[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
★ |[How-To]| EffortLess Guide | NK3 | | Flashing | | Rooting | | Recovery | 26NOV14 ★

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If you

do care

about KNOX and do not want a custom recovery or custom ROM installed, but want stock rooted- Go to my other thread here!

A custom ROM or custom recovery WILL trip your KNOX to 0x1

(this is irreversible and KNOX will cease to function on your phone forever and ever and ever).

Only proceed to the steps below if you do not care for KNOX.

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Welcome to the EffortLess Guide!!​

ROOT, RECOVERY, AND ROM the EffortLess Way :highfive:​

This is a quick and easy way to root and install a custom recovery & ROM on the N900T T-Mobile Note 3​

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THIS GUIDE WILL ASSIST YOU IN FLASHING ALL THE LATEST NK3 FILES, ROOTING, INSTALLING A CUSTOM RECOVERY AND THEN FLASHING A CUSTOM ROM IN THAT RECOVERY

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NOTE: ANY STEPS AFTER INSTALLING FULL N900TUVUENK3 STOCK WILL SET KNOX WARRANTY VOID :0X1. KNOX WILL NOT FUNCTION ON YOUR PHONE!

SO IF YOU REQUIRE KNOX FOR WORK, DO NOT PROCEED WITH ROOTING OR FLASHING A CUSTOM RECOVERY!

DO NOT USE MOBILE ODIN PRO (IT DOESN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO UPDATE YOUR BOOTLOADER)

DO NOT ATTEMPT ANY SHORTCUTS... THERE ARE NONE!

ODIN IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT MAY OR MAY NOT WORK... IF IT FAILS TO FLASH, USE A NATIVE WINDOWS MACHINE.

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If you are already on stock N900TUVUENK3

Either through over the air update (OTA) or the phone came with it from TMO or from a full NK3 Odin flash (Only these methods will mean you have the FULL NK3!) proceed to "Rooting NK3" below.

If you flashed a custom NK3 ROM (without updating the baseband/modem and bootloader), flash the full NK3 Odin below.

If you need to update to N900TUVUENK3 and are on a stock firmware that has not been rooted yet:

Use the built-in Over The Air (OTA) software updater in your phone settings to check for an update then follow the instructions to update.

After booting up, check for an update again and confirm there are none and that you are on firmware N900TUVUENK3 before proceeding to "Rooting NK3" below.

If you are updating from any prior rooted stock or custom firmware follow these steps (or if you don't know if you have a full NK3 install, follow these steps):

Download EffortLess ROM Prep.zip and Full Stock NK3.zip

Unzip both files

Turn off your phone and then hold the Volume Down, Home Button, and Power Button at the same time, when the phone vibrates, let go of Power Button. Press Volume Up to continue past the "Warning!!" screen.

Open the EffortLess ROM Prep folder and double click on EffortLess Odin.exe

Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable (one of the boxes under ID:COM in Odin will fill with a com number and turn baby blue meaning it can communicate with your phone.. if it does not, unplug your phone and run EffortLess Odin USB Driver.exe from the EffortLess ROM Prep unzipped folder. Now plug your phone in again and it should load the driver and the box should turn baby blue and display a com number)

Click the PDA button and navigate to the unzipped Full Stock NK3 folder, click on N900TUVUENK3_N900TTMBENK3_N900TUVUENK3_HOME.tar.md5 and click Open

Wait for the file to load properly in Odin, it will take a minute and you'll see a check-mark to the left of the PDA button and the system path of the NK3 file to the right.

Now click start and wait, don't touch anything until after your phone restarts.

Now go to menu, settings, General tab, and click About device and verify the

Baseband version

AND

Build Number

are N900TUVUENK3 if so, go to Rooting NK3

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Old Example Image.. yours should reflect N900TUVUENK3

IF NOT:

Update baseband to NK3 (

Only if it didn't update when you flashed full stock

):

Follow the steps for Rooting NK3 then continue to step 2

Download the triangle away app from the playstore, or download it from XDA for free.

Run and reset your flash counter

(even if your counter is 0, run it anyway to allow the baseband and bootloader to update)

Repeat the steps above for full N900TUVUENK3 stock

Rooting NK3 (CF-Auto-Root)

Turn off your phone and then hold the Volume Down, Home Button, and Power Button at the same time, when the phone vibrates, let go of Power Button. Press Volume Up to continue past the "Warning!!" screen.

Open the EffortLess ROM Prep folder and double click on EffortLess Odin.exe

Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable (one of the boxes under ID:COM in Odin will fill with a com number and turn baby blue meaning it can communicate with your phone.. if it does not, unplug your phone and run EffortLess Odin USB Driver.exe from the EffortLess ROM Prep unzipped folder. Now plug your phone in again and it should load the driver and the box should turn baby blue and display a com number)

Click the PDA button and navigate to the unzipped EffortLess ROM Prep folder, click on CF-Auto-Root-hltetmo-hltetmo-smn900t.tar and click Open

Wait for the file to load properly in Odin, it will take a minute and you'll see a check-mark to the left of the PDA button and the system path of the root file to the right.

Now click start and wait, don't touch anything until after your phone restarts.

Flashing a custom recovery (TWRP):

Turn off your phone and then hold the Volume Down, Home Button, and Power Button at the same time, when the phone vibrates, let go of Power Button. Press Volume Up to continue past the "Warning!!" screen.

Open the EffortLess ROM Prep folder and double click on EffortLess Odin.exe

Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable (one of the boxes under ID:COM in Odin will fill with a com number and turn baby blue meaning it can communicate with your phone.. if it does not, unplug your phone and run EffortLess Odin USB Driver.exe from the EffortLess ROM Prep unzipped folder. Now plug your phone in again and it should load the driver and the box should turn baby blue and display a com number)

Click the PDA button and navigate to the unzipped EffortLess ROM Prep folder, click on openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-hltetmo-4.4.img.tar and click Open

Wait for the file to load properly in Odin, it will take a minute and you'll see a check-mark to the left of the PDA button and the system path of the root file to the right.

Now click start and wait, don't touch anything until after your phone restarts.

Flashing EffortLess ROM in custom recovery:

Connect your phone to PC and copy EffortLess ROM (or any custom ROM) onto your SD card (internal or external)

Power off your phone and hold the Volume Up, Home Button, and Power Button at the same time. After the phone vibrates, let go of power but hold the other two and you should see the new TWRP recovery boot.

Click on "wipe", "advanced wipe", select everything EXCEPT! "INTERNAL STORAGE" AND "MICRO SDCARD" (if you select those you will lose your pics and the EffortLess ROM that you have on there to flash) then "Swipe to Wipe" at the bottom.

Click the home button on the bottom left then click wipe again and slide the slider to "Swipe to Factory Reset" at the bottom.

Now go home again and click install... find the EffortLess ROM zip (or your custom ROM of choice) file on either internal or external storage, click it, then swipe to confirm flash at the bottom.

When it finishes, click "Reboot System"

be very patient on first boot.. Enjoy!

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For those that still are not sure, you can use the Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app as a final verification to see if the Bootloader, PDA, Modem and CSC files all are now updated to NK3.

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Old Example Image yours should reflect N900TUVUENK3

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