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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TeldenW:
Following VERY EASY Method

ODIN back to NC2

Installed TowelRoot, BusyBox and SafeStrap in NC2

Got safestrap to install and boot.

Followed Very Easy directions (wiped all but external SD) and loaded ZIP.

When the system boots, I get the splash screen, and the SafeStrap screen,

Then BLACKNESS. Nothing else. Nothing comes up during the AT&T jingle. It is just a black screen. Please help.

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[MENTION=4130463]evobb10[/MENTION], did you ever get this figured out?? Black Screen happening to me right now!

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I followed Walter.White's "Very Easy" instructions. I ODIN'ed back to NC2 and was able to get into SafeStrap. I flashed the Rooted OC1 ROM but after I reboot the phone I just get blackness. Nothing pops up. I've gone through the steps twice with the same result. Can you offer any help or advice?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TheDriller:
I might need a volunteer to test a new safestrap in a couple of days. I'm in Saudi Arabia and service is spotty but I have what I need to make this. All I need is someone who used [MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] very easy method rom.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
It sound like you need to odin installing the OC1 kernel or use this recovery installer for OC1 kernel

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[MENTION=4469503]RErick[/MENTION]

PM me when your ready ;)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TheDriller:
Okay man. I will. Maybe 2 or 3 days.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TeldenW:
At what point do I need to flash the OC1 recovery installer? Immediately after ROM?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] muniz_ri:
Fyi....chainfire's new Flashfire beta works on both locked and unlocked bootloader devices including those running 5.0.

Flashed a ROM and a modified ota today on my locked bootloader S4 I337.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] s.shehan:
Yes I realized towel is for rooting and hopefully rest of the steps will be similar even mine is android 4.3 (not 4.4.*) ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] blackangel104:
Hey guys, I need help updating.. I'm still on jellybean and I'm rooted with some apps frozen.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] sapps:
I believe you will need to Odin NC2 full. (The second spoiler in post 1 has the steps to get to NC2). Then root, safestrap (updated from the one you have) and busybox. Then you can follow the very easy install.

My guess is that 3.72 safestrap will not be able to flash the 5.0 roms. So you need to get on the newest safestrap.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] blackangel104:
Is there a video on how to do the odin nc2 full? It's been a year since I last flashed anything and it looks complicated .. Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] iblakejames:
How would I go by the rooted install procedure without a external sd card????????????
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] sapps:
You would have to not format (skip the check mark on) the internal SD card.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] iblakejames:
I tried that.. It just hangs on the ATT screen if I do that.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
For you in step 1 The easy install method, just copy to your internal sdcard and install with safestrap recovery as on OP
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] iblakejames:
As OP?? And I tried installing with internal SD but it always hangs at the ATT boot screen after, I'm not sure what to do or if I'm missing a step. I thought it was because I wasn't wiping the system but if I wipe it, that won't help.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
OP?? I meant follow OP instructions but use your internal sdcard

give it extra time Lollipop could take almost 15 minutes

you can also try installing your OC1 firmware

odin install

N900A_OC1_Stock_Partitions.tar.md5

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934545855

recovery install-able

SM-N900A_OC1_Firmware_Recovery-Flashable.zip 49.0 MB

https://mega.co.nz/#!bMlBnSyZ!5v1-_p57s7es95Oj33n1mQ9EseDastIegMcT0MEu5XY
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] iblakejames:
Okay thanks I'll try again. But just to be clear, do I wipe everything but the system or everything but system+data?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
I select the wipe button in safe strap and slide the slider at the bottom, I never use the advanced wipe
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] iblakejames:
I'll give it a shot
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
I just installed the easy rom and all went well (You will get the one time Knox app FC , no more FC after that one time)

when I pressed reboot in recovery to setup screen took 7-8 minutes

10:43 - 10:50
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Tatapanama:
I'm down with that test... PM

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One thing that I learn and it just take seconds is to do a battery pull and manual wipe using volume up, home bottom and power at the same time, look for wipe, execute and the let the phone boot. It avoid loops on boot.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
but your booting into stock recovery and wiping, did you loose safestrap?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Tatapanama:
Yeah, I did

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But root checker stated I'm rooted, can I install safestrap?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] roloracer:
I did the same thing , wiped in stock recovery and still kept all the Safestrap stuff in root of phone. I just installed the app, install recovery, But you won't be able to reboot into safestrap, use nc2 flasher to flash kk kernel to boot into safestrap then after you're done, you flash lollipop kernel back before rebooting.

RoloRacer on LolliPop'ed Note 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Tatapanama:
Got U
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Rotary Parts:
tether not working with update after flash any ideas thnxs :p
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Updated step #5 and Step #7 (also [MENTION=5976292]BlackRam1500[/MENTION] and [MENTION=533598]crackness[/MENTION])
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Namelesswonder:
[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] So now can we go about and capture the NC2 -> OC1 OTA.zip and do the same with that to streamline the process, rather than go from NC2 -> NL1 -> OC1?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
No need for that. Check out the alternate method I added in the OP ;)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Namelesswonder:
Ah yes, should be easy now for people confused about doing the NL1 restore or are having issues with that.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] paluinfusion:
[MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION] Can you clarify my previous question.

What is the difference between going for ATT OTA upgrade Vs. first option 100% stock no root OC1.zip ?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
No difference.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] alton987:
Confirming this corrected the issue with the original root process.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] crackness:
Also confirming that this fixed it!!!

In the words of my cool aunt - You are the Bomb-dot-com! Thank you!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] CryptKilla:
Do we really need to ODIN back to NC1 stock ? Or have someone tried also on a custom rom?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] pre4speed:
On my second try of downloading the 7zip method. Got to 99% and then threw a decryption error. I dislike mega lol.

EDIT now I HATE mega even more. Same error. Can it be hosted on a better site like the other files [MENTION=5575828]Walter.White[/MENTION]? Thanks for all this no matter what. Guess I can try the harder method again. 1am here but dangit I'm gonna get this. lol
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] misterfinch:
It's been a long while since I've messed around with my note 3. I'm currently on NB4 (4.3) without safestrap. Only rooted... I'd like to upgrade but not sure if I should be doing anything different. I apologize in advance if this has been answered already.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] OmegaNemesis28:
Hmmmm apologies, I don't follow a lot of the NL1/NC2/OC1 stuff enough to understand what/where I'm at.

So I took the stupid 4.4.4 update from AT&T, and lost root. I had busybox and Xposed installed at the time, but after updating, they no longer do anything and I've lost all root access. My bands all say NL1, so I'm presuming I'm in some weird non-stock NL1 hybrid state with no root access? This sucks.

To get back to NC2 and then go to 5.0, I *HAVE* to reformat my phone? Lose all my apps and internal sd data? That blows... Does it seem likely that if I stay on NL1 4.4.4 or even just go straight to 5.0, there will ever be easy root again or is that like a totally unknown thing right now?

EDIT: I followed step 1 of "100% Stock Rooted Original Procedure". It appears I'm entirely stock rooted NC2 now. However, I'm not entirely sure if I can continue and not delete my apps/data? On step 6 (1 to 5 thread) , is that deleting everything? Does the restore put back my apps?

EDIT2: Nvm. I have a static ATT logo and nothing is moving. I goofed on step 1 already. Jesus :( It went from "upgrading apps" to reboot to this.

EDIT3: Went back to NL1.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SLver:
Umh sorry how i can have safestrap recovery now that i have lollipopo with root...:silly:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] CryptKilla:
Check first post under point 4 ;)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
USE the safestrap work around (install NC2 kernel to boot to safestrap (safestrap recovery must still be installed) from when you had nc2, then install OC1 kernel to boot Lollipop.

We can now do this without odin or a pc by using nc2 flasher and the OC1 kernel recovery installer http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2957471

AT&T NJ5 SafeStrap Work Around
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] pre4speed:
Ok, I got it. Problem is, SuperSU says that I need to manually reroot. Do I just ODIN NC2 kernel, towelroot, then ODIN OC1 back?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] SLver:
wow thanks, it worked, things are getting really weird with this phone lol :silly:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] OmegaNemesis28:
Ok, so I went back to NL1 stock from my weird 4.4.4 non-stock hybrid state, or w/e.

I'm going to try to go to NC2 stock per the "100% Stock Rooted Original Procedure" directions.

But when I get to step 6 (where its like steps 1 to 5, use Safetrap backup folders and do a backup of User data, advanced wipe, then restore"), does that keep my apps and internal data? Will that remove my apps, or does the restore put them all back? And then when I do the N900A_OC1_Stock_Rooted.zip flash using Safetrap, same thing, does it keep all my data?

EDIT:

Hmmmm. I'm stuck on NL1. I can't go to NC2. Every attempt = sits through "updating apps", but then it reboots and gives me the ATT logo forever.

Do I have to go from 100% stock nonroot NL1 -> stock Lollipop -> then back to 100% stock rooted NC2 in order to go to rooted Lollipop?

EDIT:

Ah HELL.

The 100% Stock Non-Rooted Procedure wipes your data entirely. Apps and all are gone.

The very last bit of the Lollipop zip update wipes /data and stuff.

Can you PLEASE highlight that in the guide?

The "backup anything important before continuing" doesn't really indicate that explicitly. When someone says "make a backup", it doesn't necessarily mean the phone WILL wipe but only if it messes up. Now I have to manually copy things back from my backup and redo all my apps. I wouldn't have even attempted had I known that was going to do that. Damn :( Going to take forever to get these apps back in order.

I figured I could just do the unrooted version for now, wait around to see what anyone said about that weird ATT screen issue on NC2, and then decide whether to bother losing data was worth the trouble. Now I guess I have to..... I wish I had known. PLEASE emphasize it.

EDIT3:

Oh lord. I don't think I can restore my Google authenticator app with what I have O>O
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] THEONEMARK:
Installed original rooted method and super su would say it wasn't rooted:(
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you don't loose root, when you did the stock recovery wipe it formats your userdata (including internal sdcard spot) to OEM so you loose safstrap recovery that has it's place on your UserData partiton.

you will have to start over with NC2 or learn to use chainfire's FlashFire app (mobile odin replace app)

[MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] is encouraging us to use it as a replacement for safestrap while your running Lollipop (Non safestrap compatable rom's)

go read [MENTION=4708661]muniz_ri[/MENTION] steps here to get the idea, but substitute what your installing
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] goldmantisak:
Emotion icon

Can you guys replace the google emotion icon in the text message by the old samsung one?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jreed3786:
Phone getting HOT on ANY 5.0 rom...

Even when BONE stock, w/ no other apps installed! Any ideas? Anyone else getting same result? I went back to FireKat V18N4 and problem is gone. THANKS!!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
check your about screen and verify your firmware is OC1 lollipop, I never had that issue yet
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jreed3786:
Yep. Did that before, too. Baseband also.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
you every did a full factory reset from stock recovery before installing lollipop? backup your pictures in internal sdcard

if you never did a full clean of internal sdcard it might be issue, also low signal in area where your phone is might be a issue with lollipop, to test that turn your airplane mod on and see if phone stays cool
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] jksyankeesrock:
Thanks Walter!

Thanks, man. This was probably extremly time consuming, and I'm super grateful for this. Thank you to Sapps for helping me through the soft brick. But just as a grife and nit-pick, is it fair to say that AT@T and Samsung cheated us, in the sense that this lollipop update didn't add any functionality or features, and its basically a lollipop-themed Note 3 KitKat rom with a newer kernel?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Orion.Lamas:
Can anybody be kind enough to dm me a list of roms for Lolipop and how to install them to where I won't have any problems.

Also I've literally read each and ever post in this thread and I've noticed some roms however the instructions just weren't clear enough for me to read.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Orion.Lamas:
So I was going to flash the debloat zip for L, at last minute I decide not to just in case after I flashed the OC1 kernel I then wiped cache and dalvik which I normally do before and when I went to reboot I soft bricked and got stuck at the splash screen and had to Odin back to NC2. Long story short I'm just trying to warn everybody make sure to do all flashes and wipes before you flash the OC1 kernel because there is a very good possibility you will soft brick and be forced to Odin back to NC2.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] K-alz:
[MENTION=3271517]carl1961[/MENTION] I PMed you.

From my Allianced S5!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] rexamillion59:
easy method

I just found this thread yesterday and have read a lot of post.my question

is concerning safestrap.

I actually found Walters oc1 rooted rom on another site last week and installed it .

It has been working fine as far as I can tell. But in that instruction there was no mention of getting safestrap working.After reading here sounds like I have to flash the kernel before letting the phone boot up.i never did that so do I have to start all over or can I flash the kernel now.

Thanks for any help
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] DorkyDev:
Forget safestrap and learn FlashFire, Right here...

Basic flashing instructions... http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60054983&postcount=781

FYI SafeStrap is only supported by KitKat 4.4.2 and below NOT LolliPop and above, it's since then sad to been or become abandon ware. So you can't force something that isn't supported by todays standards to be supported when it only was supported by yesterdays standards at the minimum.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] carl1961:
We use the work around to get to use safestrap, i use it all the time, FlasherFire is Great but still beta, also if you want lollipop rooted you still need safestrap until FlasherFire is stable , and works with kitkat, I have not tryed with FlasherFire ver. 15 but ver 1.4 I could not get FlasherFire to work in kitkat. So we cannot dump safestrap yet.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] DorkyDev:
I haven't tried it yet fully, btw what happened a couple posts back to [MENTION=4469503]RErick[/MENTION] who was gunna update safestrap?

Right now I really have no desire to go to LP Stock or DarkLord until battery life is improved more and that's not a Samsung thing by my understanding it's a Google LP thing.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] rexamillion59:
Thank you for your quick response to my post. Well noted. I do have another question. I read somewhere that xposed is not working on lollipop is there a workaround or fix.causing bootloop thanks again
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] TheDriller:
It doesn't happen overnight. It may never happen actually. But that doesn't mean I'm not working on it [emoji106]
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] DorkyDev:
I actually really do hope it happens.

Being somewhat of a code monkey myself (Web Designer), I know the time and patience it takes and the many many many trials, errors and retries until ya get it successfully. LoL
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] blkmail:
Battery life is very good on darklord, alliance and the viet lollipop we can also use.

Safestrap works just fine we boot to Safestrap anyway so what's different but remembering to flash oc1 to boot back and using nc2flasher?

It's a lot of work these devs do to give us other options then stock
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] 1Zero3forlife:
Just used the easy procedure without issue, runs great and fixed a lot of issues. Thanks
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] bamboojoe:
remove xposed?

I like to confirm this as well. Do I need to uninstall xposed before any of the steps? Thanks!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Tatapanama:
Goto don't show[emoji34]

But is the restart option you get, now I don't have the same icon on lollipop but I said let's reboot to ss.. guess what:

It did... as a did battery pull and system with using Samsung booting to avoid loops, ss should have been erase but is is still in the binary, I back up right from it and install like if I was doing it for the 1st time and it work
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] lildodoo:
I updated a few days ago and every now and then I keep getting the message, "Unfortunately, touchwiz home has stopped." i did a reinstall and still get that message, does anyone have this problem? If so, is there any fix? Thanks for any help or input.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Tatapanama:
I use google luncher

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Lov google now
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] 1Zero3forlife:
Does it make sandwiches?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Turpinator:
Try clearing data in settings, all apps, thouchwiz

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I decided to downgrade back to 4.4.2. I flshed rooted lollipop successfully using the number 3 method. Battery life seemed ok but not comparable to the mods I was able to use with exposed. The system overall ran very smooth on 5.0. I couldnt stand the new battery stats either. All I did to downgrade was use odin to flash the single tar file for 4.4.2. I had to re- root. Everything is working nicely.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] heavyhev:
Hard Bricked, What Method to Use

Updated two phones (using the very easy method) coming from DynamicKat 6.1 and I believe 7.1 with success, however a third phone had DK 5.0 that I was unaware of until after hard bricking the device. Doesn't power up, won't charge, and is not recognized by my computer. It's wanting driver software for QHSUSB_BULK. I have searched around and read several methods for creating SD image with a unbricking image and would like to know if there are suggestions on which method would work best in attempting to get this device back up and running so that I can get OC1 loaded on it? No powering up, can't get into download mode, where do I go from here? Just my luck I'm off to a conference tomorrow AM and will not be able to attempt any suggestions until Sunday but I will check in from time to time to view solutions that might and I hope come my direction. :crying:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Download "Recover Hardbricked - SM-N900A.zip" from here https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934556671 Inside it you will find instructions on how to recover your hardbricked Note 3.

If you need help locating BL tar for the above procedure..then look here (OC1) or here (NL1) or here (NC2)

(Cc [MENTION=3271517]carl1961[/MENTION] )
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] heavyhev:
Thanks for the lightning response! Will give this a try and will report my results.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] orangetag001:
My phone was working just fine this morning but after updating a few apps through Google Play my phone started throwing up messages that gapps process was continuously crashing.

I then restarted the phone and it would not get to the AT&T startup. I have since flashed the OC1 kernel through SafeStrap but now the phone will not leave the AT&T startup logo.

Any ideas for what I can do? I have an older backup but not on 5.0 like I should. If need be I'll be going through the entire reinstallation process of 5.0 again.

EDIT: Just realized that I have a bigger problem now since I cannot access SafeStrap Recovery.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Orion.Lamas:
Something like this happened to me I had to Odin back to NC2
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] orangetag001:
Thanks for the reply. Now I just need to figure out how to Odin this thing. Do you think you could help out with that? I know it's a crappy thing to ask but I can't make heads or tails of the Odin guide in this board.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] heavyhev:
Got it booting up! But...not sure if I'm using the correct combination of files or simply just the correct files to ODIN in this situation. It appears that I'm having re-partition issues either right from the start with the recovery SD or incorrect ODIN pit file. I have been attempting to use HLTE_USA_ATT.pit off of carl1961's update NL1 thread and get the following error on the attached image. I think another nudge in the right direction should get this one back up and running.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Walter.White:
Did you hardbrick or softbrick that phone?

You have to put the microsd into one of other working phones! Since you have multiple SM-N900A.

1. Select one of the working SM-N900A you wanna use.

2. Put microsd in it.

3. Reboot that phone in download mode

4. Now follow instructions from that pdf.

5. Once the recovery card is made, insert it into your bricked phone....

Don't worry about the pit file. I guarantee you that its 100% correct.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] heavyhev:
This one was hardbricked. I got through these steps with little or no problems. One question though, does it matter which BL to use on the microsd card? I think I tried NL1 first and got this error and then I went back and create one with NC2 booted and tried to ODIN NC2 and got the error in the image in my earlier post. These above steps seem to work as you said 100% correct. Guess my question is what files do you load after using the microsd to boot to download mode? Also looking at the image, is that the correct download screen? Makes me wonder as it doesn't like the PDF. The image is what happens after using the microsd to boot. This is when I have attempted to ODIN NC2 and getting nowhere as seen in the image. So has me wondering is it the microsd steps or my attempts to load NC2 after booting with microsd. Really appreciate the assistance and hope my explanation of steps isn't confusing to you.