Verizon GS5 custom rom

[bkenobi69]

I'm sure this has been asked and answered, but my search through the countless threads has been frustrating and fruitless. My apologies for a likely rehash.

I have a GS5 for Verizon that's rooted using the towel root kernel. It has terrible battery life no matter what I try and I've confirmed it's not the battery itself. I am to the point where I either try a custom rom to get a different kernel in it, or maybe upgrade the phone. Can anyone recommend a rock stable rom with good performance, debloated, and excellent battery performance. I'm not looking for bleeding edge, just stable and battery longevity.

I'm leaning towards a resurrection remix rom currently, but I can't figure what version to go with or if that's a good choice.

 

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I'm happy with this ROM (CQI4) and G900V firmware (DQI2).


This super-lite ROM is very nice too.

 

[bkenobi69]

I'm just now working up the courage to do this. It looks like superlite requires marshmallow to be already installed. At that point, I'd also need to figure out how to get on MM without losing root. I can't tell if DevBase needs a certain OS or not.

 

[bkenobi69]

After a bit more research, it appears that I probably need to upgrade to either Lollipop (5.x) or Marshmallow (6.x) prior to installing a custom rom. I'm currently on KitKat (4.4.4) and the guides I've found indicate that I may have issues upgrading to Marshmallow with root and not tripping Knox (currently 0x0). I'm not going to use this phone for work so I'm not sure that Knox is an issue but I have read that some updates don't work after 0x1 (upgrading the modem possibly).

I have found some guides, but I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction before I update something I can't undo. This is my only phone, so if I break it, I'm hosed. The battery is terrible, so I need to do something anyway, but bricking it isn't all that useful!

FWIW, I checked CID and I have type 11. And this is the guide I was currently looking at using:

https://www.androidinfotech.com/2016/07/root-samsung-galaxy-s5-sm-g900v-verizon.html