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HOWTO: Root Your Samsung Intercept Froyo Android Phone

17 May, 2011 00:47 CST6CDT

Thanks to latinmaxima with help from Kuroyoma on SDX, the following directions will allow you to root your Samsung Intercept Android 2.2 (Froyo) Sprint phone.

The software needed for root access on the Intercept:

  1. Google USB Driver [Available Here]
  2. ADB (Android Debug Bridge) [Included in the Below One Click Root For FROYO Intercept Kit] [ADB Information]

The root kit is available here: InterceptFroyoRoot v0.2.rar [source 1] [source 2]

  1. Enable USB Debugging
    1. power off and power on your Samsung Intercept
    2. Press Home Key
    3. Press Menu Key
    4. Select Settings
    5. Select Applications
    6. Select Development
    7. Check USB debugging on
    8. Check Stay awake on
  2. Connect your Samsung Intercept to a USB port
    1. You shall see USB connected and USB debugging connected in Notification bar

source [EducateAndInnovate]

Unrar the Samsung Intercept One Click Root rar file and double click on START_ROOT.bat  According to [android forums], you may have to attempt this several times.  The script will tell you to wait 3 to 5 minutes for the phone to be rooted, however I would suggest waiting up to 10 minutes per try.  If the root process has not completed after 10 minutes, close the console and re-start START_ROOT.bat for another round.  If you get a message that the device is busy, disconnect the USB cable and disable then re-enable USB debugging following the steps above and proceed with the script once again.

This script also includes a one click (un)root in which you can execute by double clicking on START_UNROOT.bat

Now that you have root on your Android, the following is an example on howto: install applications into /system/app

  1. "adb.exe start-server"
  2. "adb.exe push C:\AppFileName.apk /sdcard/AppFileName.apk"
  3. "adb.exe shell"
  4. "$su"
  5. "#mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/st15 /system"
  6. "#cat /sdcard/AppFileName.apk > /system/app/AppFileName.apk"
  7. Reboot the Phone!

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