I've had this phone for about 6 months now. It has been rooted and I've flashed TWRP. My question is.. Are there any custom roms compatible with my phone? I've tried flashing Unified GSM klte builds and it always gets stuck on "patching system image unconditionally". I hate stock firmware and would really like to put my custom recovery to some use. My device type is klteacg.
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I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S5 today at a local T-Mobile store. But it turns out that the model number is SM-G900T3, for which I cannot find any information on how to root and install custom recovery. Has anyone had any luck with this model? It's build LMY47X.G900T3UVU1FOF6 Android version 5.1.1
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What to do for G900T3 S5
Same here. I went from S4 running cyangenmod 12.1 to s5 g900t3. All because i cracked the screen on my s4. I don't like the stock firmware too much on the s5 so I've been researching rooting it. But run into the same issue. No info on rooting this model. The only thing I can think of to do is downgrade to 4.2 using Odin then root and install CWM. Yet I found a forum where someone posted they were unsuccessful in downgrading the g900t3. So HELP PLEASE.
Turns out it's actually simpler than that. If your goal is to replace the stock firmware with a custom one, such as cyanogenmod then you don't even need to root your stock firmware. All you need to do is flash TWRP custom recovery with Odin, then reboot into TWRP recovery and create a backup of your stock firmware just in case. After that you should be good to go ahead and install cyanogenmod or any other supported custom firmware. This is exactly what I've done with my SM-G900T3.
But if you really want to root your stock firmware then here is a guide for that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...t/root-kernel-root-method-fof6-5-1-1-t3158005
Hope this helps.
OK thanks for the link. It does state not to flash if I'm on FOG6 Build, which I am. Even though my baseband version is FOF6. Guessing the Build is more important. Last night I tried to downgrade to 4.4 using Odin, that immediately didn't work. So I Flashed Philztouch CWM on it then tried to install superuser from the galaxys5 root page, but it was stuck in bootloop on the T-mobile screen. I realized the superuser was for 5.0 version. So then I used Odin again to flash my firmware back on to it the g900t3 5.1.1 FOG6 from the Sammobile website. After that, because I saw I had a reply on here, I used Philztouch to install Cyanogenmod 12.1 nightly recovery (don't know which on it was, either klte or klteusc) without rooting and I was stuck in the Cyan's big eyed alien face thing bootloop screen again. So then I had to reinstall my stock firmware once more. Basically after 4+ hours of rooting I'm back where I started. LOL. I don't know what else to do. I'm still researching FOG6 to see if I find anything.
zizidiesel said:
ok thanks for the link. It does state not to flash if i'm on fog6 build, which i am. Even though my baseband version is fof6. Guessing the build is more important. Last night i tried to downgrade to 4.4 using odin, that immediately didn't work. So i flashed philztouch cwm on it then tried to install superuser from the galaxys5 root page, but it was stuck in bootloop on the t-mobile screen. I realized the superuser was for 5.0 version. So then i used odin again to flash my firmware back on to it the g900t3 5.1.1 fog6 from the sammobile website. After that, because i saw i had a reply on here, i used philztouch to install cyanogenmod 12.1 nightly recovery (don't know which on it was, either klte or klteusc) without rooting and i was stuck in the cyan's big eyed alien face thing bootloop screen again. So then i had to reinstall my stock firmware once more. Basically after 4+ hours of rooting i'm back where i started. Lol. I don't know what else to do. I'm still researching fog6 to see if i find anything.
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i got it actually fina****ingly. Got it rooted and cyanogenmod 12.1 nightly installed. I am retrieving my old apps and data as i'm typing. Success feels good. Many thanks to you for taking an interest and responding and to this entire community. Woot woot
liquidsnake54 said:
Turns out it's actually simpler than that. If your goal is to replace the stock firmware with a custom one, such as cyanogenmod then you don't even need to root your stock firmware. All you need to do is flash TWRP custom recovery with Odin, then reboot into TWRP recovery and create a backup of your stock firmware just in case. After that you should be good to go ahead and install cyanogenmod or any other supported custom firmware. This is exactly what I've done with my SM-G900T3.
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Would this be the same procedure to follow if I wanted to put a stock T-Mobile version of 4.4.2 on my SM-G900T3? Or would that not work?
My Dad recently got a Galaxy S4 on Sprint for work, and he wants to put stock Android on it. Is it possible to put the latest GPE ROM on this phone? And if so, is there a guide? I looked around but could only find instructions for Jellybean.
Root it, flash a custom recovery and flash the rom.
Or skip the rooting and flash a custom recovery directly, then flash the rom. Roms usually come pre-rooted.
if you want pure Android but also the latest look at AOSP roms too...
My younger brother has a Note 4. It was previously on Kitkat 4.4.2, stock rom, rooted with dual recovery...
He wanted to manually update to either a 5.1.1 Lollipop rom or even 6.01 Marshmallow.
After having tried several 6.01 roms, the phone either bootloops or the sim card is not reading...
After having trying to flash the radio & bootloader to flash via odin, it keeps failing when trying to do so.
Could someone please recommend a simple Lollipop rom or Marshmallow rom that actually WORKS and the sim card is read as it should?
With my current Sony Z2, it is so much simpler, flashing any roms automatically comes with the kernal, radio, recovery, root, etc...
With Samsung it is much more complex and finding a rom which comes with everything seems difficult to find.
Some roms even ask to choose a kernel & modem/radio. How the F**K do i know which one I need? Even when selecting one it results in a bootloop.
I'm not interested in overclocking or using a custom kernel. I just want something that works and any 5.1.1 rom or Marshmallow rom would do. I want something as close as stock as possible. Not interested in Cyanogen mod, custom roms or such.
Thanks!!
you need to flash a compatible modem for your model number and version of android. If it helps, I'm using: N910FXXUICOL2 with Marshmallow
I have the N910F model.
Hmm, I don't know why you are having problems, actually its Samsung where you can simply flash a ROM with Odin, no need of ADB or anything.
You just make sure that you COMPLETELY WIPE your phone before flashing a stock ROM via Odin. You should not have any problem at all, no one should, unless its hardware.
I would really like to get rid of stock samsung rom. I have i9505 S4. So far, I am convinced that the bootloader cannot be unlocked, but then I see there are custom roms (like CM14) in i9505 section. So what is it? Can the bootloader be unlocked for i9505 or is there another way to flash custom roms on S4?
I have been reading and watching youtube videos for 2 days and I am finally giving up and asking the xda community.
You don't need to unlock the bootloader. The phone is old enough that you shouldn't care about setting the knox flag either.
It's actually really easy. Use CF-autoroot to root. Install twrp. Use twrp to back your current rom, then wipe and flash a new one.
You may need to update modem / baseband but only do that to cure a problem if necessary.
I wouldn't recommend CM14 / nougat based roms yet, it's too early for them to be used day to day.
CM13 or a CM13 / MM based rom should suffice. I would recommend Resurrection Remix on i9505 myself...
Most S4 models don't have a locked bootloader. So there is absolutely nothing to unlock, unless it's Verizon or AT&T. In which case, it's impossible to unlock.
My work upgraded their phones recently and gave the employees the old S4s (l337M), convenient timing because my S3 happened to die that day, but that's a different story.
Anyway, coming from my AOSP ROM'd S3 to a touchwiz 5.0.1 ROM is driving me nuts, so I came here to get a ROM/learn...and every tutorial I read seems to be from 2013 (out of date?), and most mention locked bootloaders and having to use Safestrap.
Is safestrap only needed for ATT versions?
Can I not just use ODIN to flash TWRP recovery and then flash SUPERSU, and then a custom ROM (after a nandroid backup).
If it matters the phone was SIM locked to Rogers, now sim unlocked (using my Koodo SIM currently). And the baseband/build # is showing OH1 as the last 3 digits
Thanks
Safestrap is for the AT&T sgh-i337 only.
The sgh-i337m does not have a locked bootloader.
To flash a custom ROM, just use Odin to flash a tar version of TWRP and then flash the ROM of your choice.
Running an i337m myself, I forget the original process, but I just recently switched to Resurrection remix ROM.. (6.0.1 marshmallow based ROM.) I finally get to play with xposed, and I believe no more touchwiz woes...
Anyways, I'd recommend it as the first ROM to look into, its my fav so far..
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