ROOTING GALAXY S4′S GOOGLE EDITION RUNNING ANDROID 4.3 BY CHAINFIRE EASY WAY

Well, wasn’t that quick? Xda’s  Elite Recognized Developer  Chainfire has displayed his excellence and skill once again and this time he has released the SuperSu that will allow you to root your Brand new Google S4 running Android4.3. This rooting method will work only with RE: JWR66N.S005.130625 firmware, so do keep this in mind before you go ahead. Chainfire  states that It required quite a few mods to SuperSU, but it seems all features are fully operational. There’ll probably be some issues somewhere. This is an experimental version of SuperSu that he has released only for this particular firmware version of the google s4. So, let us have a look at the method that chainfire used to get it done.

And I quote Chainfire.

Method

For this root, SuperSU is running in daemon mode (new feature), and launched during boot.

The daemon handles all su requests, and while this should mostly work just fine, some apps may expect their su session to be running on the same branch on the process tree as the app that launched the session.

In this download the daemon is spawned by install-recovery.sh , some other root apps use this, some recoveries delete it, etc. If you lose root, just reflash the package. You could change it so the daemon is launched by another (non-Java-related) process if you want.

Now that we have had a look at the method, lets go ahead and flash this on our google S4.

Getting, back to business let us root our Google S4.So, here are the instructions.

How to root Google S4 using Chainfire’s SuperSU

Disclaimer : Do It At Your Own Risk!

• Download SuperSU for Google S4  from here.

1. Copy the downloaded files to the (Root directory of) your sd-card.
2. Reboot your device to TWRP Recovery(Recommended) or CWM.
3. If you are a CWM user, you need to uncheck the option to “disable stock recovery flash”.
4. [Optional but, Recommended] Do a Backup of your current ROM. ( Just in case thing get messy)
5. Now flash this zip using clockwork mod recovery or TWRP. Follow these steps :
   • Choose Install Zip From Sd Card option.
   • Select Choose Zip From SD Card option.
   • Now select the SU zip downloaded earlier.
   • Confirm the installation and wait till it is installed on you handset.
6. Reboot and enjoy your rooted Google S4!