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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Well the international version just got 4.3 official Tuesday and then we did Wednesday so...

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http://phandroid.com/2013/11/19/galaxy-note-2-android-4-3/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ubigred:
Can someone who has updated to 4.3, check something out real quick.

Go to the stock music app

Select a song

Press Menu

Do you see a share option? Thanks a bunch

Sent from my SGNote 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] usarmyaircav:
What I asking about is the air parts, etc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vader4633:
As long as you are on wifi there is a scan for nearby devices option
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/att-pushes-android-4-4-kitkat-to-moto-x/

lmao kick in the face huh???? :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
Rooted using CF Auto Root for L900. Don't forget to boot straight to recovery after flashing in Odin.

Now getting the SE warnings but I'll play with that later.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ubigred:
Yea I know that.... But is there a Share via option?

Sent from my SGNote 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
well i used this and its rooted but i cant do jack because knox, but imma mod the update package to delete knox and install root to see if it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
Is it odd to anyone that the Sprint site says the official build is L900VPAMK4 but on some devices the baseband is L900VPUBMK4?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Yea so much for the great and powerful KNOX, i just got in the house and in 5 min im rooted hahahahahahahahahahahaha :p WHO MAD!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vader4633:
There is a "Play via Group Play" and "Via Bluetooth" options
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
OK how the he'll did you do that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
Were you able to update the binaries and install busybox?

Nvrmnd..saw your thread. ...good s**t
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
here you go http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2539227

i made a post and shows you where to find all the Knox stuff to delete. I pulled the update, went onto the updater script search for every instance with knox deleted them all, and not getting any errors at all, every root app i have is working

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yep, install it from the busybox installer in the market!!!!!!!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
Wait so did you do this pre-update? Or post update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ubigred:
Yea seems like 4.3 takes away the ability to share to any app.

That really sucks

Sent from my SGNote 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
post update, i was completely stock, downloaded the update, flashed lost root, been gone from home all day. saw the bragging about KNOX being the wonderful Wizard of oz and came home and knocked it out the park
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] flexxoo:
any of the persons that have rooted try xposed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
Now that root is achieved without borking the phone, let's see some custom kernels and roms!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
The knox flag is tripped now though right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Havent seen one thing about knox since i removed it, and just to show you guys im not lying, lol what color are my toggles lmao, now let the modding begin hahahahaha
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
You'd see something like warranty voided in the bootloader menu
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] flexxoo:
xposed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
yea i just saw it, is say KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1 like the flash counter, so im sure someones gonna make a fix for that soon like counter reset and triangle away. its Never gonna be to hard to kick all the counter warranty crap they try to put on

no, i never use xposed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jmax626:
Did you try kingo app to remove root then check KNOX to see if it resets?

You can always reroot since you got it to work the first time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] FanOfSkynyrd:
It appears as though getting triangle away to work because of Knox may not be that easy:

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/s...=115&soc-platform=1&stct=CAIQgIrHu-HLugIgCigB
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
I really appreciate the work you've done and time you put into this. How do you like the update though? Is it that great? I'm overclocked with a custom kernel and love the way I gave my phone set up right now and wondering if this is worth starting all over again. Thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ubigred:
Here's a question : Does it really matter if Knox warranty gets voided? At this point, no matter what happens to this phone I'll never send it back to Samsung.

Sent from my SGNote 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Since you've gone and gotten Knox to do its job anyway, why not do some Science for the rest of us?

Back everything up.roll back (I believe MK4 victims have said they can roll back*) to unrooted stock MC2...and then take the upgrade again. See if Knox status is is still "Warranty SOL" or is untripped. Since Note2 doesn't have a dedicated Knox chip on board, there's a slim chance the status won't stick if you clear the flashable firmware out. If I had to guess...this workaround on Knox will not work. Seems to obvious for Samsung to spend millions on Knox only to have simple-stupid bypass it.

You up for some Science?

*Entirely at own risk, I recall reading that you can rollback via Odin etc....but I am not at all sure about this....and you might brick your phone.

Depends entirely on Sprint. If Sprint wanted to be dicks...they could start checking Knox status on phone upgrades.

If you comfortable having zero handset warranty, even for hardware faults/breakage....then so far that is the only consequence of tripped Knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] aheeejd:
Why did they even develop Knox? I mean it just seems that things are headed to make everybody walk around with totally stock phones. That $ucks. I thought I'd never be able to go to a smaller screen size, but I think my next phone is going to be the nexus, although that screen is not much smaller. But anyway, again why, just so we have to have the phones "they" want us to have. And from official date note 2 came out, why now try & lock it up.

Sent from my SPH-L900 using JellyBombed Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Why?

To kill Blackberry's last shred of business. DoD/political-office cellular communications. BB is presently the only device that is still DoD secure. The better question, is why Sammy would force Knox on all consumers rather than just make it available tech to get DoD business.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
So I guess open source pretty much means closed doors unless you're an oem?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
you need to stop going around crying all day jeez, man up and flash it who cares about knox . You been being a party pooper all day and guess what i just twrp flashed back to MC2 and the new modem works. chill out and enjoy the update, your acting the like crazy village person warning people about a curse!!!!!!!!!!!!!! smh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
I'm having a tough time getting twrp installed otherwise we would have a rooted rom by now for the masses.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
updating back to knox as we speak and no i didnt check the bootloader, im just checking the knox counter for him, thats what he wanted right
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] evolving:
well, it would be nice to know that if we take the update that we can downgrade back and not screw our warranty..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
And still say Knox Warranty Void: 1 and it said it when i did it, and it will continue to say it, and i knew this when flashing, Just because i don't care that doesn't mean im wrong. We knew this for months now and if you have search buttons you should know, im not here to tell adults what to freaking do with their phone. If i tell you how to root it, Obviously if your scared of knox im not talking to you so contiune on with your day and stop stalking everyone who flashed and don't care like me. my screen break, buy a new one replace it myself, my phone brick, buy a new board and flash my esn to it. anything happen im freaking well aware of what i can do. so i can not care all i want!!!!!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] evolving:
if s boot.bin is altered in its original state will it fail to flash?any takers on this i would appreciate it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Why not try yourself?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks smh lol :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamingWolf:
I just ran through the upgrade process, got root, and installed CWM recovery. Knox showed void:1

Then I reflashed the MC2 Stock w/ count reset, opened the bootloader and the Knox lines are no longer present.

Next step is to upgrade again and see if Knox shows void:1 before I root or not. will update when done.

EDIT *** You are indeed correct sir. But how do we track down the memory registers that knox resides in so they can be unlocked and wiped?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] evolving:
it will return..until the bootloader gets worked on.thats whats causing it to show up.i made a edited ota zip but havent tried it yet..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cullenmq1:
Just an idea. If someone installed the update, rooted it, and backed up system, data, and boot in cwm, could people install the backup ( and therefore the update) without updating the bootloader?

Edit:

On the international version someone made a zip that is stock 4.3 without any knox/without the bootloader. Could this theoretically be done with our device?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2537372A
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
I believe we'd need a custom kernel built to do that

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Any luck with twrp yet...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xxwycxx:
Hi guys... Long time watcher and first time poster. I have been flashing roms for quite a while now. Anyways... I went back to stock but still had root and ran the update. All I did was freeze the Knox apps and anything that had Knox in the processes (the ones ending in .com) and rebooted and I still have stock. After the reboot I was able to open SuperSU and never had a problem since. I have not tried to flash TWRP yet.

What I really wanted to say was in the bootloader I have a Zero on the void warranty line. Does that mean that it is showing that nothing is custom on it?

P.S.

You guys are all just pure awesome!

Forgot to mention that I had SuperSU in survival mode before flashing the update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
You are correct....this is interesting...however once you drop a custom recovery that will change....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Entirely depends on exactly how Knox is implemented in the software. So far as we know, Knox is kernel/software level.

Other devices has a physical chip on board that trips and permanently screws you over. As far as we know, the Note2 doesn't have that hardware....so in theory Knox on our device might be worked around since it should only be software.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] louforgiveno:
Wrong....if he changes recovery it WILL change warranty status.

As to whether there will be a work around eventually, yes I'm sure there will be
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
So if I use supersu ota survival I'll maintain root through the update process? I thought others tried and it didn't work.

Edit :So probably not after a reboot unless knox is frozen?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xxwycxx:
Right after the update finished and it booted up, I was able to use titanium backup which said I was rooted. Just, every time I tried to open SU I got that Knox message. Then after I froze Knox and rebooted I was able to open SU no problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] modiko:
i tried official 4.3

it is perfect
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] celticking:
Does anyone like the 4.3 update? Widgets in lock screen are nice. Contact page is a bit faster. That's about it.

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sand1303:
whats up guys. just traded my htc one to get back into a note2 on sprint. it runs 4.1.2

i thought i read that sprint officially was rolling it out. how many don't have it yet. im in austin texas. any texans have the update yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Yeah right now I'm running stock MC2 with Perseus kernel. I'm overclocked, the screen looks amazing, and I have a ton of rooted apps with everything set up perfect. I don't want to screw up a good thing so I'm probably gonna stick to this until I get the note 4. Can't upgrade until October of next year so it will be good timing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] celticking:
Yeah the screen color reproduction was changed apparently?

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
On 4.3? Not sure if you were asking a question or not lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
I haven't tried twrp, but cwm installed no problem after using kingo app to root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
PUBMK4 is what appears to be available for download here. PAmk4 I'm hearing is the "official" build. Can anyone shed some light here??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] usarmyaircav:
I know we will get a flashable zip, my question is if using that will wipe my current rooted stock rom and i will be starting fresh or from where I am at now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Keithgordon:
I just went through the craziest crap...after I updated to 4.3, my flash count was 12, my Knox Warranty Void was 0, I then bricked my phone, I could still get into download mode, but that was it. It sais Firmware Upgrade encountered a problem....and it would not let me flash anything, because it will not let you downgrade, at all. I went to Sprint and Samsung and they do not have the 4.3 support yet since it was an OTA. I thought I was totally screwed until Sammobile posts the tar. But, I took the sboot.bin out of the update and put it in cygwin and created a tar with all the firmware from MF9 and flashed it with Odin and it worked. The reason I mention it, is in case someone accidentally falls into the same problem, you can just take the sboot.bin from the update and create an Odin flashable tar and unbrick your fone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
People have mentioned custom kernels a few times. I've done a few mk4 kernel builds that will need some testing. Due to work and a few other things I am unable to upgrade and test myself, but when I get a chance I'll shoot em out to a few testers. I have a totally stock build, and a tweaked OC experimental. Hopefully will have some time tomorrow for it

https://github.com/sleshepic/l900_MK4_Kernel/tree/experimental
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JEGLE:
Has anyone in the Chicago area gotten the OTA yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Keithgordon:
Is your stock build ro.secure=0 in default.prop? I've been trying to recompile a boot.img with cygwin but my stupid permissions in windows isn't letting me for some reason.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingbo777:
I downloaded and upgraded and notice that the battery life kind of sucks and it seems not pop up browser. Thats not so bad but the battery life seems to be bad. Maybe after running for a few more days it will get better but we shall see.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] digiblur:
You want to meet up with them or something?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JEGLE:
No. Just curious if the OTA has been pushed for my area.

You from the Chicago area?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] that_guy90:
Rocking 4.3 rooted with twrp recory with no Knox. Now the wait... for our wonderfuls devs to push out some roms.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cajun9924:
Same here and waiting on hotspot mod
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sleshepic:
It will be. I've built kernel and compiled modules, but as I haven't been able to test myself I didnt mess with ramdisk yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Since I'm already working on my rom and it's a flash able zip already I'll be a tester for you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jay2149:
how long when it be before you put your zip up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
I can put it up anytime i just don't want to step on anyone feet. I thought you guys had a person in this section who normally post the stock zips
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jay2149:
Really im like u I dont care about anyone's feet
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingdazy:
that there folks, is called respect. (just PM them lorjay, i'm sure they won't mind)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Thanks!!!! im about to undergo some serious flashing, Im going back to MC2 bootloader stock everything, flash twrp, then flash my Stock MK4 4.3 Rom and see if i completely removed Knox. i hope so. and if i do i'll pm the link until the person in this section drops their zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jay2149:
Thanks lorjay in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DevilStrider:
With this 4.3 update do you think you can hold on to your note 2 even longer? I wanted to pick up the note 3, but I think I'll just hold out for the note 4 now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
And 4.4 is coming too!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] usarmyaircav:
I would like to try your rom if you wouldn't mind. Todd
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sliverr7x:
Ya so is Christmas 2015 lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Lol. But they're saying March for the international note 2 and everyone says us much later. We got 4.3 1 day after the international version did so...

http://phandroid.com/2013/11/19/galaxy-note-2-android-4-3/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
Let me know how that works out dude. I want to do the same.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bonebeatz1234:
That happen to me as well but I flashed twrp Odin tar file to get that recovery then I flashed a stock mc2 ROM and just reflashed the 4.3 update zip. I already had all the files downloaded so It took me literally 15 tops to downgrade and upgrade again. Also you can use this way to root the phone too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Keithgordon:
Unbrick 4.3

Yeah, I flashed TWRP and Philz touch, and CWM, but I couldn't get into recovery was my problem, it was literally bricked. When it came on, a little red light would flash on the opposite side real fast and stay on the Galaxy Note II screen. I went straight to Samsung at Bestbuy and they said there is nothing anyone can do unless I send it to Texas and have them flash 4.3. I ridiculed them for putting out a patch without sending out a way for them to support it, even they agreed that it was stupid to put out a locked bootloader without the means to support it. I got home and opened sboot.bin with a hexeditor and was reading SEAndroid allowing stock kernel, stock ramdisk, and so on...so I dropped the sboot.bin and tz.img into the MC2 tar and flashed it, and it worked. It successfully downgraded everything to MC2 except the bootloader of course. I'm uploading the file to dropbox right now in case anyone else gets into the same situation, because I found out I wasnt the only one that did this...btw, i'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to this stuff...

here's a link to the tar file I used to unbrick/downgrade the 4.3 if anyone needs it, https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2clvyo4y6gar6s/4.3_Unbrick.tar

all it is, is the MC2 tar with the MK4 sboot.bin/tz.img.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] digiblur:
It's not rolled out by area.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] patrick_1:
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the roll out go by serial #/activation date?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] flexxoo:
Stock rom with root anyone??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cullenmq1:
Are you asking or offering?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Keithgordon:
That does seem to be the case, as we were discussing in earlier posts while anxiously waiting and watching...someone said that is what they were told by sprint I think
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] digiblur:
No, just randomly picked by Android ID. Same as with an app staged roll out.

Doesn't matter anyways since the update.zip has already been posted which means no one has to wait.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jutaejrtouch:
Really disappointed with this one Sammy. I have both the Note 2&3 and was hoping at least for air wave lol (gonna pass down note 2 to my son). He won't leave my Note 3 because of it!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Ok ok, im happy because guess WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol i took the update zip, took out knox F KNOX rooted it made a zip, flashed CWM coming from Stock unrooted counter reset............... flashed my zip and no KNOX still old bootloader, now wifi don't work, but theres a fix imma gonna test for it

Before i flashed the no knox update

After Knox Free Update

Im gonna post my update in the dev section after wifi check but, this is not the full rom i'll let who ever post the full roms do it. i also left the version lines in it so people won't try a quick route. you must go back to unrooted stock to avoid any problems. Also hit thanks lol thanks lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Thanks man! Good job.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
For the people who didn't have faith lol and talked about the Great and powerful Knox i did all of this to remind you what XDA is for. People who know me know i play the back and don't really like saying or doing to much, But i had to prove some people wrong and for that i wanna thank them lol Im gonna message the guy who made the WIFI fix in the other note forum so we can have a fully working NO KNOX rom. :good: :good: :good: :good:

OH YEA I FORGOT http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2541395 THE no knox update flashable zip, follow directions
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sliverr7x:
Thanks for all of the hard work lorjay u are working overtime I just thought I would throw that out there
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
thanks i am, and now im just waiting and working on our fix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
No, because I activated on launch day and still waiting just like the previous updates (I'm flashing downloaded ZIP today)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
I thought OpenGL ES 3.0 was one of the main features in 4.3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
The soft keys work better with 4.3. On 4.1.2 the bottom row of icons in launcher and app drawer had the name text cut off. That is no longer an issue with 4.3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] celticking:
So a few days in here. Battery life is much better. Things are smoother over all. Camera is surprising better. Lock screen widgets are a nice touch. Solid update to say the least.

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kwazytazz:
For everyone who has updated to 4.3 does the new update have app2sd? I vaguely remember that was part of the 4.3 update for the note not sure if it's only for gsm. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] usarmyaircav:
Yep it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chaotic646:
Has anyone not received the update yet? It started rolling out 5 days ago and I still havent received mine. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ajac:
flashed over the offical one and did the wifi and removed kronos and loving it! Only I had was turning on airplane mode killed wifi till I rebooted the phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gtalkalot24:
The update is now available through kies.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DAMAGIKRING:
I just used KIES to update mine, worked great, love the ability to now move apps to SD card...