How to root your Epic Touch 4G on EL29.
*This method saves user-data and does NOT format it.*
1. Go ahead and extract the Epic Touch 4G Toolkit anywhere you like.
2. Install the Samsung Epic Touch 4G Driver from the kit if you haven't already done this before.
3. Put your device into Download Mode leaving it unplugged from PC. With the phone off, press and hold volume down and power to power the device on holding until it powers on. You will get a warning about custom OS issues, just press volume up to bypass this. Your device screen should look like this image below.
4. Run EpicTouch4G_Toolkit.exe and then click "Root My Epic Touch 4G" under the root tab. This will launch the Odin OneClick root method.
After Odin starts, plug your phone into your PC, letting the drivers install completely. If all is well Odin should should have a yellow box with 0:[COM#] and the screen will look like below.
Note: the COM# does not matter as long as its yellow and has one.
5. Click Start, let it do it's work(this could take several minutes to do, so
don't get scared, let it work) and you should get a PASS! message in Odin letting you things went alright. If so your phone should reboot and it will be back rooted and ready for wireless tether! If you want to try custom roms, kernels and etc...then proceed to the tutorial below to get CWM Recovery.
