Some drivers will install, and one of the ports in Odin will go yellow.Plug in the original USB cable to the computer, press and hold volume down on the phone, and plug-in USB to phone (phone will go into download mode).

Power off your phone, unplug from computer, and take out battery.

Install the Samsung Drivers that we just downloaded.

Copy su-2.3.6.1.x.zip, Latest CM7 Nightly, and GApps over to the root of your SD.

Plug your phone in and put into USB mass storage mode.

So first off, there are a few things that we need to download. And lastly, the post on how to install Cyanogenmod 7 can be found here. The original post from Galaxyforums on how to root your fascinate can be found here. The original post from the XDA forums can be found on restoring the phone can be found here. This is actually a good starting point to restore the phone and then do some OTA updates to bring it back up to Froyo before we root and rom. I know there are other methods to do this, but this is the first one I was successful with and it’s actually quite easy. One of which is great for restoring the phone to D101, old school Verizon factory settings. After hours of scouring the internet, I cam across two posts, and was able to combine the two methods to finally become successful.įirst off, there are a few tools that I found that are necessary. I was getting quite irritated at this point.

This created even more issues as I was not able to make backups or successfully install new roms. Also, at this point I tried to flash Clockworkmod Recovery with little to no success to back up my roms and install new ones. I was able to root my phone using the SuperOneClick method, and that was all and dandy, but I felt that it was prohibiting me in the end. At first, I had run into many issues with soft-bricking my phone. It took me a while to find a way to do this successfully. Well, I know that there is a lot of information out there on the web on how to do this, but I thought that I would take the time to go over my method.

Clockworkmod usb mass storage driver