[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] prepaidguy9081:
This is a guide for noobs

First things first, ask yourself am I using a T-Mobile Note II SGH-t889?

If you are not, stop now.

Now if your phone blows up, fires nuclear missiles, activates sky net, or becomes a nice pretty paperweight, I am not responsible. You are using this guide at your own risk.

That being said I have provided the exact methods I used to do this on me device and it works perfectly.

OK let’s begin.

First plug your phone into your computer.

-If you are getting an error message about a connection you must have windows xp SP3 or higher (vista, windows 7)

-you must also have the Samsung mobile phone drivers available here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=961956

-you must also have windows media player 11 available on the Microsoft website.

Now that you have all this you should be able to explore the files on your phone, it will be under mobile devices.

Now on your desktop let’s make a new folder called System Folder, and in that Folder make two folders, one called ROM and one called KERNEL.

Now back on the desktop let’s make another folder called ODIN

SYSTEM FOLDER

-ROM

-KERNEL

ODIN

Let’s go over to the T-mobile note II XDA forum page http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1877

Now we’re going to go to the section called ORIGINAL ANDROID DEVELOPMENT

Download the KERNEL "peruses". http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960935

Download the one that says Perseus-alpha27.4-T889-CWM.zip (though the version number may change)

Put that file in the KERNEL folder (DO NOT UNZIP IT)

Download cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar : http://www.mediafire.com/?mouxvj4og7azcow CWM md5: 67208cd19e82478af8591a83ca0a39b2 (the md5 is used to check your download, make sure you have no errors)

Put this file in the ODIN folder

Download CWM SUPERSU installable ZIP: http://www.mediafire.com/?w3i20sr6r58r8ah (put this in System Folder, DO NOT UNZIP)

SU md5 : 010b98d757544d7b2971574951c1d5e6

Download PC Odin: http://d-h.st/6Er put this into the Odin folder and unzip this one

Download Xquizit rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960950

Download the xquizit rom kitchen too.

Put these in the ROM folder, (DO NOT UNZIP)

This rom is straight forward, once you get the hang of flashing try other ROMs.

Now copy the System Folder to your phones external SD card.

Now open Odin and select the pda button and select the cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar file in the Odin folder on desktop

Now switch off device and reboot in download mode by:

Press Vol down + Home +Power, and then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode

Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue)

Hit ‘Start’ to flash

Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID: COM, you can disconnect device from PC

Now reboot into CWM by: Switch off device and press Vol Up + Home +Power hold about 5 second

Install SuperSu by selecting install zip from SD card, then select install zip from external SD card, then navigate to system folder and install the superuser.zip that is there.

Reboot.

Download Triangle Away from the play store or from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

Run this and it will reset your flash counter to 0.

You have now achieved root.

Install titanium backup, and backup all of your user apps+data (USER APPS ONLY or just reinstall them all from the play store) (you can do this one by one or in a batch in the third tab if you have the paid version. (DO NOT BACKUP RED NAMED FILES, ONLY WHITE)

Download APN backup and restore from the play market

Open it, you will get an error, dismiss it and press the back button

Open titanium and find APN backup and restore, long press it and select to make it a system app.

Press home.

Open APN B&R. and dismiss the error, this time hit menu and disable the ICS check. Then press back and reopen it, NO ERROR

Now backup your APN settings.

Switch off device and press Vol Up + Home +Power hold about 5 second to go back into recovery

Go to the backup/restore section, and backup your current rom (do not skip this, we are about to erase your phone and if something goes wrong and you do not have this, pretty paperweight)

Now go back to the main menu

Wipe data and factory reset 3 times over, wipe cache 3 times over, now go to advanced and wipe dalvik cache 3 times over

now go back to the install zip from sd card menu and select the external sd card, navigate to system folder, and then Rom, then install the xqizit rom.zip file it will open aroma installer, it will give you options of what you want to do, you do not need to re wipe, install typical or custom to choose what apps you want, (svoice is removed unless you add it back under custom) then you want to install the 15 toggle mod.

Now once that is done, reboot the device, wait 10 minutes.

Now open the play store and update superuser

Download apn backup and backup the new tmobile apn with the wifi fix and titanium backup and restore your apps

You are now rooted and on a custom rom with multi window support. Hold down the back button to activate multi window.

Reboot into recovery

Install the perseas kernel zip from the kernel folder

Reboot the phone

Wait for the home screen

Reboot for good measure

You will want to put triangle away back on your device and run it again

You can download CPU control apps and over clock and under clock ECT.

You can change your boot animations; see my post under themes n apps for that.

Have fun and enjoy

Special thank to Dr.Ketan , Chainfire , Chenlu, simplelife, wild child, and any others I have forgotten to mention