[How-To] Update to N900V_NK1 - 4.4.4 and Keep Root

[BackCheck]

I tried to flash Jasmine ROM and my bootloader got returned to stock (although I kept root access). Not sure how that happened, but my phone was working fine anyway. Then I decided to reflash TWRP and now my phone is soft bricked because it detected a custom bootloader.

I've tried to reflash stock ROMs for MJ7 and NC4 but get SW REV CHECK errors. (pretty sure I rooted on NC4 using towelroot originally)

my question is, is there any way to flash the stock bootloader without flashing the entire stock image?

Or is there any way to totally reset my phone other than flashing a stock image? I don't want to flash 4.4.4 or higher because then I'll permanently lose root.

You can find partial firmware in the Jasmine Rom thread. Flash that via Odin in the AP slot. If that fails your probably out of luck.

 

[jt_04]

You can find partial firmware in the Jasmine Rom thread. Flash that via Odin in the AP slot. If that fails your probably out of luck.

yeah i did that, but i had accidentally rebooted my phone first and cut it off half-way during the boot to go back to download mode to flash the partial firmware. maybe that's where i messed up.

i couldn't go without a phone....i flashed stock OB6 lollipop and lost root. I'm really bummed about it, can't stand all the verizon crap on my phone and can't do half the things I used to do.....but at least i have a phone. crossing my fingers for a lollipop root method in the future, since I think I can get a couple more years out of my note 3.

 

[da84tona]

---------- Post added at 05:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:39 AM ----------

You can find partial firmware in the Jasmine Rom thread. Flash that via Odin in the AP slot. If that fails your probably out of luck.

BackChecks recommendation worked for me! If I could thank you a million times , i would. My situation:
flashed OF1 jasmine 6.1 lollipop. found some bugs i couldn't live with. So I flashed back to NK1 using the flashfire as recommended in this thread.
Everything was going alright, but for whatever reason, my phone became soft bricked after removing my SD card to transfer some files. I could get into the bootloader and Download mode, and that is about it.
I flashed the partial firmware as a last resort via ODIN, and after several very nerve racking reboots, my phone is back to 5.0.2 Jasmine and root has been retained.
I'm going to attempt to get back to 4.4.4 NK1 this evening.

UDPDATE. I seem to have successfully flashed back to 4.4.4 NK1 ... I received an "out of space" error during the Flashfire process, during what appeared to be the PARTITIONS.zip file... that scared the #[email protected]! out of me. but things booted up and seem to be working ok. The only problem i've ran into is a problem with Facebook and SSO authentication. I have a couple things left to try, but I do not believe this is being caused by the error I received during the FlashFire process. It is a bit concerning. I'll see if I can dig out the error in the logs. (if there are any, for flashfire) maybe someone can make sense of them.

UPDATE UPDATE: found the logs. Can someone take a look and see what, if anything, i need to do. After seeing all the errors in the log, I'm not sure how my phone is even working right now


UI] FlashFire - © 2015 - Chainfire
[UI]
[UI] Wiping...
[UI]
[UI] Flashing [/sdcard/N900V_NK1_Stock_Rooted_Firmware.tar.md5]...
[UI]
[UI] Seeking...
[UI] - Boot
[UI] Block Device: /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot
[UI] Partition Size: 10 MiB
[UI] Flash Size: 10 MiB
[UI] Pre-Flash Wipe: Yes
[UI] Clearing...
[UI] Flashing...
[UI]
UI] Seeking...
[UI] - System
[UI] Block Device: /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system
[UI] Partition Size: 2711 MiB
[UI] Flash Size: 2760 MiB
[UI] Pre-Flash Wipe: No
[UI] Flashing...
[UI] IOException: write failed: ENOSPC (No space left on device)
[EXC] IOException: write failed: ENOSPC (No space left on device)
[UI]
[UI] Seeking...
[UI] Installing [/sdcard/N900V_NK1_Stock_Partitions.zip]...
[UI]
[OUT] Archive: /sdcard/
N900V_NK1_Stock_Partitions.zip
[OUT] creating: META-INF/com/google/android/
[OUT] inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary
[OUT] inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script
[UI] *************************************
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] * N900V_NK1_Stock_Partitions *
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] * KitKat 4.4.4 *
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] * by *
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] * muniz_ri *
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] *************************************
[OUT] ui_print
[OUT] ui_print
[OUT] progress 0.100000 0
[UI] ------> Flashing recovery.img
[OUT] ui_print
UI] ------> Flashing modem.bin
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Flashing non-hlos.bin
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Update tz.mbn
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Update aboot.mbn
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Update rpm.mbn
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Update sbl1.mbn
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Update sdi.mbn
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] ------> Done!
[OUT] ui_print
[OUT] progress 1.000000 0
[OUT] unmount of /system failed; no such volume
[UI] script succeeded: result was []
[UI]
[UI] EverRoot: Installing SuperSU...
UI] *****************
[OUT] ui_print
[UI] - Mounting /system, /data and rootfs
[OUT] ui_print
[ERR] mount: mounting /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system on /system failed: Device or resource busy
[ERR] mount: mounting /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata on /data failed: Device or resource busy
[ERR] mount: mounting /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system on /system failed: Device or resource busy
[ERR] cat: can't open '/etc/recovery.fstab': No such file or directory
[ERR] mount: can't find rw in /etc/fstab
[ERR] mount: can't find rw,remount in /etc/fstab
[ERR] mount: mounting /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata on /data failed: Device or resource busy

 

[donc113]

The answer is pretty obvious...your system partition was too small.

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[Richdarkchocolat]

ROM Available

I successfully downgraded with ROOT! is there an available ROM for this? Verizon note 3 4.4.4

 

[Richdarkchocolat]

Any ROM available

Updated OP for use with FlashFire!

Thanks muniz_ri! This worked! Is there any availble ROMS for the version of KK 4.4.4? If so, can you post instructions using Flashfire?

Thanks

 

[yenkoPR]

can i downgrade now that 5.o has root ?

 

[riqmarmes]

can i downgrade now that 5.o has root ?

there is a thread for that I think, you can downgrade to 4.4.4 even without root. But not to 4.4.2