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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jellydroid13:
I thought the others weren't locked though?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlueHarford:
I dunno. I first step though is getting boot. Img to people who know how to exploit and unlock them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chipsa964:
Some others are reporting that it looses some of its smoothness. How does it seem on your end?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
Confirmed multi view is dead though?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
Anyone know of a way to disable the unlock security that enables after configuring a vpn connection?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Its TwiX:
I am sitting on a green android guy with "Downloading..." at the bottom when I enter Odin mode. Am I ready to continue or is it doing something?...

(never had a Samsung before)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thestinkinggenius:
Almost as bad as your signature with all of your past phones:p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JustusIV:
Success here. Thank you!

Is there a guide to add apps to multi view more that we have root?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
Correct. Plug it in and wait for Odin to recognize and follow accordingly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Its TwiX:
I think I forgot to enable USB Debugging, Is it safe to turn it off even though it's in Odin (but not downloading anything)?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
For those who phone now says custom, did you free or delete anything? I just checked mine and everything says official, froze bloatware now it says custom. Unfreezed and now it says official again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thesilverhawk:
I used this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmmeff.ez.unlock. I have no idea if it actually did anything other than display the message Bootloader successfully unlocked. But it did say that. It didnt brick anything it restarts just fine but im not certain it actully did anything. How can I test?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TallgeeseIV:
Wait... When you say "exactly as it was but with root permission" does that mean the broken signal bars bug isn't present anymore either?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] aaronc_98:
Jelly,

It would be great if you could post the stock recovery image _ I would like to see if that will get me back to official.

TIA,

AC
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] suzook:
I have deleted, froze, removed, and installed ...and mine does NOT say modified.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cdmoore74:
The s-pen is great for cutting out important posts to the scrapbook. Man I love this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
same here...mine still shows official!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
Where are you guys finding this?

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] aaronc_98:
I unfroze all of the bloatware and it still says "modified"...

I will keep trying...

Thanks,

AC
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jmorton10:
OMG, I laughed so hard when I read this.......
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TallgeeseIV:
I really need to know. Does the current process still have issues with the signal bars not working?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thunderbread:
No. signal bars are fine and so is multi view
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] j9k:
This is great!!! I can't wait to get the bloat out of this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
I tested this to and it says it worked.... how is this possible?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlueHarford:
hey anyone.. changed my density to 240 with lcd density.. now phone bootloops... went into recovery... factory reset... still bootloops...

ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
He of is not lying, i just installed and ran too.

---------- Post added at 05:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:36 PM ----------

You might have to install through odin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TallgeeseIV:
Ah, excellent, that's great news. Starting the process now. Are there any issues at all, other than this "modified" vs "official" debacle?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
Not that i can tell
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
I was afraid of this. LCD Density Pro is broken on 4.2. It will make you boot loop. The market fix still works, but not LCD changing. You'll have to manually change the density. Take the build.prop out, manually edit, move, fix permissions, and reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
Almost. But not quite.

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] vileSpyderPig:
I following the instructions in the video. Didn't work for Verizon variant. Thanks for figuring out the correct settings. You the man
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
Has anyone done this that can upload/share from somewhere? Not at a computer today and would love to see the difference in screen quality. Is the change pretty noticeable?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tnngng:
It works perfectly for me. Only thing didn'nt work was the encryption.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cdmoore74:
Since I'm a rookie to this Odin business I have a question.

Since Odin is used to load a rooted Verizon image can't the same method be used to load a custom ROM that's de-bloated, rooted and tweaked based on the shipping ROM? Might be a dumb question if we're close to having CWM/twrp but I like to know the possibilities just in case. I personally would not mine a custom ROM based on stock if it can be flashed with Odin.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TallgeeseIV:
Oh, one more question. Does this wipe all your settings, installed apps, widgets, customization, etc?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/99573/build.prop

Here's the build.prop I rippped. I have this edited to 241, but change to your favorite flavor.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] suzook:
You guys have to be kidding me. It DOES NOT unlock the bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] smw420:
I'm running 240 dpi and the only issue i had was Samsung keyboard fc'd constantly so i just used titanium and froze it. Now if only Beans V1 included a fixed camera overlay and dialer for 240 I'd be set! ;)

If you use Root Explorer you can mount /system writable and just exit the file, save, then mount /system read only.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrRobinson:
Yes absolutely. I think beanstown plans to release a rom that way.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] B0nes424:
Well I am glad we are still thinking in the positive!!!!! I hope sboot doesn't keep us locked down for too long!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
I was having issues with Root Explorer getting to presistently save the file.

I just noticed now that the camera overlay is funky, as you said. The dialer I can deal with, the camera is just ugly...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaWolf850:
According to his thread on rootzwiki, the current version (1.4) doesn't seem to check and see if the bootloader is unlocked. That thread has a download link for 1.2 (the last fully working version); see if that version also reports unlocked.

I'd post the relevant links but I don't have enough posts yet for that. The rootzwiki thread is linked to in the app description on the play store.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] smw420:
240 used to be an issue but every app i install works perfectly and in phone mode. I can't get tablet mode to kick in on my s3 until 160. Haven't tested that on gn2 yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
No.

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
after you three finger into odin mode, look at the top left corner of the screen...should say "system status" - "official" or "modified".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
odin root66 again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cdmoore74:
Thanks! I have no need to run stock Jelly Bean and the next version of Android is at least 6 months away. I don't want to overclock or mess with kernal related business. Just need to customize what we have and I would be a happy camper. Even if I had the choice between stock Android and a stock Note 2 Touchwiz ROM I would still want the features of Touchwiz and S-Pen for "this" phone. In this case a stock Jelly Bean ROM would hold the phone down. Never thought I would say that coming from a Nexus phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danutzz:
I edited my build.prop and now stuck in a bootloop... is there any way to run adb so I can move original build.prop? I don't want to wipe my system cause forgot to do a backup =\
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
I was looking everywhere in settings for it.

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
If you guys seriously dont take a step back and let the devs do thier thing you are going to end up with a hard bricked phone! The reason ezunlock didnt brick your device is because the latest version from the playstore dont work anyway. If you dont believe me then run version 1.1 or 1.2, but dont come in here crying cause your **** is ****ed up!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danutzz:
Nevermind, I guess you could ADB while it's bootlooping, lmao... the only thing i didn't try
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
also if you go into settings/about phone/status, scroll down under "device status" it will say "normal or "modified"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JonMS:
Just checked and mine says official. I've removed bloat and added apps to system ie. AOSP MMS/emoji
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bern612:
I'm hadn't said anything either, but I did install ez unlock also from the play store. In phone, device status it does say modified. I get where you are coming from about people just installing stuff. But maybe there is something to it and the dev could look into that area.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] B0nes424:
+1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kimdoocheol:
Does Move2SD work with this?

Also, is the first post the most up-to-date, or is there any other info I should know before taking the plunge. I will be doing this tonight in an hour or so. I pretty much want to remove bloatware and install some fonts that I have.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
Sorry to be a pain here, but it seems like im missing something. After applying the density change my home screens are only displaying my widgets and shortcuts on 2/3rds of the screen. Is there something else I'm supposed to do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nosit1:
Up to date.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
ill look into it and see what I come up with. thx
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thesilverhawk:
I intially installed and used the version 1.1 as that was the one in my titanium backup folder and it said unlocked and when I rebooted and opened the app, it dod dhow unlocked on the upper right corner. No hard brick or any problems.

Thats what my post was about, I didnt think it was that simple and I wanted someone to clear it up for me. Thanks for your input, sorry for any confusion and keep ip the awesome work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
hmmmmmm ok ill look into it in a bit. thx!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Larry Fortune:
There is not a move to sd option in application manager like on earlier versions. I found that using Rom Manager choosing his App Manager I was able to batch move about 41 apps to my sdcard.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
ok so I went ahead and ran the ezunlock tool...it said unlocked. Rebooted and nothing really changed. I also went ahead and ran the ezrecovery app and it just booted me into stock recovery. I was indeed wrong about it bricking your device...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jondecker76:
First of all, I've read all 43 pages of this thread. I'm pretty new to rooting like this, but I'm an accomplished Linux programmer and user.

Does anyone know if I can use the opensource Heimdall from Ubuntu to do this root? I haven't used Windows in at least 7 years, and prefer not to if I can avoid it.

Also, can somebody explain the DPI setting to me? Is this something that must be done? What are the advantages/disadvantages of setting the DPI (I noticed that others mentioned some issues when setting to the device-correct 240)?

Thanks! This thread is just packed with great information. Kudos to this excellent community!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gowansta:
So what is it doing exactly then? Working for is designed purpose?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
Move2SD is a app that does it for you.

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlueHarford:
Yea I ended up doing that. I'm not messing with **** until recovery and bootloader is unlocked. Pain in the ass
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tenyrnote:
All is good here thanks for making this easy. Do were have a custom recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] *Madmoose*:
Been a lot of conversation on the previous pages on this. Currently not possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
I hear ya...I have set my device up from scratch about 6 times now in the last day. Time for a break :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SeanPlunk:
When I plug into Odin, nothing happens. I'm not getting any signal that they're communicating. Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
my theory is its writing the unlocked image to a different partition than were sboot actually is...same for recovery. If you look up the partition table on the s3, it is completely different than the note 2. For instance the recovery partition on the note2 is mmcblk0p9 and on the s3 its mmcblk0p18.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tnngng:
Have you installed the Samsung drivers? and did you check usb debug?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deckoz2302:
Unfortunately we all lost the panoramic camera and float controls when we switched....lol, either way two days from release and rooted...not bad ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
try a different usb port on the pc... if still nothing then try reinstalling the driver.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggboii:
A little off-topic here but... OMG. "Pimp My Rom" gives this phone a helluva performance boost!

sent from spaceship somewhere over Area 51
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Happy to see that you Verizon people have root. Thanks to everyone and anyone who helped out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SeanPlunk:
I did, it was the USB port on my computer. The cable apparently didn't snap all the way in. Just used the other port and I'm rooted.

Thanks so much everyone - you guys are AMAZING!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Alice Kaye:
I got it rooted and a few bloatware apps backed up and uninstalled. That being said, I am noticing some stuttering a tad bit. It's driving me a tad nuts.

Anyone have any clue what could be causing it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
I'm still learning to be a dev, but has anyone really thought about the early tar file provided to us before the phone was even out? How the hell did someone get that and why?? Maybe that is the file we really need to achieve an unlock bootloader... Why would someone leak it if it wasn't important??? Why risk your job for something that's a waste? Just a thought. I know no one wants to risk there phone but maybe that Full Image is what we need.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] edpete97:
I didn't loose mine. I just tested to be sure, but pano works fine and so do my float controls (I assume you mean the stylus float)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
same here!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggboii:
I had this issue as well. May be something with not being able to clear Dalvik. Had to start again. Kept getting memory errors eventhough I had 10gb of internal storage after de-bloating.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Alice Kaye:
How do you start over? Just re-Odin and what not or do I need to go back to stock and then do it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggboii:
Yep. Re-flashed. Cleared my cache then factory reset. After reboot worked just fine.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mwshows:
I haven't rooted my N2 yet, but I'm pretty sure there was an option in TB to clear dalvik when you press the menu button. Maybe it just said clean dalvik I don't remember. But I do know the word dalvik was there LOL.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Alice Kaye:
I just did the same thing with the help of a friend. Did you try re-rooting after that? If so, is it running smooth now?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Marine6680:
As much as I see the questions asked... we may need some extra clarification in the OP.

**This will not wipe data/factory reset unless you chose to do so after you flash the new image**

(It is recommended to wipe if you experience problems after the install)

**This is a fully working root method, everything works. All issues reported early in the thread have been fixed**

Having it in read and large font may help people notice it. :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] UTbone04:
So, what exactly is the difference between "normal" and "official"? I've rooted with the OP's method and mine says "normal".

Also using portable Wifi hotspot, FoxFi, 1-click tether, or any other app that just bypasses the subscription check has caused issues for me. My laptop is able to connect to my Note 2 just fine but my LTE keeps cutting in and out on my phone. However, I was able to use 1-click tether just fine yesterday on 3G without root. Anybody else experience this too? I plan on just using boboy's method though and see if that works.

Edit: And boboy's method works well for me so far. Thanks dude!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpa4:
Can you be specific on this process please. I'd really like to move my apps over to SD.

What ROM manager, how did you do it? "his" app manager?

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Larry Fortune:
Sorry, it was Rom Toolbox

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...YsImNvbS5qcnVtbXkubGliZXJ0eS50b29sYm94cHJvIl0

There is a selection on the first screen called App Manager

In there you select all user apps and choose "Move" down at bottom of the screen. It will run and move those that can be moved to SDCard.

This is what I did...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Marine6680:
Depends on where you are looking for the information. Odin/download mode or the "About phone" menu.

Basically they mean the same thing, they just use different wording between the two places.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Alice Kaye:
Thank you for letting us know where that is. I found it.

Unfortunately it's part of the donate model, so I can't clean the cache unless I pay $6.

Decided I'd just fork over the $6. These guys work their butts off on these things and I'm probably gonna use the hell out of it, so why not! :) Just cleaned the Dalvik cache, don't know if that will help but I guess we'll see. It did find 16 unnecessary files.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JustusIV:
So with us having root. Does this enable us to have a mod like this?

Samsung Galaxy S III I9300, I9305Galaxy S III Android Development[MOD][4.1.2] Enable Multiview for all available apps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1995697
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kurrupt_1:
Verizon model already had multi-view.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] krayzee:
lol me too, I almost posted the same thing.. oh the irony...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Android_Fr3ak:
I think he meant adding apps to multiview.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JustusIV:
Ummm i thought that mod added apps not added multiview. either way i know the other carriers have it. What do we need to get it done? The link below is nice but not really what most will be after.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2024399

[Tutorial] Add additional apps to Multi Window without needing root [Verizon]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggboii:
I could be wrong but I believe without custom recovery there'd be no option to clear Dalvik.

sent from spaceship somewhere over Area 51
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jeckel51:
Well that was easy. It took longer to throw a pizza in the oven. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JonKyu:
Whoot! my note is rooted. Thanks to the devs behind this! :good::good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
updated... thanks for the suggestion!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpa4:
There is a selection on the first screen called App Manager

In there you select all user apps and choose "Move" down at bottom of the screen. It will run and move those that can be moved to SDCard.

This is what I did...[/QUOTE]

Says moving apps, 161/161. It completes, but when I look under storage, it still shows no change to my internal memory. I have 2 games from gameloft that really need to be moved. Batman is 2.29gb and spiderman is like 1.2gb. Currently I have only 1.19gb free and after moving apps, I have 1.19gb free. App still shows 5.99 used and miscellaneous files of 8.77gb.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggboii:
*edit* TB does have an option to clear Dalvik.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Currentweb:
MultiView MOD is at the top of my list to port now that we're rooted. We don't have a recovery to flash the files in, but I'm willing to bet we could just manually push the modified apks and services.jar to the phone, reboot, and go running. I have no experience with modifying the services.jar, or I would do it myself lol. I'll see if I can figure it out, but I imagine someone will port the mod over very soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ffuser1:
what needs to take place before ROMs can be made/altered for this phone? and can ROMs from the international version just be slightly modified?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nnnnr14:
We need the bootloader unlocked/bypassed and a custom recovery to flash the roms/mods with. I don't really know about the Rom part but I seen some developers have been porting roms from version to version so I guess so. :rolleyes:

Sent from my galaxy note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Currentweb:
Scratch that, I totally forgot you can't replace the services.jar while the phone is running. Derp.

However, it might work through ADB, I don't know. I think we should wait for Beans to make an ODIN flashable ROM until (and if) we get a custom recovery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Marine6680:
No problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidstyle:
international roms usually equal bricks for the us variants.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] yeyoman:
I am new ti this so don't shoot me! I understand rooting the device which allows you the change cetrain files, etc on the phone. This would appear to be all I need. I wand to modify the file (/system/etc/apns-conf.xml) that hold the APN settings. So I'm thinking if I add a couple of new APN entries for my FONIIC sin card it should work.

What I dont understand is what unlocking the bootloader do for you??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Larry Fortune:
??? I don't know...It worked on many but not all of my apps but only the downloaded apps. I don't have a suggestion for you...sorry!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] blaksmyth:
wished elloyu

I downloaded the root file and the md5 isn't checking out with what is on dev host, anyone else have that problem?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JetBlue:
Makes it easier to Flash recoveries and ROMs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TechBSwift:
I did, you need to redownload