Galaxy Mega 6.3 Sprint Version : SPH-L600 Stock firmwares with root: Flashable Zips

Silesh.Nair · Mar 8, 2014

I do not own this phone.

This thread will provide custom recovery ( CWM/TWRP ) flashable zip files of the stock frmware without knox software. This way you need not upgrade using OTA and hence will be able to move between stock and custom firmware if need to.

If you use OTA to upgrade to the latest firmware, your bootloader will be upgraded to facilitate knox. Once updated there is no going back. The roms in this thread will help you overcome this issue.

The only prerequisite is that you are not already running a knox enabled bootloader. You can find this out by going into download mode and checking if knox entries are shown in bootloader screen.

You will have the following advantages.

Bootloader is not touched, hence any compatible rom can be flashed, including custom roms
Only Samsung knox files are removed
Root & Busybox
Stock kernel
Deodexed
Zipaligned

Procedure

Download the Odin version of Philz recovery or my custom twrp recovery and flash.
Reboot to recovery first else custom recovery will be replaced by stock recovery.
Flash the ROM zip file
Reboot and Njoy...

As an additional step, you can flash the modem that comes with the ROM. The procedure to flash the modem is given below.

Use Odin v3.04
Untick Autoreboot
Flash modem
Reboot once again into Download Mode using (Vol Down plus Home button combi)
Flash Modem once more
Once done,unplug then reboot device manually.
If this doesn't work, try repeating the flash process again while rebooting manually and with auto-reboot option turned off.

Downloads

All files can be downloaded from my Mega folder. Choose the mega link and select SPH-L600 STOCK FIRMWARE folder. MD5 hash values are available in a separate file inside the folder.

Credits
@dsixda for creating android kitchen which makes it so easy to create a stock rom in zip format. I modified the kitchen to make it compatible with the Mega...

@MikeyMike for testing the build....

Silesh.Nair · Mar 8, 2014

Reserved, just in case

Silesh.Nair · Mar 8, 2014

This one too...

Silesh.Nair · Mar 8, 2014

Last one..

MikeyLee · Mar 10, 2014

Silesh.Nair said:
Last one..

Confirmed everything works great. Battery is great and have not had any issues at all.

DWAYN3 · Mar 10, 2014

No WIFI

MikeyLee said:
Confirmed everything works great. Battery is great and have not had any issues at all.

for some reason my wifi has stopped working, whenever I try to turn it on , it immediately goes back off. Any suggestions?

MikeyLee · Mar 10, 2014

Happened to me first time around after I had flashed the modem. I wasnt able to get the rom to flash in stock recovery. Once I flashed Philz recovery then the deodex rom all was good to go

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DWAYN3 · Mar 10, 2014

MikeyLee said:
Happened to me first time around after I had flashed the modem. I wasnt able to get the rom to flash in stock recovery. Once I flashed Philz recovery then the deodex rom all was good to go

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can you give me the link , or point me in the direction I should be to find that?

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I'm using TWRP btw

MikeyLee · Mar 10, 2014

DWAYN3 said:
can you give me the link , or point me in the direction I should be to find that?

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I'm using TWRP btw

The download links are here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588661
Use the one named Galaxy Mega i9205 (meliusltexx) for Sprint I used the Odin Tar file and it worked perfectly. From there I flashed the Deodex ROM

crcook60 · Mar 14, 2014

MikeyLee said:
The download links are here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588661
Use the one named Galaxy Mega i9205 (meliusltexx) for Sprint I used the Odin Tar file and it worked perfectly. From there I flashed the Deodex ROM

Did this last night all went well. Grabbed the Philz and then flashed the stock rom, but didn't flash the modem.
@Silesh.Nair Thanks so much for the work and resources. Are the roms in your Mega folder compatible with this device? So very grateful that some development is finally occurring for the Sprint variant.
Carl

Silesh.Nair · Mar 14, 2014

Most of them work, but you need to make a few changes to get data/lte working....

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crcook60 · Mar 15, 2014

Silesh.Nair said:
Most of them work, but you need to make a few changes to get data/lte working....

Sent from my GT_I9205 using Tapatalk

Does that mean changes on device(settings) or in code?
Carl

moosiemooses · Mar 15, 2014

https://db.tt/OPdM7Ghs switch from wcdma to CDMA. LTE works but no phone calls or texts out.

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Silesh.Nair · Mar 15, 2014

Thanks @crcook60. U know the reason...

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crcook60 · Mar 16, 2014

Silesh.Nair said:
Thanks @crcook60. U know the reason...

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You're welcome, of course.
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moosiemooses said:
https://db.tt/OPdM7Ghs switch from wcdma to CDMA. LTE works but no phone calls or texts out.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda premium

Interesting. Kind of need to do outbound calls and texts. Ha!
c

crcook60 · Mar 16, 2014

crcook60 said:
You're welcome, of course.
c

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Interesting. Kind of need to do outbound calls and texts. Ha!
c

Well now that I'm over being a wise guy, I think what I'm reading is that with this apk you can do outbound calls and texts, just not on LTE. Is that correct? And is the phone apk rom specific? Like so many others, I'm guessing, I'm really itching to ditch the Sprint stock rom. But wait... just this second for the umpteenth time my phone is telling me that I have left the network with roaming turned off (sitting in my living room, smack dab in the middle of an LTE coverage area.) This is killing me!! Haha!!
Carl

Silesh.Nair · Mar 17, 2014

You shouldn't have this problem on a stock ROM. I suggest you flash the modem that came with the ROM. Its available as a separate Odin flashable tar file.

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crcook60 · Mar 17, 2014

Silesh.Nair said:
You shouldn't have this problem on a stock ROM. I suggest you flash the modem that came with the ROM. Its available as a separate Odin flashable tar file.

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Yeah that's what I think. I downloaded it the other day so I'll do that this morning. As an aside, I really need to dig in and learn how to do this (cook/build,) but I'm a school teacher with almost no time to devote to my own education in this regard. I have been looking around at some of the guides but there is some much information that I'm not really sure where to start (suggestions?). I tend to be a bit obsessive/compulsive when it comes to technology, so much so that my friends and family often start to wonder "what happened to me." I imagine others can relate. On spring break this week; time to play.
Thank you.
Carl

Silesh.Nair · Mar 17, 2014

You'll learn with time. Let me know if you need any help. It feels gud teaching a teacher, lol!!!

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crcook60 · Mar 18, 2014

Silesh.Nair said:
You'll learn with time. Let me know if you need any help. It feels gud teaching a teacher, lol!!!

Sent from my GT_I9205 using Tapatalk

Very funny, Mr.Nair. And I'm an English teacher to boot! I would relish having someone with experience to mentor me. Just to show you how much teachers look forward to their breaks(read mental exhaustion,) I discovered today that after flashing a custom recovery and rooting this little Sprint demon the other day, I had NOT flashed the firmware you uploaded. Can't believe I didn't do that. This came to light after I flashed the CM ROM for I9205 (I know, NOT recommended, but I did it for kicks.) Your CM build installed beautifully, and I was able to connect to WiFi, but of course I didn't have a cell data connection. I flashed the L600 modem in Odin a couple times on top of CM and applied various settings using the phone apk moosiemooses linked and eventually did get a mobile data connection, but I couldn't make it persistent. I wound up restoring the nandroid I made the other day; this is when I discovered that I hadn't flashed the firmware version in your Mega folder. So I did that after lunch today, flashed the modem twice and after a bit of fiddling all seems to be working well. I'm fairly new to this carrier and the network seems a bit finicky, but that's just my opinion. I spent most of the day doing this, and I think I learned something in the process, just not clear about what that is exactly.<g>
Thanks.
Carl

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