I have a Samsung Galaxy s5 that I have rooted and unrooted in order to get the lollipop update. Everytime I try to update my phone it will go through the process of an update but, after it has restarted it says that the update did not work. I am running on Android 4.4.2 and my phone is through at&t. How do I get the update to go through?
Install Samsung kies on your computer.
Use kies to back up your phone... And verify the backup integrity.
Then perform a full wipe on your phone, and use kies to upgrade firmware to lollipop. After upgrade do another full wipe for good measure.
Now use kies to restore your backup.
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ok my friend ended up rooting his watch,then he wanted to unroot it..he went here and followed this guide to unroot.(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2480429) then he went here and got the firmware btu version(http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-V700) then while flashing with odin he got a error and now on screen of watch says ( firmware upgrade encounter an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again,is there a way to fix this please..thank you
I'm guessing the watch was on android and rooted, then unrooted. Then the firmware you tried flashing ended with NF1? If so you tried flashing Tizen software onto android. Don't fear if this is what happened. Tizen is a different software then android. In order to go from android to Tizen you have to flash the first Tizen release which ends in NE9. Just download a Tizen firmware ending in NE9 and flash that. Then flash an updated NF1 Tizen release. If you want to stay on android flash an NC1, or NF6. Personally I like Tizen.
ok was able to to put it back to factory and rooted the device,issue i have having now is to install superuser on watch
Hi, I have the AT&T Galaxy S5 (G900A) and I am currently stuck on 4.4.2. I used to be rooted, but completely restored phone with Odin. I am currently on the NCE firmware. There is a 162.4 mb OTA update, but whenever I install it it gets to 25% then reboots with an error saying "Install interrupted. The software update could not be installed."
My goal is to get to Lollipop, hopefully without losing my data. Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s5/help/unable-to-download-software-updates-t3076448
Hello! I'm very much a beginner at tinkering with root and for months now I've been meaning to unroot my Galaxy S5 but I have no idea how to go about doing that! Especially because I am very afraid I will wipe all my apps/data or brick my phone. I used this tutorial exactly, and it worked perfectly. www (dot) w0lfdroid.com/2014/09/TowelRoot-Samsung-Galaxy-S4-S5-and-Note3-Android-4.4.2-NF-or-Later.html
However, I really want my phone to update to Lollipop and the update won't work while my phone is rooted with that ROM I loaded... I tried unrooting it, and it still won't update. I tried to flash my stock firmware, but it doesn't take.
If I am able to update my software without uninstalling root as well, I'd love that.
At this point I don't even mind completely resetting the phone back to the state when I bought it just so I can update the software. But I read somewhere that a factory reset might not even take care of the problem? I don't know what to do!!
tl;dr I want to update my phone to lollipop, but since I rooted it, it will not update OTA, flashing original firmware doesn't take for some reason, not sure if a factory reset would even solve the issue of not updating. how do I update it to lollipop/completely wipe the phone and reset it? (SamMobile does not carry the lollipop version for AT&T galaxy s5)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3149146
Hello!
Is there a way to update your device through the official updates of Samsung to the newest updaate?
I rooted my phone using the "Root Samsung Galaxy S5 mini SM-G800F using Odin" guide on AndroidMTK. (Search it on google, first link it is probably) but now it says even after unrooting that I have modified files on my phone and making it unable to root.
I want to download the OTA Updates because it contains Android 5.0, doesn't matter if I have to unroot because I don't like my rooted device anyway.
Is there any way?
Please help.
Sadusko said:
Hello!
Is there a way to update your device through the official updates of Samsung to the newest updaate?
I rooted my phone using the "Root Samsung Galaxy S5 mini SM-G800F using Odin" guide on AndroidMTK. (Search it on google, first link it is probably) but now it says even after unrooting that I have modified files on my phone and making it unable to root.
I want to download the OTA Updates because it contains Android 5.0, doesn't matter if I have to unroot because I don't like my rooted device anyway.
Is there any way?
Please help.
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I found that the device will update OTA regardless of root. Root is broken after the update, but that's all.
The message about having a modified system only appears when no update is available. If there is an update, it will start downloading and install.
Others may be able to confirm/deny this behaviour, but that's how it worked for me.
Hello I have the SM-G900A and I have been having some trouble, so here is the story. So as we all know the only major carrier that hasn't received the marshmallow update for the galaxy S5 is AT&T. I got really irritated and wanted to root my phone and download a rom that had marshmallow on it for my S5. In order to root my phone I had to downgrade my version of android to 4.4.2 or lower to use towelroot. I found a stock version of android of 4.4.2 on this website and flashed it through odin and got stuck in a boot loop. I then proceeded to clear cache and reset my phone to try another rom. I tried three roms that were android version 4.4.2 and 5.0. Then I decided to try and flash a rom that was the same version as what I started out with and it worked. By the fourth try I got out of the boot loop but my phone was laggy and buggy unlike before. I also noticed that I had a different older default keyboard and I had the S finder and quick connect feature under the brightness scale in the notification panel. Something I didn't have before on my original phone to start. So I realized it wasn't the same AT&T software I started with even though the rom said it was for AT&T. Also the AT&T OTA updates didnt work. I would download them but every time I tried installing them it would say booting in recovery mode in the top left corner and get to 25% then fail. The ironic part about this a couple weeks after I did this AT&T announced that they were pushing marshmallow out to the galaxy S5. So can someone please help me get back to the original version for my phone and be able to get my OTA updates. Also I tried using Sam Mobile and samsung Kies and neither of those worked.