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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Working for me.

Sent courtesy of my Note 3 & XDA Premium
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] christianpeso:
I just went back to Jellybean, MJE ROMs because of signal issues. Wanted to try some things out. Is it feasible to ODIN the NC4 modem using a Jellybean ROM, specifically Hyperdrive 7.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Yes, modems can be run on any base build so JB or KK modems can be run on each other

Sent courtesy of my Note 3 & XDA Premium
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Nidisa:
So scared!!!

I did all of this from the OP: My phone met all the criteria;

1) Start from any Rooted 4.3 MJE Rom (including Stock) with Safestrap 3.65 installed

2) Make any necessary Titanium Backups, etc

3) Reboot to SafeStrap Recovery - I'd recommend making a backup of your 4.3 setup at this point, just in case.

4) Wipe Data & Caches - This is the wipe that is queued up for you immediately upon entering wipe menu in SS - When finished hit "home" button in SS

5) Click Install and flash either the Deodex or Odexed version of the NC2 4.4.2 leak linked above

6) DO NOT CLICK REBOOT SYSTEM WHEN FINISHED - Instead, hit the "home" button in SS and click the main menu Reboot option.

7) Click Reboot to Download mode & follow typical Odin procedure (instructions below) to flash the 4.4.2 Firmware tar linked above (you'll need to extract this on your PC before Odin will recognize it).

Odin gave me a PASS in Green. I unplugged phone from pc and now trying to reboot.

Pressing power button I get the Samsung Note 3 splash screen, now it is a black screen and I'm waiting.

HOW LONG?? Before I should see something???

:crying::crying::crying:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
You may need to try a trick... Boot to download mode then on the first screen with the warning DON'T hit continue, just reboot. You should be good from there.

Sent courtesy of my Note 3 & XDA Premium
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bogie03:
NEED HELP

i just tried to do the update to 4.4.2, not the ota but the work around

so, i loaded the beans rom in SS then did the reboot from SS to oding, i flashed the firmware, and phone is DOA....it booted up, and then black screen.....been that way for a while.....

what should i do....

TY
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vick1377:
I got few glitches. Everything went fine with installation and all. I keep getting insufficient storage. I only had one slot for previous version where I formatted and installed this on and other was for stock rom. Now I can't install anything else because it keeps saying no space left where as I have tons of space on the phone. I'm sure its been asked before :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vick1377:
I have few issues

1. I can't reboot it just stays at restarting forever

2. Space issue

3. I can't get safe strap 3.75 to work. It won't boot into recovery. I tried everything

Can someone help please? I made all the backups since I can't go to recovery how can restore if I want to go back without recovery
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vick1377:
I'm stuck. Is there any easy way to download tar files without loading bloatware in windows 8? Everytime i click on download link, it loads tons of other bloat :). Too many issues with nc2 so trying get the MJ9 back and ss 3.75 just wont boot into recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
OK, so your first post in regards to the storage space issue - this is a known issue with safestrap but it's not necessarily a "bug," it's really just a byproduct of a system like safestrap. Essentially, when you create ROM slots you're creating partitions of your hard drive, thus the storage issues. There are a couple ways to make this less annoying - 1) Make the data part of the slot as big as possible when creating it (it could still run out depending on what you install and try to hold on your internal storage). 2) Use an external SD card to store a lot of your apps/music/etc. as these aren't affected by the partitioning of the internal storage. 3) Run your ROM on the stock slot - this is the perfect solution as it completely eradicates the issue. I run nearly every ROM I install on my stock slot because of this issue.

In regards to your second post - If you're stuck at the "restarting" screen try this: Pull the battery and once off power on by going into download mode (Power button + Vol UP) then on the "warning" screen DON'T enter download mode, just hit DOWN to continue (I may have these up/down's reversed...my memory this morning...) - this usually defeats whatever was causing the boot loop. As far as the "wont boot into recovery" issue - I'm not sure what you mean...do you mean you can't hold the power button and then hit reboot to recovery or do you mean that you never see the safestrap splash screen when starting up the phone? We don't have working "reboot to recovery" functionality because we use safestrap so you'll have to just "restart" and then enter recovery when the splash screen pops up. If you aren't getting the splash screen then try uninstalling and reinstalling recovery from within the safestrap app.

See my response just above about the reboot to recovery situation with safestrap.

There shouldn't be any bloat needed to download the tars...not sure what you mean but if you're having trouble clicking the correct download button (there are probably ads that are showing you other download buttons, I'm guessing...) I can link you directly to the file...probably is there is no MJ9 build...I'm assuming you want the latest 4.3 build (no real reason to use earlier builds) so you must mean MJE - if that's the case then here's the direct link to download: http://fs1.d-h.st/download/00090/gt...277_REV03_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5.7z
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vick1377:
Thankyou for the reply. Yeah I meant mje version. I couldn't get safestrap to work with NC2. I managed to find tar file for mje, flashed it in odin, re-rooted and installed ss 3.65, restored my backup which I saved prior to all this. So i'm back to my backup. I will wait till we have custom version of this rom as i don't like anything stock :). I think part of the problem could have been that I let google do my restore from backup automatically. Oh well.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] asrah:
After installing this firmware, or maybe the other NC2 firmware in another thread, my phone is sim locked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Well you've done something very wrong...thousands of downloads on my files and I've never heard of that happening. Don't really even know what to tell you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] asrah:
It wasnt an attack on you. If i really did something wrong when flashing the firmware, the device wouldnt boot into a ROM or would be bricked. Theres many ways to improperly flash something using Odin, but they all require checking extra options or putting the file in the wrong slot. I did neither of those things.

I dont think you have a bad file perse. I think updating the firmware might have just caused something to go odd in my device. As in, a bug thats because of some various imperfection in the hardware. Either that or the phone didnt take the bootloader update very well. Any idea if that might be an intentional security measure if some flag is tripped?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Understandable, but if that's the case then it'd be best not to post your outcome in the thread - lots of other people read that and may think that the files are going to cause this to happen to their device. That's why I said what I said, just don't want paranoia to break out over a hardware specific issue. Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] asrah:
No problem. I completely understand. Nothing is wrong with the files i just wanted to see if any developers had any idea what might have gone wrong in my phone itself. For the information of anyone who reads these posts.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Ramy.a:
sry for that

but could i know if ( STOCK 4.4.2 KITKAT NC2 LEAKS ) is supported t Arabic or not ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Your post on the correct thread, over in the nc2 thread, is your best chance of finding that out. FYI, always best to avoid spamming multiple threads with the same question until it's a while with no answer in your earlier attempts, but if I find anything out I'll let you know.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] weaverinva:
Back to MJE from NC2/4?

Hi DutchDogg, I moved up to SS 3.75 and Eclipse 4.4.2 and I have all my backups but doh, I forgot to mark with a label all my installed titanium backups. So I may go back to my nandroid backup just to make it easier on me.....So how does one go back to MJE after being on KK? Do I have to odin MJE tar, then root, then SS 3.65 and then restore my nandroid?

I forget but I think the MJE tar erases the internal data partition. Ugh.

If there is an MJE firmware and modem only odin, please point me to it.

Thank you for any comments.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Unfortunately, yes, you'll need to Odin the MJE tar to get back to 4.3 - linked in the OP if you need it. No shortcut :/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] weaverinva:
Very good. I am not successfully on NC2 with NC4 modem but I think I need to go back to get a few data backups that seem to be missing in Titanium for some reason. My TB restores have gone well. Ugh, I should have created an actual checklist of all the extra backups that I should have done within apps.

So my final question, is that will an odin of MJE wipe my internal data partition in its entirety including /data/media (/sdcard)? I think it does wipe which means I would need to transfer it off and back on. It's only time right..... :)

Thank you!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
This one is not cut & dry, unfortunately... I've had an experience where odin didn't wipe fully & similar reports have been heard early on from others. The way it should work is full wipe so you must plan for that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
I'm trying to go back to 4.3MJE from NC4 via Odin 3.09. After the MD5 check comes up successful, the flash comes up as a fail. I wiped everything but still no success, what am I doing wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ContractorDude:
As far as I know you can only role back from the NC2 leaked version not from the latest NC4. Don't quote me though
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] pltctytc:
4.4.4 just announced

for the galaxy family ....just a tad late w/lollipop coming out
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] greene.phillip:
I'm having trouble figuring out my next step. I previously rooted my N3 and have the NC2 leaked bootloader (N900VVRUCNC2) and installed BajaRom. I have Android 4.4.2 KK and Kernel 3.4.0. I'm looking at installing JasmineROM or AllianceROM (unless there's a better recommendation) and I see that should not be a problem with my NC2 bootloader. However, I see there is an NC4 bootloader that also keeps SELinux Permissive and Insecure Modules. Is there a need/benefit to updating to this NC4 somehow that doesn't lose me any previous abilities, like MJE flashback (is that even still needed for anything?) My signal has been kinda crap so I'm hoping there's some changes I can make to improve that and I'm getting some quirky behavior in the ROM and ready to start fresh again.

Thanks, I've done lots of reading and just can't quite sort it all out.

Edit: I had also thought about flashing beans stock deodex NC4 package if only as an intermediate step. Necessary?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Your don't need to do anything but flash the rom zip you want... Which I'd HIGHLY recommend Alliance. Build 2 will be coming out in the coming days so I'd sit tight for now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donelam304:
This is correct. I found this out recently. Once you are on NC4, you can not go back to mje. And this sucks. Lol. Not many roms out yet that are very friendly with NC4. Jasmine and biggins are the only promising ones that I've seen so far.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] greene.phillip:
Thanks very much for the info. I sill have safestrap 3.72 should i upgrade to 3.75? I dont flash roms very frequently and dont see me switching back and forth. Sny othet reason to upgrade?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xdadevnube:
I thought you can still Odin the NC2 kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] LeftyGR:
Kernel...yes. Radio/Modem, yes. Bootloader, no.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zpage948:
Can you still load kernels from Odin if Knox has been tripped?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] LeftyGR:
From what I understand, knox being tripped doesn't prevent you from doing anything you could before.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bodhisattvah:
FWIW, I'm on NC4 and neither jasmine nor eclipse work on my n900v, towelrooted. I've flashed and recovered several times with the custom TWRP for our phones (what an ass saver!) but no luck on custom roms flashing successfully.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
That makes sense actually - I know Eclipse requires the NC2 kernel - which I have linked in the OP. You can Odin that after flashing the rom zip by booting to download mode out of safestrap and Eclipse will boot for you. Jasmine I'm not as familiar with - might it too need the NC2 or possibly the unified kernel/framework? You'll have better luck asking in there if that's the rom you'd like to run.

I'd highly recommend Alliance ROM - which you wouldn't need to do anything for since it'll run on the NC4 kernel just fine. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bodhisattvah:
Hmm...i wasn't aware of that. Thanks!

Edit: btw, as far as I know, its currently not possible to flash back from nc4 to anything. Nc2 isn't an option.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donelam304:
I tried to flash back to NC2 and I kept bootlooping my phone. The only luck I've had on mine is flash biggins rom. And it worked fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] LeftyGR:
You can't go back to the nc2 bootloader, this is true. However, you can go back to nc2 kernel and/or radio with no problems.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donelam304:
When I try to flash the NC2 kernel it always bootloops. Got any ideas how to do it without it bootlooping.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Are you flashing it in Odin? Are you flashing a ROM before flashing the kernel? I'm not sure you can run stock NC4 with the NC2 kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donelam304:
I've tried jasmine, Alliance and hyperdrive and then boot up in to download from SS recovery and Odin flash the NC2 kernel. And it always bootloops. Biggins is the o ly rom I've had any luck with so far.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] recDNA:
Is the stock 4.4.2 vzw firmware to odin for factory reset listed? I don't see it.

It should be nc4 right?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
You can find that file here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2524572
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] StoneComputers:
is this thread still active? I posted a help message a few weeks ago in the note 3 help section and got sent to this form... but I have a unique problem with my phone, I have the original Demo that came with the Samsung display... it has the same hardware of a Note 3, but some type of beta or demo ROM installed on it... I can not update it at all... kies says its at its newest update so does the OTA update... I would love KitKat but I keep getting this feeling that my phone needs some type of extra step that no one has mentioned yet... I really would love some Google Play edition love on this since thats how I run the thing anyway with the google launcher... its a very slow phone with all the bloatware even though it has great specs... I see the instructions but they do not mention a few things that I find troubling... maybe I'm just not reading them right... I do have to do something soon since my phone is getting to the point of unusable... I tried to contact Samsung about changing it in the system but they point to verizon (I work for Verizon and called in to some friends behind the front lines and they swear its Samsung that registers the serial numbers that show where the OTAs go...) with my phone reading as a "4G Test Device" it won't update... I feel like it should be easier then all this... why cant I just flash the official update? won't the phone take it? I don't need root but I'm guessing since there is no REAL ROMs for this device Ill have to remove all the bloat myself...

I'm mainly checking to see whos still watching this thread and seeing if there is any help to be had if some is needed...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Of course this threads still monitored, I'm the OP & an active moderator silly :)

Can you go to menu - settings - about phone and take a screenshot showing the build number & kernel version and post it in here so I can help? Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] StoneComputers:
ok so SamMobile has the firmware I want 4.4.4. and it just says I can flash with Odin.... if I don't care about root this should work just fine right? I'd love to have a total Google play edition of this Note 3 but it looks like cuz of big RED we cant do full ROMs... here is my screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/smunrfmiwkdwauq/Screenshot_2015-01-01-22-01-41.png?dl=0

[IMG="my dev stats"]https://www.dropbox.com/s/smunrfmiwkdwauq/Screenshot_2015-01-01-22-01-41.png?dl=0[/IMG]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
I would just use the deodexed nc2 tar that I have linked in the OP. That way you can still root if you want. Otherwise you can just Odin the 4.4.4 build you're talking about, but there will be nearly no difference. And we do have plenty of full roms, just no aosp based roms because the locked bootloader doesn't allow for kernel swaps.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] StoneComputers:
so I can just use odin to load that one too? I dont have to ROOT or anything? I just want to get it done tonight and a quick flash would be best.... I do want ROOT later with a google play type ROM... you know Nexus type stuff with no bloat... so if I download that file I just use ODIN and flash? Simple like that? no new installs of google apps or needing to ROOT?

thank you btw for the fast fast replies
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Your welcome amigo! Yes, you can Odin the nc2 with no root needed. Follow the instructions in the OP and you'll be on KITKAT with root available through towel root, which you can find with Google easily. If you went to 4.4.4, no root available.

No matter what you do, no aosp (stock android) available for the Verizon note 3 because you need an unlocked bootloader to be able to flash kernels. Aosp-based roms require a different kernel than comes with Samsung, so we're out of luck there. But Alliance rom is sick for this device & Eclipse Rom is an impressive aosp clone, really impressive. Best of luck man!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] StoneComputers:
but your OPs instuctions show needing a rooted phone with safestrap... I cant just download the ZIP and flash with Odin? I know that sounds like noobtalk but to be honest I just need it to be updated to a real firmware so I can use my Galaxy Gear watch (the beta firmware i'm on does not support it) if there is no vanilla ROM then I think Ill just go with the official 4.4.4 since I will be buying a Nexus 6 later this summer and I just need this to hold me over till then... thank you sooo sooo much and there is another guy on my original post that has the same Demo phone as me looking for help too...

I will be selling this phone too so I think Ill go with the official anyway... you have be a great help and I love what you guys are doing here.... if I was going to keep this phone for more than a few months Id take the time to go through many steps and ROOT flash etc... but I just want something that will work in a a few min... so Ill try flashing my phone with Odin and the 4.4.4 I feel like its my only option right now....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Yes, just download the zip, extract & you'll have the stock tar. But go for 4.4.4 if that's your plan. Glad could help man.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] RomsWell:
Odin stock firmware
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] rbowzer29:
Is this build ROOTable? I've been searching for weeks for a root option and have been scratching my head for the duration. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] to2me:
can i update my mobile to kitkat 4.4.4 ??? Is there any official firmware ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] christianpeso:
No. 4.4.4 is not rootable at the moment.

---------- Post added at 02:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:33 AM ----------

Yes. There should be an over the air update available. Check for updates. Haven't see a flashable version of 4.4.4. There might be one somewhere though. Keep in mind that 4.4.4 is not rootable so if you need that, stay where you are.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] matalo:
Hey guys. I am looking into upgrading from an S3 and have found a couple of phones on Craiglist. I wanted to ask you guys a few questions if you do not mind.

Should I find a phone where they have taken all latest OTA's, would I not be able to downgrade / flash other roms/modems?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BladeRunner:
The last update you really should consider would be the NC4 4.4.2 update. Still can root and safestrap on that update. The NK1 update to 4.4.4 has a root option (see this thread http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-note-3/general/how-to-update-to-nk1-root-t3013630/page2) but safestrap is not an option.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] knox0x1:
are the download links good?

when i tried to download the nc4 tar my avg was going nuts all kinds of adware and trojans popping up. plus it didnt just download the file. it was some other thing i had to run as admin for it to download file. any help is appreciated.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Did you download from my links in the OP? I don't have an NC4 tar file linked so I think you must be talking about some other file from another thread.

Sometimes on pages that host files, there will be ads that have a download button in them - you could have mistakenly clicked one of these and then AVG is doing it's job in finding something - but if you MD5 check the download, and the file name is the same then you're good, even if AVG/Virus software is saying otherwise.

*This is in no way a guarantee that others haven't linked to bad files on these forums, just a general statement - still use caution & discretion.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] knox0x1:
ahhh.. yeah.. i see what i did my mistake..lol! really what im looking for is the unified nc2 and nc4 kernels also the unified firmware. any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
I think this is what you're looking for: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358551261
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] knox0x1:
Yup.. Thank you sir
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I'm seeing diff answers for this: what is unified kk firmware?

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
What's up AZ?! Been a while.

I'm not sure what exactly it is - I think it was created by hsbadr...I don't think it's necessary either. As long as you're on NC2 most everything will work, I believe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
That's what I suspected. I've seen a few users say, "you need" or "you must use" so I wondered if must and need were accurate or just used loosely :D

I'm chilling with Alliance build 2, running very well, still haven't tapped into all the cust options.

Was looking for a solid rom that was still being devved to play with. That way when everyone is running LP, I'll be familiar with the rom already.

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