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Rooting my Note 3 and Note 4

I would like someone to educate me on rooting my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and 4. Are there any benefits of doing so. Will it damage anything in the OS? Finally, please provide a detailed step by step on how to root the phone. Thank you.

Alex

Not really, if you root your Android device, anything related to banking will no longer work. You get some additional access to the hardware, you can then flash it with a new OS.

Essentially, if you're not planning on modifying the hardware parameters, installing a new OS or doing any sort of development. Leave it as it is.

Basem Khawaja

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I just want to have the ability to get rid apps that comes with the phone that I am unable to uninstall . I only able to disable it. I am not changing hardware or anything. Please answer my questions.

Basem Khawaja

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Are there any benefits of doing so. Will it damage anything in the OS?

Alex

Use Titanium, you pay $6 for it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/115533/how-to-disable-or-uninstall-android-bloatware/

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noci

Samsung has a kind of security flip. Once any non-officicial change has been made (bootloader, recovery, ...) the switch is flipped and all warranties are void from that moment on. This cannot be unflipped AFAICT. (Maybe an official Samsung service center can restore it, but then again you will loose the root access).

Also the phone will not OTA upgrade anymore. YMMV i had Galaxy S5 mini that would not allow to encrypt personal data because of this.
So there is no damage to the OS, there will be damage to the warranty. In the end i dropped the Whole SamSung stuff for lineage 14.1 for my phone.

Good source (albeit confusing because of rapid updates) the xda forum has a lot of info.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4

Basem Khawaja

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Thank you Andrew.

Alex

Noci,

You can actually set it back, when you root it you can use another application to "Flip the switch" as long as you are putting on the original firmware it's not an issue.

Regards
Alex

noci

Ah ok, but then one is back where one started. With all the bloatware...
(I put a lineage version on my Samsung device, problem solved another way.).
It was out of warranty anyway as it is 2 years old. I run a rooted system, with minimal extra apps.
Mostly those are to connect to my nextcloud environment for contacts & agenda without google.
(gapps are minimally installed).