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Just got an update D95920s

Of course I lost root and it is still 4.4.2, but I can not find any documentation on what changed. Has anyone else received this update?
Baseband version: M8974A-AAAANAZM-2.0.20064
Kernel Version: 3.4.0
Update: TowelRoot does not seem to work with this update!

also got it. its a 220+mb update.

I just got this update as well. I got the message that says it is downloaded and wants to install. I am rooted with TWRP installed now. I have read that some people have had problems and been bricked when they tried to install some updates in the past. For this reason, I went into the hidden menu and disabled OTAs. Guess that didn't work. Has anyone else taken this update being rooted with twrp successfully?

You won't be able to rooted or with custom recovery. Check out the meta-inf script. It will fail if any fishy is going on with your device. I'm going to edit it later tonight so I can post the flash able zip for us to update. All its really updating is the radio.img and a few other apks as well as some security updates.

Checked no update for me. In the Houston area. But read online it was for the VoLTE update and In Flight text messaging
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aloxotls said:
Of course I lost root and it is still 4.4.2, but I can not find any documentation on what changed. Has anyone else received this update?
Baseband version: M8974A-AAAANAZM-2.0.20064
Kernel Version: 3.4.0
Update: TowelRoot does not seem to work with this update!
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OOoooOo boy.... time to disable OTA, thanks for the head up

mattwheat said:
You wont be able to rooted or with custom recovery. Check out the meta-inf script. It will fail if any fishy is going on with your device. Im going to edit it later tonight so I can post the flash able zip for us to update. All its really updating is the radio.img and a few other apks as well as some security updates.
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Once we flash and update, towel root will work again? Someone said they couldn't get towel root to work after the update. For now I'm just playing around with cm11. If someone would get it or another ROM working pretty good, I'd just use it. I had planned on selling the flex and use my bump to get a nexus 6 through t-mobile. But if things get rolling a little around here. I'm happy with my flex. I wish there was more I could do but its over my head. My previous two devices were a Nexus and HTC they were easy compared to this.

How do you disable OTA updates?
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I pulled out all the "abort install if blah blah blah" lines from the Meta-Inf folder and all the lines to install the priv-apps and just for my sake i took out the priv-apps since it would replace with .odex and im deodexed. Checked the updater script for any other "abort or security" crap. Didnt see anything else. So i repacked the update into a flashable.zip and flash away. It adds this really cool "SECURITY ERROR" Under the LG logo on boot up. And transforms the device into a temporary outrageously expensive paper weight.
So i rebooted into twrp and restored. So far a no go. I think after digging through it and seeing what all is in it.....im just gonna make a flashable of the new radio.img incase it upgrades ours and gets better service or picks up those techno tunes from Venus.

I had 2 back to back updates, but I ended with D95920m.

I accidentally downloaded the update. I actually don't even remember doing it. I just saw that it was successfully downloaded. It hasn't updated yet. Is there anything i can do to get rid of it? I don't want to lose root. I don't have a custom recovery installed. I only have root access as that is typically all that I need.
Also, any chance anyone has tried to use towelroot on this after it breaks root? EDIT: Never mind, just saw the OP's update that towelroot will not work. F this. I need to get rid of this phone.
I renamed the file that it downloaded, so at least now it is just asking me to download the update again. I also installed a TWRP in the mean time. I guess I just need to disable updates now.

I am in the same situation... Can you please tell me where the update is downloaded to? I need to rename mine as well in case I were to accidentally hit install update.

How do you get the update notification to go away?

I have seen the option to hide it in one of the xposed modules, but can't remember which one...

captainphoenixx said:
How do you get the update notification to go away?
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The Update should download under Cache or Data/Cache. It should work disabling OTA updates in the hidden menu.
3845#*959#, the go to WLAN test --> OTA Settings and disable

Thank you so much!

Vinsane said:
How do you disable OTA updates?
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if u can root u can delete the system/app/LGDMSClient.apk or freeze Software Update it with Titanium Backup

Bradl79 said:
if u can root u can delete the system/app/LGDMSClient.apk or freeze Software Update it with Titanium Backup
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I don't have an LGDMSCLIENT.APK

mattwheat said:
I don't have an LGDMSCLIENT.APK
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what carrier of the Flex do u have?

Bradl79 said:
what carrier of the Flex do u have?
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I dont have lgdmsclient.apk either. I have the T-mobile (d959) model.

New 08/05/15 update

AT&T software updater just downloaded a new update.
The file is 301.08mb
What's the word?
Going to try and upload the file soon.

DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://mega.co.nz/#!SUoTFIJR!zhmzM7DUyN_4MWhdUbI-9JHask3l_PJQG9FHTX5flNk

File info:
Android version: 5.0
Baseband version: G900AUCU4BOF3
Kernel version: 3.4.0-4432708
Build number: LRX21T.G900AUCU4BOF3
Upgrade file size: 301MB
Software update includes
Device security enhancements
Patch Info:
AT&T Patching Devices Against Stagefright Vulnerability
I am assuming this update would break root?

Any chance you collected an url for the source? (if possible)

Upgrade Device Software for the Samsung Galaxy S5 (G900A)

No, I mean is there a way on an S5 to collect the actual OTA url used to download that file. On Nexus phones it is often used to help validate the OTA someone hosts. No offense, but I'm not trusting a random stranger that posts an "ota". I'd like to know if there is a way to confirm via a direct url from the vendor.
EDIT: As in this article - http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/05/download-nexus-ota-url-file/

davidalindsey said:
File info:
Android version: 5.0
Baseband version: G900AUCU4BOF3
Kernel version: 3.4.0-4432708
Build number: LRX21T.G900AUCU4BOF3
Upgrade file size: 301MB
Software update includes
Device security enhancements
Patch Info:
AT&T Patching Devices Against Stagefright Vulnerability
I am assuming this update would break root?
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Not necessarily but it will definately update your bootloader leaving you with no way to unbrick should something go wrong other than BestBuy or an ATT store. I am checking it out to see if there is a safe way to update and keep root. Stand by...

@muniz_ri
Sounds good.
@zenrage
I have no ideal how to pull up the OTA File URL.
I assure you the one I uploaded is a direct copy and paste from my / cache/ fota folder on my phone.

muniz_ri said:
Not necessarily but it will definately update your bootloader leaving you with no way to unbrick should something go wrong other than BestBuy or an ATT store. I am checking it out to see if there is a safe way to update and keep root. Stand by...
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This is another 5.0 version and it is rootable. I will upload a new ROM to update and keeproot.

I just tried to collect the url, and failed. the logcat was dumping tons of data. And since it was my first attempt at logcat for this new device, I connected it only after the start of the download was flushed from the log. . I dare not interrupt the ongoing download, as I have no clue how Samsung/AT&T would handle an incomplete download.
Protip: if you gonna try to logcat the url - be frickin fast!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but how would I update from OC4 to this new build? I'm using my att s5 with T-Mobile so I can't get ota's. Thanks!

Its_Tim said:
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but how would I update from OC4 to this new build? I'm using my att s5 with T-Mobile so I can't get ota's. Thanks!
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I have rooted att s5 on t-mobile and I use this to update . just make sure to backup apps and data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...w-to-update-to-g900aof2-5-0-keeproot-t3149146

Did this update last night on my wife's S5 and it still has root.
I also did it on my G870A and my root is still working.

jackinct said:
Did this update last night on my wife's S5 and it still has root.
I also did it on my G870A and my root is still working.
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Is your bootloader still OA1, or it got updated as well?

Bad juju
Stock, unrooted AT&T S5 on 5.0.
Just did the update and now all of my apps on the SD card show grayed and uninstalled.
All else looks OK. Any pearls of wisdom?
EDIT - rebooted on its own about 5 minutes later and hung at the "globe". Had to pull the battery to restart. Still no SD apps.

My wife just installed this (stock, unrooted) and she is having an issue with the phone waking up. Massive lag for it to do so. I'm think I'm gonna hold off for my rooted phone.

davidalindsey said:
DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://mega.co.nz/#!SUoTFIJR!zhmzM7DUyN_4MWhdUbI-9JHask3l_PJQG9FHTX5flNk
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Taking that how can i update my phone?
Im stock and unrooted of2
How i zip that file?
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xBlue_ said:
Taking that how can i update my phone?
Im stock and unrooted of2
How i zip that file?
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If you're stock unrooted why not just update normally?

geicogecko said:
If you're stock unrooted why not just update normally?
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Bcuz im outside from USA and i need zip file i cant get ota
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davidalindsey said:
DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://mega.co.nz/#!SUoTFIJR!zhmzM7DUyN_4MWhdUbI-9JHask3l_PJQG9FHTX5flNk
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If I download this, I can sideload it thru adb to do the update? I'm not on wifi so I can't take the OTA.
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OJ7 root.

After reading dozens of threads I'm at a loss.
1. Can I root?
2. If I root, is my phone still going to work? Or will it become the latest victim of my Beowolf.

Odin twrp then install unikernel inside twrp. Will trip Knox so Samsung pay won't work anymore.

tyrone1 said:
Odin twrp then install unikernel inside twrp. Will trip Knox so Samsung pay won't work anymore.
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Ok thanks. Not concerned with Sam pay. Citibank and Wells aren't supported.

It works with Citibank cards

stncldtex said:
After reading dozens of threads I'm at a loss.
1. Can I root?
2. If I root, is my phone still going to work? Or will it become the latest victim of my Beowolf.
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I finally found a routine and the right files needed to successfully acquire root, twrp, and custom ROM. Although, the only custom ROM Iv'e been able to boot and setup with all T-Mobile services intact and even the finger print security feature working, is the "OZOP_EDGE_v11_DOJ7.zip, thanks to stangdriver44".
Just remember you should back up the EFS and backup the phone using Samsung smart switch. If you need help, pm me. Id lay out the exact steps I took to get root originally and what it took to get out of a bricked phone, and finally to root and install a custom ROM.
I will type up what I did later today or tomorrow and post it in case anyone does the same thing to gets bootloops and bricks.
I have to attend to other chores now before I go back to work tomorrow, since I spent every evening for the last week and all day and night yesterday, trying to bring this phone out of brick.
chevy383surfing

tyrone1 said:
It works with Citibank cards
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Sorry Capital One not Citi.

stncldtex said:
After reading dozens of threads I'm at a loss.
1. Can I root?
2. If I root, is my phone still going to work? Or will it become the latest victim of my Beowolf.
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chainfire's systemless root BETA v2.61 works flawlessly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64161125&postcount=3

pm me.
Id like to know the steps you took to root your s6. pm me whenever possible. Thanks.
chevy383surfing said:
I finally found a routine and the right files needed to successfully acquire root, twrp, and custom ROM. Although, the only custom ROM Iv'e been able to boot and setup with all T-Mobile services intact and even the finger print security feature working, is the "OZOP_EDGE_v11_DOJ7.zip, thanks to stangdriver44".
Just remember you should back up the EFS and backup the phone using Samsung smart switch. If you need help, pm me. Id lay out the exact steps I took to get root originally and what it took to get out of a bricked phone, and finally to root and install a custom ROM.
I will type up what I did later today or tomorrow and post it in case anyone does the same thing to gets bootloops and bricks.
I have to attend to other chores now before I go back to work tomorrow, since I spent every evening for the last week and all day and night yesterday, trying to bring this phone out of brick.
chevy383surfing
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andrey1186 said:
Id like to know the steps you took to root your s6. pm me whenever possible. Thanks.
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I will get a write up of the steps. I'll pm you tomorrow afternoon. I planned to do it tonight, but I have a case of the Mondays!

muniz_ri said:
chainfire's systemless root BETA v2.61 works flawlessly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64161125&postcount=3
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How do you flash it?

stncldtex said:
How do you flash it?
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Install twrp on stock oj7 then flash supersu v2.61 in twrp. that's it.

muniz_ri said:
chainfire's systemless root BETA v2.61 works flawlessly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64161125&postcount=3
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Does this trip KNOX?

chip.hughes said:
Does this trip KNOX?
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of course

stncldtex said:
How do you flash it?
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You'd have to setup Cygwin software to make the zip an 'Odin flashable .tar.md5 type file', which I have not had time to play with, in order to flash supersu zip files onto the samsung phones.
I am working on a worksheet right now explaining what I had to do to install 5.1.1 firmware and root the phone. I am still looking back to remember exactly how I unlocked the bootloader. I did have to use an android terminal to map out the twrp recovery manual on the phone itself. I do know it would wise for anyone interested in this to backup the EFS before anything. I had to download a specific windows DOS software that does it in a couple seconds and stores it on your computer. It works for a number of other phones as well. Also need to download the newest Odin 3.10.7 software in order to work with 5.1.1 firmware without any problems. Also need to do a backup of whole phone with samsung smart switch "takes place of Kies software now". When I get home tonight I will get names and locations of everything and inform everyone. If you download the wrong DOJ7 software or firmware you'll mess up your device. It took me a week to find the right software downloads related to 5.1.1 in order to make everything work right. And I did everything within 15 minutes. Once I figured out the routine.
Once you update to 5.1.1 I know of no way to downgrade.
I do recommend going over to serio22's post -[Firmware][Bootloader & Modems][Odin] - G920T - DOJ7-
And download DOJ7 BL and DOJ7 modem and G920TUVU3DOJ7 (firmware). Download Chainfire's latest beta super su.

You can just flash unikernel to get root.
Possibly any of the other kernels too

stncldtex said:
After reading dozens of threads I'm at a loss.
1. Can I root?
2. If I root, is my phone still going to work? Or will it become the latest victim of my Beowolf.
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Yes you can root .. by flashing unikernel .. and phone will still be working ...

Tried flashing Uni through Odin with no luck. I get this in Odin.
Get PIT for mapping.
Write operation failed.
Any idea's?

stncldtex said:
Tried flashing Uni through Odin with no luck. I get this in Odin.
Get PIT for mapping.
Write operation failed.
Any idea's?
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I recommend you root with the latest Supersu beta v2.62-3 zip. It will patch the stock kernel which was designed for your specific build unlike the unikernel. Just flash via twrp.

muniz_ri said:
I recommend you root with the latest Supersu beta v2.62-3 zip. It will patch the stock kernel which was designed for your specific build unlike the unikernel. Just flash via twrp.
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TWRP gives off the same error.

stncldtex said:
TWRP gives off the same error.
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More accurately trying to Odin TWRP.

For those that have replaced your phones were you able to root new one?

Anyone?

thegameksk said:
Anyone?
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According to Slim, root is broken on the new update. They also changed the bootloader so you can't downgrade. They apparently want everyone to update to the new software.

fogame said:
According to Slim, root is broken on the new update. They also changed the bootloader so you can't downgrade. They apparently want everyone to update to the new software.
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Of course they do... they don't want folks rooting... Sammy knows what's up... if they were decent they'd give us a bootloader unlock to make up for rushing the devices to market to beat Apple on the release date (which is already cracked smh) and catch a few more percent of market share...
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I was able to root. You just can not take the new update, it will prevent root and will not be able to revert back to the old firmware..

galaxyuser88 said:
I was able to root. You just can not take the new update, it will prevent root and will not be able to revert back to the old firmware..
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For clarification,you were able to root a replacement note 7?
I read,somewhere, that the update starts when you power it on the first time. I am hoping to root mine immediately to avoid the update.

Mean Sixteen said:
For clarification,you were able to root a replacement note 7?
I read,somewhere, that the update starts when you power it on the first time. I am hoping to root mine immediately to avoid the update.
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Yes you are correct. The update starts to download when you power up the phone, but you can pause the download or postpone it for later install. This is what happened on my phone.

galaxyuser88 said:
Yes you are correct. The update starts to download when you power up the phone, but you can pause the download or postpone it for later install. This is what happened on my phone.
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Awesome thank you for clarifying.

Once I saw there was complete root with volte I went straight to download mode and did the process. Glad I didn't take the update because it blocks root and the sprint engineer rom.

Is root and recovery available for the T-Mobile N7 ?

I see there are ROM's in the T-Mobile Development section. Does that mean the Note 7 has Root and Recovery just like the Note 5 ?

You can root if you have update to the new firmware and no there isnt no recovery like on the s7 and s7 edge

Zorachus said:
I see there are ROM's in the T-Mobile Development section. Does that mean the Note 7 has Root and Recovery just like the Note 5 ?
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Only if you didn't take the green battery update.

Yes there is root however it's not for the faint hearted, it's pretty complex, if you are not comfortable with cmd and adb don't try it.

charlieb620 said:
Only if you didn't take the green battery update.
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The P14 update?

Yes, the PI4 OTA update. If you took that, a fuse was burned and you can't go back to root. I'm on PI4, but I got there after rooting and never took the OTA update.

SkyPhone said:
Yes, the PI4 OTA update. If you took that, a fuse was burned and you can't go back to root. I'm on PI4, but I got there after rooting and never took the OTA update.
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I got it new in the box already loaded.

If some developers can do reverse engineering, they can extract the security key out and embed it into custom recovery and kernel.
Moreover, SE Linux policy has to be patched if necessary.