Root Captivate Root

chaoscentral · Jul 28, 2010

By internal im talking about the 16 gb of internal memory not on your micro sd. When you plug it in 2 drives should show up and the 16gb one is the one you want.

brunson · Jul 28, 2010

Once the Captivate is rooted, can you then remove the ATT bloatware that I keep hearing such bad things about in the reviews?

Thanks

chaoscentral · Jul 28, 2010

brunson said:
Once the Captivate is rooted, can you then remove the ATT bloatware that I keep hearing such bad things about in the reviews?

Thanks

yes

blackhemi · Jul 28, 2010

ewingr said:
I have done 4 hard resets now, and it keeps coming up with all the Sorry..error messages, about Google.android.media. I've read some things to try, such as format the external SD card. Did that, helped for a bit, but can't get anywhere.

I do NOT think the reset is taking, because it comes back to a screen that has that clock you can put stocks into. Still has a stock I put in there.

I am beginning to think that the update.zip file is corrupted. But I can't seem to find a way to get one back on there. May have to take it back to AT&T. Then I may be screwed because it is rooted, and no way to unroot.

Any ideas?

I just rooted successfully about 30 minutes ago. I got the same error the first attempt. Then I moved the update.zip to the correct area. in my case, when i "mount" my phone, I get 2 drive letters in windows, one is my external SD card and the other in the internal one. I just put it in the internal one, and it worked, took about 30 seconds.

now, im a noob here, so I have a rooted phone....now what?

mash4077 · Jul 28, 2010

sorry if this has been covered and I missed it but can we get ota updates with root?
if not is it possible to unroot and get ota updates Im concerned about froyo when it gets released officially not so much about the gps mine works pretty well

n7slc · Jul 29, 2010

Absolutely fantastic instructions! I also performed it directly from the phone!

n7slc · Jul 29, 2010

MrTony said:
I did the entire root process straight from my phone! I originally tried to download the update.zip file with the default browser. It said "this content type is not supported"! WTF? Who makes a browser that can't download zip files?

I used Skyfire to download the zip file, then renamed it and put it in the root with file manager. Performed the steps and worked like a champ! I'm running Titanium backup now to get a good backup before I get rid of these AT&Greed apps!

Thanks for the inspiration MrTony! I was successful in rooting all on the phone.

ilusv · Jul 30, 2010

Flashed....great thread...thank you

kamots · Aug 1, 2010

hey everyone ,
I am new to the captivate forum, but came from the droid eris one. unfortunateyl I bricked my eris when I tried to root it

so I have a couple questions before I try this... Ok, just one really. in reading this thread I am a little confused. do we still need the android sdk to root this beast? or is it as simple of putting the file on the internal sd card, going into recovery, and flashing update.zip from the card. just curious cause I dont want to brick another phone:. especially since I have only had it for 3 days lol

jgcalderonperez · Aug 1, 2010

It works! took me about 20 sec :-D thanks!

Chew · Aug 1, 2010

mash4077 said:
sorry if this has been covered and I missed it but can we get ota updates with root?
if not is it possible to unroot and get ota updates Im concerned about froyo when it gets released officially not so much about the gps mine works pretty well

Between this forum and XDA, I've seen this question asked at least a dozen times.

Nobody answers it.

chaoscentral · Aug 2, 2010

Chew said:
Between this forum and XDA, I've seen this question asked at least a dozen times.

Nobody answers it.

I will say this, based on past Android phones, you will get an OTA provided you're running a stock ROM otherwise no, just remember root is gone after update.

Root does not affect anything on your phone other than giving you administrator rights. that is it, it does nothing more.

askpcguy · Aug 3, 2010

Copied the UPDATE.ZIP to the Internal phone memory, not the micro SD card. Power cycle and accessed the recovery menu, selected restore package and done. I got Titanium Backup and BusyBox installed but Titanium Backup complains about the device not being rooted however BusyBox from the market does say the device is rooted. Hopefully a power cycle will resolve those minor problems.

Thanks for the great work!!

jesterkiller · Aug 4, 2010

original link not working for me. i keep getting a failure to connect to web server error when i try to download it

Chew · Aug 5, 2010

I haven't tried it myself, but there's apparently a one-click root/unroot program available:

[PROGRAM] One Click Root / UnRoot for AT&T Captivate - xda-developers

ilusv · Aug 5, 2010

Chew said:
I haven't tried it myself, but there's apparently a one-click root/unroot program available:

[PROGRAM] One Click Root / UnRoot for AT&T Captivate - xda-developers

works great...unrooted..thank you

askpcguy · Aug 6, 2010

I can't attach the update.zip to my post because it's too large. However the link works for me, I get to the page with the download link. It's 633 KB and is called "SGH-I897 Root Update.zip" Try searching for that file on google or something.

p1gnone · Aug 6, 2010

Noob questions:
used Opera Mini browser -went through the steps [thanks to Mr Tony]
XP pro sees the drive but had insisted in insert a disk..

then adb shell and su -- but seem not to be able to cp
trying to follow the Enabel Sideload steps, but cant cp. ??

couple of reboots and all is well..

Rotorhead · Aug 7, 2010

OK, I followed the Rooting directions.

1. Installed SDK. And USB drivers Installed.
2. "Updated" via this thread.
3. Superuser App is installed and I was asked to give permissions.
4. But................I don't think i'm really "Rooted".

A. I can't "see" the android system files from Win Explorer. Yes, USB mounted. But i also have to have USB Debugging turned on. I can only still see internal and external SD cards.

B. What really made me think I wasn't "Rooted" was when tried "DroidExplorer". It could see "\" and thats all. No files.

C. At some point in this exercise I saw an error message about the ADB, I did not copy it down. That made me think that the SDK might not be installed correctly.

What should i "See" when properly "Rooted"?

Thanks for the fine Thread and any help on this question.

BTW: Samsung AT&T Captivate. Win7 64bit.

Regards
Steve

chaoscentral · Aug 7, 2010

Rotorhead said:
OK, I followed the Rooting directions.

1. Installed SDK. And USB drivers Installed.
2. "Updated" via this thread.
3. Superuser App is installed and I was asked to give permissions.
4. But................I don't think i'm really "Rooted".

A. I can't "see" the android system files from Win Explorer. Yes, USB mounted. But i also have to have USB Debugging turned on. I can only still see internal and external SD cards.

B. What really made me think I wasn't "Rooted" was when tried "DroidExplorer". It could see "\" and thats all. No files.

C. At some point in this exercise I saw an error message about the ADB, I did not copy it down. That made me think that the SDK might not be installed correctly.

What should i "See" when properly "Rooted"?

Thanks for the fine Thread and any help on this question.

BTW: Samsung AT&T Captivate. Win7 64bit.

Regards
Steve

A. Not going to happen regardless, you will NOT see the root of your device in Windows Explorer ever.

B. I haven't used DroidExplorer so can't comment on that one, but Root Explorer allows me to see everything.

C.Not sure without an error message.

To see if you are really rooted, try out ShootMe on the market, if you can take a screen shot you are technically rooted.

Rotorhead · Aug 7, 2010

Hey Chaos,

Thank you. From that, I found that I am at least "technically" Rooted. I used Shootme to test it.

Regards
Steve

randy_c · Aug 11, 2010

how do you know it's rooted on your phone

askpcguy · Aug 12, 2010

randy_c said:
how do you know it's rooted on your phone

You'll see a new app called superuser permission.

muleskinner93 · Aug 14, 2010

hi, ive tried this several times now. i renamed the file, put it on the internal sd card, not in any folders. i disconnect the phone, turn it off, turn it on and try the reinstall packages and it tells me "e:can't open /sdcard/update.zip(no such file or directory)"

Karl_Tx · Aug 15, 2010

chaoscentral said:
***I HOLD NO RESPONSIBILITY OF WHAT YOU DO TO YOUR DEVICE, WHILE THERE IS LITTLE RISK OF BRICK, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE OTHERWISE***

YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANY SETTINGS OR DATA DOING THIS*

Download the following zip file and rename it to update.zip

Step 1. Connect your phone to your computer and copy the renamed update.zip to the root of your internal memory

Step 2. Turn the phone off after file transfer is complete

Step 3. Hold both Volume Up and Volume Down while powering on the device to enter the recovery menu(note: let go of the power button after seeing initial boot screen, otherwise it'll continue to power cycle)

Step 4. Select Reinstall Packages from the recovery menu using Volume Up and Down to navigate, and Power to select

Step 5. Phone will automatically reboot, and you will have root privileges, and the Superuser program installed.

Alternatively, if you can not get the timing of using the hardware keys to enter recovery mode, you can use the following command to enter it.

Connected to ADB you can type

Code:

adb reboot recovery

into the console to reboot the phone into recovery, alternatively you could also download a terminal emulator on the market and just type

Code:

reboot recovery

EDIT: Made the directions easier to follow

I used the update.zip in your original post......boom.....rooted. All I have to show for my effort is a different kernal and a superuser app. Is there a newer version of your update.zip? I was reading further down the posts and noticed mention of another one? Did I read that wrong? Thanks

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