How to remove Android 5.0 and reinstall 4.4.4??

[rockitdog23]

Lollipop is killing my s5. How does one go about removing the update? I wish I had left 4.4.4 installed....

Thanks in advance. I'm a realative Android newbie so I'm not sure about a lot of stuff yet.

 

[Rukbat]

That depends on the carrier. As far as I know, you can't do it on an AT&T or Verizon Samsung phone.

On other phones, just find the 4.4.4 ROM for your model phone (the S5 comes in different model numbers) at SamMobile Firmwares. Type the model number into the search box, click (or press) the magnifying glass, if a page of countries and carriers (and maybe different versions of Android) comes up, choose the one fr your country and carrier for 4.4.4. The next page has a download button and full instructions on how to use that file.

 

[Dark Penguin]

That depends on the carrier. As far as I know, you can't do it on an AT&T or Verizon Samsung phone.

Is this still absolutely true? The sticky thread seems to suggest otherwise, at least with regard to Verizon. Of course, it would mean the loss of all data on the device.

To the OP: when I first got mine about four weeks ago, I had a few problems which turned out to be, judging from the evidence, hardware related. The central issue in my case was that the phone kept rebooting spontaneously, several times a day, and the first warranty replacement phone exhibited the same bad behavior. After upgrading that phone to 5.0 its performance improved, although the problem didn't go away completely. Nevertheless, I was going to go forward with that phone, thinking that I would just iron out the remaining issues in time. As it happened, I had yet another warranty replacement in my possession that I was planning to return, not seeing any reason to believe that it would be any better; I didn't want to go through activation and setup all over again. My carrier said I couldn't do that because it would cause some kind of catastrophic anomaly in the spacetime continuum (really, that their system couldn't handle such a transaction), and I would have to return the second phone and keep the third one instead. In the end, I'm glad it worked out that way, because the third phone has been working flawlessly.