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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
I am
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hazardhawk:
Thank you. It works fine but burned out my SD card. I can live with that. Does it kill them every time?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Read the thread; it tells you right up front that the uSD card will be overwritten.

The tool does two passes:

(pass1) If the device CID is not equal to the developer device CID (and begins with 0x15 - not 0x11), change it to the developer CID value, and exit.

(pass2) If the device CID is equal to the developer device CID value, then:

- write the "debrick image" to the uSD card. (This destroys the normal FAT32 formatting)

- alter the "aboot" partition to contain the developer edition credential matching the device CID ( which is == the developer edition CID)

It didn't "burn out your SD card". It copied a bunch of data to it (512 MB iirc) which destroys the FAT32 formatting. You can simply reformat the uSD card.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hazardhawk:
Cool! Now I just need to find a USB reader. I have it somewhere and I can reformat. Cell phone is saying card is damaged. I have these steps down, but it took awhile to figure out where I had to put the unlock_n3 file to use it. hahahahaha Thank you for your work. My next step is figuring out a way around the recovery file signature verification that I can understand.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
There's lots of ways to reformat the SD, including using the phone itself (e.g. with the TWRP command line facility). Use the XDA search tool for more info, but look for "mkfs.exfat /dev/block/mmcblk1".

When you say "file signature verification", I guess you are talking about an error attempting to flash a recovery image to the device? Usually custom recoveries have a toggle option for validating "flashable" .zip files such as custom ROMs called "Zip signature verification", but it can be toggled off in the settings for the recovery. (And in fact it seems quite rare than any ROM devs actually sign their ROM .zip files, so signature verification is rarely turned on by default).

As I mentioned previously, recovery images can be flashed into the recovery partition (which is /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 on the N3) without any apps at all; a root shell command line and the "dd" command is sufficient.

dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 if=/sdcard/recovery.img bs=2048

This all assumes that you take all sanity check precautions such as verifying the size of the image file is correct, it has the same md5 checksum after you have copied it from place to place, and even more importantly you understand it is critically important that you do not screw up the partition number (e.g. p15 is the recovery partition) when writing raw images this way - if you accidentally typed the wrong number you could perma-brick your device).

mmcblk0 is the entire flash memory of your device; mmcblk1 is the SD card.

Do not EVER flash anything to /dev/block/mmcblk0, only to a sub-partition as in /dev/block/mmcblk0p15. Doing the former would perma-brick your device, as it would overwrite the bootloader, thus destroying even the Odin/Download mode. (You can see that this could actually happen by accident if you accidentally put a space between the "0" and the "p15" in the command line given above. BE CAREFUL!)

The partitioning is described here, but can also be seen by listing ("ls -ld") the contents of the device tree

ls -ld /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/*

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hazardhawk:
Figuring out how to unlock my phone after Verizon's soft brick, figuring out how to change my software version to my choice, and actually getting to see Mode Developer have been true highlights of my day! If I brick this one, I have another and if I brick that one I will get another. Do please keep in mind while I have glanced at being able to do this most of my searches came up with impossible until a few days ago so I am just getting started learning. It was pure luck I figured out where to actually put the unlocker_n3 file to be able to use it.

Even then, I cant install a recovery program without it going into boot loop and having to start over when the custom recovery fails. Well CWM at least because I cannot figure out how to get TWRP installed because every way I have found sends it into recovery were the Signature Verification Fails and, yes, you are correct about what I mean. Once I get a custom recovery I should be good to install the Marshmallow I want.

I also do not plan on changing any partitions. At least not until I get the basics down. Apologies for hijacking this post and thank you for trying to help me, but I think that is still too far above my head! Do you have an idiot's version of how to turn off verification to swap out my recovery to TWRP?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
The instructions I provided will absolutely work, assuming that you have MODE: DEVELOPER. (Also, I do not have any clue why you are trying to use CWM; I'm not sure if there is even a build for the SM-N900V. Use TWRP - say the 3.0.2.0 "4.4" version if you are on OB6/OF1 )

If you were to download the above-mentioned image to your phone, then e.g.

dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 if=/sdcard/Download/twrp-3.0.2-0-hltevzw-4.4.img bs=2048

If you are intimidated by the command line, just leave this rooting stuff alone for a while and start reading about the linux command line and common commands. You can gain practice using the command line right on your phone using a free terminal emulator. I guess I would strongly advise you to poke around using it for a while as a non-root user before you ever type in the "su" command.

Or, (for Linux learning practice) you can put a linux VM on your PC. If you use the VM's snapshot facility to record it's starting state, you can attempt all sorts of dangerous learning exercises inside the VM. If you fubar that, no harm no foul it's just ones and zeros, and you can conveniently rollback to the first snapshot to start new and improved dangerous learning exercises.

cheers
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hazardhawk:
Thank you. And do not worry, I am well advised. That line right there is what I needed. You might think it is funny, but my poor cracked screen Note 3 has been flashed so many times in the past week I can do it in my sleep! I wonder if it has a flash limit! Hahahaha! Seriously, thank you. I am going to take some of your advice before I use it and learn a bit more. And when I use it then it is on me. I just happened to pick a Verizon Samsung Note 3 to learn on in my misfortune!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] hazardhawk:
adb shell
su
dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 if=/sdcard/Download/twrp-3.0.2-0-hltevzw-4.4.img bs=2048

I am using ADB Minimal Shell and Fastboot Is this the way I plug it in? But I think I am missing the command to execute going into ODIN mode or do I do that manually?

EDIT: nevermind. got it. I was making a typo

Last Edit... Custom Rom installed and all is well! Thank you especially bftb0! You gave me the pieces I was missing and sent me in the right direction to learn!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ForgottenNomad43:
um how can i tell if it worked?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Your Odin/Download screen will say "MODE: DEVELOPER".

( And also the eMMC chip will have the (SM-N900V specific) CID value of

1501004d424734474300952f4e743100 - you can determine this with the eMMC Brickbug Check app )

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mac.os.x:
I'm a try this, just got a 900v, on
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] miguelvargas7:
Unlock Bootloader using USB OTG

Can it be done with a usb memory otg ??

My verizon note 3 does not recognize the sd card
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
No it can not.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] miguelvargas7:
que pasa si mi verizon no lee sd card???

existe una forma de hacerlo utilizando la memoria interna o una memoria usb otg?

si no la hay, entonces es bueno considerar crear esta forma (memoria usb otg)

gracias por el trabajo duro, son ustedes de lo mejor.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
[MENTION=8053065]miguelvargas7[/MENTION]

No estoy tratando de ser un pendejo, pero debes escribir usando el inglés. Utilizar Google translate si es necesario.

Y ahora en inglés:

Several people on this thread had the same problem as you; one of them recompiled the code to disable the writing to the SDcard. So you could either attempt to recompile the code yourself, or perhaps contact those people via PM to see if they will share that binary with you.

In either case, you should read the entire thread - perhaps using Chrome (on a PC), as page translation is most convenient that way.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mac.os.x:
Haven't tried yet had go pay my MetroPCS bill I just slapped in MetroPCS card in it and now I'm about to throw a SD card in it. Get the files. I'm on lollipop 5.0 sw ver. LRX21V.N900VVRSEPL1 .... Baseband version N900VVRSEPL1, ... SECURITY VER: MDF_Version_1.0 Release_4 && VPN_Version_1.4_Release_4 && ASKS_Version_1.2_161011
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
PL1 isn't rootable (yet)... unless you have a secret and are holding out on us. :)

But all is not lost - because the PL1 bootloader doesn't increment the AR SWREV flags beyond what the NK1 firmware set, you should be able to Odin flash any of the NK1/OB6/OF1 Stock Firmwares.

Of those, OB6 and OF1 are rootable with the Yemen tool(s).

No unlocking until you have root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mac.os.x:
So I have to flash down to one of those ? I'm on it ASAP right now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mac.os.x:
please send me link for OB1 or OF1 and odin verson to use i didnt see one anywhere for android file host, i dont have win10 installed right now only got Kali rolling installed / is there odin for linux
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
There's the Odin clone Heimdahl (heimdall?) for linux. Never used it so I can't vouch for it. The vzw Note 3 firmware can be found on sammobile.com (device SM-N900V) after registering with a free account.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mac.os.x:
Thanks I ended up getting it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
I am going to post the no sd card required in a reply to this message.

UNDERSTAND THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT REPEAT NOT MAKE AN UNBRICK IMAGE.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK OR OTHERWISE TRASH YOUR PHONE!

---------- Post added at 03:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:41 AM ----------

Go here and read the several messages giving instructions.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=66529235

Download the attached file HERE in this message. The unlock program is named noSD_unlock use it instead of unlock, you can rename to unlock.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] scottsdca:
OK, if I'm already unlocked and rooted but want to just update to the latest bootloader OF1, can I do that without having to go through the whole unlock process again? Can I just Odin something? My baseband is already on OF1. Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] vk001716:
okay done . but how will i know its bootloader is unlocked?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
By reading the thread.

I think at least five times in there it is pointed out that the Odin/Download Mode screen will say

[size=+2]MODE: DEVELOPER[/size]

OK, make that six times.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] riotstarter:
donc113,

If I were to PM you my email address would you mind sending this to me? My phone does not recognize that an SD card is inserted at all. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
[MENTION=4199891]riotstarter[/MENTION]

Look a a couple posts back. More detail in your Q & A, Help and Troubleshooting thread

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] riotstarter:
Bootloader is now unlocked without the use of an SD card :) Thank you bftb0 for pointing me in the right direction and donc113 for the actual workaround. Greatly appreciated!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
I'll probably ask you for a favor later on LOL.

enjoy
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] riotstarter:
NP
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
What he said...

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=71448959
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] miguelvargas7:
unlock bootloader no sd card required

I still do not understand how to unlock the boot loader without the sd card, any tutorial is attacked (miguel_vargas7@hotmail.com)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
(1) Verify that you have a device with a 0x15... CID eMMC flash memory chip. You can use the eMMC "Brickbug" app for this.

Yes? Continue. No? STOP. The unlock only works with 0x15... CID devices

(2) Root the device. Yemen method. OF1 and OB6 releases only.* NC4 or earlier, Towelroot v3

You can not do step (3) until you are rooted.

* if you are on PL1, you must Odin flash the factory image back to OB6 or OF1. No way to root PL1 yet, but fortunately you can install backwards to OB6 or OF1

(3) Follow the instructions in the first post in the thread but using the binary named "noSD_unlock" provided by [MENTION=1923941]donc113[/MENTION] a few posts (post #608) above.

The program will behave almost identically, but will not need an SD Card to be present.

If you have problems, cut-and-paste the output of that program into a post here.

The very worst thing you can do is say "it didn't work for me" and not provide any details of what you tried, what version of firmware is on your phone, what messages you observed while trying.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
The instructions were in my post that I gave a link for... And in the next 2 or 3 posts after the link'ed post in this thread.

[MENTION=2341536]bftb0[/MENTION]'s instructions are valid too
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Jtaxel:
Ok so

its unlocked, says developer in download mode, but i cant flash TWRP through ODIN, or flashify,

Now i have NO recovery, every time i try to flash it, its gone, i can boot normal phone works all that,

after i tried to flash TWRP, it went with success, but when i reboot to recovery, the blue text up top blinks once, then goes to download mode and says in red "Could not do normal boot" ive tried even flashing clockwork mod, but that completely screws it up so it wont boot anything, but i just re odin flash TWRP and that atleast lets my phone boot normally, but still without a recovery.

Yes its rooted

On 5.0 OF1

Could not do normal boot

ODIN MODE

Product name: sm-n900V

Current Birnary:Custom

System Status: custom

Reactivation Lock: OFF

Qualcomm Secureboot: ENABLE (CSB )

ap swrev: s1 , T1 ,R1, A4 ,P1

MODE: Developer

Secure Download: enable

UDC Start
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Ibuprophen:
According to the Official TWRP website for your device:

TWRP for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Verizon

There's a statement, at the bottom of the "Status" portion (which is towards the top of the page) that you may have missed.

It states the following:

"Use the 4.3 version of TWRP if you have never upgraded kitkat bootloader. Otherwise make sure you use the 4.4 version. These versions of TWRP have different DTBs and will fail to boot if you do not match your bootloader."

Also, here's an XDA Thread that matches your issue that you should probably check out too.

Error Installing TWRP on my SGN3 (N900V) by dewanalam55

I even found 3 other threads within XDA that matched your issue and device by searching this exact phrase (without quotes):

"sm-n900v TWRP"

I wish you the best of luck!

Sent on my Communicator [SCH-I535] from the Bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Jtaxel:
https://dl.twrp.me/hltevzw/twrp-2.8.7.0-hltevzw-4.3.img.tar.html

flashed that one with odin,

recover is not seandroid enforcing

set warranty bit recovery

then reboots to normal,

i cant seem to find a clockwork mod for this,

and

ive tried safestrap but that installs fine but when i reboot, there is no nothing letting me no to hit the menu,

I had TWRP on this, but about 2 weeks ago, my phone crashed pretty bad so i had to start over and odin the original firmware and start over,

---------- Post added 5th April 2017 at 12:28 AM ---------- Previous post was 4th April 2017 at 11:57 PM ----------

ok so the seandroid kept rebooting, flashify didnt work, but for the hell of it tried flashify again, 3.0.2.0 worked finally,

thats odd,,, flashify never worked before, but now it does.....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Naedean:
Works on note 3 korea?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Ibuprophen:
Sorry for the delay...

It's great that you got it going!

Sent on my Communicator [SCH-I535] from the Bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Unknown, it was written specifically for the SM-N900V. My GUESS would be no, it won't work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Naedean:
Does it work on note 3 sm-n900L korea?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Again, we do not know, it might or might not. It was written specifically for the N900V.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ryanbg:
It will not, unfortunately.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Alexis124512:
some help for CID 11

I'm trying to install a custom recovery, but the problem is my CID it is start on 11 not on 15 as all tutorials requirements... to get Dev Mode.

Can I change CID?

Any method to unlock bootloader Whit this peculiar CID?

Or an alternative method to flash the room without unlock-bootldr?

Do I give up in customization of my n900v ?

I have rooted successfully and buy the APK FlashFire, run the AryaMod S7Edge Port V6.6 zip, and it's works! but in the Middle of installation the device restart and anything changed...

:( :( :(

Update- Using the FlashFire apk, i do wipe (like on a Custom recovery) my phone restart bla bla bla, setup configuration etc , I reinstalled the FlashFire (Didn´t lose Root Permison) and try again the install of that custom rom, it ends succesfully!!!! 100% working, but. when it was starting i remove the battery (Yeeep.. such a dumb.. you have to wait several minutes before the first boot.. like 15 minutes) so my phone goes soft brick (and now i been dowloading stock rom)) .
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Not known but certainly not easily. The CID has to be programmed in to the chip after it is manufactured, so it obviously can be programmed by somebody. (Possibly only once; but if any number of times - very likely through an undocumented set of vendor-specific commands.)

It is likely that the vendors who buy millions of those chips know exactly how to do the CID programming - because they have been provided explicit "how-to" guides by the manufacturer. Those methods are "industrial secrets". Meaning, you probably could obtain that information through social engineering or bribery.

The hack that was developed for 0x15 devices relied on public disclosure of a private chip interface. Other eMMC chip vendors more than likely have private interfaces that are used for performing similar operations, but those are private interfaces with no public description.

It is highly likely that if you could change the CID in an 0x11 device, the existing technique would work. It is possible however that the first byte of the CID (0x11) can not be changed, as that is the manufacturer code. But that is also unknown.

The Jasmine series of ROMs were released before there was a bootloader unlock; in those cases /system could be modified on a rooted phone, but not the boot image (=kernel+DTB+ramdisk). So for instance if you phone was Stock-flashed (via Odin) to OF1 you could certainly install the last (v 6.x?) of the Jasmine ROMs, following the instructions for "retail" devices.

With a locked bootloader, there is simply no way to boot a foreign kernel. On a rooted phone you can certainly flash whatever you please to either the boot or recovery partitions, but that really doesn't matter - just because you flashed it there doesn't mean it will boot.

And it's worse than that, actually: when you can unlock the bootloader, you will still get the "Warranty" boot messages even with 100% stock Samsung boot images - if they do not exactly match the same bootloader version on the phone. That sort of implies that on a locked phone you need to re-install a stock boot image that corresponds to the bootloader firmware on your phone to get it out of "softbrick" condition.

Of course that will happen if you Odin flash a full factory image as everything is version-matched to begin with.

If you have a 0x11 phone, the easiest way to get an unlocked Note 3 would be to trade your phone for a 0x15 phone. The 2nd easiest way would be for you to discover how to reprogram the CID value in a 0x11 eMMC flash memory chip.

good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] miguelvargas7:
Thank you so much, try it several times and finally I have succeeded, thanks for the hard work. They are the best.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] shandell31:
What did you use to unlock the bootloader
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=71448959
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] shadow2by4:
No USB Port Predicament

EDIT: Derp, totally forgot Mobile ODIN was a thing. Going to try that later on today and report back for the benefit of anybody else in my position. In my defense, I'm not big on Samsung - I got this phone for free from my mother in law when my Nexus 6 went kablewy.

EDIT-EDIT: Well, that was a bust. Mobile ODIN was apparently outdated, so I tried FlashFire. Seemed to go through, but it bootlooped on the Verizon logo. When I got it to come to, it was still on KitKat. I guess I'm stuck unless I can find a way to un-trip the protection and take the update, or replace the USB port.

Welp, I goofed

I jumped in before I did my due diligence reading, and assumed this would work on 4.4.2, which was not the case. I had already installed TWRP and rooted with Towelroot, so now I have no recovery until my BL is unlocked. No recovery means no update to OF1, which means no unlock. If I flash back to the stock recovery.img, will it take? Also, if I take an update, will it take me up to OF1, or shoot straight past it?

In case you can't tell by the title, my USB port is fried, so I have no download mode, and ADB is strictly wireless. Is there a way to use ODIN/Heimdall somehow despite that, like a direct link to the board somewhere? Is there perhaps a way to make the BL unlocker attempt despite the FW discrepancy? Will that work? I have a 15 eMMC, so it should take.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
You can unlock 4.4.2 as long as it's rooted.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] shadow2by4:
Every time I try, I get the whole "This will KILL other phones, go back to google" thing

Did I download the wrong file or corrupt it somehow? I got it from the OP link

EDIT: Forgive my lack of searching, will try the post 218 binary and report back
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] donc113:
Exactly.. The original executable had an issue.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] glen5678:
Does this only work for a CID 15x ?

I have a CID that begins with 11x and I know beaups exploit only works with CID 15x...

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] bftb0:
Yes. eMMC CIDs beginning with 0x15 only.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] glen5678:
F%#%$ !

Has anyone found an exploit for the Toshiba chip yet? (0x11) :confused:

OR successfully reprogrammed the 0x11 CID??? :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] beaups:
Nobody capable of doing such a thing has looked at it or is working on it.

--beaups
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] glen5678:
Thanks for the reply Master Beaups :D

I suppose these chips were first gen phones or something like that??

And those that got them got screwed over...Lol Or maybe there weren't very many produced to give a crap... :p