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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Rakuu:
That would be because thats not what youre supposed to do with it lol, youre supposed to flash it in odin.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jdrch:
Worked for me!

Thanks man, this worked perfectly.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bluroff:
Does this update fix anyone else's SD frustrations? Even with the Samsung files app, I could only move pictures and videos from internal storage to SD, nothing else, prior to this update. After the update even root explorer can move everything as well, even music. Quite pleased.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
Really? I would be extremely surprised if this was possible with 3rd party apps on KitKat since that's a limitation/security of the OS itself. Lollipop does bring back that functionality through a new secure method but that's something apps have to update themselves to support (Root Explorer actually did get updated with this ability not too long ago), but either way it would require Lollipop in order to even take advantage of that privileged (full access to SD card management through 3rd party apps).
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bluroff:
I have root obviously but even that hasn't helped last few updates with moving files. I may defrost Samsung file manager to see if that also works.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
Oh yes root alone is definitely not enough to allow full SD write access on KitKat. You also need this small edit.

http://winaero.com/blog/unlock-external-sd-card-writing-for-all-apps-in-android-4-4-kitkat/

Unless this is what Verizon/Samsung did themselves? In which case I would honestly be utterly shocked.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ibrubeer:
Does that do the same thing as the SDFix app on the Play Store?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
More so the SDFix app just does this edit automatically is all. But to answer your question, yes.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] B. J.:
I got this today too.

I was wondering about this too! I just accepted the N12 and re_root a couple of weeks ago. It's this update worth the trouble. How do you find out what's in it?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] NerdularInUse:
I tried doing it but I can't load the "boot.img" it doesnt show up as an option to load it.

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Ok, so I followed the original steps to open1your1eyes0 post about rooting, but did not flash the NK2 kernel because I couldn't. But I'm rooted somehow?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tleehill:
Has anyone heard anything in regards to whether or not the nk2 update affects foxfi? (I am on an unrooted S5 and am using Foxfi to tether). Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
Can't get OTA to install...?

My S5 has been rooted to NI2 using the instructions in this instruction thread. Now, according to the instructions given in this thread, we're supposed to use those same instructions, but at step 6 should use the kernel provided in this thread to bring the phone back up to MK2.

Odd problem: My phone won't accept the OTA update. It will tell me about it and I can tell it to proceed; it then reboots my phone and then gives me an error, saying that no changes have been applied. Nothing specific, just "an error occurred with the update."

Question: Just how critical to this whole process is the "accept the OTA, then flash back to NGC, run taproot, etc." part? Since the phone is already rooted and on NI2, is there any reason that we can't just use Odin to flash the MK2 kernel onto the phone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
OTAs don't flash on modded devices. NK2 kernel is just one small part of the update.

You need to need to be on completely stock unrooted NI2 build before taking the OTA so if you made any changes you need to flash the factory image to return to stock.

Or just flash this stock NK2 firmware package in odin and then continue from step #3 part of my root post.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/40591/G900VVRU1ANK2_G900VVZW1ANK2_VZW.zip/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PaEGaN13:
I believe I had this same problem last series of updates, I had to update through Kies and not the OTA.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
That's right, Kies also works since they basically just flash the latest firmware package and return you to stock unrooted unmodified state.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
They won't let me download that unless I become a member.... Is that file available anywhere else?

What's "Kies" and where do I get it? :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
You can just register for a free account. Also http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
Thanks. I was just starting to edit my posting to say that I had done some hunting and found Kies.

Sorry for the newbish questions, but I'm a little unclear here on how to proceed. From what I read here, Kies will just flat-out install the latest stock unrooted kernel, correct? Assuming that it is, once I've done that, which should bring me to MK2 (I'm guessing), what do I need to do at that point to get root back? Do I Oden to flash back to NGC (step 3), then towelroot (4) and run SuperSU (5), and then re-apply the MK2 kernel again via Odin? If that's the case, does Kies leave the kernel on my computer to use with Odin, or do I need to sign up for SamMobile and get the stock kernel from them to use with Odin after doing he whole Kies-followed-by-all-of-the-above?

If I get the firmware from SamMobile, can I just use Odin to push that out to my already-rooted phone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sk2:
How do I get rid of the install notification? I tried to stop the download but couldn't.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Savagerun:
Freeze SDM 1.0 then wipe cache and reboot.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
Answering my own question, mostly to document my findings in case someone else down the line is new to it and wants to know if they're going to brick their phone... :)

I used Kies to install the stock updated firmware for MK2, then followed those original directions from step 3 to flash back to the NGC kernel and then proceeded from there, using the stock MK2 kernel that was linked to earlier in this thread for step 6. Everything else was the same, and it worked fine. I've got the MK2 update (and can't wait to find out if it really fixes the VPN issue!) and root, and my phone is running fine.

Thanks for those pointers that were provided!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bdorr1105:
Flash full NK2 firmware, once coopleted, install towel root before and and super user if you want, boot back in download mode, odin the NCG modem and follow the guide just like it was before......Once it boots, run towel root to gain root, once you do, reboot into download mode, flash firmware package thats 50mb in size to get modem back to NK2 and then update super user binary...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] elliwigy:
or just use misterxtc rom and flash kernel after lol
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
Here's a helpful video for you guys courtesy of DroidModderX :good:

[YOUTUBE]05LnYGQT7-o[/YOUTUBE]
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Or you can flash my stock ROM or custom ROM and the firmware linked in the OP. I also have the full tar, kernel, modem firmware here for NK2. I've updated it all within the last 24 hours. I like the video too, well done.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tgeery:
so, when you go to About Phone what does it show? NK2 or NI2? I followed the process to go back to NHA and do OTA NK2 and then go back to NCG to root, then load the NK2 kernel via Odin and my phone still says NI2 after all is said and done.

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Mine wouldn't do the OTA to NK2 so I followed another set of rooting instructions here and went back to NHA via Odin, did the OTA to NK2, then went to NCG via Odin and did TowelRoot, then went to NK2 kernel via Odin. All of that worked but having said that, my About Phone still shows NI2 not NK2.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
Interesting that your "About Phone" still shows NI2....

What I ultimately did was to use Kies to just flash the whole NK2 package onto my phone (I suppose I could have also used the package downloaded from SamMobile via Odin, but I didn't try that). Then I just followed the other steps using Odin to flash the NGC stock kernel, ran towelroot and SuperSU & let it install its binaries (although I might have been able to put that off until after I was up on the NK2 kernel), and then used Odin to flash the stock NK2 kernel. When I look at my "About Phone," it does show NK2 now.

If I'm reading your above message correctly, you just flashed the NK2 kernel that's linked to earlier in this thread; is that correct? If so, that might be why your phone still shows NI2, since it didn't get the other stuff that's part of the NK2 update. Might be worth it to flash the full NK2 package and then do the NGC-kernel, towelroot, NK2-kernel thing and see if that then gets your "About Phone" screen to show the proper Baseband version for NK2....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PaEGaN13:
So I followed these steps, but after step 3 my phone got stuck at the Verizon boot logo so I had to do a factory reset. The rest of the steps went through with no issue but now my version says NI2 and not NK2.

***I just noticed I do have Softcard though so the update must have went through???
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] disco1224:
Im seeing this SDCARD Fix in this update, my question is, what was the sdcard problem that it needed fixed?? I don't recall having any problems with my sdcard
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tgeery:
I figured out what was happening. I flashed back to NHA to get back to a non-rooted config. then took the OTA and I THOUGHT I was going to NK2 but it only went to NI2 on the first OTA update. this time I paid attention and saw that it went from NHA to NI2 and went back into Software Updates and checked again and it said that there was an update available. Came back up and checked and this time it said that it was at NK2. followed the process to get root back and now I am am showing NK2 in about phone and have root back. all is well!

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the first time I took the OTA after flashing back to a non-rooted kernel, it only took me to NI2. I went back into Software Updates and checked BEFORE going through the re-rooting process and it said there was still an update available and it then applied NK2. After the second OTA, I went through the re-root process and it all worked great and I'm showing NK2.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] alphahere:
Everyone one in Washington DC is on there payroll. Especially the FCC. ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PaEGaN13:
OK, thanks, I'll try it again later.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] skister77:
How do i get rid of the reminder to update every day

I have a rooted Verizon on 4.4.4 with odin
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] dccrens:
Use Titanium Backup and freeze "SDM 1.0". That will do it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] skister77:
Guess I have to spend the 6.00 and update, well worth it.. Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] elliwigy:
lol so easy to flash misterxtc nk2 rom then odin the new kernel n reboot.. can also use the nk2 modem thru odin as well..

if the about phone still says ni2 then something didnt work
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Eetabeetay:
Do I have to flash from ODIN or can I flash from safestrap? I tried flashing the update.zip that i moved to my SD card from the cache folder and it said failed. I'm at work or else I would have just done ODIN ><. Anyway, Do I need to do the WHOLE rooting process over going all the way back to unrooted NHA? Or do I just flash OTA, then NCG kernel, then root, then flash NK2 kernel back? I'm a little unclear on the process going from rooted NI2.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Follow the link in my sig to get a NK2 stock ROM and flash that in SafeStrap. You will also find a link there for the NK2 kernel to flash in Odin. You can either flash the Kernel first in Odin and then reboot to SafeStrap and flash the ROM or the other way around. Either way it dosen't matter, just don't flash the ROM and try to boot to the system without the kernel. You will be on NK2 100% after you do this with no fuss.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Eetabeetay:
The main reason I asked is that I don't want to start back from a fresh phone like if I were to flash an entire ROM. I'd rather stay on NI2. Another question though, I've uninstalled safestrap and xposed and unrooted my phone, but the OTA still fails every time. What do I need to do to be able to take the OTA?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
If you are rooted you will need to go back to stock and un-rooted for the OTA to work. That is the only way it will work. On the bright side the way I suggested is quicker than flashing the full tar and re-rooting.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jmhj:
Thank you. This worked great and I have no issues with this update after a full day. Battery is at 65% with moderate use with txting, emails and a few phone calls.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
How is this update on everyone's device? If it made battery life better are helped performance let me know your opinions.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CaptainRewind:
awesome of you ... Thanks!!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Ed Zachary:
Go to the link in the OP that takes you to VZW's site. That tells you what the problem is that it fixes,

It's the problem that my wife's phone has been having, That the techs keep telling her to factory reset (repeatedly) to resolve.

Later: Wife has run the update. And it did take care of the SD issue. Her phone can now see a 128GB SD card. Up until the update, 16GB was the limit.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shizumie:
Ok, hear is my question, (Sorry if redundant or noobish)?

My wife's S5 is on Alliance rom based on NCG. She has no problems and seems happy with that setup. So my question is two part.

1 - is there any need / benefit to her to upgrade to the latest update? IE - what is she missing by staying on NCG?

2 - if she did decide to update to the latest, would I need to go back uprooted stock, then OTA to latest update, then flash back to root and back again to latest kernel. Or could I simply flash latest kernal in odin.

Again hope this question isn't to bothersome. And thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
I haven't seen any huge changes since NCG other than Volt and HD calling witch are not a big deal at all. Personally I use neither. If she likes Alliance and everything is working fine I would leave it alone. When you upgrade to NK2 you will not be able to run Alliance. If you want to try NK2 out make a backup of your current setup and go here or here. One is stock and the other is custom. Do a clean wipe, flash the ROM and then Odin the kernel linked in the download section. If she likes Alliance better thhen all you have to do is Odin the NCG kernel and restore your back up.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] shizumie:
@ Misterxtc thank you. That is exactly the information I was looking for. I concur, seeing no reason to make any changes to Her S5.

Again, thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bcrawford:
To flash the NK2 kernel, you should flash the 'G900V_NK2_Stock_Kernel.tar' file as-is, do not extract its contents (i.e., the 'boot.img' file)

You should be rooted at that point as you just ran towelroot. But, without flashing the NK2 kernel you will still be running the NCG kernel, which will cause all kinds of fc's and slow downs. Load Odin back up and flash the NK2 kernel. I hope this was helpful.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
He claimed he was not able to flash the NK2 kernel. Wonder why.....
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bcrawford:
I'm sorry. I don't quite understand the point you're trying to make. There's no need to wonder, he was simply loading the file into odin improperly...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GREGHARKINS:
NK2 wont take

I did all the steps at noted and got all the way through but i still show NI2

i tried to flash the NK2 kernel 3 times but still get NI2
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jcarson7:
When I do step one I end up in an endless bootloop and only the red Verizon Logo shows. I then have to go into Odin and flash a NHA.tar to get my phone to boot. What am I doing wrong? I read that I should replace NHA in step 6 with NK2 but are the other steps correct or is there some additional replacments/swaps? I'm using a SM-G900V on 4.4.4, baseband of G900VVRU1ANK2, build is also ANK2. Kernel is 3.4.0
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] open1your1eyes0:
You shouldn't be flashing a firmware version lower than your current. I thought it might have been a little obvious since those instructions were initially written for that specific version but work either way. Anyhow I updated with notes to make sure you can't miss that now:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55347753&postcount=19

And use the kernel from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57598352&postcount=28
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pete4567:
I have an S5 stock with NK2, used ODIN 3.09v and flashed to G900_nk2_STOCK_KERNEL.TAR and tried to run towelroot and it says it doesnt support my device. Why cant i achieve root? Help please!!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CaptainRewind:
HI [MENTION=3313404]open1your1eyes[/MENTION]. Firstly, let me report that this was a success! Thanks! I do have a new question, though:

I tried to do this all myself, meaning I extracted the update.zip from /cache partition, found boot.img. I even compared the boot.img (using md5) with the boot.img that I got after extracting the file you posted. They matched. I then tried to TAR up my boot.img, but the md5 of my .tar file didn't match the md5 of your .tar file after that. I did notice the user and permissions were different on boot.img inside the .tar. In any case, I could not get Odin to flash NK2 using my file that I created. The only way I could get it to work was using your kernel.

Here's my question:

What exactly did you do to the boot.img to make it work? Is it just the permissions? I found a post here on this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2578080 but it's a bit out of date and the python script throws the following error for me (when run in Windows ... and the boot.img exists in the same folder as the .py script, and it was my working directory at the time (i.e. I was cd'd to that directory)):

File "C:\android\Galaxy S5\2015.01.03\old\split_boot_img.py", lin

e 65

print "Error opening: {0}".format(file_name)

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Is there some more recent post on this? I'm curious exactly what you did to this ... if we get another minor update (like, not an Android L update) then we'll need to do this again so I'd like to know. Please direct me to any detail on this. I'm not a n00b, so I'm not scared.

Thanks!!

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One more thing ... Did anyone else have to retype your WiFi passwords and reconnect? I did ... is this expected? When I rooted the first time around, the phone was brand-new, so this might have happened but I just didn't know.

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jagrave:
That's because you pretty flashed the Firmware you're already on. Find the NCG kernel only and run it in odin, run towelroot, then flash the NK2 kernel in Odin.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CaptainRewind:
Ha! Good point, [MENTION=3587577]jagrave[/MENTION] ... that would be the problem. I didn't even notice that.

[MENTION=3380371]pete4567[/MENTION] ... what he said. ;)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] pete4567:
THANK YOU SO MUCH. everything went smooth.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CaptainRewind:
OK, nevermind. The only thing I didn't do was put it in the POSIX 1003.1-1988 ustar format. I also hadn't added the md5 to the tar file itself, though technically that isn't a requirement (that much at least I already knew). Once I knew to use ustar, the rest was very easy. For anyone reading this, this is what I did:

http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=92&pid=198#pid198

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ibrubeer:
I keep getting a periodic notice that my phone wants to do a security policy update. I've been putting it off, not wanting you affect root. Anybody know if it hurts anything to update it?

swyped on my GS5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] putney1477:
Just got my replacement and took the OTA to NK2. ALready installed TR and flashed the NCG kernel. I just don't want to go any further until I know about extracting the file or not.

Do I need to extract the file from the .tar? or just flash in odin as is?

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Ecomaniac:
flash as is, but manually verify md5 first.

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Just want to shout out a thanks. Got this week-old S5 rooted on first try using this technique. I took the NK2 ota, then followed the instructions.

Only one hiccup - SuperSU hung on disabling knox. I rebooted, re-opened, and it worked instantly on the second attempt. :good:

Thanks guys!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] kprice8:
Believe the bolded was a known issue.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] voodoo411:
It works.

So I'm new to all this and tried this and it works. My goal was to (sensitive issue to some) use my unlimited data wifi tether. Is something out there for this or did this newbie root with a bad plan? Big red G900V NK2.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] elliwigy:
most custom roms have tethering working.. u just need to turn it on.. stock it wont work until u remove tether provisioning checks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] voodoo411:
Been reading up on this site, I am warned to get compatible custom rom for Big Red G900V or will brick. Can't seem to find anything. Thought there might be a mod out there. Tried free tether unlocker .apk with no luck. Still a rookie at this. I'll keep doing my homework. Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] wanab3:
First, thanks for the guide.

Sorry If this is redundant. (Derp, put this in the wrong thread at first.) I read through the thread and couldn't discern an answer I was satisfied with.

I'm stock-rooted on NI2. I have my phone debloted perfectly for my purposes. I have a lot of apps (sms and games mostly) with data and settings that I would rather not redo. I have not had good experiences with backups in the past so I'm leery about them actually working for me.

I want to upgrade to NK2 to avoid bugs I may encounter, even though I haven't thus far.

If I use this guide will my precious app settings and data get wiped? I would like to hear that they will not. From the video it seems like apps stay, but the data is what I'm mostly concerned with.

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BrandT90:
Flashed the zip linked below on stock NI2 without any issues and tether every day. I'm not sure of any risks that may be involved by flashing this on NK2, but perhaps it'll work...maybe someone else can chime in.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2925825
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] o3dodgesrt4:
ok so whats the difference between the kernal and the firmware NK2 that sammoble.com has (PDA, CSC, & Modem)??

is the kernal part of the package?

DL link: http://dl.sammobile.com/M1FZQz8lJj1...JU0dEXVxf/G900VVRU1ANK2_G900VVZW1ANK2_VZW.zip
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] o3dodgesrt4:
ok so i tried to do the steps as instructed... starting from a stock virgin NK2, only a day old...

have all files... including samsung drivers... opened Odin3.09 and had connection on com4, tried to flash NCG kernal in AP field... and NOTHING HAPPENS!!!! yes its a Md5 file as well... it goes as far as "setting up connection" and freezes... 20 min later still nothing.... what gives!!!

updated: never mind.. fixed it... apparently when you connect to the pc for the first time, you have to open it in each variation of media... then windows recognizes it and the drivers loaded... then i re-ran the root setup and all worked great...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] p-y-r-o:
how do I remove tether provisioning checks on nk2? can I do it with sqlite editor?