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[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cooljb:
No more SD card notification

That's at least one good thing, no more annoying SD card notification on boot-up...

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I only rarely experienced this before, but haven't seen it yet in 24 hours since updating. Not sure if that's long enough to declare it fixed, but I'll keep an eye on it and post my results.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] FettyWap:
What is the process for taking this update with a custom recovery. I rebooted to twrp went to cache/fota and update.zip will not flash. Also does this update lock the bootloader. As a former motorolla photon user I lived that nightmare first hand.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] webberz:
If you have a custom binary, bootloader, or rom, or rooted, you need to remove that before taking ota. I'm not sure how I really feel about the ota yet. I took it and it is proving to be a pita trying to get it to where I want it. All I really want is the wifi tether. I had an s3 for 5 years running AICP with no tether issues. I upgraded recently to the S5 because Sprint can't use the 1+2 device according to forums. I like the Samsung products, but I disappointed in the sprint network not being able to use the phone and data together on s5. Seems backwards
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] csmasn:
Won't install with custom recovery. Move the update.zip to extSD. Odin back to PCA, that won't erase nothing, just will remove root. Then reboot to recovery. This time will be stock recovery, and select "install update from sd". Or something like that. Reinstall custom recovery and reroot.

And the most important step: NANDROID.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] webberz:
Taking OTA update with custom recovery

You need to restore your phone to stock. I didn't have to worry about KNOX, but I used a stock Image of my firmware. You can grab the image from SamMobile unless someone else has a faster solution? BE WARNED, YOU MUST KNOW YOUR FIRMWARE VERSION!!! I can't express that enough. I believe the knox will protect you from being uninformed, but can't promise anything. This worked for me though.

What I really am looking for is AICP running 6.01 on S5 Sprint variant. If someone has a link, let me know. THANK YOU!!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] FettyWap:
Thank you all who have replied.

I followed the SD card Mod which merged my sd card with the phones internal storage via ADB partitioning. Does this change anything in the process?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cooljb:
Yes CF Auto Root works. You can download it from the CF Auto Root website and simply flash it with the Odin executable that's included with the download:

https://download.chainfire.eu/408/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-kltespr-kltespr-smg900p.zip

No need to flash custom recovery. I did this on mine with PE1 and have root and everything seems fine. One thing to note, since the above root is based on PCA, it will flash stock PCA recovery back on your phone. I don't think that should be a problem though.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Does the new update add the heart beat sensor back in SHealth?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] daniel3x:
It always was there...
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] emanuelrv:
but they don't active any place only with application open the heart beat sensor
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Not after the marshmallow update.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] lys3rgic:
is anyone else's ##DATA# menu not working after flashing custom recovery through odin/rooting? I can't seem to get it to work with root. only on a stock. I even tried finding /efs/carrier/hiddenmenu to enable it but that seems to be missing.

EDIT/UPDATE: So i figured out you have to take the PE1 OTA after you flash PCA with odin. and then do the root method stated in OP to get it :) I'm happy now.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] jt323bd:
I'm totally on stock, and I cant get edit my APNs in my ##data# menu. (Neither view nor edit)

Willing to try rooting, just need to know theres a solution which will work if i'm gonna risk it.

Has anyone with the grayed out APN menu managed to get hotspot enabled?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Try Odin back to ok4 then take OTA. That's what worked for me
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] tvsamson:
So what is the solution to error 7 when flashing the update zip?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Tried downgrading from PE1 to OK4 and after waiting over 30 minutes waiting it didnt boot. Tried this twice so what i did was odin'd twrp and restored an ok4 backup. It loaded just fine and then i odin'd ok4 again and it booted fine and in about 2 minutes.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Propper5:
Help Please

I need help. I have read this entire thread and feel that I have done all recommended steps/solutions. It's possible that I haven't... but I have researched this problem thoroughly here and google. I've never had issues installing ROMs, flashing, root access or anything until now. Any help to get me rooted would be awesome!

I was rooted, using CM13. I downloaded the marshmallow update from sammobile, installed it, everything is working fine. On G900PVPU3CPCA (MM for KLTESPR SM-G900P).

I cannot get root.

I've used ODIN (3.7-3.10) to TWRP 3.0.1, pulled battery, booted to TWRP and installed SuperSU-root-BETA-v2.67. Or at least I think I am. During SUS install, it reads:

-checking patch status

---already patched, attempting to find stock backup

---restore failed, aborting <--is that bad?

Then it has the important notices, then:

-Unmounting /system

-Done!

Updating partition details

...done

I then reboot, root check and it's not rooted.

So, could please someone help me? Am I missing something - I feel stupid!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] BillyBob3:
Confused...are you trying to root kltespr cm13 or did you go back to stock from sammobile and that is what you are trying to root? You can't do both.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Propper5:
I was laying out some history in case it may help. Sorry if it was confusing :(

I am currently running stock samsung touchwiz marshmallow, 6.0.1. I am trying to root that. Hopefully that clarifies things. :svetius:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Xposed took out hotspot, or at least it's not showing anymore, how do i remedy this?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Poppawu696:
Mine is doing this as well
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] FettyWap:
Ok set your modules and tweaks with your xtouchwiz, then go to root browser(install it if you don't have it) go to system folder, go to CSC folder, and find features.xml rename it to features.bak or features.old and reboot the hotspot is back this is a quick fix. This fixed will be needed whenever you do something with an xxposed module. THERE is a permant solution adding more info to others.xml but for me this is good enough and doesn't involve starting fresh again. Hope this helps, I am not responsible for lost data always backup important data prior to making changes.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Poppawu696:
Worked great! Thanks!!

Worked great but just a FYI for anyone trying this. I followed above perfectly and rebooted with no hotspot. I went in and deleted the newly created feature.xml, rebooted again and it showed up and is working great.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Worked like a charm, thank you! I renamed to features.xml.bak.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
I updated to PE1 and I'm not rooted. Can I downgrade back to OK4 in order to setup the hotspot and OTA the PE1 update again in hopes of retaining the hotspot function without being rooted?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] deafboy:
Yes, you can.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
Thanks for the reply. Can you provide me with the fail proof steps for downgrading? I appreciate your assistance!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Coucher:
Just to have a record of info for anyone else... I had some time this weekend without much going on, so decided to give updating to MM a go.

I did a backup of via several methods just in case first.... Then I Odin'd to OK4 which obviously replaced my TWRP recovery back to stock, and also "removed" root but didn't touch any of my apps or data. After that, my Device Status was back to "Official" so the OTA (PE1) downloaded and installed without much issue. After installing and the first boot I had a notice that I needed to update Play services, just accepted and let it do it's thing. Re-rooted using the CF Auto Root approach. Had two apps that were force closing (AAA Mobile and Handcent). Just uninstalled them and reinstalled from the Play store then restored backed up data via Titanium and all was good. So far, so good, everything seems to be ok. Have a random notification sound that happens, not sure what's causing it. No notifications on the phone when it happens. But, who knows. Will continue to monitor.

Also, my APN settings to enable Hotspot weren't changed when I Odin'd to OK4, nor when I OTA'd to PE1.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
That's pretty much how I did it, except I had to restore an ok4 backup after Odin to ok4 to get out to boot, that is after I was on pe1. I found that if you straight Odin to mm (PCA) the apn settings aren't there and unable to do hotspot. I did this twice and both times it wasn't there. This was, however, my experience and may not happen to someone else.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Coucher:
Ok, a few post-update questions which I've been unable to find answers to searching....

1) Previously I had the battery cover and usb cover notifications disabled. I honestly don't remember how I disabled them it's been so long ago. However, now after updating to MM they are back. What is the current preferred way of turning this nags off? I see that there use to be an Xposed module (G-Touchwiz) that would do it, but it seems it's no longer being developed/updated for newer versions of Android and no longer works.

2) I'm still dealing with a random notification sound which does not show any visual notification. I've went through every setting I can find and toggled them, no luck. I also tried an app called Notification History to try to identify it but it doesn't show up in that app's logging. At least on my phone, it's just a simple little "drop" noise that happens randomly. I've so far been unable to make it happen or repeat. Any thoughts/ideas?

3) Any way to remove the "Sprint" carrier label in the upper left of the notification bar?

4) Best way to change or remove the Sprint boot screen/animation. At least on my phone, it's an all white screen with the yellow Sprint logo (black text) and at FULL brightness. Literally lights up the entire room if you're booting/rebooting the phone a night/in a dark room.

As always, thanks in advance for any info or help.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Coucher:
OK, I had already installed and tweaked a few things with the XTouchWiz Xposed module, but it didn't include any options to chance the things for the above.

Stumbled across an extension of sorts of the XTouchWiz module called Firefds Kit which allowed me to both disable the battery/USB cover notifications and get rid of the carrier label.

Still looking for answers/solutions to the other two things...
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] chippinganimal:
Sorry [MENTION=1044721]Coucher[/MENTION] but i do not know what is up with those other issues on your phone with the bootscreen... but i am having this very annoying issue, and im gonna make a thread in the troubleshooting section about it becuase its driving me nuts, and the issue is that when im on wifi (this started recently) the little lte icon will blink in between the signal bars and the wifi signal bars, as if it is pinging my location repeatedly. This has happened last week before i odined the restore tar hopng that would fix it, but it stared up again this morning and is causing my battery to drain very badly when on wifi. On LTE it is fine but i dont have an unlimited data plan and dont want to burn through it.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] deafboy:
These are completely stock steps using a windows machine that I used and am reiterating to keep stock hotspot from OK4 to OTA Marshmallow PE1.

These steps will NOT trip KNOX or cause Custom status.

Backup anything important.

Ensure there is a SIM inserted as APN settings will be grayed out if absent.

Download latest Odin: Odin_3.11.1 - Thanks to LMMT

Download OK4: http://xdaforums.com/sprint-galaxy-s5/development/rom-sprint-ok4-stock-tar-file-odin-t3262667 - Thanks to Robolboa

Verify zipped MD5 hash = AF71C63C91975444E98CE66F9FD72EB9

Unzip G900PVPU3BOK4_G900PSPT3BOK4_SPR.zip to G900PVPU3BOK4_G900PSPT3BOK4_G900PVPU3BOK4_HOME.tar

Enter recovery (home key, volume up, hold power until splash and "recovery booting" in blue at top).

Factory reset (wipe data and cache) a few times in stock recovery then select power down.

Enter download mode (home key, volume down, hold power until warning screen, then volume up to continue).

Open ODIN, plug in phone, click AP, navigate to OK4 file and open G900PVPU3BOK4_G900PSPT3BOK4_G900PVPU3BOK4_HOME.tar

Wait for it to process then press start. OK4 flashes. I usually pull cable after it unmounts from windows and reboots.

Go ahead and set up whatever you like or skip through until you get to home screen and Sprint does it's things, (voicemail, apps, connections optimizer).

I like to update PRL and profile at this point to ensure latest as selecting update profile after OTA will result in overwrite of the following edits.

##DATA# in dialer. Select Edit, enter MSL, scroll down to APN Settings.

For both "APN2 EHRPD internet" and "APN2 LTE internet" change APN Type from "default,mms" to "default,mms,dun" NO SPACES and hit menu upper right to save after each edit.

Reboot, test hotspot. Take OTA to Marshmallow. Test hotspot again.

Win.

Hope this helps as much as all of you have helped me.

Be well.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
Thanks deafboy - I appreciate your taking the time to send a detailed response. I will let you know the results when finished. Thanks again!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Or instead of entering ##data# you can go to settings/more networks/mobile networks/access point names and modify from there. That way you don't need your msl
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
The developers LMMT has the Odin 3.11 listed for the Galaxy Note 4.

I have the Galaxy S5 and understand that Odin 3.09 is best. I don't want to brick my phone, just want to make sure before starting. Thanks.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] deafboy:
Some say you can edit there and some say its grayed out. In my experience, that menu, and "View" in ##DATA# is always grayed out and uneditable. But if you can, awesome for you.

Obtaining MSL is as simple as getting on Sprint chat and asking for it provided your phone isn't under any agreement. I just obtained 3 the other night in about 10 minutes.

I used 3.11 without issue but do whatever makes you comfortable.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Coucher:
~ delete ~ Thought I had found the source of my random notification sound with no visible notification, but it's still happening. :confused::mad::confused:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] view9234:
So can someone please clarify that Super SU 2.71 works on PE1? When PE1 was first released there were two major concerns, as I read them:

1. It might lock the bootloader (now found untrue)

2. It might eliminate the free hotspot from ##DATA## (also found untrue)

So, as long as we're not concerned about tripping Knox, we can OTA update then simply flash twrp-3.0.2-0-klte.img.tar and then Super SU 2.71?

Although there really isn't a post that clarifies what PE1 does, it looks like it fixes the stupid SD card alerts, radio/modem issues on phone & other bugs?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Coucher:
Apologies if deemed irrelevant, but I'm on PE1 w/SuperSU v2.74 without any of the described issues and twrp-3.0.2-1-klte.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
Thanks again deafboy! I followed your instructions and used Odin 3.11 and things went smoothly. It worked!

One thing I discovered is, once you set the APN's for the hotspot function, you can no longer update your PRL. If you update the PRL, it will wipe out the APN settings and cancel the hotspot.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] deafboy:
Good to know. I shall refrain from doing so as what I had read regarding it wasn't exactly clear and claimed profile would be the only thing that would overwrite. Thanks for the update and glad it all worked out for you.

Be well.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
Reasons like that are why I'm going back to Moar. MM just sucks period. I need a phone where everything works, not flip flopping all over. Maybe if a decent rom comes out for MM then I might come back. Thanks for the info.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] tyxavier13:
Anyone know what the new update is ending P2
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] ReIgN116:
I've got the same notification, anyone take the update yet?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] tyxavier13:
Its a security update June 1
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] FettyWap:
new info

Having some trouble with this update... I flashed stock recovery, phone booted up took update, allowed the update to flash, reflashed recovery... Phone will not boot, stuck on Samsung Galaxy s5 splash screen and the blue light is lit. Any suggestions... To be clear I'm talking about the June 1st Security update PE2 any one have any luck?

__NEVER MIND__ it was quicker just to restore stock everything and try again.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cooljb:
I flashed back to stock and took this update. Based on the size it is obviously more than just the June security patch. I have a nexus 7 and the last several security updates have ranged from 10-12 MB, so at 57 MB there's at least a little more to this one. As I've said before, I'm really glad to see samsung still supporting this phone. We actually got the June security patch BEFORE the S6 or S7 (on Sprint anyway). I'm impressed. Updating did not wipe out my APN hotspot edit - still can't edit the APN settings in ##DATA# menu though. So if they do end up wiping out my APN edits down the line, I will just root again and edit the APN settings with SQLite editor. For now I think I'm going to stay stock so I can get the security updates every month. Stock 6.0.1 is really nice and stable on this phone now. Only reason I rooted was to make APN hotspot edit.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] rcatank:
saving settings in all apps?

Has any one noticed on PCA update with 6.0.1 that none of your application specific settings get saved after a reboot?

Currently I am noticing that the following apps do not save login information or app specific settings including android allow/deny xxxxxx preferences. It's as if I just reinstalled these apps, every time I reboot.

- Yelp

- Waze

- Whatsapp

- Weather Channel

- Flight Stats

- Evernote

These are just a few, but there are many more....

FYI: I did format the SD card via android, and I do not have any APP2SD like apps running.

Thanks for any help!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
I just received a software update notice from Sprint. Anyone familiar with the latest software version CPE2 that's approximately 57.39 MB for the S5?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Waltg888:
Disregard my question about the Sprint CPE2 update. I didn't read the earlier posts. It's apparent that upate is security with some fixes. Thanks.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] view9234:
Can someone please confirm that PE2 firmware can be rooted using CF AutoRoot & the bootloder isn't locked?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cooljb:
PE1 tar is up on Sammobile

Finally...
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] jazzdglass:
hello? is there a procedure to unlock th ebootloader of sprint s5? I only see custom roms everywhere, so I know theres got to be guide to unlock bootloader. thank you
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] freeza:
You can run the ROM without a bootloader upgrade. It's been done on the Note 4. Things like WiFi and camera may not work properly with it though.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] chippinganimal:
I never knew that, but I guess that makes sense since basically all the gs5 variants are similar (minus the exynos ones) and they just have different radios in them for the different networks as sprint works off the CDMA network while basically as far as I know all of the other Major US carriers have been using GSM (not sure about verizon).
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] tyxavier13:
Has anyone else gotten the update zip.Simple process when it comes connect the phone to computer copy zip to your computer,look in device under cache boom. Copy and paste the zip here for ALL :)
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] chippinganimal:
That would be easier than flashing twrp and making a backup and uploading that.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] view9234:
Please share a pic of the device page & build number in addition to the update.zip

Thank you!!!
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] whbisondtr:
My only concern with this, if it's legit, is Samsung locking the bootloader to where we can't root like the s7. If that's possible.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] freeza:
that won't happen
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] chippinganimal:
yeah i dont think that can be done with simply a software update to my knowledge at least.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] MichaelR171:
6.0.1 OTA

Sprint GS5 updated to 6.0.1 last night. Wasn't pushed, manually checked so I don't know if they've put it out for all yet. Almost 900mb, everything went smooth. Watch for the encryption notice before you install the update, and remember your password if you have the reboot protection on
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cubit33:
Yep, just checked and got the same update. Will post about phone page once apps finish optimizing. Woohoo!!!!!!!!

[IMG="6.0.1 update"]http://i.imgur.com/uKHSsfw.png[/IMG]
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] MichaelR171:
6.0.1 OTA

Bluetooth was a little skippy on my speaker, re-paired and it's much better. Also an annoying USB connection in the notification page when it's charging, not sure if I can get rid of it. Also my keyboard stayed up when my phone went back to the lock screen, not sure what that's about.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] tyxavier13:
6.0.1 update 4/7/2016

Will talk about it later today after work as stated manually check for the update. Not impressed yet minor skin changes...etc. very glitchy so far going to allow the new os time to settle down. Here's some shots
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] emanuelrv:
everything works fine for me but Gmail dosent notify if received new email
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] daniel3x:
Wow time to flash back original 5.0 on my phone and update to 6.0
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] djxn40:
Has anyone gained root with this new update
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] daniel3x:
That's what I am concerned right now.. Anyone tried the last SuperSU on this rom?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] jboyed1999:
I just got the update after I did a manual update check. Has anyone tried to see if the SD card can be adapted as internal storage? I will let you know once it is done if no one replies.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Cubit33:
No, Samsung turned off adoptable storage for all their Marshmallow roms. Hopefully there is a hack to enable it soon.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] pyrochance:
where do i find the update.zip so i can upload it here?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] syedmuaaz87:
Is it released worldwide or only for the one's residing in USA?:confused:
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Kreatur3:
If you have a sprint s5 just odin your custom recovery. Then flash su for root. There's no procedure.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] xHolomovementx:
Visit chainfires website, look for sm-900kltespr and download auto.root for 6.0.1, then flash in Odin mode. To be sure after that flash the latest version of SuperSU and bam. Root.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] JAMALDEEN:
Different Software version.

Hi, I had just upgraded Marshmallow6.01 with samsung G900P sprint.My software version shows as G900PVPS3CPE2. What is the different between G900PVPU3CPCA. Can any one reply.Thanks.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] Kreatur3:
Yours is a newer version. But, I believe, just security type updates.
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] RazzMcTazz:
Does anybody know if any of the root methods work with the post-6.0.1 update (which apparently is software version G900PVPS3CPE2)?
[Sprint Galaxy S 5 General] mordantly:
No way to go from OK4 back to OA6 or NE5??