Recent content by boothroyd917

I know about ART vs. Dalvik, but why does it specifically not work on Samsung stock ROMs versus all other Lollipop builds? I'm just speculating, but i wouldn't think this has anything to do with the runtime considering its works on all other ROMs.

I wonder if this has anything to do with us having to flash back to 4.4.4 to get into Safestrap. The sooner someone finds a workaround, the better!

Ever since I flashed 5.0 to my 900V, my battery life has gone significantly down. Now this can be expected to some extent as I can no longer use Amplify to control NlpCollectorWakeLock (which is one of a few wakelocks going to town on my battery). One of the others is bluedroid_timer, which is...

This is a glitch that some people are experiencing on both rooted and non-rooted S5's running Lollipop. Not just on Verizon either, people on the European carriers are experiencing it as well. I haven't seen a fix for it yet, but I'd just keep an eye on here if I were you (here meaning the whole...

Follow the instructions in this thread to flash back to NK2, then use the method given there to flash the NCG kernel, root, install BusyBox and Safestrap, reflash the NK2 kernel, then follow the instructions in the OP of this thread.

*sigh* The **** I put up with to get root... Lol, thanks for the confirmation.

Any reason why flashing back from unrooted stock OA8 to stock NI2 would cause a hangup at the Verizon red screen? Last time this happened, I just did a factory reset from recovery mode, but I'd prefer to not do that, if possible... Odin said PASS btw.

Wow, I totally overlooked that part, haha. Thanks for saving me a load of work.

Perfect, that's exactly what I was wondering. My other question is whether there's a way to do a backup of my phone now (I'm on OA8 w/o root) so that once I do flash all this, I won't have to wait a few hours, like last night, to download all my apps from the Play Store. I saw something called...

So do you have to do a clean install to make sure that the Baseband and Build match? Or can I just flash back to NK2, use the NCG kernel to get root and all back, then follow the instructions?

I'm trying to help my buddy root his Razr Maxx HD, but he already took the 182.46.15 update, which breaks Towelroot. Is there a way to flash back to 182.46.10 so he can use Towelroot & unlock the bootloader?

Does this include the little incremental update that came out yesterday? I followed the steps outlined here http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/vzw-ota-4-4-4-pushed-t2872220/post55347753 and am now rooted on 4.4.4 (NHA). What about yesterday's update (NI2)?

Gotcha, that'd do it. Thanks for the help.

So I just followed the steps and am rooted on NHA, but in the Developer Options, it says I'm using Dalvik. If I try to switch to ART, it reboots, but it never goes through the "Configuring Apps" screen, it just boots up and if I go back into Developer Options, it still says Dalvik. Any ideas?

So I've been kinda paranoid on my S5 (G900V) since I don't want to trip Knox. Right now, I'm rooted on NE9, but I don't have SS installed (I'm fine with just freezing the bloatware instead of flashing a rom). I'd like to backup anything that I might lose when trying to get root on NHA. Is there...