Recent content by Shadow_10

A quick update - I discovered that the 'recent apps' button also wasn't working (at all) & decided this was too much for a phone I'd only just bought, so I've sent it back without flashing the firmware, & bought one from a local shop. Thanks anyway for all your help & patience.

ok, so I've found where to do this & I'm assuming it's the first UK one as all the the other UK files seem to be for specific carriers/providers, none of which are Virgin, who I'm with. A couple of questions about this: 1) does the PDA code given there (G900FXXS1CPGZ) have to match any of my...

Re: Basic questions re rooting an S5 unfortunately it didn't work... I did a factory reset of the phone, I formatted my SD card (after backing up my data)....there didn't seem to be any obvious way to format the internal storage, so I deleted everything I was able to.....after rebooting I...

Wow thanks, that's a very comprehensive response! You're right, I was mixing rooting & flashing the ROM together. To be honest, i'd rather resolve theses problems without rooting/flashing, as least for now, but when I did a factory reset there didn't seem to be options for different variations...

Complete newbie to S5 & to rooting here, so some basic questions. I'm guessing that when I root I'm also installing a replacement OS....? Is that a hacked version of the Samsung OS, or something different? Will I need to replace all the standard apps by finding & d.loading others manually or...