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[Q] OTA 4.3 lost root

I was running 4.2.2 rooted using rumrunners script. I had supersu installed and voodoo rootkeeper and decided to accept the ota after seeing in rumrunner's thread that people were reporting that it didnt affect root. Well, mine did! I lost root and voodoo doesnt restore it. I tried downloading and rerunning the latest version of the rumrunner script and I get
Code:
Please wait....
Checking for updates......
Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader
Waiting for fastboot (5/120)
Waiting
Test 2: Booting device
Waiting for ADB (17/120)
must ferment longer...
must sanitize, skunky rum is nasty
hold please..............................................
[************************************************************]
Rebooting into bootloader (again)
Waiting for fastboot (5/120)
Waiting for ADB (16/120)
must ferment longer...
chilling..................
bottles are packed, here we go, shhhhhh....
Waiting for device
rom or root issue? unexpected behaviour detected - flash different rom and try again.
ERROR: run rumrunner again.....
The strange thing is that recovery still shows s-off and unlocked. I just can't seem to regain root.
Questions:
1) any ideas on getting the root binary installed?
2) since the phone is still s-off and unlocked, I assume that I could just install maybe the bonestock rom and be done with Verizon - thoughts?
3) worst case - I guess just wait for an updated script from rumrunner?
Thanks in advance!

gauchomark said:
I was running 4.2.2 rooted using rumrunners script. I had supersu installed and voodoo rootkeeper and decided to accept the ota after seeing in rumrunner's thread that people were reporting that it didnt affect root. Well, mine did! I lost root and voodoo doesnt restore it. I tried downloading and rerunning the latest version of the rumrunner script and I get
Code:
Please wait....
Checking for updates......
Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader
Waiting for fastboot (5/120)
Waiting
Test 2: Booting device
Waiting for ADB (17/120)
must ferment longer...
must sanitize, skunky rum is nasty
hold please..............................................
[************************************************************]
Rebooting into bootloader (again)
Waiting for fastboot (5/120)
Waiting for ADB (16/120)
must ferment longer...
chilling..................
bottles are packed, here we go, shhhhhh....
Waiting for device
rom or root issue? unexpected behaviour detected - flash different rom and try again.
ERROR: run rumrunner again.....
The strange thing is that recovery still shows s-off and unlocked. I just can't seem to regain root.
Questions:
1) any ideas on getting the root binary installed?
2) since the phone is still s-off and unlocked, I assume that I could just install maybe the bonestock rom and be done with Verizon - thoughts?
3) worst case - I guess just wait for an updated script from rumrunner?
Thanks in advance!
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Rumrunner is mainly for gaining S-off.
S-off is not the same thing as root.
Rumrunner does have a nice added perk, in that it also installs superuser and the su binaries for you.(adds root)
But it is not required for rooting an already s-off device.
Either flash the stock rooted rom, or just flash SuperSu and you will be rooted again.

santod040 said:
Rumrunner is mainly for gaining S-off.
S-off is not the same thing as root.
Rumrunner does have a nice added perk, in that it also installs superuser and the su binaries for you.(adds root)
But it is not required for rooting an already s-off device.
Either flash the stock rooted rom, or just flash SuperSu and you will be rooted again.
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Thanks. I reflashed the recovery (lost that for some reason) and reflashed the supersu zip. Now I have root back, but I have lost some connectivity. I have web access through the browser and a few programs but not play store, facebook, gmail etc. No idea what happened or how to fix it. btw, it doesnt seem to matter if I use wifi or data, the same programs dont work - almost like a firewall block or something.

[Q] State of root access, 4.3

Hey all,
I just wanted to pose a few questions. I've spent about 20 hours going through forums and articles to root my Verizon HTC One, and a heck of a lot of the information out there is very dated, and often contradictory. I've tried condensing it into a single procedure, but am having problems.
Here's the procedure for a brand new phone straight from a verizon store yesterday, running Android 4.3, with hboot 2.55, as I understand it; the information that I believe is now out of date, wrong, or not for 4.3/ 2.55; and the problem(s) I'm running into:
Procedure:
1) Unlock the bootloader and get s-off -- Firewater should be able to do this using the temproot method
2) Flash recovery mod, I was going to use CWM since it worked so nicely on my Incredible for 4 years -- this requires an unlocked bootloader and s-off, done the standard way via fastboot
3) Use CWM to flash superuser in recovery -- push the zip to sd, flash it from recovery
4) Happy times with my old set up back
Misinformation:
1) HTCdev -- no longer allowed for HTC One by Verizon, can't unlock bootloader this way. Renders a lot of the threads irrelevant now that this is not a valid route
2) rumrunner -- works for Android 2.2.4, not 2.3, and up to hboot 2.54
3) firewater "standard method" -- useless to anyone attempting to root a new device for the first time
4) "flash ARHD, then run firewater" -- again, not useful if you're trying to get CWM and SU on your phone for the first time
Problems:
1) The big one. Running temproot/ firewater, I acquire root access after running temproot, but when I run firewater after I get
!!If firewater hangs for more than 2 minutes or device enters qhusb mode, hold power for 60 seconds !!
preparing, one moment
The first bottle is open
chugging..........
C:\adb>
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with the adb shell crashing out, and my phone will freeze, requiring a hard reboot.
2) I got a few suggestions to use rumrunner (before I decided rumrunner was 2.2.4, from the sources I could find). The process would be going fairly smoothily, until it would crash with the error "looks like device is not rooted AND lacks an unsecure kernel. su or FU!!" I also once got an error about "unexpected process or ROM" but haven't been able to replicate it.
3) Found some advice for "flashing CWM without s-off"...that obviously didn't work, but I thought I might as well try
4) Not so much a problem as a concern...I'm a bit worried about my drivers. I think they are good and up to date, I got them from HTCsync, and have full adb and fastboot control to my device, but still...
The Jury
So, what's your take? Am I missing something obvious?

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atewsleybooth said:
So, what's your take? Am I missing something obvious?
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I tried going through the firewater procedure on OSX instead of Windows, with the exact same results (crashing out of adb shell). This leads me to believe that the problem is with the device, and not the computer. Does that sound right?
I switched cables, got one instance where I actually received "somebody pissed in the firewater reboot and try again." However, 2 reboots since with the same cable and port have both gone back to crashing out of the shell.

Rumrunnwr is only for 4.2.2. Firewater is for 4.3. You need to be complete stock and follow temproot method. Firewater was written for multiple devices so the whole HTC dev unlock and other methods won't work for the m7vzw. If you are on 4.4.2 then you are sol for now.

Gizmoe said:
Rumrunnwr is only for 4.2.2. Firewater is for 4.3. You need to be complete stock and follow temproot method. Firewater was written for multiple devices so the whole HTC dev unlock and other methods won't work for the m7vzw. If you are on 4.4.2 then you are sol for now.
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I'm on full stock 4.3 device, running firewater using the temproot. I've made sure not to got to 4.4.2.

atewsleybooth said:
I'm on full stock 4.3 device, running firewater using the temproot. I've made sure not to got to 4.4.2.
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Have u tried to factory reset the device?

Try redownloading the firewater file, mabey it was a bad download, or got corrupted somewhere along the way. If thays not the issue try below.
You shouldnt have to do this but its worth a shot. Once you aquire temp root, try pushing the su binary to /system/xbin, and the superuser.apk to /system/app. Then reboot the phone. This should technically give you root. Then try running firewater again to unlock and get s-off.

cmlusco said:
Try redownloading the firewater file, mabey it was a bad download, or got corrupted somewhere along the way. If thays not the issue try below.
You shouldnt have to do this but its worth a shot. Once you aquire temp root, try pushing the su binary to /system/xbin, and the superuser.apk to /system/app. Then reboot the phone. This should technically give you root. Then try running firewater again to unlock and get s-off.
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I got it working. What I wound up doing was saying "No" to the first prompt from firewater, then restarting firewater, and saying "Yes." Twice this gave me "somebody pissed in the firewater," but on the third try, it went through. Not initiating firewater twice and canceling out of the first run would always crash my shell.
Go figure.

atewsleybooth said:
I got it working. What I wound up doing was saying "No" to the first prompt from firewater, then restarting firewater, and saying "Yes." Twice this gave me "somebody pissed in the firewater," but on the third try, it went through. Not initiating firewater twice and canceling out of the first run would always crash my shell.
Go figure.
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Weird. Glad you got it to work though.

[Q] Need help S-off my phone

Guys,
I just got a replacement phone from Verizon and need your help to get it S-OFF. I tried both the firewater method and the Rumrunner method. Neither of them worked.
I installed Weaksauce to gain root and tried firewater (method 1) first. after trying all day and night to get it to work. I decided to try Rumrunner with the same result...
Android Version : 4.3
Sence Version: 5.0
Software number: 2.10.605.1
Base 1.12.40.1112-2
Hboot: 1.55.0000
Anything else you guys need from to help me figure out why I can S-OFF?
Thanks!

robramirez007 said:
Guys,
I just got a replacement phone from Verizon and need your help to get it S-OFF. I tried both the firewater method and the Rumrunner method. Neither of them worked.
I installed Weaksauce to gain root and tried firewater (method 1) first. after trying all day and night to get it to work. I decided to try Rumrunner with the same result...
Android Version : 4.3
Sence Version: 5.0
Software number: 2.10.605.1
Base 1.12.40.1112-2
Hboot: 1.55.0000
Anything else you guys need from to help me figure out why I can S-OFF?
Thanks!
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I don't know much about weaksauce since I haven't had to use it, but for 4.3 the temp root method of firewater is what you use.
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk

After trying different computers and USB cords I was able to use the Weaksauce,Firewater method to S-OFF my phone. Im back in business!

robramirez007 said:
After trying different computers and USB cords I was able to use the Weaksauce,Firewater method to S-OFF my phone. Im back in business!
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ive tried both ways on my computer.. do you think if i used someone elses computer it would work?

What Operating system are you on? I had win 7 64bit.
uninstall everything phone related HTC Sync, drivers, everything..... install this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2376761 (worked for me)
grab ADB and fastboot from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Use weaksauce to gain root and make sure you look at your phone to grant it Superuser access...
and honestly just keep trying. I tried for maybe 50 times before it worked. Switched USB port every time until it worked.

robramirez007 said:
What Operating system are you on? I had win 7 64bit.
uninstall everything phone related HTC Sync, drivers, everything..... install this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2376761 (worked for me)
grab ADB and fastboot from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Use weaksauce to gain root and make sure you look at your phone to grant it Superuser access...
and honestly just keep trying. I tried for maybe 50 times before it worked. Switched USB port every time until it worked.
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Okay I'll try that
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so i reinstalled all drivers and out of the 3 times i tried i got to the second bottle and i switched usb ports each time so at least im getting somewhere haha

[SOLVED]
Here are my thoughts after got it S-off on the second night.
I was having problems with adb disconnecting my device or was it my computer, not sure.
I got to "adb shell", then go into phone and tap the Weaksauce app and tap on "agree", then open SU app and changed the setting to "grant".
The dialog window in SU will still pops up and you hit allow for Superuser. I think this is the reason why it never chugged before here
You have to input the "su" command in the adb window
After "grant" it is able to S-Off, you know it when the promtp windows says " Your device is now S-Off..."
ps. For some reasons Weaksauce is not stable on my phone it does take way too long to root the device and sometimes not even does it.
This may sounds broken to some ppl lol, but this is my first post and first root.
So Cheeers

Congrats. Weaksauce is just a temp root, now that your s-off, you can remove weaksauce, flash a recovery, and then flash superuser thru recovery for full permanent root.

ok

nope still not working.. im thinking that it has to be a problem with disconnecting and then it loses the root cause whenever i restart the phone i have to enable root with weaksauce again.

prichable said:
nope still not working.. im thinking that it has to be a problem with disconnecting and then it loses the root cause whenever i restart the phone i have to enable root with weaksauce again.
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It should automatically give you root access after you installed weaksauce and SuperSU. It takes maybe 30-60 seconds after it completely boots up.

Okay good to know. it's still not finishing the first bottle though
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app

prichable said:
Okay good to know. it's still not finishing the first bottle though
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app
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I have been at this for over a week. I've gotten as far as the 8th bottle but still haven't been able to get S-OFF.
When I first started trying firewater was version 5, now it's up to version 8.
At this point I try it once a day every night(making sure to download the latest firewater each time). I just imagine that sometime it will work.
You can try to talk to beaups in the #firewater IRC channel. He tried helping me before saying "okay Ill try to fix it in the next few days." That was over a week ago but considering he's only getting donations for this I don't hold it against him for it not working instantly for me. Head to the IRC and see if he can help out. Otherwise, I'd say keep trying.

prichable said:
Okay good to know. it's still not finishing the first bottle though
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app
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Did you try manually turn on weaksauce in the phone ?

Yeah I've opened it every time I do an adb reboot
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[Q] Lost Root After Verizon OTA Firmware Update

I took the Verizon KitKat OTA firmware update when it was offered earlier today for my Verizon HTC One M8. I had previously had root access via Weaksauce. I seemed to have lost it after the update, so I followed the instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699089
I uninstalled Weaksauce and SuperSu, did a hard reboot via ADB, and reinstalled and then re-ran Weaksauce, but I still get the message "Root Failure." Using Root Checker Basic confirms that I do not have root access.
Any ideas?
I imagine others are or soon will be in the same situation.
Thanks!

JCase - The original developer already answered to my similar question under the VZW M8 Forum. We are pretty much out of options apart from waiting. check below
Updates patch vulnerabilities. Roots, s-offs and unlocks use vulnerabilities. If you want root on 4.4.3, you NEED to s-off/unlock before updating. I will not be releasing more "hacky" roots like WeakSauce in the near future. @beaups and I will continue to work to bring new solutions to this device
Tool status:
4.4.3
WeakSauce - incompatible for good
Firewater - incompatible for good
SunShine - incompatible (update will happen within the next few months)
If you want root, you need to unlock/s-off before updating to 4.4.3
Firewater - unlock/s-off - Free - http://firewater-soff.com/ (does not work on all m8s!)
SunShine - unlock/s-off - $25 - http://theroot.ninja/

leechezsparkle said:
JCase - The original developer already answered to my similar question under the VZW M8 Forum. We are pretty much out of options apart from waiting. check below]
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Thanks! I had found some info on Sunshine after posting. I guess we'll just have to wait for that to be updated. I wish I had been more knowledgable on all this stuff before accepting the update. Live and learn, I guess.
Thanks again!

Root, Bootloader Unlock, S-OFF M7 Help?

Hi Everyone! I have a HTC One M7 with Verizon and am looking to unlock bootloader, S-OFF, as well as root mainly. I have tried Sunshine which tells me I have to root first. I have also tried, Kingroot, Moonshiner and most of all of the other programs.Upon looking up this I found I need to unlock my bootloader. To do this I need to S-OFF. I didn't catch HTCDEV in time to unlock the bootloader since Verizon blocked it so I would appreciate anyone who could help me root, unlock the bootloader and S-OFF. Thanks! I forgot to add, I am running HBOOT 1.6.1.

mnorris298 said:
Hi Everyone! I have a HTC One M7 with Verizon and am looking to unlock bootloader, S-OFF, as well as root mainly. I have tried Sunshine which tells me I have to root first. I have also tried, Kingroot, Moonshiner and most of all of the other programs.Upon looking up this I found I need to unlock my bootloader. To do this I need to S-OFF. I didn't catch HTCDEV in time to unlock the bootloader since Verizon blocked it so I would appreciate anyone who could help me root, unlock the bootloader and S-OFF. Thanks! I forgot to add, I am running HBOOT 1.6.1.
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If you're on lollipop, pretty much only things I can think of that have worked are Kingroot (You have to try it MULTIPLE MULTIPLE TIMES) , N if that doesn't work on the latest version, try older versions (I remember old versions working for a few ppl, I believe it was like version 4.5 or 4.50.-something). The way kingroot works, u have to run it like sometimes 10-20-30 times of it saying failed, and eventually it works. I successfully did it on 2 of my friends m7's... (Not my own, I Sunshined back on 4.4.2)
Then, when/if u get kingroot to work, run sunshine...

Alright I'll keep trying kingroot
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk

Any other ideas? Kingroot just keeps rebooting my phone. If not rebooting it fails regardless. Ran at least 40 times
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mnorris298 said:
Any other ideas? Kingroot just keeps rebooting my phone. If not rebooting it fails regardless. Ran at least 40 times
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk
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Only other way for a vZw m7 is to find somebody who has a Java card, and make arrangements to ship / drive your phone to them, and they'll b able to S-off, bootloader unlock, & root it within 5 mins. Java cards from what I understand r VERY expensive, but over in the vzw M9 thread, there's a whole thread that's just/only for the topic of arranging to get your phone unlocked with a Java card owner, as Sunshine still to this day has never worked for the VZW variant of the M9. I know there are some VERY reputable and well known devs over there who would be willing to hook u up and have been doing it for others on xda for over a year now, (for quite cheap I understand) -although I highly recommend tossing em a donation at least for their troubles.... Maybe @dottat can point u in the right direction

mnorris298 said:
Any other ideas? Kingroot just keeps rebooting my phone. If not rebooting it fails regardless. Ran at least 40 times
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Danngg.. I wonder if this is a result of Google's continuous security updates? When I ran Kingroot to temp root before running Sunshine, it rooted on like... the first or second try... this was also after I'd foolishly tried every single root exploit that were designed in the days of Android 1.x and Gingerbread, which might have weakened some security if it didn't break it completely.. The binaries are called psneuter and gingerbreak, if you wanna give it a shot. There's also Rumrush, Firewater, Towelroot... probably others that I can't think of. None of them are likely to give you root, but if you use all of them and then use Kingroot, maybe Kingroot will work. I would personally do that sooner than running Kingroot and having my phone reboot 300 times...
So, I guess all you can do is keep trying.

I have verizon htc one m7 and i want to root it i have tried
Kingoroot
Kinguser
Firewater
Rumrunner
Rootgenius
Etc
Android kitkat 4.4.3 htc6500lvw plz help

mnorris298 said:
Hi Everyone! I have a HTC One M7 with Verizon and am looking to unlock bootloader, S-OFF, as well as root mainly. I have tried Sunshine which tells me I have to root first. I have also tried, Kingroot, Moonshiner and most of all of the other programs.Upon looking up this I found I need to unlock my bootloader. To do this I need to S-OFF. I didn't catch HTCDEV in time to unlock the bootloader since Verizon blocked it so I would appreciate anyone who could help me root, unlock the bootloader and S-OFF. Thanks! I forgot to add, I am running HBOOT 1.6.1.
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I can not help you with the s-off and unlocking bootloader but Ican tell you how to root your phone.
Install WeakSauce2.apk, and superuser in that order and you are done.

solve it?
Did you find a way to do s-off? because I can't do it, It rooted but I can do the s-off

sandraf said:
Did you find a way to do s-off? because I can't do it, It rooted but I can do the s-off
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I did it as follows. I used KingRoot and obtained its form of root. Then I ran Sunshine, which requires that you first are rooted. Sunshine reboots mid-process, losing root. So I ran KingRoot again, obtaining root. Then I ran Sunshine and it took up where it had rebooted, and got s-off. Then I found a script to eliminate the KingRoot temporary root. It did not exactly fit my file system, so I by hand made all of the changes indicated in the script (some of the changes in the script were not really important, some referred to files I did not have, etc., but I was able to change the important ones.) When I rebooted, I got the SuperSu pop-up to update, which I did, and ended up with a Verizon M7 with unlocked bootloader, s-off, and rooted.

mozhno said:
I did it as follows. I used KingRoot and obtained its form of root. Then I ran Sunshine, which requires that you first are rooted. Sunshine reboots mid-process, losing root. So I ran KingRoot again, obtaining root. Then I ran Sunshine and it took up where it had rebooted, and got s-off. Then I found a script to eliminate the KingRoot temporary root. It did not exactly fit my file system, so I by hand made all of the changes indicated in the script (some of the changes in the script were not really important, some referred to files I did not have, etc., but I was able to change the important ones.) When I rebooted, I got the SuperSu pop-up to update, which I did, and ended up with a Verizon M7 with unlocked bootloader, s-off, and rooted.
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What script did you find? Do you mind sharing it? So that I try your method... because I too have the same htc6500lvw and have tried all of the above methods using KingRoot and sunshine. :good: thanks I'm advance

Maonela said:
What script did you find? Do you mind sharing it? So that I try your method... because I too have the same htc6500lvw and have tried all of the above methods using KingRoot and sunshine. :good: thanks I'm advance
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Here are two sites I had left in my bookmarks:
http://zidroid.com/how-to-get-ride-and-replace-kinguser-with-supersu-app/
https://androidmtk.com/replace-kinguser-with-supersu
You could probably find more.
The only way this worked for me was to read the script and figure out what the critical replacements are. You should note that the critical steps involve files that have the immutable bit set, and the scripts show a two step process of first changing the immutable bit, and then deleting the file. I did these by hand, since some of the files that needed replacing were not in the sub-folders indicated in the scripts.

HI, fellow m7vzw user here. Let me share my experience. Around mid 2015 last year HTC released an update for lollipop that patched kingroot to be used to root its device. But all hope is not lost as you can doengrade back to the version of lollipop that is vulnerable to Kingroot exploit. I discussed this method last year around October with some other htc one m7 vzw owners. One of them pointed out that as a failsafe in case something went wrong with htc's firmware, it can be downgraded back ONE version to avoid that faulty firmware. For example if they release a version in January, February and March (March firmware being faulty as example). You can downgtade back to the previous firmware using fastboot and the required firmware files. We never tried to downgtafe again from Febraury to January because when we were already rooted and s-off after one downgrade ???.All files on links for the files are located on the Verzion HTC one forum..... i'll try to find the post containing proof for you.
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Sorry for the long post btw. Here's the link to the thread that taught me how to downgrade. http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...-3-s-users-t2919442/post64629850#post64629850 Today im happily S-off and running santod's GPE 5.1.1 cfw. Good luck! !