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Sep

Phone Guide: How To Root The Samsung Galaxy S And Fix Lag

Written by Rachid Otsmane-Elhaou. Posted in Phone Guides

One of the most notable issues with the Samsung Galaxy S is to do with it’s lag. It’s an awesome phone, with amazing specs, but it does have a noticeable lag. The reason for this is because of the way Samsung implemented their internal memory. As you should know, the Galaxy S comes with a massive amount of internal memory which is in the form of an internal sdcard (you can still add an external sdcard too). This internal sdcard uses the FAT32 file system, we aren’t sure why they chose this because it is an old method, replaced with more efficient NTFS and ext file system types.

The Galaxy S suffers the lag when the phone attempts to write to this file system, holding up other tasks and giving the effect of the lag. The fix to this issue is to implement an ext partition onto this internal sdcard. This new partition allows the phone to run a lot smoother and faster, if you have a Samsung Galaxy S, then you haven’t even touched upon the power and speed your device is capable of until you follow the guide below. It’s so easy, you really have no excuse not to do it!

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So first of all, remember that this rooting method is easy and should not cause any issues if you follow the instructions. However, you do so at your own risk. I take no responsibility for any damage you may do.

Ok, so after following the guide you will have a rooted Galaxy S, and you will have implemented the lag fix method to significantly speed up your phone and remove lag you may be experiencing already. You will not lose any of your data by following this guide, however, please do backup anything you don’t want to lose, this is just a sensible precaution just in case (if it’s that important, make regular backups regardless of anything else you do anyway).

Going through the following guide, after some of the steps your phone will restart, this is normal, just carry on with the next step once your phone has rebooted!

The Guide

    1. Search the android market for an app called Galaxy S – 1 Click Lag Fix.

 

Galaxy S – 1 Click Lag Fix (Market Link)
  1. Open the app and select Root Device 2.1
  2. Let the app root your phone.
  3. Now enter recovery mode by doing the following: Hold volume up and the main button whilst turning the phone on.
  4. Select apply sdcard:update.zip
  5. Reboot the phone when this is complete (or it may reboot automatically)
  6. Once finished reopen the app and select Install EXT2 tools.
  7. Let the app add the partition.
  8. Once finished repopen the app and select OneClickLagFix V1+
  9. Let the app add the fix.

And thats it! Have a play around with your phone, it should become much smoother, and that lag that used to annoy you so much should have disappeared! You might want to take a look at my 3 Must Have Apps For Rooted Users now, to keep your phone in tip top shape and running as smoothly as it can, not to mention saving a bit of battery too!

Rachid Otsmane-Elhaou

Rachid Otsmane-Elhaou (26) is a Business Analyst by day, but his real passion is technology, and in particular android (how can you not love the little green guy?). Rachid runs the Droid-Den website, that came about with a mission to help and inform android users about the great device(s) they have in their grasp.

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  • Brian

    After I root the device, it won’t let me Install EXT@ tools? Any ideas why that is?

  • F Smulders

    I’m getting the same “new” posts over and over in my Google Reader.
    Is there something wrong with your RSS feed?

  • James

    Downloaded app – called RyanZA’s One Click Lag Fix, but in it, it shows Install EXT2 Tools and OneClickLagFixV1+ as unavailable – any suggestions?

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    what does it say when you try to install them?

  • Wapkaplit

    I am also getting same new posts coming up. I am using RSS inside Thunderbird.

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    you need to root first

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    thanks i’m looking into this

  • Firefox73

    James, I had the same as you. After installing One LCick Lag Fix initial step, I turned the phone off and then started it in Recovery Mode (turn phone on and quickly hold Volume up + home button + power button at the same time until Recovery Menu appears). I then used the volume down button to get the second option down. Can’t recall full title but think it mentioned zip in it. Then pressed the home button. This then went through a reboot and I could then click on the second tep tools option. This has been installed but now the application will only let me “Check Free Space”. All other options are red. I think I’m about 75% there but can not go further. Anyone else any ideas?

  • Firefox73

    Further more, just checked that it maybe that your battery is below 40$. If so, it will not allow you to progress further until recharged. Fingers crossed, this will resolve my issues.

  • Brian

    after I click root the phone, a message comes up at the bottom that the root finished successfully, but then when i go back to the main screen, the EXT tools is still red and unavailable. Like the root didn’t actually work.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OVXGWK733TDSVODCP55M5A5SDQ Icersman

    Need a little help here. I let the app root the phone and then turned I it off. When I turned it back on I held the volume up, power and home buttons, all the phone did was cycle the ATT World Phone screen on and off. If I pushed just the volume up and power buttons, the phone rebooted to the home screen.

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    download quadrant app from the market and run it, if your score is above 2000 then you have completed successfully.

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    use the unroot option and try again

  • Brian

    I don’t think it ever actually gets rooted…well the unroot option isn’t available after i do the root. I can see update.zip in the internal memory when i connect my phone to my computer, but in recovery mode I can’t see it. Perhaps this is related to another problem?…my program explorer on my phone doesn’t work anymore, it opens but the list doesn’t populate…i think there is something wrong with the internal memory

  • Ferrum

    Given that the Galaxy benefits by having the internal SD card formatted as NTFS would it also be an advantage to format the externat SD card on a HTC desire with NTFS?

  • Beckettkc

    I”m getting a bad link page when I click the market link above. Has the link ‘expired’?

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    As far as i know, at this moment no android phone supports NTFS, the Desire doesn’t for sure, sorry!

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    The market link takes you directly to the market app on your phone. So in order to use that link you need to browse to this site on your phone.

    The alternative is to scan the qr code supplied

  • http://www.vinodlive.com/ Vinod

    There is a better EXT4 based full lagfix available by @supercurio. Try it out (Wait for the beta4, as the current beta3 is little problematic).

    http://project-voodoo.org

  • Jackson

    the method looks simple but I can’t seem to go into the bootloader mode : pressing the 3 buttons do nothing.

    Made some research and it seems that many GS have the same issue across the world (related to the manufacturing process in a samsung plant apparently).

    Anyway…. can’t apply update.zip, and more annoying I can’t go in the recovery mode if a flashing fails.

    Anyone knows about that and has a workaround ?

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    Try downloading rom manager from the market, and use that to boot into
    recovery. From here apply the update.zip

  • Jackson

    actually I just did it using adb… then applied RyanZA’s lagfix.

    I’m really impressed, Quadrant score soared from 794 to 1939 o_O

    it’s an acceptable compensation to the loss of my warranty I guess. lol.

  • http://www.droid-den.com Rachid

    you can always revert the changes if the phone needs to go back anyway

  • futaha7

    already installed it.root device 2.1 finished successfully…reboot, try 3 sequence key.yet still cant go in the recovery mode..
    install rom manager.after run it, it said “you must root your phone for ROM manager to function.and of course when try to reboot into recovery using ROM manager, it said “an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands”…now im stuck…help me plzz..

  • futaha7

    my phone info..
    model no:GT-I900
    firmware version: 2.1-update1
    baseband version:I9000DXJG4
    kernel version:2.6.29 root@SE-S604 #2
    build number:ECLAIR.DXJG4

    btw, i try to reboot with power adapter connected and recharged…

  • futaha7

    at last, just did it using adb..sounds hard..but after made it..quite simple…cheers

  • Subxero

    get to where i need to run EXT Tools 2 and it says Needs Rooting, but all previous input was fine, would it be wise to try Voodoo now? Beta 4 is out http://project-voodoo.org was on FULL battery, was in Flight Mode, does that count?

  • Downund3r

    hi all,
    im also facing the problem of not being able to enter into recovery mode, does anyone know why and got a workaround for it?

  • http://twitter.com/RogerRamirezIRL Roger Ramirez

    Just tried this, the only thing that threw me off is that step e above didn’t actually say sdcard:update.zip, instead it was the second option that said “reinstall packages”. I went from 894 to 2211 on quandrant. :-D

  • Tony

    So I was trying this out, and I was having the same issue as some others with getting to the recovery mode. My phone is a Vibrant, so it may be slightly different from other Galaxy S phones. When restarting the phone, you have to hold volume up, volume down and the power button to get to the recovery screen. Also, it didn’t have the option “apply sdcard:update.zip”. In place of that it just said “reinstall packages”. I used this option, and sure enough it rooted the phone. The best way to tell is to go into your apps menu once your phone boots up completely, and you should have a new app listed as superuser.

  • Suren

    I went from 794 to 2200 on Galaxy S :-D

  • Androider

    My phone run on Android 2.2 and unavailable services , only check free space is available
    By the way my phone wasn’t lag, but when I installed android 2.2 with Arabic support that made my phone is slow!
    any suggest for this !!!

  • http://twitter.com/maglovato Marco Lovato

    Man… it really works. INCREDIBLE.

  • Ryley_corbin

    Worked Great thanks: D

  • Scucia

    As far as I know to upgrade to Froyo this method needs to be reverted. It will be nice that somebody post a thread in how to do that – here everybody is talking about installing the root and the lagfix but nobody is talking about revers the process.

  • Canadroid

    wish this worked, all I get is an error Status 7

  • jen

    i cant make the recovery menu appear. ive tried so many times already. pls help

  • Ravi

    Hey.. Thanks for the root guid, Rachid. I am in big trouble now. I followed the guide and could successsfully root my fone and also apply the lag fix. I got a score of 2100-2200 on quadrant. Great news!! My fone works much faster now :)

    Here comes the problem :(

    I just cannot download from the market. The download gets stuck at “Starting Download” and it goes on forever. I cannot sign into gtalk. I cleared the app data and cache.. Still no success

    Please help me resolve this

    Thanks,
    Ravi

  • Andylea131

    Thank you

  • Chris

    has item been deleted from the market?? i cant follow that URL on the market…

  • wesley

    I downloaded OCLF and I installed the EXT2 tools but when I try to install the OneClickLagFix V2.2+ or OneClickLagFix V1+ it tells me that I already appear to have another lag fix installed (/system/bin/playlogos1 less than 5kb) and when I try to undo either of the lag fixes it says that I do not appear to have a V1 or V2 lagfix installed (/dbdata/ex2data does not exist) or (free space on /data matches /data/data). I tried to delete the playlogos1 file but it will not let me. Any suggestions?

  • wesley

    Also it will not let me repair/clean any of my lagfixes because it says that there are no problems detected.

  • Sakar8828

    Hey rachid,

    A bit out of context, but I have a question. I have Galaxy Ace S5830. Just been 4 days using it, out of the blue the screen went crazy, encountering touches by itself, opening apps and other stuff, just went out of control. Restarted many times. Still behaved the same.

    Today when I went to Samsung Service Centre near my place….the smartass was workin smooth as b4..but I doubt this won’t recur…
    Do u have any idea about this problem with android or touch screen phones???

  • Vincent Wu

    Did u install Voodoo lagfix previously?

  • Bdavison2

    any good news for rooting android 2.2 samsung Captivate, I updated to 2.2 full release and I can not root the phone I have tried many methods to no joy…

  • The_big_cliche

    Hi. I’m new to this, so please bear with my dumb questions. My GT i9000 starts to lag only after a few months, not to mention a couple of random shuts down, so now I’m tempted to try this. Does the method above also works with Gingerbread? And if a mistake happens during the rooting, is there a way to make it return to the original condition? Thanks.

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