[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] capnkrunch:
I am aware of this (it was a different thread by the way). But as you can see we are in need of a hltevzw dev for the first time since maybe the split. Really, it wasn't until we lost CM12 support (temporarily hopefully) that there was a reason to miss Hashcode. Well, besides him just being a pretty cool guy in general.

I'll give you this one. I didn't realize how negative the connotation for "jump ship" is; TheFreeDictionary agrees with you. I have nothing but respect and thanks to all the devs for sticking with this for so long. For what it's worth my interpretation of the idiom "jump ship" was more like "only an idiot stays on a sinking ship." (Unrelated, but isn't a Linaro job more like THE great job opportunity for an Android dev?)

Read this too.

I have to agree with [MENTION=2755830]dhufford81[/MENTION] on this one. Development thrives in spite of Samsung not because of them. They're not Xiaomi bad but Samsung has a history of not complying with GPL (i.e. releasing code that doesn't actually compile to the shipped kernel). Plus they don't really make things easy or devs. Their ~150-200mb kernel source is packaged into a gig or more of libraries no one actually needs and you need to download it from Samsung's 56kb/s dialup server.

Not to mention no one is as proud as killing root/custom ROMs as Samsung. KNOX is a big part of their brand. The Verizon Note 4 will probably never be rooted let alone unlocked. And that is a HUGE victory in Samsung's eyes.

Verizon is at fault too of course but I really don't have a choice if I want good reception here. I do have a choice of devices though and I don't think I'll ever choose Samsung again (after having been a loyal customer since the S II).

I have been painfully, acutely aware of this for nearly a year now. Things were much worse for Verizon customers a year ago though. Look at how great things are now. The HTC One M8 and LG G3 have bootloader exploits and the Nexus 6 is a thing.

Though not according to Sam or Red.

Me: I want to be clear that I have a DE with an unlocked bootloader. Will this update flash a locked RE locked bootloader on my device?

Red: I just updated mine and it didn't affect anything.

Me: Yes, but I have the DE. I'm worried about the bootloader getting locked if I take this OTA.

Red: Yeah, I also have the DE and my bootloader was not locked when I took the OTA.

Me: ...bootloader...locked...?

Sam: The Samsung database says the update is available for both the DE and RE.

Me: I get that it's available for both. But is it the same for both? Will it lock my DE bootloader or is the update somehow different for each version?

Sam: It will not affect your bootloader.

Hmmm...The Samsung rep seemed simply misinformed. The Verizon rep just straight up lied to me so that seems somewhat more malicious. Who knows.

Heh.

Man how I wish I could afford it. I feel like I need to hang on to this stupid Note 3 for at least another year to justify the cost though.

PS: Hopefully close to having an updated CM12 for you guys.

UPDATE: As promised. A build of Temasek's CM12.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/34aqwlo8675w1iw/cm-12-20150119-UNOFFICIAL-temasek-hltevzw.zip?dl=0

Everything seems to be working great. GPS may be spotty though.

Source

https://github.com/capnkrunch/android_device_samsung_hltevzw

https://github.com/capnkrunch/proprietary_vendor_samsung

There's a commit to the vendor repo that I haven't pushed yet (just commenting out the com.qualcomm.location lines in hltevzw-vendor.mk). I'll push that later today and probably submit a pull request to temasek as well.

EDIT: NFC is still broke. I can't fix it but I will look into updating Hashcode's NFC remove zip. On the plus side streaming works (I can't remember if it was fixed in Temasek's official releases or not) including HD YouTube (for now at least; in the past I've seen it break randomly).

Also, in case it wasn't clear all credit goes to Temasek and the CM maintainers. I just copy and pasted stuff from their Sprint device tree into our Verizon one.

Once more with feeling:

I got developer status on AFH! I'm sure you guys are more comfortable downloading from a site like that than my Dropbox.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95897840722646970