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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
[MENTION=5415037]seadooman[/MENTION]

That dd command shown above IS the command you are asking for.

A lot of the methods people describe on these forums involves using the "command line" - which is to say: typing things into a terminal with a keyboard (or tapping a keyboard on a screen)

One way of doing that is with a "terminal emulator app" such as this one (free).

The '$' and '#' characters you see are not part of the command; they are the "prompt" indicator from the terminal emulator telling you it is ready and waiting for you to type in a command. By convention, the "prompt" changes from '$' to '#' when you are the root user.

So, technically you need to run two commands: first the 'su' command, and second the 'dd' command. Exactly as they appear in my first reply to you.

That's it; I don't know how to describe it any simpler than that.

I can say that if you type in a command incorrectly, usually the command itself or the terminal emulator will print an error/warning message saying things like

"command not found" or "file not found" or "permission denied".

So you should be on the lookout for any warning/error messages.

As I mentioned in a previous post, the Windows file browser connected to your phone via USB uses something called "MTP" to communicate between the phone and the PC. I have found that if I have the PC connected to the phone and create a new file, it won't show up in the PC file browser window until I reboot the phone. Dumb/Unexpected? Yes. But that seems to be how it behaves. Perhaps that is why you didn't find the file. (If you used a file manager app on the phone, you would see the file "debrick.img" in the internal /sdcard folder).

good luck

PS. I just remembered: the '#' character in Unix is often times used as a "comment" indicator, which means that any input line following a '#' character is ignored. If you typed in the 'dd' command but accidentally thought that you should be typing in the '#' as well, (instead of starting your typing with 'dd...' ) then the command would have been ignored as if it was a comment! Maybe that's why you didn't find the file?

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Thank you for the lesson. And I thought dos commands were a pain. I last thing does this make the debrick image on the ext sd card or in the phone?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
In the phone.

It would be impossible to write it to the "ext sd card" that had a debrick image on it, as there are no mounted file systems (/sdcard is not mounted when the external card has been overwritten by the debrick image).

I can't remember which version of Android it started with, maybe Froyo? but for a lot of Android devices, the file system location "/sdcard" is really just the internal memory. If it so happens that a device actually does have a physical SD card, usually that mounts at some other location - my CM13 phone has it at /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1

OK. This is pretty far off topic now. Start a new thread if you want basic help dealing with a command line.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] weaverinva:
Note II

Yes, there is a method for the Note 2 and it is worth it. You pay $75 for a bootloader downgrade service. I did it and it works well. My wife is humming with CM 12.1 running on the Verizon Note 2 and it is very fast. Faster than my Note 3 with TW.

http://www.mobiletechvideos.com/samsung-galaxy-note-2-bootloader-sboot-downgrade-service/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] TheRock40359:
I was just wanting an exploit didn't wanna send it out. I was gonna unlock it and sell it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] armus:
Free at last, Free at last! Thank God Almighty We Are Free At Last!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
First and last command's

First line windoze does nothing. From there I get responded no errors but the last command I can't input.only choice is "push enter to exit".

$ su

root@hltevzw:/data/data/com.termux/files/home s=4096 count=65536 of=/sdcard/debrick.img <

65536+0 records in

65536+0 records out

268435456 bytes transferred in 12.357 secs (21723351 bytes/sec)

root@hltevzw:/data/data/com.termux/files/home # exit

$ exit

logout

[Process completed - press Enter to close]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
[MENTION=5415037]seadooman[/MENTION]

Your cut-n-paste seems kind of garbled, I can't quite understand what you are trying to say.

Anyhow, from the output of the dd command (which is mostly missing from your cut-n-paste) it does look like you copied 256 MB of data from somewhere to a "debrick.img" file on your (internal) /sdcard.

I can't tell from what you sent but I'm guessing you got it done.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Not trying to jack up this forum. Yes I screwed up the copy paste. My question your first and last commands are C:\windoze which do nothing? I havn't found the output file yet but there were no errors. Correct me but are the windoze commands somthing I don't use if I'm saving to my phone memory?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
It's not all your fault - when command lines get long those terminal emulators scroll from left to right and doing a copy/paste from a terminal emulator with a touchscreen gets tricky.

The example instructions given in post #355 contained both the command "prompt" as well as the command(s) themselves.

So "C:\windoze>", "$", and "#" are typical (but not exactly equal) to what you might see for command prompts in a DOS window and a Linux terminal respectively - you were not supposed to type those things. The program which accepts your typed input (either the Windows "DOS command" window, or a Linux "terminal" prints out those prompts to let the user (you) know that it is ready and waiting for you to type something, rather than working on a prior command... a "prompt" lets you know when it finished running a previous command)

Sorry for the confusion, I suppose I assumed that you were a little bit more familiar with using command lines (whether using Windows or Linux/Android). You will need to get a little bit more comfortable with those things if you want to fool around with Android customization.

There is a program from Google which is part of their Android software developer kit that runs on the PC which is called "ADB". The first command you see in post #355 (which follows a DOS command prompt of "C:\windoze>") is "adb shell"

When you have all that software installed on your PC (plus a bunch of possible driver installation woes) and your phone is connected that command ("adb shell") allows you to connect to a linux/Android terminal command line on the phone. In your case, you were using a terminal emulator app directly on the phone, so that line wasn't needed at all. (Nor would you need the last command "exit", although using it in the terminal emulator app causes no harm).

Many people on these forums do have the Android developer's kit on their PC, and they will use that "adb shell" command to connect to their phone because, frankly, typing on a real keyboard is about 1000x easier than poking fat fingers on a touch screen. (For the moment though, I'm not going to recommend you install it, based on your level of familiarity with the command line. You need some practice with that first.)

Anyhow - I would recommend that if you are interested in this stuff, it would be worthwhile for you to study & practice usage of the Unix command line. The easiest "try it for yourself" method on a Windows PC is probably Cygwin, and after that using a Linux Distro inside a virtual machine, such as Virtualbox. Free, Free, and Free. (Only your time is not free.)

Using Virtualbox is a little more effort to set up, but a bit safer because no matter how badly you screw up inside the virtual machine, you won't wreck anything on your host OS. Then you can try anything you like without fear, and get as much practice/learning as you want.

cheers
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Okay I get it. Yes I have installed adb on my pc and will give this a try. Sorry to be a pest.

Thanks for all your help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tanatoni:
It worked very smoothly for me. I subsequently flashed TWRP with Odin.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Out of curiosity, did you need to add the "md5" blob at the end of the tar file so that Odin would accept it? Or did you just put the TWRP recovery.img in a (ustar format) tar file, and Odin was happy to accept that in the AP slot?

I think that a lot of folks don't yet realize (unless they followed the DE threads carefully) that the bootloader unlock allows them to flash a lot of custom stuff with Odin - the signature checks are disabled. It's almost like having fastboot with an unlocked bootloader. (I just wish there was someway to boot a kernel without having to flash it to either the recovery or boot partitions the way fastboot lets you.)

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] knox0x1:
I am still on jasmine rom.. lollipop... do I have to go back to factory lp and root then unlock? Or can I just unlock from where I'm at? This is such awesome news!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
[Edit 8/25/2016] Based on feedback from member shallmann, it appears that specific binary versions released within the Unlock Thread should be used depending on the firmware revision of your phone. See this post in that thread.

You should attempt it with whatever root you have available. Use the version of the binary that [MENTION=1923941]donc113[/MENTION] compiled as it is a bit more OS version independant - post #218

I didn't use any of the one click Apps, so I haven't kept track of whether those app authors updated the binary as new fixes were made. I sort of vaguely remember that at least one of them provided instructions on how to slip a new version of the binary underneath their apps.

But the simplest way to get it done is to follow the instructions in the OP using the (root shell) command line, either with a terminal emulator or adb... using the updated version of the binary.

Note you need to check your phone first to make sure it's eMMC CID starts with 0x15, indicating you have a Samsung flash memory chip. You can do that with the "brickbug check app". Phones with CIDs starting with 0x11 can't use this.

good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tanatoni:
I used the tar file just as I downloaded it. Of course, if you unzip it you'll get the img, but the procedure I followed wanted it in tar.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] cpomike13:
0c
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] knox0x1:
So you're saying I can go ahead and unlock from where I'm at using adb.. I'm still using multisystem.. dies that matter?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] audit2:
How do you disable reactivation lock? I unchecked the box and entered my pw but it's still checked.

Update: I found the answer. Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bishop0114:
Worked for me... Not sure why but it deleted everything on my internal SD and repartitioned my external. It created about 20 small partitions. So you might want to be sure to backup any important files. BIG THANKS TO THE DEV!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dfeldt91:
I am running CM 13 without issue as of last night. Works fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alphahere:
Is this on the official cyanogenmod page? I missed this one.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mightysween:
No...I know it is confusing but 4.4 is the bootloader version. You can run whatever firmware you want.

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On Verizon? What build?

Send me a radio logcat if you can from boot until it connects to 3g/LTE
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] macgyver40:
I am going crazy not having access to a PC right now. I so want to free my phone lol.

Anyone have exposed working??

Another question with CM13 can you still have spen support?

I thought about searching for this but since we have been locked for so long didn't think this ever came up before.

Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mightysween:
Well, the unlock worked great! TWRP from Flashify, not so much... ended up with a Verizon bootloop telling me that I am running non SELinux enforcing recovery. Must be a simple way around that, but I can't seem to get past it.

TWRP from ODIN also not working... tried 3.0.2 as well as older versions. Weird.

EDIT: NVM... flashed OF1 from ODIN, re rooted and tried again and it worked fine. FYI...I figured out what happened. SuperSU didn't ask for root access for adb until well after the process had already started running. Interestingly, the bootloader appeared to still have been unlocked, but still failed to boot recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] audit2:
Anyone get this to work without disabling the Reactivation Lock?

edit: Solved
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jrkruse:
I made this for the S5. I modded it with your unlock binary. All it requires is you to answer yes in the samsung unlock binary

I dont have a note 3 so let me know.

Edit: You must have busybox installed

1. Install SamsungUnlockerN3.apk

2. Grant SU access

3. Click On Install SamBootloader Unlocker

4. Grant SU access

5. Type Yes Hit enter wait for device to power off

6. Should be unlocked
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneders65:
Is there a a way to check if this apk worked without installing a custom recovery?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tomixnscale89:
You could boot into download mode and see if it labels your device as a developer device.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jrkruse:
I forgot to mention you need busybox installed
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] yenkoPR:
you forgot to explain to extract the file first before i got the verizone brick thing in recovery, had to re-do everything, cuz i thought it was unlocked but u forgot to say it will say in DOWNLOAD MODE " MODE: DEVELOPER when unlocked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
Someone please make a video on how to do this
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] audit2:
It works!!! This is the easiest way to unlock.

Thanks

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See post 32 it's very simple.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] macgyver40:
Wow an apk for unlock. To bad root wasn't so simple. Being on 0F1 is a pain. I SO need to find a PC to use for 5 minutes.

Sent from my SM-N900V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] krishaun27:
You might want to put this in the Original Post.....

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How do you know if it worked?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] audit2:
Check in DL Mode to see if it says developer.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MayoRamirez:
I install the apk , grant su, I hit the unlock , process start, and that all, I saw process then close, no question, no power down, I alredy check bootloader and remains lock, any idea what went wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jrkruse:
you have to have busybox installed
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Wanting to return to stock, would that be as simple as using odin and flashing the stock firmware? Or do I need to do something more?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Yes.. Presuming you have not unlocked the bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Yes I have, is that bad?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
You will no longer be unlocked, i know of no further issues... But have not tested a full restore via Odin... So can't be positive there are no other issues.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
I'm not sure that a full Odin stock flash is hazardous with the altered CID.

I think you just end up with a full retail phone which curiously has the same CID as a different DE phone. Is it really any different than a DE phone owner flashing a retail Odin firmware set?

[ It would be possible to mod the code to reset the CID back to it's original value (if the owner was diligent enough to actually record that info), but that requires some familiarity with coding and arm cross-compilation. Whether that would preferentially alter any subsequent device behaviors relative to just leaving the CID as the DE value is probably not publicly known ]

I will make the following point however: even if you revert to full stock there may still be a small loss of functionality (e.g. anything involving TZ key storage). My phone (which is currently booting a stock kernel) reports the warranty flag state to the kernel in the kernel command line. What the kernel does with that information, I can't say - I haven't looked. But it's in there for some reason...

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
I've done Full Odin twice on my phone and I was able to use this method to unlock my bootloader twice. I had no issues at all.

Verizon N900V OF1
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
I just wanted to flash the earlier firmwares like 4.4 etc. I guess that can't be done with the unlocked boot loader? I would like to try them out but with out losing the unlocked boot loader and root. Know of anyway of doing that with twrp?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
I honestly haven't done any OS downgrading. especially when I hear you could Soft/Hard Brick your device. :):)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Is there a good working build out there for a newb to try. Seems like Everytime I start researching one it has some type of issue. Rooted, unlocked OF1. Verizon note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
What is your goal? What do you seek?

There's nothing wrong with rooted stock.* That's always a decent place for newbs to start. You can learn your way around things slowly and carefully without having to suffer with broken subsystems.

*At least from the viewpoint of no missing or completely broken subsystems (e.g. SMS, NFC, bluetooth, etc) It is quite possible that there are apps that indirectly use the trustzone that will no longer work correctly any longer on a Knox Warranty 0x1 phone. I have an non-Samsung, non-VZW market app which now crashes on startup with a bunch of qseecom error messages in the logcat now... when running the rooted stock rom on the stock kernel. I suspect that this is directly the result of unlocking the bootloader. It is not a security-related application, either. :( :(

So I guess you could say the closest thing to perfection would be a stock rom on a phone that has never been unlocked.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] seadooman:
Thanks for the help. Guess I wanted to get a pure Android install or have also read that the radios that were on KitKat were better. But since I'm a novice I have only rooted, installed custom recoveries, custom rooms on a couple different tablets.S4 was my first smart phone and have rooted and removed some bloat.

Though when you stated the best is rooted oem for a newb think your right on that. Kinda wish I hadn't unlocked the bootloader and just stopped at rooted. Maybe there be a ROM to flash and use then go back to a back up.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
The Jasmine 6.1 is mostly stock, runs very well. What you are reading about "radios" (actually just firmware to run the hardware) is wrong. There is nothing wrong with the OB6 or OF1 modems. However, if you insist... The NK1 modem works great with the Jasmine ROM.

However, if you want pure stock... Then go to sammobile.com and download OF1 (you have to be a sammobile member to download, but membership is free). Factory reset your phone, use Odin to flash the firmware and be done with it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] xFaultx:
Just verifying, this works for the SM-N900v?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
Yes it does. It works on my both N900V :)

Just make sure you follow instructions and u must know that it will wipe your SD card (Make sure you back up your SD)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
EXTERNAL SD CARD! It does not touch the internal 32GB "SD card" which is an emulated SD Card.

The process does require (and WILL overwrite) an SD Card in the external slot (above the SIM card) ... But it can be any old micro SD card 2GB or higher.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Jrh7801:
bootloader

Is a way to unlock therebootloader with 11 cid? Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] beaups:
No
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tiptroniq:
Change of CID

is it possible to change the CID? My CID begins with 11 and I have been waiting, like everybody else to, be able to change bootloader and install Custom ROMs on my Lollipop SM-900V.

If possible, let me know please. Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
The first byte of the eMMC CID identify the manufacturer.

The issue is that the ioctl()s that are used on the 0x15 eMMC flash memory chip (Samsung) are not part of a public standard; so they are presumed to be unique to Samsung and likely will not work on eMMC chips from other manufacturers.

Owing to a bug that required field patching of devices Samsung ended up quietly disclosing the CID changing method for their chips.

Every eMMC flash memory chip is supposed to have a pseudo unique CID value, so they must be programmable *somehow* at the factory.

So the long answer to your question is "Yes, but the method may not be publicly known".

Presumably it could be disclosed through social engineering or outright bribery. It might even be laying in plain view someplace, and no one has looked in the right place yet.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
No

The first two digits indicate which eMMC it is and only those Note 3's with a specific eMMC can be unlocked. Your eMMC doesn't have the "backdoor" to allow this exploit.

Even if you could change the cid, the unlock would not work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mayanknshah:
Hi,

I have a Vzw Note 3 on 4.4.2 - rooted and getting the Samsung devices error.

I downloaded the zip attached to op's post to my external SD card. I unzipped and only kept the unlock_n3.

I ran the commands, but I am getting the error. I have an external SD card which only has the unlock file.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Sczar:
I thought you have to be on lollipop to be able to execute the command and file.

Here is a video of the steps

[youtube]YR1EyeyYrzE[/youtube]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mayanknshah:
Hi,

Thank for the video. will take a look.

I had read post #342 .. and it said this should work with 4.4.2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Post #342 said to download the binary from post #218, and *not* to use the binary from the OP.

Don't be vague when you report error messages - include the exact error message as it appeared on screen That program can produce a variety of error messages depending on the mistake(s) the user makes.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] DaveMar:
Just reporting for others... running Jasmine 5.02, Android 5.0 on 0B6 firmware and using app from post #29 I no longer have retail but a developers phone!! good good good!! Then installed TWRP and did backup perfectly. Few thots to keep in mind, be sure to use a spare SD card cause it will be overwritten also I did have to uninstall my terminal app for script to work... And you need to reinstall and run the unlocker app twice... I also installed busy box after the reboot. Hope this helps someone thinking about this... Read entire thread, backup and go for it... FREEDOM on the fourth of July - Nothing sweeter! Thank you developers and everyone for your excellent service to the Note 3 community!