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[Q] How to root the S4 with no OS?

So I rarely ever root my android devices. Recently bought an S4 AT&T variant (SGH-i337) and felt to locked, so I rooted. Everything was fine, until I mistakingly deleted the system files. This ended up making me lose root as well. So now my phone won't boot, but I can somehow get into TWRP recovery mode. Problem is its not rooted and I can't flash any rom. I don't have a PC easily accessible. So I would like to know if there is a way to root through command line. I am able to upload files onto the phone via adb. Any help would be much appreciated.

Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.

jd1639 said:
Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.
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You beat me to the punch. Agreed.

jd1639 said:
Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.
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Just to make sure I understand you, nandroid is the backup I originally made right? Unfortunately I don't have access to my computer from where I am so I can't get it. I am curious as to how twrp didnt get erased after I stupidly deleted the system. So with the nandroid it shouldn't give me the samsung system warning about unauthorized files right? And I appreciate your input by the way!

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Just to make sure I understand you, nandroid is the backup I originally made right? Unfortunately I don't have access to my computer from where I am so I can't get it. I am curious as to how twrp didnt get erased after I stupidly deleted the system. So with the nandroid it shouldn't give me the samsung system warning about unauthorized files right? And I appreciate your input by the way!
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Nandroid would be the backup you did in twrp. Usually it would be on your sd card. I'm not sure what you have on your computer. Twrp isn't erased because it's on a different partition than your system partition.
In twrp, do you have any files when you click on restore? Those would be the nandriods

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Nandroid would be the backup you did in twrp. Usually it would be on your sd card. I'm not sure what you have on your computer. Twrp isn't erased because it's on a different partition than your system partition.
In twrp, do you have any files when you click on restore? Those would be the nandriods
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Ahh, yes. I have that, except I backed it up on my computer instead because it took up a lot of room. I won't have access to my computer until friday night. I should be able to push that using adb right, because my phone isn't recognized any other way unfortunately. But thanks for the clarification. I will also try super user again. I tried one, but maybe I'll try it again to see if that'll work.

avaldez31890 said:
Ahh, yes. I have that, except I backed it up on my computer instead because it took up a lot of room. I won't have access to my computer until friday night. I should be able to push that using adb right, because my phone isn't recognized any other way unfortunately. But thanks for the clarification. I will also try super user again. I tried one, but maybe I'll try it again to see if that'll work.
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Superuser isn't going to do you any good. You need to flash the nandriod to get your system back.

jd1639 said:
Superuser isn't going to do you any good. You need to flash the nandriod to get your system back.
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I figured as much. You are also helping me on another post so I appreciate letting me know about odin. I've heard of it but I use unix machines. Hopefully my job can let me borrow one. I'll let you know how flashing the backup goes. By the way. How does odin work. Do I just connect my phone and it downloads the stock rom, or what?

avaldez31890 said:
I figured as much. You are also helping me on another post so I appreciate letting me know about odin. I've heard of it but I use unix machines. Hopefully my job can let me borrow one. I'll let you know how flashing the backup goes. By the way. How does odin work. Do I just connect my phone and it downloads the stock rom, or what?
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Not that easy. You'll need to get the stock firmware. I use sammobile.com for firmware. You have to register but it's free. You down load a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. That's what you'll use on Odin. Then follow this guide with the file you downloaded http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398/url]

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Not that easy. You'll need to get the stock firmware. I use sammobile.com for firmware. You have to register but it's free. You down load a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. That's what you'll use on Odin. Then follow this guide with the file you downloaded http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.

avaldez31890 said:
Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.

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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.
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Oh ok. I was able to get to the link. The firmware download link seems a bit confusing because its not readily apparent where to get my specific firmware, but I'm at work, so can't put too much time on it at the moment. I'll ask later if I have any problems. Thanks for the heads up.

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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.
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I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.

avaldez31890 said:
I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.
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Glad it worked. Mdb should be fine. See how it works and if you find you're missing anything try the mdl. Mdl is a little newer. Now make sure you root it and freeze the apks that would update it to mf3

avaldez31890 said:
I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.
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MDL is required in order to flash several of the ROMs here on XDA. you can get the MDL firmware here. scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter the required code to begin the download.
as jd1639 said, be sure to root and freeze the necessary apps after first boot up. keep the sim card out and wifi off until this is complete. cheers

Thanks for letting me know! But I gotta ask. I never got a clear answer searching online; what is the firmware exactly?
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avaldez31890 said:
Thanks for letting me know! But I gotta ask. I never got a clear answer searching online; what is the firmware exactly?
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The firmware is the operating system. It's like Windows or Linux.

Umm, that doesnt sound right. Im very familiar with unix, and ive never heard anyone interchangeably call linux a firmware. Online they definitely make that distinction. If you're saying that then its more like a part of the OS or connected to it somehow? If not then I really gotta reevaluate what I think I know lmao.
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avaldez31890 said:
Umm, that doesnt sound right. Im very familiar with unix, and ive never heard anyone interchangeably call linux a firmware. Online they definitely make that distinction. If you're saying that then its more like a part of the OS or connected to it somehow? If not then I really gotta reevaluate what I think I know lmao.
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Technically your right. The firmware puts the operating system on the phone

Hmm. I appreciate the clarification
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uninstall twrp custom recovery and unroot and factory restore.

hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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ahura999 said:
hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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Just odin and install stock rom

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Just odin and install stock rom
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.

so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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ahura999 said:
so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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It will not factory reset your phone, it will simply reinstall stock firmware, stock recovery and rom. You'll have to factory reset once youre done to wipe everything

ahura999 said:
so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.

jd1639 said:
Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.
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and to unroot? another question, once I factory restore, and it starts up brand new, can I root, delete all bloatware, and unroot to use phone e normally? and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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ahura999 said:
and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?

bo8 said:
I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?
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yes thank you
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.
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Correct file?
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ahura999 said:
Correct file?
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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.

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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.
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this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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ahura999 said:
this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.

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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.
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is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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ahura999 said:
is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.

jd1639 said:
This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.
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so anything to specifically do... step by step instructions? do I put the phone on download mode or something? I'm sorry. I'm watching tutorials and trying to put piece by piece together
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anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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ahura999 said:
anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924

ahura999 said:
anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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jd1639 said:
Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
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understand that you will likely have to boot into stock recovery and factory reset after the odin flash in order to boot past the samsung splash screen.

I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. I'm back on stock everything, unrooted. I want to remove bloatware first though. If I root, and delete all the bliarware I dont want through tibu, and later unroot, will the ota for i337 bring back the bloatware? Once again thanks everybody
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[Q] How do I stop ATT update?

First off I apologize if this is in the wrong section or has been asked before, I couldn't really find the answer I'm looking for.
So I have my S4 (4.2.2 if it matters) rooted and TWRP recovery loaded on it. I was getting the ATT update message and I kept hitting ignore or remind me latter, however I noticed last night it starts to try to install and restart without giving me an option to cancel it. I quickly remove the battery to prevent my phone from updating.
My question is, how do I stop this update when I turn my phone back on? I don't want it to update the firmware and lock my boot loader. Or am I making a big deal over nothing?
Thanks in advance

Google how to stop ota i337 xda
You're not over reacting

jd1639 said:
Google how to stop ota i337 xda
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Thanks so much.
Just one more think, I just want to make sure that when I turn my phone back on that the update won't finish installing (it was in the process of installing when I shut it off).
Thanks again for all the help.

I'm assuming that u have MDB/MDL firmware. ......Take your Att sim card out. ... u need to root your phone. ... install Titanium back up and go to Att software update app ....back up first just incase u need it to return to att and then uninstall it...... that's should stop it from OTA update
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Yep, you're going to want to root and then rename or freeze those files, you found in the Google search. That will stop the update

Taking just the SIM out at this point won't help. Only way to completely stop it now since it was installing is to Odin back to MDL and start the root process.
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Hopefully it didn't already blow the qfuse.
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I'm assuming that u have MDB/MDL firmware. ......Take your Att sim card out. ... u need to root your phone. ... install Titanium back up and go to Att software update app ....back up first just incase u need it to return to att and then uninstall it...... that's should stop it from OTA update
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So not to keep asking the same question, when the sim card is out of the phone, will that prevent the update from installing?
Also to clarify, I've already rooted my phone and installed TWRP recovery. Again at this point I just want to make sure that when I turn my phone on the update isn't going to automatically finish installing before I can block the app/files
Again, thanks so much for the help, can't wait to get a rom installed and start enjoying the awesomeness

I'd follow graydiggy suggestion. Don't turn it on except to go into download mode. Flash the mdl firmware, then root again and freeze the update apps or install a custom Rom

I could be wrong but I believe the update won't apply since the stock recovery has been replaced with a custom recovery . If I am wrong Im sure somone will come in and correct this statement .

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I could be wrong but I believe the update won't apply since the stock recovery has been replaced with a custom recovery . If I am wrong Im sure somone will come in and correct this statement .
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Won't matter

If you have a custom recovery, the update should fail the install with an error 7. However, I would still completely start from scratch by using Odin to get a clean slate without an update. You could actually use Kies and do the emergency restore. Whatever you do, do not boot the phone into the OS until it has been completely wiped by either Odin or Kies. Only download mode.
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boot into recovery and in twrp manually go erase the update.zip from cache/fota. Then wipe cache before rebooting. That, or flash the PIT file. I posted directions on how to extract the stock signed PIT file but you'll probably need someone to extract one for you since you dont want to boot to Android yet.
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Oh yeah. TWRP has a file manager. Delete the update and then boot the OS and use Titanium Backup to delete the OTA stuff
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boot into recovery and in twrp manually go erase the update.zip from cache/fota. Then wipe cache before rebooting. That, or flash the PIT file. I posted directions on how to extract the stock signed PIT file but you'll probably need someone to extract one for you since you dont want to boot to Android yet.
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Oh yeah. TWRP has a file manager. Delete the update and then boot the OS and use Titanium Backup to delete the OTA stuff
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Sweet so by doing this I don't have to Odin back to stock?

Essentially.
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Thank you everyone so much for your help. I seem to have got it all sorted out, don't see any changes to the baseband version and still have root access.
Thanks again.

the_windrammer said:
Thank you everyone so much for your help. I seem to have got it all sorted out, don't see any changes to the baseband version and still have root access.
Thanks again.
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Glad you got it worked out. You had the A team, surge and graydiggy

a different approach w/ i537 jb4.2.2
on topic but with different variables... I'm not finding a detailed post on the best way to stop ATT update immediately after rooting the i537 jb4.2.2
Can someone link me here please?
Not sure if I should just delete the app or go the root explorer route and delete the knox file (not sure if that is the only file to remove either?)
I have compiled all my notes at: freehelpinghands.wordpress DOT com/2013/12/15/best-way-to-unlock-root-a-new-phone/
and the answer to my question above will likely be answered by the time this is being read.

UPDATE 2/5/15 How to get to 100% STOCK OA6 (LOLLIPOP) and Root!

Here is how to get to OA6 100% stock:​
1. DL Odin 3.09
2. DL stock OA6 TAR
3. Make a backup of your apps/data (TiBu/Helium/etc). MAKE SURE THE APP/DATA BACKUPS ARE TO YOUR EXT SD CARD!!!
BACKUPS (from TiBu and apps like that) PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK GOING FROM 4.4.4 TO 5.0!
4. Go into recovery and do a factory reset and wipe system/internal sd/cache/dalvik. Power off phone completely!
5. Power on into Download Mode and flash the stock OA6 tar (put it in "AP/PDA" in Odin).
**6. Do a factory reset in the stock recovery after you flash the tar (not necessary but deff won't kill ya!). **OPTIONAL
7. In "About Device" your baseband and software should now end in OA6 and Android version should be 5.0. If they are not, then you did something wrong, go back to step 2 and try a redownload, and reflash of stock OA6 tar.
**OPTIONAL: Root** ​8. DL CF-Auto Root.
9. Place in PDA/AP slot in Odin and run it.
10. DL a custom recovery of your choosing and flash.
11. Reboot to recovery and FLASH THIS (SuperSU v2.45). Now root should work reliably on Lollipop (THANKS CHAINFIRE!!)
12. Download and install MOAR v6.0! **If you do this no need to do steps 13 & 14!**
13. Download and flash Knox Removal to get rid of Knox. BE SURE TO THANK TDUNHAM!
14. Get flashlight toggle as well as plenty others with THIS APP!
15. PROFIT!
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Joe0113 said:
Some people seem to be having trouble, so I thought this might help you guys out.
1. DL this stock NCB tar.
2. Take out your EXT SD Card (if you have one).
3. Flash the stock NCB tar (put it in "PDA" in Odin).
4. Do a factory reset in the stock recovery after you flash the tar (not necessary but deff won't kill ya!).
5. Reboot into Download Mode and make sure it says ROM type= OFFICIAL! If it says custom you will not be able to take the OTA.
6. Reboot, check for the OTA to "ND2" and wait for it to complete.
7. Your baseband and software should now end in ND2. If it does not, then you did something wrong, go back to step 1 and try a redownload, and reflash of stock NCB tar.
8. Re-root.
Also if someone that has SuperSU PRO version, can check if "Survival Mode" works for the GS5, that'd be awesome!
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Are there any better mirrors, that link is telling me 14-18 hrs to download? lol I could probably build their stock ROM from source faster

miked63017 said:
Are there any better mirrors, that link is telling me 14-18 hrs to download?
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Not that I know of buddy, sorry. If you do happen to find any, please let me know so I can post them in the OP.

Joe0113 said:
Not that I know of buddy, sorry. If you do happen to find any, please let me know so I can post them in the OP.
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13 hrs left . Anybody want to scp it to my machine? If so I will host it for a few months, got a cable connection but it will definitely be faster than that link.

not needed
all this is unneeded if someone would just post the update from their phone cache for those that are rooted.
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13 hrs left . Anybody want to scp it to my machine? If so I will host it for a few months, got a cable connection but it will definitely be faster than that link.
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I am uploading the ncb.tar to my google drive right now and i'll post it in a new threat as soon as its up for everyone to download

I had good luck with this source...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717988

dropzone9540 said:
I had good luck with this source...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717988
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That's the one I used. Thanks gonna link that in the OP.

roadrunnrr said:
I am uploading the ncb.tar to my google drive right now and i'll post it in a new threat as soon as its up for everyone to download
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Worked good for me thanks
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Sorry if this is asking the obvious, but this will erase everything? Will I need a titanium backup or something to restore app/settings?

dropzone9540 said:
Sorry if this is asking the obvious, but this will erase everything? Will I need a titanium backup or something to restore app/settings?
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Back up what you want using titanium backup to your external sd, then follow the steps above bud
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Why the big deal???
I don't see the big deal with upgrading to ND2. Haven't read that it allows the download booster to work...lol
This what is suppose to be updated:
Google search results are no longer included in the list when using S Finder
Fixed device responsiveness when using S View Cover
Enable camera capture during voice call
Fixed alarm failure when deleting alarm
Fixed email duplication, when moving an email from original folder to another folder the email should only be viewable in the moved to folder
FYI personally like how the S finder pulled up google search stuff.

That's what I thought, thanks.
Goose0121 said:
Back up what you want using titanium backup to your external sd, then follow the steps above bud
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I was thikning the same thing. No security updates or anything, so I figured I'd wait, but there's that nagging need to be up to date!
AcE2DuCe said:
I don't see the big deal with upgrading to ND2. Haven't read that it allows the download booster to work...lol
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That's what I thought, thanks.
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I was thikning the same thing. No security updates or anything, so I figured I'd wait, but there's that nagging need to be up to date!
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If and when I get the notification I will not be updating. I just press and hold the notification and go into "app info" menu and disable notifications.

dropzone9540 said:
Sorry if this is asking the obvious, but this will erase everything? Will I need a titanium backup or something to restore app/settings?
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Sorry, great point. I will add to the post to make a backup of your apps/data (TiBu/Helium/etc).

I did NOT do (6) the factory reset...
I have SuperSU PRO... "Survival Mode"... SuperSU PRO did not stick...
Now on ND2, rerooted, TWRP'd...
restored via Titanium...
had to rerun SDFix...
Thanx

KaptainRandom said:
I did NOT do (6) the factory reset...
I have SuperSU PRO... "Survival Mode"... SuperSU PRO did not stick...
Now on ND2, rerooted, TWRP'd...
restored via Titanium...
had to rerun SDFix...
Thanx
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Ehh, the factory reset can only help, not hurt haha, so I will leave it in there as an option. But thank you for testing Survival Mode on SuperSU Pro. Can anyone else test/confirm this too please. Thanks guys!

Joe0113 said:
Some people seem to be having trouble, so I thought this might help you guys out.
1. DL Odin 3.09
2. DL this stock NCB tar. ----- Here is a faster/better DL mirror! Thanks to @ChaddyPaddy ----- And yet another mirror! Thanks to @roadrunnrr
3. Make a backup of your apps/data (TiBu/Helium/etc). MAKE SURE THE APP/DATA BACKUPS ARE TO YOUR EXT SD CARD!!!
4. Take out your EXT SD Card (if you have one).
5. Flash the stock NCB tar (put it in "AP/PDA" in Odin).
6. Do a factory reset in the stock recovery after you flash the tar (not necessary but deff won't kill ya!).
7. Reboot into Download Mode and make sure it says ROM type= OFFICIAL! If it says custom you will not be able to take the OTA.
8. Reboot, check for the OTA to "ND2" and wait for it to complete.
9. Your baseband and software should now end in ND2. If it does not, then you did something wrong, go back to step 1 and try a redownload, and reflash of stock NCB tar.
10. Re-root.
Also if someone that has SuperSU PRO version, can check if "Survival Mode" works for the GS5, that'd be awesome!
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Thanks for the steps!
however, that does seem like a big pain in the butt..
why don't people just wait for the new stock rooted rom of that version and just flash that?!?

eyecon82 said:
Thanks for the steps!
however, that does seem like a big pain in the butt..
why don't people just wait for the new stock rooted rom of that version and just flash that?!?
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They don't necessarily repackage the ROM with every update. I did the upgrade just to get the baseband update. Not too painful at all.
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If you read steps before hand and have a speedy internet connection. This shouldn't take more than 10-20min! Painless!

Trouble Updating S4 AT&T

So I've had this problem for a while and I think at one point I knew what the issue was, but things came up and I guess I lost my place. I have a GS4 running 4.3 on AT&T, but if I recall correctly it took a long time (longer than it was supposed to in US) for even that update to become available to me. I'm not sure if this phone is set as a different country or something, but I seem to think that had something to do with it when I checked last time. Now when I check for updates, it does say I have an available update (KitKat?) but fails when attempting to update. Download is successful, but install is not. Baseband is I337ucuemk2 if that helps anything. Any help here would be appreciated, thanks.

Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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jmjoyas said:
Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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I'm actually not rooted, already stock and still having errors still...any idea why that would be?

Anyone have any advice?

Anyone have any advice?
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Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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jd1639 said:
Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.

Imnice777 said:
Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.
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No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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jd1639 said:
No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?

Imnice777 said:
Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?
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If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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jd1639 said:
If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.

Imnice777 said:
Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.
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If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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jd1639 said:
If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"

Imnice777 said:
Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"
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Anyone ever see that error before?

Imnice777 said:
Anyone ever see that error before?
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Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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jd1639 said:
Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.

Imnice777 said:
So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.
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Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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jd1639 said:
Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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That's what I did and I'm finally updated, but pretty disappointed that it took all that just for an update. Hopefully things like that don't continue in future updates...