Successfully rooted Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530H - By Mohan

[rczrider]

Wrong...

http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/general/att-samsung-galaxy-prime-sm-g530a-links-t3283066

Welp, I'm happy to be wrong. I guess Kingo quit doing suspicious things like collecting IMEIs?

Edit: oh, it's actually KingRoot, the shady Chinese one. I guess as long as you can get rid of their spyware, it's worth a shot. Wish it didn't cost $4, but that's a small price to pay not to have a backdoor installed on your phone [emoji12]

 

[Nitro1max1]

Welp, I'm happy to be wrong. I guess Kingo quit doing suspicious things like collecting IMEIs?

Edit: oh, it's actually KingRoot, the shady Chinese one. I guess as long as you can get rid of their spyware, it's worth a shot. Wish it didn't cost $4, but that's a small price to pay not to have a backdoor installed on your phone [emoji12]

Exactly what I said, but I did root my grand prime with it. I paid the $4 and it does unistall everything from KingRoot officially otherwise I wouldn't touch this method. But it works so, just wish we had a recovery now

 

[captaingowa]

Welp, I'm happy to be wrong. I guess Kingo quit doing suspicious things like collecting IMEIs?

Edit: oh, it's actually KingRoot, the shady Chinese one. I guess as long as you can get rid of their spyware, it's worth a shot. Wish it didn't cost $4, but that's a small price to pay not to have a backdoor installed on your phone [emoji12]

I am pretty sure KingRoot makes their money from shoving ads and additional 3rd party software on your phone.
Unfortunately many apps that require "Special Permissions" have access to your phones IMEI.
The $4 helps support a good developer through the Super Sume Pro APK.. Which removes KingRoot and substitutes Super SU.
What was really bad was prior to anyone having access to the factory kernel/Boot.img file many of us including myself after using KingRoot found ourselves with a useless phone because KingRoot flashed an incompatible Boot.img that was intended for another variant of the SM-G530 .
I know its less than ideal, however it wont be long with all the stock files available from the Kernel to the NV items.
If someone was to decipher the NV data everything from the boot loader to radios could be accessible.

 

[syedmubarak]

i have rooted my device samsung galaxy grand prime but after rooting its not booting!! mail me a solution
syedmubarakk@gmail.com

 

[toxinburn]

i have rooted my device samsung galaxy grand prime but after rooting its not booting!! mail me a solution
syedmubarakk@gmail.com

hey i have same issue i get a message that says im running an unofficial version of software and i need to take it in to fix it anyone know where i can get stock kdz or something like that for cricket version? edit: using kies 3 you can recovery this device if you have cricket version install kies 3 then open it with device unplugged, you will need to get the serial number from your device which is located under the battery, write this info down as you will need it. in the kies program click tools, then click firmware upgrade and initialisation, a box comes up enter the device model which also under the battery exactly as it appears it will then ask for the serial number enter that and click okay. follow the on screen prompts which will tell you to boot into download mode, from there it will have you plug it in download the firmware and flash it back to stock, then you will be able to boot up again at least. If anyone knows of working root method for the cricket model id love to hear it, also if their is a custom recovery and/or rom would be great. Thanks to all the hard working devs and android enthusiasts here at xda for all the help you have dished out over the years.

 

[weeedu]

how do i flash these files? m new :/

 

[R37X]

Hey, guys!

I've used this method to root my grand prime (lollipop 5.0.2), but after the phone reboot from the first step I flashed 1_cfroot_sm-g530h_mohan.tar.md5 and now it won't boot up.
Im just getting a blank screen, I have no idea what to do at the moment, as I'm not into all these much.

A quick response would be greatly appreciated!

 

[R37X]

BUMP!
Im sorry, but any solution yet? Please.

Let me get this straight, I might no remember the steps properly but after what happened as described in my above post, I tried another method. Wherein I flashed stock recovery (I guess?) and flashed TWRP through ODIN.
So, at the moment, everything works fine, but whenever I switch off or restart it will automatically go to TWRP recovery.
If anybody could guide me to how to fix this, that'd be great!
I have root at the moment, it's just the restart bug is there of TWRP. Apart from this, I can notice significant amount of battery drain after I did this.

 

[Lunity101]

has anyone installed xposed on this?

 

[tasnim_tamim]

Hi,

So I tried to root my samsung galaxy grand prime sm-g530h G530HXCU1AOE2.

So far the root was sucessful but I have one problem with it.

After rooting the device the Recovery screen always appears when I try to Reboot or Shutdown. So I have to manually reboot the device to boot android. And even when I try to charge the device the phone no longer shows that Battery Charging Aninmation instead it boots to recovery.

Now thats some serious problem for me. I don't know about other but this is a huge problem.

If anyone knows solution to this please let me know as soon as possible.

 

[Fiisyahron]

hi... guys, how to fix the supersu message "there is no su binary installed and supersu can't install it... after i flash all of the file... my device still have no root acess when i check it with rootchecker... thanks please somebody reply my message...

 

[Fiisyahron]

Hi... No one here?

 

[leibrag]

help

Finally i rooted my new Grand Prime successfully

I so desparately wanted to root my new Grand Prime so I tried rooting by myself as it wasn't available by chainfire.

I haven't done much here, I just modified few files of CF-Auto-Root which was made for different device by chainfire.

Couldn't attach the file here as the size is 44MB

Download it from here: h t t p : / / d - h . s t / AWH
(remove spaces in the above link)

sad i'm not allowed to post links here yet

The zip archive contains:
Odin v3.07
2_cache_recovery_stock_mohan_sm-g530h.md5
1_cfroot_sm-g530h_mohan.tar.md5

Rooting method is simple.

Boot device into download mode and flash the first file: 2_cache_recovery_stock_mohan_sm-g530h.md5

Wait for the device to reboot and again boot into download mode and flash the second file: 1_cfroot_sm-g530h_mohan.tar.md5

Now after the device has finished reboot you can see SuperSU installed. Open it and it will ask to disable knox notification... Press Cancel.

If SuperSU asks for su binary update, just press the Normal button.

Hope this helps someone



Edit:
Sorry guys, something went wrong while renaming the flash files. I have updated the above link which now works... Thanks...

i keep getting message custom binary(recovery) blocked by fap lock failed what am i doing wrong

 

[adrian2016]

Lol, Thanks for great work. I am downloading and will test now.. :good:

Same

 

[AndroidCommander]

Everyone seams to be mentioning the GSM versions

Is there any reason this root method will not work on the SM-G530P from Sprint? I haven't seen anyone one mention it much less try it.

 

[hamzaeid]

thanks proo. but is there's any twrp recover cwm recovery for this device ??

 

[amageek]

hey i tried this method ...
i flashed the first file without any issue but on flashing second file, Odin displayed PASS message but my phone did not restart.. it somehow got stuck after Samsung logo

 

[ajay purty]

same here

 

[Yuvaraj Icon]

Ram expander trouble

Hi,
I've root my galaxy grand prime SM -G530H.I've installed roehsoft ram expander.I've tested the compatibility with swapfile app.I showed that it is compatible. But when I try to expand RAM it shows"check write rights and try again".My device is running on lollipop5.0.2.Any help is appreciated!?

 

[bbb0111]

help

good day, 2_cache_recovery_stock_mohan_sm-g530h.tar.md i already flashed this first step and it works. However, when i turn it off to boot in recovery mode to continue step 2, it opens up, and show the samsung grand prime (model) and after that, it doesn't display anything , what should i do now? i can't even used it now because it has just a black screen ,

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hey i tried this method ...
i flashed the first file without any issue but on flashing second file, Odin displayed PASS message but my phone did not restart.. it somehow got stuck after Samsung logo

same here! i can't even open it or used it