[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
Philz has whats needed already to root your Mega.

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Just in case anyone did not know or wants to know a bit about Knox Bootloaders, Rooting and flashing. Some words of caution or heed of warning for you all. Flashing ANY Custom Recovery or even a Custom Rom on your Phone while having the Knox Bootloader will trip your Knox flag and your

Warranty Bit

will or may go from

0x0

to

0x1

. On some newer Knox Bootloaders they are showing your

Current Binary

as

Custom

and also showing

Knox Warranty Void:

1

. There is no way to go back to 0x0 or 0 at the moment or revert your Bootloader once you have flashed while on a Knox Bootloader so take this as it is.

As a disclaimer, you are doing this because you know what you are doing and know where to go on your device or computer to do this. I take no responsibility for you bricking, bootlooping or anything implied there of. You know the risks so proceed only if you know what to do.

This method will also

not

work having a locked Bootloader (

Encrypted

) from Verizon or AT&T so flash at your own expense.

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1.Flash the latest Philz recovery ( Galaxy Mega (meliusltexx) ) .

1a) Be sure when flashing a custom recovery

not

to allow the device to reboot into the OS right after and instead go straight to the recovery first.

( Uncheck reboot device in Odin or if you forgot to uncheck the box

after a successful flash of the Custom Recovery

in Odin, quickly hold down vol+, Menu & Power Button or last resort pull the battery before it has time to reboot into the OS {again this is

after

the phone reboots from flashing the custom recovery and passes}).

The security will over write the custom recovery with the stock recovery and you will have to flash Philz or if available TWRP again. First boot into custom recovery will make it stick on after.

2. Once flashed and booted into recovery, you'll be on the main screen.

( Optional but recommended )

2a) At this point,

and it is just a suggestion to you all

,

make a complete backup of the phone as it sits unmodded

. I couldn't really tell you how many times I have read/seen of people post that they forgot to back up their phones after they had attempted to do something to their phones and had caused them to have problems..... well many would be surprised how often this happens and I have been guilty of it due to just being impatient.

This way you will have a starting point fresh, stock and even unrooted to go back to.

After your done proceed to step #3.

3. Tick on

Philz settings

.

4. Tick on

Re-root System (Super SU)

.

5. You will then see the log scroll at the bottom and tell you to reboot and install SuperSU through the Playstore.

6. Reboot Device and once you have booted up, install SuperSU via Playstore or if you have the APK on hand, install it.

7. Once installed it will ask you that it needs to update binaries, do so. It will also detect KNOX and ask to attempt

to disable it, go ahead and it will attempt to do so. ( I have yet for it to say unsuccessful )

Also, if the first attempt to Root "Normally" doesn't work and the App states that Root

failed

, try the other choice of updating, through a Custom Recovery TWRP/CWMR as the App suggests. You are given two choices. It will reboot your device after into the Custom Recovery you have and then reboot your phone again. After reboot, open the app to check if it took.

8. Enjoy being rooted afterwards.

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If after step #6 it fails to update binaries or for some chance, the SuperSU APK failed to install properly or failed to provide Root Access, below is a link for the newer SuperSU v2.02 that is flashable in your Custom Recovery. Flash it by

rebooting back into Recovery

and

flashing the ZIP file

that's downloadable from

the middle of the main page

in the

link below

showing installable zip. Once flashed continue on from step #6 above.

Thank you @Chainfire

SuperSU v2.02<------- click here

Bellow at the bottom of this post are both the older flashable ZIP file ( v1.97 ) and the SuperSU v2.01 apk to try if the newer ones do not work for you.

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