Rooted Lollipop, want to try Marshmallow.

[spatchy419]

Hey all, I've spent a couple hours sifting through these pages to find an answer I cannot see. Or, I'm not reading correctly.

I am currently running Jasmine Rom on my rooted/unlocked OF1 Note 3. After several months of everything working fine but slow here and there, I would like to try one of two things. If anyone has some insight (Google certainly doesn't ) that may or may not help me, I'd very much appreciate you...

1- Is unrooting as lollipo to update to marshmallow a good or bad idea? Why?

2- If good, could you point me to a page that I don't have to read 700 posts to find clear instructions to do so?

3- If bad, I will stick with what I have...BUT, I'd really like to get rid of the bloatware (permanently, if possible). Is this possible? NOTE: I've sifted through countless pages of safe to remove bloat, so I'm asking if there's a way to do this upon fresh rom installation?

4- I love this place. I've rooted many a phone with all of your help. I must say that this note 3 vzw section is a WRECK. How can non-devs possibly sort through all this to find working answers? I'm legit asking, not being a smartass...there's active threads from 1983, and how's a regular Joe who wants to play with his toys too supposed to make sense of the endless this-one-works no-it-doesn't mess?

I'm sincerely seeking some final, working answers to the above questions, any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[bftb0]

There is no "update to marshmallow" AFAIK.

OF1 is Lolipop.

XDA has zero threshold to entry, so the postings here are from both geniuses and idiots. You get to sort through them.

Postings are made while the phones are in play - which is to say while stock firmware is changing constantly, and devs and hackers are making changes, revising their stuff and learning new tricks.

So in addition to info which is correct - and stays correct, there is also information that becomes incorrect with new software... or never was correct in the first place.

So yeah, XDA is a mess. But you are missing the point - that it's a hot mess.

Your expectation of perfectly curated data, 100% correct and up-to-date instructions that minimize your time (at the expense of others, naturally) is unreasonable for this simple reason: it doesn't exist anywhere else.

So... step up or step out.

All this stuff is optional behavior. If you don't have time for it, well... then you don't have time for it.

 

[aaroon200]

If you want to try marshmallow on your device flash this rom using TWRP : [ROM][CM13][6.0.1_r43][VZW][OTA-Updates] Temasek's UNOFFICIAL.
I'm using version V10.8 on my unlocked OF1 Note 3 and everything works, here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...opment/rom-temaseks-unofficial-build-t3364382

 

[spatchy419]

There is no "update to marshmallow" AFAIK.

OF1 is Lolipop.

XDA has zero threshold to entry, so the postings here are from both geniuses and idiots. You get to sort through them.

Postings are made while the phones are in play - which is to say while stock firmware is changing constantly, and devs and hackers are making changes, revising their stuff and learning new tricks.

So in addition to info which is correct - and stays correct, there is also information that becomes incorrect with new software... or never was correct in the first place.

So yeah, XDA is a mess. But you are missing the point - that it's a hot mess.

Your expectation of perfectly curated data, 100% correct and up-to-date instructions that minimize your time (at the expense of others, naturally) is unreasonable for this simple reason: it doesn't exist anywhere else.

So... step up or step out.

All this stuff is optional behavior. If you don't have time for it, well... then you don't have time for it.

Thank you for the reply. I must say, though, there's a clear difference between everything being perfectly organized to my taste and organized for the everyman who doesn't have all day to sort through everything in the forum on a particular phone. Im not demanding anything, nor am I accusing anyone of laziness or ignorance. There's wasn't anything implying anyone should do anything. Rather, a question was posed to understand the processes. I get the point of this forum, and more to the point, I APPRECIATE this forum. But I will say that at some point clean up might be a good idea. That's an opinion, not a demand. It is silly to me how unkempt this PARTICULAR part of XDA is.

That said, I will continue to use it happily, messy, hot, or otherwise, and I appreciate everyone's work on these devices for the everyman to experience the full range of possibilities with our devices.

Thanks for the answers.

 

[spatchy419]

If you want to try marshmallow on your device flash this rom using TWRP : [ROM][CM13][6.0.1_r43][VZW][OTA-Updates] Temasek's UNOFFICIAL.
I'm using version V10.8 on my unlocked OF1 Note 3 and everything works, here is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...opment/rom-temaseks-unofficial-build-t3364382

Awesome, I will check out it.

Forgive my tone on my original post, XDA. I believe I came across as bitchy, and I didn't mean any offense.