yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bravomail:
Thanks! Works! But

The whole process is cumbersome, but works.

I'd start with whole factory reset as a step 0.

But

Overnight

While everyone slept

I got autoupgraded to NC4 4.3.

Back to square one.

Is there any way to add hosts or remove fwupgrade.apk to/from System ext4?

We need to block this upgrade from happening!

:highfive:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] clothednblack:
A buddy Keeps getting failed on downloading pit file in hemdall, any ideas? Tried this 3 times, dll is there, phone in download mode, file is on sdcard

Stickied with my post-it-note 3

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Nevermind, fixed it

Stickied with my post-it-note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
how did you fix that issue?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] clothednblack:
Had him switch to laptop and start over from Odin. Somewhere it got screwed up even though Odin said pass and hemdall detected the phone. Had him pull sdcard, do a direct transfer of all the files again, replace card and start over with Odin. Success!

Stickied with my post-it-note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Kre8iveOn3:
I keep timing out in ZADIG installing the driver?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
did you put your phone in download mode first? and verify odin see the phone

comport will be greenish blue

did you install vcredist_x86.exe
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Kre8iveOn3:
Yes, Yes and Yes. I deinstalled all the samsung drivers and kies. Still Stalling. I went in and update the suggested drivers from intel and still timeouts. ? Thanks for help.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you might have to right click and run zadig.exe as admin

you do have the AT&T note 3?

did you check your MD5 numbers for good downloaded files?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Kre8iveOn3:
I tried running as admin, didn't work.

Yes.

Yes.

I deleted all the files, restarted my pc and re downloaded all files and am to the SD card update point!!!!

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Oh snap it worked!!! Thanks all for the help!! OP Thanked!!! :cowboy:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] californiarailroader:
I just got my Note 3 today, and it got the upgrade to KitKat this evening, I figured this would work on KitKat too. So, are we in a waiting mode for now?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] posersk8r:
Wont work with official ota nc2, still waiting for root method.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] californiarailroader:
Okay, thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Yes as posersk8r posted it won't work, It will soft brick your phone
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wilkok:
Thanks. I had forgotten to enable USB Debugging. For other noobs, you need to enable developer mode, then enable usb debugging before you load the RLDV files to the phone's root (not sdcard).
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] californiarailroader:
No worries, I'm sure somebody will get it working soon. I also have an AT&T branded HTC One m8, and it's bootloader is unlocked, it's rooted and I have S-Off.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] faslane:
yeah unfortunately. That's the "game" though. It'll come I"m sure but OTA and new both suck now for rooting/romming

Faslane
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] paniro187:
is the mega site download not needed anymore?? it's not working
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Delakit:
Lol. It's a mirror. You don't need to download (2) of the same exact file.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] yaguskho:
can give me link CSC N900ATTBMJ5 file?

my n900a direct pen has been stopped issue..

my AP N900AUCUBMI9

CP N900AUCUBMJ5

CSC not found. im check with *#1234#

but i flash with bl,ap,cp N900AUCUBMJ5 with pit HLTE_USA_ATT_32G.pit

what solution for me?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
AP is updated when you flash the 2400258.zip, thats the reason for the direct pen has been stopped issue

so put the 2400258.zip and the sec_csc.zip for the OP on your external sdcard and then boot to recovery and install them
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Sampson0420:
Will this method work on a phone running dynamic kat 2.0 4.4.2 rooted with SS 3.72? Need to send in for warranty service. Thanks!

I was referred to this thread by a helpful poster in the DK thread, I would just like to confirm. Thanks again :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Easy way would be to flash the leaked kitkat , it will remove root
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Sampson0420:
Thanks for the info, could you provide a link? I could only find urdroid stock rom for my note 3. Do I just flash in SS and that will remove my root, SS, etc? Sorry for so many questions, coming recently from a nexus 5 and not used to the SOP with the locked bootloader and all.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Install this with Odin http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23321874045862490

then go here to have them update to the NC2

Please visit the link below to locate nearest BestBuy SES.

Link: http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-experience-shop/

Using the Zip code, you can locate the store.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SkylessKnight:
Grr...

Need some help here, posting is a last resort for me..

RP SWREV: S2, T2, R2, A3, P2

Getting the following error in Odin:

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> BL_N900AUCUBMJ5.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Removed!!

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> AP_N900AUCUBMJ5.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> CP_N900AUCUBMJ5.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/005> Initialzation..

<ID:0/005> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/005> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/005> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/005> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/005> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/005> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/005> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/005> FAIL! (Auth)

<ID:0/005>

<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

--------------------------------------------------

I get the Firmware upgrade error, if I redo just the PIT file, it gets rid of the Firmware upgrade error. I cannot get into Recovery - it goes into a boot loop. I read a suggestion to flash "AP_N900AUCECMGL_N900TUVUCNB4_NC2_BOOT.IMG_MGL_RECOVERY.tar" via Odin, and then I could get in Recovery. I tried to flash 2400258.zip in recovery, and it failed.

Any suggestions here? This thing is new, I think it may have something to do with the new bootloader (A3??).

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

EDIT:

It would be worth noting, I did do the Heimdall portion, and received the following error:

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...

ERROR: Failed to send request to end PIT file transfer!

ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!

Ending session...

ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!

Releasing device interface...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
the AP_N900AUCECMGL_N900TUVUCNB4_NC2_BOOT.IMG_MGL_RECOVERY.tar.zip is just the NC2 boot.img and the MGL recovery it will not help you, when you tried to downgrade you lost your system files so trying to install the OTA official KitKat will do no good because you have no build.prop for the OTA install to read

You have bootloader A3 , you cannot downgrade the only way I know of you getting to use your phone is go to This MGL with A3 bootloader

or bestbuy where there is a samsung rep
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SkylessKnight:
Trying..

It's download now.. Thanks so much for the reference! Makes sense, looks like it'll work...

I wonder if I'll ever be able to get back to stock (since there is no root yet) or upgrade this software? You think? I think I might try to go to Best Buy in the meantime, not sure yet. Maybe I'll let me use Kies to restore it?

Thanks a bunch for your response!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
do not waste your time with kies, it's only has Mi9 and is a wasted download that only fail's because it is A2 bootloader, and I see no effort of them updating it

here is a reply from email I sent them

Samsung Customer Support Center <dear_customer@contactus.samsung.com>

May 2 (2 days ago)

Dear Carl,

Thank you for contacting Samsung Telecommunications America.

After reviewing your email, we understand that you want to update your device(SM-N900A) using Samsung Kies.

We have checked the records and see that the device has new Firmware version (N900AUCUCNC2) 4.4.2 through Wi-Fi (OTA). This update is not available through Samsung Kies.

We would like to inform you that update on the device are released in batches, some are released through Kies and some are released through OTA, the updates on the device are carrier specific.

Please follow the below steps to update your device.

1. To initiate the update manually, connect to a Wi-Fi network.

2. From the Home screen, touch Menu > Settings > More Settings >> about device > Software update > Check for updates.

3. Touch OK.

4. The device will automatically start downloading the software update. Once complete touch Continue and the device will restart.

5. Please wait until your phone reboots completely, and then select "Done" to finish.

Access the below link to see the complete details on the update for the device.

Link: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00059460/84647/SM-N900AZKEATT

If you are unable to update the device through OTA, please visit nearest BestBuy store where Samsung Experience Shop/Store (SES) is available. Samsung executives at BestBuy will update your device.

Please visit the link below to locate nearest BestBuy SES.

Link: http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-experience-shop/

Using the Zip code, you can locate the store.

Please write us back if you have any queries/issues with the device, we are happy to help you.

If you have more questions regarding your Samsung Mobile Phone, you can also reach out to our chat support team by accessing the following link. Live Chat is available 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.

Link: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/contact

Thank you for your continued interest in Samsung products.

Sincerely,

Tiffiny.

Technical Support.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SkylessKnight:
It's working!

Thanks so much Carl for pointing me in the right direction. I read so many forums, I believe I even came across that one but wasn't sure if it applied. Now I've done enough reading that the A3 bootloader makes since. I didn't think I'd be able to, but I tried doing a "Software Update" via the phone and of course it didn't work... Wondering when they'll release the NC2.. I wonder if this Version will be stable enough to use daily, or if I should go ahead and return it. I guess we will find out soon..

So from my understanding, I should check back to see if the NC2 version is released, so that way I can proceed with OTA updates.. Hope it becomes available soon!

Thanks again for your help!

PS I had to take the links out of your quote cause I haven't posted enough on the forum to post links.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] BR7fan:
From experience, I'd stay on MJ5. AT&T Kitkat is not battery or speed ready. When I went back to MJ5 from KK, I was amazed in the difference between the two. My battery was lucky to make it to the end of the day using kk, and I use Zero Lemon 10000mAh Battery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] marcbsmoove:
Please Help stuck on 7

Hello All. i managed to make to step 7 but keep getting this: " ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12 "....Can someone please help me to fix this. Thanks to all who reply... :o
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] fabiooli:
The same happens here. Tried downloading a dozen times but nothing...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bailey2408:
oh nooooooo!!!! sorry to hear that!! i didn't want to put you in my boat dang it.. i'm not sure but everything i've done still doesnt get heimdall working.. taking a break for a bit from it.. and evil that file for vrcredistx64 wasn't there but went out and found downloaded it from microsoft website and when used heimdall said a .dll file was missing and wouldn't work.. oh well thx again
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] drakeymcmb:
Whenever i click start in heimdall it says this

Beginning session...

ERROR: Failed to begin session!

Releasing device interface...

Mi_68aablahblahblah is no longer connected

Detected I/O error 87:[The parameter is incorrect.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bailey2408:
i'm assuming you can still connect and use odin? i have a replacement coming in mail- evil is there any way your image file could be converted to .tar format that can be used in odin or a way that designgears img could be modified with your workaround so we could use in odin? for whatever reason that seems to be the only way we can interact with our phone.. i'd be willing to test since i've got replacement coming (just can't trip knox if possible)

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thnx will also try this later in day.. are you on windows 7 64 bit? if so shoud i remove all of the vrc files and just use the one you posted above? drakey if your on windows 7 64 bit give this a whirl and lemme know.. i think we are literally at same point of where our phone is
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] drakeymcmb:
Ir worked yesterday with heimdall 1 time. Then it never worked again.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wetard@gmail.com:
I basically had to abuse the crap out of the zadig.exe in the heimdall suite directory. the name of the kies driver for the device looks like "dg_ssudbus" and i believe i ended up using the libusb0 driver (i think i tried them all to be honest, if a driver didn't work i seem to recall that zadig.exe would give you some feedback "driver install failed" etc or "driver install successful") by clicking the "replace driver" button. once i replaced the driver i was able to detect the device through the heimdall frontend under the utilities tab.

when it was time to switch back to odin i just moved to a different usb port out of laziness. once i moved to a different port it rediscovered the device and used the kies driver again.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] evilpotatoman:
This. Try this. For some reason you may need to click that detect option prior to flashing. I think that's when heimdall sends the hello command
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bailey2408:
holy crap!!!! that actually did the trick!! first time heimdall has worked for me.. and just flashed your mi9 image!!! off to the races!!! exactly what i did was fired up zadig, connected phone while in download mode (all i could do), installed the libusb0 driver for msm 8960, fired up heimdall frontend, went to utilities tab, hit detect button, and then went to flash screen and proceeded.. it actually worked- i can't believe it!!!

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this worked!! thank you so much!! drakey give the bottom part a whirl- it should work for you too!!!!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ahmarchi:
i jsut get stuck on releasing device interface and nothing happens, then the start button is able to get clicked on again.... any help
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikeyhim:
OK thanks so much. I have flashed MJ5 with this modem.bin by odin. It leads to a bootloop. I flashed back MJ5 modem by Odin and it changes back to original.

Now question is :

Where can I find the other parts like csc,ap of MI9? The links from hotfile in other threads are down.

Just flashing modem.bin didn't change knox
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bailey2408:
Read post 90.. that worked for me
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] drakeymcmb:
Worked finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks you sooo much!!!

Back to flashing.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ahmarchi:
does the root method used here intall busybox?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] drakeymcmb:
yes it does
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] fabiooli:
Step 8

I passed step 8!

Now when I start the phone on step 9 it's all bugged, really slow and keep giving me the "Direct pen input has stopped" message. I extracted the file on internal memory at the root directory but after restarting the SuperSu is not installed.

Could you guys be more clear on this step? This "pen input has stopped"message is expected?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bailey2408:
Sounds like you need to install the csc file tjat you should have on external sdcard. You have to install it from recovery
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] evilpotatoman:
You need to boot into recovery to flash the sec_csc.zip file. Also, did you use Odin to reparation during step 2?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ahmarchi:
Also make sure the file u have is 47.8 mb or what ever it is....I had to download it 3 time until I realized it was only downloading it to like 20 mb and stopping

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another question, when we already have the mj5 partitions installed.... do we have to odin flash them EVERY time we have to restore, or can we just skip to the heimdall part?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] LuckyColdJohnson:
I keep getting this message after Heimdall reaches 100% (not 95 like stated) "Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!"

The phone has " Downloading (Green Android guy) "Do not turn of target!!" Knox 0x0 everything. Custom system status.

>>> SECURE CHECK FAIL : system

Also the next step has fails

When I reboot into Recovery to flash the scs file, it installs and at the end has errors in red right before the screen reboots. I can see stuff about the SD Card or something.

Anyways, Every time since this attempt has put me in this hole.

I turn on my phone and it goes into recovery >EVERY TIME<

I dont know what to do, >> FOLLOWED ALL DIRECTIONS

If you or anybody can help, I would love to have a phone back.

This sucks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wayne8821212:
I'm not sure if this is even remotely helpful but which ever USB port you used for the Heimdall, won't work properly for Odin in the future. You will have to use a different port henceforth for Odin. But if you were getting errors with Odin even before using the Heimdall, then it's a different issue.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] faslane:
That's weird. Mine do but NOT USB 3.0 just the regular 2.0 ports.

Sent from Note 3 rocking DK Xtreme!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wayne8821212:
Heimdall and USB ports

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50784414&postcount=344
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] faslane:
What am I looking for sir?

Sent from Note 3 rocking DK Xtreme!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wayne8821212:
Heimdall and USB ports

I was pointing to back in March after installing the Heimdall drivers, I was unable to use Odin on one specific USB port and another XDA member pointed out that I would have to use another one of my USB ports due to the drivers that were installed.....I think all of my ports are USB 2 since this is a 2009 vintage laptop (unlike my other laptop). I had failed 5 or 6 times until I got that advice.....then all was fine.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] faslane:
Ahhh I see...thanks. wasn't sure what I was to look at. Lol. +1

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Just the opposite for me on KK. Most of it depends on the rom.

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Kies has always been a turd. I'll never use it. Never have technically. Just for a backup once and that was dreadfully slow. I installed and haven't touched it in ages.

Fas
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] wayne8821212:
Kit Kat battery life

Just the opposite for me on KK. Most of it depends on the rom.

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Kies has always been a turd. I'll never use it. Never have technically. Just for a backup once and that was dreadfully slow. I installed and haven't touched it in ages.

Fas

I agree....... the Kitkat Roms that I have used always have had much better battery life compared to Jellybean Roms that I have used.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mastamind:
Followed to a T and it saved my azzz. Thank you so much I can now use my appradio 3 again with my Note 3 :good:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Thenewguy1:
Will this not work with NC2?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] posersk8r:
unfortunately no sir.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] chrisxpierce:
I think I'm screwed...

I got the Note 3 AT&T and "was" rooted. I used the process once before in this particular phone when it wouldnt update to 4.3. Now, I want to try the process again due to the fact that after I removed the custom rom, recovery, safestrap, then used supersu to unroot, it still would not let me update to KKat. Brought it to the samsung store and it was not recognized. Brought it home and tried this method, that worked flawlessly before, and it fails during the Hemndal Front End process after hitting start.

Any ideas? The phone works great on 4.3, but I REALLY would like to just get it back to stock!! HELP!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
there is no other process to get to stock but this one or the leaked KitKat,It' was posted before by gregko1980 who did the Leaked kitkat, then he took it to bestbuy where a Samsung SES ( Scroll Down to LOCATIONS Finding a Samsung Store Inside Best Buy near you is easy. Just enter your zip code) is and it was upgraded to the NC2 which is a no root and no downgrade bootloader.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] chrisxpierce:
Finally got it, Thank God!! Just kept on trying it over and over, different ports and finally went through! WHEW!! Did I mention that this method ROCKS!!!

Good Night!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hybred-nexus:
Damn xda app. Sorry double post
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hybred-nexus:
Followed instructions to the letter. Failes while installing from recovery. Wouldnt boot. So i installed from drakeys files to get it to boot. Do you think I'm screwed ? Phone works fine lol
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] liquidaluminum:
Thank you for this guide!!!

I'm in desperate need of this file: https://mega.co.nz/#F!icMTnSQY!bMBNFmUnn2_K8olSTYpwIA, but the link no longer works. Is there anyone out there that can help me? This is the only file I'm missing. Please! I've been up for 27 hours straight and finally got my N900A unbricked after a botched attempt and downgrading the firmware. It's working, but it's full of errors and I'm going to have to reflash everything again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jerrycoffman45:
That is just a mirror for the files you have you don't need it
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Here a mirror

http://www.mediafire.com/?4sjjlkcf0eaa188#39;t_trip_Knox_and_optionally_provides_root.zip
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] liquidaluminum:
Thank you very much for the mirror. Unfortunately it doesn't work, because the puzzle doesn't come up. I was able to follow all of the instructions in this guide to the letter and found another thread where someone stated that the .img file included is the actual MJ5 restore file. It turns out it was. My new issue is this. My phone is fully restored and working great. The only issue is that I can't seem to root it at all. I followed the instructions in the guide by extracting the rvld.zip to the root of my internal SD card and did a reboot, but no SU appeared as it stated it would.

I then went into recovery and tried to install from the zip file. That didn't work either. Next, I removed the files that were in the folder extracted from the rvld.zip file, still nothing. Finally, I manually downloaded SU and when I loaded it, I received the following message: "There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem! If you just upgraded to Android 3.4, you need to manually re-root-consult the relevant forums for your device"

Anyone have any ideas?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Download kingo
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] liquidaluminum:
Will do. Thanks again!