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New Note 3

I just got my Note 3 and the first thing I did was root it. The problem is that I forgot to perform a software update. Now when I try to update the software, I get the message that I can't update because my phone is modified. Is there a way to download and manually install the latest software update?

This should be in Q&A....mods will either delete it or move it for you.
To answer you...depending on your region the stock firmware may or may not be available for you to odin back to stock.
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use triangle away to restore official status. Then update and reroot (from what i heared, ony the international N3 had a firmware update) Usually, if there was one for you, as soon as you would have connected to the internet it would have told you, unless you rooted without first connecting the phone to the internet

polish_pat said:
use triangle away to restore official status. Then update and reroot (from what i heared, ony the international N3 had a firmware update) Usually, if there was one for you, as soon as you would have connected to the internet it would have told you, unless you rooted without first connecting the phone to the internet
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Triangle away is not yet supported on note 3 to my knowledge.im sure CF will get to it though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46237100
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force70 said:
Triangle away is not yet supported on note 3 to my knowledge.im sure CF will get to it though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46237100
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That's not what I read from chain fire. Note 3 could be the death of triangle away
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polish_pat said:
use triangle away to restore official status. Then update and reroot (from what i heared, ony the international N3 had a firmware update) Usually, if there was one for you, as soon as you would have connected to the internet it would have told you, unless you rooted without first connecting the phone to the internet
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Triangle away not yet fully support for note 3
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Illusive Man said:
I just got my Note 3 and the first thing I did was root it. The problem is that I forgot to perform a software update. Now when I try to update the software, I get the message that I can't update because my phone is modified. Is there a way to download and manually install the latest software update?
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You can use kies to restore your phone back to stock. It will change your phone back to original status, without root. However there's nothing you can do on your knox warranty.
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Moved here as this does not belong in the Development Section.....

Thanks, guys. The phone is great the way it is, and I refuse to give up root if I can help it. I have faith in the devs here to overcome all issues!!

Galaxy S 4 SCH-R970X (C Spire) - Official 4.3 MK6 RESTORE

As many of you know 4.3 just released on the CSPIRE variant device. I have went through currently 2 phones because they messed up after messing around a bit with kies and "other things". It's like it doesn't want to read from the sim card anymore and refuses to program itself. So with that said here is the stock 4.3 Full restore from sammobile.com so you can hopefully either fix yours or take it to the store.
P.S. They cannot fix it
This will change the Samsung Software to : Official
As well as Recovery, etc, to Official
Mega.co.nz Mirror
Galaxy S 4 SCH-R970X - 4.3 RESTORE DOWNLOAD
Originally Source with god awfully slow link that took me over 12 hours to download:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=24756
Thanks to Garwynn for getting sammobile to push this ASAP.

Did u keep getting no sim inserted please reboot? Iv sent my phone away twice now for repair and it's still do in it.
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eddie500_1 said:
Did u keep getting no sim inserted please reboot? Iv sent my phone away twice now for repair and it's still do in it.
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I got no sim inserted on a loop on my 2nd phone. It would try to activate then kick off and go to no signal and say no sim, then try all again. Go claim the warranty on it! Just as long as you use this file and odin it should go samsung official. They cant say nothing to you for their crappy programming. Because as far as im concerned im not touching it again, and gonna hope they come out with kit kat soon.

Cheers I will do thanks
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Getting this thread bumped back to the top, people are looking for it. If anyone has any information as of why the CSpire variant keeps losing its cell data completely. Please help us get a fix going! Thanks

Anyone figure out a reason why the phone would forget the network and not activate??? Causing a useless phone.

I Hardbricked my i9500 :(

Hello XDA,
So yesterday i installed the pac-man ROM 4.4.2 on my Galaxy S4 (i9500) and all was going well. Then i tried installing Unicon ( a utility which manages your icon packs). I have installed this app on every android phone i have ever had and every time it asks me to go into xposed and enable it like it usually does.
So i go into xposed and i click on install/update. It shows a dialog saying that (some file name i don't remember) is already there and continue if you are feeling adventurous. Being the stupid person I am i continued.
After switching off the device, the screen is absolutely black and does not even go to download mode or recovery mode.
Please help me I'm almost crying as the warranty just ran out and it wont get replaced or anything. I don't even have the money to buy a new phone right now.
Please tell me what to do to fix this i don't care about the data or anything i just want my phone to be fixed please help me..........:crying:

shivap1998 said:
Hello XDA,
So yesterday i installed the pac-man ROM 4.4.2 on my Galaxy S4 (i9500) and all was going well. Then i tried installing Unicon ( a utility which manages your icon packs). I have installed this app on every android phone i have ever had and every time it asks me to go into xposed and enable it like it usually does.
So i go into xposed and i click on install/update. It shows a dialog saying that (some file name i don't remember) is already there and continue if you are feeling adventurous. Being the stupid person I am i continued.
After switching off the device, the screen is absolutely black and does not even go to download mode or recovery mode.
Please help me I'm almost crying as the warranty just ran out and it wont get replaced or anything. I don't even have the money to buy a new phone right now.
Please tell me what to do to fix this i don't care about the data or anything i just want my phone to be fixed please help me..........:crying:
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Not an expert but try to buy an USB JIG that force your phone into download mode. At that point, you can flash a recovery or a rom directly via odin. :good:

Well, it has nothing to do with Xposed. You can almost impossible brick it that way.
Did you try a simple thing like taking the battery out?

Yes I tried removing everything I could including battery Sim card SD card. Still not working. some people have said that in hard brick their devices give out red led but my phone doesn't even do that. Its just like a brick. Somebody pls help me ;( my dad doesn't let me use the credit card online and I can't find the USB jig anywhere near me so I can't get it.
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shivap1998 said:
Yes I tried removing everything I could including battery Sim card SD card. Still not working. some people have said that in hard brick their devices give out red led but my phone doesn't even do that. Its just like a brick. Somebody pls help me ;( my dad doesn't let me use the credit card online and I can't find the USB jig anywhere near me so I can't get it.
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Try asking here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477

My phone is hard bricked where as that link is for soft bricked phones. Thank you anyways.....
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Your phone is not bricked. The way you descriped is almost impossible to brick it.
You got a faulty battery or a hardware failure.

Hi,
I and a friend had a similar issue to yours. Our S4 was very slow and we took out the battery, now it doesn't even show Samsung Splash Screen (same issue, different context). Unfortunately, JIG won't do the work there (I tried).
While my friend sent it to warranty I didn't have mine because it was bought in US and I'm from Brazil. It looks like a viable way of solving it is using a tool called JTAG, I'm waiting for a friend to bring to my town his JTAG to see if it works, I'll report here the results, I recommend you searching for it .
~Lord
"Time is too short to cry, long enough to try." - March of Time (Helloween)
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Thank you but are you sure the jig won't work? As my case is different I think it might... Thanks anyway I will try looking for a JTAG......
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shivap1998 said:
Thank you but are you sure the jig won't work? As my case is different I think it might... Thanks anyway I will try looking for a JTAG......
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You sure you'll look for the JTAG device? The Jtag box cost around $210.

shivap1998 said:
Thank you but are you sure the jig won't work? As my case is different I think it might... Thanks anyway I will try looking for a JTAG......
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Hi,
JIG will only work
if you can get at least in Splash Screen, if it doesn't give any life signal, then I get that you can't get into Splash Screen, therefore, JIG won't do the work.
Here's a video showing exactly the same problem I had and a JTAG repair
Samsung Galaxy S4 - JTAG Brick Repair Service (De…: http://youtu.be/PkfEhu4trRY
Andy0625 said:
You sure you'll look for the JTAG device? The Jtag box cost around $210.
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Hi,
There are people who can do the JTAG work, they charge some money but fix it. Even though it is way cheaper than getting a JTAG interface . Buying a device would be way more expensive, and I think it wouldn't be really worth, like you mentioned .
~Lord
"Time is too short to cry, long enough to try." - March of Time (Helloween)
Sent from my KitKat Nexus 10

Guys, I like the talk about JTAG, but I don't think it will do him any good.
His device is not bricked. Xposed only installs in /system/bin (if I am not mistaken). Thus it's impossible to brick it that way. It does nothing to the bootloader, download mode or any other partition.
He has clearly a faulty battery or an other hardware failure. He just had bad luck imo.

Are you sure about that? I'll try changing the battery.... But as I said I can't enter download mode or recovery ,both are symptoms of a hard brick....
And any idea where I can find a person with JTAG in Gurgaon(India)?
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shivap1998 said:
Are you sure about that? I'll try changing the battery.... But as I said I can't enter download mode or recovery ,both are symptoms of a hard brick....
And any idea where I can find a person with JTAG in Gurgaon(India)?
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Sounds like a dead battery. Get your battery charged using an external charger or using a friend's working S4.

If yur mobile is dead try this procedure link below, This procedure vil wrk on i9300, n7100,i9500 tested by me. no need to follow ful method create bootable memory card insert the card into yur mobile insert battery den connect usb jig wait for 10 to 15 min yur mob sud boot into download mode. aftr boot flash vit multi file firmware vit pit dnt flash kitkat. boz aftr deadboot repair yu hav to repair imei . 4.2.2 or 4.3.3 is better to repair .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...n7100-dead-t2647558/post50305456#post50305456

Sorry but the IMEI fix is only for i9300 and I don't have all the required stuff for the procedure.
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with tis method yur mob vil turn on but for imei fix yu need software boxes . 1st need to repair efs den write original imei. better go to any nearest service center its easly fixable prob

Thank you all for your help guyz but now as you can see (signature) my phone is now fixed. I just went to a shop and got it fixed for Rs 900 ($15). Thank you all for your help .
Sent from my awesome GS4 (I9500)

shivap1998 said:
Thank you all for your help guyz but now as you can see (signature) my phone is now fixed. I just went to a shop and got it fixed for Rs 900 ($15). Thank you all for your help .
Sent from my awesome GS4 (I9500)
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Did you came to know, what was the problem with your device?

Sorry for the last reply but sorry I wasn't able to find out what was wrong....
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Grand 2 dead boot help

I updated my grand 2 to 4.4.2. But I found slow net issues. Then I decided to back to 4.3 jellybean. But I flash again true odin. But suddenly hang in updating. I remove battery. But I put battery now my phone not charge not going to on . I use many methods to make again download mode. But fail. I have no any jtag. Please give me any easy way to put back my grand 2 in normal position. Please help please help
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zahirsb said:
I updated my grand 2 to 4.4.2. But I found slow net issues. Then I decided to back to 4.3 jellybean. But I flash again true odin. But suddenly hang in updating. I remove battery. But I put battery now my phone not charge not going to on . I use many methods to make again download mode. But fail. I have no any jtag. Please give me any easy way to put back my grand 2 in normal position. Please help please help
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bro there is nothing to worry just go to the nearest service center & tell them you were updating your phone via KIES SOFTWARE of samsung but in between there was a power cut so update stoped in between & after that my phone was not starting ....thats it they would do the needful & repair your handset....hoping your phone will be in warranty...

## grand 2 dead in downgrading (please help)

I updated my grand 2 to 4.4.2. But I found slow net issues.
Then I try to back to 4.3 jellybean. But I flash again by odin.
But suddenly hang in updating. I remove battery. But I put battery now my phone not charge not going to on .
I use many methods to make again download mode. But fail.
I make jtag but fail no boot.
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.
Please help please ​

drrami75 said:
I updated my grand 2 to 4.4.2. But I found slow net issues.
Then I try to back to 4.3 jellybean. But I flash again by odin.
But suddenly hang in updating. I remove battery. But I put battery now my phone not charge not going to on .
I use many methods to make again download mode. But fail.
I make jtag but fail no boot.
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.
Please help please ​
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u should go to samsung care and tell them while updating ur mobile with kies ur pc got restarted due to power failure now ur stuck in this condition same problem happened with me and i did this same thing

SHAWN_FROST said:
u should go to samsung care and tell them while updating ur mobile with kies ur pc got restarted due to power failure now ur stuck in this condition same problem happened with me and i did this same thing
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I bought the mobile from a country other than the country in which I'm in now
Mobile need to change mother,bord...it is a very expensive

downgrading wont work
cuz kitkat comes with Knox it wont allow downgrade will hard brick

flasks said:
cuz kitkat comes with Knox it wont allow downgrade will hard brick
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What is the solution my brother ...?
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.

drrami75 said:
I updated my grand 2 to 4.4.2. But I found slow net issues.
Then I try to back to 4.3 jellybean. But I flash again by odin.
But suddenly hang in updating. I remove battery. But I put battery now my phone not charge not going to on .
I use many methods to make again download mode. But fail.
I make jtag but fail no boot.
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.
Please help please ​
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No you can't downgrade back to Jelly Bean. Doing so will hard brick your phone.

Frappy said:
No you can't downgrade back to Jelly Bean. Doing so will hard brick your phone.
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What is the solution my brother ...?
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.

drrami75 said:
What is the solution my brother ...?
Please give me any way to put back my grand 2 in normal position.
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Dont panic right now.
search the forums for info on unbricking dead G7102. Unfortunately, I have not read the forums posts for unbricking as I did not have the issue.
schubeir

I hope u are on warranty...cuz u gotta replace motherboard

flasks said:
I hope u are on warranty...cuz u gotta replace motherboard
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I bought the mobile from a country other than the country in which I'm in now
thankx man

The only solution is to take it to a service centre. no other options yet.

try reflashing kitkat firmware.
if you able to go to download mode you can try reflashing latest build of kitkat through odin. Good luck...try reflashing kitkat firmware.

anuajayan said:
The only solution is to take it to a service centre. no other options yet.
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yes no other option for this i myself has faced this tried every thing and at last went to the service centre the asked me whether its rooted or not
never say yes tell them that your were upgrading through kies and the pc rebooted and then phone is not booting then they will not ask you anything simply they will change the motherboard and upload the IEMI and other software and give it to you(estimated time of repair depends on the availability of the hardware)