I am sure a full wipe + flashing any older rom + modem + kernel would solve it.

Or just go aosp.

sentinel download so slow.

download slow
ROM fast

tw= download fast, rom slow

No matter how slow its just 200mb.

Many of them reported that the above step is not working for them.

the super-defensive sentinel rom brothers hahahahaha.

Flash a stock rom in odin?

For the record, we are NOT brothers.... you cannot be brothers with your stalker.... no way...

oh you know you want me

to be your brother

LOL

anyways, somehow or rather my GCC is showing charging at max 1,000 although charger and cable is perfectly fine for up to 2,000 usually >.<

I'm trying it myself now. Hopefully it's fine.

so... stalker and stalkee(i just made up this word lol)?

anyways EdwinCodec, perhaps you can wipe to the extent that the phone becomes an empty shell (til no OS found), then use odin and do it? also restore efs backup. should be fine after that, if it isn't then i assume the hardware's messed up from the update. though it's just my logical assumption without any real proof.

My paranoid take is they've flipped some anti overwrite bit somewhere in the firmware.

Tested. Didn't wipe the phone and flashed in stock rom DMF2 with odin. No issue on what's reported. So no worries. Still full bar signal.

Gonna try flashing old rom and see what happens.

This post has been edited by EdwinCodec: Jun 20 2013, 06:08 PM

so no issues when switching between DMF2 and DME6?
The rest kaput?

Yeap no issue on switching both of them. Now trying old rom.

This post has been edited by EdwinCodec: Jun 20 2013, 06:10 PM

I realized that this thread is more technical-focused unlike the S4 thread, more casual and rojak talks there



This post has been edited by andrewtho: Jun 20 2013, 06:36 PM

Update: Flashed to older stock Rom DMC3. No signal. Emergency Calls only.

I think i figured out why Samsung want to do this. Remember during the Apple keynote not long ago, Apple actually showed off their high % users on their iOS 6 and whereby Android Jelly bean users are far lower and most of them still on older version like ICS and etc. Therefore, I guess this update is to prevent Android users for going backward so they could increase their jelly bean users? Just assuming thou.

This post has been edited by EdwinCodec: Jun 20 2013, 06:42 PM

Ya wor...your TS is quite technical focused as well

Don;t think so coz Note 2 was JB from the start, and there are no ICS/GB ROMs anyway. They must have some switch within which has now been flipped. If it is not the bootloader, then some instructions for the modem chip or hidden firmware area has now been enabled via microcode.

I am paranoid.

Technicality is not necessarily a bad thing though it can get very dry for those uninitiated.

What is bad in a forum is people post for the sake of post count and top it off by posting irrelevantly. And when put in their place, make it worse by retaliating erroneously.

True also hmmmm. Don't know what's on their minds.
So for now, there'll be no downgrade of versions once you're updated.