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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mc732:
Mr jkruse, any advice for my situation? I don't think it's been addressed elsewhere.

I believe I have followed the directions perfectly and repeatedly.

Please and thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] XeroJDM:
Mine does the exact same thing or it doesnt re connect
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Eleusis:
I've been stalling the OTA update with hopes of rooting my Verizon S5.... How long can I keep it un-updated, and can I still root it? Sorry, obv n00b :)

ETA: I did root my S3
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Have you guys started over wipe data in recovery and reflashing factory tar image and try again
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
As of now the latest ota can be rooted

We have no way of knowing if the next update will be rootable
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Scrambled1:
Forgive me now, I'm going to ask what probably will be a stupid question.. but the last time I rooted my S5 it was with towelroot. But, here I am with a new S5 and no root (I smashed my old one, whoops.)

Anyhow, I am reading the instructions before I try this out.. I see step 3, is that something I need to do before I start the whole root process? And is Busybox Installer from step 4 something I need to download first, or is it apart of everything else......

Sorry for the questions, maybe it's because it's 0725 and I haven't gone to sleep yet.... Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] XeroJDM:
Yessir, i have tried 5 times
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mc732:
Yes indeed. Same symptom every time. root2.bat hangs on that screen, with the nv2 kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thorkc14:
sense safestrap is basied off of twrp can twrp custom roms be loaded with safestrap im asking because there is a new loilipop 5.1.1 custom rom and the dev who made it says it will work on verizon s5s oh and i rooted my s5 b4 the march 2016 ota update came out according to google and samsung verizon s5s and s4s where supost to get lilipop 5.1.1 in november of 2015
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
You can't remove system apps without root access.

To restore the phone back to the way it was, you use Odin to flash the factory restore image. The thread linked in my sig is exactly what you're asking for.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] murphyec:
I'm good up until step 6. The root is working, but I can't reboot into recovery??

I installed twice. Reboot, then clicked reboot into recovery. Once I do that it just reboots the phone like normal.

huh...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] e0zin14:
Just wanted to give a shoutout to jrkruse for an awesome job posting this method of rooting. Thanks to you and your colleagues, I now have root!:victory: I did have a buttery-finger moment and accidentally selected Factory Reset and couldn't pull the battery fast enough. Guess I now know to backup my photos online somewhere :crying:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sean19661:
Might be able to as long as it's a tw rom. You could ask jrkruse
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] diver47591:
Program to open .apk files on Windows 10

I haven't flashed anything for a couple of years and since I am senile (63 yrs. heh!), I am a little fuzzy on things. I have been following steps to the letter in this thread to root my Big Red (*&^%$#@) GS5. my computer keeps asking me what program I want to use to open .apk files and all the ones I try don't work and just make things worse. Can you help?

Sincerely,

Antique Noob
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
Nice to see such old people here!

Apk's you don't open on your computer, you just need to run the .bat file to root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Awesome

. Just did a pb1.

Did Already several ok3.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] XeroJDM:
My pb1 will not root for some reason, could you help me out?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Sam Spade1:
Rom

Can anyone recommend a good rom

looking for something that is debloated

thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Samspade I'd suggest either Moar rom or Alliance Rom but for some reason bluetooth wasn't working on Moar for me and I have a Gear S so I'm running Alliance Rom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Did you try a different computer?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Jrkruse quick question as I'm not 100 percent sure is it now possible to downgrade to KK from LP no matter what update you have I'm rooted running Alliance Rom with PB1 update.... I was under the impression that you cannot downgrade if it's possible I'd love to go back to KK I miss the amazing battery life!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] XeroJDM:
I would but i dont have access to another computer..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
Nope. Our locked bootloader's have a anti roll back mechanism.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Well that sucks thanks for the response man guess I'll stick with Alliance Rom LP then.... I'm seriously considering the Nexus 6P when I'm upgrade eligible in June.... no more locked bootloaders, fast updates and no bloatware! The only thing is I love my Samsung gear S and I'm pretty sure that gear manager for the Original S is a Touchwiz only thing sigh
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thorkc14:
what do think about verzin s5 and s4 not getting lilipop 5.1.1 when both phone where supostd get that update last november?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
We are totally fine without that :D
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thorkc14:
idk my cousin has it on her t-mobile s5 and my outher cousins have it on there verizon moto droid turbos and it uses half of the battery life that 5.0 does plus it is way faster and smoother then 5.0 it is like 4.1.1 with a new look 5.1..1 is what lilipop should have been i really hate how much slower 5.0 had made my s5 and how much faster the battery life gets eatten up when i was on kit kat i would only have to charge my s5 once a day if i used it havely on apps but now if i do the same on 5.0 i have to charge it 3 to 4 times a day
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
I've true to get root on Verizon galaxy s5 on pb1 build but no luck...way am I doing wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
That is impossible to say, since you didn't provide any details of what you did.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Over in the QA thread my thread on installing custom rooms covers how to do this
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
So it is possible Jrkruse? can you link the instructions to downgrade I looked through the Q and A thread and could not find it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
You realize 5.1.1 and higher means the end of root for the Verizon S5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
We never know if a new root method will come up
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
No matter the method, root on 5.1.1 and above requires mods to the boot.img which can't be done on locked bootloader's
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
I have one thread in the QA forum. And in that thread in the 2nd post in big bold letters. If you can't find it I'm sorry
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Oh I'm sorry I was looking in wrong part of the forum. I found it and later today I'm going to try downgrading from PB1 to a KK rom, hopefully I don't brick my device!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
I followed the instructions in post but do I need to downgrade the kernel to do it?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thorkc14:
found this link everyone guys says it works for verizon s5 but some pepole say it is not working for them

http://www.ninjaromeo.com/install-resurrection-remix-verizon-galaxy-s5-sm-g900v/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Ya we are stuck with Toucwiz based roms because of the locked bootloader as R Remix is a CM/AOSP based rom
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] thorkc14:
this rom

will this rom work on verizon s5 with safe strap here is the link

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s5/unified-development/rom-resurrection-remix-5-3-4-t3033255
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Thor like I said I'm pretty sure unless I'm mistaken that rom is only for the dev edition Verizon S5 which has an unlocked bootloader the retail Verizon S5's bootloader is locked so we are stuck with Touchwiz roms
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] nictabor:
I followed the instructions, was not on OK3 (was on OG), and was able to update via odin, but thats it. Per the instructions, I skipped to "prepare your phone" and there are no instructions after it. Now I have a wiped phone with the attached rom and no root. Any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] al50:
Not being an A*#!@...As it states very clearly in the OP. We are only and able to use TW ROM's. We cannot install or use TWRP or CWM recoveries or CM ROM's. This has been asked numerous times in which I'm pretty sure the Dev and others are probably winded of replying to this same question. As they ask and say please READ THOROUGHLY through the OP before asking a question that has the answer(s) in the OP
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Now follow the instructions to root! What's so hard?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] dihnekis:
I'm really stupid, but I can't make sense of these directions at all. I have BOE1, and when following the directions I get confused at this point :

Download this zip OK3_ROOT_V5.exe

Unzip folder.

If Your Not On BOK3 Build then Proceed too Prepare Your Phone

Open The OK3_ROOT click the root.bat plug in your phone and follow directions

Once the root procedure is finished

So I proceed to prepare the phone and don't run root.bat? I really can't make sense of this at all. Or do I do the steps in prepare your phone and then I go back and run root.bat? Also, do I need to read the old directions? If not, why are they still posted?

If I follow the prepare your phone instructions, will it change my firmware to PB1? So then I'd need to flash the PB1 firmware no bootloader and kernel?

Thanks for all the hard work put into this and for helping stupid people like me.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] karlsdroids:
As with any root procedure- read, read, and read again. It wasn't going through for me at first but then went through just fine. I'm now rooted with the PB1 build.

Thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jnigrine:
I'm having the same problem.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
I havent updated the OP but everything is PB1 now so If it says bok3 in places its alright if its PB1
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] dihnekis:
Okay so when I flash the PB1 it'll bring me to that firmware and I will have to use the BPB1_Firmware_No_Bootloaders.zip and G900V_PB1_Stock_KERNEL_SafeStrap-Flashable.zip instead of the BOE1 ones? Thanks for the help!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
when I do the nk2 kernel it gets stck at Samsung logo
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
That's how it should be....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Wow! Really? You haven read a thing have you? Im pretty sure it says in the root.bat instructions and maybe 500 times throughout this thread that it is supposed to get stuck on the samsung screen
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
jrkruse I was able to downgrade to KK like you said with the PB1 update and I tried running Acheron Rom with your Nk2 no bootloaders zip and I can install and run it great but once I reboot the rom it gets stuck on the Samsung screen... any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
so after that wat do I do when its stuck at Samsung logo? sry just trying to figure this out
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
You have to use the old safestrap the new safestrap is flashing lollipop kernel so use odin and flash the NK2 kernel the install the old safestrap
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
The repetitive questions are getting old... Ouch... I am sorry, I cannot respond much, my right eye is infected and my laptop is dead. So till like Saturday or so, I cannot help much
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] dihnekis:
I have the same issue now.

EDIT: Tried another USB port and all is well, rooted and good to go. Sorry for asking so many questions!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Thanks Jrkruse that worked! Yay I can run KK again.... hopefully I get that amazing battery life the S5 on Verizon used to have no more bad lollipop battery drain!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
I'm at the first bat and flashed the nk2 kernel and now I'm at the Samsung logo........saying waiting for phone to reconnect....wat do I do now cause I'm clueless......
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Try the root2.bat
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Joe Jrkruse has a no bootloaders zip that allows you to you downgrade to Kit Kat from lollipop no matter the build but I have been having some issues so sadly I'll go back to a Lollipop touchwiz rom.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
One more quick question I'm going to start from stock Pb1 again and try a custom Touchwiz Lollipop rom... when I tried flashing a rom in safestrap I got the message error executing updating binary in zip... is there a fix for that?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
Check the md5 of your download.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
It was moar rom but maybe it was a bad download I'm going to retry downloading it and this time save it to my external sd card
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Haven't seen it. In the second post i only see lollipop Roms without bootloader's. Where is kk Roms ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Joe it's in the thread called installing custom roms on OE1 PB1 and other bootloaders.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
k heres wat ive done.....I done the 1st bat now I'm at the bootloader so now I do the bat2 from bootloader?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
Just check the md5 and you will know instantly if it was a bad download.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Checking it right now do I have to extract it first? Or an app can check the md5 through the zip sorry I'm not 100percent sure!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
No, you can't extract it first.

Search for what md5 is and how to do it in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/guide-painiacs-essential-guide-to-t3319848
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tbclandot:
Thanks painianc the moar rom is verified hopefully it works this time!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Have you flashed the nk2 kernel?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ozz200127:
yes I flashed it t the bat then stays at Samsung logo
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jjdavis699:
Put the tar files in AP.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
I always used AP with ODIN 3.10. it works perfect.

*PROCEEDS TO PLAY TRIVIUM - STRIFE; LOUD AS FUDGE with Viper4Android*

EDIT: BTW I am now rooted and running a custom rom using this method with a previously locked down s5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sm0k3y-TB:
I have the BOG5 bootloader but I am running moar with bok3 firmware. Will the flash still give you the file you need? If so, I'll do it now for you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rafe83:
I followed all the steps until the part where I update SuperSu-me. I clicked the button, but it hasnt moved past "Once SuperSu shows, process is complete" screen. The progress bar hasn't moved an inch. What did I do wrong? I did use the Kernel off the first post. Was that wrong or is it suppose to take longer? I'm kinda a Noob at this (I apologize). Please help.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] denysscp:
Not Working on my S5

Tried last night with no successfull results (I THINK) and i did it like the guide says step by step :

1rst- I would like to know whats the final display message of ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat to know if it ends to work on my S5 or if the bat stuck in some step. The process starts but i see no indication like "root finnished" or "rooted succesfully" so tell me the process takes about 10 ~20 minutes to complete..? to know if i closed it prematurely or it get stucked... anyway did what it says that disconnect the phone and reconect and restart .bat

2nd- Does Kingroot requires internet acces to root after that process...? (wifi stopped working on S5 it activates but no search..) i've seen kingroot working completely offline ... If that the case can i use king root fro the PC..?

Stopped right here thinking there is no successfull root done in my VW S5

Please post some help soon . . . and thanks in advance. . .
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RaulSanchezPerez:
Hello, glad to see a compañero here. I didn´t use this method yet on my Verizon S5, but I guess it should show "Done Rooted" at the end. See the line echo Done Rooted, at the end of the .bat.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] denysscp:
Great ! a country partener here ! Glad to see you here too bro... well maybe i get a lilltle "desesperado" here jajaja i left it working for about almost 15 minutes... and nothing happens.. maybe needs moore time... i'll wait to see if some guru post anything about it... greetings to you & everybody in this forum . . .
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] aRobotApparently:
For those of you who are having problems with this method, please edit your ROOT_G900V_5.0.bat file on lines starting with:

adb shell rm -R

to

adb shell rm -fR

the -f option disables prompts for file removal, eg "Are you sure you want to remove this file? Y/N"
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Bk iGingy:
When installing the root, it says "error: more than one device/emulator." I have no idea what to do to fix this.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rafe83:
Ok I got the phone rooted, but I am having trouble with the last 3 steps. I am not sure what to do after I click on recovery reboot. It says to install a custom ROM which I have the stock VZN BOG5 rom downloaded on my computer but how to do I put it on my phone. Now I am stuck on the Safefstrap screen and cant do anything.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mRahmani:
Just got my new S5 this morning, and was dismayed to find it shipped with OG5 from the factory. Still working on flashing the deodexed rom, but so everything else checks out and root seems successful. AWESOME WORK!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] denysscp:
hello.. you gotta read the threads about safestrap .. cause is not a tradicional custom recovery like cyanogen and cmw... it lets you create a "virtual" slot in your phone to install custom rooms among other stuff (use me just as reference man not an expert) Anyway the guide for rooting S5 is not very clear about some steps.. they should made it "fully dummies/beginners prove" like myself ja! but is the succes! of this time that finaly we'll be able to root our so "protected" S5s and then debloat all crap installed on them . . greetings and best regards
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mRahmani:
When flashing OK3 through safestrap, is safe to install directly, or should I wipe system first?

EDIT: For anybody else reading this far, I wiped data, system, cache, and dalvik. Flashed OK3_Deodex, wiped cache and dalvik again, flashed OK3 safestrap kernel, reboot.

Phone will hang on the Verizon screen on reboot - let it sit there for 4-5 min, pull battery, restart. Fired right up!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] IJoxer:
So...I'm guessing this doesn't apply to those of us with an Active?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Jrbourque:
I make it all the way to opening king root and It tells me " Root Strategy Unavailable" Not sure what im missing here. Everything goes correctly til that point.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jjdavis699:
Happened to me as well. Just start over (no need to flash back to stock) and it should work.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] brooksyx:
Is there a way to unroot the phone after rooting? I just got my new verizon s5 with bog5 and rooted just fine so now I can delete all the bloat but to be able to get my work email and wifi I need to install a special app that breaks with root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Let it sit longer than 4 or 5 minutes before you pull the battery. A full stock deodexed rom will take up to 10 minutes to boot the first time. Its building the dalvik cache and pulling the battery and interrupting it can lead to problems
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
.

In my roms the system is set to Status Official Most of those app that dont work when phone is rooted will work if you simply goto SuperSu and disable it. Then once the app has been opened you can enable SuperSu again
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Samsonite79:
Confirm Works on OK3 ! Thank you developer! :silly:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] diver47591:
Well I finally got root on my VZW GS5 and everything worked perfectly. Then disaster! I didn,t do my research and got confused and installed TWRP 3.0.0.1 jlkite with the team winn TWRP manager app. now it wont boot to recovery or anything else. I just get a message "recovery failed", a big sign saying "Start Up Failed", a huge yellow triangle with an exclamation point in the middle and a message telling me to use the Verizon Software Repair Assistanton a computer to repair device. Is there any hope or is my phone now irrevocably bricked. No combination of button pushes, battery pulls, plugging in or out produces any other results. Thanks so much for any help in advance. HELP!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alaneddy:
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1-Pull Battery

2-Press and hold power button for 3 seconds to release any leftover capacitor charge in phone

3-insert battery

4-Press VOL DOWN & HOME & POWER to boot into Bootloader

5-Flash the BOG5 (or your last known updated version) Stock Firmware with ODIN, and then start from scratch with the guide again. I did the same thing my 1st time.

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If this doesnt yield results, then verizon software assistant or KIES may be your only option.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] skido04:
please clarify

I have read all the instructions but I have one question before proceeding,

I have the OK3 firmware. But the custom rom provided is BPB1 . should I install this custom BPB1 rom on my OK3 firmware because all I need is a custom rom so as to be able to use my hotspot. Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Uproared:
So all I do is run the root.bat let it install the apps and follow the instructions on first page or do i need to run root.bat let it install all the apps flash NK2_kernel.tar then do I flash VZW_BPB1_KERNEL_ONLY.tar.md5 and then follow the instructions on the first page. Its probably the second one not the first one but I just want to be sure.

my phones currently on stock PB1.

sorry if the questions are stupid I've just never used odin or any of this and don't wanna brick my s5 also want to understand what i need to do before i try this.

-Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alaneddy:
I just re-edited the whole thing. Re-Read it and follow it to the letter. Once you have flashed the NK2 Kernel and have ROOT, you want to go INTO the app drawer and run all the mentioned APK's. THEN afterwards, flash the PB1 Kernel.

---------- Post added at 06:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:01 PM ----------

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have you gone through all the steps and achieved root and installed safestrap? If YES, then find a good Verizon GS5 touchwiz (non bootloader included) rom and have fun :) These guys will point you to the best ROMs, or just look under the GS5 Android Development section.