[GUIDE] Making The Jump From Jelly Bean to KitKat On The AT&T Note 3!

[Face_Plant]

Best way is to root and use Safestrap to flash a KitKat ROM. I do not recommend the official OTA KitKat.

 

[Blairware]

You could check out the AT&T Note 3 All-In-One thread....it has a list of all the currently available KitKat ROMs. If you are already on UrDroid/KitKat you can just download any of these ROM.zips and flash in Safestrap....no Odin required.

Check the 2nd post for links.

Thanks - I really appreciate you offering to get me straightened out. I have made my way back to a rooted MJ5 Firmware and after checking the MD5 of the URDroid I downloaded and seeing IT DIDN"T MATCH I think I answered my own question. I am about to go through it again from the beginning - took me a while to get back to a rooted JB state with Safestrap, but I think I will be okay - Thanks again. If it fails again I will get with you later...

EDIT: That was it... I am on rooted 4.4.2 - my biggest problem is figuring out what ROM I want to settle in with for a while. Thank you Sir!!!

 

[tropazr]

Thanks - I really appreciate you offering to get me straightened out. I have made my way back to a rooted MJ5 Firmware and after checking the MD5 of the URDroid I downloaded and seeing IT DIDN"T MATCH I think I answered my own question. I am about to go through it again from the beginning - took me a while to get back to a rooted JB state with Safestrap, but I think I will be okay - Thanks again. If it fails again I will get with you later...

EDIT: That was it... I am on rooted 4.4.2 - my biggest problem is figuring out what ROM I want to settle in with for a while. Thank you Sir!!!

Glad you got it figured out! Let me know if I can help!

 

[slickyv]

Best way is to root and use Safestrap to flash a KitKat ROM. I do not recommend the official OTA KitKat.

So I can't just unroot with SuperUser, plug in an ATT sim card and do the OTA updates to kitkat?

 

[Syclone2530]

Thanks OP! Worked great the first time. Finally can move off of JB.

 

[tropazr]

So I can't just unroot with SuperUser, plug in an ATT sim card and do the OTA updates to kitkat?

If you would like to keep root & Safestrap absolutely do not do this. If you want official AT&T unrootable KitKat...feel free!

 

[jdubya45]

KitKat to JB

Once you are on the stupid non-rootable AT&T stock 4.4.2 is there any way to get back to 4.3? I tried the ODIN method but fails unless I am missing something,

 

[tropazr]

Once you are on the stupid non-rootable AT&T stock 4.4.2 is there any way to get back to 4.3? I tried the ODIN method but fails unless I am missing something,

There is not a current root method available. Sorry

 

[Elemino]

thanks I appreciate that. And thank you for the heads up. Just another odd question which rom is better I guess. The odexed or deodexed ROM.... I have the odexed with the bloatware.

I used the odexed version. I don't intend to theme or do anything drastic to my phone, so I prefer to keep the performance in tact... Though using deodexed probably has little impact on a phone of this caliber...



Sent from my Samsung GALAXY Note 3

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Stay tuned my man. There may have been some breakthroughs made this evening in regards to the bootloader. If we can get it cracked you will be good to go (from my current understanding).

Oh I can't wait for that to happen. If this is the trend, I doubt I will be purchasing anymore carrier phones.

Sent from my Samsung GALAXY Note 3

 

[danbear7777]

You could check out the AT&T Note 3 All-In-One thread....it has a list of all the currently available KitKat ROMs. If you are already on UrDroid/KitKat you can just download any of these ROM.zips and flash in Safestrap....no Odin required.

Check the 2nd post for links.

thank you so very much. you have been most helpful!!!!

 

[bluemax413]

Anyone having trouble with mobile data now? I came from azurerom and now I have no mobile data. Followed the guide to a t.

 

[bluemax413]

I was able to revert back to jb. Mobile data works there. I'm crazy enough to try it again.

 

[tropazr]

I was able to revert back to jb. Mobile data works there. I'm crazy enough to try it again.

Try it again. Should be no issues with data.

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[bluemax413]

Try it again. Should be no issues with data.

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Smh. Hit wipe data by accident in ss. Everything gone. Only download mode and stock recovery. This should be fun.

 

[tropazr]

Smh. Hit wipe data by accident in ss. Everything gone. Only download mode and stock recovery. This should be fun.

Inconvenient. But don't panic cause if you can get into download mode you can fix it. You don't have Safestrap installed anymore?

Just PM Me and I will walk you through all the steps if you are having issues.

 

[HaKKeD]

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not sure why but when i click start odin says this
i followed the instructions to a t up to waiting an hour and a half for urdroid to dl so
i used the only kitkat rom i had lying around which was knoxraid 5.1...
i think the problem was that 5.1 was an incremental update and not a fuill rom so now im stuck inside SS and it wont mount to my pc so i can copy over urdroid...what a ****ty start to a day..
**Update**
found the ol "togetbooting" folder on my desktop and used in odin...got it working =)

 

[sikalb]

ok so i flashed no problems.. my only problem is safestrap not booting up. in the safestrap app it displays Safe System: Not Active

i dont get the safestrap bootscreen spalsh just boots right into the phone

 

[HaKKeD]

ok so i flashed no problems.. my only problem is safestrap not booting up. in the safestrap app it displays Safe System: Not Active

i dont get the safestrap bootscreen spalsh just boots right into the phone

When you open safestrap does it say installed on top?

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[bluemax413]

Inconvenient. But don't panic cause if you can get into download mode you can fix it. You don't have Safestrap installed anymore?

Just PM Me and I will walk you through all the steps if you are having issues.

yeah I didn't panic. I tend to do this the first time I get a new phone and I screw around with it lol. I was up until about 4 am before I gave up trying to get mj5 loaded. I then realized this morning that I was missing a crucial step marked IMPORTANT in big red friggin letters.

got MJ5 on and just made the switch again to kitkat. first boot shows no mobile data still on the odex build. i'm going to reboot and if not, flash the deodex. otherwise, i have no idea why this is happening. on jb i have mobile data no problem.

 

[tropazr]

yeah I didn't panic. I tend to do this the first time I get a new phone and I screw around with it lol. I was up until about 4 am before I gave up trying to get mj5 loaded. I then realized this morning that I was missing a crucial step marked IMPORTANT in big red friggin letters.

got MJ5 on and just made the switch again to kitkat. first boot shows no mobile data still on the odex build. i'm going to reboot and if not, flash the deodex. otherwise, i have no idea why this is happening. on jb i have mobile data no problem.

Sorry man! I was outside all day working in the yard. I have no idea why you aren't getting data either. Answer me this...are you able to go into settings -> connections -> more networks -> mobile networks -> access point names? Do you have an APN in there?