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So basically Sprint gave me this ticket a week ago to get my phone diagnosed and then replaced. However, the LOS problem only occurs when i root. I have the USB Jig to reset the Odin Count, so I'm wondering if such problems occur only on root should i service it? Has anyone who's been rooted for a week not experienced ONE LOS? Just wondering if its worth the trouble because LOS is not an issue with the phone, just on Sprint's side. I guess some of you got lucky, or what?
crud accidentally posted this in general
locoboi187 said:
So basically Sprint gave me this ticket a week ago to get my phone diagnosed and then replaced. However, the LOS problem only occurs when i root. I have the USB Jig to reset the Odin Count, so I'm wondering if such problems occur only on root should i service it? Has anyone who's been rooted for a week not experienced ONE LOS? Just wondering if its worth the trouble because LOS is not an issue with the phone, just on Sprint's side. I guess some of you got lucky, or what?
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I have been rooted with stock kernel for quite sometime without any los
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2
R1ptide said:
I have been rooted with stock kernel for quite sometime without any los
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2
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How man? lmao
locoboi187 said:
So basically Sprint gave me this ticket a week ago to get my phone diagnosed and then replaced. However, the LOS problem only occurs when i root. I have the USB Jig to reset the Odin Count, so I'm wondering if such problems occur only on root should i service it? Has anyone who's been rooted for a week not experienced ONE LOS? Just wondering if its worth the trouble because LOS is not an issue with the phone, just on Sprint's side. I guess some of you got lucky, or what?
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Just install su+binaries+bb while you've got a root kernel and then flash the pulled stock kernel. If you want CWM there is a CWM+pulled stock kernel too, I haven't tested it yet but I'd imagine it would be just as reliable. I also hear the LOsT kernel is getting fantastic results however if you want an aftermarket performance kernel with extremely reduced LOS occurrence.
Any kernel built off of the released kernel source has this issue...while stock phones have gotten LOS it happens far far less.
It's not the rooted kernels fault...the 'stock build' non-rooted kernels built from the released kernel source also feature this bug. Samsung is giving us the deep dicking on this one. Those bastards should probably release the actual kernel source. This is holding up a lot of progress.
If you're worried about being rooted and taking it into sprint, don't be. We work on rooted phones and it doesn't void your warranty with us.
However, we still haven't received software to flash phones so there's not much they'll be able to do.
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daneurysm said:
Just install su+binaries+bb while you've got a root kernel and then flash the pulled stock kernel. If you want CWM there is a CWM+pulled stock kernel too, I haven't tested it yet but I'd imagine it would be just as reliable. I also hear the LOsT kernel is getting fantastic results however if you want an aftermarket performance kernel with extremely reduced LOS occurrence.
Any kernel built off of the released kernel source has this issue...while stock phones have gotten LOS it happens far far less.
It's not the rooted kernels fault...the 'stock build' non-rooted kernels built from the released kernel source also feature this bug. Samsung is giving us the deep dicking on this one. Those bastards should probably release the actual kernel source. This is holding up a lot of progress.
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I've tried that but no luck. I want to try out viper's ROM i guess. I'm not rooted currently. But what EXACT steps would you like me try? I do full wipes each time, including system and just in case the built in factory format.
squshy 7 said:
If you're worried about being rooted and taking it into sprint, don't be. We work on rooted phones and it doesn't void your warranty with us.
However, we still haven't received software to flash phones so there's not much they'll be able to do.
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Oh no I'm not worried about being rooted. I can simply unroot and plug in the jig and im set. What i want is root and no LOS haha
locoboi187 said:
I've tried that but no luck. I want to try out viper's ROM i guess. I'm not rooted currently. But what EXACT steps would you like me try? I do full wipes each time, including system and just in case the built in factory format.
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First go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282415
Follow the directions to install ODIN, drivers, etc. Also carefully follow the directions for using ODIN. Flash that. It'll nuke everything you have now but you will start back up with a brand new stock rooted install with busybox.
If you want to save what you have now flash a CWM+pulled stock kernel first, do a nandroid backup and then flash that rom in ODIN. then if you want you can re-flash the CWM+pulled stock kernel to restore your data partition if you really want...but...I recommend not. Just start over fresh. It's not that big of a pain...and if it is use Titanium Backup instead.
To stay as-stock-as-possible I recommend just putting that rooted-stock+busybox and sticking with that starting over fresh. I never got an LOS on that. If I seriously **** things up I always revert to that and it works every single time. (sometimes I break my wifi or 4G or both when screwing with custom kernels...damned if I know why, but flashing that fixes it every time).
If you still have LOS issues you are just unlucky, unroot and get a new phone and start over...but I doubt it. I bet that works out wonderful for you.
EDIT: and if that works out for you, and I'm sure it will, then you can start modifying things one at a time...next thing would be the pulled stock kernel+CWM. see how that runs...if that is fine (and it probably will be, I've never tested it though) then flash viper rom with CWM and take it from there. if something gets borked you will know at what step it occured which will make diagnosing the problem much easier...just test thoroughly after each modification.
flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1269437
then flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305099a
that will leave you with root, CWM5, and stock kernel
daneurysm said:
First go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282415
Follow the directions to install ODIN, drivers, etc. Also carefully follow the directions for using ODIN. Flash that. It'll nuke everything you have now but you will start back up with a brand new stock rooted install with busybox.
If you want to save what you have now flash a CWM+pulled stock kernel first, do a nandroid backup and then flash that rom in ODIN. then if you want you can re-flash the CWM+pulled stock kernel to restore your data partition if you really want...but...I recommend not. Just start over fresh. It's not that big of a pain...and if it is use Titanium Backup instead.
To stay as-stock-as-possible I recommend just putting that rooted-stock+busybox and sticking with that starting over fresh. I never got an LOS on that. If I seriously **** things up I always revert to that and it works every single time. (sometimes I break my wifi or 4G or both when screwing with custom kernels...damned if I know why, but flashing that fixes it every time).
If you still have LOS issues you are just unlucky, unroot and get a new phone and start over...but I doubt it. I bet that works out wonderful for you.
EDIT: and if that works out for you, and I'm sure it will, then you can start modifying things one at a time...next thing would be the pulled stock kernel+CWM. see how that runs...if that is fine (and it probably will be, I've never tested it though) then flash viper rom with CWM and take it from there. if something gets borked you will know at what step it occured which will make diagnosing the problem much easier...just test thoroughly after each modification.
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It says that it doesn't wipe data. I don't suspect it wipes the system partition either.
R1ptide said:
flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1269437
then flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305099a
that will leave you with root, CWM5, and stock kernel
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How has this worked for you?
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It says that it doesn't wipe data. I don't suspect it wipes the system partition either.
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then wipe it, lol. Or not, try it without wiping first. If problems persist the only stuff that is left is in /data has to be the source of problems... but, after you flash that you can flash the pulled stock kern+CWM and nandroid just to be safe.
if after that still no dice, well, it's the phone or a very very very unlucky location...but that theory is still up in the air. (I don't buy it)
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How has this worked for you?
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I've also done that too. Worked great for me.
I will report back. I only get LOS when I'm in school. It appears when i go to an area where i get no bars, a circle with a slash will appear. So far so good.
Lol, I just got an LOS on 00001.PRL (alltel/verizon towers) with full bars. I haven't seen an LOS in weeks, I haven't seen it happen with full bars though.
I can confirm for the first time I do not suffer from LOS. I used R1ptide's instructions and all went well. I went to a party where no one ever got signal, so when my bars went empty i received a circle with a slash for a second. HOWEVER, it went back to the bars and didnt stay stuck on that stupid circle.
Everything is definitely good
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Ok. So I see there is a system update. I wanted to make sure if there's anyway I can check to see that it's ok that I install this update. Will it interfere with anything? Mainly pertaining to my root and unbrickness of my phone.
Will I lose root? Will I become bricked? (Though I doubt the later) I just wanted to know are we in the clear on installing this.
Sorry, but this is the first time this has happened to me, being rooted with some type of OTA.
you know... i flashed the updated tar file using mobile odin and 1) kept the root and super user 2) gained the stock boot screen again but lost clockwork 3) didn't lose any of my apps or data.
so it's a mixed bag and from my experience i wouldn't recommend it because it replaces the kernel and you'd lose clockwork. i think there may be a version floating around that you can flash though.
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you know... i flashed the updated tar file using mobile odin and 1) kept the root and super user 2) gained the stock boot screen again but lost clockwork 3) didn't lose any of my apps or data.
so it's a mixed bag and from my experience i wouldn't recommend it because it replaces the kernel and you'd lose clockwork. i think there may be a version floating around that you can flash though.
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So... shouldn't I update through the OTA, loose my kernel, use ODIN to flash back my CWM and kernel? That sounds like a viable solution.
Sounds about right to me but I would probably wait for someone more learn-ed to chime in. Your mileage may vary using the method I used.. which admittedly is probably very noobish. I didn't have any problem flashing a CWM kernel through odin though. Here's the funny thing.. i kept reading that the stock kernel would "unroot" your phone.. but for a few days I actually kept the stock kernel and was still fully rooted (super user kept asking permission for a few things like widget locker and titanium... and they worked perfectly *shrug*).
It may be that I just don't understand it fully yet but it worked out fine for me.. but again.. your mileage may vary.
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Sounds about right to me but I would probably wait for someone more learn-ed to chime in. Your mileage may vary using the method I used.. which admittedly is probably very noobish. I didn't have any problem flashing a CWM kernel through odin though. Here's the funny thing.. i kept reading that the stock kernel would "unroot" your phone.. but for a few days I actually kept the stock kernel and was still fully rooted (super user kept asking permission for a few things like widget locker and titanium... and they worked perfectly *shrug*).
It may be that I just don't understand it fully yet but it worked out fine for me.. but again.. your mileage may vary.
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Alright, that sounds like a safer route. Ima go check around the ROMS. Maybe they've added the update as part of their ROM.
Expecting this update to fix many of my problems.
Ok, so I've decided to pop my cherry and go to custom ROMs. I'm going to try Blazer first. I'm currently on Stock EK02 everything from the OTA. I rooted using Auto Root. No problems before or after rooting. Needed some advice on the order of operations. I'm thinking of allowing the EL29 OTA update to take place to update the modem and kernel. I'm assuming that the OTA will go through even though I'm rooted. Then, I was going to to flash Blazer. Are the Stock EL29 modem and kernel a good match for Blazer or is there a generally accepted better combination? I was thinking that Stock modem and kernel might be better optimized and tested by Sprint to work better on the network. Thanks!
U can download blazer it has a kernel with the ROM....all you have to do is flash the modem and then the ROM and your good no need to do the update and then have to root again and install clockwork which if you already have then will cause the update to fail....just more steps that can get messed up if you don't read
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The ota won't work. Manually flash the modem with cwm. I like the gunslinger kernel. The odex a deodexed cwm flash script improves performance also.
My personal setup is cal's 2.8.1 with gunslinger kernel and the odex script. I also am using a gingerbread launcher. I also went in and disabled the unneeded apks in /system/apps. I am running the EL26 modem because the phone was pissing me off while using streaming radio. It would fall back to 1x and not come back out. Oh yeah, I also did the tweaks for 4g quicker locking and connect with lower signal. On the 3g side, I zeroed out the multimedia addresses and proxies. I'm not over clocked. That may not be the best setup for everyone but its working good for me so far.
Thanks guys. I'm now thinking that since my call quality doesn't have any problems, I might just leave the modem as is on EK02. I'll just flash Blazer with the included kernel. Having EK02 modem won't cause a conflict right? Having not done this before, I should install CWM, then from CWM install "Calkulin's Format All" then install "Blazer". Do I need to reboot or clear any caches in between those two?
Going to test out Blazer for a bit and then Calk's and see which one I like better. Thanks.
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Thanks guys. I'm now thinking that since my call quality doesn't have any problems, I might just leave the modem as is on EK02. I'll just flash Blazer with the included kernel. Having EK02 modem won't cause a conflict right? Having not done this before, I should install CWM, then from CWM install "Calkulin's Format All" then install "Blazer". Do I need to reboot or clear any caches in between those two?
Going to test out Blazer for a bit and then Calk's and see which one I like better. Thanks.
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Hey Frank, once you have CWM installed make sure to do a BACKUP before you go flashing other roms. Trust me that this is a very important step! Also, since you are already rooted I would advise making a backup of your apps via Titanium Backup? This is not required but useful for restoring apps when flashing ROMs. In answer to your other question, it is not necessary to use Calk's format all, but is recommended. Otherwise, just use CWM to wipe data, cache, and dalvik-cache. Then choose install zip from sd card and flash away.
Calks format all will clear all caches for you... Make sure to go thank the man
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I was just in your shoes recently. I was on stock EK02 + root. Decided to use blazerROM as my choice of ROM. I didn't get the OTA update yet, so I went ahead and ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock update. I just wanted to see if EL29 had any issues. I ran it for half a day and decided to stick with it. I backed up my contacts and SMS messages and Titanium backup of all my apps. I added CWM via the auto-root script from sfhub. From there, I made a nandroid back up (it saves to your external SD if you have one) and went ahead and flashed calks format all. then flashed blazer right after (stayed in the same menu). Everything is running great so far with no major issues. Once everything was running properly, I just restored my user apps (not system!) via titanium backup, my SMS messages, and contact list.
I also did the same steps for my wife's phone, but put calks rom on hers.
You won't regret flashing. Better battery life, more features, bloatware removed, ect. I don't think i'll be on stock anymore since we get the updates here on XDA faster than sprint pushes them out anyway.
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I was just in your shoes recently. I was on stock EK02 + root. Decided to use blazerROM as my choice of ROM. I didn't get the OTA update yet, so I went ahead and ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock update. I just wanted to see if EL29 had any issues. I ran it for half a day and decided to stick with it. I backed up my contacts and SMS messages and Titanium backup of all my apps. I added CWM via the auto-root script from sfhub. From there, I made a nandroid back up (it saves to your external SD if you have one) and went ahead and flashed calks format all. then flashed blazer right after (stayed in the same menu). Everything is running great so far with no major issues. Once everything was running properly, I just restored my user apps (not system!) via titanium backup, my SMS messages, and contact list.
I also did the same steps for my wife's phone, but put calks rom on hers.
You won't regret flashing. Better battery life, more features, bloatware removed, ect. I don't think i'll be on stock anymore since we get the updates here on XDA faster than sprint pushes them out anyway.
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Thanks. I saw another one of your posts and was going to ask you to compare Blazer and Calks but I didn't want to be that guy! I'm just going to try them myself. That said, did you update your modem to EL29 before you moved to Blazer? I'm thinking of keeping EK02 since it works well for me and I've seen others say EL29 had problems.
@jasone4gt Thanks for the reminder on the back up. I've installed CWM, done the back up. Getting ready to flash Blazer now.
You can jump back and forth with modems, so no biggie. If you're satisfied without then you know what they say, if it ain't broke....
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You can jump back and forth with modems, so no biggie. If you're satisfied without then you know what they say, if it ain't broke....
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Thanks everyone. Took the plunge and everything is great. Didn't update the modem. Installed CWM, did Nandroid and Titanium backups, flashed Calk's Erase All then flashed Blazer. Everything works great so far. It all looks great too. One minor thing. The signal strength indicator is grey color instead of blue like everything else. It's also blue in the screen cap in the second post. Is it supposed to be grey and do I have to flash a theme? Also, does anyone know what the screen density is? It looks a lot better than Stock.
Looking to do this as well. Can you tell me more about auto root? Completely new to the whole root and flash shindig.
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SuperSwagSauce said:
Looking to do this as well. Can you tell me more about auto root? Completely new to the whole root and flash shindig.
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It's actually pretty easy. Just follow the instructions in the first thread in development to Auto root. Do step 1, download the e4gtauto-sfx.exe file and then run that. Select A to Root then C to install CWM. I'm not sure if you need to reboot your phone between A & C but to be safe, you might want to. Download the Blazer ROM and Calk's Erase All and copy that to your phone. Then boot into CWM by holding Up volume and Power while turning the phone on. Do the Nandroid back up in CWM. Then install Calk's then Blazer. That's it. You're done. There are a bunch of videos to help if you need it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268548
It depends on what version he's on.
EL13 and up, he'll have to use the Odin package, also by sfhub. Then he would use the package you mentioned to run option C for CWM
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tkemack said:
It depends on what version he's on.
EL13 and up, he'll have to use the Odin package, also by sfhub. Then he would use the package you mentioned tobrun option C for CWM
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Yup, I thought I mentioned that in my post but getting old I guess. If you're on EK02 or earlier, then you follow my instructions. If you're on EL13 or later, you have to do Odin. I don't know how to do that though since I've never done it as I was on EK02.
Ok, run into a little problem. The hotspot hack worked fine right after flashing Blazer. I then did my restore from Titanium back up. Since that, the hot spot doesn't work. It says I'm not authorized. Did I restore something that undid the hack and is there a way to fix it besides doing a reset? Also, my signal strength indicator varied between grey and blue. Is that normal? And what is AOSP email? I installed it but it doesn't look any different than the Stock email. Thanks.
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Yup, I thought I mentioned that in my post but getting old I guess. If you're on EK02 or earlier, then you follow my instructions. If you're on EL13 or later, you have to do Odin. I don't know how to do that though since I've never done it as I was on EK02.
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Im on EL 29. Gonna use this how-to I think.
http:// epic4gtouchroot .com/epic-4g-touch-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s2-epic-4g-touch-newsph-d710/
Well, don't know if anyone cares but here are my thoughts on my experience. First off, I think Blazer looks a lot nicer than stock. I suppose you have to like blue. I still have no idea why but my signal strength indicator occasionally turns white. I think it's when either 4G or Wifi is on but it's minor. Sprint tethering works with both 4G and 3G. It seems like 4G disconnects every once in awhile. Sometimes it's the 4G (meaning Internet on the phone doesn't work either) and sometimes the PC hooked up loses Internet access. I mentioned in another thread, the tethering worked right after flashing but after I did a Titanium restore, it stopped working and I got an authorization error. Turns out turning off and on fixed that. I found out after reflashing that you can avoid this problem if you don't restore the data for Wifi Sharing and Wifi Sharing Manager apps. No problems with GPS (used maps and nav) or any other connectivity. Before reflashing, I tried out Madoggin's 13 homescreen from 12/4. I didn't use it long but it seemed to work fine. I just didn't like it because it installs a different theme (didn't like the notification icons) and it replaces the scrolling toggles on the status bar. In case you haven't discovered it, I found out that holding the toggles in Blazer will open up the settings page for that item, e.g. tap Wifi turns it on and off but hold Wifi and it'll open up Wifi settings. I still have no idea what AOSP email is. I installed it and it looked exactly like Stock. After reflashing, I didn't install AOSP email and it still didn't look any different. I guess the difference could be the notification because the one that comes with Blazer has a different envelope icon for new emails. Performance-wise, I haven't noticed anything really different. I thought Stock was a really smooth experience and Blazer seems no better or worse. Battery-wise, I have one data point. I have really bad signal at my office and I would lose 10% battery for every hour on Stock but with Blazer it was half that. Last thing which isn't related to Blazer per se but I had been looking forever for a music player widget. There was another post that mentioned that there is an app in the market called Galaxy S Music Widget that gives you the widget to control the default music player and it is awesome. I also tried Music Mod which I used with my old Streak. It seemed to work ok even though it says it's for Froyo only but it is a separate music player and doesn't work with the Samsung widget thingys on the lockscreen and the notification area. The upside is that it has a lot of different sized widgets. Hope that helps someone. In summary, Blazer's very cool and works great.
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Well, don't know if anyone cares but here are my thoughts on my experience. First off, I think Blazer looks a lot nicer than stock. I suppose you have to like blue. I still have no idea why but my signal strength indicator occasionally turns white. I think it's when either 4G or Wifi is on but it's minor.
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Blazer v3.8 fixes this.
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For whatever reason I have not been offered the OTA L710VPLJ7 update yet. Keis says I'm up to date with L710VPLI3 which is BS. I'm "unrooted" by Voodoo OTA so the update hopefully won't have any problems. I don't care how I get or how I flash (zip, Odin, whatever) it but I'm not interested (for the moment) working with a custom/themed ROM. I just want a stock rooted phone so I can be up to date and work on making wifi hot spot work which I understand is a problem with Jelly Bean. If I can't get it to work I figure I can always resort to my ICS Nandriod backup.
Does anyone have a link to where the actual update might be?
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For whatever reason I have not been offered the OTA L710VPLJ7 update yet. Keis says I'm up to date with L710VPLI3 which is BS. I'm "unrooted" by Voodoo OTA so the update hopefully won't have any problems. I don't care how I get or how I flash (zip, Odin, whatever) it but I'm not interested (for the moment) working with a custom/themed ROM. I just want a stock rooted phone so I can be up to date and work on making wifi hot spot work which I understand is a problem with Jelly Bean. If I can't get it to work I figure I can always resort to my ICS Nandriod backup.
Does anyone have a link to where the actual update might be?
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This is stock rooted: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32152586
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This is stock rooted: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32152586
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That's great. Thanks. I'm guessing of all the multiple choices, this LJ7KernelWithBootanimationSupportFIXED.zip is the one I want. I can use all the battery help I can get. Would you suggest I do the modem flash Galaxy-S-fre3-LJ7FirmwareModemAIO.zip too?
And would you know if I'm safe to just do a cache and Dalvik cache wipe without full factory reset? It would seem so to me but would appreciate a second opinion.
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That's great. Thanks. I'm guessing of all the multiple choices, this LJ7KernelWithBootanimationSupportFIXED.zip is the one I want. I can use all the battery help I can get. Would you suggest I do the modem flash Galaxy-S-fre3-LJ7FirmwareModemAIO.zip too?
And would you know if I'm safe to just do a cache and Dalvik cache wipe without full factory reset? It would seem so to me but would appreciate a second opinion.
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You should be safe to do it without a full wipe. Personally I dont recommend the firmware if anything I say take the lj7 modem and flash just that by itself but really it dont matter
And if u want it heres the official ota modified for cwm/twrp flashing. No wipe necessary
http://androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390135922294523494
Hope you don't mind my caution here but if I'm reading you right http://androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390135922294523494 will basically provide me with the OTA update to JB but rooted - correct. This is exactly what I would prefer.
The main thing is that my wife's GS3 isn't rooted and she has JB now and is showing off by telling her camera "smile" and such. But mainly I want to be able to give her "technical support" by being able to tell her how to do and change things with the same screens she is looking at.
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That's great. Thanks. I'm guessing of all the multiple choices, this LJ7KernelWithBootanimationSupportFIXED.zip is the one I want. I can use all the battery help I can get. Would you suggest I do the modem flash Galaxy-S-fre3-LJ7FirmwareModemAIO.zip too?
And would you know if I'm safe to just do a cache and Dalvik cache wipe without full factory reset? It would seem so to me but would appreciate a second opinion.
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Some people have reported issues with the custom kernel. I've never flashed it. Flash one of the LJ7 roms. Odexed is totally stock, deodexed will give you the ability to add some of the mods you can find in other threads. Flashing either of those will also flash the stock LJ7 kernel. If you do flash the custom kernel and don't like it, you can simply reflash the rom without wiping to get the stock kernel back. Flashing the firmware/aio files will change your modem/radios. They don't have to match the rom. I went LJ7 for rom and firmware, but some report getting better reception with other modems. A lot seems to depend on your location and signal quality. I live in northern IL and only have 3g in my area. I have traveled into areas with LTE and found the LJ7 rom to work fine in both. Others swear by LI3, LIG, LIH, etc. It's super easy to flash them and see what works best for you. You'll find the older ones a little further down on the post I linked you to previously.
Some people flash the rom over ICS roms without issues. Others report problems when flashing over ICS. I wiped everything and did factory reset. When flashing over a JB rom, there shouldn't be any need for a factory reset. Flashing the firmware files definitely does not require a reset or data wipe.
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Good data. Thanks. This will make you laugh. 3G? I'm in New York City, 200 feet west of Times Square. 4G is a complete joke. No matter what it constantly searches and drains my battery. If I didn't have the old Sprint unlimited plan I would have changed long ago becasue the Internet is soooo slow.
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Good data. Thanks. This will make you laugh. 3G? I'm in New York City, 200 feet west of Times Square. 4G is a complete joke. No matter what it constantly searches and drains my battery. If I didn't have the old Sprint unlimited plan I would have changed long ago becasue the Internet is soooo slow.
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This is a screen shot of the 4g data speed I got at the very far edge of the westernmost suburbs of Chicago (St. Charles/Elburn area). If it only extended another 15 or 20 miles west, I would be getting it at home.
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Hope you don't mind my caution here but if I'm reading you right http://androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390135922294523494 will basically provide me with the OTA update to JB but rooted - correct. This is exactly what I would prefer.
The main thing is that my wife's GS3 isn't rooted and she has JB now and is showing off by telling her camera "smile" and such. But mainly I want to be able to give her "technical support" by being able to tell her how to do and change things with the same screens she is looking at.
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in case you didn't upgrade yet and still needed insight, no what my file is the official ota from Sprint. but it's modified so it won't check your system and throw the dreaded status 7 error. and you dont have to use stock recovery to flash. it being the actual OTA means wiping isnt needed. to have it rooted just flash the root from recovery zip right after its done
Thanks. I already did it and it's working fine. Hopefully OTA are now disabled becasue moving on from here Sprint will want to down-grade me while thinking they are up-grading me.
My only regret is no longer being able to get wifi hotspot. It used to work sooooo well on my SG2 with ICS (native) and was pretty OK on the GS3 with wifi teather. I'm planning on getting a Nexus 10 and want to be able to wifi so might revert although I'll try USB teather first.
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I just want a stock rooted phone so I can be up to date and work on making wifi hot spot work which I understand is a problem with Jelly Bean.
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This modified WifiTether works on JB. I can confirm it works for me. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...652-wifi-tether-jellybean-here-confirmed.html
All right! Thanks. I got it to work too.
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
I have same issue in the last two days my signal has been dropping its really annoying
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KinAndTonic said:
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
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Honestly... if your objective was to get all the ATT bloatware off your Note 2, you should flash CleanROM ACE 4.6.1 This one is built off the N7105XXDMB3 International base (not the ATT base which SE 1.5 is built from). I'm on ATT network and have been running the International CleanROM since December... absolutely love it.. great performance... never an issue. During install on 4.6.1, just select ATT as your carrier and select the ATT signal icons (if those are the ones you wish to utilize). Also during install, you can select (via Aroma installer) which Google and Samsung apps you want/ don't want to install. As far as the radio, you can flash modem separately (since it writes to it's own partition) and see which one works best for you. I am currently running the UCAMA4 ATT modem on the N7105XXDMB3 rom. Here's a link I posted regarding this modem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38056319&postcount=10
Again, if you objective is to minimize the ATT bloat, go with CleanROM ACE 4.6.1.... select ATT as your carrier... and try either the more recent MA4 ATT modem or the previous LK7 modem for signal reception. Hope this helps.
KinAndTonic said:
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
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ok so now your running stock rooted, if you want to debloat search for mr robinson's debloater, its aroma installer as well as DoctorQMM has mentioned. if you are looking for modems, you have 3 options available lj2, lk7 and latest ma4. you said your phone is running lk7? if you have a custom recovery what im going to ask you will not matter. have you checked for system updates or tried flashing stock rooted deodexed ma4? i would try lj2 modem and see if my signal cleans up, since you mentioned it was fine before SE 1.5.
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ok so now your running stock rooted, if you want to debloat search for mr robinson's debloater, its aroma installer as well as DoctorQMM has mentioned. if you are looking for modems, you have 3 options available lj2, lk7 and latest ma4. you said your phone is running lk7? if you have a custom recovery what im going to ask you will not matter. have you checked for system updates or tried flashing stock rooted deodexed ma4? i would try lj2 modem and see if my signal cleans up, since you mentioned it was fine before SE 1.5.
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Well, I have flashed all three modems without any change. Seems very strange. Don't really know what to do.
I would Odin flash back to 100% stock...use triangle away from the market to your phone. .and not allow it to update via the ota update that will be pushed to your phone when you do.
See if this corrects the issue. If it doesn't. .take your phone in for service.
If it does fix it...re-root...download twrp...make a nand backup of your stock/rooted phone and save it to your external sd card.
Then you can go about de-bloating your phone.
Personally. ..I think you have had a bad download of cleanrom to start..and possibly a bad sim card afterwards.
It happens from time to time. .but by flashing back to stock. .resetting your counter to normal. .you can at least return your phone if necessary.
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Mac11700 said:
I would Odin flash back to 100% stock...use triangle away from the market to your phone. .and not allow it to update via the ota update that will be pushed to your phone when you do.
See if this corrects the issue. If it doesn't. .take your phone in for service.
If it does fix it...re-root...download twrp...make a nand backup of your stock/rooted phone and save it to your external sd card.
Then you can go about de-bloating your phone.
Personally. ..I think you have had a bad download of cleanrom to start..and possibly a bad sim card afterwards.
It happens from time to time. .but by flashing back to stock. .resetting your counter to normal. .you can at least return your phone if necessary.
Mac
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Thanks Mac, that's kind of what I was thinking. As I search these forums and the internet, it's difficult to pin down a source for my original stock rom. I was a newb at the beginning of this, so no, I did not make a backup of my original rom. If it wouldn't take too much time, would anyone be able to point me to a stock rom for my particular phone?
Follow the instructions posted here. .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303l]
You can follow the links in there to understand what you are doing. ..
Good luck
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Mac11700 said:
Follow the instructions posted here. .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303l]
You can follow the links in there to understand what you are doing. ..
Good luck
Mac
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Ugh. Ok, so I got as far as using Odin, passing, but then got stuck on boot at the Samsung logo. Everything I read said to reboot into stock recovery, but I can't seem to do that. When I'm stuck, the only way I know of turning off the phone is to take the battery out. I put it back in and quickly press volume-up, home, and power. But it simply boots back to the Samsung logo and stays there with the logo pulsing.
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Ugh. Ok, so I got as far as using Odin, passing, but then got stuck on boot at the Samsung logo. Everything I read said to reboot into stock recovery, but I can't seem to do that. When I'm stuck, the only way I know of turning off the phone is to take the battery out. I put it back in and quickly press volume-up, home, and power. But it simply boots back to the Samsung logo and stays there with the logo pulsing.
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Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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Sorry for so many posts. lol BUT, I was able to use download mode to get into recovery and now I am back on stock official. About to use triangle away, then take to At&t
Glad you got it. .remember to delete any apps like busybox and superuser before returning it to the store. ..
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Glad you got it. .remember to delete any apps like busybox and superuser before returning it to the store. ..
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Alright, I know I am on the home stretch, just one more hurdle. So, I have been working on getting the damn custom binary counter reset since last night. Right now the downloading screen lists, "Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 counts) Current Binary: Samsung Official System Status: Official"
I ran Triangle Away before I unrooted, multiple times in fact, I just can't ever get the counter to go to 0. I read somewhere, that if I am simply taking the phone into AT&T and not sending to to Samsung, then they don't actually check the binary counter. Anyway, I'm just really tired of dealing with this.
Factory reset
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Factory reset
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I did a factory reset each time. I just did another one. I'm still at 1 binary count. I am unrooted right now, so I guess I need to reroot and try again?
Pull your external sd card and leave it out. ...delete super user..busy box..your custom recovery... factory reset..let phone settle then power off..
Boot it back up.. and go through the first time set up..Don't Update It... see what it says then.
Then check your signal and data.See if the issue is resolved. You might not have to take it back. ..but I would just for peace of mind.
Mac
I did it! lol
Used this (http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/how-to-reset-rooted-galaxy-note-2-flash-counter/) to finally get Triangle Away to work on my phone and then did factory reset.
They gave me a new phone and it's working great
KinAndTonic said:
I did it! lol
Used this (http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/how-to-reset-rooted-galaxy-note-2-flash-counter/) to finally get Triangle Away to work on my phone and then did factory reset.
They gave me a new phone and it's working great
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Good..make sure you do a nand back up of your stock rooted phone before you do anything else to it..if you are going to re-root that is.
I have a seperate 16 gig external micro sd card..that all it has on it is that..my music and my movies..It's worth the peace of mind and very conveniant having it backed up and saved off my phone on it's own disc..
Good Luck
Mac
KinAndTonic said:
Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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hello i have same problem , i get circle on my signal bar this happent after trying to unlock my note II with free method
CellularDr. said:
hello i have same problem , i get circle on my signal bar this happent after trying to unlock my note II with free method
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I ended up having to take my phone back to AT&T and get a new one. It seems that this is a problem with a certain batch of Note 2's. When I went in for repair, a girl came in with the exact problem with her Note 2. Anyway, they gave me a new phone and it has been fine ever since.