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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ArchangelRenzoku:
I never defend Samsung. What they do to mess up their own business is their own fault and no concern of mine if they want to make products for idiots til humans are too dumb to think for themselves. That's why I personally have fun modifying my devices and choose an Android to do so.

I defend Sprint and the other telco's in their decision to test what Samsung has already messed up in our phones because what happens when a Samsung phone messes up? Do you call Samsung for a replacement first? Does anyone who doesn't know any better? That's what I'm getting after. If it's corporate idiocy to test a product before release and make adjustments to it, then I hope I never buy from a business owned by you.

But oh wait, then again, I'm here to discuss possibilities and things we don't know for certain so I'm not here to insult you. :)

My point is that testing and adjustments are a necessary part of the mobile world at this time and my personal belief is that it shouldn't change. Deregulation for the sake of speed isn't the best plausible solution for this annoyance. If you want Android updates sooner, ask Google to release a standalone version of the OS for free right after its done... HA! (Sarcasm, for the short of sight).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tha_Dynasty2049:
welp im willing to try it

i just always been a tw fan honestly

hows the signal with the rom?

and post the link if you can
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
I haven't had any issues and signal is perfect. Probably should take this discussion to the proper thread though. And skim through it if you've got the time to see how to prepare your device for CM11.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Carrier testing is the fastest thing in the entire update cycle and arguably least thorough.

Remember the last update s3 and Note 2 owners got? The one that was a year in coming...and when sent OTA was breaking phones and running so badly the carriers pulled their own updates?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Well kids, may not want to plan on Touch wiz 4.4 for Note 2.

Sounds like the devs at Samsung cannot solve issues that anonymous people on the internet have had solved for months.

http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-2...laxy-s3-and-galaxy-note-2-might-be-cancelled/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] garwynn:
I'd take with a grain of salt considering S3 KK is underway for Sprint already.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] CNexus:
I highly doubt that. The Sprint S3 has been getting regular rdfs for 4.4 since the end of February; we just got a new one the other day.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] CNexus:
Yeah, we just got a new RDF today. So I'd say to disregard that article.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51391317
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] frnhalo:
I myself am very excited about this. I really like the s pen features and would like them incorporated into 4.4. I'm currently running Carbon 4.4 and love it 'cept for a few issues and lack of s pen features.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Not doubting that carbon is an awesome rom but I've been on cm11 since day one and it does have SPen features. I think it's the same as touchwiz but could be missing a couple features but I'm not sure what as I don't ever use it myself but they are there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] frnhalo:
Really now?! I am intrigued. I had cm11 before and it was also lacking s pen features. I guess they may have updated since last. Thanks for the tip. I will try it again tonight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Doc50000:
Ok man, thank you very much.. :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chris-pee:
After we flash back to 4.3 can we just rename this and update in stock recovery? Thanks for the upload!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Ha! Lol. Yes I can't stress it enough, tar fix first than recommended recovery or modified MK4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Demo3827:
....

you dont have to remane it just put it in your sdcard and in stock recovery update using external store then the file name and thats it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Raptor5150:
Do you have an ETA by chance? :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
so i went thru with download mode flashed the tar fix without rebooting. pulled battery back into philz recovery asked something about install untrusted zip. clicked yes. failed. rebooted back into recovery and now installing the billard mc2 stock restore. am i missing something or did i do it right? is my mk4 4.3 stock going to boot now? or was there another way to do this. sorry lol after all these years flashing phones im still a newb XD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Np. Although you should give your thanks to rwilco, jlmancuso and lorjay for their work and getting me back up and running. I'm just the messenger :p

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If you got that untrusted zip prompt it's because you booted into the fix.tar file which wasn't necessary. After flashing the fix you flash your recovery and boot into that. As long as the MC2 successfully flashes you should be good to go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
well whatever i did it aint working. still cant boot to 4.3. so when i go into download mode i flash the tar fix without reboot checked and within that same download mode i flash the recovery then pull the battery or something? i dont know what exactly i did wrong. the mc2 flashed correctly and i got 4.1 up and booted. i then went through the 4.3 ota and there is where im stuck. i cant boot after updating to 4.3 wth lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Oh so that wasn't just me. I had that same issue so this time I just stood on rwilco's modified MK4 for now. Surprisingly I still haven't gotten the KK update when I was one of the first ones originally. It'll probably fail too..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lorjay589:
Ok so im theming my rom now and, did yall know that we can scroll every toggle now, not just ten. also i have like 30 toggles up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] vader4633:
The multi window has a nice upgrade. You can create window pairs just like the note 3 and also have myltiple app windows in each pane.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
thats pretty cool dude. with me stuck at 4.1 for now will i be able to flash ur rom correctly when its up?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Only about 24 hours late lmao XD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gronimo21:
It might just be my eyes but I go to device administration and I don't see Knox on here how can I tell it's on my device I'm stock 4.4.2

High Definition Note II

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Explain cause I never used the multi window

High Definition Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rwilco12:
I've uploaded the modified MK4 TAR I built for [MENTION=3108309]RayTrue04[/MENTION] to my primary server now. You can get it at http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...PH-L900)/Stock ROMs/MK4/Full Restore/Unrooted

It's basically the regular full restore minus the MK4 bootloader. Flash it and let me know if it hangs anywhere. If it does I can modify it pretty quickly on the server and get a new link for everyone.

Thanks and enjoy!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dsims7_2000:
OK, I got this. Put this on internal storage and just install from recovery?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
Don't understand this at all. There's absolutely no way we can downgrade the bootloader on s3? If you attempt to do it, u hard brick your s3?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Something that's been bothering me since 4.3 was released. Wish I knew why it bricked the s3 but not this phone :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Anyone have just the modem zip? I'm on cm11 and have been trying to follow this thread as well but with my 2 kids running around it hasn't been easy lol. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
well it didnt hard brick my phone. only problem is i cant load mk4 stock roms. as soon as im finished upgrading with the ota coming from mc2 billards restore it dosent boot 4.3. call it a phone call it a brick call u what u want it but i cant get back to 4.4 lol. im upset about it

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it hangs. it dont work. after install it flashes the samsung logo for about 2 seconds and screen goes black.. i can get into stock recovery and download mode but now im back to square 1. either mc2 stock again or flash recovery and go back to Whompasoarus. it would be very appreciated if someone were to figure out whats going on. o i also tried flashing the 4.4 update after updating to 4.3 and failing to boot. just a thought. i thought it would work by chance but no lol just hangs at note 2 screen XD.

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i dont know if its possible. but if anyone could. make and upload a flashable zip with stock 4.4 on it that would be nice. the guy who made a deodexed denoxed version had bad problems. i was wondering if it was possible to make a cwm flashable zip of 4.4 stock without it being deodexed or denoxed. i just want it to work. thats all. thank you in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] dsims7_2000:
I just installed the one I got from DEMO3827 and it worked PERFECT!! Putting up to DB now. Its telling me 30 minutes..

When I say perfect, I mean absolutely PERFECT!

Downloaded, put in download folder on SDCard, turned phone off, booted to recovery. took option to install from SDCard, when to download folder, highlighted ZIP. 15 minutes later I was up and running. No restore required, booted back with Nova Launcher just like I had it!

Phone works, text work, Kies 3 works, all my core apps seems to be working? The only thing different is in Settings>More>About Device: 4.3 is now 4.4.2!

EDIT: Forgot, I was on 4.3, not rooted, completely stock. Device status then and now is Normal!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cajun9924:
fix.tar

bricked can someone please point me to the fix.tar
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
I hope I'm not coming off like an ass, just don't have a clue why the two (s3 and note2) would be so different? It's my understanding that any attempts to downgrade the bootloader have caused a hard brick (this happened to s3 devs?). Is it possible that your mc2 zip does not change the bootloader?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
That's my main problem. I can't get 4.3 to boot. I don't know why and don't know what else to do. Ive seen posts about people going back and forth from 4.4 to 4.3 and back up to 4.4. I dont know how theyre doing it but its annoying the hell out of me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Oh believe me it changes the bootloader and every other partition with the exception of efs, data and other personal partitions. You know it does because flashing it removes the Knox information from the download mode screen. And the updater-script for both phones are pretty much identical. I just don't get it. I was thinking maybe differences in the boards the phones use. (Exynos/Qualcomm). I've asked several devs for their thoughts on this and didn't get responses.

Any knowledgeable people in this thread want to weigh in on this while we're on the subject?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
For those of you brick guys this is what I would do. Wiping everything using TWRP 2.7 then download and flash the stock LJC with flash count reset instead of the MC2. It usually works and will put the early bootloader back on your phone. From there you can carry on however you see fit. It's definitely worth a try at this point.

Edit: If you get the LJC stock rom to flash and boot and you want the new NE2 ROM then by all means let it download and install the OTA's on it's own. If you're wanting to remain rooted then it ight be best to hold off on the 4.4 until somebody whips up a rooted denoxed rom then flash that instead of taking the NE2 OTA. Just my thoughts. Me personally... I'm gonna wait fo a rooted, deodexed, deknoxed version before I do anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
will try that. downloading right now. and what exactly do u mean by wiping everything.? i tend to stay away from everything cept factory reset/install new rom. i dont want to accidentially wipe something important and hard brick.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Was that just on one S3 that bricked or multiple S3's? Maybe the restore didn't flash properly on that specific device? Guess we'll never know unless someone brave enough takes the jump again and try using the restore. That is if it was just one device that bricked, otherwise if it were multiple devices then idk.. If I had an S3 I would take the plunge and see, but I don't.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Several s3's. And all were attempting to downgrade from a Knox bootloader. And we're talking superbricked. The debrick iimage won't even fix it. Jtag required
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Try it again but flash the fix tar first and let me know if it'll boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
There is also a stock unrooted LJC tar for use with ODIN. That will also get you back up and running. It flashes all the firmware plus the carrier partitions etc. It really is my go to remedy in these situations.

If you're basically soft bricked, you really can't be too picky about not wanting to wipe your internal sdcard etc. That will get wiped as well as everything else when you flash the stock rom. The external sdcard won't be touched. Ifyo did a nandroid backup before you started all this then you can go back to it once you're back up and running. If you didn't do a nandroid then I know you folks have rea all the numerous warnings all over the forums. LOL. Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
That's no good :(

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Going back to PALJC is no different from MC2. Once you take 4.3 OTA you brick. That's how I originally bricked and was one of the firsts to brick. What's really weird is that I've reverted back to PALJC in the past when I first took MK4 and everything was successful, even taking MK4 OTA just fine. Only thing I remember doing differently then was a hard reset after every ota. Maybe I should try that again and see if 4.3 goes through.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
Exactly. Rompnit/tdunham both hard-bricked (I believe they both had to jtag, and I'm not sure that even worked)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ianmb:
So I tried this...flashed fine but did get the fc's from Google. But wanted to know...shouldn't it have changed my software version?

Anyhow...played around with it for a little but went back to a nand of 4.3.

Thanks for any opinions.

ANDROID...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] CNexus:
I'd just have to say seeing how they did it on the international note 2 as well, that it has something to do with the boards or the way that they created the updated bootloaders. Soon after the 4.3 update for the US S3s was released, invisiblek posted an explanation as to why people were bricking trying to downgrade. He said the problem lied in the fact that pre-4.3, Samsung signed the bootloader using one set of keys

On 4.3+, however, they signed using a different set of keys and since the bootloader had been updated to check for the new keys, the system would refuse to boot on firmware signed with previous keys aka hard brick

Exactly why it works on the note 2 is still a mystery, but I suspect it has something to do with the different board (exynos is owned/created by Samsung themselves) or with the keys used to sign the factory images

And even jtag didn't fix it properly, sound and modem were borked beyond software repair
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
That PALJC tar for ODIN won't work for us who bricked on 4.3. No going backwards unless it's with billard's restore. That TAR will only work if you're on that build or older. I don't even think MA7 (can't remember, but I believe that's when the downgrading was put to a halt) would let you go back to PALJC using that tar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] g_money:
Good. Note2 should see a lot less bricked phones then the s3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
Your right. the paljc didnt work to get back into 4.3. it did successfully flash tho back to 4.1 or w/e. stuck on the note 2 screen... again... well hopefully someone can help us out by creating a flashable zip for cwm or phillz with no knox and deodexed.. if i could do it i would do it myself but i have no idea where to begin. ive never created a rom. n e ways u guys have fun n good luck i give up for now. been trying to fix it for a while and nothing seems to fix the problem im having. im bummed lol. thank you to anyone who tried their best to help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] k3v0:
Went back to stock MC2, updated OTA to 4.3, then sideloaded 4.4.2. So far the update works great, much smoother than 4.1.

CF Autoroot worked like a charm. Installed SuperSU from the Play Store. Allshare works with Knox disabled and status custom. Just had to reset my allshare hub; had an error message about bad hardware. I was able to debloat using TiBackup.

Now I just need to build the kernel with se linux in permissive mode (grrr) so I can run GNU/Linux and set my browser cache to tmpfs. :good:

Edit: Still on stock recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tungsten c:
I have stock rooted mk4 with CF Autoroot what will be the easiest way to upgrade rooted thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tx_dbs_tx:
I've went from MK4 back to MC2 then to LJC many times. I guess the only difference might be that I've never actually taken an OTA and flashed it as an unrooted phone. I have the MC2 bootloader I believe because I've never taken the MA7 or MK4 OTA. I didn't want to risk not being able to revert from the knox bootloader. I hope you guys get it figured out, I know it sucks not having your phone the way you want it.

Edit: OK, my last suggestion. The Note 2 Toolkit in the original development thread. I use version 2,0 because it works best for me AND it comes with the older insecure boot image. Simply go back to stock MC2, ten use the Toolkit and choosethe ALL IN ONE option that will flash insecure boot image as well as root, etc.

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It seems Toolkit version 2.0 is no longer available for download. I have it but I don't have any way to host the file right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
so whatever happened to the guy who was going to update his rooted denoxed deodexed 4.4 version.? he said he was theming it or something and thats the last i heard of him. did he ever upload it somewhere?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Doc50000:
Thanks for all the great work sir, much appreciated man..... :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
I have found out what the issue was on the full version I uploaded. It was the deodexing that caused all the issues. I am building it this time without deodexing and see how it goes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Doc50000:
Very cool, cant wait.... thanks :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
hey dude. cool. and thanks for your work on the rom. if all goes well i want it lol. it seems like this is going to be the only way ill be back on 4.4 until someone figures out a way to boot 4.3 from a botched downgrade. thanks again i appreciate ur work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] k3v0:
I was never fully on MK4, radio only. 4.3 wasn't a compelling upgrade with the added Samsung cruft. If I was on MK4 I would do exactly as I outlined in my post, to be safe.

I first tried restoring the stock bootloader, resetting the flash count and unrooting, but the 4.3 OTA didn't like it for some reason.

To reiterate:

Billard's MC2 -> 4.3 OTA -> sideload the 4.4.2 OTA -> CF Autoroot -> install supersu from play store

Edit: Demo's post with the 4.4.2 I sideloaded:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53046470

Note: I was on TWRP recovery when I went back to MC2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
There is already a way to fix that. Although it is a pain in the butt and really is not needed once custom versions are ready. I am creating a simple thread under the dev section for it now.

Link to NE2 patched Rom thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2768847
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
Will be waiting to try the fix. Thanks for all your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
I will try and get together everything and post a fix sometime in the next couple of days.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
Why am I getting unexpected contents when trying to update?? :( :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Sounds like you're not using stock recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
I AM! http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote2/stockrecovery/SPH-L900-StockRecovery.zip is what I'm using
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
That was uploaded in 2012. You probably need a newer one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
...blargh :( any idea on where to find a recovery I need for this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Heres the mk4 recovery. flash in odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
Sorry such a silly thing to ask but thank you for your time!

:( why would I still be getting unexpected contents??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] billard412:
Was the Odin flash successful? Does the recovery look different than before? I could've swore this was a recovery specific issue
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
Flash was successful, recovery did look different (bigger text)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
RayTrue04 here reporting! I successfully took the 4.4 update from your original modified mk4 tar you made for me before removing the boot.img to post here. Instead of removing the boot.img couldn't you just had placed the fix tar to flash first before the modified MK4 tar since others still weren't able to boot? It's basically what I did and everything is all good. I know you said you removed the MK4 bootloader so the 4.4 ota should fail but I think the failed 4.3 ota had already wrote it to the phone even tho it bricked because Knox was on my download mode. [MENTION=3599544]puffyjello[/MENTION] had you took my advice you'd be on 4.4 right now too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] puffyjello:
well i did flash the fix tar first then flashed the modified mk4 tar. but the only way i could flash both was flashing one rebooting and flashing again. im not sure where i went wrong. but it didnt work. i dont know what step i was missing that worked for you but please explain Ray.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Go into download mode, flash the fix.tar, don't let it reboot so just unchecked the reboot option on odin. Hold power + home + volume down till it reboots and goes back into download mode. Now just flash the MK4 modified tar. If it don't work ask rwilco for the one he originally built for me with the boot.img present.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DNarsingh:
Ok guys, please forgive me here as I am an HTC user, and am working with my brother's note 2. So a while back when the 4.3 OTA first came out, I used billard412's restore to put him back on completely stock MC2. I then took the MK4 OTA and rooted it myself. A few weeks down the line, I ended up flashing digiblur's rom for him, which he is currently still running.

So, here is my question, is it ok to just run billard412's restore again, then take both the MK4 and NE2 OTAs to get him all the way up to 4.4.2? This way he gets all the newest firmware/radios?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
Yea u should be fine but I don't think there's root yet for 4.4.2 I might be wrong about the root part doe

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