Root / Rom for Samsung Galaxy J3 Tellus SM-J320W8

Droidriven

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Having trouble finding anything for this specific model, thank you for helping!
You can probably root but there are no custom recoveries or ROMs for this device yet. There won't be any until a developer with the knowledge actually gets one of these devices and that probably won't happen because the REAL developers own and build for the more popular and high end devices.

You'll probably get custom recovery and ROMs quicker if you learn to build them or port them for yourself. Sad, but true.
i would love even just an older firmware file :S

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Droidriven

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Not shure

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Then do a search for:

"How to check bootloader status on android"

This will give you different methods to check.

Learn to search instead of being lazy waiting for someone to do the thinking and the work for you. If you want to do this then get off your but and get busy finding answers.

You are the one that wants to do this to your device, not us, if it's what you really want then you'll do whatever it takes, if you don't then it means you didn't really want it in the first place.

You'll get TWRP faster if you learn to port or build your own, many new members that can't find anything for their device end up building their own TWRP, it's not that complicated.

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Its locked

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Then you can't use TWRP unless you get it unlocked.

Before you ask how to do that, search first for yourself how to unlock bootloader on your model number.

If it can't be unlocked then you are out of luck with using custom ROMs, there are a lot of devices that can't be unlocked or use custom ROMs. In the future, research your devices before you buy them, that way you know whether it has custom support before you buy it. Then you won't be stuck with a device that has nothing available.

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DemandingZ

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Do you have the stock boot image from the stock firmware?
How could I get the stock image? I really would like to root my device but it seems this model is a lost cause in most cases, I softbricked my device once by using a different models IMG to root mine, but i fixed it.
 

Droidriven

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How could I get the stock image? I really would like to root my device but it seems this model is a lost cause in most cases, I softbricked my device once by using a different models IMG to root mine, but i fixed it.
Did you try the video posted above?

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---------- Post added at 09:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:22 PM ----------

Phone rooted check here :



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The done supports devices,with unlocked bootloader, if this device has an unlocked bootloader then custom recovery would be the best way to root and it wouldn't cost anything or require using any potentially questionable hardware or software. That's just my opinion though.

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DroidShell

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Having trouble finding anything for this specific model, thank you for helping!
I think it's possible to do it via open shell adb in cmd.exe using the specific commands .. unlock the bootloader is done with fastboot in cmd under windows or in a linux terminal.
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ADB: (android debug bridge)


adb devices - gives you the list of android devices connected to your pc, lets see if your phone is well recognized before doing anything

adb reboot - restart your phone normally

adb reboot recovery - restart your phone in recovery mode

adb reboot bootloader - restart your phone in bootloader mode (fastboot)

adb shell - allows to explore the phone, knowing that Android is based on linux you need to know the linux commands

adb remount - remount the system partition of the phone, you can then read and write

adb push xxx yyy - copy the xxx file from the computer to the yyy file / folder on the phone (root rights required)

adb pull xxx yyy - copy the phone's xxx file to the yyy file / folder on the computer (root rights required)



fastboot:


fastboot devices - gives you the list of android devices connected to your pc, lets see if your phone is well recognized before doing anything

fastboot reboot - restarts your phone normally

fastboot oem unlock - unlocks the bootloader

fastboot erase xxx - erases the xxx partition (userdata, cache, etc ...)

fastboot flash xxx yyy - flash the xxx partition with the yyy image
 

ashyx

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I think it's possible to do it via open shell adb in cmd.exe using the specific commands .. unlock the bootloader is done with fastboot in cmd under windows or in a linux terminal.
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ADB: (android debug bridge)


adb devices - gives you the list of android devices connected to your pc, lets see if your phone is well recognized before doing anything

adb reboot - restart your phone normally

adb reboot recovery - restart your phone in recovery mode

adb reboot bootloader - restart your phone in bootloader mode (fastboot)

adb shell - allows to explore the phone, knowing that Android is based on linux you need to know the linux commands

adb remount - remount the system partition of the phone, you can then read and write

adb push xxx yyy - copy the xxx file from the computer to the yyy file / folder on the phone (root rights required)

adb pull xxx yyy - copy the phone's xxx file to the yyy file / folder on the computer (root rights required)



fastboot:


fastboot devices - gives you the list of android devices connected to your pc, lets see if your phone is well recognized before doing anything

fastboot reboot - restarts your phone normally

fastboot oem unlock - unlocks the bootloader

fastboot erase xxx - erases the xxx partition (userdata, cache, etc ...)

fastboot flash xxx yyy - flash the xxx partition with the yyy image
Irrelevant copy and paste info for Samsung devices.
 
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