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Root [Sprint] Towelroot and s4 (sph-l720)

alpha2k

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Nov 19, 2009
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Does this method of root work on this phone and does it not bother Knox?

I know on the s3 it works like a charm and does not bother Knox or trip it in any way. Just download towelroot and SuperSU , run towelroot to get root ability then run SuperSU to get the binaries updated and bingo your done. No Knox trip, it stays at 0x0, and you have full root and it stays. Again this is the s3 so I wondered if anyone had tried this on the s4 sprint variant yet?
 
Never mind. It seems as if sprints latest update plugged androids exploit. Towelroot no longer works now for root since this new update.
All it shows now is "this device is not supported"

Until the dev fixes it the only way to root is via Odin and that trips Knox.

I guess I know now what the last update was heh.
 
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