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[Galaxy Note 3 General] testmonkey1:
Mate if you are getting 16 hrs of screen off time and no screen on time, it is not a Kernel/ROM problem, you have a rogue app installed which is causing your phone to be constantly awake and draining battery.

Definetly go for the 4.4 since it updates to KitKat which offers many benefits. There are also slight improvements in battery life.

As for the ROMs I've tested all Custom ROMs and honestly it's about preference. Check the additions they provide and decide what's best for you. I'm a battery nut and believe me none of the ROMs add any actual benefit to battery life over stock for 4.4.

Personally for me, since I love a lean install and don't like that much modifications I found Stock Samsung 4.4 works best for me. I just use ES file explorer to debloat it from all the apps I don't want and procede to installing the apps I use I've found that you can expect around 6.5 hours of on screen time with auto brightness +5 and no rogue apps (no apps that require constant gps syncying and what not) spread over from 1 to 3 days depending on how you use your phone. That is light web browsing, chatting and movie watching. Games will suck your battery dry like space fuel on the Note 3.

As for the Kernel on the 4.4 bootloader you don't have a lot of choices. Afaik the only ones available at the moment and CustomN3 and FlexKat engine. Considering you are asking for battery life I'm guessing you are more interested in power perserving than overclocking. I would go with FlexKat since it supports intelliplug and intellidemand gov. Actually I am testing it at the moment my self. I get 1k more points in AnTuTu using intelliplug and intellidemand compardd tl Stock Kernel. Seems pretty smooth and stable for now, haven't run in any issues but I've only been uskng it since last night. Battery usage for now is 35%, with 2.5 hours of screen time and over 16 hours of total since uplugged. Can't really compare to Stock Kernel yet but it doesn't seem like there will be any major difference.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Armazia:
I tried all roms actually, But nothing suited me. Till I jouned x-note. From x-note 7 I waited till 8, and installed it the same day it came. 8 is super stable, havent had problems(except for some apps which arent compatible with kitkat).
[Galaxy Note 3 General] geoff2011:
Thanks for the feedback, which I highly appreciate. I must admit being kind of a battery freak too, and I like a UI to be simple and practical. My golden rule is that whenever I carry the mobile in my pocket, I don't care about speed. Just keep them as low as possible in order to keep running stable.

When I look at what's draining the battery then at the top are Cell Standby 18%, Android OS (4.3) 18%, Device Idle 11% and my K-9 email app which stays active 11%. And these numbers are with low power mode activated, and with SetCPU setting minimum frequencies with screen off (the stock kernel doesn't allow for a voltage configuration). When staying with the same OS 4.3, I may be able to improve this by maximum 30%, in going from 1.2V to 800 or 850 mV in standby.

I'll give the X-Note 4.4 a try, and using the X-kernel may then also be beneficial. Will report on the result.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 General] arkin56:
Sweet Rom for the stock-look custom rom, battery life is great!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] geoff2011:
That's a 2nd one on the list. Can you please be more specific about the battery life? How does it compare with what was mentioned for the X-Rom?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] geoff2011:
Wanted to do the flash and ran into a question. I downloaded the Poland KitKat official ROM, but the poor thing is only 3 MB and when I try to open it, both windows and winrar, I get the message "unknown format". Is it maybe only a patch that's applied to the 4.3? But then I should still be able to open it. Any advice?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] geoff2011:
Got it resolved. Only the MIRROR seems to give a reliable download.
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Also at radio shack
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Walmart as well
[Member-Found Deals] motrinHD:
I didn't Amazon sold it. cool,I have a gift card to there. I might... still no root love tho on this G idk..
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtkwok:
I needed to go back to stock to send back with fault.

I flashed rightly or wrongly I still don't know, xxubmj7

When it restarted I had no wifi also I can't get updates it just says it's been modified.

How do I fix wifi?

How do I fix the modified message?

UK phone, baseband is still uamf5 does that make a difference with wifi?

Just need to reflash?

Been looking at xda almost all day trying to find the right answers so sorry if I have missed it.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miccia:
Reflash with repartition!!!! Caution u need the .pit file
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilviuMik:
Reflash AGAIN same rom . Your baseband did not update and your status remained custom :)

U don`t need repartition :)

U must reflash 2 3 times until your baseband get updated. After that factory reset your phone and your status will be Official :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtkwok:
I set pda in odin that time, when I reattemp is it same again?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilviuMik:
Yes mate same procedure as before :)

Reflash until u see in about phone that your baseband got updated. After that factory reset and u will get Official
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burtkwok:
Xxubmj7 has the knox bootloader that you can't undo is that right?

If my flash hasn't fully completed by sounds of it will it be too late to do one without knox?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilviuMik:
U already have knox bootloader :) only modem did not flash :)

Yeah is little late now :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nummer35:
Hey, i got this 0x1 Knox Bit. Can i revert back to a state to receive official updates from Samsung?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batman8:
I just recently did a manual update of my Note 3 with Odin and am now on MJE. Every time I plug the Note in and run Kingo Root it never recognizes the phone but the computer does!

I have tried using a different USB port, re-installed Kingo, I'm sure my drivers are correct because again, I can connect to the PC with no problem.

Anyone have any idea how to get Kingo going? I am familiar with it since I used it to root my Note 3 when on MJ7 previously.

PLEASE HELP! I have a lot of apps that depend on root access that now I can't run any more.

Thanks.

P.S. - Sorry if this has already been covered somewhere here on the forum. I did several searches but came up with nothing.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reilly1812:
What worked for me was turning on automatic updates in windows. I always have it disabled so I can control the windows update process.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batman8:
Thanks for the info. I'm currently at work, and it appears that Windows automatic updates are already on and set to update once every week. However, all of these settings are actually greyed out so I assume that only my administrator can make any changes to these settings.

When I used Kingo before I was at home, so maybe I'll have more luck when I get there but surely welcome yours and anyone else's ideas on this.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldheld:
See if vroot will do the job for you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int3gr4l:
I'm having a Similar issue, I have the MJE update, however no matter what I do, I'm getting a "Not Support" error when trying to root, and I've tried multiple cables, ports, and two PCs now, getting the exact same error. I googled around but wasn't able to see ANYONE with this error, and all Kingo says to do is keep trying when the root fails.

Edit: i've even tried wiping my phone and resetting to defaults, but still, i get this error, my PC at home was windows 8 enterprise, and the PC i tried at work was XP, i'm going to try a win7 PC next, but this is really frustrating.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZachPA:
In the same boat, for the most part.

Got the phone three days ago. Shipped with MI9. Odined to MJE.

Tried every combination of Kingo 1.1.6, 1.1.7 and 1.1.8, along with several cords, all available USB2 and USB3 ports, along with setting the phone up as MTP, PTP and Media device USB3 mode. USB debugging is ON, every PC given authority on the phone popups. Unknown sources CHECKED. Antivirus off on PC. Display on phone set to 10 minutes. Rebooted phone and PC between installations of Kingo, between attempts at rooting, between driver installations and uninstallations. Let Kingo install drivers, pre-installed through XDA links to drivers on Sam's site. You name it, I've tried it. In all, I've spent about 4 hours trying over 100 permutations of variables I could think of. Goose eggs.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int3gr4l:
I'm wondering if where it pulls files it needs is having issues or something and isn't pulling the dependencies we need to properly root?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejron:
So it's not just me. Bummer
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZachPA:
And yet, there are plenty of reports here and elsewhere of folks with Verizon Note 3's on MJE having no troubles at all rooting using Kingo. FMITGA.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int3gr4l:
That's why I'm curious if their site is having issues with us downloading the files using the root. It fails for me with the not support error immediately after saying downloading the dependencies.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b00mb00mchuck:
Just some added confusion... I did the same method... Odin to MJE... Root with kingo... Get same fail message... Try again but this time noticed that it actually rebooted the phone... Same fail message again... Check with root checker and I'm rooted... Install safestrap and update superSU... Good to go... Kingo says fail but I'm rooted and all root access apps working and rom slots flashed.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejron:
Lucky SOB.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] privy:
having the same issue here. just got my note yesterday and been trying but no luck. getting NotSupport right after the 2nd "downloading requisite dependency files". would love some insight on this.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int3gr4l:
I really am wondering if it's the Kingo site. Whenever I try to navigate to the site it's taking quite a long time to load, as if they're having some issues with hosting, and when it goes to download the second set of files, it's unable to get through to the site to pull them.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thejron:
Same here Privy
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlin:
I had this issue when using a USB 3.0 port. Once I switched to USB 2.0, my device was recognized by the software.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acollaro:
Same issue here, was having some issues with play store so back to stock with odin. Tried everything just like everyone else here. It has to be an issue with the kingo site. Redownloaded kingo and it tool an hour. Thats way too long and i bet root is timing out. Has to be it, at least i hope so.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joe92T:
Just an FYI I was on the stock OTA MJE with my note 3 and I rooted with Kingo and it literally worked the very first time I did it. Click, click boom rooted. Couldn't of been easier.

Point being it's doable on the rom, and easily. So keep it up
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acollaro:
The first time I rooted with no problem but after I went back to stock with odin I can no longer root with Kingo.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kevins89notch:
Just got my Note 3 yesterday, and have spent easily an hour installing and reinstalling drivers trying to get Kingo to work, but no luck.

As privy said: "having the same issue here. just got my note yesterday and been trying but no luck. getting NotSupport right after the 2nd "downloading requisite dependency files". would love some insight on this."

That's exactly the issue I'm having too.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acollaro:
Has anyone been able to root today?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kevins89notch:
Not I. I tried about 24 hours ago, as well as several times about 6 hours ago. No luck. I sent kingoapps a tweet with a link to here.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drag&fly:
Worked for me. Said failed but I am indeed rooted, and verify via root checker pro
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CorePrime:
This worked for me. Odin back to MJ7, Kingo root, enable SU survival mode, update OTA, still have root. All good.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D-KAKES:
Bought the phone 9pm last night (MJE out the box). I spent some hours reading up on specific peculiarities and whatnot. After some bumbli ng around, Kingo was a lost cause for the night as I experienced the same things you've described.

I used an older version of the "other one shot root" solution and it had me rooted immediately. No worries or me atm, using supersu+safestrap. If Kingo is getting you no where, I hope Vroot brings you luck -- there's even an English Vroot now, ha! Def not the case a device or four ago.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntheticexctasy:
I can confirm the Chinese Vroot method works.

Some details:

1. The english program running on your pc installs a Chinese daemon on your phone during root process. I would assume this is to facilitate file transfers.

2. The daemon can easily be uninstalled after the root process, however anytime you run the vroot executable with your phone connected, it will reinstall the daemon almost instantly, like magic.

3. Knox remains 0x0 - verified in odin mode

4. The SU binary installed is almost entirely in Chinese. This should be easy enough to remedy by replacing the su binary with one more suitable for you.

5. Verfied root with root checker basic

Hope this helps.

edit: This will be helpful for anyone using the Vroot method.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] privy:
alright so i got root using vroot method but now i'm trying to get rid of the chinese superuser. I try to update superSU binary but it asks to disable knox and i don't think that's what i want to do. anyone have a easy way??
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You want to disable the Knox warnings. Hit yes, it won't trip the counter.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryankroh:
Was about to start a new thread until I saw I had buddies in the same situation :x

I too bought a Verizon Note 3 this past Tuesday. Have tried Kingo at least 50 times today. Seemingly every combination of setting toggles, multipe cables, 2.0 and 3.0 ports, 3 PCs (Windows 7 and XP), etc. etc. etc. etc. No luck.

FWIW I used Kingo's contact form on their website and have log files ready to send them. I even promised a PayPal donation for a successful troubleshoot :fingers-crossed: I will keep you all posted
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] privy:
Thanks for the quick reply. Got it going so far.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kevins89notch:
2682583 13311

I had full plan to drop him at least $5 if it worked. Hopefully it will here in a couple days.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moin786:
Cant root on MJE...may be server problem from Kingo side...:(
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Az Biker:
Those having issues with Kingo failing, have you ensured your display timeout is set at 10 min, your PC antivirus is temp disabled, "unknown sources" is checked, ("verify apps" UNchecked), USB debugging is checked?

Check out detailed settings link in my sig.

I failed getting ROOT with Kingo three times then changed display timeout to 10 min and rooted perfect next attempt. Several users have been tripped up when installing Kingo by the other items I mentioned. I just checked Kingo's website and everything loaded quickly, indicating their site should be up and running for Root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryankroh:
Father ofrhon

Just tried right this instant (in the event Kingo's server is better or something) and it still fails.

If a setting, tip, or trick has been posted on a forum I have tried them all. I am running a brand new handset and a 2 week old laptop (tried 2 other PCs as mentioned before). All setting you mentioned are toggled correctly. Kingo has been uninstalled and reinstalled, devices rebooted, cables and ports swapped, nothing but 50+ consecutive failures. So bizarre. Any out of the box ideas are appreciated!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kevins89notch:
Every setting is exactly as you say. I only root a phone every year or so, and stick with a stock rom, so when I do root a phone, I'm not exactly familiar with the ever changing process, so I read things 3 times over before doing anything, and follow each step.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZachPA:
So here is what I found out after a bit of packet sniffing. When clicking the ROOT button in Kingo, after verifying a stable USB connection, Kingo sends some data to service.wmshua.com. That server then sends a response. After the "checking root status" message, when Kingo says it is "downloading device dependencies", it contacts update.wmshua.com, which then returns an HTTP 503 error. That's when Kingo tells me root failed, "NotSupport!". Perfect engrish.

It's entirely possible that the 503 error is part of the exploit, given that service.wmshua.com responds with an application/octet-stream, and application/json. It's also entirely possible that the 503 error (Service Temporarily Unavailable due to maintenance or capacity issues) is being generated by an overworked 486 stuck in a basement in a shack in the middle of Siberia.

Incidentally, the HTTP headers, which include Cache-control, all have a typo in one of the arguments. The argument "no-store" is a valid argument used to keep a browser from caching data that will definitely be changed next time it's requested. It seems both servers here pass"no-stroe" as one of the cache-control arguments. Again, whether that's part of the exploit or not is not known to me.

I don't have a ton of time to work on this right now (I run a pizza delivery restaurant, and tomorrow is the Super Bowl...). I'd like to run a USB trace to see what data is being exchanged with the phone, too, but that will have to wait. Until then, I have attached the output from my packet sniffer to this post, filtered to exchanges with the two servers in question, which represented the only legitimate traffic on that network interface during the root attempts. Maybe someone with more time or know-how can use this information to suit our needs.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moin786:
tried to root just now...but still it fails...

Is Kingo trying to stop supporting Note 3 from now on???

Is there any other safe method to root MJE...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renee613:
Hmmmmmm that's odd. I rooted with Kingo on 29 Jan w/o any issues. The site did take forever to load. Had OTA MJE already installed on the phone. Downloaded Kingo on my Windows XP computer. Followed all instructions and rooted successfully after the second time. Perhaps it's the odin files causing the error........
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moin786:
Even i rooted with Kingo on 29th Jan and it worked...But the problem started from 30th Jan and till now it is the same...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulsg63:
Is this the only rooting option for MJE? That would suck!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huess113:
server is down due to chinese new year??? maybe!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcat66:
Vroot worked

I rooted a few weeks ago with Kingo on MJE and then on Friday I had to re-root (I had to wipe my phone) and Kingo didn't work. I used the same computer and same set up. I tried on 2 other computers and no luck. I heard about Vroot and tried it and it worked right away. No problems and i had already downloaded SuperSu, so I just replaced the Chinese SuperSu with the one I had and all is good.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulsg63:
Looks like vroot when I get home.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Natelugo:
And no knox tripping?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayhodge02:
I'm in the same boat as you all I'm going to look into v-root as well
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RemyL75:
OK guys, in the same boat as you (on MLE from ODIN, cannot root using Kingo). I finally got root using v-root. It took more than a few tries (plus i was in the middle of hosting a small but loud Super Bowl party), but i finally got it. I ultimately ended up uninstalling the Samsung drivers and then reinstalling them. Then I revoked all USB debugging permissions and rebooted the phone. Then I tried v-root. It didn't work the first couple of times i tried it, but then I also noticed a screen I had not seen before when using v-root. It was saying that a data restore was requested from a PC connected VIA USB. The first time i missed it, but when i tried a gain, it popped up and I tried to decline it. It still would not allow root. The tried time I missed it again, but that time it allowed root. I then installed SuperSU and it uninstalled teh superSU that v-root installed. I then just removed the v-root app store and installed root checker and Titanium Backup. Both work without any issues. I also went into Download Mode and checked. Knox counters are both showing 0x0. So keep trying. Uninstall and then reinstall drivers, and try rebooting your phone. But v-root does work for MJE that was installed VIA ODIN and does not trip Knox. I hope this post helps.

Also, I was still trying Kingo until about 20 minutes ago and it was still failing to root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulsg63:
vroot worked for me first try.

I then loaded safestrap and restored a backup of beans so as to totally remove anything vroot could have left.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Natelugo:
Did you use supersu by chainfire?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RemyL75:
Yes, that is exactly the one I used. But I did not get it from the Play Store...

I got it from a link in the 1st post of a threat in Note2forums.com. I don't want to link to the download (for fear of getting in trouble), so I will link to the forum thread...

http://www.note2forum.com/forum/galaxy-note-3-development/4355-root-methods-all-one-place.html

I downloaded the file, unzipped it and copied the apk to the Note 3's internal storage and installed it from there. If your root is successful, once you open SuperSu and tell it to install binaries, you will get the message about other supersu apps installed on your device and it will ask if you want them removed. click Yes. The next message is a bigger issue, though. It asks you if you want to disable Knox. Click Yes. If this completes successfully, then you have rooted successfully. At least, that's how it went for me.