I know there are other posts about this, none I have seen specifically about the AT&T Galaxy s4 though. I rooted using the motochopper method, no problems. I just received a notice on my at&t samsung galaxy s4 phone about a software update. Can I accept it or should I deny it?
Yes you can but you'll lose root. Read up. I've read other users rerooted after the update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268946
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Correct. It breaks root. You'll just have to motochopper root it again after. Works fine
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confirming the update breaks root, installs successfully, and no issues re-rooting with the same method after the update
Hi Guys,
I rooted my Samsung S4 (GT-9505) using motochopper, but since discovered some of my apps don't work with a rooted device.
I would like to unroot it back to factory settings.
What do I need to do? Is it a case of downloading an official ROM and using ODIN to flash the official bios back on?
I have reset the counter with TRIANGLE but my device status is still 'custom' and not official.
Is there a simple way of removing the root that motochopper adds or is an official ROM the only way?
Im in the UK and would like to flash to the latest Vodafone ROM and unrooted as new.
Many thanks
First of all, there's no app that would stop working because of a rooted device. Rooting just gains you administrator privileges, nothing more, nothing less. And yes, the best way to unroot and get the official status back is to download and flash an official rom through Odin.
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techfreakgag said:
First of all, there's no app that would stop working because of a rooted device. Rooting just gains you administrator privileges, nothing more, nothing less. And yes, the best way to unroot and get the official status back is to download and flash an official rom through Odin.
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Many thanks for your reply,
Unfortunatly your wrong there, Barclays PingIt (my bank account) knows when a phone has been rooted and displays an error page saying its breaching security and stops the app from working!! Crazy I know.
You can uninstall super su then reboot the phone.
You can get instructions from the Exynos Abuse thread by chainfire. It's at the bottom.
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Hello there
I found that flixster wouldn't stream ultraviolet movies with root. I did find that using voodoo ota root keeper from play store helps that. Click on temp unroot, then when you've finished using that app that doesn't allow root, restore root. Unsure that this will work for you, but no harm in trying.
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I used this guide and it worked quite well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
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Hello all, i just bought my Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505) and i am instersting in rooting it just to remove all unnecessary apps and generaly have the control of my apps.. But i dont want to load any ROM.. I want to keep taking updates from Samsung..
Is that possible?
As long as you have stock recovery
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I didnt mean u.. Lets say i rooted my device and instal Titanium Backup ★ root am i ready and continue downloading updates from Samsung? or when i am rooting i have to install a ROM?
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sebarkh said:
ROOT=NOUPDATES
..said million times....
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Sorry for barging in, but.. really? S4 root = no updates? in the GN I remember getting updates regularly with root (before I went CM)
Cf-auto root, and reset device status to offical by triangle away in order to receive OTA, but you can just use odin to flash any firmware for update
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DummyPLUG said:
Cf-auto root, and reset device status to offical by triangle away in order to receive OTA, but you can just use odin to flash any firmware for update
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1+ :thumbup: i have root with ota and kies update
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Ota make sense if you are in region where ota first hit updates. For me it tames few weeks for official updates come to my carrier. Custom rom is great thing . In most cases you will see new updates here before ota hit your region
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Hey guys new to the S4 thread, just updated from the S2 decided to go with this over the N5 because of a few features. I plan to root my device, but need a bit of help. I'm on 4.2.2 and wanted to know how should I go about rooting? Should I update to 4.3 then root or root on 4.2.2 thanks!
Root mf9 and stay on that
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daniel4653 said:
Root mf9 and stay on that
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Is updating to a rooted version on 4.3 ok?
Staying on 4.2 is highly recommended. The Knox bootloader on 4.3 is no good. If you really want 4.3, go here and follow the instructions to stay on the MF9 bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41384294
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That ^^^
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Darrien13 said:
Hey guys new to the S4 thread, just updated from the S2 decided to go with this over the N5 because of a few features. I plan to root my device, but need a bit of help. I'm on 4.2.2 and wanted to know how should I go about rooting? Should I update to 4.3 then root or root on 4.2.2 thanks!
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All I can say to help is that I just rooted and installed CWM yesterday from 4.3 and all seems well. I say update, then root as the devs for this phone will stay on top of update issues anyways.
El Shaddai's Wrath said:
All I can say to help is that I just rooted and installed CWM yesterday from 4.3 and all seems well. I say update, then root as the devs for this phone will stay on top of update issues anyways.
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And know you have now tripped Knox counter to 0x1. And cannot go back to MF9 through backups or odin.
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And know you have now tripped Knox counter to 0x1. And cannot go back to MF9 through backups or odin.
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I personally don't care about being able to go back to MF9 anyways. I did the OTA to 4.3, rooted it and put Sac's ROM (4.3 edition) on it and do not regret it at all!! 4.3 is snappier and I get amazing battery life. Just my 2 pennies though! Hopefully we get 4.4 by January-February... definitely hopefully before Valentines Day.
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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That's a bummer...seeing any performance improvements though?
devoidx said:
That's a bummer...seeing any performance improvements though?
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Hard to say, it doesn't seem much different but I've only had it installed a couple of hours and not used the phone too much yet.
I can tell you, however that it adds more bloat! There is at least one new app I noticed called "My Galaxy"
EDIT: Also, they've changed the animation for fingerprint unlock failure to some horrible alarming flashing red/white thing instead of the subtle one it was before.
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So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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A kernel patch for Towelroot was te be expected. Use CF Auto Root or wait for Geohot for an possible updated version of TR to get root again..
gee2012 said:
A kernel patch for Towelroot was te be expected. Use CF Auto Root or wait for Geohot for an possible updated version of TR to get root again..
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I'll wait. The reason I used towel root in the first place was not to trip knox.
It was just a headsup for those who might care more than I do.
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i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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FrenchSparda said:
i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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Because I'm an software engineer and I know exactly what I'm doing by rooting.
Denying root with this knox and other bull***, locked bootloaders, etc, is totally unacceptable to me.
I refuse to lose warranty for some hardware fault that might occur (and I've had many issues over the years and dozens of phones) on something I own because I got "root" access.
I dare someone to tell me that I've lost warranty on my laptop because I installed CentOS, logged in as root and twiddled with my bootloader.
It's entirely and utterly a matter of principle.
Don't expect you to agree, just helping you to "understand".
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So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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i already experience this after update. we'll wait for the Next update of Towelroot.
when?
alias_neo said:
So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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When is the New update for Towelroot?
I've recieved this update too, what would happen if I update without unrooting? I've deleted a few pre-installed apps, when updating, I won't have a problem with that will I?
Thanks!
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So I saw an update for "performance improvements" (~200MB) on my rooted 900F. I unrooted and updated. No problem. Once I reboot there is a second update ~1.2MB. I installed that and rebooted, tried to run towelroot and it says device not supported. Tried a few different modstring values including the temp root and none of them work.
Moral of the story; don't update if you want to towelroot.
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Can you describe step by step how to unroot and receive the OTA? Thanks in advance
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*elmo* said:
Can you describe step by step how to unroot and receive the OTA? Thanks in advance
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Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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And what happens when you don't remove changes and accept the OTA?
Thanks in advance
alias_neo said:
Quite simple, when you see the ota, remove ALL changes yiu nade to system (e.g. adblock hosts file)unroot from within SuperSU, then reboot then accept the OTA.
Bare in mind if you do this, there is currently no way to root again without knox trip
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So I will receive OTA even when I'm rooted? Sorry for noob question...
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*elmo* said:
So I will receive OTA even when I'm rooted? Sorry for noob question...
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No. You will recieve ota, but you can't update via ota.. you will be able to update using kies.
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alley23 said:
No. You will recieve ota, but you can't update via ota.. you will be able to update using kies.
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only you can upgrade July 26][G900FXXU1ANG2][4.4.2][Knox 0x0] and keep root is manually via mobile odin pro from market by chain fire
download samsung s5 firmware http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=SM-G
extract rom to sd card on phone
open mobile odin pro and go to open file select the rom from sd card
flash rom
FrenchSparda said:
i don't understand why people wants to avoid knox trip. You made the choice to root...so no more warranty, and if you got bad luck and have to repair your phone, just pay for it
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Thank god for some consumer laws in many countries makeing sure samsung can't take away the warranty for for rooting, not even tripping knox
Thanks!
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only you can upgrade July 26][G900FXXU1ANG2][4.4.2][Knox 0x0] and keep root is manually via mobile odin pro from market by chain fire
download samsung s5 firmware http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=SM-G
extract rom to sd card on phone
open mobile odin pro and go to open file select the rom from sd card
flash rom
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Thanks dude! Hey in order to do this, you have to tick the "Everroot" option, don't you?
Thanks a lot dude!
aguarello said:
Thanks dude! Hey in order to do this, you have to tick the "Everroot" option, don't you?
Thanks a lot dude!
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Yes you need to tick everoot option ticked as default on mobile odin pro
also tick wipe dav cache and/ wipe data and cache (optional)
also chose option to reboot to download mode on after flash option
then on your pc open odin an flash the following files modem and bootlaoder
Bootloader ANG2: BL_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5 https://www.dropbox.com/s/tdiu7rc3tbr02j9/BL_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5
Modem ANG2: CP_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rl3gh2ppvi4c9ty/CP_G900FXXU1ANG2.tar.md5
on odin place the bootlaoder on BL
AND modem on CP
AFTER FLASH WITH ODIN IT SHOULD REBOOT OK
raysv said:
Thank god for some consumer laws in many countries makeing sure samsung can't take away the warranty for for rooting, not even tripping knox
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great news! Do you know which countrys ?
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