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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
I started from a fresh NB1 flash. You may want to do the same if you haven't done it already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] adan.carrasco:
Tried on I337m

Hi guys,

I tried on i337m and wanted to share it with you all, I had no success :( it worked great but the WiFi didn't work. So, I went back to 4.4.4 if someone finds how to fix this please share.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] John The Rhino:
Thank you muniz_ri; I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly as usual. Im now on rooted, debloated 5.01 lollipop. You are truly gifted. Thank you again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dtowngs4g:
OK that's what I thought probably works from an older base version. Thanks Muniz_ri.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jonsun1:
help

i am currently rying to install the latest update for i337( galaxy s4 at&t) but have been facing alot of chaallenges as anytime i do it i do not succeed.

i tried with the flashfire method you posted but couldnt go further the fourth step.

i tried the roms from sammobile.com using odin it it failed too.

the safestrap method also gvs me a problem i couldnt seem to get it to fully download anytime i tried to do so.

i am currently running kitkat 4.4.2 with baseband I337UCUFNB1 and rooted using towel root.

PLEASE HELP ME TO UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION

i really need your help as im new to this tho i managed to get to the 4.4.2 myself.

i really need help.!:confused::confused::crying::crying:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ozz200127:
If u have root and safestrap u need to Odin back to stock nb1 first
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] voldomart13:
I tried this method twice with no luck. Myabe its because I installed safestrap =/ anyway im running lollipop now through the ota update. Now I just have to wait for a root method
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ozz200127:
Can u do this on nb1 with root
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dtowngs4g:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] I downgraded to nb1 and tried flashfire with and without safestrap installed and it still crashes. Can you tell me how you installed step by step? Maybe I'm missing something. Currently on nb1 and rooted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] blackhorses777:
after using this for 3 days, ive now had my first issue. phone will no longer boot, after the at&t boot screen it immediately says process system is not responding with the option to wait or close. no matter what i choose it will not finish loading. if you leave it on that screen for a few minutes it will eventually reboot itself. i guess im going to Odin back to NB1 again, and try using flashfire to flash the OC3 Rooted image and give that a try.

i have not changed or done anything to the phone since i originally restored the oc3 backup with safestrap, so i have no idea what caused it

Edit: NVM, cleared cache in stock recovery and everything is fine again. i noticed the phone didnt do the whole "optimizing android apps" on boot like it always has in the past when booting for the first time after clearing the cache. not sure if this is a change with lollipop, or because i didnt wipe dalvik cache
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jonsun1:
which one is the NB1???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ozz200127:
At&t galaxy s4 stock rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dtowngs4g:
This is rootable nb1 file https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358548937
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jonsun1:
steps

i know its becoming a bother but can u help me with the steps and i would like to know tho why i cldnt flash frm my existing rom? thanks in advance!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wilee1928:
Hi, first of all, thanks for all of your time and dedication Muniz.

Now, I just installed and every seems fine, can someone please tell me what Samsung/AT&T apps are safe/not safe to unistall via Titanium Backup?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] vaidya.abhishek:
I don't have safestrap installed. i am currently on NJ4. would this work? also. will i lose all my data?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macasus76:
I deleted every AT&T app I could find. I deleted every Samsung app as well. Just Samsung apps not some of the services. I didn't list them as I deleted them or I'd be more specific. I obviously didn't delete the TouchWiz launcher or anything the system may need. I hope this helps. I do recommend freezing the apps first if you do want to delete them permanently, just in case you may stop or delete a necessary service.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] emptyPD:
Is Normal, even with ART the system will optimize apps, if you noted the process is slower than dalvik based systems. This is because the apps need to be pre compiled for using.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Maribou:
Was flashfire removed from the playstore?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ozz200127:
Its in google+
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CrossBones3129:
Bout to try
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] yeahmann:
Can someone upload a system dump? Thank you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Agent5150:
So what custom recovery can be installed after installing this upgrade? says it will install recovery.. i am. assuming its stock recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hankbizzo5:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] is there a code for adb backup?? Getting unauthorized device and can not change desktop backup password.. Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
After running for a few days, it seems to run fine, and it's fast, a little better battery life for me.

However, the way the popup notifications works is driving me crazy. If I wanted a stupid iphone, I'd get a damn iphone. And no way to turn them off.. unreal. Hopefully Xposed and Wanam come out soon otherwise back to KitKat for me..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jonsun1:
safestrap question

please i would like to know that after i use safestrap to perform the back and im about to put the lollipop file in there and restore, must i first of all delete the backed up stock rom folder or leave it there and add the lollipop file in there too?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macasus76:
No need to delete the backup. Probably better to keep it. Just add the OC3 backup folder then when in safestrap restore just choose the OC3 backup to restore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DankHeals:
Anyone who had the app "wifikill" before doing this, have you found a way to make it work on 5.0.1? Or is it just plain incompatible?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macasus76:
Just a quick question and maybe verification for others. Say if one was to go into a boot loop or some issue in which we would have to restore the full OC3 rooted update ok. With the chance safestrap is still installed, could we odin the NJ4 kernel reboot into safestrap and restore the OC3 backup again?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jecruzpr:
No send or receive mms

First problem before had none with kitkat 4.4.4,

I can not send or receive photos per message.

Any idea to fix.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mitz93:
Upgrade without losing data

What do I do to upgrade from rooted NJ4 to unrooted 5.0.1 without losing my data? I tried to update OTA but it reached 26% and failed. BTW I have the ATT Galaxy S4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CrossBones3129:
Worked for me. Now all I need is Xposed to update and be compatible!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mic141414:
would be interested to know that too ... thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Apoplectic1:
No, but you can do a fresh ODIN install of MK2 (not just the kernel, but the whole thing), root it, install Safestrap and then restore the OC3 backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] s629c:
I don't get any pop up notifications so there has be a way to turn it off. I don't know guess it was automatically disabled for me

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
New version of FF added to PlayStore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] trlash:
Followed the instructions to a tee and no ossues. I'm on i337m and works fine just deleted or hide all the att bloat
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wolf45801:
so does fireflash flash the bootloader if I do this update?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sahively:
Afraid I don't know what you're referring to here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] psychedelicode:
I have been lurking here since android 2.3 on my LG esteem and I think I can contribute for once.

I was running JB 4.2.2 before the 5.01 update. I'm using an att note 3 and att s4 i337. My phone was unlocked and rooted on 4.2.2 before the lollipop update. Since I'm using an att with custom recovery so this phone will run on metropcs/tmobile, I ran into a lot of problems.

This is how I solved them.

I'm going to get into the failed attempts just for user knowledge then I'll tell what actually worked.

First of all, muniz has great instructions that work for 95% of phones. I'm in the little 5% that has a phone built out of 4 different phones (gotta get a case dangit) or that is using a phone with a different carrier.

so, I tried to follow muniz instructions and I got slapped in the face. The files would not extract without an md5 error.

So I went to borrow a pc (waiting for my new one to ship).

I did all extraction on the pc thinking es file explorer had a bug.

the extraction came out a success in 7z so I transferred all the files to my i337 internal sd.

after transfer I followed muniz instructions and got lollipop to install but it froze at the att splash screen.

oh no!

I pulled the battery and sim for a good half hour before inserting them again.

when I did the install finished but the product was buggy and I could not turn on WiFi for the life of me and the phone was overheating and shutting down.

insert step 2.

I almost threw my phone but was dedicated to making it work. After all my note 3 was a seamless Ota even though it was an att running on metro.

so, i, downloaded the muniz files yet again, but while running buggy lollipop.

I made a change here and ditched es file explorer for the android version of winrar.

It allows you to "extract broken files" which seems to be a key here. Somehow the uploaded files seem like they got corrupted, and most extraction apps will just give you an md5 error.

with winrar andriod you avoid this by processing the broken files.

After extraction from android winrar you will be able to see the file through fireflash. This is good because from here you can just follow muniz instructions and have a properly updated phone.

I do have to say, this is my first post and I hope I can help someone with this info.

Cheers to the great Muniz for the awesome advisement.

it also took me 3 flashes to get it right. I'm no techie but I can follow instruction and fill in the gaps. Best to all and thanks muniz.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chiquito3:
Hello Muñiz! I'm using Goldfinger 4.4.2 version and Bootstrap is still on MK2. I would like to update to a 5.0 lollipop Rom with safetrap or this new FlashFire method. My question is what should I do first? What firmware should I flash first in order to get ready for this Lollipop rooted update?

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] BhavyaBirla:
You can flash this oc3 update from nb1 or nj4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] astars2000:
HELP PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am just do what you say step by step and read all replies but actually iam stucked on SAMSUNG S4 screen

was running rooted 4.4.2 NC1

can enter to download mode only cant access to recovery mood

what i have to do now

thank you in advance for your help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cats_PJs:
So, I should be able to use the method in the op to go back to nb1, correct? I can't handle the lack of Viper or xposed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Apoplectic1:
This update takes a very long time to boot at first. Also, Safestrap does not work with 5.0, so you canot access it.

If worse comes to worse, you can ODIN back to NC1 and try again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
They are referred to as heads up notifications and are part of Lollipop. If you get a notifications from apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, or even when your battery is fully charged, a pop-up notification comes up that is no longer held just within the notification shade in addition to the icon in the notification area. The pop-up goes away after a few seconds, however, it takes the focus away from whatever you are doing at the moment.

There is no way in the system options to turn them off, unless you turn off all notifications for the app which would mean you don't get the sound, led flash, and icon in notification area. Really awful decision and almost everybody hates it. This is very iphone like.

Fortunately I found that using SQLite, you can turn the option off. I assume this will also be an option with Xposed assuming it is released for Touchwiz at some point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sahively:
Gotcha. I thought you were talking about something I hadn't seen. Sorry to disagree but I find the notifications helpful. I wouldn't say they're universally disliked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
Approx. how long is it taking to get through the first "Galaxy S4" screen for most people? For me, everything seems to go smoothly except the flash process seemed to be finishing unusually quickly then rebooting and sitting at the S4 screen for quite a long time; 5 min at least. I was just chalking it up to a bad flash, so I repeated the process and received the same results. It it is normal to sit that long than I suppose I will give it another go and patiently wait. I am flashing from fresh rooted NB1.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joseph230:
Tmobile Rom

Thanks for the good work !

One quick question: Can this method be used with a Stock Tmobile Rom (instead of ATT) (On i337 phone of course) to have the Tmobile Rom running on the GS4?

Thanks,
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cats_PJs:
If it takes more than 20 minutes, then start to question it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Apoplectic1:
It took mine about 20 minutes, but that was on the new Galaxy start up screen after the Safestrap screen, not the S4 screen. Try flashing it again, it does sound like you had a bad flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
Will give it another shot. Thanks guys!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
Followed exactly step by step. Checked all MD5 sums, etc.

Was previously on rooted NI1. Seems to be stuck on Samsung Galaxy S4 screen. Not sure if it made any difference, but I had blocked the OTA updates some time ago.

Not sure what to do at this point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
Try pulling the battery then put back in and see if it reboots.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
Hah, I've had a hard case on it so long, I actually forgot it had an easily removable battery! Trying now.

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5 minutes later, still seems to be stuck at 1st S4 screen. Suggestions? Odin back to?

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After reading some of the other posts, I'm just going to let it sit for 20 minutes and see if it gets through. Just won't have phone during lunch :(

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Still no change. I see some talking about re-flashing, but I'm not sure if that is through Odin or ADB side-loading. Looking for suggestions now. I'd like to avoid going back to NB1 stock if possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GamerG:
I had the same issue with the file. I was thinking something was wrong with it. Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
Flash this using Odin and let me know if it boots after a couple of minutes: I337_OC3_Stock_Partitions
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
I've only used Odin a handful of times. Do I use the AP slot to flash that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
Sounds like you and I are experiencing the exact same scenario. I've tried from NL1 and NB1 bases. Perhaps I can try from NJ4 as well. I'm considering just taking OTA OC3 and forgoing root for now until a direct root is accomplished. It's either that or stay on 4.4.4 with root. Seems I can't have my cake and eat it too!

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Yes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
Trying to flash the Partitions zip using Odin. Doesn't see the file. Odin looking for MD5, TAR, etc. Not Zip...

Do I rename file or is there another trick?

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Is there a trick to this? Odin can't seem to load a regular zip file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
Sorry, uploaded wrong file. Here it is: I337_OC3_Stock_Partitions.tar.md5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
Crap. I finally got fed up, and decided to Odin back to NB1 and try again. I figured out that I was using a bad USB cable earlier when I transferred 5.0.1 files to SD. I couldn't even get Odin to work with it. Went to a different one and now it is working. Who knows what was corrupted earlier. After I root NB1, I will try the 5.0.1 update again after transferring the files with the new cable. Luckily I made a Titanium backup earlier today.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jecruzpr:
Do not receiving or sending mms, SGH-I337

Just updated to Lollipop 5.0.1.

First problem before had none with kitkat 4.4.4,

I can not send or receive photos per message.

Any idea to fix.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
I am going to attempt reflashing these after the initial hangup. Perhaps FlashFire is bugging out and not getting to that step. Do we know if it produces any logs that can be examined?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
I realized that I left an unnecessary command in the partitions.zip which may or may not have caused the hang-up. That is what I was attempting to determine with suggesting flashing partitions via Odin after the hang-up. As for the log, yes I there is a log but have not familiarized myself with it yet to see how much info is kept.

New partitions.zip added to the OP.

Edit: did additional testing including reviewing logs. After several repeats confirmed all actions are performed as intended. All should follow the instructions as written.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
Sure.. however it's a bit ridiculous to not give the users the option to turn them on or off as it's a major change from all previous versions. The last thing I want is someone borrowing my phone and seeing the email or text and the context of it popping up on the phone. That is very intrusive.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
I'm still having trouble with this. I got things back to stock NB1, rooted with Towelroot, installed SuperSU and Flashfire. New downloads of the OC3 Rooted tar ball and your latest Partitions zip. Still gets stuck (5+min) at S4 screen. Tried Odin flash of Partition zip and no change. About to try Odin flash of the full OC3 file.

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Odin flash of the OC3 fails.

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OK, After most of the day banging head, I'm just going to go back NB1>NI1 and rooting again. I need my phone to work. I guess I'll wait until someone can figure out what the problem is.

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...and after all of this, somehow my Titanium Backup file was wiped so I have to tediously setup everything again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] gizmofreak007:
I installed the lollipop update using the flashfire method and also gained root access. I again rooted my phone using kingo root as it was not granting root access to certain apps. After rebooting, the boot process gets stuck at the AT&T logo screen or sometimes gives error message "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I tried using recovery mode in kies and also other options to initialize but failed. I also tried to install various updates using odin but that process fails too. My phone is also not entering recovery mode but it enters download mode. Guys kindly help me out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Whizzpopper:
Just wanted to thank you for this! This was a totally painless update.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] billbillw:
Wish I could say that....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] s629c:
Still don't get any of these with the exception of texts

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
Really not sure how that could be possible, being your getting them for texts. Unless you have notifications completely turned off for Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger... meaning you wouldn't get a sound or icon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
Thank you for your continued efforts Muniz, however it looks as if Bill and I are in lockstep with our unsuccessful attempts to get this flashed. I have tried from NB1, NL1 and NJ4 rooted bases and all have halted at either Galaxy S4 screen or Samsung Custom screen. I attempted reflashing partitions in Odin, giving it a good 20 min but still no success. At this point I believe there must be some minor variation between S4 devices that has been overlooked and is causing the hangup on only a few outliers. The only other thing I could think of is maybe reflashing the OC3 kernel along with the partitions in Odin after the hangup?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] muniz_ri:
Sucks that you guys can't get it to work but from my perspective we have nearly 1,000 downloads with just a few outliers. I suggest those having issues go over the directions again to make certain they did not miss something. Other than that, best of luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] s629c:
Don't use any of those apps but I use Instagram, twitter, google+ and a few others

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damnmachine:
If you are soft-bricked(confined to download mode), you will need to Odin back to a stock base. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2926642
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
Right.... in the app the developers can make the notification as a high priority notification or a regular notification. The high priority notifications (which must be used by whatsapp, hangouts, and fb messenger) are the ones that force the heads up popup notification. The apps you have must be regular notifications.

Unfortunately, battery is fully charged is also considered a high priority notification, lol...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macasus76:
Where in SQLite did you do this? Steps taken please and thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slim26:
1. In SQLite, click on "Settings Storage"

2. Click on settings.db

3. Click on global

4. Click on "heads_up_notifications_enabled"

5 . Click on the edit button at the top

6. Change value from 1 to 0

7. Click save and reboot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] macasus76:
Thanks for the quick response!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] skuiek:
worked perfectely!

thanks so much. super easy! love my "new" phone. so much faster and smoother
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] tailgunner9:
The Update today puts the Build from OC3 to OC4 on Note 4 AT&T. So does same Root info here work???

Sorry on wrong page for Note 4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pyroman27:
Worked great.

Followed the directions in the OP and it worked perfectly. Only issues I am having are adobe flash not working in Dolphin Browser and can't access the recovery menu to try clearing the cache. Thanks for the easy upgrade. If anyone has the same issue as me with flash, please message me if there is a solution. Thanks again!