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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] MortimerR:
Trying to make sure that safestrap works correctly going off of this guide.

I remember reading somewhere that you needed to load a fix for safestrap. I don't recall if it was a zip, or an .apk.

I want to create a backup through it before I unlock my BL and upgrade to rooted and unlocked PD1.

Can anyone let me know if I'm not going crazy, and that there was some 5.1safestrapfix or something some place? Thanks.

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Trying to make sure that safestrap works correctly going off of this guide.

I remember reading somewhere that you needed to load a fix for safestrap. I don't recall if it was a zip, or an .apk.

I want to create a backup through it before I unlock my BL and upgrade to rooted and unlocked PD1.

Can anyone let me know if I'm not going crazy, and that there was some 5.1safestrapfix or something some place? Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] umar9977:
HELP!!!!!!!

Each time i try to reboot in to recovery my phone gets stuck on the samsung logo so i flash the vzw_bp1 file and its all good so i try to enter recovery again and the same thing happens help me please
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Howell05:
Knox trouble

I am having problems with step # 7. It says it completed but after i load the Rom listed in step #8 and checking the "about phone" section, it shows knox still listed. Is this correct?

Otherwise everything else worked beautifully and i appreciate all the hard work you guys put into these phones so folks like me can enjoy the freedom.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
You don't remove Knox, more you "freeze it"
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mcmurphy_rp:
Thanks to this thread, my Verizon S5 is rooted with a custom ROM installed. Once in a while it crashes and restarts at the stock ROM (which I hadn't even realized was still in there somewhere). Then, if I restart again, it boots to the custom ROM and everything in apps is just the way I left them, but I have to reset default apps and permissions, which screws up stuff that I've automated with Tasker. Any idea why this would be happening?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BigBird9906:
I am on PB1 trying to get rooted. After I update the USB drivers, where does the rooting begin for me?

The first post in this thread says "If Your Not On BPB1 Build then Proceed too Prepare Your Phone" and then describes the OK3 root.bat steps.

-- Is that a real IF....THEN statement of a conditional initial prepare step for non-PB1 folks only? i.e. PB1 skips that and starts with numbered step 1 (Kingroot).

--Or is that the beginning of the procedure and I should root.bat even if I am on PB1?

Sorry, I've parsed the first post a dozen times, hunted through many pages of PB1 search of this thread, and read the opening screen in root.bat. I still can't get myself to >80% certainty on the English-meets-logic thing.......

It's all clear to me from Kingroot on.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Turn on USB debugging & start the root.bat
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
I was on g900v PF4 this was my first time trying to root and was blindly following along, I went through odin following the root.bat and got stuck in the recovery loop over and over and over and stupidly went back to odin and put in the pb1 :eek: got stuck on samsung screen so i just put my phone in Odin download mode and have been trying to find a way to fix it without asking for help << Obviously I have failed :cool: What do I need to do or download to fix said ignorance AND were should I start at on this guide so I get it right the second go :confused: The army gave me pretty good attention to detail but said guide seems out of order for a nub.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
You need to follow the "prepare your phone" in OP to downgrade to pb1 so you can root
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
Any idea were I can get a PF4 stock kernel to fix my bootloopin ? Been scouring the internet over 5 hours and No1 seems to have it.:confused::(
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Do you want to downgrade to pb1 or not??

If you just wanna make it work on marshmallow without downgrading. Download the PD1 from

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/72890/G900VVRU2DPD1_G900VVZW2DPD1_VZW/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
You tried this on PF4, even though it says you must be on PB1?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
Will try but My phone is still stuck,I have 3 choices, Recovery Mode, Download Mode, or Stare at Samsung Splash I tried the wipe cache's and reboot stuff even tried to Factory reset. No Go. I spent all day and night reading up on this stuff, Now I partly understand the process.

The only Solution to my problem I havent been able to try is flashing back to my stock PF4 < PROBLEM> Havent found a PF4 Stock Kernel ANYWHERE. I Flashed a NCG that shouldnt have then when i couldnt figure out what to do Flashed the PD1 from the root.bat file in the guide.

I cantdo anything till I get the phone UNSTUCK. I do appreciate you trying to help me and that last PD1 link you sent me.. 1 mirror was dead, rapgator mirror was broke (per usual), and the 3rd wanted me to pay or sit here for a 10 hour download.

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Yes I did, I didnt know what I was doing. Now I understand though :good: I'll get her done 1 way or another when I find the right files ;)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
I simply cannot comprehend why you aren't following the "prepare for root"

This Will work even when your phone is stuck

Do you have any data that you don't wanna wipe?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
Nope I backed up everything Wiping isnt an issue, I'll go do the prepare I didnt realize it would get me unstuck :mad::good::good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ibrubeer:
Do everything in the "prepare for root" section first, then do all of the steps listed (even if you don't think you need to!). Follow steps closely, and it will work.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
It's part of the process. Just read
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
Everything seems to have gone smoothly, did everything to the T. Currently at the end of the root.bat part. Whats the normal wait time? Its not stuck I dont think, when I was stuck the bluelight on top was on.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
After I flash nk2 kernal it hangs I follow the directions to clean cache, reboot bootloader, Sends me to download mode and the directions say open root2 which does nothing in odin mode... What is next after wipeC rebootB?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SkyWindZ:
I am stuck at Waiting for the phone to be connected.

The List of devices attached

198f973d unauthorized

Is there any solutions to this?

Debugging is on in developer mode and everything.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
i guess you didn't read the part that says you need to click authorize, and check remember this computer on the huge popup that shows up
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SkyWindZ:
The problem is that I am not getting that pop up with the message for me to authorize my computer.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
wtf?

uhhhh.... okay, did you read the part where if it doesn't show up, click clear all authorizations, disable debug, remove from pc, reconnect to pc, enable debug...

you have the drivers installed right
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SkyWindZ:
Yeah...Drivers.

Rebooted my phone while Developer mode is off.

Turned USB Debugging off, rebooted my phone and turned it back on.

Revoke USB Debugging authorizations and reconnecting usb.

Reinstalled Drivers.

Updated ADB (Even though it's already up-to-date).

I wasted my time and downloaded Android Studio thinking it would be a good idea to get it working but it didn't.

Uninstalled Kies and Smart Watch Samsung.

ADB Kill-server and Start-server is not helping that much. (Made a .bat file so I don't have to keep typing it).

I am not even sure what to do anymore.

EDIT: I also removed the file located in C:/user/.android/[File where it has the key w/e its called]

Should I factory reset my phone? I don't really mind not backing it up since its only a couple of games that I play and have music in my SD card.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
I rooted my first phone! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! My issue with the constant boot and splash screen turned out to be the USB ports on the laptop I was using, The only real difference Between the Laptops is 1 is intel/gateway(3 USB ports) and intel/Dell(2 USB ports)<<BOTH WINDOWS 7 PREMIUM< Out of the 5 USB's only 1 worked on the Dell laptop. EACH OF THE 5 USB PORTS AUTO INSTALLED ITS OWN SAMSUNG DRIVERS! (Even though I installed drivers to the entire system. << Pay attention to that. If this Root Noob got it to work, I promise you can too. [IMG="MyFirstRoot"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/PyRoIcE/Cherrypopped.png[/IMG]
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Congrats

Now that your rooted you might be able to unlock bootloader & update back to 6.0 rooted

Check this thread for more info http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/development/rd-unlocking-galaxys-s5-bootloader-t3337909/page1
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stabbey:
I shall attempt said trickery. Now that I have a port that I know works for this stuff hopefully it wont be too hard eh?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
your phone shall decide if you unlock or not :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SkyWindZ:
Solved my issue as I need a Virtual machine to do this. (My laptop is getting repaired).

But the problem now is that I'm stuck at Waiting for the phone to be reconnect while my phone is stuck on the samsung screen.

Its not reconnecting.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
i'm having the same issue. this is after flashing nk2, then it reboots the phone from the root.bat process, and i'm stuck at verizon screen. it never shows back up in adb devices and continues the root.bat. i follow instructions, unplug phone, reboot into bootloader, etc etc. i did this several times. reading instructions, retrying. reading instructions again.

i must be missing something. when i continue with the steps to go to root2.bat and i'm in bootloader, eventually it seems to process the file permission changes, but kingroot still fails after the phone boots up.

any suggestions?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alin919:
Just flash pb1 kernel via odin.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] michaelahess:
So if I'm rooted already on OK3, can I just ODIN the PB1 Kernel and install the ROM VZW_BPB1_ODEX_DEODEX_V9.zip via safeboot? Or do I still have to go through the "Prepare your phone for Root" and go through all the steps again?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alin919:
Use FF or SS and flash the rom. and firmware pb1 with no bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] michaelahess:
Seemed to have worked but now after everything upgraded, all I get is "Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped, and I can't get out of it. I was able to get into settings and disable the Setup Wizard, but I still can't get to the launcher. Baseband Version still shows ok3, and kernel version 3.4.0, but build shows LRX21T.G900VVRU2BPB1.

Should I just factory default? I've already made a FF backup before I started all this.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
will this give me root? and what is "FF or SS" ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alin919:
Flash fire and Safe strap . You stated you was root on ok3 rom.

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Yes , go manual to recovery mode and wipe data and catche .
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
no. i'm not rooted. i'm failing to root. this is the issue. i'm following this guide to gain root.

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when i odin nk2 is where phone restarts, hangs on samsung logo, does not boot up fully, which prevents adb from recognizing device and it does not continue with root2.bat.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alin919:
Oh , my bad, just do a factory reset and start again if you stuck after flashed Nk2 kernel , just manual put phone in the download mode and odin pb1 kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] michaelahess:
Factory wiped, after it rebooted, installed SS and flashed the firmware, all seems good now. Call recording WORKS! That's all I wanted, so thank you very much for your help!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
this is the part of the instructions that do not make sense.... it says

.... but when it's in bootloader mode, adb never recognizes device....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
so i watched this video .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS86FHqY6rE

and i am getting this error string instead of the rooting text scroll... "error: protocol fault (couldn't read status): invalid argument"
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rawrshek:
I'm not sure either, but I'm not really on T-Mobile. Just that I want AWS. I'm basically trying to get AWS up in America's Hat on Wind Mobile (like they want to here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62067108&postcount=24) :rolleyes:

I wonder if it has anything to do with AWS-1 (band 4) vs. AWS-3 (band 10?)...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BigBird9906:
This guide was much appreciated. Unfortunately, the refurb'd phone I bought had a bad USB port (power but no data, physical damage on close inspection). My replacement is on 4.4.2 so all this good info here is now moot for me. Good thing I leaned into this and got all the downloads for 5.0 lined up, checksum'd etc. before I realized the problem. Oh well. Ultimately, thanks for nothing!:laugh: But thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SoccerRef12:
Can you connect to a laptop via BT or WiFi and have the laptop see your gs5 as a separate drive?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BigBird9906:
That phone is long gone. Even if I could work around the physically damaged USB port, I wouldn't want to with Amazon's return policy.

BTW, I'm a bit surprised it connected on the bench at the refurbisher. My best guess is that they used one of those extra wide usb 3.0 cables (micro B?) and it carried data on the extra side, but my poky little regular micro single-wide cable didn't make the right data connections. After doing all the fail-to-connect troubleshooting I could and still not getting it recognized on my PC, I got out my old geology field magnifying glass for a good look and, sure enough, the innards of the port were obviously mangled on the single-wide side. But I digress....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] maw230:
guys - i used to be good at this ****, but now im old and i suck. i have a vzw s5 with 6.0 that i need to root. kernel 3.4.0. g900vvru2dpf4 baseband. build mmb29m....

halp me please? i have odin, so i reckon i need to flash a stock lollipop rom first, then root. i just dont know where to get the exact stock rom. much appreciated. oh, i read pages of this thread but still somehow missed it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
In the second post, first link.

Remember you'll need to wipe after flashing it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
but it hasn't rooted yet.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alin919:
Pull battery and put the phone on download mode, now connect the cable and follow the instruction on computer screen.

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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] drachonius:
sooo.... i googled the error, and i think i may have hit on something.... my old phone that i'm still using is a HTC... and the driver software for that phone installed "HTC sync" software that apparently has it's own adb server as part of it that autostarts with windows, and interrupts the rooting process on the galaxy s5. i don't need the "HTC sync" software (never have), so i uninstalled that part but left the htc drivers installed.

i tried the rooting process once so far (but i think i didn't clean it up properly or install the right base firmware) and it actually went through the rooting script. so i'll post results soon (or tomorrow night if i decide it's bedtime heh).

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!!ROOTED!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Updated the Op with a new Root_OG5_V7.zip.

Updated the Root.bat you now can boot straight to recovery and bootloader from the root.bat. It will automatically when rebooting to bootloader open Odin for you. There is an option to install samsung drivers. There are more directions on screen
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] esiegel91:
OK so I got everything working now is there a debloat tool we can use or should I just disable most of it manually?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
Since you have root I would suggest spending the couple of bucks for the TiBu full version key, You can then freeze apps and make sure they don't affect the phone's operation before deleting them, which you can also do from TiBu.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] esiegel91:
Thanks for the reply, I'm already using the pro version of tiBu but I don't know what files I can and can't freeze/uninstall. I have a lot done already but just left the ones I'm unsure of.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rauleeros:
Hey buddy, quick question.

So if we want to do a back up just in case, to save our root and our installed apps.

What would you recommend? I want to install Xposed, but I'm afraid of breaking everything and having to reroot all again with your process. How could I do a backup and then restore it? Because FlashFire only works if you've got your phone running, not during bootloops.

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] landshark68:
Check out post #38 on page 4 of this thread for debloating:

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/help/installing-custom-roms-newly-rooted-t3292655
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Chopstix9:
Personally I've never used FlashFire. I like Safestrap as it solves the backup/restore question.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] schmii:
Made an account here just to say thanks. Since I inherited this phone from a family member after my last one borked on me, BOG5 stopped me from rooting it. Thanks for making the Chinese's script available to us English speaking folks :)

Also- I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with this as the root.bat always hung after printing the system info- turns out I had an old version of ADB running constantly, and the new ADB killed it off each time it ran, creating some kind of clusterf*ck that led to the hang. Took care of that and it was smooth sailing
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jw7972:
Just tried and failed at rooting using the OG5_V7 instructions and wanted to first say thanks for taking the time to put this together. I'm somewhat of a novice at this so i was mostly mindlessly following the instructions not really knowing what i was doing till it was over.

I was on OG5 going into this and didn't realize one of the first steps brought me into OK3 so when it came time to flash the kernel i flashed OG5 and wasn't able to boot. I flashed back to NI2 to root then back to OK3 booted, installed kingroot but it couldn't find a root method. any ideas?

Thanks again.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] fooster091:
Android 6.0 After OG5 Rooted

it is possible after this root to get android 6.0 installed,

have Sam S5 Verizon BOG5è

i already do this root but i dont have successfull installed the last step (BusyBox)

Thank You For Your Help
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
PLEASE TAKE NOTE! Root_OG5_V8 And Higher Will No Longer Contain The SuperSU Me App. The Developer Of This App Has Made This A Paid App On The Play Store. This App Is Needed In This Process So From Here On Out You Must Get This App Here Google PlayStore Link

I ask out of respect to the developer for those of you that have the app that you not share it and please consider buying the app

The Updated Zip Contains A New ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat. Below is the bat if you just want to replace that

download ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat_V8.zip

Unzip and take the extracted ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat file and replace the ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat located in the G900V_TEAM_ROOT folder of the Root_OG5 folder with the newly extracted ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat file
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rauleeros:
so if I am now at step #26 with full root and SafeStrap on BOK3, and I have a back up (cache, data, system) done by SafeStrap when I was back at KK 4.4.4 (KTU84P.G900VVRU1ANI22), could I just restore it after step #26? or should I do something more?

Thanks again!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Flash a lollipop rom since your on lollipop firmware if you restore a kitkat backup you must use kitkat firware zip
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] badlad:
King Root Not Finding Root Method.

I was on the OG5 build too figured this brought me up to the OK3 so flashed that kernel. Followed everything exactly several times, Kingroot saying couldn't find root method every time. Tried the OG5 kernel no boot so back to OK3 kernel booted back up. I'm not a noob and I'm stumped. Tried everything on windows 10 so this morning went into my dual boot and booted up windows 7 installed the Samsung drivers tried a different port and cable. I went through the process over and came to the same thing Kingroot couldn't find a root method. Can someone shine in on this for me....Please?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Did You Use This. It has better instruction in the command window

The Updated Zip Contains A New ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat. Below is the bat if you just want to replace that

download ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat_V8.zip

Unzip and take the extracted ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat file and replace the ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat located in the G900V_TEAM_ROOT folder of the Root_OG5 folder with the newly extracted ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat file
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
Silly little question, but I'm on kk right now. Any way to update, root, without wiping? Don't want to lose data, and titanium backup takes a while.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Newbiedoo:
Will the SuperSU "Full Unroot" option work to unroot a Verzion Galaxy S5 on BOK3 after the rooting process is complete without wiping the data on the phone?

There was data on the phone, I did not wipe during the root process, and I want to keep what's there, but unroot the phone.

Weird, I know. Just want to know if what was there before rooting will still be there after unrooting.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
You can try it but I don't think it clears everything. You can use Odin and reflash factory tar image. Just make sure you don't check nand erase. This will for sure will get rid of root. Just Remember once you do either no more safestrap until you reroot
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] schmii:
I'm not sure about updating from KK, but I rooted without wiping or "NAND Erase All" and it worked great
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
If you want to come from kitkat to lollipop your going to have to wipe data. Just backbup your user apps and restore them with tbu
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mcvoss:
Guys, can you look at this and tell me if this looks right. I am on PF4. To achieve root I need to download and install the Tar, second post, first link. Then follow the instructions in the first post. I'm pretty good at following instructions.

Can I then install Roms, without bootloaders to get me back to PF4?

Can I then follow the directions to unlock the bootloader here Unlocking the Galaxys S5 Bootloader using DEV Bootloader [KK-MM] http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2784860

Or do I unlock bootloader, which I think is the correct way, before installnig a PF4 Rom?

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
To root you would downgrade to pb1 & root

Then you will check if you specific model can have bootloader unlocked (look in the unlock bootloader thread )

If you can unlock it you will be able to upgrade back to pf4 rooted
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Adding on to my protege(@yossijoe I can't thank you enough)

Its not possible to upgrade to PF4 rooted directly, more you need an unlocked bootloader to root marshmallow. There is NOW WAY AROUND THIS. So if you root, checkout the bootloader thread!