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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Not clear when you say "upgrade to the OF1 modem and bootloader" whether you did this with Odin or you started flashing individual partitions. The latter might be OK for the modem partition ONLY, but all the bootloader components (sbl1, rpm, tz, non-hlos, aboot, etc) should be flashed simultaneously. Actually, I can not say with any authority whether it is ever safe to manually flash bootloader components without using Odin - reason being that the TZ (TrustZone) is running simultaneously alongside any booted kernel & ROM. If they are not mapped into RAM, flashing that way would surely crash the TrustZone.

In any event, if you can get Odin mode running, I'm not sure why Odin/Download mode would prevent you from flashing a pure stock Odin tarball, so long as you observe the Anti-Rollback conventions. If you flashed portions of an OF1 bootloader, you may have no choice but to flash NK1, OB6 or OF1 Odin stock tarballs. (see here)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Maxxstyle:
so how can i unlock bootloader and install TWRP I have tried every possible way .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
"tried every possible way" is a completely meaningless phrase. It lets us know precisely nothing about what you have actually tried (inputs), nor the phone's behaviors you observed when you tried those things (outputs).

With only 1 post under your belt, it seems somewhat unlikely that you actually tried "everything".

This tool emits error messages which give insight into exactly the reason(s) why a failure occurs.

If you want help, the best way to achieve that would be to cut-n-paste those exact error messages into a post.

We are talking about computers here; being vague is NOT of any value.

If you were responding to the prior post the way you did because you have a 0x11 phone, then you should have said that. If that is the case, there is no currently known method for doing what you want.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
If your cid starts with 11 rather than 15...you can't unlock it at this time.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Maxxstyle:
thank you
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] absoluteparanoia:
I unlocked my phone successfully but ever since then my phone crashes whenever I receive an incoming call. "Unfortunately the Process.com.android.phone Has Stopped" and dismissing the message with "OK" dismisses the call.

I suspect that this has to do with the unlock changing my CID without changing it back. How can I force my CID back to what it was originally? (yes, it started with 15).

Running Jasmine Rom 2.4.4 on NC2 with a KitKat TWRP installed to recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
You can't unless you kept a copy of what it was. And even if you did, and someone recompiled the program, no one can guarantee it'll work.

You can re-lock the phone by using ODIN to flash a pure stock firmware load.

But... Unlocking the phone would not cause your problem. I presume you have cleared cache and davlik and let the OS rebuild itself. You have to have a custom recovery to do the above... If you wipe davlik when the phone restarts, it'll say something like it's updating Android and recompile all the programs, that can take a while but you'll see a counter on screen telling you how many apps it has to recompile and how many are done.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] absoluteparanoia:
I did wipe the dalvik and the cache and cleared the cache for the phone app. No luck. Switching to using Hangouts Dialer (instead of the default phone app) works for my Google Voice number. But my regular number is still broken regarding incoming calls.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
I might have missed some other posts, but I think you might be the only person to report unlocking NC2 ("leak") bootloader firmware. Among other things, that means that you are exploring relatively uncharted territory. As the NC2 leak was engineering/test code it is certainly possible that the bootloader has some quirks relating to how it reacts to Knox fuse values.

Clearly you installed TWRP after you unlocked, yes? But nothing else changed? (The Jasmine 2.4.4 ROM was already installed prior to unlock?)

Does Jasmine 2.4.4 use a stock Samsung kernel?

The reason I ask has to do with Samsung bootloaders disabling certain Knox and Trustzone functionality on phones showing evidence of tampering (e.g. "blown" Knox Warranty fuse or an unsigned kernel); on a non-Samsung ROM (e.g. CyanogenMod), this doesn't cause any problems with random apps, but on stock-derived ROMs where the frameworks implement certain security functions via calls into the TZ, apps can get broken - not exactly from the unlocking process itself, but from what happens downstream from there: blowing Knox fuses.

I don't know if this is the case, but you can certainly find out if this is what is going on by capturing a logcat when an incoming call takes place. You should see a java trace of the crash occur and potentially can better identify the root of the problem.

You can capture logcats any number of ways - (a) use an app, (b) use the logcat command in a terminal emulator, or (c) use "adb logcat" from a PC with the developer tools installed.

e.g. from a terminal emulator (you might want to "su" to root first)

logcat -c
logcat -v threadtime > /sdcard/logcat.txt

(use another phone to dial your cell #)

^C

As donc113 points out, it is possible to reset your CID by recompiling the unlock tool using your former CID value (or kanging it into place using a hex editing tool), but if the behavior you observe was actually caused by the blowing of the Knox Warranty flag, returning the CID to it's original value won't fix that problem.

You might need to install a different ROM to get around this. The logcat might shed some light on this.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] absoluteparanoia:
The NC2 baseband (but not bootloader?) was installed when I got the phone. I think the previous owner had rooted it and had upgraded to 4.4.2. I since changed the rom from TouchWiz standard to Jasmine ROM which is KitKat based as well.

The problem has mysteriously disappeared for the time being... but I will definitely use the logcat option next time it happens and post the results here. I will also be trying out new roms soon.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ozz200127:
I don't know if this was answered but is there a way to relock bootloader?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Odin stock N900V firmware should relock it. Must be the complete firmware package that is at or above your current android version.

But why would you want to relock it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ozz200127:
In case I ever sell it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Who cares if it's locked or not when you sell it? It is not, and never was carrier or sim locked.

In fact, an unlocked bootloader phone is probably worth more. And nothing you do will reset the blown warranty fuse.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ozz200127:
How can I get the custom lock logo off when phone reboots

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I went completely stock
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
The app Triangle Away (on play store) supposedly gets rid of it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Maxxstyle:
how long CID start 11 can unlock bootloader :crying::crying:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
I'm having one heck of a time trying to get my note 3 unlocked.

Just a bit of what I've done...

In September I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile. I kept my Note 3 because I adore this phone. I decided to root it... and I did. I found the one-click root and I got squared away. Then, I found the Jasmine Rom... loved it.

Just the other day I ended up with a bootloop. I don't know how it happened... I powered the phone off as I stuck the charging plug in the port... and that's all I can remember. I tried to clear the cache and I tried to factory reset... the factory reset just stood there frozen in time.

I had to re-root the phone... but this time the one click wasn't working so I ended up with king root. I followed a guy on youtube. It worked -- my phone was rooted again. The only issue was that I couldn't get the Jasmine rom back on there...

Then I noticed that in order to have TWRP or some sort of recovery, I had to unlock the bootloader. So I followed another guy on youtube and it worked. He used the ADB Fastboot.

I thought I was set until I tried to flash Dark Wolf. I didn't realize that it wasn't meant for the Verizon Note 3's until after I used TWRP to flash it and it bricked the phone.

So back to the drawing board. Still -- the phone was not behaving the way I wanted it do with the kingroot stuff. I preferred the one-click. I guess what made the one-click not work was that I was using my desktop and it runs on Windows 7. The one click I read worked only on Windows 8 (My laptop has 10 -- and it works).

SO NOW... I'm back to just wanting to unlock my bootloader. I'm bummed that I can't use Dark Wolf on my Verizon Note 3 -- but I liked Jasmine Rom a lot...

So now I'm rooted and I'm on Jasmine Rom, but I can't unlock my bootloader. I've put the unlock file from the beginning of this thread in my ADB Fastboot folder. I put the unlock file on the root of my SD card... I've copy and pasted each line of what's written on the first page of this thread... but I can't get the bootloader unlocked.

What is it that I'm doing wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
What error do you see in the adb shell?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
I don't see any during the first half. After typing YES, my phone will turn off and I wait for it to reboot. It doesn't turn back on like it did the one and only time I got TWRP on there.

Then when I go back to the adb fastboot to put in the second set of information, if gives me an error about pathways or something to that extent. I can't remember what it is, but it does it every time. I can try again a little later to get the exact message it gives me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
Hi Again. I just tried it again.

"the system cannot find the path specified."

It actually showed me this after trying to do it from the first box of steps (the content from the first page of this thread). this time around. :/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
You have to do the exact same thing (other than copy the unlock executable) the 2nd go round you did the first go round.

You MUST be root both times. And must have the unlock executable in your $PATH or be in the directory where it exists.

You MUST have busybox installed

And finally... The phone will shut off, not reboot, you have to restart it yourself after it shuts off... Both times.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hutchjim:
Hello I couldn't believe it lol I had to change out my motherboard so I bought one for 59 dollars ebay.then I was curious so I downloaded emmc check guess what my number started with 15 it was unreal to get lucky like that lol I just needed to vent sorry if I took up space but yeah man love it unlock was so easy through terminal emulator. .thank you sooooooooòomuch
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hutchjim:
Hi will my device relock if I flash stock firmware ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Yes. (If it is a full flash including all the bootloader components)

Note that this will NOT revert the eMMC chip's CID value to it's original 0x15... value; it will continue to have the DevEd CID value (which also begins with 0x15).

So, if you were to root the stock ROM and after that re-run the unlock tool, it would proceed immediately to the 2nd pass of the tool (performing the unlock and writing a debrick image to the uSD card in the slot).

Re-flashing stock will not revert the Knox Warranty fuse however; that is permanently blown the first time you boot an unsigned kernel with the phone unlocked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hutchjim:
OK cool thank you so much.i just wanted to know because I wanted to change my baseband back to the of1 firmware..thanks again...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] gjguest:
Bootloader Unlock

I have tried this now for the better part of two days with no luck. I am rooted on 5.0. I have tried it with adb and with the terminal emulator on the phone. Any help would be appreciated.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Don't say "no luck" - it means literally nothing to people that might be able to help you.

Instead, cut-n-paste the error messages you see on the screen when you run the unlock tool into a post in this thread.

You might also mention which version of the unlock tool you are using.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] magisterludi:
I just wanted to take a minute to give a :highfive: HIGH FLIPPING FIVE!! :highfive: to the OP team who took the time to share this. I had cast off all hope for a bootloader unlock. I popped back to the Vzw N3 thread looking for a barebones ROM I could strip out all the cellular/Verizon/ims/GPS/SamsungSensorsStuffs/etc.. to maximize battery for use as a learning/gaming device for my toddlers. Low and behold I'll be able to straighten out the CPU now w/ a ***gasps*** custom kernel--- undervolt here I come!!

In all sincerity, thank you very much for sharing. :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
Have you tries this ? HERE

Ive unlocked my bootloader using [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] 3 times its very easy no problem at all.

Just root your device>> install SuperSU>>install Busybox >> then follow the instructions.

But remember it will wipe your External SD Card so do (Back-up).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
Hi. Thank you... though I am lost.

I thought once I have the phone rooted, which I do, that it holds the root. Why did you say I have to have root both times?

Sorry I'm not understanding this. I'm doing my best.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Not root two times, bootloader unlock program has to be run twice. The first time you run the unlock program, it changes the cid of your phone, the 2nd time you run it, it changes the bootloader program to do the actual unlock.

The bootloader has to be unlocked in order to flash a new recovery, otherwise you get the unauthorized software warning and the phone won't boot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
And this will be through the fastboot via the computer or through terminal emulator on the actual phone?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
Everything is through the Phone.

All what you do is: Root Phone > install SuperSU > install BusyBox > install the apk and run it. Thats all.

Remember to do Backup for your external SD card because this process will wipe your external SD card.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ArtfulDodger:
Many thanks, I used this with Terminal and it worked to perfection. I did have to change the name of the file but then again I could have typed the commands to reflect the current file name too. No big deal.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] geekery15:
Finally! Thanks so much. I'm now with twrp and just did a backup.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] zounduser:
Buying a Note 3 Verizon right now. I've got a note 4 Verizon bootloader unlocked running s7 edge ROM! I can't thank beaups enough for finding the solution for unlocked bootloader! Straight PIMP!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MicrosoftBug:
Does anyone know if this will work on an AT&T SM-N900A?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Probably NOT. While overall, the code is generic to Samsung Galaxy phones, the change to the bootloader is specific to the Note 3 SM-N900V and may very well totally brick your phone. Or it may just do nothing except change your cid.

I would NOT try it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MicrosoftBug:
Thanks so much for stopping me from doing something really stupid. Any idea if the code can be altered to accommodate the AT&T variant?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Oh yea, if someone had an AT&T Note 3 and didn't care if it was bricked or not, they could try the current executable to see if it works.

Probably hard to find someone like that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] beaups:
Won't work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Ibuprophen:
Just curious if this Thread can also apply to the SCH-I545?

~Sent from my Communicator (Model: SCH-I535) from the Bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise~
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xm41907:
Darn. I had my hopes up, but I've got the X11 CID, so no luck for me, but I wanted to thank the developers on this. It's amazing seeing the ingenuity that goes into the maufacturer/hacker tug of war over devices.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneders65:
After unlocking the bootloader, what roms can I flash? Dev Phone Roms or Retail Roms?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
Try it again, I also had to do it twice before it worked. Make sure you have BusyBox installed and go through the installation process in the BB app.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] en11gma:
can i leave out my sd card the whole entire time?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
I left mine in with no problem, It was not erased, and the phone did not factory reset.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] en11gma:
what happens if you dont have an sd card in and you do it?

prob still work ok.

about ready to test

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the apk is not working on my note 3 on of1 (rooted with flashify and busybox) installed

in the instructions he says to type "YES" after you give the app root access

after i give root access it just says checking busybox and cleaning up and then it says installed

it never asks me to type "YES" and it dont power off my phone like it says in the directions.

the program closes

if i go look for it in my apps its not there.

if i want to run it again i have to install it again
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] audit2:
Make sure busy box is installed and try again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alexp1289:
Hangouts chat me alexp1289@gmail.com and I'll help you step by step.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] en11gma:
im en1gma in #cyanogenmod on irc freenode

i hate hangouts
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
It doesn't say, but you need to have Android Terminal Emulator installed, it fills in all the commands and then prompts you to enter "yes".
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] en11gma:
i have android termulator installed

ran BB installer 2x

i might try the adb method.

figure i would try the apk instead
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alexp1289:
Have you rebooted at all between busy box install and everything else? You may need to flash the 0F1 firmware in Odin to make sure you have a clean slate.

Firmware: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

Also remember when you do the exploit you have to do it twice in order for it to do the process completely the first time it changes your cid then you pull the battery and reboot. Then the second time it flashes the bootloader file.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MayoRamirez:
Yes I have it installed alredy, the trouble was with purify blocking terminal, once I allow terminal all ran perfectly, big thanks to the Devs you are Great Men!!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jrkruse:
No you dont. It uses a modified version of terminal that is installed with apk
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Is there a way for Verizon to dig out the CID and then block all phones with that CID from their network?

If I upgrade to newer firmware via Odin, does that relock bootloader?

I am on rooted 4.4.2 which works fine but having the option of a true recovery such as TWRP would be nice rather than the semi-recovery of SafeStrap.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alexp1289:
That's the IMEI you're thinking of. Verizon doesn't care about CID. This unlock only changes your CID and bootloader. It does not change your IMEI at all and IMEI number is what Verizon uses to identify your phone not the CID.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] riorancho:
Does the same for me...have no idea?? BB installed SU installed...

AS STATED:

the apk is not working on my note 3 on of1 (rooted with flashify and busybox) installed

in the instructions he says to type "YES" after you give the app root access

after i give root access it just says checking busybox and cleaning up and then it says installed

it never asks me to type "YES" and it dont power off my phone like it says in the directions.

the program closes

if i go look for it in my apps its not there.

if i want to run it again i have to install it again
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dreamwave:
How exactly does this work? Does it directly write some image to the emmc with the tool or does it make use of the sd card debrick method and somehow corrupt emmc to cause it to load from the sd?

Sent from my Oneplus One with XDA Premium
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ATalkingRock:
Wait so let me get this straight, I'm on my Verizon note 3 with jasminerom, this is a new method to finally unlock our bootloader? ! Will this enable us to install real roms? !
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] macgyver40:
It will unock your bootloader. As for real ROMs well that's beyond me as I am new to verizon note 3.

Sent from my SM-N900V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alexp1289:
Made this video to help people that are having trouble with the bootloader unlock I will add links later when I get the chance but as of now here's the video itself.

https://youtu.be/ilteTn7EISk
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TingTingin:
if the only reason we need an sd card is to to do a backup of a partition cant we just do that backup another way like say to a USB connected via otg (my sd card slot doesn't work)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jvcpcrep:
ineed help

evertime I run commands it tells me cannot run that it is a directory file
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Either one - with qualifications. This method turns a retail device into a developer edition phone. The limitation that also existed with official "developer edition" ROMs is that if you ever flashed a "retail ROM" that contained stock bootloader components it would permanently revert the phone back to a retail device. (With this exploit, you have a means to revert the reversion, with the added hassle of nuking your uSD card each time).

Note that the first time you boot an unsigned kernel, you will permanently blow the Knox warranty fuse. (Highly doubtful any Note3s are still under warranty though.)

You are free to modify & compile the code to eliminate the write to the uSD card. The original author [MENTION=711482]beaups[/MENTION] added that feature as a safety backup, but judging from the comments in this thread many users never even understood why that was the case or what the "debrick image" could be used for - for instance, immediately reformatting the uSD card without making any attempts to save the "debrick image" someplace for safe keeping. If you read through this thread you will see that folks with broken uSD card slots did exactly that.

You can also manually save the debrick image yourself using "dd" and a root shell. So yeah.

Do not paraphrase the error messages. Copy and paste the entire command line session into your post so we can understand what is going on. Most likely though you have a directory with the same name as the executable file and you didn't do a "cd" command to change your default (current) directory into the location where the executable is.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TingTingin:
I realized this however i was unsure how exactly to edit the file do u have an edited version?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
I don't. But the code is incredibly straightforward. You can simply "stub out" the routine that normally performs the uSD write operation so that it appears to succeed even though it does nothing. Note that you should be using the code provided by donc113, as it contains the correct binary blob (aboot modification) for the SM-N900V as well as the correct checks for the device type identification. (I can't remember the post # - search through the thread, it's in a .zip file he provided).

You will find that just setting up a toolchain to compile/link a statically-linked arm binary requires (much) more effort than the effort required to edit the code. I suppose you could also PM one of the users that did this already. No clue if they are still active on the site however.