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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sniper_Ghost:
OK, I used odin and flashed the phil file, it was successful, the phone rebooted, I still have 4.3.. What is the deal.. I realized before I was going into recovery not into download mode.

I need the 4.4 file that I can flash using odin or so I can boot into recovery and install from sd card, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or what exact file do I need, please, thanks guys and gals..

ok, I can now get into phils recovery, very nice... but when I try and do the update from sdcard I get a sdcard error, 207, is it a bad file or do I need to copy it to the phone memory instead of the sdcard or any ideas now, I turned sig verification off then got this error.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
What's the name of the file that you're trying to flash? Is it jlmancuso's file? If so, my only suggestion would be to make sure it's not in a folder on your external sd, or move it to the internal sd?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sniper_Ghost:
I finally got it, apparently there were issues with the other files, I thought I killed my phone, it would boot to the white Samsung logo and go no further, I then transferred another 4.4 file I downloaded onto my sd card, put it back in the phone, booted into phils recovery, turned sig verification off and installed it from sd and it worked, going through the set up now...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xopher.hunter:
help please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
Did you try the LJC stock with flash reset. I had problems with sboot.bin with the MC2 Odin but the LJC flashed with no issues. Give it a try. If that doesn't work then I assume the NE2 bootloader is preventing any downgrades. But I personally don't take the 4.3 and 4.4 OTA's because things like this happen. I wait for rooted knox-free versions.

You can also try this Toolkit. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qvql1jytvz...kit_v2.0.0.exe

It has the old bootloaders that should flash over the NE2 bootloader. Ofcourse you'll need the Samsung USB drivers installed and make sure usb debugging is turned on before you start the Toolkit. It's worth a try and it never fails me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpisini:
Link doesn't seem to work. Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] michael85tx:
your file so saved my phone. I didn't like the update (same as 4.3 just 4.4.2 now) so was going to go back to a custom rom .. but it just completely froze and wouldn't do anything. thank you so much you saved me!! just wish i would have seen it this morning (it's now 8 pm) lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xopher.hunter:
Im still bricked unfortunately. I can flash custom recoveries with odin but they dont boot at all. I found the modified sboot mk4 tar in rwilco's repo and that actually completes instead of failing in odin. But it still will not boot, not even stock recovery. IDK what to do at this point. damn knox
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] swiftstealth:
Does anyone have a copy of the stock Ota? I have been trying to download from bhint's Dropbox for over a week, too much traffic and they keep shutting it down. If I can get the file I will share a link to my Google, Mega or Dropbox. Or all. Reply or DM me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttkyles:
Just got my ota... :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ianmb:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2780984

Looks like the .tar file finally made it!

ANDROID...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
You have to flash the fix.tar prior to flashing that modified MK4 or it won't boot. But now that the tar for NE2 is up you can try that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sniper_Ghost:
I have a copy! Not sure how to get it to you? This one worked for me, copy it to your SD Card, then I flashed Phils first in ODIN then I turned off signature verification, then selected this file and it worked perfectly.. I am now on 4.4.2

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Mine would not boot either and then I flashed phils with ODIN, and toggled off Sig Verification and chose the file I have now and it installed 4.4.2 perfectly.. But I was bricked I guess, It would not boot it just froze at the Samsung galaxy note screen in white letters and did nothing else.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
Yea man! :D

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xopher.hunter:
The NE2 tar worked flawlessly. I am liking stock 4.4 and the sense of security with knox. I think I'm over custom roms for now. Just want a rock solid phone. Thanks for your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Knox does nothing for the standard user. It's a paid business tool for the corporate world.

Your senses are off...LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeTrain!:
I feel like I just dirty flashed. all my apps went away. it's telling me it can't read the SD card and wants to reboot. I will try a full wipe and the nandroid and see how we do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] japugh0578:
you're a beautiful person, thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Bingo. Unless you are in corporate IT managing company cellphones, Knox only serves you as a consumer to tell Samsung when they can **** on your warranty.

Flashing radios should not effect apps at all. You did verify MD5 before flashing, correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeTrain!:
well I verified as much as I could memorize. the apps were actually still there. just my launcher was set back to stock. the weather widget and other stuff was back. I just did a nandroid and other than some birthday alarms I can't figure out how to clear I think I am good.

just reporting in. [emoji12]

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Edit. Birthday alarms cleared
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Hey just a bit of advice. When doing md5 it is hard to remember numbers so take first 3 and last 3 and remember them almost guaranteed that if those match all the others do to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ArchangelRenzoku:
I put it on my 4shared. 3GB daily limit, a little over 400MB file. If this mirror burns out, hell I'll torrent it.

http://www.4shared.com/zip/RZ4UVigdba/update.html

Flash in stock MK4 recovery only. Place on external SD.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Does anyone know how to get emoji input on this update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chaz187:
It is included in the update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Right thats whatbinhave read but I cant find them anywhere
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chaz187:
Hut the mic icon on the keyboard
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Is there a way to get WiFi tether working on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter

Not free but works great. Definately recommend for our device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DarkAngel:
Man...... can't believe I just got my OTA last night. Copied over to my SD card for safe keeping.

Just wanted to advise......
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpint:
So I got the OTA Friday night into Saturday morning...

First I thought it was strange that when I woke up Saturday that my phone was powered off. Turned it on.. loads up just fine. I see a notification of a pending update, so I say what the heck, go ahead and do it. Phone starts updating, then reboots. Comes back up saying it is optimizing apps, then seems to finish starting normally.

I immediately notice its no longer connecting to my AirRave. Kind of strange, but I have seen this before, usually a prl update and its happy. So I update the prl, the phone reboots (that's new). Phone comes back up, connects to the AR and immediately the signal starts dropping until it says no network. I bounce the antennas by airplane mode on/off. It connects again for a few seconds, then the phone reboots. Uh.. excuse me?

So over the day I observe this behavior happening more and more often until the phone just flat out won't even boot anymore. Its stuck at the Samsung logo. So I say to this, no problem, I'll just restore it from a bootloader backup that I do every month. Reboot and look for backups.. WTH - no backups found ANYWHERE. Apparently the upgrade took my backups out too. Fun. So I try to Odin back in TWRP to install the stock MC2 with firmware rom.. Odin says it worked, but nothing happens oh and knox apparently didn't like this and trips. Yay me.

At this point, my frustration is growing. 6 hours later of downloading images and trying to Odin them in, I finally get one that works. Back to MC2 completely stock. Problem is, the antenna problem is still there. NP.. maybe its fixed with the NE2 OTA. So I connect to wifi, let the phone update. Same problem still there after the update and now the phone just sits and eats battery to the point of 10% an hour when idle and now I can't send or receive messages or calls without restarting my phone each time. I've also tried the 4 previous antenna firmware with the same problem now.

Am I boned here or is there some magic I can perform to get this thing working again? I was seeing 2% battery drain per hour on 4.2 and never having connection issues. Now I pretty much have a not working piece of junk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Try to follow this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2648855

4.3 General wiping and preparatory instructions - Sprint Galaxy Note 2 L900 all ROM's

Then flash mc2 stock rom let the phone update all the way through

Once you get to 4.4 follow flash the latest philz recovery found in one of my posts earlier in this thread.

When you flash it make sure you have auto reboot un checked when odin gives you the all clear remove the battery reboot into recovery go to philz options select root phone and reboot

Open super su it will say something about disabling knox choose yes

Hopefully this helps to fix your phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttkyles:
ok whats up with this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpint:
I'll give that a try tonight after work. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DarkAngel:
It's the dreaded no access to External SD Card update from KitKat. Easily fixed through modification of permissions with root. It's what holds back a lot of people from wanting to update and waiting for a fix. I did the fix on both my wifes SGS4 and my extra SGS3. There is an app that can fix it for you too but requires root.

Here is some light reading for ya:

http://www.ibtimes.com/android-44-k...plained-root-access-fix-now-available-1562147
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ttkyles:
nextapp sdfix

fixed the problem

thanks so much....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DarkAngel:
Glad you fixed it. :good:

Just a suggestion for many out there when considering this fix. There are many articles out there advising of the permission and what the drawbacks are from modifying it. We all know about letting apps access your info and what to watch out for so be sure to protect your info on your phone. If you really don't have anything private that worries you in your phone then modifying the permission is probably not a big deal for you like many.

Article about Protecting Your Privacy:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/protecting-your-privacy-app-ops-privacy-guard-and-xprivacy/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tungsten c:
Can anyone place the file for download Please. When I go to Google play it gives me an error.

Thank you

nextapp sdfix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpint:
Started at step 1 and now the phone won't boot to any form of recovery :(

The screen starts up, tries to go to the Galaxy Note II splash screen, scrambles and then the phone shuts off.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
Can you get into download mode?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Step one of the prepatory wipe instructions?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpint:
Yep. Was able to get that far, but nowhere else.

I eventually managed to flash in TWRP+applying the fix.tar file. That seemed to fix the no bootloader.

Got carbon rom installed (no other roms - not even stock ones) will install. I needed to load this in order to transfer a new MC2 stock restore file to the sdcard.

Just got Philz installed.

I'm now at the point that I have transferred the mc2 stock restore with flash count reset and am flashing it. It usually fails at this point. Wish me luck :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Fingers crossed lol

Htc was much simpler lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] serpint:
Oh praise be for Philz! MC2 with restore went in. Now I'm doing a clean upgrade to 4.3... then maybe to 4.4...

Thanks everyone! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
No prob thats what this is for glad it worked
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] move c:\old c:\new:
As I was going to root with update, sprint sent me the update and I took it. Went ahead and rooted after however the one issue that I have is I can't install third party apps like the Amazon app store. I can click cancel but not install. Any help would be great. :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
Under security un ck unknown source

SGNote2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] move c:\old c:\new:
No luck unchecked or checked
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] move c:\old c:\new:
Turns out if I disabled xblast tools for xposed modules its working now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kebo3473:
question

My question is really for the[ROM][4.4.2 TW][Verzion Port]S5-FEAT-R3Ds[ROOTED] forum, but I have never posted before, so I didn't have the option to post directly into that forum. I had the 2.3 beta installed on my phone and that worked great. Today I installed the 2.5 beta and noticed that the stock messaging app was slightly different. 2.3's had an option "delay message sending" which I love. 2.5 doesn't include that option in stock messaging. I was wondering if there was a way to get the 2.3 messaging app added to the 2.5 beta. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
2.3 had a different mms (think i used S5 version) but the mms did not work correctly so I changed back to stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xxwycxx:
I also have the same thing of not being able to post because I rarely ever do, but, I just wanted to say that all you guys rock! Keep up the great work! Everyone appreciates you guys more than you know!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kebo3473:
Thanks for your quick response and also for your work!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
[MENTION=3454294]xxwycxx[/MENTION] [MENTION=4824951]kebo3473[/MENTION] well build up your posts and come join in the main thread. The more yall help (feedback) the better it will become. I am not really a touchwiz fan so I don't use most of the features. I rely on users to test them so I can fix anything that is broken.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
2.3 beta is S5 ur correct and mms works fine here I'm sill on it now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Both send and receive?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
Yes sir

SGNote2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
About device

SGNote2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Well then I will put it in the community rom. The newer versions of S5-FEAT are being kept close to the original rom it is ported from.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reekotubbs:
I just noticed that when attempting to send text messages from the stock app, the messages never send. Anyone else having this issue. I checked back a week and every text that I sent still shows sending...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpisini:
Are you on stock? If yes then I can say both regular and sms texts work for me in and out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reekotubbs:
Yes, I am on stock. Its weird, cause I can receive sms and mms, but can only send mms and not sms.

edit: I did a factory wipe and wiped all partitions. Now sms out is working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] FanOfSkynyrd:
I've read and haven't really seen this covered, but is there a preferred method to update to KK from MK4 w/ MA7 bootloader?

Currently, the phone is running Smoothest ROM and has the random reboot issue.

I was thinking of doing Billards MC2 with counter reset, then just taking the OTAs up to KK. Will probably upgrade to Note 4 later this year so don't really care about tripping Knox or voiding warranty.

I would like to keep root and be able to flash custom ROMs though. So as I said is there a preferred method? Thx in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
I took the wife's phone back to stock with mc2. Then flashed garwynn's ne2 tar. Then flashed custom recovery and root....

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jocarog:
I would just flash community rom and ne2 modem, I'm still on mc2 bootloader and don't have any reboot issues, but every phone is different...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhint15:
Same still on mc2 bootloader and was on mk4 modem and went to ne2 modem but both modems worked fine with community rom and I've lost all my crap mk4 issues (reboots/battery pulls/etc)

In other words....just flash a rom like normal and don't worry about it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sothus:
I really cant stand OTA updates
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] xopher.hunter:
Can't get viper4android to work at all has anyone had any luck. I have root+busybox but the driver won't install. It states io error please reboot.

Anyone else try?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] maddoggin:
hey guys i had my note 2 on stock rooted twrp with hotspot mod only. the ota update sent my phone into bootloop. actually this is my brother n laws phone and i dont know much about it. i have a nexus 4 and nexus 5 and is much easier to deal with. if anyone can send me in the right direction to fix this issue i will greatly apreaciate it. thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ChodaBoyUSA:
Will this trip the Knox custom binary counter?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Yes it will trip knox. Only way to avoid that is to not upgrade the bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ChodaBoyUSA:
I appreciate the quick reply.

Darn.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
Thank you for answering that I was at work......isn't there a flash able fix to reset the Knox counter though
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Not for knox. The is a counter reset for MC2 and older bootloaders.

You can run custom tw 4.4.2 roms on any bootloader to avoid the knox counter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jyerly:
4.4

Wow this 4.4 is great
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
Anyone having issues with their Note II connecting with a bluetooth headset after the update? I have the Bose bluetooth headset and end up doing a power cycle on it 3-4 times before it auto connects. Never had an issue with that before.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
I don't use a BT headset, but I do use a BT speaker in my kayak and also connect to the stock stereo head unit in my minivan. I haven't had any problem with either autoconnecting after the update. I'm sure that will vary by BT device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dr_gibberish:
Having tons of Bluetooth and GPS issues since upgrade that I never had before. Bluetooth will connect then disconnect than reconnect for no obvious reason. Happens with all my Bluetooth devices so issue is clearly with the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] testing101:
4.4.2 Kernel Source Compilation

Has anyone tried compiling the kernel source code from the 4.4.2 update (SPH-L900_NA_KK_Opensource.zip)? I tried it and flashing the kernel, the phone signal does not work at all.

Here's pretty the summary of what I'm doing:

1) I am using the default config file to compile the kernel. (t0_04_defconfig)

2) Unpacked the stock boot.img file, replaced the existing zImage (along with its non-built-in modules) with the ones I obtained from the recompilation.

3) Repacked the boot.img.

Tried using both Odin and Heimdall to flash but it's having trouble connecting to the mobile network.

My goal is to make my Note 2 use an external USB WIFI (RTL8187 or others) with chroot Kali. I have still yet to find a complete and well documented tutorial on how to do this. I figured once I'm successful, I will post a video of my approach.

Please let me know if there's something I'm missing. Pretty much the furthest I got right now is to make the USB WIFI working with aircrack-ng but I can't seem to get my phone signal working at all. (This has been the issue from the start even when I used the default config file to compile the kernel.)

Please let me know if there's something I'm missing as I've spent way too long on figuring out this problem.

Thanks in advanced!

P.S: I think this is a more appropriate question for the development section but I don't have enough posts to post there yet. Apologize if I am in the wrong section.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
My first suggestion would be to use the source code found under the community kernel. It is stock source that has been made usable. You will find the thread in the original development section.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] testing101:
Thanks for your swift reply. :)

I tried using the community kernel (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2094296) but had no luck either. Here's what I did:

1) I pulled the code from github (GITHUB LINK) and successfully recompiled (after making some minor path changes) to obtain a boot.img inside a tar.md5 file. I then flashed the phone with the boot.img file using Heimdall but was unable to get past the Samsung Note 2 splash screen (also tried wiping the cache, dalvik, etc.)

2) I tried to obtain the tar.md5 from rwilco12 (Garwynn_NE2_v0.1.1.tar.md5) but the file is corrupted. I tried to replied to the respective post but it didn't allow me to post there yet. Hopefully, someone can relay my message to the Garwynn to update the link.

Any other ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
I mentioned the issue with the one he had posted when our official 4.4.2 dropped and he said he would try to rebuild it. Since then I have seen nothing. I am not sure how Samsung is with their source but I know when I had htc you had to fix issues in the source code before it would boot. So I would figure with the problem you had then the same would apply. Device manufacturers dont care if the code works they only need to have it available (working or not) to fill there open source requirements.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] testing101:
Thanks for your insight.

I see. I will try to find another way to do this until someone can give some guidance on where in the source code should I look to maybe fix the issue with the phone signal. It's just very weird why it doesn't work. I got everything else to work except the phone/3G/4G...I think there's something small that I may be overlooking.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
I have done very little with kernels so I cant help you. I would suggest talking/pm with [MENTION=4194834]garwynn[/MENTION] or [MENTION=349360]ffolkes[/MENTION] (does plasma kernel) and hopefully they could help point you in a better direction.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] testing101:
I just sent PMs to both of them. Hope I hear something back from them :)

Thanks for your pointers! :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Hope they help out. Would love to have a custom kernel for NE2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
You need:

1) Community Repo (includes ramdisk)

3) toolchain

From there I believe I was still using and modified build_n2.sh to handle the rest of that (Thx [MENTION=2953465]agat63[/MENTION] for the original script!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
There has been some small talk in the plasma thread about ffolkes maybe doing a TouchWiz kernel. Wouldn't get your hopes up to high but fingers crossed! Lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MajorAlex:
Hello, how can I downgrade from NE2 (4.4.2) to MK4 (4.3)? I need read MSL, but i cant do it on 4.4.2