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Lost cellular data on stock rom slot (HELP!!!)

Hello All,
So, I successfully installed safestrap on my rooted gs4 with MK2. I was able to install hyperdrive rls12 and was able to text and make calls. I tried fixing the wifi by flashing some modules and now I don't have any cellular data when booting back into the stock rom. baseband shows empty, no calls, texts etc.
I have no clue what to do and how I can fix it, nor how I managed to mess up the stock rom slot.
Please help.
Thanks

djpuma said:
Hello All,
So, I successfully installed safestrap on my rooted gs4 with MK2. I was able to install hyperdrive rls12 and was able to text and make calls. I tried fixing the wifi by flashing some modules and now I don't have any cellular data when booting back into the stock rom. baseband shows empty, no calls, texts etc.
I have no clue what to do and how I can fix it, nor how I managed to mess up the stock rom slot.
Please help.
Thanks
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I hope u made ur stock rom-slot backup before u do anything......if not try to enter APN manually if u are on AT&T network.....or u can try to install AT&TMK2kernelmodules.zip hope this help and hit THANK button if someone helped u......

I did make a backup. I fixed it by finding an mk2 modem. All working now. No WiFi on hyper drive rls12,but that's OK for now. Stock rom is all good.
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You will need to manually place the modules in /system/lib/modules, to get wifi to work.
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They have to be MK2 modules
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graydiggy said:
You will need to manually place the modules in /system/lib/modules, to get wifi to work.
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They have to be MK2 modules
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Thanks Graydiggy,
Do I have to do this from safestrap or can I do it while having the phone booted into a rom?

Use a root Explorer in the ROM to do it. It may or may not work. Some phones are iffy.
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I have es file explorer, but I get an error saying task failed. Read only or something. Don't have the exact error. can't rename, delete or move the original file.

Use Solid Explorer. I used to use ES but have found Solid to be ten times better.
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[Q] How to revert from 4.4.2 to 4.2.2

Hello everyone,
I unfortunately installed the OTA US Sprint 4.4.2 update over the weekend, not realizing that it would essentially making it impossible for me to use my most frequented app, Backcountry Navigator (GPS mapping software), due to 4.4.2 not allowing apps to write or read data on a secondary external sd card. The reason being is that with this app, you typically download and store map files, which I previously had around 25 GB saved on my external card. Now with 4.4.2. it's requiring me to use the internal storage. So, this makes the phone useless for my needs. Is there anyway I can revert to 4.2.2 or install a custom rom based on 4.2.2 so that I can regain the app permission of Write_External_Storage?

Sure....just flash Stockist v6...it's mk2.....are you rooted?
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No, phone isn't rooted yet. I'm actually quite new to learning about custom roms - I guess it's time to learn! Thanks for the reply.

chris-allen said:
Sure....just flash Stockist v6...it's mk2.....are you rooted?
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hello. I had upgraded to 4.4 via ota nae. I could revert to 4.3 by Stockist mk2 v6. the problem is that now I have 4.3 but the baseband version appears as nae version of the software and also as nae. any ideas? can now flash it with the stock rom mk2?

Custom roms do not come with modems (baseband) you have to flash that separately. Unknownforce has a thread where all the modems are located.
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but I can now revert to stock rom mk2?

ltindi32 said:
but I can now revert to stock rom mk2?
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Are meaning that you want your baseband to be mk2?
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not. what I want is to put it back to factory
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or whatever. lower it to factory mk2

ltindi32 said:
not. what I want is to put it back to factory
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or whatever. lower it to factory mk2
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Well once you took that NAE OTA your phone is now stuck there. You can only root it , install custom recovery, and then flash an mk2 based ROM like I think you already have.
But you cannot get your phone back to how it was prior to that update, stock mk2 with no root no custom recovery... Follow me?
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ok. thank you very much
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if you upgrade to 4.4 stock rom again, there will be a way to activate the hotspot?

ltindi32 said:
ok. thank you very much
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if you upgrade to 4.4 stock rom again, there will be a way to activate the hotspot?
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You'll have to ask someone else or do some searching... I'm usually on my Verizon S4 I'm not 100% with the Sprint one as that's my girls phone.
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ok. thank you very much

Modem

Hello xda community,
Over the weekend I flashed MIUI rom on my N900 note 3, for that to work properly I had to flash a different modem.
So I switched modem (baseband?) from N900UBUDNC1 to N900XXUENE1.
Now my problem is that I can't find any way to download the modem N900UBUDNC1. I've been searching for hours.
If I reflash my stock firmware I don't have carrier signal because I still have the N900XXUENE1 modem installed.

Modems are generally hard to come by, you will have to download the whole firmware and extract just the modem from it. It's probably going to take time but what choice do you have.
http://samsung-updates.com/details/27880/Galaxy_Note_3_Exynos/SM-N900/TTT/N900UBUDND1.html
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Or you can search harder next time, I think I just found you a rom here on xda with the same modem, much easier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2762609
Hope it works, have a good day.
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Tjoohej said:
Modems are generally hard to come by, you will have to download the whole firmware and extract just the modem from it. It's probably going to take time but what choice do you have.
http://samsung-updates.com/details/27880/Galaxy_Note_3_Exynos/SM-N900/TTT/N900UBUDND1.html
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Or you can search harder next time, I think I just found you a rom here on xda with the same modem, much easier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2762609
Hope it works, have a good day.
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I searched for hours, trust me :|
I appreciate your help, I'll try this afternoon when I get home. I have the stock 4.4.2 firmware which I always use when I need to start from scratch. I'll extract that one and see if I can find the modem file there.
EDIT: will any NC1 modem work, or does it have to be specifically the one I originally had?

Sorry, I'm wrong guy to ask, hope it goes well, flash away!
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Ok, I've tried for some more hours yesterday, but couldn't get it to work. Tried Odin and also CWM.
It still doesn't work with stock rom... but when I go back to flashing MIUI + N900XXUENE1 modem (through CWM, first rom, then modem), I once again get signal.
I downloaded the latest firmware from sammobile (about 1.2GB) and from what I saw there, I should have modem N900UBUDNC1, but after succesfully flashing it, I have no signal, unknown baseband and IMEI
I'm sorry if this is kinda obvious, but I can't seem to get it to work. Luckily I am happy with MIUI, but I want to be sure there's a way to get back to stock.

[Q] Note 3 [SM-N900P] special brick. Dire need of assistance.

Hello, I know for a fact that there are other "help me! I bricked my note 3" threads out there, but I have concluded that I find myself in quite a specially convoluted situation.
All the following occurred with me coming from a stock 4.3 rooted rom.
​My story begins when I attempted to flash Fre3 4.4.2 ROM using TWRP. The rom included the"beastmode" kernel. Well, after flashing I ended up stuck in the bootloader screen with a "Set warranty bit: kernel" error. Being such a huge noob as I am, I googled for a solution to this, and I ended up with a flashable .zip that was supposed to fix such kernel issue, upon inspection of the zip file I found a clean_efs.sh script. Then again, being such a noob I had no Idea what "efs" meant, and against my better judgement, I had flashed it anyway..
Long story short the previous made me end up with a bootloop, which prompted me to restore my nandroid from my stock 4.3 rom... At first It would give me an error regarding the MD5 checksums, it prompted me to disable md5 verification, which WAS disabled, yet the same error persisted..
As a last resort I tried to use ODIN 3.07 with the stock 4.3 release, it was flashed successfully, but as soon as it got to the "Sprint" bootlogo, it would reboot itself into an infinite loop.. Afterwards I tried to do a data/wipe/factory reset form the stock recovery which was done successfully. Afterwards the phone booted past the sprint logo and all i could see was: The status bar with the signal bars with a red cross, a completely black screen, and a dreaded "Process system is not responding" dialog. Tapping on "wait" or "stop" just closed the dialog and the phone rebooted regardless.
I am pretty much stuck at this point... Please I beseech whoever has solved such an issue to help me, I am not really able to afford another note 3, but I can afford to reward anyone that can help me solve this(that desperate I am:fingers-crossed...
And to make matters worse, I am getting the galaxy gear for Xmas....go figure..
P.S. I still have a NANDroid of my beloved 4.3 and it does have an EFS backup, I have no way of knowing if it is corrupted or not... Also I'll attach the "clean_efs" zip so you can tell me how a huge noob I am(not really just for reference)...

Are you on the 4.4 bootloader? It's needed to boot Touchwiz 4.4.
Flash a TW 4.4 ROM via Odin, wipe data and restore EFS.

Timberwolfhusky said:
Hello, I know for a fact that there are other "help me! I bricked my note 3" threads out there, but I have concluded that I find myself in quite a specially convoluted situation.
All the following occurred with me coming from a stock 4.3 rooted rom.
​My story begins when I attempted to flash Fre3 4.4.2 ROM using TWRP. The rom included the"beastmode" kernel. Well, after flashing I ended up stuck in the bootloader screen with a "Set warranty bit: kernel" error. Being such a huge noob as I am, I googled for a solution to this, and I ended up with a flashable .zip that was supposed to fix such kernel issue, upon inspection of the zip file I found a clean_efs.sh script. Then again, being such a noob I had no Idea what "efs" meant, and against my better judgement, I had flashed it anyway..
Long story short the previous made me end up with a bootloop, which prompted me to restore my nandroid from my stock 4.3 rom... At first It would give me an error regarding the MD5 checksums, it prompted me to disable md5 verification, which WAS disabled, yet the same error persisted..
As a last resort I tried to use ODIN 3.07 with the stock 4.3 release, it was flashed successfully, but as soon as it got to the "Sprint" bootlogo, it would reboot itself into an infinite loop.. Afterwards I tried to do a data/wipe/factory reset form the stock recovery which was done successfully. Afterwards the phone booted past the sprint logo and all i could see was: The status bar with the signal bars with a red cross, a completely black screen, and a dreaded "Process system is not responding" dialog. Tapping on "wait" or "stop" just closed the dialog and the phone rebooted regardless.
I am pretty much stuck at this point... Please I beseech whoever has solved such an issue to help me, I am not really able to afford another note 3, but I can afford to reward anyone that can help me solve this(that desperate I am:fingers-crossed...
And to make matters worse, I am getting the galaxy gear for Xmas....go figure..
P.S. I still have a NANDroid of my beloved 4.3 and it does have an EFS backup, I have no way of knowing if it is corrupted or not... Also I'll attach the "clean_efs" zip so you can tell me how a huge noob I am(not really just for reference)...
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If you still have the phone and you want to be on 4.4.4 newest fre3 rom wich im on and i must say its flawles than install kies and take the ota to 4.4.4 that will give you back your efs and new bootloader i lost my efs same way and my backups were corrupted as well i did this and im back running.
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Let me know if you need any more help or guide i can get you back on track
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The last (successful) ROM flash since this mess was literally years ago with my HTC supersonic, so sorry if i sound like a total noob but, can you elaborate? How do i find out what version of boot loader I am on? With flash a TW 4.4 ROM do you mean a recovery? I already odin'd the 4.4.2 stock wonder if the recovery would make a difference? Also since its a stock ROM need i not to be rooted for everything to work properly?
Sorry for the total noobness but i think that's the best way to approach it so not to get anything wrong..

Timberwolfhusky said:
The last (successful) ROM flash since this mess was literally years ago with my HTC supersonic, so sorry if i sound like a total noob but, can you elaborate? How do i find out what version of boot loader I am on? With flash a TW 4.4 ROM do you mean a recovery? I already odin'd the 4.4.2 stock wonder if the recovery would make a difference? Also since its a stock ROM need i not to be rooted for everything to work properly?
Sorry for the total noobness but i think that's the best way to approach it so not to get anything wrong..
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Let me gather as many details as possible...... What phone are you on ,does the phone work if it does can you boot in the system and read out info from about section such as software version android version , is the phone rooted, what carrier you on .
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bigbabo said:
Let me gather as many details as possible...... What phone are you on ,does the phone work if it does can you boot in the system and read out info from about section such as software version android version , is the phone rooted, what carrier you on .
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It won't boot at all, i stopped and sought help after i flashed 4.4.2 with Odin since then it just stays at "booting recovery".. The phone WAS rooted on the stock 4.3 but now i posit it is not. It is the SPRINT variant (SM-900P). I made sure to flash the proper ROMs for the carrier but still ran into this mess..

Timberwolfhusky said:
It won't boot at all, i stopped and sought help after i flashed 4.4.2 with Odin since then it just stays at "booting recovery".. The phone WAS rooted on the stock 4.3 but now i posit it is not. It is the SPRINT variant (SM-900P). I made sure to flash the proper ROMs for the carrier but still ran into this mess..
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Ok do this and report back if you haven't done already ....power off you phone fully than hold volume down home and power and see if you can get in download mode if you can theres hope buddy.
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Download kies for computer and put you phone in download mode than open kies let it load than plug your phone in and follow instructions on screen of you computer
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bigbabo said:
If you still have the phone and you want to be on 4.4.4 newest fre3 rom wich im on and i must say its flawles than install kies and take the ota to 4.4.4 that will give you back your efs and new bootloader i lost my efs same way and my backups were corrupted as well i did this and im back running.
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Let me know if you need any more help or guide i can get you back on track
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I tried to use kies, but it asks me for a serial number, which i do not have since i got my phone on ebay, and strangely it is not found on the sticker behind the battery..

Im at work rite now i have all the files at home i can put it on my sd card and upload it to dropbox and you can download it and get back on your feet if none of it works wich i think it should kies should get you back up
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Try kies and if no go ill get you odin files for note 3 so you can at leats boot than you can customise as you like
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bigbabo said:
Ok do this and report back if you haven't done already ....power off you phone fully than hold volume down home and power and see if you can get in download mode if you can theres hope buddy.
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Download kies for computer and put you phone in download mode than open kies let it load than plug your phone in and follow instructions on screen of you computer
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I can access download more no problem, and i have tried kies but i don't have a serial number it asks for since i got my phone on eBay..

No need for crossing fingers budd i got you covered i wont stop helping you till you good to go
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It shouldnt ask you for no numbers you must have wrong kies i did it and never got asked for serial
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But anyway like i said im at work now ill b home by 7 am and ill get to it , download mode is good so we good to go on that end
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I have all the files recovery img twrp recovery root oneclick all of it so just sit tight i got you.
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Just make sure you have odin 3.09
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bigbabo said:
No need for crossing fingers budd i got you covered i wont stop helping you till you good to go
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It shouldnt ask you for no numbers you must have wrong kies i did it and never got asked for serial
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But anyway like i said im at work now ill b home by 7 am and ill get to it , download mode is good so we good to go on that end
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I have all the files recovery img twrp recovery root oneclick all of it so just sit tight i got you.
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Just make sure you have odin 3.09
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Sounds good! Comforting to know that there ate folks out there willing to lend a hand.. I'll get Odin 3.09. That was also one of my major concerns, Odin. Since there are a whole bunch of contradictory threads that state that version x doesn't play well with my phone and vice versa.. Hope that it works..
Also i find that kies stuff weird, both kies 2 and 3 asked me for a serial number, i just do not know what is the exact version i need, but maybe I'll try again with a clear mind..with such a brick scare i couldn't think straight..

Timberwolfhusky said:
Sounds good! Comforting to know that there ate folks out there willing to lend a hand.. I'll get Odin 3.09. That was also one of my major concerns, Odin. Since there are a whole bunch of contradictory threads that state that version x doesn't play well with my phone and vice versa.. Hope that it works..
Also i find that kies stuff weird, both kies 2 and 3 asked me for a serial number, i just do not know what is the exact version i need, but maybe I'll try again with a clear mind..with such a brick scare i couldn't think straight..
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I understand your concern i bricked my vibrant long ago and i bricked another note 2 long ago so i learned when to be scared and when to be relaxed about it if the keys doesnt work now its probably since your phone wont boot normaly so it can't detect it properly thats why we gona use odin and flash the firmware on it and that will get you booted back up so then kies will see the phone and it will boot it to download mode on its own and do the update ,once thats done you can root it install custom recovery and such .
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Just for my info so i know .... Do you want to be on 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 fre3 rom
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bigbabo said:
I understand your concern i bricked my vibrant long ago and i bricked another note 2 long ago so i learned when to be scared and when to be relaxed about it if the keys doesnt work now its probably since your phone wont boot normaly so it can't detect it properly thats why we gona use odin and flash the firmware on it and that will get you booted back up so then kies will see the phone and it will boot it to download mode on its own and do the update ,once thats done you can root it install custom recovery and such .
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Just for my info so i know .... Do you want to be on 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 fre3 rom
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I really do not mind, whichever might render less issues is OK..as long as it can be rooted safely and supports xposed.. But is kies going to fix the efs? How will it do that? I thought imei/data in efs is unique..

It fixed mine i lost my whole efs folder and i went from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4 via kies and when i rooted my phone i checked and there it was efs folder with everything in it.Im running 4.4.4 with xposed and blu x 2 theme made for this rom and i have zero issues ( knock on wood) lol
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Once it recognizes you phone it picks out firmware files for that phone i guess i have no clue but i dont question it lol long as it fixes it wich in my case was the case
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I belive i have firmware for both at home i kniw i got one 100% im not sure wich one i got 4.2 or 4.4 but right now thats least of problems we need to get the phone back to operating state than we can worry about what you want to stay on .
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Damn i sound like a nerd ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671779
[ROM|NH7|KitKat|4.4.4] Galaxy Note fre3 Hybrid De[Odex] v2.25b -BeastMode Kernel-
Check out that thread thats where you can see the rom and theme im on and if you like it i can set you up once we get the phone back online.
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TWRP fail..
Funny, in the past I turned my SL101 into an expensive brick by using CWM...and now its the abslute opposite...I have Odin flashed every recovery herehttps://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/hltespr/and none detect the efs partiton on my phone....whenever I yap on "Restore" and choose my backup the log reads" E: Unable to locate partition by backup name: 'efs'

Its because it got corrupted ...how i got no clue mine did the same once u get phone up and running we will use keies to flash original unrooted to get you efs back than root etc
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Just dont do anything more to it so we cant revive it at all lol
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All my backups were corrupted because of efs being gone as well
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bigbabo said:
Its because it got corrupted ...how i got no clue mine did the same once u get phone up and running we will use keies to flash original unrooted to get you efs back than root etc
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Just dont do anything more to it so we cant revive it at all lol
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All my backups were corrupted because of efs being gone as well
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Ok, I'll just wait for further instructions. I really want to follow this through carefully.. I hope you can provide detailed steps and/or instructions because given what has happened so far I don't want to do this with any previous experience...

Oh yeah buddy i kniw what you mean ,one thing at a time i hope you awake by 8 am lol im in GA so right now is 3 30 almost i get of at 7 am ill b home by 7 30
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ok whenever you ready download odin 3.07 not 3.09 like i mentioned earlier .So odin 3.07 and ill upload other files with my dropbox ssince i dont know how to add it trough my pc ill post links with my xda app
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/7gj93zab3yj2e8c/CF-Auto-Root-hltespr-hltespr-smn900p.zip?dl=0
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Download that and extract it on pc dont flash that in your phone just extract it and you wil have cf autoroot folder for later
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2e0ql0jeiu0gjq/openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-hltespr.img.tar?dl=0
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Download that to your pc thats the twrp recovery keep all the files on desktop where is visible so you dont get confused whats what
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I have one more file wich is firmware tar its uploading right now ill post it soon as its done .Download that too and you will have total of 3 items to work with for now.
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[Q] Is there an easier way to root the Lollipop build, regardless of Knox tripping?

Yes, I'm aware of the SafeStrap/SD card method, but it's horribly inconvenient, especially since it wipes your phone. I'm near the end of my warranty anyway so tripping Knox doesn't matter to me. Is there an easier method to root, even if it does trip Knox?

I was reading that a root method for the Note 4 on VZW is coming out soon, and they said it works on the S5 Lollipop, but until it's out, no.

Makes sense, I figured the next (convenient) root solution would come from there or perhaps the S6. Guess I'll keep rolling with 4.4.4 until an easier solution pops up.

It doesn't wipe your phone, it reflashes the kernel and installs bloatware

ldeveraux said:
It doesn't wipe your phone, it reflashes the kernel and installs bloatware
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a full odin tar actually wipes your internal/phone
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mrjiggywiggy said:
I was reading that a root method for the Note 4 on VZW is coming out soon, and they said it works on the S5 Lollipop, but until it's out, no.
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i think thats a joke. just like the guy in this forum that said he had it and never released it.
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elliwigy said:
a full odin tar actually wipes your internal/phone
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i think thats a joke. just like the guy in this forum that said he had it and never released it.
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Yeah I guess you're right. I was already rooted when I downgraded, so I guess I just restored from TB

Ironically, this morning I bit the bullet and updated using Safestrap. So far so good.