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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Waiting4MyAndroid:
Followed the OP verbatim, coming from 4.4.2 NG3 rooted. Removed SS before flashing. Went down without a hitch. The whole thing took about 15~20 mintes. Did not have to wait more than 2~3 minutes on the ATT splash screen. Thanks to all who made this happen, especially you [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] talkingmonkeys:
Muniz would it be safe to flash the kernel from the tar with the deodexed rom zip I'm making? I have it built in with it just want to ask your thoughts. Essentially its the same build as yours just deodexed for modding and a zip instead of a tar. As long as its the correct kernel we shouldn't have any problems right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] gus2144:
That happened to me with the safestrap way. I just kept pulling the battery until it went through.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
Yes, as long as it is the stock, signed kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] aschade92:
Yeah that's exactly what I did and the issue went away.

On an unrelated note, does the alpha version of xposed work with this ROM? I read on this page that it causes boot loops on stock ROMs or some ROMs based on the stock ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] s8freak:
Agreed it's my understanding that Verizon now has root for lollipop so I believe we'll not be far behind.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
talkingmonkeys, just wanted to see how your deodexed rom was coming?:p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] cmerlyn:
I did the upgrade via SS and Odin, had no problems other than the Custom screen on bootup, with the unlocked padlock. Is there an easy fix? I have searched for this problem and have not seen anything yet.

Thanks

Never mind, found it. Triangle Away does a good job of that.

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Waiting4MyAndroid:
Can you please explain what option you selected in Triangle Away to remove the custom padlock?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] cmerlyn:
Just select the "Reset flash counter" option, about the 5th one down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
I'm liking lollipop.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] atoddvr6:
I have the same boot screen with the padlock. I'm sorry to sound like a total noob here but why is this a problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] najoor:
It's not a functional problem. Some people think that if they take the phone to the store with the padlock sign their warranty will not be honored.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] atoddvr6:
Ok. Thanks for the info!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] talkingmonkeys:
It is carrieriq. One of the things I want to put into this base is removing it completely. If anyone whos already on oc4 that feels confident with odining back wants to test for me I have a test build uploading. I just don't have the time to test it quite yet and I'm pretty sure it should work just fine.

Pm me if you'll have some free time tonight to test. Thank you if anyones brave enough to try it for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
I'll test it right when its ready! :D:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Billy06010:
Will it work on unrooted lollipop??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] talkingmonkeys:
No you'll need root to use flashfire to flash it sadly
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Billy06010:
Stupid me for wanting the lollipop update so quickly and not waiting for a root method!! Well that's what you get for not being patient lol now im on a locked lollipop bootloader
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
New version of FF added to PlayStore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] scmagee:
Rooting if already taken OTA 5.0

So I know that the official OTA writes that boot loader and there is not a current root but,

If I can go to Best Buy and convince them to downgrade my phone, Do you think that will

write the boot loader back to KK? Then I can start over.

Anyone think this will work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] iamthedj:
didnt see anything special with lollipop had to check it out tho great work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] najoor:
The collective knowledge of XDA members says what you want to do is not possible. However, we all will be very happy to be proven wrong so if you try it and Bestbuy folks agree to it for you let us know.

In the meantime, do you mind posting a picture of your download mode screen? I want to know which one of the boot partition versions are upticked after the OC4 OTA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] scmagee:
To be clear, do you mean the ODIN mode download screen? ie home, vol down, and power. then vol up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] najoor:
Yes please. Thank you very much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] scmagee:
So I do have a "person" that is willing to downgrade but they informed me that it could ruin the phone, no guarantees. I don't want to risk it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] najoor:
What I think he is saying is that he is afraid he will brick your phone (which is recoverable) or worse, he will trip your knox flag (which is irreversible). What I think will happen in reality is that if in fact he is using Odin like we do the moment he tries to flash the older bootloader he will get a failure error and the flashing will stop there, unless they use a different tool. Others can correct me if I am wrong.

By the way, it is interesting that a bestbuy rep would say he would do something to your phone without accepting any responsibility lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] scmagee:
She really did was not specific about what badness will happen. I believe that it was the same tool that the use at the Samsung booth at BestBuy but, it wasn't Bestbuy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] boone8576:
A huge THANK YOU to muniz_ri. Followed the directions and this process worked perfectly. After the upgrade, I just let all of my apps download automatically. I then restored their data, my call log and text messages using Titanium Backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samsingla:
Hey muniz, was wondering if you got the tether add-on working?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
The link is in the OP notes section.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Chip90:
Muniz, thanks for working on this (and the subsequent Odin restore file). I have been through so many issues it's ridiculous.

I started with a towelrooted 4.4.2 TW S5. Did the Fireflash root process and it worked.

I then went around messing with the Exchange bypass (which required uninstalling system Email, Exchange and replacing them with ones from xda). Even though I used Titaniumbackup, this failed. Massively. Titanium backup would not allow to restore the original system files. Even after doing a wipe from recovery menu, it still booted up saying Exchange isn't responding. I used the other thread you've made to downgrade to 4.4.2 with Odin.

After doing that, I rerooted with Towelroot and restarted this whole process. After getting on lollipop using the Flashfire method, all I did was install Titanium backup and backup ONLY user apps (and non-google apps).

I also froze:

AT&T: FamilyMap, HotSpots, Live, Locker, Mail, Messages, Mobile Locate, Navigator, Remote Support, Software Update

Google Play: Books, Games, Movies&TV, Music, and Newsstand

Others: Keeper; Mobile TV; My Magazine; Drive Mode; Flipboard;

Everything seemed to be working today. I just rebooted the phone and now it gets past the AT&T logo and says Process system isn't responding. I can swipe down from the top to see the notification bar and I can hold power button to turn off or restart the phone.

Now after pressing restart twice, I was able to get back to a booted state. Everything seems to work fine. I have flashed ROMs plenty of times before on the S and S3, however with a faulty flash the phone would lag/be very slow/terrible battery life. I am seeing none of that right now. The phone (when it is on) is working well. Battery life is just as it was before.

Any ideas? Anything I can do to provide more information?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] AggieChris:
I have not been able to successfully get this to work yet, and I am not sure where I messed up.

Here is what i did:

Downgraded to NCE

sign into google

install: towleroot

->root

install: superuser

->update binary

->leave knox alone

->reboot

install: flash-fire (v0.15)

->followed the flash fire instructions

->my queue looks like:

wipe

flash firmware

flash ota

EverRoot

Reboot
​

then I run the process

It runs through the files, goes blank, but when it reboots it is 4.4.2 and my play store has disappeared.\

I assume I am just missing a step or process. I have read through the thread, but I didn't see anything similar to this.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you for working on this and for your help in advance :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samsingla:
That's great...thank you so much!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]

Great and bad news.

Out of all the times I have downgraded and upgraded today (on purpose testing for [MENTION=5266065]talkingmonkeys[/MENTION]) the device would not read I have a SIM card. Same issue as before even after waiting. The great news is that flashing the OC4 Modem does indeed fix it. :)

Don't know why this is only happening to me though
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] scmagee:
So rather than posting a picture, here are the differences for my AT&T GS5

4.4.4 rooted with the Towelroot method

AP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A2, P1

OTA stock from AT&T

5.0

AP SWREV: S1, T2, R1, A3, P1

Everything else was exactly the same.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] mumboender:
BTW I got exchange security bypass working by using the CM12EXHANGEFIX zip. I couldn't get any others to install via flashfire so I extracted that one and installed both files manually. I froze the original rim versions of exchange and mail before I installed and it worked....so if you want mail security bypass try that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Povy:
Only have one issue

I have to say the battery life on 5.0 is amazing i'm going to do an idle test and let the battery do it's own thing once i get it fully charged, but heres some pictures of my current battery life. Only issue i've ran into is the play store it happens everytime i go to download an app i click download and it just freezes doesn't show any progress bar on the app download page just blank it won't download any app until i reboot the device then the download start that's the only issue i've ran into so far. And Thank You muniz_ri. My Charging port is unusable so you're guide and Chainfire's FF saved me lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] SoCalHTCFuze:
After a day on rooted lollipop everything seems good except WiFi. I get frequent disconnects and reconnects in areas where I have multiple available access points, it switches between each every 30 seconds regardless of strength. When only one access point is in range it seems to stay stable. Anyone else have WiFi oddities?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] pelucaz491:
I am having problems with my storage. Specifically, I can't copy or move things back and forth the way I would like to. I imagine it's an issue with read/write ability?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Povy:
Actually I just tried to delete files from my external sd card and root explorer forced closed on me and es file explorer wont delete the files as well also can't delete them using wifi file transfer pro. Im looking at a fix right now i'll post back with results. Okay so I solved writing issues to external sd card can now delete and transfer from external sd card to system and vise versa.

Note: root is required! Can mess up OTA Updates.

Start up your device normally and wait for the system to be fully loaded.

Open any files manager of your choice (Root Explorer, ES File Explorer, Total Commander) and make sure it runs with superuser permissions.

Mount your system partition as R/W (Read/Write) to perform any changes.

Navigate to the /system/etc/permissions/ folder and look for the platform.xml.

Open the platform.xml file with any text editor on your device and search for the following line:

permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">

Now you need to add a 3rd GID (Group ID): <group gid="media_rw" /> and you need to make it looks exactly like on the picture below:

Using Root Explorer or any other Files Manager of your choice make sure that the platform.xml file has proper permissions: Owner R-W | Group R | Others R (0644 rw-r--r--).

Reboot your device and enjoy!

In case of problems with OTA update just remove modified platform.xml and rename platform.xml.bak to its original name.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
having an issue. i have to reset my phone back to NCE. now when i try and run flashfire and it will not see the zip to install the partition.:crying:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
Try uninstalling FlashFire then reinstalling. Also, new FF BETA v15 released yesterday. Make sure you have the latest.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] berniesteven:
Is the zip on ext sdcard? Did you run sdfix?

SM-G870A Peace
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
Can someone with a friend at BestBuy try to get their hands on the OC4 full odin .tar. Once we have that we can work on a downgrade method.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
i am getting it from gplay. should that not be the most current one? trying it now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samccfl99:
install SDFix: KitKat Writable MicroSD from the play store. run and reboot. that should fix it. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
I have tried both the internal and ext. what is the sdfix?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] berniesteven:
The post above yours. Search the playstore.

SM-G870A Peace
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samccfl99:
read above... :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] SimmIsengard:
This is like editing the buildprop that allows apps like TB to write to the SD card among other things?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samccfl99:
GOOGLE restricted this in KITKAT, so therefore people wrote apps to override what those idiots do sometimes. supposedly they gave the access back in L.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
tried that and still not seeing the partition zip. it does see other zip files

it did work the first time i did it.

okay copied the file to the int again and tried it and it is now seeing it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] samccfl99:
sorry then, i tried. i guess maybe muniz_ri or someone who knows the app well can help you. that Sdfix does work, i use it to change the destination folder in MyBackupPro to the SDCard. The OP says you can do this from any rom/build.

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BUT NOT FOR US....LOL. who knows when ATT will take the plunge. they (whomever they are) are already working on 5.1.1. IT NEVER ENDS, DOES IT?...LOL. GO GOOGLE!!!

http://www.androidpit.com/android-5-1-lollipop-update

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Sorry, that piggybacked on to my last post. i will learn.

BUT NOT FOR US....LOL. who knows when ATT will take the plunge. they (whomever they are) are already working on 5.1.1. IT NEVER ENDS, DOES IT?...LOL. GO GOOGLE!!!

http://www.androidpit.com/android-5-1-lollipop-update
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
okay copied the file to the int again and tried it and it is now seeing it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] talkingmonkeys:
Hoppefully me and Nyxerosoir can get to the bottom of these errors today. I've got a few more things for him to test. At least it booted but sadly he got Google Play Services and NFC force closes as well as no sim detected and wifi. I assume this is an edit I made to remove a few things like carrieriq halfly. Hopefully the test proves it then I can either fully remove it or pinpoint what else it was. Hoping we can get to the bottom of this early this afternoon so I can get a release out tonight and start on adding more to it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Chip90:
Thanks for the tip! Does this work for Exchange in the Gmail app as well? Or just for the stock Samsung mail app?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] powder_7:
Upgrade to lollipop works. However, first, I used FlashFire to backup my S5 then I upgrade to lollipop. It breaks when I used FlashFire to restore from my FlashFire backup. I had to downgrade and root, safestrap and restore to my previous S5. Backup your internal memory or you will lose all your data..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Joehen873:
Would that mean ppl running 5.0 ota unrooted would be able to root? ???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] FilthyFord:
Where can i download the exchange bypass zip.

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Povy:
Theoretically yes since having the downgrade.tar file to go from 5.0 to 4.4.4 would allow user's to root using towel root then follow the upgrade to 5.0 guide via Flash Fire. However I don't know if they would give that out to normal customers unless you bought the phone from best buy and know someone who works in the mobile center
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Joehen873:
Is that the only place where 1 can get it from??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] najoor:
I am not exactly sure that access to the samsung tar file will solve this root problem for those who have taken the OTA. After the OTA the bootloader is upgraded to OC4 and for recent Samsung phones there is no way to downgrade a locked bootloader after its version is upticked. So you can never completely go back to NCE or anything below OC4 for that matter anyway; your bootloader will always stay at lollipop no matter what, and I am guessing the OC4 bootloader does not work well with lower firmware versions, hence no way to downgrade and root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Povy:
I don't know I believe stores like best buy have access to official Samsung software only problem Is best buy is the only place i know of that restores phones I do know somebody that works in the technical support AT&T store in Irvine but I don't think they would give it to me lol usually they only replace phones with new ones
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
Well we all know the only things certain are......

Anyway, the idea is to first have an unbrick method for those that have taken the OC4 ota, hence the OC4 Full .tar. We can then attempt to push NCE system via heimdall. All other critical NCE partitions will flash via Odin. If the device boots you can then follow the OP. We can also try to push a pre-rooted OC4 system.

[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] said he could get the .tar but nothing yet. [MENTION=4939386]Surge1223[/MENTION] - you have more experience than most with heimdall. What is your take on these odds?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] mumboender:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1749921

I found the zip here. I can't get the zip to install through Flashfire but it will install if you manually extract it and run the two APKs....and to answer the other question it doesn't work with Gmail only with the CM12 email app that is in the zip. I uninstalled the email and exchange APKs that are in the original rom before running the APKs...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] dalitten:
how did you flash the modem?

sorry, I was able to find it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Joehen873:
Well thats how we rooted on 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 right?? You to downgrade to install root and then flash back up
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] iamthedj:
since safestrap works with oa1 bootloader and nd3 nce and ng3 kernel wouldnt it be possible to just flash a lollipop rom then update the kernel straight after in download mode instead of booting to system like what we used to have to do before safestrap worked on kitkat? i could be off this is just a thought
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] NVQT:
I successfully downloaded everything above, but every time right after I turn on the " Flash firmware package", the app just crashes for an unknown reason. Can anyone help me out with that? Thank you so much !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Joehen873:
Thats what i meant on the post above. I think thats how we did it before. Could be wrong. So much weird crap goes on with these locked bootloaders
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] iamthedj:
i remember we did with knoxraid when i had my note 3 i dont see why it wouldnt work might even be able to port some other cool roms over like alliance rom has there lollipop out there kit kat version runs on our g900a also so might work with ours as well i should have tested it before i reverted again lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934554415 here is the link to the OC4 Modem [MENTION=1588682]dalitten[/MENTION]
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] rs3freak:
nvm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
Huge bug in FlashFire. Everytime I try to upgrade it only restarts my device... Going to try and redowngrade and try again..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Nyxerosoir:
After downgrading back to NCE I was finally able to get FF to work and upgrade to 5.0. Dont know why im having such bad luck lol. Me and [MENTION=5266065]talkingmonkeys[/MENTION] have been testing things and figuring out what the problem is and we think (mainly him figuring this out I am just the test bunny not a developer lol) we have found the problem. Hopefully it will work tomorrow :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
Not sure that I follow. You should be able to do everything with FF that you did with safestrap. Since safestrap does not run on 5.0 it is now obsolete.

What rom are you interested in porting over? It can likely be easily done.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] PS4AndroidHacker:
Have you tried to turn off the Smart Network Switch? Mine used to do the same thing until I turned that off.

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I've ALWAYS used Root Browser and it works great for me. Always deletes things I want deleted and also does copies and moves things for me,give it a try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] iamthedj:
Preferably alliance lollipop for g900f the KitKat version works on my g900a also I know safestrap doesn't work but what if you just used safestrap to flash the ROM on nd3 kernel then reupgrade the kernel to 5.0 then boot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] rs3freak:
In need of help...was running xdk 4.4.2 rooted and went and follow the process completely. my phone will boot but i believe it is bootlooping because it wont come off the Samsung Galaxy s5 screen...thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] PS4AndroidHacker:
Try to delete the files and redownload them fresh. I had the same problem and found out I was trying to use the old SS stock rooted backup file with FF when I really needed to be using the stock rooted firmware. It was my user error,not the software. Give it another download and try again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] muniz_ri:
That should work for non-AROMA installer ROM's. I just looked at the Alliance 5.0 ROM and it uses an AROMA installer. I will try a couple things and see if I can port for the G900A.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] iamthedj:
Awesome thanks dude I didn't realize it has aroma installer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] FilthyFord:
Between this and XDK they are my favorite. If you can get one working on rooted lollipop that would be awesome.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Chip90:
Finally, I think I figured out the issue! Hopefully this can help someone here.

The issue was CF LUMEN. After installing the 'driver' it would be stuck in a boot loop. I have tried everything from step 1 again except no CF Lumen and everything seems to be ok. No crashing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] amazingasian:
Is it possible to downgrade back to KK from L, and then follow this guide to get a rooted L?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5] Povy:
5.0 Changed the security permissions to be able to write to the external sd card I highly doubt root browser being able to delete files on the external sd card as well as write to it without adding the gid in place. I could be wrong but I tried with root browser root explorer es file explorer, wifi file transfer pro all given root access and was still denied read/write until gid was added.

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Unfortunately if you took the OTA update or your phone did it itself you will have to wait until someone gets the OC4.Tar < Is needed to recover from bricks from downgrading from L to KK