I am currently rooted and running the Wicked v10 rom which is 4.1.2. The developer stopped updating this rom but it still is a fantastic piece of work. I want to try a 4.3 rom but have a few questions. First do I need to unroot to do this? Are there 4.3 roms that are already rooted? Finally can someone point me in the right direction for a 4.3 rom thats rooted. I aprreciate any hep and thank you in advance.I have a T-mo SG3.
Flash StockMod Rom by @saranhai via Custom Recovery. No need to unroot. That's a 4.3 Rom.
Please do not update to Stock 4.3 firmware. If you wish to do so, please do some reading on consequences of that.
EDIT - Here's the Rom's Thread. You will need to do Factory Reset and wipe Dalvik and Cache.
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I have the T999 SG3 model, am rooted and currently running the Wicked v10 rom. I want to try out the 4.3 upgrade and was wondering what the best/safest way is to do this. I already did a nan backup. Do I need to unroot? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
Citadel69 said:
I have the T999 SG3 model, am rooted and currently running the Wicked v10 rom. I want to try out the 4.3 upgrade and was wondering what the best/safest way is to do this. I already did a nan backup. Do I need to unroot? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
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If you are looking to have your phone download the OTA, then you'd probably need to wipe and install a stock rom. You would then lose root, however. Not sure what the implications of that would be, but I'm sure you'd have to use ODIN, etc, etc, to get back to rooted and custom rom.
I would just flash the stock ROM from DocHoliday's thread instead of going through Odin.. Don't have to worry about Knox or anything, and if you don't like it you can easily wipe and restore your nandroid
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I have a VM l710 that came with 4.3. I managed to install ClockworkMod v6.0.4.3 and flashed Slimbean. I had a few issues with Slimbean so I decided that I wanted to go back to stock. But, of course, I forgot to run a back up in CM. I eventually found an OTA update for my phone that was 4.1.2. I installed it and everything works well. Its rooted and I still have CM. I get update notifications every so often but it does not seem to update my phone and now I am stuck at 4.1.2.
Is there a way I can update to 4.3?
Would I be able to find an OTA of 4.3, flash it, and then use knox remover? Or 4.1.2 --> 4.2 --> 4.3 if 4.1 --> 4.3 is too big of a jump?
Sorry if this question has been answered before, I tried google but since I had 4.3 before and now have 4.1.2 I don't want to mess up a bootloader or something.
Thank you
Every custom 4.3 Rom in the development section is Knox free, just flash the one you like.
metalfan78 said:
Every custom 4.3 Rom in the development section is Knox free, just flash the one you like.
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Thanks. I updated with this ROM.
Everything works well except mobile data. I flashed the recommended modem but it didn't help.
Any recommendations for this?
EDIT: flashed an MK5 modem, everything works now.
DId you update your PRL/Profile? You can also try ##72786# on your dial pad.
Hello, I recently just updated my Rogers SGH-i317M to 4.3, which then downloaded a system update which put it at 4.4. I was running Jedi X20, which is based on 4.1.2, when I first tried updating, I flashed the "4.3param_tz" file in odin, and was left with an error screen saying I need to recover using Kies, so I downloaded the official release, flashed via odin, and thats how I got to where I am now. I want to try the "Ditto Note 3" rom, "Sky Note Air 4.3", "Mean Bean" and "Beanstalk". My main question is, can I just start flashing these roms like I was before on 4.1.2, or do I need to use the specific kernel listed on their page? Before you needed a specific kernel to run a touchwiz rom or an aosp rom, so is it still the same? Or can I use my stock 4.4 kernel and try both aosp and tw roms now? If so could you point out the kernels I would need? And educate me on anything else I should know about before flashing 4.3 and 4.4 roms, (I'm not worried about warranty), this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time in reading this and helping me out, much appreciated!!
Regardless of where u are, I'd Odin to Rogers stock KK 4.4.2. Then Odin Twrp recovery, boot into twrp recovery and flash SU v.1.99. Finally choose your rom and flash away. This way you are on the lastest KK 4.4.2 Bootloader and KK Modem/Baseband.
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Regardless of where u are, I'd Odin to Rogers stock KK 4.4.2. Then Odin Twrp recovery, boot into twrp recovery and flash SU v.1.99. Finally choose your rom and flash away. This way you are on the lastest KK 4.4.2 Bootloader and KK Modem/Baseband.
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I did all that except flash SU 1.99, so I tried flashing SKynote Air and it didnt work, upon restarting my phone it said no os is available. So I tried restoring from the backup I made of the official 4.4.2 Samsung rom in twrp, didn't work. Tried Odin, didn't work. Then I tried flashing the Skynote rom again and it worked. So I'm afraid of flashing any other roms now.
I'm currently on G2 apps rom V5, but wanted to try out KitKat and Sphinx rom,
I know there is the KDZ method of going back to stock, however I was wondering if I could load my backup from stock JB 4.1.2 before installing G2 apps V5, unroot, and then work from there. Is this method possible? Thanks!
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I'm currently on G2 apps rom V5, but wanted to try out KitKat and Sphinx rom,
I know there is the KDZ method of going back to stock, however I was wondering if I could load my backup from stock JB 4.1.2 before installing G2 apps V5, unroot, and then work from there. Is this method possible? Thanks!
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I don't quite understand what you're asking, but I'll try my best to answer.
Are you asking about the stock OTA Kitkat when you say "Kitkat"?
If so, then if you restore that backup, then you'd also have to somehow restore the recovery or else the OTA will not work.
You will be back on stock 4.1.2 though and can flash any rom you want, so if you get one of the flashable versions of the stock Kitkats, then you can flash it without issue.
If you are on the E980, then the flashable Kitkat is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895
You shouldn't have to return to stock to flash Sphinx. All you'd need to do is format System, Cache, Dalvik, and Data, then flash.
Thanks for the reply sorry for not being more specific.
I have a 240L that was on 4.1.2 when I rooted and flashed the g2 apps rom.
I have been reading that I will brick the phone if I try to flash from my current rom, and that I need to OTA update from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2 as well. I didnt realize about the stock recovery though so the only way to get that back is thru flashing the KDZ file anyway?
Thanks again for the reply!
spexwood said:
I don't quite understand what you're asking, but I'll try my best to answer.
Are you asking about the stock OTA Kitkat when you say "Kitkat"?
If so, then if you restore that backup, then you'd also have to somehow restore the recovery or else the OTA will not work.
You will be back on stock 4.1.2 though and can flash any rom you want, so if you get one of the flashable versions of the stock Kitkats, then you can flash it without issue.
If you are on the E980, then the flashable Kitkat is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895
You shouldn't have to return to stock to flash Sphinx. All you'd need to do is format System, Cache, Dalvik, and Data, then flash.
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I'm currently trying to flash stock firmware via KDZ, however, the method provided on xda is not working for me.
LG Support tools is telling me that my software is updated already and is not letting me flash the KDZ.
What am I doing wrong? Please help, thank you...
I have a Sprint L720 running a odexed stock MK2 rom from circa 2013. I followed all the steps back then flashed a custom recovery and the rom for the hotspot capability and am still extremely happy with how it turned out but... I want all those fancy new features lol. I don't really need anyone to hold my hand through the whole process but I did reformat a few times since then and have a couple questions before I start paperweightin' this.
Everything on here is MK2. Software, Baseband & Build. If i wished to flash a newer lolipop rom to my L720 would I need to apply any updates first? Can I flash the new rom from the custom recovery? I attempted to upgrade the firmware through Kies but keep running into a device not recognized error that I suspect is because I'm rooted. Anyway thanks in advance for your time!
(Mod can you please move this to the correct board, I can't find the option to delete this.)