Samsung’s flagship for 2013, the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 has been rooted. The phone is yet to be in the hands of common people and is supposed to ship in April, but a leaked system dump helped in getting root on the device.
The method uses the leaked rom as a base, and you will need to know how to use Odin. So if you are one of the lucky ones who got a review unit of the Galaxy S4 from Samsung and want to root it go for it. As always neither we nor the developers are responsible for any bricked devices.
Please note the root method works only on the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 running on official Android 4.2.2 XXUAMC6 Jelly Bean but not on the quad-core Snapdragon 600 variant with model number i9505.
For more details and download links head over to the original thread at xda-developers.
Written by munchy
Munchy is a Cobol Programmer by profession, Android diehard by choice. He currently owns a Red Droid DNA running Carbon, a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 running MIUIv5 & a Nexus 7 2013.When he is not thinking about Android he loves to take his Mustang out for a drive to no where.
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