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Telus Galaxy S2 (T989D) Ultimate Root and Optimization Guide with Steps

@Blue1k: I was checking out other ROMs at XDA and I'm interested in Whitehawkx's Juggernaut ROM. Would that work on this Telus phone? I'm just migrating today from a T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G so I'm familiar with CWM and all, but curious about the minute differences between the Telus vs T-Mo SGSII. Thanks a lot for this guide for getting me up to speed.
 
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I'm trying to root my Galaxy S II, using this guide. I get into the ClockworkMod Recovery menu but it can't mount /sdcard, anything I can do? I can't mount it manually, back up, or format. Also, when I try and move applications over, It says my phone doesn't have an SD card, I'm using a t989d from Telus, and it has the internal usb storage, how can I transfer applications and such over to it?
 
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@Blue1k: I was checking out other ROMs at XDA and I'm interested in Whitehawkx's Juggernaut ROM. Would that work on this Telus phone? I'm just migrating today from a T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G so I'm familiar with CWM and all, but curious about the minute differences between the Telus vs T-Mo SGSII. Thanks a lot for this guide for getting me up to speed.

No physical difference between the devices. The only difference is when booting into download mode (see my front page).

The T-mobile version does have a newer modem available (don't use for Telus).

I've been using Juggernaut 3.7 for a few days now but I found that the GPS is not as quick or accurate as the Mr. X Telus rooted rom. I also found that after a few days, the device became buggy and laggy. Not too sure if it is the result of the faux clock or not.

I also found that the data speeds are always faster on the Telus based roms (not too sure why). The speeds on Juggs is very fast but I consistently get faster speeds on the Telus Mr. X rom (almost 20 megs down).
 
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You need an external SD card installed when rooting as per the guide. Your phone sees storage as follows:

SD Card: external card
Internal SD Card: phone storage

Alright, I got an external SD card, when I go to choose zip from internal SD card and select su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip it sayys

Mounting System...
Deleting SYSTEM:bin/su
Deleting SYSTEM:xbin/su
Extracting files to SYSTEM
Setting SYSTEM:bin/su permissions to 06755...
Creating SYSTEM:xbin/su symbolic link...
E:Error in /emmc/usbStorage/su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip
(status 0)
Installation Aborted
 
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Thanks for the awesome post. I updated to the Tmo 2.3.6 and now be able to root again to get rid of the Tethering Manager. I do have a comment,

1. Don't save the .zip file to usbStorage. Just save it in root or so. It's because it takes many click on the Vol down button to scroll to that folder (as in alphabetical order). Also, my screen first won't show that folder name since it's listed at the bottom.

2. At Step 12, there is an Installation Aborted message. I repeated the steps 3 times to get successful. I remembered the same thing I see from another rooting method too.
 
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Thanks for the awesome post. I updated to the Tmo 2.3.6 and now be able to root again to get rid of the Tethering Manager. I do have a comment,

1. Don't save the .zip file to usbStorage. Just save it in root or so. It's because it takes many click on the Vol down button to scroll to that folder (as in alphabetical order). Also, my screen first won't show that folder name since it's listed at the bottom.

2. At Step 12, there is an Installation Aborted message. I repeated the steps 3 times to get successful. I remembered the same thing I see from another rooting method too.

Thanks. I'll make changes to my guide.
 
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