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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] chrisrotolo:
Thanks for this helpful guide, just ditched ATT, got a new Tmo Note 3 and loving it.

LTE working!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Amen Brother...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
1. Yes

2. If you odin back with the stock image you get the stock recovery.

3. No

4. Don't know. I just use the one in the OP and it works fine.

5. EFS backup would be good. I think TWRP can do this and there are numerous tools on xda to do it. Just do a search.

6. You can't do that. Bad move. The hardware is different between phones and even between regions of the same phone like the note 3. If you use the TWRP for the N900T on the N900T it is safe. Only flash N900T backups and roms for the N900T.

7. I have a Nook HD+ too. The latest recovery of TWRP is all you need for any N900T roms that are out, CM or otherwise.

8. I haven't gotten the notice but some recommend hotspot shield from the play store. Yes, vpn's are a tunnel for encrypted data.

9. Most of us, including me, don't want the OTA's because they introduce problems, patch root methods, and other annoying things. Usually once a ota is available the devs in the dev section will look at it and provide a rom to flash. Much safer and you know what you are getting. Just look at history. The S4 for example. An OTA locked their bootloader and to this day they haven't unlocked it. No Thanks. That phone is now worthless to me.

10. In my opinion CM11 is very stable and it is my daily driver. Everything is there that I want. Spen features, latest google features, security similar to knox if you want it, photosphere, REAL integration with google voice including SMS, great themes, nightly updates.

11. If someone does something stupid to brick their phone they should take responsibility for it and pay up. I got the squaretrade warranty with accident protection for this reason.

12. squaretrade is the only one I know of if you bought it from T-mobile and don't have a plan to get the accident protection.

Buying the N900T over the N900A was one of the smartest things I have done in a while. I don't regret it one bit. Look at the S4. How long has it been out? The bootloader is still locked. I have been playing with my phone and flashing full roms and kernels since it came out. That alone is worth it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] aalupatti:
[MENTION=543029]mircury[/MENTION] do you have kikat working on tmobile note 3 ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Yup, been running kitkat since the first nightly of cm. I like it.

Sent from my SM-N900T
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
Thanks for the replies. My issues with TWRP were from restoring a second phone with a backup of the first, same model, different phone. I had an early MDL i337 S4 and had a defective unit swapped with another MDL unit and I restored a backup from the first phone to the second. I think I wiped or damaged the EFS folder then because it would not show the IMEI or phone number for about an hour after restarting the phone and would then appear to dial when the info was available but would never call and I could not find any way to restore it. At the time, it appeared that it was my fault in not backing up the EFS directory or the entire phone before attempting to restore the replacement to the settings of the first. So I'm now chagrined and much more cautious.

To have the best chance of recovering from a problem, all I need is TWRP, a full backup, and then an EFS backup?

Are you now running the temasek or "official" CM? There seems to be a lot of people favoring stock with temasek's kernel.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] aalupatti:
I should actually rephrase my question. Were u able to samsung stock kitkat?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
No, I'm pretty happy where I'm at with CM11. I would wait until the kinks get worked out first with the Samsung version. From what I've read there are some differences between even the w8 version and the n900t, so flashing those will not work on the n900t. Plus, there are some pretty significant feature removals that Samsung did in kitkat. Nothing you can't fix with root though except for ART.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Yes, just get TWRP. You don't really need to do a backup of your stock rom if you have the odin package for it. Also, if you do restore a backup you have made don't restore the efs partition every time. You don't need to.

I'm running official nightlies of CM11 with the optional add-on's listed in the OP.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
WISPr postpaid APK?

Update: I found a TW ROM (UrDroid) and pulled WISPr_Android22_postpaid_ATT.apk from the system/app directory. rebooted and now AT&T Hot Spots app is running with com.matchboxmobile.wisp listed under processes and WispService listed under Services. It does not show up under apps or widgets. I'll have to go to a known ATT hotspot to see if it works.

I've been reading about the WISPr APK which is the automatic logon program for AT&T hotspots. I read that I should be able to open a stock Odin AT&T rom in 7zip and find the APK and remove it. There are a few references to WISPr_Android22_postpaid_ATT.zip and a few to WISPr_postpaid,apk but all are more than a year old. I see many instructions in how to open a custom zip ROM but none that I understand on how to open a stock AT&T ROM. See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1861740 and http://dev.androidfilehost.com/?fid=13858085825318748765 as examples of posts on the AT&T hotspot app (not tethering: this is something completely different).

Questions are whether either of these are the latest version, and if not does anyone know how to open a stock ROM or do thety have the file pulled? It's simple to pull the APKs from a zip but I don't know how to pull them from the img files inside the tar.md5 stock files.

If it's harder to pull files from stock, should I be looking for 900A TW roms for this file? Are there other AT&T apps which are worthwhile besides the messaging app?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dokujaryu:
AT&T Kit Kat update?

I have a T-Mobile Note 3 and I am considering switching to AT&T and using it there. I'm not really interested in custom roms right now. Can I use the AT&T ROM on my SM-N900T? I'm especially interested in this if they get 4.4 out and it has Google Wallet support, which is rumored to be disabled I know. :(

If I can't, I guess I'll use a ROM with no bloat? What do you suggest?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
You can't flash an AT&T rom. It will brick it at worst and soft brick at best. If you want to convert your device to ATT including having the ATT logo on bootup and having your device report itself as an AT&T phone to the play store so you can see all the AT&T apps then I suggest you follow this guide.

If you don't want to flash any roms you really don't have to. Just root and freeze the apps you don't want on the stock rom and follow the above guide.

"I'm especially interested in this if they get 4.4 out and it has Google Wallet support, which is rumored to be disabled I know."

That's why we have AOSP. CM11 has nfc support.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dokujaryu:
Thanks for the fast reply!

Ok. So if I stick with the stock T-Mobile ROM, I will get 4.4.2 when T-Mobile OTAs it or what? I can just download it and flash it myself I guess. But basically what I'm asking is doing this means OTAs no longer happen?

I don't really care about the boot logo or whatever, I just want to get regular updates to the stock ROM. I'm using KNOX at work and don't want to trip anything.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
As long as you are stock you will get the OTA from t-mobile to 4.4.2 when it comes out and future updates. You don't have to have a t-mobile sim in your phone. You can download the OTA over wifi, it doesn't have to be on the carriers network.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] redbike:
I am going to travel to Europe Next month.

As I Read, the t-mobile note 3 support huge LTE bands except Band 3 =1800 mhz !!! is that right ??.

So, is there any way to make it to support this band??

Because as I read, The snapdragon 800 support all LTE bands around the world.

Is there any way to flash N9005 modem on N900T ??

Thank you so much guys.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Swapping modems unfortunately will not fix your problem. If the hardware doesn't support it then you are out of luck. I think what they mean is that the snapdragon 800 has the capability to support LTE around the world. However, it can only support a limited number of bands (remember the old days where they would advertise quad band and penta-band phones). So, the carriers pick the bands they would like in their carrier branded note 3 and leave out the others.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
is there a way to back up /efs on stock recovery?

I've lost a phone to a scrambled /efs partition so I was hoping to back it up before any changes. There are a few efs partition backup utilities out there which by all appearances don't work on this phone. or they make a backup that can't be restored, I think. Am I wrong? Can it be done or should I just flash TWRP and then back it up? I'd rather be cautious than sorry like I was with my last S4.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
EFS Backup failures and success

Tried with no success getting an EFS backup using EFS Pro but was successful with two techniques from here:

http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-ba...imei-on-samsung-galaxy-devices-did-you-do-it/. The dev of EFS Pro tried a number of things including a new build but nothing worked. I hesitated to change the SELinux status to permuissive without a backup and especially didn't want to risk it just to get the backup in the first place.

Both the terminal script listed in the article:

dd if=/storage/extSdCard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=4096

and the Samsung Tool by XDA member ricky310711 (http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=5105831) created .IMG files of the EFS partition.

Tool here: http://d-h.st/ga5 Thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2602325

Any other worthwhile precautions to take before risking an expensive phone?

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Update: the EFS backups I mention above were no good being 512 KB each but the Samsung Tool 9005 veersion did work and made a 14 MB IMG file.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ggallardov:
MMS

I got my Note N900T working perfectly over AT&T network the only issue I have is that I cant see the MMS I dont know why but I recieve a mms with a download button but I doesnt work. Any ideas?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TTLayland:
So what's the chance I'll have no LTE if I sell my current att note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
I think there may be something to the ATT vs TMO radio differences.

I have an ATT Galaxy II at my house, it gets twice the speed that my TMO N3 gets on LTE. Both are definitely using LTE and are using the same SIM. I just swap the SIM back and forth. Both use the same AP. I show about 3 bars on the ATT SGII and one little spot on the TMO N3.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
If you are asking if AT&T will cut off your LTE if you sell it, then no they will not. They will only if you tell them you are switching phones and give them the new non AT&T IMEI. I haven't noticed any speed difference between my note 2 and this phone. I have noticed that it cuts to hspa faster though with weak LTE. For instance my co worker at the fire station was complaining of 1.5 mbps speed tests on AT&T LTE with his HTC One. I did a speed test with my phone and got 5 mbps but was on hspa. When I forced LTE I got the same 1.5 mbps.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JJ2525:
I see a lot of people ITT saying that cellunlocker takes xx hours...why isn't everyone using chainfire's cheaper and easier method? Is it because it requires root? Not trolling, just trying to understand if I'm missing something. Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
That could be part of it. I did mine before chainfire's app was released. Also we know a little bit of how it works but not exactly. There may be a chance that Samsung could fix it but unlikely because of all the bad publicity the region lock got. Using the real code seams a bit cleaner to me than patching something. Plus if you try to sell it you can genuinely say it's unlocked without a chance of it being re-locked at some point.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] dokujaryu:
Just switched to AT&T and carrier unlocked my phone with cellunlocker.net. AT&T LTE working fine, no issues.

However, there is a ton of T-Mobile garbage on this phone I want off. Is there a way to get a clean install of Note 3 software with no carrier stuff without tripping Knox? It seems like installing a custom recovery trips knox. :(

If not, I think I might install the W3 Slim from here? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2638116
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] graydiggy:
You should check out the T-Mobile forums... This is the AT&T section. We don't support your device.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Search for RDLV or kingo root. That will give you root without tripping knox. Then you can freeze system apps easily with various apps.

Sent from my SM-N900T
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
1) Root your phone

2) Uninstall those apps with Titanium Backup

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...

JUST LET IT IN
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TechGoon954:
Okay, so the official 4.4.2 update is out.............http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-2-kitkat-update-rolled-out-for-t-mobile-galaxy-note-3/

Two questions , how do ,I get it on my T-Mob Note 3 on my AT&T line and will it lock my phone back?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ukcain:
Kit Kate won't be till tomorrow
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TechGoon954:
So the official KitKat is here (downloading right now) has anyone else installed this and confirmed that your phone is still unlocked? I used the Chainfire http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2471742 method to unlock my note.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bigbiff:
I am now getting better signal and overnight the modem didn't crash for lte on the new KK modem. Here's to hoping that it lasts driving around.

Bummer the modem crashed on lte today.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] :
So just bought a note 3 tmobile so I can finally flash roms excited and gonna sell my att one soon
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Sam3gX:
I've updated and it's still unlocked.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Kamau54:
OK, this is what I want to know.

This thread seems to be about AT&T N3 on TMO, but what about the opposite. What about unlocking AT&T N3 and using it on TMO. Will I still have the same rom flashing restrictions as I do now? Will I have access to the same apps? What are the pros & cons of this. I ask because I still have an active account on the $30/month plan that is looking attractive right now. Plus, I'd just like to have more freedom to satisfy my flash-addiction.

Sent from my Xoom using a Starfleet secured channel
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
Whuuutttt....
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] biswasd:
tmobile modem kit kat

Hi all --- Want to see / confirm if there is indeed a problem with the TMO kit kat modem on our N3's on At&T.....what exactly is the problem and can other users confirm that there the TMO kit kat modem is crashing the phone on At&t's network?

Is there a workaround for this problem?

thanks in advance.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
My TMO KitKat is purring on the ATT network since March 5
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] biswasd:
Thanks Les for your feedback ---- so I"m trying to decide whether to keep my new N3 or wait and get the new HTC ONE. I love my N3, but want to get a phone that will be FULLY compatible with At&t in case I decide to leave TMO in the near future for At&T.

I keep reading of modem problems / crashing so I'm just tyring to determine what the exact issue is.

BTW, did you give At&t your IMEI# from your Tmo N3? or did you report to At&t a dummy At&t IMEI?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] les_garten:
So here's how it went.

I keep track of all my IMEIs. Old and new, you never know...

I bought a Note 2 for my mom, she had an SGII Skyrocket that does LTE.

I fired up the Skyrocket, configured everything over the phone and popped the SIM in my TMO N3.

I also have the IMEI from my ATT N3 that I got on 2 year upgrade and sold to get the TMO N3.

So I had some options.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JJ2525:
Hello,

I've been using my N900T on AT&T and successfully get LTE. However, the LTE drops out to HSPA all the time in places I know there's LTE and I got constant LTE when my SIM was in a Nexus 5. In fact, I'll x out the connection and restart it, and it will go to LTE, before eventually reverting to HSPA. Has anyone had a similar issue?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Jayster0966:
I have almost the same thing in certain parts of the city. It has been mentioned that it is primarily due to the lack of the 1700 LTE support band on T-Mobile phones.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JJ2525:
Thank you. What a shame, otherwise this phone is awesome
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mircury:
Where did you read this? The Tmobile note 3 box specifically says it supports band 4 LTE.

I think the switch over point to HSPA is different than the ATT model but I dont think the signal strength is any different from my tests. I actually can get faster speeds when it switches to HSPA in low signal areas than ATT branded phones that stay on LTE in my city so I kind of like it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Jayster0966:
I read it on another forum. Will look for that comment made. I agree with you in the aspect of just because it switches from LTE to HSPA does not really mean that I lost any speed. I have never really done any speed tests at the time of the switch but using the phone does feel the same at that moment.

Sent from my VisionX powered SGH-M919.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
look at this list of bands among the carriers

I found a post on Android Central from startac7868 a list of all the bands listed with the FCC. It claims that T-Mo uses LTE 1700 as a main band:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...rsion-most-inter-operable-other-networks.html

His post reads:

In the links to the FCC filings, download the PDF document called "Test Report" for LTE and others . Either on the first page or in the section called EUT Description, the list of supported GSM, CDMA, HSPA(WCDMA) and LTE bands and frequencies are listed.

AT&T SM-N900A

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=736794&fcc_id=A3LSMN900A

The AT&T version supports the following (GSM omitted).

WCDMA Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

WCDMA Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 4 1700/2100 MHz (tx/rx)

LTE Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 17 700 MHz (tx and rx) This is of course different that Verizon's 700 MHz band.

Sprint SM-N900P

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=134996&fcc_id=A3LSMN900P

The Sprint version supports the following (GSM/CDMA omitted).

WCDMA Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

WCDMA Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 25 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

T-Mobile SM-N900T

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=566535&fcc_id=A3LSMN900T

The T-Mobile version supports the following (GSM omitted).

WCDMA Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

WCDMA Band 4 1700/2100 MHz (tx/rx)

WCDMA Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 4 1700/2100 MHz (tx/rx)

LTE Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 17 700 MHz (tx and rx) Note this is also the band for AT&T but not Verizon which is band 13 700 MHz.

Verizon SM-N900V

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=956586&fcc_id=A3LSMN900V

The Verizon version supports the following (GSM/CDMA omitted).

WCDMA Band 2 1900 MHz (tx and rx)

WCDMA Band 5 850 MHz (tx and rx)

LTE Band 4 1700/2100 MHz (tx/rx)

LTE Band 13 700 MHz (tx and rx) This is of course different that AT&T's 700 MHz band.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Jayster0966:
^^^ I stand corrected then. I must apologize for the misleading effort to help out.

Edit: I see that the T-Mo version has the WCDMA band of 1700/2100 while the AT&T version does not. Would that explain the switching that mircury is mentioning about?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
dont know if this is correct but I sure hope so

I followed mircury's advice and got the SM-N900T to use on AT&T so I'm hoping it's fully compatible. I haven't upgraded the baseband from the original M17 but have tried a few KK roms and have done well with the W03 SlimRom where the current release works on either bootloader. So far, I haven't had worse results than with previous AT&T S3s and S4s. So either I'm delusing myself of mircury's correct, or it doesn't matter.

I'd like to see confirmation from someone who actually knows. I'm just repeating someone's else's info here.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Jayster0966:
Thanks for your input though. I guess I have been believing in the wrong reasons (regarding switching) for a while now myself.

I have actually done the official upgrade to KK 4.4.2 and now running the VisionX KK rom. Just lately I have noticed (after trying 3 different KK roms) that the switching does happen quite often on my phone. (I happen to work in a near-dead zone) I actually prefer the switching now my phone seems to be more stable for receiving SMS and MMS. (used to miss half of them due to spotty service)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JJ2525:
This is OT, but re: bootloaders...I am running slim rom v8 and have seen bootloader mentioned a few times. How do I know which bootloader I have and whether I need to upgrade it/how to do that? I have to be honest, I don't even know what a bootloader is.

Also, doesn't constantly switching between lte and hspa use a crapton of battery? And hspa uses more battery than lte in general, right?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bob Simons:
look at the baseband under about phone

I think all N900T phones shipped with a baseband ending with M17. I also think that unless your phone was stock and unrooted you could not get an OTA update. The OTA 4.4.2 update would change the boot loader/baseband. Otherwise you'd have to use Odin to change the boot loader. And finally, until very recently no recovery worked on both the old and new Boot loaders. This is a long way of saying that you would know if you do not still have the original. But to be sure, check the baseband.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] JJ2525:
OK, my baseband ends in MI7. I'm rooted, running slimrom v8 with leankernel 1.2 and twrp. What does this mean going forward and flashing updated versions of my current rom and different roms?