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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] b00mb00mchuck:
I had a bunch of that when I first got the Note 3 ... finally decided to fix my Internet problems and I don't get it any more... Went out and got a new router and modem that weren't 2 years old and all is well now...

and yes... all my other devices "seemed to work fine" on my old router setup... but then my other devices weren't as advanced as this thing is and had no way of letting me know i had instabilities in my connectivity.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
Wonder if this will 'officially' turn on Band 4.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Ajj915:
Band IV mentioned here

http://www.phonedog.com/2013/12/10/...ments-to-connectivity-sound-quality-and-more/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vincey2kr1:
Use to like updates but my note 3 has been great worried this is actually going to break non root WiFi tether through foxfi.. *Running stock for once and actually liking it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I had the update notification show up as well.

I haven't done it yet.....waiting to see if root is still possible (kingo or other method).

I believe when the last update hit, it was said that OTA RootKeeper did not work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
just root it and enable yourself. takes literally 2 mins
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
I am more than aware and did so weeks ago. I have 4 or 5 posts in the AWS thread if you ever read it, hence my emphasis on officially. The question was if this finally makes it by default for the masses an AWS LTE capable device. Also some people claim it only works when they force it, even when enabled, so maybe this update balances it better, just because it was there and can work, doesn't mean it was 100%.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kampana:
I read that too, but I have to ask myself if Big Red gives away anything for free. Isn't it more conceivable that VZW will either a) remove the Band 4 feature from this update, or b) delay the update until they can come up with a pricing model for AWS?

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Wait, what's the difference between "forcing" and "enabling" Band 4? I rooted and enabled Band 4, but is there another step?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
You can check the option to force band 4 , which just means that it will only connect to Band 4 and if your not in an area that has band 4 then your phone won't connect to anything and you won't have proper service I believe. Enabling will let your phone scan for band 4 and connect if possible. If there is no band 4 it will just utilize the band your area connects which I believe is band 13 . At least on my phone it is. I do know the person that discovered this told people to make sure they switch back to lte auto if you forced band 4 just to see if it was available in your area otherwise your phone wouldn't work properly.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I just downloaded the update, and it failed to install for me as well.

Im running stock MJ7 build, nothing uninstalled or frozen. Just have it rooted with kingo, xposed and wanam, and Isis.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
Pretty sure you have to unroot to take the official update. I failed as well on Scott's clean rom , just wasn't sure I wanted to unroot and install yet. Otherwise, are you using safestrap ? Safestrap needs to be removed as well otherwise I don't think it will boot to the proper recovery for the update.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] G8orDroid:
I pulled the update.zip and stuck it my Dropbox if anyone wants it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8119920/12-10-13-N3_update.zip
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zepfloyd:
Verizon isn't removing Band 4 and it has nothing to do with pricing, there are no other costs, it's merely added bandwidth capacity.

Enabling Band 4 in the service menu lets it the phone search for and connect to it like it does anything else. Forcing it, which can be done following the same thread, forces the phone into LTE Only mode and only looks for Band 4. People are doing this to a) see if the network exists where they are, b) speed test the new bandwidth on that part of the network. Forcing it is not a permanent solution or anything as it will prevent you from getting calls and texts or connecting to ubiquitous Band 13/700Mhz LTE.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kampana:
Thank you Zepfloyd and mjh68. I did finally force Band 4 and I've got a connection! All this time I thought having it enabled meant that it was forced.

That being said, if this update "officially" enables Band 4 does that mean that ALL Note 3 users will be able to connect to Band 4? I ask because I could not connect to Band 4 until I forced it, enabling it did not allow me to connect to it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
i know and i enabled it and when i was in atlanta it automatically switched to band 4 and then back to band 13 without a hitch and was fast so i havent had any problems with it. doubt cincinnati will even see aws in the next year
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NeoMagus:
Can anyone who has taken the update verify if SELinux stayed Permissive or changed or post a screenie of Settings>About Phone

TIA
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ghostboa:
Stayed Permissive
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neopolotin75:
Looks like there's a newer kernel too....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I'm still getting failed update install.

I removed all the rooted apps, restored the original build.prop, uninstalled the Xposed modules and framework, removed ISIS root bypass and ISIS app.

Then let Kingo "unroot" the phone.

But the update is still failing to install.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neopolotin75:
Probably will have to odin back then install the update....Once your set to custom I don't believe you can take it OTA
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
Can someone post a Screenshot of the After Update reflecting the new Build number with the SELinus status reflecting an "Perrmissive" Status. I would really like to see confirmation that this is in fact true rather than stated. Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
But after removing everything and having Kingo remove the root, the system status is shown as "Official" not "Custom".

Unless there is another file that is missing or modified, and is preventing the update from installing.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
Have you tried to install the update through Kies3? If the OTA is a fail, that is usually the best way.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
Just to make sure, as before with SuperSU Pro it was [disable Superuser] & [enable Survival mode] with nothing different, right...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I don't think it is in Kies yet, as it shows MJ7 as being the current firmware.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
Good point, just checked should be up in a few hours, hopefully (that's a good place to go.) Has anyone extracted a copy of the OTA that can be installed manually in Android Stock Recovery or sideloaded?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
Just to let everyone know. I was on Mj7 running beans on slot 1 , scott's rom in stock slot. update kept failing even after unrooting so I odin'd back to stock mj7 then update was successful. I then used the latest version of Kingo app and rerooted successfully.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tlgem:
Waiting to see if this works with this update myself :)

If I remember I had to unfreeze & reinstall all the stock stuff too before the last one would take
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neopolotin75:
The only way to get custom gone is to odin to stock. You can unroot but your device will still show that it was rooted. I believe your true status is shown in the stock recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
Well, in download mode it showed my status as official with Knox 0x0 so not sure what the difference is in stock recovery. Either way I couldn't get update to take until I odin'd to stock. Keeping root in survival mode didn't bother me since I had used kingo before. Regardless , I now have the update with root so it's all good :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] G8orDroid:
YMMV, but all I did was rename the default clock app and odex back to their original names (I had renamed them so I didn't have multiple clocks), disabled SuperSU and set it to Survival mode and launched the update. It was successful. I then re-enabled SuperSu and all is well. I was pretty much bone stock except for Wanam, which I did not uninstall or even change anything. I did not have SafeStrap installed.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mchlwvr614:
Can someone double check the home button hot spot bypass. It doesn't seem to work anymore!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NeoMagus:
One of the mentioned updates on the little graphic for the update was "Mobile Hotspot reliability has been improved" ..I figured they would fix that
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Elganja:
can confirm this no longer works... guess it's time for a custom ROM now!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mchlwvr614:
Yep!

I had this really small hope that it was for an actual performance improvement. What was I thinking!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] changt34x:
I don't use FoxFi (native tether hack, need to see if the framework edit sitll works on the update before I do it), but on the recent FoxFi update a couple months ago they don't use the home button trick anymore. Let FoxFi install the VPN which it briefly connects to when turning hotspot on. I am guessing that it emulates some Verizon provisioning server to let it work. It might still work with this update.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Elganja:
FoxFi works like a champ w/ the new update... thanks!

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that's what I did and it worked just fine
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] pabowhunter59:
SeLinux

Still set to Permissive after New update, Hope this helps!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I think the reason it keeps failing for me is that I installed a different SamsungCamera2.apk that allowed for a higher bit-rate. But I didn't backup the original file.

Does anyone have (and can post) the SamsungCamera2.apk (MJ7) file?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BeansTown106:
would u mind grabbing the update.zip from /cache/fota/ ? would be super helpful lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I think it's already listed on Page 3:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2562776&page=3

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48346017&postcount=27

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I'm probably going to end up ODIN back to MJ7 stock to take the update, since everything I've tried so far has not allowed the update to install.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
I couldn't figure out a way either except odin. Took a little longer than if I could have updated normally, but now I am back to my previous configuration except now on the new radios.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tlgem:
Wouldnt take till I restored all frozen apps re installed backups of all deleted junk google & amazon etc shut off greenify & deleted clean master

SU wants to keep freezing knox notifier so make sure thats un frozen

After ota install shut off root keeper & started su reboot and still rooted YEA!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BeansTown106:
can u see if the ota is on verizon upgrade assistant? on computer. if so we need to pull that .tar when its done downloading :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jeckel51:
so weird i cant get this to work this time. im assuming no one has trouble with safestrap installing? might odin back to stock.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
No problems at all . It even has all your old backups and slot configuration the same.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cam1pbell:
Just did the OTA update. Checked save root on super user. Everything went good and still have root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jfrichard:
I took the OTA update as well and did not lose root. Didn't do anything to try and save root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Janker5050:
Took the ota also with superuser su pro with ota survival checked and everything went fine and still kept root.....I just uninstalled xposed and modules....defrosted bloat I had froze with titanium. ..then checked ota survival mode in super su with root still enabled...rebooted, checked for ota, did the update and it worked fine while maintaining root

Sent from my VZW Note3..ha..ha..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tliebeck:
Just curious if the four new VZW apps can be disabled using Settings/Applications (without root)? Only asking as I'm curious to see what their attitude is toward forced bloatware, i.e., are they being truly evil by signing new bloat with the system key?

(No time to mess with this at the moment, going to stay on MI9 for a bit longer).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Wim!!:
I hate how you have have a pin or pattern unlock for FoxFi to work. Since the home button hot spot bypass does not work anymore is there an alternative for tethering?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] marthinollys:
They can all be turned off.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I ended up having to ODIN MJ7, but it kept all my installed apps and settings (instead of a full factory wipe), not sure why.

But I was then able to have the get the OTA update to install.

I think my issues was that I had replaced the SamsungCamera2.apk and replaced Hangouts with Google Talk (hate Hangouts).

Then did Kingo to root it again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] PaulusGrandis:
Just updated successfully and root was preserved with selecting OTA Survival. I was a little worried when I saw the big red circle on the "update complete" message...I guess in Verizon land, red is always good, haha.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
It was right where you said it was... Here is the Verizon Update.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] pabowhunter59:
Kingo with new OTA

So when you took OTA, you ran Kingo again to gain root? Did this affect the KNOX counter?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tliebeck:
My info may be out of date, but I thought there was a lot of speculation here as to whether Kingo and/or Vroot might be doing malicious things. (Basing this entirely on data from XDA, but the mods removed all download links to these as a result).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slowz3r:
been using kingo and have yet to see anything adverse come from these.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tliebeck:
Much malware in use today is intentionally transparent to the user. There are certainly many kinds that present to the user (adware and ransomware) but the really nefarious stuff (keylogging and information mining) is designed to be invisible.

Apologies if your background is such that you *REALLY* mean you've analyzed the device after installation and have confirmed there are no malicious mods installed compared to a stock firmware. And again, I have no idea if the kingo/vroot stuff actually is malicious, I'm just rehashing information posted on XDA.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] skunkle88:
Wish I could find a good link to the MJ7 stock tar file!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slowz3r:
yea, im downloading right now and its just insanely slow.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tliebeck:
Google for N900VVRUBMJ7_N900VVZWMJ7_N900VVRUBMJ7_HOME.tar.md5

Then validate that the MD5 is c68c3f991c6ff6c651f4de1a5bd7c5e2 (being paranoid, I recommend calculating the MD5 on the downloaded file on your computer, and lining it up against the one mentioned here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2517610)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slowz3r:
The file no longer exists from the OP's post linking to crackflasher
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NeoMagus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2528707 for MJ7 tar

Waiting for someone to host up the new MJE tar myself ...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] slowz3r:
yea thats what I'm working off of. The link is just slow. telling me 7 hours
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tliebeck:
I'm just suggesting using that thread to verify the MD5.

There a lots of places mirroring it if you search for it by name, just be sure the MD5 matches:

https://www.google.com/#q=N900VVRUBMJ7_N900VVZWMJ7_N900VVRUBMJ7_HOME.tar.md5
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] exaltedgod:
This has be retracted as well had an official response from Kingo. See below:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2522602&highlight=kingo
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] guod2002:
That wasn't my post you were asking about but I did exactly what you said. I took the update without protecting root, lost root completely, then ran Kingo and was able to successfully re-root. When I reboot to bootloader both Knox Counters still say 0x0
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BeansTown106:
a tar that ends with md5 will verify the md5 for u if it is a corrupt download it wont flash :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jlear3:
He was saying to download the file by typing it's name into Google and downloading from any source found. But he's saying to check with the official md5 to make sure the file downloaded is the same as the one in dev-host

Edit: to clarify if the file was actually a different file with the same name the md5 could be correct but it's still not the right file. Comparing the md5 of the file downloaded to the one on XDA confirms it's the correct file
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] lisek99:
Can one of you guys upload just a modem? That's all i really care about.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Surge1223:
I modified framework-res.apk and fixed the tethering block, its already been tested and confirmed working. So don't worry native tethering still works. Dumb ol verizon just keeps adding the same easy to remove block.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jlear3:
is there a way to pull it from adb? I'm on the newest release and if I figure out how to get it ill upload it to my box for you

EDIT: I'm re-rooting. Pretty sure I remember how to pull it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TheLoonyRebel:
For those needing MJ7 stock Odin flashable I've uploaded an mirror of it in an .RAR file.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760974935
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
Holding down the VolumeDown+Home+Power to go into Download Mode shows:

ODIN Mode

Status: Official

KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x0

So it appears that Knox is still OK, but I don't see Knox listed in the Samsung group in the apps drawer?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Turgur:
That's normal
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
I remember seeing Knox on it when I first got the Note 3.

How do you run it?

Under Device Administrators it only lists S Voice and Android Device Manager.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] BeansTown106:
working on flashable version of mje stock root should have it up soon :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] causey:
followed you with 3 different phones so far. just for this reason. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
So with the update installed a couple hours ago...

The main improvement I see is with the call quality. It finally get rid of the "garbled" sound that was on the last two builds, so voices sound much clearer.

LTE reception and speeds in my area seem about the same (not in an AWS Band 4 area).

Not sure yet if voice reception (CDMA) is improved.

I reset all my E-Mail accounts (2 are IMAP) to see if it will resolve the IMAP syncing issues.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] justin94:
The one thing I wanted to be fixed. The camera transition animation bug. .... was NOT fixed.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Turgur:
So is this the same thing that Samsung has been depriving us of? So if someone bricks their dev phone they can flash this with odin to bring it back to stock?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mjh68:
No, the retail edition stock tar won't flash on the dev phone in odin. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been an issue because they have had stock tar's available for the retail .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] roadcamo:
help

Noob to some of this how do you go about editing the frame work res file. I really need my hot spot an the new update has taken that away. Please explain how to fix this for me
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Surge1223:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48362066
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sqjzb:
so

so, for those u updated ,

how's ur signal? feeling better?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tuxdreamerx:
This update disables test mode that previously worked for me, I mainly used that to see what band I was on. Servicemode never worked but test did.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Wim!!:
Thank you.

No reason now to hold off the update.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
I updated yesterday and as far as I can tell everything is the same -__- lol. I didn't know there was anything wrong with most things in that list that they 'fixed'

Edit: well I mean other than the Samsung keyboard changing colors (wish they'd do the same with the dialer). But I use SwiftKey again anyway so meh.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DutchDogg54:
Would you please change your link to link to the thread, not the file - here's the appropriate link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2528707

Sorry about the speed, it does show a huge download count jump recently so must be several people hitting it.

I have an md5 confirmed upload. The OP of the thread where I posted this mirror has the md5 so you can confirm. Also, here's a nice little shareware program that will let you confirm MD5 on your desktop: MD5.exe
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] carlz28:
Just wanted to reconfirm that rooting this latest update still works with kingo root. I ODIN'd back to stock last night (made too many system edits to bother trying to fix), took the update then rerooted. I can't seem to get rid of the Custom status nor the unlocked image on boot screen with Wanam..but whatever no biggie.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] adrian33055:
Updated and Rooted

Hi guys i update my phone to the latest MJE and rerooted with Kingo App also i reinstall safetrap and everything is working just perfect KNOX still 0x0.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NoFanboy:
Everyone's talking about how to get the OTA but no one is saying how it actually affects their phones performance.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
After using it some today, the RF signal seems unchanged from MJ7, not better or worse.

But calls do have better voice quality.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Harleydroid:
Had no luck using the supersu survival method. Kies 3 has the update. Used that and rooted with kingo then flashed chainfires supersu. Everything good. Now for some new builds. I'm liking this new keyboard too.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] adrian33055:
Here are the changes that supposed this updated do to the Note 3.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/12/0...ty-preloads-bloatware-and-fixes-lots-of-bugs/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NoFanboy:
I know the supposed changes. Was hoping for real experiences
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
My experience so far... Nothing is different (other than the keyboard color). I haven't used bluetooth on my speakers or anything yet though. I know it would randomly skip sometimes, maybe that was fixed with the update. But I haven't tested it yet. Also haven't seen the new voice mail icon yet either. Everything in the update list was a non-issue for me though except the seldom skip in bluetooth audio which may or may not have been fixed. That could also have something to do with the apps I use though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cyberpyr8:
I updated last night and so far the performance is about the same. The Bluetooth streaming I have done so far today worked better. It is still early on.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] JoshDi:
Can someone post a SafeStrap zip file for this install without all of the bloatware? I am rooted and removed a lot of apps so this OTA update won't work.

I essentially just want to update the modem file and any new apk's

Thanks you!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] KachowPow:
I haven't read through the past few pages so excuse this question if it is a re-post, but has anyone noticed that with this update Verizon changed the label from "SELinux status" to "SE status for Android"

VS.