greetings to all ya'll wonderful people from all over the world from South Africa I have a dilemma, and as I am somewhat ocd about having unneccessary things on my screen I come to you for some advice.
I currently have 12.0.A.2.254 on my SP, and the phone is rooted. recently the OTA offered to update to 12.1.A.1.205. Im struggling to find if its safe to update from 4.1.2 to 4.3 (is that right?) using either pc companion or downloading it via the phone directly, considering that my phone is rooted. I dont want to have to reflash my phone if possible. Im also hella scared of bricking the phone.
Its fine you wont brick your phone unless you abort halfway through flashing or something else silly, youll have to re-root when 205 is finished installing though (use towelroot, google it).
Update via Pc Companion. Yes you will lose root but via Towelroot (see my guide in general) you can reroot it
~~Regards
Bricking your mobile device is quite simple to recover from with flashtool but since you want to avoid that, here's some notes you can take note:
Official SONY Firmwares are able to upgrade your device so long your device has no custom kernel and recovery
Root may be lost but follow the TowelRoot guides in the forums to recover it back
Do not venture too far if you're inexperienced
If you ever face a problem with your device seek help from the forums
Use Sony PC Companion to Upgrade Firmware or OTA (They both work the same way)
Regards,
Furrydaus
Hello,
I'm sure my situation isn't unique, but due to the volume of posts it's very hard for me to find the specific steps I need to follow so I hope somebody knowledgeable can help me.
I have a C5503 with 4.3 with build number 10.4.1.B.0.101. I rooted it with towelroot and I have SuperSU installed. I've uninstalled some Sony and Google apps (chrome, magazine, etc.) that I considered inconsequential but my unit has not encountered any problems so far. The update app tells me I have an OTA update available - 10.5.A.0.230, and I've ignored it forever. However, the Sony PC Companion program in my laptop tells me I have the 10.5.1.A.0.283 update available instead.
Now, the reason I'm writing this is because I've suddenly decided that I want to update my phone to 4.4.4 but I don't want to lose root. So I tried to download the OTA update and tried to install it after. I got an error that said it couldn't install the update and to try again. I could just update my phone via the PC companion software, but going that route would remove root and wipe my phone data and apps, which I don't want to happen.
What is the best course for me? Thank you.
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Hello guys, i've been reading posts all day about this but couldn't find a solution. A friend of mine brought from the US an unlocked S5 from AT&T, he can't update it from the settings menu to lollipop. I found the OTA file which i'm supposed to flash from sd from the recovery menu but when i try to do it, nothing happens. Can someone tell me if i can update from 4.4.2 to 5? Thanks in advance
A lot of people had issues just updating to 4.4.4. I was one of them, it's a process. First try wiping the cache and do a factory reset. It that doesn't work, you need to reflash NCE, then take the OTA updates. BEWARE, if you are interested in Rooting, don't take the lollipop update. 5.0 is unrootable at the moment. If you're not worried about rooting, make sure you do another factory reset and cache wipe after upgrading to lollipop. For some reason it doesn't fully install without it. You will get a slew of bugs, reset fixes a lot of them. Trying to find the original thread I used to do it.
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Thanks a lot for your help, i downloaded NCE and tried flashing with ODIN and got an error "Fail (Auth)". Any ideas? :/
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
I have a TMobile Note 4 SM-N910T. It's currently on 5.1.1 stock and I just got the OTA Marshmallow update notification. I'd like to try Marshmallow out, but if I allow the OTA update, will I be able to root it later? Or is 6.0.1 unrootable (for now)? If I root it now (before updating to MM) will I still get the OTA update? And will it still be rooted after the update? So many questions!
ota then root
I OTA'ed, now the phone randomly reboots several times a day, and some apps don't work correctly. Great.
factory reset.
*sigh* I was afraid you were going to say that. Now the problem is backing it up. I have a Titanium Backup Pro license, but I only use it on my old rooted GS2. The Note 4 is not rooted so TB won't run on it. All the rooting tutorials say "back up your phone before you root" but you need root to run TB. Chicken or egg? I guess I could try Samsung Kies, don't know if it will back up everything. My photos are backed up to Google Photos, I guess everything else is replaceable, but I would really rather not have to reinstall all my apps one by one after a factory reset.
That brings up another question: when you to go Settings/Backup and Reset, I have "Backup my data" set to On and linked to my Google account, but nowhere can I find documentation of exactly WHAT gets backed up or to WHERE (it says to "Google servers" but what the heck does that mean? I can't find it on my Google Drive or anywhere else on my Google account dashboard.)
I do greatly appreciate your help, by the way.
You could try reinstalling through kies or smart switch. Make sure to clear caches before and after. And see if that works. If it doesnt help, you could flash recovery, root, try to backup as much as you can between reboots and then factory reset. Your apps should automatically download from play store. But without the titbackup files you'll lose settings and data in a lot of apps that Google doesn't backup.
I unlocked your mum's bootloader.
kydar said:
I have a TMobile Note 4 SM-N910T. It's currently on 5.1.1 stock and I just got the OTA Marshmallow update notification. I'd like to try Marshmallow out, but if I allow the OTA update, will I be able to root it later? Or is 6.0.1 unrootable (for now)? If I root it now (before updating to MM) will I still get the OTA update? And will it still be rooted after the update? So many questions!
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Were you able to downgrade back to 5.1.1? My phone also download the MM ota but I haven't installed it. I rooted 5.1.1 first and am trying to locate where exactly the MM ota downloaded to.
Been hearing too much about problems with MM.
Shad0wsabr3 said:
Were you able to downgrade back to 5.1.1? My phone also download the MM ota but I haven't installed it. I rooted 5.1.1 first and am trying to locate where exactly the MM ota downloaded to.
Been hearing too much about problems with MM.
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There aren't that many problems with MM. Just superficial stuff like not having mobile data toggle. The problems you are hearing about a factory reset will fix. Like lag, jankyness, apps loading, phone freezing temporarily. You won't be able to do OTA. It will fail because of root. You need to titanium backup or whatever method you prefer of backing up data and flash through kies, odin or smart switch. Probably easier to go that route unless you only did minor things with root like just block ads, then you can probably get away with flashing stock recovery and then OTA. You still might have to factory reset like I had to even though I flashed whole rom through smart switch. If you have xposed or modified something like swapping recent apps and back key like me, then you'll need to flash marshmallow whole and start over after backing up.
Afaik, you can't downgrade to 5.1.1 unless somebody figured out a workaround or you only flashed everything except bootloader.
I unlocked your mum's bootloader.
@Shad0wsabr3, my phone gave me the choice to delay the upgrade for a while, but eventually just did it without my consent. I suppose you could download stock 5.1.1 from sammobile if you really wanted to downgrade. I just wish I could figure out how to back up my (unrooted) phone so I could then do a factory reset and see if it helps the problems I'm having.
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@Shad0wsabr3, my phone gave me the choice to delay the upgrade for a while, but eventually just did it without my consent. I suppose you could download stock 5.1.1 from sammobile if you really wanted to downgrade. I just wish I could figure out how to back up my (unrooted) phone so I could then do a factory reset and see if it helps the problems I'm having.
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Iv never backed up an unrooted device so I wouldn't know. Glad you nrought that up as Iv been meaning to look into that.
Would you happen to know where the downloaded ota file location is? My phone downloaded it and I keep postponing it.
Sorry, idk exactly where in the file system it is. All I can caution you again is, I kept postponing it and postponing it, and then one day the phone just popped up a message saying it was going to reboot and update, whether I liked it or not. Well, it didn't actually SAY whether I liked it or not but it did decide that I had postponed the update long enough and it was going to apply the update, giving me no option to postpone it any longer. That sort of pissed me off.
Please let me know if you come up with a backup solution. I've tried SimpleADB or whatever it is called these days, and another app that claimed to be able to back up an unrooted phone. Neither of them worked as advertised.
Where are the root instructions for completely stock 910T with MM update?
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Where are the root instructions for completely stock 910T with MM update?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...overy-n910t-t3-marshmallow-pe3-guide-t3406870
kydar said:
Sorry, idk exactly where in the file system it is. All I can caution you again is, I kept postponing it and postponing it, and then one day the phone just popped up a message saying it was going to reboot and update, whether I liked it or not. Well, it didn't actually SAY whether I liked it or not but it did decide that I had postponed the update long enough and it was going to apply the update, giving me no option to postpone it any longer. That sort of pissed me off.
Please let me know if you come up with a backup solution. I've tried SimpleADB or whatever it is called these days, and another app that claimed to be able to back up an unrooted phone. Neither of them worked as advertised.
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I'm still researching what your dealing with. As for me I found the ota file. For those looking for it this is how and where I found it....
With RomToolbox I went to root browser. Then to data folder and a folder named fota. Within the fota folder is the ota update named update.zip. I erased that and then went into Titanium Backup and chose to freeze both software update files. So far no constant reminders that I have an update ready to be installed.
Hope this may help.