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Anyone on Rooted NC4 and Safestrapped?

I was on MJE rooted and safestrapped. No problems. I put SuperSu in survival mode, took the OTA...knowing full well the bootloader issue (I had played with NC2 with NC4 modem for a while and had tons of issues)...I am still rooted on NC4 no problems doing anything rootlike...except Safestrap 3.72 will not set the boot up to give me the choice to recover or continue no matter what. So I even tried Safestrap 3.73...when I install the recovery...3.73 says it completed and shows "installed" But still no choice at boot time.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
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This is like playing with fire lol
Root is to precious to me to mess around like this. Good luck tho!

Inkedadrenaline said:
This is like playing with fire lol
Root is to precious to me to mess around like this. Good luck tho!
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Yea...I am for sure still rooted, just not safestrapped, I am still playing with it and was just wondering if anyone had already done so.
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donc113 said:
Yea...I am for sure still rooted, just not safestrapped, I am still playing with it and was just wondering if anyone had already done so.
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That's pretty cool. I respect you for taking the plunge. Def have more testicular fortitude than me

donc113 said:
I was on MJE rooted and safestrapped. No problems. I put SuperSu in survival mode, took the OTA...knowing full well the bootloader issue (I had played with NC2 with NC4 modem for a while and had tons of issues)...I am still rooted on NC4 no problems doing anything rootlike...except Safestrap 3.72 will not set the boot up to give me the choice to recover or continue no matter what. So I even tried Safestrap 3.73...when I install the recovery...3.73 says it completed and shows "installed" But still no choice at boot time.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
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How did you get SS 3.73? It's not even listed in Hash's thread...

LeftyGR said:
How did you get SS 3.73? It's not even listed in Hash's thread...
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Google search...it was actually for a different phone....but what the heck...tried it anyway.
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Please see the mini guide I just posted at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2762999 for information on how to go from a STOCK MJE non rooted phone to one with KitKat 4.4.2 rooted (odex or deodex). As well as move to a custom non stock rom.

donc113 said:
I was on MJE rooted and safestrapped. No problems. I put SuperSu in survival mode, took the OTA...knowing full well the bootloader issue (I had played with NC2 with NC4 modem for a while and had tons of issues)...I am still rooted on NC4 no problems doing anything rootlike...except Safestrap 3.72 will not set the boot up to give me the choice to recover or continue no matter what. So I even tried Safestrap 3.73...when I install the recovery...3.73 says it completed and shows "installed" But still no choice at boot time.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
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U need to have busybox installed for kitkat safestrap

donc113 said:
Google search...it was actually for a different phone....but what the heck...tried it anyway.
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Why on earth would you try one that was deved for a different phone?

SirBindy said:
Why on earth would you try one that was deved for a different phone?
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Because I was thinking I would try a reflash with Odin if needed. I've been "trying stuff" with UNIX based servers since the early 80's. I have no problem reflashing a phone.
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RomsWell said:
U need to have busybox installed for kitkat safestrap
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BusyBox is installed, and active, and SafeStrap checks for it and Safestrap says it's installed...but even hitting the Reboot to Recovery button does a "normal" reboot and I don't get the recover/continue option.
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donc113 said:
Yea...I am for sure still rooted, just not safestrapped, I am still playing with it and was just wondering if anyone had already done so.
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After reading your post I went ahead and tried to take the NC4 OWA with supersu in survival mode. It Worked! I was on stock mje, rooted with kingo and had a modded framework for tethering. I restored the backup of my stock framework file, then unfroze all of my apps. I put supersu in survival mode, disabled superuser, and turned default access to deny. I then enabled the install of the OWA and after the reboot I enabled supersu and just like that I still had root. So far no issues.
As far as safestrap goes, I didn't have safestrap before but I may try to install it to see if it works now. I'll let you know.

donc113 said:
BusyBox is installed, and active, and SafeStrap checks for it and Safestrap says it's installed...but even hitting the Reboot to Recovery button does a "normal" reboot and I don't get the recover/continue option.
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Third time is a charm I guess. I uninstalled the recovery, rebooted, reinstalled the recovery, hit the reboot to recovery and got to Safestrap just fine. And it now gives me the choice during reboot.
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RicksROMbuild8/NC4
Im on "RicksROMbuild8" with NC4,root and safestrap still.

Can't get Safestrap!?

So I recently had my phone die (SGS4 32GB Black mist with old BL) and had to get a replacement from AT&T. Of course the new one came with it completely updated as far as it can be to 4.4.2. I read through the info on how to do safestrap since I hadn't had to deal with it before on my other phone. Was able to downgrade it to MK2, root it, and install safestrap. Then ended up updating back up to NB1 then to NC1. Well being the flash junky I was, wasn't content with that so I tried Safestrap Golden Eye. Had issues, wiped the phone and tried to start things over. Now, no matter what I do I cant get back down to MK2 because it will never boot past the ATT sphere and the boot up sound. It just stays at that screen. SO I go back to NB1 and it boots. I can't get safestrap to install on NB1 or NC1 no matter what I do. I also cant write to my external MicroSD card. This phone is going to slam against some concrete very soon, I'm really getting annoyed. Anyone have some info on what I should try??. Here is a screen shot of what's on my phone right now.

Re: Can't get Safestrap
Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783335 (especially page 3)
This is the thread I followed to at least get rooted but it also has instructions on how to set up safestrap. The downgrade method is no longer necessary with towelroot. Just head over to http://towelroot.com/ and click the lambda to download towelroot and make it ra1n.
To get safestrap, download https://mega.co.nz/#!61hyXCgS!hxerBG...mscEBlsP0VlaWM (Thanks to @Maribou)
Install supersu (included in that zip), install SELinux, set it to permissive, and then install safestrap. All of these are included in that zip along with the kernel modules. Now if you reboot, you should have SafeStrap.
Hope that works for you.

I already have all that. I'm also already rooted. When I go to install safestrap it says installed but says Safe System not active.
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highaltitude said:
I already have all that. I'm also already rooted. When I go to install safestrap it says installed but says Safe System not active.
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Sure SELinux is permissive? It says Enforcing in that screenshot, don't know if that was before you did it or if you missed that. The issue of it not going past the boot animation when you downgrade makes it sound like it didn't flash the MK2 kernel, but I'm not sure how or why that would occur.

DeadlySin9 said:
Sure SELinux is permissive? It says Enforcing in that screenshot, don't know if that was before you did it or if you missed that. The issue of it not going past the boot animation when you downgrade makes it sound like it didn't flash the MK2 kernel, but I'm not sure how or why that would occur.
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According to SELinux it says "permissive" Not sure if it was on at the time of the screenshot, but I have tried it quite a few times. The phone is rooted, but the safestrap never says active.
Where do I get the Mk2 kernel by itself?

highaltitude said:
According to SELinux it says "permissive" Not sure if it was on at the time of the screenshot, but I have tried it quite a few times. The phone is rooted, but the safestrap never says active.
Where do I get the Mk2 kernel by itself?
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It's one of the files included in the MK2 downgrade package, but I think in the MK2 ODIN thread you can also get just the kernel.

Got it all working finally, thanks for the help guys.
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[Q] Please help?! SuperSU and Superuser partial install

I have a Verizon Galaxy S5. I've always been afraid to root, but I hate TouchWiz and bloatware so much that I had to try. I'm regretting it.
I just used towelroot and tried to install SuperSU, Titanium Backup, and Wanam Xposed. I tried to research as much as I could, but it's still all new to me.
I first tried to install SuperSU. I wasn't totally sure what to do when it said "Try to disable KNOX? - Cancel or OK".
Someone suggested that I tap OK and disable KNOX. The screen has said "Disabling KNOX..." with a spinning circle thing for at least 5 minutes now. After 10+ minutes of waiting, I closed SuperSU. I downloaded Superuser to try it instead (per someone's suggestion). I tapped it and it immediately opened. It didn't ask about installing or anything. I thought it would need to replace the su binary. It feels like I have a messed up mix of half-installed root software.
Now I just want to undo all this and go back to an unrooted phone. Can anyone help me do that?

Odin back to stock
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ergalthema said:
I have a Verizon Galaxy S5. I've always been afraid to root, but I hate TouchWiz and bloatware so much that I had to try. I'm regretting it.
I just used towelroot and tried to install SuperSU, Titanium Backup, and Wanam Xposed. I tried to research as much as I could, but it's still all new to me.
I first tried to install SuperSU. I wasn't totally sure what to do when it said "Try to disable KNOX? - Cancel or OK".
Someone suggested that I tap OK and disable KNOX. The screen has said "Disabling KNOX..." with a spinning circle thing for at least 5 minutes now. After 10+ minutes of waiting, I closed SuperSU. I downloaded Superuser to try it instead (per someone's suggestion). I tapped it and it immediately opened. It didn't ask about installing or anything. I thought it would need to replace the su binary. It feels like I have a messed up mix of half-installed root software.
Now I just want to undo all this and go back to an unrooted phone. Can anyone help me do that?
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You can Odin back to stock as mentioned, instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880 - That is something I ran into also, if you just reboot and reopen the SuperSU app it will ask again to disable KNOX and it takes seconds to complete. I'd try that first, unistall the other SU app you tried. You can also unroot using SuperSU once its installed right.
Before Wanam you did install the Xposed framework I'm sure right?

You just need to reboot. It did the same thing to me. Like Floyd says it takes like a second to complete after that.

PappaFloyd said:
That is something I ran into also, if you just reboot and reopen the SuperSU app it will ask again to disable KNOX and it takes seconds to complete. I'd try that first, unistall the other SU app you tried.
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I eventually opened SuperSU again and it recognized the other superuser. It asked if I wanted to uninstall the other superuser, so I did. At least I'm down to only SuperSU now, and it seems to be doing what it's supposed to.
I'm still trying to figure out whether I can even use a custom recovery on my Verizon S5 at all. I don't want to do that until it is known to be pretty stable. So, would I even want to disable KNOX?
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Before Wanam you did install the Xposed framework I'm sure right?
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I haven't opened Wanam Xposed. I'm not sure what the Xposed framework is. Is there a set of step-by-step instructions anywhere? It's really disappointing how difficult it has been for me to find solid info. I'm not trying to do anything crazy, I just want to disable as much TouchWiz and bloat as possible.

ergalthema said:
I eventually opened SuperSU again and it recognized the other superuser. It asked if I wanted to uninstall the other superuser, so I did. At least I'm down to only SuperSU now, and it seems to be doing what it's supposed to.
I'm still trying to figure out whether I can even use a custom recovery on my Verizon S5 at all. I don't want to do that until it is known to be pretty stable. So, would I even want to disable KNOX?
I haven't opened Wanam Xposed. I'm not sure what the Xposed framework is. Is there a set of step-by-step instructions anywhere? It's really disappointing how difficult it has been for me to find solid info. I'm not trying to do anything crazy, I just want to disable as much TouchWiz and bloat as possible.
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My best advice for you is to watch videos on YouTube on how to use xsposed installer and also how to use the Titanium backup app to freeze apps you don't want. It would take a long time for someone to post a step by step. All info can be watched on YouTube then if you have questions go ahead and ask.
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Savagerun said:
All info can be watched on YouTube then if you have questions go ahead and ask.
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I watched a few YouTube videos. At this link, the first step is to create a nandroid backup. When I looked up nandroid, it says it needs a custom ROM in order to restore the backup. I thought the point of Xposed was to not need a custom ROM?

ergalthema said:
I watched a few YouTube videos. At this link, the first step is to create a nandroid backup. When I looked up nandroid, it says it needs a custom ROM in order to restore the backup. I thought the point of Xposed was to not need a custom ROM?
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Have you watched the following video? It explains how to use SS and also how to make a nandroid backup of your rooted stock rom. Watch "Verizon Galaxy S5 Safe Strap Recovery Install and Overview" on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-cPtK-CR8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Savagerun said:
Have you watched the following video? It explains how to use SS and also how to make a nandroid backup of your rooted stock rom. Watch "Verizon Galaxy S5 Safe Strap Recovery Install and Overview" on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-cPtK-CR8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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That was a good video. I didn't hear him mention "nandroid". I am guessing that by using a new slot and not touching the stock rom slot anymore, that the stock rom slot is considered a nandroid backup, or at least the equivalent.

[Q] Is this considered bricked?

I am non techi but have rooted and installed roms on several phones before. I had my verizon note 3 rooted with towel root. Tried to use ROM manager (from the play store) to install CWM (figured it would be safe since it was approved by google).
Now it boots to:
secure fail: recovery
"system software not authorized... go to verizon store for help"
Its starts to boot, so this would be a brick?

Not necessarily. What you want to do is go into download mode and then cancel out of it which should boot you into your rom.
If that doesn't work, you may have to Odin a stock rom. Your options depend on what OS/rom you have now.
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Thanks!
Thanks so much for your help - you nailed it! Will be more careful from here on.
thornev said:
Not necessarily. What you want to do is go into download mode and then cancel out of it which should boot you into your rom.
If that doesn't work, you may have to Odin a stock rom. Your options depend on what OS/rom you have now.
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roryn3kids said:
I am non techi but have rooted and installed roms on several phones before. I had my verizon note 3 rooted with towel root. Tried to use ROM manager (from the play store) to install CWM (figured it would be safe since it was approved by google).
Now it boots to:
secure fail: recovery
"system software not authorized... go to verizon store for help"
Its starts to boot, so this would be a brick?
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You can not use CWM on Verizon Note 3.
You will have to Odin back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483380
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Verizon compatible Roms???

Where are the download pages(Links) for the Roms? Where are the instructions? I wish XDA would go back to the way they were a couple 2-3 years ago. This site was great back then, now I can't find anything. When I do find something there is nothing with it or it is wrong. Please, someone help me to find the page that has the Custom Roms and Install Instructions...
I am on OF1, Rooted & Unlocked..... If that helps. I have Flashfire, TB (Which doesn't work right anymore.), Flashify, SuperSU, BusyBox, TWRP Manager on now. I have never worked with TWRP Manager nor Flashify so I am a newby to them.
Thanks.
GoNavyMike

Check this Rom
Music Life 5.1.1-N5-Port-Rom-Note-3

GoNavyMike said:
Where are the download pages(Links) for the Roms? Where are the instructions? I wish XDA would go back to the way they were a couple 2-3 years ago. This site was great back then, now I can't find anything. When I do find something there is nothing with it or it is wrong. Please, someone help me to find the page that has the Custom Roms and Install Instructions...
I am on OF1, Rooted & Unlocked..... If that helps. I have Flashfire, TB (Which doesn't work right anymore.), Flashify, SuperSU, BusyBox, TWRP Manager on now. I have never worked with TWRP Manager nor Flashify so I am a newby to them.
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GoNavyMike
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What's wrong with Titanium Backup? Is it giving you the insufficient storage notification?

TB
Yes it is. TB stops and gives me the insufficient space notification.
I'd also like to know how to get a custom Rom on now. I'm OF1, Rooted, Unlocked, TWRP(Which I don't know how to use), Flashify, FlashFire, SuperSU, BusyBox. I have tried Jasmine 6.1 about 8 times and it does not work on my phone. My phone is a Verizon Retail SM-N900V Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
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What's wrong with Titanium Backup? Is it giving you the insufficient storage notification?
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GoNavyMike said:
Yes it is. TB stops and gives me the insufficient space notification.
I'd also like to know how to get a custom Rom on now. I'm OF1, Rooted, Unlocked, TWRP(Which I don't know how to use), Flashify, FlashFire, SuperSU, BusyBox. I have tried Jasmine 6.1 about 8 times and it does not work on my phone. My phone is a Verizon Retail SM-N900V Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
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Yea I got TB to work by going into the settings in SuperSu and unchecking mount namespace separation. Im trying to figure out how to get a custom ROM on my phone as well. I got Jasmine to work but I want to try one of the new ones. At least get a new kernel flashed for Jasmine. Did you try and make a backup in TWRP yet?
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Yea I got TB to work by going into the settings in SuperSu and unchecking mount namespace separation. Im trying to figure out how to get a custom ROM on my phone as well. I got Jasmine to work but I want to try one of the new ones. At least get a new kernel flashed for Jasmine. Did you try and make a backup in TWRP yet?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxIrsfT2Lo&feature=youtu.be

I may be wrong, but I think the links to most of the ROMS you have seen have been deleted because they are not fully working as of yet.
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Video.......
I've tried that video about 8 times to no avail. As for the backup on TWRP, no I haven't. I'm not familiar with TWRP so I'm leery as to using it.
Jjavitable22 said:
Yea I got TB to work by going into the settings in SuperSu and unchecking mount namespace separation. Im trying to figure out how to get a custom ROM on my phone as well. I got Jasmine to work but I want to try one of the new ones. At least get a new kernel flashed for Jasmine. Did you try and make a backup in TWRP yet?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxIrsfT2Lo&feature=youtu.be
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I never got it to work either. I had to Odin back to stock unrooted and re-root. Then unlock, all over.
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GoNavyMike said:
I've tried that video about 8 times to no avail. As for the backup on TWRP, no I haven't. I'm not familiar with TWRP so I'm leery as to using it.
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I'm sorry man. Once you reboot into recovery TWRP will give you options. The backup process is fairly easy but could be confusing when it's your first time. I'll try and find an explanation video for you and let me find the process I used to get Jasmine to work. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I'll get back to you.

GoNavyMike said:
Yes it is. TB stops and gives me the insufficient space notification.
I'd also like to know how to get a custom Rom on now. I'm OF1, Rooted, Unlocked, TWRP(Which I don't know how to use), Flashify, FlashFire, SuperSU, BusyBox. I have tried Jasmine 6.1 about 8 times and it does not work on my phone. My phone is a Verizon Retail SM-N900V Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
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I think I might know what it was. When I flashed Jasmine ROM I hadn't unlocked the bootloader yet. And I just flashed it with flash fire. There was no computer involved after I installed of1 update and rooted the phone. Make a backup and try it again. Make sure you don't have both flash fire and TWRP installed. And that you have super su instead of kingroot.

TWRP
I've got FlashFire and TWRP both on and it seems to be fine. I went into recovery and did a backup with TWRP and it seems fine. I would just like to get a Custom Rom to work on here now. I use to run them all of the time before 4.4.3 came out. I finally got the TB back working and saving but it takes a very long time to run now.
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I think I might know what it was. When I flashed Jasmine ROM I hadn't unlocked the bootloader yet. And I just flashed it with flash fire. There was no computer involved after I installed of1 update and rooted the phone. Make a backup and try it again. Make sure you don't have both flash fire and TWRP installed. And that you have super su instead of kingroot.
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Don't use that video its for a method that was used before the unlocked bootloader....
You obviously have never owned a d1 or anything else you could flash a ROM and such with... There is a tread called working vzw ROMs. You really need to figure out how to use twrp recovery not those apps you have. If you installed recovery use it. If not install flashify and choose the recovery for n900 4.4its the top one... Its all in a tread do the work and look.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3359370
Read it
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GoNavyMike said:
I've got FlashFire and TWRP both on and it seems to be fine. I went into recovery and did a backup with TWRP and it seems fine. I would just like to get a Custom Rom to work on here now. I use to run them all of the time before 4.4.3 came out. I finally got the TB back working and saving but it takes a very long time to run now.
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Try this ROM.. It's working good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3364382
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knoxrandall said:
Try this ROM.. It's working good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3364382
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i agree
working great on my vzw note 3 with non-verizon sim but still a cdma sim card
working good