How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon)(Build VRUDMI1)
Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device. Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do.
Once you have root access on your Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon), you’ll be able to:
- Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device.
- Free up storage space (because of the above benefit).
- Increase battery life (apps that might have been running constantly can be removed).
- Increase performance (after removing apps that are always running, the device will be less bogged down and run smoother).
- Update to a new version of Android (by flashing a custom recovery/ROM, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
- Tons of other customizations when you use your new found administrative rights to flash a custom ROM (again, see the end of this procedure for more info on that).
Interested? Here’s how to root your Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon):
I. Before You Begin
1. This will void the warranty of your device. However, you can reinstate the warranty by unrooting your device if there’s any unrooting procedure available.
2. This should only work on Windows based PCs.
3. Please remove any external SD card from your device before doing the procedure.
II. Downloading Required Files
1. Download Odin and save it to your Desktop.
2. Download Root Package and save it to your Desktop.
Root Package (Download link’s available in the first post)
III. Rooting the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon)(Build VRUDMI1)
1. Extract files from both archives by right-clicking on them and selecting Extract here.
2. You’ll get a zip archive after extraction. Right-click on it and select Extract here.
3. Double-click on Odin executable and it’ll open.
4. Click on PDA and choose the VRUDMI1_Root_de_la_vega_jfltevzw.tar.md5 file available on your Desktop.
5. Make sure Repartition is unchecked in the Odin.
6. Turn OFF your device.
7. Pull the battery out of your device and put it back in after a couple of seconds.
8. Hold down Volume DOWN+Home+Power buttons together and your device should reboot into Download mode.
9. Plug in your device to your PC via USB cable.
10. Hit Start in the Odin and it should start flashing the file on your device.
11. Once the file’s been flashed, reboot your device.
12. Now copy the files that you extracted in step-2 to the internal storage on your device.
13. Once the files have been copied, reboot your device.
14. When your device boots-up, open File Manager and delete the files you copied in step-12.
15. Reboot your device.
16. You’re all done!
All set! Now, you can head to our How to Flash a Custom Recovery procedure for the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) to open up a whole new world of customizations for your Android device!
By the way, don’t be scared, you can always put your device back to stock by heading to our Rooting How To’s section, finding your device, and doing the How to Unroot listed for it there.
after opening the Odin link..a small box with chinese writing came up with an ok to click on then disappeared. Then nothing ! I have a Galaxy s4