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OTA updates not working on I9505

Hello,
I've bought S4 few days ago. Out of the box I was running with stock firmware without rooting or CWM. Yesterday I've rooted the device and flashed CWM. Few hours later I thought that I'll be better off with stock firmware and updates available on time. But here's the problem: I cannot make OTA work anymore. I've flashed AMDE, the firmware which was out of the box (I have BOOTLOADER, PDA, MODEM, CSC and pit file). I've unrooted and flashed stock recovery. Whole device is official (Status: Official, Binary: Official, Settings > About device: Official) and flash counter is reset to 0 with TriangleAway. Still, after flashing stock firmware, it OTA still says "Newest updates already installed, while this firmware is 2 months old. Out of the box installed updates just fine. CSC is set to XEO as I live in Poland. I have no idea what to do next
Thanks in advance.

tehaerpl said:
Hello,
I've bought S4 few days ago. Out of the box I was running with stock firmware without rooting or CWM. Yesterday I've rooted the device and flashed CWM. Few hours later I thought that I'll be better off with stock firmware and updates available on time. But here's the problem: I cannot make OTA work anymore. I've flashed AMDE, the firmware which was out of the box (I have BOOTLOADER, PDA, MODEM, CSC and pit file). I've unrooted and flashed stock recovery. Whole device is official (Status: Official, Binary: Official, Settings > About device: Official) and flash counter is reset to 0 with TriangleAway. Still, after flashing stock firmware, it OTA still says "Newest updates already installed, while this firmware is 2 months old. Out of the box installed updates just fine. CSC is set to XEO as I live in Poland. I have no idea what to do next
Thanks in advance.
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Can you please add one more line of error..?? what error is coming while updating.?
BTW, you can use this thread for better service & for Quick answer.

Disturbed™ said:
Can you please add one more line of error..?? what error is coming while updating.?
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It just checks the update and acts like I have the newest one installed. Not "System modified" or something else, just there are no updates for me like I would have AMEA/BMF8 installed already, while I have AMDE.

tehaerpl said:
It just checks the update and acts like I have the newest one installed. Not "System modified" or something else, just there are no updates for me like I would have AMEA/BMF8 installed already, while I have AMDE.
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buddy MF8 is latest one. If OTA will be available to your country it won't say "You already have latest firmware installed".

Disturbed™ said:
buddy MF8 is latest one. If OTA will be available to your country it won't say "You already have latest firmware installed".
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I've flashed AMDE like said earlier. But I do not receive AMEA update, which was possible when I bought the device. AMDE is way older than AMEA.
Kies also does not want to update my device. It shows my PDA: AMDE and CSC XEO but "Your device does not support update over the KIES". Everything has status "official" with flash counter 0, but acts like modified. It's annoying.

tehaerpl said:
I've flashed AMDE like said earlier. But I do not receive AMEA update, which was possible when I bought the device. AMDE is way older than AMEA.
Kies also does not want to update my device. It shows my PDA: AMDE and CSC XEO but "Your device does not support update over the KIES". Everything has status "official" with flash counter 0, but acts like modified. It's annoying.
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In the last, I would say, please let it updated using ODIN. Download the latest firmware of your zone & flash it using ODIN.

I had this problem with an s2 ages ago. Turned out I needed to reflash stock firmware and the csc. The problem is usually a mismatch between pda/cdc/phone but its working out which is wrong. Best bet is samfirmware site. Find the latest for your region and and carrier if its branded then flash that and try again
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tigerphil said:
I had this problem with an s2 ages ago. Turned out I needed to reflash stock firmware and the csc. The problem is usually a mismatch between pda/cdc/phone but its working out which is wrong. Best bet is samfirmware site. Find the latest for your region and and carrier if its branded then flash that and try again
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda premium
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Well, the problem is that I work at Samsung's R&D and I have full packages ready to flash but non of them fix the OTA updates, and I cannot contact the developer responsible for OTA module
Thanks anyway.

tehaerpl said:
Well, the problem is that I work at Samsung's R&D and I have full packages ready to flash but non of them fix the OTA updates, and I cannot contact the developer responsible for OTA module
Thanks anyway.
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Today XDA achieved best one here. Samsung's R&D officials asking help for their device. No offence.
Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4

Disturbed™ said:
Today XDA achieved best one here. Samsung's R&D officials asking help for their device. No offence.
Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
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Happens, well thanks anyway for feedback. I'll leave the topic for now as I've already flashed newest and rooted it.

Help with kies?

my phone used to be on MDK firmware with CSC:TPA, since that region doesnt receive any updates at all i flashed MF3 with CSC:TTT
now MG9 was released for TTT and when i tried to use kies it said the device wasnt supported and it showed TPA as my CSC even though i flashed TTT firmware
the phone has never been rooted or anything, just flashed TTT in Odin once and thats it
now im downloading MG9 from Sammobile to use with odin but still... will i have to download 1.5gbs of data in firmwares to update my phone? or is there a way to fix kies?
PS: my device still has official status
Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

You will have to change the csc of your phone with an app like csc changer. I had this problem sort of in reverse. The csc of the phone was btu but the firmware csc was something else. Root phone with cfautoroot and then install csc changer app from play market. This will let you properly change the csc of your phone to match your firmware and you should be able to get ota and kies updates after that.
Once you change csc with csc changer, also install chainfires triangle awsy app to reset your flash count to 0. Then flash the stock firmware for the csc/country you want updated from and you are good to go!
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

If you already know how to use sammobile and flash firmware with ODIN just keep doing it, That way you can update the moment a new firmware cames out.
And if mobile data works, there's no need to change CSC.
I believe this is the best way to use the phone.
But if you really have problems downloading such big updates (1.5 GB) and want to keep things officially using KIES, just do what owgees said.

[Q] how to update to mj6

Hello, i'm on branded orange mi7 french and would like to unbranded and install last mj6 from england.
So is it possible to unbranded and update without knox 01?
To after root with vroot.
Thanks

Nope sorry. Mj6 will trip the counter. You can still try installing from sammobile and dont root it.
Sent from Note 3 (The beauty & beast)

I went from mj3 malaysian xme to Britain btu mj6 thru Odin and it did not trip my flash counter
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

patrick92260 said:
I went from mj3 malaysian xme to Britain btu mj6 thru Odin and it did not trip my flash counter
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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That's right, but try to root it.... You now have the new bootloaders that trip when you root, and if something goes wrong forget using Kies 3 to fix as the newest firmware Malaysia has to date is MJ1, the old bootloader.... Welcome to bootloopssville, population - You....

berju said:
Hello, i'm on branded orange mi7 french and would like to unbranded and install last mj6 from england.
So is it possible to unbranded and update without knox 01?
To after root with vroot.
Thanks
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I don't know about the branded version, but I succeeded in flashing MJ6-BTU on my french XEF phone. Root is working - Knox is 0x0.
Universal RDLV is able to create the system.img.ext4 and cache.img.ext4 files, but you have to include some other files from the Samsung tar.md5 file or camera and WLAN will be broken. DO NOT include the *.mbn files - DO NOT include the unmodified system.img.ext4 - this would result in Knox 0x1.

gnadenlos said:
I don't know about the branded version, but I succeeded in flashing MJ6-BTU on my french XEF phone. Root is working - Knox is 0x0.
Universal RDLV is able to create the system.img.ext4 and cache.img.ext4 files, but you have to include some other files from the Samsung tar.md5 file or camera and WLAN will be broken. DO NOT include the *.mbn files - DO NOT include the unmodified system.img.ext4 - this would result in Knox 0x1.
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Hello do you flash a rdlv version or a non modified one?

The safest way to go up (providing you currently have nothing higher than MJ1), is to create a URDLV Firmware, to keep the old boot loader.
Then flash the modem and NON-HLOS file from the original Samsung tar file.
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berju said:
Hello do you flash a rdlv version or a non modified one?
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You flash a RDLV version, but you have to add some additional files from the Samsung firmware. At least you have to add NON-HLOS and modem, but in my case this wasn't enough, so I built a new .tar.md5 file with almost everything. The only files I didn't include were the *.mbn files. System+Cache from the RDLV tar.md5, the rest from the Samsung tar.md5 file.

Can i flash mj1 With odin without knox01 and after flash rdlv mj6 or mj7
Thanks

berju said:
Can i flash mj1 With odin without knox01 and after flash rdlv mj6 or mj7
Thanks
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Start by reading this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2487916&page=10 at post 93
You will understand how to create your UK MJ7 firmware unbranded and rooted. Don't flash a newer firmware than MJ1 to keep the old bootloader and don't use kingoapp or vroot .... They use an exploit which won't exist anymore when samsung will decide it ! You will be happy to have the old bootloader at this moment ...

geek78 said:
Start by reading this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2487916&page=10 at post 93
You will understand how to create your UK MJ7 firmware unbranded and rooted. Don't flash a newer firmware than MJ1 to keep the old bootloader and don't use kingoapp or vroot .... They use an exploit which won't exist anymore when samsung will decide it ! You will be happy to have the old bootloader at this moment ...
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Thank you, i understand that it's important tout keep the old bootloader. So my iinterrogation is about i update my mi7 directly to rdlv mj7 or i update first to mj1 and after to mj7.
Bootloader on mi7 and mj1 is the same?

berju said:
Thank you, i understand that it's important tout keep the old bootloader. So my iinterrogation is about i update my mi7 directly to rdlv mj7 or i update first to mj1 and after to mj7.
Bootloader on mi7 and mj1 is the same?
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directly

geek78 said:
directly
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thanks a lot, i'll try this.
Last question, this firmware is rooted ?

It will be rooted by following the process "root de la vega", so before flashing it

geek78 said:
It will be rooted by following the process "root de la vega", so before flashing it
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Ok thanks, now it's time to read the post and try :good:

geek78 said:
It will be rooted by following the process "root de la vega", so before flashing it
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hello, just for confirmation i just need put the files on root of internal sd card. I don't need flash AP/CSC because i flash RDLV before ?
I've just flash RDLV MJ7 and now i just try to root.
Thanks again.
EDIT : root is done, just put files reboot... remove and done.
Thanks all for your help !!

patrick92260 said:
I went from mj3 malaysian xme to Britain btu mj6 thru Odin and it did not trip my flash counter
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I bought what I thought was a UK Note 3 (via Amazon UK) but it turns out to be a Malaysian XME one. I've therefore been looking at moving over to the BTU firmware. Was it simply a case of downloading (I've done this from Sammobile) and installing via Odin? Any issues encountered?
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anencephal said:
I bought what I thought was a UK Note 3 (via Amazon UK) but it turns out to be a Malaysian XME one. I've therefore been looking at moving over to the BTU firmware. Was it simply a case of downloading (I've done this from Sammobile) and installing via Odin? Any issues encountered?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using xda app-developers app
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Hello,
i'm not sure what you want exactly. If i understand your phone is XME and you want BTU ? So if you flash a rom from sammobile with multi-csc your phone rest on XME. You need to flash BTU exclusive one ( i think, ask for confirmation ).
But before flash you need to know if you want root after or customise, because of knox warrantly and new bootloader you can't do this is you don't do the right thing.
You can read this also :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47225951&postcount=112

I think it can be done using this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47091411&postcount=62&nocache=1&z=5607935257721692

[Q] Note 3 OTA update

Hi,
I have question regarding the OTA update, which I am not get it in my Note 3 SM-N9005 (not rooted),my current firmware is MJ1. When i click on check for update it tells me that i have the latest firmware!!
Am i missing something?why my note 3 not updating?
thank you.

It hasn't been rolled out to your region yet.

ilikegoogle said:
It hasn't been rolled out to your region yet.
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how long does it take to rollout to all regions?
I live in Malaysia
thank you

OTA
I got my OTA update yesterday yet to find out the change log for your region I guess the update has not yet been rolled out it will take some more time

Dahdoul said:
Hi,
I have question regarding the OTA update, which I am not get it in my Note 3 SM-N9005 (not rooted),my current firmware is MJ1. When i click on check for update it tells me that i have the latest firmware!!
Am i missing something?why my note 3 not updating?
thank you.
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just go here and download latest update http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N9005
and save yourself lot of time waiting for update

Just be aware you will change your CSC and also your bootloader to the newest. As your region hasn't updated to a firmware with the latest bootloader if you have a problem and need to do an emergency firmware restore, it won't work. Your phone will start bootlooping as the older firmware is incompatible with the new bootloader...

ultramag69 said:
Just be aware you will change your CSC and also your bootloader to the newest. As your region hasn't updated to a firmware with the latest bootloader if you have a problem and need to do an emergency firmware restore, it won't work. Your phone will start bootlooping as the older firmware is incompatible with the new bootloader...
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so I shouldn't update if I'm rooted?

wudien said:
so I shouldn't update if I'm rooted?
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OK, depends how you do it. I've used Mobile ODIN Pro to upgrade firmware from MJ1 to MJ7 while still retaining root. This also has the extra benefit of NOT flashing that new crusty bootloader that won't allow root or triggering warranty void.
Also I can still do my emergency recovery as it has the old bootloader.
There are people using RDLVC to upgrade to newer firmwares but Mobile ODIN Pro is easier for me (just remember though, Knox will ALWAYS be triggered if you flash a custom kernel\recovery - this is for stock flash only).
As long as you have the old bootloader, you can upgrade using MOP without triggering Knox.
Kingoapp and Vroot have been removed from XDA as there was extra information being taken from your device for no good reason... You will probably see clone phones with these IMEI's coming out in a while...

ultramag69 said:
OK, depends how you do it. I've used Mobile ODIN Pro to upgrade firmware from MJ1 to MJ7 while still retaining root. This also has the extra benefit of NOT flashing that new crusty bootloader that won't allow root or triggering warranty void.
Also I can still do my emergency recovery as it has the old bootloader.
There are people using RDLVC to upgrade to newer firmwares but Mobile ODIN Pro is easier for me (just remember though, Knox will ALWAYS be triggered if you flash a custom kernel\recovery - this is for stock flash only).
As long as you have the old bootloader, you can upgrade using MOP without triggering Knox.
Kingoapp and Vroot have been removed from XDA as there was extra information being taken from your device for no good reason... You will probably see clone phones with these IMEI's coming out in a while...
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well. Unfortunately att forcefully updated my phone while I was sleeping and broke root . but it says I'm still on MJ5..

wudien said:
well. Unfortunately att forcefully updated my phone while I was sleeping and broke root . but it says I'm still on MJ5..
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As far as I've read, anything over MJ3 contains the new anti-root bootloader. Flashing any form of root will trigger knox warranty void...

[Q] will changing csc trip knox?

Hello everyone
I wonder if anyone can give me a concise answer...
I have bought a brand new SM-G900F of e*bay.
It turned out to be a HongKong CSC of TGY.
Normally I wouldn't mind that but after two weeks it became somewhat sluggish so I decided to remove/disable some of the apps running in the background.
I have no root access and the knox is still 0x0 so I couldn't mess with the system apps anyway.
But, for some strange reason my phone's status became CUSTOM???
I've checked the knox and its still 0x0 but I cannot check for updates anymore
So I wondered if I could change my CSC to a UK one without root access and without tripping knox?
If not, is my only option factory reset? Will it bring OFFICIAL status to my phone?
Thanks in advance.
T

Nope bro, you will be safe as long as you don't root your device.
sent from galaxy s5 using tapatalk pro

Ok, thank you
Can I then change the CSC without root?
If yes, then what is the easiest way of doing so?
I did try googling the subject but all the results correspond to Note3, etc...

Allright, ignore my previous post,
I've found the app called PhoneInfo that does it all for me...
Thanks again

My phone was unlocked Germany T-Mobile and and i wanted to remove carrier apps so i flashed an unbranded stock image from sammobile.com with Odin.
It seams that it didn't trip knox flag, it's still 0x0 and device status "official".
I didn't wanted to change CSC because it factory resets the phone and my firmware was not the latest anyways.

My status changes to Custom, when I enable Art, instead of Dalvik.
Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk

wolek76 said:
Allright, ignore my previous post,
I've found the app called PhoneInfo that does it all for me...
Thanks again
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Can you share a link?

Alright. It's been a few hours since I've asked the question.
The phoneinfo app is here
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Free mobile app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vnd
But it will not change CSC without root I think.(I tried but it complained about lack of SU something).
So instead I just factory reset my phone and had gotten back to official status.
I really didn't want to play with Odin.
I'm hoping to keep Knox 0x0 as long as possible.
Sorry for the confusion, if any...
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wolek76 said:
Alright. It's been a few hours since I've asked the question.
The phoneinfo app is here
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Free mobile app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vnd
But it will not change CSC without root I think.(I tried but it complained about lack of SU something).
So instead I just factory reset my phone and had gotten back to official status.
I really didn't want to play with Odin.
I'm hoping to keep Knox 0x0 as long as possible.
Sorry for the confusion, if any...
☺
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there is an usefull thread for your concern, you can find it here
they state clearly that, change csc could "factory reset" your phone
if you cannot change csc through s5 secret code, you can use csc changer from play store
good luck

babygau said:
there is an usefull thread for your concern, you can find it here
they state clearly that, change csc could "factory reset" your phone
if you cannot change csc through s5 secret code, you can use csc changer from play store
good luck
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But CSC Changer requires root, and getting root trips Knox, as far as I'm aware.
I'm also looking for a way to change CSC without tripping Knox, as I want to move from a carrier branded device to unbranded (BTU). I think that I can just flash a BTU ROM, but then it won't get updates as the CSCs won't match.

arghness said:
But CSC Changer requires root, and getting root trips Knox, as far as I'm aware.
I'm also looking for a way to change CSC without tripping Knox, as I want to move from a carrier branded device to unbranded (BTU). I think that I can just flash a BTU ROM, but then it won't get updates as the CSCs won't match.
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There are 2 ways:
1. Use secret code from my previous post, you might overlook that part
2. Use Odin to flash your desired CSC
You don't have to root your device to change CSC

babygau said:
There are 2 ways:
1. Use secret code from my previous post, you might overlook that part
2. Use Odin to flash your desired CSC
You don't have to root your device to change CSC
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I don't think the code works on the GS5 (at least not on my branded version).
I'll look in to flashing a CSC via Odin -- I haven't seen how to do that yet, or if it affects Knox. Flashing another ROM with a different CSC should work, I think, but I don't think that changes the CSC, so there won't be any automatic ROM updates.

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I don't think the code works on the GS5 (at least not on my branded version).
I'll look in to flashing a CSC via Odin -- I haven't seen how to do that yet, or if it affects Knox. Flashing another ROM with a different CSC should work, I think, but I don't think that changes the CSC, so there won't be any automatic ROM updates.
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I'm stuck in this predicament. I have a tmobile galaxy s5 and was just going to flash a G900F firmware with the tmobile(G900T) modem but found out after I brought the phone that the phone is locked to the tmobile variant firmware. That sucks. And there is no break out of the modem, CSC, and phone yet so no go.