[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] hzh:
This might help.

Sorry for the long "essay" but I wanted to be clear amd explain well what happened with my n9005.

I bought a new note 3 n9005 from Lebanon which is a european model that is region locked to european countries (as indicated on its box). I was first surprised when I tried my sim and it worked fine (before paying for and purchasing the phone). What I found is that the n9005 that are being sold in Lebanon are the european version which is already rooted and unlocked via regionlock away (at least mine). I had no problem buying such a phone as compared to the n9000 version because of my personal preference to the 2.3 processor and the 4k video.

Anyway, as the official kitkat update process has already started in several regions since starting in Poland, I desperately want to update my n9005 to kitkat and I am still afraid to do so because over the past month I have been searching for any indication about the possibility of relocking after updating and about regionlock away if it works on kitkat, but sadly, there is none (except for a small comment I have found on youtube that this application did not work on kitkat on n9005, with not any additional information).

So I decided to wait hoping for a future update of regionlock away for kitkat n9005.

During this time I was still trying to find someway to update my n9005, at least for a newer version of android 4.3, given that when I brought it it was on 4.3 xxubmi7 build (xxubmi4 baseband), and I tried to update it, but found that "software updates are unavailable" because my device "has been modified". At that time I decided that it is no problem as long as the phone is good and not causing any problem, and that I will explore more about android flashing and roms given that I was a new android user with zero experience about such modifications.

Few days ago, I tried something with my phone hoping to exploit the already rooted system; I have installed wanam xposed to tweak various things, and found that I can set my device's status to "fake" official, so I did and found that I was able to check for updates in the settings menu. I was surprised and tried to install a 30mb update that was found, but was really afraid that I might relock my device but found (by checking the internet) that this 30mb update is the xxubmj1 build, so I decided to proceed hoping that this update method will not fail and that I can re-unlock my device with this build using regionlock away in case it was relocked. Before proceeding I changed few settings in super su, enabling super su pro and survival mode and disabling super user in the settings menu. The update was successful and I was on build xxubmj1 and baseband xxubmj1 and still rooted and region-unlocked; nothing changed and even my wanam xposed theme tweaks did not need reactivation.

After that, android notified me of another update, now a 116mb update (I checked the internet about this 116mb update and found that it is probably the xxubmj6 build). I took a risk and decided to update knowing that regionlock away is not compatible with this build. Yet, I have repeated the process and was able to update the system with no problem and no relocking, but after checking the system I found that it is now xxubmj7 build and xxubmj7 baseband. I was surprised because I found on the internet that people who tried to unlock their xxubmj7 n9005 with regionlock away had no success. After that, I checked for another update but now I found that the "latest updates has been already installed".

Finally, I would like to share something that is on my mind that may help other n9005 owners: for anyone having issues with region-locking, I am sure that you already know that samsung claims that once an n9005 device has been activated by an appropriate sim from its corresponding region, it will become automatically unlocked after 5 min of talking using that sim. I thought that what may have happend to my device is that the original unlocking with regionlock away has some similar effect to activating and unlocking it using the official "samsung" method, so during an update, the system may have been deceived that the device has been activated appropriately and that it is no longer locked, so it will not be relocked after the update. I have no idea if this is truly what have happened and would appreciate that people with more knowledge and experience than me with respect to aosp to comment on this and state their opinions.

I hope that I can do the same to update to kitkat when it arrives to Lebanon and not become region-locked again. I would like also to thank chainfire for regionlock away and kindly ask for an updated version for kitkat.

---------- Post added at 11:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 PM ----------

Sorry for a typo: my device's basebandand and build are now both xxuDmj7 and NOT xxuBmj7 after the last update.