I'm on temasek's unofficial 4.4.2 CM11 atm but it's kinda buggy right now; volumes don't work, tons of battery pulls, etc.
I heard the bootloader changes etc, can't go back to 4.3. Don't really care anyway.
Just wondering if there is a pre-rooted rom for the Singapore N9005?
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I have updated my GT-I9500 (S4 Exynos version) to the official TouchWiz 5.0.1 ROM (I9500XXUHOC1), but ever since this update the phone gets heated up during usage and especially during charging (which is high than what it use to be earlier). Am getting frequent force close messages (some which were fixed with a recent OTA update) but still the experience has been horrible with the official Samsung Lollipop uddate. I have now rooted and got Philz Touch Recovery in place. All I wanted to find out is can I wipe and flash CM11 (GT-I9500 Version) on my device, will it work or will that brick the device as am directly downgrading from 5.0.1 to 4.4.2 ? Is there a specific way to do this ? Any help is very much appreciated, I need to get out of this 5.0.2 for good.
Of course it will work. downgrading only applies to official roms.
Hey Everyone!!
Thank you for looking at this thread.
In a nutshell, I got my i9505 galaxy s4 since June 2013, rooted it straight away when i got it, its got twrp recovery, and im on omega v9 4.2.2. Havent touched it since to date
It does not have knox.
Is there a way I can simply upgrade to something like cm 12.1 with 5.1.1 with everything working, by simply flashing latest cm with gapps using twrp, or will I have to upgrade bootloader, radio, get knox, or even just start over, flash stock samsung lollipop firmware with knox using odin, in order to do so?
I already a while back tried updating twrp to latest, and tried flashing cm with lollipop 5.0 when it first first came out, but only 2g was working, and signal would cut if i lock my phone. Im guessing this is due to bootloader/radio incompatibility, or maybe because it was early builds? Apparently i cant flash lollipop bootloader and radio over old 4.2.2 stuff without consequently installing knox? Is knox that bad? I heard its better to not have knox but if its the only thing stopping from lollipop then so be it.
Any help and advice much appreciated.
Hope to hear soon,
DJ
You can try upgrading just the modem to be able to flash an Android 5.x ROM, but it likely will not work and thus you will have to flash an updated bootloader as well. The good news is that since your S4 is out of warranty, whether you trip the Knox flag or not will not matter.
You should be able to flash the updated bootloader and radio without having to install an entire ROM, though you might want to download the latest ROM for your S4 anyway. There is a thread in I9505 General that has a list of bootloaders and modems that can be downloaded and flashed through Odin. From there, you should have no problem flashing the custom ROM of your choice through recovery.
Newbie here.... So my phone updated and WiFi stopped working. In searching this site for a fix or to revert back to previous version I downloaded a Canadian firmware for the g900w8 model. That is what I have.... My warranty just ended so I figured why not try a new ROM.I rooted and then i installed the team exodus 5.1.1. Never updated my broadband version. Ran that for a week and decided to change due to slow charging and fast draining battery. Stock was awesome full charge in about an hour.
So now I am running blisspop 5.1.1 and flashed krazykernel 3.4 over top
Runs great, some lag in the built in browser still slower charging but better than exodus.
My question though is this..
How am I running 5.1.1 on baseband version for 4.4.2?
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So, my note 3 came with stock 4.4.2 touchwiz.
I rooted and flashed CM 11. I also did flash a couple of AOSP android 5.0 roms, but now I am on CM 11. I never updated with the OTA updater of samsung.
Now for personal reasons, I would like to give 4.3 a try, but is it possible?
I saw a video demonstrating it on youtube, but cant post itnhere yet. Just search for downgrade note 3 4,3, and you'll find a vid of it pretty (title also says something about restoring imei), but i dont know if its legit?
Thanks!
Umm, you can easily downgrade to 4.4.2 from 5.0, but not sure about 4.3. But you do know that official Lollipop Touchwiz ROMs are already out there for quite a while right?
Attempts to downgrade the bootloader from 4.4.2 to 4.3 may hard brick the phone so I would advise against it.
Hey everyone ... can i install touchwiz lollipop roms on kitkat base rom on s4 i9500 without updating s4 on official lollipop ?
Are you talking about custom TouchWiz ROMs?
Either way, the answer is yes.
Yes bro now im on official lollipop s4 i9500 but due to bad battery life i want to downgrade to stock 4.4.2 then i want to install custom lollipop tw roms like aurora s6 port is that possible and will it safe ?
Why do you want to downgrade? It won't make any difference if you downgrade or not.
Bro i observed that on lollipop the battery life is not good
So what's the logic in going to 4.4.2 stock and then going back to custom TouchWiz lollipop?
Why not flash a the custom ROM directly?
I thought maybe on stock kitkat the battery life will again better ... well can u suggest me a good battery life rom for s4 i9500 ?
If you're going to stay on kitkat, then you can try and downgrade.
But if you downgrade and immediately flash a custom ROM back to TouchWiz lollipop, then it is only a waste of time.
Samsung doesn't want you to downgrade, so downgrading can fail sometimes.
My device is GT-I9505, so I can't suggest you any ROMs. But maybe you want to try custom kitkat ROMs first.
Ok thanks for the very soon replies my brother