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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JacekRing:
An hour..........I spent 2 hours watching kingroot try and root my damb phone, LOL because I didn't wipe before trying to get temporary root the first time you use it (before I read in a post that wiping twice will make it MUCH more successful). Took me 10+ hours of actual work to get my phone rooted and CM 13.0 setup, because I didn't have steps to follow, LMAO. Made it up as I went.

As to the Torrent, I'd be the only one sharing and my upload speeds are not that great. maybe 500 kbps, I live in a rural area. At least my download speed is 40 mbps.

And it is hellofa tedious root for the Note 4, I haven't seen any other phone as crazy tedious to root.

Edit: Mind if I add a 'success story' section and add you to it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jwp1299:
Oh of course, go ahead and add me.

Also, if you do end up making a torrent, i'd be happy to help seed at least for a while. I have pretty good upload and no data caps or anything so it would probably help a bit (anything is faster than that 100 kbps that xda was giving)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Viper-Link:
You called N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.zip, "N910VVRU2BPA1 Full Firmware". Which kinda got me confused, (maybe its just me trying to do this at 1 am >_>) but might want to edit that. Other then that Iv'e had a pretty easy time following this guide. Thanks! (still doing it fyi, I got an infinite bootloop, so figured I messed up somewhere after reflashing TWRP, now im starting from scratch.)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] pfcland:
I have a Very weird problem , I followed your instructions correctly i was on step 25 did exactly what you said pulled the unpluged the USB and pulled the battery and and waited 5 seconds and put the battery back in and rebooted the phone only problem is now it is stuck in a boot loop of the image Samsung galaxy note 4 and just keeps rebooting . I haved tryed doing a factory reset and wiping cache and reinstalling 5.1..1 via odin and it is still doing the boot loop i am not sure what i did wrong or what to do . I know its not hard brick because i can get into recovery and download but just wont boot the past the Samsung not 4 logo

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Ok so i went and wiped and factory rest like 10 times and now it got past the screen So that is a relief lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JacekRing:
Not sure what to tell you viper as not enough info. Hope you figured it out...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JacekRing:
Was this after the first time you inputted the adb commands our second? Make sure you pull the SD card after the second time, as it will cause reboots after the second time until you reformat the SD card on your PC. Size will be wrong on PC but size will fix when you reformat the SD card a second time on your phone.

Edit it creates like 20 partitions on the ad card when you do adb, it creates a backup of your phone os.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Mjavant1985:
Is there someone here than can do this remotely? I feel like I could do this with enough time, but would rather donate to some experienced who has done this multiple times.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] doubledragon5:
Ok some small issues.. I not sure if this is were you post, but.. First the wife complains, that when in a call, sometimes the end button is no were to be found.. Next the battery is getting hot, and the phone is hot up against her ear.. Last some time the call answer button does not appear as well.. I have Bliss rom based off of CM13 on my Droid Turbo and do not have any issues like this..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stere0123:
Thanks for this guide! It took a little longer than expected, but the payout was definitely worth it. The instructions were relatively straightforward and not too confusing, although I did run into this same issue spitfu did:

I had to remove my SD card and quickly reformat it again (deleting the backups on it) before I could reinsert it, to prevent that bootloop.

CM13 has been running stable with no issues since installation. The only thing that was glitchy was flashing the Open GApps package; the Aroma package (interactive) would not flash properly, so I had to use the stock package (non-interactive, just flash).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Adalberto/P:
Help me please, im in a bootloop (read all for detailed info)

i need you because i ended up in a boot-loop after unlocking my boot-loader in the hybrid firmware, right after making the backup to get the files directory, when i reboot my phone to system it boot-loops up to the Verizon logo.

i removed the sd card right after flashing twrp and thats not the problem here, hope you can help me since its 2nd time i follow the entire tutorial and end up in a boot-loop just in this spot.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stevegames4:
Need Help please

Hi, I did everything fine untill i reached step 35. when I wa back adb to run ./samsung_unlock_n4-fix i keep getting permission denied. Adb is being given root access and tried running in adb root but did not help. can some one please help.

And to the Adalberto/P try factory reset your phone.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hallevison:
Has anyone tried to do this with JODIN3 on linux rather than ODIN on windows?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hallevison:
Did you make sure you ran the chmod and chown commands?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] stevegames4:
The first time I time I did. Then in step 37 it says just to run the last command which I also did. Keep getting permission denied.

I was thinking of starting over and see what happens
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] pfcland:
Doing from steps 53 you should be able to update CM13 of I am correct you would need to wipe cache /dalvik/system. Then install CM13 via TWRP and gaps . Am I correct on this ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SirLaughsalot:
Followed to guide TO THE BONE. CyanogenMod refuses to boot: stuck on booting logo, and after a few minutes, the little circular pulse behind the Cyanogen face starts pulsing like crazy.

Tried everything: Pull battery and retry, wipe cache/dalvik then retry, full wipe and install from external sd. Nothing. Phone stays cold while booting.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] marcbizal:
Exact same deal here, followed it to a T. Any help on this? I've spent far too long on this. I also tried skipping Jasmine after installing N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVRU2CPD1_FullFirmware since according to this guide it appears that either CM or Jasmine can work independently of each other. Maybe I'm wrong on this? I'm very confused with how I can follow the same guide with the same device as all of you with successes, but each and every time end in a CM boot loop.

Edit:

After many more failed attempts, I started from scratch at step 8. The only difference this time being that I used the last release of CyanogenMod (cm-13.0-20160724-UNOFFICIAL-trltevzw) rather than the very latest. This time, rather than watching the Cyanogen boot animation spaz out endlessly, I was greeted by the "Android is starting..." dialog, to my elation! It is now currently optimizing app 102 of 113. If I run into any more problems I will follow up. Thanks for the great guide!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SirLaughsalot:
Glad to hear you worked it out dude. Have fun!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SrgWallopy:
Been a year or two since i've looked into rooting the Note 4, glad to see that there is a way. But gosh darn, may i just say this is the most elaborate way to crack a phone. F*** You Samsung!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SirLaughsalot:
Can confirm that cm-13.0-20160724-UNOFFICIAL-trltevzw is the right version to go with. latest version causes bootloop/hang.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
FYI, to prevent bootlooping with the 0919 build, just clean flash it, extract the boot.img from the 0724 zip, then flash it as an image in TWRP.

Details in the unofficial cm13 thread by hsbadr. Hope that helps.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SirLaughsalot:
I eventually did thaqt after I had the older build up and running :P

I sold my phone, so now I wait for a dank deal on either a 910f or a 910c. Wish me luck!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] liemydude:
delete please
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] LoS24:
So my Note 4 was already rooted with 5.1.1 so I went ahead and updated to Jasmine however now the phone wifi wont work and when plugin the phone to my PC to do the last couple of steps the download folder does not appear or any folders for that matter.

Help please

thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] EAP:
I was able to copy the older CM13 file to a SD card and install from there from TWRP during boot loop and avoid starting at the beginning of the process
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] freshking27:
Why am I getting a bootloop after step 42?

edit: to bypass it i just loaded the Jasmine ROM onto a clean SD card (through the computer) then inserted it into the phone and moved it to the proper directory in the internal storage, no need to actually go through the full boot and setup again. Everything else worked fine, thanks for the great guide!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] striker661:
Amazing guide [MENTION=7616853]JacekRing[/MENTION] . I made sure to hit the thumbs up. I wanted Jasmine rom so I just ended at step 52. Follow the instructions to a T and you can't go wrong people.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rspctmyauthrty:
I couldn't get Cyanogen to boot, it would sit at the loading splash screen and eventually the splash animation would run at ~4x normal speed, at which point I would pull the battery and retry.

Wound up loading MODestRom, which worked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kingpickle:
You need the boot image of a previous version of cm13 or just install the previous version altogether and you'll be good to go
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Stunna4life888:
delete
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bhougland:
SD card size?

I am about to follow this tutorial and am going to pick up an SD card for this process, what size should I get? I already have a 128gb that I plan to use after everything is setup, but i like to have a smaller one for backup.

Thanks,

Ben
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Kobert:
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)

I assume I am doing something wrong because It is not downgrading. Any thoughts/help?

Edit: I fixed it I had to go to the bootloader from recovery (duh)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sp000n:
Dialer Crashing

Well, I finally got through the steps again. It went far more smoothly the first time before I hit that cyanogenmod version bootloop. I still don't quite understand the fixes mentioned here, moving the boot.img, etc.

Anyways, what package contains the dialer? I need to try reflashing that as any call out or in causes the phone to restart all the way back at bootload, so far as I can tell by the cyanogenmod blue face. Contacts and third party contact programs work fine but, whenever something activates a call in or out, reboot.

Suggestions?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bonfire62:
Just reporting in, Ive been trying this process on my Jasminerom v7 for a bit, with only one hiccup. I flash the cyanogen with gapps and it installs fine, but there is no 4g. I have tried flashing louferigno (or something)'s verizon data fix to no avail. Any thoughts?

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The issue is with the latest version of cyanogenmod. Just download the previous build (7/24) i think

cheers
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sp000n:
Ah, right. I wasn't very clear. I wasn't sure how to fix the latest version bootloop so I just went with the earlier version, as you mentioned. The dialer issue was with 7/24 but fixed by choosing a dialer in default program options. None were chosen... odd.

Now I have a stranger problem still. My system can only detect the boot partion. Both sdcard and extsdcard are empty or giving strange null errors. So far, testing a factory wipe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] the0darkness:
Thanks

I got a new Note 4 and It seemed very hard to root this phone.

But I followed your steps and It's Rooted + Have a better OS Now :) Thanks for this helpful guide.

I still have 1 question, In CM 13 there is no SPen support :( I miss those features. Any way to bring them back?

Thanks again :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sudoxnerdx:
Looks like a great guide I'm downloading the files now :D Only question I have for anybody is whether or not an SD card is required? I don't need any of the data on my phone so I'm not concerned about backing that up, but if the install creates a restore backup that is required to unbrick then I understand... Any insight?

Edit: Re-reading the guide sounds like the sd card holds a recovery to return the bootloader back to stock? I might just wait until I get my sd card then.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sry9681:
Thank you so much for the detailed guide. I am having a small issue. When I try to install TWRP, Odin says it fails every time. and when I try to go into recovery mode, the android animation appears for a couple of seconds and then fails with the screen that tells me that start up has failed and to use the Verizon Repair Assistant to fix the phone. I can take out the battery and reboot just fine though. Any help?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] droidian1441:
It does not seem to be giving this much of an issue to anyone but me, but I have tried for literally almost 24 hours straight now and still can't get this phone rooted, unlocked, or anything.

I can walk through the steps, but Kingroot doesn't work usually. Using Kingoroot works but whenever I try to do the commands to unlock it always bricks my phone - I can't get back around to doing it the second time because it never reboots. I have to Odin and restart the whole process.

Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I can do to make this easier? All I want is to go from unrooted 5.1.1 to rooted stock 6.0 or JasmineROM... but I'm about to just give up.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] higsdroid:
I am going to guess that I am missing something really basic here but I could use the clarification.

Step 8 says to install N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.tar.md5 in Odin. However, in the download section, the file that is downloaded is N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.zip. I can try to go through the conversation process on my Mac of unzipping and retarring but given that no one has even mentioned the need to do this, I'm wondering if I'm somehow getting the wrong file or if I'm doing something wrong procedurally.

Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
Nope, you're fine. The download is compressed as a zip, for a faster download time. Just extract the zip, and you'll be left with the tar.md5
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] higsdroid:
You know, after I wrote that reply, I decided to unzip it and just saw the file. Thanks for the quick response. Appreciate it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] omega37:
hi! nice work with this tutorial... but if you don't count the time downloading, the time was 3 hour for me, stuck in steep 42 but that was solutioned by copying the files in the SD and move with the file manager of TWRP (thanks freshking27), I put the boot.img from the 0729 in the 0919 CM13 rom and work for me. thanks a lot for your help.

i miss the s-pen funtion in this room, but JasmineRom looks fine, how i can got it back? can i do the steeps 48-52 again o i can flash the JasmineROM_v7.0_N910VVRU2CPF3 like it was the CM13 rom? or I have to download another rom for this?

thanks.

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been there!. kingroot seems very unstable, but the wipe and the fabric restore before helps. Kingroot don't work for me when I try for an hour and don't pass for 25% of rooting, i reinstall the drivers of samsung and try with a diferent data cable (the white one that comes with the fast charging seems very week, i try with a old motorola data cable more thicker) and works fine, it tooks like 30 attemps to get the 100% and can do the adb stuff.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Ethan9987:
Please help me! I am about to loose my mind. I've never experienced so many problems in my life. I bet I have tried this 12 times. I keep thinking one time it will just work.

I get to step 32: Now extract and flash N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVRU2CPD1_FullFirmware.tar.md5 via Odin.

Everything flashes perfectly up until System.img. It is green all the way across and freezes up at like 90%... Every time. Eventually Odin shows that it failed. At this point, the boot loader is not unlocked, and the system is corrupt and the phone wont boot. So I have to start completely over by flashing the 5.1 firmware and begin from scratch. Any possible idea as to what could be going on? Please, anyone?

Thank you in advance
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] droidian1441:
I would try a different USB cable. It doesn't sound like the computer is having trouble seeing the phone... So try a different cable and see if you get any different results. Be sure the battery is fully charged or close to it to be safe.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] verizon_sucks:
quick question

Its good to know about that kingroot trick. It never works for me. Going to try double factory reset before attempting it tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Ethan9987:
It requires an SD card when you unlock the boot loader, it backs up some files on your SD card and basically re-partitions it... Make sure you dont have anything important on it, because you WILL lose it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DildoMaster:
This is a great guide and obviously took a lot of effort. Thanks a lot OP!

I actually flashed to stock MM once I got into TWRP and then to the Grace Note 7 port. Worked great!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] robo731:
Looks like an excellent guide. Will this also work for Cyanogen 14?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
It should, I don't see any reason why not. However, Xposed doesn't work on Android 7.1, so you probably want to skip that part.

EDIT: This guide still uses CPF3. You can find the CPG2 partial firmware over on the PaulPizz ROM thread.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] robo731:
Ok, thanks for the suggestions.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] heat2thefire:
I have made it to step 32... after many attempts and changing out cables. I have now run into an issue where the N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVRU2CPD1_FullFirmware.tar.md5 file can't be extracted. I have downloaded multiple copies of this file and they all seem to be unrecognizable and unable to be extracted. This also goes for the Jasmine Rom file and the partial firmware file. I can't unzip or use 7zip to extract these files. I have tried extracted on multiple computers as well. Any ideas what I happen to be doing wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
You're supposed to flash a .tar.md5. If the file already ends with that extension, that's what you flash. If it's a .zip, you would extract, and get a .tar.md5.

I went through this process a long time ago, so I don't exactly remember what kind of file I got when I downloaded.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] heat2thefire:
I understand the difference between a .tar.md5 and .zip. What I'm saying is that no matter which download I do that are either .zip or .7z, they are not extracting so I can get the proper file out of compression. I have verified the hash files are correct and tried multiple computers but to no luck.

Update: I finally figured out what my problem is. I am running cracked versions of Win7 on a laptop and desktop at home but I am also using a Win7 desktop at my fire dept. Because I haven't ran the validation software to update my cracked versions of windows, they don't have the patches installed that fixes the issue that I am seeing. This issue with extracting 0 data first started in Win Vista but of course continues forward into Win 7. So for future reference, if your zip software is extracting 0 data, then verify your windows has the latest patches.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PyroYoshi:
Hi all, I seem to be stuck on step 42 like several others before me. In an effort to get around it I formatted my SD and then placed the JasmineROM folder on it. I can't seem to find this file anywhere when I put the SD into the phone though, where should I be looking in TWRP? as far as why it's failing at 42 I have no idea. it boots past the note 4 custom android screen, past the samsung screen and loops on the red verizon screen. I have been going back and redoing things several times over the course of 2 days now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
Try this, by [MENTION=5363990]freshking27[/MENTION]:

EDIT: Fixed quote.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] PyroYoshi:
I found out that I was using too big a SD card that wasn't formatted FAT. I then used one that was and when trying to transfer JASMINE that way it failed with error:

cd "/external_sd/JasmineROM_v7.0_N910VVRU2CPF3...process ended with ERROR: 1

So far I seem stuck around this JasmineROM. I cannot seem to transfer it via SD card and after loading twrp I don't have an OS to boot to and load it from the normal OS either

Edit: So it appears the JasmineROM and partialFirmware that are linked in the beginning of this guide are no longer working. I downloaded fresh copies of both of them and have gotten much further. I had to go back a ways since the 0919 build of CM isn't booting but 0724 is optimizing applications right now. *fingers crossed*
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
There's a CPJ2 partial firmware available, courtesy of [MENTION=5868929]hsbadr[/MENTION]. It just updates the modem and stuff to CPJ2, without touching the bootloader or actual OS files. I'll see if I can get the link.

To get 09/19 to boot, you need to flash the 09/19 zip, then flash the boot.img from the 07/24 zip over it. Just unzip 07/24, and there should be a boot.img in there. Flash that as an image to the Boot partition in TWRP. You have TWRP 3.0.2-0 (or the latest), right?

Edit: Here's the link to the partial firmware:

N910VVRU2CPJ2_PartialFirmware_DevEd.tar.md5.7z
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] exquzmwa:
I have a quick probably newb question. I'm on step 8. I run Odin to downgrade with partition unchecked. Once Odin is done phone is in a boot loop. Have tried popping the battery pulling sd card as well as reflashing with Odin. Any suggestions on what I'm missing?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] robo731:
Hi, I'm at step 56 in the guide and I'm having this issue, can you elaborate a little on how to "clean flash it" and flash the proper boot.img? Are there any steps I need to repeat?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
To get out of the bootloop you're in, just download the 07/24 zip, and unzip it. There should be a file called boot.img inside. Just transfer that to your phone via SD card, then boot into TWRP.

Press Install on the main TWRP screen. Then, at the bottom right, press Images. Navigate to wherever you put the boot.img, and click it. Make sure that it's set to install to the Boot partition, then swipe to install.

Once it's done (maybe a couple of seconds), reboot, and you should be good to go.

(I'm writing this from memory, so the steps may not be exactly what you'll see)

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Which firmware were you on before you flashed BPA1? Are you sure the download isn't corrupted in some way? I don't see any reason for bootloop... Are you sure you unchecked Reactivation Lock?

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@JacekRing It would be helpful if you could add a note about how to resolve the cm13 09/19 bootloop to the OP.