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Root [Virgin Mobile] Upgrading to KitKat from 4.3 (No Knox)

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Hello all,

I've been out of date with the scene as of late.
Last update I made on my phone was flashing the stock 4.3 Jellybean ROM with the Knox bootloader removed.

What would exactly do I need to upgrade to Kit Kat in an order that won't brick my phone?

Thanks ahead of time.

EDIT: In addition, if anyone knows how to suppress the Official Update push notification that would be a great intermediate solution.
 
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hylianhero said:
Hello all,

I've been out of date with the scene as of late.
Last update I made on my phone was flashing the stock 4.3 Jellybean ROM with the Knox bootloader removed.

What would exactly do I need to upgrade to Kit Kat in an order that won't brick my phone?

Thanks ahead of time.

EDIT: In addition, if anyone knows how to suppress the Official Update push notification that would be a great intermediate solution.
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If you would like to stay knox free there are any number of kk d2lte custom ROMs to choose from. Check out Ab5traction's thread for a great list of them. If you want a stock kk ROM, you are going to have to take KNOX. In that case you'd need to revert to full stock via ODIN and take the update or flash the kk ROM via ODIN.
 
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upconvert said:
If you would like to stay knox free there are any number of kk d2lte custom ROMs to choose from. Check out Ab5traction's thread for a great list of them. If you want a stock kk ROM, you are going to have to take KNOX. In that case you'd need to revert to full stock via ODIN and take the update or flash the kk ROM via ODIN.
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Thanks for the timely reply. I took a peek at that thread, and I have a few questions before I go about it:

I'm still running the old bootloader, would I need to find a KitKat bootloader separately and install that prior to the KK ROM? Or do they typically come with the ROM itself.

Also, I know the thread lists the new modems and APNs to install. Is there compatability issues with any of them? (i.e. is there anywhere this can go wrong?)

Any common steps that may cause a brick? Trying to do this with as little headache as possible and having a heads up would help.
 
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hylianhero said:
Thanks for the timely reply. I took a peek at that thread, and I have a few questions before I go about it:

I'm still running the old bootloader, would I need to find a KitKat bootloader separately and install that prior to the KK ROM? Or do they typically come with the ROM itself.

Also, I know the thread lists the new modems and APNs to install. Is there compatability issues with any of them? (i.e. is there anywhere this can go wrong?)

Any common steps that may cause a brick? Trying to do this with as little headache as possible and having a heads up would help.
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If you're rooted, and running custom recovery, just accept the update, and it will fail(because you're not on stock recovery), and won't come up again. In order to run Touchwiz KK Roms, you must be on KK bootloader AND modem, both of which must be flashed from KK Tar. This also installs Knox on your phone. So in short, if you want KK, you have to take Knox. Do NOT attempt to flash any KK zip ROMs through CWM on top of JB bootloader. You will brick, or at the least, go into bootloop. If you want KK, flash the tar through Odin, and you're golden, but you'll be Knox'd up.
 
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Nucleartwig said:
I was just about to post this same question. In the exact same boat as OP. So am I understanding this right? If I want to upgrade to 4.4, even the custom roms contain knox and that there is no way around it or is that strictly for stock rom (I'm assuming that's touchwiz? Sorry, it's been a while)?
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No, the AOSP ROMs do not have Knox. So you are free to flash a AOSP zip if you wish.

The stock touch wiz (tw) Roms do have Knox and once you install (via odin) a 4.4.2 tw ROM it will change the bootloader to NDC.

Do not flash a 4.4.2 tw ROM on a non NDC bootloader. Phone will brick.

You can however flash a AOSP zip ROM on a phone that has the NDC bootloader.

Read. Read. Read. Everything you want to know has been asked and answered on this forum.
 
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