Hi i tested many roms and they are amazing but i dont like lolipop look i prefer older ui like 4.3 or 4.4.2
I have used twrp to backup system offical 4.3 before upgrading to lolipop with odin and can i downgrade or not
And i have ss with all files that i backed up
Sure,Downgrade if you did full backup
Bauck up?
Pruikki said:
Sure,Downgrade if you did full backup
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Link to BACKUP?
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Hey all,
Im on bigxie's Stock Android 4.2.2 Google Play Ed rom and I got the notification this morning for System Update Downloaded for 4.3.
I assume this will not work anyway but would this run the risk of bricking my phone? Also is there any way to get rid of the notification so I dont accidentally pocket install it or something?
Cheers
boroie said:
Hey all,
Im on bigxie's Stock Android 4.2.2 Google Play Ed rom and I got the notification this morning for System Update Downloaded for 4.3.
I assume this will not work anyway but would this run the risk of bricking my phone? Also is there any way to get rid of the notification so I dont accidentally pocket install it or something?
Cheers
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Are you running the odexed version? Using the stock kernel? Stock recovery?
If you have these things you will be good to go.
Aerys said:
Are you running the odexed version? Using the stock kernel? Stock recovery?
If you have these things you will be good to go.
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I flashed bigxie's odexed stock but also tbalden's kernel with TWRP
boroie said:
I flashed bigxie's odexed stock but also tbalden's kernel with TWRP
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Reflash bixie's rom to return to stock kernel, flash stock recovery and you'll should be good to go
Thanks guys
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It would be my only way to get rooted..
Why??? Flash a custom recovery and use it to root. Or - even better - flash sbdags modified and rooted stock rom, or - still better - flash CROMi-X 6.0.1
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It would be my only way to get rooted..
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Er... no... wait... what?
You can currently only root on an unlocked device. You can root on 4.2 or 4.3 it makes no difference. I made a flashable zip in the dev section But if you are going to do that go for CROMi-X 6.0.1 as berndblb says....
You can downgrade if you want btw but why?
In my about phone menu I can see the Android version is 4.3 which says to me this is a jellybean ROM. However I seem to be getting conflicting info via Google as to whether this is a kk or jb ROM. Very dumb question since I'm 99 percent sure it's jb but I want to make sure before I go flashing ROMs (safestrap and root installed already)
I appreciate any I formation. Thanks
Mi9, mj5 and Nb4 is jelly bean MLG is leaked kitkat nc2 Is official kitkat
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Nothing wrong being 100% sure.
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Thank you all
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watson540 said:
In my about phone menu I can see the Android version is 4.3 which says to me this is a jellybean ROM. However I seem to be getting conflicting info via Google as to whether this is a kk or jb ROM. Very dumb question since I'm 99 percent sure it's jb but I want to make sure before I go flashing ROMs (safestrap and root installed already)
I appreciate any I formation. Thanks
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What ROM you thinking about flashing? I am on the 4.3 NB4 just looking for a good ROM to flash. thanks
rajeev2liz said:
What ROM you thinking about flashing? I am on the 4.3 NB4 just looking for a good ROM to flash. thanks
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you really cant go wrong with any of our roms, be it 4.3 or 4.4. just choose which one fit your needs. and freeze that at&t update:thumbup:
can't find any
posersk8r said:
you really cant go wrong with any of our roms, be it 4.3 or 4.4. just choose which one fit your needs. and freeze that at&t update:thumbup:
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But i can't find no 4.3 jelly bean ROMs all are MJ5 not NB4 and 4.4 are not rooted as my device is rooted.
rajeev2liz said:
But i can't find no 4.3 jelly bean ROMs all are MJ5 not NB4 and 4.4 are not rooted as my device is rooted.
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the mj5 jb roms are useable even of youre on nb4, and the kk roms, go in the general section and look for mr. tropazr's thread for more info on how to go to kk from jb. they are all pre-rooted so dont worry about losing root.
Thanks
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the mj5 jb roms are useable even of youre on nb4, and the kk roms, go in the general section and look for mr. tropazr's thread for more info on how to go to kk from jb. they are all pre-rooted so dont worry about losing root.
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Thank you so much.
Does anyone know where I can download 4.4.4 KitKat for my SM-G900A? I upgraded to Lollipop and I'm not very fond of it. All I can find is 4.4.2 Firmware downloads. Link me to the site or thread. AT&T just stopped releasing firmware after 4.4.2 i guess.
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Does anyone know where I can download 4.4.4 KitKat for my SM-G900A? I upgraded to Lollipop and I'm not very fond of it. All I can find is 4.4.2 Firmware downloads. Link me to the site or thread. AT&T just stopped releasing firmware after 4.4.2 i guess.
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If you upgraded to L using official OTA, then you are stuck with L. No way to downgrade to KitKat. Also no Root for now.
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4.4.4 is very broken, that said, you can't downgrade to either of them(4.4.4 or 4.4.2), i think its possible might be possible if you upgraded using flashfire, but im not 100% certain, and if i remember correctly the posts i saw about it said to only do so to recover a backup to 5.0
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I upgraded with FlashFire using the rooted Lollipop firmware from another thread. I did a backup but it got lost during the upgrade. It's been so buggy, I have reset it many times in the last week but the same bugs keep popping up. I think if someone uploaded their backup from flashfire with system, boot, (everything except data and cache pretty much) that would be usable.
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I upgraded with FlashFire using the rooted Lollipop firmware from another thread. I did a backup but it got lost during the upgrade. It's been so buggy, I have reset it many times in the last week but the same bugs keep popping up. I think if someone uploaded their backup from flashfire with system, boot, (everything except data and cache pretty much) that would be usable.
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Good. So you are still on the OA1 bootloader. Use this post to downgrade. Thanks to @muniz_ri
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=60012961
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Jsorren said:
I upgraded with FlashFire using the rooted Lollipop firmware from another thread. I did a backup but it got lost during the upgrade. It's been so buggy, I have reset it many times in the last week but the same bugs keep popping up. I think if someone uploaded their backup from flashfire with system, boot, (everything except data and cache pretty much) that would be usable.
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Good. So you are still on the OA1 bootloader. Use this post to downgrade. Thanks to @muniz_ri
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=60012961
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I would suggest reading and following this post as well. I suggest then either looking for muniz_ri's 4.4.4 root thread if you must have 4.4.4 but I'd say 4.4.2 would be better to wait on. What are the bugs you're experiencing? Some may be caused by things you restored in Titanium Backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60100244&postcount=799
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I would suggest reading and following this post as well. I suggest then either looking for muniz_ri's 4.4.4 root thread if you must have 4.4.4 but I'd say 4.4.2 would be better to wait on. What are the bugs you're experiencing? Some may be caused by things you restored in Titanium Backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60100244&postcount=799
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There were just a lot of app incompatabilities, some minor system bugs like lag every now and then.
I tried muniz_ri's 4.4.2 But Google play won't download any apps or update them. I did an OTA update which fixed all the problems without going to 4.4.4. I am going to just stay on 4.4.2 for awhile. Thanks guys!!!!
Jsorren said:
There were just a lot of app incompatabilities, some minor system bugs like lag every now and then.
I tried muniz_ri's 4.4.2 But Google play won't download any apps or update them. I did an OTA update which fixed all the problems without going to 4.4.4. I am going to just stay on 4.4.2 for awhile. Thanks guys!!!!
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Glad to hear you got it working. I was on rooted 4.4.2/NG3 for the longest time. Very stable and fast. 4.4.4 was horrible! I have been on rooted L for a while and it very stable fast and smooth. I miss all the Xposed stuff tho!
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I think i will go back to Lollipop later on, maybe the next update or when stuff like Xposed catches up with it.
I just upgraded my moto x xt1052 kk to lp 5.1 , but I don't like lp, so I wanted to rollback to kk. Could anyone help me? Is it possible? Mine is rooted unlocked
dexter bob said:
I just upgraded my moto x xt1052 kk to lp 5.1 , but I don't like lp, so I wanted to rollback to kk. Could anyone help me? Is it possible? Mine is rooted unlocked
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I think if you have an unlocked bootloader you can use RSD Lite to flash a kit kat image and the revert
You have to do the bootloader downgrade, or you will brick your phone because when you took the update, your bootloader also updated. Here's the link but it is risky And you can brick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3058202
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I think if you have an unlocked bootloader you can use RSD Lite to flash a kit kat image and the revert
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Um, not exactly.
GPT.BIN can't be downgraded. Parts of Mototboot.img can't be downgrade. We've seen issues of phones not working when the GPT/Motoboot are NEWER than the rom on the phone... i.e. someone tried to downgrade, or they started and failed flashing a newer SBF...
@dexter bob its a long story, which I've tried to explain (see the warning link in my signature), and some will say its safe, but I've seen way too many soft bricks (which could be recovered), hard bricks (could not be recovered so the phone is now a paperweight/door stop/trash), and others who just had some features/functions not working properly when they've attempted to downgrade, that I say... "Its your phone, you can do what you want, just please make an informed decision" and.... If you are ok with the very real possibility of rendering your phone useless, then sure do whatever you want, but if you can't afford to have a non-working phone, then do not attempt to downgrade.
ok i wont go for downgrade that but now i am using kk based cyanogen 11, that is "cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-ghost.zip ". i think it is kk based isn't it a downgrade? the thing is camera quality in kk 4.4.4 is good but i am not getting the same quality in cyanogen, how could i improve camera quality?
Just install eclipse or krypton.
They are both stock 4.4.4 based
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dexter bob said:
ok i wont go for downgrade that but now i am using kk based cyanogen 11, that is "cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-ghost.zip ". i think it is kk based isn't it a downgrade? the thing is camera quality in kk 4.4.4 is good but i am not getting the same quality in cyanogen, how could i improve camera quality?
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CM roms do not touch much beyond System.. It is safe to flash those, and revert back to your stock rom.
u can use the Fastboot tools to downgrade
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dexter bob said:
ok i wont go for downgrade that but now i am using kk based cyanogen 11, that is "cm-11-20141115-SNAPSHOT-M12-ghost.zip ". i think it is kk based isn't it a downgrade? the thing is camera quality in kk 4.4.4 is good but i am not getting the same quality in cyanogen, how could i improve camera quality?
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Try flashing moto camera, in question and answers sub forum there is a thread of some guy asking for links, I flashed one of these and working fine, but just camera, not gallery, or you will have problems with theme engine.
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just download kk firmware you want and flash just system.img and boot.img then go to recovery and wipe data&cache.
i'm using 4.2.2 right now after i upgraded my xt1052 to 5.1 firmware. just flash system .img and boot.img via fastboot and wipe data&cache.
backup first!!!!!
BADDINOROX99 said:
I think if you have an unlocked bootloader you can use RSD Lite to flash a kit kat image and the revert
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In the Moto X General Thread, the stock Lollipop ROMs with download links are available. Download both the Lollipop ROM and the Kitkat ROM for your device.
When you are flashing(Using Fastboot), all you need to do is flash the gpt.bin and motoboot.img from the Lollipop ROM instead of the KitKat ROM and the others as is from KitKat ROM.
This method worked for me on XT-1052.
ok thank u brother, could u explain step wise because i am beginner, flashing means using cmd or twrp?
proxuser said:
just download kk firmware you want and flash just system.img and boot.img then go to recovery and wipe data&cache.
i'm using 4.2.2 right now after i upgraded my xt1052 to 5.1 firmware. just flash system .img and boot.img via fastboot and wipe data&cache.
backup first!!!!!
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Can I get a link to that 4.2.2 rom. Is it post camera update? Is it for GSM phone? Thanks
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BrownDog99 said:
Can I get a link to that 4.2.2 rom. Is it post camera update? Is it for GSM phone? Thanks
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you can use this archive of our Russian friends. there is a lot of rom's. some of them (look at unofficial folder) are installable via recovery.
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/64a43f0fcc1e/Moto_X/