Will there be a download for the firmware soon and the ability to install a custom recovery for the mf3 firmware updates phones..
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Will there be a download for the firmware soon and the ability to install a custom recovery for the mf3 firmware updates phones..
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This is actively being discussed already in many existing threads. If anyone knew the answers, I think it is reasonable to believe they would have already been posted.
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I keep reading about the problems people are having with flashing to MF3 on their rooted S4As but I can't find anything on what you get with MF3. Can someone enlighten me on its new features or post a link that lists what it does?
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sleze said:
I keep reading about the problems people are having with flashing to MF3 on their rooted S4As but I can't find anything on what you get with MF3. Can someone enlighten me on its new features or post a link that lists what it does?
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It's worth it
Brings apps to SD
new camera firmware
much needed fluidity and stableness
various bug and fixes
and a few other features like emergency mode and stuff
sleze said:
I keep reading about the problems people are having with flashing to MF3 on their rooted S4As but I can't find anything on what you get with MF3. Can someone enlighten me on its new features or post a link that lists what it does?
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Just install one of the stockish MF3 based ROMs or International Update based ROMs from the development section and you will have the best of both worlds. You will get any enhancements from the update (if there really is any) and still be able to keep custom recovery and use other ROMs / themes / etc.
If you update to MF3 (OTA) you will lose the ability for custom recoveries and ROMs.
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Just install one of the stockish MF3 based ROMs or International Update based ROMs from the development section and you will have the best of both worlds. You will get any enhancements from the update (if there really is any) and still be able to keep custom recovery and use other ROMs / themes / etc.
If you update to MF3 (OTA) you will lose the ability for custom recoveries and ROMs.
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I don't think the active can run a custom recovery or other roms.
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I was able to install it pretty easily by unfreeze some apps. Reinstalled activeroot afterwards and refroze and am good to go.
I still can't tell any difference and am gonna wait before I upgrade my wife's s4.
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Didn't realize this was for the active. Nit sure what mf3 brings for that variant. XDA should seriously create a sub-forum for this variant. It not the same specs, software, the roms are not cross compatible, whats the point?
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Didn't realize this was for the active. Nit sure what mf3 brings for that variant. XDA should seriously create a sub-forum for this variant. It not the same specs, software, the roms are not cross compatible, whats the point?
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If I remember right the Active comes with mf3. Didn't have anything before that firmware.
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If I remember right the Active comes with mf3. Didn't have anything before that firmware.
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so then they didn't have the MDL stutter/lag we had when the S4 first came out
Well, I upgraded something for 18MB via software update. In the active master thread, it is being referred to as mf3.
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Didn't realize this was for the active. Nit sure what mf3 brings for that variant. XDA should seriously create a sub-forum for this variant. It not the same specs, software, the roms are not cross compatible, whats the point?
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I agree with that Pat MOD???
It clutters thread, not in a negative way against the Active, just too much to watch for when trying to help people. Active owners want it too--
Not sure why it isn't
Hello everyone, my question is hopefully simple. I'm rooted and safestrapped. I would like to know if I take OTAs in the future that break my root will safestrap still be there? Like for example, can I run a nonrooted stock ROM with safestrap installed or will safestrap get uninstalled if I take an OTA Update?
Hopefully my questions made sense. Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Hello everyone, my question is hopefully simple. I'm rooted and safestrapped. I would like to know if I take OTAs in the future that break my root will safestrap still be there? Like for example, can I run a nonrooted stock ROM with safestrap installed or will safestrap get uninstalled if I take an OTA Update?
Hopefully my questions made sense. Thanks in advance for your answers.
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You shouldn't be able to even accept an OTA if you're rooted, it won't let you go through with it. You should never accept an OTA regardless, and rather wait until someone packages the update up within a ROM so you can still get the benefits
I wasn't aware that being routed would not allow me to accept an OTA. Are you site this happens when the stock ROM is installed? Or, are you talking about if I have a prerooted ROM installed?
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I wasn't aware that being routed would not allow me to accept an OTA. Are you site this happens when the stock ROM is installed? Or, are you talking about if I have a prerooted ROM installed?
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Good question, it's been a long long time on a previous device since I accepted an OTA :laugh:
Someone always packages it up as a flashable for us, just like the MJ7 Note 3 update....it's up the same week
OK then what I will be doing tonight is flashing the rooted stock ROM. This way I don't have to do worry about any OTA updates. I will be flashing in safestrap over the stock slot. No need to create a second ROM slot for the same ROM just rooted.
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so i took the 4,4.2 ota but ive read that root is not out for it yet, but still only certain recoveries and roms will work.
is there a way i can downgrade then install a recovery to flash an aosp/google play edition 4.4.2 rom?
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so i took the 4,4.2 ota but ive read that root is not out for it yet, but still only certain recoveries and roms will work.
is there a way i can downgrade then install a recovery to flash an aosp/google play edition 4.4.2 rom?
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There are plenty of threads with information in the general section, including a thread convienently named All Things MK2 And NB1. Make sure to check that and read more before asking questions unless you're on an I337m, in which case you can disregard anything I've said ;P
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You can't do what you want but there are roms you can flash. Start here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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I have root on 4.4 via cf auto root
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Jose0726 said:
I have root on 4.4 via cf auto root
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You on the i337m so yea it works for you but not those on the i337.
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hey im on 4.4.2 MF3 galaxy s4 which is rooted, should i update to kitkat 4.4.2? and if so can i root it. ive read the forums and i cant find a definate answer to that question. thanks.
We always had root - direct or indirect. We now have a direct root for 4.4.2 NC1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
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We always had root - direct or indirect. We now have a direct root for 4.4.2 NC1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
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this root seems alot more complicated than the one for MF3.
The direct root for NC1 is called towelroot. That thread also mentions this.
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The direct root for NC1 is called towelroot. That thread also mentions this.
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so should i just use towelroot or odin like the post said? OMG i have the OTA updater turned off on phone so how can i find the 4.4.2 to update my s4 and then root phone.
phantom1999 said:
so should i just use towelroot or odin like the post said? OMG i have the OTA updater turned off on phone so how can i find the 4.4.2 to update my s4 and then root phone.
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Turn on your OTA. Within one or two days AT&T will update your phone to 4.4.2 and NC1 firmware. Then you use towelroot .
If the OTA did not happen within two days, you might need to odin the stock MF3 then use the update software function to get OTA.
I turned in the ota and it downloaded the update but it won't update it. It keeps failing and it says my firmware in up to date and u have to wait 23 hours to do it again.
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phantom1999 said:
I turned in the ota and it downloaded the update but it won't update it. It keeps failing and it says my firmware in up to date and u have to wait 23 hours to do it again.
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Sometimes, if you have rooted rom, it could happen.
Like I said, wait one or two days to see whether OTA successfully updated. If not you need to odin the stock MF3 to get OTA working..
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Sometimes, if you have rooted rom, it could happen.
Like I said, wait one or two days to see whether OTA successfully updated. If not you need to odin the stock MF3 to get OTA working..
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how do i odin the stock MF3?
Would If update faster if I removed root with super su?
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phantom1999 said:
Would If update faster if I removed root with super su?
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If I were you I'd Odin the nb1 firmware. Then do the nc1 update and then root with towel root. See in the general forum, index all things at&t...
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how do i odin the stock MF3?
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Please check out this thread.
Sometime OTA does not work if you were rooted. That happened to my while I was with android 2.xx .
So every time I want an OTA, I odin the stock rom.
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If I were you I'd Odin the nb1 firmware. Then do the nc1 update and then root with towel root. See in the general forum, index all things at&t...
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this is what i did and i got it to work great. except i didnt make a backup and lost all pics music and contacts..
I have an unlocked SGH - I337UCUAMDL running on 4.2.2. I tried updating it OTA but it failed. I am assuming it was because it is unlocked.
Is there an alternate version of this that I can download and flash through Odin?
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I have an unlocked SGH - I337UCUAMDL running on 4.2.2. I tried updating it OTA but it failed. I am assuming it was because it is unlocked.
Is there an alternate version of this that I can download and flash through Odin?
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If you have mdl why do you want to upgrade the firmware? You currently can use twrp and flash roms based on 4.4.2. If you upgrade with Odin or ota you'll lose that ability for ever.
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If you have mdl why do you want to upgrade the firmware? You currently can use twrp and flash roms based on 4.4.2. If you upgrade with Odin or ota you'll lose that ability for ever.
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because my sister does not want to use CFW. She wants only stock firmware
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because my sister does not want to use CFW. She wants only stock firmware
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In that case, look in the general forum for the nb1 Odin flashable tar file and flash that in Odin. You can then ota up from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
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jd1639 said:
In that case, look in the general forum for the nb1 Odin flashable tar file and flash that in Odin. You can then ota up from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
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last question ... actually 2 ...
whats the difference between rootable and normal stock?
will this lock the phone again?
emoxaph said:
last question ... actually 2 ...
whats the difference between rootable and normal stock?
will this lock the phone again?
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1. Rootable is just that, you'll be able to root it using towelroot. The normal nb1 is not rootable. The nc1 firmware is rootable with towel root too. So you could flash the non-rootable, then ota to nc1 and root it
2. If you're sim unlocked flash with Odin will not lock it.
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thanks a lot for all your help!
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thanks a lot for all your help!
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No problem
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