My Note 5 let me down, so I am back on my Note 3 after almost two years during which I haven't flashed a rom. My Verizon Note 3 (SM-N900V) is still running Eclipse on Android 4.4.2 (if anybody remembers what that is) but I have problems with some applications from google. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to be able to flash one of the latest Roms such as Lineage OS? While I am reading posts, any help would be much appreciated.
Try to use CF Auto Root for the Note 3 to root it. After rooting it, install Official TWRP App from the Play Store then download TWRP 2.8.7.0 (which is what most ROMs require) and flash it in-app (which requires root). Reboot into Recovery and you should have TWRP. Happy flashing!
OP this is not the Verizon forum .
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Hello guys! I purchased a dual sim Galaxy Note 3 (Chinese Unicom version) from China, an SM-N9002 running 4.4.2 KitKat. I want to root it to flash gapps and Cyanogenmod. However, after countless attempts at rooting the phone, none of them seem to work. They all seemed to throw my phone into an endless boot loop, that could be fixed by going into download mode and hitting cancel. Even after the boot loop, I do not have root access (I checked with a terminal emulator apk). No root seems to work, not even towelroot. This obviously means that the phone has a locked bootloader. I am not sure what to do now. My goal is to get root, flash gaaps and Cyanogenmod. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Hi I have been running with a rooted Note 2 for two years now and it is time for a change.
I just bought a phone Rooted Running Android 4.4.2 rooted with Safestrap on swappa.
I don't really understand what I can and cant do with this phone, like can I install a lollipop rom? Cyanogenmod Rom? do I have to stay on 4.4.2 ?
Also, can you tell me what NOT to do so to lose root, this phone seem a bit locked down, more so than my note 2.
The seller sent me this not today:
"Hi Plainbum. I will be shipping the phone out in a few hours during my lunch break. I have wiped it clean and installed a fresh copy of 4.4.2 with root and safestrap. I went ahead and renamed the 2 files in the file system that are known to force a system software update by renaming the files to .bak, so you shouldn't have to worry about the phone trying to update itself. I have included all the files you would need to re-install a clean copy of 4.4.2 unrooted, plus root and safestrap on a 4gb sd card at no extra charge. Please refer to XDA forums should you need steps on how to do this, and take note newer versions of android may not be rootable on this phone. Thanks!"
Can I never run a rooted phone with a lollipop or MM ROM?
Thanks for any advice
If you install a stock lollipop or mm rom then you will lose root and even if you downgrade from them root it lost. Cm and aosp roms also won't work because of the locked bootloader. I think the only 5.x type rom is JasmineRom if i remember correctly
Thanks! Let's say I successfully INSTALL jasmine, do I have to stay there to keep root or can I safely go back to kitkat?
Just wondering if anyone was successful in installing xposed framework on the metro version of this phone and making it active? I have looked far and wide and after countless soft bricks and restores I admit defeat. As stated in the title my phone is the metro version of the grand prime android 5.1.1. I am running the trap kernel by Shinyside on this phone along with supersu.
I have followed many tutorials on several different versions of this phone and each one has ended in soft bricking the phone. When you search xposed SM-G530T1 it returns nothing but topics about stock firmware and xposed on the 530H. The only version that didn't soft brick is xposedinstaller 3.0 alpha, yet even after granting root privileges and rebooting I am still greeted with The latest version of Xposed is currently not active.
Edit: Solved using Wanams fix for samsung Link below for his steps to fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960
Help me Please.
I have been going through this same problem but the other forum doesn't help as much I have the same phone a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530T1 rinning lollipop 5.1.1 the metro version. Um my rom is custom gwiz I think with a trap kernel l.. I had to install that through flash fire app. Because I can't seem to get CWM or TWRP working on my phone... can you let me know exactly what you did starting with rooting your phone to installing xposed ?:crying: :crying: :crying:
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I have been going through this same problem but the other forum doesn't help as much I have the same phone a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530T1 rinning lollipop 5.1.1 the metro version. Um my rom is custom gwiz I think with a trap kernel l.. I had to install that through flash fire app. Because I can't seem to get CWM or TWRP working on my phone... can you let me know exactly what you did starting with rooting your phone to installing xposed ?:crying: :crying: :crying:
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Well first I flashed the stock rom with odin waited for the phone to reboot then I set it up just like you would a new phone. Once it was completed I shut it down and put it back into download mode and flashed the trap kernel located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/grand-prime/development/kernel-root-root-sm-g530t-5-1-1-t3203476
After that was done waited for the phone to reboot then flashed twrp from the g530h with odin . A forum search of TWRP-SMG530H will lead you to the file.
Once I gained root and flashed the recovery I needed to find out what type of cpu this phone was running so I installed droid info from the playstore. The system info shown ARMv7 so I went to the link in my original post and downloaded XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk but did not install it just yet. First I flashed the framework xposed-v85.1-sdk22-arm-custom-build-by-wanam-20160 with twrp. Once it was done I cleared cache and rebooted. It took the phone about seven mins to boot.
Then installed the apk gave it root permissions rebooted and thats it. Also Note that the twrp version used cant make backups because it was not intended for this phone but it will flash whats needed. After many, I and I mean many failed attempts this was the solution to my problem.
Ok
So you don't have a Custom ROM or is trap Kernel a custom rom... I'm still kind of new to this but I will try
Thank You
Thanks it's now working
I really try to do stuff on my own without having to make other people repeat themselves a million times but this process is just so complicated and confusing that it's giving me a headache.
My goal: Be able to boot up LineageOS 16.
Code:
httpsforum.xda-developers.comnote-4snapdragon-devrom-lineageos-16-0-t3900807
It says it requires MM firmware and TWRP 3.2 or higher.
I have the retail 900V Note 4.
So far I have managed to downgrade to 5.1.1 and unlock the bootloader. (It says MODE: Developer)
From there I was able to install TWRP 3.0.2.
But now what?
Right now I have a phone that won't boot because there is no OS on it.
1. I can't get Odin to flash any other TWRP besides the 3.0.2 version. Odin just freezes halfway through and never completes. I'm assuming this might be because I'm not on an unlocked MM build yet. Currently still on LP.
2. I'm unsure how to get root back once I upgrade to a MM build. (I only have access to WiFi atm and this guide says it will disable it.)
Code:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/development/howto-bootloader-unlock-upgrade-to-t3398144
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm no expert so some of the things I'll suggest may not work.
As a first thought have you tried installing Lineage from TWRP 3.0.2
I'd suggest
1. downloading the OEM MM ROM from Sammobile and install that first so at least you have an OS to start with.
2. after setting it up install the official TWRP App update to the latest version of TWRP
3. ensure SuperSU is on the internal drive although I've not had problems installing it from a MicroSD and install it from TWRP Recovery. You should now have a rooted phone on the latest version of TWRP
4. put the Lineage ROM on the internal drive although again I've not had problems installing from a MicroSD (although it does take longer) and after 'Wiping' the system (it should tell you what steps are required from the Lineage guidance) install it.
5. After setup you will probably have to install SuperSU again or Magisk assuming there's no trace of SuperSU left on the system.
Hopefully someone will jump in and comment if I've missed something obvious or got it all wrong. Although I've rooted all 3 of my SM-N910Fs and SM-N910C at least once and installed various ROMs I don't consider myself particularly knowledgable. So far I've not bricked any of my phones or Tablets.
I really appreciate the reply.
Currently I am trying to flash 5.1.1 stock onto the phone and Odin just freezes about 25% into system.img.ext4
I have tried a dozen times.
I believe what makes my phone so difficult to flash is the stock bootloader is locked.
Hey! haven't seen anyone in this section for a while....
Why I am making this thread
So lately, I was looking through my old phones only only to find my old dusty Samsung Galaxy Note 2 lying around. It had already been rooted with kingroot... Needless to say, it's a spyware and my phone was drastically slow probably because of it.
Long story short, kingroot messed up all the files. Trying to install a working version of SuperSU gave me a headache. Finally, Magisk(v22.1) was supposed to work on the phone as it stated that it's the last version to support v4.4.2 but it doesn't actually work. It keeps on showing N/A whenever I launch it and a million different permutations that I had done in the process of rooting it using Magisk never worked.
This took me days, just jumping from one rabbit hole into another, finding old dead links which really made me so frustrated that at some point I wanted to throw the whole phone away.
That's why I'm creating this thread, so that I save the hassle for myself in the future and hopefully anyone who comes across this.
Updated rooting guide
This guide worked for my GT N7100 android version 4.4.2. It'd also probably work on other devices on other old phones which have an android version less than 5
Just make sure to backup everything before trying it.
Step 1. Flashing TWRP
Download the files from the following link
[TWRP]N7100 TWRP v3.3.1-0 ODIN FLASHABLE [23/05/2019]
Ok there we go this recovery is the latest 3.2.3-2 for t03g only don't flash this on t0lte(N7105). UPDATE: 12/04/2019: official support: https://dl.twrp.me/t03g TWRP 3.2.3-2 for N7100. Bugs: Format as F2FS doesn't work because the option isn't...
forum.xda-developers.com
Download ODIN
https://samfw.com/Odin/Odin3_v3.13.3.zip
Boot the phone into download mode(VOLUME DOWN + POWER KEY + HOME KEY)
Open ODIN and in BL choose the file that you've downloaded whose extension is or is similar to ".tar"
Click start
Step 2. Downloading and flashing Magisk
In here, you need to download a very specific version of Magisk, because anything above this version won't work.
NOTE: If you have installed any later versions of Magisk then make sure to uninstall them first, you can find out how to uninstall it from here(https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html#uninstallation)
Download THESE VERY SPECIFIC VERSIONS of Magisk and Magisk Manager from here
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v21.4/Magisk-v21.4.zip
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/manager-v8.0.7/MagiskManager-v8.0.7.apk
Get into TWRP recovery mode and then flash Magisk-v21.4.zip
Reboot back into the device and install MagiskManager-v8.0.7.apk
That's the end of it, your device is rooted now
HOWEVER, once MagiskManager has been installed, it would say that there's an update available(a newer version) available that you could upgrade to.
NEVER EVER UPDATE!! Updating your Magisk version to ANYTHING above v21.4 will cause it not to detect root. This is a bug with Magisk and it would probably never get fixed because support for android <5 had been discontinued a long time ago.
In case you ever do accidentally update Magisk, you will have to uninstall the Magisk app and then install MagiskManager-v8.0.7.apk again.
To uninstall and unroot your device, download this file and flash it with TWRP
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v21.4/Magisk-uninstaller-20210117.zip
Where I got the links above from
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v21.4/
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/manager-v8.0.7/
Magisk v22.1
This release is focused on fixing regressions and bugs. Check the v22.0 release notes if coming from older releases.
Note: Magisk v22 is the last major version to support Jellybean and Kitkat. Magisk v23 will only support Android 5.0 and higher.
ze7zez said:
Magisk v22.1
This release is focused on fixing regressions and bugs. Check the v22.0 release notes if coming from older releases.
Note: Magisk v22 is the last major version to support Jellybean and Kitkat. Magisk v23 will only support Android 5.0 and higher.
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Nope doesn't work as it wont be able to detect root at all, this is what had initially caused my headache to begin with
The last version of magisk that actually works on GT N7100 and probably any other old phone is the one that I linked in the thread
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Get into TWRP recovery mode and flash Magisk-v21.4.zip
Reboot back into the device and install MagiskManager-v8.0.7.apk
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Thank you for the information.
I checked on Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini LTE i9195 (stock KK 4.4.2) and it works indeed at most version 21.4.
It is not possible to install MagiskManager-v8.0.7.apk because it is installed together with Magisk-v21.4.zip.