How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime
A rooted device offers a number of great features that your unrooted one can’t. Some of them being the ability to install root-only apps, remove system apps, and so on. If these things lure you and you have a Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime, you’re good to go and root your device.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime is one of the devices supported by Chainfire’s root method. It roots the device within a few minutes and lets you enjoy everything that root has to offer you. Here’s how you can go about rooting your device:
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 S5 Prime, 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 S5 Prime:
I. Before You Begin
1. This will void the warranty of your device. We won’t be held responsible for the consequences of this procedure. You’re doing at your own risk.
2. This procedure should only work on Windows based PCs.
3. You should’ve required drivers installed on your PC. If you don’t, download and install the latest drivers from here.
II. Downloading Required Files
1. Download Odin and save it to your desktop.
2. Download the appropriate CF-Root file for your device and save it to your desktop.
CF-Root (Download link’s available in the third post)
III. Rooting the Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime
1. Extract files from both Odin and CF-Root to your desktop. To do that, right-click on each of these archives and select Extract here.
2. Open Odin by double-clicking on its executable file.
3. Click on PDA and choose CF-Root available on your desktop. It’s the file that you extracted from the archive and not the archive itself.
4. Make sure Repartition is unchecked in the Odin.
5. Checkmark Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time.
6. Turn OFF your device.
7. Turn ON your device in Download mode. To do so, hold down Volume DOWN, Home, and Power buttons together.
8. Hit Volume UP when you’re prompted with a warning message.
9. You should now be in Download mode.
10. Connect your device to your PC via USB cable.
11. Hit Start in the Odin. It’ll start flashing CF-Root on your device.
12. It should finish flashing the file within a couple of minutes.
13. When the file’s flashed, your device should automatically reboot.
14. You should now be rooted!
Cheers! Your Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime now has root-access that lets you enjoy some of the greatest root-only apps on your very own S5 Prime. Enjoy!
You can click here to find all of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime How To’s.
You can also find all of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime ROMs we have here.
