Originally Posted by elephant007 (Post 1657716)

First I'd like for you to check your phone to ensure you've rooted it, go to MENU>SETTINGS>ABOUT PHONE scroll down and look for BUILD NUMBER make sure it's the kernel you installed

Secondly, what is the kernel you used? If you didn't use Zefie's I believe you'll have to install Recovery2.0 in order to back your data

I'll need to add that to the HOW TO

I'm going to attach the Recovery2.0 to the how to

The way you install this is simply remove the customer kernel from the BINARY folder and copy the Recovery2.0 to the BINARY folder

Originally Posted by COWHEAD (Post 1657942)

Thanks! I'm using speedrabbit 1.7 and I though it was included.. added Recovery2.0 thank you

Originally Posted by elephant007 (Post 1657989)

I threw you some credit on the first post :)

Glad we could finally get you going, let us know how much rooting your phone has enhanced your experience with your Moment!

Now to start using customized themes!

Originally Posted by easyrider77 (Post 1661401)

Hello all, new to forums.
First I wanna thankyou for the tutorial, it's easier to understand than the others I've seen.
I have a Samsung Moment w/cl14 from sprint store. I am trying to root via the tutorial.
This is what I have done:

1: downloaded and installed samsung updater
2: downloaded zefie 14 kernal (that's the one I am going to use for now)
3: backed up the sm900 kernal to sm900name.tar.bak and moved it out of the binary folder
4: renamed the zefie kernal to the sm900name.tar
5: copied it to the binary folder so it was the only file there
6: ran the sprint updater file wich went as follows screen for screen
A: the warning screens ie: this will erase data
B: take out the battery and put back in
C: hold vol down+camera+end until the download screen come on
D: plug the usb cable in
At this point it goes a split second and says drivers have been installed and just reloops itself.
I did this about 10 times, uninstalling drivers, installing drivers and the same with the samsung updater, and only got install software screen one time. At that screen I hit start software install and it sat at [debug] connecting or somthing like that in the lower left corner and just sat. No progress bar or anything. I let it set for about 10 mins and still no progress was showing.
So all that said, am I doing somthing wrong or missing a step or somthing? Will that method on that link not work?
I have uninstalled and installed the drivers and software multiple times, along with rebooting.

Sadly I don't have a pc so this is a sort of hard process for me, as I am useing a friends pc, and don't always have acess to it. I have acess to a pc at a colledge I attended but they have a proxy/nat wich blocks the d/l of the kernel file.
The steps seem easy enough to understand and do, but maybe I am just overlooking somthing. Could also be some firewall issue on friends pc, not sure......just need to make sure I am doing the steps correctly before proceeding.

Update: I got to the software screen again, and it's stuck at [DEBUG] SetupConnection in the lower left corner. It doesn't go past that at all. It is set as Com3, says Com3 Connected in the right lower corner.
When it gets to the window, after a few mins it says Ready..., and just sits there
Any ideas?

As much headaches as this is seeming to be I am seriously thinking about just dropping srpint, and going with the tmobile hd phone. I know it's windows mobile, but this samsung has been a thorn in my side since day one. Gps didn'T work, fought with sprint for 3-4 months and they finally sent me a new one and the gps now work correc
tly. Two weeks into this new one the inside ear peice goes bad, they repair it and it works now.
I am trying to root now, with no luck, seems that everytime I turn around this phone has a vendetta or somthing against me :(.

Well for whatever reason. I finally got it rooted. It says Zefie 1.4. WOOTAGE.

I'de still like to know what the hangup was, so if anyone has ideas, let me know.

Originally Posted by COWHEAD (Post 1661715)

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I had a similar problem. When I got to step D where the driver was installed, I hit the Back button in the update utility to the part were it asks you to pull out the battery and followed all the steps again and it worked. So if anyone else has this problem just redo the steps after it installs the driver and it should work.

Originally Posted by elephant007 (Post 1661997)

I have the backup process as part of Recovery v2.0, that's why it's after the root process... can't backup using recovery if it's not installed on the phone

I hope I understood your suggestion correctly

Originally Posted by easyrider77 (Post 1662085)

Lol, yeah makes perfect sense. Sorry bout that I never even thought about that. Must still be root mezmorized or somthing :-).
Thanks again for all the tutorials and help. I am officially a rooting maniac lol
I did have a couple of questions

1: if I saved an image via vol down+phone+power and it was on sprints cl14 rom, does it save as that? And if I restore it for whatever reason does it take root off and put it back to cl14 sprint? And vice versa, save as rooted to an image, does it save as root.
I am thinking yes, so that would mean I could setup my home screens and install apps, and if anything happened I just restore that image and I'm back where I started before it messed up.
Am I correct in this?
2: I've heard about apps2sd but never used it. Is it a must for this phone? I have 139mb left on internal mem