yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] midnight assassin:
So, what will we be able to do with just root until the bootloader gets unlocked if it does at all? Is it mostly removing apps and the ability to use root apps like titanium and root explorer?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] phobia09:
Yes, access to root apps, real debloating, adblocker, and wanam's xposed, among others.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] putney1477:
there are lots of little things we can do with root, use root explorer, titanium backup, etc. (those are the 2 I'm looking forward to using)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] slimc84:
I'm anxious about Xposed and Unicon!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] davidstre:
Can you feel it?! It's coming...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbh87:
There are people out there who don't want to unlock their bootloader just for root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RusherDude:
They can lock and un-tamper it afterwards..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shortydoggg:
Before you can do anything, including possibly unlocking a bootloader, or bypassing it to install a custom recovery or flash a Rom, you have to first start with some type of root, even if it's just a temp root. It all starts with root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] scoreboard:
Seriously. I hope the community pulls through. If not you might as well kiss the android development goodbye.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RusherDude:
The bounty method is not serious... I wish geohot posted how much he definitely earned from this..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
You say that as if it's a bad thing. [/head scratch]
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jimbohurt:
Right. But can they avoid all that and just tap one button from geohot to root? Nope. So that's why it's cool bro.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RusherDude:
http://www.towelroot.com/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Nucleartx:
Towelroot.com has been updated, 30 minutes left. Make sure to donate to help geohot work on future roots!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mbh87:
I'm aware, but there are those people out there.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Player04:
My glasses are fogging up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Nucleartx:
I turned off "verify apps" just in case, not sure it matters.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RusherDude:
Sure, that's true :D

Yeah..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gothicasshole:
It will pop up a box to either flash it to update the binary or normally try to do it normally

To learn more try looking up the supersu thread for further instructions
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Ampz55:
Confirmed on Galaxy s4 SCH-I545L, March 28th kernel, running 4.4.2!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Maturola:
Boot loader is still locked, all you got is root access that's all

The SuperSU failing to update is expalined on the OP, the APK at the playstore is old, you need to download and install the one directly from chainfire
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Magik6k:
AWESOME! Worked(almost) perfectly for ORANGE-pl locked Xperia T 4.1.2(kernel 3.4.0; 9.1.A.1.145). The issue was little reboot loop when attempted to install SuperSU, but after 4-5 reboots it seems to be stable
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SamuriHL:
Not anymore. It's been updated to 2.0 so it'll work from the play store now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gerland:
Any chance at all those of us with the Verizon Note 2 will get too use this??? It's a sad day when even oddball phones get too use it but NOT a Note 2??
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sunnysran:
Not working on SM G900H (Exynos version)

The device just reboots upon hitting 'make it ra1n'.

Kindly look into this.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shodeadman:
So the Note 3 on Verizon can be rooted but not the Note 2 on Verizon?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] TheEmpathicEar:
SuperSU v2.00 is available from Play Store?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mkitchin:
That is what it is supposed to do. Have you read the thread? Did you test for root afterwards?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] glazuna:
-

Guys i have a question, can i update my Note 3 N9005 which has OFW with 3.4.0-636608 kernel, to the latest foreign country OFW which has a 3.4.0-1168347 kernel (BOTH OFWs are 4.4.2 Kitkat!) And when i want to return it back for warranty i just flash back my original OFW with kernel 3.4.0-636608? Is that a downgrade, because i know you cannot downgrade but is that just depending on your android version or also on a kernel?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] LoSt180:
Yes, it was updated this morning: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mkitchin:
What the hell? I flashed my Speak & Spell with this, now my cat has the runs and my car won't start. GEOHOT, you said this would work! I want my money back.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BluBBa:
would be nice to know if 3.4.0-636608 kernel N9005 Note 3 kernel is a dead end ...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
Wow, try reading post #1 or the website you downloaded the apk from. Are you serious?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lane W.:
For those of us who actually READ the OP and got SU at chainfire.eu (version 1.99r4) do we want to now update SU? Or leave it alone since it has already been installed and this update is for the play store version? Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Skar3:
Work with Nexus 4 , Android 4.4.3
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Mr. Boom:
I updated su through the market this morning and it updated the binaries just fine.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ItsAGeekThing:
Wonderfull.

Didn't trip Knox for me (still at 0x0).

Now all we need is a way to enable download booster.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] lanyco:
Perfect in Note 3 N9005 with N9005DXUENE4 stock Rom. Thanks.

You have a beer.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 4walls:
Anytime that you root your phone or unlock the bootloader (different than just having a SIM unlocked phone) you potentially

void your warranty. Having said that, I have successfully unlocked my bootloader and rooted and then when my Nexus 4 was

damaged, returned it to the manufacturer for warranty work after restoring the phone to stock. I used WUG's Nexus Root Toolkit

which is available here on XDA. For the Nexus 5, this is a great tool.

If you are unfamiliar with root and unlocking and bootloaders, check out this XDA thread.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Legitsu:
successful root vGS5

now for that pesky bootloader ...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] reg66:
Sorry if this has been asked already, how to unroot device? Does a simple factory reset do the job, or do I have to flash stock ROM using Odin or something else?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] zdoey33:
not working galaxy tab 3 8.0 SM-T310 XWUAMG3 build

Unfortunately, which strikes me as a little odd, considering the kernel is from last year, v3.0.31 , and with Jelly Bean 4.2.2, build JDQ39.T310XWUAMG3..

it also seems strange the app reboots the tablet immediately after pressing "ra1n" , I tried 5 times but the root checker sais nada.

(PS what's with the practically unreadable captchas guys? :D )
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shodeadman:
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running 4.3 Kernel 3.4.0 model SM-N900V successfully rooted, I installed the SU from Google play my device was stuck trying to disable Knox a solution that work for me was to click back once change them to dark let SU restart then disable Knox again and it works immediately.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SamuriHL:
You should probably update. Just install it from the play store and have it update the binary when you open it and you'll be good to go from here on out. Keeping an older version of SuperSU on isn't generally recommended as he tends to fix bugs quite regularly. And bugs in your super user managing application is not something to ignore. :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gmoooney:
Installed and working PERFECTLY on my Note 3 that came with NC2 from the factory. Thank you!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] triscope:
Did not work with my Note 3 - N900W8

I ran it, it rebooted, still says my device is not rooted. I have N900W8. did I do something wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] devinalonzo:
Just ignore it!! I've been reading through the posts for a few days now. Don't hate because you're annoyed. I love reading this thread!!! So much information and stupid all in one haha The world doesn't revolve around you. Jeeze guys why u so angry?! This is a place for people to congregate and discuss and learn! Not voice negative opinions of selfishness. Thank you to the ones that help out, I'm on page 184 so far and I've been learning quite a bit :) Yeah it would be nice if people would utilize the search feature but not everyone knows what they are looking for or how to word their search. The amount of pages aren't filling up your server are they?

[MENTION=3280118]geohot[/MENTION] you're awesome.

-XDA forever
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lane W.:
This is exactly why I asked you what I did cause I didn't want the installed chainfire version and play store update to conflict with each other. Thanks

FYI Open play > Select SU update > Phone rebooted automatically > Said something about "binaries not installed" > Pressed ok > Everything's √ now you can see on the attached pic (if you want to).

Thanks again
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SamuriHL:
That's a weird chain of events but it looks good so...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rolling56:
I've had that happen in the past......like a few years ago but not since. I never did figure out why it happened but it worked fine.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gridflash:
Superuser 2.00 is your Root Management friend...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Poyta:
Reading all this my conclusion is that using this easy root method for root ONLY (I don't want to unlock the bootloader) will not void the warranty!

Correct?

PS: I already did a root and installed a custom rom on a SGII.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rolling56:
Correct
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lane W.:
Yeah it's probably just some small idiosyncracy but SU 'fixes' it almost instantly - especially since they already have an SU update only 3-4 days after geo released towelroot :good:

Hopefully this will eliminate some posts by people who don't READ the OP on where to get SU and now that those clowns who go to the play store can successfully install SU

(who am I kidding, they're still going to complain) :silly:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] fausto188:
Not working on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Exynos Octa-Core SM-N900.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] gmoooney:
SuperSU from the Play store wanted to update binaries.

I could not get Normal or TWRP/CWM installation method to work (I'm on Safestrap), so I downloaded the latest flashable.zip from Chainfire's site, installed it manually to my stock ROM using Safestrap recovery (TWRP based) and VOILA, SuperSU is working perfectly and not nagging me for an update.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rolling56:
yup :eek:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] reg66:
sorry for the noob question, but i'd like to know before i try this, anyone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rolling56:
yes this has been reported many many many times here about the Exynos chip sucks er ya i mean doesn't work with towelroot :rolleyes:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shodeadman:
How do I fet rid if the open padlock and custom symbol from my unlock splash page it makes tge reboot process look so ugly. The padlock only came up after reboot to allow my modules for exposed to activate I acttivated 10 @ once to save time
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] aluks1982:
Hoping for such exploit for months and.... Sadly not working on S4 Italian no brand firmware I9505XXUFNB8. Could someone kindly explain how to logcat just to send it to geohot? Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] fausto188:
Do you have Exynos chip? Is there any way to root it without tripping knox?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrbxx7:
Try the search function. It's only bin posted 100 times in this thread.... :D

TaPpEd from my XpOsEd 4.4.2 NIII
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] EVOme:
Where are the instructions to root?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lane W.:
To help before there's 500 questions

Before there's 500 questions - Lookout may/will identify com.geohot.towelroot as Riskware Alert (well, it did on my S4 i545 so it may on other phones)

It's really easy to make this go away - just choose to ignore it from within Lookout. The 4 attached screen shots show the sequence to ignore.

or check here for more at lookout.com: https://faq.lookout.com/topics/21480525

If this helps you please hit "THANKS" so I know I helped someone (thank you).....:good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] scintillatingsyed:
Does it support verizon moto g..??
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] acerdroid:
Rooted my sony tablet z sgp 321running on kitkat. Thanks op
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ArnoJeroen:
Succeeded but problem with internal storage

I tried this on my Huawei Ascend G6 and succeeded. Had problems installing SuperSU from Google PLay, so I installed the apk from this thread.

After rooting and installing SuperSU I have a problem with internal storage.

Filemanager says "no file" (see screenshot), also the app DiskUsage states that the storage is empty (see screenshot) but when I try to write any file to the internal storage I get a message that internal storage is full. Also the stock-camera-app states that internal storage is full.

When I connect the phone to my laptop, I can read and write to the internal storage of the phone, but at the phone itself I get the same messages.

So, what can I do to get my internal storage back?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] leikermoser:
Does it work on my Sony Xperia Z2[D6503] [Kernel 3.4.0-perf-gb772cca]?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] LadyAngler:
Thank you for the root geohot! Ijust got my S5 tday and got'er rooted as soon as I got home!

I sent you some cookie/beer money!:laugh:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] chudy_85:
this method work only on exynos??? can any one try on i9505 qualcomm??
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] clix00:
Any word if there will be support added for the Verizon Note 2?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rolling56:
No and no idea sorry
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] TwizzyIndy:
I cant excute libexploit.so

When i excuting the exploit(without apk) ,

an error occured ..

"Illegal Instructions"

Is it not allowed for widely use for some dev ... ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PepNYC:
Hey guys,

I know this was covered here already but for the life of me I can't find it. I need to know how to update the binaries for supersu manually. I keep getting "installation failed, please reboot and try again" I'm running v1.94. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, etc... I've tried Clockworksmod's version too and no luck. I think someone mentioned a zip file I can download somewhere, extracted it on my PC and then copy it over to my S4?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] MacInTheNet:
[MENTION=5833945]Note 3[/MENTION] users with not supported kernel (like me!):

you can just replace your firmware with another official one!

For example, if you bought a european version and you are from Italy, you can download the italian firmware from sammobile.

That's it... replace the firmware and root!

Thank you GeoHot and thank you Pinkie Pie!

You are awesome!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
The updated version is here:

http://download.chainfire.eu/447/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.99r4.zip

But Chainfire updated the app to version 2.0 this AM , I assume you've tried installing that??
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] cwis:
This rooted my att note 3,but my contacts list app is screwed. I'd there anyway to fix this? Please I don't want to lose root and I don't want att touching my ****. They're morons.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Simonetti2011:
Does it work with the Galaxy S4 (International - GT-I9505) running Kit Kat ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ninja_unmatched:
I had supersu installed from a previous root method when it had (Sprint Note 3 NC5) 4.3 installed but when I updated it to official lost root. Well...

When I did this towelroot my supersu started to fight to update. It did have issues. I tried through play store to no avail. After my attempts the phone tried to update and it worked. Once that happened I opened titanium backup and it opened with no issues. Listed as having root. Tried es file explorer enabling root explorer feature and it worked. Now checked phone status still enforcing. Shut down checked knox status still 0x0. Yet I seem to have root. I don't get how but looks like its there....lol. I'm gonna put it through its paces but so far...great job. When I get paid imma throw something your way.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] warriorpluto:
I got rid of my s4 earlier this year for this reason. Doesn't matter what Rom you use. Battery life just wasn't there. Did the official new stock batteries too. Refused to go zerolemon.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] cbd dvd:
in moto g works?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jvillaro:
Didn't work for me

Did't work apparently on this model
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Simonetti2011:
Gracias!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] glazuna:
.

Yeah but can you flash your original OFW for your country back, after you want to claim your warranty? Since this is an upgrade to a higher kernel version, can you then downgrade to the previous version of kernel with the same android version?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Cubfan99:
The irony in this illiterate rant is just priceless.

-- Sent from my AT&T GS5 using Tapatalk VIP
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] zioax14:
I don't think that it's possible. Once you flash a different fw there aren't way(for now) to downgrade the kernel version.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] japlemon:
So, you're saying that even if I root my S4 there is no getting around "Android System" and "Kernel (OS Android)" hogging my battery? I've taxed my Google-FU skills trying to find out what I need to do to fix this problem. I figured rooting would be the answer. If so, what's my next step?

I'm sorry for being such a noob :eek: ...I really do appreciate you uber phone geeks and all your knowledge and thank you in advance for any insight you can provide.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] glazuna:
.

I ment like just flashing your previous FW, not just the kernel, but yeah your previous Firmware has a lower version kernel than the current which you then updated in order to be able to use towelroot
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] wtherrell:
Use SuperSU.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] japlemon:
If only his/her 3rd grade teacher was more DETERMINED, but I digress...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] epsix:
Is this guy geohot who is famous for jailbreaking iPhone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] konaman:
Rooted my at&t note 3 perfectly. At first it did not trip Knox but after a day I got a normal random reboot, it tripped it. I have no clue why but it did. I'm now custom.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] cor_su:
I can confirm that the updated Package of SuperSU of version 2.00 from the Play Store worked to install and update Binaries just now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] wtoj34:
Yeppers
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ArnoJeroen:
I did a unroot with SuperSU and the problem was solved. Tried rooting again, and the problem was there again. So, rooting with towelroot is not possible for me.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] MacInTheNet:
The important part is the group of 5 letters after N9005.

For example, if you had N9005XXUENC2 and in order to root installed N9005XXUEND3 (updating the kernel), you can do the "downgrade".

The important part is XXUEN

You can put whatever you want that contains XXUEN or something superior (losing the possibility to downgrade in that case).

BTW I'm not an expert so wait a little:laugh:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thewebsiteisdown:
That's ok android forum noob... Start uninstalling apps that are safe to uninstall and freezing apps that are safe to freeze. If you don't know where to start, start in the S4 subforum and start reading / researching.

P.S. Don't ever call us geeks... How about computer logic geniuses.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Naimand:
Works as Described

Verizon Note 3 with 4.4.2 update. Installed the APK; pushed the button; the phone rebooted; installed SuperSU from Play Store. SuperSU updates binaries fine.

Another user here, suggested that if the SuperSU hangs on "Disabling Knox", to restart the app and change the theme to dark and run disable Knox again. I did this and it works fine.

I installed Titanium Backup and it indeed says that I have root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PepNYC:
No sir. I've downloaded it but I'm unclear how to install it to my S4.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Cubfan99:
if you unzip it, you will find the apk inside.

-- Sent from my AT&T GS5 using Tapatalk VIP
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hawkstwelve:
Has anyone tried to root their Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with this method or know if it would work? I don't want to try it and end up with a bricked 10 inch. chunk of plastic.

EDIT: Nevermind. Pretty sure I just read it works for Kitkat devices only.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hoatvu95:
jkdsal

Out of luck, it's not working for my At&T Galaxy S4
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pilmoore:
This was asked yesterday and I have been unable to find an answer. I would like to use this to root my SM-T320, but since almost everything in this thread seems unrelated, well.....?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ks3rv3rg:
Just try it! There hasn't been a single report of a brick from attempting. The worst that will happen is you don't get root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] warriorpluto:
You can get rid of it. The battery just sucks though. They put same size battery that was in the s3 but s4 has twice the cpu power
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] barondebxl:
Donation sent. Transaction ID:8W906032P34794613 even though i have the t mobile S5 ;)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] warriorpluto:
If it hangs.Just restart. Run it again and it's good
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] snppr22:
I know I asked this before (about 20+ pages ago), but has anyone tried to make changes to fonts, icons, etc using ROM Toolbox. I still have the premium version from my S3 days and I would love to change the font and get rid of the stupidly redundant battery icon and percentage. Thanks.

I have tried searching in the thread but I think Tapatalk is having trouble with searching. I am getting results that are completely unwarranted.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PepNYC:
Tried that. Say's application not installed. All is good though. I opened it up just a minute ago and it worked fine. I think the 2.0 binaries were pushed down. I didn't notice the updated version of supersu in the play store yet nor did I get an update notification. Weird. Whatever. I'm just happy it works now. Thanks for the help guys.

Now to get rid of that d@mn custom padlock thingy. :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] radioactive102:
Doesnt work on huawei g510

Tried on the huawei g510 but it does not work. After clicking the make it ra1n button,the device quickly reboots without showing the 15 second warning. after booting up, I checked with a root checker, which said I was not rooted :/:confused:

---------- Post added at 11:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:17 PM ----------

Anyways, congratulations geohot for making another amazing hacking tool:good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lane W.:
+1 to what @ks3rv3rg just said. I spent my time reading all about this thread in the late Saturday to early am hours Sunday to see what the story is (I have Galaxy S4 w/ verizon). I had my own fears but learned over the years to research research research before doing anything potentially detrimental to my phones.

Then I came across someone's post saying "just do it, it either works or it doesn't". So I copied towelroot.com in the OP & pasted that into Firefox (wanted to avoid any restrictions google chrome may have) and 30 seconds later I successfully had root :D And the beauty of towelroot is that it's ALL done from the phone. No need to even use a PC like the 'old days :good: Thanks again [MENTION=272849]Geo[/MENTION] I sent you some bounty on Monday

Give it a shot, as many others have said there have been no bricking issues so far. Good luck!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] audiogek:
Working on a ZTE Grand s Flex :laugh:

tnx