Samsung Fascinate Gets Root
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We aren’t surprised that this thing has been rooted so quickly – all of the other Galaxy S phones received day 1 (or day 2) roots as well – but the brief leg work has been done and a root method for the Samsung Fascinate is ready to go. This root method is actually the same exact method used for the Samsung Epic 4G. I know many of you looking forward to this device just let out a huge sigh of relief as you’ll want the newfound privileges that come with root to do some bloatware scrubbing. (And as you’ll want to attempt to get Google Search back onto the device as the default search engine, though Verizon claims it’ll come to all users once the device is upgraded to Android 2.2 due to the Google Voice Search app being available.)
Hit the source link below to find happiness down the yellow (or Big Red) brick road. [Thanks to all who sent this in.]
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@MVTom- Trust me. If Sprint didn’t fail so horribley in my area I would. I would be roaming a LOT, and 3G would be non-existent. The few folks I know with it here use the phones as punching bags or paper weights most of the time. LOL
@ Mark – Switch to Sprint and get the EPIC and you can have the front facing camera. Then you can root and get rid of all of the bloatware (although not nearly as much as on this phone).
Someone please post it in the marketplace like RyanZA’s oneclick lagfix???
Nevermind…. no front facing camera FTL.
The wait will continue.
This is great to hear. It does have the forward facing camera correct? I was really high on making this my next phone until I saw the bloatware and BING crap. Why the heck do I want to buy a Google OS and not have all the google experience options?? Crazyness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 2.2 this 2.2 that. Well, it doesn’t have 2.2 right now, and not everyone wants to root their phone to get it the way it should have been to begin with. They keep up the buy one get one though and I will probably just get over it and root away.
Mine is on the FedEx truck, mere hours away from delivery. I’m going to take my best shot at installing Google Search on it without rooting, but will root if necessary. Of course, to completely de-Bing the phone (i.e. uninstall all Bing apps) and also remove other VZW bloatware will require root, guaranteed.
This phone + Kernel + ROM = awesome. It may actually replace the Droid as the go to phone for modding community.