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karandpr said:
One question .
Why SuperSU and not Superuser ?
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1. That was the recommended tool when I searched.
2. It is a flashable .zip to root the phone. I am not sure that Superuser will do that.

If you have more tips, I will be more than happy to add them in there
 
Not really .Both are tomatoes .

SuperSU is more powerful since you can control the phone on boot and in stock recovery .
superuser is traditional and has segmentation restrictions
SuperSU however may act up sometimes .
 
I always used superuser previously. I ought to check into seeing if it can be done the same way with that. Or if you have to do it with this and can then uninstall and then install superuser.
 
karandpr said:
Nah You can do it the reverse way
Install Superuser
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su&feature=search_result
Go to superuser and use update binary.
Give SU permissions from Super SU to Superuser
after binary is updated ,uninstall Super SU .
:p

The link to Superuser.zip is given in earlier post in case you want to flash manually :rolleyes:
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Thank you.

I see how you would switch them, but are you saying I could have just flashed a superuser.zip and done the same thing? And if I read that right, the zip is available on that superuser blog site? Or just a flashable zip to switch it?
 
Yep . Exactly >_> .
Both are similar in function but people feel safer with Superuser IMO .
I would prefer SuperSU but what the hell ,both are generic root binaries :p :D
 
Yeah because supersu is new and constantly updating .It has least hassles on Samsung phones (Chainfire is Samsung Dev) .
 
Okay, thanks for the info.
My last phone was a piece of cake to root, and this one isn't necessarily hard, but it's not a one click root type thing.
 
karandpr said:
All phones have same basics of rooting IMO .Push su binary to /system some how and fix permissions .
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Yeah my last phone had pretty much a completely unlocked bootloader and you just mounted that on your computer and swapped recovery.img files. Didn't even need to root to flash ROMs. In fact it came with sudo access stock so su wasn't hard. Gingerbreak also worked.
 
lol. sudo==su .Gingerbreak worked cos it was already rooted :eek: :p . You need root to swap the recovery and recovery to install ROMS :rolleyes: .I installed ROMs via adb shell . funny stuff ...
 
agentc13 said:
Yeah my last phone had pretty much a completely unlocked bootloader and you just mounted that on your computer and swapped recovery.img files. Didn't even need to root to flash ROMs. In fact it came with sudo access stock so su wasn't hard. Gingerbreak also worked.
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You don't have to root to flash roms on any phone really...rooting is having superuser access within the OS...superuser doesn't have anything to do with flashing roms but in reality they two tend to go hand in hand...
 
karandpr said:
lol. sudo==su .Gingerbreak worked cos it was already rooted :eek: :p . You need root to swap the recovery and recovery to install ROMS :rolleyes: .I installed ROMs via adb shell . funny stuff ...
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I misspoke. I meant it came with sudo access, but no form of superuser/etc apk. So it wasn't necessarily already rooted, you had to do something to get root access. As stock, I wasn't able to use apps that required root, but you could swap recoveries and flash ROMs. Does that make what I said a bit more clear and less stupid?
 
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