This process has so far hit a few hurdles – initially I tried to use the CyanogenMod instructions although these just lead me to a bunch of problems… (not updated for lollipop ((also this wouldn’t have necessarily rooted the phone)) etc), but it looks like I’ve got it successfully working. Here’s how:
- I used the latest ‘Odin’ which can set the device to load a recovery file.
I moved the stable .zip release of SuperSU from here onto the phones SD card.
- Shut down the Galaxy, then boot to ‘download’ mode by holding the volume down + home key+ power key at the same time.
- I loaded philz touch recovery GT-I9505, from these instructions. I should really spin up a VM if I’m going to download random software from… dropbox :/
- basically once the phone is connected to odin in download mode, click the AP button and select the philz touch file – probably should have found a better source for this file :/ . Also under options auto reboot was selected. This just means as soon as the file is loaded it will reboot. At this time you need to hold volume up+ home key+ power key at the same time to boot into the philz touch recovery
I accidentally read method 3 and applied step 7 from Method 3. Seems ok..
I loaded the SuperSU .zip from the SD card, noting that I downloaded SuperSU from here.. which doesn’t seem totally un-reputable
Rebooted the phone using the reboot option and installed SuperSU from google play (I also installed f.lux to help my sleeping pattern).
EDIT: looks like I broke wifi so I then installed cyanogen using the recovery boot with Odin (after a factory reset in recovery mode)
After Wifi broke I needed to perform a factory reset using recovery mode in order to get Cyanogen to work. Which I’m kinda stoked it did. Now I’m installing the google play store.
So that didn’t work.. Trying the latest cyogenmod (release version). Now for the corresponding Open Gapps.. keyboard doesn’t work (maybe could try a different Gapps version, or the latest nightly cyogen (more stable lol?))..
Now for Google Play Edition 5.1 | Untouched.. wipe system in recovery mode, install from .zip on SD card.. again.. reboot system.. and… ooh new loading screen. take that Telstra.
So far so good, although I’m assuming the phone will want to restart every-time the sim card is disconnected, which is usually a couple times per day.. Something that cyogenmod would allow me to ignore. New Sim in the mail, so we’ll see. I won’t be installing another SIM reader any time soon.
Grass is always greener, I kinda want cyogenmod now :/ hmm we’ll see.