{"id":56,"date":"2017-04-23T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:51:46","slug":"time-travel-2013-geohot-release-activeroot-to-easily-root-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"TIME TRAVEL: 2013 – GeoHot Release ActiveRoot To Easily Root The Samsung Galaxy S4 [How To]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hacker GeoHot is known for jumping around various hacking scenes. He first started off working with iOS releasing numerous Jailbreaks, then transitioned into hacking the PlayStation and now it looks like he is getting into creating Android roots.<\/p>\n

According to a thread on the\u00a0XDA Developer Forums<\/a>\u00a0GeoHot has released a root as a single .apk file. Usually\u00a0rooting is a little bit more complicated<\/a>\u00a0of a process compared to Jailbreaking, but with this \u2018active\u2019 root for the Galaxy S4 users simply need to install the .apk file and their device will become rooted.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

GeoHot is calling the tool\u00a0ActiveRoot\u00a0<\/strong>and it is available to download for free from the official\u00a0ActiveRoot website<\/a>. The steps for using ActiveRoot to root your Galaxy S4 are simple.<\/p>\n

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  1. First go to Settings and click the \u201cMore\u201d tab. Then go into security and check \u201cUnknown Sources.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Next enable USB Debugging. Go to Settings and click on the \u201cMore\u201d tab. Go into \u201cAbout device.\u201d\u00a0Rapidly click on \u201cBuild number\u201d until it it tells you that you have enabled developer options. Then go back and and Developer Options now appear in the \u201cMore\u201d tab. Go in and check \u201cUSB Debugging.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Visit\u00a0http:\/\/geohot.com\/activeroot\u00a0from your device and click the lampda picture to download the apk file.<\/li>\n
  4. Run the apk. It should give you a message telling you that you have root.<\/li>\n
  5. Visit the Play Store and download the Super User app of your choice (such as SuperSU).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let us know if you were able to use ActiveRoot to root your Galaxy S4 in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hacker GeoHot is known for jumping around various hacking scenes. He first started off working with iOS releasing numerous Jailbreaks, then transitioned into hacking the PlayStation and now it looks like he is getting into creating Android roots. According to a thread on the\u00a0XDA Developer Forums\u00a0GeoHot has released a root as a single .apk file. … Continue reading TIME TRAVEL: 2013 – GeoHot Release ActiveRoot To Easily Root The Samsung Galaxy S4 [How To]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,2],"tags":[15,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piratesecurityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}