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[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] koop_rt:
After you prepare your phone follow the beginning instructions, all prepare your phone did was flash OK3. Once you run bat make sure the top of the command prompt does say "adb server out of date" and follow the instructions
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] michaelahess:
Ok, that worked, those instructions sure make you hop around! Thanks for clarifying!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KRGrayson:
SuperSU Me

Once we are completely finished with the rooting should we remove the SuperSU Me App? I don't see why we would keep it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] striker1211:
You can remove SuperSu-Me after you use it, as well as Kingroot, Busybox Installer and even safestrap if you aren't actually using it. Just don't remove SuperSu or you will lose root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ArsonistsMind:
Unable to root

Like many other people here i am stuck after flashing the nk2 kernel, i have uninstalled all other drivers reinstalled the drivers, com is at 4 in odin, revoked usb debugging then gave permissions back to my computer bat just says protocol fault, and phone is offline....ive searched i see other people are having the same issues im unable to move past that point, it seems the bat is unable to complete the root process.... i understand your supposed to be patient when its on the samsung screen but i assure you i was its got nothing to do with it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
I've said it again and again, use a different computer, it's an issue on certain chipsets.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
I wonder if this method will still work on the new update (PB1)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
OMG! There's a new update?? Is it 5.1.1 already?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hoirizon:
I need help. My phone is stuck on Samsung Galaxy S5 screen now. Odin doesn't recognize it. The instructions in the .bat must've confused me... Could anyone help?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
Unlikely.

The description from Verizon is that it provides the latest security updates.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
If you are at the S5 screen then your phone didn't reboot to download mode. Try rebooting manually with power + home + volume down buttons.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hoirizon:
When I do this it goes to "Maintenance Boot Mode" and I have options to normal reboot, factory reset, and safe mode. Tried all three and they all result in never-ending S5 screen.

I had Odin work once. I got to the point where "downloading" popped up on my phone, and then something happened because the directions weren't clear to me, and now I'm here.. D:

EDIT: Okay, after removing the battery 3 times and restarting it's finally gone to the "Downloading..." screen! Let me try this again..

EDIT 2: And now it's back to the S5 screen after doing the AP thing in Odin.. Urgh. This is very confusing. Sorry for the rambling... I just don't know what to do next. So yeah. I can't reboot the phone, I can get into the "downloading..." screen, and I can flash the AP thing in ODIN, which results in the S5 screen lockup.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hoirizon:
I just need help getting my phone back to a working state in time for tomorrow at the very least... Sorry, this is beyond me. I just wanted to root this crap so I could get rid of Verizon's garbage bloatware... Anyone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Try flashing the ok3 kernel via odin
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] hoirizon:
This.. seems to be working. Thank you. Was this in the .bat or something? Because I closed that out and couldn't get it to open to the directions lol. I assume I can continue with that now.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Just follow directions patiently & it should work

And if you are up to it. You can manually do the commands that the .bat does
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] striker1211:
1. Make sure you don't have anything that would keep adb from binding to a socket like a third party firewall or parental control program.

2. If you have bluestacks running, kill it. That frucks with adb.

3. Try killing all instances of adb by doing "adb /kill-server" in an administrator level command prompt (could probably do it un-elevated but elevate anyway). (hit start, type cmd, hit ctrl+shift+enter).

4. Try unplugging and re-plugging the phone in while on samsung screen and redetect in odin.

Good luck.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
I wonder if it's a coincidence that root was finally achieved on OK3 and now they're rolling out a "security" update?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Just so you know. HTC is same

If it's a Verizon or at&t. You will NOT get a a bootloader unlock code
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
This is why we need to encourage people not to send Google diagnostics, just uncheck that stupid ish, no reason for it except to figure out how we root and what we do while rooted, its not cool and really isn't their place since we own the device, get people give their info away every day and you really think they spying on rich ppl? No, they spying on the foolish souls that love to take control of their device but let Google see how they can prevent it and pass the info to Verizon.

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Yes I got a desire 526 with the same issue boot loader lock, then I immediately swapped to a different phone (s5) and at least more than one guy knew what they were doing cause I sure didn't know at first, maybe I should pass the info down to the desire thread since nobody has a clue but one guy and now myself. I'll let it go for now, busy. Tbh I love HTC and Verizon ruined it for me :crying:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sean19661:
Provides latest lock down I'm willing to bet Verizon trolls this fourm to stick it to us !!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] novembertango:
Im a dummy

Ok.....so I used the root program and followed the instructions as they came....long story short, i soft bricked my phone. So, could someone please give me a how to unbrick your phone instruction list for dummies, PLEASE. This will be a laughable learning moment when i get it working again......since i just got it two days ago. And if I could get a seriously dumbed down version of the how to root with the OK3 as I am relatively a beginner at this. I had trouble flashing the kernel......once I figured out ODIN, I did it but the phone rebooted and stayed on the Samsung screen. I took the battery out and did the Vol dwn, Pwr, home keys and it just reset and went to the Samsung screen again.....from there it went down hill. I freaked out and tried to reset to factory.... Yep, like i said.....Im a dummy! Thanks in advance for the help!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Can someone verify that you can flash from PB1 back to OK3 using the full tar.md5 in the op? If not, I think verizon seriously might be trolling us. Its time guys, I'm starting the work to unlock the bootloader, wish me luck!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Don't get so excited about 5.1.1 unless you want to go back too no root. To root 5.1.1 requires kernel mod so that means the end of the line for root on the Verizon s5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] PalmCentro:
It wasn't excitement at all...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Fear right? Because you know how bad you will want to try it
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
So it's a given that this root won't work on pb1, & the question is only if it's possible to downgrade?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Dudash:
It's not a given. We won't know until someone tries.

And [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] is the one who normally informs us if the bootloader changed. He looked at my update.zip and didn't mention anything about it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
Really...

I'm glad you told me that. I wonder if they'll provide the unlock code since I don't have a Verizon contract but use Verizon's network
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
the answer is no
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
No, the qfuse counter on PB1 remains the same as OK3 which means that downgrading from PB1 to OK3 is possible.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Great ! Now the question is if downgrading is needed
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
Good luck man, I'd give you beer money if you pull this off
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Chances are I can't figure it out but granted i found a way to break the S3 bootloader back then, via odin nonetheless XD. So I'll say something if I ever succeed but come on, we ALL want custom roms no?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
Yaaasssss plzz :eek:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
God i miss customs

Nevermind
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
The OP should be updated to include pb1
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
This methos works on PB1. I just tried it on a freshly updated phone and it rooted fine
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Really, others gave me issues with it not taking the NI2 kernel, mostly when NI2 is flashed, it the rapidly reboots not giving any time to root via the bat
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
It worked just like bok3. The only difference is once you start with busy box and supersume you get the warning about unauthorized actions. Just ignore it.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Just tried it again and it worked again
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Did you flash back the ok3 kernel ? Or is pb1 kernel needed ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
The bok3 kernel The first time Pb1 the second time
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
theres an issue with OTA's(i think) corrupiting the partitions apparently, reflashing the PIT file over the full ok3 tar allowed the device to root correctly. i assume the header fix may work too?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
So this means i cannot flash CM 13 for KLTE?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] al50:
Obviously you didn't read the OP as it's stats that you CANNOT install CM ROM's. Only TW ROM's. We're only able to use the ROM's posted in the Android Development section

Not unless you have a Dev edition.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
I did read the post, i was just confused. So even if i removed the bootloader from the rom file it will not work?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] al50:
Don't want to stear you wrong but i don't think it'll even boot. But either way, unless you have a Dev Ed, we're only able to use TW ROM's, no CM ROM's can be used
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
Ok, thank you for clarifying. I'm going to stick with KitKat for now, but eventually I'll get the itch to upgrade.

I got a phone with NK7 by chance. I looked at all the S5s on Swappa and asked what firmware version they were running so I'd be sure not to get stuck with an un-rootable piece of ****. One guy had an NK7 phone that was listed as "mint" condition. It is indeed in like new condition but I suspect it was briefly used, during which time the user must have taken the NK7 OTA update and then sold it?

Since you say there wasn't an NK7 firmware released... I haven't been able to find any specifics about NK7, since the changelogs aren't published. Does it have ANY improvements over NK2? What changes were necessary to prepare the phone for a lollipop update?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] secandRRe:
Were you able to flash any lollipop roms successfully?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Anybody that rooted with BOK3 bootloaders would you be willing to provide us with an unbrick image. Just flash this zip in recovery and the image will be located on your sd card in the forlder Unbrick_Files. If some one could send me this I would appreciate it. There are a couple of people with bricked phones that would like to try this Please make sure you are on the BOK3 Bootloader. I could also use one from BOG5 bootloader and BOE1 if anyone is willing. Here is the zip

View attachment 3609202
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jjdavis699:
Will do! Here it is! https://www.mediafire.com/?j645awpj6sv3dbj
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Thank you
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] coopmaster:
I was not able to as i dont have any time to do so. I will be doing in on friday and can tell you how it went.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
"26. Remember when using Safestrap to return to rom from Safestrap recovery you must flash the Safestrap Flashable kernel zip matching your firmware." is confusing me. I flashed OK3 Deodexed stock and then flashed og5 kernel which is what I was running, then, it failed during the first minute of flashing and I had to unbrick using the factory image you provided. My bootloader is now factory OK3 rooted because I when I tried to flash the OK3 deodexed it pretty much bricked my phone because I don't know what to flash or what to do before I flash because I've been removed from the scene since my S4 digitizer broke and was handed an s5 without a contract on it but it was already running OG5. I suppose the part that's confusing to me is when I flashed deodexed ok3 and then flashed my og5 Kernel it failed and bricked my phone. I'm confused about what really needs to happen after I reboot to safestrap recovery. Is there any advanced wiping in safestrap that needs to occur before or after I flash? I have copied the folders to SD and internal. Why do I feel dumb, lol? what am I missing here?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jjdavis699:
After you finish flashing a rom, flash the OK3 kernel in the Safestrap_Flashable_Kernels folder, then go ahead and reboot. If it gets stuck while booting (mine does) pull the battery after about 5 minutes. Then it should boot up just fine.

Also don't worry, we were all new once :good:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
Man, I hate being called new, lol. Thank you, anyway. I'll pull the battery and stuff like you said but safestrap FAILED during the install of the OK3 deo rom.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rkeck05:
Rooted but need flashing ROM help

I was successfully able to root the device but I'm having trouble getting any custom ROM to work. I followed all the instructions, booted into Safestrap, created a partition in slot 1, installed the ROM the thread suggested, rebooted the phone it shows the green Safestrap enabled, I hit continue but then nothing ever loads. The screen just stays black for a minute or two then boots into the default recovery mode (I believe the same thing if you hold the volume up bottom with the power and home), after which I just get back to safestrap, enable the stock ROM slot and am able to load into that just fine. Any help from anyone about the steps of properly flashing the rooted basic ROM would be much appreciated!

Android version: 5.0

Baseband: G900VVRU2BOG5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] painiac:
That's the problem. SafeStrap development was abandoned before the slots were ever made to work reliably.

Just make a nandroid backup of your stock system, then install your ROM to the "stock" slot in SafeStrap. It made me slightly nervous at first, too, but the slots aren't necessary: you can always restore your nandroid backup, or use odin to get back to the factory state.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rkeck05:
Rooted but need flashing ROM help

Awesome, thanks very much! I was definitely nervous about doing that. Given I have _OG5, will the recommended BOK3 work alright? Any custom ROMs you'd recommend at this point? And I assume I still have to flash the kernel afterwards for the reboot still?

Thanks again :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] puterdoc:
I tried VZW_BOK3_STOCK_ROM_DEODEXED.zip over my OG5 and had phone service but had no data. I did do the firmware update too. Thanks to the backup option in SS I was back to starting point pretty easy and quick.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Did you do a full wipe,wipe system,wipe data,wipe cache,wipe dalvick? Then install the rom then install BOK3 firmware?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
I started a new thread in the QA section for installing custom roms on newly rooted phones. I think it would be best if we take the rom discussion over there http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/help/installing-custom-roms-newly-rooted-t3292655
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
Thank you, I think you're spot on, where you're going from here.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jjdavis699:
Did you get it to work?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] puterdoc:
I thought I had but needed phone back quick to try again just then. Will repeat following strict steps. Thanks as always for your help.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] mgraham80823:
I haven't had time, I was taking care of my little one, my little man loves his baths and blankets. Thank you for asking. It's not super high priority to be rooted today as I mostly just use it for incredible audio through Viper4android. I'd be listening to Disney Pandora Radio with crazy clarity and crisp punching bass. I'm snowed in now and will have plenty of time after his dentist appointment tomorrow. You have yourself a good new year.

EDIT: I was referring to jrkruse's idea of moving rom install discussions elsewhere in the forum when I said "Thank you, I think you're spot on, where you're going from here." Sorry, if I didn't directly quote him but not really sorry at the same time. He's probably getting forum notifications out the wazoo with the progress made on the S5 and helping individuals. He has to have nerves of steel to have not turned off notifications by now, lol.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Colby_M:
So I'm not very experienced when it comes to odin. Which section do i put the .tar files? BL, AP, CP, or CSC?

Thanks so much for the root by the way. It's awesome what you guys can come together and do despite reports saying verizon is making things like root "impossible". :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
Alright, just wondering. Sorry if i asked a stupid question. Haha.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] al50:
Lol. No, you didn't. My apologies if my reply sounded too "harsh".
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Hope to change this for us anytime but idk how many will be around by then :(
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] EverybodyLies10:
I have the Verizon S5 and have been on rooted 4.4.4 for a long time now, ignoring the OTA updates so I don't lose root. Will this method work for me? Should I take the OTA update and reapply root or use another way?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Ota update will probably fail. You can however flash the latest tar with Odin & this method will work

Alternatively you can use this method

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-update-to-g900voe1-5-0-keeproot-t3149784
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rmedure:
I just got this S5 last month. I'll be here for a while!! :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] tuntex:
Caller ID issue

I am wondering if anyone had this issue after rooting the phone, but when I receive calls, hteir caller ID comes wrong: The number is always is missing the country code:

for example, instead of receiving +1 248 123 4567, i get +248 123 4567. So not only saved numbers are not recognized because they do not match the caller id, but if i let the call stop and try to call back that missed call, I get the operator's automated message saying that the dialed number is wrong.

Any idea about how to fix this?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Abraham5060:
Thanks a lot Mr. jrkruse. I confirm it worked for me without having any issue.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] jrkruse:
Here is the PB1 kernel. I also Updated the OP and the OK3 Root to v4 to include this kernel

VZW_BPB1_KERNEL_ONLY.tar.md5
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BlueLaguna88:
What's apps can I safely remove? I'm in need of a serious debloating lol
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CVertigo1:
If you wait a few hours, or maybe a couple days, I plan on making a debloated ROM for PB1.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
Oh really [MENTION=6697968]CVertigo1[/MENTION] what changes are actually made to PB1 and is it possible I can Dirtyflash from NO-BS v5 OK3 to PB1?(With a backup of course?)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] CVertigo1:
I have no idea what it consists of yet. I actually just updated to it within the past couple hours. After hearing from [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION], I'm probably going to wait till a factory tar is available to build the ROM off of, instead of a system dump like I had originally intended.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hellegaard1:
Alrihgt i have a slight problem, i rooted and flashed the safestrapfix.zip and forgot to reinstall my backup. I rebooted and am stuck on samsung logo. any ways to get back into safestrap instead of waiting for the pb1 firmware to be uploaded, or could in odin flash OK3 firmware?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
if you read the op, you'd know you have to just flash the NI2 kernel in odin :/
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hellegaard1:
I did try that, and just goes back to stuck at samsung logo.

Could this be due to the pb1 update?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
If you flashed NI2 and can't get into safestrap, you are going to have to start from scratch, as you have overwritten safestrap
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hellegaard1:
Okay, so my question is can I odin flash back to OK3 from the PB1 update this morning and start from scratch that way? Or do I have to wait until the PB1 Firmware is uploaded to sammobile?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] GeTex:
you can flash the full OK3 tarball
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Hellegaard1:
thank you, thats all i needed to know haha.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
Everytime i run the root.bat i get all the apps installed and the i go into download mode. Odin loads and i flash the NK2 kernel and after it reboots it gets hung on the Samsung loading screen. I pull the battery and it boots into recovery. Pull the battery again and it loads into download mode. When i flash the Stock kernel back onto it, i boots fine. What am i doing wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
I have the same issue. & the weird part is that with the same PC I did already like 5 s5 with this method.

I'll probably try a factory reset

Reflashing the Rom without wiping didn't help

UPDATE there was some log file in

data/local/tmp/

once i removed it it worked smoothly!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
I'm going to try this and see if it works for me.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
Do you need help with it ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] justinfhersey:
Yes. I can't find the right folder. I looked in every data folder i could find. No luck.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
Yeah man, I usually keep one good phone for a couple years haha, before this phone I had HTC evo 3d if you see my devices, was a hassle rooting and s off but I can settle with something that I find attractive to me, if we get the boot loader fixed up, who knows, you may even help HTC users too don't forget that :)

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Go to your purify app if you haven't used super sume and their should be a system app remover option to point it out and make removal easy, otherwise system app remover from playstore does the same and backs them up just incase you need to reinstall. Good luck! :thumbup:

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I did the same, just restore to factory ok3 image and reroot its the only way
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BlueLaguna88:
This app won't remove anything that could damage my system? I'm not trying to make backups, I just want to debloat certain crapps I don't need like that "baby detector" app
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] yossijoe:
PM me
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
System app remover will point out the key apps you cannot uninstall without issues yet it will give you the choice so be very careful what you pick, in the end if you have issues, please don't blame me, I'm just giving advice from what worked for me :) it will say under the app one of three things:

[Can uninstall]

Or

(Left blank meaning may cause errors but you can reinstall if you backed it up to fix)

Or

[Key application]

Edit-

There is a 4th:

[Should keep] do not remove these for it knows it will cause errors
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Alixbot:
The trashcan

Here is what it looks like

The trash icon is where they are backed up to in case you need to reinstall to fix issues