Geohot, a well known hacker behind several jailbreaks of the iPhone, today released 'towelroot' to root the Samsung Galaxy S5 and other Android devices.
Back in December, a leaked audio recording revealed that Geohot had been looking to sell his jailbreak of iOS 7 for $350,000. In March, Geohot won $150,000 for finding ChromeOS exploits.
Geohot says that towelroot definitely supports AT&T Galaxy S5, Verizon Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 Active, and the Google Nexus 5. He notes that the AT&T/Verizon Galaxy Note 3 are also supported but might 'have some troubles at the door'. For those with other devices, Geohot says that towelroot should support all Android phone with a kernel build date before June 3.
To install, navigate to http://www.towelroot.com, click the lambda, install the apk, and run towelroot.
It's unclear if Geohot is also working on a jailbreak of iOS 7.1.1 or iOS 8; however, there already have been several jailbreaks demonstrated. Those of you waiting for news on a release can follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.
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Zach Dahlin - January 15, 2016 at 3:15pm
Hello i appreciate the way you root your android device. But i'm concerned about the safeness of the phone and how user friendly is it. Being an android user it would be good if you guys use search4roots for rooting.
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Badoodles - June 29, 2014 at 3:27am
Hello, is O USA Air running on Android Kitkat 4.4.2 supported?
BASEBAND VERSION: MOLY.WR8.W1315.MD.WG.MP.V34.P4, 2014/04/28
KERNEL VERSION: 3.4.67
BUILD NUMBER: AIR_V8_0_7
Please reply. Anyone? Thank you! :)
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JimboPCDude - June 16, 2014 at 5:17pm
Used it on my Verizon Note 3 android 4.4.2 Baseband Version N900VVRUCNC4 and it worked great. Thanks Geohot
Kernel version on my phone is 3.4.0 dated April 28 2014
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ken - June 16, 2014 at 4:55am
Great and super easy process to root your device. Thanks to iClarified for their hard work. Just wish they'd clean up the comment section with junk users.
Geohotz, great work! You helped me jailbroke my first iPhone 2G circa 2007 and now my Nexus 7 2013_Confirmed. Thank you.
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fernandorinto - June 16, 2014 at 3:42am
Confirmed! of course it doesn't make sense to you.
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annonymous89 - June 16, 2014 at 4:59am
Good sir, at least say it was his grammar and not his spelling because there was no misspelled word.
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Ynona - June 16, 2014 at 4:47pm
Yes, grammar was bad too. I'm referring the the attempted swear word. If you are going to swear at least do it! Bitch was once considered a taboo when directed towards a woman but he managed to get that right.
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Mark - June 16, 2014 at 12:48am
Works on Amazon firetv
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jaylou180 - June 15, 2014 at 11:58pm
Worked on the HTC One Google play edition
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mary - June 15, 2014 at 10:18pm
Hmmmm is this not just an iphine site what the fu8k
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Vero - June 15, 2014 at 8:26pm
How do i see if it worked? It restarted the phone like it sait it would be but nothing happened.
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effren - June 15, 2014 at 8:25pm
geohot is a genius!!
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JoshvanHulst - June 15, 2014 at 8:24pm
So you load it from the phone's web browser to get it to work?
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jaylou180 - June 15, 2014 at 11:59pm
Yes download apk and run it. I works.
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jaylou180 - June 16, 2014 at 1:05am
Afterwards installed titanium back to check if I actually gained root.
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