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yesterday I Tried for 4 hours to Root my Samsung Precedent from Straight with one click I was using Windows 7 64 bit comp. to run one click and had no luck at all. Today I tried with my mother's laptop it has 32 bit vista. I restarted my phone and waited till the model number came on the screen and then ran one click as administrator 15 to 20 seconds I had rooted my phone
 
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Hi hope someone can help .. I have been trying to use the one click root for my sprint epic ..... every time I open the run bat file it says Rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin is missing .. PLEASE HELP BEEN AT THIS FOR 3 DAYS NOW ... THANKS... JIM


Are you using the root method from this thread?? Or from the epic 4g threads??
You should prolly check out the thread rooting in the epic section i just looked and it has the information you will need...
 
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Thanks I went there and downloaded the file .. still says Rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin is missing... posted over there hope they can help

I dont have your phone but here are things you can try safely.
  1. Turn anti virus off.
  2. Make sure you have USB debugging checked.
  3. Have you installed the Samsung Drivers?
  4. Try a different USB cable.
Good Luck...
 
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I figured out the problem. The KillingMeSoftly file in version 4.0 is corrupt.
I sat down, stocked my phone, then steped through the batch file manually and here is what I found:

$ ./KillingMeSoftly
./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
[*] ro.secure: 1
[+] ro.secure reset to 0
Whatever script can now execute!
$ mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl12 /system
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl12 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
$ su
su
su: permission denied
$ sudo

notice that after running KMS, the prompt remains a "$"

whereas, with an older version of OCR:
$ ./KillingMeSoftly
./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
[*] ro.secure: 0
[+] ro.secure resetted to 0
[*] Restarting adb. Please reconnect for rootshell (adb kill-server; adb -d shel
l).

C:\Documents and Settings\...\Desktop\Phone\KMS>adb kill-server

C:\Documents and Settings\...\Desktop\Phone\KMS>adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
#
KMS completed and restarted ADB on the phone's side. When reconnecting, we get the fabulous "#" root prompt. Everything works from there on out when done manually. The PrevailToxistence.bat still fails though, but that's an easy fix as well. I added "adb.exe wait-for-device" right after the reboot line that is between setting the permissions for KillingMeSoftly and executing the command. When executing the commands manually, I didn't need to reboot there, so it may be ok to omit it, but without the wait, ADB throws a device not found error for me.

I hope this helps
 
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Windows 7, 64bit


Ok, here is what I did.
* I downloaded and installed the prevail drivers
* I downloaded one click root (KMS) and shabbymod.
* I unziped KMS to its own directory.
* I renamed KillingMeSoftly
* I opened the shabbymod zip and placed the KillingMeSoftly in KMS with the one from ShabbyMod
* I edited the PrevailToExistance.bat file
* I added the line "adb.exe wait-for-device" after
adb.exe shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/KillingMeSoftly
adb.exe reboot
* I replaced the line "adb.exe -d shell mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl12 /system" with
adb.exe shell mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl12 /system

apparently the -d might cause problems, atleast on Win7 64bit because it apparently wants
there to be no other USB devices plugged in.Did not test without it though so can't be sure,
all I know is this worked

* I used the menu system to to activate the USB debug mode
* I used the menu system on the phone to eject my MicroSDCard and then physicly removed it.
* I switched to airplane mode
* I shut down every program I could on my PC except the screens I was using to do this, and
disabled my firewall, antivirus, etc etc, including taskbar items
* I shut the phone down and started it up again.

In my case, I was working though the script by copy/pasting the lines into a Dos Window that
was in the KMS directory instead of running the script, but the script has every line I
used, just the way I used it

* In your case, run the script.

One problem seems that KillingMeSoftly that comes with one click root (KMS) has extra
whitespace in it vs the shabbymod version. While KillingMeSoftly shows it succeded,
the line remounting things,
"adb.exe -d shell mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl12 /system" would come back
saying I couldn't use the mount command. This went away with just replaceing
killingmesoftly.

Oh, I should also say I got the info from a variety of sources. The instructions in the first post of the thread and two posts Koumajutsu provided, the one above and another one.
 
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I couldn't make root work until I followed the file modification instructions in TNightshade's post above. I've attached a new KMS folder zipped up with the files already modified to work on the newer Prevail.

When I tried before (like 20 times), nothing would make it root the phone. The attached version worked the first time for me.

I just bought my Prevail about 2-3 weeks ago, perhaps why root was being stubborn.

Thanks to all for sharing.

[edit] Forgot to mention I'm using Windows 7 (x64).
 

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I couldn't make root work until I followed the file modification instructions in TNightshade's post above. I've attached a new KMS folder zipped up with the files already modified to work on the newer Prevail.

When I tried before (like 20 times), nothing would make it root the phone. The attached version worked the first time for me.

I just bought my Prevail about 2-3 weeks ago, perhaps why root was being stubborn.

Thanks to all for sharing.

Wow, I been trying to get this to work since like 6am. Note to self, check last page of replies first :)

With the files I downloaded from the OP I was getting

Code:
Press any key to continue . . .
                HERE WE GO

117 KB/s (5899 bytes in 0.049s)
error: device not found
Wait for phone to reconnect...
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
mount: Operation not permitted
59 KB/s (4292 bytes in 0.071s)
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...
"You should have root!"

Press any key to continue . . .


This edited system worked on the first shot. Thank you.

EDIT: Almost forgot to mention that I was using the Galaxy Precedent on Straight Talk
 
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