CoyotesFan4Evr
Android Enthusiast
OK, so I have my wife's old S3 (Verizon) and I was finally able to root it last night. Yes I know why the "finally"? Well I'll tell you, for whatever reason all other root methods wouldn't work at all. I tried safe root and I got nothing. I tried the normal method and it said my kernel was patched and couldn't be rooted. So I finally went to using the "newest" method I guess and rooted with towelroot. Now that worked like a charm. I have 2 things that bring me to writing this post. One I downloaded the newest update. I don't and probably won't have a SIM card for the phone since she has an S5 and I'm good with my HTC Droid DNA so with that being said I can't update the phone to 4.4 and I at least wanted to be on that and with root if possible and then start flashing Rom's. Now I haven't figured out how to do a recovery on the phone yet. I'm use to Motorola and HTC. This is my first time playing with a Samsung phone. So I've read and read and read on a lot of threads both here and at XDA. I'm just not seeing what I think I need. It took forever to figure out that to use the towelroot you had to go to the site on the phone. I felt dumb after figuring the out. Anyways, the push in the right direction would be awesome. Thanks!