yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
I've been trying everything on this base and it is perfect. If something does not work for you, you did something wrong. Not trying to be an ass, but I've been running it for three days now and it's solid. I have over 150 apps. (edited from 200 since I cleaned a lot of crap out I never used)

Backups of apps are great, but if you want a true cherry ROM, install your apps from scratch. I did.

Yeah, it's a pita, but it's a good time to decide what you really need. And it's done right. You don't have to wonder if your backup program hosed it up, is it a ROM issue, whatever.

Google Play keeps a good history of what you have installed so it's not that hard to find old or new apps you have loaded.

Enjoy. It was an pleasure and honor to assist.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpcdeux:
Thank you!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mataflakitas:
Omg thanks Zen....:D

Enviado desde mi SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 usando Tapatalk 4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jaydiamonds:
!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] esprit1st:
Just wanted to say: you saved my day! So glad I don't have to curl up in the corner of my bedroom crying because I bricked my phone ... :D

I just flashed everything and it worked just like you said!

No problems at all. Just wanted to let you know.

Thanks so much for your hard work, so we can enjoy 4.3 on our devices! :good:

Just for informational purposes, my phone came from: 4.1.2 Stock TWRP (2.6.3.0) rooted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
:D Good news.

Thanks for the info about where you flashed from. What TWRP version was it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] funtimez:
I flashed the deodexed file in twrp and rom loaded fine. Then I flashed the bootloader in odin-I made sure it was the pda slot and hit start. Rebooted phone and was stuck at first screen saying galaxy note 2. So I flased the deodexed rom again in twrp anf everything loaded fine and wifi worked but when I went to reboot it gets stuck at the first screen again. Tried flashing again but didnt work. Then I tried fix permission and it worked, bit when I went to reboot it would get stuck again. After trying a bunch or other stuff like wiping and fixing permission I was able to go back to 4.1.2 jedi that I had a backup of. All seems fine fo4 now but would still like to be on 4.3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mindmajick:
Thanks not only for the ROM zen, but also thanks for clearing up the bootloader nonsense as well.

This is the first place I've seen it clearly stated for users. I've tried explaining in the past, but is been misinterpreted due to the way I've phrased things. In the future I'll just link this thread to explain.

--》Sent from my mind to your screen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
It sounds like something is hanging around from your previous rom. Since you have a backup I'd recommend the following (note that this will wipe your phone and require a TiBu restore or Play Store app reload):

1 - Take a full backup using Titanium Backup

2 - Copy everything from your SD cards to your PC

3 - Flash the 4.3 package

4 - (You can skip the bootloader since you already flashed it, unless your twrp backup restores an older bootloader)

5 - While in recovery, do a factory reset (this will wipe everything)

6 - Boot phone, check that wifi works, and other standard functions are ok

7 - Restart phone, and confirm that the problem you saw before is gone

8 - If the problem is gone (i.e. the phone reboots successfully multiple times with no lockups), continue on...

9 - Copy the contents of your SD cards back to your phone - check to make sure everything is copied - the USB driver for the Note 2 can be a bit selective at times (also refer the the FAQ in Post #2 - confirm that sdcard information has been removed from /data/media and is in /data/media/0)

10 - In TiBu, restore ONLY user apps (you can restore app+data, but in some rare cases you might need to clear data) -

do not restore any system apps

. (Alternative - you can restore apps directly from the Play Store as dicksteele noted in a previous post - this may be cleaner, but you will lose any data associated with the apps - your call and ymmv).

11 - Reboot phone, and confirm everything is OK.

Hopefully this clears the issue for you. If it does not, you may need to do a full wipe between steps 2 and 3 above, clearing /data and your internal sdcard before starting the install. If so, make sure you have access to stock odin packages to reload your phone OS just in case. There are threads on this in the General section, but I'll post links to the files in post #2 as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] lb704:
Awsome. Thanks so much, needed root works great ::good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Piggybacking on Zen's reply, which TWRP are you using?

I've been using 2.6.3.0 and 2.6.3.1 and I've had issues with restores. You may want to try PhilZ Advanced CWM Edition. Zen has a link in Post #1.

I'm using the latest version 6.00.8 and it's been restoring great. You can flash it from TWRP and reboot to recovery from TWRP and Philz with come up.

EDIT: If you're going to use Philz recovery for Wipe Data/Factory Reset, choose Clean to Install a New ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] funtimez:
Thanks for replying I figured it out by the time u guys replied. I updated to the latest version of twrp,I was on a old 1. Then I factory reset and wipe delvic and what not then did a full wipe. I then installed 4.3 Ron and didn't wipe cache and delvic but got stuck in bootloop. So I wiped again and flashed again and this time I wiped cache and delvic and everything it working just fine now including reboots. Thanks for this awesome update and the help from u guys
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] chris.l.naish:
Dude............this ROCKS!!!! THANK YOU! :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Waynehead69:
AT&T Galaxy Note II Android Development > [ROM][4.3][Dec-2013] AT&T I317-UCUBMK6/MJ4

Thanks for this Zen. I've been patiently waiting for someone to do this. You are the man!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Thanx Zen for this...:thumbup:

I'm going to have to add this my one stop shop for sure...

Bajan out...

SENT FROM SAMMY i317 USING TAPATALK
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhonePhan:
Thanks!

Running 4.4 to test it out, but I'm keeping this as my fail safe.

Went exploring other ROMs due to deodex 4.3 not being out at the time, but I'm glad you put in work to organize it

and offer 3 different versions of it. Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Well good deal.

If you did a full wipe to come to this ROM everything should have worked. This is just a straight up stock ROM depending if you choose ODEX or DEODEX'd.

Everything else is out of the box except bootloader. We never got to know if you had done OTA already or flashed from a previous 4.1.x bootloader.

You've been flashing quite a few ROMS, the past of couple days. You need to let them chill for at least 48 hours before stability sets in.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] namsir:
oh, thanks for the advice. I came straight from jedi 4.3 international with the 4.2 bootloader. Everything was fine but i wasn't happy with the devil's kernel because battery drain so fast no matter what settings i was going for. so i decided to flash the stock 4.3 deodexed from this thread and want to settle with the new bootloader, my device is working perfectly fine now with jedi. Even though, it was a pain to flash that thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Cool. Yea, Aroma installer is quite the challenge. But you get to choose what you want/need and cut out the rest of the crap.

Later
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
MJ4 is your bootloader, MK6 is your modem - no worries on either ;)

Not sure if we're seeing a pattern here, or just strange coincidence:

chris.l.naish came from Jedi Master X v1 and GPS didn't work

you came from Jedi 4.3 Intl and wifi didn't work...

In both cases, going back to Jedi cleared the issue.

Looks like some testing is in order - it appears something may be carrying over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
A mission ! Muahahaha. Going to have to be tonight. Going to LA for the day, recon for a baptism dress for youngest daughter.

Going to LA fashion district. Glad I have mirrored sunglasses. I'm sure the scenario is not going to suck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] senozlu1:
Hi, do you have the firmware complete stock with bootloader and tz files, I bricked my note 2 going back to 4.3 after I had it down graded to factory ( it was working ) and I decided to go back to 4.3 and downloaded OTA and boom device did not reboot after OTA installation it just turns on stuck on samsung/note2 screen.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Which stock package did you use to revert? What was the size of the OTA file that was downloaded?

Regardless, flashing the odin package here should get you a working (rooted) 4.3 setup - assuming you have an at&t i317.

What config are you ultimately aiming for?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] SilverTigre2010:
Hi Zen, my friend got his phone bricked trying to get in unlock(stuck in download), he was already on OTA 4.3 MK6 ..so if I understand correctly flashing --> AT&T UCUBMK6 i317 *Odexed* Stock ODIN Note 2 ...should bring it back to life..right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
It's worth giving it a shot... :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] SilverTigre2010:
I went ahead and did it, it worked. 0×1 on knox, but It's worth it. Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Sweet ! Another brick taken out of the wall.

Sorry bad Pink Floyd flash back..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] senozlu1:
the rooted mk6 firmware

Well I put the post here because it is related to ( the rooted mk6 firmware ) all this problems started after flashing it. my question was to you if you have the stock .tar with everything in it bootloader tz what ever that stock rom comes with ( AT&T I317-UCUBMK6 ) .tar stock.

Sorry for the miss understanding....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Your fix is in here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2618447

You might want to just start from the beginning.

I have just finished at Section 2. I just flashed TWRP and I am going to attempt to flash Zen's i317-cwm-ucubmk6-rooted-odex.zip.

So, here's the deal. I am on MK6 bootloader, I have a cherry i317UCAMH3 stock ROM loaded. I'm flashing i317-ucubmk6-rooted-odex.zip now.

If there are any other steps I need to do to make it work I will post them.

EDIT: Holy crap it worked! With no extra steps.

To recap:

I had OTA'd to 4.3 last month, so I was on the MK6 locked bootloader.

I followed Sections 1 and 2 from the link above. I was on a cherry i317UCAMH3 stock ROM.

I flashed TWRP openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-t0lteatt.img.tar thru ODIN.

Rebooted phone into TWRP flashed i317-ucubmk6-rooted-odex.zip and it booted right up.

WiFi working, GPS working, etc.

I did not have to configure the Wireless connection it was still done from my testing. So technically this was a no-wipe flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttn1185:
I'm already updated with OTA MK6. I want root.

Will flashing "AT&T UCUBMK6 i317 *Odexed* Stock ODIN Note 2" will trip Knox "e-fuse"?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
I'm keeping my phone's bootloader pre-MK6, so I do not have a way to confirm this directly. I believe Samsung has implemented checks to detect when the system.img has been changed. So, while the kernel and modem files are stock, the system image is a snapshot derived from the OTA process and modified with the root access files.

So yes the Knox counter is most likely going to be tripped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttn1185:
Ohh bummer. Thank you for your quick reply. I guess I can't debloat it right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
There is a built in option that allows you to disable many apps from the application mgr interface in settings... does the same as freezing... doesn't debloat, but prevents the apps from running so from a performance and free RAM perspective you get the same result. Something to try until your warranty runs out..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MSHampton:
I got one issue. Whenever I try to use ES Explorer to turn on the hotspot, I see "teathering or hotspot active" and then I get the message "Unfortunatley, settings has stopped."

Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttn1185:
Looks like the framework-res.apk needs to be rebuilt.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Are you using "real" hotspot or a modified tetherprovisioning.apk ??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MSHampton:
Before I upgraded to this, I was running standard/rooted and simply froze teatheringprovision.apk and was able to turn on the hotspot with es file explorer. Trying that with this version I get the aforementioned error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Interesting. Never heard of that method. So you froze it running 4.1.2 Stock Rom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MSHampton:
Yes with titanium backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
With 4.3 you need to use a modded apk that removes the provisioning check. There's info on how to do this a bit further back in the thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] slicingtaco:
Sorry but i am really confused. I need the 4.3 bootloader for 4.3 DN3 Ditto ROM but IDk which is what? Is MJ4 or MK6 4.3 (is one a leak another official?). I am assuming it (the BL) needs to be stripped as its a custom ROM
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
You need the MJ4. That's the leaked version. MK6 is the full ATT OTA locked official version.

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:43 PM ----------

A custom ROM itself could have the bootloader in it. Most don't or the modem. ROM builders naturally assume you have those loaded already.

MJ4 bootloader is fine for DN3. Read the install instructions and threads before you flash it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] slicingtaco:
Yup thanks got it :thumbup:;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] eZdubzitmk4:
Actually roms can't have bootloader in It. You must use Odin to flash a bootloader
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Good point. Thank you...

Brain was thinking kernel. Brain didn't enter into conversation
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmxinc:
Worked for me too... Using Titanium.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Wow. Thank you. Never ran across that in my travels thru XDA. That was for 4.1.2 right? Not 4.3 ?

Not sure if I'll go back to a 4.1.2 stock but that's good to know.

I'm usually lucky and use Roms that have it "built-in".
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmxinc:
Can't tell if that was sarcasm.......lol. But, no, I'm on 4.3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
Not sarcasm. Honestly never heard of using Tibu. And sincere thank you.

I looked for months after 4.3 leak and OTA came out looking for a solution for a stock rom.

I ended up using a modded tethering apk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmxinc:
I am actually using the stock, rooted 4.3 too. I used the tetherprovision pack and foxfi/pdanet. It took a few tries, but once I learned the motions, it worked. So well, AT$T throttled me last month on the LTE. I am lucky, I get 30-40mbps home, so I DL'd a few movies.....I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, so at 5gb, they cut my speed to 500kbps.......unreal. I had to wait a whole billing cycle for them to let up.

Hope everything works out!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
So far so good. Only really used it/needed it when I traveled and used it for my laptop at airports to check email.

Traveled two weeks ago for the first time in 9 months.

Good enough while sitting in LAX at 5 am.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
Has anyone tried to block ads using one of the blacklist Hosts file?

I've tried replacing my hosts file with a couple different ones, but I still get ads popping up in some apps and in the browsers...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
I'm testing now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Try Ad Block Plus - https://adblockplus.org/en/android-about

For apps that don't require network access in order to function (many games and utilities) you can use DroidWall (available on Play Store) to block their access thus preventing them from finding their ad servers.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
Great! I'm interested to see what your experience will be.

I am actually trying to avoid using another app to block ads. I came from CleanROM 5 where the Hosts file did all the ad blocking and I very rarely saw ads in any browser I used or in any game.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] crawler9:
Check out AdAway. It blocks enough that I don't remember when i last saw any ads anywhere on any of my Android devices. It's an app that downloads a bunch of stuff to your hosts file. You can install it, update your hosts file, and remove it right away again if you don't want to keep it installed.

It is not available in the Play Store but can be found on F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
I cheated and created my own hosts file from a blocks hosts service using their blocked IPs.

Is this happening (or not working) over Wifi or phone data connection?

I checked out the dhcpd.conf for Wifi and using hosts file is not an option. So I'm betting it's blowing by hosts file and going straight to DNS servers. So it does not get blocked.

Still playing.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
See my post above about Hosts file not working...

TBH, I don't remember... I would bet it was on WiFi, but I can't be sure...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] fresnogamer:
THANKS!

Just installed. Works great. Used Ti Backup to remove bloatware except I can't remove the darn MobleHotSpot app. Unlocked for T-Mobile. Thank you DEV!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] flaystus:
To anyone that was following this. After about 24 hours the problem just never showed up again.

NO CLUE!!! :cyclops:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
OP and post #2 updated:

- OP: Added tz.img and tz.img + param.bin Odin packages for those with MK6 bootloader (fix for those stuck at initial boot logo after firmware flash)

- Post 2: Updated to include above info, plus added link to dicksteele's howto guide to revert MK6 4.3 to 4.1.1 and back up to 4.3 via OTA.

Thanks to DS for testing the Odin packages!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
Did a quick search but didn't see this asked or answered:

I flashed the AGNi kernel with no problems. I then wanted to revert back to the ATT kernel, so I used the individual kernel file from the OP and flashed in TWRP.

Everything booted up fine, however I no longer had Root and SuperSU couldn't update its binaries.

I went back into recovery and flashed CF's Update-SuperSU-v1.91.zip flash which gave me back root, however I can no longer use ADBD Insecure app - it gives me an error saying it can't patch.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get back to ATT Kernel with full root and ADB Insecure?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
The stock 4.3 kernel is encrypted. That's why ADB Insecure gives you that message. You can still use ADB, you just need to manually type "su". Some adb features may not work if they assume automatic root access. For this, adb via recovery is your best option. (fwiw, I find philz works best for this).

Not sure why flashing the stock kernel would cause loss of root - this didn't happen during my testing. To confirm, I just reflashed it and did not lose root.

Possible answer: CWM recoveries (and perhaps TWRP) are now falsely detecting loss of root with 4.3 and SuperSU and offer to fix it at reboot. I've been declining this offer with no ill effects. It's very possible that accepting recovery attempts to fix perceived "loss of root" will actually break root by deleting a file needed by SuperSU to establish root access.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dicksteele:
I've modded the howto guide to include Zen's tz.img and tz.img + param.bin Odin packages in the process. This eliminates the need to flash TWRP to complete the MH3 OTA.

Thanks to Zen for the ODIN packages !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
Thanks for the response, Zen. I did not get any notice from TWRP 2.6.3.1 regarding loss of root though, so not sure what happened. It was strange for sure... I flashed the stock kernel, rebooted and then went in to the AGNi control panel to see if all it's settings were gone. It came up with the "needs root" prompt. Then I went to SuperSU and launched it and got the update binaries message and then the error message after it couldn't update.

Is it possible to just pull your boot.img kernel file out of the ROM zip file and replace the boot.img file in the stock kernel zip file and flash that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
That's a puzzler on the root vs kernel situation. Perhaps the agni kernel injects root via its own method? Not familiar so just guessing.

As for your request, the kernel in the rom is the same as the one in the stand alone package ... I made no modifications. They should behave the same.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] eZdubzitmk4:
Yes agni injects supersu
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] royalh:
Ok Thank you. Maybe it was just one of those unexplainable things lol. I'll try it again once I get around to doing a nandroid.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ilaf0106:
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Hey zen I have a question do bootloader affect radios? In my case when I unlocked my phone coming from ota update to mk6. Downgraded to 4.1, unlocked it did the aws mod, insert my T-Mobile card was getting LTE. Now I rooted my phone wanted to install a 4.3 ROM, did the 4.3 param Odin, installed DN3 ROM and ever since then I don't get lte on my unlocked ATT note 2 with T-Mobile sim card. So I want to know if bootloader have anything to do with radios.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Do you know what bootloader version you are running now? See post #2 for info on how to check and post that. Also post your "About device" screen. Once that's sorted we may need someone else who is running an i317 on the tmo network to jump in. My guess is modem, bootloader and/or tz are out of sync.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ilaf0106:
Well right now I'm on the mk6 bootloader. And I had flashed 4.3param.tz to use 4.3 ROMs. Right now I'm on temasek cm11 and have the latest modem. And no lte. Just hspa+
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
Sounds like you are on the mk6 modem...

I added mk6 tz.img files to the OP this week. You could give those a try. Beyond that, different APN settings may help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ilaf0106:
OK im going to try the bootloader and as for apn tried them all. One question can I try the bootloader with the cm11 ROM?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zen Arcade:
bootloader is the sboot.bin file - you are "stuck" with the one you have as you have the official 4.3 mk6.

tz.img is the trust zone config file - this you can change - it is tied to bootloader, param and modem and can impact what kernel and phone os functions are available. At this point you can try it and if it doesn't work, switch back to the MJ4 tz.img file - whichever works best. Same applies to the modem - you could try the MJ4 modem as well.

That said, this is new territory for me. You might have better luck posting this question in the Q&A section and getting the attention of someone else who is using an i317 on the t-mo network.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] calientecafe2001:
Did you get the LTE working. I have been having the same issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ilaf0106:
Nope gave up. Just going to get the nexus 5.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] calientecafe2001:
Try This

1. Go to Dialer and enter *#197328640#

2. Click UMTS

3. Debug Screen

4. Phone Control

5. Network Lock

6. Rat_Free_Supporting On

7. Press Menu Button and Click Back Twice

5. Network Control

6. Band Selection

7. Choose Automatic

Now I actually can't get this to stick after reboot but it will get 4G LTE working.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ilaf0106:
Thanks but still nothing. Like I said I'm just running with this until I get the Nexus 5