yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
MrFhenix, thanks for your info. I will give it a try . So I need a NB4 dump

So I can replace all files on phone that was installed by MGL to NB4 files. And last AT&T OTA should install. I have all the files so I will try and. If it works again for me I will post files and your procedures with your credit.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] MrFhenix:
You got it that is what i did :) actually if you read the NC2 OTA installer script thatsa list of the files that the installer cheks thats what i followed..

:)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
[MENTION=4796995]MrFhenix[/MENTION]

tried all evening, NB2 OTA would not install, first the 240023.zip complained about files, used recovery to replace all NB4 files, no root, no busybox, just plain all stock.

I have links to all the files I used and can also upload the NB4 zip install I did. ;)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
So pretty much u tricking the phone to think it's on NB4 but really on nc2. So you can trick the phone than install nc2 update and it would be on the real stock NC2. Try to figure it out if you can and be very important to restoring to real stock nc2
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IronBorg:
I had to take my Note 3 to the Bestbuy Samsung kiosk to reflash a NC2 softbrick. Make sure you go to the Samsung kiosk and not the mobile department. I went to the mobile department first and they sent me to AT&T. So I went to AT&T and spent 45 mins there just to be sent back to Bestbuy to the correct kiosk. It's safe to say Bestbuy is on my avoid list!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] MrFhenix:
hey man bingo you are what we need you can do full system dump for us ? [MENTION=221114]carl[/MENTION] what do wee need from ironborg he has the nc2 full system from best buy
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IronBorg:
Umm that would be great except I already flashed a custom ROM with no backup. :(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Need NC2 recovery dump

[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] or any one who's able ;)

I need the new NC2 recovery. I am searching for the commands to dump it with your phone .

If someone has true NC2 , stock or even a custom NC2 with root (meaning you did not install the leaked KitKat)

I will be Greatful for a recovery pulled, it will copy to your internel sdcard and it is small enought to upload here.

Adb Commands

Adb shell

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/recovery.img

Terminal console with phone

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gafajardog:
Wi-Fi Disabled N900A

1 Hello, N900A -. Apply N900AUCUCMLG KitKat 4.4.2, works fine for a few hours but then the Wi-Fi is not re-activated, flashing must be applied again Wi-Fi and again to work but falls back.

2. Cellular SIM still locked, DoctorSim.COM says to this model not have keys, please help:eek:

gafajardog
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
You need to do a factory reset before installing this.

I don't know anything about unlocking phone for Sims
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] K-alz:
This thread saved my butt two nights ago. Soft bricked my phone and this got me back and running. I'd say this is the other "restore to mj5" thread. I had no ROM on my phone and rebooted then got stuck on galaxy note 3 screen. It's even way easier than the restore to mj5 method. Thank you so much, Carl!

If you have a fix that you think would help users, please share it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2793441
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
OK good. Now back to flashing!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Did someone help you out with the NC2 recovery? Or if not I can still do it for you.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
No have not got it yet Walter.White, that will be great
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Alright. I'm on MLG recovery myself, so I'll ask around first to see if someone on NC2 can hook us up if not then I will just manually patch the recovery.img's using adb.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Great and thanks for your work around here. already grabbed your wifi fix ;)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
did not understand what your saying here..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Here you go :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ltb8oroopqg8kw/NC2recovery.img Thanks to 1Zero3forlife
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Awesome! ! Thanks Walter and 1Zero3forlife

EDIT: Man... all that work getting the dump..It's fails with Security Check, oh well . guess we better be glad we got the leaked KitKat, to get part's from.

going to try and remove the extra zeros at the end of recovery..

[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5345493]1Zero3forlife[/MENTION]

looks like this is a 9005 recovery, hexcode shows SM-N9005
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
I have stock nc2 but it's rooted with lot of rooted apps install on it plus I have safestrap recovery install on it but no custom roms or anything.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
that won't matter about recovery

Adb shell

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/recovery.img

Terminal console with phone

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
I don't think you can just flash modded recovery...because of the BL lock. If that were the case we would've had TWRP by now.

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I think it will show same if you used MLG recovery. Because I think for the most part the recoveries are same across N3.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] It sure did , thanks for having me recheck.. tried after removing filler 000's still did a security fail.

we well just leave recovery alone before I raise the knox flag. odin warned me twice LOL
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
So u wouldn't need my recovery.img than. I thought u was on to something that we would have a fully stock nc2 restore option to be to restore our phones. That's the only thing I miss bout the iPhone days u was able to restore the phone back to stock without no problem
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
You still can on N3..if you are on Verizon, Sprint, TMos.. It's just AT&T being *****.

All of those Odin tars are available on Kies & Sammobile.com but not for ATT!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
Yeah that sucks. Y leaving att out. Could it be possible to go to best buy and ask them to get a copy of nc2 to be able to restore it at the house. You think there would ever be a restore option for NC2 the real stock one

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could it be possible to he able to take one of those Odin files for all other carriers nd modified it with att files to make it work. Should rest of the build be for the note 3 and just change the carrier files with att files.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] one1cat:
idea

We need an unrooted n900a on nc2. Towel root. Super user safe strap reboot into recovery make a backup upload backup file to test install using safe strap reboot remove safe strap and full unroot using superuser factory reset tada!???
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
one1cat :good:

Yep thats what we need to do so those who need to return phone, or want a like factory phone.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jreed3786:
THAT, my friend...is EXACTLY what I have been trying to say, all along! I need to return my phone...am on Dynamic Kat 4.4.2 NC2...can't find a way to return back to stock after A3 bootloader is burned in.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gafajardog:
Thanks Carl. the At&t unlocked was superated. Please help, my N900A not activate the wifi button, was flashed with Kitkat and the wifi is disconnected after some hours. Wifi fix don't work.

Gfajardo:confused:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
did you do a factory reset before installing this ROM?

sound like you dirty flashed this on top of another rom
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
do a factory reset

install this rom

then install safestrap

install recovery with safestrap do it again (TWICE)

just to be sure reboot and make sure you see the safestrap boot screen, then let it boot back to rom

Use install from recovery attached AT&T_Note_3_superuser_moved_to_data_app_recovery_installer.zip

( this will allow us to remove SuperUser after we remove root)

then from safestrap app remove recovery

then from application manager, remove safe strap

then use superuser app to remove root

then from application manager, remove superuser

you should have a unrooted stock NC2

reboot a couple time to verify the Custom Lock screen does to show

Edit: tested removing root , moving super root to /data/app is not necessary Supersu did i already
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] gafajardog:
The cell has been soft bricked and solved with the procedure described at the begin of this forum, I will do its steps and i will be back.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Thanks worked great

Thanks for all your hard work and great instructions. It worked like a charm for me.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] megalomanic14:
Carl dude stop trying to trick me lol...i was searching all thru our dev threads looking for this link hahaha I had to go into pm box both times checking out the new additions lol...how come it's in general? Hella good op...you think you can get a few more links in there? Lol awesome work just wanted to come over here and say awesome job with the NC2 stuff buddy

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
Do you have to use safestrap recovery to install this ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA.zip. so is this the way to officially install nc2.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Yes you need to have safestrap installed Update OP to say that

That zip removes your current rom and replaces it with NC2 stock rom so the OTA will work.

the pain is the extra steps to remove recovery, busybox, then the safestrap and busybox apps then last the root.

Later we might find a short cut LOL, I might try using install-recovery.sh to rename those files that safestrap and remove Super su from ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA.zip

credit if it works to [MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] for suggesting to me at using a .sh to rename those files when I was testing.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Give me couple more days...and I'll help you out with that problem myself.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Thanks, I tried

I did a install-recovery.sh with

#!/system/bin/sh

rm /system/bin/e2fsck

mv e2fsck.bin e2fsck

rm /system/bin/e2fsck.bin

fi

But it did not work, or safestrap renamed it after script ran.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Try what I have below.

Feel free to change chmod 'xxx' to match what it should be.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
I'll give it a shot..:D
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Just make sure that your updater-script contains.

package_extract_dir("install-recovery", "/tmp/install-recovery");

set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/tmp/install-recovery/install-recovery.sh");

run_program("/tmp/install-recovery/install-recovery.sh");
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
ok I done zipped it and installed, I though anything in install-recovery.sh get run automatically

thats what supersu used and also the OTA used to patch the recovery

I will try that next.

I even PM [MENTION=4243514]Hashcode[/MENTION] about when safestrap checks that file and renames it.

Dang it still got renamed

I will try your run command in update script
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] AndroidBeginNinja:
This works the wifi did not work correctly on stock but once I installed a new ROM wifi works
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
a little confused

If I am reading this correct you have now found a way to get back completely ATT stock. If I have gone through your first process that was posted before, all the way to removing root, getting it back to as close to stock as possible what would I need to do now to get this completely stock. I am a little confused with the new instructions

If it would be better to wait and see if you can make this better please let me know. I will also be glad to donate to this project I really appreciate all this.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
yes this is a update that allows the Official OTA to install, therefore you have a true OEM NC2
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Donations please

Please give a link to donate. I really wish to for your time and I'm sure some others may also.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
That's not necessary, I do this for pass time and because I like helping;)

[MENTION=5266509]larrybigbid[/MENTION], thanks for the BIG first donation I ever took...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
No thank you

No thank you without your work here my nice note 3 would be a paper weight. I really like this phone but ATT is really slack for not releasing this and the work here saved me. Thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
If I have done this last fix correct will the recovery still be listed as KOT49H.N900ACUCMLG when I boot into it?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] imnew214:
Getting page not found when clicking AP_N900AUCECNC2_FIRMWARE.tar.md5.zip
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
No. You should not see MGL any where. Did you install the ota with stock recovery
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
I just checked and it works. Try again and if you have trouble I will upload somewhere else.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Thanks

I installed the ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA.zip with the safe strap recovery when it was still installed. It showed it all went well.

Then I uninstalled all the root, safestrap etc.. and I installed the 2400258 zip by logging into the system stock recovery and installing it from the sd card where I had saved it. It did show some errors I think but went on and rebooted.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
No recovery should show NC2 .When 2400258.zip installed you would seen a lot of screen activity. I will send you pictures I took when I installed.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Is the 2400258 zip the one that writes over the recovery? For some reason I still have the MLG recovery. I did have lots of activity when I installed the Ota but some failed in red. .

I just ran the Ota and think it may be a bad download it said error in sideboard package zip etc..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
1. install ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA.zip

2 skip setting up wifi , email and accounts

3. install busybox app

4. Install busybox from inside busybox app

5. install safestrap app

6. from safestrap app Uninstall recovery, Uninstall it again to be sure

7. from inside busybox, uninstall busybox

8. from application manager, uninstall busybox and safestrap

9. go to SuperSu and start app

10. When SuperSu ask, let it disable knox

11. from SuperSu settings, go all the way down and remove root

12. reboot to stock recovery and install 2400258.zip

look at pictures thats what 2400258.zip OTA should do.

if you see this picture bellow, then safestrap did not uninstall correctly and replace original e3fsck file.

If you see this picture below, the SuperSu did no uninstall correctly and replace original ddexe

these below show 2400258.zip OTA installing

Do not worry about:

E:unknown volume for path [/sdcard1]

E:unknown volume "/sdcard1"
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] imnew214:
Sorry for the late reply. I finally got it working. Thank you.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
super su

Thanks! From your images It seems to be the SuperSu that I can not get rid of no matter what I try.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
When I get home I will do these steps again and verify.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
I just went through the steps again and OTA installed. I am going to download the ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA.zip and try it again with downloaded copy. I will also try doing a video.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Got it

I got it installed!!!! I had to start over from the very beginning and it worked. Thanks for the help. I'm factory now.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Man I'm Glad, so I just canceled my download, You verified it was ok, also I am uploading a Video of OTA getting installed.

Me and [MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] tried to make it simpler, trying to skip having to re-install safestrap and Uninstalling the app's and Root. but safestrap recovery would not let it happen LOL, as soon as you install the ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_OTA.zip safe strap would rename that e2fsck file. I am guessing Hashcode had to do things that way to avoid TON's of Post. He basically created a Smart Recovery Fail safe recovery (SafeStrap is named well)

Now you can VOTE LOL
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] larrybigbid:
Man this is great

This is great. The only place on the Internet where you can go back factory stock now on the 4.4.2 ATT rom. Some really good work done here by you all. Thanks again.

It works great I went back through all the steps from a crashed bootloader etc to installing the ota and it worked great.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Quick question Im running UrDroid ATT stock rooted odex if I wanted to do full factory would I use Stock Root OTA. ZIP Method?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Yes, any one with Safestrap working , can Just install Stock Root OTA. ZIP Method.

The Odin install is only to get a phone back working when it looses safestrap and won't boot fully (boot loop's)

Video Installing AT&T NC2 OTA
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] mikep90:
Will I be able to restore all my apps and data with tituiam backup. I would have to take that backup off my storage so it won't be deleted. All have every app plus system apps backup. It would it be ok to restore system apps or just the data.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
depends on what rom you or using, If your using KitKat I say you'll be ok, if coming from JB then you may try . Yes I would copy my TWRP folder to my computer, for safekeeping. of all the flashing and installing I have done, I never had my External sdcard get messed up, but your internal sdcard will defiantly get wiped clean.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Makman20:
no safesstrap or busybox error for me, instead i'm getting the devblock/platfrom error
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you need to explain what base your coming from and the steps you did.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Makman20:
last week i really just wanted the closest thing to offical Nc2 with no root or anything so i followed post #256. i kept a copy of stock on my sd card so i restored with that. successful.

now i see that it's possible to get official ota so i:

followed the directions. was really having issues with busy box uninstalling from the app. Next, i decided to start all over by going to MLG so i used odin to install "NC2_Bootloader_N900AUCECMLG_VER_2", NC2 Kernal, & SM-N900A_NC2_Modem. Successful

from there i rooted, installed busybox, safestap, and flashed" ATT_Stock_KitKat_N900AATTCNC2_ROOT_OTA"

I followed the new directions step by step

(*took me 2-3 tries to uninstall busybox from the app}.

(*in superu, i clicked on the "full unroot" option.)

Boooted into factory recovery to apply update from external (2400258)

then i get this message "dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apnhlos" but also with a bunch of number and digits in front of it. i'll take a pic in a sec
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
since you did the MGL odin ver 2, you need to just odin install the NC2 firmware to replace MGL's apnhlos

NC2_Bootloader_N900AUCECMLG_VER_3 already had the correct NC2 firmware except the recovery, OTA will patch the recovery

also next time You have trouble with busybox uninstalling, just reboot the phone it will finish, when you try againg it shows it not installed, busybox app bug
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Makman20:
Thanks man!!! back on stock %100. i should of read the OP better,
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] k9time:
Carl, can I vote?? You helped me. I have read you op several times. And you need a donate button that we can see from tapatalk like Brian put up. Thanks lots for all you do.. k9time
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
sure you can, and thanks for the compliments,
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Bryanphamx:
Kinda confusing, but I got it to work, thanks Carl!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] posersk8r:
carl i noticed that you included a pit file on the version 3, do i put that in pit slot in odin or just leave it alone?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] UK2K:
Thanks for the informative post and help Carl. Much appreciated.

Out of curiosity I intentionally soft bricked another phone and took it to Best Buy. The Samsung guy was hesitant to flash it especially after I told him I wiped the stock room and rebooted. He looked at me funny... but then He flashed it and then whispered we aren't supposed to help people that root.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you only need the pit file if you need to format the phone, I only use it if I have issues. It's recommended not to use it unless you have to.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] posersk8r:
Thanks carl1961, i did it anyways for the pit file, and i would say and confirm that this restore to nc2 works perfectly! Kinda got scared a little bit that after odin'ing ver 3 the stock recovery booted up, maybe the recovery just reverted back to mlg idk but after flashing the ota zip after doing the steps i'm on official nc2 again. Thanks a lot carl1961! :not good, great:!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jamess0621:
I was able to finally Un brick my phone and this is what I am currently working with. Phone is working good with the exception of horrible data/wifi signal. Does anyone have any suggestions of anything I can try?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Hey guys I was able to get back to stock but my device status says custom not sure if I did something wrong
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
custom lock will show like if you have safestrap recovery installed,

if it's on pure stock without root, try rebooting or even do a factory restore from stock recovery (like if your going to send in for repairs or selling it)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Thanks I'll try it right now
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
Thanks for picture it help's

Your still on MLG Leaked KitKat

1. you can continue to the OTA installing

2. or Skip OTA and install NC2 Recovery and then Root with tr.apk and install busy box, safestrap 3.75 and then Stock Rom, or any custom KK rom
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Just tried it,still says custom not sure if I should try to flash All nc2 firmware zip from the above link labeled then Stock Rom
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
if you odin install the nc2 firmware and you did not install safestrap you should be ok.

what is your Goal with phone? selling, sending in for repair or just want non root OEM phone
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Non root OEM phone
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
then you need to watch the video and let OTA install then you will be OEM NC2
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] IEndz:
Thanks

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Hey Carl sorry to bother that was the process I did and everything went smoothly but for what ever reason it said custom. Will it hurt if I didn't again?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ad44891:
hey carl hru man..got a ques..if i was to do http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2712039 ,will that put me on the leak kitkat..than from there can i...2. or Skip OTA and install NC2 Recovery and then Root with tr.apk and install busy box, safestrap 3.75 and then Stock Rom, or any custom KK rom...all your help is greatly appreciated
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you just need to start here QUICK Jump START
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] ad44891:
thx..do the kernal get installed also..or do i have to odin that also...just follow steps 1-8 and ill b set..?thx Carl.. i want to b on kitkat as its the place to b ,but i cant b away from my phone long..i run my business through it..just wana get my steps straight thx
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
steps 1-7, 8 is if you have issues and is hardly ever used

kernel is in step 1 already