Superuser+su+busybox for i9000 v.2 [01.07.2010]

[LeshaK]

WARNING: THIS METHOD CAN BE DANGEROUSE. DO NOTHING IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DO.
I CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU TRANSFORM YOUR I9000 LIKE A BRICK

Tested on JF2 and JFB


First method:
If you have adb and you know how to use it!

1. Download: update.zip
2. Put update.zip to SD card
3.1 Enter

adb reboot recovery

3.2 Or!!!! turn off the phone and press volume_up+home+power_on for enter to recovery
4. In Recovery menu select 'apply sdcard:update.zip' (use vol_down + home)
Phone will reboot
and you have
1. su+Superuser
2. busybox (/system/xbin/busybox)




Second method:
If you have Odin3 and you know how to use it!
Your data and programs will be deleted!!!!

1. Download: Superuser_v1_CSC.7z
2. Unpack
3. Flash this file as CSC file with Odin3



How to install busybox utils
in terminal enter

su
busybox --install -s /system/xbin

Superuser on Samsung Galaxy S i9000

[Briggs]

Thanks! Works great. Now I'm a super user Many thanks!

P.S on latest firmware i9000XXJF5

Edit: No second thoughts it didn't work with XXJF5, super user premissions app shows but no su access, I will try JF2

---------- Post added at 02:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 PM ----------

Got it working now, thanks I'm a super user

[whpgab]

What should I set on the phone when I connect to the PC? After Odin flash and restart I could use the ADB shell and others, but know when I type adb reboot recovery it doesn't find my phone. Anyway if it is rooted, where should I copy busybox one the phone and how?

[socket]

Thanks! Works great. Now I'm a super user Many thanks!

P.S on latest firmware i9000XXJF5

Edit: No second thoughts it didn't work with XXJF5, super user premissions app shows but no su access, I will try JF2

---------- Post added at 02:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 PM ----------

Got it working now, thanks I'm a super user

This is strange... Me too, same problem... I've XXJF5... What can i do??

[LeshaK]

Try enter in terminal (on i9000) su
If you will be prompted Superuser.apk, all normal
for busybox you can use
'busybox cp'
or install all busybox utils

su
busybox --install -s /system/xbin

---------- Post added at 14:30 ---------- Previous post was at 14:28 ----------

This is strange... Me too, same problem... I've XXJF5... What can i do??

In which program you can not get a root access?

[socket]

In which program you can not get a root access?

Nevermind... Ear this:
if i use your old guide, and use the i9000_Kernel_Original.tar (created with 7zip) with zImage from XXJF5, can i complete the root's process?

[LeshaK]

Excuse me, did not understand the question

[arminc]

LeshaK, I am familiar with the update-script and can also figure out the updater-script but can you explain what the update-binary is and where to get it or how to create it?

[LeshaK]

update-binary works with the updater-script
I do not know description of the format, just took updater-script from other firmware and deal with them

[arminc]

update-binary works with the updater-script
I do not know description of the format, just took updater-script from other firmware and deal with them

Thanks.
(I am new to Odin stuff)
The first and the second method contain the same files and file structure as expected. But what I did not expect was that the Odin method is using CSC, I would have expected it to be PDA as this is where "Android" sits when you look in the original Firmware.

So if I am right now, I could construct an factoryrfs.rfs containing the full Android and could flash that using Odin (skip: cache dbdata param).
But if I want to do an update I don't use the factoryrfs.rfs but use cache.rfs instead?

EDIT: Let me add something to my story haha
I see that the factoryrfs does not contain any update-script and that the actual update-script is in cache.rfs . Funny thing.