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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Joe-Tech:
I don't think it will make any difference.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]: This is great, thanks for all your work on this. As I understand it, this method will update you to OC6 with root if the original firmware was already rooted. So my question is then, if a user has already taken the OC6 update and would like to root afterwards is it currently impossible? Is the only way to root OC6 to downgrade back to NE3, root, and then follow your instructions to update to OC6 with root?

I'm guessing a root vulnerability hasn't been found for the Samsung 5.0 firmware yet, but I just wanted to check.

Also, I posted this in the other thread, but has anybody actually downgraded from OC6 to NE3 successfully? I don't want to give people wrong information.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mikelets456:
Okay, I need some help here. I'm not quite understanding this:

1. Extract the I537_OC6_Stock_Rooted_Firmware.tar from the .rar and place it and the I537_OC6_Stock_Partitions.zip onto your device (use either internal or ext-sdcard).

Place what where? I used WinRAR to extract the file? What is the OC6 stock partition?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Extract the tar from the rar. Leave the zip as is. Copy the tar and the zip to your phone's internal memory or external SD card, somewhere it'll be easy for you to find
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Correct, you will need to go back to NE3 then use towelroot before starting this process. And yes, the aboot qfuse counter determines whether or not you can downgrade. I checked it and it does allow for downgrading.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
If all of the above is beyond your level of understanding I strongly suggest you reconsider attempting to modify your phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Great thanks, one more question: Would it be possible to use something similar to W0lfdroids method of rooting? So on stock OC6, flash the NE3 kernel (since downgrading is possible), root with Towelroot, the flash back to the OC6 kernel. Just thinking about it I'm guessing it wouldn't work because you wouldn't be able to boot 5.0 with a 4.4.2 kernel, but I figured I'd ask.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Did not bother to try since it has not worked on any 5.0 release so far.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Any chance I can implore you to try it since there will inevitably be a bunch of people already on the OC6 firmware asking how to root it and will get pissed when they find they have to wipe their phone? Or maybe you could just provide the stock OC6 kernel and I can convince [MENTION=5954417]thisisapoorusernamechoice[/MENTION] to give it a shot?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
For what it's worth, just went through the process in post 1. Everything went fine, but after the Galaxy S4 boot screen, it goes black and stays. I can boot to download mode and stock recovery, so it's not a major issue, and likely something I did. I'll mess with it a bit more then Odin back to stock and start over.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
A couple questions:

What firmware were you coming from?

How long did you wait?

Did you have Xposed enabled?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Disregard any posts about the partitions file. When this was first created there were two files to flash, now everything has been incorporated into one zip file. Download the zip file in the OP and flash that with flash fire according to the instructions to get to lollipop rooted.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Every OTA update wipes the system partition. If you mean your internal storage, then no, none of that gets wiped. Just to be prepared (and since it's the smart thing to do) just run titanium backup on all your apps before you update. Internal storage stays intact, so anything you might be worried about losing stays right there.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lvillepunk85:
So just a FYI, I installed Goldeneye first with mateo's masterpatch but wifi wouldn't work, but with choices wifi is working for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] timmytron:
Appears everything went fine! Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rdh28:
Had to revert to ne3 and root via towel root then follow the steps from op, worked like a charm, even the tether zip! Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] plawa:
Erm.. trouble in paradise..

I was on rooted NE3, followed instructions to the letter, the phone rebooted, went through the motions, last thing I saw was "flashing firmware". Then it rebooted, the Galaxy Active logo came on and then just black screen - I let it sit for at least 10 minutes, then tried to power on the phone as usual, the logo came on again for about 5s and then it shuts down. That's as far as I ever got... I'll try to go back to stock NE3 and towel root, any other ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rdh28:
That's the exact symptoms I had, just revert to ne3 via Odin,root with towel root and follow op
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
I'm currently on the old MF3 (rooted) using safestrap. Can I just follow the directions in the OP and be done, or do I need to remove safestrap or something else first?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Remove safestrap (run the app, select uninstall recovery). Then follow the directions here in order to Odin to NE3 (KitKat) and root with towelroot (easy). Then you can follow the instructions in the OP to get to lollipop.

Additionally, be sure to back up files, data, and your titanium backup folder somewhere other than internal memory, Odin will wipe internal memory when you upgrade to NE3
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
awesome, thanks! going for it now. :)

EDIT: Worked great, thank you again! Finally have lollipop... woohoo!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] FloydSmith531:
is this for 5.0.1 lollipop? I have a doubt to install on it on my phone s4 active..
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Yes this is 5.0.1 lollipop for the S4 Active SGH-i537. What seems to be the matter? The process is fairly simple, as long as you follow the directions carefully...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
Yes, this is for 5.01 Lollipop on the AT&T GS4 Active (i537). It works like a charm! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MRMNYC:
MF3 > NE3 > OC6: Success

So, based on all the threads I've read, seemed the easiest route from MF3 to OC6 was to:

MF3 to NE3 via Odin (thanks [MENTION=3047491]Devo7v[/MENTION] http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4-acti...t-firmware-t2835481/post54556551#post54556551)

Root NE3 using TowelRoot

Upgrade to OC6 using this method

I didn't bother associating my Google ID to the NE3 step, so, start to finish it took maybe half hour to an hour. Been running Lollipop on my Active for about a day now and I love it. Thanks [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]! Battery life seems to be better, but we will see....

P.S., [MENTION=3438631]paleh0rse[/MENTION], try the same, worked for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Method not working for me right now.... for some reason ff is not finding the zip file I need to update. Anyone else have this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
How about coming from NH3? Just reading the steps it should work, but I've had my share of problems learning this phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] NGD1:
NH3 should work fine
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
For some reason I can't get NH3 to flash... poorusername tried to help, but then lollipop updated successful. I was just going to leave it alone, but I really like having root. I bit the bullet today and decided to go back to stock rooted NE3 and attempt using flashfire to update lollipop to keep root. So far I'm not having luck. Trying to down load the lollipop zip again and attempt again with flashfire.

Dl just finished. Be back shortly with results

UPDATE:

deleted ota zip from both internal and external sd. downloaded a fresh download, and tried again...SUCCESS!

everything seems to be in working order to perfection!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Make sure the file is saved to internal storage, I never got it to work from external SD and I have a good, new one

Worked perfectly fine for me
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
deleted ota zip from both internal and external sd. downloaded a fresh download, and tried again...SUCCESS!

everything seems to be in working order to perfection!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] scarface4070:
Some Help

Please i need some advice

I ave a at&t S4 Active i537

actually it runs on 4.2.2 with root can i use your tutorial to update it to lollipop?

Thx
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
follow the directions here in order to Odin to NE3 (KitKat) and root with towelroot (easy). Then you can follow the instructions in the OP to get to lollipop.

Additionally, be sure to back up files, data, and your titanium backup folder somewhere other than internal memory, Odin will wipe internal memory when you upgrade to NE3
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] scarface4070:
Sorry if i disturb u

jut a little error m my message the phone is running 4.3

baseband i537UCUBML2

thx for your help:o
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Link changed to ML2 instructions, but for the record the directions are exactly the same and you can peruse that instruction thread for yourself. Remember to back up somewhere other than internal storage
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mikep2323:
Yes it is 5.0.1
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mikelets456:
My battery life [still] isn't that great and drains about 4% per hour just sitting idle where my E980 drops almost 0% in an hour. Can anyone suggest an app or way to put the I537 into deep sleep?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
I use clean master and battery doctor. Clean master has settings that you can set to auto kill background apps once the screen is off, and battery Dr allows you to set a schedule for different sleep modes. I woke up around 545am with a fully charged battery, and I'm just at 82%, and time is 245. I haven't used my device as much today, and today is the first full day of running lollipop. I did charge it for about 30 mins while playing music. Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Wifi wont stay on, im going to try to reinstall rom
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] atvspecialties:
Followed OP instructions & all is good. Thanks for this :thumbup::thumbup::cool::cool::thumbup::thumbup:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
and [MENTION=5156520]angelle97[/MENTION]

I would recommend you check this mod out. Back on KitKat (NE3 and NH3) this practically doubled my battery life. I just got it to install with FlashFire v0.17. I will report back when I see if it shows the same improvement on lollipop or not.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LexDysia:
Followed the instructions and got lollipop with no problems at all. Anyone got a list of the bloat I can safely get rid of without causing any problems?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
Please keep us updated on how well it works out. I really loved that mod on 4.2.2!

It wasn't made for lollipop, and it has a lot of core system tweaks that might not play well with the updated OS, so I really commend you for being the guinea pig! :)

However, if you don't notice any bad side effects, I'll go for it too!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
It definitely installed and I was able to check that by running the Galaxy command in an su session of terminal. At first it seemed to actually increase the battery drain, but I think that might've just been a nasty combo of paranoia and confirmation bias. Now much later in the day battery drain seems to have stabilized and maybe even decreased (although again that could be wishful thinking). It feels like there's less lag opening/closing apps now. I like to give it a couple days before making a final call, but I'm cautiously optimistic for right now. And android is so much fun to play with I love being the guinea pig, oink oink (yeah I know, wrong pig :silly: )

Update: I might be jumping the gun here (hopefully not) but I think my battery confusion earlier might've been due in part to the fact that I wiped cache and dalvik when I flashed the mod. Now that everything has settled back into place, my phone is running much smoother again. A lot of hard to quantify nonetheless powerful improvements: less drain, smoother motions/transitions, better overall performance when running apps. My phone's screen acts up randomly BECAUSE THE SCREEN WAS SLIGHTLY BROKEN WHEN I BOUGHT IT FOR CHEAP as I well knew; it gets much worse on newly flashed ROMs with excess bloatware (here's looking to you Samsung and AT&T) but the mod for all intents and purposes "cures" this ailment. I know that's super specific to my phone, but I guess the point I'm trying to make is the mod is the same as always in one important respect: it can't do any harm to your phone and is probably going to improve something
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mateo121212:
i have made a Deodexed Stock rom and a lite version of it i will be releasing on monday. soon after i will be making a custom rom.

EDIT: i have also made a few flashable zip mods. a center clock mod and a 5 way reboot mod. they require the deodexed rom though. i will release it all on monday when i can get to a descent internet connection.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
So I guess the question remains...

have you seen a difference yet? or is it still too soon to say?

---------- Post added at 04:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:04 PM ----------

also, have you noticed problems with supersu and certain apps? access is granted to clean master app, but it always says failed to authenticate... i attempted to flash super update from chainfire website, and it caused my phone to stick in boot on at&t logo.... i had to wipe and start from scratch again in odin..... now i've got to start over with setup and all.....lol
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gord_vancouver:
I tried to go directly from MF3 to OC6, following the instructions at the top of the thread. Now I have a softbricked phone. (Recovery shows Error: Failed to mount /system, invalid argument.)

From reading the thread, I take it MF3 directly to OC6 isn't expected to work? Perhaps that should be mentioned at the top?

Apparently ODIN'ing in NE3 is a good next step, I'll try that.

Thanks for your work y'all.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
I do believe that is correct. Odin to NE3, root using towelroot, register for flashfire and download it. Download the OC6 stock rom from op to INTERNAL sd. Directions are pretty straight forward and worked flawlessly.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] boulos:
Boot animation?

Anyone try to flash a custom boot animation using this? I assume it would work, but I am too chicken to try. Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
You change the boot animation on a Samsung stock ROM by replacing bootsamsung.qmg, shutdown.qmg, and shutdownloop.qmg in /system/media/ with the qmg's for the animation you want and set permissions. Ditto the boot sound: /system/media/audio/ui/PowerOn.ogg. No need for FF or Safestrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pinyata:
Also a quick note to point out is to make sure the permissions on the new files are rw-r-r to match the existing files. I learned that one the hard way.

Edit: Sorry, didn't read properly. You already stated to set permissions.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
I just went over 36 hours without charging my phone and it's still around 20%. I know I wouldn't have gotten away with that before.

You can't flash custom zips in a stock recovery, I do know that for sure. I've gone back and forth between NE3 and OC6 more times than I care to count (at least a dozen, maybe even two dozen or more). I'm not trying to brag, if anything it reveals my laziness. Trying some new mod or whatever on lollipop, something messes up and it hangs or gives a scary error message? Odin time! Lol I wish I could give you better info, but SuperSU is one of the few things that hasn't been giving me trouble on lollipop.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
I should have clarified a little better.... I tried flashing it with flashfire.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
I should've clarified better too lol. When I mess up trying new stuff out on lollipop (I.e. trying unsuccessfully to get a GPE ROM to flash or at least deodex stock) I've been Odin-ing back to NE3 and then using FF to go to OC6 again. That's why I've done this update method a couple dozen times and feel comfortable trying to help people; chances are if someone makes a mistake trying to update, I've done the same thing at some point.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Well at least u have the experience now lol. So I'm guessing that battery mod is working well for u?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Yeah battery life is much better now, just takes a few days to see a noticeable improvement
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Sweet. I'll have to flash it then. U flashed it using flashfire, correct?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Correct
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Cool deal. I'm going search for it now. Thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Good luck. I wiped cache and dalvik when I did it but idk how necessary that was. Also be patient when watching for battery life improvement, it took me a couple days to notice any difference
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
I dirty flashed. It took a little longer to load up, then again, I do have a bunch of apps...haha... everything booted up fine, however I don't see any icon or app itself. I'm guessing it doesn't have any since it's a mod?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Correct, you can verify installation by running the terminal emulator app and using the following commands (case sensitive):

su
Galaxy

You will have to of course verify root permission for the terminal with SuperSU if you haven't done so already
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Ah, no. Thanks for that lol

Done. Easy peasy!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Angelcruz0000:
Bricked ):

Okay So, I had rooted my s4 Active i537 using towel root and then installed safestrap to unlock the bootloader and get twrp recovery , everything went good till i decided to flash a stock lollipop rom then i remembered that i forgot to backup then i also had forgot to turn on debugging , so then i bricked the phone , i can get into download mode and twrp and stock recovery but everytime i try to flash to stock it flashes but when its booting up safestrap comes up and dont let even if i hit continue it either brings me to stock or twrp and need to know how to reset it back fully with no safestrap i cant sideload to even see if adb will work bc an error pops up and says "Libc.SO Needed

Please help me !
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Sounds like you need to use Odin.

---------- Post added at 09:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 PM ----------

On that note I've made a few mistakes along the way with this phone. I've made the time to read all the posts on this thread. Is the camera and wifi issues across the board or random? I'd really like to upgrade and supply tech support on this project. But obviously wifi is a must to work. Thanks for all the info
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Angelcruz0000:
help

Can someone plz help me?

cant get rid of safestrap
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Run the safestrap app and select the uninstall recovery option.

But reading your earlier post, if you Odin flash back to NE3 it's supposed to first boot into stock recovery, that's not safestrap

Run Odin and let your phone automatically reboot on its own and give it plenty of time to boot back up

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No. Sorry to be mean but this is pretty much all wrong.

The bootloader is locked down, can't be unlocked. There is no twrp recovery build that works on this device. You can't flash a lollipop rom with safestrap. Debugging has little to do with this. Download mode? Great flash the NE3 files from the firmware thread.

You do not have safestrap after flashing Odin. This is where you're messing your phone up. That is not safestrap, that's the stock recovery! The phone is supposed to boot into this when using Odin to flash a firmware build. STOP INTERRUPTING YOUR PHONE MID-ODIN FLASH, THAT'S ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO. Just run Odin like you're supposed to, and when it reboots into recovery that first time, LET IT. Better idea, run Odin and leave the room and don't pick up the phone again until it's at the initial setup wizard screen
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Awesome stuff thanks muniz_ri!

Battery mod great! 8 hours deep sleep 2% battery! Thanks thisisapoorusernamechoice :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
So, I've been running this mod u suggested, and I've found my battery actually dies faster.... I had 100% at 6am. Took 2 calls about 5 mins each, played a game for about 10 mins, and now it's just10am, and I'm down to 57%. Maybe I haven't done something right at install?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
I flashed just as you did. Dirty. And it took a long time. Had like 320 android updates. Battery seemed to run out fast at first. I then installed AdAway, Trickster Mod, and Greenify. These ads have done wonders in the past and present. Anyway I then let them run while I charged to 100%. Reset the phone and all seems great so far.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
Actually this post was meant for poorusername....but I didn't specify lol. I thank u for your response also :)

I have been running the same mod for a few days now... my phone has been on standby since last post, and now I'm down to 46%.... ????

Update:

I think I might have found the issue. .. WiFi was set to always on. I changed it so I'll see how it does now
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] tonochito:
mine has the weird bluetooth always running and i haven't turn it on
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Just an update for anyone having battery issues and using clean master. SU v2.46 does not let you turn off the auto start apps. Beta SU v2.49 works.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] angelle97:
That is true! Apparently clean master is working on a fix. It's due to lollipop update
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] nafeesdipta:
Poor Battery life

Battery is draining faster than nh3 and also clean master unable get su permission.any help?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Search Beta 2015.04.28 SuperSU 2.49 you can flash using flashfire. It actually solved a few of my issues.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pinyata:
What other issues were you having?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HTC55555:
Some of my one click to change settings were not working in Elixir ie. Data, WiFi tethering now they do.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] kxhuan:
how to enable Chinese traditional language?