Root Whos rooted?

the co0kie · Feb 19, 2012

picked up my galaxy note this morning (in white) and i rooted

cant wait for some custom roms

amyone else?

dbenf24 · Feb 20, 2012

I am waiting on att to fix my data. I bought mine at best buy yesterday and haven't had data all day. They kept telling me that the systems are down. I will root as soon as I can confirm data working. I have been using my wifi.

How did you root yours?

the co0kie · Feb 20, 2012

dbenf24 said:
I am waiting on att to fix my data. I bought mine at best buy yesterday and haven't had data all day. They kept telling me that the systems are down. I will root as soon as I can confirm data working. I have been using my wifi.

How did you root yours?

followed this lovely guide

[ROOT] [AT&T, TELUS, Bell, Rogers] Pre-Rooted Kernel (flash via Odin) - xda-developers

it was very easy

Wildbill21 · Feb 20, 2012

I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but I'm an iPhone user and going to pick up the note when I'm able to upgrade in 9 days. I'm assuming rooting would be the equivalent to jailbreaking? If my device is rooted, will that let me get free apps? And again i apologize if this has been discussed previously

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Slug · Feb 20, 2012

Wildbill21 said:
If my device is rooted, will that let me get free apps?

Rooting makes no difference to what can be installed. Free or paid, all apps are available equally to rooted and non-rooted handsets.

Hope this answers your question.

rtg · Feb 21, 2012

In the absence of different ROMs rooting will allow you to do some backing up of apps and the existing environment the phone has. I am betting that ICS will be available OTA before any solid ROMs from developers are available.

Even for the SR the ROMs are just now getting pretty solid and only one that I used that was very close to ICS and worked really really well. I actually miss it but the Note will catch up it time......

Just be patient....

Rob

Starwind · Feb 23, 2012

I'm glad the god Odin looks over us...

BlackZenith · Feb 24, 2012

Rooted on day 1 lol.

notebundy88 · Mar 3, 2012

Just rooted. About to kill the AT&T crap

bsc7080asc · Mar 4, 2012

In the club now. If others didn't notice, Note has CIFS/SMB support built into the factory ROM. Just need root to leverage the utilities that permit you to mount network drives to your device over the wireless network.

dragon2777 · Mar 11, 2012

The main reason i rooted was to get rid of all the at&t and Samsung bullshit apps

dragon2777 · Mar 11, 2012

Also i used the same how to posted above for the root but found it on another site with images abduction a step by step walk thru. It was very easy

JUSTQUAN2 · Mar 12, 2012

<===== this guy!

Droid_Genius · Mar 12, 2012

Yep Rooted to get rid of crap and installed cpu app and I'm clocked at 810MHz still seems smooth and battery is much better

JUSTQUAN2 · Mar 12, 2012

How did you get rid of all that crap ware?

nisssmo · Mar 13, 2012

Titanium backup

dragon2777 · Mar 13, 2012

nisssmo said:
Titanium backup

Same here

JUSTQUAN2 · Mar 14, 2012

i just installed Saurom rom. things are ok with the att fix. i cant connect to wifi now. im combing the forums but no real answer. any help?

ryandelman · Mar 14, 2012

rtg said:
In the absence of different ROMs rooting will allow you to do some backing up of apps and the existing environment the phone has. I am betting that ICS will be available OTA before any solid ROMs from developers are available.

Even for the SR the ROMs are just now getting pretty solid and only one that I used that was very close to ICS and worked really really well. I actually miss it but the Note will catch up it time......

Just be patient....

Rob

Hope you're betting with someone else's money.

I would suggest that you not hold your breath on an OTA.

-Ryan

vice86 · Mar 15, 2012

i would like to root to get rid of the bloatware...but I'm afraid of screwing something up.

ryandelman · Mar 16, 2012

Rooted.

Easy, painless and totally reversible (in a back-to-stock sense).

The only that's not reversible as yet is resetting flash counter, but if you flash a root kernel via Odin, you shouldn't trip the flash counter anyway.

-Ryan

RaLeX · Mar 27, 2012

ryandelman said:
Rooted.

Easy, painless and totally reversible (in a back-to-stock sense).

The only that's not reversible as yet is resetting flash counter, but if you flash a root kernel via Odin, you shouldn't trip the flash counter anyway.

-Ryan

I'm coming from an iphone for the last 4 years... trying to read up as much as possible about rooting/roms/kernels/etc., not too mention learning a whole new ecosystem. Not sure what all this talk about Odin and flashing a root kernel is.

Do you perform this during the root, after, before? and how does one "flash" a kernel, does Odin (which I assume is an app?) offer this option pretty clearly?

Also, after reading the above link ([ROOT] [AT&T, TELUS, Bell, Rogers] Pre-Rooted Kernel (flash via Odin) - xda-developers) I said WHAAAA...?

ryandelman · Mar 27, 2012

RaLeX said:
I'm coming from an iphone for the last 4 years... trying to read up as much as possible about rooting/roms/kernels/etc., not too mention learning a whole new ecosystem. Not sure what all this talk about Odin and flashing a root kernel is.

Do you perform this during the root, after, before? and how does one "flash" a kernel, does Odin (which I assume is an app?) offer this option pretty clearly?

Also, after reading the above link ([ROOT] [AT&T, TELUS, Bell, Rogers] Pre-Rooted Kernel (flash via Odin) - xda-developers) I said WHAAAA...?

Yes, Odin is a utility that you use to flash files on to your phone which essentially give you administrator access to partitions, system files, etc that you don't have normally. This process is called "rooting" or "gaining root access".

Do not be afraid of the process; it's not tough and is fixable if done incorrectly.

Here are three good resources to help you understand how to properly root your Note:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1409269
Rooting - is it for me? Some Q&A | Android Central

What is Rooting? - YouTube

I would suggest Googling "Odin3 v1.85" or "Odin for Android" and you'll almost certainly find it.

This process in general is much less painstaking than jailbreaking an Iphone and also less fraught with peril.

Hope this helps.

P.S. A kernel is what tells your OS how to function with the apps you see and use every day. In short, there are numerous ways to root a phone (basic root zip file, a one-click pre-packaged super root-type utility, etc.), but a root kernel is a good way to go because it helps direct the OS to potentially do other things along the lines of increased efficiency and/or performance to go along with just giving you root directory access. DaG over at XDA has a couple of really solid root kernels to get you going.

-Ryan

Blue1k · Mar 29, 2012

I just got the Telus version today. I'll write my usual user friendly all in one guides soon but I wanted to know if the above root method provides the following:

CWM (not stock recovery)
NFC in an enabled state.

ryandelman · Mar 30, 2012

Blue1k said:
I just got the Telus version today. I'll write my usual user friendly all in one guides soon but I wanted to know if the above root method provides the following:

CWM (not stock recovery)
NFC in an enabled state.

Strictly speaking, no and no.

There's no one single file, ROM or kernel that will act as an all-in-one flash to give you root, CWM and NFC enabled; at least, not that I've seen yet for the Note, although these have existed and do exist for other devices. I did them all separately but yes, used Odin to accomplish the first two and then zip file to SD card and installed from CWM to get NFC enabled.

I flashed a CWM .tar after being rooted, but could have done so prior to root. So I initially flashed a root kernel (the one of DaG's from XDA that's not OC'd or UV'd; just vanilla). I think this answers the CWM question but if I'm creating more confusion than answering questions, please let me know! lol

NFC is not enabled in the root kernel I flashed or the custom ROM I am currently running (Solaris Prime). However, there's a zip file installable through CWM that simply "opens" the NFC option in the settings menu on the device. I do believe you need to be rooted for this to work.

Hope this helps in some way.

-Ryan

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