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Modifying Tar Files for Odin/Heimdall?

I've noticed that the latest Odin/Heimdall tar file has for EI22 but only the EC05 modem (which requires you to do some more work to upgrade the modem to EI22). I started thinking about the other files that are used. Many users take a ROM (from a zip file) and modify the contents in order to save a bunch of time ferrying their apps/settings from ROM to ROM. So why can't we do that from the Odin/Heimdall level?
Is there any program/method for modifying/updated tar files or do we have to wait and be spoon-fed the image files by Samsung?

We do do that. Jzip or 7zip easily let's you swap out recover.bin or zimage.bin. There is no modem.bin for EI22 yet.
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kennyglass123 said:
We do do that. Jzip or 7zip easily let's you swap out recover.bin or zimage.bin. There is no modem.bin for EI22 yet.
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So say I just made a nandroid backup in ACS Recovery (or CWM 5, w/e). Could I take that backup file and insert in into a tar file that Odin would recognize, or is there some grand procedure that I need to follow to make that possible, or is it even possible?
If you DO know of a procedure to use, please steer me towards it.

Dante of the Inferno said:
So say I just made a nandroid backup in ACS Recovery (or CWM 5, w/e). Could I take that backup file and insert in into a tar file that Odin would recognize, or is there some grand procedure that I need to follow to make that possible, or is it even possible?
If you DO know of a procedure to use, please steer me towards it.
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That is a good question. I have opened the backup files and noticed they are in the same format and categories as Heimdall can use. I never tried it and not sure if anyone else has. I found this in the Droid forum, don't know if that info helps you are not.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/dr...create-custom-odin-images-backup-restore.html

kennyglass123 said:
That is a good question. I have opened the backup files and noticed they are in the same format and categories as Heimdall can use. I never tried it and not sure if anyone else has. I found this in the Droid forum, don't know if that info helps you are not.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/dr...create-custom-odin-images-backup-restore.html
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After comparing this guide to some other Galaxy devices, it looks like the procedure is the same. The variance is that each of the guides extracts information from different sections of dev/block/
Anyone know where the information for factoryfs, zImage, recovery.bin, cache, dbdata, and data is located within dev/block/ ?

[MOD / HACK] - Fully enable native wifi hotspot AND native Bluetooth tethering

All credits of this hack goes to electron73 from THIS post.
Thanks to DrDrrae for the CWM zip
This will remove all entitlement checks on the native wifi hotspot app and will enable the native Bluetooth tethering option which was removed by at&t.
*** I take no responsibility if this process bricks your device. please read the process CAREFULLY before attempting this***
***THIS IS ONLY FOR I747UCALEM BUILD. THIS WILL NOT WORK ON ANY OTHER BUILD AND WILL PREVENT YOUR DEVICE FROM BOOTING***
This process will prevent your device from booting if something goes wrong. Please make sure you do a nandroid backup BEFORE you do this. If you get stuck you will be able to restore.
What you need:
1) rooted device on the UCALEM build.
2) CWM installed
3) The below CWM flashable zip
How to install:
1) Do a nandroid backup - this is a must as we don't have an ODIN restore yet.
2) Download the below modified flashable zip and place it on your internal SD.
3) Reboot into recovery and flash the zip file
4) Done
5) You might need to re-login to your google account after doing this,
If your device does not boot after changing the file, restore from a nandroid backup and you should be fine.
LINK to CWM flashable zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?z198wxjqhexqqhy
NEW: Link to CWM flashable zip with Cell standby fix: http://www.mediafire.com/?vsepya1lkgud8nt
Enjoy!

Wouldn't it be easier to just do this all through CWM with ADB? Thus no force closes or anything.
EDIT: As I look at the instructions on the original post, he states it's easiest to do it that way also. I'd recommend simplifying such and just doing the instructions for CWM. This will reduce bricks, though if someone can make this into a CWM flashable zip it would be even easier. Live modding files isn't always the best thing to do.
Those instructions are
1) Boot into CWM
2) Go to Mounts and Storage
3) Mount /system
4) Start following the instructions from 4
clubtech said:
All credit of this hack goes to electron73 from THIS post
This will remove all entitlement checks on the native wifi hotspot app and will enable the native Bluetooth tethering option which was removed by at&t.
*** I take no responsibility if this process bricks your device. please read the process CAREFULLY before attempting this***
***THIS IS ONLY FOR I747UCALEM BUILD. THIS WILL NOT WORK ON ANY OTHER BUILD AND WILL PREVENT YOUR DEVICE FROM BOOTING***
This process will prevent your device from booting if something goes wrong. Please make sure you do a nandroid backup BEFORE you do this. If you get stuck you will be able to restore.
What you need:
1) rooted device on the UCALEM build.
2) root explorer or any other file manager with root access.
3) The below modified framework-res.apk
How to install:
1) Do a nandroid backup - this is a must as we don't have an ODIN restore yet.
2) Download the below modified framework-res.apk and place it on your SD card.
3) With root explorer go to your SD card and copy the framework-res.apk file
4) Navigate to /system/framework. Mount the file system as RW
5) Rename the current framework-res.apk in this folder to framework-res.apk.bak and quickly paste the framework-res.apk you have copied in step 2 (this must be done QUICKLY as you will get tons of force closes making your device unusbale so copy the framework-res.apk file BEFORE you rename the current file so you will be ready to simply paste the new file right after you rename the current file)
6) After you have pasted the new framework-res.apk you will get a lot of force closes. relax. reboot the device.
7) the device will boot and you will have free wifi and bluetooth tethering.
8) you will need to re-login to your google account after doing this.
If your device does not boot after changing the file, you have done something wrong (probably not copying the new framework file fast enough). restore from a nandroid backup and you should be fine.
LINK to the modified file: http://www.mediafire.com/?ccbnfyl557ea01d
Enjoy!
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I was not able to get ADB working with our version of CWM.
If someone can make this a flashable ZIP that would be perfect. I don't know how to do create one.

clubtech said:
I was not able to get ADB working with our version of CWM.
If someone can make this a flashable ZIP that would be perfect. I don't know how to do create one.
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Ah ****, you are right....ADB doesn't work through CWM.....didn't notice that. Just a slight niggle. Either we need ADB working through CWM or get this as a flashable Zip.

Here's a CWM flashable zip.
http://www.mediafire.com/?z198wxjqhexqqhy

DrDrrae said:
Here's a CWM flashable zip.
http://www.mediafire.com/?z198wxjqhexqqhy
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Thanks!
If someone can please confirm this is working for him with CWM i'll update the first post.

Flashed cwm zip, tethering worked fine
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It would be nice to have this mode flash able via recovery then going through all these steps.
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Worked like a charm! Thanks!

Tethering zip
Worked for me. No issues at all.

OP updated for the CWM method.

CWM flash worked flawlessly. Great job.
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My version is I747UCLEM... is this different than the I747UCALEM version listed in the OP?
sigh... nm... I scrolled the rest of the way down and see build number is different from baseband version...

Thanks for this!

Awesome. I'll be putting this in my next Rom with thanks back To you!!
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Worked great - thanks. Only I did not need to re-login to my Google account.

amerikian said:
Worked great - thanks. Only I did not need to re-login to my Google account.
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Plus one
Thanks
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amerikian said:
Worked great - thanks. Only I did not need to re-login to my Google account.
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I think that only happens if you push it while the booted in Android.

Flashed to my I747. Worked like a charm. All three (USB, BT, Wi-Fi) tethering working well.

Flashed to my I747 and it worked great, tethering is working great.

Blacked out status bar

This is not my work. I did not create this. I only attempted to make it work on stock zvc odex.
Thanks to Scotty_Two for originally creating this for deodexed zvb roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2198755
Adhvanlt helped me to get it to work on my locked but rooted lgog.
Since the release of the zvc update, it didn't work anymore. I loved the look, so I decided to sit down and redo what was done before. This time I was unlocked, but still needed to create an odex file for it. So following the steps I did before with adb I was able to make it work on my stock odex zvc phone.
The link to the zip file is below if you want to try it out on your phone. Again, this was done on a stock ROM.
Install at your own risk
I am NOT responsible for any damages or any bricks.
Make a nandroid backup before using.
Copy the stock LGSystemUI.apk and LGSystemUI.odex files from /system/app folder to your sdcard in case you want to revert back.
To use:
Download the zip file
Extract the files.
Copy the extracted files to: /system/app folder
Change permissions on both files to rw-r-r
Reboot
Enjoy
This is NOT flashable
https://db.tt/GOy768CI
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Here another screenshot
Sent from my phone.

Anyone try this? How bout a flashable link?
idk how i got here...

treezy26 said:
Anyone try this? How bout a flashable link?
idk how i got here...
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I tried it on the stock rom unlocked and it works great. Well done. It only takes about two minutes to unzip and replace the original files in system/app. Btw, I would move the original files to your SD card to keep in case you want to go back to the stock look.

Sorry I don't have a flashable version as I don't have the knowledge to create it. If someone wants to either show me or do it, have at it. But a quick swap with a root explorer takes no time at all.
Sent from my phone.

I installed this onto the optimus ROM. I extracted the apk from the deodexed original Scotty_Two thread and pushed it into system just as it says in Scotty's thread and it worked on reboot. Just over write and when system starts failing just reboot FTW.
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[Q] Question new 4.3 update to Note 2

I use to be with Sprint and have the Note 2 (Android 4.1.2) flashed.
I see now that the phone is asking me to apply the new 4.3 update BUT since it's been flashed to work with Cricket well I am having doubts
of doing it and pay for the re-flash again or not at all.
I really would like to upgrade but having to pay each time I get an upgrade is ridiculous so I am wondering if I can do a full flash OR root
myself.
I downloaded the Galaxy Note Toolkit 4.10 I believe a few hour ago and I am wondering if this is the right tool to upgrade and root my Samsung note 2???
If not, where can I find instructions (easy ones, even if I have to pay just a couple of bucks) but that would make the upgrade/root very easy.
I hope someone here can guide me what to do or where to go for such a task of doing my own upgrades and roots and backups and so on :laugh:
Thanks in advance !!!

I am also on cricket with my note 2 but I did the flashing myself.
Couple questions for you.
1. Are you stock?
2. Rooted?
3. Custom recovery?
Now my experience. I got mine off ebay and did everything myself. While flashing custom roms I ran into the problem of losing my flashed info every time I flashed any rom. This turned out to be an issue with the baseband/radio I was using. Once I got the proper one on it was not an issue again. I have flashed everything available for the note 2. Nothing has made me lose my cricket service since the baseband/radio fix.
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jlmancuso said:
I am also on cricket with my note 2 but I did the flashing myself.
Couple questions for you.
1. Are you stock?
2. Rooted?
3. Custom recovery?
Now my experience. I got mine off ebay and did everything myself. While flashing custom roms I ran into the problem of losing my flashed info every time I flashed any rom. This turned out to be an issue with the baseband/radio I was using. Once I got the proper one on it was not an issue again. I have flashed everything available for the note 2. Nothing has made me lose my cricket service since the baseband/radio fix.
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I did a root but it was a long time ago and frankly I don't remember a thing about it, I am trying to refresh my memory by readung more about rooting. To answer your questions 2,3 is no. On number 1, frankly don't know what you are talking about
I just took mine when I was with Sprint and to a store and they did a (partial I think) flash on it.
I get errors on username/password when connecting to cricket but that's about it.
Right now it's working with cricket and has android 4.1.2 but I want to upgrade to 4.3 and would like to learn(again) to do it myself.
I just need directions on how and if it's possible to do a full flash and root on this phone.
Thanks again

Well I can give you a hand in doing it all. I am at work today but am off tomorrow and will dig up everything you are going to need and put it in a zip on my file host. Then when we are both abke to get together online I will walk you through everything.
Will even help you get data going (although I have not made 3g work only 1x)
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Hey what's going on.. I'm wondering if you can help me out on something also. I'm rooted on stock no custom rom. But I want the new OTA but don't no what to do after I downloaded the file. Should I use androzip to unzip the file or can I use Twrp to do everything? Oh yeah, when I did us androzip to unzip the file before when it did it was 4 different folders and I didn't know how to move over to SD
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gatordon said:
Hey what's going on.. I'm wondering if you can help me out on something also. I'm rooted on stock no custom rom. But I want the new OTA but don't no what to do after I downloaded the file. Should I use androzip to unzip the file or can I use Twrp to do everything? Oh yeah, when I did us androzip to unzip the file before when it did it was 4 different folders and I didn't know how to move over to SD
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The zip should not be unzipped. You place it on your sdcard boot into a stock recovery with stock ROM and choose flash upgrade zip from external sdcard. Although this is not a preferred method the following paragraphs give better options.
Best thing if you want stock rooted 4.3 is to follow lorjays thread. If you want note 3 features use synergy rc3 from his forum. You will not have the Knox boot loader or files (which is a plus) with either. Just read the op of the one you choose and follow the directions exactly. Now 4.3 has its issues (mostly MMS and WiFi which has an Odin flashable fix) and note 3 features kills a couple of things adding contacts (flashable fix for that) and updating profile/prl does not work.
If you have other questions ask here, use Google search, or read both threads start to finish. Everything is covered by those 3 methods.
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jlmancuso said:
The zip should not be unzipped. You place it on your sdcard boot into a stock recovery with stock ROM and choose flash upgrade zip from external sdcard. Although this is not a preferred method the following paragraphs give better options.
Best thing if you want stock rooted 4.3 is to follow lorjays thread. If you want note 3 features use synergy rc3 from his forum. You will not have the Knox boot loader or files (which is a plus) with either. Just read the op of the one you choose and follow the directions exactly. Now 4.3 has its issues (mostly MMS and WiFi which has an Odin flashable fix) and note 3 features kills a couple of things adding contacts (flashable fix for that) and updating profile/prl does not work.
If you have other questions ask here, use Google search, or read both threads start to finish. Everything is covered by those 3 methods.
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Sounds great, I have another question:
I found the following 4.3 update : MK4 4.3 Full Flashable Zip
Which is the android 4.3 upgrade software, if not let me know. Anyway, I would like to use that one and if there is a better one let me know and if you have a link to it, better.
I understand that I need to place that zip file in the phone memory, then use the Samsung Skipsoft toolkit to root it and install such 4.3 software???
Let me know if I am thinking right on this...
Then that's it. I will have a fullly rooted cricket phone with andoird 4.3
Am I in the right direction?
Thanks

Thanks:thumbup:
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mannygod said:
Sounds great, I have another question:
I found the following 4.3 update : MK4 4.3 Full Flashable Zip
Which is the android 4.3 upgrade software, if not let me know. Anyway, I would like to use that one and if there is a better one let me know and if you have a link to it, better.
I understand that I need to place that zip file in the phone memory, then use the Samsung Skipsoft toolkit to root it and install such 4.3 software???
Let me know if I am thinking right on this...
Then that's it. I will have a fullly rooted cricket phone with andoird 4.3
Am I in the right direction?
Thanks
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First off go into setting, about phone and give me your baseband/radio info. Depending on what this shows we might have to do a few other things.
Below are the steps to get custom recovery, backup current rom, and install tw 4.3. Although I want you to do some other things first just in case you lose your cricket flash. So read over the steps below and if you feel comfortable doing those then I will PM you with a couple of links to software and steps to make sure you have the needed info to reflash in case you lose your cricket info.
Okay I got the files and links you need.
1. Hope you have the drivers but if not these work on windows7 64bit (if you are using other windows version let me know and I will see what I can find) http://d-h.st/77G
2. CF-Auto root Which contains the Odin version I use. Just extract the files and then place the wifi patch in the same directory. If you need help using odin just ask. http://d-h.st/Twx
3. Wifi patch. You will flash this using Odin (put phone in download mode to use odin, power off then press vol-, menu key, and power at the same time) http://d-h.st/eo8
4. Custom recovery (philz modified cwm recovery) This will flash, backup, and restore every rom available for the note 2 without any issues
http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=29060#files This is the download site choose philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552653 this is the xda thread for his recovery
Now that you have the base tools time to go through the steps of upgrading. First you want to have 2-10 gigs free on your sdcard (if not backup your sdcard to your pc and then delete till you have 10 gigs free, this is needed to backup all your internal sdcard data)
1. Pick the Touchwiz rom you want. Plain stock 4.3 which you have the choice of odex pure stock or deodex (only known issue is mms, use any 3rd party mms handcent, gosms, hangouts, etc..) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541395 or 4.3 with note 3 features (again has mms issues) http://the-plattypus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1&p=1#p1 r3 is the version you want to download.
2. Place the rom you want on your external sdcard (sdext)
3. Power off phone and then enter download mode (press and hold in this order vol-, menu, then power) it will take you to a warning screen press vol+ and continue
4. On PC extract the cf-auto root zip. Place philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5 file inside that folder along with the wifi fix file. Now run the Odin3-v1.85.exe
5. Click on the button that is labled PDA then select the philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5
6. Connect your phone to your PC and you should see a com port listed in the odin app
7. Click start and it will flash the recovery and reboot your phone.
8. It should reboot into the recovery app if not power off the phone and the press and hold vol+, home, and power. It will boot into recovery.
9. Now you want to backup your phone. Choose backup and restore, then custom, custom backup job, (you want to select ((put X beside)) backup boot, backup recovery, backup system, backup preload, backup and-sec, backup modem, backup /data data, backup /data/media)
10. Now select start custom backup job, backup to /storage/sdcard (this will take a long time)
11. Now go back to backup and restore, custom, custom backup job, and only select efs (now your phone is completely backed up)
12. Now choose Wipe data/factory reset, clean to install new rom
13. Now choose Mounts and Storage, format /data and data/media
14. Now choose Install zip, choose zip from /storage/sdcard then select the rom you decided (lorjays or synergy)
15. After install reboot to system.
16. Once it boots up hold the power button and power off the phone.
17. Reboot into download/odin (vol-, menu, power)
18. Connect to PC and open the odin program again
19. Click on the PDA button and choose wifi fix, then click start
20. Phone will reboot and then you will setup the rom
Now you have a rooted Touchwiz 4.3 rom
If you have any questions please ask before you start the process!!! If anything goes wrong your phone will be unusable till you can get me or someone else to help you. So please ask questions first!!!

jlmancuso said:
First off go into setting, about phone and give me your baseband/radio info. Depending on what this shows we might have to do a few other things.
Below are the steps to get custom recovery, backup current rom, and install tw 4.3. Although I want you to do some other things first just in case you lose your cricket flash. So read over the steps below and if you feel comfortable doing those then I will PM you with a couple of links to software and steps to make sure you have the needed info to reflash in case you lose your cricket info.
Okay I got the files and links you need.
1. Hope you have the drivers but if not these work on windows7 64bit (if you are using other windows version let me know and I will see what I can find) http://d-h.st/77G
2. CF-Auto root Which contains the Odin version I use. Just extract the files and then place the wifi patch in the same directory. If you need help using odin just ask. http://d-h.st/Twx
3. Wifi patch. You will flash this using Odin (put phone in download mode to use odin, power off then press vol-, menu key, and power at the same time) http://d-h.st/eo8
4. Custom recovery (philz modified cwm recovery) This will flash, backup, and restore every rom available for the note 2 without any issues
http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=29060#files This is the download site choose philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552653 this is the xda thread for his recovery
Now that you have the base tools time to go through the steps of upgrading. First you want to have 2-10 gigs free on your sdcard (if not backup your sdcard to your pc and then delete till you have 10 gigs free, this is needed to backup all your internal sdcard data)
1. Pick the Touchwiz rom you want. Plain stock 4.3 which you have the choice of odex pure stock or deodex (only known issue is mms, use any 3rd party mms handcent, gosms, hangouts, etc..) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541395 or 4.3 with note 3 features (again has mms issues) http://the-plattypus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1&p=1#p1 r3 is the version you want to download.
2. Place the rom you want on your external sdcard (sdext)
3. Power off phone and then enter download mode (press and hold in this order vol-, menu, then power) it will take you to a warning screen press vol+ and continue
4. On PC extract the cf-auto root zip. Place philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5 file inside that folder along with the wifi fix file. Now run the Odin3-v1.85.exe
5. Click on the button that is labled PDA then select the philz_touch_6.01.2-l900.tar.md5
6. Connect your phone to your PC and you should see a com port listed in the odin app
7. Click start and it will flash the recovery and reboot your phone.
8. It should reboot into the recovery app if not power off the phone and the press and hold vol+, home, and power. It will boot into recovery.
9. Now you want to backup your phone. Choose backup and restore, then custom, custom backup job, (you want to select ((put X beside)) backup boot, backup recovery, backup system, backup preload, backup and-sec, backup modem, backup /data data, backup /data/media)
10. Now select start custom backup job, backup to /storage/sdcard (this will take a long time)
11. Now go back to backup and restore, custom, custom backup job, and only select efs (now your phone is completely backed up)
12. Now choose Wipe data/factory reset, clean to install new rom
13. Now choose Mounts and Storage, format /data and data/media
14. Now choose Install zip, choose zip from /storage/sdcard then select the rom you decided (lorjays or synergy)
15. After install reboot to system.
16. Once it boots up hold the power button and power off the phone.
17. Reboot into download/odin (vol-, menu, power)
18. Connect to PC and open the odin program again
19. Click on the PDA button and choose wifi fix, then click start
20. Phone will reboot and then you will setup the rom
Now you have a rooted Touchwiz 4.3 rom
If you have any questions please ask before you start the process!!! If anything goes wrong your phone will be unusable till you can get me or someone else to help you. So please ask questions first!!!
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WOOOOOWWW
Thanks for the steps, really appreciate it.
Ok. I might do it tomorrow since it's late here already but here is what I have done on my own so far. I hope I didn't mess anything
I have used the Samsung Note 2 Toolkit as mentioned in some of my previous messages and did the option 2 which is a
Root/Unroot option and selected the ALL IN ONE[ Flash insecure boot, Recovery, Root, BusyBox, Rename Restore Files ]
After following the instructions it rebooted and it is now rooted but still using android 4.1.2
I am thinking of using synergy-n2-4dot3_r3.zip since it's looks better and as you mentioned, has Note 3 features :fingers-crossed:
I am going to upload it via Kies Air to the phone the synergy-n2-4dot3_r3.zip file.
Tomorrow will continue...
Here is the info from the about:
Model: SPH-L900
Android version : 4.1.2
Baseband version: L900VPAMC2
Kernel: 3.0.31 -1090526
[email protected]#1
SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 27 16:11:17 KST 2013
Build JZO54K.L900VPAMC2
Hardware version: L900.09
Thanks for your help !!!!

Do you think I need to do any modificationas before proceeding to the flash rom process?
Since I gave you all the ABOUT info.....
Let me know.
Thanks

mannygod said:
Do you think I need to do any modificationas before proceeding to the flash rom process?
Since I gave you all the ABOUT info.....
Let me know.
Thanks
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Well, I did it !!!
I am trying the Synergy rom and so far it's looking great.
I wish I had 4G LTE capabilities since my cricket plan does allow such feature, but before I had 3G and it's working well so far.
If any trouble arises, I will post them.
Thanks !!!

Your welcome. If you have further questions feel free to ask away.
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Newb questions regarding Oneplus 5T

Hi
long time user of Huawei and Sammy
after waiting long for some sort of development for Huawei phones i have given up and im taking the plunge into the oneplus territory, after researching it seems like oneplus dont put obstacles in the way of development.
i have a few questions before i receive my oneplus and starting tinkering with it.
(disclaimer i know there is a tool for fact image twrp etc etc)
Firstly regarding stock image, is there only one firmware for the oneplus5T? i dont see anyone mentioning anything about branding or region stock ROMS.
also is there a download portal we can download the stock ROM / and extract .img files? (Huawei had a tool that lets you extract the .zip and within the zip the boot.img file could be extracted using another tool also to repack)
if not is there something similar (does TWRP let you backup boot.img and other important files? are they able to be modified and re-flashed?)
also what is the proper procedure in flashing ROM, Kernel, SuperSU and boot.img (which order)?
--i say boot image because i have some customisations id like to flash, if the kernel or SuperSU contains the boot.img i may be able to edit the changes and flash
on the huawei it was ROM>boot.img>kernel> supersu (Assuming supersu and kernel, bluspark in particular, doesnt flash stock boot.img just uses the one installed to modify - specifically id like to modify fstab in the boot img and keep my modifications)
when installing TWRP and wiping /data before first boot do any system applications get wiped? (on huawei some applications disappeared, themes, camera etc) or does all the good stuff reside somewhere else? (i.e i dont have to flash anything after wiping data as i did on the huawei to get some stuff back)
and finally, does root affect logging into snapchat?
on my mate 9 i had no problems but using the root method for the 10 caused problem
thank you!

To My knowledge the is one Global Rom.
For all your other questions, go here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/development
virtyx said:
Hi
long time user of Huawei and Sammy
after waiting long for some sort of development for Huawei phones i have given up and im taking the plunge into the oneplus territory, after researching it seems like oneplus dont put obstacles in the way of development.
i have a few questions before i receive my oneplus and starting tinkering with it.
(disclaimer i know there is a tool for fact image twrp etc etc)
Firstly regarding stock image, is there only one firmware for the oneplus5T? i dont see anyone mentioning anything about branding or region stock ROMS.
also is there a download portal we can download the stock ROM / and extract .img files? (Huawei had a tool that lets you extract the .zip and within the zip the boot.img file could be extracted using another tool also to repack)
if not is there something similar (does TWRP let you backup boot.img and other important files? are they able to be modified and re-flashed?)
also what is the proper procedure in flashing ROM, Kernel, SuperSU and boot.img (which order)?
--i say boot image because i have some customisations id like to flash, if the kernel or SuperSU contains the boot.img i may be able to edit the changes and flash
on the huawei it was ROM>boot.img>kernel> supersu (Assuming supersu and kernel, bluspark in particular, doesnt flash stock boot.img just uses the one installed to modify - specifically id like to modify fstab in the boot img and keep my modifications)
when installing TWRP and wiping /data before first boot do any system applications get wiped? (on huawei some applications disappeared, themes, camera etc) or does all the good stuff reside somewhere else? (i.e i dont have to flash anything after wiping data as i did on the huawei to get some stuff back)
and finally, does root affect logging into snapchat?
on my mate 9 i had no problems but using the root method for the 10 caused problem
thank you!
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Lu-USVI said:
To My knowledge the is one Global Rom.
For all your other questions, go here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/development
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thanks
I've read most of the threads and I don't see much in terms of my questions.