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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jonapunk:
Yea sorry about that! I did a Web search and seems nothing has popped up about rooting yet not sure any of the developers have one yet. If they do they either haven't figured out how to root it or haven't shared with us
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Seems unlikely. These guys usually share selflessly, and get stuff out there really fast. That was the basis for my confidence when I came home and flopped down in front of my computer to do this. Still looking. But also doing 20 other things. If I find something definitive, I'll post it here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JohnKC913:
I suspect it won't be much different than rooting the MJA or MK2 firmware. From the stock ROM, on L720T, it looks mostly to be a modem and kernel update.

Plus, Sprint will be selling these going forward. Honestly, I'd be happy if I could get stock rooted simply to be able to do nandroid and titanium backups.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Well, I have that accomplished. Just removed a lot of the garbage using Titanium Backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
My Sprint S4 Model

Hello, I have noticed the postings about the new Sprint "T" Version of the S4.

On my box it states "SPHL720BKK"

Is this a new model or old one? I have had the phone about two months now.

I am looking to improve my data speed and connectivity to the towers. My phone goes from LTE to 3G very often.

I am on SAC's Custom Rom 4.3

The Build is L720VPUEMK2

Android Ver. 4.3

Is there something I can do to improve this?

Any and all help is appreciated.

Thank You in Advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Look under settings/ about device, where it gives the model. If it has SPH-L720T, it's the new one. If no "T" at the end. Old one. No idea how to fix it except to cry to Sprint and see if you can get a new one out of them. Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ulremember:
Dang, no "T".

This is getting frustrating.

Thank You so Much for the Quick Reply

Blessings

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Dang, no "T".

This is getting frustrating.

Thank You so Much for the Quick Reply

Blessings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Great. Glad to hear it, as I really want wifi calling to work. Does anyone know how I can get the update manually and flash it? OTA is not working for me. Just the error/ fail/ abort message when it boots back into stock recovery to apply the ota update. Hell, my S5 told me doe to "unauthorized modifications", I should try to update through Kies! Kinda cryptic!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] youngnex:
Odin back to NAF and then try NC6.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
Are you rooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
I'm not now. I got Kies to update to the latest firmware, which enabled wifi calling. But I lost root. I'm thinking about reodining CF autoroot, but since it's my wifes phone, I really don't care. She's not a flashaholic like me. I just got the S5, and can't seem to find anything in here about it. Kinda odd to search it our and find NOTHING. NM, Found it. Had to search externally oddly enough.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] youngnex:
Cf root should work. It's been confirmed.

Sent from my SPH-L720T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
CF Root? From what I read, it made me use CF Auto Root (which worked great).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] VandyCWG:
I re-rooted NC6 with CF Auto Root with zero problems. Had to re download SuperSU from Google Play afterwards.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] tempests:
I can also confirm CF-Auto Root works perfectly for stock root. The one I downloaded was a complete zip with Odin and Super Su included.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] LowaEastSide:
Hey Sean

My sister inlaw had the L720, I had it all decked out for her with free tethering as well (Resprects to Negalite_Wonderom-NAE-r6), however when her insurance company replaced it they sent her the L720T (NAF), so when i went to set it up for her again i was like WTF, i did some research and it lead me here, now my MAIN concern is if the HOTSPOT works, can you Please let me know, if not, would you know a work around to get it working, thanks in advance, Bless. :D :D :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Yep you can flash aosp for the 720t and it looks like we might not be able to get a full supported recovery. I can't get an answer from anyone.

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Oh and does anyone have a clean backup of the mk5 mine some how got corrupted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] seek2222:
720t band

Sprint does have triband speeds in some places but it will take a long time before they are available most places and the other carriers are starting to speed up their own networks... it would be awesome if we could get more dev support for the L720t.. i got one thinking there would already be solutions for this..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MyzDevyneOne:
Hello, Just found this forum and just did a quick search... Did anyone do CF ROOT AFTER they upgraded to 4.4.2 NC6? If yes, does it trip the Knox flag? If so, is there any issues? Just wanted to confirm before rooting.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
i just got this model on friday (june 20, 2014) and i tried different methods to root it. basically all that is supposed to work for this new T model. the first time i tried it with cf auto root it said it was rooted, but then my phone went into some dead mode. I had no data at all unless i connected to my wifi. i even tried doing updates and soon as it would search for an update it would connect to LTE then once done i lost the signal. I couldnt do anything basically with my service. I ended up having to do a factory reset and lost all the time i spent setting up all my apps and copying all my files over from my other phone. So for now im just sticking with a non rooted phone till more successful methods are found. It did trip the knox flag but the supersu app that installed didnt do any good.

so good luck

Edit:

speed is wayyyyyy better with this tri-band, before on my 32gb google nexus i would get around 8mbit down here at home, now with this i get about 33mbit down, faster i got was yesterday i was at the beach and i was getting full signal on LTE, i did a speed test and got 45mbit down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] frukyyy:
I don't think the CF autoroot caused the mobile outage. It may be the ROM GU iu flashed. Keep in mind only few ROMs are compatible with T. No Rom is made specifically for T. Use TB pro for backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JerryGNYC:
I used CF Auto Root after NC6 update and had no problems. Knox is tripped (but I don't care :cool:).

HTH,

-Jerry
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
ok so i did some more searching around and found this thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2621862

it helped me root mine finally and it caused no problem. if your on the 4.4.2 NC6 then use the towelroot method, install the .apk, after you run it click 3 times on the title in the app and change the numbers to "1337 0 1 7380 4 0". make sure you do the spaces as shown. after you have those numbers then click the make it rain button and woala. should be good to go. I installed root checker afterwards and root is successful.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
So i did some more work since i finally rooted my SPH-L720T and managed to get TWRP installed. The new design and options are amazing. For now im not going to bother with installing a custom rom. I installed titanium backup last night and went to work on cleaning up this sprint S4. Samsung, Sprint, and Google had alot of bloatware that came factory installed so i went to work on removing most of it, Im much happier now that i cleaned it up and my phone is still running great.

Now i have one question which i hope someone can help, i want to be able to use CM or AOKP themes, is there an app that i can install that will allow that or are the theming feature built into the custom ROMS only and not possible to be just added onto a stock rom.

also has anyone tried uninstalling the knox software on the S4...

Samsung KNOX 3.0

KLMS Agent 1.9.022

Knox Notification Manager 1.0

Knox Store 1.0

that is all i could find that had to do with KNOX, i would like to just uninstall it but i dont know if it will cause problems so i didnt mess with it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
alrighty then, so first of all thanks for all this info, to start off i tried to do the xposed theme engine but after i got all installed and ran the theme engine it told me i had to install icon themer module, apparently the icon themer had a virus or something so it was no longer available here on xda and i read it costs money via the play store so i just went ahead and uninstalled theme engine but im keeping the xposed installer cause there is alot of nifty modules i can use.

2nd - i tried to use root browser to uninstall everything knox related but it just said searching and never found anything so i jumped over to es file explorer and searched and it found stuff quickly, i tried to delete all folders and files but just said it couldnt. I decided to goto TB and use that to uninstall everything that was related to KNOX that i could find and i did without issues, Most of the stuff you listed for bloatware i already removed yesterday but a few of the stuff i removed just now. Some of the stuff has changed, (filename or whatever) but i found most of it.

At this point it seems i dont need a custom rom to be happy i guess. I use Apex launcher and paid for the full version and use apex themes to theme it even tho not as in depth as CM or AOSP. Only thing i dont like about this rom/phone is the settings menu app, i dont like how it is split into sections like that, looks kinda corny/childish to me i guess.

attached is a screenshot of my home screen, the apex theme is "Eminent HD"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
No problem.. so about Knox... I had no problem getting rid of it.. after rooting I simply uninstall my SuperSU.apk and redownloaded it from the Playstore.. as soon as I opened it.. it said.. 'binary needs update. Yes?' I hit yes.. it did it's thing.. then said. 'Knox detected. Attempt to remove?' Hit yes.. then it said success. Never had a problem again...

My guess is.. I tripped Knox with (stupidly) not researching and just Odin-ing the cf-autoroot.. I even forgot to make a stock backup before flashing my new rom.. this is mainly why I'm making stock Odin's...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
ahhhh, yeah sounds like almost identical to what i did. I tried cf autoroot and it messed my phone up. I lost all data after trying to root using it. it did supposedly root it but my data wouldnt work so i had to do a phone reset and start over, but of course it tripped the knox flag also. Personally i dont really care as long as it does not effect performance issue with the phone. Towelroot worked perfect, then using odin i managed to get twrp installed, took me a few tries but i finally got it. I think i might make a full backup as is right now with all my apps and so forth.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
Good idea.. BTW.. I've made a little progress with the development of our device.. I am hosting the 4.4.2 NC6 Odin tar so if you ever need to go back to stock.. we can do so now.. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] LarryInMD:
Now that Towelroot version 3 by geohot has been released, I can confirm it works on both of my SPH-L720 and SPH-L720T. Towelroot does not require the use of a pc, it's easy and a one button click. I only had to change the default modstring to: 1337 0 1 7380 4 0 . Clicked Make It Rain => ROOTED! I used Triangle Away ver 3.26 from chainfire to reset the tripped flags.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
... wait.. what tripped flags? Knox? Just to be absolutely sure.. you ran Triangle Away on your L720t? And which flags exactly? Like if you've tripped Knox run triangle away.. and reboot to download mode.. and 0x0???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] NEOeclipseOP:
...ummmm yeah im lost also, triangle away didnt reset the KNOX flag for me, mine still shows KNOX Warranty 0x1

please explain
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
Must be the custom rom flags... not Knox...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] LarryInMD:
You are correct. Triangle Away ver 3.26 reset the flash counter to 0 and set the binary and system from Custom back to Official. Sorry, Knox still tripped.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Android Jack:
Hi guys, is there any update on an available download for stock rooted L720T 4.4.2? Been searching but I can't find anything. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] daniel4653:
When you say stock rooted 4.4.2 NC6 ROM where you flash it with Odin, there is no such thing. You would have to Odin NC6 if you're not on it already and root with towel root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
not entirely true...

I have just finished a stock rooted Odin for our L720t. NC6 4.4.2.. it's a big file and as such will take awhile to upload. But very soon we'll have our stock rooted Odin tars. ;)

ATM I am testing the file in Odin for bugs and will upload it tonight.

Also I'm trying to make a stock Rom for TWRP/CWM for a quick stock zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] frukyyy:
Rooted stock tar, shouldn't trigger the counter??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
I am not sure as I do not have a un-triggered device. Both my girlfriends and mine are already tripped and this does not fix the flag. Although I am quite happy to say I have a successful Odin here to a rooted stock state. ;) still some minor problems.. but I'm almost happy enough to start the upload.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Android Jack:
This is why I rarely go on XDA. Dais knows what I'm referring to. Back to Phandroid I go
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] frukyyy:
Every wall starts with a brick! This is like going to wholes food and screaming Walmart is the king!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Android Jack:
Yep. That's why I asked a simple follow up question on this thread and was told what I was asking about didn't exist even though it was the subject of this entire thread. Makes sense lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
H8a's be H8in.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
If any one is looking for a stock root here is mk5

http://cnexus.co/downloads/files/Misc/SPH-L720T_ROOTED_ODEXED_MK5.zip

Thanks to Cnexus for making it for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mr.yastrub:
gsm unlock

hey guys. Can i unlock GSM of my l720t device?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Daisflaque:
Holy.... POOOOOO! I've been busting my bottom off on a rooted stock NC6... Maybe CNexus and I can help eachother on this.. or maybe just tell me what I'm doing wrong.. Lol..

Either way downloading and testing on my NC6 L720T.. Post my results soon. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
I asked cnexus to make one for each but if you download all and give him super fast download links and not from sammoble he might kick them out I would like to see some more progress for this phone I'm not a touchwiz user but I like options like flashable modems ROMs with themes all the good stuff
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] torik0:
What can I do with this?

Hi there. I'm trying to uninstall the CM OS and replace it with this given firmware you've shared with us. Do you know how I would go about doing this, or if I should flash a stock ROM that is not rooted using ODIN first? I'm just really lost. Getting CM to work in the first place was a nightmare, but removing it is proving just as challenging.

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: Can I go straight from a custom ROM to rooted stock firmware, or do I have to get rid of the custom ROM first, flash the stock, then flash the rooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
In recovery wipe and than flash the stock rooted
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] torik0:
I would've, but the two stock rooted ROMs I had were loose files (META-INF, system, boot.img), so I had to go with a tar of a straight-up stock ROM. How can I use these loose files with Odin?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
That is a recovery flashable zip you don't need Odin for it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
OK folks I need some assistance and info.

Phone info via the settings says the following:

Model #: SPH-L720T

Baseband: L720TVPUBNG5

Kernel is dated July 31st

Build #: KOT49H.L720TVPUBNG5

That being said, I would like to root this phone, but I don't want to trip Knox at all.

I know that a custom recovery will defiantly trip Knox, but will flashing via Odin trip Knox. I have rooted before so I'm not afraid of the root process I just do not want to trip Knox is all. All I want is just your basic root nothing more as I won't be flashing any ROMs.

Can I use Odin to flash a tar file and obtain root that way without tripping the Knox counter? If so can someone supply a link to the tar file please.

Most of what I've read is rooting as well as a custom recovery, and I am guessing the cm-autoroot way installs a custom recovery, therefore trips Knox which I do not want to do.

I tried towelroot + SuperSU and it didn't work. Sprint has sent out an update that plugs the exploit that towelroot uses, so it no longer works. The dev now works for goggle so a fix or update I don't think will happen, so towelroot is out of the picture.

Also, reading this thread I see my numbers and information are not the same as what is posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Synderelle:
I would love root without tripping knox as well. Unfortunately the NG5 update doesn't have any confirmed root processes that don't trip knox. So it seems we either do it and say screw warranty or we wait.. Personally I think I'm gonna go ahead and do it, because my phone had a microphone issue right out of the box and samsung made me pay to have it repaired. A out of box defect wasn't covered under warranty. .

In any case good luck I wish you happy rooting!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aadgentry:
Bricked SPH-L720T

So I bricked it. I followed the auto root video for the S4. Worked fine. I tried to flash the modem file (but i did not realize the difference in the model for triband... so I lost all data.

I Downloaded ROM Manager from Play and wanted to get a custom recovery on there. I am not really sure what happened, but my phone is now stuck at the Galaxy S4 Boot Screen.

I followed instructions on XDA and got the stock firmware from Sammobile and Odin 3.09 for emergency recovery.

My girlfriend has the same phone as me and she is running the N_6 version of the firmware. So I obtained the same firmware from Sammobile. When I put the phone into download, start up Odin in Admin, and wait for the MD5 check, it says the MD5 hash is invalid. Tried dropping the MD5 off the file name. No change.

Redownloaded the Stock ROM from SAMmobile. MD5 hash invalid. I just want my phone to work again. I don't really care if its full stock or rooted version of the STOCK ROM. I just want my phone back. Please help. have been on this for 6 hours straight. I have read and studied forums and I cannot seem to get anywhere. At present there is no CWM/TWRP on my phone and it is stuck at the Galaxy S4 Screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
I posted two stock rooted ROMs on the other s4t thread just put them up they are on my android file host under bthorne79

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First what was the original file you had for your phone mk5 nc6 or ng5 you might want to use them I've had better luck with odin 3.07
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aadgentry:
Well my girl's phone is on NG5 right now so I imagine since they are identical that I had the same before I autorooted it.

Stock recovery on it, no backups. Was hoping to just start over with a Stock Unrooted ROM but just getting the phone to boot to android would make me happy for starters.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Ummmmm. You extracted that file before you dropped into Odin, right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aadgentry:
Of course. I have to watch for .img files instead of the .tar.md5 files I need.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
For Odin you need the tar files
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Zactly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
What's up [MENTION=4599946]AuGmENTor[/MENTION] when did you move over from the OG epic4g
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
About a year ago. You?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Feb 2013 went to s3 feb this yr got the s4

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Ready to move on to something again might try nexus again the toroplus I had for about 2 weeks was good but mine had issues and I didn't feel like bothering with it that's why I went to s3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Similar: s4 a year ago, S5 dropped so I gave s4 to wife and got that. Hate the ROMS on these though. Nothing like the good ol' Epic 4G!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aadgentry:
*solved

Thanks everyone! bthorne79 hosted the stock ROM file from sammobile because apparently I had multiple bad downloads when I tried to download myself.

Flashed it with Odin 3.09, then flashed CF autoroot and TWRP. All is well!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ttcounts:
May I ask how you flashed in ODIN since this is a .zip file? I am soft bricked with file download error but have download mode. I converted the .zip into .tar but it just shuts down ODIN every time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
extract the zip The tar file is in it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Depending on the size... Odin can become unresponsive for up to sayyyyy 5 minutes or so while it processes it. This can vary based on your computing power and the size of the file. My 8 core locks up for almost 8 minutes on some of the 2 gig ROMs. You're not being a panicky Pete and pulling the plug too early, are you?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
No he converted a zip holding the tar to a tar and tried flashing that
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
I'm talking about after you do that, when you select the file you want to flash through Odin, the unzipped file. That can take a while.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Yes Odin could take up to 10 min sometimes. I think just from the way the post was written that it was done WAY wrong
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] AuGmENTor:
Well, DUH (lol).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] easyrider77:
Wait. If the tar file is in the zip file, why did they convert anything? Just unzip the file and use the tar?

I'm kinda lost....