How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Discover (Updated Method)
Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device. Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.
Once you have root access on your Samsung Galaxy Discover, you’ll be able to:
- Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
- Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
- Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
- Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
- Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
- Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
Interested? Here’s how to root your Galaxy Discover:
I. Before You Begin
1. Charge your device to 75% or more to prevent unwanted shutdowns.
2. Back up everything important on your device, although data loss is unlikely.
3. You need to have ClockworkMod Recovery installed on your device for this procedure to work. Use our guide if you haven’t already.
4. Please note that this guide will help you not only root your device but crank up your device’s CPU clockspeed to 1GHz.
II. Necessary Downloads
Root-SGH-S730M.zip [Link available in this post in the second paragraph]
III. Rooting the Galaxy Discover
1. Connect your device to your PC and copy the Root-SGH-S730M.zip file to your device’s SD card.
2. Power off your device and boot it into recovery mode. To do this, with the device powered off, press and hold the Volume Up + Power buttons and let go of the Power button when your device vibrates; hold Volume Up until your device boots into ClockworkMod Recovery.
3. Use the Volume Up/Down buttons to highlight ‘install update from sdcard’ and the Home button to execute the option.
4. Navigate to the location of update.zip and flash the zip file.
5. Once the zip file is flashed, go back to the main menu and select ‘reboot the system now’.
All set! Now, you can head to our How to Flash a Custom ROM procedure for the Samsung Galaxy Discover to open up a whole new world of customizations for your Android device!
By the way, don’t be scared, you can always put your device back to stock by heading to our Rooting How To’s section, finding your device, and doing the How to Unroot listed for it there.
I keep getting an error message when I try to flash my phone. It begins but then I get:
E:Error in /sdcard/root-sgh-s730m.zip
(status 255)
Installation aborted.