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I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9500) which is rooted. Plugging it into Samsung Kies shows that there's an update to the MG9 firmware available for it. I'd like to know whether it will be possible to do a backup and upgrade with the phone rooted.
If not, how safe would it be to unroot the phone via SuperSU's menu before flashing through Kies?
Lastly, if I am going to be recommended not to do either of the above, then where can I get a link to manually download the latest, original firmware as well as a working root for said firmware, for my i9500?
Thanks for the responses in advance.
.Xanadu. said:
I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9500) which is rooted. Plugging it into Samsung Kies shows that there's an update to the MG9 firmware available for it. I'd like to know whether it will be possible to do a backup and upgrade with the phone rooted.
If not, how safe would it be to unroot the phone via SuperSU's menu before flashing through Kies?
Lastly, if I am going to be recommended not to do either of the above, then where can I get a link to manually download the latest, original firmware as well as a working root for said firmware, for my i9500?
Thanks for the responses in advance.
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Don`t think if you`ll be able to update through Kies or OTA as you system is modified and the counter is raised. You`ll have to wait till Triangle Away will work for the I9500. Just flash the new rom with Odin and reroot afterwards.
gee2012 said:
Don`t think if you`ll be able to update through Kies or OTA as you system is modified and the counter is raised. You`ll have to wait till Triangle Away will work for the I9500. Just flash the new rom with Odin and reroot afterwards.
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Thanks for that.
Can anyone else confirm or provide me with a link to the latest official firmware? I have searched rather quickly myself, but keep getting results for the MG5 firmware instead, which is supposedly newer than the MG9 firmware. However, Kies tells me that the latest for my device is actually MG9.
If anyone could just shed some light.
.Xanadu. said:
Thanks for that.
Can anyone else confirm or provide me with a link to the latest official firmware? I have searched rather quickly myself, but keep getting results for the MG5 firmware instead, which is supposedly newer than the MG9 firmware. However, Kies tells me that the latest for my device is actually MG9.
If anyone could just shed some light.
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Look here www.sammobile.com/firmware/1.
gee2012 said:
Look here www.sammobile.com/firmware/1.
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Thanks for that. Not too sure where my device originated from, so I'll have to check the documentation when I get home or something.
Also, coincidentally I stumbled upon that website about 20 minutes ago. Didn't even notice they supplied the firmware.
Thanks for that. Not too sure where my device originated from, so I'll have to check the documentation when I get home or something.
Also, coincidentally I stumbled upon that website about 20 minutes ago. Didn't even notice they supplied the firmware.
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The i9500 variant will use any i9500 software as far as I know. You can flash the UAE firmware on an Indian i9500 and it will work fine. This goes with any country, you just need to flash using odin
@Adil Ras: You do realize the post you replied to is 1-1/2 years old, right?
Soy Noob
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
@Adil Ras: You do realize the post you replied to is 1-1/2 years old, right?
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Haha. This is why im a noob
hello, i recently unrroted my phone to stock " I337UCUAMDL" and i wanted to update to the newest version, but its not letting me. it sayd update is not available. i tried connecting it to Kies and it says firmware is not compatible with kies. is there i way i can get these privileges back? i updated via odin.
Why do you want to update? You will lose your unlockable bootloader...
drobe005 said:
hello, i recently unrroted my phone to stock " I337UCUAMDL" and i wanted to update to the newest version, but its not letting me. it sayd update is not available. i tried connecting it to Kies and it says firmware is not compatible with kies. is there i way i can get these privileges back? i updated via odin.
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Updating will devalue your phone when you sell it in the future because people that want to buy the phone from this forum won't care for the phone after you update it. Why do you want a crippled phone?
Sent from my Galaxy S4 i337m
sbddude said:
Why do you want to update? You will lose your unlockable bootloader...
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i dont care. not rooting again.
There's a thread on how to update from MDL to MF9. Idk where though, sorry, you'll have to search. You could also just do what you did but with MF9 instead of the MDL.
MF9? You mean MF3...
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I rooted my AT&T Galaxy S4 i337 a while back using Motochopper and it worked absolutely fine. After installing Cyanogenmod, I decided to go back to stock. I used triangle away and Odin to return myself back to stock, however, I always had issues. When I would recovery boot, I got an error and I couldn't wipe my cache partition. I tried to re-root my phone today using Motochopper and then Odin, but neither of them worked. I got a fail on both of them. Motochopper installed Supersu on my device, but didn't actually give me root access, and Odin just gave me a fail. Now, my phone is working with stock, but I still get errors in recovery mode and I can't root. Can someone please help!?
What is your baseband and build number on settings, more, about phone?
jd1639 said:
What is your baseband and build number on settings, more, about phone?
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Baseband - I337UCUAMF3
Build Number - JDQ39.I337UCUAMF3
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cfoughty7 said:
Baseband - I337UCUAMF3
Build Number - JDQ39.I337UCUAMF3
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That's what i was afraid of. With mf3 you can't root with motorchopper or flash roms like you could on mdl. You also can't put on a custom recovery. Give me a second and I'll give you some links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44165374
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42478710
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45186518
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45971194
Read these before you do anything else and get familiar with them.
cfoughty7 said:
Baseband - I337UCUAMF3
Build Number - JDQ39.I337UCUAMF3
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MF3 has a completely different root and recovery method now. Search the threads and you'll find them. Unfortunately it's pretty risky as you won't be able to flash back to stock using ODIN on MF3.
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That's what i was afraid of. With mf3 you can't root with motorchopper or flash roms like you could on mdl. You also can't put on a custom recovery. Give me a second and I'll give you some links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44165374
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42478710
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45186518
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45971194
Read these before you do anything else and get familiar with them.
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I'm just confused as to why I was able to do it perfectly before?
cfoughty7 said:
I'm just confused as to why I was able to do it perfectly before?
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Because you were on mdl firmware. After you Odin'd it had to have taken the ota update to mf3.
shall plyinuf
jd1639 said:
Because you were on mdl firmware. After you Odin'd it had to have taken the ota update to mf3.
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Ohhh, ok. I understand! There's no way to get it back? Is that what I should read those links for?
cfoughty7 said:
Ohhh, ok. I understand! There's no way to get it back? Is that what I should read those links for?
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Ok, so I read the links. Now, I'm not so much interested in rooting as I am getting my phone straight. Is there any way to get back to mdl? Will the rumored 4.3 update this month fix that? When I tried to update or recover with Samsung Kies, it said my phone wasn't compatible to recover. Does that mean I won't be able to get the update?
jd1639 said:
Because you were on mdl firmware. After you Odin'd it had to have taken the ota update to mf3.
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Ok, so I read the links. Now, I'm not so much interested in rooting as I am getting my phone straight. Is there any way to get back to mdl? Will the rumored 4.3 update this month fix that? When I tried to update or recover with Samsung Kies, it said my phone wasn't compatible to recover. Does that mean I won't be able to get the update?
cfoughty7 said:
Ok, so I read the links. Now, I'm not so much interested in rooting as I am getting my phone straight. Is there any way to get back to mdl? Will the rumored 4.3 update this month fix that? When I tried to update or recover with Samsung Kies, it said my phone wasn't compatible to recover. Does that mean I won't be able to get the update?
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First, there is no way to go back to mdl. Idk if you'll be able to get the 4.3 update but I would assume so since you are on the stick firmware now. But, each new update is going to make it harder to root your phone or run custom roms. So you probably need to choose whether you want to keep your phone stock and take updates if and when they come out. Or have some snooty to run custom roms and root your device and put safestrap on.
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First, there is no way to go back to mdl. Idk if you'll be able to get the 4.3 update but I would assume so since you are on the stick firmware now. But, each new update is going to make it harder to root your phone or run custom roms. So you probably need to choose whether you want to keep your phone stock and take updates if and when they come out. Or have some snooty to run custom roms and root your device and put safestrap on.
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I'm going to stay with stock. Will the mdl thing effect anything if I have an issue with warranty sterf?
Shouldn't, your stock mf3 right now.
I have rooted my phone and i think i wont be getting OTA updates now.
Whats the easiest way to update my phones firmware?
Kies can still update a rooted phone, or you can download the update from a site like www.sammobile.com/firmware and flash with Odin.
BTW, questions belong in the Q&A section, not General. I've reported it and the mods will kindly move it for you.
CafeKampuchia said:
Kies can still update a rooted phone, or you can download the update from a site like www.sammobile.com/firmware and flash with Odin.
BTW, questions belong in the Q&A section, not General. I've reported it and the mods will kindly move it for you.
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I have rooted my first device so i dokt know what is kies and ODIN can you provide little more info on how to get these softwares
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Currently I am on MK2, with root access (stock ATT) I got a notification for software update is available, but when I try to install, it fails in between. Is it because of root access? Please suggest.
Not to be rude, but if you read a little bit of the threads you'd find that you CANNOT install an OTA update while you're rooted!
You have to un-root your phone if you want to install any OTA updates.
atrix4nag said:
Currently I am on MK2, with root access (stock ATT) I got a notification for software update is available, but when I try to install, it fails in between. Is it because of root access? Please suggest.
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Best way to prepare for official OTA is just Odin back to stock, then just accept the update, 2 step process easy as pie. Tar files are here on XDA, but your search button seems to be broken so let me help you.
Here you go. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279 Good luck.
crazy_dragonlady said:
Not to be rude, but if you read a little bit of the threads you'd find that you CANNOT install an OTA update while you're rooted!
You have to un-root your phone if you want to install any OTA updates.
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John The Rhino said:
Best way to prepare for official OTA is just Odin back to stock, then just accept the update, 2 step process easy as pie. Tar files are here on XDA, but your search button seems to be broken so let me help you.
Here you go. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279 Good luck.
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Thanks for your response. I kept the ODIN back to stock as last option. Just want to make sure that, that is the way to do it. I just dont want to go back to stock, if there is an another option.
atrix4nag said:
Thanks for your response. I kept the ODIN back to stock as last option. Just want to make sure that, that is the way to do it. I just dont want to go back to stock, if there is an another option.
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Sorry buddy, but there is no other way. If you want to update to official stock 4.4.2 Kit Kat firmware, you must be on official stock firmware. If you'd rather not be stock, then stay on MK2 like many of us are doing until we have root. I imagine it will be in the not too distant future. Look at the progress these developers have made in just a few days. It's remarkable.
John The Rhino said:
Sorry buddy, but there is no other way. If you want to update to official stock 4.4.2 Kit Kat firmware, you must be on official stock firmware. If you'd rather not be stock, then stay on MK2 like many of us are doing until we have root. I imagine it will be in the not too distant future. Look at the progress these developers have made in just a few days. It's remarkable.
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Thanks for the response. i went back to stock and updated to 4.4,
atrix4nag said:
Thanks for the response. i went back to stock and updated to 4.4,
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You're welcome.. Glad everything worked out for you to be able to update.