As promised, I am back with a complete, step-by-step guide to rooting Samsung’s Galaxy Spica/Lite/Portal i5700
Android
handset, using LeshaK’s Kernel Spica v.LK2.02. Not only is this root
easy without any complex commands, but also it brings nicety such as
full root, su+Superuser, support for ext2, ext3 and ext4 SD card
partitions, recovery mode, etc.
A few things before I begin with the walkthrough. First, the whole
credit for this guide, the kernel used and everything else goes to
LeshaK, the administrator of
Samdroid forum.
I have just simplified his guide for average users, since most of the
forum is in Russian. Second, this guide assumes that your device is
running on
firmware 2.1, any version above JC3, and you know how to use Odin. If you want to know how to upgrade your firmware, check out our
2.1 update guide for Spica.
Third, this guide also assumes that your Samsung Android drivers (USB
modem and Composite device) are properly installed, and that you have
Android Debug Bridge (adb) properly configured. If not, check our the
2.1 update guide for drivers, and
tutorial for setting up adb.
Please remember that any modifications to your firmware are
potentially dangerous, and while they reward greatly, you must proceed
at your own risk. If you don’t know what you are doing, it is advisable
to avoid rather than having a bricked device. You have been warned!
This process will not delete any of your files or settings, both in SD card and internal memory.
Without further ado, here’s how to gain
root and flash LeshaK’s kernel 2.02.
To begin with, download these two files.
- LK2-02-1_update.zip
- i5700_LK2-02_PDA.zip
Also download the Odin Multiloader for Android
here if you don’t have it already. You need the spica_jc3.ops file for this guide, which we have bundled with Odin.
Mount your SD card, and place LK2-02-1_update.zip in the root of SD
card (it should be inside the root folder of the card, not any
subfolder). See the screenshot below.
Unmount the SD card in Windows, turn phone off and remove your SIM
card just to be safe. Let the SD card remain inserted, and put the
device in Download Mode by pressing and holding Volume Down + Camera +
Call End keys. The phone screen should look like this:
Your phone should not be connected with the PC at this time via USB cable. Run Odin as administrator, and load the extracted
i5700_LK2-02_PDA.tar file as PDA in Odin. Load
spica_jc3.ops
as the OPS file. You may need to click Reset Files once before Odin
will clear previous settings. Make sure your selections match the
screenshot below.
Racer. 
The root for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Neo
is finally here! Incase this just did not make sense to you and you’re
unfamiliar with what rooting an android device is all about and why you
should do that, read our top 10 reasons to root your Android device. As for those familiar with the concept, read on for how to root your Xperia Arc and Neo.
Earlier we had covered the guide on rooting the SE Xperia Arc and Neo, but that left out the much hyped and anticipated Xperia Play. This guide will attempt to help you root
your Xperia Play in no time. As in the case of the Arc and Neo, gaining
root on the Xperia Play is a relatively simple task as well. Read on to
root your Xperia Play!
Its only fair that Samsung’s most powerful Android device to date should be on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
While Samsung has announced that they would be upgrading the Galaxy S
to Gingerbread, custom Gingerbread ROMs for the device are already
available.
While z4root is one of the easiest ways to root most Android phones, it does not work on Samsung Galaxy 3 if it is running Android 2.2 FroYo.
While other methods are available to do this, most can be complicated
and some don’t allow for unrooting. Using the following guide, you can
easily root as well as unroot your Galaxy 3 running FroYo, courtesy of the community at XDA-Developers forums.
