Recent content by Isilder

The word "above" there ? the OTA is from the exact match to that new version. The "from" isn't "from at least X, to Y", its a patch that moves from version X exactly to version Y. I think he was being confugsed by having a limitted set of OTA and full firmwares extracted from a forum...

yes. But in general, There's not a lot of difference between loading an OTA patch, and a new firmware (a complete update, rather than a patch. Its like blanking a hard drive to install, right), because the OTA patch resets the phone (wipes out anything user) just like a new firmware does. So...

Yes, U3CRE7 contains boot loader v3. You installed an upgrade that did an upgrade to BL v4, as well as to CRH1. break that file name apart .. U <boot loader version > <OS version > You cannot revert boot loader... you have bootloader 4, and it will not accept the bootloader 3 files at all...

Now look, if you delete the user, the users account, or otherwise reset KNOX or secure strorage, you may well have deleted the keys to decrypt the SS. Short of brute force encryption cracking, which takes massive CPU power, eg employ NSA's entire CPU for a few weeks, well you can't guess...

Carefully, as that collection has some beta versions, that dead end. You need to be sure there is a path to your end goal. All I mean is that there are no updates there to get from a beta Oreo to AT&T released Oreo, and that fits with the FIRST official AT&T publishing of OREO being...

editting ... Well that is latest bootloader 2 full rom image . You could use any older full rom, but then you'd have more incremental patches, from the "OTA" system (auto updates via settings, software updates .. or the OS saying "An update is available , install it ? " ), to install...