So finally last night Rogers released the Lollipop upgrade for the Galaxy S5 (at least that's when I checked and it showed up as available).
I rooted my phone a couple of weeks ago as the ads inside apps were really starting to get to me. KNOX wasn't tripped and Device Status still shows Official. I had a feeling the OTA won't work for me but tried anyway... things were going well and the phone was doing the upgrade with the Droid showing up with things spinning in his tummy. It then ended up with FAIL message and the phone booted up as normal 4.4.2 KitKat, it then displayed a message saying upgrade wasn't possible and asked me to use Kies3.
I've used Kies before and hooking up my phone, it did prompt me to upgrade firmware, so I backed my phone up, created around 4 GB of room as it apparently needs 3 GB of free space to install comfortably. But then I still wasn't able to upgrade, it just kept giving me a Kies3 Notice saying multiple things like at least 3 GB should be free, if you have a lot of apps on external storage, move them back to internal, remove external storage during the upgrade process, bla bla. Of course I ignored all that but that was that, it wouldn't proceed.
I have disabled SuperSU already. This is the message I'm getting when trying Kies3:
OTA install still gives me a FAIL message during upgrade and just reboots the phone as normal.
What am I missing?
I rooted my phone a couple of weeks ago as the ads inside apps were really starting to get to me. KNOX wasn't tripped and Device Status still shows Official. I had a feeling the OTA won't work for me but tried anyway... things were going well and the phone was doing the upgrade with the Droid showing up with things spinning in his tummy. It then ended up with FAIL message and the phone booted up as normal 4.4.2 KitKat, it then displayed a message saying upgrade wasn't possible and asked me to use Kies3.
I've used Kies before and hooking up my phone, it did prompt me to upgrade firmware, so I backed my phone up, created around 4 GB of room as it apparently needs 3 GB of free space to install comfortably. But then I still wasn't able to upgrade, it just kept giving me a Kies3 Notice saying multiple things like at least 3 GB should be free, if you have a lot of apps on external storage, move them back to internal, remove external storage during the upgrade process, bla bla. Of course I ignored all that but that was that, it wouldn't proceed.
I have disabled SuperSU already. This is the message I'm getting when trying Kies3:
OTA install still gives me a FAIL message during upgrade and just reboots the phone as normal.
What am I missing?
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