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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tw1n5nak35:
You need the latest samsung drivers for your pc, before you start the process. No Biggie, make sure you pc is hooked up to the internet, plug in your usb and note 3. Let windows do it's thing and it will be all set. Remember, this has to be done, before booting into download mode. Cause in odin, it will recognize your phone. In one of the colored, slots it should read Com1 or Com3 or whatever number odin auto picks for your phone. That's how you know that odin is reading it correctly. Best of luck, let us know how it goes. :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] azteka88:
i tried that already, i installed the latests driver from samsung, in 2 pc's whit 4 different usb cables 3 of them are oem 1 usb 2.0 and 2 usb 3.0 from samsung in like new condition and no luck :( only thing that usb cable does is charge, could be bad charging port?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tw1n5nak35:
I do not know. Because I have a desktop with windows 7 and usb 2.0 only, Laptop with windows 7 with usb 3.0 and laptop with windows 8 usb 3,. So I was able to flash in odrin from all my devices. You installed the latest drivers from samsung? I used an old one, this is the one I've been using since last year: SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.23.0-retail. Search and see if you can find that, uninstall the drivers you have and try that one :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] azteka88:
i tried variety of drivers and no one works :( i guess need the usb port replacement but its weird or maybe could be software in the phone bcuz it does charge but doesn't get recognized, and that happen after tower root, then i deleted everything in the phone but whitout luck bcuz camera isn't working either....

i forget to mention, my wife's s5 gets recognized by all drivers i have installed but not my note 3, even in download mode the S5 gets recognized instantly and installed drivers itself...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tw1n5nak35:
There is an issue. It could be a lot of possibilities that you mentioned. Your not out of it yet, you can try a few more things. Could it be the phone? I wish I can try to replicate your issue, but it's working for me. I don't understand why your windows device doesn't recognized your phone, but on the s5 everything is ok.

Did you come from jellybean 4.3 MJE, MI9, MJ7, than flashed over Beans Stock 4.4.2. NC2./NC4? Or were you already on kitkat? Cause if you followed the steps, should be no issue. From here I don't know where to go. You can keep trying, there's also a few youtube videos out there, so you can follow along.

In any case, best of luck and hopefully you can get it work soon :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] thornev:
Verify that you have "USB debugging" enabled in Settings > developer options. It could be a basic setup issue, maybe a setting that got turned off by accident.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] azteka88:
i double checked that i always enable usb debugging when i get new device, so its checked already the weird thing is that even in download mode its not recognized...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] azteka88:
I already flashed the last version of JASMINE ROM in stock slot like the post suggested, and activate usb debugging and is the same, not recognized by computer also camera still not working! :crying:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Eaglebiker:
Soft Brick

Hello, thanks for this software. I have a problem though and I hope someone can help me. I booted to safestrap and wiped clean the device. I then mistakenly rebooted. For some reason it doesn't go to safestrap anymore. It just hangs on the samsung galaxy s5 powered by android screen. Luckily, I can get into download mode and android recovery mode. But android recovery mode does not have a restore back up option. Any idea what I need to do to get safe strap or another rom on to the device? I used Odin to re-install the safestrap NI2 Kernel in case that was the issue.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] knox0x1:
I'm not too familiar with your device and im a bit of a noob.. but my guess would be to Odin back to stock re-root and reinstall safe strap
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Eaglebiker:
That's what I'm going to try and do. Spent the past few hours figuring out how to do that. Thanks for the input :) I finally know what NCG, and Nl2 are!

++Problem Solved
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] knox0x1:
No problem. And good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Icetech3:
My 900v is on 4.4.2 nc4 rooted with towelroot and installed busybox, installed safestrap and ran it and it says complete, but it still shows state as not installed, and no splash on boot.. This does work on retail verizon note 3's yes? thanks much...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] heath2805:
I know you said you installed busybox, but did you go into the app itself and click install and after everythings checked click install again? Once busybox is installed then go into SS and install recovery and then you should be able to boot into recovery. I just had to do the same since I did a factory data reset.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Icetech3:
Yeah.. busybox was installed and i did installed in SS.. in 3.72 it shows not installed, if i uninstall the app and put in 3.65 and do an install it shows installed but no splash screen.. have tried the tricks like hitting but bottom left of the screen when it shows the "custom" open padlock and such.. no love.. uninstalled 3.65 went back to 3.72 b03 this time.. "not installed" again..

And i did do a uninstall inside SS before changing versions...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
I'm out of practice on upgrades but shouldn't you have 3.75 for 4.42?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Icetech3:
Errr sorry it was 3.75 not 72.... my brain is a mess:)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
I have BO4 saved. Not 3. Could that be the issue?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Icetech3:
no, b04 was the first one i tried.. i just think its not going to happen.. on 4.4.2 forever :) thanks for the help though..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
You'll figure it out. Sorry I was no help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Icetech3:
AHHH GOT IT!! and no.. thank you for at least trying:) I uninstalled busybox.. reinstalled it then reran 3.75 and it works.. no splash screen but hitting the corner got me in... thanks again!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] zak7:
am i right assuming that what i've search/read has lead me to beleive that now the note 3 (n900) can use rom slots again? and i dont have to wipe my system slot and risk bricking my ****, and i can switch back and forth between 16gb sizes?

if so please somone confirm and show me besides the one spot i see that referenced on the main page kind of vaguely.

edit: im currently on NC2 on a note 3 n900a btw, been waiting for a way to have ilke 3 roms, most of them on my sd card, or most data on sd card.

read on hashcodes thread below

NEW TO v3.75:

[ONLY ON NC2 BOOT.IMG] ROM-SLOTs are BACK! (16gb size limit)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Haints:
I'm rooted, with Safestrap installed, using T-Mobile network ... Can I install a NON-ASOP T-Mobile ROM on my Verizon Note 3?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] dpoverlord:
So my new replacement came in with 4.4.4 how do I revert back to NC4 so that I can towelroot and put on alliance rom?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] christianpeso:
And please don't spam every thread with the same question.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] PrettyPistol555:
I've got Verizon Note 3, I'm looking to move to a 5.x rom, and wondering if there is any point of keeping SafeStrap installed....

If not, whats best way to uninstall?

Is there a recovery I can install if I do remove safestrap? or we Verizon people still Locked?

the ROM i'm looking at uses Aroma, which apparently is not compatible with SS, does this mean I should remove SS, or just that I cannot use SS to install the rom?

THanks!

Thanks for help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] PrettyPistol555:
Hey all, been trying to go to a new ROM "http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-qs-n9005-lp-t3037655", but having some Odin Issues trying to flash Modem.

Could any of this be related to SafeStrap?

If anybody else here has made the jump to Lolipop please share.

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tw1n5nak35:
Safestrap doesnt work with lolipop. If you want to install lolipop, you'll have to install jasmine rom, flashfire and multisystem. there's also a youtube video by rootjunky on how to do it.

Sent from my AllianceRom Juggernaut 3 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] PrettyPistol555:
THX SNAKE!

Is that the specific order I need to follow?

Going to find the video you mentioned, thx!!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tw1n5nak35:
Yes there is specific order that you have to follow. I would watch the video but root junky first. That way you have an idea on how to do it and not make a mistake. Cause if you make a mistake, you might have to odin and start from scracth, or you will have jasminerom with lolipop but Lose root. Let me know if you can't find the video by rootjunky.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] tommerdoo:
Safestrap wasn't installing on my Note 3 and I followed the advice that someone said to uninstall Busybox then reinstall it then reinstall safestrap 3.75.

Thank you for posting this! It was driving me crazy that the splash screen wouldn't show up. Then I deleted Busybox, reinstalled it (take more time to let it "soak in") then reinstalled Safestrap and it's state was "Installed" and I could even boot to recovery from that screen! Awesome!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bodhisattvah:
Is it possible to set up safestrap so it doesn't show up on every boot? The way it's set up by default is awfully insecure.

Preferable would be being able to just boot to it from the safestrap UI, but having it not show up otherwise. Or is this just not how it is setup and will never be? Maybe there are some settings somewhere that can be tweaked manually?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] jellyhead:
I used SS to flash my current ROM on the stock slot. Every other zip I have flashed says it was successful but the files aren't flashed. Am I missing something. I just came from a Note 2 with TWRP and this seems close to the same but maybe I'm missing something. Is it necessary to mount the system partition before flashing a zip?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] nabour:
Problem here.... I have safestrap installed but it is defective. I can't boot into system... I can boot into the safestrap recovery or into download. Is there a way to re-install and start the safestrap app without being able to boot into system? I am thinking either through adb sideload or terminal command? Any suggestions much appreciated!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Not sure about this one. I've never sideloaded an apk or its individual files...

If it were my device, I'd start over from scratch to remove any possibility of any corrupt/fragmented files remaining.

Sorry I have nothing definitive to help you with... Good luck!

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] nabour:
Got it fixed...

Hi az_biker;

Just wanted to let you know that I fixed it. It was in a total brick mode, but I found a thread on how to unbrick a note. It involved flashing an image file to SD card, placing the SD card in broken phone, then using Odin to flash a recovery file. I didn't think it would work (I had tried numerous things) but low and behold the note started right up. Yay.

Started all over again with root, busybox, safestrap, etc.

Happy camper. Just sharing this in case anyone else is in same position.

Barbara
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Glad to hear it worked out for you. Post that link if you don't mind, I'll add it to the help sections in my sig.

Out of curiosity, are you the user who has worked in IT field since the late 80's??????

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] nabour:
Unbrick link

The unbrick link is titled: [HOWTO] Recover from a HARD BRICK [N900V] [MJE/NC2/NC4] by hsbadr (under Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 general threads). It worked beautifully.

No, I'm not the "Barb" who worked in IT for ages -- I remember her though. I started rooting an old motorola years ago and kept at it with the Note3 through the time when there was a new rom dropping almost weekly. Beans, Hyperdrive, Cleanrom, Baja then Jasmine. Those guys were great. Then Bajasur went on to motorola.... and here I am with my outdated Note 3 just because I know I can't root the 4 or 5. Bummer.

Nice to see you are still active on these boards. Take care.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Grab a Nexus 6 (upgrade), or better yet a Nexus 6P (retail if you're on VZW)

Both have great dev communities and threads (Beans has roms for each device) and they will be devved for some time to come without a doubt!

A ton of the Note 3 home folks are in those two threads as well!

Thanks for the link!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] nabour:
Thank you very much!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
I'm running into some issues when trying to get Safestrap working....

I have a baseband of N900VVRUEOB6 (5.0). I've been running the Jasmine Rom 5.1.1 for a while now and may have lost the Safestrap after that install... But I remember having it before and not really using many of the rom slots.

I still have root as lots of my apps use it, but is there a reason why whenever I run safestrap...

-the Safe System says : Not Active

-pressing the REBOOT TO RECOVERY button just restarts the phone

-selecting reboot>recovery from my power options takes me to what looks like a default recovery?

I appreciate any help people may have in this
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
You shouldn't go to recovery from power menu, you have to go through Safestrap.

I'm not familiar with Note 3 on 5.0, but it sounds like you got Safestrap on your device but didn't install it. Safestrap is a 2 step process.

Get it on your device, THEN install it from within Safestrap.

I'm hoping this is the issue.

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
Thanks for your reply AZ.

Yes, I am aware that it is a 2 step process (install APK & then install recovery within the app). I had obtained the safestrap apk from links here (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2517610) and they seemed to have 3 different ones (for KK & JB it appears... I have tried all 3 separately with no luck).

Everytime I click the Install Recovery, a popup shows that its installing and completed, but the Safe System never changes and clicking the reboot to recovery button within the Safestrap app just reboots my phone.

The part that's confusing me is why the safe system says not active.

[IMG="Safestrap App Screenshot"]http://i.imgur.com/qUkjegr.png[/IMG]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Hmmm. I'm not sure where to go from here, especially since there may be nuances with 5.0 that I'm not familiar with.

I'll do some more digging.

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
I'm not 100% positive but if you had one ss before then tried to install later versions, did you hit the uninstall recovery first, then install recovery? I believe old version has to be uninstalled first. Then again, I could be talking out my a**.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Yes, uninstall previous SS first.

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
Yes, I made sure to completely uninstall the previous version before trying the new one. Good thought though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
Hold on. I can't find the thread for Jasmine, but doesn't ss not work on 5.0?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
I wasn't able to really get a clear answer to that question in my research. (here's the Jasmine link: Jasmine ROM Note 3 VZW)

I am currently downloading the tar file for NC2 (4.4.2) and will probably try to revert all the way back to it and try again. I'm a little nervous about losing root, but as I still have it on my 5.0 build I'm running, I'm hoping for the best.

If anyone has any additional warnings for going back to a previous version like this, please let me know! I'll update my progress as I go.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
I'm pretty certain you can't go back to 4.4.2 unless you upgraded to 5.0 via way posted in op of your link. And it does say ss, so I don't think that's the issue
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
I'm glad I took at a look at your response before I actually flashed anything. In my mind, flashing 4.4.2 from Odin should be pretty straightforward way to return to a known good device. I've had friends go between KitKat and Lollipop, but I'm going to weigh on the side of caution since my phone still works.

So, other than Safestrap, is there no other way to have a custom recovery? I'm going to start looking into multiboot to see if its a viable alternative but suggestions are certainly welcome! Again, thanks for the assistance in this!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Can't you just 'start over', returning to factory, re-root, and just follow the same process as before?

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] milski65:
I never took the jump to lp. Stayed with jb and kk. As long as you know the correct procedure versus taking Ota and expecting good results with 5.0 you should be OK. The ss deal is puzzling. That was one of the things I never had any issue with. And I know absolutely nothing about multiboot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
Starting over was what I had planned on doing... but i'm hearing that it isn't possible to go back to 4.4.2 from 5.0. I actually have the files I need to flash in Odin, but I'm holding off on potentially bricking and/or losing root. I also never took any OTAs on this phone... i've been running custom roms since I first got it years ago.

My brief research on multiboot so far didn't show any results for the Verizon variant, although it does look pretty cool.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
Did your device come 5.0, or did you upgrade via cust rom to 5.0?

I was under the impression only if the device came with 5.0 or you took the 5.0 OTA, reverting was not possible.

Again, I've little experience with 5.0 as I stayed on Alliance 4.4.2 until switching to Nexus 6P.

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] fredboy:
Just a quick update...

I went ahead and tried to flash a stock 4.4.2 I got from Sammobile via Odin and I immediately got a write error. Luckily, this didn't brick the phone, just essentially made me need to do a factory reset.

I'm going to keep looking for options... my main thing is that I want to have xposed on this device and it can only be flashed in a custom recovery. I'm going to continue researching ways to get this installed and will resign to using the 5.0 Jasmine ROM with the hope that I can gain some of the few customization options.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] jellyhead:
I don't know exactly what that means because I haven't been using SS for long, I came from a Note 2 with TWRP. I can tell you that mine shows inactive as well but it works fine. It may just show that when no ROM slots are active. I have actually never opened the APP since I installed it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] pencil316:
Thanks as well!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] nofxjmf:
hey Fredboy, I can't believe after my searching all day for answers I finally stumbled across this thread. Literally word for word of what you have been trying to do I have been trying to do today as well. My friends Note 3 (my old phone) is running Jasmine 5.1.1 and since I set it up for him he has had all sorts of problems with service. He won't get Verizon service where alot of other Verizon phones do. He has been dealing with it for almost a year and now wants me to try and fix it. So I wanted to try updating it to the newest Jasmine 6.1. After backing up everything and downloading everything I was all set to upgrade.

Now the problem is getting into safestrap. I have installed it and uninstalled it at least 10 times now. re-downloading the apk and restarting it a ton and I just can't get it to work. Does it just not work on lolipop? Is their no way I can get out of this Jasmine 5.1.1? I think I saw somewhere saying you can roll it back but can I not move forward either? I am running out of ideas here.

Fredboy has your searching got anywhere since? I am going to look into the multiboot as well but as it is not my phone anymore I only have a limited amount of time with it to work on it. If I find anything I will post up.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
I believe once you go to LP 5.xx, you can NOT revert back to KK 4.xx...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] KingOfAllChunks:
getting it on lp?

Sorry for the nooby question. This is my first post on xda. I have a retail verizon note 3. Recently upgraded from rooted 4.3 to Jasmine 6.1 (5.0 LP) and I kept the root. Flashed w/h safestrap. But how can I get safestrap running on this rom? I want it so I can take a nandroid backup of my system before something breaks. Just installing busybox and the kk safestrap didn't work (my phone just boots when trying to open safestrap recovery). Is there anything special that has to be done to get it running under LP?

Also since I didn't take any OTA updates from jb to lp, can I roll back to jb 4.3 if I want to? In case my root is lost in lp I want to go back to jb, root it, and then install 5.0 again. Is that possible?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Az Biker:
I'm nearly positive once on LP, there's no going backwards. I'm pretty sure Safestrap doesn't work with LP.

...from my NexsixP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] {davros}:
You are correct.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] BostonDan:
Not correct. One can revert back to kitkat 4.4.4 from lollipop.

Cheers,

B.D.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] KingOfAllChunks:
How does one simply revert back from lp to kk?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] jellyhead:
True, You can use Odin to flash NK1 or NJ6 which are both KK 4.4.4......but then you are stuck without root since the latest root method only works with 5.0. Since you aren't rooted then SS can't be installed anyway.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] mightysween:
The 4.4.4 issue is being discussed in at least 3 threads now...

My theory is that it should be possible to retain root on 4.4.4 by flashing an appropriate image or nandroid from FlashFire in rooted 5.0.

Of course, we need to create these images. But I can't see why we can't have root in 4.4.4 via FlashFire.

Now... will Safestrap actually work in 4.4.4?? That is the million dollar question, I guess
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] thereallugo:
try to flash this rom- http://galaxynote3root.com/galaxy-n...d-4-4-2-firmware-with-root-on-verizon-note-3/ then after flashing it with flashfire reboot to download mode and flash its bootloader through odin
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] mightysween:
Hmmm... don't think that will work. The bootloader cant be downgraded that far. Plus, if we could get to 4.4.2, we could simply root again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] cyberoptics:
seandroid 5.0 hltevzw

now that 5.0 is rooted... can anyone get me the stock recovery image.tar to flash in odin... or do we have a custom recovery for hltevzw.... i flashed a 4.4 recovery on 5.0 and have the seandroid not enforcing error. I've gotten back into my phone... but i have no stock recovery now. I want to avoid a wipe...