Geohot Releases 'Towelroot' for Samsung Galaxy S5, Other Android Devices

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Posted June 15, 2014 at 7:35pm by iClarified

Geohot, a well known hacker behind several jailbreaks of the iPhone, today released 'towelroot' to root the Samsung Galaxy S5 and other Android devices.

Back in December, a leaked audio recording revealed that Geohot had been looking to sell his jailbreak of iOS 7 for $350,000. In March, Geohot won $150,000 for finding ChromeOS exploits.

Geohot says that towelroot definitely supports AT&T Galaxy S5, Verizon Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 Active, and the Google Nexus 5. He notes that the AT&T/Verizon Galaxy Note 3 are also supported but might 'have some troubles at the door'. For those with other devices, Geohot says that towelroot should support all Android phone with a kernel build date before June 3.

To install, navigate to http://www.towelroot.com, click the lambda, install the apk, and run towelroot.

It's unclear if Geohot is also working on a jailbreak of iOS 7.1.1 or iOS 8; however, there already have been several jailbreaks demonstrated. Those of you waiting for news on a release can follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.

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Zach Dahlin - January 15, 2016 at 3:15pm

Hello i appreciate the way you root your android device. But i'm concerned about the safeness of the phone and how user friendly is it. Being an android user it would be good if you guys use search4roots for rooting.

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Badoodles - June 29, 2014 at 3:27am

Hello, is O USA Air running on Android Kitkat 4.4.2 supported? BASEBAND VERSION: MOLY.WR8.W1315.MD.WG.MP.V34.P4, 2014/04/28 KERNEL VERSION: 3.4.67 BUILD NUMBER: AIR_V8_0_7 Please reply. Anyone? Thank you! :)

JimboPCDude - June 16, 2014 at 5:17pm

Used it on my Verizon Note 3 android 4.4.2 Baseband Version N900VVRUCNC4 and it worked great. Thanks Geohot Kernel version on my phone is 3.4.0 dated April 28 2014

ken - June 16, 2014 at 4:55am

Great and super easy process to root your device. Thanks to iClarified for their hard work. Just wish they'd clean up the comment section with junk users. Geohotz, great work! You helped me jailbroke my first iPhone 2G circa 2007 and now my Nexus 7 2013_Confirmed. Thank you.

fernandorinto - June 16, 2014 at 3:42am

Confirmed! of course it doesn't make sense to you.

annonymous89 - June 16, 2014 at 4:59am

Good sir, at least say it was his grammar and not his spelling because there was no misspelled word.

Ynona - June 16, 2014 at 4:47pm

Yes, grammar was bad too. I'm referring the the attempted swear word. If you are going to swear at least do it! Bitch was once considered a taboo when directed towards a woman but he managed to get that right.

Mark - June 16, 2014 at 12:48am

Works on Amazon firetv

jaylou180 - June 15, 2014 at 11:58pm

Worked on the HTC One Google play edition

mary - June 15, 2014 at 10:18pm

Hmmmm is this not just an iphine site what the fu8k

Vero - June 15, 2014 at 8:26pm

How do i see if it worked? It restarted the phone like it sait it would be but nothing happened.

effren - June 15, 2014 at 8:25pm

geohot is a genius!!

JoshvanHulst - June 15, 2014 at 8:24pm

So you load it from the phone's web browser to get it to work?

jaylou180 - June 15, 2014 at 11:59pm

Yes download apk and run it. I works.

jaylou180 - June 16, 2014 at 1:05am

Afterwards installed titanium back to check if I actually gained root.

LudaChris - June 15, 2014 at 8:24pm

why sh*tdroid, did he give up on iOS ?

RHEL6 - June 15, 2014 at 8:56pm

sheer market share