[PLUG] Upgrading rooted Samsung Android phone

[David Bridges]

If you device is supported I think that LineageOS is a great option. 
You can see if your device is support at the following link.  

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

By default the device is not rooted but it can be added although I
personally do not have a need for it.

The particular device you mentioned does appear to be supported and
from looking over the information at the following page for the Galaxy
Note 3 (T-Mobile)(hltetmo) the installation of 14.1 (based on Nougat)
should be fairly straightforward.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hltetmo

--
David

On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 21:03 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> If you're rooted you can't do it in the usual way (over the air) - if
> you go into System Settings > General > About Device > Software
> Update
> you get "Your device has been modified, software updates are not
> available,"
> 
> According to internet advice you can upgrade a rooted Android phone
> with Kies, a Samsung app normally used to sync your phone with your
> computer. Unfortunately, you must install Kies on a Windows or a Mac
> computer. Just as well - the last thing I'd ever want to do is sync
> my
> phone with my computer.
> 
> My phone is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (now KitKat 4.4.2),
> which
> I have loved since I got it three or four years ago. I paid someone
> $10
> to root it for me because I couldn't figure out how to do it myself.
> Being rooted is great - for example, I uninstalled the texting app so
> I
> can no longer receive the spam text messages from the carrier (now
> Metro
> PCS). 
> 
> If anyone knows how to upgrade a rooted KitKat phone to Lollipop or
> later, I'm all ears. And if no one here knows, maybe this could be
> addressed at the next Clinic. 
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