Congratulations : Welcome to 4.4.2 with ROOT - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

For the last two years I have been going back and forth between my Note 2 that was Stock Rooted on 4.1.2 and my un-Rooted Note 2 fully stock on 4.4.2. Each had their advantages
I had all but given up
Now thanks to GhettoRoot I have the best of both worlds.:highfive:
I would like to hear what is COOL about having Root on 4.4.2.
You newbies to 4.4.2 check out the Active apps widget . it only takes up one space on the home screen. It is a must have.
Because of GhettoRoot XDA will need to redo Most of the Verizon Note 2 Forum. AdamOutler's Root is obsolete, Thanks for the good times Adam

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doctor-cool said:
For the last two years I have been going back and forth between my Note 2 that was Stock Rooted on 4.1.2 and my un-Rooted Note 2 fully stock on 4.4.2. Each had their advantages
I had all but given up
Now thanks to GhettoRoot I have the best of both worlds.:highfive:
I would like to hear what is COOL about having Root on 4.4.2.
You newbies to 4.4.2 check out the Active apps widget . it only takes up one space on the home screen. It is a must have.
Because of GhettoRoot XDA will need to redo Most of the Verizon Note 2 Forum. AdamOutler's Root is obsolete, Thanks for the good times Adam
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AdamOutler's Root is obsolete, Thanks for the good times
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Adam has done A LOT for this community especially for Samsung phone in general.. His work is NOT obsolete and he still very involved on this forum. I am not friends with him or do I know him but he was the master mind behind unlocking/exploiting Verizons bootloader.. which currently on 4.3 and 4.4.3 is still not possible. This is most likely do to him not having the phone and the phones age..
SOo I hope I got the wrong impression from your statement.. Bc that man you mentioned.. Is a LEGEND.. Hands down

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Just to confirm, Ghettoroot does not work on 4.4.2 baseband ND7. Is that correct?
Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk
11/9/14 Update. I successfully rooted with GhettoRoot with Note 2 running Android 4.4.2 and baseband ND7 (Verizon). Required SDK install and Note 2 Android drivers for Windows first.

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jtsmall said:
11/9/14 Update. I successfully rooted with GhettoRoot with Note 2 running Android 4.4.2 and baseband ND7 (Verizon). Required SDK install and Note 2 Android drivers for Windows first.
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I also had success using GhettoRoot from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55210343&postcount=27
ADB from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
Koush's universal android drivers from here:
https://github.com/koush/UniversalAdbDriver

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Yes, that's it. Samsung's drivers work for me.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk

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travisn000 said:
I also had success using GhettoRoot from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55210343&postcount=27
ADB from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
Koush's universal android drivers from here:
https://github.com/koush/UniversalAdbDriver
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crossing fingers

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shissler said:
crossing fingers
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woot woot im rooted..lol now what way to go

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shissler said:
woot woot im rooted..lol now what way to go
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I used it to replace the APN config file in my wife's phone for use on other carriers (T-Mobile & international use):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57070787&postcount=7
It worked great for up to HSDPA+ speeds, but no LTE.. ..then she left the phone on top of her car; it fell off in traffic and got run over.. maybe this will help someone else!
Before it got smashed, I had planned on trying the following thread out next (for the VZW Note 3) to see if I could get LTE working on T-Mobile:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2530523

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travisn000 said:
I also had success using GhettoRoot from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55210343&postcount=27
ADB from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
Koush's universal android drivers from here:
https://github.com/koush/UniversalAdbDriver
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nothing works for me.
I have Verizon Note 2 with version 4.4.2 and ND7
it says "error: device not found" 6 times

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samloves said:
nothing works for me.
I have Verizon Note 2 with version 4.4.2 and ND7
it says "error: device not found" 6 times
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I followed travis's post and mine is rooted now with superuser access.
My only question now is what method do we use to install twrp or cwm on this nd7 rooted note 2 with 4.4.2?
Can we use odin and just flash the latest twrp or is there another workaround?

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zbomb5610 said:
I followed travis's post and mine is rooted now with superuser access.
My only question now is what method do we use to install twrp or cwm on this nd7 rooted note 2 with 4.4.2?
Can we use odin and just flash the latest twrp or is there another workaround?
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In order to install a custom recovery, you have to have an unlocked bootloader. At this moment, there is no do it yourself method to unlock the bootloader on factory stock 4.4.2, so you can't install CWM/PHILZ or TWRP. For about $75 I think... you can send your phone off to a company that uses special equipment to downgrade your phone to 4.1.2... then you would be able to unlock the bootloader.... Otherwise, the most you can do right now is root the device and make modifications that don't require unlocked bootloader (e.g. debloat, install Xposed modules, etc...). An XDA user named Beastmode is working on trying to get a modified version of TWRP called Safestrap working for 4.4.2 which wouldn't require an unlocked bootloader, so you may want to keep an eye on that thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57190369

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Thanks for the reply. I figured that was the case. I had 4.1.2 a few days ago also and figured "hey, i haven't updated in over a year" and didn't read into it enough and then upgraded to stock ota 4.4.2 so that sucks. I guess I can live with it like this for now till a fix comes out if one does.

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also having trouble
I also have been having trouble rooting my note2 with 4.4.2. I followed travis' approach and I got the 6 device not found errors. Am I not installing the correct drivers? Any help or information is greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: Just got it to work. Will post soon what I was doing wrong and what I did to correct it.

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I was able to get GhettoRoot to find my device once and the install failed. Now no matter what I do including removing and adding drivers it says it cannot see your Android device. Is there a trick i'm missing?
travisn000 said:
I also had success using GhettoRoot from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55210343&postcount=27
ADB from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
Koush's universal android drivers from here:
https://github.com/koush/UniversalAdbDriver
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I had something similar happen to me. The very first time I ran GhettoRoot it found my device and tried to install but failed. Now, it won't find device no matter what I do.
IceCo1d said:
I also have been having trouble rooting my note2 with 4.4.2. I followed travis' approach and I got the 6 device not found errors. Am I not installing the correct drivers? Any help or information is greatly appreciated.
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for me a message came up on my phone asking for permission and then i was able to root after installing the drivers.
I just had to accept on my phone first for it to actually work.
popdevil said:
I was able to get GhettoRoot to find my device once and the install failed. Now no matter what I do including removing and adding drivers it says it cannot see your Android device. Is there a trick i'm missing?
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I had something similar happen to me. The very first time I ran GhettoRoot it found my device and tried to install but failed. Now, it won't find device no matter what I do.
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The part you are talking about does not come up until after the command prompt finds your device. Then you get the message to accept. That message came up the very first time but now it will not find the device for me to get to that part.
zbomb5610 said:
for me a message came up on my phone asking for permission and then i was able to root after installing the drivers.
I just had to accept on my phone first for it to actually work.
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popdevil said:
I was able to get GhettoRoot to find my device once and the install failed. Now no matter what I do including removing and adding drivers it says it cannot see your Android device. Is there a trick i'm missing?
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I had something similar happen to me. The very first time I ran GhettoRoot it found my device and tried to install but failed. Now, it won't find device no matter what I do.
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I had similar issues with some of my trials.. ...try turning developer mode off and on, plug in and then give the phone 30-90 seconds or so for installer mode to time out and verify the device is in MTP or PTP mode.

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Just rooted my Note 2 running 4.4.2
Ok gang, so after about a week of trying every method to root my phone I finally got it to work. I'm going to tell you what I was doing wrong and what you can check to see where you are messing up. Hope this helps someone.
The issue I kept running into was that my device could not be found. I would run Ghettoroot and it would just tell me error device not found. This made no sense because I could get Kies to work and the bubble in the lower right corner that says installing device drivers would always succeed. However if I went into Device Manager (on the computer) there was a little yellow exclamation point next to my device. After looking in to the properties it said there were no drivers installed.
Also if you open a command prompt and type "adb devices" (with your phone plugged in) it should show you your device, if nothing comes up then the drivers are not properly installed.
So... First check that drivers are properly installed in your Device Manager (again this is on your computer), and then open a cmd window and type adb devices to see if your phone shows up. If it does then you are ready to use Ghettoroot.
I used this Ghettoroot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55210343&postcount=27
and the drivers I used were called:
SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.45.0 (I can't remember where I DLed it from, sorry)
Also, if you are interested. My method for figuring out what was wrong started by right clicking on the GhettoRoot .bat file to see the sequence cmd commands. They began with adb commands and I then googled to see how to check that the command would work. That is when I stumbled on the comman "adb devices" to make sure my phone was properly connected.
I hope this helps someone and if I can help in any other way just ask!

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Heimdahl? Odin?
mattnmag said:
In order to install a custom recovery, you have to have an unlocked bootloader. At this moment, there is no do it yourself method to unlock the bootloader on factory stock 4.4.2, so you can't install CWM/PHILZ or TWRP. For about $75 I think... you can send your phone off to a company that uses special equipment to downgrade your phone to 4.1.2... then you would be able to unlock the bootloader.... Otherwise, the most you can do right now is root the device and make modifications that don't require unlocked bootloader (e.g. debloat, install Xposed modules, etc...). An XDA user named Beastmode is working on trying to get a modified version of TWRP called Safestrap working for 4.4.2 which wouldn't require an unlocked bootloader, so you may want to keep an eye on that thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57190369
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I've only had this phone a week. My vs980 fractured :crying: now I'm stuck with this "thing" which I've done nothing with as I'm still trying to figure out WHAT never mind how. There's so much bloat I'm thinking AOSP. But how?
So far, ghetto-root hasn't worked for me but have removed Kaspersky etc to see if that was the problem. Then worry abt boot loader. Am on Pageplus Carrier so there wont be any OTA updates
Is there any merrit in the "Heimdahl" (??) method shown here CYANOGENMOD
I've read some of people using Odin to load pre-rooted stock image (and have found the images... but... )
I bricked the vs980 playing too fast and not waiting for answers. (learned a thing or 2 unbricking it)
So am I correct in understanding that you can no longer "Drop" an Un****** version of the factory image into the phone? By any means?
THANKS
VW