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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MissionImprobable:
That is a step mentioned in some of the other guides. It would make the experience a little less harrowing as during the last step people could simply power the phone back up in recovery themselves instead of having to try to pull the battery just after they feel the phone vibrate.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Point taken people can choose for themselves

Thanks for the information. [/B]

Tested and EDITED untick auto reboot and other improvments. Works Great

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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] urgodfather:
So glad there's another thread for this. Maybe my mailbox will stop blowing up.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Zacharee1:
It worked perfectly!! Thank you so much!

I was a little skeptical about that 910P kernel image, but no problems so far, and the SuperSU bootloop didn't occur this time.

I didn't even have to do a factory reset and it worked.

EDIT:

May have spoken too soon. I inserted my SD card and the screen went blank and the phone buzzed once, almost as if it had restarted. I held down the PWR and two VOL buttons to force restart it and I may be stuck at the Verizon logo screen. It hasn't rebooted, but it's not doing anything.

EDIT AGAIN:

I force-rebooted again on the Verizon screen and it booted up. No problems after formatting the SD card with a computer.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Some people are having problems because they have already corrupted their phone rooting while it was unstable. They need to Factory Restore. Not only is Samsung and Verizon working to block root but so is Google. The SD Card need to be formatted with a PC.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Zacharee1:
So the factory reset is a safety step?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
For Security and to avoid corruption problems.

At some time we all have given Google permission to gather information. For that reason and because Kingroot is connected to a Chinese Server. I would prefer not having my information on the phone when rooting with Kingroot.

I would call Kingrooting with your personal accounts on the phone HOT ROOTING. If I were going to HOT ROOT I would remove all my personal accounts from the phone. I have done it and it will work but I prefer to do a factory restore.:cool:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Zacharee1:
Oh, so privacy. Well I have nothing very important on this phone, so that's fine for me. If I do this on someone else's phone though, I'll definitely remember that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Icetech3:
I am an idiot that is stoned and had no issues following these directions :) thanks! Stupid question.. the stuff it copied to my sdcard during rooting.. do i need to keep that for anything? or is it basically used as swap space?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
I read somewhere you should keep it because someday we might be able to make a backup out of it. I deleted mine. I am able to use Odin to restore the original N910VVRU2BPA1 any time I want it.

:cool:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Mesaman480:
Need help please noon

So I followed all the steps and achieved permanent root and Developer Edition everything worked great I went back into the T wrp recovery 2 wipe my cash and ended up wiping everything including operating system so someone told me to just install a custom rom I install custom ROM two different ones actually the new cm marshmallow and another one both of them do not recognize my SIM card I am using a Straight Talk SIM inside of a Verizon Note 4 I don't know what to do at this point can someone please help me thank you for the great unlock directions extremely user-friendly much appreciated.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Icetech3:
Was curious... i cannot get TWRP to see my external SD.. anyone else have this issue? not a major thing just annoying...

And to the guy above.. i put on the CM13 rom and using a ting sim it works fine.. so not sure.. sorry.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] douger1957:
I would also format, not just wipe your data partition when you flash your first ROM as well.

---------- Post added at 03:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:24 PM ----------

You're not the first here to have problems with sd cards in TWRP. There are several threads here on how to fix that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Icetech3:
Ah thanks.. will do a search:)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mray99:
Am considering trying this, my thanks to doctor-cool for providing the instructions. I had kinda given up on being able to root my Note 4, and am attempting to get up-to-date with what's going on at this point.

Out of interest, are there any methods for doing this on a Verizon Note 4 that can be accomplished without the use of KingRoot or is that a must have? I'd really like to finally get this done, but have to admit to some reluctance over the unknowns that have been discussed on XDA when it comes to KingRoot. Honestly, I'm not even fully convinced that wiping your phone in advance of using KR will definitely resolve all potential problems that may exist. Would like to find a solution that just bypasses it altogether.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] douger1957:
Unfortunately, no.

My suggestion would be to disable wi-fi and remove your sim card until you can format your data partition.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mray99:
Thanks for your response. I'd thought about that or similar solutions. The problem is there's so many question marks around KingRoot -- I figure if you're thinking it out, one of those questions has to be, what if anything does it leave on your phone even after you've finished the sort of process described here and removed KR? I'd feel so much more comfortable were it a solution that comes from one of the guys that have been around here for a long while. It seems the Note 4 agita never fully ends.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
I found that even fewer steps to root will work so I updated the OP. Tested and it works great.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cleopete:
Why would Google care, unless they wanted to drive people to the Nexus? I'll probably go to that next, unless the Note 6 is unlocked by then.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Installation Block

Have you ever got a Google Installation Block ? They claim it is due to security issues.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cleopete:
I don't think so.. I remember them blocking something (I think it was a one click root option for GB or something like that) years ago, but I think it was just banned from the play store, and the dev made it available on the web. Long time ago so I can't be sure. I haven't had the option to do anything fun with my phone since my DX died a few years ago.

What have you had blocked?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
I shouldn't have said anything political... sorry

When installing Kingroot if you accept Google's request for a security check Google will block Kingroot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] raduque:
When I rooted my S6 last year, Google was constantly throwing up "software detected that can make your device unsecure!" notifications. I was like "yeah... that's the god damned point."

As a side note, for anybody who's done this, after you convert to a Dev phone and root, do you always have to format a uSD card before you can use it in the phone? Because I have a ton of spare 2-4gb uSD cards that I would use for the root process, but I would put my 64gb card from my DT2 in it for daily use after the process.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Before the process you could probably get by without formatting the sd card. If you have been using the card with a Note 4. But definitely after doing the samsung_unlock_n4-fix the sd card must be formatted with a computer. If you don't, when you put it back into the note 4 for some reason it re-partitions and uses a different format. If that happens you would have to re-partition the card using the Command Prompt.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] raduque:
The uSD card in question has never been in a Note 4 - I bought it for use with my Turbo2.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Put it in the Note 4 .If the phone can read it correctly, It's good
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cleopete:
I don't think I got that, but I might have declined it out of habit. (Political? You should see my FB wall...)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] pmjj:
well I spent a few hours, mostly because I was tired I am sure. my biggest hangup was not putting phone into download mode to use odin. once I did that pretty much went well.. was a little tricky coming back up but got it set. Thanks for all the hard work. I went in to titanium backup and blocked updates as soon as I was finished..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
That is what I was talking about . We found out yesterday Facebook has been manipulating the its Trending Topics menu.

The most secure phone in the world may be a rooted phone, because we have more control of what we allow on our phones.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mainebluedevil:
I couldn't get any of the other versions of the bootloader unlock threads to work... but this one was a success!

Thanks for all your help!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Hey, having some issues with the step "chmod 777 samsung_unlock_n4-fix" I just get a "No such file or directory" error. Not sure what to do, I am quite sure I have root, and have typed in all the previous commands correctly. Any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Excuse me, my own fault. I have figured it out. I have successfully followed all the steps, now when I but I have the whole seanandroid enforcing set warranty bit: kernel. Is that normal? Or did I break it? Thanks for any help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] shellie03:
reboots after 53%

I'm not sure why it's rebooting after kingroot gets to 53%. I have followed all the steps. Any advice or ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] onemileprophet:
I'm actually experiencing the same hangup as shellie03.

I follow the instructions exactly but it KR always seems to reboot in the 50's. I've never seen it past 55% T_T
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fz798:
Been posted many times, this is a known issue with kingroot, use kingoroot instead. Comes in two versions, PC and apk, suggest use the apk version from phone and replace with superSU after perm root obtained
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] smenes:
[MENTION=1516013]doctor-cool[/MENTION] Thanks for putting this concise guide together.

To others having issues with the kingroot apk:

As [MENTION=2193554]fz798[/MENTION] stated above, use the kingOroot apk, it worked for me. I tried the kingroot 4.85 apk mentioned in the guide and the most recent kingroot apk to no avail. They both would reboot at about 54%.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Kwikwolf:
I was having the same problem. I used Kngoroot, problem solved.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] shellie03:
Thank You :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
from post # 8 "Some people are having problems because they have already corrupted their phone rooting while it was unstable. They need to Factory Restore."

It looks like sometimes Kingroot gets flagged by Google. Once that happens it is so unstable that it is hard to complete the process. If you look at my threads from last year, I was doing modifications with Kingroot before Kingroot was COOL:cool:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bingo6104:
I have a version 5.0.1 should I take the update to 5.1.1 to do this root and unlocked bootloader?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Time Sensitive

I did the 5.1.1 update but in a future update Verizon may block this exploit. I would use the file N910VVRU2BPA1 from Sammobile.

From the OP "I have also been able to used Odin to flashed the SM-N910V Developer Edition up to date with the retail BPA1 file found on Sammobile then used the direction above to convert it back to Developer Mode. "
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bingo6104:
Well the refurbished phone I got has the bog5 on it. And I think it can't be downgraded. Is there a write up on doing what you have done?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Asiangamers:
Can't format adcad it show raw file :(((
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PhillyD77:
This is awesome. Thx a lot!! :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PhillyD77:
What custom roms would anyone recommend? I would like to on marshmallow but also I would want pen features to work lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Hsbadr's cm13 rom is incredible. According to some on that thread there are apps available for pen features, but I don't utilize the spen so I can't say much on that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JowarDR:
Thanks a lot.

I was getting the KingRoot restart at 53% but then I used the Kingoroot apk and worked just fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Google insulation block ????

Under normal conditions at about 52% ""I THINK"" Kingroot installs something because under normal conditions Google will ask for permission to check security at about 52%. You must reject Google’s offer to continue. "" I THINK"" the reason it is failing sometime is because Google is doing a installation block. Somehow Google's default setting is hanging over even after a Factory Reset.

I have unlocked three Note 4's and It has happened to me before. I don't remember exactly how I got past that point. But I did the usual tricks like. clearing kingroots data and cache , Personal data Reset settings, Factory data reset BOTH from within setting and from recovery. TWO TIMES IN A ROW each time let Google update the Play Store. I even tried re flashed SamMobile's N910VVRU2BPA1 with Odin. I don’t know which trick worked.:o

The reason Using Kingoroot apk like you did is working is because Google has not flagged that app on your phone.

Anyone that is failing keep trying you will probably get it eventually.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Elkad:
got the 53% loop repeatedly myself.

switched to kingoroot, but still had problems

factory reset again and started over with just kingoroot

all is working!

(and wow, something (kingroot?) made a such a mess of my SD card. Windows refused to format it, probably because it had about 20 partitions totaling 32gb on a 8gb card. Had to resort to diskpart.)

My first root!

Thanks everyone involved in all of this.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mickiy20:
does not work only gets to 55% with KingRoot then stops and reboots
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] fz798:
Try kingoroot instead
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PhillyD77:
I had to use the king root computer version and it only work 2/3 of the time and I would have to reinstall it to get it to work properly after I failed root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
I took the MM update today and attempted to Root........

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67147196&postcount=63

The directions in this OP are still valid. I just used them and it worked on the first try. Kingroot still works on the sm-n910v on 5.1.1

People are not following directions properly or I may not have explain it properly. But it still works.

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Edit: Tested three times going back and forth to MM and back to 5.1.1 rooted and unlocked. No problem.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Added the files needed to Original Post also.........

I can report that I have been able to go back and forth to MM back to 5.1.1 several times using KingRoot, But I decided to try the process using KingoRoot just for an experiment. After using KingoRoot I have been Unable to update to MM. System update says My system is up to date wiith 5.1.1. I'm not sure why?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hadroncollider:
I'm having some trouble with this and other methods. After I temp root and it boot loops, I went into odin and tried to flash the md5.tar file but it just stays stuck at "downloading... Do not turn off target !!" forever. Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it? Last night I tried this and after thirty minutes I just pulled the plug and it rebooted fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Do you have MODE: DEVELOPER ? You should. After any failure, You can have corruptions. Sometimes it may help to Odin 5.1.1 from Sammobile.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] afarran3:
Hi can I do this unlock instructions even if my firmware version is N910VVRU2BOG5 5.0.1 ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
I always wanted to say this........I don't know:o, maybe.... I'm surprised any of this works at all. I can only report what I have done.

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I have preformed the samsung_unlock_n4-fix on three of my Note 4's several times . All of them were on N910VVRU2BPA1.

Every time I used Kingroot with no problem.

The one time that I used KingoRoot to root, that phone is no longer able to OTA upgrade to MM also in Recovery I get the message

"dm-verity verification failed". I think "samsung_unlock_n4-fix" was designed to remove Kingroot. But NOT KingoRoot. Good luck, but I don't know the answer to your question. Anyone know hot to fix "dm-verity verification failed". I am still able to root that phone . It just will not do the OTA upgrade.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
You need to advance to the bpa1. There is an Odin file, safe upgrade to bpa1 by hsbadr.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Updated OP with this option,

You now have a unlocked bootloader with TeamWin Recovery.{At this point you could restore a TWRP backup or install a custom ROM. To remain stock continue.......}

There may be no need to install BETA-SuperSU-v2.71-20160331103524 or Emotion-TW-5.1.1-nightly-r21-RC1-SM-N910P
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rayden25:
Needed to use Kingo Root, other than that, it worked great! Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] AFriend26:
well this is my second post first post ever i put in wrong place..... thanks for this guide worked awesome! Might be a noob question but Im going to ask anyhow. So I am still running 5.0.1 my bootloader is unlocked I used the debloat to stop the ota's because it was trying to update. I know how to use odin and adb I have not done a whole ton of flashing though because I have had verizon for a long time. I want to flash CM13 or another rom have not figured out yet because need to know if I have to update to 5.1.1 before I can flash certain rom or can I do it right from 5.0.1 build BOAF? if i have to update how to do it so that I dont lock the bootloader again. I am just being over careful because have always been able to root but bootloaders on verizon are brutal. Thanks again for this tutorial it was by far the best explaination.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masterzoltar:
I posted in the other thread also. I dont know what Im doing wrong here guys. I cannot for the life of me get this to work. I get to step 8 and enter yes but then the phone does not reboot, when entering recovery mode it does not have MODE developer, and when i reboot it has lost root. Ive been rooting since the og droid and this is the first one that has given me a hard time. Any suggestions? I also can not get king root to work on the phone so I have been using kingoroot from the pc which does give me temp root.

THNAKS in advance!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] homephysician:
You must be making a typo some where. After entering each command line are you getting a confirmation line. If there is anything not typed in exactly as written it will not work. In one of the commands there is a space that is hard to see. If the space isn't in there it won't work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
A couple other things: are you getting the output that says this file is only for Samsung phones? If so, there is a different unlock file available, I would link it if I knew exactly where it was. Not sure why that happens but I've seen a few others with the problem.

Also when you run the 8th step which is executing that unlock file, it should give you an emmc (or something to that effect :P) number. Does yours start with 15?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
The reason I set up the steps in the order I did is because if you go back into settings when rooted the phone becomes unstable crashes and corrupts the phone. Sometimes the damage is irreversible so you want to get it right the first time. I have rooted 3 phones one of them is corrupted with dm-verification issues . I got it rooted it but it lags I don't know why. On the bad phone I experimented with Knox security and I also I tried to use Kingo root. Kingo root leaves some junk on your phone. I prefer kingroot as I said in the op. I have two out of three Note 4's rooted and working great on PaulPizz ROM. The bad one I may have to make a warranty claim:cool:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Really? I messed mine up the first time, and had to Odin back and start over, worked the second time and I'm running cm13 like a charm, no hitches. Is there something particular that causes corruption that I just got lucky enough to avoid?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
the DM verification issue only comes up if you try to downgrade to 5.1.1 and then upgrade to marshmallow. I believe PaulPizz ROM disables it. I don't know about CM 13.

And yes luck helps.

Edit; yes I recommend using Odin to go back to 5.1.1 anytime root fails
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ThexMasterr:
Ah okay I see what you're saying, I never downgraded, I rooted before 6 came out and am still running the 5.1.1 bootloader. Good to know though, thanks for all your hard work!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masterzoltar:
OK i figured it out. Even though the phone had just been wiped (bought on swappa) I had to factory reset 2x. Then for some reason I had to root first from pc kingoroot before i started any of the numbered steps. So step one was really my second step. Everything is fine now although it corrupted my sdcard and had to format that again also. I hope this can help someone experiencing a similar problem.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Awesome

Everything Is Awesome:cool:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] krishaun27:
Worked nicely.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gcounts:
Thank you [MENTION=1516013]doctor-cool[/MENTION], the op was so easy to follow. I upgraded my og dev editions bootloader using your guide.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jdenison123:
So once I've done this I'm finally rooted? Amazing and thanks. I haven't looked about root for my Verizon phone for months. I'm on 5.1.1 so it should go smoothly I hope.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SufyanAhmedXY:
great work doctor cool ;)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bangdosa:
are you supposed to remove the sd card after a certain point? I got through all the steps and managed to get TWRP installed but then it kept going into a bootloop.

I gave up and took the first 8 directions at Flash Verizon MM 6.0.1 OTA Update.zip - FULL STOCK/WILL LOCK & LOSE ROOT to return to stock, but still had bootloop until I removed the sd card. Removing the SD card allowed me to boot again.

Poor 8gb card was a mess, thinking it was 32gb with tons of partitions before using SD formater to bring it to normal.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doctor-cool:
Use your own discretion.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bangdosa:
X(.. I guess I wasn't reading right... didn't see the sd card part. sry about that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tydiamond11:
I have tried to just get the root part to work but nothing... after 5 hours of messing with it nothing changes. I have tried kingoroot and kingroot and kingo desktop etc... Is there something I am missing here because I am on 5.1.1 and can't even get the temp root to work to get the unlock even started. I am not a noob lol I have done this before to other phones lots of times but this one is harder for some reason. Either that or we need a good root method... :) thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] morgej:
After too many factory resets and KingRoot attempts, using KingoRoot worked like a champ for me.

Thanks for this excellent guide and download links!