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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
Didn't see this posted yet (if it is, I might have just missed it). If it doesn't work the first time, try again. IIRC, I had to do it two or three times until I got it right.

Courtesy of jlmancuso.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48637687&postcount=4

1. Install custom recovery through Odin but do not check the reboot option.

2. Pull battery and disconnect from PC.

3. This is the hard part. Press and hold vol+, menu, and power while inserting the battery.

4. In recovery flash stock mc2 with counter reset. Also if you want root flash that also.

5. Now you have are on full mc2 ( baseband, radio, bootloader, ROM, and kernel)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
Is anyone working on pulling the cached Ota? If not I can go back to stock and pull it for you guys. I've been toying with the idea of making my own rom here recently. Let me know and I'll jump right on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
If you can sure. But if you took the update. Don't go back yet
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skye206:
I was waiting for an upload but I got impatient. Took the jump back to mc2, it upgraded to 4.3 now am back waiting ...sigh. am going to bed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
I'm on a 4.4 rom atm. My plan was to just Odin back to stock 4.3, pull Ota, reroot and go back to pac lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
OK but that if your device is one of the ones who's receiving the

Ota at the moment
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
thanks man``~~~

waiting your ota file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
What happened to the person who was going to upload it to drop box
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
Like LorJay said, I have to be one of the people getting the Ota. Hopefully I am because I'll have it up on either gdrive/box/Dropbox if I do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] untouchable2584:
For real where is he. I can't stop checking this thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
Said he was going to upload it in a few hours. Not sure what happened. I've been hitting search for for update for hours now and will definitely pull if I get it. But I'm usually not that fortunate when it comes to updating.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Lol I'm just waiting for either one of you to get it. Probably drop a rooted

Deknoxed version 10 minutes after
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] hottweelz:
I'm dying waiting for this update.. if the you get an OTA, upload it to http://fileanthropy.com I own it and will let it sit indefinitely.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
unfortunately, No update here. :( fack lol

Edit: will keep checking through out the night though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
Question. If you're currently on stock unrooted MC2, will the OTA's push to your phone in order or will you simply get the latest OTA and jump all the way to NE2??? Since I've never taken the MK4 OTA I was gonna go ahead and snag the NE2 OTA und upload it for you all. My wife has it sitting on her phone but she won't let me touch her phone!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
First you would need to update in order and need 4 3 rooted. Second just because she got it does not mean you will but you can always try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
You can also grab the file without messing up your wife's phone. Use a file explorer like ES File Explorer and copy the folder to the sd card. Won't even need root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
I could be wrong but I don't believe you can access the /cache partition without root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
I have the update sitting on my phone and haven't installed it. I'm at work and can't use the computer so I can try and put the zip here or if that's not good to do if someone lets me know how I can send or upload somewhere else from my phone and where to put the zip file for you I will try and get done. I'll check back in a bit
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
You can. You have access to all the folders. Just can't edit them. I have stock unrooted/untouched mk4

You can try with mega. Just make sure you select request desktop version but it would be better to just download the app.

https://mega.co.nz
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
But what happens when you enter the cache folder? What's inside?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
Mine is empty. I have a file cleaner that keeps my cache folder clean. But I can go in it and any other folders.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
If you're not rooted its just an empty folder. If that were the case I would've been had the file uploaded and not be bricked right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
The folder will look empty until you enable root. Just tested with es file by disabling su and folder is empty but enabled su and files (magically) show up. So you must be rooted to pull the ota.

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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

sammobile is blowing up! 4.4.2 releases are being pushed everywhere.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
reach oonsi

Ok I have it up but can't post the link since I dont have 10 posts yet. I never really post stuff just lurk and search for what I need
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Krillen:
How about pm someone the link and they can post it for you. I will gladly post the link for you since you are unable to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
thanks for your work。 Can u upload to any netdisk？
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
Thanks pm sent. Its a copy of the .zip off my phone for the update. Never posted one before so if it doesnt work or if there is something in it that shouldnt be please let me know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Krillen:
A pm from lscotty: "Here is the link. It is a direct copy of the zip off my phone from the update. 1st time trying to do this from my phone so let me know if it doesnt work and I'll try again.

https://mega.co.nz/#!r1oVDCBK!Jn4IuE...nDtIAFTvmSef2o"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
can u provide me decryption key for your upload?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
the link is not right
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
The upload has a decryption key?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Look at the link in the post. if you copy/paste you're copying the three periods in the middle too. I think thats why its asking for that
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
Never used that program before someone recomended to try it. I never saw and cant find a decription key. I'll try uploading it somewhere else and try again gimmie a few minutes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Krillen:
I read post again and found my error sorry guys. Here is the link working https://mega.co.nz/#!r1oVDCBK!Jn4IuEXisNHlPmkXlG2o_MU084EzJnDtIAFTvmSef2o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
could u pm me the mega link [MENTION=5380429]lscotty[/MENTION] ? i dont think it was posted correctly above.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53023739&postcount=198

Try here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
thanks dude
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Krillen:
Here is the working link https://mega.co.nz/#!r1oVDCBK!Jn4IuEXisNHlPmkXlG2o_MU084EzJnDtIAFTvmSef2o I just got the file myself as it is in the zip lscotty uploaded.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
Did it work for anyone else? I have it uploading somewhere else to try again if not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] junmin2o2ooo:
Link works great! thanks!:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Doc50000:
Downloading now... kudos.....:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
Side load in progress. :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigkippa:
Can you flash without root? Use Odin? It's almost downloaded, what's the safest way?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
Your welcome. Hopefully it's what everyone was waiting on and looking for.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
I odin'd back to stock MK4. Downloaded the update, rebooted phone into recovery and sideloaded the update.zip from my pc. got 4.4 up and running. I'll let everyone flash it before I start raging about how we didn't get the smart contact dialer. ;p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigkippa:
I'll be the Guinea Pig, trying now.

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Did you rename it to update.zip or not?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Place on SD and boot to recovery and flash as is. It works just fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuitarJesus:
What if I'm on stock 4.3 unrooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
I renamed it to update.zip because I didn't want to copy and paste. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Same here and its optimizing the update now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
First thing I notice is heimdall no longer works after updating. i get

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
ERROR: Failed to receive PIT file part #16!
ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!
Ending session...

So I'm stuck on it until I get to a windows PC
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Flash as is from SD. This is on stock unrooted 4.3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigkippa:
Keeps saying "Can't open file" and aborts installation, I tried renaming it to update.zip as well. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Most likely a bad download. Try to D\L it again or from one of the other sources.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
link doesn't work for me, just fails
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lk8yb4ngt...f8f2d.USER_L900_SPT_MK4_to_NE2_Update_FWD.zip

Try this one. I just upped it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
that one works lol the mega one is crazy, says it downloaded 441mb but then says 8mb

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its gonna fail alot on some pc's i think name is to long and crazy
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
try this.

Rename the 4.4 OTA to update.zip

drop into your ADB folder.

reboot your stock MK4 rom into stock recovery.

Go to sideloading

On PC open adb

adb sideload update.zip

boom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ItsLasher:
Renamed to kk.update.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sj427sc8cfbdj9i/kk.update.zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
Just incase anyone is curious, CF auto Root and Kingoroot have both failed lol. I've got twrp installed and super SU installed but no su rights.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigkippa:
This worked, thanks! Had to get back to stock recovery then just sideloaded it via adb like you said, optimizing now!:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lscotty:
Glad the link worked enough for someone else to make it easier to use. Now I know how and where to do it correctly if I ever need to again. Now back to lurking and to wait for a no knox root from it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
None of us would have gotten this far without ya buddy. Thanks!

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Rooted.

Flashed the latest philz recovery via odin, flashed supersu update zip, installed supersu via recovery options (just to be sure). Booted the rom up and deleted knox via tb.

pew pew. LorJay, want me to upload a philz backup for you somewhere?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
already uploading a knox free rooted version lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] saboture:
Why do I try lol. Thanks,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
you try, because you love our section and android :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skye206:
How did you root? I tried Odin, and kingo nothings working for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
You guys are awesome. Thanks for uploading the update. the mega link worked great for me. Easiest yo just download mega on your phone then hit the link
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gronimo21:
I'm upset with Samsung they could have did a better job with this update but at least we got it

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ankurcshah:
Okay I know this may sound silly but I want to change the wifi icon. I want the icon which has the up and down arrows as in the gsm version. Is there anyway I can flash it? I tried the kitchen but couldn't get it. Any help?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] untouchable2584:
Someone please help... I've re downloaded 4 times... When I place on root of SDcard then flash in stock recovery. This happens failed E: Error in /tmp/update.zip ( status 7)" error
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
thanks dude！！

can u provide link for your upload

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get it

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
I agree and have said the same thing before. Waited all this time for what ? Just a version number change? I guess I've waited long enough. Time to grab the best rom since that'll really be the only way we'll get something new. Still appreciate the upload though. Now I can use my Google wallet again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] shawn1482:
Anyone upload the rooted version
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhint15:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8ztmjvtg...f8f2d.USER_L900_SPT_MK4_to_NE2_Update_FWD.zip

Link to ota zip above this was pulled out of the cache folder. I just uploaded didn't touch it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gronimo21:
What u mean you can use Google wallet again I never had a problem using it before the update did u mean using nfc

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ProperNoun:
Are you saying hce is working? The maker of our nfc chip (NXP) has ignored requests to release the source to aosp but maybe Samsung finally got it from them. This would be good news if anyone can verify.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] shawn1482:
Thanks is that rooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
OK I can't get the update link to install keeps saying Knox store ask has unexpected items install aborted status 7
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhint15:
K I'll say it again. This is the ota zip straight from my phones download. Do not flash it is for developers to use if they even can.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
OK Lil confusing lol right before your post someone asked for a rooted version then yours is next in line thanks for uploading it though
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gronimo21:
Something new

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] shawn1482:
Yea good thing I asked before flashing it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] wangjuanqing:
do u try to switch to art mode? can u post your boot.img file
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
How long before a kk tar makes an appearance? That might be my last hope to get back up and running. Not even the MK4 tar was able to save me..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] beerdart:
Quick Q. Im on stock rooted 4.3 should I factory restore or can I just take the update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
keep trying the steps i gave you. i have already flashed the kk update and went back to full stock mc2 with counter reset. it will work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
I have. My flash count is sitting at 39. Nothing will stick or boot :( . Maybe the KK tar will do it as it has a newer s.boot.bin and might flash over MK4's. Trust me I tried everyone's suggestion all night and am paying the consequences here at work surviving off of coffee.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
http://d-h.st/Fx4#.U4iPGSimWLg let me know if it auto roots

knox is in it, and since we know billards work now, you can flash or not, but im gonna wait for the tar

be back later
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
Ive been following this thread and I noticed bhint15 was the first person to step up and upload his untouched KK OTA. He did come through for those of you who were waiting to see if he would. How about giving the man some THANKS!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skinneejay:
Does anyone have a link that works? I'm just looking for the stock update. Every link I've tried is down. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
Google wallet is only allowed on devices running kitkat now. Now we can actually tap and pay now that we have 4.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jutaejrtouch:
Flash this with stock or custom recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gronimo21:
That's what I meant the tap and pay features cause I was using Google wallet with the Mastercard they sent me that's why I asked

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
Best believe he'll be getting plenty of thanks.. :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] peakay:
Just to confirm, this is just the stock update file, correct? I'm not rooted - just looking for the update. Downloading now...Thx!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
Completely stock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Would someone running 4.4 pull me a boot.img please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ProperNoun:
...if the device has hce which is why Note 3 is on the list of incompatible devices for tap and pay. We have the same chip so even though we all have the right version of android it may not work.

Hate to say "Go! Spend some money!" but had anyone succeeded in using tap and pay yet? I'm still waiting for ota.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
It has worked for me today. What I was getting at was that before 4.4 tap and pay was disabled for our notes. Now everything is setup and works just like it did. Now some one owes me a pop for testing lol :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Hey I got into the same boat you did somehow. Try flashing the attached file through odin with reboot unchecked then boot back into download mode and flash recovery with reboot unchecked. Now reboot into recovery and you should have a custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vader4633:
Now the smart stay icon disappears until it checks for your face instead of staying on all the time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skye206:
Can some one post an how to root this please ? Hate to admit it but am a little stuck. I am at work now but just hoping for some help. By the time I get home.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] photolarry:
Update Successful

But no way to get root again that I can tell. I tried flashing CWM via ODIN and when it reboots...it says "system updating" in status bar and I think what it does it puts stock recovery. So what I am going to try next is unchecking the reboot option, then try going into custom recovery, flash update_SU.1,94.zip for root....then from adb open a shell and look for some sh file that is executing on boot that restores the stock recovery automatically....if that is how it works. I will post an edit to this soon.

Edit

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ODIN of CWM without reboot checked....pull battery...boot recovery....install SU.zip

Reboot and root seems to stick. Only problem I am having is with Titanium....for some reason it wont write to external SD card....gets mounted as R/O and gives insufficient message.

This fixed sdcard problem: http://winaero.com/blog/unlock-external-sd-card-writing-for-all-apps-in-android-4-4-kitkat/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] peakay:
Thanks! Sorry for the total newb question here (I used to flash Roms but stopped a couple years ago), but how do I install this update? I thought the system would recognize it and update, but do I have to change the name and move it to a specific location?

I don't own a PC, so I don't have the ability to install via a computer.

Thx!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Your phone needs to be stock mk4 (recovery, bootloader, system files). Copy the file to your external sdcard and power off. Now boot into recovery mode and choose install update via external. Although I would suggest hanging off on the update but that is up to you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goku14238:
No worries sir. I'm not going to flame ya for it. We're here to work together. First you download the update. Should be 441mb. Then rename it to update.zip or something easy to find. Put it on your SD card. Then turn off your phone, hold volume down+home and power until you get into recovery. You should see install update from external storage. Click that and find your update and you should be good

Edit: people typing faster than I can text it. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Okay here is my tale of the update. I started out by flashing billards back to mc2 and taking the 4.3 update. After the update I rooted just in case I was lucky enough to get the ota which I did not. I downloaded the posted ota file and placed it on my ext sdcard. I rebooted into stock recovery and tried to install but it failed due to still having su. So I opened su app and did the unroot option. Booted back into recovery and flashed the update and it looked like it flashed without issue. On reboot it would not boot. Tried everything to get a custom recovery installed but it would not boot into recovery (stock or custom). I then made an odin zip that allowed me to use odin and flash a custom recovery. Then I was able to go all the way back to mc2 using billards zip.

I am now up and running ne2 (4.4.2). I will make a deknoxed prerooted recovery zip today for those who want it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rwilco12:
[MENTION=3108309]RayTrue04[/MENTION] I've got that modified MK4 TAR uploaded you and I discussed. Sending you a PM with the link in just a second. Let me know how it works?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
"unexpected file contents" when updating after verifying system. using twrp recovery... should I be on stock recovery I guess?

guess so... any way to get back to stock bootloader if I'm away from a computer? thank you guys again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] peakay:
Thank you kind sir. That is what I tried, but every time I do the keystroke to go to recovery, it asks me to volume up to download or vol down to continue normal boot. When I go vol up, the phone says something like "downloading, do not turn off target" and just sits there. Nothing seems to happen, so I have ended up just powering down and rebooting.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
vol -, home key, power key = download mode

vol +, home key, power key = recovery mode

4.4.2 root

use odin to flash custom recovery

boot into recovery

flash this zip http://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=f...ff1daa87024c269b88dc547c1c3be1f5d0ffeb33e11fb

reboot phone

update superSU from market

open superSU and disable knox
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rickberg:
I can confirm that using billards stock zip then updating from there works I'm running the stock 4.4 with no root unfortunately I'm in Florida now so no pc till I get back to Missouri I tried deflating the philz recovery via updater but it aborts
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Ok I got some progress! I'm booting into philz recovery. Now my Billard package fails but at least I have custom recovery!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Centz:
I'm still on stock MC2, rooted. Disabled update notifications.

Can I make the direct jump to NE2 and not lose everything in the process? I'm fine doing the MK4 pitstop if needed, but at the end of the process I want root and no Knox, ideally.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZealotN7:
Hi a have a problem, i already downloaded multiple times the zip file and when i tried to install says "signature verification failed" any one knows how to fix this? i am on stock recovery, also tried to move the zip on the cache folder but not working, sorry my english and thanks for the help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Will try in a few. I just got custom recovery by flashing the fix.tar. Is there anyway I can get the billard zip into the internal memory with philz recovery? I mount and it just opens up the external card and I'm using a very old one from an optimus s which is really slow and was corrupted before i formatted. Want to try moving the file to internal to flash from there.