[Q] I have a Samsung Epic flashed to nTelos and... - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'd like to know if it's safe to start breaking into it. I know rooting won't hurt it, but what about custom ROMs, or even updating to Gingerbread? I don't want to mess up the current settings that have been applied for the phone to work on nTelos.
Running Froyo 2.2.1 EC05
Baseband version S700.0.55.EC05

Actually if you stay on stock modded roms meaning you stay away from CM7 or any other AOSP ROM then you'll be fine I however have no idea to prove this but have only seen people on cricket and boost mobile have problems only on aosp roms never any stock roms
If you need the latest stock rom ill be happy to help you odin it and root it as well let me know if you have any other questions.
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Better take Biggoron up on hs offer. He can practically do it for you remotely with teamviewer
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Thanks a lot Biggoron, I'll look into that tonight. I have to go buy a better data cable because apparently the stock Samsungs have problems when installing the phone to a computer
I got the 64 bit drivers on my XP 64 bit PC and it will not mount the SD or pull up the debugging driver.

VirtueToVice said:
Thanks a lot Biggoron, I'll look into that tonight. I have to go buy a better data cable because apparently the stock Samsungs have problems when installing the phone to a computer
I got the 64 bit drivers on my XP 64 bit PC and it will not mount the SD or pull up the debugging driver.
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Yeah, stock cables are really cheap I recommend a blackberry I have one and has never failed me got it with my old blackberry bold .
That and 64bit seems to have issues idk what it is but seems to complicate things pm me if you want me to remote flash stock el30 and root it for ya
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Thank you very much, I'll be sending a PM in a moment. So what are some good stock ROMs?

Ok...got another question. I keep randomly getting the "Error 67: Registration error. Your Sprint data service username and/or password may be incorrect. Please try again"
Since I'm not on a Sprint plan, is there an apk or file I can delete to get rid of this thing? It's driving me freakin' insane!
Also, I was flipping through the phone and found this: W_RF_AUTH. What the hell is it? The permissions on it are sketchy as hell, do not want. OK to delete???

Ususal rule of thumb, if you don't know what it is don't delete it... freeze it with titanium backup and if strange things begin to happen then unfreeze... iif not its probably safe to delete...
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I FC'd it and nothing has happened so far. Can't freeze with free version. I can't seem to find where it's stored on my device either. Root explorer searched every directory in my phone and nothing. I think I'm gonna back my phone up and use TB to uninstall it...if it causes any undesired effects I'll revert to my backup.

VirtueToVice said:
I FC'd it and nothing has happened so far. Can't freeze with free version. I can't seem to find where it's stored on my device either. Root explorer searched every directory in my phone and nothing. I think I'm gonna back my phone up and use TB to uninstall it...if it causes any undesired effects I'll revert to my backup.
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There's a good idea too... that's why backups are so important...
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W_RF_AUTH is part of WiMAX.
Uninstalled all of the WiMAX stuff after backing them up since I don't need it. Also uninstalled Samsung account 1.0. So far, no more annoying Error 67

VirtueToVice said:
W_RF_AUTH is part of WiMAX.
Uninstalled all of the WiMAX stuff after backing them up since I don't need it. Also uninstalled Samsung account 1.0. So far, no more annoying Error 67
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Good glad you got some help thanks flastnoles see we both do each others bidding.
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Just a little update...I'm still getting Error 67

Biggoron said:
Good glad you got some help thanks flastnoles see we both do each others bidding.
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Haha... that we do! Seems likee when I log off you log on... and vica versa... works out pretty good! Glad you got it worked out bud...
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Actually I'm still getting error 67. It's driving me nuts! Sometimes it pops up every 5 mins, sometimes it'll stay away for a couple hours. Either way it sucks
However, removing WiMAX files hasn't caused me a single problem.

VirtueToVice said:
Actually I'm still getting error 67. It's driving me nuts! Sometimes it pops up every 5 mins, sometimes it'll stay away for a couple hours. Either way it sucks
However, removing WiMAX files hasn't caused me a single problem.
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Have you googled anything to get rid of it? What is error 67 anyways?
For error 67, and this applies to most sprint phones that use Vision, Powervision, EVDO, Etc. Error 67 indicates that the username or password stored in your phone is incorrect. this condition is very rarely related to the coverage in an area, usually occurs after recent device swap, or attempting to use modem/hotspot while your account does not have a valid modem/hotspot plan.
Before going through too much effort, you should power your phone off, then back on, update your profile (this varies by model support.sprint.com has guides for most phones) and determine that the feature that you are attempting to use should work ( for example to use hotspot, you must be subscribed to hotspot. to use phone's web browser the web service should not be blocked, Etc.) if you still have trouble with error 67 after following this information please feel free to send me a private message.
When I odined el30 I don't think I had you flash the latest el30 modem delta so flash this : http://db.tt/oL0nSl3s
Then do the profile update as well as the prl update and reboot and see if your phone stops displaying the error 67
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[Q] my Epic process problem

along with the android.process.acore issue im getting a slew of other errors. cant make any calls, cant load any contacts or messages. Im on SFR 2.1 everything was working fine earlier today, I cant think of anything I did to cause this. Im super stressed, iv searched around, people say to re-flash the phone... that makes me nervous.. what should i do? any help is much appreciated.
Sounds like data corruption. Are you journaled? Did you have an abrupt power off of the phone?
j00manji said:
along with the android.process.acore issue im getting a slew of other errors. cant make any calls, cant load any contacts or messages. Im on SFR 2.1 everything was working fine earlier today, I cant think of anything I did to cause this. Im super stressed, iv searched around, people say to re-flash the phone... that makes me nervous.. what should i do? any help is much appreciated.
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If you have a recent nandroid backup, restore it from cwm. If not, you will need to reflash the rom.
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no im not journaling at all, the phone has been on all day untill I recived the errors. I tried to restore my phone using CWM and now I can get to my contacts but im still having gapps crash n stuff. idk what to do, i wana go back to stock and take this damn phone to the sprint store.
j00manji said:
no im not journaling at all, the phone has been on all day untill I recived the errors. I tried to restore my phone using CWM and now I can get to my contacts but im still having gapps crash n stuff. idk what to do, i wana go back to stock and take this damn phone to the sprint store.
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I doubt it's a hardware issue, sounds like data corruption potentially caused by lack of journaling an unstable undervolt/overclock or a combination of the two. Reflash your ROM of choice, and turn on journaling (if it's not already). It's a slight performance hit, but well worth it. Honestly the only time you'd even notice a difference is during a benchmark, these phones are plenty fast enough.
so I just re-flashed my phone... all my wonderful apps are gone.. all those high scores..everything. Im so sick of this phone.
j00manji said:
so I just re-flashed my phone... all my wonderful apps are gone.. all those high scores..everything. Im so sick of this phone.
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You should have backed up and restored data only
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j00manji said:
so I just re-flashed my phone... all my wonderful apps are gone.. all those high scores..everything. Im so sick of this phone.
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It's your own fault. At least learn from it, utilize apps like titanium backup to backup apps and settings, make weekly NAND backups and enable journaling so it is unlikely to happen again.
I just had that happened to me about two hrs ago an don't know waht to do. It seem like my epic won't read my sd card and titanium back up and all my other apps are in there! I lost my google, facebook, clock, and almost everything force closes!!! Any help out there???
Syndicate rom frozen, over clocked via set cpu
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Try repairing permissions from CWM.
j00manji said:
so I just re-flashed my phone... all my wonderful apps are gone.. all those high scores..everything. Im so sick of this phone.
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Bad flashing can happen on any phone. You would have had the same problem with journaling off on any phone. You can return this phone and still flash yourself into force close hell on a different phone. You aren't using Android right, it's not the Epic.
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[Q] Most stable ROM with no FC's (

Hi guys,
I'm new to the Samsung Epic 4g and looking for the most stable ROM that's available. Here's why:
This phone does not belong to me. I dated this girl for a few months and before I broke up with her, I told her she should let me root her phone. She did (we put on the ACS Frozen ROM) and she loved it, until a few weeks later it started giving her "Google Services Frameworks" Force closing errors.
Problem was, we had broken up. Because she doesn't know anyone else that knows how to root phones and put on ROMs, she has very awkwardly called me up every few weeks and asked me to fix her phone—because her phone is my responsibility now!
What I'm looking for is the ROM that won't have any FC's and that I won't have to touch for at least another six months. Her stock ROM was no good either (which is why she wanted me to root the phone), fwiw.
I have a Mac and tried the Heimdall method but that didn't seem to work. Basically, I want to be done messing with her phone so I don't have to hang see her again! It was a bad breakup.
Any advice greatly appreciated! I need to flash by tonight.
Re flash and turn journaling on. Should keep her away for a while
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Honestly if you broke up and don't want to deal with it just go to stock. Otherwise you are on the hook forever. When gb goes ota guess who she calls. Just put it back to stock.
.OmEgA said:
Re flash and turn journaling on. Should keep her away for a while
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This^^^^^^^^ and go to settings>applications>manage applications>all and scroll to Google Services Framework, click it and hit clear data. Show this to her and tell her any app that FCs can be fixed this way and walk away. Unless you want to also teach her how to do a nand backup and restore to really be able to walk away.
put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...
chris41g said:
put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...
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Lol...good stuff. I forgot that link was back up.
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chris41g said:
put ec05 plus on that **** and call it a day...
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+1
10 char
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Thanks guys. I actually ended up bricking the phone with Heimdall-the USB port on my IMac couldn't recognize the phone and all hell broke loose after that-so she and I are splitting the cost of a Nexus S.
At least I have her off my back now. Thanks again for the advice.
sariamanascar said:
Thanks guys. I actually ended up bricking the phone with Heimdall-the USB port on my IMac couldn't recognize the phone and all hell broke loose after that-so she and I are splitting the cost of a Nexus S.
At least I have her off my back now. Thanks again for the advice.
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ouchies 10 char
I am 50/50 between Urban Regeneration with Bionix Black theme and SRF 1.2 with Honeycomb Fusion Explosion. I have a nandroid of each to switch back and forth. Both have been very stable,great battery, and fast. Any errors I have had were my own fault from adding/deleting things.
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[Q] To devs or anyone...please help!!!!

Here's the problem . My friend has an Stock Epic 4g and it eventually bit the dust. She can still access the download screen via 1+power buttons but other than that her phone won't turn on. Now, thats not the problem. I can fix that. The problem is that she had very important text messages in her phone and we're trying to see if there's a way to retrieve them before I "unbrick" her phone. has anyone found a way to pull info off the phone before undergoing restoration and deleting everything? I apologize in advance if the answer is already on here somewhere. I searched and came up with nothing in our forums except for the text message history viewer on sprints website that is no longer there and besidesm even if it was, these texts are from around christmas. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
I think you're pretty much stuck. I had the same problem once and never managed to get it working. If you can somehow make a backup of the messed up system that would be great. If the phone is stock, I don't think there's a way to do that.
Tomcat5 said:
I think you're pretty much stuck. I had the same problem once and never managed to get it working. If you can somehow make a backup of the messed up system that would be great. If the phone is stock, I don't think there's a way to do that.
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no, there's not. I thought of that too. I was wondering if maybe i plug the phone into my computer maybe there's something that can take everything from the phone and copy it to my computer? or even just view the system folders in hopes that I can get the text messages that way but i dunno if that's even possible.
No. She's screwed. Tell her to back up next time.
k0nane said:
No. She's screwed. Tell her to back up next time.
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OUCH! When I give people bad news I at least hand them a bottle of petroleum jelly first! Yes this is an attempt to make a very dry (or is that wet) joke! Sorry had to.
On topic I don't know if you can mount the system w/adb once it is in that state and k0nane would know more and if he is saying no I doubt it.
I am by no means an expert but... could you odin in the recovery, get into CWM, make a backup, extract the data image, pull the messaging data and then restore after getting the phone functional?
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tinslwc said:
I am by no means an expert but... could you odin in the recovery, get into CWM, make a backup, extract the data image, pull the messaging data and then restore after getting the phone functional?
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at that point you would of over written what the person needs
tazfanatic said:
at that point you would of over written what the person needs
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Wouldn't that just reflash the recovery partition? OP: Try this if you haven't just reOdin'ed yet. It wouldn't damage the messages any more than they already are.
Tomcat5 said:
Wouldn't that just reflash the recovery partition? OP: Try this if you haven't just reOdin'ed yet. It wouldn't damage the messages any more than they already are.
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That is what I was going for, just overwriting the recovery partition like you would for rooting GB. You could even try to bring it back to life by flashing a kernel and see if it would boot. Neither of those operations should delete data.
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I agree with the above. Don't odin it, try reflashing the recovery partition, nandroid everything to sd, THEN unbrick, restore data.
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Try the nandroid restore and see if that works. U should be able to get into cwm
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djjoshplacid said:
Here's the problem . My friend has an Stock Epic 4g and it eventually bit the dust. She can still access the download screen via 1+power buttons but other than that her phone won't turn on. Now, thats not the problem. I can fix that. The problem is that she had very important text messages in her phone and we're trying to see if there's a way to retrieve them before I "unbrick" her phone. has anyone found a way to pull info off the phone before undergoing restoration and deleting everything? I apologize in advance if the answer is already on here somewhere. I searched and came up with nothing in our forums except for the text message history viewer on sprints website that is no longer there and besidesm even if it was, these texts are from around christmas. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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Make sure you tell her that her boyfriend still loves her even though the text no longer exists.
Download google voice from the market and you should see your texts there. For whatever reason, all my texts have been saved even though I've wiped my phone many times for different ROMs.
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b16flybye said:
Download google voice from the market and you should see your texts there. For whatever reason, all my texts have been saved even though I've wiped my phone many times for different ROMs.
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That is only if you have voice integration.
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I suppose I'll keep voice integration as a habit for my device. its a good way to keep those important texts. Just need to be sure the lady doesn't go through the phone and stumble upon old "secret" ones.
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error 67 invalide username?

I keep geting this message about error 67 and my 3g will not work can someone please help thanks
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/83055
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dante32278 said:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/83055
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Overkill information, right there.
Just update your profile, it should program automatically.
Sunsparc said:
Overkill information, right there.
Just update your profile, it should program automatically.
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This one!
I have literally tried updating profile more then ten times....
I've also...
Did a Hard Reset as described in the link above, Did a hands free activation (which like the person's complaint in the link above, it showed I had it during but then it resets and it is gone again), I've tried the ##786# reset, I've flashed stock non root, then I went back to root after trying it all over again!
Very frustrated at this point, I cannot figure out how it happened either because it is my Fiance's phone and she claims that she didn't do anything different it just happened.
I was on the Dirty Unicorn ROM before hand, I know that I did have some tweaks active, and I am worried that is why the configuration is sticking and not able to just clean wipe it out...
But if anyone else has come across this and has been able to fix it using a different method other then all the ones tried and stated in this message and the ones in the sprint forum link above... Both my Fiance and I would be greatly in your debt! This is the first time in the past two years and 3 phones that I've been teaching myself this stuff that I've encountered a problem I wasnt able to go through forumns and google and fix it, and that is what is more frustrating then anything.
Assuming this isn't a phone flashed to another carrier you could try flashing a stock rom, and then stop by a sprint store. They should be able to get it back on line there.

[Q] Wifi stuck flicking on and off and hanging in no mands land

I have a Sasktell Note 2 and have major problems with the WiFi
When turning it on it will flick on and off then get stuck off, when i mean flick on and of it never fully turns on the on light comes on for maybe a split second then back of and just hands with it not being on or off and not usable.
I have flashed a multitude of roms and put stock rom back on but this problem will not go away and is random, sometimes removing the battery will help and it will work for a few hours or days then crap out again.
Tried and searched even did the copy the old etc/wifi setting over the orginal did not work.
getting close to the point of stamping on it and getting a Iphone:crying:
Thanks for any help
reboot your router...
Factory reset the device and set up WiFi again..
Sounds like a dirty device...
Router reset also as mentioned above...g
Thanks for advice not sure what you mean on router not using a router, im just trying to turn on the wifi on my phone and its not that it wont connect to anything it just wont turn on.
I have done factory resest 1,0000000000000 times and just flashed another 2 roms same problem.
If you are using wifi at your house etc..
Power down the router for your internet connection and reboot it..
This could also be a hardware issue...
It sounds like you have exhausted the other repair options with fresh installs and trouble shooting....g
Thanks no its nothing to do with a router its a phone issue.
Not connecting to router or anything for that matter just turning on wifi on the phone.
Pos is ready be thrown through a wall no one seems to know the reason
Also as wifi button is not working it also means hotspot is not working
Where can I get the original note 2 rom for sasktel every one I find is bell or ata one last ditch at fixing it
stonkeye said:
Thanks no its nothing to do with a router its a phone issue.
Not connecting to router or anything for that matter just turning on wifi on the phone.
Pos is ready be thrown through a wall no one seems to know the reason
Also as wifi button is not working it also means hotspot is not working
Where can I get the original note 2 rom for sasktel every one I find is bell or ata one last ditch at fixing it
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Sasktel rom but its root injected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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jon3sh said:
Sasktel rom but its root injected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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No worries...
Unroot and reset is easy enough...g
Well downloaded the rom installed it and still no joy
Maybe the phone is just #@%$#@$.
Going to try re-partition see if that makes a difference.
stonkeye said:
Well downloaded the rom installed it and still no joy
Maybe the phone is just #@%$#@$.
Going to try re-partition see if that makes a difference.
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The device may indeed have a hardware issue...
We will know soon enough I suspect...
Good luck, and be careful....g
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Well tried a few more things and think i screwed it,
It now comes up with baseband unknown and the phone memory has dropped to 0 if i connect to the usb cable I can see the phone on the PC but has odd numbers when it comes to free memory and cannot create anything as says zero memory.
If i go to the phone there is no longer any signal and the memory is at 0 also.
I just re checked odin i think I clicked Nand erase all by mistake ooops
If you did erase the nand....the phone is effectively dead..
Unless you have a full backup to restore your EFS and IMEI #....then it's bye bye note2..
Oops is right....
Ya killed it....g
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Do you have a backup ??
That part about being careful was no joke....g
No back up so no phone.................
Could I not DL a nadro from online and flash it?
If that's not a option bye Note 2 I would like to say it had been a fun ride but you where a piece of crap and destroyed my trust in Android your brother SGS1 had a hand in destroying it also )
you cant download someone elses nandroid and use it..
sounds like operator error has runied another phone;
dont blame it on Android
I would agree operator ruined it im not blaming it very odd of you to read that from the sentence.
I stated my first android sgs1 no good nothing to do with anything other than the phone, inline mic and usb sound did not work GPS did not work Samsung stated no work around live with it. Note 2 over 6 months of no Wifi or hotspot makes phone useless for me as it is a required feature as country living no internet unless the phone works. Tried fixing and talking about it no joy so had already decided the phone was going in the trash, hence why im not that fussed that it bricked.
Very sorry about the phone...
It's a fine device...but is not a solve all...
No device is....g
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stonkeye said:
I would agree operator ruined it im not blaming it very odd of you to read that from the sentence.
I stated my first android sgs1 no good nothing to do with anything other than the phone, inline mic and usb sound did not work GPS did not work Samsung stated no work around live with it. Note 2 over 6 months of no Wifi or hotspot makes phone useless for me as it is a required feature as country living no internet unless the phone works. Tried fixing and talking about it no joy so had already decided the phone was going in the trash, hence why im not that fussed that it bricked.
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Try this maybe you can still revive it it was done on S3 so you will just use cf auto root from original dev section and use custom rom for Note ll
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976695
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jon3sh said:
Try this maybe you can still revive it it was done on S3 so you will just use cf auto root from original dev section and use custom rom for Note ll
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976695
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Will have a look into that tried but the file to download is not available over use on his drop box site.
Will keep on trying thanks
stonkeye said:
Will have a look into that tried but the file to download is not available over use on his drop box site.
Will keep on trying thanks
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No i change the link its diff method.
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jon3sh said:
No i change the link its diff method.
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Thanks but no joy I can do everything it suggests until it comes to putting something on the Internal mem as its messed up and just shows 0 available.
worth a shot

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