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[Galaxy Tab S General] Wimma:
Thanks for the tutorial. THink I have my T800 rooted now, but will be 12 hours to download the latest firmware for lollipop through flashfire :\

I just used the old stock one from the setup - assume I can just re-do flashfire then bootloader via ODIN later?

All looks ok, but I did lose the 5GHz wifi. Hoping that comes back with the update...
[Galaxy Tab S General] Wimma:
Rooted on lollipop now, but still no 5GHz it seems. I used what I thought was the correct rom (for Aus), but is there anything else I need to do?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You probably need the updated modem from the stock firmware. You need to specifically tell flashfire to flash it or flash it with odin.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Wimma:
Thanks I assume so, but looking in the firmware file I got, I only see sboot, boot, recovery, system, cache and hidden.bin files, nothing specific for modem?

I'll be off to google now, like a good noob :)

Cheers, great write up.
[Galaxy Tab S General] quintinliono:
I have the exact same problem. Everything works up until flash fire does his thing and gets the device stuck at the Samsung logo. After forcing download mode and flashing the bootloader (the one you provided for the T800) I get the update, but lose the root. What is there more to try ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You can't lose root flashing a bootloader.

What do you mean you get the update, what update? :what:
[Galaxy Tab S General] quintinliono:
Thanks for the quick reply.

It is the 5.0.2 official update. -->T800XXU1BOJ1<--The latest one here
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You have to flash the update with flashfire and make sure EverRoot is checked then flash the bootloader.
[Galaxy Tab S General] quintinliono:
Will try this the second I get home. If it is not checked by default, this may be the issue. I will get back to you once I can. Thanks in Advanced
[Galaxy Tab S General] quintinliono:
Flashed again. No positive results, still no root on 5.0.2. Flashfire does not go to Download-mode. I have to manually get it there
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
OK try this. Load the firmware as usual, then load the supersu v2.52 zip. Disable EverRoot.

Watch to see if the supersu script runs when flashing.
[Galaxy Tab S General] quintinliono:
You are very fast to respond.

I just had finished flashing the old method ( the one at the beginning of this tread) and it works. Fully rooted on 5.0.2

The thread where you use Kingoroot (link) Doesn't seem to work for me.

For research purpose i'll flash kitkat again ( like I don't have to do anything else :p) and see if it works with flashing the supersu v2.52 zip separatly. Report back in approx. one hour !

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This does not seem to work for me. But you are greatly thanked (and yes, I also hitted thanks:D). I've got root through the longer route, but I've got it, that is what matters.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Wimma:
Hope everyone had a great Christmas! And has a good new year!

Meanwhile, if anyone happens to see this, would love some advice on getting the modem out of a firmware file?

My google-fu has struggled, and I can see only sboot.bin and then the .img files - boot, recovery, system, cache and hidden - but no modem file apparent.

Have read some suggest a four part firmware, not an all in one? Is there another source of firmware (I got T800XXU1BOJ1_T800XSA1BOI2_HOME.tar.md5 from Samsung ... very slowly)

Or do I need to force specific options in odin? (I used v3.16) or flashfire?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
[Galaxy Tab S General] wojo797:
OK I'm am pulling my hair out over here. I have the att variant tab s 807a 10.5 trying to root. .I cannot find any firmwares anywhere,and king root isn't working after 20 attempts.can someone please point me in the right direction. I just want root I don't care about knox
[Galaxy Tab S General] cmosarch:
FWIW, I could never get Kingroot to work with Lolipop. I installed Kitkat and used the old version of Kingroot.
[Galaxy Tab S General] wojo797:
Yeah well I can't even find a older firmware for the 807a
[Galaxy Tab S General] cmosarch:
Wow, I don't even know what the 807 is?

Edit: Ah, the Verizon version. Sorry, can't help you there...

I used the KitKat firmware in the original post (for T800/T805):

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358555496
[Galaxy Tab S General] leapinlar:
It is the AT&T LTE version and I don't think any older roms are available for that version.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
Just rooted the second T800, but i have noticed that the silver one had different root steps than my own bronze one with identical firmwares and setup.

The silver one is exactly rooted as described in the first post, but my bronze one has skipped somewhat 5 of 6 steps and is also rooted. Could it be due to different hardware?
[Galaxy Tab S General] cmosarch:
Are you talking about the 32GByte bronze version sold by Best Buy (which I own)? I thought the hardware was identical except for the memory

capacity?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
Both 16gb international versions.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Mietzi:
Working great on T700

Thanks for the detailed guide. It's been working flawless on a T700 which is now running BOL1/BOK1 with root and Knox 0x0.

For Kingroot I had to use the 4.1 version. 4.5 and 4.65 did not work.

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Mietzi
[Galaxy Tab S General] galaxykeks:
Is it mandatory to do a wipe for this to work?

I'd like to root for a backup and wipe then :D
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Wipe? You don't need to wipe anything Kingroot now supports lollipop.

How do you propose to do a backup without custom recovery?
[Galaxy Tab S General] galaxykeks:
I think i read a to old "howto".

Thanks for the hint ;)
[Galaxy Tab S General] Bdozier:
Just to make sure I understand, now that it supports lollipop, download latest version of kingroot, 4.8.5, and start at step 2 after backup? And use latest versions of each file you detail?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab S General] the dreamer:
I need help please

I want the xposed and fram work that is working with tab s rooted ll

I found a lot of versions in this forum but not working

Put the links please
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Yep the aim is to simply to get Kingroot on there to start the procedure.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ftpxq:
hi, will this work with marshmallow? and also anyone got the mm bootloader?
[Galaxy Tab S General] martin_155:
Maybe the first post should be updated.

Rooted T800 sucessfully on latest firmware with Kingroot 4.5 (without flashing)

Just open up a terminal, type su, revert root in Kingroot app (do not only uninstall the app itself!) and run the script attached in the first post.

Done, easy as pie :)

[MENTION=3840841]Paddiii[/MENTION] (below): Nope, I did this on 5.02 a few days ago. Maybe DBT is later in update cycle?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Paddiii:
You did this on 6.0?!
[Galaxy Tab S General] the dreamer:
[MENTION=4899305]ashyx[/MENTION]

My note4 n910c 5.1.1 0x0 rooted by Kingroot long time back, last week i formatted it and install king root again to remove root but i found Knox 0x1 after that i flashed original LL ROM so i can update to MM easy and it is now OK.

The big question is why the Knox triggered when removing Kingroot by the same app while the root from the same device not PC and it was 0x0 for months without issue ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
So 6.xx is out in my country, but haven't find a way yet to flash it with root with knox staying on 0x0 (like to keep it that way)

Any solutions yet?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Flashfire, it's been available for ages.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
Didn't know flashfire could also flash later stock roms than 5.1.1 (at least that's what i was told when 6.xx wasn't out)
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Who told you such nonsense?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
Post #415:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeweettoch13

That's awesome. Tnx.

Btw when marshmallow arrives (hoping) can we just simply flash though flashfire and still obtain root? Or needs flashfire an update to be compatible with marshmallow?

No, currently modifications are required to the ramdisk just like 5.1.1

Or where you quoting flashfire instead of the stock rom?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I was referring to Flashfire.

Unfortunately he is correct about the boot.img needing patching. This will trip knox.

Anything that modifies either the boot or recovery partition will trip knox.

There is not a way yet to obtain root on MM without boot.img patching unless it's Kingroot or Kingoroot.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
So it's better to sit this one out and wait for a proper fix if I want to obtain 0x0?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
If you don't want to trip knox then Tbh you'll probably have to forget about root. The only reliable root now is supersu. Even PHH has issues.

Kingroot doesn't work properly on most MM roms and only gives temp root if it works at all.

There can't be much warranty left on your device is it worth worrying about. If it's for corporate use I understand.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jeweettoch13:
50/50. I have one private and one corporate. 5.1.1 runs just fine for now. Both are rooted to get rid of all the ads and is still on 0x0 and like to keep it that way. The private one has still warranty for about a year or so.

I will keep my eye on this and other topics. Thanks for the reply's. :good:
[Galaxy Tab S General] the dreamer:
i have 805 LL 5.0 rooted by kingroot Knox 0.0

can i upgrade to MM by flashfire while keeping root and Knox 0x0 ?

if i upgrade the bootloader by Oden it will not trigger Knox?

these step will not wipe anything?

i need the Boatloader please?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
No you can't.
[Galaxy Tab S General] the dreamer:
thanks for the very short answer which i don't know for which question

but i think you mean that i can't upgrade to MM
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You can upgrade no problem. You just can't do it with root and not trip knox.
[Galaxy Tab S General] N1NJATH3ORY:
Has anyone figured out how to Root MM 6.0.1 SM-T705 KNOX OXO ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Antigen3:
Hey, quick question if anyone is still reading this thread:

I did everything to get a rooted SM-T800 running Lollipop 5.0.2. Knox not tripped, but it won't upgrade to Lollipop 5.1.1. From reading this thread, it seems like we cannot get Marshmallow yet without tripping the Knox counter, but is there a way to get from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1? I have tried updating thru the tablet, but it says something like "the OS has been modified in an unauthoriesed way. Try using Smart Switch on your PC or visit a service center". If I update with "Smart Switch" will it mess up the Knox counter or my root access? I'm new to this and learning fast, and I can't seem to find a ROM that is Lollipop 5.1.1, not 5.0.2.

Thanks for any help, links, etc. anyone can provide!

Antigen
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
LL 5.1.1 doesn't exist for the Tab S. Marshmallow is official so install that.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Antigen3:
Thanks for the fast reply, ashyx! I am still learning fast, and realized that I don't need that Knox thing to be at 0 as I just bought this off eBay and it has no warranty anyway. I was just trying to be really cautious at first not wanting to mess anything up.

I went ahead and put TWRP custom recovery on and used that to install the LineageOS 14.1 with Nougat. I then did a couple steps to unlock Root on there since Lineage didn't have it already unlockable (kind of weird for a custom ROM I thought, but I'm new to this so....). Everything seems to be working fine so far.

I would like your thoughts on a custom ROM however. I use my tablet mostly for surfing the web, emails, and playing free tablet games from the play store. It never goes to work with me and stays at home 90% of the time. I would like a ROM that strips out the bloatware stuff that is in stock Android ROMs, gives the best battery life/fastest charging (since hours of game playing and wi-fi use seem to drain battery pretty fast), and is a good, stable ROM that I won't have to worry too much about something weird going wrong or not working at some point in the future. Since I play a lot of games, I don't like wiping the data and starting over too much since it resets progress on some games, so I want something that doesn't have to be re-flashed to update it all the time or anything like that.

Sorry if some of my comments seem odd, I just started researching all this stuff last week, before that I had no idea any of this even existed or that you could do stuff to your tablet that wasn't what was on it from the store. :p

I like the LineageOS 14.1 with Nougat for now (only been messing with it for a few hours though), but if you think that there are ROMs that might fit what I'm looking for better, or if there is any weird stuff about LineageOS that I might want to know, I would appreciate your thoughts!

Thanks!

Antigen
[Galaxy Tab S General] sithi.w:
Just to warn other people:

I have tried to flash the above SC-03G (Galaxy Tab S 8.1, Snapdragon 800, Japanese Kodomo carrier) with the SC-03G TWRP (mentioned in Remarks 1 above) via Odin. It turned out that the flashing failed after a few seconds, saying something like 'Complete write operation failed'. I think it could be because the bootloader is locked. Now whenever I boot the device, whether normally or booting into recovery, I would be greeted with the same message suggesting to connect the device to a pc and use Samsung Kies. I guessed the device is still recoverable automatically via Kies, or manually via flashing the latest official firmware via Odin.

I just report this as sharing information with intermediate users. When I have enough time (maybe after New Year), I will try to recover my tablet (possibly via Odin) and report the result.

Regards
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Just flash the recovery image tar via odin to recover the device.

https://desktop.firmware.mobi/device:93/firmware:14590

Also if this is a Snapdragon device, you can try flashing my twrp build for Snapdragon devices.
[Galaxy Tab S General] sithi.w:
Great Thanks

Thank very much sir for your trying to help. :good:, :laugh:

I will follow your advice, and report back the result. (I'm very busy right now, so it'll probably a couple days.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Jacksson:
Does this method still work? (If I use odin to download my official firmware before applying this method)
[Galaxy Tab S General] sithi.w:
Season's Greetings.

Thanks for your kind advice. I had recovered my Galaxy Tab S, SC-03G, device with just flashing the recovery image, without the much trouble of having to download the enormous entire firmware.
[Galaxy Tab S General] thorvindr:
First hiccup:

I'm trying this on my T807a; that's AT&T's branded model of the T805. samsung-updates.com lists several variants of the T807: 807p (Sprint), 807t (T-Mobile) and 807r4 (US Cellular) but not the T807a. Should I use one of those? Should I just use the one you've provided for the T805?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Unfortunately the T807a has a locked bootloader however it will still work if you are still on kitkat and haven't upgraded to lollipop.

If you are on lollipop already then there is no way to go back to kitkat without the stock firmware.
[Galaxy Tab S General] thorvindr:
Okay, clearly I should try to find the 807a firmware. But barring that, is it likely that the firmware from a different variant of the same device will be good enough to pull this off? 807t has the same processor as me, if I'm not mistaken.

Unfortunately, we didn't have the option not to upgrade . Several times on push day, I was asked if I wanted to update to Lollipop and I said no. So in the middle of the night, when I wasn't awake to tell it not to, it updated anyway. Now I'm stuck with an un-rootable paperweight running the ugliest, slowest version of TouchWiz yet.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Unfortunately you can't flash firmware from another model nor is there a t807a or t807v firmware available.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mathurmatt:
hey ashyx i have an indian t705 model with INU branding (INU and Ins are both indian but diffrent reason) and there is no af8 available for INU but af7 and af6 there is af8 available for INS branding t705 can i flash INS build without triping knox
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You can flash the earlier af6 or af7 and it should work.

You could also flash the af8 as that should work also. Usually the earlier the firmware the more chance of root.
[Galaxy Tab S General] 3DSammy:
Ashyx, if you have already finished rooting with your instructions is there any advantage in flashing this newest SM-T800 bootloader with Odin?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Sorry I have no idea, I added it because DUHAsianSKILLZ was kind enough to upload it. It's the latest build so just added it for the sake of it.

I have no idea what improvements or differences it brings, if any.
[Galaxy Tab S General] 3DSammy:
In that case I'll leave well enough alone, which surely goes against the hacking philosophy of "If it an't broke you haven't tweaked it enough".
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Here is a funny one:

I followed your guide to the dot, eager to post feedback (and a 705 LTE bootloader) but I'm stuck right in the beginning.

I have been running kingroot (the version from your link) two times without any success and now the app already tells me

"Root strategy unavailable - no strategy now" and "19424 request received"

Exiting app and/or rebooting tablet doesn't help.

Wireless connection is perfect, rom build number is KOT49H.T705XXU1ANF7

Device is basically fresh our of the box, only a couple of hours old.

Next I will try a different version as I have been reading your comments on another thread that only a different version will continue to attempt root.

Thank you ashyx for this great thread and hopefully a solution to keep the knox counter happy!

Regards, Yoko

(sorry for my english, me=german :eek: )
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Ive seen that message myself. Sometimes uninstalling kingroot then reinstalling gets rid of it.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Thanks for your quick reply, ashyx!

I didn't install a different version as the linked one appears to be the latest but i did a factory reset just in case.

Reinstalled "your" version of Kingroot again but to no avail.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app 3 times since.

No success. The counter goes up to ~65%. Sometimes less, sometimes more.

No reboot ever occurred during the procedure by the way...

Is there any device specific information i could provide you with, to help you (helping me...)? :fingers-crossed:

Up to the Kingroot step in your guide i don't see anything i could have done wrong.

Then again i'm not an expert (not by a long shot)...

One thing: After most rooting attempts the Tab S 8.4 is lagging so hard and appears to be almost frozen - i have to restart it.

Thank you again for your work, :good:

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I take you are not interfering or stopping the process in any way. Even if it seems to have stopped, you must not interfere.

There is a new version out, if that doesn't work you may need to try earlier versions.

http://androidxda.com/download-kingroot-application

If that doesnt work you may need to go to anf8.

http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-T705
[Galaxy Tab S General] hddnhrst:
Thank you very much for this awesome guide! I successfully rooted my brand new device, everything you described was very easy to follow!

Maybe a few things to add for rather inexperienced users like me . . .

Step 1 - How to use Odin3 to flash a firmware: First turn off your device and unplug your usb cable. Boot into download mode by holding POWER, VOL DOWN and HOME keys at the same time. Connect the usb cable, run Odin3 on your computer and select the firmware after clicking the AP button, wait until it has been checked. At the options tag untick Auto Restart (because doing things manually is a good idea). At last click Start and wait until the flashing has finished. Then just exit Odin3 and hold POWER, VOL DOWN, HOME on your device to make it reboot, once it turned off and the screen is black, hold POWER, VOL UP, HOME to boot into recovery mode. In recovery mode select wipe data/factory reset, then select reboot.

Step 5 - Wasn't sure what to do once it finished. Just exit the KingsRoot app. There is nothing else to do here. Uninstall it the usual way from within your android system (e.g. holding the icon and dragging it onto the uninstall bin).

Step 13 - To install the bootloader with Odin3 you do the same as in step 1, but this time you need to click the BL button to select the bootloader file.

Everything else was perfect, exactly as described. Just read things very carefully to not miss anything!

At the end I booted into recovery mode to wipe data/factory reset again. After the final normal reboot the device took some time when displaying the Samsung writing. Don't get nervous like me, just wait. :silly:

Now I have a nice lollipop tablet with root access and this knox flag still being 0. Tomorrow I will start freezing/debloating all the annoying stuff.

Thank you very much once again!
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Nope, I don't touch the device while Kingroot is doing whatever it does.

It is always quickly reaching 16% and then slowly (most of the time anyway) climbing up to something around 60%.

It stops with the aforementioned message and my only option is to quit the program. No reboot ever occurred .

I get 1-2 rooting attempts out of each fresh Kingroot install. After that I have to reinstall the program as neither force close nor reboot will let me try another round. Each individual rooting attempt takes from 4 to 8 Minutes, quite different time frames!

Screen on time is set to 10 minutes, tablet is on battery, charge is at +80%, WiFi signal is strong, occasional traffic is evident by the UL/DL arrows is the WiFi icon while running the app, mobile (sim) connection is disabled.

I will try the new version tomorrow or flash the anf8 if that fails as well.

I will report back tomorrow evening.

Thank you again for your replies and have a pleasant evening,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] baristaman:
I just tried out this procedure. I have a few comments.

I was on stock lollipop on my T800, so I had to Odin stock Kitkat. You should mention that the Kitkat original ROM in your OP is for the US, because when I tried to flash it on my Canadian T800, Odin failed when flashing hidden.img. There is a country check that failed in Odin. I wound up using Kies to recover my now nonbooting tablet. I finally downloaded the correct Kitkat ROM (an adventure in itself, due to multiple corrupted files on sammobile) and flashed it.

Most of the rest of the procedure went smoothly, except for the Flashfire part. I tried to flash the correct stock Lollipop ROM for my country and after Flashfire scanned the archive, it could only find the boot image. There was no option to install the recovery or system partitions, or any others for that matter. I did look in the archive and those images were definitely in there.

So instead of installing stock, I decided to try installing IronROM 2.1 (2.2 has an aroma installer, which is not compatible with Flashfire). I modified the zip to replace the modified kernel with a stock one, then flashed it. I then exited to download mode and used Odin to flash a Lollipop bootloader. For good measure, I went into recovery and did a factory reset.

And.... now it won't boot.

After all this, Knox is still not tripped. But right now my choice seems to be to either go back to dead stock or trip Knox and install the ROM I really want.