Captivate Root

[dandroid]

This thread will be dedicated for all Samsung Captivate Root discussions.

***IMPORTANT: YOU PERFORM THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, I NOR ANYONE ELSE IS RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR DEVICE.***

***CONFIRMED 100% WORKING ON AT&T CAPTIVATE BY MOOSEFIST***

The following method should be relatively care-free but there is always a risk with activities like rooting a device or flashing a new firmware.

1. Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/178498/SGH-I...t%20Update.zip and rename to: update.zip
2. On your device, navigate to Settings > Applications > USB settings and select Mass storage
3. Plug your device into your computer, select mount USB from your device's pull-down window
4. Copy the update.zip to the INTERNAL SD memory (~14gb on this drive, not the one w/ Avatar if you've still got the 2gb SD card in)
5. Turn your phone off.
6. Hold down volume up and volume down while powering on the phone, this should get you to a recovery menu, you may have to try this a few times.
7. In Recovery menu select 'Reinstall Packages' (use vol_down then power to select)

Phone will reboot and you have:
1. su+Superuser
2. busybox (/system/xbin/busybox)

Original credit goes to LeshaK at Samdroid.

[ATTDroids]

[Joe Coolcool]

I heard that the Captivate can be rooted the same way that the Galaxy S in other countries was rooted because they have the same hardware. Android and Me is where I heard this from.

[moosefist]

***IMPORTANT: YOU PERFORM THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, I NOR ANYONE ELSE IS RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR DEVICE.***

***CONFIRMED 100% WORKING ON AT&T CAPTIVATE BY MYSELF***

The following method should be relatively care-free but there is always a risk with activities like rooting a device or flashing a new firmware.

1. Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/178498/SGH-I...t%20Update.zip and rename to: update.zip
2. On your device, navigate to Settings > Applications > USB settings and select Mass storage
3. Plug your device into your computer, select mount USB from your device's pull-down window
4. Copy the update.zip to the INTERNAL SD memory (~14gb on this drive, not the one w/ Avatar if you've still got the 2gb SD card in)
5. Turn your phone off.
6. Hold down volume up and volume down while powering on the phone, this should get you to a recovery menu, you may have to try this a few times.
7. In Recovery menu select 'Reinstall Packages' (use vol_down then power to select)

Phone will reboot
and you have
1. su+Superuser
2. busybox (/system/xbin/busybox)

Original credit goes to LeshaK at Samdroid.

[techfiend4]

has anyone else done this yet? i know its early but no harm in checking

[Joe Coolcool]

I've seen other ways to root it, but I'm not saying that this way wrong either.

[techfiend4]

nevermind works perfect, but i had to put it on media player to access the storage

[airjordan]

works great on my captivate

[sn1per]

Worked on my Captivate as well. Any guesses on when we'll see a Captivate running stock Android? I'm not a huge fan of samsung's custom UI...

[moosefist]

Worked on my Captivate as well. Any guesses on when we'll see a Captivate running stock Android? I'm not a huge fan of samsung's custom UI...

Try ADW launcher...

[Yzlvr]

Is there a way to put it back to stock if I try this? In case I end up returning it before my 30 day trial period is up? That would be great.

I too would like to try the stock android home pages....