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Sprint S4 and Towelroot - Discussion

So Towelroot is working on many S4 variants... But ours. Bummer.... So close. I started this thread in hopes that an authority on the subject might chime in on possible reasons as to why. Also Towelroot has gotten quite a bit of attention as a proof of concept for a major security flaw in Android devices. What are your opinions on that?

Its witchcraft! Burn those responsible at the stake!!
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This is bad news. I've been wanting to try towelroot for the past 2 days, asking around if it works on our Sprint S4. Do you think it'll ever work on ours? If it works on Sprint Note 3 there's no reason why it shouldn't.

edmund75 said:
This is bad news. I've been wanting to try towelroot for the past 2 days, asking around if it works on our Sprint S4. Do you think it'll ever work on ours? If it works on Sprint Note 3 there's no reason why it shouldn't.
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I can say first hand it is completely safe to attempt to run towelroot... It will not trip Knox or the flash counter, etc, etc... It just does nothing. If you watch a video if towelroot in action you will see text after you “make it ra1n"... But on our devices it just says black below the button then resets the phone.

There is a list of devices that says the sprint s4 works with towel root.
http://www.droidviews.com/root-att-and-verizon-galaxy-s5-without-voiding-knox-warranty/

Noticed that towelroot has been updated to version 2- no more reboot. May give it a try. However, I just read an article about towelroot saying,
"A flaw in the Android operating system may leave many Android phones and tablets vulnerable to attack, including the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Google's own Nexus 5. It's the same flaw that was recently discovered in the Linux kernel, on which Android is based — and a just-released Android "rooting" tool that uses the flaw could make the problem even worse.
Exploiting the flaw on an Android device yields root permissions, or total control of the system. That's not itself malicious, but the exploit could also let attackers remotely download malware, copy the device owner's files and other personal data, disable the device's security apps and create a backdoor for more attacks, according to San Francisco-based security firm Lacoon Mobile Security."
Any thoughts?

A true double edged sword. Kinda scary the Antivirus gave it an OK... Yet android actually warned me. I've read that in Linux systems the bug has been fixed.. However with so many generations and models of phones and tablets it's trickier.
I'd say the best solution would be an apk that can be ran on a rooted device (or with the bug... Not) that fixes or at least blocks it.

That's a negative on version 2... But nothing tripped. Odd thing... It still resets on its own.

noob with sprint sg4
Syntaxerror999 said:
I can say first hand it is completely safe to attempt to run towelroot... It will not trip Knox or the flash counter, etc, etc... It just does nothing. If you watch a video if towelroot in action you will see text after you “make it ra1n"... But on our devices it just says black below the button then resets the phone.
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when I say noob I mean noob...I'm new to Android and I have no clue really what I'm doing all I know is that I wanted to be rooted because I used to use iPhone and I'm in jail breaker, which gave me the ability to not be charged out the bottom from Sprint just to tether my unlimited data to my computer. after trying to understand the wholr "rooting" process I gave up ( i suffer with OCD and ADD and that is not a good combination when teaching yourself anything tech...plus if you haven't notice I tend to be long winded and very detailed about very unnecessary information just as this last sentence sorry) Yesterday I came across Towelroot was very skeptical but continued reading as much as I could find and decided after reading "it won harm your device to try" I did..... and it works!!! first try unbelievable... now I just got to try to teach myself what to do now... there is a lot of information in computer language that the typical ex jail breaker doesn't understand....it's going to be a long road ahead of me but from what I've read so far it's going to be great. Thanks!
btw....I read this thread and wanted to reply to let people with the sprint sg4...that it's possible but I wasn't registered .... I guess things happen for a reason! if anyone has some helpful information that they can give me as to bypass the frightening journey me and my OCD andADD have in trying to work through the mass amounts of information in this strange language I sure would love ya for it! lol but what doesn't kill me will only make me smarter. love the site guys!

cwithy74 said:
Yesterday I came across Towelroot was very skeptical but continued reading as much as I could find and decided after reading "it won harm your device to try" I did..... and it works!!!
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Worked for you? How updated was your device?

Syntaxerror999 said:
Worked for you? How updated was your device?
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I'm staying away from the kit Kat update..read too much negative
my software: L720VPUEMK2
android version: 4.3
I'm not sure if that is what you wanted to know...I'm not very educated on the computer lango. .
just to let you know though I used towelroot then checked to see if it worked using root checker basic and it was a success then I downloaded superuser couldn't update so u installed it checked my root again it was gone. I opened towelroot again ran it and was rooted again...now I'm just trying to figure out what I need to be safe and secure and get started learning what I am able to do now... hope this info helps

cwithy74 said:
I'm staying away from the kit Kat update..read too much negative
my software: L720VPUEMK2
android version: 4.3
I'm not sure if that is what you wanted to know...I'm not very educated on the computer lango. .
just to let you know though I used towelroot then checked to see if it worked using root checker basic and it was a success then I downloaded superuser couldn't update so u installed it checked my root again it was gone. I opened towelroot again ran it and was rooted again...now I'm just trying to figure out what I need to be safe and secure and get started learning what I am able to do now... hope this info helps
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so you basically used towelroot on 4.3? enh, I used saferoot, which was released a while back, to root 4.3 without tripping Knox... what we need to know is will towelroot give us root on 4.4 NAE...

cwithy74 said:
I'm staying away from the kit Kat update..read too much negative
my software: L720VPUEMK2
android version: 4.3
I'm not sure if that is what you wanted to know...I'm not very educated on the computer lango. .
just to let you know though I used towelroot then checked to see if it worked using root checker basic and it was a success then I downloaded superuser couldn't update so u installed it checked my root again it was gone. I opened towelroot again ran it and was rooted again...now I'm just trying to figure out what I need to be safe and secure and get started learning what I am able to do now... hope this info helps
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Yes that's exactly what I wanted to know. This would explain why some sites are reporting it as working on our model

Works fine on NAE. Download latest towelroot (v3), click the title 3 times, enter "1337 0 1 7380 4 0". Click "Make it rain".
Enjoy root. No KNOX tripped.

DXtremz said:
Works fine on NAE. Download latest towelroot (v3), click the title 3 times, enter "1337 0 1 7380 4 0". Click "Make it rain".
Enjoy root. No KNOX tripped.
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What is the reason for entering "1337 0 1 7380 4 0" before making it rain?

Because it doesn't work otherwise. It's a modstring to modify the exploit parameters for our specific device.

DXtremz said:
Because it doesn't work otherwise. It's a modstring to modify the exploit parameters for our specific device.
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Alrighty, I'll give it a try. Thanks!

DXtremz said:
Works fine on NAE. Download latest towelroot (v3), click the title 3 times, enter "1337 0 1 7380 4 0". Click "Make it rain".
Enjoy root. No KNOX tripped.
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Aw man...I was just about to post this and you beat me to it.... but yes folks the above offset will make towelroot work on 4.4

Syntaxerror999 said:
Aw man...I was just about to post this and you beat me to it.... but yes folks the above offset will make towelroot work on 4.4
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I concur the successful rooting of our beloved Sprint S4 (NAE)!! Enjoy everyone!

For sure worked. Just did it on my friends Sprint GS4 that has never been rooted.

rooting at&t galaxy s4 active oc7

hey guys i was wondering how to root the samsung galaxy s4 active (I537) 5.0.1 lolipop
baseband oc7
sorry if this was already brought up.. i didn't have much time so i did some brief searching and didn't really find too much... some posts looked like you would have to wipe your phone just to root it and i was hoping that ain't the case...
help is appreciated!!! thanks !!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3089355 for oc6 and oc7
The only way for now
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Austin68 said:
some posts looked like you would have to wipe your phone just to root it and i was hoping that ain't the case...
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Sorry this is absolutely the case, what firestorm942 didn't explicitly mention is that in order to be rooted at all on lollipop, you have to start from rooted KitKat. To see the full process see my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63639949&postcount=2
Yes the process wipes your phone at one point and yes this the only way to be rooted on lollipop

I rooted my Galaxy S4 Active AT&T 5.0.1 oct7 With this tool KingRoot

GorranKurd said:
I rooted my Galaxy S4 Active AT&T 5.0.1 oct7 With this tool KingRoot
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The problem is kingroot copies all your personal data (including your IMEI) and sends it to a server in China. I recommend against it since I don't trust that for a second. Supersu is known to be safe, stable, and effective

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
The problem is kingroot copies all your personal data (including your IMEI) and sends it to a server in China. I recommend against it since I don't trust that for a second. Supersu is known to be safe, stable, and effective
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I don't think so if this do that but there is no way for now to Root our f**king at&t galaxy s4 [emoji25]
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GorranKurd said:
I don't think so if this do that but there is no way for now to Root our f**king at&t galaxy s4 [emoji25]
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Actually, yes there is
You can accomplish it even if you've already updated to lollipop
Sometimes the correct way of doing things takes a little more effort than the easy way out, but why do something if you don't want to do it right?

thisisapoorusernamechoice said:
Actually, yes there is
You can accomplish it even if you've already updated to lollipop
Sometimes the correct way of doing things takes a little more effort than the easy way out, but why do something if you don't want to do it right?
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Thank you bro i updated to Lollipop and Keep root but now i have another problem with the Mobile Data I can't create the APN to use mobile data when i don't have wifi i didn't got this problem when I on KitKat 4.4.2 but when i upgraded to 5.0.1 Lollipop it say ( ( Unable to view access point settings, Assess is restricted for the current user profile. )!?
Here is the screenshot:
How to Solve this problem ?

no root access
the post says in the start that you should already have root access but i dont have root access what should i do?

syedharisiftikhar said:
the post says in the start that you should already have root access but i dont have root access what should i do?
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If you're on KitKat, root with towelroot. If you're on lollipop use Odin to go back to KitKat then root with towel root, and then you can use the keep root method to update to rooted lollipop
See here for more details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63639949&postcount=2

cant root my phone.

i have a at&t s5 active. i have tried multiple methods to root and none of them have worked.
this is the last one i tied.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/at...uide-downgrade-s5-active-mm6-0-lp5-0-t3523683
what else could i try?
thanks

Bump

Kingo doesn't work on my Active either. We're out of luck on this one, until there's some magical way into making Kingo think it's the g900a, or flashing oi5 somehow

There must be something you're doing wrong. What issues have you run into?

odin keeps saying failed, and towelroot said device not supported. i couple places said at&t and verizon cant be supported. is that true?

It is likely true, I haven't been staying up to date.... what marshmallow build are you on?

i thought towel root only worked on kitkat

TheMadScientist420 said:
i thought towel root only worked on kitkat
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Yes but there is a way to upgrade to lollipop and keep root

Used KingRoot to root my device, but cannot uninstall it after with SuperSume

I'm using a Samsung-SGH-I537UCUCOC7, Android Version is 5.0.1
TowelRoot didnt work for my device so I used KingRoot as a last resort. However I only wanted to use it to install the root and not have it around as its a bit intrusive. I tried using SuperSume but no matter what I do when I run it, it always stops at 10%. I've tried 5 different times.
Do I have any other options?

Do you have full root or does it go away when you reboot? If you have permanent root and SuperSUMe is not working there is also a script file you can use. You'll have to search for it. I had the same problem with a Kyocera Hydro Icon I had. I ended up using the script, but I think I figured out why at first neither of them were working.
If you could try something as a test for me I'd appreciate it. In my case I rooted the phone with an older version of kingroot, then kingroot updated itself to the new app...but not the new binary. So I unrooted with the newer app and then rerooted with it also so I would have the new binary. After that the script worked for me and I bet SuperSUMe would've too, but I tried the script first.
So try unrooting and rerooting with the newest version then try SuperSUMe...if it fails then try to find the script.

RealWelder said:
Do you have full root or does it go away when you reboot? If you have permanent root and SuperSUMe is not working there is also a script file you can use. You'll have to search for it. I had the same problem with a Kyocera Hydro Icon I had. I ended up using the script, but I think I figured out why at first neither of them were working.
If you could try something as a test for me I'd appreciate it. In my case I rooted the phone with an older version of kingroot, then kingroot updated itself to the new app...but not the new binary. So I unrooted with the newer app and then rerooted with it also so I would have the new binary. After that the script worked for me and I bet SuperSUMe would've too, but I tried the script first.
So try unrooting and rerooting with the newest version then try SuperSUMe...if it fails then try to find the script.
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I used version 5.0.4 of kingroot. How low do you want me to go?
Also the binary thing your talking about I noticed it when I downloaded SuperSU it said it was missing some binary and I couldnt use that app either even after I rooted with KingRoot. It sounds like my only hope is that script you were talking about but I'll try a lower version of KingRoot first. I have no idea where I would look to find that script so I can get more info what I'm suppose to search for let me know.

RemixDeluxe said:
I used version 5.0.4 of kingroot. How low do you want me to go?
Also the binary thing your talking about I noticed it when I downloaded SuperSU it said it was missing some binary and I couldnt use that app either even after I rooted with KingRoot. It sounds like my only hope is that script you were talking about but I'll try a lower version of KingRoot first. I have no idea where I would look to find that script so I can get more info what I'm suppose to search for let me know.
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For me I rooted with whatever version you get from their website, but after you root it downloads and updates itself. I unrooted and rerooted with the update to get the new binary. Also, I'll see if I still have a copy of the script on my cpu. If I do I'll post you a link.
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RealWelder said:
For me I rooted with whatever version you get from their website, but after you root it downloads and updates itself. I unrooted and rerooted with the update to get the new binary. Also, I'll see if I still have a copy of the script on my cpu. If I do I'll post you a link.
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I used version 4.5 instead of the latest 5.0.4 and afterwards ran SuperSume. It got rid of it no problem and I still have my root access. Thank you.
last question, I also own a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. It was my first Android phone ever and I wasnt aware that AT&T keeps the bootloader locked on their phones. Will any amount of begging and crying to them get them to unlock the bootloader? If the answer is no are there any unofficial means to unlock my bootloader for the phone?

RemixDeluxe said:
I used version 4.5 instead of the latest 5.0.4 and afterwards ran SuperSume. It got rid of it no problem and I still have my root access. Thank you.
last question, I also own a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. It was my first Android phone ever and I wasnt aware that AT&T keeps the bootloader locked on their phones. Will any amount of begging and crying to them get them to unlock the bootloader? If the answer is no are there any unofficial means to unlock my bootloader for the phone?
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Not too sure but I think it's possible. They unlocked and rooted the verizon and t-mobile versions, so possibly...maybe even by the same process. Search youtube.

Samsung Galaxy S7Edge [SM-G935A] [Android 7.0] Root Is Ready..!

Here Is PROFF OF Some Testing Of Root In Android 7.0 Nuggets..! We Test Root In Make Backup Of EFS From Phone..!
Its Show The Phone Is Rooted..!
The Root Is Working Till Today Updates Like Charm..! Without Tripping Knox Or Without Voiding Warrenty..!!
Have A Look In Image On Adroid Version Is 7.0 Nuggets..! &
Checking Superuser right.....True..!
Here Is Images As [Proff]-->View attachment 4061161
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So....link to how you did it?

How was this achieved? Engboot for nougat?

samung frp removal said:
Here Is PROFF OF Some Testing Of Root In Android 7.0 Nuggets..! We Test Root In Make Backup Of EFS From Phone..!
Its Show The Phone Is Rooted..!
The Root Is Working Till Today Updates Like Charm..! Without Tripping Knox Or Without Voiding Warrenty..!!
Have A Look In Image On Adroid Version Is 7.0 Nuggets..! &
Checking Superuser right.....True..!
Here Is Images As [Proff]-->View attachment 4061161
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Will it be perm root and be able to have use of Recovery like TWRP? i assume system less root? Please share this method with TWRP devs and other big root devs you can find on this forum so we can hopefully get AOSP on S7 AT&T edge if you think that is possible with this. Tired of SAMSUNG UX Lag

no need twrp or su install its temp root safe root..! and best root..no void knox..no void warrenty..! its best root eng boot root. @TheSCorpian420 this is temp root safe root best root.
eng boot root by samsung official..!
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samung frp removal said:
no need twrp or su install its temp root safe root..! and best root..no void knox..no void warrenty..! its best root eng boot root. @TheSCorpian420 this is temp root safe root best root.
eng boot root by samsung official..!
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Dude...are you going to link to how it's achieved or what..

You could try this
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767141717

thescorpion420 said:
You could try this
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767141717
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Have you tried this? Is there nothing that says this is for N and not MM? I guess I'll try it since i have the luxury of this being an extra phone...ill let you know how it goes.

Can any one confirm if it work and what issues does it have

bluemooncityzen225 said:
Have you tried this? Is there nothing that says this is for N and not MM? I guess I'll try it since i have the luxury of this being an extra phone...ill let you know how it goes.
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Let us know. This whole thing seems fishy lol.

muppetmaster916 said:
Let us know. This whole thing seems fishy lol.
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So...I guess it technically works. I flashed this linked file with modified version of Odin then ran root.bat. Samsung phone info app says i have root and i even get the prompt to deny or grant access to apps but have yet to actually get one of the apps requiring root to open. Flashfire has been sitting on loading for about 10 minutes now. One thing for sure is, it is SUPER laggy. I.don't recommend it. Not worth it in my opinion, ill probably go back to MM if i want root.

There was "Onion root" for 6.01 in the T-Mobile area. Has anyone tried that? Will it work for this Nougat test kernel?

no any root work in Nuggets
also Nugget Root Never Relased It..! We Have The Temp Root Which We Got From Korean Samsung Devlopers Team who Devloped The Files..!
We Have The Root S7Edge At&T Nugget I can Help You Inbox Me..!
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rlewis312010 said:
There was "Onion root" for 6.01 in the T-Mobile area. Has anyone tried that? Will it work for this Nougat test kernel?
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Onionroot is just an automated process to flash the engboot.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-s7-edge/how-to/root-method-nougat-t3566978
buggy bout the same as mm

I guess if someone required payment we can consider it lol
But please ......
Could someone consider providing a full system dump from AT&T Galaxy S7 Edge with N ?
I'm told that this should be able to be done without root using a root explorer app or with an abd pull command
We would greatly appreciate the files in order to get VoLTE and proper CSC for our SM-935F devices!
We do not have proper CSC
Thank you!!!!

I knew from beginning this was a BS post to gain thanks etc his account is disabled any moderator please disable and delete these threads he made in s7 news and here.

Root without an unlocked bootloader ends with N. The wise saw this coming. I doubt anyone will "leak" the tools to unlock bootloader. I'm staying on MM with exposed and lucky patcher.

rlewis312010 said:
Root without an unlocked bootloader ends with N. The wise saw this coming. I doubt anyone will "leak" the tools to unlock bootloader. I'm staying on MM with exposed and lucky patcher.
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im rooted using n eng kernel

I just ran across this root method which appears not to use the engboot and apparently works on the AT&T SGS7 edge. I have yet to read the rest of the thread, but it has been mentioned in a couple Android sites.