Good thing you don't have to be on T-Mobile to use the note, buy it outright take it to att
Not all Note 3s have Knox counters, but that might depend on country and carrier. But if you do it right you can get root without tripping Knox. But what does blow Knox though is flashing a custom recovery, like CWM or TWRP. Because you've compromised the secure boot.
.. In recent times there have been many US carriers with various high end phones that had the bootloader locked down but all of those phones came unlocked up here.. No idea why but we like it! I assume and hope that this N4 and more future phones continue to come with unlocked bootloaders...but won't surprise me if it changes some day.
For the above post; there is a .zip to remove knox on the note 3. My wife has a 3 and never had issues rooting or with knox. Hot spot works perfect too. Now about 4 root. Yes, patience is in order for me. In the past, new phones have been given to some tech writers and others tech related. Of course, rooting would be worked on and ready prior, or at least perfected, but I digress. mskip creates toolkits for various android phones and tablets which I highly recommend. I have used his s4, note 2 and note 8 kits with no problems. The kit comes with tons of options. I emailed him about the 4 and he will be making a toolkit for at least the sprint version. His server is skipsoft.net and he may mirror it to goo.im. keep an eye out for it.
