Run S Health on Samsung Rooted Device

Hello all, 

Hope everyone is doing well with their life and love. 

I have a Note 3 and probably all of you have it, or more so, you are holding a new device on your hand from this very moment. For some of us, who really can't get enough of their devices, the first thing that come to our mind is to have an administrator rights on it, or in a simple word, "Root" it. This is true however with me, The first day i had my Note 3 (exynos SM-N900) was very excited to root it, despite hearing a lot of rumor that you will brick your device if it is still locked to region or has a region lock in it. Yeah, like most of you, i was very afraid to root it, so i read a lot about rooting it and how would it affect my phone if it still region locked. So, the first thing that came to my mind is to find a way to unlock my device, remove the region lock in it and i must admit i successfully did it, not to talk about the money i spent to call overseas or internationally for 15 minutes, which i usually do, you know, family man :), to unlock it. It was by far the simplest and easiest way to region unlock it. Read my blog on Region lock away your Phone and you will know the steps on how to do it. Then i decided to finally root the damn thing, though i know, that it will trigger my knox or void the warranty, i told myself, what the hell! Our country by far doesn't recognize international warranty, if you know what i mean. They just simply tell you, " oh we are very sorry, your phone is not covered here, you need to send it back where you bought it". Out of frustration you will just turn around and say, "WTF"  and this is big BS... But you can't really do anything about it, just find a phone tech and everything will be alright. 

So, there it goes, i rooted my phone, warranty is void, i don't care, but what i didn't know is, there are some samsung apps that won't just work if you root it. One of the apps i found not working with rooted devices was the S Health. For some of you who really doesn't know what this application can do, it can be a big help. S Health by its name, can monitor your health, all you have to do is create a Samsung account if you don't have one, or if you have just fill up the information that is necessary for it to monitor your health then you are good to go. Select the options on how you want to apply it, exercise mate, walking mate, your eating, etc. But i find it hard running the application when i rooted my phone, i really don't want to temporarily unroot my phone and root it again afterwards. So i decided that i will lose that damn application. But something deep inside me was telling me no, just disable it and let it stay there. 

So i went on reading, finding ways to run the application, I guessed, i tried all of the ways, but there are ways that didn't work for me no matter how hard i have done it. Or maybe it is just me that really didn't get the right way to do it. So here are the steps on how to run it. 

Option 1. 
OTA RootKeeper by SuperCurio

I am using this application when i have my SIII before, then Note 2. This by far is truly a big help for me. For some application that do not work in rooted phone, you can use it to temporarily unroot your device and root it back afterwards without flashing from your recovery. it will also help you to protect and create a backup of your SuperUser rights or the SUBinary.

How to.
1.  Click the link above to download the application, 
2.  Install it to your rooted phone and run the application.

You will notice that this application will give you the information about your phone, you can see if it is rooted and you can find the tick box saying temporarily unroot. 
3.  Tick the box and reboot if the application ask you to do it. 
4.  Run S Health. 

I want you to all know that this doesn't work for me, but may work to you. And if it doesn't then, we are not unfortunate either, cause there are still some ways to run it. 

Option 2. 

Root Cloak  by Senior Member of Xda-developers.com Devadvance

To know more about what this powerful application can do, head over to the original forum here.

To learn the ways on how to do it, follow the op's procedure on how you are going to do it. 

Of course you can't run the application without installing Xposed Framework by our good friend, Rovo89. I have it in my phone, and 5 modules are installed right now and working great. So head over to the original thread and expose the greatness of your phone by Xposed here.

Please take note that i tried the application but since it only supports HTC and it doesn't say in the op that S-Health is part of apps that needs testing, and i assume it will work, unfortunately it didn't work for me either. Hope that this will work on your device. 

Option 3. 
Unroot your phone. 
This method will most likely remove all your roots or superuser rights. 
How we can attain it. 
1.  download a stock firmware. 
2.  flash it to your phone using odin (any version)
3.  reboot your phone, and set it up. 
4.  run S- Health. 

But you can see, option 3 is by far the useless method, why would we remove our root when we already have it. One application can be sacrifice if all other apps need it.  And why we would like to root our device if in the end we will just remove it? That is really unnecessary. 

Don't give up, that is what we always say to ourselves. Try again if you don't succeed on the first times, yeah, times, because we have done it too many times.. :)

And so by not giving up, i found another way or shall i say a work around that really helps me to run the application. 

Option 4. 
Make S-Health a normal application. 
We will be needing these applications to run it. 
> System App Mover by J4Velin
> Wanam xposed by Wanam (head over to the original thread to find out more. 

Alright, let us start. 

1.  Download Xposed Installer from the link given to Option #2. 

2.  Install it. and from its settings tap install update. 

3.  reboot your phone. 

4.  Download Wanam xposed and install it. 

5   Activate the module (Wanam xposed) from Xposed Settings > modules by ticking it. 

6.  Now, tap wanam xposed module and head over to its setting>Security hacks. 

7.  Tick Fake Status, since your phone is rooted the status of it is Custom, by ticking fake status, your phone status will be changed to official. 

8,  Reboot your phone. 

9.  Download System app mover and install it to your phone. 

10.Open the application and let the supersu grant it root access to your phone. 

11.Wait until all of the applications are loaded and select S-Health. 

12.Tapping it will give you an option to convert it to normal application, Tap it. 

13.The application will convert S-Health to normal application and remove it from system application. 

14. Once successfully converting it, the phone will ask you to reboot it, go on and reboot it. 

15. Once you finished rebooting, you will find out that S-Health was converted to normal application. Now Tap it open, input your information, if you want to back up and restore go ahead, all you have to do is enter your email address, Now enjoy the application. 

Please take note, that the application will also ask you to update your S-Health application to run, just update. and this application will also tells you to uninstall updates before you can really convert the system app to a normal application. 

some of the screenshots to help you out. 

Please also take note that all of the option are based on my experience, and sometimes, they are not guaranteed to work with your devices, so please don't blame me if this doesn't work on your device cause "if you decide to do it, you are already taking the risk" . There are some consequences on our decisions and action, we don't need to blame others if it fails, but we need to tap our own back and smile if it is successful. 

If you found out that this Steps are helpful to you, please share it to others, and you are free to link it here if you like to.. 

God bless you all. 

Keep the faith. 

Smile for the world will smile back at you. 

Take care everyone and Thank you.