ROOT s4 active 5.0.1
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Yeah I'm sorry but I don't really get step 7. Where do I get the bootloader file?
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Is it one of these?
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No, incorrect. It's listed in step 7 as I537_OC7_Bootloader, click it, it's a link to the bootloader file you need
AWESOME! I'm now on Lollipop and rooted. Thanks
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i followed the previous steps to go back to kitkat and get rooted if i follow these steps to flash 5.01 rooted rom will it unlock the bootloader so i can delete system apps or does is it just rooted
Nothing can unlock this phone's bootloader, but as long as you're rooted (which is what the method does) you can remove system apps either with titanium backup or with a root-enabled file explorer.
Most unfortunately @ted583 that bootloader hacking thread you're looking at will not work for this phone. No custom kernels, no custom recoveries, no CyanogenMod. It's really a shame, this phone has such wasted development potential.
And unfortunately Loki doesn't work on this phone either. I hate to say it but trying to unlock the bootloader on this phone is a waste of time. If it was possible for this phone, someone would have done it by now. The difference between this phone and the at&t s4 is that the active always shipped with a locked bootloader, the regular s4 originally did not
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Hallo,Yeah, download this file, extract all four files from inside the .zip, flash all four files with Odin simultaneously (see image below to see what I mean). This will wipe any files and settings you have saved and return the phone to factory condition, so make sure to back up anything important. Also it's a long process (5-10 minutes) and will at some point boot the phone into recovery, it's important to leave the phone plugged in and untouched, let it do its thing until it's fine and boots into kitkat
I'm also trying to downgrade my S4 active from android 5 to android 4 and I follow the method provided by the thisisapoorusernamechoice.
Download the four md5 files
Download the odin3.12
Put the phone on download mode and connect it to pc
Set up the odin and press start
but I'm getting the message "all threads complete (succeed 0 / failed 0)", as many tries I made.
Do you have any suggetion what could gone wrong?
You can't downgrade the bootloader, it's not possible. Don't load the bootloader in Odin and it should work.
Had some progreess but not big...
"Re-Partition operation failed" it's the massage I'm getting.
Check the photo from odin below.
Any thoughts?
Android version
5.0.1
Baseband version
I9295XXUDOD3
KERNEL VERSION
3.4.0-4556221
[email protected] #1
Thu Apr 16 16:38:11 KST 2015
Built Number
LRX22C.I9295XXUDOD3
SE for Android Status
Enforcing
SEPTF_GT-I9295_5.0.1_0051
Sat may 21 12:34:46 2016
5.0.1
Baseband version
I9295XXUDOD3
KERNEL VERSION
3.4.0-4556221
[email protected] #1
Thu Apr 16 16:38:11 KST 2015
Built Number
LRX22C.I9295XXUDOD3
SE for Android Status
Enforcing
SEPTF_GT-I9295_5.0.1_0051
Sat may 21 12:34:46 2016
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STOP!!! You are very lucky that you didn't brick your phone, you have a different phone than the one this thread was meant for. You've been trying to flash i537 firmware on to your i9295 and apparently there are checks in place to prevent that. Again I can't stress enough how lucky you are that you didn't permanently brick your phone. While the hardware of these two phones are nearly identical, the i537 has a locked bootloader making it impossible to flash custom recovery or a custom kernel.
Since you have the i9295, you need to flash firmware that is meant for your phone. Go to sammobile.com and download the firmware you would like to flash. The procedure for flashing this firmware with Odin is the same as what you have been doing. Make sure you read and understand exactly what you're doing because as I mentioned before you have the potential of bricking your phone if you do something wrong. Be careful.
P.S.: Since you have the i9295, you have an unlocked bootloader and you don't have to do any of this. All you have to do is flash the SuperSU zip, install the SuperSU apk and you should be rooted. You can even flash TWRP if you want to make life easier. If you have questions about this search for other threads as this one is not meant for you phone.
I have a new I537, it came new with Lollipop, is there no way to root it? I tried twroot, it failed.
Please try searching or reading before asking questions that have been answered.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...alaxy-s4-active-firmware-guide-t2892445/page1
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