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[SOLVED] Galaxy SIII recovery issue

Hello,
Let me start off by saying if this is the wrong place to post this please inform me of the right forum.
I just recently got a Samsung Galaxy SIII (on August 29) and everything was working really well, until today. Yes it is rooted. I plugged the phone into my computer and Kies said there was a firmware update for my phone. I began doing the upgrade and my beloved windows computer got the blue screen of death during the actual update process.
After restarting my computer, I began to do the update recovery to continue with my upgrade. Same blue screen. I spoke to a rogers tech rep and he requested I re-install my Kies software, which I did. Upon having no success from that I began to do more research, however most of them are saying to reflash the stock firmware (which I have) using ODIN. I have no success here as well. Every time i do get into download/recovery mode, ODIN recognizes my phone, but fails when i click start.
In my recovery mode the information i see is as follows:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-1747M
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
Is there anything at all I can do to fix this? Or am I one of those most unfortunate people who just got screwed lol.
ANY assistance is VERY MUCH appreciated!
Thanks in advance

If you have clockwork recovery, try formatting the system first then flash the ROM. Just dont reboot without flashing the ROM first.
Have you tried the emergency firmware load through KIES?
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cue_32 said:
If you have clockwork recovery, try formatting the system first then flash the ROM. Just dont reboot without flashing the ROM first.
Have you tried the emergency firmware load through KIES?
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thank you for the quick reply! sorry for my late one, just got home from a family emergency...
no I don't have CWM.. I'm very familiar with it though I didn't put it on my SIII (i was planning to do so tonight)
I've tried the emergency firmware, however it asked for a code which I don't have :S
I'm new to Samsung's version of Android, previously I owned an Xperia X10

Try running Odin on a different computer

If you're using a desktop use the usb ports on the back Odin don't like the usb hub on front, or try different computers, I have one computer that Odin will never work on but I go right to my other one and works fine, try restarting pc or uninstall Odin and download a different version, also try downloading a few different roms try these below, I've been in that position then finally after trying and trying a Rom will finally take
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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rob1216 said:
If you're using a desktop use the usb ports on the back Odin don't like the usb hub on front, or try different computers, I have one computer that Odin will never work on but I go right to my other one and works fine, try restarting pc or uninstall Odin and download a different version, also try downloading a few different roms try these below, I've been in that position then finally after trying and trying a Rom will finally take
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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that worked!!!!!!!!! thank you, i just changed the USB port lol.. its always something so simple you wouldn't think to do it initially!
thanks so much!

Odin fail with stock rom!

This picture shows my problem. i want to fully unroot OR just get rid of this custom rom and get back to my original stock firmware (ics 4.0.4)
WHAT DO I DO?? it keeps failing when i flash

I don't see your phone recognized in the id:com field.

help to un-root GS3 & get stock rom back
I recently had a problem with Autostarts app causing crashes on my Samsung Galaxy S3 & had to unroot & do a master reset.
I use the YouTube video from qbking77 to do the un-root & it worked fine. I used Odin v7 to do the un-root but had to use Odin v4 to re-root my phone after master reset.
Hope it helps.
I can't post links yet but if you go to YouTube & find user qbking77, he has a step by step video on how to unroot your Samsung GS3.
The video was Published on Jun 29, 2012 & is titled "How to Unroot / Unbrick the Samsung Galaxy S III - Latest"

Seems like you are not connecter to pc... Are you running Kies? If you are close it.
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Try a different usb port and make sure you are using the cable that came with the phone
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chrisram88 said:
Seems like you are not connecter to pc... Are you running Kies? If you are close it.
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Try a different usb port and make sure you are using the cable that came with the phone
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To add to these two great suggestions. Ensure your drivers are all installed properly.
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Odin fails stock rom error binary
So I been at this for weeks. I have a note 4. The phone has been rooted before. Then i flashed it back to stock.. It was all fine.. Then started to act up and freeze or not reset. So what I've tried now.. I've tried a stock rom via odin. Fails saying binary. I've tried kies. Kies says doesn't support connected device. I am not using the original cable it came with. I'm using a s7 edge cable. I don't see why that should matter. I finally managed to get by some magical 100x attempt got twrp recovery to flash via odin. So after that I decided to install roms via sd in twrp. All the roms I've tried have the same outcome. They install perfectly.. Twrp says successful. I hit reboot system. Phone goes off.. Doesn't come back on. .. I need some help plz. Nothing is working.
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Malistoff said:
So I been at this for weeks. I have a note 4. The phone has been rooted before. Then i flashed it back to stock.. It was all fine.. Then started to act up and freeze or not reset. So what I've tried now.. I've tried a stock rom via odin. Fails saying binary. I've tried kies. Kies says doesn't support connected device. I am not using the original cable it came with. I'm using a s7 edge cable. I don't see why that should matter. I finally managed to get by some magical 100x attempt got twrp recovery to flash via odin. So after that I decided to install roms via sd in twrp. All the roms I've tried have the same outcome. They install perfectly.. Twrp says successful. I hit reboot system. Phone goes off.. Doesn't come back on. .. I need some help plz. Nothing is working.
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On top of that. After any kinda attempt I make. (since they all don't work, resulting in removing the battery) I will try.. Entering download mode.. Recovery mode.. Doesn't really matter what.. The phone won't respond to the command.. I generally will have to wait longer than 30secs.. Sometimes even 10mins to get the phone to start reading those commands again.

Which version of Odin are you using? Are you using stock ROMs from sammobile.com? Are you using a USB 2 port? Try using an original Samsung USB 2.0 cable with Odin.

audit13 said:
Which version of Odin are you using? Are you using stock ROMs from sammobile.com? Are you using a USB 2 port? Try using an original Samsung USB 2.0 cable with Odin.
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Newest version of odin which Is 3.11 I believe... I'm using a 2.0usb. Which is what the note 4 is as well. The note 3 was the bigger one.. Not the note 4. I got the stock roms from sammobile and the custom roms from off xda. And I'm using my s7 edge cable which is the Samsung manufacturers Original brand.. 2.0 usb.
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Malistoff said:
Newest version of odin which Is 3.11 I believe... I'm using a 2.0usb. Which is what the note 4 is as well. The note 3 was the bigger one.. Not the note 4. I got the stock roms from sammobile and the custom roms from off xda. And I'm using my s7 edge cable which is the Samsung manufacturers Original brand.. 2.0 usb.
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Flashing stock rom 4.4.4 kitkat.. Because I was told I'd have a better chance.. However I am on Odin 3.11 .. Twrp is 2.8.1.1.. I did that because when I had this phone rooted before.. That's what version I was using.. But when I flash the stock rom via odin.. I get binary fails showing on the phone.
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Malistoff said:
Newest version of odin which Is 3.11 I believe... I'm using a 2.0usb. Which is what the note 4 is as well. The note 3 was the bigger one.. Not the note 4. I got the stock roms from sammobile and the custom roms from off xda. And I'm using my s7 edge cable which is the Samsung manufacturers Original brand.. 2.0 usb.
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Flashing stock rom 4.4.4 kitkat.. Because I was told I'd have a better chance.. However I am on Odin 3.11 .. Twrp is 2.8.1.1.. I did that because when I had this phone rooted before.. That's what version I was using.. But when I flash the stock rom via odin.. I get binary fails showing on the phone.
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My most favorite thing that happens.. That I can't explain reason of why. Is after I try to flash a rom..whether it be through odin or twrp. Odin fails.. Twrp just doesn't reboot after a successful flash... I have to take out the battery and retry.. I cannot get an instant boot.. I've waited.. 30secs.. Few mins.. Sometimes even 30mins and it won't come back on... Now I can't explain why it does that... Because if I give it x amount of time to rest with battery out.. It will work again.. Sometimes I can even do it right after a failed flash. I honestly don't know why or could tell you any more than because of this wait times in between.. I am limited to as many attempts as I'd like to do. Or sometimes I forgot what order or new attempt I wanna try.

PLEASE HELP possibly soft bricked

I accidently wipe my phones internal storage including backups, Im running latest TWRP and it wont read my sd card. I have a custom rom on the sd card but i cant access via recovery. phone boots to recovery and even download mode but i dont think my usb debug is checked and i cant get thru with odin. Im crunched for time as my wife is coming home in an hour and she will be furious if i bricked my phone i need help restoring before she gets home. thanks.
Heres how I fixed the problem, it was easy after doing but confusing getting there. Since the phone would not boot past the galaxy s3 screen there was no way for me to select USB debugging. That option totally did not allow me to use the Galaxy S3 toolkit listed in android development nor could I select and run any of their lists of "Root" roms because something would happen where ODIN didnt boot it correctly. It ran it at first then "Boot" came on then "Reset" came on then "Pass" came on but nothing ever took. I went to samsung-updates.com selected the ICS factory rom and saved it to desktop. Then I unzipped that rom to unveil the TAR file and flash that via Odin and Bam it ran thru no problems. The problems I ran into earlier were links from other posts and it turned out they were either bad links or not for the phone. I actually tried one guys download link that claimed to be specifically for the T999 us version and it turned out to be for another phone all together Im just lucky that flash didnt brick my device even more. Anyways Odin was my friend it was just a matter of downloading the "Correct" rom. thanks to all that helped I appreciated you all taking the time to answer.

I would download this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682. You should be able to use your PC to flash your Nandroid, although i have never done that.

It doesn't matter if USB debugging is checked if the phone is off.

when i boot to recovery it boots to manual mode anyone know what to do next?

You can flash stuff from your computer in download mode through Odin. I hate doing it myself, but will try to look it up for you
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CANyNo5qNE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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looks like Odin in download mode is the way to go. Good luck bro
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Searching would have solved this problem just odin
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when i run in oDin it completes and gives me a pass at the end but the phone never auto reboots even though that option is checked. the phone stays on the galaxy s3 screen and never changes from there.

laraiza said:
when i run in oDin it completes and gives me a pass at the end but the phone never auto reboots even though that option is checked. the phone stays on the galaxy s3 screen and never changes from there.
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Boot to Recovery and reset factory defaults. That will fix it. It will still "stick" on that screen, but after a couple minutes, it will continue.

Aerowinder said:
Boot to Recovery and reset factory defaults. That will fix it. It will still "stick" on that screen, but after a couple minutes, it will continue.
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Yup boot into recovery and factory reset. You will be good to go.
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ionic7 said:
Searching would have solved this problem just odin
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chrisram88 said:
Yup boot into recovery and factory reset. You will be good to go.
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I booted to recovery did a factory reset but it still stayed on the samsung galaxy s3 screen for over fifteen minutes now. I even tried the rom toolbox someone suggested earlier but upon flashing a stock rom it prompts me to check usb debugging and I cant get past that screen.

Stock kernel! That should do the trick! Can't believe I forgot about that. Try that and it will boot up fine.
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chrisram88 said:
Stock kernel! That should do the trick! Can't believe I forgot about that. Try that and it will boot up fine.
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I was running paranoid android prior to this mess and yes your probably right about the kernel but I have downloaded from samsung-updates.com the ics kernel patch but its in a zip folder so i DL winzip to extract it but that doesnt seem to work either. IS there a stock rom download with a kernel i can download and use with odin?

laraiza said:
I was running paranoid android prior to this mess and yes your probably right about the kernel but I have downloaded from samsung-updates.com the ics kernel patch but its in a zip folder so i DL winzip to extract it but that doesnt seem to work either. IS there a stock rom download with a kernel i can download and use with odin?
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Check the dev section. There should be a thread there with stock rom and kernel flashable thru Odin
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chrisram88 said:
Check the dev section. There should be a thread there with stock rom and kernel flashable thru Odin
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Found a rom and a kernel in the development section and ran it thru odin and it still didnt take. I noticed that the rom flash thru odin only took about two minutes and not once did i see where the modem cycle was being applied. Still no luck for me. Since my phone does not boot pass the galaxy s3 screen is it possible to get the phone to mount via usb cable and copy the roms to internal storage and install via recovery?

Finally got it working again. Thanks to all that helped.
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That's great man. You should edit the op with how you did it so in case others have same problem they can fix it.
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Sounds good I'll get it done in a few days I'm stuck at work again for now.
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S3 stuck in Odin Mode with Firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen, any solution

Is this hard brick or soft?
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If it's bricked then it almost definitely is a soft brick. A hard brick is when the phone does not turn on at all and I believe when plugged into the charger there are no led lights or anything. In order to get rid of the soft brick you could try to use Odin to flash a JB tar. There's a guide to do that somewhere in here. I posted one myself on a different thread not too long ago so you could search by my name to find it.

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I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If it's bricked then it almost definitely is a soft brick. A hard brick is when the phone does not turn on at all and I believe when plugged into the charger there are no led lights or anything. In order to get rid of the soft brick you could try to use Odin to flash a JB tar. There's a guide to do that somewhere in here. I posted one myself on a different thread not too long ago so you could search by my name to find it.
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my phone can turn on and off but it is stuck on odin mode and its a yellow marked sign that said firmware upgrade encountered an issue, I cant boot into download mode or recovery.

LexLuger82 said:
my phone can turn on and off but it is stuck on odin mode and its a yellow marked sign that said firmware upgrade encountered an issue, I cant boot into download mode or recovery.
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If you're stuck in Odin Mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin on your computer. Flash the stock LJ7 jellybean and don't mess with the count reset versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470

Vanakatherock said:
If you're stuck in Odin Mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin on your computer. Flash the stock LJ7 jellybean and don't mess with the count reset versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470
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thanks

its failing when i flash with odin

Get you get into recovery?

ImEVO said:
Get you get into recovery?
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nope just takes me to odin mode, and firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.

Unroot and start over my best bet
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Even if you pull battery and press the 3 button combo you still can't get into recovery?

ImEVO said:
Unroot and start over my best bet
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Even if you pull battery and press the 3 button combo you still can't get into recovery?
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nope, just stuck on odin mode.

LexLuger82 said:
its failing when i flash with odin
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This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?

Alias8818 said:
This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?
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Odin Mode to flash a stock rom
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Alias8818 said:
This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?
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Got stuck flashing it
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first confirm if the odin tar you are flashing has correct MD5 , i mean it got corrupt while downloading ( it happens a lot )
use a different , preferably new stock cable
use different usb port ( the com port should show up in odin window too )
if everything is fine flash the tar once more.

lord dredd said:
first confirm if the odin tar you are flashing has correct MD5 , i mean it got corrupt while downloading ( it happens a lot )
use a different , preferably new stock cable
use different usb port ( the com port should show up in odin window too )
if everything is fine flash the tar once more.
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+1
And if possible, try a different computer (my desktop recognizes my phone fine, but my laptop only recognizes it in Linux)
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This is perfect I need someone to test to confirm this will work on this error.
Grab cf-autoroot
Flash it in Odin and let it do its auto reboot, after it will probably hang at the sgs3 splash.
Pull battery
Reboot to stock recovery
Wipe data factory reset
Wipe cache
Try reboot
If reboot passes boot animation let it sit for about 10-15minutes before pulling battery(it may boot into rom at this point)
If it hangs at the sgs3 splash screen on reboot, pull battery boot to DL mode and flash an Odin one-click full restore.
Reboot
Hopefully profit like I did.
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In which stage of Odin does it get stuck?
I had an epic 4g which died that way, it just got stuck on flashing modem every time, tried everything, but it was just dead.
But I hope it's not your case
Good luck
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LexLuger82 said:
nope just takes me to odin mode, and firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
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same things goes wrong with me it doesn't go in download mode........help hoe to get into download mode

Hello alltogether,
The last 30 minutes I was near a heart attack, I really thought my S3 would be 90% dead.
NO recovery - The "encounter an issue...." warning - Only ODIN
But everytime I tried to flash anything (stock ROM or Recovery or whatever) it just stopped after a few seconds and ODIN freezed I had to pull the USB cable to do something new. I even let it without battery for a few minutes - nothing changed.
I was really dissapointed and I searched the Internet - after all I found the hint to try antother USB port and another cable.
I used a thin old cable and the front usb, not the back usb port.
So now ODIN, the original cable and the back USB port - I really didn't think it would make a difference! I tried to flash CF-Root with CWM and...
TATAAAAA! IT WORKED.
Man I am happy.
There's nothing more worse than not coming into recovery mode and odin not working!
BTW: Why it came how it came: I had (and still have) Omega 4.2.1 and Philz Touch Recovery, but I had problems with the root access to the system. I wanted to flash CF-CWM Root - That's all, this brought me in big trouble.
I never had these problems with the CF Root, I don't know why, but I do not really trust this Philz Touch Recovery, maybe I am hyper sensible now - I do not know.
I am happy, my phone is happy - everything is fine.
CU
lienot

Galaxy s4 don't know if my phone is rooted or not

Okay so I have a huge problem here. The 4.4 update had release yesterday for galaxy s4 owners. I tried to update it once and the download had finished, restarted my phone and it said install failed. My phone keeps telling me my phone has been modified so I can't download the 4.4. I checked the status and it says custom. Now I bought this phone the other day off a guy from Craigslist so I'm guessing he rooted the phone. Idk what to do help. I just want the 4.4 on my s4 ??

You are rooted you will need to Odin back to stock
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Download the newest firmware from general thread and flash it with Odin

Class_of_punk26 said:
You are rooted you will need to Odin back to stock
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do I have to do it from the computer and how do I do that lol

Yes, computer is required and you can search XDA forums for the several threads which give detailed instructions for the Odin option. Kies emergency firmware recovery might work too though.

Class_of_punk26 said:
You are rooted you will need to Odin back to stock
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wow that was so helpful. guess i'll just intuit what that means.

BACKUP everything will be wiped. Now download official firmware from sammy or xda (id odin my current firmware then ota but either way). Download drivers for your pc. Download odin 3.09 software. Power phone into download mode. Open odin, plug your phone in(in download mode) make sure odin recongized it(should see com port 3 or w.e) and locate a tab called AP, click it and find the tar file....wait for md5 check, auto reboot and something else cant remeber right now will be checked by default, just leave it. Start...wait....profit.
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What is your android version anyway? Has knox beeb voided? (Power off, hold power and volume down, read and press volume up to enter download, look for something like KNOX 0x1 VOID in upper left corner) 4.4.4 is nothing special. Better off staying on 4.4.2 rooted because you cant root after update without voiding knox. Even though you may not want to root, you should. Youll lose sd write permission etc with the update. Ideally you want 4.2.2 then manually upgrade.