yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kozmo21:
No you don't "have to" make a donation. It just won't happen automatically.

Look at his signature where it says ... "Google Nexus Stock Firmware Images, Recoverys and All Toolkit Downloads: http://goo.im/devs/mskip"

... follow the link and type in "t889" in the search and the file will show there.

Be sure to at least hit his thanks button though if you can't donate.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ionic7:
Only one im seeing is 4.1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kozmo21:
If you click on that link (http://goo.im/devs/mskip) at the top right where it says " SEARCH BY MD5 OR FILENAME" ... type in there "t889" and the 1st file that shows up is BMD1.zip
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ionic7:
saw that but the directory did not say it was a tool kit so was not sure if it was righ tone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ajohnson5080:
The donation is nominal and for the ease of use, it is worth way more. Helps the developer keep developing. I like to support good work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 TOOLKIT AUTO UPDATE V4.2.8 [24TH JUNE 2013] AVAILABLE!!

Changelog:

+Added support for KOREAN KT MODEL [SHV-E250K] up to 4.1.2 build VME6

+Custom Recovery images are now downloaded automatically by the Toolkit after Build Selection after the Model files have downloaded. This cuts down dramatically the Auto Update (and future public build) file size.

[Auto Updates are only accessible if you have donated to the Toolkit project, received an activation code and unlocked the professional features. Auto Updates are a much faster and easier way of pushing small updates that would otherwise not be worth doing. I can push a single textual change or add support for a new build without having to go through the whole process of building a full version and uploading a large file. IF you are not able to or do not want to donate to unlock the Auto Update feature (and other professional features) then all the smaller updates are collated and a full build made when I have time or if there are enough updates to warrant it. This is the easiest way to make sure all the Toolkits are as up to date as possible. IF you have any views about this please email toolkit.support@skipsoft.net about them and do not post in the open thread]

Donation links can be found at http://www.skipsoft.net/?page_id=703 for users who wish to update to the Professional version and enable Auto Updates.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 TOOLKIT AUTO UPDATE V4.3.0 [03RD JULY 2013] AVAILABLE!!

Changelog:

+Updated all SuperSU Root [by Chainfire] methods to lastest version V1.34

+Custom Recovery files checked and verified after download by Toolkit

+NAND Restore function [CWM and TWRP] fixed as it was skipping the selection step

+Minor fixes and improvements

[Auto Updates are only accessible if you have donated to the Toolkit project, received an activation code and unlocked the professional features. Auto Updates are a much faster and easier way of pushing small updates that would otherwise not be worth doing. I can push a single textual change or add support for a new build without having to go through the whole process of building a full version and uploading a large file. IF you are not able to or do not want to donate to unlock the Auto Update feature (and other professional features) then all the smaller updates are collated and a full build made when I have time or if there are enough updates to warrant it. This is the easiest way to make sure all the Toolkits are as up to date as possible. IF you have any views about this please email toolkit.support@skipsoft.net about them and do not post in the open thread]

Donation links can be found at http://www.skipsoft.net/?page_id=703 for users who wish to update to the Professional version and enable Auto Updates.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] 0bscuridad:
Awesome toolkit, I used this when I was running 4.1.1, now I updated to 4.1.2 but the Build BMD1 is not yet supported on your free version, I do understand it takes time and talent to build a toolkit so useful, but I was just wondering if there are any plans on releasing a free update with support for some of the latest builds.

Thanks BTW, I really loved my Note 2 when it was rooted.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] zeitgeist77:
A lot of rooting methods really don't work anymore I don't know why but yours still go hard without any problems so thanks the other methods allow me to root but not flash
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] tongueman87:
Nice
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] 0bscuridad:
I got the files but I have no idea on how I get the option to select this Build on the main menu
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mtpktz:
What do I need to do in order to add the T889UVBMD1?

I downloaded the T889UVBMD1 zip file from http://goo.im/devs/mskip

Do I need to just extract that zip to the Toolkit and replace the files in the toolkit?

EDIT - Tried to extract that zip to the toolkit and replace the files, ran the toolkit and that T-Mobile BMD1 is still not there.

Thanks for any help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] briand805:
disregard pls. thank you.,
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Fasst2001:
Can I get a little more help on how to get BMD1 selectable in the interface? I downloaded the files and extracted them to the toolkit folder. There is still no way to use these extracted files that I see. When the toolkit loads, BMD1 is not listed and if you select BMB4 it just downloads the files needed for BMB4. Is there an interface update or some other file that we are missing to make this selectable in the goo.im area?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Fasst2001:
For anyone else that needs help with the BMD1 file, I figured out how to do it. Just select the BMB4 option (#72) and let the program do it's thing. Then, when you select to flash recovery and root, it will open ODIN. Here you can select any files you want to flash, it doesn't have to be the ones it tells you to load. So, under PDA, select the bootloader and recovery files that were extracted from the BMD1 zip file and flash those. You can also create a tar file from within the toolkit that contains both of the files to flash them in one shot if you prefer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] evohog:
Can I run the toolkit on mac, might have missed or probably did miss my answer. Thanks for the response and possible flamage..lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] n7105T:
Wrong thread. Delete.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Marty_Since87:
4.3 has my model number T-Mobile SGH-T889 BUILD JZO54K.T889UVBMD1 but I can't download 4.3 -_-
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] playingeetar247:
So mods opened the thread back up but dl links are still removed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] darksoul21:
F*d up to say the least.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jfed:
Are the links going to be restored? : )
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] playingeetar247:
Check your pm...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] XeoNoX:
where is the link for toolkit V4.3.0 ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] saridnour:
What happened to the toolkit? Seems gone from the net?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] hodgestl:
goto skipsoft.net to find the toolkit. Version 4.1 is still the publiclly available one. He has 4.2 toolkit available for the Note II but that is a donate only option.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Poser:
Mark,

Sorry for the OT, but given your experience with all iterations of this device... how likely will it be that we see ROMs (minus baseband) that are usable across all versions (global and us).

Great work and thank you. Your toolkit is indispensable
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ashtear:
Quick question: I flash the recovery through Odin using the Toolbox, and the instructions stated that the RESET square in the upper left of Odin should be green... but when I try it, it's blue. The recovery doesn't seem to stick either.

How do I boot to recovery on this phone? Hold volume up + down like the Galaxy S2? Any other way of flashing the recovery besides Odin if the phone's rooted? I'm trying to flash the TWRP version that the repository tells me to...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] aksek:
After plugging in my phone, I get the message 'the required section was not found in the INF. ' Any ideas of how to fix this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Theoretically it shouldnt be too hard to build a Rom that would work across all the devices and just auto selects the right boot image to use for full compatibility but it really depends how the chefs wish to proceed with that or if they just want to stick with their own device.

There are workarounds to that though ;)

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Installing drivers? What was you doing?

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] aksek:
Yes, attempting to install drivers.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennie:
is the stock recovery included this build? I want to go exchange mine for a different note2 but I'm not sure if they'll check if it was rooted.....and triangle away doesn't seem to work without stock recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
There are currently no Stock images for the US variants apart from the boot images that people sent me.

You can install the unroot zip file from custom recovery but you will still need to put stock recovery back on.

If someone has rooted with the Insecure Boot method option 1 or 2 (not flashing custom recovery) then the Stock Recovery will be untouched. If some kind soul can root with option 2 (root and busybox) then could they goto the backup/restore section and pull the recovery image. Upload it somewhere and post the link so I can add it to the toolkit.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 TOOLKIT AUTO UPDATE V2.1.0 [29TH OCTOBER] AVAILABLE!!

Changelog:

+Added FULL support for GT-N7105 (with LTE)

+Added Stock Recovery image for GT-N7105

+Added link in Downloads section for GT-N7105 Rom

+Edited some procedures

+Added some text to Main Menu

Enjoy

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kberk001:
T-Mobile Recovery Image?

Stupid couple of questions, since while I have rooted a couple of times on different devices, such as my Galaxy SIII, I don't claim to understand the black magic going on behind the scenes:

1) It would appear you still need the T-Mobile recovery image, according to this post. Is that correct?

2) Is that all you (or I) would need to be able to flash back to stock on the T-Mobile version?

3) Can/should someone who does Option 2, as you suggested, for the sake of getting that image to you, then redo the "full" (Option 3, if I recall?) version to get the extra bits and parts?

Guess that's it. Frightened I'm going to manage to brick my brand new Note II on my brand new T-Mobile account, or that if I decide not to stay with them, opting say for Verizon, that I won't be able to return because of unrooting or being able to use Triangle Away to erase the evidence! :)

Still, if it's reasonably safe to do so, I'll go ahead and do it for the team.

Let me know.

K-
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennie:
I was thinking the samething. I have another Note 2 Untouched.....I think I'm just going to go ahead and do it

everybody pls send me good luck. doing it for the team.....

Mskip is there any chance of bricking with options 1 or 2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] wouterkcs:
Works on T-mobile, but...

Hello,

Using 2.0.0 rooted using option 4. I am rooted as Titanium granted root, but it displays Overview. (not options as Backup and Restore).

Checking it states I have not installed Busy Box. I did -- in fact I saw it being executed.

Where is the Unroot option?

Nandroid gives error --- Busybox version less than 1.20 found. Exiting...

When will we have access to STOCK ROM from T-Mobile?

Will unroot make OWA/Kies updates not work? If so, how to make it work?

Help please...

WK

ps: I donate, but did't receive an email yet. (received - Thanks)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennie:
hey mskip here is an untouched recovery.....I used option 2. hope this helps

there's a storm going on outside right now and before I get blown away might as well I do something to help out.

Edit: is from a Gnote 2 T-Mobile t889
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Thank you I will add it to the Toolkit for anyone who needs it until the stock firmware images are available to download.

Hope you dont get blown away lol.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennie:
nice. lol thanks, hope I don't too.....and looking forward to the update.....want to get this other Gnote2 I have unrooted, triangle awayed, recovery restored so I can return it. I'm keeping the white one and returning the gray....its too big for my gf's hands (lol that sounds funny when I read it out loud)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Unroot option is in the root/unroot section but it wont take a phone fully back to stock it just removes the root and busybox files, there will still be traces of root left behind. There also isnt any way to reset the flash counter yet but Chainfire is working on it and hes very good at what he does so it wont be long.

You will have access to Stock Roms when they are leaked or released online. As soon as I see them I will add them to the Toolkit.

Unrooting will not adversely affect anything (apart from root apps).

I sent you an email with your code :)

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Yes it did sound funny lol are you sure ur talking about the phone ;)

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] gaww:
Will Samsung drivers from the S III work (ie - are they the same) as the N2 drivers so the first step can be skipped?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
No they arent the same.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] gaww:
Ok - will just download/install these and let the computer sort it out when I plug in one or the other..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] wouterkcs:
Did not answer why my rooted phone does not work with Titanium Backup Pro?

I get an overview tab -- not backup and restore tabs. Based on google search it states that BusyBox was not installed correctly.

I did install BusyBox with option 4.

Thanks,

Thanks

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It shows overview tabs instead of backup and restore, Google search states Busy Boxx is not there --- it did loaded with option 4. I did do an unroot before.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Sorry what do you mean by an overview tab? What are you doing exactly?

Option 4 of the Rooting section doesnt install busybox it just roots the phone via custom recovery.

Mark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] wouterkcs:
no backup/restore tab
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] wwjoshdew:
Easy fix... This happened to me recently... Press menu, preferences, and then backup location. Then whole scan, and select the area it finds. then press "use current folder". :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] harpocrates:
Cell signal lost a day after root. Help?

Hi,

I used the development kit and it worked great. Got Root, busybox etc installed TWRP. I even did a backup with it.

After a day of playing around with it I was freezing tmobile bloatware (with titanium backup pro) at home where I have no cell recpetion and have to use wifi calling and then left my house and it did not pick up any cell service. Tried rebooting and nothing. Firgured it was related to freezing tmo apps so restored them. Rebooted, still nothing. Went to recovery and tried a wipe (factory reset, cache and dalvik...dalvik failed but others worked) and lost OS. Went home for lunch to use personal laptop where I had backup and realized I couldnt restore backup since I could only get into recovery or download mode. Could not find a tmobile odin image so I downloaded frosty jb build for the note 2 in zip. Flashed from recovery and phone is up and operational now.

I havent tried restoring backup from toolkit but checked folder and it has the folders but no files so I dont know if backup would work.

I have also donated since the app was great and im hoping you will add the factory images for tmobile phones to restore to.

Upon researching this problem I found a thread that mentions losing cell signal after root. Had a tmo boot.img tar to flash via odin and everyone was posting successes so I figured that might solve my issue. It did not.

So now I am posting here (posted in that thread too), to ask if anyone has had similar experiences of losing cell signal after root. Mine didnt happen right away so Im thinking my issue may be different. I will try the backup and see if that fixes it but I would also like to know what went wrong and if there is a fix for future flashes. Will be flashing a lotttt so want to be ready :P

Usually if you wait a month or two before flashing a new android phone you got, ou can find fixes to everything and answers in forums, But when you act like a child that got a new toy and rush..like i did with the note...you get this :P

So has anyone had this, do you know of solutions and will factory images for tmo be included soon :).

Also, has anyone discussed wifi calling (a bit off topic but havent found any threads on it for tmobile android development for note 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] guthrien:
There are some threads about wifi calling in the General section for this phone. And unfortunately, T-Mobile/Samsung haven't released official images/firmware for this phone yet for them to include.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] gaww:
TWRP is included in this Tool but the TWRP Recovery website does not show the US TMo Note 2 as being supported yet.

Does this package install the overseas TWRP recovery? If it works Ok - would not care but want to make sure I don't mess anything up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ronnie86:
Flash different recovery

Hey guys,

I have a tmobile galaxy note 2. I flashed the twrp recovery and for whatever reason it will not create backups. I was going to just flash clock work mod, but how do I flash if I already have a recovery installed? I tried just flashing custom recovery again but that did not work, still pulled up twrp. Do I go back to stock recovery then flash again? if so how?

Thanks guys

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nevermind guys, found the answer to my problem shortly after. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] igorenyuk:
Hey, I'm kind of in the same boat. How were you able to flash clockwork mod instead of twrp? Plz share the knowledge :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] harpocrates:
Hi Guys,

I used this tool and installed the TWRP recovery but after several issues I encountered and attempts to fix them,w ith the help of slimc84 http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=4350792 I managed to recover my phone and it seems some issues were from the TWRP recovery. I installed the CWM recovery through odin and it worked fine.

Some of the issues I encountered with TWRP are that during a typical wipe to reset phone because of some of the issues I had, it wiped OS too. I have used TWRP hundreds of times (literally) on my galaxy nexus and that never happened so I would say thats a bug from not being an official release. The other issue I had is that it would fail during dalvik cache wipe which was also a reason I could not fix a lost signal issue I encountered. CWM worked fine for wipe, installing a rom and so far for backup (havent tried a restore). It is also not officially supported yet but it works better. slimc84 sugested I try that instead of TWRP cause he has heard of issues with it too.

So I would reccomend to wait on TWRP. Also, i would reccomend to take things slower than me and have proper nandroid on your phone from recovery before doing anything and have an image downloaded to recover via odin if anything goes wrong. This way you arent left without a phone searching for all this and waiting for it to download :P (like I was).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] igorenyuk:
Yea, I kinda figured TWRP was a bad idea on this bad boy. Won't even make a backup. Question is how can I flash CWM to replace TWRP? Can I use the tool and just choose to flash CWM? But I thought ronnie tried this and it didn't work... Things have been going pretty smoothly so far with the root and everything, wanna keep it that way and be 100% sure before doing anything. And I badly need to make a backup, so I can try the tethering mod
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] harpocrates:
The rom manager from the market cannot flash cwm since its not officially supported yet. I flashed cwm through odin. If you cannot find the flashable image for cwm let me know and ill try to find where I got it. It was somewhere here in xda. I managed to do a backup but havent tried restoring to see it was ok. I should try that before I fiddle too much with it though :P

Let me know.

Oh..and for the tethering, there is a good post in here explaining about t-mobiles new way of trying to stop tethering. You will probably want to try and use a vpn when you tether or at least change the UA string on your desktop browser (if thats what you use tethering for). If you are using it just for some android tablet you should be fine. otherwise T-mobile tries to make you pay an extra 5 dollars a month to use the data you are already paying for....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] igorenyuk:
Yup, I was using VPN on my Nexus, so I'll continue to do that. I'll check back in if I'm unable to flash CWM. Thanks for the tips! If anyone else has a simple way of replacing TWRP with CWM, please, do let me know! (I should have gone with CWM right away, but the instructions video threw me off - recommending to choose TWRP. But big thanks to wwjoshdue for posting it anyway! Also, million thanks to mskip! I'll buy you a beer or two after getting paid on Friday! Xda just rock!)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] harpocrates:
Flashing the cwm tar file through odin is relatively easy. You already have odin installed since you have root, find the cwm tar file (it might be in the toolkit folder..it should be) get into download mode (if your rom supports it by selecting restart and then downloader mode, otherwise when you boot up hold volume down, home key and power key all together and release power key when you see the first samsung logo...).

If you need a video or screenshot tutorial and links let me know and ill make one for you...but it will have to be friday cause tomorrow is game night :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] igorenyuk:
Yea, flashing CWM instead of TWRP was definitely very simple, I was over-thinking it for some reason. Was able to create a back-up and everything, so everything is in tip-top shape. Again, big thanks to mskip, I owe you a beer!!!

No luck getting tethering to work so far though :/ Used WarlockW's method to replace APNs (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33453910#post33453910). Finally able to turn tether on and connect my computer to it. Webpages won't load though, just time out (do not get tmobile upsell page either since i'm using VPN). But I know I'm in good hands with all the devs here. They will make everything work sooner or later. Thank God for XDA
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] harpocrates:
I'll try tethering on a laptop (usually just use it for nexus tablet) without changing apns and let you know what happens.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] wish777:
Your work is incredible...thank you very much,Can't wait to use this once I get my att galaxy note 2 ! :thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhowanidin:
Hey Mark, are you going to update the T-Mobile TWRP with the official one? Other one was giving some people problems. Here's the link:

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/123
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Pandemoniumone:
..........figured it out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] LvDisturbed1:
Official TWRP is now live. Also we have the official stock image as well. Woot!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mskip:
Its already added into the Toolkit and I will push an Auto Update tonight as I have also added support for Rogers/ATT. I will release a full version in a few days after I have finished updating the S3 Toolkits.

Mark.