Just finished rooting my samsung behold 2, which is running on the android os using mac’s terminal and the android sdk tools. The instructions for rooting are here. The instructions from the unlockr are for windows xp/vista using command prompt so, it will be a little different syntax for mac’s terminal. I followed the instructions from the unlockr except that I used full paths for the first 3 lines of code. For example
adb push try3 /data/local
which basically adds the try3 file from your computer to the phone
was written as (ignore line break below)
graeme-richardsons-macbook:~ GRIZ$ desktop/androidsdk/tools/adb push desktop/androidsdk/tools/try3 /data/local. The tricky part for me was writing the full path again for the location of the try3 file, since Im not so good with terminal :(
Now im rooted!
Could you provide a tutorial on how to do this step by step? I’m trying to root my Behold but can’t seem to figure it out… Thanks!
The step by step is here, the only difference is to use your full path “adb push try3 /data/local” it would be “YOUR FULL PATH/tools/adb push desktop/androidsdk/tools/try3 /data/local”
what do you mean with full path?
Hey Jags
The full path is repeating the path to the file after calling “adb command”
so in my case I am on a mac snow leopard 10.6.3 using terminal. When ever I open terminal
my USER folder is the default path it opens to. My androidsdk folder is located in my USER folder,
so every time I refer to the file in that folder I use the full path androidsdk/adb command.
so instead of simple writing adb push try3
I would write
my-macbook:~ USER$ androidsdk/tools/adb push androidsdk/tools/try3 /data/local
If you don’t want you type the full path to your tools directory every time. You will need to edit your .bash_profile.
To do that open up terminal if you are on a mac and type ” nano ~/.bash_profile ”
then type export PATH=${PATH}:/tools. In my case it was “export PATH=${PATH}:androidsdk/tools”
then hit “control O” to write out which saves it.
Type in a name to save it as. confirm
Then hit “control X” to exit. Once back in terminal you can issue commands to the “adb” tool without having to navigate to the
“tools”directory.