So I've been diligently following a variety of instructions in trying to root my Verizon Note 3. For the first time in a long series of devices, using Kingo Root, I had my very first bricking o' the phone. This was a cold experience. So after swearing to the lord on high that I'd never ever ever ever again consider such lunacy as wanting to take control of my own device again, I finally keyed in on a statement that someone else made about having to switch to a different computer to restore the stock firmware. After successfully restoring a stock firmware image with the second computer using Kies, I went back to the first computer to restore my backed up data (at least I did something right), when that failed as well. It was then, in a moment of clarity, that I realized the major difference between the two relatively new I7 computers - the anti-virus software. My original system runs Avast! and my second system just has basic windows security on it (it doesn't get exposed to the big bad world). Once I disabled Avast, the backup restore worked like a charm and I'm happy to say that I no longer own a $700 paperweight. When I have some more time tomorrow afternoon I'm going to disable Avast again and try to root the phone, I'm very confident that Kingo will work as advertised and give me blessed control of my own device. Did I say I swore never ever ever ever again? God knows I'm a weak man already, right? Once I root my phone successfully I'll drop back in and provide another update.
I sincerely hope this saves someone the hours of panic I just enjoyed. On a final note for now, this speaks volumes about the depth of blocking that Avast is capable of compare to Security Essentials.
I sincerely hope this saves someone the hours of panic I just enjoyed. On a final note for now, this speaks volumes about the depth of blocking that Avast is capable of compare to Security Essentials.
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