Hi all,
can anyone point out what should i backup before flashing lollipop?
Is there a guide somewhere?
I have a sm-n9005 purchased in italy, 4.4.2 stock, rooted with towel root.
10x
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Da-Don said:
Hi all,
can anyone point out what should i backup before flashing lollipop?
Is there a guide somewhere?
I have a sm-n9005 purchased in italy, 4.4.2 stock, rooted with towel root.
10x
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Backup all items on internal storage and back up your current rom.
Not sure with official lollipop but leak version will wipe your phone storage.
Most importantly backup your efs+imei just in case.
I didnt backup anything before updating via odin. I got the firmware from sammobile.
Nothing was lost.
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Hi thnx
I backed up my imei and efs, my apps with titanium backup, how do i back up my rom?
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Da-Don said:
Hi thnx
I backed up my imei and efs, my apps with titanium backup, how do i back up my rom?
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Well maybe you don't need it. Once you flash lollipop it's quite risky to go back to kit kat. Possible to downgrade, if you like some challenge.
So just go ahead flash lollipop with odin.
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I'm trying to restore my phone so I can sell it so I was wondering how do I remove custom recovery, root and revert back to stock ROM? By reverting back to stock will this allow me to do ota updates?
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bobbycarver said:
I'm trying to restore my phone so I can sell it so I was wondering how do I remove custom recovery, root and revert back to stock ROM? By reverting back to stock will this allow me to do ota updates?
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Hi mate,
Restoring back to stock should restore your OTA ability and remove recovery/root.......There is a back to stock link in my signiature......Follow the guide in there for restoring your phone:good:
CarlM34 said:
Hi mate,
Restoring back to stock should restore your OTA ability and remove recovery/root.......There is a back to stock link in my signiature......Follow the guide in there for restoring your phone:good:
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No not exactly. You also need to reset the flash counter using triangle away app.
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cant I jus t revert to stock via keis?
These are basic questions that you should have known before you started to flash your phone.
But no, Kies won't do anything for you in this case. Use Odin.
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No not exactly. You also need to reset the flash counter using triangle away app.
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Yes...and this would have been discovered reading the entire procedure in the Back to Stock link (Note 4)......Just trying to get others to read a little more as xda is all about reading and learning
Hi!
Got my N9005 with MJ7, so I went and rooted with cf auto-root.
As I'm on 4.3 stock, what are my options for upgrading?
What are the implications of the new 4.4.2 bootloader ?
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Hi!
Got my N9005 with MJ7, so I went and rooted with cf auto-root.
As I'm on 4.3 stock, what are my options for upgrading?
What are the implications of the new 4.4.2 bootloader ?
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only one if you want cm11 you cant flash on 4.4.2 tw
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only one if you want cm11 you cant flash on 4.4.2 tw
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I can live with that as I like the s-pen features.
Should I just flash any firmware?
I see on sammobile there isn't yet a Croatian rom with 4.4.2.
Should I just flash another one if so how to choose and what is the best way to flash?
Will my root survive or will I have to re-root?
Thanks!
Mine didn't survive and now I can't re root for some reason
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ant78 said:
Mine didn't survive and now I can't re root for some reason
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Chainfire has a 4.4.2 version of CF auto-root out, did you try that?
Yeah that's the only one I tried. Seems to install fine but when booted back up supersu isn't even installed
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ant78 said:
Yeah that's the only one I tried. Seems to install fine but when booted back up supersu isn't even installed
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Oh well I'll wait a bit on upgrading then.
Hey Guys:angel:, I would like to know whether I can Restore an Old backup of Jellybean using T.W.R.P, now that my SM-N900 has KitKat!
Kindly tell me can I do that!?
:sly: Make a backup of the KK rom and try. Then you tell us.
Or as IzArsha said, try restore only data. But what's the point of it ?
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Big NO cant do. You can only restore its data. But you might have FC i think
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Apparently you can't go back to 4.3 after updating bootloader to 4.4.2. Something that Samsung put in I've been told.
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I want to root my s4 i9505 running android 4.4.2. I cant find guides on how to root my version (XXUGNG8). I always find so many tutorials but they say you have to be versions like xxufnb8 or something like that and other ones. Please can someone find me a tutorial kn how to root my s4?
Thanks
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I want to root my s4 i9505 running android 4.4.2. I cant find guides on how to root my version (XXUGNG8). I always find so many tutorials but they say you have to be versions like xxufnb8 or something like that and other ones. Please can someone find me a tutorial kn how to root my s4?
Thanks
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Take a look: HERE.
I already found a way to root my phone and it worked. But thanks anyway
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If i flash cwm recovery, will my device be wiped?
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lol123lol said:
If i flash cwm recovery, will my device be wiped?
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I recommend you better TWRP or Philz Recovery. Flashing custom recoveries don't wipe your device :highfive:
No. Flashing recoveries will not wipe your device., but it will trip knox to 0x1. This will void your warranty.
I also recommend TWRP. I couldn't flash CWM recovery. I did, but it just booted into the stock recovery instead of CWM. So I flashed TWRP.
Now that i rooted my phone, sometimes after im dome using it, when i hit the power button to off the sceeen, the phone randomly reboots. It Just straight away goes to the samsung spinning logo and then goes to the homescreen. But during the reboot it doesnt play the song and it doesnt go to the screen that says samsung galaxy s4 gt i9505. It's like its a quick reboot idk. This has happened three times now. Is there a way to fix this?
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It also happens after i end a call
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It also happens after i end a call
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Flash the latest firmware for your device for solve your problems.
Where do i get the latest firmware from? And i dont know which is the latest one. Also will this remove root?
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And has flashing the latest firmware removed this problem for other people?
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Is this happening because of something called knox? Also can you explain what will happen after i flash the latest firmware? Will i lose root?
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Amazing!
Hi, I have the same problem.
I do a wipe reset and a root: root is not working.
I removing root and make some root tentatives:
In Windows (Odin): not working
In Linux (motoshopper): not working
I have the XXUGNG8 and I don't understand why since this update, I can't root again!
Do you have an idea please?
If your talking about the random reboots, it happened to me because i let supersu app disable knox. After that the random reboots started. I fixed that by unfreezing the apps through titanium backup. For me 2 apps called knox notification manager and migration agent were frozen so i unfroze them through titanium backup. Then the random reboots stopped
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After that you have to remove all the knox files in your phone. Check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514703
However, DO NOT delete a file called libknox_encryption.so otherwise your phone will not boot up.
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Hello..i an using note 3 verizon with lollipop 5.0 which i have upgraded to from kitkat 4.4.2 using odin. I am new to this stuff and i cannot find any root method for lollipop. But my question is can i install any custom rom like jasmine without root? What are the prerequisites? I tried to flash cwm recovery but it didn5 work out using odin. Now what are my options. Kindly help please keep in mind that i am a novice.
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taharaza said:
Hello..i an using note 3 verizon with lollipop 5.0 which i have upgraded to from kitkat 4.4.2 using odin. I am new to this stuff and i cannot find any root method for lollipop. But my question is can i install any custom rom like jasmine without root? What are the prerequisites? I tried to flash cwm recovery but it didn5 work out using odin. Now what are my options. Kindly help please keep in mind that i am a novice.
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Novice or expert....you can not root nor install custom ROMs.
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Novice or expert....you can not root nor install custom ROMs.
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Care to explain why not?
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taharaza said:
Care to explain why not?
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Because no exploit is avaliable if you are at our above 4.4.4
No you can't downgrade below 4.4.4
No there's nothing else you can do to get root.
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