Root [Sprint] Note II - the 4.4.2 update

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For anyone running stock MK4 (rooted or unrooted) teetering on whether or not to do this, here's what I did, and everything is working well. I want to emphasizes that I started from 100% stock -- anything else will probably not flash the OTA update, and even if it does it might give you problems. If you're rooted you can simply use SuperSU to unroot, but I don't believe it's necessary to unroot before applying the update. Applying the update will cause you to lose root, but steps 3-5 below should get root back for you.

If you do not have the stock recovery the update will not work. If you need stock recovery, you can get here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=437

Just doing Step 2 below to a completely stock unrooted 4.3 phone should not trip Knox because all you're doing is manually applying the official OTA. Any of the other steps will likely trip Knox.

I'm not entirely sure if step 1 will trip Knox or not, but if you need to do step one (to get back to 100% stock or to get stock Recovery), then Knox is probably already tripped. If you're running a custom ROM or custom Recovery, then Knox is already tripped and there's nothing about the process below that's going to change or reverse it.

1. Made sure I was running 100% stock MK4 by grabbing Rwilco12's original MK4 tar from here: www.rwilco12.com (not necessary if you're definitely running 100% stock, but I couldn't remember how much I had dinked with the MK4 I was running, and I needed to go back to the stock recovery anyway). If you just need stock recovery, you can get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=437
2. Downloaded the OTA here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=261 after clicking "Thanks" to Bhint15 and flashed it via stock Recovery. Rebooted and verified that I was on v4.42 L900VPUCNE2.

=== [IF YOU DON'T WANT ROOT STOP HERE! IF YOU DO WANT ROOT, CONTINUE BELOW ] ===

3. Odin'ed Philz v6.07.9 (http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_A...d_Edition/l900)
4. Flashed ChainFire SuperSU in Philz Recovery (http://download.chainfire.eu/446/Sup...SU-v1.99r3.zip)
5. Rebooted and SuperSU was already there and I had root, so I didn't need to install SuperSU from the Play Store or even updated it.

Note: If during step 5 you get something about a not having root or the SuperSU binary is missing, etc., just try flashing SuperSU again and/or updating SuperSU via the Play Store, and/or using the option in Philz Recovery to try to get root. One/all/some of those should work or CFAutoRoot is reported to work as well.

6. Installed SDFix from the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...=nextapp.sdfix) to get around the stupid Kitkat external SD card write debacle.

Done.:smokingsomb::smokingsomb::smokingsomb:

 

[mathkid76]

EDIT:

Ok, I think I fixed it. So I got a STOCK ROM from Rwilco12's site.... (Orginal Tar) used ODIN, put the stock ROM in PDA, checked the Auto Reboot, and F. Reset Time on ODIN and downloaded onto my Note 2. So now when I go under settings, about device, and look at Device Status, it says custom still but, while in download mode it says Curom binary download- no, current binary- Samsung Offical, and System satus- offical, Know warrnty void: 1..... Why does device status under settings say this? I am going to try and use the STEP 2 above and get 4.4.2 on my device, as I really want the update and will edit this when I try it.