[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development] galaxys3man30:
Hello Everyone.

Its has come to my attention that alot of people are having issues rooting the new OTA MJA 4.3. I have found the safest way to root MJA without any problems. Ive had several members test my method and it has worked on the frist try without any problems. I'm going to give my steps in a detailed way that it is very easy to understand and as well download links to what i used to root 4.3 MJA. Now here we go everyone.

Items Required

1. A GS4 on the 4.3 MJA OTA

2. Laptop or desktop

3. USB cord

4. ODIN 3.07

5. CF Root

6.CWM 6.0.4.4(Comfirmed working on the I9000 and I9505 for restore backups without any issues)

DISCLAIMER: I am not at fualt for anything happening to your phone. If you follow my guide word for word you want have any issues. Note this well still trip the knox counter to 0x1. As there is no way to stop this from happening at this time.

STEP ONE

First things first download all the files you need from the links below. While thats do that grab your S4 and hold the power button down until the menu pops up and select power off and hit ok. Now make sure you let the device power down fully before doing anything esle or you will have issues. Once powered down fully take ur phone and press and hold the power+volume down until you see green words on the screen and hit the volume up button to continue and now your in download mode.

STEP TWO

Now find CF Root file you will have to open the zip with 7zip. Now start ODIN 1.85 and now connect your device to your computer via the USB cord. You should see a yellow box with the word COM in it doesn't matter what the number is. Now hit the PDA button and select the CF Root tar file. Then hit start and dont unplug the USB cord until it says pass in odin. It will reboot and let it reboot fully and go to your app drawer and check and make sure SuperSU is in the app draw open it and update it. Now go to play store and download rootchecker app and verify that you have root.

STEP THREE

Once you have verified your rooted now hold the power button down wait for the menu to pop up and hit power off the device dont forget to let fully power down and now hit the power+volume down and wait for the green letters to pop up and hit the volume up to continue in to download mode. Now open ODIN3.07 and then hook your device back to your computer wait for the yellow or blue box with COM and any number and go to PDA button and select the CWM 6.0.4.4 tar file and hit the start button and wait for ODIN to say pass which now with the new bootloader it adds a extra 2 min to the boot time so the phone boot and sit until odin says pass and now you are rooted and have a custom recovery. Now power down the device and wait for it to finish powering down for the last time and press and hold power+volume up until you see blue,red and yellow words in the top left corner and now your in your custom recovery and now make a backup so if anything happens you have something to fall back on. Cuz your on 4.3 now until furture notice theres no returning to MF9 the bootloader will not let you go back if you try to you will tons of problems and headaches trust me ive seen the posts.

Now you have successfully rooted and put a custom recovery on your S4 with the 4.3 MJA update. If having any issues plz dont be scared to ask i will do what i can help you. ENJOY!!!!

THANKS

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] for CF-Auto-Root and SuperSU

Clock Work Mod for CWM 6.0.4.4 Devs of ODIN

[MENTION=4745870]mw86[/MENTION] for comfirming CWM 6.0.4.4 working on the I9000 and I9505 and 4.3

[MENTION=4840888]Kaito95[/MENTION] for the knox removel script

[MENTION=4325945]ktoonsez[/MENTION] for the awesomeness of his kernel

TESTERS

[MENTION=3368649]reverepats[/MENTION] for letting me root his device [MENTION=4702043]chris-allen[/MENTION]

[MENTION=5256452]Kingmdm[/MENTION]

LINKS/DOWNLOADS

CF-Auto-Root thread/download

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2291827

CWM 6.0.4.4 thread/download

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2322679

DE-SAMSUNGIZER MOD

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2507931

ODIN 3.07 download

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1778755

Ktoonsz kernel thread/download with wifi fix

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47030804&postcount=1638

MY DOWNLOADS

TrulyClean_TEST3_v3.0.2_HARDCORE_NEW-MORE****_Knox_Only.zip

md5: 40f5427c0bcb4d2a9ffdecb4f63875aa

url: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527945828

Complete root package everything you need to root MJA

md5: ad7fd1f0787a48e0491a1de3c13c5c29

url: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527945829