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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jmichaels1982:
The saga continues

]So I have been emailing, calling and chatting non stop with Samsung and Verizon in regard to my locked bootloader situation. Last time I updated, i stated that an executive relations representatives simply stated, there is nothing to be done, we have no way of refreshing these devices, and wished me luck with my locked bootloader.

I still kept sending my proof of purchase which they required, filing new tickets every day and emailing the office of the president in the mean time. I finally got a rep to agree to re-flash the phone after putting Verizon on the phone with them, they set up a ticket pending my proof of purchase. I kept faxing my proof of purchase, because they claimed that they didn't get it. So i faxed it 4 times every day for a week.

Then one of the reps agreed to flash the phone, they finally provided me with a RMA number, a ups label, said just send it, stating that he will put a note on the account stating that it is pending the proof of purchase.

So I faxed it immediately 6 more times, each time had 4 copies of my receipt. Then proceeded to re-kies my phone, wiping all evidence of safe strap and root. I put it in stock form.

Then I received a really nasty phone call from Samsung US division tech support telling me that the phone's warranty is indeed 30 days, and that they can not re-instate the warranty. Even though flashing the phone is done free regardless of warranty status, they have no way of flashing a developer bootloader on the phone, and it will lock my current bootloader if it is unlocked. He actually stated" consider this a fair warning , if you chose to send your phone in."

In the middle of all this , the office of the president finally got in touch with me, I attached the email I received.

I also wanted to state that Kies does NOT flash a verizon phone with a t-mobile rom safe strapped, I kept getting a message stating "SM-N900T" does not support initialization. I tried it on 2 different OS's, then i went back to verizon rom and it immediately agreed to re-flash the firmware.

I am awaiting the mysterious box in my mail tomorrow, If in fact I do receive it, I will update. I will also update if they successfully unlock the bootloader for me again.

EDIT: received box as promised today, shipping out ! Keep your fingers crossed for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
which rom you on? and imos latest kernel is for 4.4 tw which we don't have you need v 12 I believe which was last for 4.3 tw roms
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] inline6power:
I am on beans using imos v1.1 kernel
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dhufford81:
I can't believe how unorganized and unprofessional Samsung is. Major miscommunication inside the company. This is what happens when a company gets too big for its own good. There only saving grace are the millions of idiots who buy gimmicks. Sheep ruin it for everyone. Thanks for the info/update. I'm interested to hear the ending!

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*fingers crossed*
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] radionerd:
Toxic Reboot nvbackup solved

I lost my IMEI after sending command "reboot nvbackup" over 6 weeks ago. I was able to get everything working again today after restoring FSG, and the "empty" backup mounts from a good SM-N900V DE phone.

A friend of mine bought a DE and sent me his FSG and backup partitions. (backup-mmblk0p17 and FSG-mmblk0p18) My FSG was corrupted with efs backup from the toxic command "reboot nvbackup", The backup partition, which should be empty, was filled.

I simply dropped both mounts into my /dev/block/ replacing the overwritten corrupt ones. I didn't even have to reboot, the MEID, PRL, and MIN all showed up in my status screen.

Read more at my thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2657519
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jmichaels1982:
Final Update and Goodbye !

Ok guys, Samsung accessories refund department got in touch with me today. They said they were calling to issue me a refund for my device. I honestly did not hesitate one bit, or even bothered inquiring about the state of my device. They refunded me all $ 760 even though my device was purchased in November. This was indeed a long and painful journey but persistence got it resolved. I should warn all the retail guys with the hope of unlocking their bootloaders, if Samsung themselves could not do it for my device through their highest channels, I am not sure what hope remains. I am switching over to T-mobile, as I am moving to a place where service is very solid there.

Thank you all for listening to my story !
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ryanbg:
I'm sorry to hear the mixed news. At least you can get a new device that isn't inherently neutered, with some extra on the side. I've been watching your story for awhile and I knew they are full of it. The sad part is, it's absolute child's play and takes two seconds to unlock your device back to factory Developer Mode (I don't have the resources to do this, it requires Samsung's private stuff.) What a shame they are throwing away their customers left and right. They'll learn once we all start to flock to more friendly manufacturers. I wrote an angry/polite email to my VZW Region President that I thought was articulated fairly well, so hopefully they are responsive to that. Best of luck to you in the future!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Captain_Picard:
Uh-oh?

So, I bought a DE Note 3 (SM-N900V) a short while ago from Swappa. As far as I know, it is indeed a DE device (as it says so behind the battery). I spent many hours reading through forums before finding THIS thread, and I fear I may have screwed up royally. I'm really hoping for some support and answers, and I shall try to keep this succinct:

1) Is my ODIN Mode suppose to say "Mode: Developer" at the bottom of the upper left text by default, or does that appear after doing something?

2) I am unable to flash any kind of recovery onto the device and I fear that I may have removed the unlocked bootloader. How can I check this?

3) If I did indeed somehow remove the DE mode from my phone, is there any way to restore it?

As far as I know, my phone is NOT bricked. I can, and have, used ODIN 3.09 to flash MJ3, MJ7, and MJE onto it, though I didn't find the link for the DevEdition until tonight (DevEdition_P900v_MJE_StockRestore.tar.md5). I just tried flashing that and was unable to flash openrecovery or philz_touch to my phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
May I ask a question...Why not ask before doing something you are unsure of? You basically turned your device into a retail by flashing retail firmware in odin. Now you are limited to using safestrap.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] texasez:
I have a Developer edition running Beans 6 and have seen mixed information on whether Kit Kat will be available for download as a OTA update or as a custom rom.

I would like to know if Kit Kat will be available and will custom options be available.

I posted this in questions and got 0 responses.

Does anyone on this thread have an answer?

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
The developer device is not supported by samsung or verizon. So no there will not be a official kitkat OTA for the DE. If we are lucky a dev will mod the retail version to work with the DE and even this is a maybe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
DE edition

No factory images, no updates, no warranty, nothing.

What is the point of DE devices then?

[MENTION=4065904]droidstyle[/MENTION],

love ur guides.thanks for the effort.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
unlocked bootloader
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
For Developers to create thier own work with. The only reason I bought a DE was for the simple fact that I buy devices outright to keep unlimited data. I see no reason to support locked retail devices when I have a option. If you pay attention and do your research then there DE is pretty fool proof and is more capable then the Retail. Most of the Tmo development is compatible, but know what you are doing first. Beans mad a custom restore file for us but it does not include the stock kernel. That was a mistake on our part. Most flashed a custom kernel right off the get go before pulling a system dump. However beans restore file will recover from most bootloops and soft bricks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jackdubl:
Problem is, even if you know exactly what you're doing, you can still brick your phone to the point you need to restore to factory. I was re-flashing a rom I'd flashed 20 times before on my S3, but something messed up while aroma was installing stuff, and it turned all partitions on my phone to read-only. Couldn't restore backups or flash anything. Had to go through an extra complicated Odin restore. The fact that we don't have seem to get true restore files for these Samsung DE phones makes me very wary of buying them. I can't think of a phone I have had that didn't get soft bricked at some point.

https://copy.com?r=cScoov
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
i believe that was a specific bug on the S3 luckily that never bit me...fwiw I have yet to soft brick the S3, N2, or N3.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] inline6power:
I take it there is no way to run tmos kit kat roms without upgrading bootloaders is there
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
How do you region unlock the DE Note 3? I was under the assumption it already was but I couldn't use it anywhere in Europe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
I thought you set it to gloabal under network settings?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
4.4

Hi @ droidstyle.

have u seen these posts?

people have successfully booted in 4.4.That means that we can live on 4.3 bootloader and have a 4.4 rom and kernel..

Am I dreaming?

thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
Note quite sure that I understand what you mean, nor what the link is saying. CM11 is 4.4.2 based and has been available for our DE devices since January 1st. Am I missing something here? Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
That CM is an AOSP based rom. It is not TW. I need TW since AOSP does not support exfat.

I was hoping that Nate ( beanstown) will make an alliance rom that is tw based and I can use it for the developer edition

The leak works on the 64GB sd card that is exfat formatted.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Caveman419:
Is the newest version of TWRP (2.7.0.0) good to put on the Dev Edition?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
Yes. T-Mobile version. Had it on mine for quite a while. Working fine.

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What is an "Alliance" ROM?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Caveman419:
Thank you!!

Beans now works with the Alliance ROM team. His Note 2 ROMs are under the Alliance name.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
Make sure you install the "4.3" version of TWRP 2.7.0.0, even if you are on the leaked 4.4 ROM.

The "4.4" version of TWRP 2.7.0.0 locks up...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Caveman419:
The link in the OP ( www.techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/hltetmo to ) only had one version of 2.7.0.0. How do I know which one it is?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
Grab it from here:

http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/hltetmo
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Caveman419:
Thank you very much!!

Did anyone ever find a Stock Kernel for DE? I have been reading and have not found anything that it was actually available.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
None that work... I've tried the Verizon retail kernel, T-Mobile retail kernel, and several third party kernels.

Best bet right now is lean kernel. Only thing I'll note is there is a problem with large SD cards (64 GB and bigger).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Caveman419:
All I have are 64 gig cards ... It looks like I am staying on 4.3 for now. Still might flash beans build 6
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
what he said.

I don't understand the exfat issue u have here what from imo's lean kernel. I will ask in that thread to see what is going on.

FEATURES

cpufreq issues fixed

exfat support

ram console enabled for /proc/last_kmsg for kernel crash debugging
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
Thanks for reminding about this. I forgot to mention it in my post. And it's a critical point.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] LillieBennett:
Yes again, use the version for 4.3 bootloader for de

SM-N900V DE
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
bajarom

Anyone knows how to go from beans 6 4.3 jb to baja 4.4 ?

Do I have to use nc4 or nc2? I prefer mje.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
I think you are asking if you can stay on the mje modem and flash 4.4.2 firmware? If so yes, you can use any modem with any firmware long as it is vzw N3 specific.

Just a heads up I ran stock rooted NC2 for 2 weeks and just went back to Beans 6 4.3. Could not stand the battery drain and screen freezes any longer. Definitely has potential, patiently waiting for NC4.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
Yes!!

I am on beans 6. It rocks. Solid!. No kinks. Awesome batt life with col X r11 kernel ondemandplus gov and zen IO.

You understood my q.

Have u tried imos lean kernel cuz it has more customization?

maybe we could squeeze some more batt out.

Hashcode mentioned some NFC and other issues in his dev fix thread.. They might kernel related.

I was curious about baja rom. he has a beta release. I c that a lot of ppl have touched the thread.

I am on MJE modem. I have figured that the modem has nothing to do with the base of the rom.

MJE>NC4 ,for me -almost 10 dbm diff and 20 meg diff in speed.

On the side note recently big red signal took a dump, even with the aws update, I mean being on band 4..

They are working on the tower power load/distrib. now band 13 is horrendous and band 4 is going down. in dbm and speed.

MJE> NC4>NC2

Just wanted a kk based rom. Not willing to take a hit on batt. and performance in general. Love the AOSP look and tw functionality.

I always appreciate your insightful comments [MENTION=4065904]droidstyle[/MENTION]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
No i have not tried imo's kernel because some were reporting random reboots. I agree mje modem is the best. I might try baja here sometime this week. :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
What are you other Dev Ed guys/girls running?

Hyper Drive seemed to run fine, but not my taste.

NC2 locked up little too much for me.

NC4 (with NC2 kernel) seems to be the most stable so far for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
CM11 is working very well now. If you like AOSP, that is.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
Only thing that's been holding me back from CM11 is the lack of NFC... I use it daily.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
Yup. You're right.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mrlaigle:
Same.. Once nfc is fixed I'll be all over it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
I do not use NFC, so I need to revisit that rom. My main thing was gps but it seems to be working well now. Does bluetooth streaming work? That use to be a issue on CM also.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
Sorry, I can't tell you because I don't use it. But FWIW, BT connection to car works just fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
I have it up and running now...everything working great so far. I may be done with touchwiz!! CM11 has come along way since the last time I tried it. :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stargzrr11:
I might have to give it a shot too... I'll find something else to do with NFC.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] abe_cedar:
How did you like Baja?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
it was ok...I like beans b6. the best.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Jstrick5:
I've done some searching and haven't found many details so figured I'd ask if anyone else is experiencing the same or has info I don't.

Currently running CM11 and MJE on my DE. I frequently drop my data connection - several times a day. I end up having to toggle airplane mode on/off to force a connection again.

I did find a change log for Android 4.4.3 that mentions a bug fix regarding "frequent data connection dropout"

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-here-is-what-you-should-expect-to-see-fixed/

So is this something everyone else running KK is currently seeing?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
I've seen reports from a number of users about this. Some experience it and some don't. Don't know why, but you're not alone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Jstrick5:
Thanks - at least I know it's not just me.

If anyone else is experiencing this would love to hear what if anything they've tried and what they're running. would be nice to see if this is just related to running a KK based rom and if I'd be better off switching to JB.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Anyone know if my bootloader version should match my baseband version? my bootloader is N900VOYUBMJ3 and my baseband is N900VVRUBMJE. I read in some other forums that they should match or you could have instability issues but they were referring to T-Mobile version..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
Your baseband you change your bootloader you cannot. Mine is MJ3 too there is no instability for the DE related to baseband or at least non that I have noticed I have used every modem/baseband.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Using AOSP roms I get random reboots from time to time but that's about it...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
That is kernel related try Compulsion 14 standard or ultimate or Imoseyon`s lean kernel 3.1 or even Hashcode`s rebuild they all run pretty good. Imoseyon`s for AOSP and the others for touchwiz.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Ok I'll check those out. Have you tried yank555? That's the kernel I currently have installed. Is compulsion compatible with cm?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
I edited my post reread it where is this yank555 I will try it sometime?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
http://yank555-lu.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=356

I think I have reboot issues because I run AOSP roms. I may have to try my luck with leankernel again or maybe check out TouchWiz again. My main reason for getting the DE was for AOSP though..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
It requires registration so far I haven`t ventured outside of XDA for my goods.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Yeah, it's just a quick sign up. It's definitely worth checking out though
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
okay now which one are you using? [n9005][2013/OCT/29][TW ROMs] faux123/Yank555.lu kernel this one?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Which rom or which kernel? I'm running Carbon rom with yank555 beta 8 kernel
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
thanks I will give it a shot sometime.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
This is my latest benchmark with Jasmine 1.6 and Compulsion Ultimate 14.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
Nice I might have to check that setup out some time soon. Thinking about checking slim out
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Thepooch:
I tried some unified builds didn`t care for them too many data drops.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kronikings:
I hear ya, I've read others having data issues with aosp roms too. Fortunately I haven't really had those problems problems really other than one time with PAC..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] aerichards1977:
So - I just got my DE today and it came with 4.4.2 - Build N900VOYUCNC4. I assume I have a newer bootloader and such. How can I extract this and share with others who are having issues with the old 4.3 bootloader?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
This is weird. Unlocked bootloader still?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] aerichards1977:
I haven't flashed anything yet. Should I flash twrp and root and dump? Looking to help others this is why I haven't done anything yet.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] aerichards1977:
Here are some pics - let's use this.View attachment 2853169

View attachment 2853170
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
That is awesome wonder if bootloader is different
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] droidstyle:
I would PM hashcode before doing anything. He should be able to help you pull a system dump via adb.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] helix139:
Same here. I've PMed Beans also offering a system dump. I'm not going to flash anything and see what these guys can come up with
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] aerichards1977:
I pulled what Beans has asked for so far. We'll see if this can help anyone or not.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alexp1289:
Aka = we are all waiting to order (some of us).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TechSavvy2:
Nice thread. I was actually gonna make one of these when I got my device....

I think one of the most important things to add to OP is which stock files are Odin flashable, and which files you MUST NOT flash in Odin due to brick/incompatibility. Aka, you can flash system/modem/etc etc etc, but CANNOT flash boot etc. (<--- just examples, not actually true for either)

And similar to this, let it be known which files in the Dev Edition are identical to those corresponding to consumer edition.

I personally think these two items are the most important of owning a Dev Edition device, since its not the same as Moto where you only have one set of files for the pair of devices, and can flash whatever whenever (somewhat).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
I dont think we have any stock odin files right now for developer edition so you cant really flash anything
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TechSavvy2:
You can always pull files from the phone. And the stock kernel and modem files work from the consumer edition (confirmed via Beans).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
How do you 'pull files' from the phone?

Not trying to be smart in my post, but it's something I'd like to learn and possibly provide here from my Developer edition phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
for stock kernel img

dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/stockkernel.img
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
I have no idea what any of that means.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
lol its an adb command or terminal emulator
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
Cool, so if I run that then everyone will have Developer edition recovery .tar? (scratches head in confusion)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] LillieBennett:
Get to your Linux command line and type: man dd; then we'll really be confused! Actually it's a block copy program plus. The command above uses default block sizes et. el. and only specs in file/out file (if=/of=).

So then we could put the img into a zip install and use recovery or something like flash gordon to install it back?

How does that img format differ from that used in the tar for Odin?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
No no that is to pull the kernel off of the developer edition so kernel masters can make kernels! :)

as far as using it to flash back i dont know that all i know is it was used to pull a kernel img for devs to make kernels. and a tar is different from just that plain old kernel. i dont know it all to be honest with you i am not a developer lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] keennay:
One question that was never answered: why do we want T-mobile Note 3 kernel on a Verizon phone?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Brandonrz:
You have all the features that the custom kernels have. Like overclocking and int.d scripts.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam30era:
And also because no devs are making custom kernels for our Verizon DE phones, yet.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] freefalling0411:
Did you guys see this...

http://tinyurl.com/noy4nxp

Coming soon..

Sent from my SM-N900V using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] njfoses:
Has nothing to do with an unlocked bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jmichaels1982:
MJ7

has anyone here tried "odining" the MJ7 radio? wondering if it will fix my wifi issues