Downgrading from lollipop

mindshadow

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I've only had lollipop for 48 hours and I've already had enough of it. The lag is unbearable. Games lag too much even on high performance mode, messaging lags, HD video playback lags and only works smoothly in high performance mode. Lollipop for htc one m8 is not fit for purpose and I would like to know how I can get kitkat back on my phone this version was flawless and I only updated by complete accident as I was holding off on it but the stupid update mechanism forced me to update.

Any ideas on the process of getting kitkat back? Has anybody done this?

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All the lag is after a full factory reset and wiping cache partition

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I don't have enough posts here yet to put the link in properly, but in the address window after the androidcentral dot com/, insert: samsung-galaxy-s5/489071-tutorial-downgrade-samsung-galaxy-s5-5-0-4-4-kitkat followed by .html

It worked for me. Saved my sanity, actually.

P.S. These instructions will work regardless of your carrier, just be sure to follow them for downloading the correct kitkat 4.4.4 version provided by your carrier. It's pretty self-explanatory. Good luck!
 
How about you don't do that. That link looks to be for a galaxy s5 not an HTC one m8, so how you got it to work on an m8 is not only beyond me, it leads me to believe you either don't have the m8 and posted in the wrong forum or you are trolling.

Short answer shadow, you can't. Or, you can if you have an m8 that is s-off with an unlocked boot loader, but I am going to assume you don't as if you did this would not be a question you would need to ask. As of now there is no way to unlock and s-off from lollipop, so you will either need to sit tight until there is a way and learn how to do that, risking your phone in the process (so I hope you have some tech knowledge of operating systems) or factory reset your phone, reconnect your Google account, and start over with downloading your apps and setting them up WITHOUT RESTORING FROM A GOOGLE BACKUP. That's an important step. Do it all manually. It will take some time but it is worth it in the end.
 
How about you don't do that. That link looks to be for a galaxy s5 not an HTC one m8, so how you got it to work on an m8 is not only beyond me, it leads me to believe you either don't have the m8 and posted in the wrong forum or you are trolling.

Short answer shadow, you can't. Or, you can if you have an m8 that is s-off with an unlocked boot loader, but I am going to assume you don't as if you did this would not be a question you would need to ask. As of now there is no way to unlock and s-off from lollipop, so you will either need to sit tight until there is a way and learn how to do that, risking your phone in the process (so I hope you have some tech knowledge of operating systems) or factory reset your phone, reconnect your Google account, and start over with downloading your apps and setting them up WITHOUT RESTORING FROM A GOOGLE BACKUP. That's an important step. Do it all manually. It will take some time but it is worth it in the end.

Much appreciated! Thanks for the information. I guess I will have to wait it out. I did do a factory reset with htc backup, could this have contributed to the problems do you think?

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Its possible but hard to say for sure. Major android updates can really tend to mess with phones in strange ways.
 
How about you don't do that. That link looks to be for a galaxy s5 not an HTC one m8, so how you got it to work on an m8 is not only beyond me, it leads me to believe you either don't have the m8 and posted in the wrong forum or you are trolling.

Short answer shadow, you can't. Or, you can if you have an m8 that is s-off with an unlocked boot loader, but I am going to assume you don't as if you did this would not be a question you would need to ask. As of now there is no way to unlock and s-off from lollipop, so you will either need to sit tight until there is a way and learn how to do that, risking your phone in the process (so I hope you have some tech knowledge of operating systems) or factory reset your phone, reconnect your Google account, and start over with downloading your apps and setting them up WITHOUT RESTORING FROM A GOOGLE BACKUP. That's an important step. Do it all manually. It will take some time but it is worth it in the end.

Yes. 100% this. I like to mess around with custom ROMs and I've found that upgrades (such as OTAs) have problems. Maybe more so than the stock OTAs. But patches come and re-installs work. Starting from scratch is the way to go, especially when you're talking about 2 radically different operating systems. Lollipop is considerably different from 4.4.4 and a full restart of the system is the way to go. Ideally, a Cache and Dalvik Cache wipe would be the next steps, but if you can't do that a factory reset from Lollipop should do the trick.