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[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Greaper88:
You'll need to find an Odin ROM for the Sprint version in order to unroot. I've heard that Sprint's official policy for rooted devices is to restore the proper ROM, but not all stores (non corporate) are on board with that.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
[MENTION=6116422]Greaper88[/MENTION] you've quoted the last post on the first page, looks like you're using the android app as well lol
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Greaper88:
LOL. Quick reply on the mobile site..... just as bad I'm guessing...... oops
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] kate cody:
no root option

This worked flawlessly. I wasnt shown option to root. So I side loaded su file. Still no root amI missing something?

Thanks for the help.
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] kate cody:
GOT ROOT!

So. ..I reread this forum and the answer was here. I used the updated supersu and it wroked! Thankyou for sharing. The tablet is rooted. Samsung galaxy sm-t217s.

Well done!
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] xcoryedgex:
Odin won't show me that my tablet is even connected. Like it's not even there
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
Try a different usb port (back of computer is preferred), try a different cable (oem is preferred), make sure usb debugging is enabled
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] kate cody:
Yes it worked!! Very well with udated supersu! Thankyou!
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] geminithebest2222:
i m using sm-t217s in pakistan. which only supports lte band 3 means 1800MHZ lte

can i change or ulocked other lte frequencies for use data network on this tab?

coz when i put local network lte sim it says invalid sim.. itz locked or unlocked by default ? please guide sir.....
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Hey guys i have this exact model

So its it safe to assume these files will work on my device, also after i get the twrp installed im gonna need a good rom that supports otg

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--- do u have otg on ur sm-t217s?
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
The files work for the device listed, but it does not support USB OTG. This is a hardware restriction, so changing ROM, kernel, etc will NOT make USB OTG work! I returned this device for this reason, the 8 and 10 inch versions do have OTG support but not the 7 inch..
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
otg?

Ok i actually have several apps saying otg is enabled, one is usb host check which has a fix option for root users, so i rooted and hit fix, then it only shows 2 things both have a grron check mark, one is the harware file, also there is a host diagnostics app that sais kernal supports but os not not support, so i thought i was othe righ track, if this is a hardware limitation im not gonna try anything else, if so i wonder if someone will buy a rooted tablet at a decent price so i can get a sony tablet so ittl connect to my ps3 controller easily, i did get my ps3 controller going on this tablet but it will only charge on pc and ps3, i just gotta make sure if i get a new tablet that it has otg, also i looked into the system files and it has two files there for otg, one is the hardware file, when i open it, it has a message saying this is to show that otg is supported, very confliting, i even wrote samsung and they said its not supported on my device, do u know if this tablet can run bt mouse and keyboard at the same time, i already have the keyboard and considering getting a bt mouse, but i heard some devices doesent support multiple bt devices at the same time, i reallly wish otg support was in the specs on the devices that supports it, can u tell me what steps u took to try to get otg to work, wow knowing that i almost took a big risk trying to flash a costom rom for nothing, i have a feeling as soon as i try i, im gonna brick it, i want to get the ps3 controller mouse and keyboard all running at the same time, and have the device charge and use otg at the same time, am i asking for too much? Also r u 100% sure the hardware doesnt support it? If thats the case those otg checker apps ae so misleading
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
[MENTION=6932902]Willsp282012[/MENTION]

I had read that the Tab 3 series supported OTG and snagged one up when Sprint started their special (T217S free with 2 yr $10/mo contract) and downloaded the apps that verify OTG like you're talking about. I got the same results and thought the same thing, that OS not supported meant that root would fix the issue. I purchased an OTG cable and rooted as described here. The tablet would not recognize any OTG devices, though the same cable works fine on other devices! The 8 and 10 inch Tab 3 DO support OTG (I've tested 8"), but Sprint does not offer the 8" and wants too much for the 10" version. I did all of this stuff within my return policy and flashed back to stock before returning because what's the point if it doesn't have OTG? :rolleyes: I was happy it worked out because I had tripped KNOX if I remember correctly :cool:
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Otg?

I wonder if its normal to get false positives on otg checker apps, and yes i totally agree whats the point in having a tablet if it cant do otg, i made a whole set up, a stand for the tablet and a case that holds the keyboad and a place for the mouse all in one case the only thing missing is the mouse, im currently using a bt keyboard , will this tablet run a bt mouse and keyboard together, if so ill just get a bt mouse and be done with it, looks like its gonna be too expensive to get a new tablet, also weve hadtablet for quite some time so no warenty anyways, but maybe someone in my area will pay extra for a rooted tablet i dont really know, for someone who doesnt know how to root might actully want want to buy a already rooted tablet, lol just hope they dont need otg, why dont devs just make all newer devices support it, its crazy it should be a standard feature
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
I'm not sure on the Bluetooth stuff, give it a try and let us know if it works! :thumbup: I agree about the OTG and this is why I had to part with the device. Maybe I'm missing part of the story, but it seems unethical to remove this functionality in the smallest (and thus cheapest) device in the series. The sad part is that the pieces are there, but not connected IIRC.. Somewhere here on xda someone explained that there's an extra jumper or connection or something that enables OTG. The hardware is the same as in the larger variants but it is not connected, causing false positive. Theoretically you could get OTG working if you solder the connection yourself (far beyond my capabilities :p)
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Same here, im not attempting that, thanks to everyone who contributed,

Always open for more ideas
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Thaks for all the input

I have looked all over the web and cant find anything saying hardware isnt supported, is it possable u guys got bad information? I really hope that is the case, has anyone ever tryd upgrading os and then seeing if it supports otg? I could try it if i had somone who is there t help me and assure that im getting the right files and programs for my specific tablet, also if u upgrade the os and then do a factory reset it will still be the upgraded os, right? I believe it actually overwrites the rcovery and replaces it with the new recovery, and thats why u need to backup current os, if im not mistaken, baisically since no has ever actually ran a os that has otg support i may have to try it, if it still doesnt then maybe u guys can help me write a article and say even after rooting and upgrading os this tablet will not do otg, that would be the ultimate test, if someone can help me upgrade the os let me know how i can get ahold of u, are we allowed to share fb email etc. On here or do i need to add that to my profile, im guessing its be a bit before u guys get mback to me so ill go ahead and look into that

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Ok guys i added all my contact info i welcome all to msg me
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Thanks guys

Im gonna do the same thing u guys did, get rid of this crippled device, and get a asus i have a freind with one from wal-mart and otg actually works on that device, heres a message to all phone companies stop making tablets without otg, for ppl who want to get the most out of our devices, it has to have otg, we want to hook up keyboards mice and controllers, maybe even external hard drives or jump drives, whatever we want, i understand this not being a standard feture on phones, but all tablets should have this, ok on another topic where on the xda forums could i ask about button mapping for controllers and mice?
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Thanks a lot Justin, I'm able to boot to the recovery image, but there is no reboot option in the Advanced tab, this is my first droid tablet. When I first got it it was in Odin mode and I had to do a recovery out of that. It appears that Knox had been tripped previously. It's got 4.4.2 on it, not quite sure what to do when I am in Recovery. No worries, I'll figure this out I only found this thread yesterday and I have yet to go through all of the posts. Thanks.

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Wills, so are these tablets impossible to root with 4.4.2 on them? I feel I was lucky to get it working, I was actually given two of these, this one was stuck in Odin mode and the other one has a burned out battery. It's a nice tablet, the cake would be to be able to root it too.

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
[MENTION=5587341]X-weApon-X[/MENTION] no problems with rooting 4.4.2, device doesn't work with USB OTG though.. Congrats on the tablets ;)
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Ok im dumb when it comes to this stuff: "usb otg"? Not sure what that means. Thanks!

I like this tablet, it plays video well. Wish it had an HDMI out. Its sprint, im on sprint, so it should be nk problem to add it to my service, I want to root it so I can get rid of the crappy default apps that came with the thing.

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
How i rooted mine

ADDED MORE TO THIS MESSAGE I used kingo root, which is pretty much a 1 click root, it is fast and easy, i will now be rooting all my devices with this, now for mine i actually had to get the super su apk, because it was able to disable the knox and update the binaries very nice , also the app icon looks similar to a superman symbol with a s in the middle very nice app, the other super su or super user apps could not accomplish this on my SM-T217S

ADDED -A few awesome things u can after rooting this device, u can bypass the write restrictions from 3rd party apps to the sd card, so now it runs just like other os'es without this crappy restriction, also this device has multi window but only a few apps are able to run in split screen, well there is a mwmanager app for root users, its multi window manager, it lets u add any app to the mw side panel very nice, i have mine set up with all of these things, if u guys want to know about what u can do as far as costimizing or adding featues like adding any app icons to stay in the notificatin panel, so u can launch any app without having to go back to home, or enabling the status bar to stay on in full screen mode,,, so u can always see the battery info and time, i can show u how, also in this mode the notifications dont work, so i fixed that with a notiocation pop up, i am pretty good at getting things to work like i want, so add me up annd ask me stuff i just may be able to help, for instance my mom wanted a app , but in the play store it sais not compatable so i just got the apk installled it, then t worked, lol just gotta know some tricks

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otg stands for on the go, it baisically lets u plug in any standard usb device, so if u have a otg supported device and a usb mouse and keyboard u can use ur tablet like a laptop with the mouse on the the screen, very nice, but from what ive heard its impossable for the these tablets to do otg, and from my research its mostly high end devices that has it, for the tab 3s it goes by screen size , 7 inch is the one that doesnt have it, 8 9 and 10 inch tablets do, wich is crazy cause i have the 7 inch, and i can barly hold on to it, thats y i think all tablets should have otg not everyone has huge hands that can hold a tablet easily

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If u dont want or need otg that is
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
I had originally tried kingo root but didn't have any luck with this device :thumbdown: It did install the drivers automatically though ;)
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Kingo root

I had trouble at first, like u said installing the drivers was fine, but after that it acted like it couldnt find the device, if i unplugged it, it stopped searching, plug it back it back in and it started searching again but kept saying no device connected, its actually a issue with the computer recognising the device, and or usb debugging not bneing on, once it is fully connected check to see if both the internal and external shows up in the my computer list of drives, once u do that, open kingo root plug in the device, u should then get a pop up on ur phone asking to allow usb debugging if i remember right, once u do that u should be able to hit root, after u do that within a few moments it will install kingo root on ur device, and open up the app and show rooting and a percent completed, once its done bobs ur uncle, u now have root access
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Thanks! That makes sense now. I do have a restriction where i cant write to my SD Card from any app, actually this is not my first droid 7" tablet, i did have a dopo rockchip tablet about 3 years ago. But it had jellybean 4.1.1. I believe that tablet had OTG as i was able to attach a small cap-touch keyboard which was in a case, and i never had trouble saving to my SD card. But if you read my posts about it in my history, i had tried to root it with a rockchip rooting kit, and I was never sure if it had been successful. MoboRobo would tell me it was rooted, but I still didn't really have complete root access. That was a great cheap tablet but the only issue was the battery lasted an hour, hehe. This one lasts a full day or more.

This is my first "branded" tablet and fortunately its on my carrier, so there is a lot of potential with this for me. I dont care about otg but id like to get another capacitive kb, cos it helps.

But with thus one, i can get into download mode easy, and i can load the posted PDA file, but I am Not sure what to do when I get into it, because the reboot option is not listed under "advanced"- i dont know how to sideload using adb. I can google it. Also i dont know if i mentioned it but this thing was Knoxed and in odin mode when i got it.

I dived in head first and i was able to find a recovery PDA, so its stock now, but i would so much like to root it. I have about 4 iphones and ipods that i keep jailbroken, its gotten easy to do it in those, but I remember when I had to do 75 individual complicated steps to do it. Ha! Well it took me 6 years to amass that knowledge it feels good to be a rookie again.

It looks like I will have to give this Kingo root a pop, thanks for the suggestion.

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
This was where it would hang for me, it would say it was installing but the percentage would freeze for hours.. Maybe they've updated kingo since then :thumbup:

Copy the supersu file to the device and use the install option in recovery mode (TWRP). I've slightly changed the directions to clarify on page 5 if it's not clear on the first page. Good luck :beer:
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
Ok heres a suggestion

Make sure u have everything closed, no web browsers or any programs running, after i closed web browsers and things like that, it went fine, i think it took about 20 to 40 minutes so not long at all, also i dont know y thoer root checker apps even exist, its so easy to tell, once u think u have root, go to ur app drawer and look for super user, and if u uee kingo roof uell have that as well, also if u tripped the knox im pretty sure u had full root sccess, but the knox was probably intrrfering with it, what i did was got the super su apk, installed it and updated it, then it detected the knox and said it can cause problems with root access, and asked to disable it, hit disable and ur all set, i was able to pair my ps3 controller with the six sxes app and without otg, so very nice program, so dont give up on it, its a good program., if its stil stoping try rebooting the pc, also it shouldnt freeze at all, so if it starts doing that start troubleshooting ur pc, or connection, try a different cord ,u ned a good cord to do it, if the cord is sensitive get a better one, if all else fails i can get the tutorial video i saw on the prgram, this was my first time rooting, never thought id actually figure out how to root, seems so complicated until i found kingo root, so try it and let me know if u guys get it to work
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Actually it looks like that's already been copied into the card, I tried to run the side load like it suggests in the instructions? But it wouldn't start. So I use the install feature? Okay I'll get back into recovery and see if I can figure it out. I copy all of the pertinent files into the root of the SD card. The guy who had this before had root tools saved in a whole bunch of different directories.

Sent from my SM-T217S

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Haha! It was so easy, I went to the install tab selected the SU file, and it installed in a second flat. Rebooted, now I've got su.

I've jailbroken 20 iPhones using various methods but this was damned easy, hahaha. You see I didn't realize that the TWRP partition would be left resident on the tablet, that actually makes a lot of things much easier.

Well, now that I've got this done, now what? Is there repository where I can get modifications? Just not sure what to do, jailbreaking an iPhone installs Cydia which puts everything right there but I'm not sure what to do now. I did install es Explorer and a couple of other apps that I can use to explore the file system, and I have an app that I can use to delete system apps. But I'm not sure which ones are safe to delete, primarily I wanted to delete the default browser so I could just use Firefox.

Actually I have an old version of esexplorer that was designed for rooted file systems, I'll try installing that first.

Thank you all for helping me out, I wasn't expecting to be able to do this. But if anybody can point me to a place where I can get started as far as finding good mods, that would be great.

Have a great day, see you in a little bit!

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
A couple of suggestions

Sd card fix is a good start, it lets u modify the sd card from any app, i had to get 3 different apps fof it to work, not sure which one did the trick so i kept all 3, just glad i got it fixed, i hated that, also if u like the multi window feture get mw manager, it lets u add any app to use in multi window, also if u go back and read some of my other posts u can see some of things i have done, but mostly things that dont require root, if u let me know what kind of things ud like to, let me know maybe i can help, but i havent ever flashed any files, so not to good with all that, now i will say i was barrowing someons rooted phone a while back, i tryd to move a system app to the sd card and crashed the phone and had to a hard reset which fixed the problem, but dont remember what it was but it seemed harmless to move it, so be carfull doing that, maybe doing some research would help, also who ever rooted that phone also installed a costom rom and messed it up bad, and didnt make a backup, so the apps would constantly crash also most apps wouldnt work because the phone thought it was in a different countrty, so most utube videos wouldnt even play, it would say not available in ur country, back then i had 0 knowlage about root, i only knew alot of apps i wanted required root, so i thought it was rooted bad, but now i know, that since doing a factory reset didnt fix it, it was running running a costom rom, which wasnt for that device, so make sure u make ur backups lol, if i think of ther great root apps ill let u know,
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] X-weApon-X:
Haha! I just installed show box which is droids version of movie box. The only problem is the newest versions of most video playing apps cannot handle some of the codecs of the movies that they have for download.

I'm using a very old version of es Explorer and ES manager, and I was able to shut off a couple of startup tasks that were sucking resources.

I'm not having any problems at all accessing files in the SD card using either es Explorer or the main file manager app that they give you on the device, which is actually a pretty good file manager, just simple.

The thing I liked about jailbreaking my Apple devices was that I can always find very good and useful modifications very quickly even if they are not immediately accessible through the default repos. So there is nothing like that for Android? There is no man repository or website where I can get modifications? I will try out anything that you say but I actually have about a gigabyte of various APK files I have gone through about 100 of them so far and deleted them. But I like that I can install them and delete them quickly without them being signed by Google Play. I have found quite a few interesting apps and theme type modifications, but the main problem is even the paid ones that I had saved from long ago, have some kind of pop up for even more in app purchases. That's why I bought them, to not see those things. That's also why I always save all previous versions of any app that I either got for free or purchased, because sometimes the older versions work better than the newer versions. I have not come across any of them not working at all, although es Explorer is having some difficulty with some of the symbolic links that is coming across, not recognizing the new ones from 4.4.2.

I'm just not sure what to look for because just about every app that I have tried out is infested with advertising, is there no untrusted hosts blocker that I could get, or a minimal hosts blocker for Android? One of the first modifications I install on my Apple devices as a little tweak that completely removes all advertising from certain apps. Actually it's called flex 2, and there are patches for various applications that allow you to hide advertising or bypass jailbreak detection at cetera. Anyway if there are any very important modifications I could get right away that could help me that would be great, ill try the ones you already suggested.

Sent from my SM-T217S
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] Willsp282012:
How bout exposed installer

For me its too complicated but it has alot of mods that can do alot of interesting tnings
[Galaxy Tab 3 General] bob23bk:
[MENTION=5587341]X-weApon-X[/MENTION] for ads try ad block plus :thumbup:, as far as 'jailbreak detection' goes, regular apps do not check for root access on android. If you don't want an app to have root access choose 'deny' when the supersu prompt pops up :)