[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] anticloud:
radionerd has been working with me, to restore my DE phone, which was overwritten by LP 5 for Note 4 verizon - I have recovered my phone..

Update - Thanks to radionerd, he gets ALL the credit (and / or those who helped him, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU), he (or whomever) get's whatever bounty is due, applause to all you all - here are the details -

0. I had made a complete backup of the Verizon Note 4, with the aboot.mbn in tact - using EFS Professional (latest edition) - this was sometime back (a couple of months ago or so), it was then I reported to radionerd that I had successfully restored aboot.mbn to my dev edition, which at that time was still a dev edition - I figured it would not hurt to at least flash using odin, and it worked!!! Now, note: I had twrp installed, root, and a backup using twrp sitting on the side... next.

1. On thursday or friday after hearing LP was an OTA (and I had been told by Samsung the OTA would not hurt the developer edition, but it did...) I brought my phone back to a stock developer phone as it was delivered to me by samsung - ROM N910VVRU1ANJ5 (Baseband), and performed a factory reset - no root, no twrp, mode: developer. stock.

2. I took on the OTA for LP delivered by Verizon which subsequently locked the phone (took the developer edition away) and I was left with an upgraded retail LP edition - and thus contacted radionerd on friday... upset.

3. I tried to reflash my backed up aboot.mbn, one that was flashable before the upgrade, yet now was not flashable. Radionerd worked his magic, with whomever helped him (sounds like he was reaching out to others)

4. On saturday April 4th around 7pm, caught a message to try a flashable aboot.mbn, and it flashed....

DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT AS INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECOVERY THIS IS A HIGH-LEVEL RESULT OF WHERE WE STAND WITH DEVELOPER RECOVERY OF A VERIZON NOTE 4 - I was able to rollback my once retail, locked LP Note 4 for verizon; back to a developer phone - in a state as if were unaffected by anything that may have happened to it - which means my mode is developer once again, I have TWRP recovery, root again, and fully restored my twrp backup as if the phone was not affected by an OTA...

Again, thanks to radionerd, the implications at a minimum are that a locked Note 4 was recovered back to developer - which is good. it also may (don't quote me on this - not enough research has been done), from my perspective, I am thinking this could mean conversion of a retail Note 4 to developer, which effectively means an unlocked Verizon Note 4 with root - if that's the case, great, and anyone who helped recover my phone get's the credit and any bounties due.. - radionerd leads this effort... in my eyes...

I will not post specific instructions for recovery at this moment until radionerd gives the go-ahead.... this is a great day people, just a great day....

thank you -

rob

---------- Post added at 04:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 AM ----------

to all - with radionerd's help, on Saturday April 4th, 2015 - I was able to restore a Note 4 developer edition after taking on the LP OTA from Verizon - I will work with radionerd to formulate an appropriate write up and instructions...

my phone is completely restored to it's previous state; mode: developer with ANJ5, twrp recovery, re-rooted, restored last twrp backup which was taken before the LP OTA...

it's a good day

hey, ryanbg, question... is an aboot.mbn keyed to a specific phone or can it be flashed on any Note 4 retail / developer - curious?