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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
and even though I took the lollipop OTA and the marshmallow OTA it will still work??? i have never done any of the "safe upgrades"....i didn't screw myself?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
Yes you can.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Skubacb:
In for a penny, in for a pound. Decided to wipe everything including the system and then sideload BETA-SuperSU-v2.71 and Emotion-TW-5.1.1. My guess was that since I still have the unlock symbol and can always get to TWRP that I would be ok. (I hoped).

It had been a long time since I had a phone that could be Rooted (Galaxy S3). I am at the Emotion boot screen with moving symbols (how long? to wait for first boot?). But was there anything else I should have sideloaded since I wiped out everything?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
ok (hopefully) last question...i want the N910VVZW2BPA1 Stock Restore firmware...but do I want incremented or not? theres two versions listed on that site that are both N910VVZW2BPA1, but one says "(incremented)" after. since i did take the official verizon update, does that mean i have to download the incremented version of the software?? i feel so dumb haha thanks in advance

edit: ugghh and then i have to also flash a bootloader file just to downgrade back to lollipop? or is that just added information for an unlocked bootloader after the fact?

I haven't rooted anything since my galaxy s3, which was like 4 years ago...i'm nervous i'm gonna brick my phone or something
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
The incremented is the one I used. The other didn't work for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Skubacb:
Up and running. Could not access the SD card from TWRP. But the sideload of Emotion worked. Immediately wrote PaulPizz to the internal memory and burned it. Just a note for everyone else. You are supposed to Odin BPA1_NoMbn.tar first if you have a clean phone prior to the PaulPizz rom. He expects you to be putting PallPizz over the standard rom to start.

Bottom line here is that if you can get to TWRP in a recovery boot you are golden with this. BTW did not know that if you let go of the keys early in the recovery boot you will not get to TWRP. Again thanks for the help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
Tried the original firmware first, got a fail on odin...about to try the incremented one now. Kinda nervous :(

edit: the incremented firmware flashed successfully on odin, then it sent me to a bootloop....rebooted to recovery, wiped data, and it just booted! hopefully now i'm ready to root/unlock and finally rid my phone of touchwiz! thanks for the help
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
I'm able to gain root access via KingoRoot, and I was able to enter the following commands successfully

adb shell

su

cd /data/local/tmp/

chmod 777 samsung_unlock_n4-fix

chown root.root samsung_unlock_n4-fix

./samsung_unlock_n4-fix

it rebooted but didn't seem to work correctly...now like 10 consecutive attempts to repeat the process result in a successful root, but now after I type the "su" command, I get no response from the app. it gives me a new blank line to type on with no prompt in front of it.

i checked out that youtube video explaining the process, and he said when you go into download mode, it will say "mode: developer" if the bootloader is succesffully unlocked...mine isn't. says to keep trying again, but every attempt i have the same issue. additionally, i have to uninstall and reinstall that fastboot program every time i attempt it...when opening it a second time without uninstalling first, it opens, a ton of text scrolls through the app at top speed, and it closes automatically.

also, this new flashed version of 5.1.1 won't recognize any wifi signals...the options to "scan" for one are grayed out

EDIT::::: SOLVED, now with new problem, see post below
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
ok, now i'm getting past the "su" command, but when i enter "adb push samsung_unlock_n4-fix /data/local/tmp/" it says unable to open samsung_unlock_n4-fix: no such file or directory

i definitely didn't skip the step of "adb push samsung_unlock_n4-fix /data/local/tmp/" before rooting

i'm also simultaneously getting a notification on the phone saying "Security Notice: The SE for Android security system has been turned off. Restart your phone to restore your security settings" and then i have the choice to restart or cancel

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I think this is what I'm doing but I can't figure out the mistake I'm making. What space are you referring to?

I've tried this almost ten times now and it keeps failing at that same spot...unable to open samsung_unlock_n4-fix: no such file or directory

I get no error messages before that, it seems to push fine...and I'm pretty damn sure I'm copy and pasting the commands exactly...i'm stuck!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
And

On the no such file,check it to make sure it's not duplicated. If it is it will add a number to it like Samsung. ......unlock....2. It has to be exactly like what you enter in cmd.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
Just to make sure... the unlock_n4-fix file is in the same location as the adb, right? Meaning, if the adb is on your desktop, so should be the unlock file. They can't be in two different locations. Just trying to help... it's always the simple things that usually hold me back.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
Thanks for the reply. Yes they're in the same folder, and it seems to recognize the file just fine when I try the push command. I even tried renaming both the file and the corresponding commands to something else just in case it was a weird typo. Nothing.

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Yeah I have those spaces for sure. I've been copy and pasting from the instructions. Haven't noticed any duplicate file names, according to the Windows folder that's what they're called, unless it's some weird extension name that doesn't show up in a normal folder view. It's super mind boggling, especially since I got through all the adb commands once successfully, but the phone immediately crashed and didn't seem to have unlocked developer mode when I booted into download mode to check.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
Finally worked! didn't do a damn thing differently...jeez.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
At least the celebration beer will taste better. Lol.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
haha thanks, the beer is on ice, but i haven't cracked it yet.

So, I now seem to have permanent root and TWRP installed correctly, but I can't get the phone to boot up with my sd card in place. I have tried to reformat it on my computer, which I keep getting errors with...and then I tried reformatting it with TWRP, which it said was successful, but it won't boot. i saw someone in the thread say they downloaded a program to format their sd card, but they didn't specify which program??? i feel like my brain is turning to mush dealing with this for the past 24+ hours.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
I formatted mine with another Samsung phone. It worked.

I'm glad you got it going.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
Try using a different format on the PC.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
the stock windows formatter just fails

downloaded this one: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

and it says "this drive is not supported"....using an sd slot that came stock on my asus pc

didn't see another program that looked reputable, and haven't been around another samsung phone to try what [MENTION=2910877]homephysician[/MENTION] suggested

got it to boot up with my old 32gb sd from my old phone, so i'm going to use that to try to flash cm13 and hopefully THAT will recognize the other sd card? ugh lol i keep having issues, then i fix them accidentally without even knowing what i did differently, so maybe this'll be the same
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Bicknasty:
I've used a program called MiniTool Partition Wizard which worked for me when the stock windows formatter failed. Don't just delete the partitions, but make a new position partition table on the card as well, just to be safe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
good god, this is becoming an ordeal!! after finally getting CM13 installed and running, i tried to install titanium backup and it's saying that i don't have root access....root checker is saying the same, even though it was saying i had root when CM13 first booted. i don't know how the hell i lost root access in the meantime....what happened!? how can I get permanent root???? i still have a custom rom with TWRP on the phone, i didn't even think that was possible without root.

still no luck with the sd card either.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Bicknasty:
Developer options will give you root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
Thank you! Whew.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
Put your card in another phone and format it. I couldn't find my card adapter when I was going through the root process.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fz798:
doctor_cool posted a few DOS commands to fix it right from Windows, works great

Here's the post:

http://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/general/corrupted-sd-card-rooting-t3377195
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] thenotoriousbtb:
HELP! OS and download mode deleted!

So I got through to step 10 in the guide for rooting. Side loaded TWRP but was unable to side load the kernel. Decided to reboot anyway and try it with the stock kernel, but it kept getting to the red Verizon screen and rebooting. So I went back into TWRP and thought I'd wipe and reset... Except this wiped my OS and download mode. So now I can't even use Odin to flash a kernel and ROM! I tried loading the Emotion kernel on my reformatted microSD card from my computer, but my phone won't read it. Can anyone please help me?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
You have no download mode? At all?

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
So I got my sd card and tried kingoroot and kingroot(PC and mobile) and neither of them worked. Kingoroot said it worked one time, but root checker said I was unrooted. What should I do from here?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
I think the Samsung boot screen will tell you if the temp root took. It'll have an unlocked padlock.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
and on step 6.5 do I have to type all the lines of commands individually or can I just copy and paste the whole thing?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
You type or paste each line followed by hitting the return key.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
http://imgur.com/GP46Zrr

my phone didn't reboot on this part like the guide said. Do I manually do it or am I doing something wrong? sorry for all the questions
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
I think I had to manually reboot mine.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mrme12:
Sounds the same problem I had. To solve it I enables sideload thru twrp first. And sideload kernel from my pc. Emotional worked better than multisystem kernel.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
Hopefully this is my last question. After taking the sd card out, am I supposed to leave it out for the rest of the process? The wording on step 7 was a bit confusing
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
isn't working for me...."virtual disk service error: the volume size is too big"

it's a 64gb card...nothing seems to work. is this sd card fried, or what?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mrme12:
Yes once you take SD card out you leave it like that.

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Use sd formatter program free download available
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
I've tried several programs...stock windows, the official SanDisk formatter, something partition manager, and now that dos method.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mrme12:
Sd formatter always worked for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Skubacb:
I have no idea if I did things the "right" way but when I had temp root with KingoRoot I simply went to the Playstore and installed TWRP. Granted this was after side loading the Emotion rom. Figured that since I had the unlock screen (unlocked bootloader) and root, even if temporary, that the TWRP install should work. It did. So what did I not understand. I.E. why do we need to sideload once we have the unlocked bootloader and root (temp)?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
Okay I've tried literally every root method on both pc and mobile and NONE of them are working no matter how many times I try. This is frustrating as hell.

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I should also note that kingoroot sometimes says that it worked but when I go to root checker it always says that it didn't
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dominick_7:
If wifi sucks, it overheats and Im only getting 1x data how do I install the Modem PA1 exe? Thats what I need to fix it right? I guess it has to be flashed with the bootloader for it too? Also will it format/delete everything I already set up?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Gravemoss42:
What are the chances this will work on the Note Edge?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masterzoltar:
Ive rooted a ton of phones. I have a note 4 dev and a retail. Kingroot keeps rebooting the phone. I cant seem to get past this step. Everything works fine until this step. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Some people seem to be against it, but the only way I could make it work was using kingOroot which is the PC version of kingroot. Others have said you can get kingroot working by killing Knox in app manager but that never worked for me.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masterzoltar:
thanks

got it to work that way but now cant get permanent root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
I used the doctor cool method in order to obtain perm root and BL unlock. Not sure I'm allowed to post the link to that post, but here it is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3375527
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dominick_7:
Take out the SD card put the files on there and use the recovery mode or whatever its called and manually install the bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Vagabondage80:
No root

Recently I had to roll back to stock to get rid of a problem and now I am having trouble getting root. I'm on a bare, fresh install of 5.1.1, but neither Kingroot (reboots at ~55%) or Kingo Root (reboots at 90%) will work. I've done multiple factory resets, but no change. This worked last time I did it, so I am not sure what is different. Any insight?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
Did you untick reactivation lock?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Vagabondage80:
Not sure which stage you are referring to, but I think I got it fixed regardless. I just had to reimage it in Odin again and the root took. Thanks, though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] noted2:
Root checker never told me it was a success either. I just knew I had temp root because of the unlocked pad lock on the boot screen.

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] will4958:
I have finally joined the unlocked boot loader and rooted Note 4 bandwagon!!!:) However, I do have one hiccup, though. I had to backup my apps and their data with two separate apps due to Helium creating way to big of a backup when backing up the apps and their data. I backed up the apps with My Backup Pro (those restored fine, by the way), and their data with Helium (that's the hiccup). I've tried to restore the data several times, but get the same error each time: 'An error occurred while performing your app restore. A log of the error has been sent to ClockworkMod.' This error was received when trying to restore the backup I created just last night, which was only for the data, and the one I created on June 10 this year, which was for the whole kit & kaboodle. I can more-or-less live with not being able to restore the data, but I would REALLY appreciate any help from those who've run into this same issue. Thanks in advance for any help.

P.S: Using Helium worked fine before unlocking the boot loader and rooting the phone, with the occasional hiccup during backup or restore, but I was still able to have it do what I needed it to do.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bcool15:
why step 7 exists?

i have already unlocked bootloader i went to http://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/development/howto-bootloader-unlock-upgrade-to-t3398144

and followed instructions it said to root again if i assumed correctly i flashed 1.7gb firmware file in the above mentioned post and and then instructions here till step 6 and then flashed recovery from hsbadrs thread and now flashing jasmine rom

i felt there are extra steps hence posted here. ? may be i am wrong ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
From my understanding, there is a script that runs the second time. And also to use supersume to remove Kingroot leftovers.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dominick_7:
I have the same issue but it keeps saying I have a desktop password I need to make sure is blank. It is blank but it keeps saying that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] machx1111:
Sorry if this is a redundant question but I searched and only found cursory comments about it:

I am running 6.0.1 SM-N910V on Verizon. Will this method work? Anything else special to consider?

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SufyanAhmedXY:
Great Effort :) Salute to you:cowboy:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mackowiakp:
I use NOTE4 with Android 6.0.1 PDA N910CXXU2DPE6, CSC	N910COXA2DPE1 + TWRP + root. All works perfectly but in this version of firmware, root filesystem is read-only. I try to remount /system from console, from ES Explorer, from Root Explorer and so on. Nothing helps. Can anybody advice me how to make root filesys as R/W. Just for a while, to make some changes.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
I believe that you enable it in developer options.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mackowiakp:
YES - of course!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kjun14:
I am getting stuck on the part where you type in the commands. I am using kingoroot to root my phone, i then use root checker which confirms that I am rooted. I go to command prompt and type in:

adb shell

su

but I get stuck on the su part. after I type in SU, i saw in a video that the next line should be some text followed by a "#" sign which is when i should be typing 'cd /data/local/tmp/' but all i get after typing su is a blank line. and nothing happens.

I have probably tried 20+ times now. Only on one attempt, did i get to type in the rest of the commands and then waited for the phone to reboot before pulling the battery to repeat the steps. I was not able to repeat the steps because I am now stuck on what I described above.

I feel like such a noob because this guide is titled "for noobs" and I've been doing some research to see if anyone else has this issue but have had no luck.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jcleav:
I was having the same problem, and couldn't figure it out. to be honest, I don't definitely know what I did differently when it finally worked. but towards the end, after every failed attempt, I was rebooting my phone and wiping data and cache. not sure if that's overkill, but for what it's worth, I successfully unlocked the bootloader soon after trying that. good luck, it's a pain in the ass.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] panowolf:
Phone constantly fails @ Step 6.5. My phone will not take root?

5.1.1 BPA1

Kingroot gets to 52%, reboots phone and restarts. Tried a dozen times.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kjun14:
you might have better luck using the Kingoroot PC application

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An update to my previous post in case anyone is having the same problems I had.

I was able to send the adb commands by typing "su root" rather than just "su". This allowed the command prompt process to continue as described in the instructions.

After this, I thought I was finally in the clear but then had problems with Odin not pushing TWRP to my phone. I kept getting a "failed" message. After several restarts of my phone and computer, I gave up on Odin. Instead, I downloaded TWRP from the play store, then ran Kingoroot to gain root access, then went to the TWRP app to install TWRP recovery on the phone. After TWRP recovery installed, I was able to boot into recovery mode and saw that TWRP successfully installed.

I now have an unlocked bootloader and root access. Between the factory reset required in the instructions and removing bloatware with Titanium Backup, my phone feels new again. A huge thank you to OP for the instructions and to the people that were able to bring this process to us.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tydiamond11:
I have the same issue !!!! lol :) I have tried everything also the desktop versions and kingoroot and others to get something to just have root for the unlock. but nothing :) well I guess I will just wait for a better root method.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] melbell:
Same issue here. After 6 hours of wiping and retrying every version of kingroot we could identify that might help, we were still unable to gain the temporary root access.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ttall8ball:
I had to use pc kingoroot on wifes phone, a lot quicker than the version for phone
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] snakemancometh:
halp

VZW

SM-910V = ANDROID 5.1.1

N910VVRU2BPA1

developer options are on, reactivation lock off

I currently have my phone on airplane mode to avoid an OTA update. I have automatic updates turned off..

Not sure what this update is. 7/3/2016 0430 AM. **UPDATE- N910VVRU2CPF3

I am looking for the simplest root to optimize my phone. I am only concerned with using Hotspot(unlimited data, trying to use all that I can) and cleaning up things I don't need from the phone. Stay on 5.1.1 or update to 6.0.1 Please link me in the right direction. Thank you. I have no preference, only care about ease of process and functionality.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Xnitro67:
trying to do this on my brothers phone n910v 5.1.1 kingroot doesnt work cant even get the desktop to work just runs/installs app
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DigitalTitan:
I'd stay on 5.1.1 for now. Unlock the bootloader and install the PaulPizz ROM prior to MM. MM is fun to try, but I wouldn't trust unless you know what you're doing.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dracozny:
I have the same issue. kinda wonder if that should have been after flashing the new kernel through twrp
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cwbcwb:
Well got it on developer mode installed recovery issue 2 I still have temp root and my home button been broke since I got the phone can't get to recovery and when I use quick boot it earth dose not run or it takes me to the real recovery not the custom one I used adb to get it in download mode that's how I new I had developer mode I seen it

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and I did that super user thing when I restart It takes full root away