[Galaxy Note 3 General] Dothraki:
Hi Guys,

Thought I'd check with the local experts before I do what I "think" will get me root but I'm worried so here goes...

I bought a used SC01 Note 3 today for 28000YEN... good condition too and SIM unlocked.

Its currently on Android 5.0 (SC01FOMUGOI4)

Everything stock, Device status "Official"

All I want it ROOT... thats it.. no custom firmwares etc... my goal is just AD blocking and being able to use Titanium Backup. Dont care about TV or Felica not going to use therm though I will use this phone in Japan (IIJ subscriber)

In the past I have recently used CF-ROOT on my Galaxy S4/S5 so figure this might be good for the Note 3 but looks like the CF Root version is for 4.4.2...

"samsung SC-01F SC-01F SC-01F MSM8974 msm8974 KOT49H.SC01FOMUFNF6 4.4.2 "

So should I download one of the 4.4.2 firmwares from Sammobile below? is that even possible to do in ODIN, I mean go down from 5 -> 4.x.x?

Date	Country/Carrier	Version	PDA	CSC	Kies

2015-10-01	Japan	5.0	SC01FOMUGOI4	SC01FDCMGOI4

2015-07-01	Japan	4.4.2	SC01FOMUFOF4	SC01FDCMFOF4

2014-10-01	Japan	4.4.2	SC01FOMUFNI3	SC01FDCMFNI3

2014-06-01	Japan	4.4.2	SC01FOMUFNF6	SC01FDCMFNF6

I was thinking to download the latest 4.4.2 version SC01FDCMFOF4 flash it via odin and then flash the CF-ROOT SC01FOMUFNF6 file to get me root....

Lollipop root or Kitkat root, either is fine with me *though 4.4 allows me to use Skiplock which isnt compatible with 5 so 4.4 might even be better....

Any advice you guys can give would be great.

### UPDATE

So I have tried using ODIN to install the recovery, all three were tried:

CWMrecovery-scI22kk.tar

hltedcm-KK-KBC-CWM-v6.0.5.0_r0-recovery.tar

openrecovery_twrp_2.8.5.0_hltedcm.tar

All were installed successfully but when going into recovery and attempting to install the UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip I get the following error on each try:

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Starting up the phone could see that Super Su was not installed and testing a root check application showed that Root was not installed.

Any ideas to point me in the right direction would be most appreciated.

### UPDATE 2

Took the risk and flashed CF-ROOT even though my phone is 5.0 and it worked! No NFC though... but thats expected I guess.

Cheers

### UPDATE 3

Just thought I'd mention in case someone tries to do the same thing... while the CF-ROOT worked for giving 5.0 root I've noticed 2 issues.

1. Recovery - Went into recovery clicked reboot and after startup screen would stay black and popups for every single app would show "has stopped"... Went into recovery again, cleared cache, restarted, same issue. Only option was go into recovery again and doing a factory reset, then everything was fine. As a test, went into recovery again, click "reboot" same problem, all apps dead with blank screen only option was factory reset. Going into recovery itself was ok as long as I did not hit reboot to restart the phone... killing the power from within recovery to turn off the phone was the only way to exit without having to factory reset it.

2. Google App - The latest Google App gives random "Google App" has failed at random and starting it is not possible... had to uninstall the Update for this APP from playstore in order to restore the pre-installed version. Whether this is related to root or just Lollipop I don't know.... search about it seems to show others with this issue.