downgrade lollipop to kitkat 4.4.2 - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello. Today I installed on my notes 3 SM-N9005 lollipop 5.0 version Poland but I found them a few problems: the first is that the vibration of the keyboard does not work. I found two of the slowdowns in the task manager. Now if I want to return to kitkat I can do fleshando firmware via Odin? ??

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I asked the same question with no accurate answer, i found a thread on how to downgrade from leaked ver. Of lolipop and not the official one and i won't risk trying this method, what I'm asking for is it possible to downgrade to official kitkat using odin specially that i have ticked update bootloader button when i flashed official Lolipop.
Will this work or we are risking our mobiles for a brick?
Appreciate if someone answered us with a proven record.
Regards,

however I have seen videos on youtube that have made the downgrade from 4.4.2 to 4.3 fleshando only the firmaware dacendo and then wipe data / cache. I think the same procedure also applies to switch lollipop kitkat.

It's safe to downgrade using odin. I did it myself from the leaked and the official release (both of them with the bootloader updated). In case odin complains about size just check my last posts and use the PIT file I provided.
Sent from my SM-N9005

Hi,
I have downgraded from the Polish Lollipop without using a PIT file - successfully. You will need to carry out a data wipe and factory reset, but it worked fine.

I couldn't... flashing ENC2 with Odin gave me size error, flashing with PIT solved that, but my IMEI and Baseband were gone. I gave up at that point, flashed Lolipop again and am back to normal now.

azidhaka said:
I couldn't... flashing ENC2 with Odin gave me size error, flashing with PIT solved that, but my IMEI and Baseband were gone. I gave up at that point, flashed Lolipop again and am back to normal now.
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it just happens to me .... it would be nice to someone who really knows solve this problem make a tutorial on how to return to kk

Download N9005XXUGNK2 from sammobile and flash with odin, after the flash complete do a factory reset via recovery or your phone wont boot and will be stucked in samsung logo

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Downgrade Impossible (I9500 Folks) Help

After flashing 4.3 leak on my I9500 using Odin 3.09, it doesn't boot up as it should, I have wiped data/cache, but to no avail. I even flashed the Russian official 4.3 firmware, but it just doesn't boot up as it should.
When I turn on the phone, the phone stops right after the "Galaxy S4 I9500," screen. I see a black screen right after that.
I tried to downgrade my phone using Odin 3.09, 3.07 and 3.04, but it keeps failing. My S4 shows "unsupported version," when I try to flash stock 4.2.2.
I am guessing this is probably happening because of the newer bootloader, the newer bootloader is making it impossible to downgrade to an older version.
exclaimed said:
After flashing 4.3 leak on my I9500 using Odin 3.09, it doesn't boot up as it should, I have wiped data/cache, but to no avail. I even flashed the Russian official 4.3 firmware, but it just doesn't boot up as it should.
When I turn on the phone, the phone stops right after the "Galaxy S4 I9500," screen. I see a black screen right after that.
I tried to downgrade my phone using Odin 3.09, 3.07 and 3.04, but it keeps failing. My S4 shows "unsupported version," when I try to flash stock 4.2.2.
I am guessing this is probably happening because of the newer bootloader, the newer bootloader is making it impossible to downgrade to an older version.
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ok try this first use the cf root provided in the cf root thread and then dload the latest 4.2.2 http://samsung-updates.com/details/14135/Galaxy_S_4_Exynos_Octa/GT-I9500/XFE/I9500XXUBMH1.html from here and flash it see what happens
Solved.
The problem was that I didn't flash the stock rom that came with my phone. I flashed that and my phone was restored to its factory settings. However my imei was messed up, it was showing me 0049. I rooted, flashed twrp recovery and used twrp to restore from a backup and I got my imei back along with my data.
I will wait for 4.3 to become flashable and see how it goes then.
hypergamer1231 said:
ok try this first use the cf root provided in the cf root thread and then dload the latest 4.2.2 http://samsung-updates.com/details/14135/Galaxy_S_4_Exynos_Octa/GT-I9500/XFE/I9500XXUBMH1.html from here and flash it see what happens
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Hi, I got back from version 4.2.2 to say. Thank you. But the 4.2.2 's what I want to install other versions (eg Russian version) still odin error. Is it possible to install other versions?
volkantipi said:
Hi, I got back from version 4.2.2 to say. Thank you. But the 4.2.2 's what I want to install other versions (eg Russian version) still odin error. Is it possible to install other versions?
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i had this issue on my gs3 , try to move the odin md5 rom file and the odin folder to C: or my documents . maybe one of those directories where u have them right now are too large (odin has issues with long directories)

[Q] Odin Flashing Problems with Note 3 and Kitkat

I have rooted my Samsung Note 3 with a custom rom running Jellybean 4.3 with clockwork mod recovery. I have tripped knox due to rooting it. When Kitkat came out March 17th 2014, I wanted to upgrade and go back to official firmware with Kitkat to try it out. Since I have rooted my phone to run viper4android audio kernel I am unable to do an official OTA or Kies update. That said I went about downloading the new Bell Canada Note 3 firmware 4.4.2. I was told to flash a Jellybean Bell Firmware first before flashing the Kitkat version to avoid boot loops or other problems. Trying to do so with Odin in download mode ended in failure just trying to flash jellybean stock. Didnt get that far really. It showed a fail in the Note 3 screen to this effect in read this message (sw rev check fail : sbl1 fused 2 binary 1) . Odin didnt load like I am usually use to seeing by unzipping the firmware into a folder and adding it to the PDA field. After I loaded the .tar file (md5) file into pda it checked it and then told me its finished successfully but the next line it said CS Fail. After hitting start it said fail instantly in the odin window and on the Note 3 I did see a bar showing me the progress of install for 1 second until odin told me of the fail. Now my Note is in download mode and can't get past this problem to get it running again! Please any help would be greatfull to getting me past this problem and onto Kitkat or even back to Jellybean. Any other questions you may have I will supply you the info.
Thanks
Nervous Android user!
weston109 said:
I have rooted my Samsung Note 3 with a custom rom running Jellybean 4.3 with clockwork mod recovery. I have tripped knox due to rooting it. When Kitkat came out March 17th 2014, I wanted to upgrade and go back to official firmware with Kitkat to try it out. Since I have rooted my phone to run viper4android audio kernel I am unable to do an official OTA or Kies update. That said I went about downloading the new Bell Canada Note 3 firmware 4.4.2. I was told to flash a Jellybean Bell Firmware first before flashing the Kitkat version to avoid boot loops or other problems. Trying to do so with Odin in download mode ended in failure just trying to flash jellybean stock. Didnt get that far really. It showed a fail in the Note 3 screen to this effect in read this message (sw rev check fail : sbl1 fused 2 binary 1) . Odin didnt load like I am usually use to seeing by unzipping the firmware into a folder and adding it to the PDA field. After I loaded the .tar file (md5) file into pda it checked it and then told me its finished successfully but the next line it said CS Fail. After hitting start it said fail instantly in the odin window and on the Note 3 I did see a bar showing me the progress of install for 1 second until odin told me of the fail. Now my Note is in download mode and can't get past this problem to get it running again! Please any help would be greatfull to getting me past this problem and onto Kitkat or even back to Jellybean. Any other questions you may have I will supply you the info.
Thanks
Nervous Android user!
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you cant flash back to 4.3 when you on 4.4.2 and did you succeed when flashing 4.4.2?
Flashing
hhai2pth said:
you cant flash back to 4.3 when you on 4.4.2 and did you succeed when flashing 4.4.2?
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I havent been able to do anything. I was on Jellybean 4.3.2 custom rom with a custom recovery and tried to flash it back to a stock version of Jellybean before the update to Kitkat. I didnt get that far to even try flashing Kitkat because flashing Jellybean Canadian stock rom was unsuccessful with the errors I mentioned in my earlier post. Now I am stuck in download mode and unable to flash using odin.
weston109 said:
I havent been able to do anything. I was on Jellybean 4.3.2 custom rom with a custom recovery and tried to flash it back to a stock version of Jellybean before the update to Kitkat. I didnt get that far to even try flashing Kitkat because flashing Jellybean Canadian stock rom was unsuccessful with the errors I mentioned in my earlier post. Now I am stuck in download mode and unable to flash using odin.
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I think you can power if off by pressing the power button for a few seconds. And then flash a custom recovery, reboot and flash a Kit Kat custom rom via Odin or Custom recovery. Hope it helps.
weston109 said:
I havent been able to do anything. I was on Jellybean 4.3.2 custom rom with a custom recovery and tried to flash it back to a stock version of Jellybean before the update to Kitkat. I didnt get that far to even try flashing Kitkat because flashing Jellybean Canadian stock rom was unsuccessful with the errors I mentioned in my earlier post. Now I am stuck in download mode and unable to flash using odin.
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Knox was tripped. You said it yourself. Go and read up on Knox.
The answer will be very clear afterwards. It's quite clear to me.
Also, don't take this the wrong way.... but you probably should not have done any of this my friend. Your skill level makes this obvious.
I suggest not getting a Samsung phone next time as Knox is hard to get around (it's possible, I was rooted on 4.3 and I am now on 4.4.2 stock flashed with Odin and Knox is still 0x0).
weston109 said:
I havent been able to do anything. I was on Jellybean 4.3.2 custom rom with a custom recovery and tried to flash it back to a stock version of Jellybean before the update to Kitkat. I didnt get that far to even try flashing Kitkat because flashing Jellybean Canadian stock rom was unsuccessful with the errors I mentioned in my earlier post. Now I am stuck in download mode and unable to flash using odin.
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what's the CSC of your phone? you should try the one newer vesion of 4.3 cause if it's an older firmware it refused flash

[Q] Help me problems with the TW Lolipop Modem and Bootloader

Hello guys, I need urgent help and i think others who are using the same Bootloader and Modem as well as they flashed the (N9005XXUGBNL8) 5.0 Lolipop firmware and fail to update the old bootloader and modem (N9005XXUENA6) 4.4.2 Kitkat using Odin3 v3.10. I've tried every single Odin versions and I followed the steps correctly. As i flash my Note 3 using Odin3 v3.10, it pass and boot as usual but when i check my About Phone in the settings, the Baseband remains the same. Even when i check the Phone Info, Its modem and bootloader is still the old 4.4.2 Kitkat. So how can I fix this? Or do i just flash an old 4.4.2 Rom back to its Original state before Lolipop? I really did tried all the stuffs i know from the web. Please get back to me if anyone can solve this problem. Because im stuck here with a 5.0 Lolipop installed to my phone but my modem and bootloader is 4.2.2 Kitkat. I even tried maually flashing the modem 4 times using Odin but still no luck. Do help me as quick as possible.
AqilM said:
Hello guys, I need urgent help and i think others who are using the same Bootloader and Modem as well as they flashed the (N9005XXUGBNL8) 5.0 Lolipop firmware and fail to update the old bootloader and modem (N9005XXUENA6) 4.4.2 Kitkat using Odin3 v3.10. I've tried every single Odin versions and I followed the steps correctly. As i flash my Note 3 using Odin3 v3.10, it pass and boot as usual but when i check my About Phone in the settings, the Baseband remains the same. Even when i check the Phone Info, Its modem and bootloader is still the old 4.4.2 Kitkat. So how can I fix this? Or do i just flash an old 4.4.2 Rom back to its Original state before Lolipop? I really did tried all the stuffs i know from the web. Please get back to me if anyone can solve this problem. Because im stuck here with a 5.0 Lolipop installed to my phone but my modem and bootloader is 4.2.2 Kitkat. I even tried maually flashing the modem 4 times using Odin but still no luck. Do help me as quick as possible.
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Gotta flash it twice bro, untick auto restart, flash the modem only and then flash the modem only again
Grantius said:
Gotta flash it twice bro, untick auto restart, flash the modem only and then flash the modem only again
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Still no luck bro , I think its the bootloader problem. But im not sure if my bootloader is lock or just that this old bootloader is stuck forever. Someone help me fix this bootloader problem on the (N9005XXUENA6) Leak 4.4.2 kitkat firmware.

How to do downgrade from 5.1.1 to 4.4.2 on Tab 4 8.0 T33x

Who knows how to do downgrade from 5.1.1 to 4.4.2 on Tab 4 8.0 T33x ?
download aand flash the firmware with odin from here.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
make an account for download.
repey6 said:
Who knows how to do downgrade from 5.1.1 to 4.4.2 on Tab 4 8.0 T33x ?
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wipe all exept internal/external
Mine is SM-T331. I have tried several ROM from multiple region but I could not downgrade it to 4.4.2. Flashing via Odin was successful, but it stucked at "SAMSUNG" and never booted to ROM,
mountaineer07 said:
Mine is SM-T331. I have tried several ROM from multiple region but I could not downgrade it to 4.4.2. Flashing via Odin was successful, but it stucked at "SAMSUNG" and never booted to ROM,
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Do factory reset in recovery
repey6 said:
Do factory reset in recovery
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I'm using stock ROM T331XXU1BOG4_T331ODD1BOG4_INU. I did factory reset before flashing 4.4.2 ROM package via Odin. Even with T331XXU1ANDA_T331ODD1AND4_INU (same region), it did not work.
mountaineer07 said:
I'm using stock ROM T331XXU1BOG4_T331ODD1BOG4_INU. I did factory reset before flashing 4.4.2 ROM package via Odin. Even with T331XXU1ANDA_T331ODD1AND4_INU (same region), it did not work.
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Repeat wipe now in stock recovery
Temorarily stuck with 5.1.1 for now. I will try repey6's suggestion later.
Many thanks.
bump, does 5.1.1 prevent u from downgrading to 4.4.2? the tablet was updated to 5.1.1 by accident, so i want to downgrade.
EDIT: i was able to downgrade just fine. if your hangs at the smasung boot logo for like 5 mins, power off device and clear the partitions/ data.
I don't think u can downgrade from OI1 according to Smart Switch. So i think i had BOG1
Any success on a sm-t337v??
none yet so far, we i had combination files i could try it again but i cant find any or have access to any for 337v

Will flashing an older firmware get me out of the bootloop?

My model number is the SM-N910P. I was on Android 5.0.1 when I first rooted and flashed CM12.1 on my phone. However, as I incrementally updated the CM nightlies, my signal seemed to get weaker over time even to the point where I simply have no service at all. I decided to snoop around and found that updating firmwares may fix these random signal drops since I was still on the Sprint 5.0.1 firmware while running the CM12.1 based on 5.1.1.
I managed to successfully flash the official 5.1.1 firmware from the Sammobile website and thought for some reason the cf auto root file (based on 4.4.4 according to the site) would work with the 5.1.1 firmware. Obviously, that wasn't the case and now I'm stuck in a bootloop. I assume there is no root method that works with the 5.1.1 firmware yet. Is that true? I do believe that was the reason for the bootloop, but I'm not 100% certain.
I'm currently downloading both the 4.4.4 and the 5.0.1 firmwares. Will flashing either of these firmwares via Odin get rid of the bootloop? Or will it fail?
Thank you for the answers in advanced!
Flash 5.0.1...Flash twrp...root...and then you should be golden
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk
mrao said:
Flash 5.0.1...Flash twrp...root...and then you should be golden
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk
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So I'm pretty certain the "N910PVPU1BOB7_N910PSPT1BOB7_N910PVPU1BOB7_HOME.tar.md5" is the 5.0.1 firmware file. However, it kept failing so I reflashed the 5.1.1 firmware and it oddly enough succeeded. I believe it kept failing because I actually had it flashed on my phone. I was working on the bootloop fix last night so I didn't keep track of which firmware I was flashing.
I managed to successfully get out of the bootloop after reflashing the 5.1.1 firmware. I will try to flash the 5.0.1 firmware again and TWRP.
EDIT: The 5.0.1 firmware was never flashed. I simply just can't seem to flash an older STOCK firmware ever since getting 5.1.1.
UPDATE: Since I couldn't manually flash an older stock firmware via ODIN, I decided to just go ahead and flash TWRP via ODIN then delete all the dalvik cache/cache stuff via advanced wipe. I managed to successfully flash the latest version of the CM12.1 nightlies and gapps zip through the TWRP install option with the current 5.1.1 firmware: N910PVPU4COG5

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