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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] otownmarine:
I have come across a few different threads on this and also scoured the net for some clarification and I seem to get mixed responses. I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (MK2). I went w a prepaid service to save a few bucks, and initially went w AT&T GO as I knew it was compatible. The problem is, they only give 2gb of data and if you go over they dont throttle, they shut it off unless you pay more money.

I looked into MetroPCS, and they are unlimited w their 60 a month plan- I researched and saw that quite a few people had success with this phone even though its Verizon. However, when I plugged in what I believe were the correct APN settings, I got dial tone, but the data itself went from H to disconnected, and fluctuated in that way. Is this a lost cause?

I dont mind changing ROMS/radios if that will help, right now I'm running Hyperdrive.... I had to switch back for now to the AT*T sim but I'm really hoping I can get this working as I burn more than 2gb of data in my sleep much less a month. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] otownmarine:
Did I post this in the wrong forum? If so my bad, just assumed this would be where it belonged.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] FordNate:
Ghettro PCS is ok you have to have your phone in GSM mofe though in order to really use their service, from what I've been told. Just make sure the APN is perfect to ghettro as well. read in the Switching to At&t prepaid "tutorial" located http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2672843 as well as this one which goes for TMo.. same kinda issues but a lot of help http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2518347 Is At&t Go any better than straighttalk?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] austinxo:
I constantly get very little to no reception on my S3. My 4g connection is constantly turning off and when it is working it is painfully slow. even have problems with the wifi being wishy washy. I consistently have problems sending and receiving text messages and at time calls fail to go through. I have a feeling it has to do with the phone being unlocked because my sister and father both have t-mobile S3's and they never have connection issues. I really have no idea where to start with resolving this issue.

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
The att s3 doesn't natively support was. The T-Mobile s3 is not the same model as the att s3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] austinxo:
My phone is unlocked
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
I meant to say the ATT s3 (i747) does not natively support AWS which T-mobile does use. Usually, unlocking a phone will not affect reception.

BTW, my autocorrect changed "aws" to "was" in my previous post.

The T-mobile s3 is the T999 even though both phones are referred to as an s3.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boobaboobler:
Basically what the title says.

I just want to preface this by saying I'm a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing.

I tried to use safestrap and it did delete all my data but I accidently deleted my backup and my ROM I wanted to install.

Safestrap doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It gives me the screen saying that so and so is disabled and it will boot in 10 seconds, but I can't interact with this screen.

What can I do? Safestrap just doesn't work so I can't flash a ROM from SDcard, and the only thing that seems to work is Fastboot, and that's locked, so what are my options?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RikRong:
You can use RSD to flash the firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ , you can use House of Moto http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-23/ , or you can update to stock KK (keep in mind you'll lose root on KK) http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/45495-how-to-xt907-upgrade-to-kitkat-ota/
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boobaboobler:
Sorry but what file am I supposed to be using to flash? The entire folder?

Again, I don't know much about this, I'm just a beginner. I probably should have heeded people's warnings about possibly bricking your phone.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poppers162:
The house of moto tutorial tells you exactly what to do with the files and folders and where to put them
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boobaboobler:
For some reason my phone didn't want to let anything flash ICS to it so I flashed KitKat instead and everything went OK.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poppers162:
Alright, good to hear that it worked.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RikRong:
Yeah, you can't downgrade if your bootloader is locked, but it is good to hear you got it working.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
mine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] toastido:
Good tutorial! I'm sure users will benefit greatly.

Sent from my leanKernel 2.5.1 powered stock 4.4.2 (NE6) SM-N900T
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Shadow_God:
Nicely done, this will definitely help people that is having troubles updating [emoji106][emoji106]

---Shadow God---
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] yousifnamir:
Galaxy Note 3 T-Mobile Root

Quick question from a newbie. I have GN3 n900a NC2 which doesn't have root at this time. So I'm planning to buy GN3 tmobile version. The question is, will I be able to root it even with the latest update installed? Does it have a looked bootloader? I don't care about triping knox. Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
You can root latest update and it does not have a locked bootloader. Just follow the guide above and you'll be set once you get it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] yousifnamir:
Awesome. Thanks for your help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
If anyone downloaded the EffortLess ROM Prep.zip earlier today and had a bootloop after attempting to root, I apologize. I have uploaded a fixed root tar in the EffortLess ROM Prep.zip. Please redownload!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] elosogrande7076:
Thanks for the guide....was easy and well documented
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] joeloe03:
now i cant even get my phone to start its in a bootloop
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
What was the last thing you did? And did you get the new zip from last night?

Just hold volume down and home and as it loops it'll go into Odin mode.

If you were using the old auto cf root file, just download the new one and repeat the steps for root.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] fuqnstoned:
Thank You

I've used many of your methods in the past; this is my first Note 3 Root. I'm quite excited to give it a try to get my Note 3 rooted since that idiotic 4.4 update took away our mass storage usage. Loved streaming from my drive and moving files around.

I've hesitated; but it looks like once again you all at XDA dialed this process in for us newbies and I appreciate you for it. Always nervous on the first root. Once it's done and TWRP is on there; I'll be able to breath again. Process is always nerve racking; but I know to be patient on first boot because the files require setup which can take several minutes.

My question: Is there a Gapps version we should look for and is there a way to obtain our Samsung apps (mainly because I own music and a couple of movies on their app)?

Thanks again for everything :good:

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********I may have over thought my question considering i'm flashing Stock ROM and not a custom for now. This is just an unlock so therefore Gapps would not be necessary nor should I worry about the Samsung apps since it's just an unlock. Forgive the overthinking if that's what I've done Ran into that problem with my Samsung Tab 10.1 ver 3 flash I did a while ago*****
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
Yeah, no need for gapps or Samsung apps as they are part of the stock rom. Follow the guide and you'll be fine. Let us know how it goes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dasudevil:
Had friend of mine root phone because of the 4.2 debacle on my phone. Anyways... Currently have rooted Stock 4.4.2 (N900TUVUCNB4) and looking to update to the new version.

Your instructions are very easy but I dont understand why I would need to Flash stock, then reroot (again) then twrp and then rom. If i still want root i would

need

to follow the rest correct? Or can I just go into TWRP and reboot into recovery, select wipe, advanced, select all but internal and sdcard then slide. Once done select install, find zip of Stock NE6 then wait. This should load up a rooted stock right?

Or am I able to just download EffortlessROM and install from phone via TWRP.

Sorry for sounding stupid, Im not understanding why I would need to go through all the steps if rooting to begin with was to make things easier.

Thanks for your time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
A lot of people went (what they thought was) the easy way of just wiping in TWRP and flashing NE6 ROMs without updating their whole system and just read in the EffortLess ROM thread all the problems they have.

NE6 came with an updated bootloader and modem/baseband, unless you do a full stock install, those won't be updated. ROMs such as EffortLess ROM only contain the OS part and not the modem or bootloader. If you don't have the updated NE6 bootloader and baseband, you'll have issues such as the 4 digit pin lock not working, being stuck on the white TMO 4G LTE screen, or having problems with your 4G signal not switching properly (I'm pretty sure there are also updates in the modem that are required for voLTE to function correctly) etc.

Also, some are having issues updating their bootloader and baseband... there is a write lock on those if you have a flash counter other than 0. That is why you check to see if your modem updated after the first stock Odin flash (if it hasn't most likely your bootloader hasn't either), and to fix it, you run triangle away (to remove the write lock) and then reodin the entire stock (to update those two things properly).

I know it seems like rework, but it's a very simple process and will ensure you have no issues once you're on NE6. Also, once you're on NE6 (including modem and bootloader), then you can do as you asked and just use the last part- wipe in TWRP in between other NE6 ROMs.

Hope that clarified it a bit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dasudevil:
Worked until i got to the install TWRP part. Froze and Odin said FAIL quickly. So i pulled battery and phone had BIG triangle saying its basically messed up reinstall via kies . So I am starting back at 1. Hopefully this works

Been stuck in the downloading part for at least 5 minutes with the progress bar at the bottom not moving. This seems to be stuck, not working or something. I have to be missing something please help.

Update 3:

Unplugged all. Shut down Odin, Removed battery and same thing. Decided to start at step 1 in that screen with the Phone -- Triangle -- Computer. So far seems to be working. Will update hopefully with good news and VERY SOON! 8 minutes later via Odin time ALL GOOD. Back to stock w/ no ROOT. Auto rooting now. WOW fast. Rooted!

I guess I will wait a bit for some answers on TWRP install. Maybe i did something wrong and a simple talking to will fix me. Till then I am rooted and on Stock. Lets start deleting some BS apps. WOW there is a lot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
You should be able to flash TWRP in a similar way as the root file. I'm can't think of anything that you may have done to cause it to hang like that when flashing TWRP.

I'd suggest to try again, but backup your stuff just in case.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dasudevil:
Thats what i was thinking. I do know when we (friend and I) rooted the first time and tried to get TWRP installed it kept failing like it did. Ended up researching like crazy and finding out he had an outdated file. The one provided is up to date. Had to be something on my end. So far Im okay with just Stock Root. Ill give it a day or two before I figure it out. Im tired and need sleep. 1 hour in a 22hr time frame is not good for brain.

Thanks Effotless for your help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] fuqnstoned:
Thanks and Worked Perfect

:beer:

This worked GREAT on version 4.4.2 T-Mobile Samsung Note 3. Like I had any doubt, you guys ROCK!!! :good:

For the NOOBS out there, just make sure you read twice, print the directions, and download everything ahead of time. If you do this it will go just fine. Final tip, Patience is Key.

Have a great day all
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
This applies to any setup as long as it's a N900T. If you already are 0x1 for Knox, it'll stay that way and nothing to worry about. This will reset your phone to stock and then update everything to NF4, root and install TWRP recovery. If you prefer Phillz Touch, find that file and flash it after.

You can also flash any custom ROM you prefer from TWRP (or Phillz Touch if you install that instead) after and benefit from the NF4 update. I highly recommend you don't use your backups after... they're from an older version that is meant to run with an older modem and older bootloader.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Ed Murray:
Ok great, thanks for the prompt reply. So, no using the old backups. Alright, that works. I'll just have to make some more afterwards, no problem.

Thank you for the great guide to make this easier. I will give it a shot shortly.

EDIT:

This worked flawlessly. I had to reset my system status with triangle away, but once that was done, it was a piece o' cake.

I'm flashing Effortless ROM now and check that out for a while.

So, do I understand correctly that you CAN flash other ROM's that are based on older firmware, since they don't contain bootloader/modem partitions in the zip? In other words, if I wanted to go back to Hyperdrive, I can absolutely just re-flash that, even though it's based on the NB4 firmware?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ArchangelRenzoku:
Thanks . yeah I ended up just using the method in your guide. I'm on effortless rom now and it runs like a dream.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sIpInWiT mYdRoId:
Im rooted right now on NF1 & used this method a lil while back to do so. Can i use this method to update my phone to NF4 to use NF4 roms. Btw my knox is already tripped due to flashing kernels & what not but this method was easiest when i 1st rooted & im just trying to use the easiest method i seen, which was this, to update to NF4. Thanks in advance for any help here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Yes, use this same method to flash nf4 firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sIpInWiT mYdRoId:
Thanks 4 the help. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] agentdroid:
Can someone modify these instructions to upgraded a stock rooted NE6 to stock rooted NF1 using a pc? Even if it means tripping Knox, but prefer I not too...

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
What needs to be modified about the instructions? Get the firmware and follow the directions in the op.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Suzook1:
assume doing this will completely wipe stock memory and thus all pics etc?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
It's never done that to me but it's always good practice to back things up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zoomviewer:
Thank you for the guide. It was great. I was able to root and install twrp recovery. I copied the rom to exsternal sd card(64gb) Recovery was able to find the rom(zip file) from external sd card. But not able to install rom from sd card. I already wiped all the data any help is highly appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
Give me more details as to what happened after you tried to flash the ROM from the external SD card. Did it give an error etc.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zoomviewer:
These are the messages I see on TWRP command window

Updating partition details...

Full SELinux support is present

Running boot script...

Finished running boot script

E:Unable to open zip file.

Error flashing zip '/external_sd/EffortLess+RO

M-REV7.1.zip'

Updating partion details...

Failed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
Try to redownload the ROM and make sure the CRC matches (to make sure you got a good download). Then put it on the external SD (take the card out of the phone and use an adapter to copy the ROM to it).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] zoomviewer:
This time i copied the rom to both internal sd and external sd card. I was able to install from internal sd card but not from external sd card. When tried to install from external sd card same error is repeated. Thank you again for your support
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
That's a rare case, but I'm glad you got it sorted out!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MasterKaiser:
Best instructions to install rom ever!

Thank you for your hard work on this, followed step by step and worked like a charm. Just a heads up, if anyone like me, that wants to remove the bloatware, if you remove the Samsung Hub app the autorotation does not will work. There is a workaround with some library, but for me does not worked, so I left the Samsung Hub thing installed...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajamils:
I just wen through the whole process and after the initial boot, I get an error on the Welcome screen that "Unfortunately, com.android.process has stopped and phone just restarts. What should I do? I cannot put the ROM on external SD as m TWRP is not reading my external SD card :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
You can put the ROM on internal storage as well. Did you wipe your system partition? It sounds like you need to wipe your phone.. follow the instructions to wipe and put the ROM on the internal storage.

Just a heads up, NF9 just got released and I'm working on that right now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] toastido:
I should have the pieces ready within the hour.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ajamils:
Yes, I did wipe system partition.

How do I put it on internal storage when USB is not recognized in TWRP and phone is not booting beyond the welcome screen?

By the way, I did get around it by flashing stock NB4 ROM and after that I rooted and installed TWRP. Now, I just finished installing flashing Effortless ROM via TWRP. Let's see how it goes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
It's recognizing an otg dongle? Do you have an SD card and adapter that you can plug into your computer and then put back in your phone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] VVerevvolf:
Followed the steps (coming from 4.3 rooted). Everything worked but I now cannot disable the home button from waking the phone. I've used Root Explorer to go to System/USR/Keylayout/gpio-keys and have edited "key 172" to delete the words "HOME WAKE_DROPPED" but the phone still wakes up on pressing the home key.

This worked on 4.3 but not now.

Any thoughts?

EDIT - Never mind, I used Wanam Xposed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] emulatorx:
hey guys, I have followed the steps numerous time , but my baseband will NOT change to N900TUVUDNF9, the build changes but baseband doesn't. I followed the steps down to the T, for what to do if it doesn't update, but still.

Help!! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Did you triangle away correctly?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] emulatorx:
multiple times and triangle away says counter=0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Gotta make sure it says in download mode:

Binary: Samsung official

System: official

Or something like that. If it says customin either one, it won't stick. It can be a b***h sometimes. Took 5 tries on my wife's s5 this morning to get rid of the "custom" label

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Open triangle away

Accept phone model

Hit reset flash counter

Let it do its thing

Power down

Wait about 15 seconds

Reboot

It should go into what appears to be a boot loop and then a screen asking you to press up to reset counter.

When it's complete, make selection to boot right into download and you should be good
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] emulatorx:
makes sense , and yes mine says custom. How do i get rid of that though?

lol as you edited your post, I asked the question..I'll try now thanks

Testing now, I think that should do the trick! THANKS...I'll update with results
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Also make sure you haven't put a custom recovery or kernel on yet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] emulatorx:
quote from stephen king's "1408"

"yeah there it is! ahhh sir you're a genius, a gentleman and scholar, thank you ..let me give you a...( gentleman walks away)..........tip.

edit: due to " All the previous changes except: NO unlimited tethering, NO EXT SD card fix, and NO 4-way reboot" I will be waiting for the 8.1 release to update from 7.1

I am at least half way thru the process as I was able to update my build and baseband. While, YES , I lost the true rom 7.1 and am running stock ATM, all my apps and setting weren't touched. I'm just gonna hang in here with how it is , then flash 8.1 when it comes out. And thanks again Megaflop666 for helping me and so fast :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mega Montana:
I'm using the NF4 and love how the Samsung keyboard will automatically apply the displayed special character, such as ! or @ without the usual popup and having to do separate keypress to select it. Is that an edit you made [MENTION=421215]effortless[/MENTION] or is it a feature built into the stock keyboard that I just haven't figured out how to set?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
Slap some xposed on there and mod that stock to a custom. :thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] effortless:
It depends on the ROM. Most T-Mobile Note 3 ROMS have it enabled by default. It's a CSC edit..

<CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>en_US;es;es_US</CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>

<CscFeature_Sip_SymbolPopupInput>SINGLE</CscFeature_Sip_SymbolPopupInput>

I make sure it's enabled on all my ROMS, however if you install wanam xposed, it disables the special characters by default. You can enable them again within wanam xposed- Look under "System" and then click to "Enable keyboard symbols".

I also enable

<CscFeature_Sip_AlternativeCharPopupInput>Hide</CscFeature_Sip_AlternativeCharPopupInput>

So you can drag and when you lift your finger, it hides the extra boxes. Saves you from having to click the extra character after it pops up.

It's the small things :highfive:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mega Montana:
I realize I meant to pay this in your ROM thread nonetheless thanks for sharing. Actually a lot of the custom ROMs ive flashed haven't seemed to have that enabled and so I was impressed when using uiur ROM to see that when typing. Appreciate it!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] emulatorx:
thanks again!, should keep me until effortless 8.1:cowboy:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Marty_Since87:
I might be getting a note 3 soon, this question has probably been answered but do I have to install the effotless rom? or can I install whatever rom I want?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Megaflop666:
After you root it, find any good ROM you like. If you're going with touchwiz, look for Roms nf1 or newer, or go with an AOSP, or cyanogenmod or something. Whatever you'd like. But this should be researched and discussed over in the note 3 general discussion forum. :thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rockinandroid:
trying to download full nf9 but keeps coming up hashes dont match...anyone know whats up with this....how to download good one...thanks for any help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sidneyk:
Did you try downloading from sammobile site? That's what I had to do. It will take awhile but will be worth it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Ovrclck:
Great success with this guide. I had to download Triangle Away and reflashed stock NF9. Thank you!!:good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DreamOperator:
Went from MI7 to NF9 without issue. Thank you very much for this guide!!