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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mlcampbe:
After re-checking my recovery I do not believe that I have TWRP installed after all. I was booting into android recovery and it hit me I was not seeing what I expected to see. I need to work on getting TWRP installed. I do indeed have the custom kernel and developer mode enabled!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MissionImprobable:
So what you posted above is all that you need to do for root? You definitely have a much more concise explanation than the main thread. The other instructions made me feel like I was back on my old Droid 2 working from the giant tutorial threads over on rootzwiki, hah.

I'm also guessing that as you mentioned elsewhere that if we wish to run a custom ROM we'll have to reflash the stock kernel before doing so?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ttall8ball:
Does it matter whether or not its 4.4.4 or 5.1.1

Does it matter whether or not its 4.4.4 or 5.1.1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stajam:
If you're wanting to unlock the bootloader, root and install TWRP then no it doesn't matter. Now if you want to install a custom ROM that is 5.1.1 then you WILL have to be on that firmware if you are currently on 4.4.4

If anyone helps, plz give thanks?

N910V ? BL / KYUBI ROM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] douger1957:
The instructions for rooting suggest installing the Emotion kernel first.

Many of the ROMs available to flash will suggest which kernel to use. You can go directly to that kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bingo6104:
I need a little info, my note I just got is already rooted. So I didn't have the joy to do it. A co worker just picked up a refurbished and it has 5.0.1 ., is the 2bog5 able to be rooted?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stajam:
Yes it can. But I am pretty sure that you must unlock the bootloader first unless you already have a DevEd.

If anyone helps, plz give thanks?

N910V ? BL / KYUBI ROM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bingo6104:
Thanks, I thought that from what I have been reading. To many guides, need to be complied into 2 guides and sticky on the forum for rusty people like me lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stajam:
No problem bruh.

If anyone helps, plz give thanks?

N910V ? BL / KYUBI ROM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ttall8ball:
Thanks, I got it done

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Thanks stajam, I got it done last night.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stajam:
Good to hear glad you got it going. ?

If anyone helps, plz give thanks?

N910V ? BL / KYUBI ROM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rsswga:
can u get a new link to the twrp to flash..I just want root is all...I've download several twrp with same numbers but no luck flashing

thanks so much
[Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cable_guy:
Hi all,

I'm looking at getting my toddler an Android watch so I can see where she is based on Android Device Manager, but I would want to lock down the interface so that she can't accidentally perform any functions on the UI.

Can anyone help me out with which devices I may want to begin looking at please? Or if anyone's done similar in the past I'd be keen to hear successes and pitfalls etc.

thanks in advance!
[Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirrelevant:
ADM doesn't work that way for android wear. Your watch won't show on the web page with your devices. For a.w., it only makes the paired phone ring.

I don't see android wear as a good solution for you, honestly. Unless you got an urbane 2, it would only work while connected to wifi. Locking the screen can be done, but I'm not aware of an app that will work without a bt connection to the phone. Glympse doesn't work without bt connection, it seems.
[General Questions and Answers] Multiredes:
I try with method RootZenFone-1.4.2r, with kingoroot, iroot, etc but always failed...

any other method?

tanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jm2u:
Has anyone been able to do this? Our network has 802.1x and I must set inner authentication to PAP and outer identity to anonymous. PCs use Odyssey Client (which is only available for WM5) to connect, but that doesn't seem to be an option on WM6. Can this network be connected to, or am I just SOL for the time being?
[General Questions and Answers] NavyLCDR:
Just received LG G5 (Sprint) last week. I can view the panoramic type photosphere photos. I see tons and tons of apps for creating the tiny planet type photos. But how/what app do I use to actually view them? I'm pulling my hair out. All I can see is just the flat photo with the circular rendering of the photo, I can't believe all the hype is over just that? Isn't there a way to "explore" these types of photos like the panoramic type photospheres?

THANK YOU!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] trent4071:
Hey everyone, I rooted my phone, unlocked the bootloader, flashed TWRP, and then flashed CyanogenMod 13 (Marshmallow). Everything worked perfectly, so I went back into my recovery to flash Gapps. I've tried Open Gapps and Slim Gapps, but both repeatedly crash setup wizard and clock among other things.

If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MatroxD:
Same here I tried it, and it did the same for me also...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] wikked26:
These are the Gapps that worked for me

http://xdaforums.com/slimroms/general/gapps-official-slim-gapps-trds-slimkat-t2792842
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] trent4071:
Thank you for the help wikked26, but it didn't work. Those Gapps still crash for me. I think it's something incorrect in the way my phone is configured, not a case of downloading the wrong Gapps.

If anyone has any other ideas, please share them! I haven't cracked the case just yet
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] devicelmt:
I know I was having issues with the Slimroms version where I booted into CM and set it up before installing Gapps. Fixed it by reinstalling/wiping the cache and installing Gapps before booting anything. Don't know if that helps, but I'm running fine now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Orange Offizier:
I'm hoping this is similar to the issue I'm having. Do you get it where you can factory reset in TWRP, then flash CM13, but when you go to flash Slim Gapps? Because I figured out that after factory resetting TWRP will only successfully flash 1 zip file. I also tried to wipe the cacher, dalvik, data, and system, then flash cm13 but Gapps still wouldn't flash. Maybe its a bug with TWRP 3.0.2? I'm going to try to use a different version of TWRP and I'll update with my results

EDIT: TWRP 2.8.5 did not do anything different
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] trent4071:
Wow, thanks for all the great responses. I made sure to try and install CM13 and Gapps at the same time, before boot, after wiping everything one last time. It worked flawlessly, and I can now use Google Play Services.

I hope this thread helps anyone else who is also a little stuck. I also found that TWRP didn't have any issues flashing multiple zips at the same time, not sure whats going on with you, Orange Officer. Perhaps try removing your battery after CM13 flashes, and then boot into TWRP again and flash Gapps without booting up CM13 at all?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeriesOfTubes:
Hi guys, the last time I rooted my 5X was a very long time ago when I did a "traditional" root by using a modified boot.img. I checked out Heisenberg's guide to rooting thread and I no longer see references to systemless root or modified boot.img files. Is the current rooting method no longer requiring these things? Is the only root now systemless? I would like to update to the most recent stock rom and then re-root. Thanks.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sfhub:
When you install SuperSU (through TWRP) it will detect your nexus 5x needs systemless root and on the fly it will patch your boot.img (and backup your original boot.img to /data).

It will also install /data/su.img which is a mountable image containing SuperSUs main files.

If you do a factory reset, it will wipe out /data (and thus su.img) so you'll lose root, but you will still have the patched boot.img (meaning dm-verity verifying of /system and /vendor is disabled, /data is not forceencrypt, and some se contexts were adjusted)

To reinstall root in the case of factory reset, just reinstall SuperSU-*.zip. It will complain that it can't restore your boot.img (because it was also wiped out by the factory reset) but by that time everything has been installed to get root back so it'll just work.

Also, one other thing, you need to actually install twrp.img into the recovery partition (fastboot flash recovery twrp.img) rather than just taking the shortcut of doing fastboot boot twrp.img or twrp won't be able to decrypt your /data partition.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piotrus22:
Thanks [MENTION=1299673]sfhub[/MENTION]. So sounds like the answer is yes SuperSU will only install the systemless root if you're on the 5x.

Is there anything else I would need to do in order to finalize the "systemless" portion of the root?

I.e. delete the /data/SU.img or something?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piotrus22:
also - is there a way to know if my root is "systemless" or not? does the systemless route not have a supersu application installed?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeriesOfTubes:
Since I have the traditional root, ie using an old modified boot.img, should I just wipe my device and flash the newest firmware from adb? I'd like to keep everything in tact a go stock rooted on newest software but I'm worried I will brick my phone going from the traditional root to systemless method. Thoughts?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiousInquisitor:
You probably have systemless root already. The modified boot image was required until CF make it so SuperSU patched the boot on install. Anyway, thats kind of irrelevant now that you plan on updating.

The quickest way to update is to to flash the latest factory images. This is done in fastboot mode and with the tool called, you guessed it, fastboot. ADB and fastboot are not the same thing. ADB only works when booted up or in recovery. Fastboot only works in... fastboot mode. :good:

You can update without losing any of your installed application or data. To do this you need to edit one line in the flash-all.bat file (Windows) or the flash-all.sh file (Linux/Mac). This flash-all file is located in the tarball that contains the factory images. You simply need to remove the -w near the end of this file. So from...

this:

fastboot -w update image-bullhead-xxx##x.zip

to this:

fastboot update image-bullhead-xxx##x.zip

That way userdata is not wiped when you run the flash-all file.

To re-root I suggest you follow the guide HERE. Note that flashing the factory images will wipeout either of the root styles you may have at the moment.

EDIT: Obviously you need to reflash TWRP to flash SuperSU or any other flashable zip. If you aren't interested in Android Pay, you dont need to follow the instructions in the link i posted above. Simply flash the latest SuperSU.

EDIT 1: If you want to decript, might as well do it straight away. No sense in setting everything up that then wiping it out. Remember this is done by formatting data. You can do it just after flashing TWRP from within TWRP. Note wiping data and formatting data are two separate things.

Good luck.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeriesOfTubes:
Thanks for all the help, you guys are awesome.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] one-option:
Hi Guys

I want to see which stock firmware is batter ???!!

regarding performance, battery life, signal strength ....ect

this thread is to compare performance of Note 4 with KitKat, Lollipop & Marshmallow .

Please to mention your Note 4 model

thnx
[Galaxy Note 4 General] amse_010:
KIT KAT OF COURSE is the best for battery performance
[Galaxy Note 4 General] chanchal.shohel:
Marshmallow is the best considering performance and battery life.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] romy079:
I Used All of them and switched many times between all the three and i every time i choose LOLLIPOP 5.1.1
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
Any specific reason?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ArixS:
Supercell games on KitKat?

Can you install/play clash of clans and clash royale in 4.4.4? I would like to try kitkat but hesitant because of those 2 games.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nine5raptor:
Kitkat (FireKat specifically) for battery life and xposed. 5.0.1 was a mess. 5.1.1 better. 6.0.1 haven't tried yet as I am on a 910T.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] romy079:
best battery life and stability
[Galaxy Note 4 General] one-option:
Well with 3220 mAh battery I believe Note 4 should go on more .

it is clear for now that KitKat was the best for battery life but why ??!!

upgrading the OS is all about improving the smartphone performance not to make it worse !!!

now is it Google mistake with Lollipop as previously Samsung claims ??!!

then Marshmallow should be better than Kitkat ......

Hope Samsung will fix this in the next Marshmallow build
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Hellboy880:
Can i should return back from 5.1.1 without tripping knox counter?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] bat0nas:
No
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vybramo:
Im sucessfully downgrade from N910FXXS1CPC5 (5.1.1) to N910FXXU1ANK4 (4.4.4) without tripping knox but on 910F. Idk if its work for 910C.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Hellboy880:
I have 910f i cant?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] MisterKanister:
Asking questions like these is unfortunately pretty useless.

You ask 3 different people and get 4 different opinions anyway...

Not to mention that the Note models and most importantly the usage differs a lot from user to user.

I know what you want to know, and I guess everybody would like to know like the OP, but I'm just saying that it isn't that easy ;)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] diako_dj:
MM is the best one it is more smooth and the battery is much better. with snapchat insta FB real racing 3 and other apps lost 50% from morning to 4pm ....Hane Base Rom which is base from the Stock one is much better..

FEATURES:

Based on N910CXXU2DPCB Firmware (TW MM 6.0.1).

H-Vitamin Kernel.

Deodexed & Zipaligned.

Build.prop Support.

Init.d Support.

Busyboxed/Rooted.

Debloated few apps (which you can find in PlayStore).

No wifi problems.

Symlinks & Permissions are set properly.

Private mode support.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] hbtkmr:
Marshmallow is better than KK and LP.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Vybramo:
and can you tell us in what?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kolembo:
5.1.1 was a LOT better than KK for me. Far smoother, and after a couple of days, good battery life too.

I just couldn't go back to KK it was far too choppy on comparison.

For some reason I've had excellent battery life with 5.1.1 so I don't even know if I want to try MM. I'm afraid I'll spoil something. It took me a long while, and apps I don't need on my Note4 to repair the battery drain in my S6 edge+ after the update to 6.0.1
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nine5raptor:
If it's perfect I don't know that I'd mess with it. I may keep KK as I have my rom, theme, xposed, font, and app permissions (AppOpsXposed) all set up how I like them now.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Thuvarakan:
Marshmallow Far better than other two, better battery better performance... It'll take couple of days to get good battery life after the marshmallow upgrade from lollipop 5.1.1.. Now I'm on 40% with 3h 40m screen on time 19h 32m standby time... Doze working great.. I'm using 910G... Indian version..
[Galaxy Note 4 General] ithehappy:
KK? What is this? Some sort of poor joke? If you are a keen person who likes to stay on outdated garbage then go back even further, why KK?

In any case, LP is the sweet spot here, as it's a finished product, with everything working. MM just released, so it bound to have bugs, no Xposed (SD only) or custom kernel either, it'll take another couple of months for MM to be as stable and as finished as LP, but for what its worth the battery backup is excellent, along with other features as well.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] @home:
KK was a better finished product than LL ever was. LL was Vista on a PC.

Anyhow I'm on MM now & all seems fine so far. Good to see the back of Lollipoop.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] :
KK was a refinement of JB and ICS. LL is a far more "experimental" version than KK and has terrible battery drains. MM is a refinement of LL and might just be as good as KK.

It's true that you shouldn't use anything older than 5.1.1 unless you want to be targeted by exploits etc.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] modi7610:
are you install many programmes and games or this time screen on stock without programmes? thx
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Thuvarakan:
I have about 40+apps and games installed. using with root, greenify, xposed and some of battery optimization tweaks...
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Eanan:
Do you have a guide to get xposed working on stock MM?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] rowad1985:
Kit kat of course
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Thuvarakan:
Here you go..you need to get alt version of the xposed version for note 4 http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960
[Galaxy Note 4 General] peppet:
After flash and use n4 mm and various port I return back to KK now. So I've all I need with stock KK and x posed for battery life. The only problem i don't understand is GPS not working now!! Anyone with this problem after kk downgrade?

Inviato dal mio SM-N910F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 General] nine5raptor:
I believe most of us cannot downgrade to kk to try.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] shadowcliffs:
It's a pity that there is no tool developed to compare battery life. I know the usage varies, but at least some lab can do the comparison in a controlled environment. But why there is nobody has done this? I guess there is no incentive. If Kitkat is proved to be better than LP or MM, should Google fire all those engineers? New version is not necessary better, but it's necessary when it comes to report to your boss.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] zabhi:
Kitkat has batter Camera result.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] imeem:
i believe samsung just ****ed up with the updates. I found that the best OS version for your phone is the one that your phone originally shipped with. let's say samsung originally shipped the note 4 with MM, MM is most likely going to be the best for it becuse samsung spent alot of time optimizing, testing, and designing MM for the phone. If they only allow downgrading, then ppl like use could easily compare which version has better battery life.

My galaxy tab 4 was upgraded to 5.1.1 yesterday by accident. i know that it seems faster, but very noticeable decrease in battery life. I'm downgrading back to 4.4.2
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Frieth:
Can I switch my note 4 back from marshmallow to lollipop ?

Can I switch my note 4 back from marshmallow to lollipop? Phone came with lollipop, I upgraded to marshmallow and regret it. How do I downgrade?
[Galaxy Note 4 General] imeem:
use odin
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tompika72:
After trying, using, testing all versions, i went back to KitKat. Stability, battery life... The best android so far. Especially the X-Note custom version. Marshmallow is a mess. SM-N910F.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tiguy99:
I'm on 5.1.1 for my 910C.

Best battery life I've experienced and all my apps work.

It's a shame the game Nova 3 doesn't work on 6.0.1???!! :confused:
[Galaxy Note 4 General] adzo73:
greetings to all.im just getting used to all that xda and android has to offer and boy does the rabbit hole go deep!anyway upgraded to LP and dr ketans rom with xposed installed as well on my note 4 SM-N910G about a year ago and thats as far as i went as phone runs great and still enjoying the features but heres the catch!....i now want to go to mm and then Dr Ks rom for this version as well and finally xposed also but after a lot of researching am a little confused as to steps and resources to use that make for a smooth and flawless transition.im fine with install of rom and implements needed to do that but the rest i need help with please.if someone has the time to give me steps needed and anything else like links to and advice for then i would suncerely appreciate it.thankyou for taking the time to read this.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tal_sarid:
Kitkat 4.4.4 - The best battery life but the worst performance. Huge lags, everywhere.... Just sad that some people prefer a sluggish phone just to get another 0.5 to 1 hour of SOT, at best.

Lollipop 5.0.1 - Worst battery life and lots of stability issues, but a way better performance than 4.4.4.

Lollipop 5.1.1 - Good battery life, most stable and the best performance of all the 4 versions.

Marshmallow 6.0.1 - Just a bit lower battery life than 5.1.1, has some bugs here are there and works a bit slower to me. They did some tricks with the animations but it's NOT faster than 5.1.1, quite the opposite. (It's far better than 5.0.1 of course)

My favorite - 6.0.1 just because it has permission control embedded in the system. Without taking that, I recommend to stick with 5.1.1.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] littlemonkeyface:
Stick with kitkat or marshmallow in my opinion. Lollipop seems awfully laggy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx06yJMVT-U
[Galaxy Note 4 General] tal_sarid:
Samsung stock firmwares usually works very different from google ones.

It is a fact that 4.4.4 and 5.0.1 *Samsung* stock firmware on SM-N910F were bad at performance.

I'm using the device for 2 years and have experience with all its Android versions...

The video you just shared shows nothing related to Samsung software optimizations for the Note 4 exclusively.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] xman66:
I am looking for one like since ever

Can please help me on how to downgrade and clean istall of stock roms ,links would be great

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] kolembo:
Marshmallow for me is like a new phone.

The battery life especially is Much better, and I didn't even mind it in Lollipop.

It's smooth, it lasts longer.
[Galaxy Note 4 General] beyondim:
I'm on 910c MM and I like it the most out of all three of them. But of course there are some issues I found but don't know if these issues occur to other users.

Like the scrolling in recent apps, very sluggish scrolling through all the cards. The back and recent app button not very sensitive like sometimes it didn't registered a click on them. But this could be hardware issue. Otherwise I'm pretty happy.

Just got an update yesterday as well most probably just security. Still, didn't expect to get anymore update for this unit cause it's officially very out of date as in 2 years update cycle. Good on them but I'm sure it won't last. Or maybe Sammy just trying to impress his loyal customer after the N7 case. I still think the whole Android 2 years update cycle is bad, whatever reasons they make you believe. Apple updates their phone 3,4,5 years as long as your phone or the user can handle it. But their ecosystem is a no no for me anyway. Once Apple, you're thoroughly disabled! :p
[Galaxy Note 4 General] papynote4edge:
Kitkat > Marshmallow :P

I have a note edge that I had in marshamallow, it's buggy as not possible, I changed the battery, nothing done, but I switched to kitkat with odin, the performance is better, the phone heats less, better autonomy

Sorry to tell you that for me Marshmallow is a version that consists of "destroying" the phone because there are many users of note 4 and edge, who have had problems, because there is a program in MM, which attacks the software, for me it is programmed obsolescence of the samsung pars ;););)
[Galaxy Note 4 General] Mirsaneli:
I have downgraded to Kitkat, then went from it to Lollipop 5.1.1. and after that to 6.0.1. MM. From my experience, Marshmallow seems to be the most stable and fastest as well. Regarding battery life, it looks to be pretty equal on all 3 versions. I get around 2.30 Screen on time (because I have a chinese battery). To get 5-6 SOT you need to buy original Note 4 battery, which is hard to get these days.