[Q] Best way to root Galaxy Note 2? - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

WARNING: Android noob here.
So I've been using iPhones for 3 years and I knew I could jailbreak the phone only in one way. With Android, I found out it is different. So what's the best way to root my Galaxy Note 2?
1. With Odin and then flash with CF-Auto-Root? This won't give me custom recovery, but I know I can install GooManager from the Play Store and I could install TWRP recovery that way. As an Android beginner, I won't be needing the custom recovery right away, so I can live without it.
2. Galaxy Note 2 toolkit?
3. Download the newest version of Odin and flash with ClockworkMod recovery?
Thanks in advance!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923956
This PSA was sent Flow style from my Note 2 N-7100

dingokevin said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923956
This PSA was sent Flow style from my Note 2 N-7100
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Is it safe with the first option that I stated? Because I plan to do it that way.

Here is merit/demerit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2

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Telus Model - SGH-i317M

i got pretty good at flashing stuff for my galaxy nexus, but now as a note II owner I feel like a total noob.
i have the Telus Model - SGH-i317M. is that the same model for At&T ... all At&T flashing/rooting guides would work for me?
can I flash the international firmware? by doing so, will that mean I get official samsung updates faster?
cheers,
Gucci.Nexus said:
i got pretty good at flashing stuff for my galaxy nexus, but now as a note II owner I feel like a total noob.
i have the Telus Model - SGH-i317M. is that the same model for At&T ... all At&T flashing/rooting guides would work for me?
can I flash the international firmware? by doing so, will that mean I get official samsung updates faster?
cheers,
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Same exact model as at&t only difference is the M
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So if I follow AT&T model stuff, it should be fine for my model? Wouldn't it screw up network stuff like LTE?
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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Gucci.Nexus said:
So if I follow AT&T model stuff, it should be fine for my model? Wouldn't it screw up network stuff like LTE?
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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There's an international lte rom in the development forum. Don't flash any 7100 roms
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Gucci.Nexus said:
So if I follow AT&T model stuff, it should be fine for my model? Wouldn't it screw up network stuff like LTE?
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I would also backup your modem with twrp recovery, so if you run into problems, you can just restore. Also some roms are based on the Canadian note 2 as well.
sonny21 said:
There's a Canadian version of cf-auto root, and also twrp recovery. Cwm recovery is same as AT&T.
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Does the Canadian version work fine regardless if the Canadian carrier is Telus or Rogers?
Is cf-auto root a recovery tool? If so, only 1 of those 3 would be needed right.... Because no sense in 3 recovery tools? Any recommendations please which would be the best one for me?
Many thanks
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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Gucci.Nexus said:
Does the Canadian version work fine regardless if the Canadian carrier is Telus or Rogers?
Is cf-auto root a recovery tool? If so, only 1 of those 3 would be needed right.... Because no sense in 3 recovery tools? Any recommendations please which would be the best one for me?
Many thanks
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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Cf-auto root roots your phone, it doesn't install any recoveries. Here's the thread, just download the Canadian version and flash with Odin (yes it works with telus/bell/rogers) . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33854391
Then, if you want to flash custom roms then you need to install either Cwm or twrp recovery. Recommend twrp.
You can install twrp by installing goo manager via play store or download the file to flash with Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33867032
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sonny21 said:
There's a Canadian version of cf-auto root, and also twrp recovery. Cwm recovery is same as AT&T.
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i don't get why there would be a Canadian version of TWRP
thank you everyone for your help!
how can i do a complete back up... in case one day I need to return/exchange?
Gucci.Nexus said:
i don't get why there would be a Canadian version of TWRP
thank you everyone for your help!
how can i do a complete back up... in case one day I need to return/exchange?
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After you're rooted, if you install goo manager, it can install twrp automatically. I'm guessing there must be some variance to have a Canadian version.
Just search for nandroid backup for twrp recovery which is a complete backup. Lots of guides and YouTube videos if you search for it or someone can point you to one.
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sonny21 said:
After you're rooted, if you install goo manager, it can install twrp automatically. I'm guessing there must be some variance to have a Canadian version.
Just search for nandroid backup for twrp recovery which is a complete backup. Lots of guides and YouTube videos if you search for it or someone can point you to one.
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awesome, thanks for your help. Before I start, one more question please:
at what point am I supposed to flash the international firmware?
Gucci.Nexus said:
awesome, thanks for your help. Before I start, one more question please:
at what point am I supposed to flash the international firmware?
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No problem. Well first I would only install firmwares that are in the i317 Devs section.
To answer your question, root > install recovery >do a nandroid backup!>install custom roms
I wouldn't rush into things though before your really comfortable doing so and understand it.
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sonny21 said:
No problem. Well first I would only install firmwares that are in the i317 Devs section.
To answer your question, root > install recovery >do a nandroid backup!>install custom roms
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so, do i even need to install firmware... or can I just install good custom roms without installing international firmware?
if I were to install firmware, where does that fit in to your sequence above?
thanks a lot for your help man
Gucci.Nexus said:
so, do i even need to install firmware... or can I just install good custom roms without installing international firmware?
if I were to install firmware, where does that fit in to your sequence above?
thanks a lot for your help man
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Custom roms are firmwares. There are some roms that are ported from international firmwares and made to work for our version of note 2. All the compatible roms/firmwares are in the AT&T dev's section here, just make sure you read all the instructions and you can always ask them the question in they're thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1874
In any case, I would do a lot more research and reading. There are bunch of guides and tutorials.
well you've got me off to a great start! Thanks a lot for your help!
Gucci.Nexus said:
well you've got me off to a great start! Thanks a lot for your help!
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Happy to help. Good luck!
Cheers
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Gucci.Nexus said:
well you've got me off to a great start! Thanks a lot for your help!
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I just started playing with the Galaxy Note 2's as well this weekend (all Rogers i317m). Rooted 5 of them, and installed custom roms on 3 of them. All in all much easier than jailbreaking iphones. That said, this forum has been a wealth of information. I've tried a few roms and really like the International Stock Rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575. I will try Clean Rom next.
This is what I've done, and it's been a snap :
1. Put your phone into Odin Download mode, and root the phone using ODIN and the cwm6-root-note2.tar file (clockworkmod-there's some youtube videos on how to do this)
2. Download the custom rom you wish to flash to your phone (eg download directory)
3. Boot your phone into CWM recovery mode
4. Make a BACKUP rom of your existing phone (good for recovery, if you didn't back up all your contacts, sms, apps, etc....this is like TIMEMACHINE and saves to your phone's CWM directory).
5. Erase / Wipe Data (this does not erase your photos/videos, just basically the OS).
6. Flash ROM from ZIP (from your download directory)
7. Erase cache
8. Reboot to your new Custom Rom!
9. If you don't like the new Custom Rom, you can always boot back into CWM and restore from the BACKUP rom.
10. I highly recommend looking into Titanium Backup and SMS Backup, as well as syncing your contacts to GMAIL.
Good luck
Wow, thanks for your detailed post jun3280!
Lol, how come you have 5 note II's?
Do u have a link to the proper Odin and root files that I need to download please? Did you flash csc with Odin?
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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Gucci.Nexus said:
Wow, thanks for your detailed post jun3280!
Lol, how come you have 5 note II's?
Do u have a link to the proper Odin and root files that I need to download please? Did you flash csc with Odin?
Phone: Galaxy Note II - SGH-i317M Provider: Telus Rom: stock 4.1.1 Kernel: stock Recovery: stock
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No prob. I have 5 Note 2's because everyone in my family has one....at my urging My wife was the first adopter, and everyone fell in love with how functional the device was. Ironically, I'm still using a company issued Iphone 4S...which I loathe.
That said, take a look at hxxp://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-2-easiest-method/
and hxxp://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-faq/
Everything you need can be found there!
Good luck!
sgh-i37m
Hi there,
I'm new to this, but my question is how to I return my phone to stock, I had someone root and add a rom to it and now I have lost my lte radio..but this person tells me all is fine and that I'm completely stock and just rooted, this may be true but the phone hardly works now..
info:
telus phone Note 2
sgh-i317m
but when I check my phone know it says its a samsung sgh-i317 now instead of sgh-i317m, this have made me believe that the phone maybe was rooted with n7100 firmware.
all I want is the phone to be completely stock as if I have just pulled it out of the box
I dont want it rooted or any sort of rom, I need all stock files because I have no backup of any sort also from what I can tell I may need samsung drivers and Odin I have no idea which I need or where to acquire the correct files...
please help
Ganghi said:
Hi there,
I'm new to this, but my question is how to I return my phone to stock, I had someone root and add a rom to it and now I have lost my lte radio..but this person tells me all is fine and that I'm completely stock and just rooted, this may be true but the phone hardly works now..
info:
telus phone Note 2
sgh-i317m
but when I check my phone know it says its a samsung sgh-i317 now instead of sgh-i317m, this have made me believe that the phone maybe was rooted with n7100 firmware.
all I want is the phone to be completely stock as if I have just pulled it out of the box
I dont want it rooted or any sort of rom, I need all stock files because I have no backup of any sort also from what I can tell I may need samsung drivers and Odin I have no idea which I need or where to acquire the correct files...
please help
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I would flash the Telus stock which is root injected from this thread. You may need to set the csc to Telus. Flash with odin. You can easily remove the root if everything works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34422019
Report back on how that goes.
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[Q] How do I unroot?

Hello, there. (yes, I'm new here). So...
A few days ago I rooted my phone using CF's method and had installed TWRP. But now, I sorta don't want to be rooted anymore (yeah, yeah. ). But now, I'm confused. How do I;
Get back to stock recovery?
Unroot my device fully?
Any help for a noob on rooting (okay, on rooting a Samsung device; I've done it on an Inspire before :laugh: ) would be awesome!
P.S. I'm still running the stock ROM (as in out-of-the-box I317 with all of the AT&T stuff still installed), just not stock recovery.
I believe the supersu has an unroot option. I know it was mentioned in some of the threads dealing with the apk root method.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I think that mskip toolkit offer this option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779
sent from my jedi X6 sgh-317m
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
My instructions
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Android The Greek said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
My instructions
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So, in this case, it's fine to reroot (just to flash stock recovery)?
You reroot to get stock recovery. Then you can go into super su and full unroot
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Android The Greek said:
You reroot to get stock recovery. Then you can go into super su and full unroot
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
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And, is it absolutely necessary to use Triangle Away?
Only if you want to reset your counter ie return phone
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Android The Greek said:
Only if you want to reset your counter ie return phone
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I don't need to return it, so after SuperSU unroot, I'm done?
jasonlikeusual said:
I don't need to return it, so after SuperSU unroot, I'm done?
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Yes check your device status. If all rooted apps are uninstalled your status in settings should say match the picture posted at the end of the thread
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Android The Greek said:
Yes check your device status. If all rooted apps are uninstalled your status in settings should say match the picture posted at the end of the thread
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
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I just completed SuperSU unroot, but my device says modified. Did I miss something (other than Triangle Away)?
Go to play store make sure super su and super su pro are uninstalled as well as any other apps that nees root. Tibu goo manager root explorer etc
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
Android The Greek said:
Go to play store make sure super su and super su pro are uninstalled as well as any other apps that nees root. Tibu goo manager root explorer etc
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
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The only app that I had installed (other than SuperSU) that required root was Goomanager (and I uninstalled that). SuperSU appeared to have removed itself after running the unroot process. Is it showing modified because I didn't run Triangle Away?
That might bw the reason. If you have stock kernal and stock recovery and stick rom just run teiangle away. You may want to check status after using triangle away and uninstalling triangle away
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Android The Greek said:
That might bw the reason. If you have stock kernal and stock recovery and stick rom just run teiangle away. You may want to check status after using triangle away and uninstalling triangle away
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The thing is... I'm already unrooted. With that said, thank you for the step-by-step and for also helping me out with the process.
Just letting you know I think device status needs to be unmodified for you to get updates.
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
Android The Greek said:
Just letting you know I think device status needs to be unmodified for you to get updates.
Sent from Admiral Ackbar's Galaxy Note 2
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If that is the case, I can just always rerun the process and complete Triangle Away. Again, thanks for the help
Np
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[Q] [How can] Remove CWM?

Hello Everyone,
At the begin i search for this question in google and in XDA forum, i don't find direct answer!
How can i remove CWM from samsung not 2 completely?
My advice for everyone have Note 2 Don't root it, you don't need to.
i dont think there's a way to just remove it,
i know you can flash a stock rom using odin and it will remove it
I did it with my S3.
After soft bricking my phone, I installed a rooted stock ICS rom in my phone then again installed Rom manager. CWM was not found. I think you can do it also in your Note 2.
Reroot with CF-Root this will put you back stock recovery.
eslamspot said:
Hello Everyone,
At the begin i search for this question in google and in XDA forum, i don't find direct answer!
How can i remove CWM from samsung not 2 completely?
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I am curious as to why you want to remove CWM?
i flash stock rom using odin, still have cwm!!!
zeeshanonlyme said:
I am curious as to why you want to remove CWM?
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because with CWM i can't reset counter to zero.
Flash cf auto root
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UtkarshGupta said:
Flash cf auto root
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Still having it, any other solution.
can any one give me site to download official rom.
eslamspot said:
Still having it, any other solution.
can any one give me site to download official rom.
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This should help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
now i restore it by following below steps:
make hard reset.
install default Rom.
thanks for everyone.

Easiest way to root on 4.1.2?

Is there a easy way to root 4.1.2 and have TWRP installed? I'm trying to get PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 on my device. I downloaded the Note II Toolkit, but the only option was 4.1.1 under ATT, so I wasn't sure if that was safe.
Thanks
itsjakez said:
Is there a easy way to root 4.1.2 and have TWRP installed? I'm trying to get PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 on my device. I downloaded the Note II Toolkit, but the only option was 4.1.1 under ATT, so I wasn't sure if that was safe.
Thanks
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I used this method for my att 4.1.2.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33854391
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itsjakez said:
Is there a easy way to root 4.1.2 and have TWRP installed? I'm trying to get PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 on my device. I downloaded the Note II Toolkit, but the only option was 4.1.1 under ATT, so I wasn't sure if that was safe.
Thanks
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I second the vote for this way. Im a new android user and it was a very simple way to root! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33854391
Yes download ExynosAbouse 1.4 APK and install it. Once you run it, it will root your N2 and and install superus. Next go to google play store and download Goomanger and this will install TWRP recovery. That's it.
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[Q] Just a quick question about CWM

How can i install CWM or the like? I have rooted the device with the Galaxy Note 8 Toolkit... thanks
you install it with odin...
C3PBRO said:
How can i install CWM or the like? I have rooted the device with the Galaxy Note 8 Toolkit... thanks
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This is not meant to flame you...only to educate you. Read and follow directions. Its all right there. Flashing a custom recovery is very commonplace in the world of modding. Each device will have their own methods and instructions posted in their respective subforums. Reading is your friend...
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