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Root digging android..

you're holding down the wrong 3 buttons i think. try power button + vol. up + home.

If your running froyo 2.2 you will need to manually place the update.zip file on the root of your sd card or use Odin. When update.zip is on your root you need to power phone off and power back up in to the recovery mode which is Vol up - home key - power button then let go of all 3 when the writing appears. Once in recovery mode use the volume rocker and select update.zip and then click the home key to apply the update. When your phone reboots it should be rooted. You will know if its rooted as you will have an app icon called super user

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