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[Q] [Help] How to install stock firmware from Samsung via Odin when CWM is installed?

I have a Galaxy S4 i9506 model SHV E300S from Korea (SK Telecom). Currently running 4.3.
Please give me detailed steps on how to install the firmware i downloaded from live samsung updates for my firmware. Do I have to extract the file and what to do on Odin. Is it also safe to do it via Odin if I have Philz recovery installed but my phone is not rooted? Can I also jump in from 4.3 to 4.4.2 without installing other firmwares between them?Thanks!

breaker12 said:
I have a Galaxy S4 i9506 model SHV E300S from Korea (SK Telecom)
Please give me detailed steps on how to install the firmware i downloaded from live samsung updates for my firmware. Do I have to extract the file and what to do on Odin. Is it also safe to do it via Odin if I have Philz recovery installed but my phone is not rooted? Thanks!
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I dont recommend u update ur phone to Kit Kat. The final updates arent recognized by KIES. This mean are leaks with bugs. Wait for the OFFICIAL update.

Joku1981 said:
I dont recommend u update ur phone to Kit Kat. The final updates arent recognized by KIES. This mean are leaks with bugs. Wait for the OFFICIAL update.
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What does your screenshot means? I have tried updating via Kies and it actually downloaded the firmware I need. Isn't it official then? I just can't continue the process as Kies does not recognize phones with customizations or modifications, in my case I have Philz recovery installed as CWM. I want to upgrade because 4.3 in SHV-E300S has battery problems, as it terribly drains so fast!
What I want to know is the exact steps on how to update the phone via Odin IF Philz recovery is installed. Thanks

Please give me thed etailed steps and settings for Odin. Is there also no risk on loaing my IMEI and network connectivity? Thanks

breaker12 said:
Please give me thed etailed steps and settings for Odin. Is there also no risk on loaing my IMEI and network connectivity? Thanks
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1. Go to Sammobile.com
2. Sig and log in
3. Download this firmware: HERE. Its the latest firmware for ur phone.
4. Unzip this firmware in ur pc
5. Phone in DOWNLOAD MODE
6. Open ODIN in ur pc and flash the firmware (like in the pic attached)
7. Wait for finish the process and ur phone will reboot
8. Enjoy it

Joku1981 said:
1. Go to Sammobile.com
2. Sig and log in
3. Download this firmware: HERE. Its the latest firmware for ur phone.
4. Unzip this firmware in ur pc
5. Phone in DOWNLOAD MODE
6. Open ODIN in ur pc and flash the firmware (like in the pic attached)
7. Wait for finish the process and ur phone will reboot
8. Enjoy it
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Thanks sir. Additional question: Do I have to install earlier versions of 4.4.2 or 4.3? I'm currently using 4.3 and I've read from another thread here that I have to install other fiemwares progressively (from my current version to the next and further versions till I reach the desired one) to make sure partition configurations won't go wrong. Can you confirm this? Thanks again!

breaker12 said:
Thanks sir. Additional question: Do I have to install earlier versions of 4.4.2 or 4.3? I'm currently using 4.3 and I've read from another thread here that I have to install other fiemwares progressively (from my current version to the next and further versions till I reach the desired one) to make sure partition configurations won't go wrong. Can you confirm this? Thanks again!
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No. You can flash relaxed android 4.4.2 latest versions :highfive:

♥♥♥♥♥♥ Did towelroot Root KITKAT 4.4.2? ♥♥♥♥♥♥

♥♥♥♥♥♥ Did towelroot Root KITKAT 4.4.2? ♥♥♥♥♥♥
i checked official SAMSUNG WEBSITE daily as waiting kitkat releasing to my device region
yesterday samsung released KITKAT 4.4.2 to my device country region which is United Arab Emirates XSG and dated 20 Augest 2014!!!!!!?
the firmware name is G7102XXUBNH5_G7102OJVBNH1_XSG
I had two questions hoping you help me as your answer will guid me to upgrade to kitkat or not?(as you know you cann't downgrade from kitkat to Jelly bean after upgrading and without root i cann't run many helpfull Apps):
1- is towelroot rooting this Android version "kitkat" ? if not ,then how to root kitkat 4.4.2 without flash it(i mean just root ,not full flashas by "CF-root" :as you know you can root your device without flashing it by Geohot great tool " towelroot v.1").
2- is this release G7102XXUBNH5_G7102OJVBNH1_XSG had problmes ?what you advice me?is it appreciate to upgrade to kitkat using it or waiting for other kitkat versions like 4.4.4?
your opinion and advice and comment really helping and will be appreciated
Thanks for care.

today i stop waiting and i successfully flashed kitkat NH5 and found the following:
no important update with kitkat other else towelroot would not working v.1 and v.3 with string,so i search and found only CF-Auto root to root my device and i did it successfully and my fears about flashing root method diminished
my advice is :donn't update to kitkat NH5 it is just a time wasting
Regards

Many problmes with KITKAT:
1. unexplained restart without doing anything on the phone
2.copy files from internal storage to SD card is limited only to two company's programs:SAMSUNG & GOOGLE while the others Apps was denid
3.new keyboard which hide charachters untill you still pressing :bad change
and daily i found new mistakes
really donn't upgrade to kitkat,Jeally bean is great:good:

note 4 rooting problem

Note 4 N-910G Not ROOTING AFTER INSTALLING AUSTRALIA VERSION COJ3 GIVES BOOTLOOP

You have to follow the proper procedure on rooting 5.1.1. Here I successfully rooted my phone running on COJ3.

How u root ur phone

I just followed this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63114645.
But the link to the kernel was already closed. Hopefully you were able to save a copy beforehand.

TuT: HOW TO DOWNGRADE N920C TO 5.1.1 !!!!

HI ALL
here's how to revert back to stock lollipop 5.1 from 6
first you've to download the stock multi firmware over here
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B40ItdHKfkyQMzZITUNEZEw4VWM&export=download
use ODIN 3.10
select files
and done without any issue
hope if helped
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#Devx

I don't really see a reason as to why someone would want to downgrade back to 5.1.1 as 6.0.1 is amazing. Thanks for the tutorial anyways.
Btw the google drive link doesn't work.

DevXharrY said:
HI ALL
here's how to revert back to stock lollipop 5.1 from 6
first you've to download the stock multi firmware over here
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B40I...xport=download
use ODIN 3.10
select files
and done without any issue
hope if helped
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#Devx
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atleast copy/paste correctly, the link is incomplete

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B40ItdHKfkyQMzZITUNEZEw4VWM&export=download

one more thing ather
respect your self first then respect the others
u can tell me the site which i got this tut
and maybe i will show u it was me who post it
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B40ItdHKfkyQMzZITUNEZEw4VWM&export=download

SM-N920I
Hi OP can this be flash on 920i? thanks

is this will bypass sw check issue

note 5 n920i
that firmware works with my model n920i ....it came with vodafone apps but im using it in mexico .....i need to downgrade it because of battery drain ....MM sucks for me ....please i need help y already tried with the sammobile stock firmware but i get the error binary 3 device 2 if someone have the way to do it please tell us thanxs in advace
Marlo

Downgrade Lenovo A7000 from Marshmallow to Lollipop - Possible

Hi everyone,
I was fed up with marshmallow and had wanted to downgrade to Lollipop 5.0 searched the internet but found no supporting evidence of anyone successfully downgrading. Even people updated stating the official status is that you CANNOT downgrade.
I today took the risk and tried to downgrade to Lollipop S136 version using SP flash method (download only).
I confirm that the downgrade was successful and now my phone is on Lollipop S136 version. Just thought of sharing to all who desperately wanted to downgrade. Hit thanks if you find it helpful
SP Flash tool procedure : http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a7000/development/flashing-stock-rom-via-sp-flash-t3364235
Rooting can be done with Kingroot latest apk

I have A7000 on Lollipop. Is it not worth upgrading to Marshmallow?

zeon321 said:
I have A7000 on Lollipop. Is it not worth upgrading to Marshmallow?
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Give a try, if you don't like it, then you can downgrade..Whats the fun in knowing lollipop was better without tasting marshmallow...??

zeon321 said:
I have A7000 on Lollipop. Is it not worth upgrading to Marshmallow?
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Not recommended... not good pair of 8 GB internal storage and Marshmallow
1 week and 8 MB the internal storage. I Delete all downloaded app so have just Stock app my phone and remain low internal storage.
Lollipop the best!

sandebal1 said:
Hi everyone,
I was fed up with marshmallow and had wanted to downgrade to Lollipop 5.0 searched the internet but found no supporting evidence of anyone successfully downgrading. Even people updated stating the official status is that you CANNOT downgrade.
I today took the risk and tried to downgrade to Lollipop S136 version using SP flash method (download only).
I confirm that the downgrade was successful and now my phone is on Lollipop S136 version. Just thought of sharing to all who desperately wanted to downgrade. Hit thanks if you find it helpful
SP Flash tool procedure : http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a7000/development/flashing-stock-rom-via-sp-flash-t3364235
Rooting can be done with Kingroot latest apk
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Its good u like lolipop so u downgraded to it.I want to say that u can also downgrade to latest and final version of lolipop s153.
I am only giving my opinion and rest is ur choice.
latest stock lolipop s153http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a7000/development/stock-firmware-lenovo-a7000-t3205521

PrashantRana said:
Its good u like lolipop so u downgraded to it.I want to say that u can also downgrade to latest and final version of lolipop s153.
I am only giving my opinion and rest is ur choice.
latest stock lolipop s153http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a7000/development/stock-firmware-lenovo-a7000-t3205521
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Yes even S153 is good. I just wanted to confirm to people that DOWNGRADE was possible to Lollipop using SP FLASH download only method, the version to select is their choice

it is possible and i have done it twice..but i weird problem just happend to me..whenever i open about phone and go to system update it said no connection while i am connected to wifi...even if the update shows up in notification if i press on it i have no connection message..if anyone could help it would be very nice

i cant flash my phone after upgrade to marshmallow
So a couple days ago i flashed my lenovo from lollipop to marshmallow and it flashed succesfully, after checking the feature in marshmallow i think the firmware still need a couple fix and i wanted to downgrade again to lollipop but when i try to flash my phone it wont start, the phone charged up and in my pc pop out a massage "vcom installation failed" but i already installed that driver, so can you help me with this problem? Thankyou

sandebal1 said:
Hi everyone,
I was fed up with marshmallow and had wanted to downgrade to Lollipop 5.0 searched the internet but found no supporting evidence of anyone successfully downgrading. Even people updated stating the official status is that you CANNOT downgrade.
I today took the risk and tried to downgrade to Lollipop S136 version using SP flash method (download only).
I confirm that the downgrade was successful and now my phone is on Lollipop S136 version. Just thought of sharing to all who desperately wanted to downgrade. Hit thanks if you find it helpful
SP Flash tool procedure : http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a7000/development/flashing-stock-rom-via-sp-flash-t3364235
Rooting can be done with Kingroot latest apk
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Hi there Sandebal 1...is it worth to try this downgrade???.... It's been a month tried to find about this downgrade n find you in this forum.beside I really enjoy lollipop than Marshmallow...

Hi.. I tried flashing stock ROM lollypop s153 on my phone via sp tool flash. But while loading scatter file it shows a error ” image system checksum failed, checksum reference value(0x9fa0) in the config ini file, please re-fill correct checksum value and reload scatter file again". I have checked all da dl in options. Can you please help.

Hi! I succesfully downgraded my phone to android 5.0 lollipop. Everything works fine except my sd card -it says my sd is corrupted but that's not true because on android 6.0 marshmallow that sd worked. I also tried different sd card but nothing changed. I even tried to format sd card but it still doesn't work. Is there some way how to fix it ?

Same problem here
GoodWolf said:
Hi! I succesfully downgraded my phone to android 5.0 lollipop. Everything works fine except my sd card -it says my sd is corrupted but that's not true because on android 6.0 marshmallow that sd worked. I also tried different sd card but nothing changed. I even tried to format sd card but it still doesn't work. Is there some way how to fix it ?
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I successfully downgraded to lollipop 5.0 everything works good but it says that my sd card is corrupt .....i tried formatting it but it still not working i tried another sd card but it was also detected as corrupt ........i don't know what to do now
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance!

2020
Is this method still work? even it's old?
And also before flashing does the SD requires to be external or internal?
Trying downgrade my marshmallow 6.0 A7000-a