The only version of the toolkit you can manually download is 7.0 and there seems to be no way to get a toolkit greater than that to say support a verizon s3 with android 4.1.2. Now they say you can donate to get auto updates. But in order to get a version of the toolkit that supports my current version you have to donate, but since no other toolkit can do this its not a donation its a requirement so they should say is a sale to get above 7.0 toolkit.
Was all happy to root a phone for the first time oh well.
You could always try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2332825
Easy Solution: Don't use toolkits.
Put in the small amount of time it takes to learn the process of manually rooting and unlocking the phone and do it that way.
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Hello, my roommate has a Verizon Galaxy S3. He recently took the 4.4 update, and it apparently screwed up his phone pretty bad. He gets terrible battery life and force closes and freezing. He came into my room knowing that I'm an android nerd and he asked me to root and rom his phone. Cool.
So, now I'm trying to catch up on the current state of the GS3.
He has never rooted or installed recovery. I was under the impression that the Verizon GS3 had an unlocked bootloader, but now I'm reading that the bootloader might be locked since he updated?
1: Is it possible to ODIN back to an earlier version and then unlock his bootloader?
2: What's JTAG?
3: Is there an easy way to install recovery on 4.4 that I'm missing?
Any links or advice you guys could give me would be really helpful... I'm currently reading and jumping between links, but It's hard to figure out where the phone currently stands with all the conflicting information out there and the new update that just pushed.
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Hello, my roommate has a Verizon Galaxy S3. He recently took the 4.4 update, and it apparently screwed up his phone pretty bad. He gets terrible battery life and force closes and freezing. He came into my room knowing that I'm an android nerd and he asked me to root and rom his phone. Cool.
So, now I'm trying to catch up on the current state of the GS3.
He has never rooted or installed recovery. I was under the impression that the Verizon GS3 had an unlocked bootloader, but now I'm reading that the bootloader might be locked since he updated?
1: Is it possible to ODIN back to an earlier version and then unlock his bootloader?
2: What's JTAG?
3: Is there an easy way to install recovery on 4.4 that I'm missing?
Any links or advice you guys could give me would be really helpful... I'm currently reading and jumping between links, but It's hard to figure out where the phone currently stands with all the conflicting information out there and the new update that just pushed.
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1: No, it is not possible to ODIN back to unlock the bootloader. Your friend is stuck on 4.4.2.
2: JTAG is a service you can send your phone off for and pay for to unbrick a hard bricked phone. As long as you or your friend do not hard brick his phone, you won't need a JTAG.
3: You cannot install any kind of standard recovery on 4.3.1 or 4.4.2 on the Verizon Galaxy S3. There is an unofficial safestrap you may be able to use on 4.4.2 found here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2797314 But there are no ROMs to flash using safestrap, so for the moment it is kind of pointless.
There really isn't conflicting information in these threads unless you are looking at old, outdated threads on rooting. All of the information anyone needs to know about the current state of the Verizon Galaxy S3 can be found in just a few threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575661
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653030
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784249
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639337
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Long story short, I have a galaxy s3 (sch-s968c) for straight talk. I can't figure out how to root it. I've tried towel root, no luck. Kingo root said it succeeded but would stop on the odin screen and I got worried and popped the battery out. No luck with cydia impact, wouldn't find my phone in my pc. Framaroot wouldnt work. Please, any help would be appreciated.
Since towelroot did not work, I expect that you have the baseband version ending in H2 (you can check this in settings->about device). This means that you will have to install a custom recovery. I recommend TWRP (download S968C version here). After you install the recovery, simply flash the superuser zip through TWRP.
You can find lots more information about this process in these forums.
hello
This time I just find a way to unlock sim s4 docomo
follow me :
The first: turn off your phone and flash with official kitkat (OB2) http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SC-04e until finished
second: reboot your phone, activation to complete, and if there is a message "your sim is blocked '' ignore it and turn off the cell phone
third: root your phone http://trueandroid.com/en/root-galaxy-s4-sc-04e-ntt-docomo-easy-guide/
flash this CP
https://mega.nz/#!XhQyWCIY
by Odin
Fourth: turn on your phone until boot complete
Fifth: install regionlock away.apk
download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470551 ..
open the application and select '' region unlock '' make sure you allow the SuperSU ...
once completed, reboot and boom !!! Your phone is already PERMANENT unlocked and is up to you to upgrade or downgrade
sorry for my english.....hehe
anyway im from indonesia....
PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE if you like or success with this guide
THANKS!!!
decoraldo11 said:
sorry for my english.....hehe
anyway im from indonesia....
PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE if you like or success with this guide
THANKS!!!
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There are some things I'd like to point out regarding your guide.
1. It's not new. This exploit using RegionLock Away was discovered three years ago, as Chainfire points out in his thread on the topic. In this forum's thread on SIM unlocking, I have a post from December of 2014 detailing what I did on my I9505. My posts from that point in the thread all pitch RegionLock Away as a solution.
2. Android 4.4.2? RegionLock Away doesn't unlock the SIM on versions of Android greater than 4.2.2 because the exploit that allows the SIM lock to be blown away is patched. Thus, one of three possibilities exist: you meant to say Android 4.2.2, the SC-04E doesn't have the patched exploit on Android 4.4.2, or you're trolling for responses, leading to the next bullet point.
3. Donations? Seriously? This unlock method is some 3+ years old now. You weren't the first to come up with it, and asking for donations on something you didn't come up with is, to put it nicely, ballsy.
It is a nice guide, but it isn't specific to the SC-04E, isn't new, and isn't even correct.
RegionLock Away did nothing on my i9505 with 4.4.2 Android provided by the thread!
Regionlockaway will unlock the s4 sgh-i337m and sgh-m919 by flashing the phone with a 4.2.2 modem, rooting, and running regionlockaway. Not sure about the i9505 or i9515.
RegionLock Away unlocks the I9505 as well so long as the modem is downgraded. It won't work with the I9515 as that device never had Android 4.2.2 available for it.
I'm new to posting to these forums, so forgive me if i don't add the right tags or do something right...
Anyway, I was given a TMobile Galaxy S6 as a hand-me-down phone from my family, and wanted to know what was the best way to root the device. I don't really care if i trip Knox, but i'd like it to be unnoticeable, and i'd love to not trip it at all, if possible. I don't want to have an "Unlocked" sign everytime i bootup. I want to be able to run Vanilla Oreo (or close to it) without touchwiz as the phone has been getting laggy, and since i already have another Rooted Device, it's not laggy when running Resurrection Remix, which i'll probably end up running that ROM on this phone as well. I've heard the TMobile version has a Bootloader unlock, but i'm not sure how to go about doing that without bricking the device. The reason i'm asking is because the last Samsung device i had, a Galaxy S5, was bricked for a number of months before i was able to flash stock again using a SD Card, and i don't want to have to go through that again with this phone. Should i just follow this tutorial? or is there a better way to flash without tripping Knox? I know how to root & BL Unlock, i've done it on a number of close-to-stock devices, but Samsung devices are a whole 'nother world of trouble that i don't even know how to deal with.
Device: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 - SM-G920T
Running: Android 7.0
Build Number: NRD90M.G920TUVU5FQG3
Baseband Version: G920TUVU5FQG3
I have the same phone ,first go to developer option and allow iem unlock ,reboot to odin and flash cf auto root (choose the one for your modele and os exactly) then reboot
Greetings. It seems the AT&T subforum for the Galaxy S4 might be dead. I was trying to look for an up-to-date way to root this phone with Magisk, but it seems that step one isn't possible since apparently the bootloader isn't unlockable, or might not be one of the ones listed as usable. I can't check which one I have because neither adb shell nor terminal emulator recognize getprop, with the latter not allowing the punctuation. I want to see if I can use the sd card as internal storage, since apparently the Google Play app writes a lot of garbage until the available storage is only 1GB. I found that out by uninstalling its updates. What's the current modern way to use the SD card as internal storage for Android versions older than M?
Don't know what happened, but Retrial edited his post on "S4 Unified Collection!" such that the magisk rooting guide redirects to a guide for Xiaomi phones. Will that really work for the S4?
Forgive me for necro-ing but did you ever find a solution to this?
Edit: ok so I looked up (1337UCUEMK2)
which lead me to evilpenquin123's comment here
[ROOT[RECOVERY] Loki + TWRP + Motochopper CASUAL-R527b release:27May13
Update: This will not work on Build Number I337UCUAMF3 Thanks to Dan Rosenberg, aka djrbliss, this device can now be unlocked and CASUAL can make it easy as all get out. Introduction CASUAL will guide you through the process. Put...
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Under that was devildogs link to this thread
Safe (NOT vroot or kingo) root method for MK2
I saw this mentioned in passing on another thread and thought it was worth mentioning in its own thread. (Sorry if this has been posted in this forum already but I tried searching and couldn't find it.) K1mu has developed a safe root method...
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Which lead me here
Safe (NOT vroot or kingo) root method for MK2
I saw this mentioned in passing on another thread and thought it was worth mentioning in its own thread. (Sorry if this has been posted in this forum already but I tried searching and couldn't find it.) K1mu has developed a safe root method...
forum.xda-developers.com
here
[ROOT] Saferoot: Root for VRUEMJ7, MK2, and Android 4.3
Disclaimer: rooting your phone entails risk. You may brick it, cause it to catch fire, cause it to form the first node in the Skynet network, or otherwise render it inoperable. Please read the directions carefully to ensure that nothing...
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and here
[Q] 4.3 AT&T root
Hello all, I have a AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 that just updated to 4.3. Can someone direct me to how I can gain root access? Also, I am assuming that noone has published a way to crack the bootloader as of yet? Thanks in advance for any help...
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I would like to have an unroot guide for this phone to.
Basically, what I've found in this forum is that you have to "DOWNGRADE" to NB1 (from OK3), and then you can use "SAFESTRAP" of somekind(?) to get a rom, but without unlocked bootloader. I believe, this is going back to Android 4.4.2 or something. Basically, it's forcing to downgrade significantly, which beats the purpose.
I wanted an unlocked bootloader, to get newer ROMs, to increase storage. i.e. use external SD as internal. However, it seems apps don't always allow it to be installed this way, and also causes much headaches - speed is one thing, and data corruption is another etc.
In short, there is NO existing way to circumvent unlocking bootloader. Maybe a professional hacker may do it? NSA? By that point, use that cash to get a new phone. LOL.
Disappointed that this phone is still like brand new, and has plenty more life left, like, 10 more years... it keeps working.