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[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
I meant I odin'd my bad.

Youll have to odin back to stock. Factory reset only wipes data not system.

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and that worked, awesome.

Completely removed Vroot. Their su binary was saving to /bin instead of /xbin. It wouldnt let me delete thatsu in /bin before but that "tool" removed it completely and left with Chainfires stuff. Just uninstall the vroot app that was saved on /data/app thru the settings....and now alittle fun begins
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmondCroom:
wait what sorry im confused can you explain step by step lol im a jailbreaker im a noob. sorry thanks in advance
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Download, install http://d-h.st/FiU#.U4fAsHVdUUT on pc

Enable USB Debugging in developer options (Tap build number til it tells you you are a "dev" to enable dev options)

connect tab to pc

run vroot

click green button bottom right

wait til its done

Download this http://www.mediafire.com/download/ky9845gisnn3824/Replace_VRoot_With_SuperSU.zip

extract the zip

put the mrw folder thats extarcted onto your internal storage

download Android Terminal Emulator from playstore and open it

type:

su (then grant it su permission")

sh /sdcard/mrw/root.sh

and wait til it reboots. Go into settings>applications> and uninstall the app in Chinese, then open the playstore search SuperSU and update it and then open SuperSU so it updates the binary (click normal) and youre done. Vroot is gone and replaced with our beloved [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] 's superSU and binary
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Namikaze Minato:
Granting SU in ATE

su (then grant it su permission") <---- What is written in the parentheses is that what we type? What exactly do we type in ATE?
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroznArrow:
If you watch the video, you just type.... su

then type... sh /sdcard/mrw/root.sh

If you're an idiot like me, and get "su not found"....

Here's a protip:

Green screen on device and vroot window doesn't mean it's rooted.

You've got to click the green button again in vroot, assuming it says "1 click root"

Wait for it to finish, your device should reboot before getting root.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
type

su

hit enter and youll get a pop up hit grant/accept then type the next command and hit enter
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLesser:
Cyanogenmod Installer

I gave forcing the Cyanogenmod Installer a try despite the unsupported device, but it refuses continuation upon a second confirmation of non-support. Pretty new to all this, so what are the next steps toward getting some custom Roms loaded? Thanks everyone.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
If you're new to "this" really don't try stuff like that.... and if you do make sure you have everything and the tools and have done the research on how to recover the device...just word of advice.

Custom roms well probably never see. The Marvel soc on the 7 and tab 3 7 pretty much limit us to touch wiz modded roms. And until someone figures out, some devs and myself have tried for countless hours, how to unpack the recovery and boot imgs we are stuck in the current state.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNiTy.DW:
Got it rooted and installed link 2 sd and xposed now this thing is taking off
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLesser:
Thanks for the heads up and all the work.

Random question, are the Tabs not capable of lock screen widgets? I can't find "enable widgets" under security.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Namikaze Minato:
Unrooting???

So what would be the safest way to return to stock and unroot?

Would it be Odin???

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:highfive::victory::good::good::good::good:

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While the Tab4 is rooted, could I use Samsung Kies3 to upgrade the firmware??? Or should I Unroot first, then upgrade, followed by a root process again??:confused::confused:
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verny94:
While you root, you could not use Kies.

Better is flash via Odin :) and root again. Or try to use custom rom

Odesláno pomocí Ťama Ťunga
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Not much work done at all Just countless FU's and WTF's haha

Anything is capable. By default no. But Im sure theres an xposed module for it

Odin it back to stock. Just grab the firmwares from sammobile. I'll upload both firmwares to mega or somewhere thats not slow as crap to download from in a little while for peps.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLesser:
Lockscreen Widgets

Haha yeah did some looking around and not coming up with much. Found this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2363189

But it doesn't seem to overide the lockscreen. Neither did the Keylock Disabler Module. Thanks Samsung for rolling back stock android functionality....saw some press releases where they tried blaming Google, haha yeah right.

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Has the Wanam Xposed Mod worked for anyone else? It installs and runs perfectly well, but none of the changes take effect. Thanks everyone.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Wanam is what Im using. Make sure you are using the one for touchwiz and not aosp

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Latest stock firmware NE2 for T230 7" Galaxy Tab 4

https://mega.co.nz/#!I49V3YZB!LkqiYAvZF0dyL0YMbVMGlGWIhn7BQbFi84z4CIFQhKw

Feel free to copy/mirror link for posts
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lyricalsoul5:
Yes! Root!! Finally. Now to get the stock kitkat lockscreen back :eek:
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Namikaze Minato:
Thanks ShinySide!
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanoli99:
What's the deal with no forum on XDA and no recovery yet. I guess not many sold.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroznArrow:
Works for me.

Make sure the framework is installed, and rebooted.

Also, changes are only applied upon reboot.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheLesser:
I got the mod working but the changes are only present after a hot reboot. When I do a full reboot, the changes are all reverted until another soft reboot is performed. Not a huge problem just a little strange and annoying. Anyone else experienced this? Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vernox701:
GTab4 or Gnex 2013

I know this thread is about obtaining root for the galaxy tab 4 just wanted to get an opinion on getting this or buying a nexus 7 (2013) seen for less than 200 at sams club but the no sd card has kept me away from buying it
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
It's either from Knox needing to be disabled or because of the SELinux Mode being set to Enabled which can make Xposed have issues. SuperSU can disable Knox and SELinux Mode app can change the mode to Permissive.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yakmon:
roots are up

xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52846251&postcount=379

I have not tried it, yet.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Be sure to read the very last part of his post

^That would be us 7" Tab 4's

And root method for us is a few pages back.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sw6lee:
I wish someone would make a touchwiz custom rom for the 7 inch version. I'm not an experienced touchwiz user, but after rooting it, and tweaking it, it is not too bad. However, when doing side scroll, or for ex. bringing up left side menu in apps, it is very jittery. Do all touchwiz devices have this problem? Or is it because tab 4 is too slow spec'ed? Another instance is that in Google Play music app, when you pull up your current playing song, the pulling up animation is not smooth at all. Same thing can be said about Any.Cal calendar app, where if I press the + button to make an event, the animation is very slow. Maybe a skilled dev can bring a custom rom to fix this problem? Or is the Marvell processor just way too slow? Going in and out of home screen and swiping in home screen is smooth enough for me with nova launcher though..my problem is within apps.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
It could be the Marvell cpu in the 7", because my Snapdragon in the 8" is smooth

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sw6lee:
I think you're right. I just watched DetroitBORG's Tab 4 8.0 video and he mentioned that he doesn't know why Tab 4 8.0 feels snappier than Tab 4 7.0, because he thinks all 3 models have the same quad-core chip. However, one thing I'm not sure is that he also compared benchmarks, and 7.0 was pretty similar to 8.0. So I'm wondering if it's not as good software optimization done by samsung for the 7.0 version that makes scrolling, swiping between tabs, and swipe from left to bring menus, and other animations slow. Maybe a custom rom version of touchwiz can fix this? I checked out Tab 3 7.0 XDA forum section, and they have lots of ROMs, and I saw a review for one of the ROMs and it is very fast and smooth even though it's Touchwiz, and Tab 3 7.0 has a Dual-core Marvell, compared to Tab 4 7.0's Quad-cord Marvell. So hopefully some good developer makes a speedier Touchwiz ROM for the 7.0 version.

BTW, I don't really like the 8.0 form factor, so I still like to keep this 7.0 version. I had Tab 3 8.0 for some time, and it's just too long and the weight balance isn't that great. It's hard to type in portrait mode especially.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
It's proven the 7" has a Marvell quad, probably to cut the price because it's running the same software and pushing the same amount of pixels, so the cpu is to blame most likely.

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Turn off animations in dev options. Speeds it up a little animation wise.

I have a rom and a kernel built. Their just useless because no one can get the recovery img to unpack correctly to build recovery, or the boot.img to unpack correctly to to put the kernel in and repack. Good buddy of mine did get them to unpack "more complete" tho "more complete" just isnt complete enough :/ but either way no matter who does what or whats done by who dont expect a whole lot of difference if we ever get there.

+1...Marvell aint no Qualcomm/Snapdragon by any means. Probably gonna end up selling and grabbing an 8" myself. 7 is a nice tab but it kinda teeters on good and piss me off Ahaha
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sw6lee:
Aha..recovery is what we need now then? :( Hope someone can make one for us soon!

Also, I talked to Cstayton, who makes performance tweaks for Tab3 7.0 on this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53205058

and he said he'll look into making one for our Tab4 7.0. He said no guarantee, but hopefully we get it soon! :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cstayton:
Hi folks, So here is the routine.

First I need to do some information gathering (thanks sw6lee) i have the needed build.prop what I need now is verification on the following

(Keep in mind I don't have this device so I'm flying blind, everything will be based solely on yours and other users input)

For knox related removal

1. With a root explorer -- name and location of all knox related apk and odex files (i.e. /system/app or /system/priv-app)

2. " " -- Names and location of any knox related modules (i.e. /system/lib/libknox_encryption.so etc)

3. " " -- Names and paths of any knox related folders (i.e. /system/container(s), preloadkiosk, preloadsso)

4. " " -- Verify system/etc/secure_storage/com.sec.knox.store)

For general tweaks, init.d support

1. Version of SuperSU

2. Does install-recovery.sh or install-recovery-2.sh exist?

Once I have this information I can start looking to put together a performance/tweaks script for your Tab4 devices once i am comfortable with where it is at I will start a new thread under the "Android Development and Hacking" forum for these mods.

Bear with me I have several other devices to dev for plus a hectic personal life and 80hrs a week of work to do in 40 so it will take me some time.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sw6lee:
Okay, so here is what I found. for the first par, Knox, I can't find any of the 4 you mentioned. There is no knox related apks, at least no apps that starts with knox. Also, can't find knox related modules in system/lib. Also, there is a folder system/preloadkiosk, but the only file in there is kioskdefault.apk. Finally, in secure_storage, there is only one file, com.android.exchange.

So maybe Tab 4 7.0 doesn't come with knox? Maybe someone else can verify.

For the second part, do you mean the app version number of SuperSU? if so, it's 1.94 currently. And lastly, I'm not sure where to look for install-recovery.sh. where is it usually located?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
This is it for knox

/system/priv-app/KLMSAgent.apk (no .odex)

/system/preloadedkiosk/kioskdefault.apk (no .odex)

And thats all we "have" for knox. We really dont actually have it.

SuperUser v 1.65 installed after we root on /system. Of course updated to 1.94 from the playstore or if like me I always grab the latest from Chainfires site (v1.99r4) and install it on /system/app

And install-recovery.sh exists from root.

We do have no recovery, just to keep in mind. Need anything else let me know
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cstayton:
install-recovery.sh and -2.sh are in /system/etc folder sorry forgot to mention the path
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
OT- Finally got our suforum!

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickolas80:
Awesome can you give a link to the forum?

thanks!
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
This thread was moved to it's forum
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cstayton:
Here you go, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2778757

I'll need whatever feedback you can give me on how well it works improvements etc...

:D
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batttie:
Just wanted to let people know of towelroot by geohot. Alternative root method for kitkat devices, and works on tab 4 8.0
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neromare:
But sadly not on the Marvell Chipset for the 7.0
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Denaari:
Hello I'm new to the android world as I recently got a Tab 4 7.0 out of curiosity. I've been doing a lot of reading and I'm ready to get my device rooted but have a couple of questions. What do I need to backup before I root my device, and how do I back it up? How do it use the recovery? Sorry for being a noon but I come from the restricted iphone world so all this is new to me.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
Shouldn't need to backup, and no need to enter recovery to root yet.

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ketut.kumajaya:
I just informed Chainfire about degas-mkbootimg tools :p http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53487714&postcount=409 I hope CF-Auto-Root available for T23x soon.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Denaari:
Gotcha, thank you. I was a bit confused at first but I did some more reading and figured it out. Got it rooted really quickly and finally got around some annoying features. Thanks again.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neromare:
Would you please share how you managed to root your tab4 7.0?

Did find a way to root it yet, so I(we) would really appreciate your help.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Denaari:
Yes, there is already a way to root the Tab 4 7.0.

I followed these instructions step by step and worked perfectly. It does require a USB connection, windows PC and to reboot the Tab a couple of times. Took me 10 minutes. quick and simple and thank you ShinySide for the step by step.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53020637&postcount=87
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentchallenger:
I can confirm that VROOT 1.7.7 works with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (SM-T230NU)

I have also managed to replace VROOT with Chainfire's Su but I had to rewrite the root.sh to correctly reference the locations of the files being replaced. Minor fix. Works awesome now! :)
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kj_kool_j:
I have to agree that this procedure does work.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chillcool68:
Root confirmed working!!!!!!!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53020637&postcount=87

This root works confirmed!!!!!!!:good:
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neromare:
Works like a charm...

BTW the KK Launcher works very very well. Very Speedy and looks clean too.Much fast than the Google Now Launcher.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kk.launcher&hl=de
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wdn_samsung_SM_T230NU:
Thank you and it works! Samsung Galaxy Tablet SM-T230NU

HAD to make an account simply to say "god damn, I love you guys!". Thank you so much for this solution. I am rooted now but still have the Chinese file and do not yet have Chainfire's SU installed.

I am at work and don't have wifi access to my tablet. I did go out to the Google Play Store and put the Android Terminal Emulator in the que. It will auto DL when I get a connection.

I used some of the "Am I rooted" aps. They now say I am rooted even thought I haven't yet completed ALL of the steps. When I get home, I will finish it.

Thanks so much!!!

Reference on the steps:

01. Download, install(link removed for posting; first post) on pc

02. Enable USB Debugging in developer options (Tap build number til it tells you you are a "dev" to enable dev options)

03. connect tab to pc

04. run vroot

05. click green button bottom right

06. wait til its done

07. Download this (link removed for posting; first post)

08. extract the zip

09. put the mrw folder thats extarcted onto your internal storage

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10. download Android Terminal Emulator from playstore and open it

11. type:

su (then grant it su permission")

sh /sdcard/mrw/root.sh

12. and wait til it reboots.

13. Go into settings>applications> and uninstall the app in Chinese,

14. open the playstore search SuperSU and update it

15. open SuperSU so it updates the binary (click normal)

16. you're done. Vroot is gone and replaced with our beloved [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] 's superSU and binary

EDIT:

at lunch, I found a hotspot and completed the steps. Fully rooted and have the Superuser app running.

If it's the wrong place to ask, let me know... Now that I'm rooted, how do I kill bloatware such as WatchON and Kids Mode?
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smknutson:
Try titanium backup

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juniorek81:
could you post a link to your modified root.sh?

p.s.

Yeahhh!!! Finally rooted my SM-T230.

vRoot updated itself, waited quite long, installed root, shell emulator and used uninstall manager to remove chinese app but everything works:)
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AsfaltSame:
root sm-t235

When I write "su" in android terminal editor, I get the reply "/system/bin/sh: su: not found". Any suggestions anyone?
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroznArrow:
I posted a solution to that in page 9 of this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53022820&postcount=89
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AsfaltSame:
VRoot does not work on SM-T235
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FroznArrow:
Is that the carrier locked one? If so, try towel root
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dadiekane:
Not sure if Vroot is working

I run vroot and it gives me an X on the tablet image on the vroot app, and I redo it and it doesn't seem to do anything

also when I run emulator it says not found

anyone have a video of this part??
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 404-Not Found:
Redo it again, make sure to follow the exact instructions. The red "X" in the battery will leave when you successfully rooted and rebooted.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AsfaltSame:
It is not carrier locket, and also towel root did not work

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I get the same thing, the phone is not rooted
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dadiekane:
Not Vrooting

This is what I get, Cant root it
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KcmoGizmo:
This site is awesome! Thank you to all who put in the time and effort for all of us!

Just want to start by saying thanks for all the hard work you guys put into all of this. It's greatly appreciated!

Now I have a T-235 WiFi model only. I'm havin the same problems with Vroot. If anyone can offer a solution or any suggestions it would be much aooreciated. I've racked my brain and read and reread the forum. Quadruple checked everything and still can't get it.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soumak:
This method is working

The method of using the vroot to root samsung tab 4 (SM T230) is also working on SM T231 8 GB version(Wi-fi and GSM)...
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EM1336:
RSA key fingerprint window

Hi folks, I can't make it past the Vroot part of the instructions, but I've discovered something that might be helpful to someone else having similar trouble. This is what I've done so far:

- Charged up the T230NU.

- On the T230NU, swiped down from the top, clicked on the gear, went to Settings - General - About Device. Clicked several times on Build Number to turn on Developer Mode. Developer options appeared. Checkmarked box to enable USB Debugging.

- Downloaded and installed Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones v1.5.450 on my PC.

- Plugged in the T230NU and had the PC load the proper USB drivers. At this point, the T230NU appeared as a tablet in Windows Explorer and I could view its files.

- Installed and ran Vroot. Clicked on the green button on the lower right and let Vroot go to work.

- Vroot is alternating between two screens, one showing a USB plug and the other showing a phone with a red X.

I unplugged and replugged the T230NU into my PC several times. On my last plug in, I noticed something that I didn't see before. On the T230NU, faded out because of the power dimming feature, there was a window asking:

Allow USB Debugging?

The computer's RSA key fingerprint is [a long string of what looks like hexadecimal].

Apparently if you don't click on Yes or OK within a certain period of time, this window disappears?

I clicked OK or Yes, and all of a sudden, a cascade of activities commenced, both on the T230NU and on my PC in Vroot.

Unfortunately, after seeming to do a bunch of stuff, Vroot returned to the same two screens, one with the USB plug and the other with the phone and the red X. Not sure if I made any progress here.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aurvil:
need a little help here!!!

Anyone knows how to get it to support usb otg? I have already rooted the tab (sm-t230nu) using vroot