[colug-432] Rooting Android

[Judd Montgomery]

GingerBreak:  An exploit written in C and executed on the device.
Written by Sebastian Krahmer.
http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/04/yummy-yummy-gingerbreak.html

Unrevoked: This one is good if you have one of those phones.  It runs
on Linux and credits Sebastian Krahmer.

psneuter, rageagainstthecage:  Older device exploits written by Sebastian.

I used a front-end to psneuter and rageagainstthecage called
SuperOneClick.  It is written in .Net, is a Windows executable and
runs on Linux with Mono installed.  I was just curious if it would
work on Linux and it did.  Behind the scenes I'd guess its only doing
what a shell script would do, and there are shell scripts out there to
do the same thing.

My wife has a Captivate with a known bug where wifi will stop working.
 There are two ways to fix it.  Either root it and delete the access
points file, or flash the thing and lose data.  A third way would be
to take it into AT&T, but who'd waste their time with that? :-)

Judd


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> See also: http://unrevoked.com/
> That's easier if your phone is one of the six supported there.
>
> Phil Cuellar <pjcuellar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>if you are interested in rooting most android phones, the simplest way
>>is to use a little app called super one click. Details here:
>>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
>>
>>
>>~Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Travis Sidelinger
>><travissidelinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Linux Users,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what all phones this works on, but thought I'd share a
>>rooting
>>> process converted for Linux.
>>>
>>> Notes and script are posted here:
>>>   http://www.ilive4unix.net/doku.php/notes/android
>>>
>>> Hope someone finds this useful.
>>>
>>> ~Travis Sidelinger
>
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