How To: Root the Samsung Vibrant / Captivate
August 2, 2010 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, Samsung Captivate How To's, Samsung Vibrant How To's, Video
I. Before You Begin
1. Download and install Microsoft .Net 4 Framework.
2. Download and install the Samsung Drivers.
II. Root the Phone
1. On the phone, hit Menu then go to Settings > Applications > Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.
2. Download the One Click Rooting program for your specific phone and extract it to somewhere on your computer.
Samsung Captivate One Click Root
Samsung Vibrant One Click Root
3. Connect the phone via USB cable to your computer.
4. Right click the AT&T Captivate One Click Root.exe/T-Mobile Vibrant One-Click Root.exe file and select Run As Administrator
5. A command prompt window will appear, simply follow the instructions in the command prompt and you’re all set.
III. (Optional) Load a Custom ROM
1. Head over to our How To Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Vibrant/Captivate procedure.
Big thanks to TGA_Gunnman for his one click rooting program!
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Sully said on March 30, 2011
Thank You! Directions were easy to follow and videos helped worked great on my vibrant!! At least I think, I have the superuser icon but nothing comes up when I click on it, iis that how it is supposed to be? Also, whole reason I did this cause I could not get the 2.2 update to work thro kies and really want to be able to use my vibrant as a wifi hot spot. Can you point me to a good ROM for this? None I saw listed a wifi hotspot only wifi calling which I will use too!
Sully said on March 30, 2011
Thank You! Directions were easy to follow and videos helped worked great on my vibrant!! At least I think, I have the superuser icon but nothing comes up when I click on it, iis that how it is supposed to be? Also, whole reason I did this cause I could not get the 2.2 update to work thro kies and really want to be able to use my vibrant as a wifi hot spot. Can you point me to a good ROM for this? None I saw listed a wifi hotspot only wifi calling which I will use too!
Rockcellucor said on April 9, 2011
this shit dosent work
Rmicchio said on April 9, 2011
i have tht 2.2 upate on my captivate and when i follow all this crap it comes up on my phone E:signature verifacation failed how do i fix this also when i go to download the usb drives it dose not say setup.exe so what do i do???????????????????????????
Jaclyn said on April 12, 2011
When I try to extract the “GalaxyS_Vibrant_One-Click_Root.rar” there is not a button for extract?
Juandevry said on April 13, 2011
Ladies and Gentleman.PLEASE make sure your SD card it not mounted on the phone before the one click root process. Just make sure you have debugging mode on.
Satish said on April 13, 2011
Hi,
I have an external SD (mini) card and I can only unmount external card, but not the internal sd. I dont see that option at all …
Jstar1645 said on April 15, 2011
ok guys i found a solution for the E:signature verification problem.. its simple when in recovery screen go to erase all user data. click on yes erase and then reboot your phone. It work on my vibrant and i had the same problem.
Khafjai15 said on April 18, 2011
that shit dont work it will reset your phone
Ahmed99898 said on April 20, 2011
Will this erase all data on my phone???
Treacherousintellect said on April 22, 2011
ok everyone….. for all of you with the froyo 2.2 upgrade, to root your phone is extremely easy!!! download the super one click rooting program and instead of going to the Samsung captivate tab, stay in the universal tab and click on root! worked for me the first time! good luck
Ibss said on May 2, 2011
This process doesn’t work on vibrant 2.2 Froyo
Ibrahim Dan Karami said on May 16, 2011
Now it does… i have posted something as Ibrahim Dan Karami.
It starts with “I now have a solution to all the problems on rooting… ”
If it works for you please like the post
geny said on May 6, 2011
Did anyone find a way to fix the “verification failed”? :/
Ibrahim Dan Karami said on May 16, 2011
Now it works… i have posted something as login: Ibrahim Dan Karami.
It starts with “I now have a solution to all the problems on rooting… ”
If it works for you please like the post
Ibrahim Dan Karami said on May 6, 2011
I now have the solution to all your problems… I have done it and it worked perfect on my Vibrant
Now that I see this being written, let me say it too: Follow instructions at your own risk…
Before I start let me explain some stuff I got to realize. They might be true but it helped in rooting and installing a new ROM
• First of all, I guess you get signature failure because ClockWorkMod did not install on your phone. So you are basically still running on the stock Samsung CWR
• Second, CRW doesn’t install even though it tells you on ROM manager. This is because your actual ROM is full (so no disk space)
• If you are running Froyo and my instructions fail, please use ODIN to flash to 2.1 éclair. This is due to signature strictness in Froyo. I had to do it myself
Now this is what I did:
1. Use SuperOneClick or OneClickRoot. But if it doesn’t work, you can as well Root your phone using OCLF.2.0 (The recent versions don’t have root due to Google policy). I used OCLF.2.0.4
2. After rooting your phone, delete some data from the system file to free up space. You can use any tool that you are comfortable with. I used RootExplorer. I prefer deleting sounds coz they won’t tamper much with the system and you can easily recopy them. To do so, go to:
a. /system/media/audio/alarms
b. /system/media/audio/notification
c. /system/media/audio/ringtones
3. You can order by size to just delete the heaviest. You don’t have to delete all. Just a few from each folder above
4. Download and install Rom Manager and install CloakWorkMod. It should now be fine if you reboot your phone. If there is no change, do the following:
a. Repeat step 2 and delete some more sound then try step 3 again
b. If it still didn’t work, check the root of your folder. You will see a folder called CloakWorkMod
i. Keep opening the folders until you reach …./cm/recoveries/
ii. You will see a zip folder called recovery-clockwork-2.5.1…….
iii. Copy it to the root of your phone card
iv. Rename it to update
v. Reboot your system into recovery mod
vi. Select install update.zip or install zip from sd card (Can’t remember what it is called on stock CloackWorkMod recovery)
vii. The CloackWorkMod recovery will change after install
viii. You have finished
ix. Select the option to Reboot your phone
5. Download and install a ROM of your choice
a. Download the ROM
b. Place it on your phone
c. Go to Rom Manager
d. Select Install Rom from SD card
e. Locate the Rom and select it
f. You are done (NB follow instruction on how to install the particular Rom you downloaded. Process after selecting the Rom might change)
6. I am ready to assist further in case of any problem
Lazkid2 said on July 8, 2011
this method doesnt seem to be working for my vibrant. is there another process i can use? i am using superoneclick and have superuser
Locke said on May 9, 2011
Thanks for the advice. It rooted my Samsung Vibrant. I now need to figure out how to unlock it so that I can use it at other GSM network.
Andrew Schierman said on May 15, 2011
I have tried to root now about 10 times. On my phone i get message ” E: signature verification failed”
Installation aborted
Any ideas??? Thanks
Ibrahim Dan Karami said on May 16, 2011
check a post i put (Ibrahim Dan Karami)…
it starts with “I now have a solution to all the problems on rooting….. “
YARI_327 said on June 1, 2011
HI, I HAVE THE CAPTIVATE WITH THE 2.2 FROYO AND WHEN IS IN RECOVERY MODE AND I TRY TO REINSTALL THE PACKAGES IT SAYS E:SIGNATURE VERIFICATION FAILED / INSTALLATION ABORTED. WHAT CAN I DO TO COULD ROOT MY PHONE!!
Ma Brock12 said on June 8, 2011
ok. this took me forever to figure out but it’s rather simple. after you update to froyo 2.2 the phone will not support roms with the new kernal. you have to flash back to ji6kernel-recovery2e, find it on google.,, can’t remember the actual site. You must use Odin3 and place the kernal in the PDA slot. Push stART.After you do that, flash rommanager so you have the update.zip file. place your rom on your internal sd card.. (if you get the write protection error.. its because you are using mass storage. use the media option). restart in recovery. load your rom from sd. and presto.. no more issues. =)
Lwdjdmr said on June 12, 2011
thaaaaaaaaank you!
Mark Johnston said on June 12, 2011
Okay I have tried this method including manually, I have done another captivate but this one purchased 4 days ago will not root. The error it gives “signature verification failed install aborted. Please help not sure whats going on.
Mark
Thickanatomy said on July 7, 2011
Cool, I’m now rooted….whateva that “REALLY” means. Now on to loading ROM’s. Thanks so much for this easy step by step tutorial.
2wrwells2 said on July 12, 2011
Everything worked as documented until I selected to re-install packages and push power button. I received a line:
— Install from sdcard….
Finding update package…
Opening update package…
E. signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Please advise……..
I’ve tried this process with sdcard and with sdcard unmounted. Also, I’ve tried by removing sdcard from phone completely still same error.
2wrwells2 said on July 12, 2011
Samsung Captivate 2.2 Froyo
Anonymous said on July 31, 2011
Search for SuperOneClick 2.0 Beta 1
Paul Gonzalez said on July 12, 2011
i just used z4 root app v1.3.0 and it got me rooted. might wanna try it if this isnt working for you
Jason Baker said on July 14, 2011
Just used this method on my Samsung Vibrant and it worked fine! First time rooting anything, thanks for the guide.
Chamelio_sal said on July 25, 2011
help it says E: signature verification failed
Anonymous said on July 31, 2011
Search for: SuperOneClick 2.0 Beta 1
Mark Baucom said on August 4, 2011
mine says unhandled exception when i do the one click root
Mark Baucom said on August 4, 2011
and it doesnt run the command prompt
floyd said on August 18, 2011
If I root my captieate will it make the battery last longer. And let me make the ringer lot louder cause this ringer suck please some one let me no!!!!! My email is love2havefun6971@yahoo.com
Sandra said on August 19, 2011
HELP!!! I had everything going great, i clicked on the one click root, and got
“X unhandled exception has occured on your app. If you click continue the app will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit the app will close immediately. The system cannot find the file specified…. ”
What do I do?
Yunach95 said on September 24, 2011
i did everything but i keep getting a message “unhandled exception has occured in your application. < does anybody know what i did wrong?
mcc said on October 4, 2011
samsung drivers take 45 minutes to intall…. might be one click but is very frustrating anyway
Chris Bruno said on October 14, 2011
in the recovery menu i click reinstall packages like it says and i get ( E signature verification failed Installation aborted) what went wrong
Pat Perdue said on October 23, 2011
I don’t have a “reinstall packages” option on my Galaxy S. Here’s what I have:
reboot system now: apply sdcard:update:zip: wipe data/factory reset: wipe cache partition: format internal sd-dard
Should I choose any of these?
Thanks…pat
Timdbobo said on November 2, 2011
I installed the .net package, and the usb drivers for the samsung, when I plug in the phone it shows on the phone that it is connected but the computer doesn’t pop up anything like the video shows. I tried to run the one click root and nothing happened on the phone, I assume because the usb thing didn’t pop up, what can I do to figure this out?
Vidas24 said on January 1, 2012
I have Telus Fascinate, aka T-Mobile Vibrant. Firmware version 2.3.3 ,Gingerbread. So it shows up Android system recovery and there is no option as reinstall packages,but apply updates instead…. any ideas? does this method even works for my phone? or there is another one?