Hello fellow Canadians WINDmobilers :D
Like many of you I've found all the previous guides to be outdated and obsolete, so this is an updated guide for the latest stock ROM with base-band
M919VVLUFNE1 and future kitkat updates (we'll probably need a new guide when AOS 5.0 rolls out)
That being said, lets gets things rolling:
WARNING! rooting your phone can void your warranty, do so at your own risk.NOTE: These instructions below assumes you have a brand new phone just out of the box, all settings on default.
If the default settings have been altered, please make sure you have the
Ractivation Lock (Turned Off) in your phone
Settings > Security or you will get a
FAIL! message in Odin.
Download
Kies (for the Drivers) from here
http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/ If you don't use Kies just uninstall it as soon as the Kies install is complete.
During Kies uninstall it'll ask you if you want to keep the drivers, say yes to keep drivers.
Very Important! for Chainfire's rooting method to work, you must flash this tar via Odin, before you flash TWRP recovery, else it might
Fail!Quick Root Steps:- Download ChainFire's
CF-Auto-Root-jfltecan-jfltevl-sghi337m.zip here from his website
- (USB) Disconnect your phone from your computer
- Start
Odin- Click the PDA button, and select
CF-Auto-Root-jfltecan-jfltevl-sghi337m.tar.md5- Put your phone in
download mode (turn off phone, then hold
VolDown+Home+Power to boot - if it asks you to press a button to continue, press the listed button, you can also do this by running
adb reboot download command)
- (USB) Connect the phone to your computer
- Click the
Start button
- Wait for Android to boot (like 5 seconds)
- Done
Quick TWRP Steps:-
Important! make sure you Download the latest TWRP version 2.8.4.0 (or newer) for
jfltecan models from
TeamWin's website here- (USB) Disconnect your phone from your computer
- Start
Odin- Click the PDA button, and select
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-jfltecan.tar (latest version as of the time of this writing)
- Put your phone in
download mode (turn off phone, then hold
VolDown+Home+Power to boot - if it asks you to press a button to continue, press the listed button, you can also do this by running
adb reboot download command)
- (USB) Connect the phone to your computer
- Click the Start button
- Wait for Android to boot (like 5 seconds)
- Done
