have to be removed in the command promt DOS style window? I only ask because i suck at dealing with the command prompt, and will probably not even try it if its that way.
Thanks for the help.

your going to have to rm -r them in terminal

 

[Sho Nuff]

I was affraid of that. Is there a post thats "How to navigate Terminal for Dummies"? From what im seeing, rm - r means remove? Is there a listing of what to rm - r for all the apps that come with the phone?

 

[noonehereyet]

I was affraid of that. Is there a post thats "How to navigate Terminal for Dummies"? From what im seeing, rm - r means remove? Is there a listing of what to rm - r for all the apps that come with the phone?

here are the commands:

su
rm -r /system/app/appname.apk



FYI it is case sensitive so if the app has caps make sure us use them....

 

[chaoscentral]

here are the commands:

su
rm -r /system/app/appname.apk



FYI it is case sensitive so if the app has caps make sure us use them....

and an easy way to list the contents of the app directory type

cd /system/app
ls

then you are left with a list of available apks and you can do what you want with them

 

[Sho Nuff]

Thank you noonehereyet, that helped, i was able to remove several that way, just not all, so im not sure what i am doing wrong. Can't remove kindle, TeleNav, think free and many others. Any ideas? I did make sure i used Caps where they were.


Chaoscentral,

How or where do i type in "cd /system/app"? I tried it after i entered sdk\tools, after su, and even after abd shell, but it will not show the list. At what point do i enter it?

 

[chaoscentral]

Thank you noonehereyet, that helped, i was able to remove several that way, just not all, so im not sure what i am doing wrong. Can't remove kindle, TeleNav, think free and many others. Any ideas? I did make sure i used Caps where they were.


Chaoscentral,

How or where do i type in "cd /system/app"? I tried it after i entered sdk\tools, after su, and even after abd shell, but it will not show the list. At what point do i enter it?

connect your phone to your pc in debug mode

open up a command prompt window in your sdk/tools directory

then type

adb shell *enter*
su *enter*
cd /system/app *enter*
ls *enter*

then you should be presented with a wall of text each line being an apk

then use

rm /system/app/yourapkname.apk

 

[Sho Nuff]

Thank you, that was perfect. Do you know if i should be removing the .apk and the odex? Whats the difference. If i never ever plan on having the app back on the phone, should i just remove both? For example, on my Vibrant, it came with the Avatar app along with the movie on the external sim. I removed the .apk and the app is now gone, but i also see a .odex, should i get rid of that too?

Sorry for all the questions, but im a new Android user (iphone user for 2 years), so all of this is a little different than when i hacked my iphone.

 

[lexluthor]

Wouldn't it be a lot easier and safer for rooting newbies to freeze unwanted stock apps using titanium backup?

 

[chaoscentral]

Thank you, that was perfect. Do you know if i should be removing the .apk and the odex? Whats the difference. If i never ever plan on having the app back on the phone, should i just remove both? For example, on my Vibrant, it came with the Avatar app along with the movie on the external sim. I removed the .apk and the app is now gone, but i also see a .odex, should i get rid of that too?

Sorry for all the questions, but im a new Android user (iphone user for 2 years), so all of this is a little different than when i hacked my iphone.

the odex files basically contain all the classes for the apk, so if you plan on removing them permanently remove the apps, just delete them, othersiw you can use the move command like so if u plan on resotring them back later or change your mind.

mv /system/app/yourapkfile.apk /sdcard/backup/yourapkfile.apk

 

[Sho Nuff]

Man, you rock, i got rid of everything i did not want, all of yours and noonehereyet's help was great. I am finally done with moding this phone.

One last question, do you know what the name of the Think Free Office .apk is?