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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] exquzmwa:
I was on official CPF3 before I started trying to get this working. I did manage to work around the issues with this root method, except like all the others I've tried safetynet still fails. My real end goal is anything that the note 4 can run that will be rooted and allow safetynet to work. So far (4 days of research here and working 16+ hours a day on it things remain a target I haven't been able to meet though I have successfully rooted my phone dozens of times in both systemless and traditional manners following the info here). I'm beginning to wonder if there is a way to root and make safetynet work (seems it has changed often and the difficulty I find with these threads is that it is hard to tell if the one you're reading is still relevant. If you have a way to do what I'm looking for (root with safetynet working) whether on custom ROM or stock (marshmallow, lollipop, I don't really care) I would love any help you could provide. Take care...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
I've tried, too, but no luck... What I have now is stock CPG2, minus the locked bootloader. I then use Dual Boot Patcher to install cm14.1 along with that. When I need to use Android Pay (which is rarely), I reboot back into stock. Takes a minute, at most.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] robo731:
Thank you very much for the clarification, it worked perfectly and with that the process is complete. Great guide, I had a few hiccups here and there, but aside from this boot issue there was nothing I couldn't figure out on my own. Those steps to fix the boot issue should really be added to the guide though. My only other suggestions would be to maintain the guide as best as possible as new software versions, etc... are released and to state the limitations of the guide should they arise (i.e. if it ends up not working with certain newer versions of software). It's a shame that the process is so complicated, but if the guide is followed, everything should work out fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] abraha2d:
[MENTION=7616853]JacekRing[/MENTION] would have to take care of that, as this is not my thread.

Anyway, congrats on your brand new shiny note 4 developer edition :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] zedonetx:
i have problem with odin while flashing twrp on the 30th step. pls see attachments and help me if possible. thank you
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Renegade_2k:
:good: :highfive: Finally, someone who knows how to write a COMPLETE and un-cryptic procedure for our phones, in a way that doesn't assume that everyone has flashed or unlocked a million phone ROMS. I first read completely, then followed this Procedure by the numbers and had success the first time on my brand new Note 4 , no errors. I just picked it up, and came from stock Android 4.4.

I've gone through several dozen posts from [MENTION=5868929]hsbadr[/MENTION], and frankly, the guy is my technological hero! He is intelligent as the day is long, and I'm sure he could create or fix anything on any Android Phone, however following any one of his written procedures leaves alot of questions, and creates a need for a user to go hopping around the hundreds of Forum posts to find information that is referred to, or linked in the current post, in an effort to complete the current procedure that is in process. I've used JasmineRom 6.1 on my VZW Note 3, and followed other procedures in XDA to keep it rooted, and eventually, to unlock the Bootloader. Not that it was a hard thing to do, it just required many browser tabs to be opened, and a lot of hopping around to achieve success.

This OP was a wonderful roll-up of many many posts, with straight forward procedural steps, concisely written, including the appropriate warnings, cautions, and other information at each step. Personally, I stopped my Note 4 procedure at Step 52, and completed my JasmineRom 7.0 setup from there. Perhaps sometime, I'll even try the CyanogenMod or Emotion ROMs. I'm more of a "sorta stock" user.. I do enough tinkering on the UAV Systems I work with every day to fit my needs.

I've been lurking in this Forum for a few years, quietly reading and learning all I can. In all of the posts that could definately damage a very expensive piece of equipment that I've ever read though, this is the best one ever! I wish ,more DEV's would adopt this kind of attention to detail when creating their procedural instructions. Great job, and many thanks to you! All of you! :good: :highfive:

By the way, the whole procedure to my stop point for Jasmine setup took about an hour. I did not proceed with the CM Rom. I like Jasmine, and prefer the S-Pen App functionality. Recently I read that there is a download for the S-Pen which may work with CM, so maybe I'll go ahead with the final steps of this procedure. I've been experiencing seriously horrible battery life with MM Jasmine. The battery drains completely within about 4.5 to 5 hours with use. From a full charge, unplug, turn the screennoff, let it sit for 1.5 hours, I was down to 91%. Have tried several cache/dalvick clears, a factory reset from TWRP, and several different apps for calibration and the HEBF Optimizer app, to no avail. Perhaps this is hardware, perhaps software. I'm sll tinkering with it, but not being a Dev, it's mostly guessing. I miss Jasmine 6.1 on my Note 3 (LP). Great functionality and awesome battery life! Hope I get this sorted.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] trickyvinny:
Hey, I tried using this guide because marshmallow started crashing my phone very consistently. I updated about a week and a half ago and it's been terrible since. It's obviously out of warranty but I had hoped to fix it myself, after a few factory resets and flashes, I decided to install a new ROM. I am slightly competent on most things computers so I gave it a go. Not much to lose since my phone was bordering on unusable anyway.

Last night, I tried following the guide and have been able to slowly work my way through for the most part, but I got stuck on part 40.

I went to Download Boot and tried flashing TWRP but when trying to load to recovery mode my phone says "Start up failed Your device didn't start up successfully. Use the Verizon software repair assistant on a computer to repair your device."

I can load the phone itself, and download mode. Odin fails when I attempt flashing anything and even giving up and doing a factory reset from my settings or upgrading back to marshmallow sends me back to the same Start Up Failed message.

I'm happy to add any additional information that's requested and I've tried looking up this issue on the forums and google but nothing quite matched my issue. Thank you for any suggestions.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ziggy71:
Is your bootloader unlocked? Does it show Mode: Developer? The phone boots up, is it stock? Can you navigate?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] trickyvinny:
Thank you for the reply ziggy. Last night I was typing up a more detailed explanation of what I tried and went back to each step for the specific error messages and fails. I ended up getting it to work and have flashed back to stock and did then did a manual update through my computer's Verizon Update software.

I may eventually try to mod my phone again, but I'll hold off until I have more time so I'm not up past my bedtime too many nights!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] c.parr:
I have made it to step 55 of your tutorial. Unfortunately, I my phone won't boot past the CM13 logo. Do you have any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rpn377:
Wow, I used this method and am now running Emotion OS as of January 20, 2017.

Prior to starting, I was on stock version note 4 CPL1 (december patch, i believe). Essentially... stock and latest.

I followed the directions very carefully up to #52. At that point, I let JasmineRom fire up (yeah, it took suspiciously long) and skipped all the setup stuff again. I proceeded to instead follow the directions to install Emotion OS 7.1.1 which seems to be the latest and greatest thing to have now that is on nougat and that isn't touchwiz. If you are taking this route, remember to flash latest firmwares back to CPL1 as stated in the emotion os directions thread.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] winlinand:
My phone is off the verizon network so I am stuck at step 37, please advise!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] winlinand:
[SOLVED]

KingoRoot
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] winlinand:
CyanogenMod was a no go for me as well, Jasmine worked well though.

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Would you post the link to the Rom?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rpn377:
https://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/development/emotionos-t3528639

There ya go. If you are on Jasmine now.. You basically got 2 more steps.

Flash cpl1 partial firmware with Odin.

Install emotionos zip using twrp.

Instructions are in the link.

Emotionos is still my daily driver and I'm sticking to it. I miss the clarity of volte though.. My frequent contacts have it on and use it. I have little crashes sometimes, but I think that might be more of a nougat thing still being new with some of these apps. I've playing some heavy games with it with no problems. Infinitely smoother than Samsung TouchWiz marshmallow.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] gm8599:
Very helpful directions, though tedious at times. Instruction 44, which is shown below, is not as clear as it could be.

44.	Plug USB into phone and to computer. Copy the JasmineROM_v7.0_N910VVRU2CPF3 folder into \Internal storage\TWRP\BACKUPS\Phone SN\

45.	Reboot into TWRP recovery

46.	Click the Restore button (DONT start the restore yet!!!), and check that your JasmineROM is listed as a recovery option. (don't recover YET) If it's not there you copied it into the wrong directy, try again before proceeding.

I spent over an hour trying to figure out why I could not access the recovery under a directory called "Phone SN". I also discovered that you could NOT produce the same outcome on the external SD card. It must be placed on the internal drive.

After resolving the matter for myself, I came across the following guide for Jasmin Rom installation.

https://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/general/guide-step-step-stock-n910v-6-0-1-to-t3426905

JasmineROM v7.0 Release [Jun 25, 2016]

"EXTRACT and copy/move the ROM folder into TWRP backups

in your internal or external storage:

TWRP/BACKUPS/xxxxxxxx/JasmineROM_v7.0_N910VVRU2CPF3

where xxxxxxxx is your device serial number;

You'll find it if you made any backup via TWRP."

The instructions in this original list are not clear that the directory is the serial number for your own phone and does not work with a directory called "Phone SN" . The second set of instructions shown above made that point much more clearly.

Thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] aaronmj863:
i followed your guide restored jasmin 7 rom and flash patched kernel with odin and booted up fine everything works, the problem is when i flash cm13 and gapps mini it goes to boot up and the cm 13 animation appears after about 5 mins the animation goes crazy and flashes super fast i left it like that all night and still didnt boot into android am i doing something wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jay42782:
note 4 verizon user running 6.0.1 I am getting back into rooting after many years so bear with me!

I have all files downloaded

all samsung drivers installed

no Kies on pc

all good until step 8

fail everytime..any suggestions?

screen is stuck on software update failed

i will 100% donate if i can get this figured out! thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] winlinand:
14

I had the same issue, I installed 14 unofficial and it worked.

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Did you get it working yet?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jay42782:
I did.i can't even tell you what caused the issue but started over from scratch and finally made it through
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Bobby8451:
Hey, I have a quick question, you seem like u know your stuff so here's my question. I have a Note 4 Verizon sm-n910v bootloader unlocked and rooted with supersu installed running 5.1.1, how would I go about installing the CM13 or Jasmine custom rom on my phone, I tried with custom recovery and it failed. Do I have to do the partial firmware thing in Odin and flash the oscar kernel r13? Just want a nice custom rom for my phone like I have on my Galaxy S3, but dont know how to go about installing marshmallow 6.0.1. with root access. Thanx in advance for any info on this
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jay42782:
Thanks man.I was scratching my head on 0919

Now I need to figure out how to extract the boot.img from the 0724 zip, then flash it as an image in TWRP.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] makermarc:
DING DING DING, we have a winner! That build version worked for me too.

I used the ADB Sideband feature under TWRP Advance options to install. To save some typing, I first copied the ROM file and GAPP file to the adb directory and renamed them.

At cmd prompt:

adb sideband ROMFILENAME.ZIP

adb sideband GAPPFILE.ZIP

Thanks for everyone who contributed to making this work.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] dmcgregor:
Wanted to say thanks for the guide, which I ended up following from about step 41 I think, since I was on Jasmine 6.0.1 when I started. Got to the part where I had flashed the latest CM13 and would see the fast flashing logo after a few minutes and the phone would not boot (obviously had not read all the way to the end of this thread yet). So after that I ended up flashing the Unofficial Lineage 14 ROM which seemed to work great. Everything booted up fine, and I was happy to see the return of some CM features that I'd been missing on TouchWiz and Jasmine. The only issue is I've been having a bit of a problem with the phone. Calls initially seem to work fine, but after being on the phone for awhile, sometimes after just a couple of minutes or sometimes more like 45, either the call gets disconnected, or I stop being able to hear the other person (but they can still hear me) or vice versa. I initially chalked it up to just a bad signal or some other issue, but it has happened to me on virtually every call I've had that's lasted longer than 5 minutes (which is probably 7 or 8 calls at this point). In some of the instructions I've seen there is a step to flash a new modem, which I never did because later posts gave me the idea that the modem had been packaged as part of Jasmine by default. And once I got my wifi back and was able to make calls again I thought that confirmed it, but now I'm not so sure. Anyone else having issues like this?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kgctim:
can anyone chime in on an issue I'm having following the steps on page 1.

when on the 2X step where I've ran kingroot, it says it successfully rooted, then in adb I'm typing: chown root.root samsung_unlock_n4-fix

hit enter, and the command prompt window says "operation not permitted' does this mean I'm just typing too slow and kingroot is dropping before I can get it all into the window? This is being such a pain in the butt LOL

just FYI, where it says to put su in, that says SU: not found..

I tried just continuing to the next cmd prompt and it just says you must be root to use this, but Kingroot shows that I have root access.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] smokie2420:
same issue here... when you say you started from scratch do you mean step one or what? does anyone have a link to cm14 unofficial?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DelphinusMinor:
This is a great guide. I considered rooting my new Note 4 but I think I am going to use it vanilla for a change since everything I own is rooted. But I'll be back. :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] lilikramor:
Pls can you say how to use SD card with restore point to restore data on it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DelphinusMinor:
Weird. I am on step 39 where you have to flash TWRP again and it's failing in Odin.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DelphinusMinor:
Gonna go to bed and try this later today.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DelphinusMinor:
I went back to MM. A heads up for non Verizon people (like me) your data should work even if not with Verizon. I am with Koodo and once I put in the proper APN at the step where you need a connection it worked fine.

Now the good news, I at least have an unlocked BL! :D
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mascondante:
Anyone got a faster download yet for N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.zip yet? It would be super helpful as I'm trying to get this knocked out tonight. Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mascondante:
At step 37 internet access is required to install KingRoot root script. I do not have phone signal at home. I went to town to root it but as the OP stated root doesn't last long. By the time I got home I lost root. Is there any way to fetch that root script manually since wifi doesn't work at this step?

Update: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.floriandraschbacher.reversetethering.free&hl=en works to reverse tether via USB and a PC. The real head scratcher is everything connects to the internet just fine this way except kingroot. In case someone ends up in a situation where the WiFi is knocked out, has no service and needs the internet for some other reason this would work, however.

My solution ended up making me feel stupid. My personal phone is US Cellular which has service where I live. It finally dawned on my stupid brain "Why not just let this phone borrow my sim card". That embarrassment aside we're good to go and pressing on.

Update 2: It looks like the latest version of CM may be too unstable for first boot. I keep getting stuck on the boot animation. It goes from normal animation to super fast with nothing appearing to get done. I'm going to try to roll back to https://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=19462 which is supposed to be the latest stable release. I overlooked the fact that updates beyond that were still beta as per the OP.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tjggriffin:
After trying many time with an other method, I rooted successfully the first time through. I had only two problems: 1) I had was my phone didn't show up in File Explorer, so I ADB to push CM13, gapps, and xpose to my phone. After that, I install them with TWRP as instructed. 2) When I was done, it got stuck boot up at the CM splash screen. I found the answer right here on this thread: use a later version of CM13.

Anyway, I do have a question: I want to use Samsung Smart Switch to migrate my data off my old phone, but at launch, I get an error that The Samsung key is mismatched between APK and firmware. How do I get around this? Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tjggriffin:
Q: I'm trying to use Samsung Smart Switch to migrate to my newly rooted GN4. But when I start it, it say the signing keys don't match. I this because I'm using CM13? Is there away around this? Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] lakai777:
I recently used this guide to root my phone and couldn't get cm13 to work so I left it on the Jasmine v7 rom. However I'd like to use snapchat, pokemon go, and my banking app. Since I need to hide root from the apps, I performed a full unroot and flashed magisk 12 which failed (failed when adding supersu right at the very end (error 1)) nor am I able to flash a different rom to my phone (both via twrp). Can someone help me through this? I would love to be able to use my phone with magisk as well as switch roms.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] greatdaneduke:
Great Guide and Thank you for putting this together. My SM-910V has recently updated to ******CQD1. Instead of flashing CM13, are we now free to flash another ROM? I've been through the Android Development Forum and there are a few roms that look appealing as well. I am asking because I would like to get as close to CQD1 as I can get in order to assure the security updates are present. Is there a rom you or anyone in this thread would recommend? I appreciate any and all help.

Thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Black_Hat01:
Helpful Guide! Thanks! Also as for the CDP1 firware wifi issue, I had my other phone with me as I followed this guide, and I paired the two with normal bluetooth, and then on my other phone (non-note 4), Enabled "Bluetooth Tether" and it worked perfectly. Also Kingo Root worked good too! Has anyone tried flashing Nougat on this device yet?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] greatdaneduke:
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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hondaatc:
At step 35, I'm unable to get King Root to work. I've tried several times and it says fix not available, and that my device is in a que with 7500~ others waiting a fix. I got everything else done up to that point though
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] xellous:
I did everything up to step 56 and got a bootloop with the blue TV thing blinking for over 15 minutes and when I restart it still does the same thing. I am still able to get into recovery and download mode.

If I go back and reinstall jasmineRom and flash the partial firmware the phone boots but again when I get to step 56 I get bootloop

Any ideas to get CM to work?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JooseyJay:
Okay... so after rounding up all the downloads I have "N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.zip", which contains "N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar.md5".

Step 8 calls for using a file named "N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_VZW.tar.md5", which is neither of the ones I have.

Long story short I decided to flash "N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar.md5" since it was the only one odin recognized, and I am now stuck in a bootloop... It gets to the verizon screen, and starts over after it.

Where did I go wrong?

Edit: I did a wipe/factory reset and it booted, continuing on!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JooseyJay:
Welp, I got to trying to flash twrp and noticed my phone wasn't recognized by odin... My charging port melted, not terribly, just enough to where it doesn't work anymore. Fml
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shaneflandey:
I know I'm a year late on this one, but can someone help me? After step 25 (the first time) I'm getting stuck in a bootloop that I can only get out of by removing the SD. I tried what some of the comments said about this but it didn't work. Any clue what's wrong?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] ceno78:
Ok so I got all the way to step 55 and now my phone is stuck in a boot loop. I guess due to the latest version of CyanogenMod 13. So how does one flash an eariler version if you're stuck in a boot loop and can't load into the phone to add the eariler cyanogen to the download folder? If I go to restore and choose the Jasmine restore, can I go back to the guide at step 48 and move from there?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JooseyJay:
Is it possible at step 30 to use flashfire or flashify to flash twrp, install superSU zip, and just stay on 5.1.1 rooted? Or is Odin required for step 30? Only asking because my USB port on my phone is melted and my only options are non-PC. Flashify seems to be used by others to flash twrp on the note 4....
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] andyras:
I am in the same spot. Does anyone know how to get out of this CM boot hole?

I went to TWRP to try to factory reset. It reports success, but then says 'unable to mount storage'...

I just tried the idea from the previous two posters, and it hasn't gone well so far. I re-restore Jasmine, wipe data/cache a couple of times to be safe, and the phone auto-boots to recovery.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Dooley69:
Where would I deviate from these steps to just have my Note 4 DE rooted on stock 6.0.1?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] JooseyJay:
Developer Edition? I would think you wouldn't have to follow this guide, just unlock bootloader, twrp, and install root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bucs9115:
I have a Verizon note 4 on 6.0.1, but its on CQE1. Is it safe to follow this guide