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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] Thanks for all the great work! Odexed rom runs fine on my phone...it took some time to get past the Verizon splash, but patience paid off. Looking forward to your work on future updates.

1 question: how are you editing the roms? i.e. downloading the original from Verizon, depackaging it, and editing the smali (assembly-style) code, using a tool that's been written expressly for rom editing, etc? Thanks!

EDIT: I also played with your debloater above.

Some apps (i.e. Hangouts Maps, among others) are spread across multiple files. As such, deleting "Hangouts.apk" doesn't do what we'd think.

Lastly, I've written a new debloater with bash for Mac OS X and Linux with full POSIX compliance, and added a couple features.

Please see http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-galaxy-s5-bloatware-remover-t3148983 for a full tutorial.

GS5 Debloater for Mac and Linux:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Starting with 5.0 the apk's are in a directory therefore my script deletes the entire folder including the apk installed within the folder. I own a G900T and it works fine and should work the same here on the G900V. I would be interested to hear how it's working for others. thx
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Good to know. No word on how you're editing the ROMs?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Shadow 6:
Zip corrupt ?

Getting the archive is corrupt 07/02/2015 @ 2350hrs MST

Edit: NM I think I figured it out.... Should proly be doing this when I am not so tired.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ykjae:
Is there any way to flash without factory data reset?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 05Glide:
Thanks

Although it took time to read through the thread :), it all worked FINE!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ykjae:
Worked great took less then 1hr to flash deodexed rom.. thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]

Any ideas on the new OE1 update? Here's the update.zip.

Apparently people are having trouble Odin'ing back to a previous FW after updating but I don't know if anyone's actually checked the aboot yet.

EDIT: And another thread just started where someone said they can't Odin anything from older FWs. Perhaps we can make a ROM that uses the OD5 bootloader?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Thanks for grabbbing the ota. I will download but may not have time to review at the moment. Suggest everyone hold off updating...

EDIT: confirmed the qfuse counter was updated preventing downgrading.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flamadiddle:
Crud. Do you think any S5 sold from today on will have this update? I'm about to buy the S5 for my wife on the 11th when we're eligible for upgrade.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
A good chance new phones will have previous firmware versions but if they activate it at the store they will also likely update the firmware.

Did you keep root after updating?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flamadiddle:
I won't let them activate it at the store. I'll tackle them if they try :p
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
If they do let you walk out without activating, before your first boot go into recovery and perform a factory reset.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flamadiddle:
Will do. Thanks for the tip. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ykjae:
Flashed the od5 & restored data all worked nicely tryed flashing the tether add on & got stuck in a bootloop. I'm back to 4.4.2 but wanna at least go back to oc4. Any roms available I can't find them anywhere.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 05Glide:
I tried to send you a PM, but it isn't showing up in my Sent message folder, did you get it?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Closing this thread in light of the new OE1 update. Please find the new KeepRoot thread here: http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-update-to-g900voe1-5-0-keeproot-t3149784
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Stryke_the_Orc:
Thread closed at OP's request.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
OK. Works for me. [/grin]
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I have rebuilt the ROM and am uploading. May not be able to post link until tomorrow morning...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] JFam5:
Muniz-ri, any chance of putting up the kernel and firmware here as well?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
PM me if anyone is interested in testing the new build. Thx
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] torr310:
What the new update brings?

"The software update has the version LRX21T.G900VVRU1BOD5 and brings several novel features Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5 users' way. The new features include the GALAXY Apps, where the app store will be installed automatically to your device. This is a revamped version of Samsung Apps and GALAXY Apps would possibly have a far more extensive selection when compared to Samsung Apps.

The Verizon software update for Galaxy S5 also brings support for Fingerprint Authentication for unlocking Microsoft's Exchange Accounts. This is a more useful update when compared to the above mentioned one. Thanks to the update users will be able to unlock their smartphone when their Microsoft Exchange account acts as the device administrator.

The sensor strikes a fine balance between safety and convenience and will be welcomed by users who are pro additional security features.

These are the only additional features the new software update from Verizon will bring. The minor OTA update will probably be pushed out in phases as is usually the case and may take some time to make its way to your Galaxy S5."
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Well.. I "found" the new build and am still experiencing the same problem.

Phone turns off while FF is at "Flashing system" and then hangs at the splash screen.

Maybe try going back to using the system.img.ext4 file instead of using the system folder in the ROMs.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
A new version of FlashFire just came out yesterday, 0.21, which apparently "fixes powering off while flashing system partition."
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I updated to it yesterday and it still doesn't fix the problem here.

EDIT: I tried using FF to flash the OD5 Odin TAR and inject SuperSU but apparently the inject SuperSU function doesn't work correctly. I also tried just flashing the system.img.ext4 partition and injecting SuperSU then flashing a TAR of the rest of the partitions in Odin but when the phone booted up, it wasn't rooted.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
Have FF do two things:

Flash the full OD5 Tar

Install ZIP UPDATE-SuperSU-2.46.zip
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I guess it's worth a shot. I've had to ODIN back to NCG+Factory Reset about 6 times already in 2 hours so I'm willing to try anything. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
ikr my google account has like 200 galaxy s5 registered
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Just pm'd you the test build. If it doesn't work I will post instructions on using the .tar file method.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
Haven't gotten it yet. Waiting for it to go through :cowboy:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Please do post instructions on that method. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
I'm about to post instructions in a reply here, hold up.

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To do this, the only requirments are that you have a rooted device (any firmware), FlashFire, and SuperSU.

Download these two files:

OD5 Stock tar (I've mirrored it since the SamMobile download is slow as hell) EDIT: I forgot to put the link. stupid me. Wait a minute for it to upload and I will link it. EDIT #2: The link is up and running.

SuperSU ZIP

You will need to extract the TAR.MD5 out of the OD5 ZIP.

Put these two files on the device.

Open FlashFire, and click the "+" button. (If it crashes instantly, change the date in the settings to a different year, date, and month.)

Select "Install Firmware Package," and navigate to where you downloaded the tar.md5 file.

Select all of the options and click the check mark.

Now, click the "+" again, and select Install ZIP or OTA.

Navigate to your SuperSU zip file and select it. Don't enable auto-mount.

Click "Flash" and boom! You should, once it finishes, be on stock, rooted OD5. You will need to freeze the "SDM" application, as this enables OTAs.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
That's what I've been trying but as soon as it goes to install the SuperSU zip, it says "Mounting /system /data etc etc"

and then just reboots and hangs on the splash screen.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
What version have you been doing this from?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
What version of what? ROM? FF?

I've just been doing it from NCG and FF v 0.21.

I've also tried doing it from rooted OA8/OC4 but it does the same thing.

Perhaps [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] could create a pre-rooted system.img.ext4 that we can flash with FF and then we can use Odin to flash the rest of the partitions.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
Weird. anyone else having this issue? has it worked for anyone?

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What if (big what if) we put the rooted system.img.ext4 into the tar, and flash it like that?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
muniz_ri used to make his ROMs with a pre-rooted system.img.ext4 instead of a /system folder but I guess some people were having problems flashing them. I never did but /shrug
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
I am working on modding the system.img right now. Still extracting :(
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I would do it myself but for I'm on windows 7 and my linux virtualbox is having issues atm.

I used to have a linux laptop but it died on me :(
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
You should change the FF "reboot" option to "recovery" so that csc can be properly applied.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] MuminMohamed:
This method actually works
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] edjanx:
This last tip helped. I am successfully running G900V_OD5 fully rooted. Thanks to muniz_ri and everyone who helped get this functioning!

Ed Janx
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Did you update from OC4 or an earlier firmware version?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I literally just updated and kept root using that process from your Deodexed OC4 ROM. It didn't work when I tried it from NCG earlier. I'm still hoping for a deodexed version tho cus I feel weird without Xposed :P
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Why my rom will not boot has me baffled. If you'd like to help resolve the issue I will pm you some instructions to help me triage. Not owning the device makes it difficult.

In the meantime I will add the .tar method to the OP instead.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Lightn1ng:
Hang tight- I am working on repackaging the system.img.ext4 file and modding it back into the OC4 root zip. Hang tight!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
What if you tried to use the "old" method that your ROMs used? Meaning, using the system.img.ext4 file instead of a system folder. Those always flashed perfectly fine for me.

EDIT: And actually, FF will flash system.img.ext4 files without them being packaged in anything so technically we could use the .tar method to update and then use a deodexed system.img.ext4 file to get a "deodexed ROM". I know it's a very... odd way of doing things but until we can get your ROM working, it's a possible alternative.

If you want me to, I'll gladly help you figure out what the problem is. Did you see my lastlog earlier in the thread? It seemed like there was some problem mounting/unmounting the system.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
With your help, since you have the device, the issue can likely be quickly resolved including a deodexed version. I will pm you

As for the unmount error in the log that isn't the problem but thx for uploading.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Still working on the ROM's with [MENTION=2460732]Dudash[/MENTION] and in the meantime I have added the files and instructions for the firmware.tar method for upgrading and keeping root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] edjanx:
Updates from OC4 as suggested from OP. I have the custom unlocked icon when I boot, but that doesn't bother me much. I still wonder what I might have missed to trip the custom icon.

Regards,

Ed Janx
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
You didn't do anything wrong. It shows up no matter what. If you use the deodexed version (when it's up) you can install Xposed and Wanam Xposed for Lollipop and it will get rid of the padlock.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PartyDroid:
Triangle Away

[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] suggested to me to use the Triangle Away and it worked it removed the Custom pad lock and it changed my information from custom to official in the settings. I hope this will work for you too.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Here is a working stock, rooted, ROM thanks to [MENTION=2460732]Dudash[/MENTION] for his system.img: G900V_OD5_Stock_Rooted_ROM

Will move to OP as time permits. Enjoy!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Just tested it and it works perfectly. I did it while tapping the Vol- button once every second or so just to be safe.

Any idea if/when you'll be working on a deodex version?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Will work on it this weekend. Will need your help testing and thx for all of your help so far.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Np. It's worth a couple of late nights trying to get working ROMs up for people.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
How do we flash this stock rooted rom?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
You read the thread for god's sake...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
I read the thread for Darwin's sake....the instructions on the first page are for flashing a firmware upgrade, not the full stock rooted rom that was just added.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I will post the instructions later today. In the meantime you can follow these same steps: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3068546
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
I figured it out, I used the instructions from the last update, I assume that is what you have linked there. Thanks. Its working fine.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I'm going way off topic but I literally lol'd

EDIT: To make this post not totally pointless, [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION], is it better to have busybox installed in /bin or /xbin? I know it doesn't really matter but I have noticed that some apps say "busybox isn't installed" if it's installed to /bin but as soon as I re-install it to /xbin, it recognizes it. For example, the Safestrap access without Odin app. The Safestrap app itself recognizes it no matter where it is but it seems like some apps just look for it in xbin.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I don't know what the implications are of using bin but I use xbin exclusively and have never had an issue.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
The only reason I asked is cus I notice some devs use bin and others use xbin. Looks like I'm rebuilding that system.img. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
I tried to install Busybox Installer but it failed. Busbybox is only needed for Safestrap, is that correct?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Busybox is needed for like everything root related. The busybox installer lets you choose between installing to bin or xbin and normally I install to xbin but for some reason, with a 1am half asleep mindset, I decided to install to bin.

Do you mean installing the busybox app itself failed or that installing busybox from the app did?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
Installing from the app failed. I'll try it again.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I notice sometimes that it fails the first time and then if you just swipe back to the install part and retry, it works. You may need to hit Uninstall at the bottom first and then re-install it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
I tried several times, keeps failing.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Does it says busybox is installed already?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
I got it. I had to install the 'Busybox' version, not 'Busybox Installer' . Normally I just use the Busbybox Installer app. Thanks for help.

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So in order to access Safestrap now is just like other roms? Have to flash a pre-lollipop kernel and then flash the new OD5 kernel? There isnt a OD5 kernel file available yet is there?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Yeah. You can try this one. I just made it. lol.

There is also this app but he hasn't made a SS flashable OD5 kernel zip yet. I made one but I haven't tested it and I'm not sure if it will work or not.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
Right on. Thanks.

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Have you tried the one you made in Odin yet? It works?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Yep. It works.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
When I unzip that file it unzips to a zipped boot.img file. Will Odin flash this?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
You're not supposed to unzip it. It's already Odin flashable.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flatworm:
OK thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] firestorm126:
Just to make sure I understand... So if it's "Odin Flashable" does that mean we can just put the phone into download mode, open Odin and load the ROM and have root when it's done? This would be coming from rooted OC4.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Added the ROM and instructions to the OP.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] blair.sadewitz:
If you're using Xposed, Wanam Xposed for Lollipop has a "fake system status" feature that works for this purpose, also.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PartyDroid:
I am not using using Xposed, Wanam Xposed. I just used Triangle Away that's all. I could not get most of the apps to work in using Xposed, Wanam Xposed. Sorry if I was not much of help here but this is all I did and it worked for me.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
It worked on the Verizon S5? I thought it wasn't supported.

And Xposed is mainly necessary for me for Greenify. Xposed makes it 100x better.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PartyDroid:
Yes it works on vzw s5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Ehh.. I still prefer to just use Wanam Xposed. It can't brick my phone. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] blair.sadewitz:
Heh, I didn't know TriangleAway worked. Just tried it now.

Our phones are more or less unbrickable, though I'm not putting any money down! ;)

You could write random data to protected partitions and still recover via sdcard.

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Xposed is worth it just for BubbleUPNP audio cast.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mcgarryv:
Thanks very much! Just followed the instructions you just posted on the OP & everything worked like a charm! Started with a rooted 0A8 ROM!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Azuma73:
Hey guys, just jumped to S5 yesterday. Spent most of the day just trying to keep root on OD5. Got it going after dude posted the "new" process with stock rooted OD5, thanks for that!! I know I have a bunch of stuff to check out to get "up to speed" so to speak, believe me, I am. Just had to get my $hit updated & rooted to start with. :p:p

While we're on the topic of Xposed Installer... how do I get Xposed Installer framework to install properly? Gotta have that for my Wanam & Greenify options.

Also, are we supposed to be able to still use Safestrap with S5 & OD5 or are we supposed to just use Flashfire and/or Odin?

Thanks....

Damn, guess I gotta change my action up a bit here now!?!?:confused::D:good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
We can't use Xposed until we have a working deodexed version.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] androidblaster:
Updated this morning working great now to debloate Verizon apps
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PartyDroid:
Bod5 retail firmware

Is there an VZW BOD5 RETAIL FIRMWARE ONLY.tar yet
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
For any brave souls willing to test: G900V_OD5_Stock_Deodexed_ROM

Be prepared/willing to Odin back to NCG if it does not work.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I think I've done that more in the past 3 days than I've done since I got my S5 last summer. lol.

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@muniz_ri

I just tried to install it and it did something it's never done before. It went to "Flashing system" and then the screen just turned off but the LED light kept pulsing blue like it does while FF is working. I let it sit for a while hoping that it was still installing but it never changed so I'm just re-flashing NCG and I'm going to try again. Hopefully it was just an anomaly.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Hold off a minute, I will pm you FF v19 for you to use. I am seeing that now more and more across many devices.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
So you think it's a problem with the new FF? What about v20? at least that one I won't have to change the date. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Just a hunch, started hearing about that issue after v20 and v21 were released. Also, please flash from NCG.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Well it worked this time. And I have been flashing from NCG. It would take way too much time to keep Odin'ing back to NCG, flashing another ROM, then trying to update over and over.

Now I'm waiting on the boot animation. Hopefully with this build, it wont take 45min to get past it and I wont get a "System storage low" error immediately. lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Good, did you use FF v19?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Yerp.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I think that is the trick and v19 should work from any 4.4 build. Let me know how long it takes to boot. My guess is about 20mins.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I wonder if I still have to press the volume button every few seconds with v19. I did anyways.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I would say yes on that.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
20mins on the dot. lol.

No "System storage low" notification. (yet)

Gonna mess around and see if it pops up. With the last build, it wouldn't let me install apps or anything so I guess the best way to test it is to try to install something.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
I suspected we were golden after the results of the last test rom. Also, I will send you one more rom to test. Same build only difference being use if a system.img.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I said "yet" for a reason..

as soon as the setup wizard was finished and it went to the home screen, I got this:

Even though in System>Storage, it shows this:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ejc1214:
I noticed that the interruption notification settings changed from the OC4 ROM. The mute mode is back and now it gives you a down time option only in the sound options. I wish they had left it alone.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
That's a curve ball. Likely due to compatability of the current deodexing tools and this build. The ROM almost seems to expand once unpackaged from an img. Weird, will have to think on that...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I can't even get my phone to show up via USB. I had to pull the SD card out and put it in my CPU to get those screenshots off my phone. lol. Nothing will install either. This thing's goofy. lol.

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In System>Storage>Miscellaneous files it says that the System memory is taking up 5.46gb. so wtf is making it think that it has less than 250mb left?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Very weird, this build is different. Will let you know if I have any new ideas. Thanks for testing, we'll stick to the non-deodexed version for now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Rebooting this version takes forever. It's been sitting on the boot animation for a few minutes. I may just have to go back to deodexed OC4 until this get's figured out. I mean if this gets figured out.