Verizon S5 - changing rom and stuff - Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
I got S5 Verizon from my firend as a present. I'm from PL and got it from the US.
Apps are crashing because difference between rom language and app language. Some of in-built apps are annoying.
I would like to install non verizon rom that include more than few language packs and remove activation agent so here are my questions.
Can I root it if it's lollipop 5.0? If yes how to do it?
Can I instal custom or non verizon rom?
Can anyone post me some links to do it step by step?
I'm not a pro, but have some experience with rooting and flashing custom roms, but the older ones like 4.2.2.
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Hi guys, i'm having trouble to translate the language of My S5 from T-Mobile by software. I need portuguese language. My doubt is if i put some firmware of a differente version of S5 in my T-mobile S5, can i brick my phone? Any suggestions to get portuguese language?
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You didn't give us much information to go on which makes it all but impossible to give you good advice. Most notably, what carrier and country are you going to use the phone in.
If you meant TMB US, Portuguese isn't a language in common use in the US and as you've discerned isn't available. Nor do I think that editing languages.xml will work as I believe that is depreciated in the current Android version. The easiest way to do what you want would be to root and install a 900F based custom ROM that has Portuguese support enabled. ROMs such as Alliance or Phoenix probably fall into that category.
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Bro to stop OTA Updates just flash latest Twrp And flash ( Beta supersu ) .......
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To Enable Mobile Data Toggle
Use QuickPanel Maneger
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But when you restart your phone you need to do this again
Hey!
Thanks for your answers, I am already using a similar solution than QuickPanel Manager, but yeah you have to do this every time you reboot.
However, I would like to get rid of all the nonsense stuff T-Mobile has embedded in my S5, and still have the option to update my phone ... when I WANT, not whenever an OTA update comes and I am on a limited mobile data plan. So I don't want to disable OTAs, just download them whenever I want.
So going back to my point, no chance this G900F firmware would work on my G900T firmware? Both are snapdragon and apparently (as I read everywhere) shouldn't be any problem.

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