Cheers, people! The recently released Android 5.1.1 update for the Sprint Note 4 has now been successfully rooted, thanks to BeastMode kernel by freeza over at XDA.

As we said earlier, the root has been achieved with the help of a custom kernel with root injected and SELinux set to permissive mode rather than enforcing.

The BeastMode kernel is available as a recovery flashable zip that you can flash via TWRP recovery or any other custom recovery of your choice. An Odin flashable .tar file for the kernel hasn’t been released yet by the developer, but that shouldn’t be much trouble since TWRP recovery is working just fine on the 5.1.1 build.

You can grab the BeastMode kernel from the download link below, and flash it your Sprint Note 4 via TWRP without performing wipe of any sorts.

[icon name=”download” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Download BeastMode Kernel 1.0