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    Root odin FAIL!! when trying to downgrade

    have a replacement S5 running 5.0 (smashed screen phone is successfully rooted), and trying to downgrade it to either 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 results in a FAIL!! from odin and thats the end. I worked with both phones tonight, the cracked screen S5 connected and communicated, loaded up, worked perfect...
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    Help ROOTED!! now what??

    so i finally got 4.4.2 in the phone, rooted with towelroot, and downloaded supersu...now what?? supersu doesn't let me do anything. I want to remove all the stupid crap verizon put on the phone and keep it from ever trying to update again. what exactly did rooting do for me? everything looks...
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    Help Recent apps rolodex back to grid view?

    Had to replace my S5 running on 4.4.4 to one on this stupid lollipop nonsense. I recall reading somewhere about a way to change the recent apps view back to tiles or grid, whatever it was before 5.0. Anyone know? Anyone know of a dark theme I can purchase for this thing??? I hate all this...
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    Dodge 5.0 with straight talk?

    On Verizon now, don't want 5.0, can't get this thing rooted for nothing. Verizon is a ripoff anyways so would going to straight talk or similar keep me from getting the 5.0 update?
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    Root [Verizon] cant root with 4.4.2!!

    i just downgraded back to 4.4.2, from 4.4.4, all to get away from lollipop. of course i got stuck in a boot loop and ended up having to do a factory reset and now, towelroot says the phone isn't supported!! i tried towelpieroot but it doesn't do anything but hang up??? what gives, was this a...
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    Help Lollipop trying to get back in!

    a few months ago I got the 5.0 update, hated it immediately, scrounged until I found this forum and a fix. I got oden and downloaded 4.4.4 and got that back onto the phone after a little headache and all was good again. Well, it came back! Downloaded the update onto my phone but I haven't...
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    Help root options for 4.4.4?

    I just downgraded back to 4.4.4 with Oden assuming that's what I had prior to 5.0, well it aint. I must have had 4.4.2. I see that popular options for rooting with 4.4.4 (towelroot) dont work and others trip knox, though I'm not sure I care about that. I kinda like the 4.4.4 and would love...
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    Help Chrome using all my battery, 5.0....

    So my beloved S5 was recently turned into a piece of crap with lollipop. I hate pretty much everything about it, not the least of which being that chrome now sucks up a solid 3rd, or even half of my battery. I'm not even browsing and it's draining it. What the heck is up with that?? I've...
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