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A developer well known here on DroidForums "Mattlgroff" noticed yesterday that the latest OTA update for the T-Mobile variant of the Galaxy S4 includes a new Rooting Restriction Feature. LG has also began to put root restrictions in their devices as well. I am really hoping this is not the direction that carriers are going to go as a whole. In the end these root restricters are really just extra speed bumps for developers. Where there is a will there is a way.
Matt posted his findings over at XDA. Here is what he found.
Matt also posted his Root method that accounts for this new root restriction feature. This method is less preferable as it will cause wifi to not work, and will cause some force closes. Matt is working on a fix for this now, but suggest you only use this if you don't want to just flash the original firmware.
Matt's Root Method
Stock Frimware
Matt posted his findings over at XDA. Here is what he found.
# Samsung Rooting Restriction Feature
#
CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING=y
CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_SETUID=y
CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_FORK=y
CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING_LOG=y
Matt also posted his Root method that accounts for this new root restriction feature. This method is less preferable as it will cause wifi to not work, and will cause some force closes. Matt is working on a fix for this now, but suggest you only use this if you don't want to just flash the original firmware.
Matt's Root Method
Stock Frimware