Good news!

DeHAWK said:

Hey
Great. This is only a few hours old. I've been working in my garden. But why 4.4.2?
I crack myself up. They should have released 4.4.3. Never mind, now I just need a dump and some updated sources.
About your problem; this is Samsung in a nutshell, but I'll do my best to release a 4.4.2 kernel and system as soon as I can. Hopefully I'll be able to make it compatible with 4.2.2 and 4.3 bootloaders.
Stay tuned.
Regards.

Sent from my GT-I9305 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

EDIT
According to SamMobile, Samsung has ignored our device. True, but why?
Ok, this is my personal opinion. The GT-I9506 is outstanding, making it a direct threat to the Galaxy S5. As you know, the S5 features a Snapdragon S801...just an overclocked S800. No magic in that. I can do the same, well to be honest...I already did for my own phone. It's a piece of cake to overclock. But the fact is, do we need it? For myself; nice to have but not need to have.
I'm pretty sure that we can do the same as the S5, and even more. But with the new S805, we WILL loose, no doubt about that.
Stay tuned guys, the game is about to begin.
Regards.

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Zeggi said:

Would be nice to know if this works with 4.4.2 since i just got it and im missing a custom recovery and root :/

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worf_1977 said:

First, you must wipe the phone, so better if you take a backup shot of it. Second, you must run triangle away app to reset the binary counters (I can confirm that works on the GT-I9506).

And third, open Supersu app go to settings and click on full unroot.

Now flash the original firmware through ODIN and go for the OTA update

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worf_1977 said:

I will also try, but later this evening... I'm not at my desktop computer, where I have all the tools installed

---------- Post added at 03:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 PM ----------

I just received this from a new member that has no right, yet, to post in this forum:

I´m noobie at xda so I can´t start new threat So I got my 4.4.2 ota today. And I got it rooted. First try I Tried Philz_Touch__CWM_6.3.7_V5.15.0_unofficial_(fixed_preload) and failed!!! No cwm second try with odin 3.07 I tried Chenglu_cwm_recovery_6.0.3.7(0905)-fix-exSdcard and that worked. At first in upperside of display was some gray dots, about 1/3 of a second, then I paniced and booted my phone again, same dots appeared, put at same time cwm apeared. Then I used ROOT_E330S_I9506_v2, root program and updated super su 1.94 and now I have rooted GT-I9506 4.4.2. Sorry for this pm, but Ithought that this is best way to get word going!! same-xx:good:

If this works, could be used, no doubt!

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Zeggi said:

flashing custom recovery works.
I used the following recovery version, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2757538

Unticked reboot, and after flash was done i forced it to recovery and after that i flashed root
So simply yet so easy to miss

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EclipseX said:

Just wipe dalvik cache

Enviado do meu GT-I9506 através de Tapatalk

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worf_1977 said:

Thanks, but that doesn't help with power on vibration...

Anyway, I'll do some research about it

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mezo91 said:

What will you need oc @2.5GHz for? [emoji1]

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