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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] geekgirl2:
Question on the root.bat. I flashed via Odin and the phone went to the Samsung screen and then into the android system recovery. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to pick here. The note says "during process the phone shall stay on Samsung logo then to go download NOT RECOVERY"

HELP!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ndm4ompk:
Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] triadko:
Thank you for this guide! Helped to my friend.

Now I have a root rights, is it necessary to delete kingroot and do other stuff with superMe, safestrap etc.

Our primary goal was to achive the root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
Okay, so I have gone through all of that and safestrap is installing recovery at the moment, before I start flashing, what is the order of everything in Safestrap? It backup, then click wipe, then advanced wipe, and select the data, cache, and system, then once its done wiping click install, find the deodexed ROM, and flash that? Or do I still need to flash the Safestrap_Flashable_Kernels and Safestrap_Flashable_Firmware, and if I do, is it to find those two first flash them, and then flash the deodexed ROM?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] zounduser:
Dude u can keep the Rom u have. Stock. For now. That's what I did. Made a backup, flashed my S6 keyboard, froze some apps, and am looking to install a S6 Rom. If there are any? Either way, I have root, and a recovery. And that makes me pretty happy.

I would get supersume app and get rid of the king crap. Because for me, supersu is what I've always used. And it works.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Just flash the rom that's it. The thing is with the problem you had is you don't know if it's fixed until you flash a rom and if it still fails your going to have to odin and start again, we'll you know you have already been through it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
I know I can keep it for now. My eventual goal was to flash an S6 ROM, so I just figured that if I was in the learning process now on how to do it all, I would learn it now.

Haha, okay Ill flash the ROM and give it a shot, thank you!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] musterion1973:
hi everyone. how have you been?

is there a Custom Rom for BOK3 that has wifi calling enabled. verizon seems to have a few features I liked on my old phone I think it was an S3 where wifi calling was a feature.

and if I can ask what is your favorite s5 bok3 rom to use

and can I get some instructions on how to install rom with the tools provided in the section apps to install in the OP's opening instructions?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] geekgirl2:
A little help?

Anyone here??

---------- Post added at 02:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:53 AM ----------

I read through several pages here and I just didn't understand something. I ran the root.bat. Odin popped up and I flashed on the NK2_kernel using AP option. Phone rebooted. Samsung screen then the recovery screen came up. I'm unsure what to do here. I aborted to get my phone working again but, I just didn't understand what the next step was.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
For me, after flashing the NK2_kernel, it will reboot, the Samsung Screen comes up and then it just stays there, it doesn't go anywhere. What i do after is pull the battery, and turn it back on and put it into download mode (hold Power+home+volume down all at the same time), and then the root.bat script should keep going and tell you to flash the VZW_BOK3_KERNEL_ONLY.tar.md5 file.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Do you have a verizon S5?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] deathrow1993:
problem with removing kingroot and using safestrap

i successfully rooted my s5 on ok3. root checker says its rooted correctly. everytime i try to use super-sume (version 9.2.6) it gets stuck when i first press the big blue button to remove king root. also i installed safestrap but everytime i try to use it the phone reboots to the normal bootup screen but it has a picture of a padlock in the unlocked position with the word custom below it. after a while it boots into the normal android recovery and i have to odin the ok3 kernel back on it just so it will boot. i have root but cant get rid of kingroot or use safestrap. anyone have any idea what i did wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hollieanne:
My phone says this. What do I do?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
reflash the bok3 kernel using odin
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Safestrap needs supersu and busybox installed
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
If anyone is still getting failure to flash zip in safestrap try this.

boot into safestrap recovery flash this zip View attachment 3651902

This formats the system partion correctly but also wipes system so you would need to restore a backup or flash a rom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Hi [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION], my Problem was with the new safestrap too, even after flashing the header fix. Only the PITfile resolved my issue.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
If it happens again just flash this in safestrap and it will fix the problem then all will be good

G900V_Fix Safestrap.zip This formats the system partion correctly but wipes system also so you would need to restore a backup or flash a rom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Ok An update here. SuperSU Me is no longer needed. Once you open kingroot and swipe up and then click try . Then you can open the busybox installer and allow kingroot permission then install busybox. Then open safestrap installer allow kingroot permissions then install safestrap recovery reboot device then goback to safestrap installer and click reboot to recovery. Then you can install the latest beta supersu zip 2.67 i believe or you can flash custom rom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ndm4ompk:
Sir rickrom and allaince rom work well after root with this method, thanks sir,, :thumbup:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] anand96999:
i rooted my s5 with this tool it was easy

can i root note 4 verizon with this method
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] anothermember:
request

first of all sorry for my english

hi mr genius. i've read all your explaination and i'm worried. my question is does it work for international use. i'm in west africa and i don't know if after doing all these stuff i'll have network to call, send message, i'll be able to connect to 3G/4G maybe or not, share my connection by wifi using the native s5 wifi hotspot. In short enjoy same things like an s5 G900F or 900H'owner enjoy.

i've bought my phone with this configuration :

Model number : SM-G 900F

Android version : 5.0

Baseband version : G900FXXU2BOG5

kernel version : 3.4.0-4782027 dpi@SWHD7513#1 Friday jul 31 11:35:22 KST 2015

Build number : LRX21T.G900FXXU2BOG5

Hardware version : G900V.05

in download mode it appears model phone : G900V ,that's the reason why i notice my phone is a verizon

all works in the phone. But the problem is i'll not be able to get an update if it out, my battery get low very quickly and sometimes it turns off even if the battery is full, i don't know why. so i would like to flash the real official firmware of my G900V and i'd like to continue enjoying all of on the real firmware of the phone. sorry for my english again. i'm not good at all and i've tried my best

please at this point wchich method of root do i apply ? yours for g900v or the g900f before backup the system in case i apply yours after and it doesn't work i'll be able restore what i use now.

notice: i do my own research on sammobile and i doesn't find the firmware version of 900f according to his baseband version. but i find the baseband version of 900v which is G900VXXU2BOG5 but not this G900FXXU2BOG5. so i root by following which method of root. G900F method root or G900V method root. please help me
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
Thank you! I'll try this tonight.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
No I doubt it would .
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
[MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] What's the reason that we need to use safesrtap after rooting is done with kr?

Is it because it's only temporary?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
[MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION]

Awesome. Is the safestrap part required? Or only optional ?

Can we get something similar for at&t s5 ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] atacks:
Hi guys...please someone help me to make my phone root...I tried everything but i failed...When i threw the kernel via Odin but my phone didnt open and i load the original rom again can someone help me please...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
If you perfectly happy with a rom thats rooted then you dont need safestrap, but I would install it and at least flash this zip which will update super su remove knox add init.d support.

Knox_Removal_SU_BB_INIT.D.zip
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Follow the directions in the Op start with prepare your phone for root
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] atacks:
I couldn't make the root from towelroot i tried all code but it wasnt work ... and which directions ?? :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Where did we mention towel root? the prepare directions are in the OP, look at the button hiding it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] deathrow1993:
if safestrap needs busybox and super su to work how do i get super su on my phone if i cant get super sume to replace kingroot? can i just install super su from the playstore?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
The towel root dont work if your on BOE1 bootloaders or higher. An which direction? Did you miss the first post in this thread
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
did you not read this post

Then flash the zip in this post
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] deathrow1993:
i figured out a way to fix it. originally i had kingroot 4.6 installed. i uninstalled and reinstalled kingroot 4.5 then i used super-sume version 6.0 and that fixed the problem.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flash629:
Where is OK3

I'm reflashing root. According to the bat file It says flash OK3. Where is it?

Please get back to me asap I'm in the middle of the bat file waiting.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
It should be in the OK3_ROOT_V3.exe file.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Its in the OK3 Root folder
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chris19653:
I've also gotten to the point where it says to flash the Nk2 kernal. I do that and then the phone reboots and gets stuck on the Samsung logo.

I'd like to clarify some things. Currently, what I'm doing is then, when stuck on the logo, I have been turning the phone off, booting into download mode, and then using Oden and placing the OK3 kernal only file into the AP slot...when the phone reboots, king root says I have no root even after multiple reboot attempts.

Please give me some guidance because the .bat file is kind of confusing
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hollieanne:
I tried that and it didn't work. I really don't know what I am doing wrong.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Flash the ok3 kernel return to phone and delete the 3 apps it installed. Reboot phone and try again. This time when the phone reboots to download and you flask nk2 kernel the phone will reboot to Samsung screen don't do anything wait for the process to finish you will see the message root done It Mike take several minutes. Then when it's done do like the directions say. Pull battery reboot to bootloader use odin and flash ok3 kernel
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chris19653:
Okay so if I wait long enough on the Samsung logo screen, the batch file will tell me root completed? Thanks for your help and quick response.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
If it takes more than 2 minutes it probably is stuck. In that case try again
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] atacks:
same problem

when ı flash the kernel Nk2 via odin ... the phone dosnt open ... just ı see the logo GalaxyS5 on screen ... I wait for 10 minutes but the phone dıdnt open and I again flash the MK2Kernel but the result doesnt change :(

By the way Thanks for all your helps :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
Watch the bat file to see when it is done and time to flash the OK3 kernel. When it is time to flash it, pull the battery and restart the phone in download mode. Then flash the OK3 kernel .
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Are you leaving the root.bat open? The root.bat is not done once you flash the Nk2 kernel. You don't watch the phone you watch the root.bat
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Did that fix work are you able to flash roms now?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sm0k3y-TB:
Hey guys. I just rooted my OG5. After booting to the safestrap recovery I flashed the deodexed OK3 rom included at the end of the OP.. Do I need to now flash the OK3 kernel or do I have to flash the OG5 kernel since that's what I started on?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] perfectfire:
My rooting failed at the Kinguser step. It said there was no strategy found and that 6xx users had requested it. Later it notified me that there was an update so I downloaded it and tried it again, but still no luck. We're like 107th in the queue of phone models requesting a root strategy from them.

I'm going to try and start over from the beginning to make sure I didn't mess anything up.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
I decided to go ahead and try to root OG5 and everything went smooth as butter until king user failed with "Root strategy unavailable."

Edit: I powered off my device, waited about 10 seconds, did a battery pull, started my phone and b4 much could happen other than connecting to 4GLTE towers I opened Kinguser and I was officially rooted; looking back. I installed root check right quick and I am officially rooted. I will now be carrying on with Superuser-me and installing a rom I can fiddle with. Does anyone know of a rom very similar in likeness to Hyperdrive? I loved that rom on my S4
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Kiraisuki:
If anyone's still browsing this thread this far, I just followed the instructions in the OP. My GS5 G900V is now fully rooted! BUT! The Lollipop Safestrap Recovery app will not install safestrap. Whenever I tap "install safestrap" it responds instantly with "Lollipop safestrap recovery has stopped." I tried various versions of the official safestrap installer, and it installs fine, but when I tap "reboot to recovery" (or reboot normally) my phone proceeds through normal boot procedure to the stock ROM. I never see the safestrap splash screen, nor do I boot into safestrap. Can anyone help me? I don'twant the arse-heads at Verizon to force another apple-like update down my phone's external data bus!

Verizon Galaxy S5 G900V on BOG5 Firmware.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
It's because you didn't install busy box or reinstall it, or you never granted Root permission to safestrap. Uninstall all the safestrap stuff and use the apps I provided and follow directions
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Flash the OK3 kernel
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sm0k3y-TB:
I flashed the OG5 kernel and it worked fine. Should I flash back to OK3 now?

Also, can we flash the Phoenix Rom as long as we don't flash the firmware?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] perfectfire:
ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat possibly hanging

I'm trying the commands in ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat by hand because it was giving me errors when I ran the batch file. I'm at the line that says

adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp && ./schrodinger32 /data/local/tmp/.2c360c7/postroot.sh /data/local/tmp/.2c360c7 1 /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp"

which I changed to

adb shell "cd /data/local/tmp && /data/local/tmp/schrodinger32 /data/local/tmp/.2c360c7/postroot.sh /data/local/tmp/.2c360c7 1 /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp"

because it was complaining that it couldn't find schrodinger32. So now it's running instead of complaining, but it just prints out

uname
linux_ver
##########
off_set
##########
##########
##########
##########
##########
##########
##########
##########
##########
KRSLOG: prepare done.
system part @ /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system
KRSLOG: /data/local/tmp
KRSLOG: [+] This device: Verizon samsung SM-G900V Linux version 3.4.0-2525521 (dpi@SWDD5816) (gcc version 4.7 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT S
un Sep 14 18:04:11 KST 2014

And sits there. How long is this supposed to take?

Edit: After another try it worked! Some people just have to try several times I guess.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] northmendo:
Do I have to flash my version of the kernel in your .zip after flashing a rom? Because I can't get any of them to boot. It just goes black and reboots to stock recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
When flashing custom roms try to use firmware that matches the build of the rom on ports try to use latest firmware. Here is safestrap flashables for all versions their is no bootloaders in these so they wont brick your phone

Here are the new safestrap flashable firmware zips with no bootloaders these are safe to flash on all versions of bootloaders

BOC4_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip

BOD5_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip

BOE1_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip

BOG5_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip

BOK3_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Put the phone in airplane mode then it cant connect to servers
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] perfectfire:
I ran the rest of the steps, but when it reboots it says

SAFESTRAP DISABLED
Starting system in 10 seconds

There's an option for

RECOVERY

and

CONTINUE

. Doing nothing, choosing RECOVERY and choosing CONTINUE all lead to a black screen and I have to pull the battery out to reboot.

Have I just bricked my phone?

Edit: I can boot into recovery if I hold down Volume Down and Power for long enough and boot from that menu. Then it will give me the choice of recovery or continue, continue still goes to blank, recovery actually goes to recovery, but I don't know what to do from there.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
you didnt follow these steps!

19. When phone reboots install all apps in the Apps_To_Install folder you placed on your phone

20 Open Kinguser.apk and click try it. You should now have root.

21. Now open SuperSU-Me app and it will remove kinguser and replace it with SuperSu

22. After this process click on SuperSu and will ask to update binary click update normal

23. Copy this Folders to your SD Card and Internal Storage Safestrap_Flashable_Kernels and Safestrap_Flashable_Firmware

24. Now open Busybox Wait for it to ask for root and reinstall it. Click on Lollipop Safstrap and click Install Safestrap wait for it to ask for root after it installs click the back button and click on Recovery Reboot wait for it to ask for root
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] perfectfire:
I followed all the steps but missed out on installing a Safestrap_Flashable_Kernel and Safestrap_Flashable_Firmware. I was trying to follow the steps to the letter so I didn't install them because it never says to. It just says to put them on the phone's SD Card and Internal Storage.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
26. Remember when using Safestrap to return to rom from Safestrap recovery you must flash the Safestrap Flashable kernel zip matching your firmware
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Has anyone used this zip BOK3_Firmware_With_BOK3_Bootloader_CAUTION.zip in the firmware folder to update their firmware to BOK3?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aireos:
When manually running the .bat I cant make it past the first command lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justaguynamedchris:
I believe I have from OE1 > OK3

Everything seems to be working great.

It updated for about 5 minutes and booted normally.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
I want to make sure I understand this, as I'm new to the S5 and only recently got one running ANK7. Is it still the case that once flashing firmware BOE1 and up, there's no going back to earlier versions?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
. If your on kitkat still you will have to flash lollipop bootloaders to run lollipop, you can flash after your rooted and flash lollipop rom you can boot back to download mode and use odin to Update your firmware by flashing this VZW_BOK3_RETAIL_FIRMWARE_ONLY_WITH_BOD5_BOOTLOADERS.tar.md5 this has BOD5 bootloaders that will still let you downgrade back to kitkat. If you flash any firmware with bootloaders higher than BOE1 you will be stuck with those bootloaders and therefore cannot downgrade to kitkat

Just another question how did you get a phone with NK7 that was just an update to make phone ready for lollipop there wasnt even firmware released for that
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
I just flashed both and both were successful!! It has rebooted and is sitting at the Verizon logo, i'm hopeful it is just taking its sweet time because its a new ROM. If it doesn't boot successfully, I'll let you know! Thank you!!

EDIT: Okay so i left on the Verizon logo for about a half an hour, and still nothing. I am going to try and pull the battery and just turn it on, hopefully that will work.

SECOND EDIT: well that was quick and easy. It did not make me wait at all when it turned back on, it just went straight to optimizing apps. However it no longer says custom and has the unlocked padlock on the first screen when you turn it on, I'm not sure if that matters.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
You did do advance wipe and wipe data cache and system correct?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
I did not, I did not know I needed too, however I can try it all again here in a minute. Its almost done optimizing apps.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Yes not wiping data is going to cause problems

But at least you know it flashes
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Aceplanet:
Thank you again! I'm gonna redo the entire process just to make sure I don't run into any problems in the future.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rmedure:
Thanks for this ... seems to have worked well. I'm on SuperSU and have safestrap installed and appears to be working.

I have a question. After doing backup in SS, on reboot I get hung with "Process system isn't responding". Pull battery and reboot seems to correct it. But it seems pretty repeatable after being in SS. Is this normal? Is there something wrong?

TIA,

(disregard signature ... on new VZ S5 with OK3 pre-loaded ...)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flash629:
Seems to be working

After redoing the root for various reasons and a number of times, it seems to be working.

1} Some of the problems I had was with SafeStrap. I installed it on the phone and rebooted into Safestrap. The problem came after that. When I went to reboot, the phone would shutdown and not restart.

2} I tried using the SafeStrap fix and that didn't fix anything. Went to reboot and again the phone shut down.

3} I tried to use the "Custom" fix and that didn't work.

So I guess you can tell, I didn't install any roms, kernnals, SafeStraps or any of the extras.

BTW I tried to install all the "Ziips" through SafeStrap.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Umm.... thats supposed to happen.... just leave it plugged in
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Dude you need to read before you just start flashing things! Did you read about what to do when you flash the safestrap fix? Did you install a rom or backup after you used the safestrap fix? The safestrap fix wipes your system.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Monzterr14:
It works

Yes it works but can i install any custom recovery or not? i wanna install cyanogenmod.

Thank you so much!!:)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
no you cannot, stated in op, bootloader is locked, all roms must be touchwiz..... for now :P
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Monzterr14:
thanks you
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] barrelsmasher:
Are there any good custom roms that use Touchwiz?

Btw, excellent tutorial! Phone is now rooted, confirmed with terminal su!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rnh:
I just rooted my wife's s5 with the bok3 tar and she wants toleave it that way however she was wondering if there was any way to get rid of the annoying charging cover notification that keeps on poping up. I figure there must be something in tibu or with a root explorer that would do it . Thanks for any help
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Are there any side-effects to removing knox with that zip?

I notice all the "remove binary" stuff but what do the accuweather, calculator, calendar, dropbox, GApps, etc binaries have to do with knox?

I just don't want to break those apps.