If you have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 sold and serviced by Verizon Wireless, we've got some bad news: the latest OTA update locks you out of enjoying the wealth of benefits found in the development scene. The developer counter-effort has already begun.

The information came to us thanks to developer beanstown106, as discovered by Adam Outler. The latest OTA patch for the Galaxy Note II patches the ability to flash an older kernel by way of bootloader revisioning within Odin and closes the hole used by the unsigned code exploit.

We strongly encourage those enthusiasts who have unlocked their bootloader or modified their VZW Galaxy Note II in any way to not accept the update; doing so may turn your phone into a very expensive paperweight. Accepting the update on a pure, unmodified Galaxy Note II may mean permanently losing the ability to experience the goodness brought by custom ROMs and kernels.

One reader, in response to the warning we sent out via our RootzWiki Facebook page, has claimed that ExynosAbuse still offers to root his device. We do know that work has begun on the developer front to counter this new hurdle; we'll be sure to keep you up to date as efforts continue to help your phone reach the full measure of its potential.