I purchased a used note 3 that is rooted and its running on 4.3 jellybean.I want to upgrade it to 4.4 kitkat but obvious it can't be done through ota update as i am totally noob in these thing.please guide me how to do it i don't want to brick my phone using wrong firmwares.
I searched on forum and i found out that most of the roms cfws are for note 3 4.4 now.I haven't done anything like this before so please help this newbie out of this.
flash with odin stock KK and root it with cf auto root and flash custom rom
Okay so I followed the Lollipop Root guide perfectly, and I know I did, however the SS flash kept bricking my phone so I just gave up and took the official OTA.
Can I downgrade my phone back to Kitkat, even though the Bootloader is now updated to Lollipop? Or will I have to wait for someone to find a new exploit in Lollipop?
No wait... just check the Q & A sticky
Q&A doesnt talk about updated bootloaders and out-of-date kernels working together.
Yes. I bought my S5 off a guy on FB. Had 5.0 on it. Downgraded it back to MK2 444 with Odin
Hey guys,
I might have found a Verizon Note 3 still running 4.4.2. According to what I am reading on these forums, this phone should still be rootable and I should be able to install a custom lollipop rom on it correct?
Hi all,
I am currently on the newest version of android for note 3, 5.0, bootloader end with DOH1. I am tired of using lollipop now so I want to downgrade to the stock firmware 4.3. I did try to do it by using Odin few months ago but failed. The reason maybe that Samsung doesn't allow the downgrade of bootloader so I have to stick with lollipop for good. Just want to confirm whether that true? And is there any way to get around it? I don't care to tirp the KNox counter at all as I am out of the warrenty period anyway. Preferably official firmware instead of custom Rom.
Thank you in advance!
Hi, I meant SGH-i337 in the title.
I beleive I posted this in the completely wrong phone section last time, so I am posting this here.
My device model is the SGH-I337. I downloaded Odin version 3.12.3, downloaded the official drivers for the Samsung S4 USB, but I can't seem to find stock Lollipop 5.0.1. SamMobile only gives the 4.x versions for some reason. I started following the below link for a method to at least flash an older firmware to my phone, but I want to flash stock Lollipop. Is there even a way to get Lollipop back without root?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/help/guide-att-samsung-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337-t3383078
I was able to downgrade, but I still need an official stock 5.0.1 firmware. My virus protection says towelroot is a virus, so I don't want to go that route. If I do an OTA upgrade after I flash the old firmware from the above link, will it brick my phone? It's rootable NB1 ROM. I already tried to install the stock 4.x firmware from SamMobile, but that doesn't work, so it seems I need stock Lollipop.
AT&T never released a stock lollipop firmware that can be flashed with Odin. All at&t updates were released ota.
The MechE said:
Hi, I meant SGH-i337 in the title.
I beleive I posted this in the completely wrong phone section last time, so I am posting this here.
My device model is the SGH-I337. I downloaded Odin version 3.12.3, downloaded the official drivers for the Samsung S4 USB, but I can't seem to find stock Lollipop 5.0.1. SamMobile only gives the 4.x versions for some reason. I started following the below link for a method to at least flash an older firmware to my phone, but I want to flash stock Lollipop. Is there even a way to get Lollipop back without root?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/help/guide-att-samsung-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337-t3383078
I was able to downgrade, but I still need an official stock 5.0.1 firmware. My virus protection says towelroot is a virus, so I don't want to go that route. If I do an OTA upgrade after I flash the old firmware from the above link, will it brick my phone? It's rootable NB1 ROM. I already tried to install the stock 4.x firmware from SamMobile, but that doesn't work, so it seems I need stock Lollipop.
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https://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37698
or if your want a dirict download
http://www.mediafire.com/file/g7cqg4a3zvuttd8/5.0.1.OC3(Farsat+Sagvan).zip
Hi I am running goldeneye custom rom on my i-337 5.0.1 with ok2 kernel. If you go to that forum thread in development, you will find very detailed instructions to get att s4 to 5.0.1 stock. As a side note I can assure you if you just download towel root on your phone, install and run there is no virus of any sort. Make sure you download from towelroot .com
On second look through I don't think there is stock 5.0.1 using safestrap....
paintballa628628 said:
Hi I am running goldeneye custom rom on my i-337 5.0.1 with ok2 kernel. If you go to that forum thread in development, you will find very detailed instructions to get att s4 to 5.0.1 stock. As a side note I can assure you if you just download towel root on your phone, install and run there is no virus of any sort. Make sure you download from towelroot .com
On second look through I don't think there is stock 5.0.1 using safestrap....
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Yupp absolutely true its completely a false positive I've used towlroot many many many times....