If you happen to have AT&T for your wireless provider of choice and have recently gotten your hands on the carrier’s variant of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 which recently hit its shelves, consider yourself very lucky. After all, you hold in your hands the latest flagship device of the Korean smartphone and tablet manufacturer and because of this, you have a smartphone with more than enough firepower under the hood to blast through any task you throw at it with relative ease. In addition to that, the Samsung Galaxy S 4 also brings a lot of capabilities to the table which you will certainly enjoy using.
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is available for a reduced sale price now starting at $168.00.
However, there are certain people who are not content with the TouchWIZ-overlaid version of the Android operating system that came with the Samsung Galaxy S IV. These are the power users and the hackers who constantly tinker with their handsets to get access to the numerous personalization and customization options offered by the Android ecosystem. And if you happen to be one of these people, you know that the first step to getting access to the things mentioned above is to first gain root access on your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S IV.
If you are planning on taking the plunge, we are happy to let you know that a root exploit is now available for the variant of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 AT&T released in our side of the world. This root exploit comes from djrbliss of XDA Devs fame – the same guy that cracked the code of several Motorola Droid Razr handsets which subsequently enabled some of our smartphone-crazed brethren to finally unshackle these Droid Razr handsets.
For those interested in rooting their Samsung Galaxy S IV handsets from AT&T, you need not jump through hoops as the process is fairly simple. All you have to do is download the Motochopper archive, install the latest USB drivers of Samsung on your computer and have USB debugging turned on. Next up, you just run the run.bat file (for Windows users) or the run.sh Shell script (for OSX or Linux users) and approve the ADB connection from your computer to your Samsung Galaxy S 4 and before you know it, you already have root access on your shiny Samsung superphone.
A little caveat though before you get all excited and start hooking up your Samsung Galaxy S 4 to your computer – at this point, no stock images or custom recoveries are currently available for the handset so there is a big chance that your smartphone will end up becoming an expensive paperweight if you miss out on something. In addition to that, you can kiss your warranty goodbye once you start tinkering with your handset for that matter.
Not only that, djrbliss warns that future OTA updates might remove a user’s capability to regain root access on the Samsung Galaxy S IV so this is the part that we remind you to proceed with caution before tinkering with your handset. After all, you wouldn’t want to turn your Samsung Galaxy S IV handset to a mere building material (brick) now, would you?
You can purchase the Galaxy S 4 at a discounted price tag now starting at $168.00.
