Root Success SM-G530AZ 5.1.1!!!

wally86 · Jan 1, 2016

All credit goes to captaingowa and his post (http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/general/att-samsung-galaxy-prime-sm-g530a-links-t3283066) for the AT&T version.

I'm just providing stock kernel for 5.1.1 SM-G530AZ

1. Root SM-G530AZ 5.1.1 with kingroot 4.6.2 or higer (kingroot.net)

2. DON'T Reboot

3. Download and install Flashify on play store or APK

4. Flash stock kernel with flashify (http://www.mediafire.com/download/2fk19cadccq0xd7/boot.img)

5. Reboot.

6. Replace kinguser with supersu (optional) (http://www.mediafire.com/download/x1efi7ev6nf3mvd/Replace_Kinguser_with_SuperSU-v2.0.zip)

7. Enjoy

Illyakulinych · Jan 2, 2016

wally86 said:
All credit goes to captaingowa and his post (http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/general/att-samsung-galaxy-prime-sm-g530a-links-t3283066) for the AT&T version.

I'm just providing stock kernel for 5.1.1 SM-G530AZ

1. Root SM-G530AZ 5.1.1 with kingroot 4.6.2 or higer (kingroot.net)

2. DON'T Reboot

3. Download and install Flashify on play store or APK

4. Flash stock kernel with flashify (http://www.mediafire.com/download/2fk19cadccq0xd7/boot.img)

5. Reboot.

6. Replace kinguser with supersu (optional) (http://www.mediafire.com/download/x1efi7ev6nf3mvd/Replace_Kinguser_with_SuperSU-v2.0.zip)

7. Enjoy

Awesome, thank you so much

. Going to try it right now, but I'm betting it will work. Thank you again for putting this all together.

kenboyles72 · Jan 2, 2016

Nice, think I flashed the wrong boot.img from that thread, there are two different img's, one as tar and the other as img. We actually need the img in the tar, which you have posted above. Thanks for posting this up.

adj5064 · Jan 4, 2016

guys thank you very much! i will try this and report results to the forum!

thecomputerdude87 · Jan 5, 2016

HELP!!

kenboyles72 said:
Nice, think I flashed the wrong boot.img from that thread, there are two different img's, one as tar and the other as img. We actually need the img in the tar, which you have posted above. Thanks for posting this up.

I tried the same procedure and my wifi will still not work!!!

kenboyles72 · Jan 5, 2016

thecomputerdude87 said:
I tried the same procedure and my wifi will still not work!!!

There are a couple things you can do here.

1. Try re-downloading the boot.img and reflashing with flashify
2. Try flashing the boot.img with Odin3
3. Restoring your phone with Kies http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61977268&postcount=14

I rooted my phone and had to restore with kies three times before i got my wifi working. This is only if I switched to SuperSU, if you stay with kingroot, you wont have the wifi issue.

IndyViva · Jan 5, 2016

Help help help!

I did this and now my wifi won't turn on!! AT ALL

adj5064 · Jan 5, 2016

so the root metod its safe??? now there is another metod done from between Android using terminal emulator to switch from kingroot to chains fire super su! you have to be fully rooted to be able to work on terminal emulator.
but the root metod for sm g530az its safe?

IndyViva · Jan 5, 2016

flashing the stock kernel, do you click boot image or recovery image?

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OK, I got the wifi to turn back on by using the link above again.

I still cant get the wifi tether app to work, tho.

any suggestions?

adj5064 · Jan 6, 2016

well..happy to report that root on criket grand prime sm-g530az its a big...SUCCESS!!!
Im rooted on lollipop 5.1.1.
i do have cwm recovery but i need to flash it and see how it goes.for those with the Wi-Fi problem flash that boot image again.i have two one didn't work so i flash that second and Wi-Fi was working again.
Samsung bootlogo reports as "custom" so guaranty its gone

but I don't care abt that,im rooted thnx guys for sharing all that informacion!

IndyViva · Jan 6, 2016

I got the root to work with kingroot, but didn't do the 'optional' SU part, but now I want to.

Can anyone tell me what the step is with that zip file? do I download it directly to the phone? use Flashify? if I'm using flashify, do I flash it as a "boot image", a "recovery image" or a "zip file" ?

LOL talk to me like I'm five, please! I'm a noob at this. I'm smart at some things but this is a little overwhelming. LOL I'm a critical care nurse. I can fix a PERSON, but phones are a little more complicated :laugh:

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Oh OOH OOOHH!!!

Did that final step and the wifi tethering app WORKS!!!

WHOO HOOOOO!!!!

Thanks, wally, you are AWESOME!!

ruscully · Jan 11, 2016

Root wifi teather

What wifi teather apk do yuo use?

rezaveros · Jan 12, 2016

hello try to this post :
http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/orig-development/cm-13-android-6-0-1-grand-prime-sm-t3291892

this post help you to install custom rom on grand prime sm-g530h and other . . .

Nitro1max1 · Jan 20, 2016

adj5064 said:
well..happy to report that root on criket grand prime sm-g530az its a big...SUCCESS!!!
Im rooted on lollipop 5.1.1.
i do have cwm recovery but i need to flash it and see how it goes.for those with the Wi-Fi problem flash that boot image again.i have two one didn't work so i flash that second and Wi-Fi was working again.
Samsung bootlogo reports as "custom" so guaranty its gone
but I don't care abt that,im rooted thnx guys for sharing all that informacion!

Wait you have cwm compiled for our sm-g530az? That would be useful

toxinburn · Jan 30, 2016

Okay thanks a ton for the info, finally got my wifi back after flashing the correct boot.img, not sure where it was on the original forum never saw it but luckily others that had same issue posted it.

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Going to try to blow the dust off my builduntu box and see if I cant get us a recovery going for the cricket version, I usually like twrp but now that cwm has touch as well could go that route....is their a custom recovery built for the other variants at all yet....if so then forking those repos would be a good starting point, should only take minor edits to get it working proper for us.

kenboyles72 · Feb 1, 2016

toxinburn said:
Okay thanks a ton for the info, finally got my wifi back after flashing the correct boot.img, not sure where it was on the original forum never saw it but luckily others that had same issue posted it.

---------- Post added at 09:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 PM ----------

Going to try to blow the dust off my builduntu box and see if I cant get us a recovery going for the cricket version, I usually like twrp but now that cwm has touch as well could go that route....is their a custom recovery built for the other variants at all yet....if so then forking those repos would be a good starting point, should only take minor edits to get it working proper for us.

I already built twrp for this phone, but as you found out, the damn security checks prevent the use of it. This is my device tree, can't remember if I pushed my last commits and I dont have what I had, due to a hdd failure.
https://github.com/LoneStar-/android_device_samsung_grandprimeltetu

Illyakulinych · Feb 2, 2016

kenboyles72 said:
I already built twrp for this phone, but as you found out, the damn security checks prevent the use of it. This is my device tree, can't remember if I pushed my last commits and I dont have what I had, due to a hdd failure.
https://github.com/LoneStar-/android_device_samsung_grandprimeltetu

So can you get a custom recovery working for this device? I have tried many ways but they all ended with my flashing stock img. twrp or cwm would be fine by me. Or another alternative is to find out how to disable the security check. Anyway please find a way to get custom recovery for 5.1.1 SM-G530AZ. Thanks

toxinburn · Feb 2, 2016

Illyakulinych said:
So can you get a custom recovery working for this device? I have tried many ways but they all ended with my flashing stock img. twrp or cwm would be fine by me. Or another alternative is to find out how to disable the security check. Anyway please find a way to get custom recovery for 5.1.1 SM-G530AZ. Thanks

Okay I think we should put our heads together to try and kick this lockdown to the curb, things I have tried so far...I found that on some other variants they have the option within their settings/developer settings menu to enable oem unlock which is what we are needing to be able to flash custom recovery, I have replaced my settings.jar and settings.odex with theirs with no luck the option is still not showing up for me, but I think it may be the right direction into getting that to show up, the question i am now posing is this. Are the checks in place simply reading carrier info to allow/disallow this option? If so would we possibly be able to change the build.prop or other settings with our newly found root access to trick the device into giving this option? If that is the case then we need to get as much info from the stock devices that have that option as possible and maybe try swapping certain files out with theirs to get the option back and/or editing certain files on our own device to get it to show up. It only takes one g530AZ with unlocked bootloader to share the boot.img i would think. I had thought about flashing another boot.img or aboot.img from another variant but I am pretty concerned about brickage although I think it could be recoverable as long as one can get back into download mode. Has anyone zeroed out the download partition to see if a fastboot is hidden behind it?

Illyakulinych · Feb 4, 2016

toxinburn said:
Okay I think we should put our heads together to try and kick this lockdown to the curb, things I have tried so far...I found that on some other variants they have the option within their settings/developer settings menu to enable oem unlock which is what we are needing to be able to flash custom recovery, I have replaced my settings.jar and settings.odex with theirs with no luck the option is still not showing up for me, but I think it may be the right direction into getting that to show up, the question i am now posing is this. Are the checks in place simply reading carrier info to allow/disallow this option? If so would we possibly be able to change the build.prop or other settings with our newly found root access to trick the device into giving this option? If that is the case then we need to get as much info from the stock devices that have that option as possible and maybe try swapping certain files out with theirs to get the option back and/or editing certain files on our own device to get it to show up. It only takes one g530AZ with unlocked bootloader to share the boot.img i would think. I had thought about flashing another boot.img or aboot.img from another variant but I am pretty concerned about brickage although I think it could be recoverable as long as one can get back into download mode. Has anyone zeroed out the download partition to see if a fastboot is hidden behind it?

Any progress?

toxinburn · Feb 4, 2016

Illyakulinych said:
Any progress?

Only thing I have done Is zeroed out the sec partition which caused non problem however it did no good either....also playing around with the databases and able to change some options just not the one in wanting yet...I work a ton son my freetime is limited but if anyone that has a different variant that could share their system apps primarily their settings all and databases and xml associated with it is really like to look through them.

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