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Root Samsung Galaxy S5 Rooting Help Me PLEASE

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Fri3ndlyGiant

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Hi everyone. I have wanted to root my galaxy s5 since I got it, but nothing seems to work. By the way, it is from Verizon. So I have tried towelroot, and all of the modstrings, no luck. Also I tried KingRoot and KingoRoot, no luck. The one thing that seems to be left is flashing an old kernal of android so that towelroot would work, but I'm too scared to do it. Do I lose my stuff on my phone? Is there an easier way I'm missing? Please tell me anything that you know. Thanks.
 
Fri3ndlyGiant said:
Ok I read through most of that, and I think I understand it all. After I am rooted on 4.4 KitKat will I be able to update back to 5 Lollipop? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
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Not a stupid question - no root questions are stupid that are asked before acting, you're doing it right.

I understand that you may update but I stress again, if a Galaxy S5 rooter doesn't answer here, ask again there in our S5 root forum. Don't believe me on the update, I'm not sure. Honest.

I've rooted Samsungs but am in no way qualified to give detailed advice for them beyond what I did originally, I work the HTC side of street. :)
 
EarlyMon said:
Not a stupid question - no root questions are stupid that are asked before acting, you're doing it right.

I understand that you may update but I stress again, if a Galaxy S5 rooter doesn't answer here, ask again there in our S5 root forum. Don't believe me on the update, I'm not sure. Honest.

I've rooted Samsungs but am in no way qualified to give detailed advice for them beyond what I did originally, I work the HTC side of street. :)
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Ok I started to follow the steps but now I am stuck trying to use odin. I backed up with kies, turned on USB debugging, took out sd card, and booted into odin mode. On the computer I got odin 3.10.6 loaded and it loads the 4.4.2 kitkat file fine, but once I hit start on the computer with the phone plugged in, it loads for a second and then says "FAIL" at the top left of the screen in red.
 
This is a screenshot of my computer if it helps.

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RA_BH said:
Having Verizon FIOS gets the frustration level even higher, as of late...
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so far, that is one experience in my 22 years of VZW that I have not had.... nor do I think it will ever occur.
My happiest internet experience was with Cox Cable when I lived in Phoenix, AZ.... 50+ mbps all day, any day...
 
I have a buddy who says the same about Cox, in Virginia.

my FIOS experience lately was bad because replacing 2 defective set-top boxes was so much more difficult than it had ever been before; in general, dealing with their US-based support staff has been very good, their overseas people, not so much…
 
My VZW customer support experience over the years has been generally very good.
I have had the occasional "script reader" who hasn't a clue as to what your particular cellphone is about.

but usually, I can escalate from the script reader to a real tech support person with a tiny bit of nudging.
my last experience was when VZW started pushing out VZWs' Lolliflop version onto our phones against our/my wishes.
that call to CS escalated to Tech Support, to engineering, to Samsung's engineering support... and I made ALL of them stay on the line in a conference call...

we chatted for an hour, and the result of that was >don't matter what the customer wants, VZW forces it on you anyway.

I really do wish, that VZW would just leave the Samsung release alone, and let us have it w/o all of their garbage being added to it.
 
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