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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] leapedyears:
My insurance offers a new or "Grade A Remanufactured" device as replacements for claims... what do you think the odds might be that the refurb would have this ****ty update already on it?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] fiodorpugach:
Can I use G900V_OD5_Write_to_SDCard.zip from OD thread on OE1 ?

Thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
It has not been tested but I suspect it should work. I wll post an updated fix at some point.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hollywood67:
All three works best for me;)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] blair.sadewitz:
You'd be better off having an "accident" with the phone. Serious;y. That is how asinine they are. They'd be nowhere if it weren't for their monopoly heritage.

I once hard-bricked my phone (couldn't figure out QFIL) and the insurance people didn't want to hear it. If it wasn't stolen or physically damaged, I was SOL. I took it into a store and feigned ingorance. The phone enjoyed an examination about as thorough as a prisoner would receive somewhere around Vladivostok in 1956, and then the tech just called them and they sent me a new one.

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I got an sdcard writer that I ordered in the mail the same day the phone arrived next-day. Tested out the unbrick image on the old one to see for myself that it worked, which it did. Then I re-bricked it and sent it back.

Mind you, I _mentioned_ the unbrick technique, qdloader mode, etc to the tech at the store. It was hard to glean anything from his dispassionate reactiion, but I think he knew what I was talking about and it simply involved less work for him to order me a new one.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bluremi:
I read through the thread and didn't see this asked, sorry if it's a repost:

I'm not sure what to expect regarding step 7:

Can someone clarify or post a step-by-step of what is supposed to happen? I'm assuming that this instruction is a condensed version of the following:

1) After the flash completes, the FF app will automatically reboot the phone and instead of starting up the normal OS, it will automatically go into "download mode" without any input or special button combinations from the user.

2) Once it's in download mode, you have to plug your phone via USB into your computer and launch Odin on the PC

3) Once Odin is open it will detect your phone and there will be some kind of "PDA/AP" label there that will ask you to load a zip file or ROM or something, and you select the bootloader which is on your PC

4) You can then click a button on Odin to flash the bootloader.

5) Once that's done you reboot the phone, I guess?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrv331:
Once your phone is in download mode start Odin then plug in your phone. Once Odin sees your phone select the AP slot and find the file you want to flash. It will run a check on the file and once thats done select start and Odin does its thing. Once its done flashing your phone will restart by it self.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] chaco81:
i flashed the OE1 update in Original post on my brothers S5 last night.. he was on OC4 and everything went fine...

we missed the part where this wiped the phone, so he wasnt too happy about that...

today he wanted to get tethering back and by mistake flashed the OC4 TetherAddon via FF instead of the OE1ThetherAddon..

needless to say he soft bricked the phone, it doesnt go beyond the boot animation

I am very good with nexus devices but not fully experienced with the samsung phones..

what are my options?

Is there any way i can reflash the OP zip and fix his system partition without wiping?

Am i forced to having to downgrade to NCG then update to OC4 and then upgrade to OE1 again?

if i do flash NCG... the original post confused me as it says not to flash if i took OTA update... this apply to this method? or only really for OTA files? (wouldnt be same?)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] load130:
Probably a NOOB question....Will this work on the OD5 build? I am assuming the OD5 and OE1 are pretty much the same ones. I made the mistake of taking the OTA OD5 update and have lost root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
You just don't need to flash the OD5 bootloader (step 7), since you're already using OD5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] noamparn:
Blocking future updates

Ever since I updated to Lollipop, I've been using Titanium Backup to freeze SDM, to prevent all three phones on my account from from trying to pull OTA updates.

Besides buying the premium version of Titanium, how else would one freeze an app like that, to prevent an "untested" OTA update from wiping out root access? Is that something that could potentially be taken care of for the next update, the same way that Root access is added in? It isn't such a big deal for me (I already paid for the premium key for Titanium for all three of my phones), but it might be useful to others. Are the other free programs out there that work as well as Titanium does for freezing apps?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] xxxstar:
Has anyone successfully encrypted their GS5 OE1 phone's internal memory?

After attempting to encrypt, I get the Android figure encryption icon on white background for ~3 seconds, screen turns black (with blue LED lit for charging), but the phone does not seem to wake up ever. Based on other devices I'd expect to see the encrypting action icon after an automatic reboot.

After several hours of waiting on a blank screen I pulled the battery and got an encryption error resulting in a forced factory reset. I reproduced this many times thinking it was from debloating, but it's not. Present in the rooted OE1 ROM.

I tried both regular encryption and fast encryption- both failed the same way.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] simplepinoi177:
Let me see if I can clarify done things(if not all the things needed clarifying)...

2) have your phone plugged into your computer with Odin running already before FF reboots into Download mode

4) yes...Start button

5) Odin well restart the phone for you...do not unplug until you see green on Odin...

Hope this helps some if u haven't figured it out already by yourself

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 (SM-T320)

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AFAIK, flashing or reflashing will always wipe...

After downgrading to NCG, you don't need to update to OC4 before OE1(at least I didn't have to)

Unless you took the OTA update and didn't use muniz_ri's FlashFire method, it shouldn't apply to you or this method...to clarify: OTA files are not the same as muniz_ri's

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 (SM-T320)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] LongLiveCappy92:
So I took this update straight from KitKat figuring I needed to jump in to Lollipop eventually. I appreciate the clear instructions, I had no problem, as I haven't played with my phone since acquiring root last September. Since this update has terrible battery draining issues that I didn't know about before I upgraded, does anyone have an old Lollipop ROM file still? Say G900V_OD5_Stock_Deodexed_ROM?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SoccerRef12:
I've have found that everyone has battery drain issues going from KK to LP. Go into recovery and clear cache and fdr to resolve the issue. If going from KK to LP, don't restore data...reinstall all apps. Hope this helps.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] chaco81:
Thanks, i saw your post after i fixed the phone.

For future read, here is how i fix my issue

muniz Downgrade_to-NCG will bring u back to 4.4.2 unrooted, without changing the bootloader..... which is good since i was on the OC4 bootloader....

i then towelrooted, added SuperSU and Flashfire v19

after rooting , then i followed the normal flash of OE1 as per this thread and was able to be back on 5.0 without having to flash anything else...

i guess the key here is that my bros phone never took the actual OE1 OTA so i was still safe with the OC4 bootloader...

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one more thing... my bro said that tethering wasnt working, and i flashed the AddonTether on the original post...

can others confirm that file worked for them? Maybe i should recheck md5 and reflash

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tenye2003:
lte

Anyone tried/managed to unlock other lte bands than 4/13 like 3/7 (europe) on this rom/kernel ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] slimpikkenz:
I took the ota and using odin i can flash the BOC4 kernel successfully.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]

It's time you should get the honor of a recognized contributor or developer!!

You deserve it!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] saycbone:
Imteresting,

More info please. Once you flashed the BOC4 kernel were you able to root?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tony_2018:
OP Thanks for the guide. I was able to retain root and still get the latest update to 5.0. Please keep up the hard work.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] slimpikkenz:
I tried to flash the NCG stock kernel in hopes that I could regain root that way but it was a no go just caused boot loop. Is there another method of obtaining root I should try?

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I tried to flash the NCG stock kernel in hopes that I could regain root that way but it was a no go just caused boot loop. Is there another method of obtaining root I should try?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrv331:
If you took the OE1 OTA then you can not root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tgeery:
wow! that worked really well - especially liked the way Flashfire restore even put the icons back onto the "desktop." thanks much!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] joedp2:
I followed the instructions and everything worked well, with one exception. For some reason, S Health no longer works. On the one hand, I don't really need it, but, on the other hand, I sometimes find it entertaining.

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I guess it should have been obvious. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Now it works.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] torr310:
Hi, May I please know what the "System Dump" in OP does?

Thank you so much!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SuperDave1426:
Something I find myself wondering about: Previous rooting procedures had used Safestrap (which if I recall correctly isn't being supported by the developers anymore) to create a Safestrap recovery on the phone. Now that FlashFire is being used, is there any reason to keep Safestrap around? Or is it safe to fire up the app one last time, select Uninstall Recovery, and then uninstall the app?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Badger50:
SS does no harm to your system. If your on LP it'll never show up. Having said that, and this is just me, I keep a back up of my LP Rom in SS, and another one in FlashFire on my external sd card. Why? If I mess up something by flashing a new Rom or whatever, I can always Odin my kitkat kernel and get into SS to restore a backup, then Odin my LP kernel to get back where I was when I started. Just easy insurance if you ask me. So, I would keep it installed........just in case. But that's just my 2 cents worth :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] raggedrebel92:
So in a late night attempt to flash my s5 over to OE1 I have managed to get myself stuck in a boot loop. To keep from threadjacking I started my own thread. Offering $100 if someone can get me back up and running ASAP.

thread link

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/help/100-reward-bounty-boot-loop-oc4-to-oe1-t3161996
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bluremi:
I dialed *228 to update my roaming capabilities.

Afterwards I got no cell reception and tried rebooting my phone to fix it. Phone froze during reboot and I had to do a battery pull. Once it loaded up the Samsung splash screen had the "unlock" icon and said "Custom".

In the phone settings it says no updates have been applied or anything. Phone appears to be working normally. What do you supposed happened here?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Badger50:
You likely damaged your sim card. No need for *228 with smart phones anymore, since they update automatically. You got lucky that it still works. I had to get a new sim card. So I speak from experience. :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bluremi:
O_O

Hard to believe it's so easy to damage a sim card!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] descriminator:
SOL?

So guys, if i took OE1 OTA, i'm SOL for root? I'm getting that sense quite strongly reading this thread.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] flamadiddle:
For now, yes.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SoccerRef12:
Just got back to work this week from vacation to try the OE1 update. Wow! Was that easy. The data restore was exactly how I had all my data before flashing the update. I had to go into settings to ensure I was on OE1 and it was. Big thanks to Muniz for FF.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] descriminator:
:crying:

thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] NSDroider:
Hello, downloaded version 19 of Flashfire but it won't install. Just get "app not installed" after running the apk. What am I doing wrong please?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
Sounds like a bad download to me. Try it again from the source
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] NSDroider:
I only see version 21 available from the source. [MENTION=2504548]Muniz[/MENTION]_ can you help me out with v19 please? I can't get it installed.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SoccerRef12:
I installed the OE1 ROM from OC4 using FF v0.21 with no problems.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] NSDroider:
Thanks, i'll give it a shot with v.21.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] maw230:
Just curious, I am still running 4.4.2 NE9 build, but thinking about getting 5.0. My main concern is security with my current version. I'm wondering if I should update just for the fact that my build has been around so long that maybe it's more vulnerable to security breaches. What do you guys think?

Are there enough improvements to warrant an upgrade in your opinions?

Just want to make sure I can still use Xposed also.

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ernieg92:
Please forgive my ignorance. I'm not a big fan of using ODIN, so I'm a bit out of practice. Am I connected the entire time (steps 1-6) with ODIN standing by or do I connect after the flash? Also, how do I know which bootloader I'm on? I'm running rooted, stock 4.4.4--I know I have to install OD5, but it's bugging me that I can't figure out what I'm on now.....

Probably easy answers, but I'm a little out of practice...... :D
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrv331:
The instructions are for using Flashfire so you are not connected to Odin at all. Connect to Odin for step 7 . As for what your on now, go to about phone in settings and look at build or baseband.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SouthWing:
Re: downgrade to NCG. If I recently bought my GS5 and it already has OE1 installed from the factory (NOT OTA), am I stuck with my current OE1?

I keep reading about the OTA upgrade to OE1, I just want to be sure there is no difference and thus not able to downgrade via Odin.

I'm beginning to see that it is all about the bootloader. Is that correct?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
can you search? Been answered twice this hour already...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SouthWing:
Sorry Sir/Ma'am, I am not aware of any post in this thread that covers what I asked. And as to using the search function, yes I can and I am not aware of the search terms you used to arrive at the figure of "twice this hour" to get the same results you did. I've been reading these threads for awhile now and have yet to find an answer to my question. If you would like to be of some help and clue me into the search terms you used, I'm sure I could find the same thing you did.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION]

Think it's possible to repackage the Odin TAR for OE1 with the OD5 bootloader?

Or maybe make a new package to downgrade to NCG/KK?

(Direct Download Link to OE1 TAR)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrv331:
If it came from Verizon with oe1 on it your out of luck for now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] SouthWing:
Thank you for the reply!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ldeveraux:
*sigh* thanks for letting him off the hook...
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianj414141:
Hey.

Hope someone can help me here.

Why is it that i cant use kies with my s6 edge?

it keeps coming says it dosnt support the phone, and i would like to use it for manage music and such on it, and the samsung switch dosnt help a bit.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] propov:
Yes its a trouble for me too. It have a new Samsung tool - Smart Switch. But I cant download it. It have no links in the official site. Have link only for mobile app in the Google Play.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trazfer:
Use samsung smart switch for windows. Just searvh for it
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brianj414141:
i got the samsung switch. but it only does a backup/restore and sync outlook.

not possible to put music and videos on mobile.
[ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini Questions & Answers] hruaiapunte:
Hey guys, I know this is not a right place to create a threat, but I know some one can help me as my device is also comes from your family. I have owned a ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini, and I used a cyanogen 12 but I think the stock rom is better because there is some bug as video cannot be recorded in CM12. So I have flashed the stock rom, but something strange happening as my device cannot connect it to mobile data, everything seems correct - APN settings and all. This might be the radio problem, when I first boot up the phone, it says sim card has change and needs to reload parameter and it says it will restart after loading, then, I go on, but the device did not restart and cannot connect the mobile data. This seems to be a problem everyone facing if they turned it back to firmware version. So, I asked if any find the solution, I will be very glad to hear.
[ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini Questions & Answers] VRaju:
HI,

If you, for some reason flash any of chinese rom or CM base & then try to revert back to stock( by our twrp backup) we will face problem with Data connection.

This has become a major issue for the India model users. Remember non of the chinese rom will support data connection.

However CM base rom do support data connection but at the cost of sacrificing Nubia camera & sound(which are fundamental for this phone)

Now the only working rom with data connection & nubia cam is MIUI6( but nubia camera is old version)

link "http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/zte-nubia-z9-mini-one-click-root-custom-t3130631"
[ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini Questions & Answers] disius:
ZTE Z9 mini problem with mobile data

Hallo,

I have the similar problem, I have on my Nubia Z9 mini stock ROM (V 3.08), everything is running well except of mobile data (data from SIM cards). I make a factory reset but it does not help. Than I try to make OTA update because it detect newer version V 3.14 available, I download it through Wi-Fi, but during installation it make errors and move it back to ROM V 3.08. Bud mobile data are still not running.

Can you please recommend me what to do? I need mobile data in this phone.

Waiting for a feedback :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S6 General] dagrim1:
Perhaps this is already obvious for everybody but thought I'd share it anyway as I only realised/discovered this (after years of android and flashing).

I have the 32GB version of the S6 and usually have about 2 nandroid backups on my device, I noticed that the size of my compressed backups was about 2.6-3GB which is pretty damn big for this phone (in the past I always had phones with sd-cards so plenty of space and never really bothered with it). Checking out if I could delete some temp and unnecessart stuff I found out that by deleting app cache manually and using (in my case TWRP) to delete dalvik and cache I managed to get this down to 1.6GB! So that means ~2.5GB if you have 2 backups on your device (this is with the xtrestolite v1.5 rom btw).

My steps (from now on)?

( 0. Install DiskUsage to identify main culprits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage )

1. Install App Cache Cleaner from the market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.cache

2. Run app cache cleaner and delete cache from apps where desired (I found out that my browser and the playstore had about 1GB of cache combined, so I cleared all app cache)

3. Reboot to recovery (TWRP) and clear cache and dalvik cache in there (in my case there was about 2.5GB of cache files)

4. Make a nandroid backup

The only downside (afaik) is that the first boot takes quite a bit longer because it's rebuilding a lot of (dalvik cache) stuff. But for me that is just a small price to pay for the increased remaining size :)

Hope this is usefull to some others as well!
[Galaxy S6 General] phochiom:
I used SD Maid app, the paid version, on my rooted Oneplus One to do the cleaning before nandroid backup. My S6 is still stock and unrooted.
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Forty Seven:
i have cynogenmod on my device moto E i m not able to download files greater than 4 GB on it

device has 64 GB Sd card NTFS Format, Read Write Permissions are ok

utorrent and bittorrent says : invalid argument

aTorrent, tTorrent,Frostwire says : No Peers Found

Flud : Downloads for some time than after file size reaches 2Gb keeps shutting down and loosing downloaded data

Flud and atorrent downloads files less than 1 Gb just fine

Vuze says Insufficient disk space (there is 56GB of free space)

TorrentEx doesnt works

and my ISP is not a problem have checked on that

Can any one help in this topic

Thanks in Advance
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazydude10:
Try formatting it wil ex-fat, just in case that helps. Of course you will want to backup all your data before experimenting with this approach !
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Forty Seven:
Card came with ex-fat format only and after few days started showing sd card unexpectedly removed error repeatedly so i formatted it in NTFS.

However I formatted it to ex-fat again as you said and now so far its working fine

Thanks man for the solution .
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] schecter7:
So I ran into this youtube video. Since I also have these two phones., I decided to do my own test and looks like S6 lets the SOC temperature to go over 70C while recording 4K video but Sony probably set the limit around 60C/65C for the whole camera app. Now that might be a good thing to ensure longevity of the phone, but some people might find it too conservative. So what do you guys think?

Edit: I think this limit only applies to the camera app. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I saw a temp reading of 70C (using CPU Z) after a 50 minute gaming session. Yet the game was not shut down at that point.

[YOUTUBE]HlnlW6sOP7w[/YOUTUBE]
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] chesterr:
Battery drained to what level when you played games? Cause I saw a video within 3hrs and few minutes (I can't exactly remember) phone just shut down automatically.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] asking:
Wow m glad to see that Sony Xperia Z3+ Beats Samsung S6.... great video...dude.. :)
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] schecter7:
I wasn't paying attention to battery level :D Did you just say you watched a 3hr long video? Battery life is less than Z2 in my case at this moment. I used to finish my day with 20% on Z2. On Z3+, it's like 10%. Also keep in mind Z3+ screen is a lot brighter. With similar brightness, the difference would be quite small.

I also checked out the GSMarena battery life rating. Their test is quite faulty as they just set brightness to 50% on all phones. 50% on Z2 would be 250 nits, for Z3+ it'd be 350 nits. They should set the brightness to the same absolute number in all tests.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] chesterr:
https://youtu.be/31ZxtSIu9sk

This is the video I was talking about. 3hrs 33mins phone shuts down.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] hasona:
3.5Hours is for me quite good while playing intensive games. I would ran out 25% in half an hour on my Z2:/