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Check your phone now! Android Device Manager

Go into System Settings--->More--->Security--->Device Administrators and check to see if you have the new "Android Device Manager". I just got it today, never got notified of an update or anything... it just *appeared* there outta nowhere lol.
Here is a link to show you what it can do.
It is what it says it is, you can manage your device if it gets stolen or lost and remotely wipe it from the comfort of your own home/computer. There are a lot of 3rd party apps that do this (both paid and free) but it's always nice to see Google integrate this into our devices!

there for me as well, never look there so idk for how long/when.

Holy shizzz! Thanks a ton for this contribution. Never realized it or heard of it.
I tried the location feature, worked like a charm. I tried Ring but that didn't work.
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got it too! location and ring both worked :good:

Just tried the location and ring and both worked... I would assume "wipe phone" works, but I'll just save that for later

Got it yesterday on my S4 and N7, ring and location works on both. Cool!

Hmm.. I have it on my HTC One GE as well. No idea when it came through.
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Something similar. Is the Cerberus app worth it?

Joe0113 said:
Just tried the location and ring and both worked... I would assume "wipe phone" works, but I'll just save that for later
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thats the thing, it depends on remotely going into stock recovery to wipe the device, us rooted users may not be able to wipe

It was very buggy at first. Wouldn't even locate my device.
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scott_0 said:
thats the thing, it depends on remotely going into stock recovery to wipe the device, us rooted users may not be able to wipe
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Try it!!!

I went ahead and tested it all out. The remote location works great, ring worked and remote wipe worked. Very cool stuff! This was with a converted HTC One to the GE.

Strange I cant get this to work with the phone but my tablet was fin (both rooted) I did disabled a few things from google framework tweaks, not sure if that's the reason.

They are doing a slow rollout. Maybe it hasn't been updated yet.
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oscarthegrouch said:
Something similar. Is the Cerberus app worth it?
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Yes it is worth it. They have a flashable zip that survives a factory reset. Its just a few euros and you can run it on 5 devices no matter which Google account is used.
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I have it and everything is working. I'm rooted w/Blu Kuban mf9.
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The only way this works is if you keep data on. If you turn it off for whatever reason this service is pretty much null and void since you need an active data signal for this to work.

Does not work for me. Rooted/rebooted and I have the function, but it will not find my phone, ring, etc. I'll keep trying.

i have two phones and both appear on google play but it will only allow me to probe the first phone. changed the "visibility" to "show in menus" setting on google play, didn't make a difference.
edit: found this but i don't have that arrow option to select the other phone. anyone else?

Setting works on both our SGS4's. One rooted stock, one stock. Obviously didn't try wipe. TWRP on rooted so I'm sure it wouldn't work anyway. Nice feature, but you still can't beat Cerberus!
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travisw0204 said:
The only way this works is if you keep data on. If you turn it off for whatever reason this service is pretty much null and void since you need an active data signal for this to work.
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I created a Tasker activity to turn on data and gps when it receives a text with a certain message in it. It also marks it as read, deletes it, and locks the screen. I can post it if you want.
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Prevention information??

Hey guys I'm trying to use nova launcher or even tapatalk and on my rooted note 3 I get this system prevention crap and nova launcher will just force close etc. Anyway to turn this prevention feature off?? Thanks
here is a screenshot http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/wt0p.png/
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I'm not rooted...yet lol. but nova and tapa are working okay. ..not sure why root would cause that though.
What root method did you use if you don't mind?
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turilo said:
Hey guys I'm trying to use nova launcher or even tapatalk and on my rooted note 3 I get this system prevention crap and nova launcher will just force close etc. Anyway to turn this prevention feature off?? Thanks
here is a screenshot http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/wt0p.png/
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I'm curious to know what model SM-900W8 is. Thought "T" is tmobile and "A" is at&t.
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Well seems it's titanium backups with data restore causing the problem. If I uninstall the entire app and reinstall without data restore everything is fine. Guess data restore on titanium is a no go
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What root method? Are you using T-Mobile Note 3?
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I used the cf auto root for SM-N900W8 Canadian note 3
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He's on a Canadian variant like me. Turilo.you on rogers as well? I think I saw somewhere the bell init has a diff model number...which is odd.
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I have the Sprint Note 3 after restoring Titanium backup I keep getting same errors nothing will open guess no data for now.

Bigben7 said:
I have the Sprint Note 3 after restoring Titanium backup I keep getting same errors.But it doesn't show which app is causing it.
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Yep, not sure if it's titanium doing itself or just the note 3. I think it's titanium personally. Maybe I'll see if the dev can look into the matter. Sucks redoing all my nova settings etc :/
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Fix for Titanium Backup restoring with data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463116

I am new to android with the Galaxy Note 3 on AT&T and this prevention information notification started popping up yesterday.
I am not using a rooted device (yet) and all apps have been downloaded from the Play Store.
Any advice to figure out what the offending app is or how to get rid of the notification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!!

turilo said:
Hey guys I'm trying to use nova launcher or even tapatalk and on my rooted note 3 I get this system prevention crap and nova launcher will just force close etc. Anyway to turn this prevention feature off?? Thanks
here is a screenshot http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/wt0p.png/
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Maybe this (below) will help: (I pulled this from the Q&A section of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2474422)
I am getting a "Prevention Information" popup after running a root app, how do I disable it?
From terminal emulator or adb shell as root, run; pm disable com.sec.knox.seandroid
Or freeze the Knox apps with Titanium Backup.

jellis98 said:
I am new to android with the Galaxy Note 3 on AT&T and this prevention information notification started popping up yesterday.
I am not using a rooted device (yet) and all apps have been downloaded from the Play Store.
Any advice to figure out what the offending app is or how to get rid of the notification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!!
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There have been a number of reports of this error occurring within the past day or so (google search reveals a number of people with this issue) for people with only stock apps and apps from the Play store on unrooted devices...
Samsung's documentation for knox describes a notification called "Prevention Information", which would have a shortcut to the app manager to remove the offending app, but that guide is for a system where knox is in use with a knox container, though....
What happens if you click OK instead of Cancel...? Anything? I wonder if that will get you to the app manager that the samsung documentation mentions.
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Maybe this (below) will help: (I pulled this from the Q&A section of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2474422)
I am getting a "Prevention Information" popup after running a root app, how do I disable it?
From terminal emulator or adb shell as root, run; pm disable com.sec.knox.seandroid
Or freeze the Knox apps with Titanium Backup.
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This requires root - this this is occurring on unrooted phone, running only apps from play store.
I got the error once, but I was rooted and doing something that I'm sure looked sketchy to Knox, so I don't think that one was inappropriate.

Rooting my phone and applying a custom rom has fixed all my issues getting rid of all that Knox crap. So problem solved for me anyway
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Thanks DrAzzy,
So if I click Ok it brings up a list of all my apps but it doesn't show (or even hint) at which is the offending app.
What I have done so far is:
Factory Reset my phone
Went to google play and reinstalled all my downloaded apps
within an hour the notification came back
factory reset my phone
started installing 1 by 1 apps
I haven't recieved the notification as of yet .....
RE: Knox
As far as I can tell Knox is not on my phone. I know Samsung was hyping up knox in their Note3 keynote but I cant find it ... It must be something running in the background.

Knox is under Settings>General>Security>Device Administrators. But mine is unchecked and still got same message. btw, running stock

So I reset to default and then started reinstalling apps one by one.
The offending app turned out to be Angry Birds Star Wars 2 Free yea i know its angry birds but uninstalled that and the prevention information has not returned since.

Started to do this on my device also as of earlier today. Not rooted and all programs were downloaded from Playstore. Knox is not even checked under security administrators.

A temp fix for you guys.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498586
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angry...
jellis98 said:
So I reset to default and then started reinstalling apps one by one.
The offending app turned out to be Angry Birds Star Wars 2 Free yea i know its angry birds but uninstalled that and the prevention information has not returned since.
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I have this problem on an unrooted galaxy note 3 and I do have angry birds starwars 2 installed. I checked the permissions in addon detector and angry birds starwars 2 requests access to camera. Suspicious or what!
UNINSTALLED!
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just to confirm it isn't angry birds star wars 2. When I reconnected to wifi, the message came back. Oh well...

Rooting my gear tonight... Question

I was told if I root my gear I can use bluetooth tether and essentially run apps on my gear. The apps I'm looking to run are for my car alarm and ingress. So what I was wondering is what I was told true? And do I just have to root my gear or does my phone have to be rooted as well? Because right now I have the Note 3 completely stock and unrooted.
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Markor13 said:
I was told if I root my gear I can use bluetooth tether and essentially run apps on my gear. The apps I'm looking to run are for my car alarm and ingress. So what I was wondering is what I was told true? And do I just have to root my gear or does my phone have to be rooted as well? Because right now I have the Note 3 completely stock and unrooted.
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You dont need to root your gear in order to run custom apps, depending on what type of app it is tho they may or may not work..
I would read up on side loading applications first, test the waters out.. the apps you require may work straight out of the box by simply side loading them to your gear with out rooting.
Alternatively if you find the apps dont work, you can try loading my rom which includes a few library's, unlocked features & other various functions that some apps require in order to run correctly.
EDIT: Here is a simple guide on how to sideload applications: HERE

fOmey said:
You dont need to root your gear in order to run custom apps, depending on what type of app it is tho they may or may not work..
I would read up on side loading applications first, test the waters out.. the apps you require may work straight out of the box by simply side loading them to your gear with out rooting.
Alternatively if you find the apps dont work, you can try loading my rom which includes a few library's, unlocked features & other various functions that some apps require in order to run correctly.
EDIT: Here is a simple guide on how to sideload applications: HERE
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Thank you bro! Very helpful
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Awesome thank you! I'll have to read up on how you sideload apps. I saw a YouTube video where guy was actually playing ingress on his watch, what was on his phone screen transferred to watch screen same for his car alarm app, he just didn't say if it was rooted or not I just figured it was lol. Sorry had to edit my post. I do think you probably needs to be rooted to run something like ingress since it's an online game and the gear can't run anything online like a game or Facebook so I guess maybe that's why it has to be rooted and use a Bluetooth transfer lol I'm a very big newbie when it comes to the gear.
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Markor13 said:
Awesome thank you! I'll have to read up on how you sideload apps. I saw a YouTube video where guy was actually playing ingress on his watch, what was on his phone screen transferred to watch screen same for his car alarm app, he just didn't say if it was rooted or not I just figured it was lol. Sorry had to edit my post. I do think you probably needs to be rooted to run something like ingress since it's an online game and the gear can't run anything online like a game or Facebook so I guess maybe that's why it has to be rooted and use a Bluetooth transfer lol I'm a very big newbie when it comes to the gear.
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Tell me about it dude lol
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Bluetooth tethering is the easiest way. If you root your watch you can actually install play store and download as if it's a tablet tethered. Some apps may need to be wifi spoofed with is a xposed module included in null.
Keep in mind your phone needs to be running an international rom. I had to get rid of my T-Mobile rom for an international to enable Bluetooth tethering. Wasn't the watch holding me back, rather the phone itself
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stokedcrf said:
Bluetooth tethering is the easiest way. If you root your watch you can actually install play store and download as if it's a tablet tethered. Some apps may need to be wifi spoofed with is a xposed module included in null.
Keep in mind your phone needs to be running an international rom. I had to get rid of my T-Mobile rom for an international to enable Bluetooth tethering. Wasn't the watch holding me back, rather the phone itself
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Damn thanks for telling me about the rom!
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Stock Kit Kat 4.4.2 Issues on Sprint S4

I'm on stock Kit Kat for my sprint S4. I noticed that now when I wirelessly charge my phone it gets extremely hot. Also one it gets to 94% it stops charging. Not sure of it stops due to heat or the new software doesn't like to do wireless charging. I have an aftermarket qi charger and peice for my phone. They worked perfect until I updated last week . Is anyone else having this problem. The other thing I noticed is Google hangouts emoticons when entered in a chat come out looking diffrent. Looks like Samsung emoticons. I checked this on my wife's note 3 after updating to stock kit Kat and the emoticon icon disappeared. So not sure if this is another issue with it may and Samsung phones.
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Sorry for the typos but I can't edit my post from my phone. Keep getting force close when trying to edit.
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Don't know much about charging...but did see in another post that some of the parts of NAE(4.4) are written differently than MJA..MK2(4.3) so maybe that's why???
I saw a few say there chargers were not working at all with the newest update...fwiw
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4.4.2
If I have the mk9, will I get the update?

There is another important issue in kitkat update
Many apps doesn't detect extSD card .

stick with stockish v6 or negalite....kitkat from sprint is useless garbage like thier passed updates... just in a hurry to beat verizin and att
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anees02 said:
There is another important issue in kitkat update
Many apps doesn't detect extSD card .
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This is not an issue, it is a new security policy implemented by Google in Kit Kat. You can add a line to platform.xml and return functionality. But it is not a bug, Google did it on purpose.

Culprit maybe the charger I've got 2 out of 4 that will not charge my phone and they are all Samsung chargers. I think some are just temperamental.

chris-allen said:
stick with stockish v6 or negalite....kitkat from sprint is useless garbage like thier passed updates... just in a hurry to beat verizin and att
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I disagree with this. I for one like the new update.
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daniel4653 said:
I disagree with this. I for one like the new update.
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I, too, am loving the new NAE update. It's snappier & great on battery life.
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Thanks for the replies, I like the new update as well. Just a few things that are annoyances. Just wanted to see if anyone else has the same problems or any other that I have not come across yet.
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Couple of issues
Sometimes i get an error on the oem clock/weather widget that says "restart widget" Then it is fine again. Also if i am on wi-fi the voicemail app will not connect and download the voicemail if one is waiting. Once it gets to good signal and isnt using wi-fi then the message comes through.

cruise350 said:
This is not an issue, it is a new security policy implemented by Google in Kit Kat. You can add a line to platform.xml and return functionality. But it is not a bug, Google did it on purpose.
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Do you have a modified platform.xml, or can you tell me the line to add.me and root explorer aren't getting along right now.root browser in rom tool box works good, but I prefer the layout of root explorer.
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pgriffinsc said:
Do you have a modified platform.xml, or can you tell me the line to add.me and root explorer aren't getting along right now.root browser in rom tool box works good, but I prefer the layout of root explorer.
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You need to go to platform.xml in the system/etc/permissions folder with root explorer. Open it with a text editor. Look for the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission line and add this line under the 2 permissions that are already listed. Follow the same formatting as the other permissions.
Add this: <group gid="media_rw" />
Save and exit, then reboot your phone. It's a good idea to back up the file before editing which root explorer should automatically do for you. Good luck.
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how?
I have checked several times, and my sprint galaxy s4 is "up to date" but im still on JB. Could this be due too the fact that i bricked my phone and had to use odin on my pc to basically wipe everything including root? But i dont see that being the problem since i stayed on stock while i was rooted. I just rooted for the hotspot mod for mk2

In find that Samsung wires for charger breaks fast..I change both my wife wire to another and works fine...KitKat update the best..no issues except for transition animation bug is still there.. After a few times opening camera it defaults back to 0 when I had it set to .5...great battery snappier less ram..consumption...my phone doesn't get as hot anymore...
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heichou456 said:
I have checked several times, and my sprint galaxy s4 is "up to date" but im still on JB. Could this be due too the fact that i bricked my phone and had to use odin on my pc to basically wipe everything including root? But i dont see that being the problem since i stayed on stock while i was rooted. I just rooted for the hotspot mod for mk2
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It takes over a month for everyone to receive the OTA, be patient and you will get it. Also, if you still have the hotspot mod, the ota will fail so you need to Odin the stock mk2 tar again.
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It takes over a month for everyone to receive the OTA, be patient and you will get it. Also, if you still have the hotspot mod, the ota will fail so you need to Odin the stock mk2 tar again.
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Thank you, is there anyway to check if i still have the hotspot mod?

heichou456 said:
Thank you, is there anyway to check if i still have the hotspot mod?
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Yes, turn it on, and if it works you still have it. If it nags you about paying for it then you don't.
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heichou456 said:
I have checked several times, and my sprint galaxy s4 is "up to date" but im still on JB. Could this be due too the fact that i bricked my phone and had to use odin on my pc to basically wipe everything including root? But i dont see that being the problem since i stayed on stock while i was rooted. I just rooted for the hotspot mod for mk2
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I just found the zip file online and ran it from my SD card in Stock recovery.
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[VIDEO] How to ROOT Galaxy S5!

Make sure you watch if you are unsure on how to do it!
http://youtu.be/nWqTIXf5kUs

Thanks for making this. It's like people literally couldn't read the instructions on the site. It was really frustrating to watch how many people asked how to do this yesterday in the release thread.

Does this work on s5 active?
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No has not been reported to work yet
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DO NOT USE ULTRA POWER SAVING MODE AFTER ROOTING AS OF YET... myself and a few others are left with a black white att logo onscreen after enabling ULTRA POWER SAVING MODE just a heads up....

UnhoIy said:
Thanks for making this. It's like people literally couldn't read the instructions on the site. It was really frustrating to watch how many people asked how to do this yesterday in the release thread.
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I was trying to do it through my computer as I have everything in the past. The video showed me how to do it on my phone.

Holy Fuc!ing sh!t! There's root now!
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sholsten said:
I was trying to do it through my computer as I have everything in the past. The video showed me how to do it on my phone.
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I was hesitant to make a video, but thanks for the feedback!!
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This is done from the phone?
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Yes you do it all from the phone
DO NOT REMOVE THE LAUNCHERS AS I STATED IN THE VIDEO THIS WILL SCREW THE PHONE IF YOU TRY TO USE ULTRA POWER SAVING...
LEAVE THE LAUNCHERS IN

Thanks
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Worked for me! Thanks Guys

Samsung Galaxy S5 Active
I can confirm that this worked to root the S5 Active. I had issues with Google services not functioning properly, but once I installed SuperSU, and it disabled Knox, everything seemed to be working fine again. Based on comments from others, I have not enabled ultra power save mode.

MSStranger said:
I can confirm that this worked to root the S5 Active. I had issues with Google services not functioning properly, but once I installed SuperSU, and it disabled Knox, everything seemed to be working fine again. Based on comments from others, I have not enabled ultra power save mode.
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Im on S5 AND3 rooted ans debloat i tried the UPSM and its working great just do not uninstall any stock launcher or stock samsung keyboard
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I removed the launchers lol but that's because I have never used the ultra power saver in the 2 months I've nd this
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MSStranger said:
I can confirm that this worked to root the S5 Active. I had issues with Google services not functioning properly, but once I installed SuperSU, and it disabled Knox, everything seemed to be working fine again. Based on comments from others, I have not enabled ultra power save mode.
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How did you go about installing SuperSU, and disabling Knox?
UPDATE: I see in his thread about SuperSU. Does it automatically disable Knox? Or do I have to go about Titanium Backup and disable all the appropriate apps?

MercilessLTD said:
How did you go about installing SuperSU, and disabling Knox?
UPDATE: I see in his thread about SuperSU. Does it automatically disable Knox? Or do I have to go about Titanium Backup and disable all the appropriate apps?
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SuperSU automatically prompts and asks if you want to disable Knox. The first time I ran it, it hung. Rebooted, and ran again, and it disabled right away. Was golden after that point.

V2 didn't work for me. Just tried V1 and it worked with no issue. Awesome! Just got the S5 today as well.
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lol a 10min video on how to root by dling an apk in 1 click.. you should title it root and titanium and xposed etc lol.. did you show in video how to update su?
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elliwigy said:
lol a 10min video on how to root by dling an apk in 1 click.. you should title it root and titanium and xposed etc lol.. did you show in video how to update su?
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or one of them was 10mins.. u should teach how to set up supersu or at least say sll they gotta do is go in play store to get it lol
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