[GUIDE]How to safely root MJA 4.3
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Just a quick question....and i know its not right...but with this whole Knox counter thing and the big question on if Sprint will repair/replace your device if something was to happen....if it really came down to it and you had insurance couldn't you just accidentally drop your phone in water and file an insurance claim. I know its not the right thing to do but just a question.
You are very correct buddy cuz just as long as they can't boot the phone to check the qfuse then they can't say you did when they check to see if you buddy
I drop mine in water all the time
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Thanks @galaxys3man30! This works perfectly.
Funny thing is I don't have the 2 minute boot time as described. I'm not complaining lol. At what point did you start to experience that? I rooted and have TWRP as my recovery. Made a backup of stock MJA then flashed the latest Euroskank. Still boots up like normal.
Just curious.
Funny thing is I don't have the 2 minute boot time as described. I'm not complaining lol. At what point did you start to experience that? I rooted and have TWRP as my recovery. Made a backup of stock MJA then flashed the latest Euroskank. Still boots up like normal.
Just curious.
Just to confirm, once on mja you cannot flash or restore a mf9 rom but you can restore and flash a 4.3 aosp rom with no issues? Thanks
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Lmfao guess it's just me it did it when I rooted but I think it's odin 3.07 that does if my memory servers me right
Thank you for your reply. However I'm going to wait on confirmation of flashing and restoring 4.3 aosp roms before jumping the gun on mja.
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I can't speak for restoring backups but AOSP Roms and kernels flash just fine.
You just get the warning message on the splash screen. But everything works just fine.
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Thank you so much for this! Works perfectly and easy to do. Once I saw this I decided it was worth updating to MJA and so far not disappointed.
So easy. Thanks for the detail in your post. got it done in like 7 min!
I CAN confirm that if you have best buy insurance they will replace your device even though Knox is tripped and kernel and device both say CUSTOM. Knox is so new that they don't even know what it is which is why I think that they'll replace it. I mean unless they've had training recently which I doubt. When I thought mine was hopelessly bricked I took it in and they did a rapid replacement. I just blamed it on the update. Though, mine wouldn't even boot, just go into Odin mode. Thank god for you guys that go out there and do the dirty work with these ROMs and updates. Brought my phone back to life, though still no wireless which I should be able to fix. THANK YOU to all Devs and Testers.
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All I have to say is I wish I wasn't on Verizon (GS4) and on sprint like my gf. Her S4 I I enabled survival mode in supersu just in case, not knowing when her 4.3 OTA would come through, and that worked for her. She confirmed it with root checker and running some root apps. I'm not sure, haven't looked yet but I'm sure CWM if it isn't already good to go on hers it will be soon.
My Verizon S4 had many more steps to keep root and we probably won't get CWM and maybe not even Safestrap. Oh well.. Guess the price I pay for having excellent 4g/LTE everywhere I go vs. Hers always roaming and what not. I do miss flashing ROMs though!
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My Verizon S4 had many more steps to keep root and we probably won't get CWM and maybe not even Safestrap. Oh well.. Guess the price I pay for having excellent 4g/LTE everywhere I go vs. Hers always roaming and what not. I do miss flashing ROMs though!
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OK I has been confirmed that cwm 6.0.4.4 corrupt the data part of the back it's a simple fix by just wipe data part in the mount and stoage section of cwm 6.0.4.4 this is just warning to yall that restore a back with cwm 6.0.4.4 but another backup can be made with Samsung account app that will restore the setup and apps and there data just another safe way to keep ur data on ur apps I'm looking in to what recovery is best to use if anyone has restore successfully with any other recovery plz let me know i testing twrp 2.5.0.2 now hopping this one works I'll keep everyone updated
Posting in wrong thread.
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Not sure what's going on, but this is not working for me.. Manually updated to mja..It reboots to the red android but does not install supersu!!any ideas what else I can do?? Thanks
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Hmm that's weird buddy could try to download the SuperSU from play store and see what happens
Played around with it.. Got it to work.. ThanksHmm that's weird buddy could try to download the SuperSU from play store and see what happens
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