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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
You do need to install supersu on NE3 and make sure it's running properly. Are you sure when you got to the galaxy s4 active boot logo you gave it long enough? When I manually rebooted after FlashFire did its thing it took forever to reboot, because the lollipop system files were unpacking/installing etc.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] negroalbo9:
i can`t unrar the tar file

I tried with mac, pc and android.

Can anyone upload the tar file compressed in zip or just a tar file please.

:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
Sorry, yes after towel root I had to install/update super su, and it wanted to update binaries, then flashfire.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pinyata:
no problem, I was just checking. did you happen to try to disable knox or did you just hit cancel and leave that alone?

out of the 4 times, the 1st and 4th time were the samsung with the unlocked logo, 2nd and 3rd times were the Galaxy S4 Active logo. Each time I waited about 10 minutes after the logo appeared to reboot. I'm trying again now with the latest upload that muniz_ri put up, so hopefully that works out. I'll keep this updated.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
I just hit cancel to the disable Knox message. Hope you can get this working.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pinyata:
This time around I used the latest .tar file that was uploaded at 5:04pm. I also placed them on the internal drive rather than the SD as i was doing before. Made it almost all the way through, came up to the error. Pulled the battery, Galaxy S4 Active logo showed up. Then blacked out for 13 minutes, no change. I'm running out of ideas and have flashed the phone enough times that I've gotten really good and getting back to NE3 rooted. I might call it a night and get back to NH3 rooted and wait for some more comments.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Why'd you pull the battery? Just hold down the power button until it manually reboots, that worked for me. Also I noticed a lot of people having trouble unpacking the tar file from the rar archive. If [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] doesn't mind, I'm going to post a link to the tar file below, this one worked for me:

I537_OC6_Stock_Rooted_Firmware.tar.md5

Just hold the power button down for a manual reboot when the error message comes up at the end. Worked for myself and others. muniz_ri, if you prefer me not to mirror what is in fact your file, please let me know and I shall pull this link
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] negroalbo9:
I solved my problem

:p:p:p:p:p
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I don't mind but the new one in the OP should work. Also, can you dd the system.img from your device so that we can solve the file size issue? Do you know how?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Can you instruct me how? Also I assume I'll have to do a fresh install of OC6 since I already debloated like crazy?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Just PM'd you the steps. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Edward266:
Looks like I am getting the same thing. I use odin to go back to NH3. I install Towelroot, SuperSU, FlashFire. I boot flash fire following the directions to the letter. It gets to the end and I get the Space error. I reboot and it comes up to the S4 Active boot logo. Than it proceeds to a black screen and just sits there. If i reboot it and go to recovery it mentions issue about not finding /system invalid argument. And I repeat the process. I hope a fix comes along soon. Thanks to everyone who is looking in the issue.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
You should try it from NE3 not NH3, worked for me. But a fix is being worked on
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Edward266:
Sorry I meant NE3. Using the 4.2.2_all file. I am starting it again. I noticed the .md5 file is a different size from the one I downloaded from the first post. Maybe something was messed up. This tar seems bigger.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] pinyata:
Finally worked using this file. Thanks dude, not sure you know how much I appreciate you putting that up. Not to put down muniz_ri or anyone else that put this guide together at all but it looks like that larger file was the final piece to get it working.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Edward266:
Holy SMOKES!!!. That was it. Looks like mine is at the att screen now. The larger file seems to work. I would put that file in the original post. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] JerryForChrist:
sorry for asking but can someone PM or post the complete steps for installing cause i read thru the tread and it seemed like some things changed cause i dont want to get any errors
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Follow muniz_ri's directions in the first post exactly with one exception: use my post linked to here to download the tar file, no need to extract. When flashfire is done doing its thing you will get an error message, however, all you have to do is hold down the power button, then wait because the next boot will take a fairly long time. Many people have now done this successfully :)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] genogerian:
had the same issue with insufficient space. Using the file from the original post. Reboot would be the Samsung "Custom" logo, then black screen. Tried reboot, tried waiting.

Flashed to stock NE3. Just downloaded this larger TAR file. I am going to attempt to flash when it is done scanning archive.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
We are working on a permanent solution. Hope to have it soon.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Working on it. Unfortunately it's kind of a slow process lol. Thanks for doing all this for us :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bazilam:
Tried to use Odin tonight, but no success. Installed drivers via Kies 3, reboot phone into downloader mode, plug into USB, and it comes up undetected or in an errored/warning state. I could never get the COM port to show up in Odin to be able to re-flash. Tried from two different computers, both running Win7-x64.

I couldn't find a solid reference to troubleshooting the driver installs -- lots of hocus-pocus around changing which USB port the device is connected to, changing out USB cords, and magic sequences of taking the battery out and putting it back in. Has someone come across something definitive?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] genogerian:
The larger uncompressed file worked great. Lollipop is great! I got the same insufficient space message at the end of the installation, but waited the 3 min for reboot. Rebooted without issue this time. Amazing! Thanks all!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] kcraptor82:
I might have to try this because I tried with the zipped file and all I get is a black screen after it reboots. Have tried the method using the NE3 & NH3 with the same results. Really getting annoyed with this phone. So far I have had to flash back to NE3 using odin like 4 times already! What may be the difference between the zipped and the non zipped file?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
You need both the zip file from the OP and the tar file from this post, don't unzip or extract either file, this is their correct form. Do this coming from stock rooted NE3, not NH3. Are you following the instructions in the OP carefully?

This method will cause an error message at the end, just hold shown the power button for a manual reboot. Also be patient on the reboot, takes a while
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
Just an update, for what it's worth. My wife also has the S4 Active and I updated her phone last night without issue.

Coming from a rooted NE3, NOT a fresh Odin flash, just the way it has been for months. Did titanium backup of everything, installed FlashFire, and updated without issue. I used the original files I downloaded and used for my other phone.

Just wanted to share that, since I didn't start with a clean, fresh Odin flash and it still updated.

Good luck to those having issues.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Thanks for the info. I'm glad it went smoothly, and that's good to know you don't need a fresh Odin flash.

From what I can tell (and please don't think this is a shot at muniz_ri, he has done so much for us) muniz_ri tried to post an updated tar file that wouldn't cause the error message. However this new file for whatever reason either doesn't unrar properly and/or doesn't work with FlashFire. So to anyone reading this (especially newcomers, because I'm pretty sure bobbylx is all set at this point), follow the instructions in the OP exactly with one major exception. Use the tar file linked to in this post because it is confirmed working. Hold down the power button in order to manually reboot when the error message shows up at the end, and everything will be gravy (first boot takes a long while, patience is a virtue).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] wolf45801:
try disabling driver signature enforcement then install the driver that's what I had to do
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Odin does not work properly with Kies installed. Try uninstalling Kies and Odin should work properly.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] kcraptor82:
Great, got home and tried to odin my phone again since it was stuck doing nothing yet again. First few times the phone would reboot and just keep rebooting until I unplugged the cable. Then it would just show the S4 logo and do nothing. So I deleted the files and unzipped them again from the original file and tried again. This time the phone seemed to restart and I seen the green android guy for a few seconds and the phone went back to doing its, "Hey I'm stupid and won't boot" again! This is my only phone and I am really really really getting frustrated at it. I so want to take an hammer to it, but its the only one I got. What am I doing wrong? The odin files seem to be transferring to the phone just fine, but yet the dumb phone won't startup!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
When you try using Odin to flash NE3, are you allowing it to reboot into recovery before it reboots normally? Because it's supposed to do that automatically. First boot after flashing NE3 for the first time takes a long time
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Updated new firmware file to the OP which should eliminate the "file fail...not enough space" error. Thanks to [MENTION=5954417]thisisapoorusernamechoice[/MENTION] for his system dump.

Also, the .rar archive has been tested and works. If it does not work for you make certain it was a good download or try a different unrar pgm. Please do not add any additional links or file versions to this thread in order to avoid confusion. Use the one in the OP. Thanks,
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
muniz_ri, I've been using 7zip to uncompress.

For anyone else, here are the exact steps I took to load this. Maybe this will help someone.

Went back to NE3;

Used Odin v3.09 and the Full Odin Package NE3 found in the firmware thread.

Choose all 4 odin files, AP, BL, CP, CSC.

Let odin flash the files and leave the phone to do it's own thing. May reboot a couple times.

Once it boots into Android, do a basic setup (sign into google and wifi if you like). Install Towelroot, then install/update SuperSU and it's binaries.

Install Flashfire

Follow Flashfire setup in post one exactly as muniz_ri wrote it.

Once the flash is finished, IF you get the partition size error, hold power to reboot. If you're using his new file you should not see that.

Mine then showed the Galaxy S4 Active screen for about 10 seconds, went black, then showed the Samsung logo then ATT screen. It took 3-4 minutes for first boot.

I know we've been going over the different steps and whatnot, but this was how I did mine from start to finish. Good luck.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] namitutonka:
lol at "Awesome!! [MENTION=3305391]Joe-Tech[/MENTION], wanna try and soft brick my phone? " from thisisapoorusernamechoice on 22nd April 2015, 11:34 AM
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Hilarious timing, I got impatient (because of course I did) so I'm trying to modify the rom I originally linked to, first attempt at flashing failed although I'm pretty sure I screwed up the mount commands in the updater-script. Obviously I deleted anything aroma-related, both in the script and the zip in general. I have an updated masterpatch and a speaker phone fix made just in case it actually works lol.

The funny part being as you were typing your post I was in the middle of soft bricking my phone :silly:

Odin forgives all my sins (so far...)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] 3aits:
with the new file I537_OC6_Stock_Rooted_Firmware.tar without fault and no logo "custom" when loading, but still then a black screen and nothing else loaded ..... :(
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Just checking to make sure, you're also using the partitions zip file too right? That has to be flashed concurrently with the tar. Also the first boot takes much longer, are you giving it ample time to load?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
Potential Issue?

Simply put, I follow the directions to the letter and my device simply reboots to recovery mode and sits there. Is that what's supposed to happen or is my being on 4.3 making the process fail somehow?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
I see the new file has already been downloaded 27 times with only two reported failures. That is pretty good in my opinion. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if anything changes.

Also, in my expereince even though someone says they followed the instructions very often after probing it turns out they did not. So I am just going to let things play out with the existing files and instructions and see how it goes.

Thank you for all of your help and let me know if I can help you in the future.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] andres7790:
Very thankful

Thank you for your hard work, I've been ROM'ing since the S2 skyrocket, and I have to say that as time passes, this process gets easier to do. But you guys did it within no time of Lollipop coming out. I came from NH3, but didn't want to push my luck, so I went down to NE3, did a factory reset, rooted then went ahead with this simple process I just wanted to say thank you.

Also does anyone know how to modify the DTMF settings on this phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] kcraptor82:
Well I feel stupid, I got the phone to work again. Apparently at work last night the dumb phone just drained the battery completely dead. After charging the phone full and trying the steps again with the other file, it worked! I now have 5.0.1 on my active, but of course, I have new problem, the play store won't open. Keeps saying it has stopped working. Anyhow, thanks for the help.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] tet1:
First try Worked for me perfect..but i dont have hotspot anymore. anyone have idea how i get hotsopt on OC6-5.0.1
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] wolf45801:
I was wondering if anyone has been able to disable home button wake? ive tried but cant seem to figure it out
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Papote3:
I have NH3 rooted, can this be done from nh3 safely or do I have to Odin back to ne3?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] tet1:
Go back to NE3 100% will work
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Just wanted to mention an observation. So I've been going back and forth all day between NE3 and OC6 for my own reasons and I noticed something. You know that setting in the SuperSU app, "Mount namespace separation"? Yeah normally titanium backup will keep giving you grief until that option is deselected, so I usually do that just by reflex. However after today (seriously talking about at least a dozen times back & forth) I got lazy and stopped changing that option. Three times. And all three times the update to OC6 failed, even though I was doing precisely the same thing I had done successfully otherwise a good 10 times before. Now that I remembered to deselect it, I'm back on OC6 just like always. I suspect nobody has caught on to this because again, normally TiBu will not shut up about that one setting, even if you tell it to.

TLDR: Disable "Mount namespace separation" in SuperSU settings if you haven't already before using FlashFire

[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] sorry to bother you but is this maybe worth adding to the OP?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] vibrioidplague:
uh oh, in over my head...

Ok so I needed up somehow and in need of some expert knowledge. I was hearing up for this update on my i537 stock nh3, I flashed the root kernel, installed super Su and busybox. When I tried to flash the stock kernel back it failed and now my phone is saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again. Kies doesn't register the device being connected, and when I tried to flash all the firmware etc. Back through Odin it now fails every time, I have no clue as to what to do, please help a anyone, thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
Anyone? I'm totally new to this whole root business, all I know is I can't do OTA because of DM initialization error; I'm not using an AT&T SIM, so when it doesn't work I'm just lost.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
I'm pretty certain your problem is you're trying this from 4.3. You're supposed to be doing this coming from stock rooted NE3 (4.4.2).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
See, that's what I figured. But when I tried to update to 4.4.2 via a stock ROM I grabbed from the thread that led me here it failed because something didn't read right or summat. Again, I've basically got no idea what I'm doing.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Are you using Odin 3.09 to try to update to NE3? And which thread are you talking about?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
Uhhhh, this one. Just a gaggle of firmware. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2629093

But I wasn't aware I required Odin to update, even if I am using stock. That would probably the solve all of my issues. And I'm a moron.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Download this zip to your PC and extract the files. You have to flash them all simultaneously to your phone through Odin. Instructions are here read the one about going to NE3, it even has a nice screenshot of what Odin will look like. Once you're on NE3, you can root very easily using towelroot, install FlashFire, and update to lollipop.

Just a note, using Odin to get onto NE3 will wipe your internal memory, so back up any media, documents, app data, etc. before doing so.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
Oh alright, awesome. Thanks a bunch, man. I'll report back if I get it all taken care of.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Good luck. I hope everything goes well; it should if you follow the directions carefully
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
Are you putting the phone in download mode? I've never used kies so not sure what's going on there. Put it in download mode and do this,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60325290

Use the ne3 firmware in this thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49877197
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Migue4k:
I think is much easier to have a full odin rom to flash it,can any one have one?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] bobbylx:
My guess is that an odin package could possibly made for stock OC6, but wouldn't have root. This method keeps root.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Migue4k:
Then you just have to use odin a compatible kernel with towelroot,root and flash back oc6 kernel

i think i did this on my s4 att and worked
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] made me an OC6 kernel tar precisely for this purpose. I was going to take the non rooted update (flash update.zip in stock recovery) and test this method, since this was exactly the way we rooted the last kit kat build. Unfortunately I will not be able to test this until later today, if at all today, so if someone else is willing to test this sooner, let me know, and with muniz_ri's approval I'll share a private link to the kernel file.

Just a concern though, since our bootloader is locked, is it gonna screw something up, temporarily going from a lollipop kernel to the rootable kit kat kernel when trying this?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
From what I understand, the bootloader isn't updated with the OC6 firmware, so you should be good there. However, I don't think you will be able to boot past recovery because you'd be trying to run a 5.0 Rom on a 4.4 kernel. It might work though. Either way I don't think there's a risk of bricking since you're not touching the bootloader.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] vibrioidplague:
Yes sir I have the firmware and actually flashed it maybe three times just having around with different roms, well mainly because I screwed something up and had to. This time when I boot into download mode Odin will start but it gets to system and I believe says ext 004 and stays there, then says it failed, I am going to download the firmware from the threads you mentioned and see if I might can get a different result
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
You can post the kernel. It's actually included in the ota update.zip. I just put it in a .tar.

Also, I do not expect 5.0 to boot using a 4.x kernel but it will do no harm to try. Just reflash back the OC6 kernel.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Thank you. I don't know if I will have enough free time to try this tonight (chances aren't looking that great) but I'll try it tomorrow if need be. I don't mind messing stuff up/wiping/flashing etc. repeatedly if it is useful to other people (for Science!). I'll let everyone know when I am able to try how it works out. I guess judging by you and Devo7v I shouldn't be too optimistic :silly:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] HaltHaltHalt:
All worked, running 5.0.1 as I type this. Thanks a ton for the help!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] muniz_ri:
Consolidated the firmware and partitions file into one. Follow the updated instructions in the OP.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fegarciaii:
Works great!!

Followed the OP this morning before it was updated... No probs!:D
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] mateo121212:
this update to lollipop worked epically. i saw some people wondering about custom 5.0.1 roms. i found something for the safestrapped att s4 crowd tat i am going to modify the procedure and see if i can get results. its in the info for the new 5.0.1 golden eye rom look for safestrap instructions. i cant post links yet or i would. i will let you guys know how it goes. going to try the goldeneye and gpe roms when i get a chance (dont follow the instructions to a t or you will break things it is just a general outline)

(the info in this post was not nessicary) will post instructions on how to install golden eye rom soon. i have it working on my phone as i type
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] firestorm942:
successful

another successful upgrade from root'd NE3 :) tyty
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jason39828:
thank you

It took me 7 tries to get it but I got it...lol. I got it before the OP update and it failed 6 times. last try the only thing i did different was placed files on internal instead of extsd. went right in....easiest update since i got this phone...you are the MAN

thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] NGD1:
If anyone is interested most overlays / themes for lollipop in the s4 forums will work for our rom, to get rid of the heavy white backgrounds easy to install & they on break the rom if they don't want to work
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Monster809:
I just wanted say thank you for putting this update together. Also wanted say thank you to thisisapoorusernamechoice for helping me and answering all the question I had asked you!!!

I went from 4.4.2 rooted to lollipop update and i still rooted with no issues. Installation went smooth:thumbup::thumbup::beer::beer: