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Guys, I got the OTA to android 5.0.2 about a week back, but I'm tired of the poor performance. Nova 3 is now unplayable at parts where transparency is used. So, I was thinking to revert back to KitKat 4.4.4.
Will the performance improve after the next update, i.e., 5.1??
The dilemma I'm facing now, is to whether flash back to stock KitKat 4.4.4, or to flash cyanogenmod 11 using cwm recovery. I also want to know which one of the two will be easier and less problematic.
Thank you.
OK, problem solved.
I installed cm11 using philz recovery. Now, the phone is blazing fast!
Did not downgrade to stock 4.4.4. Instead to cm11 4.4.4.
I've updated my Note Edge (italian, 100% stock) to Lollipop few days ago, but i really don't like it, i think it's the worst android version i ever used (i hate, a lot, how the lockscreen works now).
Is there any safe (and maybe easy) way to reinstall Kitkat 4.4.4?
i've found this guide searching with Google:
http://androidsigma.com/how-to-downgrade-samsung-note-edge-from-android-lollipop-to-kitkat/
is it ok?
thanks in advance
Goofy-Goober said:
i've found this guide searching with Google:
http://androidsigma.com/how-to-downgrade-samsung-note-edge-from-android-lollipop-to-kitkat/
is it ok?
thanks in advance
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I did it just the way the guide says, download your official Rom for you phone from sammobile, then use odin, its pretty straight forward, if you get into a bootloop, just wipe cache and it should boot.
MHeat said:
I did it just the way the guide says, download your official Rom for you phone from sammobile, then use odin, its pretty straight forward, if you get into a bootloop, just wipe cache and it should boot.
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ok, thanks for the reply.
you did the downgrade starting from an original Lollipop rom?
because my phone is non-rooted and 100% stock now, with the Lollipop rom that i received via KIES update.
Goofy-Goober said:
ok, thanks for the reply.
you did the downgrade starting from an original Lollipop rom?
because my phone is non-rooted and 100% stock now, with the Lollipop rom that i received via KIES update.
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I have the SM-N915T the version from tmobile, but when i bought it from a third party (brand new and unlocked) it did not come with the tmobile rom, it was the one from trinidad and tobago kitkat 4.4.4)
so i downloaded the lollipop Rom for Tmobile, and it worked fine, but i did not like all the bloatware from Tmobile so i decided to go back to kitkat, so i downloaded the kitkat version i had before, downloaded it from sammobile
checked usb debugging in developers settings, then put the phone in download mode, opened odin, click on PDA and selected the kitkat rom i had downloaded from sammobile, everything went fine, after everything completed, remember to wait for the PASS message fro odin, do not disconnect the phone unless it says PASS, after that the phone just boot looped, samsung logo, then samsung logo. So i booted to recovery and cleared cache, after that the phone booted just fine. So basically that is what i did, no problems at all, just make sure you download the Rom for yous specific Edge Model.
i've succesfully downgraded my phone
after the flash with Odin the phone was bootlooping, but with a full wipe (data and cache) everything was ok
now i've disabled automatic firware updates and i'll stick to KK 4.4.4 till Google new updates to Lollipop and the awful head-ups notification system.
thank you very much!
Goofy-Goober said:
i've succesfully downgraded my phone
after the flash with Odin the phone was bootlooping, but with a full wipe (data and cache) everything was ok
now i've disabled automatic firware updates and i'll stick to KK 4.4.4 till Google new updates to Lollipop and the awful head-ups notification system.
thank you very much!
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Cool man, glad everything went fine.
Hi,
I am having bootloop issue even after I clear with cache and dalvik from the recovery. I flashed with ODIN(N915GXXU1ANK4_N915GOLB1ANK4_MM1.zip) from Lollipop 5.0.1 as mine is Singapore unit. Anyone care to share their experience on how to recover from this.....
yltan said:
Hi,
I am having bootloop issue even after I clear with cache and dalvik from the recovery. I flashed with ODIN(N915GXXU1ANK4_N915GOLB1ANK4_MM1.zip) from Lollipop 5.0.1 as mine is Singapore unit. Anyone care to share their experience on how to recover from this.....
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This is how i did from lollipop rollback to kitkat CWM > wipe data/factory reset > wipe cache partition > advance > wipe dalvik cache > turn off phone go to download mode > odin start to flash kitkat (SM-N915G Singapore)
The way I recovered this is factory reset instead of clearing the cache. Now running Kit Kat and very much happier...
yltan said:
The way I recovered this is factory reset instead of clearing the cache. Now running Kit Kat and very much happier...
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Thanks for the suggestion. It worked as I went from Lollipop to Kit Kat. Much happier, especially considering the camera button on the edge panel for both selfie and normal mode. makes life a whole lot easier
I have a Verizon edge but everytime I try to flash back to kitkat with odin, it says it fails. I've tried 2 different files but neither seem to work. Are there any other methods or any other place to get the file from other than sammobile? Lollipop has killed my love for this phone. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Who knows.
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I have a Verizon edge but everytime I try to flash back to kitkat with odin, it says it fails. I've tried 2 different files but neither seem to work. Are there any other methods or any other place to get the file from other than sammobile? Lollipop has killed my love for this phone. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Who knows.
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If you know the baseband number of the verizon 4.4.4 Stock ROM, my T Mobile one is N915TUVU1ANK3, you can search for it on https://www.androidfilehost.com/
Downloads much faster with none of that stupid gimmicky pricing.
This phone really shines on Kit Kat. if only Samsung put just a little more effort in maintaining the features of Kit Kat on Lollipop. I really do like the face lift of Lollipop but I'll take the ergonomic Kit Kat that takes full advantage of the Edge any day.
hi guys, im using note edge, sprint N915P, with 5.1.1 but my fingerprint have problem. I would like to downgrade to 4.4.4, is that ok or any suggestion i need to pay attention? I heard that the phone will be null, lost imei if we try to downgrade, is that real? Thanks all
phognle said:
hi guys, im using note edge, sprint N915P, with 5.1.1 but my fingerprint have problem. I would like to downgrade to 4.4.4, is that ok or any suggestion i need to pay attention? I heard that the phone will be null, lost imei if we try to downgrade, is that real? Thanks all
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Never heard the IMEI thing before. Doesn't even make sense to me. Just download the stock 4.4.4 ROM for sprint via Odin.
Read the above directions In the thread.
edo101 said:
Never heard the IMEI thing before. Doesn't even make sense to me. Just download the stock 4.4.4 ROM for sprint via Odin.
Read the above directions In the thread.
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Thanks, im dowloading the 4.4.4 Rom and wait for the good result, this is my first time, so nervous.
phognle said:
Thanks, im dowloading the 4.4.4 Rom and wait for the good result, this is my first time, so nervous.
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i tried but it said fail, my baseband is N915PVPU4COG1, and i downloaded the firmware "N915PVPU1ANK1_N915PSPT1ANK1_XAS" from sammobile. Did i download the correct firmware? Please support. Thanks a lot.
What was the fail message? was it aboot.mbn????
Thanx
Yes thats the failed message I got. I tried the file from 2 different sites.
blayzejlm said:
Yes thats the failed message I got. I tried the file from 2 different sites.
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Yeah I got the same error message attempting to move from the firmware for SM-N915P (5.1.1.) to SM-N915FY(5.0.1.) though I've seen a few people talk about the fact that you can't go backwards now.
hey guys, one week ago i updated my S6 to 5.1.1 and since then when you enter the settings and start scrolling, the first couple of scrollings the phone lags, it sorts of jumps, i didn't have this issue when i had 5.0.2....can someone help? i have an "old" 5.1.1, the one with the S6 icons and not the NOTE 5
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hey guys, one week ago i updated my S6 to 5.1.1 and since then when you enter the settings and start scrolling, the first couple of scrollings the phone lags, it sorts of jumps, i didn't have this issue when i had 5.0.2....can someone help? i have an "old" 5.1.1, the one with the S6 icons and not the NOTE 5
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Could be the reason of a borked update. I suggest to update to the latest 5.1.1 or perform a factory reset.
davebugyi said:
Could be the reason of a borked update. I suggest to update to the latest 5.1.1 or perform a factory reset.
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i did a factory reset when i updates my phone, i always do, the thing is i don't wanna update via odin to another country firmware....
same situation here! with the 5.1.1 the s6 start to lag everywhere (flash other 5.1.1 rom, de-brand, reset, hard-reset, but nothing change)
Faith140291 said:
same situation here! with the 5.1.1 the s6 start to lag everywhere (flash other 5.1.1 rom, de-brand, reset, hard-reset, but nothing change)
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yeah, 5.0.2 was better, i am regretting updating my phone...but the ram is better on 5.1.1.....
Me too! There's a big scrolling problem with 5.1! It's like the phone doesn't know at what speed it should scroll.
i am noticing another bug, when someone is calling me, i drag the green circle to the right, it shows the in call screen but you cannot do anything and the call haven't been answered, then 2 seconds later it returns to the screen when someone calling you again....you have to do this 3 times to answer correctly....
i had upgraded my mexi-maxx to lollipop a few months ago and could no longer stand it. outside of being picky with my phone, the GPS didn't work as I had hoped.
i reverted back to kitkat by means of a TWRP backup I had. Had some issues with doing so. some of my images would not work, but a stock on of KK did. could not use any of @ChazzMatt images either; nor factory images as RSD pinged a FAIL. started getting worried, but just about all good now.
the phone now boots directly to bootloader mode and i have to choose 'start' to boot into system.
is there a way to change this? thanks all.
You can try Brazil 22.34.16 lollipop build, it is the most stable 5.0.2 for moto maxx / turbo atm. Your issue is caused by the incompability with the lollipop bootloader and 4.4 kitkat twrp image. Take a copy of your nandroid backup to your pc and flash 4.4.4 images except gpt.bin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/help/tutorial-how-to-flash-official-firmware-t3074724 ( following 5.step )
Then flash twrp recovery and restore your 4.4.4 nandroid, it will be fine this time.
Semseddin said:
You can try Brazil 22.34.16 lollipop build, it is the most stable 5.0.2 for moto maxx / turbo atm. Your issue is caused by the incompability with the lollipop bootloader and 4.4 kitkat twrp image. Take a copy of your nandroid backup to your pc and flash 4.4.4 images except gpt.bin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/help/tutorial-how-to-flash-official-firmware-t3074724 ( following 5.step )
Then flash twrp recovery and restore your 4.4.4 nandroid, it will be fine this time.
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Thanks. really dislike LP as a whole. are there advantages i'm not seeing? battery was the same, wasn't really faster, GPS terrible (used stock rooted and CM12.1)
want to make sure I understand what i'm doing. according to thread you linked to (thank you btw I could not find that earlier too busy freaking out) because i took the LP OTA i have the upgraded LP bootloader, but I do not need to downgrade it to go back to KK? meaning LP BL is backwards compatible?
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Thanks. really dislike LP as a whole. are there advantages i'm not seeing? battery was the same, wasn't really faster, GPS terrible (used stock rooted and CM12.1)
want to make sure I understand what i'm doing. according to thread you linked to (thank you btw I could not find that earlier too busy freaking out) because i took the LP OTA i have the upgraded LP bootloader, but I do not need to downgrade it to go back to KK? meaning LP BL is backwards compatible?
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You need to downgrade to 4.4.4 with stock images except gpt.bin or else, it is normal having issues like you're facing. Lollipop bootloader is meant to work on lollipop system. Anyway, just flash 4.4.4 full images with mfastboot except gpt.bin, then flash your twrp recovery and restore your kitkat nandroid. It will be fine.
I downgraded my xt1225 back in time with the same tutorial and it works fine.
this works perfectly. old twrps work again.
trying to the india version of LP as some are saying its vetter, installed and then put cm12.1 back on. gonna give it a week or so and see if GPS locks better. if not, back to kitkat. thanks for the help.
snowboardwcu said:
this works perfectly. old twrps work again.
trying to the india version of LP as some are saying its vetter, installed and then put cm12.1 back on. gonna give it a week or so and see if GPS locks better. if not, back to kitkat. thanks for the help.
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India firmware is as bogus as a software can get and they didn't deploy patch ota's to fix its issues. Your best stock lolipop bet is brazil 5.0.2
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India firmware is as bogus as a software can get
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bogus as in not official or bogus as in crap sw&support? again, no interest in using stock LP. cm12.1 fits all my needs except the double swipe to pattern unlock, which from what i read i'm stuck with.
at this point i'm only interested in the best driver set for the phone. interested in getting better GPS lock and hopefully better reception at work, in the middle of a giant metal building (kitkat worked much better IMO WRT to reception and LTE/HSPA+ handover)
Semseddin said:
India firmware is as bogus as a software can get and they didn't deploy patch ota's to fix its issues. Your best stock lolipop bet is brazil 5.0.2
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snowboardwcu said:
bogus as in not official or bogus as in crap sw&support? again, no interest in using stock LP. cm12.1 fits all my needs except the double swipe to pattern unlock, which from what i read i'm stuck with.
at this point i'm only interested in the best driver set for the phone. interested in getting better GPS lock and hopefully better reception at work, in the middle of a giant metal building (kitkat worked much better IMO WRT to reception and LTE/HSPA+ handover)
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If you were just running stock LP -- which you say you do not want to do -- then @Semseddin is correct that Brazil and Mexico factory images are better than India. Just because they both have newer updates India was never given.
In my images thread you can see,
Brazil: QUARK_RETBR_5.0.2_LXG22.33-12.13_cid12_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
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India: QUARK_RETEU_INDIA_5.0.2_LXG22.33-12.11_cid7_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
Then, @Jaocagomez has an OTA which takes it to:
OTA to 22.34.16 Brasil Retail Stock Lollipop 5.0.2 /// Blur_Version.22.34.16.quark_retbr.retbr.en.BR.zip
But CM12.1 beats all that by having 5.1.1.
Yes, CM 12.1 (5.1.1) is still using the stock 5.0.2 kernel source -- because Motorola has not yet released 5.1 kernel source they gave to the XT1254 Droid Turbo back at the beginning of July. But it's still 5.1.1 with 5.02 kernel source, NOT 5.0.2. with 5.02 kernel source. It's a vast improvement! Stock 5.0.2 was too laggy for me.
So, for me running CM12.1 (or another 5.1.1 custom ROM) gives me the best of both worlds. I have the latest kernel source/radio that Motorola has released for our phones, while still having 5.1.1.
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Now having said all that, my wife and I have two XT1225.
I flashed both to India LP 5.0.2, then flashed CM.
I also re-flashed the India radio and bootloader (5.0.2) found in the CM12.1 op post just to make sure.
I have no problem with GPS. I use GPS every day. But I use TopNTP. See this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62320192&postcount=624
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The only issues I have with CM12.1 is my phone seems to lock on to HSPA when leaving Wi-Fi network even though there are strong LTE signals around -- and even though I have "LTE Preferred" chosen. As I drive it will eventually move from HSPA to LTE, but takes like 15-20 minutes.
If I stop the car, remove and put back in the SIM card 2 or 3 times, then it finally locks onto LTE network that was there all along!
It was a change CM made to APNs/telephony back end of July that seems to cause this. (I kept my wife's phone on the July 29 nightly. We will be in the car, she will have LTE and I will have HSPA. Arghhh.)
But I put up with it, and keep flashing new nightlies -- hoping it will be fixed -- and also because other than that CM12.1 is very smooth and much better than stock 5.0.2. I don't want to flash my phone back to July 29 nightly. I still have it -- but I would have to wipe my phone completely and reinstall for it to work. I already tried just flashing that older nightly over a newer one and I got boot loops. I restored latest back up from recovery and haven't bothered since.
Fixed this issue. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63048064&postcount=696
ChazzMatt said:
The only issues I have with CM12.1 is my phone seems to lock on to HSPA when leaving Wi-Fi network even though there are strong LTE signals around -- and even though I have "LTE Preferred" chosen. As I drive it will eventually move from HSPA to LTE, but takes like 15-20 minutes.
If I stop the car, remove and put back in the SIM card 2 or 3 times, then it finally locks onto LTE network that was there all along!
It was a change CM made to APNs/telephony back end of July that seems to cause this. (I kept my wife's phone on the July 29 nightly. We will be in the car, she will have LTE and I will have HSPA. Arghhh.)
But I put up with it, and keep flashing new nightlies -- hoping it will be fixed -- and also because other than that CM12.1 is very smooth and much better than stock 5.0.2. I don't want to flash my phone back to July 29 nightly. I still have it -- but I would have to wipe my phone completely and reinstall for it to work. I already tried just flashing that older nightly over a newer one and I got boot loops. I restored latest back up from recovery and haven't bothered since.
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About 3 weeks ago I updated to the current stock firmware and since then I have gotten stuck on the tmobile splash screen about once a week. The only fix for this has been a factory reset... Not entirely sure what's going on here or how to fix it but this is getting really old. Has there been any other reports of problems like this with the current firmware?
My wife is using the phone and at work so I can't give the exact firmware right now, just trying to get some idea of what I could try.
zadane said:
About 3 weeks ago I updated to the current stock firmware and since then I have gotten stuck on the tmobile splash screen about once a week. The only fix for this has been a factory reset... Not entirely sure what's going on here or how to fix it but this is getting really old. Has there been any other reports of problems like this with the current firmware?
My wife is using the phone and at work so I can't give the exact firmware right now, just trying to get some idea of what I could try.
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My 7.0 nougat on my s6 stopped the phone from charging. I got around it by flashing Dr ketans note 5 rom. It's touch wiz based so you keep your samsung goodies plus get some tweaks. It's very stable. Just remember to flash the call audio fix zip. Download odin and twrp for your device. Put the zip onto your device. Wipe dalvik/sysyem/cache/data from twrp then flash the zip. Your photos and files on internal storage will stay. But your apps will not.