Hi I want to know if there's a way to backup all my settings for my phone including being rooted and it's flashed to metropcs, startup files and settings. The reason I want to do this is that I want to start playing around with flashing other roms and reflashing it to metropcs myself, I did it with the stock rom but not sure if it will work with the new updates verizon just came out with, if I mess something up I just want to reflash it with my back up and go back to the way it is now.
Currently own an s5 and wondering how I can speed it up and debloat it. My storage says I only have 12 out of 16 gig left but I hardly have any apps installed. I checked to see what is taking all the space up and is saying other files....another issue I noticed ever since I uprated to lollipop was battery drains faster than usual. What is the best way to remedy these issues? Does the latest update fix any of this or do I need to bounce back to kit Kat or even do a custom rom? If anyone can help I would appreciate it I am on Verizon.
The 16GB is a lie, they use a lot of that 16GB for the OS itself, you get what's left
Factory reset after upgrading from KK to LP, that fixes the majority of problems upgrading causes
But if I factory reset will I be able to go back to kit Kat later if the issues are not resolved with lollipop? I heard somewhere once you reset you can't go back?
Factory resetting isn't what stops you rolling back, locked bootloaders are
And from what I know, Verizon lock theirs, I'm not 100% sure about the cans and can'ts regarding locked bootloaders and stock ROMs, some people say they can flash stock back and forth no problems, others need to take their phones to the store to get it flashed back to KK
Either way, factory resetting is a must after upgrading from KK to LP
So if I do reset it won't prevent me from ever being able to go to kit Kat again if the reset doesn't fix the issues? If I root and install a custom rom will it make the phone much faster/bettbetter?
No, factory resetting does not prevent anything, just make sure to disable reactivation lock first
Locked bootloaders, which you will likely already have, ar what prevent flashing ROMs and such
If you are already on LP, you might already not be able to downgrade, like I say I don't know enough about locked bootloader phones (Verizon etc) to know what you can and can't flash
Chances are, you're already stuck with LP unless you take it to a store
Resetting has nothing to do with downgrading back to KitKat. That was determined when you upgraded to Lollipop. if your bootloader is locked from the upgrade to LP, you won't be able to downgrade no matter what (at least until someone finds an exploit).
If your phone does not have a locked bootloader, you can still downgrade, even if you reset the phone.
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Resetting has nothing to do with downgrading back to KitKat. That was determined when you upgraded to Lollipop. if your bootloader is locked from the upgrade to LP, you won't be able to downgrade no matter what (at least until someone finds an exploit).
If your phone does not have a locked bootloader, you can still downgrade, even if you reset the phone.
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Cheers for explaining Mike
Thanks for the responses. How can I find out of I have a locked bootloader? And if I do is it still possible that verizon can downgrade back to kit Kat if I bring it in the store? And if all that fails is it possible to root the phone and put the best Rom possible on it ?
Pivo187 said:
Thanks for the responses. How can I find out of I have a locked bootloader? And if I do is it still possible that verizon can downgrade back to kit Kat if I bring it in the store? And if all that fails is it possible to root the phone and put the best Rom possible on it ?
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You do have a locked bootloader
Yea the store should be able to do it
Don't know if there are any methods for rooting / custom ROM locked bootloaders
Thanks for the reply detection. Does anyone else know if it's possible to root on Verizon with the s5? Or is it not worth it?
What is best to do to get my battery and the speed of the phone fastest? If I do downgrade to kit Kat is it possible to turn off updates somehow?
It looks like the T-Mobile v20 is carrier unlocked via the Device Unlock app. That assumes the phone is eligible for an unlock, which mine is. The problem is that I'm running a custom ROM, and the Device Unlock app doesn't appear to work on anything other than a stock load. That's even running Magisk and confirming that everything is "hidden". I base this assumption only on some stuff I found while searching the forums.
So the obvious solution is to flash back to stock. If that's the only way to do it, fine. It's a pain but I'll do it. Does anyone know if there is an alternative bit of trickery so that it can be done on custom ROMs?
It's not so much the backup/wipe/load/unlock/wipe/restore process I'm trying to avoid. I do that all the time when I want to play with other ROMs. It's the bootloader/recowvery stuff, and plus it looks like the stock image isn't just a standard zip.
I appreciate any input, even if it's just to confirm I have to go back to stock.
as far as I know the bootloader has to be locked for the app to work... I'm always on stock and despite removing root the app would just keep trying to contact the server. it wasn't until I locked the bootloader that the app went through and contacted the server
hello friends I need a little help with this issue it turns out that I have a g4 xt1625 amazon motorcycle to which I unlocked the boockloader and then I became root after all that I installed several rom from 7.1.2 to 8.1. it turns out that I wanted to undo all of that and go back to stock 7.0 but my phone got flushed in the recovery mode and to be able to lock it again I had to reinstall twrp and go back to root, there is the possibility of making my phone back to stock ? I tell them that I'm not interested in doing it as a guarantee, I just want to go back.
I went to switch to a different carrier, and was on cricket, and also tried tmobile both wich worked fine unlocked bootloader and rooted.
I then switched to sprint, and verizon and found out both carriers the phone would not work right. The data worked but the call and texting did not.
As a side note, I was informed by someone who was on sprint, and he said that you had to get on the network unrooted and locked bootloader, once registered you could then root and get the bootloader unlocked and be just fine.
So I then proceeded to unroot the phone ie: removing everything root, and keeping twrp with an unocked bootloader only, no sign of root. I took the phone back to the stores and tried again, and the phone still had the same issue.
After finally finding a way to finally after 6mo lock the bootloader again, and was at pure stock, locked bootloader and no root.
What this tells me is that some how verizon and sprint both some how some way detect an unlocked bootloader....how? I have no clue, I've never in my 5+ years of rooting multiple phones, never ever ever seen anything like this. The only reason I know this is what it was, is from common deduction and reasoning.........unroot = still doesn't work.....locked bl = works fine with not a single issue. Keep in mind this was all with base stock rom, not a custom rom.....everything was stock, accept for the root and un;ocked bootloader part. I rooted with magisk.
Since I had a very long time and issue with locking the bootloader, (about 6mo) after trying a ton of things, without resolve, I FINALLY got the bootloader locked.
If it's going to be anything like before trying to get it locked again to work on sprint and verzion, I really do not want to bother with unlocking it to begin with. It was an utter nightmare to get locked, no matter what I tried it just would not lock for whatever reason.
So given all that, my question is, how hard or easy is it now to unlock and lock the bootloader?