Samsung Galaxy S III Rooted Before Release
The Samsung Galaxy S III doesn’t hit the European market until May 29, but the hackers have already rooted the flagship smartphone.
According to SlashGear, hacker Chainfire posted his work on rooting the Galaxy S III on the xda-developers forum. Chainfire was able to root the phone thanks to an insider who supplied him with an “insecure” kernel for the device.
Chainfire claims that rooting the kernel was “trivial,” saying that “any serious dev” on the xda-developers forums could do it in about ten minutes. In the kernel provided, Samsung used the standard boot.img, making the root easy, unlike the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II. Samsung also enabled the recovery partition, making it easy for devs to flash recoveries.
