Root can't root my phone

[SweetGreen]

As much as I try I can't seem to get my behold 2 to respond to adb to root it. I have Linux mint and Win7 to use for this. Any ideas?

 

[bearsfan85]

are you using 32 or 64 bit versions

 

[SweetGreen]

For windows I have 64 bit linux 32 bit

 

[bearsfan85]

64 bit windows will not work with the bh2 drivers, I havent used mint in awhile but do you have home premium, or professional/ultimate for win?


http://getyourdroidon.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Samsung_Behold_II#Linux that might have some info you can use

http://androidforums.com/samsung-behold-2/23006-behold-ii-adb-linux.html and this is from these forums

if those dont point you in the right direction let me know

 

[SweetGreen]

I have only home premium for 7 my and laptop. I will try the linux route again.

 

[lych]

You can use Windows 64bit with adb. You just have to temporarily disable driver signing enforcement first as 64bit version of Windows won't load unsigned drivers. Use USBDeview to remove all traces of your behold II USB drivers first. Then reboot your computer and start tapping F8. Once the boot menu appears, select the option called "Disable Driver Signing Enforcement...". Then proceed as normal (install drivers, adb blah blah blah). Doing this will only disable driver signing enforcement for the current Windows session.

 

[bearsfan85]

You can use Windows 64bit with adb. You just have to temporarily disable driver signing enforcement first as 64bit version of Windows won't load unsigned drivers. Use USBDeview to remove all traces of your behold II USB drivers first. Then reboot your computer and start tapping F8. Once the boot menu appears, select the option called "Disable Driver Signing Enforcement...". Then proceed as normal (install drivers, adb blah blah blah). Doing this will only disable driver signing enforcement for the current Windows session.

I tried that route with my laptop and some bios dont have that option

 

[lych]

The bios has nothing to do with it. All you do is keep tapping f8 immediately after turning the computer on. You need to actually restart the laptop, not hibernate, sleep, or hybrid sleep. If that still doesn't work, use bcdedit to make the changes. See here for instructions.

 

[bearsfan85]

ill have to give that a try then, I already tried turning off signing but got nothing, was going trough group policy, I just called it quits with that and installed a virtual console

 

[SweetGreen]

The adb command is not found and im in the folder I get this when I try to enter the command

linuxmint tools # adb push try3 /data/local
No command 'adb' found, did you mean:
Command 'cdb' from package 'tinycdb' (main)
Command 'gdb' from package 'gdb' (main)
Command 'aub' from package 'aub' (universe)
Command 'dab' from package 'bsdgames' (universe)
Command 'zdb' from package 'zfs-fuse' (universe)
Command 'mdb' from package 'mono-debugger' (universe)
Command 'tdb' from package 'tads2-dev' (multiverse)
Command 'pdb' from package 'python' (main)
Command 'jdb' from package 'openjdk-6-jdk' (main)
Command 'ab' from package 'apache2-utils' (main)
adb: command not found
linuxmint tools #

I already text file the wiki said you should and it still does this.

 

[Nu11u5]

First off, you need the Android SDK to have adb.

Second - try3 used a hack that was fixed on the BH2 months ago. To root now you need a modified recovery or kernel image and the Windows only software "Odin" to flash it.

Start here: http://androidforums.com/all-things...n-images-available-latest-t-mobile-stock.html

 

[SweetGreen]

I had android sdk you could have said try using odin the way you put it made you sound a bit snobbish

 

[Nu11u5]

I had android sdk you could have said try using odin the way you put it made you sound a bit snobbish

Sorry I didn't mean to sound so.


With adb make sure that either the tools directory is in your PATH environment variable or call the program with it's path explicitly, i.e.

/home/nu11u5/android-sdk_r06-linux_86/tools/adb

IIRC you have to modify a system file so that it will properly detect the BH2 as an android device since it uses a different ID (go Samsung )

 

[SweetGreen]

Even set to executeable it still can't find it in the folder using terminal.