Hotz not only rooted the Galaxy S5, he did it in such a way that nearly any Android device with a kernel build date of June 3rd or older can be rooted using his exploit. The Samsung Galaxy S5's root hunt garnered more than $18,000 in bounty to be awarded to anyone who could gain access to the popular smartphone's system partition. No muss, no fuss, no carrier-locked bootloaders.īut it took one of the hardest phones to root thus far to bring hacker George Hotz (AKA Geohot) out of the woodwork.
Plug your phone into your PC, download a couple files, type a few commands, and you can be rooted within 30 minutes. One of the best things about the Nexus line of devices is the ease with which one can achieve root.
