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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pilotferdi:
First of all: THANK YOU! To muniz_ri, _poorusernamechoice, chainfire, and all the other devs who made this happen. It's wonderful to have a lollipop. :D

Secondly: I followed your instructions to the letter. Everything went smooth as velvet, no error message, nothing wrong. The phone rebooted, the screen went "Samsung Galaxy S4 Active", and the phone started, just as described in the instructions. Configured the system, restored the calendar, contacts and other things... back in business. Happy dance! :D

Then, having this long-time experience with Samsung, where things don't always go the way they're supposed to, I rebooted the phone again. Well, I was not disappointed: instead of the "Samsung Galaxy S4 Active" logo, the other logo (the ugly one) with "Samsung Custom" and an open padlock showed up. I tried to regain the original logo by re-flashing OC6, then went back to NE3 through Odin, then again re-flashing OC6 after rooting NE3. The ugly logo continues to show up. I followed the directions I read in several posts referring to this issue: shut down the phone, removed the battery, went in recovery mode and wiped the cache. I even did a factory reset. No joy, the ugly logo is still there. :(

Is this the way it's supposed to be after flashing OC6: having the "Samsung Custom" splash screen instead of the "Samsung Galaxy S4 Active" ? If this situation is abnormal, what can I do to regain the nice splash screen?

Thanks for your consideration.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
[MENTION=4580955]pilotferdi[/MENTION] the custom screen is normal, idk if there's any way to get rid of it, all the old ways I knew were designed for KK and earlier. It isn't supposed to have any affect on your phone's actual functionality, you haven't had any other problems have you? Also could I ask you a favor and remove the quote of the entire OP? It tends to clutter up the thread, thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pilotferdi:
Thanks, [MENTION=5954417]thisisapoorusernamechoice[/MENTION]! No, I didn't have any problem, neither during flashing OC6, nor after that. Everything works just fine - for now. The splash screen issue is just cosmetic.

Thanks again for your response! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MagnaCore:
I'm coming from NH3 with safestrap installed. Do I need to uninstall safestrap before I begin flashing?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Not necessary but the device may act funny when rebooting. Just follow all directions.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MagnaCore:
Followed instructions and everything seemed to flash nice and smooth..thanks for the write up. I tired to flash the galaxy ultimate mod and just like on NH3 it flashes successfully but when I check in the terminal it says file not found.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Are you are you downloaded the install file, and not the uninstall file? I saw a few people make that mistake before. Also in terminal are you doing the commands exactly (case sensitive)? Just trying to eliminate some common errors to figure out what's going on
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MagnaCore:
As far as the install file goes I downloaded the correct file. I was not aware the commands were case sensitive I'll try that.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Most definitely. Should be exactly

su
Galaxy

Assuming you've never entered the su command in terminal before you should get a prompt from the superSU app
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MagnaCore:
Yeah it was the G in galaxy I wasn't doing correctly...it runs the check now. The little things that get overlooked...thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
forgive me but without safestrap then we now have no custom recovery...?

i did all of the flash process and everything went great including the mods. But i did it all with safestrap installed and now the safestrap splash screen comes up but neither options gets me to the recovery, i uninstalled safestrap via its uninstall option and now the only recovery i am able to get to is Android system recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Safe strap was never a real recovery anyway, it was just a solution to back up and flash things, ie it replicated recovery functions. Same with flash fire just different implementation. I think you should try this method uninstalling safe strap first because it's confirmed working by numerous users and I personally have done it dozens of times.

Also you don't need to access recovery mode on order to perform this method
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
i have used flashfire of course to get where i am at now with lollipop....i was just a little confused that now instead of custom recoveries we can now do basically all that was done in that kind of recovery now in flashfire...

great love it and thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] digital81:
Sorry if off topic, but I am not seeing anywhere to update prls, profiles, etc after following this guide and upgrading to Lollipop. Anyone have any ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Come again?

Prls are on CDMA phones, this is an AT&T (GSM) phone...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
flashing a diff modem?

is it possible using flashfire to flash an older modem from like nh3 or ne3 because i have been getting data drops and poor download speeds (used to average about 12mbits and now lucky to maintain 3.2mbit)this was all before i did the lollipop switchero0 (w/root)?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] digital81:
Yeah, Sorry about that, Was playing with my Sprint Galaxy S4 and half awake when I posted that, lol.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Nice article and layout at DroidViews, good work :good:

Question though, by now most should know the Xposed framework will not function unless the ROM itself is

fully deodexed

and using the methods outlined in the below links:

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3113463
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I believe there is a stock, deodexed ROM here in the general section so I did not bother to deodex my ROM. I believe xposed is working fine on that ROM, idk.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
The deodexed stock rom muniz_ri was talking about. Idk about Xposed, refuse to use it (I like doing my own mods, for reals)

Edit: I love those articles, any time there's a major update for pretty much any real device, wait several weeks and then you see a myriad of articles which essentially consist of, "XDA already did all the work for us, here's what you do." Although I guess I shouldn't be too petulant, that is pretty much how I came to XDA way back in 2010 (join date aside I was here back when gingerbread was still kicking around lol)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
well i think i just bricked the phone. follows the instructions on the OP and the phone just boots into recovery and thats about it...idk what else to do. was on 4.4.2 build with NE3 modem or whatever it is...any help?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
This is what I get...

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
I thought it was just 1 file?

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
It is just one file, when the update first came out it was two files but then the dev combined them into one.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
What's the way of doing it with 2 files? I don't mind doing that. Was reading throughout the thread and saw u uploaded some file?

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
There is no other method than what is in the OP. You can follow that if you choose or not.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
I followed what was on the OP and the phone didn't want to boot other than the recovery thing. :(

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
Anyone else having a problem with Wi-Fi remembering passwords after turning Wi-Fi OFF and then back ON? I looked at my /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file, and it keeps resetting itself (blanking out) when Wi-Fi is turned back on.

I have to reset my wi-fi passwords every time I turn it off and back on... needless to say, it's annoying as hell. :(

Could the TetherAddOn be screwing something up? Is there a way to remove that addon?

any ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
You need to start from at least 4.4, also remember to set your screen timeout to 10mins.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
I started from 4.4.2 NE3 update. And I set it to 10mins also. I'll give it another try later today and report back.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Also disable auto time and date and then set the date to May 31 or earlier, for some reason flash fire doesn't work properly past June 1 (see the flash fire thread if you don't believe me)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
Yeah I did read that on the G+ FF community. Cuz at the begging the app wouldn't even open. I'll give it another go later when I get home. Of not I'll update to NH3 and flash the KK super nexus ROM.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
You have been using this build for over a month. Did you just now notice an issue with wifi?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Chainfire has uploaded a new version v 0.19 to the Play Store, available now...

What's New

-MD5 Routines now 30x faster (improves backup, restore, verification)

-Changed faulty warnings

-Updated BETA expiration (sep 1)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
Actually, yes, this just began happening in the last week. I haven't installed any new apps in the last two weeks, so I really have no idea what triggered the problem.

That conf file just keeps getting recreated from scratch every time WiFi is turned back on.

A Google search revealed that the problem is actually pretty common with various lollipop builds, but nothing short of a full system reset appears to fix it, and nobody seems to know what's causing it.

I was just reaching out to see if anyone here has had the issue with our lollipop build, specifically. Probably just wishful thinking because I REALLY don't want to build the whole setup from scratch again... :(
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I would also be interested in hearing if anyone else is having that issue.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Live is good here!!! Thanks muniz_ri!!!!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
Thank you!!! Finally got it updated and its working :D

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
That is good but I will be uploading a deodexed version which should run xposed(compatible modules) without issues.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Here is the I537_OC6_Stock_DeOdexed_ROM for testing. Use the same instructions in the OP and allow 15 - 20 mins for first boot. Let us know how it goes...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Just began flashing (8:16am) as I write, will update here shortly, a huge thanks for all your selfless time and efforts :good:

23 mins, nothing as of yet...

28 mins....

now mind you, this flash is on top of the one that was in the general section which in turn was on top of your original LP rom, I wanted to try it this way before I did a upgrade from scratch which is what I'll most likely do here after while.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Successfully downloaded MD5 checked. Will try this out later and report back as well. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Is it on the att splash screen?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
No it's just dark as in just before booting but it's been 32 mins now...

37 mins, pulled battery and did a data wipe, cache and stiil dark...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
That is a failed flash. After rebooting it should pause on the att splash screen for 15 to 20mins. Did you set screen timeout to 10mins?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Negative on the screen timeout, my fault and also my fault as I should've done a data reset and started over. I've pulled the battery and will leave it out for a bit and attempt to recover from this...

not good, data resets via recovery are not having any effect nor does wiping the ext sd card

I flashed as per normal, not sure why it's happening this way, needless to say not happy...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
You will need to Odin back to stock and start over. When the screen timeouts only part of the ROM gets flashed. Only way to recover is Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Right, stock as in NE3?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
rgr that, I'll update soon, lessons learned :o

Successful flash, now back to work!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
I'm holding out to flash till I hear some good news from the flashfire thread.....been having some issues. Not saying that's what happened here but it could be.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Got back to rooted NH3 (WolfDroid), no issues. Began FF flash (v 0.20) of the deodexed stock rom, following exact directions in OP, actual flash took about 2 mins or so beginning at 10:35. At 10:38 it began reboot with Samsung screen (unlock symbol) then went dark so waiting out the 15 mins or so (begin 10:38) and have display timeout set to 15 mins. Is it normal for the phone to go dark (appears to be "off") for so long?

Anyhow I'm prepared to ODIN back to NE3 in case of failed flash and certainly here for the long haul to help anyone in any way I can, thanks to muniz_ri once again, we'll get this guys hang tough!

Update: it's been 15 mins now and still dark, so will wait a few more then back to NE3, stay tuned...

Now back up and running fine with rooted NH3, awaiting next round :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
FF v20 is now available on Play which should have resolved the screen timeout issue. If you decide to test the deodexed rom please only use FF v20. thx
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Yes, that is what I've been using since yesterday.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
v20 was just released a few hours ago.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Strange, I got it late last night, anyhow doesn't seem to help any.

I had v 0.19 late yesterday afternoon and 0.20 late last night, he posted in early morning, he is in The Netherlands btw.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I will be uploading a new rebuilt version of the deodexed ROM if anyone is willing to test. Stay tuned...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Edit: sorry, just remembered the system partition size on the S4 Active is different than other s4 variants. Stand by...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Ok, let's try again: I537_OC6_Stock_DeOdexed_ROM

You can use the same instructions in the OP. Or, I also made the ROM compatible with Safestrap. This means Safestrap will flash all partitions including the kernel without any need for Odin. The ROM will perform a factory data reset during the flash so no need to wipe prior to flashing for either method.

Allow 15 - 20 mins for the first boot.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] doom6666:
yet everything works, but could use support for multiple languages (Czech). Still, most phone ANJ after switching using the app Locale .... sorry for my English
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Thanks for testing, I have added the ROM to the OP. Now if someone can test the latest xposed for touchwiz.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] doom6666:
Installed XposedInstaller_3.0-alpha2.apk then flash xposed-sdk21-arm-20150430-arter97.zip ..... also tested V2, V3. Many applications reports, unfortunately stopped .... Google Play does not work
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Although I'm using the original I537_OC6_Stock_Rooted_ROM in the OP along with the [i537_OC6] Stock Deodexed Rom, the Xposed fw does work well so far, but one thing I've noted is that Kies3 no longer connects (not all that important) and could be due to the dodexing.

One item to note, wanam has a test version out for his Wanam Xposed for Lollipop, I'd encourage anyone who's usd this to give it a try and report back to him in the main Wanam Xposed discusion thread.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Good to hear that xposed is working well. Thanks for testing.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] donisgoodboy:
Confused

If I want to upgrade from 4.3 to 5.0.1 , do I have to update from 4.3 to 4.4.x first?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Yes. Upgrading to NE3 then from there to lollipop should be fine, assuming you do the rooted method
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] donisgoodboy:
My phone is already rooted, so can I use this same tutorial to upgrade to NE3 and rinse and repeat for Lollipop (using different zip files both times)?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] doom6666:
Let me ask ..... anyone working on support for multiple languages for lillipop on the i537?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
No you have to use Odin to upgrade to NE3, use towelroot to root NE3 and then use this tutorial to upgrade to lollipop
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Galaxysm:
how do i flash xposed zip so it can work ??

---------- Post added 5th June 2015 at 12:33 AM ---------- Previous post was 4th June 2015 at 11:44 PM ----------

how to i install xposed so it can work??
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jkeuclid:
Read here and also here for more background and files.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
had it once

had my i537 flashed and working once on lollipop root working and all just fine then i flashed something that went awry so i flashed back to ne3, rooted via towelroot, installed su and flashfire once again then lost my base band/imei unknown and no radio. Wifi and tethering were fine, so i did some reading and flashed back the modem to Mf1 which brought back baseband and imei and worked just fine.....now though, no matter which version of oc6 thats been uploaded i still get that black screen indicating incomplete flash after the initial boot never getting to AT&t logo at all......Is this because of the mf1 modem?

edit: well i reflashed AGAIN back to ne3 leaving the stock modem and rooted it, SU, flashfire .20, and then flashed deodex version. and its now AGAIN back he black screen no att logo.....i cannot figure out why this is not taking but it sure is frustrating...if it werent for the fact that i get such massive battery drain on the ne3(mf1 modem) ROM i would just leave it......besides lollipop looks stupid with its color scheme...any ideas here ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
If you want to go from NE3 to OC6, you cannot modify NE3. Do not change the modem, do not deodex. You need to be on stock, rooted NE3 in order to update to OC6.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
Well I did that too, enabled USB Debugging, and the only thing not stock was SU, towel root and flashfire. The IEMI showed unknown, and no mobile data at all but. So.... Now what?

I greatly appreciate your time and effort helping with this it's frustrating esp knowing I had it once....
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
All you need to do is flash the MF1 modem AFTER you update to OC6. You could always try NH3 with the MF1 modem and see if that fixes your battery issues.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] nafeesdipta:
xmod,clean master not working

i have flashed rooted oc6 but xmod is not working. it says device is not properly rooted. at first clean master is working but after the clean master update, it says supersu to allow grant(which is already granted).but greenify is working good.need help.some app are working some are not.However, i was on nh3 which was perfectly rooted and upgraded to nh3 to oc6. Do I need to go back ne3,root and rooted to oc6?or just rooted nh3 to rooted oc6 is fine?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
thats just it wont succesfully update to OC6 again
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
Ever? So your saying my phone is now permanently "tainted" and am going to be stuck on NE3 or NH3?

Scratched out with xda mobile on my

I537 s4active
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mateo121212:
hey to install deodexed rom you need to install the odexed first or if you are trying to keep MF1 (and upgrading from NE3/NH3) go to my sim unlock guide and download the 5.0.1 files and then scroll down to the 5.0.1 instructions and follow them from there. here is the guide

[i537]New Easy Sim Unlock Method 4.4.2/5.0.1 (released)

this Should fix your problem. if it dosent idk what your phones issue is.

or if you want for posteritys sake flash to ne3 then follow my sim unlock guide without running regionlock away and you will end up with 5.0.1 with MF1 Modem
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jaksback:
cool what ill do is i try it then report back on your thread. but before i try...

right now i am back to ne3, rooted with towelroot, odined mf1 modem, but....i debloated the rom completely of all the crap i dont like including all traces of knox that i found. So my question is this, should or shouldnt i install regionlock away at this point or do i just go to step 5 and continue on? (btw my phone is already sim unlocked via a code i got from my carrier).

And....will i have to reflash ne3 to replace all that i unbloated?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mateo121212:
no you dont have to do anything with ne3 and if its sim unlocked allready dont use region lock away. you dont need to worry about what you did to ne3 because you will be wipeing it out and upgrading to 5.0.1 with my method. so just continue on with the steps as if you did 1-4 because in esscence you didwith odin instead of useing my method ( flash my lite mod while flashing the rom to debloat 5.0.1 mostly if you want)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gwthumper:
I have an issue. Everything went fine until I tried to get my root apps to re-authorize so I could restore the back ups. None will authorize! Root checker confirms root, and SuperSU is there. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
In superSU settings, change the default access from prompt to grant
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gwthumper:
That did the trick! Also had to uncheck "reauthorize after reinstall or update". Why can't i have supersu to "prompt" for su permission? Is this something new for lollipop?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
No something small must have messed up in the install, the exact same thing happened to me once and that's how I dealt with it (I've done this dozens of times now)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xs2k:
Just updated to LP using this method, and now I'm not getting any data. Please help.

"Insert SIM card to access network services." Using this on T-Mobile just fine before update.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Check APN settings maybe?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I used supersu v2.46 in this ROM, the issue has been resolved with supersu v.2.49 BETA. I will upload a new ROM with the updated supersu as time allows.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gwthumper:
To keep from re-flashing, can i update Supersu from 2.46 to 2.49?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
T-Mo sims are funny, you should not flash a ROM with the tmo sim inserted. Try to Odin back to stock then start over with no sim inserted.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Yes, change supersu settings from "prompt" to "grant" in order to give apps root access then flash the su 2.49 BETA.zip using FF 's "flash zip or ota" option.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dj6900:
With the Deodexed version running, Has anyone found an easy way to disable the home wake button without using the xposed framework? I dont really use it for anything but that fix and I'd rather not install it if i dont have to.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
This thread ctrl+f wake (it's the guide called DISABLE HOME KEY WAKE). Worked fine for me, no Xposed needed whatsoever (I personally dislike Xposed and refuse to use it, I'd much rather mod my phone myself)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] namitutonka:
N/A to thread