Root the Samsung Continuum – OneClick Method

Ion Mar 31st, 2013 0 Comment

If you have already bought a Samsung  continuum device(3.4 inch), maybe you want the maximum potential from its features. For obtaining the maximum from it, the first thing that you should do is to obtain the root access rights on your device.

The Samsung Continuum device was released 2010, November with a 3.4 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, grid sensor protected with Corning Gorilla Glass, with 2 Gb storage internal memory and an extended microSD card up to 32 Gb, 8 Gb included. It has a 1 GHz Cortex-A8 CPU that running on the 336 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The Primary back camera is a 5 MP with autofocus and LED flashback. The Samsung Continuum device comes by default with Android OS v2.1 (Eclair). The developers from XDA forum propose us an easy one click method to root the Samsung Continuum device, they developed a tool that you don’t need to enter commands or anything else, is one click method and the tool will make all work for you. This method is one of the simplest method that exist to root a device, only press a single button, and that’s it. To root the device firstly you need to know some things that happen when you’ve applied the root procedure:

•  When you’re rooting your smartphone, it will void the device’s warranty. Every time when you apply a modification on the internal file system for one smartphone the factory restrictions and the warranty are affected, there are changes to its default settings and that thing will remove the factory restrictions. Like I said the warranty will be void, but if you want to restore the device’s warranty then you need to unroot your Samsung Continuum device and the warranty will be restored.
• Another aspect that you have to know is that, this how to tutorial can be performed only if you have a PC based on Windows Operating System, this tool isn’t compatible with other OS.

Now if, you know these aspects, you can move to the next section when you’ll find the How TO root the Samsung Continuum tutorial.

 How to Root the Samsung Continuum device using the SuperOneClick tool.

1.  Firstly, download the SuperOneClick from XDA forums and save it in your desktop PC.
2. Secondly, after the tool is fully downloaded then extract its content in one folder on your desktop.
3. Enable the USB debugging option on your Samsung Continuum device, to do that go to the Settings tab from your devices’ OS menu and then tap on Application option and from there choose the Development, now you can enable the USB debugging option from there.
4. Now, connect your Samsung device to the PC using an USB cord.
5. Open the extracted folder and launch the SuperOneClick application by double clicking on the executable file.
6. When the SuperOneClick has been launched, you’ll have to choose the Root option from its UI, so click on the Root option.
7. Once you click the ROOT button, the SuperOneClick tool immediately will start the rooting process for your Samsung Continuum smartphone.
8. Now, all you need to do is to wait until the tool will root the smartphone, this process need a few minutes to be completed, so wait patiently for it to finish.
9. When the rooting process is done, reboot your Samsung Continuum device.

That’s all, now you have a rooted device. For checking that the device was successfully rooted or not, you have to go on the App Drawer and search the Superuser app. This app confirms the root access.

With a rooted smartphone, you can unlock the device’s bootloader, installing the root only applications, installing the custom ROMs that are available for your model device, installing the Recovery Images, and to do all the customizations that you like.

For any extra questions, or if you’re in the face of some issues you can use our comment section to post your comments.