[ROM][TW5.0]mostly stock N900VVRUEOF1[debloated/deodexed/wifi fixed]

[BackCheck]

I didn't think this warranted a development thread at this point, Mods may disagree and move it. Since a few people, myself included, need some TouchWiz features and want something closer to a stock rom than Jasmine but debloated, deodexed with the Verizon wifi tether provisioning disabled, I threw this together. I'll try to answer any questions and fix any issues that pop up but I cant make any promises due to work and other projects. If I do move forward with anything I may try to port the stock Verizon Note 4/5, but that's getting ahead of myself.

Now the usual warning about your warranty being voided (as if any Note 3s are under warranty and you didn't void it rooting/flashing recovery) and me not being responsible for you bricking your device because I was stoned when I packaged this.

Download the rom here.

So far the only changes to the stock OF1 are:

1. Deodexed
2. Moderatly debloated
3. Wifi tether provisioning disabled
4. Start up sound disabled
5. Rooted*
6. Busybox added*

*SuperSu and Busybox packages are installed during rom installation.

A list of debloated files can be found here.

Coming soon

Some files were left because they are too integrated into TouchWiz. I don't want people confused by orphaned menu items or get FCs. Some stuff I left because people I know use them. If you want anything back you'll have to get it yourself for now, sorry. I'm open to suggestions on stuff to keep and stuff to remove, but I'll want a good description of their functions before I remove anything. I'm funny about not deleting stuff I don't know what it does.

For those looking for Xposed, I'm using the latest Snapdragon requestConcurrentGC version from here.

Flashing instructions are pretty simple. Boot to TWRP, make a backup, wipe system/data/dalvik/cache, flash the rom and reboot system.

All thanks go to the Yemen rooters and @beaups and @ryanbg for liberating our devices.

 

[doombuger]

thanks i tried it out and its working great! however one of the apps i like is S-Note and you debloated it :/ along with galaxy store. which i cannot find a download source for either, and its needed to reinstall s-note. anyway its a crucial app for the S-pen launcher and s-pen features.
if you could share the apks or upload a full but deodexed superSu/busybox version of this Rom it'd be a real winner.

also im not sure if its just me but i noticed the task manager is a little strange and is missing the ram clear button. ill take a screen shot and upload later

 

[bftb0]

if you could share the apks or upload a full but deodexed superSu/busybox version of this Rom it'd be a real winner.

All of the stock apps are in the system.img files in the Stock Odin tar bundles (available from sammobile.com for instance)

The only trick to getting them out of there is that those (system.img) image files are "sparse" ext4 files. The Android development environment has a tool called "simg2img" which allows you to create an uncompressed image file, which can then be mounted as an ext4 filesytem (loopback mount), and you can browse through there and copy out anything you want.

All of this is more convenient to do in a Linux environment (get yourself VirtualBox and install Ubuntu), but there are workarounds using Windows too, and there are even tutorials here on XDA on how to do this both ways. (Use searches for "sparse image" or "simg2img")


An even easier way is to simply pull them out of TWRP backup files of your rooted-stock ROMs; those "system.ext4.win00x" are just tar files. Heck, you could probably even use 7-zip for that.

You do make backups, right?


Ask your devs to do things that are interesting for the dev and difficult for almost any anybody else to do; not the simple stuff like "go get me some freely available files".

 

[Morlok8k]

as some people like the stock image, you should do a non-debloated version, like beans did for 4.4.2 NC2/4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787627 Its just a minor thing, and i can add those apps back in.

How would i enable the startup sound that you disabled?

I'm running the deodexed version of NC4 (with an NC2 bootloader) that i linked above, and finally want to upgrade. I'm assuming that safestrap (which is currently installed) isn't compatible, so do have a link for a version of TWRP that is compatible?

also, can i upgrade from NC4 (with an NC2 bootloader) directly? or is there a step in between that i should do first?

 

[njdan30]

as some people like the stock image, you should do a non-debloated version, like beans did for 4.4.2 NC2/4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787627 Its just a minor thing, and i can add those apps back in.

How would i enable the startup sound that you disabled?

I'm running the deodexed version of NC4 (with an NC2 bootloader) that i linked above, and finally want to upgrade. I'm assuming that safestrap (which is currently installed) isn't compatible, so do have a link for a version of TWRP that is compatible?

also, can i upgrade from NC4 (with an NC2 bootloader) directly? or is there a step in between that i should do first?

i updated to of1 then rooted and bootloader unlocked then used flashify to flash recovery (back up stock recovery if u like) then no more safe strap or worries. but to each their own.

 

[Neo3D]

Very cool, thank you!

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i updated to of1 then rooted and bootloader unlocked then used flashify to flash recovery (back up stock recovery if u like) then no more safe strap or worries. but to each their own.

How did you bootloader unlock after rooted? Were you able to install custom recovery? If so, do you mind sharing how you did that as well?

Thank you!!

 

[njdan30]

Very cool, thank you!

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How did you bootloader unlock after rooted? Were you able to install custom recovery? If so, do you mind sharing how you did that as well?

Thank you!!

yes you need to root 1st in order to get bootloader unlocked then head to play store for flashify the take the 1st(newest recovery)and thats it.check the yemen root http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...b6-of1-n900v-note-3-verizon-oneclick-t3333569 for of1 use that then the retail to dev unlock and enjoy,for unlock i did the adb method but think theres a 1 click unlock now also http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...l/official-note-3-verizon-bootloader-t3359370

 

[iceman1110]

Problems with data

I appreciate all of your hard work. I do have a question though. Every single 5.0 and newer rom I have tried I have problems getting my data to work reliably. I get 4G after reboot but as soon as I send/receive a SMS message it reverts to 3g until the next reboot. This was a clean install and I've also tried reinstalling sim, done factory reset, cleared all data, everything under the sun I can think of. Nobody else seems to have this problem. Any ideas? Other than that this is exactly what I'm looking for.

 

[likeUcare]

May I ask somebody create a .tar version to use with odin.
I has no custom recovery .
Tried peazip software to convert .zip to .tar but odin always hangs when i use file

 

[dat ka]

Long time first boot. thoght i made a brick Thanks mate

 

[nitroevo]

Quick question. I have kit Kat 4.4.2 with safe strap on mine. How would I be able to upgrade to this?

 

[ornwilson]

Quick question. I have kit Kat 4.4.2 with safe strap on mine. How would I be able to upgrade to this?

I am also looking for advice. My Note 3 is in a similar position with NC2 and Baja ROM in the stock slot of safestrap.