Towelroot by geohot to root Galaxy S5 with one click(shoutpedia.com)
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Towelroot by geohot to root Galaxy S5 with one click
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Right, I was just going to post that -- it's CVE-2014-3153, why is the article claiming "Towelroot is based on an hardware exploit, so it could not be fixed with a software update."?
Edit: this looks like a pretty bad vulnerability for samsung owners (or all android devices with an unpatched kernel) - any app could silently root your phone?
Edit: this looks like a pretty bad vulnerability for samsung owners (or all android devices with an unpatched kernel) - any app could silently root your phone?
Yeah, the original link appears to be blog spam. If you want to see a lot of people cheerlead, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157 is the XDA forums link.
Confirmed it to be mostly working on a Nexus 4 running 4.4.3. Only issue I'm having is that it won't let me update the supersu binary properly but other than that it works. I just got back App Ops with it.
Why do you even need to root a Nexus 4? It just lets you unlock / root it out of the box with no more effort than plugging in a usb cable and installing fastboot/adb.
You get to keep all your data since unlocking bootloader will wipe everything.
Yep that's also why I did it this way. That way someone can't get in via the bootloader to grab any data if the phone is stolen.
That's what `adb backup -apk -shared -all` is for. Rootless data and app backup that can be restored after a wipe
Towelroot uses the Futex vuln disclosed June 2, 2014. There's been a running bet on who would be the first to roll this bug into a one-click root for Android