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Prevent i337 Software update?

Again, sorry if this is in the wrong place but i dont know who else to ask but you guys.
I originally got my galaxy s4 (AT&T) when it first came out and couldnt wait to root and flash. A couple months later i had to do a warranty exchange just to figure out that it came preinstalled with MF3 (damn mf3) i ended up rooting and like most of you guy who arent/wouldnt be able to flash probably are bored. I then had to do another warranty exchange and when i powered the phone on i went to the more tab in settings and the "about device" was blue not yellow. I knew the phone was on an older firmware and i did confirm it to be on MDL (Sigh of relief) right away i started to root and downloading roms. i havent flashed any yet. My question is, on my stock rom (i am rooted) i keep getting a message. the the red and blue arrows for a new software (its that damn mf3) I DONT WANT IT!!! lol is there any way to stop it from asking me. i keep postponing it but i rerad somewhere u can only do that so much, im all nervous that im gonna wake up one morning and see MF3 took over my phone again lol.
sorry for the essay, if anyone has any info on how to stop it from asking that would be very much appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Dave

This should got in the QA forum. You can download a custom rom to get rid of the message or a freeze a few apps. If I were you, I'd get a custom rom, otherwise why would you care about not having MF3.

ddix585 said:
Again, sorry if this is in the wrong place but i dont know who else to ask but you guys.
sorry for the essay, if anyone has any info on how to stop it from asking that would be very much appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Dave
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268946
Good luck
And for future, please post in Q & A section.

Or do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41424569&postcount=4

And i would freeze those apps right away like the 2 links that were post it on top if not MF3 will automatically update you phone so you need to hurry and do this Good Luck!

Custom ROM and MF3
visuelz said:
This should got in the QA forum. You can download a custom rom to get rid of the message or a freeze a few apps. If I were you, I'd get a custom rom, otherwise why would you care about not having MF3.
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So if i do flash a custom rom i dont need to worry about it asking or updating on its own. i just flashed vision x ROM TW with Ktoones Kernel and i am loving the rom so far. But if i just keep a custom rom i dont have to worry about the update doing it by itself or freezing it?
Thanks to all the answers,
David

ddix585 said:
So if i do flash a custom rom i dont need to worry about it asking or updating on its own. i just flashed vision x ROM TW with Ktoones Kernel and i am loving the rom so far. But if i just keep a custom rom i dont have to worry about the update doing it by itself or freezing it?
Thanks to all the answers,
David
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That is correct, good sir. If you froze the update apps/apks you will not be prompt for an update.
However, if you do end up odin'ing your phone for some reason, be sure to quickly block the update by rooting your phone and freeze once again. Odin removes root
Enjoy your custom rom as you are one of the lucky ones still on the old MDL update :good:

[Q] just switched back to Android, quick question.

Im pretty interested in putting CM on my s4, even though everyone seems to be going in a different direction now....Im not rooted yet, and I cant seem to find a tutorial anywhere on how to root AND put CM on my phone, because I have the me7 update. Is it even possible, or not worth doing? Im not really worried about it being complicated, just if its at all possible.
Sorry if this isnt the correct place for this!

re: rooting and recovery
flare0n said:
Im pretty interested in putting CM on my s4, even though everyone seems to be going in a different direction now....Im not rooted yet, and I cant seem to find a tutorial anywhere on how to root AND put CM on my phone, because I have the me7 update. Is it even possible, or not worth doing? Im not really worried about it being complicated, just if its at all possible.
Sorry if this isnt the correct place for this!
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The easiest thing to do is to download the stock/rooted i9505 odin flash rom and flash it.
It is pre-rooted so all you need to do is to odin flash cwm recovery or download goomanager
from play store (free app) to your phone and the latest TWRP recovery with it.
Here is the link for downloading the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 stock rooted rom:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254943
Good luck!

[Q] Verizon galaxy note 3 roms!!!

Hi guys, I have a question regarding some roming stuff with the verizon version of the galaxy note 3. I am not new to roms by any means and I have been searching frantically to find one place with the complete answer im looking for. I made the early mistake of taking the OTA upgrade for KK, therefore I am currently running 4.4.2 with the NC4 build and NC4 baseband. Now while i have easily rooted my phone at this point with the towelroot. I also have had no problem getting the new 3.72 safestrap installed and running on my phone. My question now at this point is trying to figure out my next step with a new ROM I am trying install....I have been looking at all of my info to get the Hyperdrive ROM installed and I cant seem to find all the info I need in one location. Can I or can I not flash a new ROM to the NC4 baseband? I have seen some information where some people say I might be able to flash the NC2 kernal using ODIN and others say just trying to flash any ROM in general creates a black screen in which a battery pull needs to be done...yada yada.....? So in short, am I able to flash a ROM to the note 3 at this point or am I S.O.L? :crying:

You are not going to receive an answer because you posted a question in the "General" section. Hopefully a mod can move this thread to the "Q & A" section.

Thanks...
Gee thanks?
jkuczy16 said:
You are not going to receive an answer because you posted a question in the "General" section. Hopefully a mod can move this thread to the "Q & A" section.
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I am in the same exact predicament. Every rom I install just gives me a black screen. I'd love a solution to this.
Sent from my SM-N900V using XDA Free mobile app

JasmineRom 1.7.2
Check out the OP by hsbadr he has done some great work and he lists very specific instructions on how to complete the flash of firmware/modem and rom without any problems

flashing note 3 custom roms etc to avoid "mandatory updates.
I'm in the same boat. I read that there's a possibility I should flash NC2 but I can't find a write up or sticky that says how. However I just received a notice that pointed me to some threads and answered my questions on terminology. ThankYou DavidFlory!! I will formally thank you in the thread. Until I can clear up the NC4/NC2 question I plan on keeping the rooted KitKat I've got. I'm scared Verizon/Google will attack again with a mandatory "update." Who's phone is this? What if I firewalled Verizon updater? Or froze it? The other day I did something that had columns of 3 pt text cascading on my screens until I used Samsung Kies to back me up flash the stock rom again. Root was retained. This was a worthwhile exercise as I had gotten carried away downloading android utilities.
alt230
SM-N900VVRUNC4

johnnybravo19 said:
Check out the OP by hsbadr he has done some great work and he lists very specific instructions on how to complete the flash of firmware/modem and rom without any problems
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Do you have the link?
OK so I found the link, followed every step I could which took a couple hours of research to get everything together. ...I flashed the jasmine rom, everything seemed to work fine until the last file in which Odin was successful, then I get a black screen that doesn't go away with any other means than a battery pull. Luckily I used the new 3.75 so I was able to do my rom under a different slot than stock...but maybe that's also the problem? So I'm back with a wiped phone and no custom rom which is irritating

JasmineROM
johnnybravo19 said:
Check out the OP by hsbadr he has done some great work and he lists very specific instructions on how to complete the flash of firmware/modem and rom without any problems
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Do you know where I can get the link for the JasmineROM 1.7.2 because 8 flashed 2.0 and it is devouring my battery.

[Q] Verizon galaxy note 3 om Toubles!

Hi guys, I have a question regarding some roming stuff with the verizon version of the galaxy note 3. I am not new to roms by any means and I have been searching frantically to find one place with the complete answer im looking for. I made the early mistake of taking the OTA upgrade for KK, therefore I am currently running 4.4.2 with the NC4 build and NC4 baseband. Now while i have easily rooted my phone at this point with the towelroot. I also have had no problem getting the new 3.72 safestrap installed and running on my phone. My question now at this point is trying to figure out my next step with a new ROM I am trying install....I have been looking at all of my info to get the Hyperdrive ROM installed and I cant seem to find all the info I need in one location. Can I or can I not flash a new ROM to the NC4 baseband? I have seen some information where some people say I might be able to flash the NC2 kernal using ODIN and others say just trying to flash any ROM in general creates a black screen in which a battery pull needs to be done...yada yada.....? So in short, am I able to flash a ROM to the note 3 at this point or am I S.O.L?

sickorsane1 said:
Hi guys, I have a question regarding some roming stuff with the verizon version of the galaxy note 3. I am not new to roms by any means and I have been searching frantically to find one place with the complete answer im looking for. I made the early mistake of taking the OTA upgrade for KK, therefore I am currently running 4.4.2 with the NC4 build and NC4 baseband. Now while i have easily rooted my phone at this point with the towelroot. I also have had no problem getting the new 3.72 safestrap installed and running on my phone. My question now at this point is trying to figure out my next step with a new ROM I am trying install....I have been looking at all of my info to get the Hyperdrive ROM installed and I cant seem to find all the info I need in one location. Can I or can I not flash a new ROM to the NC4 baseband? I have seen some information where some people say I might be able to flash the NC2 kernal using ODIN and others say just trying to flash any ROM in general creates a black screen in which a battery pull needs to be done...yada yada.....? So in short, am I able to flash a ROM to the note 3 at this point or am I S.O.L?
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Yes you can!! As long as the rom says that they support it you can. It says right here in red on the hyperdrive op-" This Rom is able to be installed on the Verizon Galaxy Note 3 On KitKat Bootloader with KK Safestrap" so make a backup with safestrap and try it out! And since it doesn't say anything about what specific one to use (I see what you are talking about) you won't have any harm with a backup. By the way the reason why a lot of roms were/are based on NC2 was because it was way more leniant than NC4 but now most if not all roms will support it. Just read the op.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome

K03WL3R said:
Yes you can!! As long as the rom says that they support it you can. It says right here in red on the hyperdrive op-" This Rom is able to be installed on the Verizon Galaxy Note 3 On KitKat Bootloader with KK Safestrap" so make a backup with safestrap and try it out! And since it doesn't say anything about what specific one to use (I see what you are talking about) you won't have any harm with a backup. By the way the reason why a lot of roms were/are based on NC2 was because it was way more leniant than NC4 but now most if not all roms will support it. Just read the op.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
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Hmmm....well I tried to do the jasmine rom and I seem to have had the same problem that quite a few people are having. I put it in slot 1, created the rom slot and such, reboots into the recovery mode on ss just fine but then it goes to a black screen as if it's off. Have to battery pull. Maybe gonna try a different rom and see where I end up.

I'm running JasmineRom on the stock slot, but I also have the NC2 kernel..
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome

K03WL3R said:
I'm running JasmineRom on the stock slot, but I also have the NC2 kernel..
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
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Should I try stock slot then? I used slot 1 with 3.75

You could try that (I would), or just flash the Nc2 stuff, then boot up (on stock), boot back to recovery and flash JasmineRom on stock. Those steps are just what I did and it worked for me. I'm really sorry but for the life of me that's the best I can remember about what I did. If none of that works, I'll try to install Jasmine onto a rom slot when I can.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome

K03WL3R said:
You could try that (I would), or just flash the Nc2 stuff, then boot up (on stock), boot back to recovery and flash JasmineRom on stock. Those steps are just what I did and it worked for me. I'm really sorry but for the life of me that's the best I can remember about what I did. If none of that works, I'll try to install Jasmine onto a rom slot when I can.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
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I flashed Nc2 from a post on here and still didn't work....I'm about to give up

Have you tried just making a backup and starting over from fresh stock?
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
---------- Post added at 11:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 PM ----------
Also ask here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2780031
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome

You need to flash the rom after you've wiped everything, then reboot to download mode and install the unified firmware via odin. That should work.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome

K03WL3R said:
You need to flash the rom after you've wiped everything, then reboot to download mode and install the unified firmware via odin. That should work.
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
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That did not work as that was the original plan of action. Only to come to a nice black screen

Okay, the dev just posted instructions in his last post on the JasmineRom thread. Check it out, it took me a while for it to work on my phone, it seems like a couple people are like us too.. Just a mix of trial and error
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
Edit: and sorry I couldn't help so far, I don't really want to go back to stock considering this is my daily and I need a bigger sd card to make a full backup. [emoji53]

K03WL3R said:
Okay, the dev just posted instructions in his last post on the JasmineRom thread. Check it out, it took me a while for it to work on my phone, it seems like a couple people are like us too.. Just a mix of trial and error
Sent from my GalaxyAwesome
Edit: and sorry I couldn't help so far, I don't really want to go back to stock considering this is my daily and I need a bigger sd card to make a full backup. [emoji53]
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All good! I finally got it working thanks to you saying the dev mentioned something! Jasmine up and running with no issues!

Jasmine V2
I never sign up for web sites but the Jasmine Rom is just so good I had to say thanks. Also concerning the excess power usage, I noticed that when plugged into AC charger the Android OS goes from 40% down to the 20's. Hope it helps. Again thanks to hsbadr for being a great DEV.
PS: K03WL3R I see you helping on hsbadr's forum, please convey my thanks and suggestion to him, for as I am a new member I can not post on his forum.
Thanks

Sorry it took me so long, there's an open discussion in the general/help section for jasminerom! I'm pretty sure new users can post there?

S4 I377 Frustrated

I know a lot of you guys say search. Well I have searched to the point of frustration.
My ATT GAlaxy was on 4.2, MF3. Yesterday I did manage to get it to 4.4, mk2. It is rooted and safestrap installed.
Seem when I serach I find this or that rom cant be used with safestrap, you need CWM. But wait, CWM doesn't work on my phone. Seems there is a catch 22 , everyplace.
I would just like to find a rom I can put on without big issues. I looked at Cm11 but same deal.
HELP
THanks

welcome to the world of att ****ing us.
you need to use a touchwiz based rom.

509eagle said:
I know a lot of you guys say search. Well I have searched to the point of frustration.
My ATT GAlaxy was on 4.2, MF3. Yesterday I did manage to get it to 4.4, mk2. It is rooted and safestrap installed.
Seem when I serach I find this or that rom cant be used with safestrap, you need CWM. But wait, CWM doesn't work on my phone. Seems there is a catch 22 , everyplace.
I would just like to find a rom I can put on without big issues. I looked at Cm11 but same deal.
HELP
THanks
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All the info you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221