Have rooted different phones many times, but keeping up with all the different builds is getting hard and what is possible. Recently on my Galaxy S4 went from the original MK2 build and rooted it and went to the sneaked NC2 build, Was going to go to the NC5 build and or put hyper drive on it, but the question that I have is, once a phone has rooted and NC2 installed, Does all future roms relate to the latest update . For instance if I install hyperdrive on my galaxy s4. Do I consider it a Nc2 build or the original mk2 build? I ask this because it seams everything reverts back to the original locked boot loader from when the phone came new from the factory, I get confused when you follow the instructions to install a different rom and its stated that this rom is for the mk2 when in fact my phone is now a nc2. I ultimately want to get the hyperdrive installed on my phone that is a nc2 that was upgraded from mk2
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Have rooted different phones many times, but keeping up with all the different builds is getting hard and what is possible. Recently on my Galaxy S4 went from the original MK2 build and rooted it and went to the sneaked NC2 build, Was going to go to the NC5 build and or put hyper drive on it, but the question that I have is, once a phone has rooted and NC2 installed, Does all future roms relate to the latest update . For instance if I install hyperdrive on my galaxy s4. Do I consider it a Nc2 build or the original mk2 build? I ask this because it seams everything reverts back to the original locked boot loader from when the phone came new from the factory, I get confused when you follow the instructions to install a different rom and its stated that this rom is for the mk2 when in fact my phone is now a nc2. I ultimately want to get the hyperdrive installed on my phone that is a nc2 that was upgraded from mk2
hey guys, so im sure many have tried to put cyanogenmod on a VZW Samsung Galaxy s III with 4.4.2 OTA on it. but couldnt. im really looking to put CM11 on it. im very much so new to rooting, and flashing roms, but i already rooted my device, and flashed the stock firmware back, due to not having a CWM back up and getting "system software not authorized by verizon" warning.
so my question.
can i downgrade my firmware from 4.4 to earlier to have an unlocked bootloader without bricking it? do i need to go to 4.3 and then 4.1.2?
because before 4.3 it had an unlocked bootloader.
I really want CM because i cant stand touchwiz anymore. thanks guys . help a newb out
oh and. should i use towel root? or another rooting method
Your now on the locked bootloader and you cannot downgrade to another firmware. You can root with towelroot but that's truly about all you can do
From my CM11 S3
The Verizon Prepaid GS3 is the newest S3 out in the market right now. It can really use some dev love. I was thinking, can we build the new Safestrap (v3.75) for this GS3? We can surely root it, just not on KitKat build NF5. We'll have to revert to 4.3 through ODIN. With root, we can install Safestrap (the old version, it won't matter then). We'll also have to edit the build.prop and make it like the regular SCH-I535. We can change the model (from SCH-I535PP to SCH-I535) and the board (d2ppvzw to just d2vzw). Then it'll be like the regular S3 I535 on JB 4.3. The bootloader will still be locked (that's when the new Safestrap kicks in). We can problably port Safestrap v3.75 to this S3 and install CM right? It supports AOSP.
I rooted my s5 a couple weeks ago, with odin v1.85 afterwards my stock rom stopped working I tried flashing several different roms only the aosp roms would run, so now i decided to unroot and retry everything now the phone boots up to the sprint boot animation then freezes any one have any clue whats going on? my s5 was on 4.4.4 before rooting if that helps i'm completely new to samsung so I dont know about specific firmware, but if firmware the case please tell me.
Download a stock tar and flash via Odin. You can flash 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 or even boa6 5.0 lollipop
April is Autism Awareness Month. Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S5
Model #: SCH-I535
Android Version: 4.4.2
Baseband version: I535OYUDNE1
Kernel version: 3.4.0 (May 20, 2014 KST)
Build number: KOT49H.I535VRUDNE1
SE for Android status: Enforcing SEPF_SCH-I535_4.4.2_0016
Hardware version: I535.10
So i just got this S3 for really darn cheap in great shape. I figured i wanted to root and use custom recovery and then maybe try some new roms. But it comes to my attention through like all the helpful tutorials that the bootloader is locked and there is almost zero guarentee that even the one that have done this will work without many issuses. so im just seeing if anyone thinks its worth it to try with this phone or look else where and deal with 4.4.2
Of course its always worth getting rid of all the bloatware ! I have a galaxy S3 rooted with the liquid smooth ROM and love it .
The bootloader is not locked I had to root it and remove the battery on reboot in order to pass it or it will try to reload back to default also took a few times .
I would say it is worth it to root. From there your choices are limited since you are on 4.4.2 with the NE1 bootloader.
I bought such a device in May, proceeded to root, install SafeStrap, and then flashed the SuperLiteROM.
NOTE, there are only three ROMs safe to use on an i535 with the NE1 bootloader.
DO NOT try to flash a custom recover such as CWM or TWRP.
to quote myself from another thread:
I picked up a used i535 a few months ago as a device to mod and learn. I had no intentions of using it as my daily phone - I'm on AT&T with an i747. I found it was already on the NE1 bootloader and modem, I hadn't read enough before purchasing.
I was able to root it with TowelRoot. Following that I installed BusyBox and then installed SafeStrap Recovery for devices with the NE1 bootloader, see here.
From what I have seen there are three ROMs available to this device on NE1; stock NE1, SuperLiteROM, and Paul Pizz. This thread is a good resource for all but Paul Pizz, which is here. I after installing SafeStrap I flashed SuperLiteROM to the stock slot, it seems to avoid some issues when flashed here instead of a secondary slot. Since then I have installed XPosed framework and have several mods working with no issues.
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The XPosed module I spent the most time tinkering with was XPrivacy.