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[HOW TO] Update to MF9 from MDL Manually

Figured I'd post these here for those that need assistance manually updating to MF9.
How to manually update with stock recovery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A126HAcO2Y
Review of MF9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uh1Cnei-Wc
For those that have a custom recovery or it won't update for any other reason, see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277480

Sexy beast QBKing at it again!
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qbking is the new household name for android how to's. Videos are always uploaded quick, clear, and easy to follow. Good job.
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robogoflow said:
qbking is the new household name for android how to's. Videos are always uploaded quick, clear, and easy to follow. Good job.
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Is a new household name ? He's been one since at least the Epic touch!
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thanks... i don't use sdcard so i tried the adb sideload and worked perfect and didn't lose root using voodoo ota root keeper

Any reason why this wouldn't work with rooted stock rom and stock recovery? All system apps in TB are unfrozen as well.
Also, what's the worst that could happen? It errors out?
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Dose anyone know where I can get stock recovery for use with odin for sprint s4
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Thank you.
Worked perfect!

Did the update, but can't update any existing apps through Play Store or download any new ones.
Get the error:
"Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-5:AEC-0]"
What did I do wrong? Anyone else getting this error? Easy fix?

monkeyracer said:
Did the update, but can't update any existing apps through Play Store or download any new ones.
Get the error:
"Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-5:AEC-0]"
What did I do wrong? Anyone else getting this error? Easy fix?
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Not sure, but try to remove your google account, and re-add it back. That MAY solve the issue

monkeyracer said:
Did the update, but can't update any existing apps through Play Store or download any new ones.
Get the error:
"Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-5:AEC-0]"
What did I do wrong? Anyone else getting this error? Easy fix?
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Delete ur google account and sign back in. Its the problem u get when u clear data from google frameworks to try to get the update to come thru. Try that fix it should work for u.
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I am on MDL rooted with a bunch of mods/tweaks/custom kernel. How do I update to MF9? Also does this include the radio/modem or is this just the ROM?

Joe0113 said:
I am on MDL rooted with a bunch of mods/tweaks/custom kernel. How do I update to MF9? Also does this include the radio/modem or is this just the ROM?
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When you Odin the file, everything gets updated - modem, kernel, and build. What I did was first Odin the MDL package, reboot into stock recovery and flash the MF9 update and reboot, and then perform factory data reset. Everything is working smoothly.

Thanks for this.
However, I personally, see no reason to update?
I have my phone ALMOST the way I want.
A huge feature for me, would be, to ENABLE apps/widgets on a passworded lockscreen.
This is a huge inconvenience as far as I am concerned.

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monkeyracer said:
Did the update, but can't update any existing apps through Play Store or download any new ones.
Get the error:
"Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-5:AEC-0]"
What did I do wrong? Anyone else getting this error? Easy fix?
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First try clearing the app data for the Play store.

qbking77 said:
Figured I'd post these here for those that need assistance manually updating to MF9.
How to manually update with stock recovery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A126HAcO2Y
Review of MF9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uh1Cnei-Wc
For those that have a custom recovery or it won't update for any other reason, see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277480
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Thanks!
do you plan on releasing a new video or guide on how to root if we are at stock MF9?
I never rooted yet and I'm at stock MF9
I looked at your videos and they are back from April with old odin files, etc...
Thanks!

eyecon82 said:
Thanks!
do you plan on releasing a new video or guide on how to root if we are at stock MF9?
I never rooted yet and I'm at stock MF9
I looked at your videos and they are back from April with old odin files, etc...
Thanks!
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I used the same exact files to root MF9 that I did top root MDL. He hasn't updated his videos, but I can confirm it work to root pure stock MF9

unomedmen1 said:
I used the same exact files to root MF9 that I did top root MDL. He hasn't updated his videos, but I can confirm it work to root pure stock MF9
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Did it keep your apps, settings, configuration, etc?
I was it like a hard reset after rooting from MF9? Thanks

sd647 said:
Dose anyone know where I can get stock recovery for use with odin for sprint s4
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Go to this post, download CF's auto root, that will both root your MF9 + revert your recovery to stock.

What Can we do with a locked bootloader?

Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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You can flash nothing. you can not flash TWRP or CWM

ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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Should work the same as the S4 MF update that locked down the bootloader. You should be able to root but as for custom roms and CWM/TWRP we're out of luck.
Coming from a S4 running CM10.2 I'm not going to like using the standard rom but will get used to it I guess.

So even with the bootlegged locked we should be able to tour so we can use TB to backup and restore?
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I have a locked MF3 firmware S4 and I'm running 3 different ROMs that are hot swappable thanks to Safestrap developed my Hashcode so even with a locked bootloader you can do something. Only thing is for now we are limited to internal storage for the ROM slots can't create them on external SD card but Hashcode has been working on that. Also we can only flash TW ROMs since we can't flash a custom kernel but that is also being worked on, I believe they want to be able flash a kernel with kexec. I have an AT&T S4 and currently swapping between an international Foxhound ROM, Google Play ROM, and well the stock ROM.
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At this point I'd be happy with just root so I can use Titanium Backup.

Would be nice if we could get Loki.
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All I want is Titanium Backup

ekerbuddyeker said:
Can someone tell me what we will actually be able to download if bootloader remains looked? Can we flash certain types of Rom or mods? Or can we do nothing?
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Even tho I don't have any phone that has a bootloader. (i don't live in the USA Neither)
But if your Bootloader is locked you cannot Flash CWM or TWRP or flash custom roms (Because they need CWM or TWRP).
Sorry if I'm wrong. I don't have any phone with locked bootloader. Hope this helps.
regards warface123.

supers2k said:
All I want is Titanium Backup
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Ditto... which is why I am returning my AT&T Note 3 less than 24 hrs after I purchased it.
My fault for not researching the bootlocker issue, but no way am I going to give up Titanium Backup. It has saved my tail more than once.

I'm also coming from an att S4. There has not been a bootloader unlock exploit but they do have some work around exploits like loki & safestrape. Loki is out bc they've already patched that so at this point I just hope we get root bc without that you don't have a fighting chance at custom roms
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All I want to do is remove the AT&T bloat as well as the Samsung bloat. When I took my stock Note 2 and installed Cleanrom on it it felt like the phone got a cpu boost. Everything was smoother and faster.
With root, can we uninstall crap that is blocked from being removed while stock? I can live with a locked bootloader if I can just get as close to a stripped rom as possible. I'm pretty new to this stuff so forgive the newbie question.

Xnote rom anyone know how to get it

hello any obne know the link to the xnote rom? and has anyone had any luck installing it is there any tricks to install it or is it just as easy as the knox rom?

billybob24 said:
hello any obne know the link to the xnote rom? and has anyone had any luck installing it is there any tricks to install it or is it just as easy as the knox rom?
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Is no one flashing roms? i have tried 3 one international that my wifi didnt work and the knox one but cant use the lucky patch and some other features dont work and the aliiance rom that doesn't work.
what are you guys using i really want to try the xnote rom

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579773
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billybob24 said:
Is no one flashing roms? i have tried 3 one international that my wifi didnt work and the knox one but cant use the lucky patch and some other features dont work and the aliiance rom that doesn't work.
what are you guys using i really want to try the xnote rom
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You can't flash ROMS on the ATT Note 3 yet. There is safe strap that is still in Alpha testing and is not yet 100% working. It however is not a true root and eats up a large amount of internal memory where the image file of the ROM is stored. There is a thread on Safestrap and how it works. Use it at your own risk. Outside of that it is IMPOSSIBLE to flash an ATT Note 3 right now..

Solarenemy68 said:
You can't flash ROMS on the ATT Note 3 yet. There is safe strap that is still in Alpha testing and is not yet 100% working. It however is not a true root and eats up a large amount of internal memory where the image file of the ROM is stored. There is a thread on Safestrap and how it works. Use it at your own risk. Outside of that it is IMPOSSIBLE to flash an ATT Note 3 right now..
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hey yeah sorry i know that part i should of said with safestrap!!

billybob24 said:
hey yeah sorry i know that part i should of said with safestrap!!
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The issue is that even with safe strap you can't flash any ROM. The ROM first has to be tailored to work with and around safe strap since it is not truly a ROM but a bootloader bypass and works a little differently. So until developers either jump on board and tweak ROMS to work with safestrap or they wait till the bootloader is unlocked, there are no ROMS right now to flash..

Solarenemy68 said:
The issue is that even with safe strap you can't flash any ROM. The ROM first has to be tailored to work with and around safe strap since it is not truly a ROM but a bootloader bypass and works a little differently. So until developers either jump on board and tweak ROMS to work with safestrap or they wait till the bootloader is unlocked, there are no ROMS right now to flash..
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Incorrect. There are 3 roms that I have flashed myself. One based on mj5 and 2 based off xnote7. All 3 flashed to the stock slot with safestrap. Check the development thread and you will see.
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P1Tater said:
Incorrect. There are 3 roms that I have flashed myself. One based on mj5 and 2 based off xnote7. All 3 flashed to the stock slot with safestrap. Check the development thread and you will see.
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I said you could not flash them reliably and have them 100% functional. There is still testing being conducted on all the ROMS claimed to work and no one has confirmed 100% functionality with all apps and hardware. So they are still not certified reliable like a real flash would be..
If you have tested the three you have used 100% on both hardware and apps then you need to get in there and say so because they are looking for 100% proof of function confirmation..

Not going to argue semantics with you.
I will say that I have flashed to rom slots 1 thru 4 and the stock slot and restored backups to them all with no issues. And am currently running the ported xnote7 with no issues at all. So yes, roms can be installed to AT&T Note3 phones.
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P1Tater said:
Not going to argue semantics with you.
I will say that I have flashed to rom slots 1 thru 4 and the stock slot and restored backups to them all with no issues. And am currently running the ported xnote7 with no issues at all. So yes, roms can be installed to AT&T Note3 phones.
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Same here. Im actually running on stock slot fine.just did a backup.everything works great
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Solarenemy68 said:
I said you could not flash them reliably and have them 100% functional. There is still testing being conducted on all the ROMS claimed to work and no one has confirmed 100% functionality with all apps and hardware. So they are still not certified reliable like a real flash would be..
If you have tested the three you have used 100% on both hardware and apps then you need to get in there and say so because they are looking for 100% proof of function confirmation..
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Have you been actively participating in the development of this phone? I've been doing this for years and I'll be honest. 99% of custom rooms do not run 100% perfect or functional. That being said, instead of telling everyone we can't flash ROMS. Why not tell them what we do have and let him decide if it is what He is looking for.
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bri315317 said:
Have you been actively participating in the development of this phone? I've been doing this for years and I'll be honest. 99% of custom rooms do not run 100% perfect or functional. That being said, instead of telling everyone we can't flash ROMS. Why not tell them what we do have and let him decide if it is what He is looking for.
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Preach brother! Lol
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Finisher1214 said:
Preach brother! Lol
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HAHA nice!!! yeah i put the xnote rom on last night so far no issues at all runs smooth and i love it!! just wish everything didnt take up a bunch of the internal memory but hey its a sweet rom so whatever

I am just going by all the "this does not work, or this fails, or my apps no longer load" and the list goes one of post in the SS thread right now.. For some it maybe stable but it seems the majority is having more problems then they had with stock.

Can someone orovide the link to xnote7 that can be fkashed to att note 3 using safe strap please? I have seen a couple forums about it but I cannot find the actual download link of the one that you guys are referring to. I want the one that works with the AT&T note 3 using safestrap please I would greatly appreciate it thank you
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faslane said:
Can someone orovide the link to xnote7 that can be fkashed to att note 3 using safe strap please? I have seen a couple forums about it but I cannot find the actual download link of the one that you guys are referring to. I want the one that works with the AT&T note 3 using safestrap please I would greatly appreciate it thank you
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Are you people looking for a link really serious? I mean have you not even tried looking in maybe this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579773

This thread has officially run its course. Time to kill it.
Thread locked.
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Roms for att version of active

Can we flash the att 4.4 s4 roms on our phone that say their safestrap compatible? If not where would b the roms for us att users who r rooted and still on 4.2.2? I see only international version Compatible but non that say att....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Can we flash the att 4.4 s4 roms on our phone that say their safestrap compatible? If not where would b the roms for us att users who r rooted and still on 4.2.2? I see only international version Compatible but non that say att....
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A little searching will go a long way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2491762

I did read that post multiple times actually.. I've tried a few with no success that it lists as works.... Also u still didn't answer my question and neither does that post....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I did read that post multiple times actually.. I've tried a few with no success that it lists as works.... Also u still didn't answer my question and neither does that post....
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You're right, I didn't fully answer your question there are a bunch of SafeStrap threads out there and a few of them have the answers you're looking for, but not the one I linked to.
Since we have a locked bootloader we cannot flash things that aren't signed by Samsung. SafeStrap gets around this by redirecting everything to a different data partition. Unfortunately it can only do this after the kernel loads, and since there's no way to flash a different kernel you're stuck with the stock kernel on your phone. This is important.
You can only flash ROMs that work with the stock kernel on your phone. So since you are on MF3, you can only use ROMs that are based on 4.2.2 TouchWiz. If you're on MI2 then you can flash 4.3 TouchWiz-based ROMs. So you are very limited as to what you can flash.
As for not being able to get ROMs to work, you need to make sure you have enough free space when creating a ROM slot, 4-5 GB should be plenty. You cannot share apps or data between different ROM slots so be careful with your space. You should be able to get the GPE ROM to work, I'm using it right now. So completely delete your ROM slot 1 and recreate it. Then follow the steps exactly as they are written in the thread I linked to and make sure you flash the proper module files for your phone.
If you have any other questions, let me know.

Ty for being more in depth in ya answer and that... I have tried the gpe room three times and it never boots it goes to Android stock recovery..
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Ty for being more in depth in ya answer and that... I have tried the gpe room three times and it never boots it goes to Android stock recovery..
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Three questions:
What stock firmware are you on?
What version of SafeStrap are you using?
What modules are you flashing afterwards?
If you could link to everything, including the ROM it would be helpful.

I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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The thread I used to get the patches n rom from.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2491762
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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I think SS 3.71 is for 4.3, you need SafeStrap 3.65, for 4.2.2
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bigfdaddy2 said:
I'm on mf3, safe strap 3.71,gpe 4.2.2 listed in thread with roms that are working with safestrap... Mf3 master patch as listed in thread that supposed to contain all the files in one
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You need to be using SafeStrap 3.65 if you're on MF3. 3.71 is for 4.3 stock ROMs (MI2). One you do that everything should work just fine.

U were correct 3.65 safe strap worked ...currently using the Google play edition as my main os and must say it brought this phone to life ...its much snappier and responsive then it was stock rooted....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
U were correct 3.65 safe strap worked ...currently using the Google play edition as my main os and must say it brought this phone to life ...its much snappier and responsive then it was stock rooted....
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Make sure you disable the AT&T updater on your stock ROM just in case they try to push an update and lock your phone down.

Well using the gpe I don't have speaker phone...I can hear them but my mic won't work ...know I flip it back to earpiece my mic works ...what up with that ??? Anyone else with that issues ???
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Well using the gpe I don't have speaker phone...I can hear them but my mic won't work ...know I flip it back to earpiece my mic works ...what up with that ??? Anyone else with that issues ???
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There are two known issues with GPE, read the thread they've been talked about in depth. Also that thread is probably where this question belongs.
As you've reported this is one of the known bugs, there is no fix. The other is that you cannot see your phone's storage from a computer when connected via usb. Again there is no fix.
Please post all ROM-related questions in their respective threads.

[Q] need help rooting my samsung galaxy s4 active...

i have been trying for weeks now to root my s4 active but am not getting through... is there anyone here who could help me plz..
this also is my device info and i have tried these both files and they dont work

also when i run either of these files i get an error.. this device is not suported

warmachine20 said:
also when i run either of these files i get an error.. this device is not suported
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Read the root instructions for NH3 in the i537 Firmware Thread. There are links in there that explain exactly how to root NH3.

Plz post a link to the thread
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warmachine20 said:
Plz post a link to the thread
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In order to root the firmware version you are on (NH3), you have to use this method. Please make sure that you download the files for US (AT&T) Galaxy S4 Active (SGH-I537).

warmachine20 said:
Plz post a link to the thread
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It's stickied. Or you could always search for it.

Thx a lot am now rooted.. I realize that super user is not installed.. do I install super user now or should I do a clock work recovery first..
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warmachine20 said:
Thx a lot am now rooted.. I realize that super user is not installed.. do I install super user now or should I do a clock work recovery first..
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Install SuperSU from chainfire on the play store, open it once it's installed run it and follow the prompts, try to select the option to install the binaries or whatever while the phone is running and select the option that you are NOT on any sort of custom recovery. You can use SafeStrap to make nandroid backups which is what I believe you were asking, but as far as ClockWorkMod, I think it bears repeating:
You have a locked bootloader. There is no way around this, no ifs ands or buts. You simply cannot flash custom ROMs or recoveries. That's it, end of story as far as CM, CWM, AOSP and such things are concerned. That being said there is a sort of recovery called SafeStrap which you can use to make nandroid backups, flash mods and STOCK-BASED roms, but it's not a true custom recovery in the sense that we had been used to, because of this locked bootloader nightmare.

Was hesitant on several other methods I've read over the past day after Towelroot V3 didn't work initially. I followed this step by step and it worked flawless for me on my SGH-I537 KK 4.4.2 NH3. Took about 20 mins being carefull.