1. Download CWM flashable SuperSU 2.46 or newer and put it to device.
d8389 method is working, more details explained here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56955843 about going from stock to custom recovery.
No. To be able to root, you have to be on kit kat. There is a way to upgrade to lollipop while keeping root, but there is no way to root lollipop directly
Is there a way to downgrade to KitKat?
Yeah, download this file, extract all four files from inside the .zip, flash all four files with Odin simultaneously (see image below to see what I mean). This will wipe any files and settings you have saved and return the phone to factory condition, so make sure to back up anything important. Also it's a long process (5-10 minutes) and will at some point boot the phone into recovery, it's important to leave the phone plugged in and untouched, let it do its thing until it's fine and boots into kitkat
No problem. Once you're on kitkat, it's really easy to root, you just use towelroot, which is a one-click root app
I am on lollipop rooted and you can be too once you've rooted kitkat with towelroot. This is how you do it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-active/general/how-to-update-to-i537oc6-5-0-1-t3089355
Cant i just hard reset my phone to factory setings to get back to kitkat if im nt worried about starting over? would that be easier then this method?
Not if you're already on lollipop, that that's not how factory reset works. Are you asking for the i537 or i9295?
I537 im still figuring all this stuff out. i have never used odin before or flashed anything. so im kinda worried about it. but im downloading odin now
Ok every time I try to post the picture here it screws up, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this post.
