[Galaxy Note 3 General] darz:
[UPDATE: I tried flashing the 3 piece version of root MIF on dev-host again and my xposed problems have been fixed! see next post]

Hi All,

Just thought I'd share my experience with flashing the SC-01F docomo note 3 as there have been mixed comments about it.

First of all, very important to note, I started with the NB3 stock version and I flashed the single file available on google drive, not the 3 piece file on dev-host (the two files are different in size and I had even MORE problems with the 3 piece file)

After flashing single file rooted MIF from google drive, as per instructions:

Good news:

- Root worked

- Knox wasn't tripped (e.g. = x0)

- Felicia appeared to be working, NFC confirmed working

Bad news:

- Getting forced closes constantly, nearly impossible to use the device

- Wifi settings were forgotten after every reboot

- Camera wasn't working, FCs too

- Xposed wouldn't install itself, couldn't write to /system or something like that

- Even though the ROM was version MIF, the baseband/radio/modem was still the newer version NB3

So I thought the FCs were due to different configuration settings between MIF and NB3 so I did a TB backup (painfully, due to all the FCs) wiped data and restored apps.

Good news:

- No more constant FCs

- Root, Knox and felicia appeared to be ok, NFC confirmed working

Bad news:

- Camera was still crashing

- Wifi was still forgetting connections after reboot

- And ofcourse ROM (MIF) and baseband/radio/modem (NB3) versions were still different

So then I downloaded MIF version of the official stock from Sammobile (since the one available in this thread doesn't include baseband/radio/modem) and odin flashed that. Everything was back to MIF stock, including the radio, so I flashed the rooted MIF rom again (as per first step) and now everything but xposed installation works!!!!! Confirmed:

- Root, knox felicia look good

- Camera works fine

- Wifi settings are being remembered again

- No FCs

For some reason xposed cant get R/W access to system, I tried to manually do so with root explorer and that failed too, does anybody have any idea what might be wrong? SuperSU and Busybox appear to be working fine.

So the moral to my story (be warned I'm no expert and may have overlooked something, proceed at own risk):

If you don't need to back up your apps and data:

1. Flash stock MIF from sammobile (downgrade ROM AND baseband/radio/modem to MIF)

2. Wipe data (I assume you will get FCs if you flash back from a new rom like NB3 to MIF)

3. Flash rooted MIF as per instructions

If you need a backup of your apps and data:

1. Flash rooted MIF as per instructions (to get root access)

2. Backup data and apps using TB (be sure to copy to external SD not internal)

3. Wipe data (to stop the FCs)

4. Restore apps from TB (or you can do it later I guess)

5. Flash stock rom from sammobile (to downgrade baseband/radio/modem from NB3 to MIF)

6. Flash rooted MIF again as per instructions

Hope that helps!

Just to repeat my last issue, I can't get xposed to install, xposed cant get R/W access to system, I tried to do so manually with root explorer and that failed too, does anybody have any idea what might be wrong?

darz

[UPDATE: I tried flashing the 3 piece version of rooted MIF on dev-host again and my xposed problems have been fixed! see next post]