[Galaxy Tab S2 Android Development] mrbonine:
I don't want to come back with attitude, and I deleted my reply because it was both "too meta" and mentioned the situation I was in without specifically asking for help. I'm not an expert at rooting devices but have done my share, only for myself, and more often then not had to do each more than once before I, as I used to read, could "profit" or benefit from the result. I want to honestly disagree with the latest post line by line, with my perspective, never claiming rightness or wrongness by anyone, but stating how I perceive what is written and asking everyone to check their projections of intention at the door. My intentions are to be able to root my phones and tablets forever into the future until there are viable, feature rich products that meet my needs either without rooting or through producing open products that do not need root or custom recoveries and still deliver what I need. I have other needs, like removable storage, which I won't compromise on. Other needs, like removable batteries and a standard headset/mic jack I am not willing to negotiate. Whether you agree with my choices isn't important. My experience indicates the only phones, for example, that meet these needs exclude Google "Nexus" and later, mostly because removable storage is not provided (I mean, on board, not something wired into the charging/USB port), similarly, I won't buy a phone without a phone jack, even though there are 3-conductor, 4-conductor, and even 5-conductor jacks to accommodate a wired connection. In addition, for these reasons alone, I haven't been able to consider an iPhone, although my experience with Apple and their products would certainly justify any difference in price. I've been using Samsung nearly exclusively: Galaxy 3, Galaxy 4, Galaxy 5, now Galaxy 7 edge. I'm price sensitive so avoid buying until I can be a discounted used device. I also bought tablets: HP (Palm heritage WebOS), Nexus 7, and most recently Galaxy Tablet S2 - SM-713. Along the way, I paid full price for a T-mobile Xperia Z3 (locked bootloader) and the Galaxy 7 and learned an important lesson, I think. In my non-comprehensive review of the 87 or more pages of posts here, it seems to me that more people than usual fail at this process, and I see no other reason, other than needing organization of the information, that should be true. On the other hand, a response saying the instructions are perfectly clear except "this one thing" and that anyone who wanted a perfect, unfailing process with no risk should go elsewhere seem to me both dismissive and ignores that fact that many of us have and found little information of any value elsewhere and often do everything we can ourselves before asking for help here, even when, as I am now, soft-bricked. I'm sorry if this offends, but it's not directed at anyone or any contribution - I believe that the volunteer effort never adequately thanked anywhere is amazing, but when a process can't reliably be followed by many people, any known corrections should be made, updated information added, and invalid information deleted in a single, easy to understand post. This has been accomplished here often and I don't believe it's unreasonable to ask for it now.