[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] technovicedroidnewbie:
SPH-L720 NG2 Flash/Unlock Nightmare-Experienced Fan of Site and Purchase Paid Apps

I haven't posted on here enough, so I got directed off a thread that would have been great. Somebody has to have a simple solution to this because it is such a popular model and I feel like an idiot for even having to ask after spending 15 hours reading, 5 hours watching Youtube videos, 10+ hours trying to Flash, an hour on the phone with Sprint (where I am not even a customer, but was, and they were very helpful, and on a Sprint SPH-L720 for build NG2 updated 7/14 (I already went through this over the summer with the L720T-which was my phone), where I have the MSL I cannot flash this freaking phone with the Pro-Version of all of Chainfire's, Joey Kims, TWRP, ClockworkMods', Mobile Odin, Jimmy's ROMS, ChainsDD SuperSU too, Titatanium backup. I have literally spent $70 on apps over the past two years with 4 successful roots, 2 unlocks....I cannot do this thing. Help!

Towelroot, which I believe is obsolete and incompatible mod stringwise, didn't even work for me and I am not green with Odin. My problem is that I switched to a Macbook Pro, have very little PC Access, abut when I did I still could get it on 3.07 or 3.09. I have a Note 4 with TMobile, but this is a birthday gift for my friend who has boost. I bought a donor phone for after the root, I think I can probably even get Sprint to get me an international unlock so I can do a domestic sim unlock...was a good customer for 5 years. The phone is completely clean and off contract. I actually manufacture reset it just now through RTN before trying again. My know has been disabled this entire time...the counter on boot loader hasn't gone up. The problem I see is that the recovery is write enabled and I am also having trouble getting Odin to register the phone. I have know disabled even so it won't trip, not that he or I care, but still....

1) This has become my last three days when I expected it to take 15 minutes after the prep I put in to to make sure I had write phone model, right donor, right MSL. Does anyone with an enormous amount of experience have a simple OTA apk for the NG2 root?

2) Does anyone know a comparable program on MAC OS to Odin.exe?

3) Does anyone know how to get the boot loader from freezing because of write enabled so the phone won't connect to Odin?

4) I JUST CAN'T GET THIS THING ROOTED AND IT IS SO STRAIGHTFORWARD. HELP!, AND yes I do feel like an idiot.

5) I know it can be flashed to Boost, but that is well secondary, because with all of the android apps I have, the MSL, and experience doing it shouldn't be an issue...but I thought this wasn't going to be either, nor would it consume 3 days of my life. If someone can baby step me through this or just give me a simple answer like it should be, I am willing to buy three of your apps that you think are cool to have...my phone isn't rooted now, but I don't mind adding them to my google account if they are in relation to a root/flash/binaries. I will also email you $10-$25 depending on the reaction time to this response...posting dumb questions to experts was a last resort for me. I am desperate at this point.

-Mike

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Can the moderator of this thread please help me or pass my longer questioned post to a developer in a Normal Thread. I never post, always just read, and buy the pro versions of all the apps. I am in a thread with two other junior members just started about an issue that began last summer now and my questions will never been seen by the time I need this. Even posting was a last resort and I feel dumb hat I cannot solve because I have done literally the same thing with three other similar phones, and identical phone on a different build, and it is a birthday present I have already dropped $280 on between apps, the S4, a Boost LTE Donor....I just cannot root and need a simple answer from someone with experience. Thank you.