We have become aware of an issue with the Samsung Moment GPS after it is flashed to Android 2.2 following our guide titled How to Root the Samsung Moment – Volume 3. This GPS issue makes the GPS unable to acquire satellite connections to determine your location. The good news is that we have a fix for you, and it shouldn’t take very long at all. Simply follow the instructions below and your GPS will be working again!

How to Fix GPS On Samsung Moment Running Android 2.2

What this fix will do is it will flash modified secgps and GPS config files to the phone to correctly operate the GPS in your Samsung Moment. It also deletes an extra binary file that is created after rebooting and installs and app called GPS Status.

1. Plug your phone into the computer via USB, and mount the SD card (turn on USB storage from the phone) so you can place a file onto it. If you have trouble connecting your phone to the computer via USB, follow this guide titled Installing USB and ADB Drivers for Samsung Moment, then return here when you are done.
2. Download the file titled Moment-2.2-GPS-Fix.zip from our Files page.
3. When the file is downloaded, please put it onto your SD card. Do not unzip the file or anything, just drag and drop it onto the SD card. Then turn off USB storage and disconnect the phone from the USB cord.
4. Reboot your phone into Recovery. You can do this by turning the phone completely off then press and hold the following buttons: Volume-Down, Talk, and End at the same time until the green and black Recovery menu appears. Or, if you have Android 2.2 installed on your phone from our guide mentioned above, just long press your End button and select Recovery from the popup list.
5. Using the Volume button to scroll up and down, and the Menu touch-button to select, scroll down to Apply ZIP from SD Card. Select the file you placed onto the SD card named Moment-2.2-GPS-Fix.zip. Press the Home touch-button to confirm your selection.
6. Once the flash is finished, press back until you get to the Recovery main menu, and select Reboot Options. Select Reboot to System.
7. Once your phone reboots, create a shortcut using LauncherPro. If you don’t have LauncherPro, you may need to download and install it. Once done, or if you already have LauncherPro, follow these instructions:
• Long press on home screen.
• Select Shortcut.
• Select Activities.
• Select LbsTestMode.
• Select com.sec.android.app.lbstestmode.LbsTestMode .
• Press OK, leaving LbsTestMode in the name box.
8. Now, tap on that shortcut you just made. It will open an app with a bunch of different settings. Tap the Application Settings button. Then find the dropdown menu named Operation Mode and select it, then select MS Based. Now, press back until you exit the app.
9. Reboot your phone. Once the phone is rebooted, use the GPS Status app under a clear sky or as close to a window as possible, and wait until you get a lock on a couple satellites. The bottom of the screen will pop up with a bunch of data when you do obtain a lock. This will confirm that you have fixed your GPS!

This guide is the most recent guide to root the Samsung Moment. With this process that you are about to begin, you will be updating your Samsung Moment to Android 2.2.2 codename Froyo. With this version of Android, you’ll be able to stand right next to your friend who just spent $500 on his or her phone and brag that you have the latest software and didn’t have to pay a penny! Anyways, let’s jump right into the guide and get this party started!

How to Root the Samsung Moment

We will be using a few different files that you need to download. These files are:

• SamsungMoment_Update.exe
• SPH-M900_MR4_DJ07_REL.tar
• recovery3_1_1.tar
• M900-EB28-v1.1.zip
• CrapKernel v2.2

1. Install the SamsungMoment_Update.exe file to your computer. Try to make note of what directory the program installs to, because you may encounter a slight variation in path, if any, in a few minutes.
2. We now need to install Stock Android 2.1 to our phones in order to do this update. You need to place the SPH_M900_MR4_DJ07_REL.tar file that you downloaded into the following folder: (may vary) C:\Program Files (x86)\Samsung Electronics\SWUpgrade\Models\Binary . Do not extract this .tar file. Just copy and paste it into the Binary folder, making sure nothing else is in that folder.
3. Run the Samsung Updater tool. Do this by selecting the program: Click Start > All Programs > Phone Flash (or Samsung Electronics) > Samsung > SWUpgrade. Follow ALL instructions provided in the program. If you have trouble getting a connection, please disconnect the phone, close the SWUpgrade program, then restart SWUpgrade, and then plug phone into USB. I have had several occasions where I had to do this multiple times to get it to connect properly (I am on Windows 7 64-bit).
4. Once your phone is flashed to stock Android 2.1, we will need to install a recovery program so we can flash the kernel and the Froyo ROM! You need to go back to this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Samsung Electronics\SWUpgrade\Models\Binary and remove the SPH_M900_MR4_DJ07_REL.tar file and replace it with the recovery3_1_1.tar file that you downloaded. Nothign else should be in the folder except for the recovery .tar file. Do not extract this .tar file. Just copy and paste it into the Binary folder, making sure nothing else is in that folder.
5. Run the SWUpgrade program again.  Do this by selecting the program: Click Start > All Programs > Phone Flash (or Samsung Electronics) > Samsung > SWUpgrade. Follow ALL instructions provided in the program. When you are finished, reboot your phone. If you have trouble getting a connection, please disconnect the phone, close the SWUpgrade program, then restart SWUpgrade, and then plug phone into USB. I have had several occasions where I had to do this multiple times to get it to connect properly (I am on Windows 7 64-bit). 
6. Now we need to copy M900-EB28-v1.1.zip & crap22_led.zip to your SD card. Do this by plugging your phone into your USB port and selecting “Mount SD Card” (or similar option) when prompted. Most Windows computers will pop up a box asking you what you want to do with the drive you just inserted. Select ‘Open to View Files’ (or similar option). Create a folder called sdx in the root of the SD card, then enter the sdx folder and create a folder called zip. Paste the M900-EB28-v1.1.zip & crap22_led.zip files into that zip folder. Do not extract these files. Just copy and paste them into the sdx/zip/ folder.
7. Now, we need to boot into recovery mode. Turn your phone off. Make sure it’s not connected to USB. Press and hold the following three buttons until your recovery loads: Volume-Down, Talk, and End.
8. We are ready to flash the new ROM and kernel to the phone. Follow all these instructions, step by step, making sure not to skip any. From the recovery menu (black with green text):
   • Scrolling is done with the Volume-Up and Volume-Down buttons. Selecting an item is done by pressing the OK button (between Talk and End buttons). Confirming is done by using the HOME button. Going back is done by using the BACK button.
   • Scroll down to Advanced Options and select it.
   • Click Clear Dalvik Cache, and confirm.
   • Go back to main menu.
   • Scroll to Apply ZIP from SD Card. Select it.
   • Scroll to the M900-EB28-v1.1.zip file and select it, then confirm. This will install your Android 2.2.2 (Froyo) ROM.
   • Once your phone is done installing and its booted up regularly, turn it back off and go back into recovery using the steps outlined in Step 7 above.
   • In the recovery menu, select Apply ZIP from SD Card again, and this time select crap22_led.zip and confirm to install it. This will install the kernel that pretty much makes everything work smooth on your phone.
   • Once installed, go back to the main menu one final time. Go into the Advanced Options menu again, and this time select and confirm the option to Wipe/Factory Reset. This will wipe the phone of all data that it wrote to itself during these installs. Once this is done, in the main menu, select Reboot to System. This first boot can and will take a long time – anywhere from 3-10 minutes – because the phone has to rewrite a ton of files to make operation smooth.

Congratulations! Your phone is now rooted and running Android Froyo! You may want to boot your phone back into recovery and select the backup/restore option, and create a nandroid backup, just to be safe. Enjoy!

Added: It looks like you may also need to apply a GPS fix to your phone, so please follow the guide titled GPS Fix for Samsung Moment Running Android 2.2.

Added: If you are having trouble getting your computer to recognize your Samsung Moment, please follow the guide titled Installing USB and ADB Drivers for Samsung Moment.

This brand new update, DJ07, will almost completely fix any data lockup issues you have if you tether your phone and notice it or if you just notice the problem in general. This update also enhances the GPS inside your phone as well as Skyfire browser enhancements, Bulk Bluetooth contacts push enhancements, as well as other behind the scenes enhancements and changes that you may not notice right away.

Hey everyone! A lot of time has passed since I wrote up the How to Root Samsung Moment guide, and now it’s become a bit outdated. So, this week (week of 11/14/2020), I will be working on a new and updated version of this guide for everyone to use and enjoy! This latest update to the new guide will contain newer software that will fix an issue that has been plaguing people for ages – the data lockup issues! I am testing everything for this and so far it is looking really good, so I will give my recommended setup for everyone to use too.

Also, my hosting of files will be handled a little bit differently. The download files will now be behind a content gateway, meaning you must complete a simple little survey to get access to all the downloads I have for the Moment. This helps offset the high bandwidth and server costs I have incurred on this site (which I really enjoy having). I could also push harder for donations but I know the economy is tough. So if you would please, take 5 minutes and help me earn 50 cents for your downloads you’re wanting to access.

If you have trouble with the content gateway, please wait 5 minutes for the exit button to appear and then you can access the files. Sorry!

This guide will explain how to flash a different ROM or kernel to your Samsung Moment. Assuming you’ve rooted your phone already, and just want to install a new ROM or kernel, we’ve got a couple different methods that you can use to get the new ROM or kernel onto your phone.

First, you should have already selected the ROM or kernel you want to use. If you’ve already done that, the next thing is to boot your phone into recovery, by pressing and holding the following buttons until recovery opens: Volume Down, Talk, and End. Once booted into recovery, we’re going to scroll down to Backup, Restore, Flash and select it. Then, select Backup Both (/system and /data). Select it, then wait till the backup is completed.

Now, scroll down to Mount Options. Scroll all the way down to Enable USB Mass Storage and select it. This should make a window open on your computer. Select the option in that window to view the files and folders of that drive. This should reveal a few folders and some files, depending on what you have on your SD card already. In that window, you should see a folder labeled SDX. Open it. Then open the zip folder inside of there. Now, drag and drop the ROM you selected and downloaded, into that folder. If you want to just flash a kernel, make sure you’ve downloaded the update.zip format of it to be flashed via recovery. Then take that kernel ZIP file and drop it inside of the zip folder.

You now need to disable USB Mass storage, so scroll back down to the option and select it to disable it. Back out of that menu and go to the main menu of recovery. Scroll down to Apply ZIP from SDCard. Select it. If you’re flashing a ROM, select the name of the ROM’s zip file, and press Home to confirm. Wait until the progress bar vanishes before you reboot your phone. The same instructions apply for a kernel.

Now, once the flash is completed, go back to the main menu in recovery and reboot your phone to system. This first boot may take a while, because caches have to be rebuilt.

Note: if you have issues with applications, instability or just a boot loop, you may need to wipe your dalvik-cache and data to get this flash to work. We didn’t wipe in the first place because most Samsung Moment ROMs are made to avoid losing any of your data!

If you have issues with your phone, and you’ve already rebooted it a couple times just to make sure it wasn’t a first boot bug, you’ll want to boot back into recovery to wipe and reflash. Power your phone down, then press and hold Volume Down, Talk, and End keys until recovery loads. Scroll down to Advanced Options and select it, then select clear dalvik-cache. Once that’s cleared, you can go back to the main menu of recovery. Then scroll down to Apply zip from SDCard and select it. Then, flash the ROM you’ve placed onto your phone, and reboot back into system after the flash has finished.

If there’s any issues or if you have comments or suggestions, please leave them below!

This guide explains how to root the Samsung Moment, plain and simple. If you’re not familiar with what rooting your phone can do, let me explain it in a few brief details, just to give you an idea of the power you have over your phone:

• Wireless Tether for Root Users – Be able to share your mobile internet with a PC or other device that can connect to an ad-hoc network.
• Custom ROMs – Install custom ROMs made by other Moment owners which can feature a variety of different things, including faster processing time, very lightweight operations, remove stock apps and add different custom ones, and more…
• Processor Management – You’ll have the ability to set your processor’s speed to run powerful when you need it and at a minimal speed when your phone sleeps, and more.

Note 11/13/2010: NEW GUIDE

You’ll also have many more options to choose from, but let me get started on the guide on how to gain root access to your Samsung Moment.

First, you will need to download a few items, all of which I have included here for you to have easy access to. To access all of the Samsung Moment root files, please visit this link: Samsung Moment Root Files.

Now you need to install DE03 which is the base of what we will be working with. I highly advise you to synchronize any contacts you have with Google, sync your calendar and everything, and make note of the apps you have installed currently as your phone will be completely wiped.

Install DE03

1. Download SPH-M900_MR2_DE03_REL_1 and put it in the following folder for your CL14 Upgrader:
   • C:\Program Files\Samsung Electronics\SWUpgrade\Files\Binary
2. Flash your phone using the CL14 Updater. Follow all instructions given by the updater program, and DO NOT turn off your phone during the upgrade!
3. Once the flash has been completed, reboot your phone normally and wait till it fully loads.

Now, you’ll need to install a recovery program, which is the program you will be using to flash ZIP files from your SD card (more information later).

Install Recovery Program

1. Remove the SPH-M900_MR2_DE03_REL_1 file that you put in the Binary folder from step 1 above.
2. Download the recovery3_1_1 file and place it into the following folder, making sure it is empty as directed in the previous step.
   • C:\Program Files\Samsung Electronics\SWUpgrade\Files\Binary
3. Flash the recovery program using the same method as the instructions above, for installing DE03:
   • Flash your phone using the CL14 Updater. Follow all instructions given by the updater program, and DO NOT turn off your phone during the upgrade!
4. Once the flash has been completed, reboot your phone normally and wait till it fully loads.

Next, you’ll need to use Recovery to install the Root program, which will cause your phone to be rooted, meaning you’ll not only be able to use some apps that you normally can’t use, but you’ll also be able to tweak your phone, install custom ROMs and much more!

Install Root

1. First, you need to mount your phone to your computer using your USB cable you got with your phone.
2. Then, mount your SD card so you can see the contents of it on your computer.
3. Download joeykrim-SDX-a2.1-root-v7 and copy it to the root of your SD card, meaning when you double click to get into your SD card from your computer, drop the file right into the window that opens!
4. Now, you’ll reboot your phone into the recovery program you just installed, by powering off your phone, then pressing and holding the following 3 buttons at the same time: Volume Down, Talk, End.
5. Scroll to “Apply Update Zip”, select the file you put onto your SD card, the joeykrim-SDX-a2.1-root-v7.zip file, and follow the on-screen instructions.
6. Reboot your phone back into normal mode.

There, now you’ve gained root access to your phone, and you have a custom recovery program in which you can enter anytime to create or restore a full backup of your phone!

Now, there are also a couple more steps you can take to clean up some of the junk off your phone right away, and it is a simple script that you’re even able to customize. Complete the following steps:

Remove Stock Apps/Add Cool Stuff!

1. Download custom-SDX-update and place it onto your SD card. You can also create your own custom update zip here.
2. Now, you’ll reboot your phone into the recovery program you just installed, by powering off your phone, then pressing and holding the following 3 buttons at the same time: Volume Down, Talk, End.
3. Scroll to “Apply Update Zip”, select the file you put onto your SD card, the custom-SDX-update.zip file, and follow the on-screen instructions.
4. Reboot your phone back into normal mode.

The custom-SDX-update file here does the following actions, so read carefully:

Adds:

Live Wallpaper
Samsung Android Boot Logo

Removes:

BejeweledDemo.apk – Bejeweled Game – Demo
nfl-prod-release.apk – Sprint NFL Live (Old version)
sfl-prod-release.apk – Sprint NFL Live (New version)
nascar09-prod-release.apk – Sprint Nascar
VSuiteApp.apk – Naunce Voice Control
Weather2-16.apk – Weather Channel
im.apk – Instant Messaging – AIM, Yahoo, MSN (exluding GTalk)
Sprint TV
Sprint TV Widget
Photos and Places – Shortcut uploads to Facebook, Twitter, etc
Email – Generic Email client – Yahoo, Hotmail, etc (excluding Gmail)
Sprint Navigation
Amazon Mp3
Sprint Visual Voicemail

Note 11/13/2010: NEW GUIDE

Here are the files that you will need to download for the Samsung Moment, in order to root the Samsung Moment. Everything contained here is all you need to do your root process properly.

Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver(V5.2.0.0)_V1.2.1060.0 - to get your computer to read your phone properly.

CL14 Upgrader, which is a Program from Sprint to upgrade your Moment’s ROM right from your desktop. Get the SamsungMoment_Update (CL14 Upgrader) here.

SPH-M900_MR2_DE03_REL_1

recovery3_1_1

joeykrim-SDX-a2.1-root-v7

custom-SDX-update

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Here are the files that you will need to download for the Samsung Moment, in order to root the Samsung Moment. Everything contained here is all you need to do your root process properly.

Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver(V5.2.0.0)_V1.2.1060.0 - to get your computer to read your phone properly.

SamsungMoment_Update.exe

SPH-M900_MR4_DJ07_REL.tar

recovery3_1_1.tar

noobnl-Radioactive-FroYo-romv2.0pre3.zip