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How to: Root Galaxy Note II and Install CyanogenMod 10.1

2013-08-04
what's up YouTube David Taylor here with technolo flow and today I have a new tutorial for all of you I'm gonna show you how to install CyanogenMod 10.1 on the galaxy note 2 okay so before we begin I just wanted to mention that this is a routing video so this will void your warranty so please do this at your own risk I'm just showing you how to do it and these files might not work for you you have to make sure that this is the N 70 100 version of the galaxy note 2 I'm going to go into here go down to about device and show you right there the GTN 70 100 this is the non LTE version of the galaxy note 2 so just make sure you have that device before you begin or else this will not work alright to start off we're gonna get this thing rooted so you want to go after you download all three of my files I have them all in the description for this video as well as on the link on TechnoBuffalo you go to the CF autoroute thing right here go down to this download down here and click this it'll download the zip file and then these other ones are the CyanogenMod the G apps that you need as well as the open recovery for twerk so I have to get all four of those files downloaded I like to put them all into one folder just so I can keep it all together you want to go click on the CF autoroute right click on that and click on extract and I like to extract it to its own folder so I'm gonna click on that and now you get the CF Auto root folder right here double click on that and you have odin odin ini and the CF autoroute dot ta r dot md5 file you want you want to make sure that's the exact file and make sure that this is the N 7100 version you can get this for the other versions if you have a different version of the galaxy note 2 but this is for the N 7100 version of it so you want to right click on add any XE click on run as an administrator it's then going to open up a window just like this so you want to make sure that a yellow box shows up right there now you want to put your device into download mode now to do that you want to hold in the power button power it off and then once it powers off you want to hold in the down volume button the home button as well as the power button and then one said boots back up you should see a screen let me turn this off really quick just like that and then when it boots up you will see this screen and then you want to hit up on the volume button to then put it into download mode and you'll see this as downloading do not turn off target so you just put that down for now and then you want to go back to your computer you might see two yellow boxes here what I like to do is just read go back into Odin it'll only show up as one just so you know that that's the right one you want to click on PDA and then search for that folder that you created earlier I have routing galaxy note 2 or I have all my other files click on the CF autoroute folder and then click on the dot ta our md5 file right here the auto route and then click open now all you have to do is hit start and then this will actually route the galaxy note 2 so I'm going to hit start and it'll start saying a bunch of stuff in the message box as well as you'll see a blue bar go across and then you'll see that it starts to root and then once you get a green Paz box on the Odin that means that it worked perfectly fine and then your device will start to do this you'll see a little red android guy in there and it'll start flashing all the files for the route and then once this is done it'll reboot and go back to your home screen so there we go it's rebooting now we go back to your home screen and it won't be anything different but you will have a program called supersu installed and that means that it is rooted and that's just what you need to get signage Ahmad on to the galaxy note 2 there we go it says Android is upgrading and now we should just boot right back into the home screen there we go you want to slide to unlock and now just check really quick that you are actually rooted by going into apps and then scrolling over until you see that little Superman like icon this is super su you can click on it and make sure it loads fine as well as you know it'll probably pop up and say do you want to follow me on Twitter for the developer you can just say no thanks alright now that you're back at the home screen you want to go to your my computer file open this up make sure that you can see your device if you can't it's no big deal just unplug in the USB cable that you have right here and plug it back in that way it'll recognize it on your computer double click on this and then double click on the storage and then you want to create a folder called roms I like to call it roms just because it's easy to remember just call it roms and I put this to the side open up your file that you had the downloaded all the files from before you want to then drag and drop the CM the CyanogenMod 10.1 whatever version you have this is the nightly version that I have they upload these almost every night they update these see this was the last one was updated today I'm just using an older one but you guys can use whatever one you want so drag the CM 10.1 nightly file and the G apps file over and put them right into your roms folder folder that you created on the phone and this will just copy it right over put your device back into download mode I'm gonna scroll across here close this hit power off okay and then you want to remember to hold down the volume button home button and power button this will then reboot the phone and hopefully you get right there do you get this message then you hit up on the volume button and you go back into download mode now you want to re open up odin once again smooth it up a little bit so you guys can see you want to re open up odin really quick all right here hit run as administrator now you want to make sure you have that yellow box again hit PDA go to that file or the folder that you have all your stuff in open recovery tour if you want this one the dot ta r file you want that hit open and then hit start and this will install twrp which is the team wayne recovery project which is the custom GUI interface that will let you you know touch buttons and that kind of stuff it's a lot better than using clockwork recovery in my opinion it you can it just looks better and you can do a lot more stuff with it so once this reboots you will then see that you will be on go back right to your home screen you won't have anything different and now the way that you actually get into the twerp is you just reboot this once again so hit restart or you can just power off no big deal hit okay now you want to hold volume up and the home button not volume down you want to hold volume up the home button and then make sure it reboots and then as long as you're holding the volume up and the home button it should boot right into TWRP there you go you see team win and then this will pop up these are the custom GUI interface that I was talking about before so now this is really good that means that everything is working properly anywhere Rudin you have everything ready to go so now you're gonna hit wipe go to advance wipe hit dalvik cache and cache and then hit slide away this will just get rid of all the junk files that are on your device and make sure that everything is working properly hit back hit back again one more time and then you want to go up to install and then find the folder that you created earlier so there's my roms folder right there now if you're not in the SD card folder and you're all the way back at root all you have to do is scroll down find SD card right there and then scroll down again and find roms or whatever you name the file before it's gonna click on that you should see the signage 'mad and the G apps file right there I'm gonna click on that and then just slide the custom flash there slide to confirm the flash and this will actually install CyanogenMod right on your device now CyanogenMod does not come with the google app so it doesn't have the Google Play Store or anything like that that's why we had to download the G apps file now we'll actually install Google Play and all the other Google stuff that comes with the galaxy note 2 so once this finishes installing it takes a little bit not too long though there it goes you're gonna hit back on this and then you're gonna click on G apps and then install this so this will install again the Google Play Store and everything like that this is actually really quick because it's a pretty small file so once this finishes you're good now you can hit wipe again right there and this will wipe the cache and the dalvik cache again really quick now what I like to do is I like to go all the way back and hit wipe again but this time I'm going to hit slide it to factory reset this will reset it to the factory defaults of the CyanogenMod this will not erase everything that you just did this will just make sure everything's working properly so I'm going to slide to factory reset let that finish it's really quick it back hit back again and now all I have to do is hit reboot and then click on system and now if everything works properly this should boot with the CyanogenMod logo and we'll see right here so there we go you can see that it has the CyanogenMod boot logo right there and it's just going to go through the animation stages this might take a little while if it ends up taking like more than 5 it's all you have to do is boot back into torque and then do another factory reset that just seems to clear it up for me but I'm gonna let this sit let this finish and I'll show you what it looks like once it boots up all right there we go here's the boot screen I'm just gonna go through this really quick and here we go here is CyanogenMod 10.1 show you guys really quick and here go to about phone scroll down you have 4.2.2 Android so all the way down to the bottom you can also see the unite we build that you have installed right there a 10.1 a really nice thing about CyanogenMod is that it does actually have over-the-air updates now so you click on sign in Jamaat updates and it'll actually search for over-the-air versions that you haven't installed yet and it'll find the ones that are ready to go I don't think I have Wi-Fi and all the stuff on but you can actually install the over-the-air updates that way so it's a really nice feature that they have put into 10.1 I think it was in an older version as well but this is great so this actually works everything everything works fine data works fine texting works fine again just let me know if you guys have any questions down in the comments below I'll probably be responding as robo 13 so look out for that account just in case you guys have any questions or any problems like that let me know in the comments down below so every guys liked this video my name is David Taylor and I'll see you all in the next one thanks guys what's up 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