Root How to root Samsung Stellar

[sovereign73811]

I don't believe it....it's gone from my PC! I'm really sorry about that.

OK, calling those who have the phone still working: we need a Verizon tool launcher program that's inside the phone. I don't remember exactly what the USB mode was but if you went to USB settings, there's a setting that when connected to USB, a CD image inside your phone will be read and you can install some Verizon updaters on your PC. We can use the installers on that CD image!

 

[AGZealot]

Are you by chance referring to the "ToolLauncher-Bootstrap.exe" or "Bootstrap-Helper.exe" programs?

 

[sovereign73811]

@AGZealot, that's it! I'd be most grateful if you can get the CD image's contents uploaded.

 

[AGZealot]

Yup, just name a site so I can do a quick upload.

 

[sovereign73811]

Any site will work. I'm most familiar with MediaFire though.

 

[AGZealot]

Try the link that I found. If it doesn't work I will try to upload my copy. Mostly interested in seeing this phone being rooted so that I can actually have more than 1.85 Gb of space..

 

[sovereign73811]

Be careful when erasing the stock apps. If you've read some of our previous posts you know that deleting some of them will cause instability of the phone. Also...you're running Windows as your OS right?

 

[AGZealot]

Yep. Running windows, and I'm not trying to clear off space, what I'm trying to do is get my phone to use a micro SD card to save various apps to.. was hoping to be able to download NOVA 3 at some point, but I can't if I only have 1.85 Gb of on-board memory.

 

[sovereign73811]

Good. This will make it easier.

The first post has the link you need for the tools to root the phone.

The 10th post (my post) has some extra advice. Please stop when it says to stop or you will for sure BRICK your phone...stop at step 7.

 

[moondeath]

Good. This will make it easier.

The first post has the link you need for the tools to root the phone.

The 10th post (my post) has some extra advice. Please stop when it says to stop or you will for sure BRICK your phone...stop at step 7.

I got your PM but I don't see the link anywhere.. my work place got totally rushed yesterday so we didn't close till later than usual

Edit: So like I messaged you I have installed that software the "Repair Device" option in the software won't seem to work no matter how I boot the device nor download mode or recovery; however I have access to the phone through ADB I can get into the shell and push/pull files I'm going to post the build.prop and maybe you guys can figure out what's wrong I changed the lcd density back to 240 which is what it was set to originally by samsung but it still goes to a black screen, I'm almost wondering if more then just the build.prop got ruined or not.... eitherway take a look and tell me if you can figure it out.

Had to upload it as a zip because the forum gave me the error "build.prop: Invalid File"

 

[AGZealot]

I got your PM but I don't see the link anywhere.. my work place got totally rushed yesterday so we didn't close till later than usual.

sent you a PM with a link to the software.

 

[sovereign73811]

Let me know if that works any. Verizon's documentation is horrid.

 

[moondeath]

Check the edit of my post above.

 

[sovereign73811]

Can you use ADB to get Romdump to dump your recovery? If I can get into my phone I may be able to give you my build.prop.

 

[moondeath]

Can you use ADB to get Romdump to dump your recovery? If I can get into my phone I may be able to give you my build.prop.

I mean sure I could but I don't know how useful a rom of a semi-bricked phone is going to prove useful.

Edit: Oh you want the recovery not the actual firmware, I don't really know how to use romdump, do you have some sort of messenger like skype to help this go by faster I have to work in an hour.

 

[sovereign73811]

Your system may be, but not your recovery.

 

[sovereign73811]

Give me a minute...do you have a gmail?

 

[moondeath]

Give me a minute...do you have a gmail?

Yup, tward1189@gmail.com. I'm trying to get the romdump "install" file onto my phone from the thread over at XDA that you posted the link to but i'm getting permission denied shits I guess I need to remount my data folder.

 

[sovereign73811]

You may need to re-root the phone to work it.

Oh and I have Skype ready. SovereignNX73811.

 

[moondeath]

You may need to re-root the phone to work it.

Oh and I have Skype ready. SovereignNX73811.

It's still rooted I'm having other weird problems.

 

[sovereign73811]

Ready on Skype?

 

[moondeath]

Yeah I sent you a request from my username "DarkFireXZ3"

 

[sovereign73811]

I'm not sure if that Nandroid backup worked earlier, right? Here, let's look at these:

http://androidforums.com/internatio...tock-rom-without-installing-clockworkmod.html

How do you extract an App's data from a full backup made through "adb backup"? - Android Enthusiasts

Nexus Root Toolkit v1.5.3 | WugFresh

I'm not sure how .ab files can be turned to create odin flashable files but let's try it.

One more thing:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hellcat.droiddev.ktool

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488

 

[AGZealot]

So Moondeath and I were able to get his phone back.. now I just need to see if Link2SD will work.

 

[sovereign73811]

OK people: here's a tip I've received from an XDA developer expert:

a quick and dirty explanation (need root)


Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/output.img
this will save the partition mmcblk0p1 to output.img

now, to determine what partitions are
on my device its:

Code:
ls -l /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/
but you're scheme and directory structure there might be a little different, so adjust accordingly

Longer Version:

http://www.darkyrom.com/index.php?t...o-guide-to-dump-entire-s3-data-with-adb.8059/