[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mejakola:
Demy,

Hi im jeremy (mejakola97) you can call me meja, jeremy, mejakola, jak, whatever you like,

Im in the usa and I am 17 as well :) AWESOME!!!

Ok you know those apps that you never use that came with the phone and you cant uninstall? Debloating is where you use your root access to bypass your carriers "block" and uninstall it anyway. the block is kinda like a firewall, ill talk more about that later in this novel

Debloat is NOT unroot. it is removing apps preloaded to the phone by your carrier that you normally would not be able to uninstall

I have the i337 (at&t) running 4.3 mk2 build,

In settings>more>about phone

Under the phone info, scroll down to the build number and what are the last three characters? Also tap on it about 5 times in a row to enable devoper mode if you haven already done so. This just gives you some cool settings that you can use, you will need to turn on usb debugging of course.

Going back,those three characters can help determine what method to use to root,

Saferoot is a good way to go because of KNOX

Knox is the new security feature that came with 4.3 with the soul purpose to make our live harder and piss us all off. XD

Anyway it has a "trip wire" that is supposed to "void" your warrenty

However, I have heard people who have a problem and the company fixes it for them anyways, they just wipe the phone beforehand. All the tripwire is is it changes a number in the download mode display in the top left from "0x0" to 0x1

If you had a problem idk if you have a BestBuy store there but they are miraculously good at fixing Samsung, I had a friend that didnt know what he was doing and flashed an old htc rom on his gs4active, and of course bricked it... they fixed it for free flashed the stock firmware for free.

So to talk about stock, stock refers to "the origanal" the real copy, of your firmware, so there is one set of stock files per phone per update. Your stock 4.3 is different from mine even though we both have gs4.

It would be a good idea to go to the samsung website and download 4.3 stock firmware and keep it on your computer just in case you need it. make sure you get the one for your i9505

So, for rooting, each way is different, they all try to find loopholes "exploits" on the phone to try and get around like the phones personal firewall. its put there so we dont do anything dumb like when uninstalling system apps that are bloatware, accitentally uninstalling the phone app and no longer being able to make phone calls, in fact now i wonder if i actually can do that,

Then they install superuserSU developed by chainfire and copied by many. And superuser acts as an on off switch to allow certain things through the firewall to the root side of the phone, (someone should really buy that guy a beer, chainfire is such a badass)

Now with knox people are worried about it messing up the warranty but I mean you can get away with it im sure,

So there is saferoot, 1st choice even though I couldnt get it to work

Second choice, kingo root, you put it on your computer, install the phone drivers, (I would just install kies since its got it all the drivers), enable usb debuging, plug it in, wait, click root.

There were some rumors about kingo sending imei's to like a chinese database but idk... it was also rumored that kingo tripped knox but im still 0x0 so...

Third preferred methood is a little trickier, odin.

This is where you flash a file with your computer and it roots your phone, again it didnt work for me but im weird.

Now there is a chinese rooting methood called "vroot"... DONT DOWNLOAD IT!!! Just dont, it bricked my phone by trying to root it when I already had root capabilities... that was a nightmare!

there are other ways for older phones such as downloading an apk like gingerbreak for gingerbread or framaroot... but there arent very many of those now that dont need a computer i think.

Um I know I jumped around on the answering part but thers a lot of info here for you to digest im sure, ill be willing to give you as much knowledge as I have, I know its hard to learn everything at once so its nice to be able to have questions answered.

so what else you got for us?

Jeremy, mejakola97

ps you should totally hit the thanks button for me, it'll be my first like. :)