Sidekick 4G, the best texting phone available to Android users is now rooted allowing you to install custom ROM, theme and ringtones. As usual the full how to instruction is now posted on XDA or check the guide given below. However, the one click rooting is the best option as it makes the whole process easy and reduces risks of making mistake while following the guide.
Expect one click rooting for Sidekick 4G soon, but if you are the brave one then the following instructions is for your. You can even visit the XDA forum thread to read more on feedbacks and issues if encountered by other users. The link of XDA forum is given at the end of this article.
1) enable debug USB mode on your phone
2) install Samsung drivers for the phone – right now Samsung’s site seems to not have a choice for the Sidekick 4G’s model (SGH-T839), but I grabbed the drivers for the Vibrant (at www .samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-T959ZKDTMB) and they worked.
3) get adb shell working on your PC (Google it)
4) download the rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin and Superuser packages from the links in this page: wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Hero_%28CDMA%29:_Full_Update_G uide (be sure to unzip the files into the directory where your adb.exe program is unless you’ve put it in your path)
5) reboot your phone and plug it in
6) adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp
7) adb shell
8) cd /data/local/tmp
9) chmod 755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
10) ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
11) wait until you get booted back out to your DOS command prompt
12) adb kill-server
13) adb start-server
14) adb shell
15) you should now be at a # prompt. The first few times I tried, I wasn’t – I was at $. Doing this from a fresh boot seemed to be the trick. Reboot your phone and try again if you’re getting a $.
16) mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
17) exit
18) adb push su /system/xbin
19) adb shell chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su
20) adb push Superuser.apk /system/app
21) adb shell mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/stl9 /system
22) exit
23) reboot the phone then run an app that requests root, such as Root Explorer, to verify
The SideKick 4G comes with all the features and capabilities that makes it the best texting phone you can ever have. The full SideKick 4G review and other Android apps good for this texting phone is now available on our site.
