I purchased my Samsung Galaxy i957 unlocked 8.9 tab on line from a Hong Kong vendor last year. I love the tab and it works great, but I am confused about what happens if a Galaxy 8.9 upgrade is ever released. Since my tab is an i957 - wifi only- and has the ATT brand, would I get the upgrade from AT&T even though I have no data or phone service with them? If they send it out OTA, would I be able to grab it? Or would I have to go to Sammobile or some other place to get it? I'm assuming that I would have to unroot and return to stock, but beyond that??
Thanks,
Sue
You could get it from sammobile and flash it with odin. You would lose root. Did you root the device? If so then it'd be easy to re-root as you've done it before.
OTA won't work since you are rooted.
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jd1639 said:
You could get it from sammobile and flash it with odin. You would lose root. Did you root the device? If so then it'd be easy to re-root as you've done it before.
OTA won't work since you are rooted.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I rooted and am currently using Danno_Rom. I don't mind re-rooting so I guess I just need to sit back and wait for somebody to release the upgrade. Thanks again.
heliosue said:
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I rooted and am currently using Danno_Rom. I don't mind re-rooting so I guess I just need to sit back and wait for somebody to release the upgrade. Thanks again.
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Nrvate's rom is cm 10 based if you want jb now. But I've found the stock, rooted ics runs just about as good. You have arm i957, right because nrvates is for the i957.
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I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.
Follow this, If you did not upgraded root it with ioroot and don't unroot it, take OTA update and you will keep the root.
If you upgraded, downgrade it via lgflashtool method, root with ioroot and update ota and you will keep the root..Good Luck
Link to downgrade:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644083
oscar786 said:
I have at&t LG Flex, rooted and than updated to kitkat, surprised was when it updated to Kikat and root was retained, I used all applications that require supersu and work like charm.
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What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen
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Pictures or it didn't happen.....
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Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.
brittoking said:
What did you do before hand? Cuz you're literally the only person so far i think. I tried everything and even went back to jelly bean 3 times trying to retain root with different programs. It would always error out on the update screen
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oscar786 said:
Basically what I did was I rooted on JB and when KK update came, I removed root from superSu "unroot", I tried to upgrade to Kikkat and failed, so I did lgflashtool (you directed me by the way) and flashed it to JB, rooted again and kept the root and superSu..tried update from menu and went through and kept the root.
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Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight
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Just as proof
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Another shot
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Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.
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Brittoking have you tried the xposed module root cloak then try the ota? Never know it might work.
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You know what...that's the one dang thing i didn't try lol. I even had it installed before upgrading. I will tonight
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brittoking said:
Wow? So the secret is to do nothing lol? Thanks. Gonna try tonight
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Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks
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Hello, did you try and was it successful, If yes,Please let others know to get root access through this procedure. Thanks
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I was unable to try it out last night, ever since upgrading to kit Kat i can no longer choose which mode to connect (usb only, mtp, etc) so after flashing back the problem followed me which prevented me from running ioroot successfully. Luckily i had ordered a new flex yesterday from AT&T after their service center confirmed something was borked during the update, it'll be here Monday. Can't do anything till then.
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Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..
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oscar786 said:
Look like i am the only one with rooted LG flex with kitkat..
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hopefully not for long!
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i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.
phillip_viado said:
i can confirm that root on kitkat works. i flashed back to jellybean then rooted then took the kitkat update, and still obtained root access.
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That's great this will help a lot of folks, who looking for rooted LG Flex, it will also work for all other variants of Flex and hopefully LG G2...
Yup worked for me thanx
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Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!
Which Jellybean? C? L? N?
can someone upload a kit kat update for flashtool
hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks
aznrice2k4 said:
Wait, wait, what?! Can someone explain it step my step brain-no-worky!
Which Jellybean? C? L? N?
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christiansfreeman said:
hey I bought my g flex a week ago. When I bought it it was on kit kat. I want it rooted so I just tried these steps downgrade with flashtools ... I click software update in phone and it is saying none is available im guessing its cause im not a at&t customer can someone upload the kit kat update thanks
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So far it's only available for AT&T so that's nothing to "upload". Without recovery for these phones there's no way to create roms from kit Kat source
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Downgrade to 4.2.2 then root phone using ioroot then take the 4.4.2 update this is for att g flex only you should retain root
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Hey guys, I haven't really messed with my phone since I got it and it updated to 5.1.1 or BOG7 a couple of months ago. I was wondering if anyone is working on a root method or if there's one that's out. Thanks for looking
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foton92 said:
Hey guys, I haven't really messed with my phone since I got it and it updated to 5.1.1 or BOG7 a couple of months ago. I was wondering if anyone is working on a root method or if there's one that's out. Thanks for looking
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if there were root for 5.1.1 it would be very big news. there may be a new root exploit eventually discovered someday but until that happens you should just assume there will never be root again
Hey guys i just updated my att gs6 from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 via odin. Anyway i can downgrade back to 5.1.1? Thx.
Unfortunately no, I wish there was a way because I want to root my phone.
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