I got my S4 last week and am quite new to all this. I've roamed the forums and the information about rooting the S4 seems confusing. First of all, there was a way to root the S4 using motochopper am I right? I'm wondering if that's still relevant since the more popular solution seems to be Chainfire's CF-AutoRoot. Would using either one give me the same results?
All MDE and the before MDE firmwares can be rooted using CF root but the MDM,MDN and latter firmwares cant because of some security changes samsung made. I suggest you wait a couple of weeks or so.
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I'm considering buying a used Sprint Galaxy S4 and I'd like to use it on pageplus. Is this possible, an is there a step by step guide to flashing to pageplus? I have flashed phones before but never an LTE phone. I did some searching on these forums and can't seem to find the info I need but I'm mostly interested if it's possible or not. Thanks in advance.
You might be able to use this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2530610
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It is possible to have a Sprint S4 on PagePlus. I am currently using one with MK2 (haven't updated yet because of all the complaints). I had mine remotely flashed by Viper32 so if you have questions he may be able to help.
Geohot is a genius anyone wanna start a bounty for him to see if he can unlock our bootloader?
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Virus1x said:
Geohot is a genius anyone wanna start a bounty for him to see if he can unlock our bootloader?
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I'd definitely pitch in on a bounty for bootloader.
We've had some pretty talented devs give it a go in the past though.
You would have to start by talking to geohot first of all and then contact mods.
Eclipsed Note 3
It would be awesome if he could exploit samsungs bootloader, but the comment of devs have tried in the past is wrong, maybe not the note 3, but the s4 is still being worked on by great devs like @Surge1223 and others, if an exploit is found for one of us, it will likely work for all of us (maybe requiring a little more tinkering) so if @geohot is interested, then thats a huge confedence boost, as he has amazed me more than once over the years, kind of hoping he is going to start android hacking more now lol anyway hope is always here at xda
AT&T Galaxy S4 4.3 MK2 rooted with saferoot, safestrap recovery installed, Running Hyperdrive ROM, Praying for unlocked bootloader lol
I'll put in some $$. Waiting for this Note 3 to be cracked!
Not sure if this will work for the note 3, but ive posted it in the S5 thread as well, want to get the word around for more devs to look at, looks useful
CVE-2014-0973
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects...arsing-during-boot-image-authentication-leads
AT&T Galaxy S4 4.3 MK2 rooted with saferoot, safestrap recovery installed, Running Hyperdrive ROM, Praying for unlocked bootloader lol
I achieved root using his app, but have not had any luck flashing a rom since always boots to a black screen
Anyone else have this issue?
ROB281 said:
I achieved root using his app, but have not had any luck flashing a rom since always boots to a black screen
Anyone else have this issue?
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seems as though safe strap will have to be updated for the NC4 kernel
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ROB281 said:
I achieved root using his app, but have not had any luck flashing a rom since always boots to a black screen
Anyone else have this issue?
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If you're on NC4 official, you can only install roms also based on NC4. Right now, there aren't any.
I am completely new to android and the world of rooting. I have a galaxy S 5 (SM-G900A). I jailbroke my iphones in the past and found it to be pretty simple. I did the towelroot root last week and didn't know where to go or what to do next. Since the bootloader is locked is it worth it to do the root? Not sure if I am missing something but everything I look up is for the tons of other devices and different models for different carriers. I got a little overwhelmed. So my first question is should I even root this device and what exactly can I do or if you have the same device, what have you done with it?
2) Since the root, my S Health is not working and I noticed the phone to be a little jumpy. I did a factory reset on the device and found that I was still having issues. Then I realized the reset did not wipe the root, so I was able to remove the root with superuser and did another reset. My phone has been working great (non rooted). However, this morning it updated S Health and now I am back to not having that app work. Is there a fix and can it be done by only rooting again?
Thanks for any and everyone's help!
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Thanks for your help!
Hey everyone I want to root this phone. Does anyone have a good tutorial on doing this? I have not rooted anything since my original Note and want to get back in the game and need a refresher
Thanks XDA
The easiest way is to do cyanogenmod installler and it installs the stock rom and root. If u only want root go to
https://autoroot.chainfire.eu/ and find your model number make sure it says the right software verision. If it doesnt have note 3 on lollipop try kingo root.
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I will give this a try