Has anyone tried to go back to Android 4.4 after flashing lollipop 5.0?
I haven't been able to flash any Android 4.4 ROM after installing. Does anyone have any idea on how to do so?
Any help is truly appreciate.
Where did you get Lollipop from? Is there some sort of OTA that I'm unaware of? Do you have an SM-N910T or some other variant?
If you flashed a Lollipop ROM like CM or Liquid Smooth from the development section you should be able to Odin back to stock no problem. As far as I know there is no official Lollipop for the T-Mobile Note 4..
As far as I know there is no official Lollipop for the T-Mobile Note 4..
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Is that true? There isn't an official lollipop release for us yet?
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Yes. I installed Liquidsmooth from the development section. But Odin does not recognize my phone.
I have the T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4.
BTW thanks for the rapid help!
Do a wipe in team win recovery. Cache, Dalvick cache, and data.
Then flash a 4.4.4 rom.
I've done it many many times, without issue
Ok. It seems like there was a issue with the phone's drivers. Now Odin recognizes my phone.
Now the question is: I have some android 4.4 Roms in my sdcard such as Infamous v8, DinamicKat etc. How do I flash one of them through Odin since I have not been able to do it through TWRP in recovery mode?
Thanks again for the help.
Can't flash those through Odin. You need to Odin back to stock, root, flash TWRP, then load a custom ROM.
You see anything good in LolliPop?
Well, the UI is different (doesn't mean better), I'm running Liquidsmooth beta. There are a ton of features missing on this ROM. That's the reason for why Im going black to kitkat 4.4
chong67 said:
You see anything good in LolliPop?
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Flash in TWRP CM12 port you'll get the lolipop UI from it. Works great super smooth but audio randomly goes super loud. Other people running CM12 across other devices are having this issue too.
Reytheking said:
Well, the UI is different (doesn't mean better), I'm running Liquidsmooth beta. There are a ton of features missing on this ROM. That's the reason for why Im going black to kitkat 4.4
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I guess it's true what they say. Once you go black... :cyclops:
What about those who odin flash to stock lollipop or from OTA then root can they still odin to stock KK? Has anybody done this and no brick phone. Anybody?
gmenik6 said:
What about those who odin flash to stock lollipop or from OTA then root can they still odin to stock KK? Has anybody done this and no brick phone. Anybody?
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Here u go.
I just flashed lollipop also.
I'm not sure how long I'll last without closed.
I will say that tw lollipop is pretty impressive.
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Hi
Long time observer & admire you guy here on what you do, this website has helped alot but now i finally have a question.
With Paranoid Droid v0.2 i have followed Dr.Ketan's guide to downgrade & then root/install cwm & then update back to 2.3.6 via ODIN Mobile, the root is cf-root on a Galaxy Note, can i flash this rom with what i have currently?
Thanks in advance.
You are on rooted Gb and yes you can flash it safely. Wipe data and cache and flash the rom ...then flash the gapps. All done
I assume i flash it with ODIN Mobile & not from CWM?
I think i got it (it installed all fine etc) via CWM.
How do i get all the S-Pen apps back? are they on the market?
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How do i get all the S-Pen apps back? are they on the market?
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The S-pen apps will not work in this rom.
Thanks for the info, but i have now gone back to official firmware, so i assume only roms tweaked from the original source will have the feature set still? even so it was also missing the built in FM Radio app to listen to local radio without needing to stream it.
On a side note, whats the deal i been hearing with Touchwiz 5.0 some people say its on the Note others same its 4.0. Which version is it & what is the differences?
Hello everyone,
With the recent root method on 4.4.2 for the note 3 would it be possible for me to preform a factory reset on my device and take the OTA 4.4.2 update and then towelroot?
My device has xposed framework and was rooted with kingro.
Thanks for any input
If you're on 4.3 and were previously rooted, you will have to do this or else the update will fail at ~27%:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701062
It's not worth it. Even with root Jellybean blows KitKat out of the water. Stay on Jellybean.
Face_Plant said:
It's not worth it. Even with root Jellybean blows KitKat out of the water. Stay on Jellybean.
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What makes you say that?
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What makes you say that?
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1. There are more ROM options for Jellybean
2. I ran the official OTA NC2 rooted with a ton of stuff frozen/removed for a few days and battery life was nowhere near as good as stock rooted MJ5/NB4 with the same amount of stuff frozen/removed
3. The Jellybean version of Safestrap supports ROM slots and seems more stable in general than the KitKat version
4. With Jellybean you have the option of jumping back and forth between Jellybean and KitKat
Hi, I'm from Argentina. I just bought an AT&T S5 second hand. The fact that I'm from Argentina means I can't update the freakin' phone. My firmware version is G900AUCU2ANG3. So, can I downgrade to the version in sammobile (G900AUCU1ANCE) to root? I think so, but please, enlight this poor idiot who didn't now this version had so much tweaks (the damn locked bootloader). Then I will root (with Towelroot). After this, can I flash this version or another one and mantain root? Will I be able to update via OTA anytime or never in the lifetime? And will I be able to update to Marshmallow if it we get it? Thank you for reading and a possible reply. And damn AT&T.
PS: It's not the first time I flash a phone. I've done it a lot of times. But they were less complicated (S II, S III, Defy Plus)
I'm pretty sure you can root ng3. Just search how to root. As long as you on 4.4.2 you should be fine
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stew1411 said:
I'm pretty sure you can root ng3. Just search how to root. As long as you on 4.4.2 you should be fine
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Thanks, I've found the tutorial. And afterwards will I be able to get anymore updates, like Marshmallow? I think no one knows, right?
raikkox23 said:
Thanks, I've found the tutorial. And afterwards will I be able to get anymore updates, like Marshmallow? I think no one knows, right?
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No MM available for this phone yet. If you keep root the highest you can go is Custom 5.0. There is an UNrooted 5.1 thread, I believe it keeps bootloader OA1 to allow downgrade. If you try to step up updates beyond that it will make the phone unrootable. So decide wisely. I was on NG3 and just used the Odin tar to downgrade to NCE and used towelroot to go to the 5.0 keeproot. But am now on TMS5 3.0.
~TMS5-3.0-TMBUILD on G900A with Blue Ice Theme
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No MM available for this phone yet. If you keep root the highest you can go is Custom 5.0. There is an UNrooted 5.1 thread, I believe it keeps bootloader OA1 to allow downgrade. If you try to step up updates beyond that it will make the phone unrootable. So decide wisely. I was on NG3 and just used the Odin tar to downgrade to NCE and used towelroot to go to the 5.0 keeproot. But am now on TMS5 3.0.
~TMS5-3.0-TMBUILD on G900A with Blue Ice Theme
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Is there no 5.1.1 CM based ROM?
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stew1411 said:
Is there no 5.1.1 CM based ROM?
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There's even a 6.0 MM CM 13.0 Rom. So yes there is plenty of CM or other custom ROM but with a locked bootloader the s5, or active in your case, will not be able to accept any. There are only custom rom with OA1 Bootloader based on 5.0 or lower. A bootloader from OTA update to 5.0 or up prevents root.
~TMS5-3.0-TMBUILD on G900A with Blue Ice Theme
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There's even a 6.0 MM CM 13.0 Rom. So yes there is plenty of CM or other custom ROM but with a locked bootloader the s5, or active in your case, will not be able to accept any. There are only custom rom with OA1 Bootloader based on 5.0 or lower. A bootloader from OTA update to 5.0 or up prevents root.
~TMS5-3.0-TMBUILD on G900A with Blue Ice Theme
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Oh I've given up hope lol. But you told OP there was no MM. I figured if he's rooted, he should be able to flash CM 13.
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Yeah, g900a is locked down to not allow any cm roms but also not cm 13.0. If there was a possibility I would have heard by now. Now if it was a g900v they unlocked their bootloader to change the device to a developer device. Which will allow TWRP recovery and CM, RR.
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Ended up flashing Lollipop 5.1.1, despite the fact that you can't root in it. Copied my WhatsApp messages by other way. The phone runs smoothly. Thank you all for your help.
I have turbo unlocked with twrp working..
I'm willing to downgrade it to kitkat 4.4.4 with twrp.
Need help in downgrading rom except for the flash method in which we don't have to flash gpt.bin.
You sure you don't want to try computerfreek's tweek of the stock rom? Version 1.08 runs as fine as any stock rom. Throw in the recently ripped camera, and I can't imagine why someone would want KitKat.
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Syed Farooq said:
I have turbo unlocked with twrp working..
I'm willing to downgrade it to kitkat 4.4.4 with twrp.
Need help in downgrading rom except for the flash method in which we don't have to flash gpt.bin.
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You would download Kitkat Verizon firmware, flash via ADB but omit gpt.bin from the flash commands. Also if you want to keep TWRP custom recovery, you would also omit flashing recovery.img.
EVERY QUARK FIRMWARE EVER RELEASED
FILE FACTORY - QUARK IMAGES
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/f9d1880e6c5b4800/?sort=created&order=DESC&show=50
Go down to the bottom of that page and look for VRZ files.
This one -- VRZ_XT1254_SU2-12_12_CFC.xml.zip 1.17 GB February 25, 2015 -- was probably the last Kitkat 4.4.4 Droid Turbo file before Lollipop.
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You sure you don't want to try computerfreek's tweek of the stock rom? Version 1.08 runs as fine as any stock rom. Throw in the recently ripped camera, and I can't imagine why someone would want KitKat.
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Agreed. I'm still on a custom RR Marshmallow ROM because it's rock solid, gives me CM themes, as well as Xposed modules. I am running @bhb27's advanced custom kernel again, but my wife's phone didn't like it so keeping her on regular ROM kernel. Still haven't seen the need yet to upgrade to Nougat. Plus I see a TON of complaints about phones shutting down at 20% or so, and they all seem to be on Nougat ROMs.
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You sure you don't want to try computerfreek's tweek of the stock rom? Version 1.08 runs as fine as any stock rom. Throw in the recently ripped camera, and I can't imagine why someone would want KitKat.
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Well actually I already tried all of that rom currently I am using lineage Os. I don't get enough battery on computer freak 1.08 (after changing DPI).
So decided to give it a shot (kitkat) dual booting (magisk)
Syed Farooq said:
Well actually I already tried all of that rom currently I am using lineage Os. I don't get enough battery on computer freak 1.08 (after changing DPI).
So decided to give it a shot (kitkat) dual booting (magisk)
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Maybe a new battery is in store?
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Recently got one of these phones and I love it, it really stood the test of time and I want to keep it for a while. But, the one I have is running android 4.4 kitkat. I got a custom kitkat rom installed, omni 4.4, and I can't install anything more recent. If I try to flash anything newer than android 5.0 it'll work just fine, but, I'll have no cellular connection. My guess is it's a radio issue. How can I fix this? I have a C6906. It's a Canadian phone, but I'm using it in the US on ATT.
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Recently got one of these phones and I love it, it really stood the test of time and I want to keep it for a while. But, the one I have is running android 4.4 kitkat. I got a custom kitkat rom installed, omni 4.4, and I can't install anything more recent. If I try to flash anything newer than android 5.0 it'll work just fine, but, I'll have no cellular connection. My guess is it's a radio issue. How can I fix this? I have a C6906. It's a Canadian phone, but I'm using it in the US on ATT.
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Have you tried using flashtool?
trunglevt said:
Have you tried using flashtool?
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I fixed it by flashing stock lollipop with flashtool.