Hey xda,
Just a quick question. If I were to root my Galaxy S6, would the fingerprints stored and used with the phone be vulnerable at all? I'm keen to root but I don't see how fingerprints can be safe when you have root access.
Cheers.
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I'm wondering if I can root my phone (Grand Prime SM-G5030AZ) again in a different one tap root way (no pc access) other than other than Kingroot. If yes, the other way will let me use supersu right away. Then maybe afterwards I can do a full unroot using supersu, possibly removing the thing which Kingroot did, leaving my phone saying custom in about phone (voiding the warranty and software updates). The main reason why I'm asking this is because Kingroot does not install the latest binaries and that's why people have issues getting supersu as superuser from Kinguser. I'm thinking that if I root my phone with another one tap root which has the ability to use supersu, I will have my binaries at the latest. Therefore maybe the Kingroot binaries that were leftover will be replaced. This would mean that if I do a complete unroot with supersu, there will be no traces of root at all in my phone after a factory data reset. But I don't know if this is all true. Can someone, please shed some light onto this. Thanks for everyone's great work and I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys. ��
Hi there,
Take a look at this tutorials:
[MOD]NEW Metod Easy Root Galaxy Grand Prime [Create by denek32]
Successfully rooted Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530H - By Mohan
Grand Prime one click root
For more questions please post here:
Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck
Hello,
I recently got the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 running Android 5.0.2 which is a phone based off the ZTE Blade S6 Lux which is known for having a secure boot loader. Anyway, I have been trying to root it for quite a while.
I managed to root it using Kingroot but it only lasts till a phone restart so it is a temporary root. I have tried the PC version and 3 different versions of Kingroot APK with no permanent root. I even tried replacing Kingroot with SuperSU but that's not working at all as it breaks the temp root. I have tried a few other tools to try root such as kingoroot but they didn't work at all. I really need a root because I want to make a Tasker profile that puts airplane mode on when a NFC tag is scanned and lots of other things, but that's irrelevant.
I don't want to flash a custom ROM as I feel very unconformable with that.
If anyone knows how to make the root stay or any other method on rooting please reply to this thread.
Thanks,
Zacy5000.
Ok, I was thinking perhaps with the temp root I could put some files in the phone which is a different root to make the root stay but I wouldn't know how to go about doing that (if that makes sense).
Hey, i got my samsung galaxy s6 new but its on 5.1.1, dont know why i though it will be on 5.0.2 but it is on 5.1.1 :crying:
Is there anyway to root my s6 without trip knox?? I dont want to loose my fingerprint scanner but i really want to root, is there any way???
The modelnumber is SM-G920F and the android version is 5.1.1 and my my basebandversion is G920FXXU3COI9
no sorry not as yet
You will not loose the fingerprint scanner if you root, only Samsung Pay and a few other apps require knox.
In the q&a from the pingpong root thread there is written:
Q: How to root 5.1.1 then since PingPong root will never work?
WARNING: User report that fingerprint sensor and incoming call stop working after using the engineering sboot.
A: The classic recovery root method. You shall find details in many other posts. If you are T-Mobile user, lucky for you that there is a leaked engineering bootloader which make root a piece of cake without tripping Knox warranty bit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...4#post61684664
by the way, i have no carrier lock
So I recently got the Galaxy s6. I had a note 3 prior to this, it was rooted but I could never get it to encrypt while being rooted. So this time I decided to encrypt my phone before rooting it, I still haven't tried rooting it I'm fear of the encryption bricking my phone. Can someone put my mind to ease that it would? I been searching on Google and couldn't find anything. Also, if that is the case, how do I encrypt a phone after I root it?
Edit: another question I can't find a straight answer to, what exactly does Knox do? I can't seem to find the Knox app on my s6 like I did with my note 3. I checked on the s6 and Knox hasn't been tripped
I don't know about the root/encryption thing.
But there's two things KNOX does.
One it is used for enterprise purposes where you can store confidential data on a KNOX encrypted partition.
Two, it is the detecting mechanism that checks wether your phone has been rooted/unlocked.
You can't find the app because you need to download it from the Play Store on the S6 and newer Samsung devices.
@MikeChannon, thread is dead. Lock it up.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S6 using XDA Labs
Hey folks,
I've been a lurker for a good while and have had great success with previous phones/tablets thanks to you guys. I have a new snapdragon variant S8+ [SM-G955u1] that is carrier unlocked direct from Samsung and have found a lot of what seems to be conflicting information about if it's possible to root or not, is it safe, etc. I use root for a lot of apps that require root access to function, so I'd like to have it back also without voiding my warranty.
tl;dr - Can a Snapdragon S8+ [SM-G955u1] be safely rooted without tripping Knox? Will any auto root app do this?
Thanks in advance!