How to Unofficially Update Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to Android Lollipop

In the next tutorial, once again thanks to the selfless guys and components of XDA Developers, I am going to explain the correct way to update our Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to Android Lollipop unofficially with the first build of C. A port or a first version of Android 5.0 Lollipop that, as you can understand, has some serious errors or bugs, so if you are not sure what you are going to do or want a Rom for daily use, I recommend you not to follow this tutorial.

Anyone who is going to follow the tutorial has to take into account the option of making a nandroid backup of the entire system for easy recovery in case of problems when flashing, or if you want to go back to it at any time. restore the system to the point as you had it before flashing this port of Android Lollipop.

Things that fail or do not quite work well in this Android Lollipop port for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 international model Snapdragon

• Occasional reboots.
• Video recording does not work with either camera.
• Some functionality of the home button does not work.
• Some audio codecs don't work.
• Small bugs in the graphical interface.
• The keyboard works partially, it is advisable to install an alternative keyboard.

Requirements to flash this Android 5.0 Lollipop Rom on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 International

The requirements to be able to test this First Android Lollipop Rom on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 They go through the usual own requirements to install any cooked Rom. The requirements are as follows:

1. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 international model, the model with Snapdragon processor.
2. Terminal Rooted and with modified Recovery installed.
3. Recovery must be updated to the latest version available to avoid flashing errors.
4. Battery charged 100 × 100.
5. USB debugging enabled from Android settings.
6. EFS folder backup just in case.

Files needed to flash this Android Lollipop Rom on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 international model

The Files needed are limited to three compressed files in zip format that we will copy without decompressing in the internal memory of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that we are going to flash:

1. Android Lollipop rom based on Cyanogenmod 12
2. Gapp's Lollipop
3. SuperSU

Flashing method of the Android Lollipop Rom for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3

We restart in Recovery mode and we follow these instructions step by step:

• Wipe data factory reset
• Wipe cache partition
• Advanced / wipe dalvik cache
• Go Back
• Install zip from sdcard
• Choose zip and install the Rom zip
• Choose zip again and install the zip of the Gapps Lollipop
• Choose zip again and install the SuperSu zip to have Root access.
• Wipe cache partition
• Advanced / wipe dalvik cache
• Go Back
• Reboot system now

With this we should see the boot screen of Android 5.0 Lollipop on our Samsung Galaxy Note 3.