My wife and I just purchased the AT&T US version Galaxy S4 I337 brand new in box with NJ5 4.4.4 firmware stock everything. No rooting nothing. Over the air updates brought in a 485 megabyte update three times. The first two failed, while the third attempt apparently succeeded.
I have checked updates twice since and it states "Current." In the "about phone" section it lists "Official" now.
I am EXTREMELY familiar with flashing custom and stock roms to my T-Mobile SGH-M919. I have downloaded the AT&T 5.0 Rom. Can I just dirty flash with Odin? Does the phone's locked bootloader prevent the Odin flash? Any tips or hints on this would be great.
I downgraded my T-mobile S4 to 4.4.2 from 4.4.4 with ease. With the AT&T be just as easy with the 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 with Lollipop?
cheers for any pointers or thoughts.
You probably purchased the phone with NJ4 firmware, and when you ran the OTA update, it upgraded you to NJ5. This is a security update which is believed to respond to the stagefright bug. Since the security update became available about a week ago, the OTA update from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 has been replaced with the security update, so that those on 4.4.4 stay on 4.4.4, and those on 5.0.1 get the update from OC3 to OC4.
It is never good practice to dirty flash, and is impossible when changing base. Please read the various guides available in the general forum for guidance on how to proceed. Or if you are patient, maybe the OTA from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1 will be reactivated soon, and you can upgrade the phone that way.
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Hi,
Currently a relative of mine has a S4 unlocked here in Canada, but it is the AT&T Variant (SGH-i337). His phone is rooted, but before I rooted, I tried updating through OTA to Kitkat but the Software Updater tells me there are no available updates. I've also tried connecting it to Kies but it tells me to update via OTA. How can I update his phone to Kitkat? He's currently on Rogers Wireless and is currently using Android 4.3. Also once I update it, is there a way to root it again without tripping knox or voiding the warranty?
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Hi,
Currently a relative of mine has a S4 unlocked here in Canada, but it is the AT&T Variant (SGH-i337). His phone is rooted, but before I rooted, I tried updating through OTA to Kitkat but the Software Updater tells me there are no available updates. I've also tried connecting it to Kies but it tells me to update via OTA. How can I update his phone to Kitkat? He's currently on Rogers Wireless and is currently using Android 4.3. Also once I update it, is there a way to root it again without tripping knox or voiding the warranty?
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Read the return to stock section of All things ATT thread.
There are 2 versions of kitkat. One that ends with NB1 and the other is NC1 (newer).
If you want to get to NC1, you will have to flash NB1 first (or update to NB1) and then update to NC1.
There are 2 firmware versions for NB1 - one is rootable and other is not (but can be updated to NC1 and then rooted).
You would root it using towelroot (just google for this).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53715703&postcount=2 -- This post of mine will tell you how to update from MK2 to NB1.
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
My S4 (ATT, i337) came with 4.4.2
I updated to 4.4.4, downgraded the bootloader and rooted, safestrapped. Then back to 4.4.4 bootloader.
Now when I try to do OTA update to 5.0.1 around 27% the update fails and reboots the phone back
into 4..4.4 with interrupted message. My questions are
1. How to updated rooted, safestrapped 4.4.4 S4 to latest 5.0.1?
2. Will odin back to 4.4.2, then OTA update to 5.0.1 help?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
didadi said:
My S4 (ATT, i337) came with 4.4.2
I updated to 4.4.4, downgraded the bootloader and rooted, safestrapped. Then back to 4.4.4 bootloader.
Now when I try to do OTA update to 5.0.1 around 27% the update fails and reboots the phone back
into 4..4.4 with interrupted message. My questions are
1. How to updated rooted, safestrapped 4.4.4 S4 to latest 5.0.1?
2. Will odin back to 4.4.2, then OTA update to 5.0.1 help?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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Make sure you have at least 1 GB free on internal space and you can try again. Otherwise, check the General Section for the instructions to OTA OC3 and Keep Root and if you really don't want root for some reason you can remove busybox and unroot with SuperSU
Hello,
I just got a Galaxy S5 ATNT (SM-G900A) version with firmware 4.4.2 and build number KOT49H.G900AUCU2AND3
I want to upgrade it to Lollipop, but from what I had seen, I need to upgrade it to 4.4.4 first, How can I achieve that?
I'm not on the ATNT Network(in result, OTA is not working), As i'm living abroad. My phone is factory unlocked.
I had also found an OTA .zip but it's a NG3 one, so I'm not sure if it's compatible with my device.
Thanks guys! (I'm hoping I could do this via the stock recovery way)
*I mean 4.4.4 at the title
I believe theres some ota zips but im not certain theres a way available thats been posted to do this, most of them use odin to get to stock and then using ota to update, or updating to get root, i havent seen one about just manually updating to 5.0, go give the att s5 general section a peek. Otherwise i'd ask the mods to move this over to the att q&a section, im sure one of the devs in the att s5 section would be happy to help.
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Oh, i was incorrect, yes there is a lollipop OTA dump, check the att s5 general section, should be able to sideload.
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Hey! Thank you for the reply,
I tried one of the lollipop ota .zips
Named
ATTS5Lollipop.zip
It doesn't install though, when I restart the device it's still on KitKat
Plus the manual ota .zips are for NG3s only,
Are those compatible with my device? (ND3)
NVM,
Downgraded to NCE,
Then upgraded to NG3
Then upgraded to OA1
Then to Lollipop.
I just purchased an unlocked stock I337 S4 from Ebay that I intend to send to the Phillipines for my fiancee. It currently has MK2 firmware. I would like to upgrade it to OC4 before I send it overseas. I tried using ODIN to flash it to OC4, but it fails.
I managed to root it using Saferoot, and that worked except now it has a lock icon and says CUSTOM on the boot screen, but it still boots fine.
Anyway, I have been reading through this forum for about 3 hours now, and have found no sensible way to update this phone. Even if I could just update it to 4.4.4 I would be happy. Do I have to upgrade it step by step through all the firmware updates? Do I really need to have Safestrap installed to do a stock upgrade from a stock ROM?
Any links that could be provided to make this an easy process would be most appreciated..
You're so close. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
Snapping along on stock rooted 0C4 I337, wishing for some good up to date lollipop ROM's to throw into flashfire