Samsung Galaxy S5 release date is still nearly two weeks away but it seems that the device has already got a root method alive and kicking for at least one of its variant. It has now been confirmed that famous XDA developer, ChainFire, has been successful in rooting the SM-G900F variant (international-LTE variant) of the
Galaxy S5 and that you can expect US carrier variants like Verizon, Sprint,
AT&T and T-Mobile to follow soon.
ChainFire’s famous CF-Auto-Root tool which according to him has rooted “Galaxy S1, Galaxy S2, S4, S4,
Galaxy Note, Note2, Note3, dozens of Tab models, etc!” and “has clocked over 22.5 million downloads” is now also available for the yet to release Samsung Galaxy S5. This script can be flashed via PC or by using Samsung’s own ODIN tool.
While he refrained from getting into the specifics to keep it simple, ChainFire says that his CF-Auto-Root tool currently flashes a temporary modified recovery and then installs the SuperSU app after which it flashes the stock recovery again. The instructions for rooting the Samsung Galaxy S5 are fairly simple and should be under the realm of every user who has even the slightest experience of rooting a Galaxy device.
Unfortunately, this root method works only for the SM-G900F variant of the Samsung Galaxy S5 since it requires a modified recovery, this method will most probably do more harm than good to the carrier models of the handset. However, you can be rest assured about your future Verizon, Sprint, AT&T or T-Mobile branded Samsung Galaxy S5 because ChainFire has already confirmed that “there’ll be a lot of models, but I believe this will be the most common ‘international’ model”.
Since Samsung Galaxy S5 still hasn’t been made available commercially, there are not many people who were able to test the root method but for what it is worth, ChainFire does say that his root tool will break Samsung’s Knox security suite.
