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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sirchuk:
I just got my Verizon Galaxy Note 3 today in White. I've been home with the phone for all of 2 hours.

I'm hasty. I have to root immediately, I don't want to have to set everything up twice. I looked at the version number, saw MJE at the end and assumed I had MJE.

I tried the vroot posted a few pages back, and that didn't work. It did install the Chinese stuff on my phone, which I promptly removed from my PC and wiped the phone.

I googled for Kango, installed it, granted permissions etc. and now I'm rooted. Quick and easy, verified with root checker and SuperSU is now installed.

Just thought I would share. I've since installed SafeStrap, then SuperSU and now I'm looking at ROM's.

Thanks for the helpful post, it certainly worked for me.

Oh, cable is just some old micro-USB cable I've had plugged into my laptop. USB 2.0 I believe, not 3.0. Maybe it'll help others maybe not.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Glad it all went smooth for you! A few top roms that I've spent considerable time on: Baja, Jelly 'Beans', and Eclipse. First two are JK themed, Eclipse is closest to AOSP.

All the rom links in this thread are quality roms built by great devs, the beauty of safestrap is: you can have FIVE of them ready to boot with a few simple clicks!

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sirchuk:
Yeah, this is awesome. I can try a ROM without even having to do a backup first!

This is better than my GS4. I'm on Baja right now. I'll have to check out Eclipse since I'm coming from CyanogenMod 11.

So far, some of these pen features are awesome. I hadn't even really used the Note 3 until after I rooted and ROM'd.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If you don't keep a backup of the stock rom, make sure you have access to a MJE tar file and Odin in case something happens :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Gvaz:
Isn't flashing over stock rom something that will flip knox? Or does that not matter now that safestrap is installed?

Additionally, I don't get the point of the limitation. I left it at the default sizes, and apparently with Cleanrom I could decrease the rom size a bit because of it's size. I also left data at default, and had about 1.9GB of space left. Now I'm down to about 250-200MB and android is yelling at me there isn't enough space. Which is kind of frustrating that I'm so limited in space, especially when I haven't even installed 1/3 of the apps I usually like to have available. (and the fact it doesn't matter about the space because I can copy gigs of app data to the internal storage and the device doesn't complain.

I realize it's like this so that you can have like five roms and switch between them, but I have zero interest in that and find that more intriguing than useful. To make an analogy, there's really only a point in having 1 main and 1 backup, as most people would with a linux/windows or osx/windows install. You use one, and if you can't do something in particular, then you fall back to the other.

As for issues, i don't have any issues, other than the limited data space partitioning.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Flashing cust rom in stock slot does not trip knox (I've flashed stock slot literally dozens of times, know still 0x0)

When using Safestrap (SS) if you boot to any slot other than stock slot, you will get an incorrect reading on available memory.

You can have multiple roms flashed on slots 1-4, and if you're booting from stock slot, you'll get accurate reading on avail memory.

Stock slot = accurate memory

Slots 1-4 incorrect memory (use file checker to get accurate memory avail)

When using multiple slots you CAN bump up the slot partitions to 4 gb max, but that will reduce the available memory for the remaining slots. The space limitation is to allow enough memory to be left for all slots to be used at same time.

This is all explained in detail in the OP... Hope that helped :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Gvaz:
I guess I just wish there was an option to use as much as possible, disregarding leaving enough space for other roms.

I'm not at all interested in running five roms on my phone when I'm only ever going to use 1. It's bad enough reinstalling stuff back to your new OS but five times is a bit too much. I just want to keep stock there in case something ****s up with the custom rom, I can be sort of secured in that I can just drop to the stock rom.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If you ONLY run a rom in the stock slot, you get access to ALL your device memory. Sorry if I didn't make that clear before.

You don't need to keep a stock rom in the stock slot. Keep a stock rom backup on sdcard and if trouble comes, flash it to stock slot. OR if BAD trouble comes, it's really easy to flash MJE in Odin and get stock os, firmware that way to.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bschmidy10:
I cant flash cm 11 on the Verizon note 3 non-developer edition, right? Is there any way around this?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
CM11 requires separate kernel which can't be flashed on retail version IIRC.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bschmidy10:
Thanks that's what I thought :/

Do you think Samsung would release an unlock tool? Or has there been any progress to unlock the bootloader? ( that would allow custom roms to the full extent, correct?)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
At the moment, most view the chance of getting an unlocked GN3, slim to none. But there is a lot of talent in xda, so who knows...

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] blame8008:
EFS/IMEI Backup

Hey,

I hit thanks cause I used this thread (and a bunch others as well) to help me root my phone.

But one thing to note: if you want to install a custom ROM later on or even right after you root, I would suggest backing up your EFS/IMEI.

Your IMEI (you can google for more details) is like a product # specific to your phone. If your phone is lost or stolen, the IMEI is marked as invalid and you'll lose your phone network.

When you root, update your firmware, install custom ROMs, etc, your IMEI can invalidate and become 00 so... yeah, backup should def be noted.

There is a thread on an EFS backup app. I'm still trying it out myself...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
has anyone encountered kingo not recognizing the phone? i have odin and odin recognizes it but i'm having issues with kingo picking the phone up. I've removed/reinstalled both the drivers and kingo app with no luck....:confused:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Have you tried diff usb cable, diff usb port, disabling pc antivirus, rebooting pc, setting device display to 10 min?

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
this is the only usb 3.0 cable i have. i've tried both USB ports on my computer. i don't have a antivirus, i've ran as administrator. tried rebooting multiple times, switching back between OS X and windows, have messed with the device display but will try now.

I just got this yesterday so it's on MJE
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Dev options: Usb debugging checked

Security: unknown sources checked, verify apps unchecked?

Sorry if you've done these already, just making sure.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
i had all these except for verify apps was still checked, unchecked it and will try again.

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keep getting can't connect error on kingo app and keep hitting retry

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still not connecting
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Try vroot. Users that have had issues with kingo have used vroot successfully. If your pc sees your device, and you've git everything else covered, msybe kingo site is down?

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
i think that's what is going on. I get connect server failed, network error on both my mac and my brothers windows computer. Just tried it on his and still same problem
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Don't forget to report your results here once you're up and running :)

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
well sadly looks like this issue has been going on for a couple of weeks and it doesn't sound like it'll get fixed soon

have any info regarding this "vroot" i keep hearing about?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] blame8008:
Well, I didnt have the same exact issues. For me, kingo could recognize my device but it wouldnt root no matter what (despite numerous reinstallations of kingo, samsung drivers, etc and i also bought a usb to micro usb cable for the kingo method as people have said that works better)

I ended up trying vroot and it worked for me on my first try.

I'll try and find the thread/site I used for Vroot instructions but I originally googled it myself and found it.

Note: try at your own risk

It's a Chinese program so after you root be sure to flash SuperSU to replace Vroot. Also, like Kingo you have to run the program on your PC so be sure to uninstall after you're done.

Then be sure to install safestrap and backup your phone

Then be sure to backup your efs data

Then depending on whatever else you want to do to your phone... do further research

Good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] edwin124:
after a little googling i found vroot and have since rooted and gotten rid of the chinese stuff
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Glad t o hear you're up and running.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] susieq29:
Backing up EFS

I tried to back up EFS data and I got message that it failed. Can I back up EFS if the phone is rooted and safestrap is not on external SD card?

I backed up the efs file using file explorer
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I've never backed up EFS...

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] susieq29:
I never did either. But I saw on several chats that it was recommended on the Note3. So I figured it out and did it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BigMcGuire:
Thank You!

Wanted to say a big thank you for this Root post. I followed everything to the letter and everything worked perfectly. Had an old Windows XP laptop sitting around I did this on. I only had to click Root once in Kingo for it to work. I did have to connect/disconnect my USB cable a few times for the computer to recognize the phone before rooting. Now I'm impatiently waiting a very long JellyBeans download! Thanks again!

I had assumed, doing this, coming from a Moto X that there would be many 4.4 roms out already but I guess we'll have to wait for those :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Glad it made things easy for you. Give Baja Rom a look too. Both are TOP roms!

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BigMcGuire:
I rooted, I have a custom rom (installed to Stock slot), I have root, I'm able to go into recovery -- but I notice when I reboot it says : Safestrap : Disabled. Should I be worried about that?

Thanks for help!

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...how-gain-root-sm-n900v-while-running-mj7.html

Looks like it's ok : Sydman: "Yes you have to have one of the other ROM slots active for it to say enabled."
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Booting stock slot= disabled. ..booting slots 1-4=enabled

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MeetFace:
Just to make sure before I root my friend's phone. Can I JUST root his existing installation and then uninstall SafeStrap? Or do we have to start over with a new ROM, stock/Custom aside.

Thanks,
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
With kingo, you can just root the device and leave the stock ROM as is. This will give you root privileges but NOT the ability flash custom roms.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MeetFace:
Perfect. When I tried Kingo on my phone, I couldn't get it to run. Perhaps was a problem with me running Windows 8.1. Or maybe I was using an outdated version. I'll have to check again.

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If following the instructions in OP doesn't get kingo to work, Vroot is a good alternative

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dclutter1:
Great instructions! Thanks for putting this together.

I tried Kingo on 2 different computers, roughly 50 attempts on each with various configurations of drives, etc. and couldn't get it to work. Vroot worked the first try.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] delabeaux:
Thank you!

Just got Baja and Hyperdrive roms on my Verizo-crap note 3, goodbye stock rom! thanks in part to this post! Thanks!:good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BigMcGuire:
Could someone do a quick overall explanation for me the difference between Beans 6 and Baja? I'm seeing people with INSANE battery times on Baja but Beans 6 seems to be incredibly popular. My preferences are: ASOP with some Samsung apps (for the stylus). But I'm VERY big on battery life over features. I've frozen 30+ apps even though I'm on Beans 6.

Random question: Does installing Greenify help at all if I never touch it to hibernate stuff? Does it help anything just by being installed without any user intervention?

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I started on Beans. Fundamentally their are basically the same rom base. Beans is a top notch rom no doubt. Baja, built on same basic rom as Beans has a diff feel to it.

Maybe it's placebo, maybe it's the dev, maybe it's the thread: Baja feels more intuitive, more flowing.

I always reco running one rom for a week or two, play with it in and out. Do the same for a second rom. You'll know which one suits your needs/likes better.

I've got great batt life from both roms. Greenify works automatically once you set it up one time. You hibernate ALL apps that DO NOT need to run in background. When you activate that app, it does it's thing, then automatically hibernates after a period in non-use.

I have a battery tips link in my SIG that'll help you squeeze every minute out of your battery, but it's certainly not all inclusive. If you find a good tip, post it!

Spend a week or 2 on beans then on baja or whatever rom you like, get to know the thread, the feel of the rom, and make a decision :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BigMcGuire:
You got 3 more hours of screen on time with Baja - that's what I'm very interested in. That's pretty significant imo. :) I like! thanks for your thread on battery life too - I didn't make the connection last night that that battery thread was you - was up pretty late haha.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Metallicalabrano:
I have EXACTLY the same problem !!

any solution yet ?? I have the Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005 Android 4.3

thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] iengel:
Like a Charm!

Works perfect for VRoot - after hours of YouTube videos and other methods that all failed - this is the only solid way I found to get the chinese SU pulled and over to SuperSU without a glitch!!!!

Thanks Much - truly appreciated!!!!

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Spread the word & the link to this thread :D

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tpham86:
is it safe to encrypt after installing safestrap? I need encryption due to company email
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Harleydroid:
I wouldn't attempt. I know there was problems in the beginning with Safestrap and encryption.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jengobengo:
Sorry if this has been covered already in the thread, but is there a breakdown of how much space I'm "wasting" by having more than one ROM set up on my phone? I am used to having just one, from when I unlocked by Note 2 and just ran Jelly Beans. I'm well accustomed to rolling with 20-some GB out the gate with a 32 GB phone (basically many GB taken up by system files), but not sure what having both stock and Jelly Beans on my Note 3 takes me down to.

And thanks so much for the thread!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If I understand your question, if you are booted into slots 1-4 your avail memory will read inaccurately. Using a file explorer will give you accurate mem reading and access to all your mem and so will running only on stock slot.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jengobengo:
I was referring to how as soon as I booted into Jelly Beans ROM on my Note 3, all my apps re-downloaded and installed. Does that mean I have 2 instances (and thus double the memory space being used by) of some of these 100-500MB games on my phone? Granted, I can easily live without many of them!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If you are talking about Google installing your apps on boot up (if you have it set to do that) it is a normal function.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Robert_DJ:
NO Love

Have been trying for hours with no success the root app runs and then says root failed

unknown sources is checked,

USB debugging is checked,

screen time out 10 min

Anti virus is off

Model # SM-N900V

Build # JSS15J.N900VVRUBMJE
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Kingo as become so popular that their servers are hit and miss when rooting. If you're following the OP (sounds like you are) try Vroot. I haven't used it, but everyone who has had issues rooting with Kingo has tried Vroot and rooted right away, with no issues.

Kingo took me 3 tries. You can also try using diff USB port, rebooting pc, and lastly download ROOT CHECKER and see if you have root even though Kingo says root failed. SEVERAL users have reported getting ROOT FAILED but having full root and going on to flash custom roms with no issues...

Let me know what you find out! Good luck.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zachpl:
I just want to make sure this works on latest OTA? Do I have to downgrade?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
If you're already MJE (ota or via Odin) you're good to root with kingo or VRoot. ..

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zachpl:
I asked because kingo doesn't seem to be working says notsupport, i'll try vroot now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jengobengo:
I see this has been an issue for others on the Safestrap thread and that you have notes of it I missed in the OP. Sorry I didn't check more into it before! The issue being once you create a new slot, you have to set the memory for the partitions of that ROM. Going with the default amounts seems to be too constraining, as I have not been able to install all the apps on Jelly Beans that I had on my stock ROM due to lack of space errors. I will back up the stock ROM, clear both the stock ROM slot and the slot I created for Jelly Beans, then re-install JB in the stock ROM slot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Robert_DJ:
DoneDeal

Used vroot got root n did safe strap running cleanroom

Thaks for your help n thread might wana change title to vroot .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I do need to add vroot as an alt root method, glad you're up and running

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] barnes7599:
Great info thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jengobengo:
I am unable to see how to delete the ROM in the stock slot. So i simply chose the stock slot when installing Jelly Beans. Looks like I installed it OVER my stock ROM, as once I booted up Jelly Beans all my apps/wallpaper/system settings were just as I had them on stock. I was expecting to have to set up JB again and restore all my apps from the backups I made with Titanium...I had to do this when I first booted it from slot 1 after installing it there.

It made things quick and easy, but I wonder if I missed a step.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Always wipe before flashing a room over another rom.

You only delete slots 1-4. Stock slot can only be wiped and flashed over.

You highlight the slot you want to flash to, create, activate, or wipe.

To flash daily driver in Stock slot, backup stock rom (optional) wipe slot, flash new rom.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zeroxg4:
For some reason I can't get this to work. Got the phone from someone and it's on MJE. I have unknown sources checked, USB debugging checked, the samsung drivers installed, and I've accepted the little prompt to remember my computer. I've tried both Kingo and VRoot and both fail repeatedly at different USB ports even after rebooting both the device and the computer. Any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Display on device set at 10 min? PC anti virus disabled? Good Internet connection?

If yes to all those and still no go: strongly consider flashing MJE TAR file in Odin. When all else fails, start back at step one.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zeroxg4:
Yeah I did both of those. I found the problem. I downloaded 1.6.0 of VRoot which wasn't working. I had no idea how to read what it was doing so I wasn't sure what to do... It started some progress bar (which I guess meant that it was downloading a new version) so I waited then it updated to version 1.7.5. That worked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] loveubuntu:
not sure if this is mentioned:

Hi, Thank you for root thread. I had not rooted my phone yet due to some crap in my personal life. I did it last night using an old PC with windows xp and old samsung drivers. No go. This morning I used a Windows 7 machine and let the kingo app install the drivers. It worked the first time. Maybe you want to add this to OP just in case. Thanks again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I'm not sure about how old of an OS wouldn't work, the OP does say to uninstall old samsung drivers and install newest ones.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] js0uth:
Thanks for this guide.

Sold the Dev and picked up a retail.

Everything is gooooooooolden. Thanks again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] statustray:
Why did you sell the developer edition to go to retail- of you don't mind me asking?

I don't have the note 3, but was thinking about purchasing that over the retail ads the boot loader was not locked.

Just curious. Thanks in advance.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DavidFlory:
Which vendor are you looking at? Certainly NOT Verizon!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] js0uth:
I bought it with the intentions of running asop Roms. Then only to be more satisfied with tw Roms. So there wasn't really any other reason for me to keep the Dev. Simple as that. Lol.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] almahix:
Anybody have a working VRoot that has been downloaded that can be shared? My downloads keep failing. I've been at it for 2 hours with no success. (Kingo repeatedly failed to root.)

NVM - Nth attempt was successful.

Edit: SUCCESS!! Rooted and strapped, now browsing for potential ROMs. Thanks so much for the excellent guide.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
I suggest Baja Rom, Jelly 'Beans', or Eclipse. All are top notch roms. Great thing about Safestrap is you can flash all 3 and switch wirt a simple reboot.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Tada10:
Love these steps. Thank you!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bdv11:
Can anyone explain to me how you are supposed to back up the stock rom and then change it to the "not-stock" rom and use a flashable rom as stock? Im confused... sorry noob question probably.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] AlfasMP:
Titanium backup is the best solution for you . It can make a update.zip file of your stock rom . Use Zipsigner for signing update.zip package as a usable form . Thank you :thumbup:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Are the directions in the OP not clear? If not, let me know so I can make them easier to understand.

Make nand bu of stock rom on stock slot. Name it stock rom if u want . Then use slider to wipe (sys, data, cache, dalvik) install cust rom to stock slot, reboot

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] stone5000556:
Great tutorial thanks. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Az Biker:
Glad you found it useful!