[SOLVED] rooting galaxy s4

lleb · 12-19-2013, 10:54 PM

sorry been all over the googles and everything seems to point exclusive to MS windows for rooting the Galaxy S4. that is a problem. my win7 box refuses to properly detect my S4.

id rather root the phone in my Fedora 19 laptop.

anyone have practice rooting this phone via linux instead of MS?

lleb · 12-20-2013, 09:31 AM

well found the answer... a program called Odin3 is the trick to rooting the phone, then it is just a matter of getting a clean ROM on the phone.

sadly it is NOT a Linux application. it is a MS Windows application.

https://www.cubby.com/pl/Odin3_v3.09...3bf03f2c459b9b

direct link to download, if that fails you can get the info from here:

http://android.sc/download-odin-3-09/

sgosnell · 12-20-2013, 09:49 AM

This can be done from a terminal in Linux. There are scripts available for rooting various phones. Try the xda-developers site. All you really need is the Android SDK, and all you really need from that is the adb binary. You can do anything you need with adb in a terminal if you have the proper procedure available, but it's easier if you have a script you can just run. I've rooted my Galaxy S3 and my Asus tablet using adb, without ever having to use a Windows machine, which I don't own.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=40747604

lleb · 12-20-2013, 01:42 PM

its the steps that would of been nice to find last night

. thank you for the link. ill use it going forward.

ahh, yes i did find that link, it points to an application that has no build for Fedora 19/20 only 18.