Activate phone with custom rom? - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

I am selling my phone and wanted to know if I needed to put everything back to stock in order for the buyer to activate the phone? Or can I leave it with the custom ROM on there.....thanks in advance
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I've activated several phones with custom ROM's, although you should make the buyer aware the ROM isn't stock.

jdizzle316 said:
I am selling my phone and wanted to know if I needed to put everything back to stock in order for the buyer to activate the phone? Or can I leave it with the custom ROM on there.....thanks in advance
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Yes you can leave a custom rom on the phone, all sprint needs is the esn numbers to activate.
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Can I run original Kernel and Build Number?

Is there anyway to get my SGS2 back to the original Kernel and Build number it had? My reason is because I "Flashed" some Chicago ICS and got confused; forgetting to back up all my stuff, it deleted everything it's completely wiped and it left my old SGS2 to poop. I'm have a new one and I didn't Root my new phone, im going to take care of this one.
I just want the Kernel and Build number back to what it was originally. Its a T-Mobile SGHT989. Thx in advance for help!
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Mr_UvA said:
Is there anyway to get my SGS2 back to the original Kernel and Build number it had? My reason is because I "Flashed" some Chicago ICS and got confused; forgetting to back up all my stuff, it deleted everything it's completely wiped and it left my old SGS2 to poop. I'm have a new one and I didn't Root my new phone, im going to take care of this one.
I just want the Kernel and Build number back to what it was originally. Its a T-Mobile SGHT989. Thx in advance for help!
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So you bricked the old one?
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Kernel and build number? Was your old one originally GB? The only way those changed is if the new one they sent has the latest ICS update.
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Yeah I guess you can say it's bricked, basicly unusable I can't even run Play Store without my phone freezing up.
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Mr_UvA said:
Yeah I guess you can say it's bricked, basicly unusable I can't even run Play Store without my phone freezing up.
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Pretty sure you can fix it with odin back to stock
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if your able to get on it, you should be able to get into recovery. Had mine stuck at sign on over and over after adding an app so I went into recovery and was able to fix things. Am sure you can fix it.

Kernel

Im rooted on stock, I bought ROM Toolbox Pro but cant use any of the features because im on kernel 3.0.8-925100. The main features I'm trying to use are change wifi logo, battery icon and a few other tweaks ROM Toolbox offers. I want to stay stock as possible because I really like the stock rom so I guess my real question is can I flash a new kernel and stay stock and if so whats a good one that will let me use all ROM Toolbox features?
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I believe you can. Flash morfics trinity ics kernel 43b
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Awesome, can anyone else confirm this? By flashing this will I still be pretty much stock and then be able to use all features in ROM Toolbox like changing my wifi icon my battery logo and someone?
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Markor13 said:
Awesome, can anyone else confirm this? By flashing this will I still be pretty much stock and then be able to use all features in ROM Toolbox like changing my wifi icon my battery logo and someone?
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Flashing just a kernel wont change anything on the rom. So yes you will still be stock
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tgamble160 said:
Flashing just a kernel wont change anything on the rom. So yes you will still be stock
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Thank you, ill go and find Morfics then right now.
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Markor13 said:
Thank you, ill go and find Morfics then right now.
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It's in the original development or you can just Google der kernel
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I looked for the past hour but cant find it. If you know where it is, would you be willing to post the link? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Here: http://www.derkernel.com/ics-d2.php
Thank you, I found that site and downloaded it but Odin wouldn't work with it, but I think I had a bad download so im going to try it again.
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Alright I flashed a new one. Does this mean im good to go?
It wouldn't let me post the picture so its on the next page lol.
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And now I swear this is my last question about flashing anything. Regardless if I done this flash correctly or wrong if I decide to go back to stock how would I do it. I did a google search and found something called fix boot, but that flashed me to something completely different and broke my wifi. I ended up flashing back to what you see in the picture to get my wifi back and now I just don't know how to go back to stock if I decide to.
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markor13 said:
and now i swear this is my last question about flashing anything. Regardless if i done this flash correctly or wrong if i decide to go back to stock how would i do it. I did a google search and found something called fix boot, but that flashed me to something completely different and broke my wifi. I ended up flashing back to what you see in the picture to get my wifi back and now i just don't know how to go back to stock if i decide to.
Im assuming you made a backup before flashing the kernal if so just flash that and you will be back to square one. If not the head over to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682 and you shoulx find everything you neex to get you back to stock.
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remember to thank me if i helped you : )
It's late and I forgot about my backup lol. I just flashed it back before I seen you comment
Thank you

[Q] help gs3 att wont power on or charge

help new att galaxy s 3 i747 wont power on,charge or download mode i used tool kit to root and instill cwm. tried flash omega rom it didnt take just rebooted att logo then died . i spend alot $$$$ on purchase .can it be fixed ?
lilmeanz said:
help new att galaxy s 3 i747 wont power on,charge or download mode i used tool kit to root and instill cwm. tried flash omega rom it didnt take just rebooted att logo then died . i spend alot $$$$ on purchase .can it be fixed ?
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You obviously flashed the wrong rom.. JTAG or samsung repair can fix this. I recommend Sending it to samsung cuz its free
I sent off Samsung today 2 day air its free assuming they don't find its rooted. I was excited getting sg3 & didn't realize so many different versions. So long as I flash correct sgh-i747 roms i should be fine right?
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lilmeanz said:
I sent off Samsung today 2 day air its free assuming they don't find its rooted. I was excited getting sg3 & didn't realize so many different versions. So long as I flash correct sgh-i747 roms i should be fine right?
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Exactly! And the tmobile version is almost exactly the same in terms of hardware so you can flash sgh-i747 for sure, and sgh-t999 you just gotta remember to change the apn if your flashing a tmobile rom. Other then that. You cannot flash international roms or sprint roms or any other variant to this baby. But im sure xda will find a workaround to this. Till then Goodluck and take care of that phone
lilmeanz said:
I sent off Samsung today 2 day air its free assuming they don't find its rooted. I was excited getting sg3 & didn't realize so many different versions. So long as I flash correct sgh-i747 roms i should be fine right?
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But you said you rooted it.. Doesn't that mean you will be charged?
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I didn't tell them that I told them half the truth.
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lilmeanz said:
I didn't tell them that I told them half the truth.
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I would imagine that if they do find out, they'll still fix it for free. I doubt the people actually fixing the devices care too much as it doesn't really make a difference to them whether or not it's rooted. Best of luck!
Wouldn't it be ok if you put in a spare, charged battery, and booted into recovery or bootloader and flashed the right rom?
king200 said:
Wouldn't it be ok if you put in a spare, charged battery, and booted into recovery or bootloader and flashed the right rom?
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No, even with a spare battery it is highly doubtful that the device will come back to life. He tried to flash an incorrect ROM to his phone and the phone has shut itself down to prevent physical damage to the circuits. i/e Burn outs. This is one of the MAIN reasons to be sure of what you are doing BEFORE you do it.
Patience is an overwhelming virtue when your thinking to flash a non stock ROM. Read it, understand it, ensure it, then do it but ONLY if you are 100% sure of what you are doing.
Can anyone recommend a stable rom i747 att
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can any1 recommend what to do with a 6 day old 747 that got water damage everything works but the speaker??
Take the battery out.... And sim card/sd cards.... And put it in rice for 24 hours.... If you have not already fried the speaker/circuitry then this might help.... Rice absorbed it weight in water 10 times over... Or something like that.... Give that a try and see what happens
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great news samsung sent email letting me know my sg3 has been repaired for free and coming friday thanks for all input. oan anyone know of great stable rom with ota or should i just update stock jb ?
lilmeanz said:
great news samsung sent email letting me know my sg3 has been repaired for free and coming friday thanks for all input. oan anyone know of great stable rom with ota or should i just update stock jb ?
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Your choice really cuz 4.1.1 offical is out and i heard its pretty sweeet.. i personally dont like touchwiz lol... anyways 4.2.1 should be out soon im sticking around aokp 4.1.2 until cm releases it
samsung fixed my phone free replaced pbs
lilmeanz said:
samsung fixed my phone free replaced pbs
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Would be funny if they give it to you back rooted xD
great news i got my sg3 back today unrooted
lilmeanz said:
great news i got my sg3 back today unrooted
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Did they give you any grief about having it rooted and do you have the link? Was it a fresh install or did they recover/save any of your internal SD?
None they did fresh install
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Warranty

Hello ive asked this already. But who has a note 2 under warranty and rooted with a custom rom. I have a galaxy s2 rooted custom rom but idk why im scared on rooting this one -.-
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I have one and lost imei, but Tmobile is sending me an exchange. I agree it is scary rooting this device
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Wouldn't it be fine if you just unroot before going through warranty?
chavist said:
I have one and lost imei, but Tmobile is sending me an exchange. I agree it is scary rooting this device
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You just scared me more -_- lol
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mopandasauce said:
Wouldn't it be fine if you just unroot before going through warranty?
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But ive read that theres problems when doing that?
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Its not hard to root or unroot, although its normal to hesitate on potentially bricking anything as expensive as the GNII.
Just remember, you only have to unroot if you have to take the phone back. 70 bucks on an otterbox has me covered for the occasional slip. As far as flashing concerns, theres generally a way to unbrick everything but lets say the modem (which apparently already has a fix) or system is corrupt, the stock roms and triangle away app are available for flashing and reseting counters respectively.
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PhxDroid86 said:
Its not hard to root or unroot, although its normal to hesitate on potentially bricking anything as expensive as the GNII.
Just remember, you only have to unroot if you have to take the phone back. 70 bucks on an otterbox has me covered for the occasional slip. As far as flashing concerns, theres generally a way to unbrick everything but lets say the modem (which apparently already has a fix) or system is corrupt, the stock roms and triangle away app are available for flashing and reseting counters respectively.
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Yes I am hesitate by rooting >.> since I had never paid a lot for a phone like this >.> so your rooted? And with warranty? I think I did the latest ota that gave me multi-window.?
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I am rooted, used cf auto root and gained superSU... then installed CWM (had a chat with my in law and he said to give twarp a try, so decided to go with that (2.3.3.2), then saw Jedi X9 and flashed that... currently waiting for CM10.1 to stabilize so im also looking into the perseus and bullet kernals...
So far today with jedi x and saber_7 kernal my battery went down to 10% off an amazing 8h+ screentime
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PhxDroid86 said:
I am rooted, used cf auto root and gained superSU... then installed CWM (had a chat with my in law and he said to give twarp a try, so decided to go with that (2.3.3.2), then saw Jedi X9 and flashed that... currently waiting for CM10.1 to stabilize so im also looking into the perseus and bullet kernals...
So far today with jedi x and saber_7 kernal my battery went down to 10% off an amazing 8h+ screentime
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I want to root but scared of bricking it. Ive used twrp in the past and I like it a lot. And I want to try that jedi roms from ptmr. But I just hesitate when I start thinking I might brick it -__- and lose warranty -__-.
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I've never went through for warranty for a phone I bought outright but for the last company (virgin mobile) when I went for the warranty, I just unrooted the phone and locked the bootloader and it was fine. I don't think they would go all out to check if you rooted the phone. I forgot if they could check or not, but most of the time (IMHO) they wont. Unless they really don't want you to fulfill the warranty.
Well im willing to root lol stock is slow and it lags -_- and I hear some echo. When im on the phone.
Is this rootable?
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That's rootable. I just re-rooted after the update to LL4 two days ago.
I bought my phone in November, which means it's still under warranty - I've rooted and unrooted and rerooted the phone about 3 times now just to make sure I've got the process down and nothing weird happens to it.
The way I rooted that worked for me was to root using CF auto root through ODIN. Then to unroot, I ran Triangle Away, then unrooted through SuperSU full unroot, and for good measure, I ODIN'd the T-mo stock firmware back on the phone. At the end of that process, I was factory reset back to a clean phone with 0 flash counter and status was normal.
So now I'm rocking an unlocked, rooted, stock rom phone, and I love it.
Galaxysm said:
Hello ive asked this already. But who has a note 2 under warranty and rooted with a custom rom. I have a galaxy s2 rooted custom rom but idk why im scared on rooting this one -.-
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I've sent phone back that were still rooted. Nothing came of it,honestly it will be fine. Ask you have to do is Odin Beck the stock image if you ever do need to return your phone. Hers the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969551
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Okay...I wanna try #2...but I dont see any CWM or can I just download it from play store. The twrp...I like that one more since I would use it on my s2.
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Option 2 doesn't load a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP). It just roots the phone, but you'll still have stock recovery. If you want a custom recovery, you'll need option 1.Or, flash the custom recovery separately after you do Option 2.
What about option num.3?
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Option 3 only works if you're not on baseband LL4. Once you've updated to LL4, the exynos exploit was closed, so if you're still stock uprooted by LL4, then you'll need to do option 2.
If you're still on valk8, then yeah, you can use option 3.
nmw407 said:
Option 3 only works if you're not on baseband LL4. Once you've updated to LL4, the exynos exploit was closed, so if you're still stock uprooted by LL4, then you'll need to do option 2.
If you're still on valk8, then yeah, you can use option 3.
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Yeah..im screwed I updated to LL4. Lol might give a try to opt.2 since in stock you cant have xda and more apps for multi-window -_-
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Option 2 is really simple to do and only takes a few minutes.
I wont have problems? Ive been reading and ppl are having problems. Like not having a imei and things like that...
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Few questions about wife's sph-710

I have a few quick questions on this device, I personally deal strictly with htc devices but my wife loves this phone.
Ok a little background.
The phone has been flashed to boost. And is on stock Sprint gb27 jb, unrooted.
Where is a good thread to get this rooted? and after the recovery gets installed being it's flashed to boost anything I should not flash? Thanks guys
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Check out rwilcows repository it contains everything you will need to flash.
If you flash from Odin the rooted same build you won't need to factory reset.
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31ken31 said:
I have a few quick questions on this device, I personally deal strictly with htc devices but my wife loves this phone.
Ok a little background.
The phone has been flashed to boost. And is on stock Sprint gb27 jb, unrooted.
Where is a good thread to get this rooted? and after the recovery gets installed being it's flashed to boost anything I should not flash? Thanks guys
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Dont take this wrong way but u sound a little confused
But don't worry. I think u need to search for one click odin on here and also search on YouTube for Qbking77.Read op=opening page. Read until u fully understand unless u want your phone to be useless.
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WelfareBaby said:
Dont take this wrong way but u sound a little confused
But don't worry. I think u need to search for one click odin on here and also search on YouTube for Qbking77.Read op=opening page. Read until u fully understand unless u want your phone to be useless.
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Not taken wrong at all. I've actually been modding phones since the g1 dream days and still very active on the HTC one xl forum just havent messed with a Samsung since the boost galaxy prevail. And the read fully part you mentioned... Read some of my posts from the one xl q n a forum.. I just wanted a push in the right direction. Main concern is the rom install. Will it mess with anything that's been flashed to convert to boost? Prl?
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mkfryan said:
Check out rwilcows repository it contains everything you will need to flash.
If you flash from Odin the rooted same build you won't need to factory reset.
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Do you have a link?
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31ken31 said:
Do you have a link?
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Here's qbking's video on how to root on jb:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnk617FffXY&desktop_uri=/watch?v=Rnk617FffXY
And here's everything you need from rwilco12:
http://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Devic...Sprint) (SPH-D710)/Tutorials/SPHD710-Root.php
Just make sure you read, read, read. And your prl, being on Boost, will not change. And as long as you have a jb modem(gb27, gb28, or gc01), you'll have data. But if you flash a Sprint rom you'll have to research how to change mmsc in order to send mms. To avoid that, if your wife wants stock, flash a GC01(Boost) rom after you root. Here's mine, deodexed, debloated, and since it's stock, you can build it up to your wife's liking. Good luck, happy flashing:thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223305
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jdsingle76 said:
Here's qbking's video on how to root on jb:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnk617FffXY&desktop_uri=/watch?v=Rnk617FffXY
And here's everything you need from rwilco12:
http://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Devic...Sprint) (SPH-D710)/Tutorials/SPHD710-Root.php
Just make sure you read, read, read. And your prl, being on Boost, will not change. And as long as you have a jb modem(gb27, gb28, or gc01), you'll have data. But if you flash a Sprint rom you'll have to research how to change mmsc in order to send mms. To avoid that, if your wife wants stock, flash a GC01(Boost) rom after you root. Here's mine, deodexed, debloated, and since it's stock, you can build it up to your wife's liking. Good luck, happy flashing:thumbup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223305
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Thanks man the phobe will be here this afternoon and wanna read up before hand. I'll read till I'm blind usually just new to non gsm phones. On mine I'm running sense 5 4.2.2 and it's a T-Mobile base running on a att device. I'll post back here if I run into any issues. And again thanks a million
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Edit: Nevermind Accidentally butt-posted!
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31ken31 said:
Thanks man the phobe will be here this afternoon and wanna read up before hand. I'll read till I'm blind usually just new to non gsm phones. On mine I'm running sense 5 4.2.2 and it's a T-Mobile base running on a att device. I'll post back here if I run into any issues. And again thanks a million
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By the way, if you flashed the phone to Boost you're better off just keeping a stock Boost ROM handy.
That way you're not having to mod the MMS settings to get it to work right.
From there you can pick up a custom kernel/recovery and flash away.
(I personally recommend mine but there are others to choose from...)
Welcome and enjoy!
garwynn said:
By the way, if you flashed the phone to Boost you're better off just keeping a stock Boost ROM handy.
That way you're not having to mod the MMS settings to get it to work right.
From there you can pick up a custom kernel/recovery and flash away.
(I personally recommend mine but there are others to choose from...)
Welcome and enjoy!
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What's the link to your rom and is it stock or modded
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31ken31 said:
What's the link to your rom and is it stock or modded
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Garywnn is a very busy man, so I'll help him out. Here's the link to his rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2216606
His is purely stock, smooth as glass.
Here's my build, deodexed and debloated, stock, if you want variety:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223305
Good luck, and enjoy! :thumbup::beer:
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