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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
For the heck of it I tried my Android Auto again, and it works now!

Seems like skipping the Flashpoint 3.1 by using the stock CTI1 boot.img, flashing magisk, and Flashpoint v5 did the trick.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
Kingoroot PC was successful at acquiring root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
Kingoroot PC is working, but I've run into a new problem with another phone I tried to unlock. It had the 6.0.1 CTI1 OTA firmware update installed on it. Odin 3.10.6 won't pass the MD5 check on any of the firmware files anymore, saying "md5 error! Binary is invalid" including the new CTI1 safe_full_update from Kevin. I renamed them to flash without the .md5 extension and when flashing the 5.1.1 CPD1 hybrid firmware to start the process, it reported "eMMC write fail" at the very end, and I think secure check failed too. I thought this meant I had acquired one with a failing eMMC, so I replaced the system board with one of the virgin ones I got from China and tried again. I'm not sure what firmware it had originally, but it's from the same batch of three boards I had just successfully rooted a few days ago.

SAME RESULT WITH A NEW SYSTEM BOARD!

I then tried installing BPA1.

SAME RESULT!

What is going on here?

Now when I try to boot it, I get this. See attachment.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
Did you try ODIN 3.14.1_3B_PatchD that is included with the jrkruse files posted earlier? I attached it in a zip below.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
I downloaded a fresh copy of the CPD1 base firmware from here and used the ODIN 3.14.1_3B_PatchD you attached, and it worked. Not sure if the images I have were actually corrupt or what, because a CQL1 flash worked too. Thanks Fritz!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
Glad it may have helped AND that you verified we can still unlock the bootloader if we have to start from scratch. I was wondering if something had expired in ODIN given that I was using the same older version of ODIN to flash the modem upgrade as I did with the last modem upgrade. Once I saw you had failures with files that had worked before, then the only variable that changed was time!

I keep wondering how long my old Note 4 can last before I need to swap out the main board. Maybe I should order a spare board if you have a good source I could order from?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
The one thing I've run into when I've replaced system boards is that the hardest part is separating the two main case halves, and there is a separate digitizer for the S-Pen that is fragile and easily damaged by the process. It's extraordinarily difficult to replace it if it gets damaged, to the point that you can consider it a write-off if it does. I almost never use the S-Pen (though it's been invaluable when I did) and I've disassembled a lot of these now that I've gotten the hang of it, but it takes a lot of force to separate them and you just have to be super-gentle and patient.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
I have opened the phone once to slightly bend up the GPS pins because my phone had terrible GPS reception. Are you talking about that step where you remove most of the small screws after removing the battery and the glue seal must be gently pulled apart?

I was reading online about the procedure, and some folks were saying that they had problems putting everything back together, so they had to separate the display module from the "mid-case" to make some reconnections of cables. They said it was easy to mistakenly separate the glass from the rest of the display module which would be very bad. That sounded kinda scary. I am wondering if I should buy one of these boards along with a second Note 4? That way I could test the spare Note 4 and try replacing its main board if necessary.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
Yes, talking about separating the glue seal from the front/back halves. I have 6 of these Note4's now, plus two broken ones I scrapped for parts. I know that sounds crazy but I was picking them up off eBay for spares, and I had to get some bad ones to get some good ones, if you know what I mean. I recommend getting another one to tinker with. You can find them easily with "shadowed" (burned) displays on eBay for cheap that would be good practice for disassembly, and then you've got your spare system board. Nice ones without display burn, screen scratches or frame damage are getting rare and expensive, so if yours is in good shape it's worth the time to swap the board. The most common problems I find with them are that either the proximity sensor is broken, the eMMC is toast, or the fingerprint scanner doesn't work. Reattaching the antenna cables is another challenge that you'll need bent tweezers and a magnifying glass to make easier and prevent damaging the cables & connectors.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
Mine does seem in good shape, so I will start by getting a spare with screen burn-in to practice on. I already know I can open my current phone, so the key thing for me to practice is the re-assembly. From what I read online I need to get the Verizon Note 4 as the spare because we can't swap between the different versions of Note 4 system boards.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] dd350:
True, they're all different.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to enable VoLTE on this phone/ROM without the My Verizon app? Verizon is phasing out 3G by the end of 2022, and if I understand correctly, all non-5G devices will need to use VoLTE for voice/sms communication? "My Verizon" is rat/bloatware which I'd like to avoid if all possible. Want to keep using my Note 4 as long as I can, appreciate any advice. Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
My experience has been VoLTE just works with this ROM. If you are talking about Advanced/WiFi Calling there is a workaround mentioned back in the first page of this thread. It has been a while since I loaded from scratch, so if you need to also install My Verizon to get Advanced/WiFi Calling to work, you can just remove it after it is activated. I noticed that I can no longer log in with My Verizon to see my usage, so I have removed it and VoLTE/WiFi calling both work fine.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, a hundred times. VZW finally shut down the last of their 3g/cdma infrastructure on 12/31/22. Applied the above fix, and my beloved SM-910V will live to see another network restructuring. If you're ever in NJ/USA, I owe you a beer or three :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
No worries! I have really enjoyed this ROM. I am still using it now, but I see many apps are already showing support for Android 6 and above only. I think the days are numbered for this 6.0.1 based ROM if you want to use a variety of apps, especially new apps. I wish it could be ported to Android 7. I would be willing to give up the Note Pen functionality for the OS upgrade. It seems most Android 7 based ROMs for the Note 4 have too many bugs.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Have any of you ever gotten a T-Mobile SIM to work w/ 4G/LTE data on this ROM, or any other 6.xx ROM on an SM-N910V? As it turns out, VZW 4G/LTE coverage is awful in my area, unusable without the 3g/cdma fallback that as of 01/01/23 no longer exists. T-Mobile 4g/lte coverage here is excellent. Is it a matter of the LTE bands that T-Mobile needs being locked down in the VZW phone? Any one know of a way to hack/enable them in this ROM?

I'm pretty desperate. Changing to another(newer) phone would be only slightly less work/trauma than moving to another house. I have every aspect of this thing tweaked to (my) perfection. Getting too old to do this again, lol.

Thanks for reading.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
I have tried to use some of those "secret" codes entered into the phone app to access the service menu, but none of them worked. It always treats them as an attempt to dial an invalid phone number. I did install an app called "Network Signal Guru" by QTRUN Technologies. It has a "Forcing Control" option from the top-right 3-dot menu that you could try to use. I used it to force LTE instead of LTE/CDMA or GLOBAL for the preferred network type. I see that it only shows LTE bands 3,4,13, but maybe it would show different bands with a T-Mobile SIM? I have not tried a T-Mobile SIM in my phone as I get great Verizon coverage where I am. Sorry I cannot be more help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Thanks Fritz. re: LTE bands, I have a working T-Mobile S5. Using LTE Discovery, I see that the S5 is using Band 4 for LTE. On my Note 4 w/ VZW SIM, I see that LTE is also using Band 4, which I thought was disabled on VZW Note 4's ??????

On the S5, LTE Discovery is calling it LTE, on the Note 4 it's called XLTE, but both are using Band 4. I wish Kevin would chime in, but I know he's years past this. I bet he'd know.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
My Verizon Note 4 uses Band 4 most all of the time, so it is not disabled, at least on Verizon Note 4 with this ROM. I think Band 3 is used in Europe, so the Verizon Note 4 appears to be stuck with Bands 4 and 13 on Verizon. I did read that Band 66 includes Band 4 and much more, so I think we could find areas when traveling where we have poor coverage because we can't get all the LTE frequencies. My understanding is that XLTE is the equivalent of LTE/CDMA. Maybe the X comes from the 1xRTT in the old 2G/3G days. I am still experimenting to see if there is any difference between setting to GLOBAL, LTE/CDMA, and LTE(using the Network Signal Guru app).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Hi, I know this was 5 years ago, but any chance you remember which ROM? Being forced to switch to T-Mobile, and I can't get LTE with MODest ROM. It's been my daily driver for 5 years. Tried to flash a stock T-Mobile MM ROM, got an auth failure in Odin. Damn.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] lev777:
Sorry, I looked here and I do not recall which worked but it would have been one of those.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
I know this is old, but in case anyone is still trying, I too found that Kingroot would repeatedly get stuck with some sort of network/cloud issue, with an option to "check it", or similar, which brought me to the phone's network settings. If I jumped back in the running app list to Kingroot, it would chug away again for varying lengths of time(some VERY long) before throwing the same error. I repeated this back & forth until Kingroot eventually threw the error every couple of seconds. At that I point, I ended kingroot in the running apps list, and ran KingoRoot, which seemed to somehow pick up where Kingroot left off and eventually rooted the phone, after pausing at 45%, 70%, & 90%. What's notable is that on a fresh 5.1.1 hybrid(6x bootloader) flash, Kingoroot alone (without kingroot first) bombed unsucessfully at about 90%. I have no explanation, just passing on my experience. If anyone is interested, I can pass on the exact steps/versions/etc. It's long.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Kevin, I imagine you've long since moved on from this, but if by some miracle you're around...

MODest has been my daily driver on VZW for over three years. I'm married to it, it does all I need perfectly, and I've got it and much of touchwiz tweaked extensively. Since the VZW 3g/cdma phaseout, it's unusable in my area. I have a T-Mobile SIM, and in a test S5, the LTE/4G coverage is excellent. I have tried EVERYTHING to get the SIM working in my 910V, but no joy on data. What I gather over on the T-Mobile forums is that T-Mobile disowned the 910V, and only supports 910T with a baseband/modem update, N910TUVU2ETI1, that they pushed at the end of 2021. I have that entire ROM. Can't flash it in even the patched odin, auth error. I tried to pull the modem.bin out of the T-Mobile rom and put it into an exisiting twrp-able modem.zip, it flashed ok, but my baseband in About Phone is not showing the new version. Is there any way to get this modem into this phone, and any other way to make it look like a SM-N910T to T-Mobile? I'm pretty desperate. Getting all my stuff unto a new phone will be a nightmare, plus I have no interest in new versions of Android that won't run my obsolete, essential apps. Yeah, I'm a dinosaur. Thanks for reading.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] mrjoshjohnsmith:
Fritz, where did you find Flashpoint V5? All I can find in Kevins Android File Host domain is Flashpoint 4 beta?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Here you go
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] mrjoshjohnsmith:
Thanks Forest, I am trying to get one of my spare SM-N910V's Set up with the Modest Rom (v11) you recommended but am having a terrible time trying to have a working hidden Magisk (non of the new ones seem to work), so I thought I would give Fritz's method he describes a page or two ago a try. Now that I have the Flashpoint v5 file I am going to give it a go! Are you currently running this ROM with Hidden Majisk Root (where both Adb And Banking apps work)?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
I'm on Magisk 20.1. Not hidden. adb is working fine, Bank of America app also working.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] mrjoshjohnsmith:
Interesting, in that case I may just go with the older magisk you are using and see if that works. I just tried the combo that fritz used and it isnt working either. The Magisk manager (8.0.7) is not even seeing that I installed magisk 21.4 so I think I will scrap it and flash back to the original Modest rom 11 and then simply see if I can update magisk from there. Do you know by chance if your current setup is passing safety net?

Also, were you able to get the T-Mobile VoLTE working?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ForestCat:
Haven't dealt with SafetyNet because so far, everything I use works. I'm on Magisk Manager 7.4.0. I'm using a lot of older stuff on this phone. It was touchy to get everything working, but it has been very stable, hence my desire to make this ROM work on TMO, rather than try to start from scratch with an SM-N910T, which I may have to do. I was able to get VoLTE (I think) on a test phone w/ MODest11 by replacing the contents of the the CSC folder from a TMO ROM, but it breaks other stuff, ie Settings menus, etc. Also the status bar has small odd icons, data says 4G, but no LTE text. In any case, the 4G stays lit when I make a call, whereas my daily driver w/ a TMO SIM drops back to 2G (i.e. the 4G/LTE icon disappears during a call. I'd like to verify on the test phone w/ LTE Discovery, but it locks up completely. Odd.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] mrjoshjohnsmith:
That is good, maybe I will not need it either, I suppose I could just test the apps that I need, with the main one I am needing being Google Pay (I hate using anything google but now that Paypal could charge you thousands of dollars if they happen to not like your speech, I had to make a quick shift for now). Hmm, that is weird that it would break other things when I believe that it would just change the device information. Keep me posted on your progress as I would be interested to know if your able to get it straightened out as I have 4 of these phones and they (as you noted) are absolutely irreplaceable, and sadly it seems that there is no phones even in the chute that are even close to comparable. I still keep hoping that Ripee figures out some way to make VoLTE or VoIP work with some new (maybe upcoming) version of Lineage, so that my note 4's can absolutely live on forever! And since the Chinese seem to keep producing the main boards and battery's and LCD screens, this might actually be possible!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
I am running Magisk 21.4 with 8.0.7 Magisk Manager. I have never tried to have it hidden and just use Magisk Hide. Nowadays there are so many ways app developers check for modifications, I just gave up on the banking apps that don't work. It might be for the best given the age of this ROM and phone! Regarding Adb, you need to start by using TWRP to flash a fresh boot.img file extracted from N910VVRU2CTI1. You don't reboot until you have also flashed Magisk v21.4 and finally Flashpoint v5.

Did you try the steps below from my last posting about this:

"I decided to flash back to Magisk v21.4 with Magisk Manager v8.0.7.

From TWRP, I flashed the boot.img file from the newer "N910VVRU2CTI1" set of files to the boot partition, then flashed Magisk v21.4, then Flashpoint v5, and then booted up.

I noticed some errors when checking SafetyNet with the app "SafetyNet Check", so I went back to TWRP and wiped Cache and Dalvik Cache, then booted up. SafetyNet looks good now, and ADB is working with the "Revoke" option present under the Developer menu."
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] FritzM:
I just noticed that the Google Wallet app that provides the Google Pay NFC tap-to-pay function will require Android 7+ after February 27, 2023. We need a ROM using Android 7 for the Note 4, but it seems that many of them had issues.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] mrjoshjohnsmith:
O Dang, I did not notice that, that is a huge bummer! That's the only way I can purchase an herb I use for pain. Its nothing illegal or anything, it is just something that credit card processors dont like dealing with (like CBD used to be). Man, you are so right, I wish we could somehow figure out a more modern android version that would work without issues. I actually tried that resurrection remix Rom (I believe it was a note 7 Port) and sadly it had many of the same issues that Lineage has (unstable bluetooth, randow wifi disconnects, & shutdowns etc). Honestly, I like these note 4's so much that I wish I had the time to just sit down and unpack its native (stock) OS and figure out a way to disassemble each note 4 features thread and re-pack it into for example the Note 20's Stock Android 13 Rom. I know this would be very hard to do though since you are trying to move the different features from a 32bit system to a 64bit OS. I Presume that it would take a much larger team of people (much smarter than I too) a substantial number of man hours to do this so it would probably never happen. But I am somewhat excited about where AI / Machine learning could take us in the future because I think within the next decade we should have computers that can actually build an operating system for any hardware you tell it you want programmed and it will work out all the bugs just using calculations. I cant remember where I saw the article but this is actually something not a lot of people are talking about, but people think that the tech industry will be shielded from Job losses etc when it is likely to be THE MOST affected by AI & Machine learning once it reaches a certain level where all menial programming can be done by computers.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] JOSHSKORN:
[MENTION=5285430]kevintm78[/MENTION] Thanks, you've been helpful. I'm currently charging my phone right now from near dead and I'll try that file tomorrow afternoon or evening. Can you tell me what the file you attached in post #213 vs the file in post #218?

I also have a new problem, which, I wouldn't know at the time of this posting would be resolved by either one of the two files in the aforementioned posts. I have a ZeroLemon battery, and I need to disable Fast Charge. I do not see the setting anymore. Would you know where I could find it? I also have not flashed the Emotion Zerolemon Note 4 Kernel again, yet. I wouldn't know offhand if this file might fix the problem as well and add a fast charging setting. I was attempting to fully drain the battery, then fully charge, then flash the kernel. But, before charging it, disable Fast Charging, which I cannot find. If anyone can chime in on this, please do. Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] kevintm78:
The fast charging toggle is in the smart manager app. Also if you delete smart manager it will move those settings back to the regular settings spot where it normally is. Its strange that it moves those toggles (fast charging and battery percentage) by adding that app, I'll probably leave that out going forward and just give an option to flash it. With those files you're talking about, the one in post 218 is really the only one your might need. I use to think that with the updated 3minit mod that the battery settings could only be changed through the paid version, by the way of you have the paid version you won't need either, but this is away to change battery icons or hide it. There's also an icon that's like the stock icon, which was the reason for the file in post 213, it puts the stock battery only. I think it's better to use the 3minit settings app just in case you change your mind.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] kevintm78:
Sorry it took awhile to get back to you on this. I downloaded the mixplorer app and I was able to write to both internal and external SD card without any fix added. When you get a chance, can you show me a screen shot of what your seeing. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Snake-Plissken:
Hey, no problem. Outstanding work so far on the Rom.

My problem is that I would like to use the path with the label number 1 (see attachment)

Currently I only have write access via path number 2.

A lot of apps however want to use path 1 and can't now.

On my note 3 I got it fixed with the xposed module marshmallow sd fix.

This one doesn't request root with this Rom and that's why all the in app changes don't take affect.

Is there still a method to gain write access via a build prop modification?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] kevintm78:
I installed the marshmallow sd fix to see what it does and I think it only needs root permission to do reboots like the xposed installer app does. With 6.0 they took away the rights for user apps to perform reboots without root. But anyway that's how I got it to call for root was to hit the reboot option in the top right menu. As far as the other issue goes I'm still checking in to that. Ext sd rewrite is a bit tricky with marshmallow, getting it to write there by default may be tough to get, but I'll admit that I don't use xposed for much except for the apk settings module. I'll dig into this a bit more a see what's out there.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Snake-Plissken:
Thanks a lot for testing. I used the sd fix module on my note 3 with a note 7 port Rom. The sd fix module fixed all my issues on that Rom. I went in the settings and for example enabled it for mixplorer, rebooted and it worked...