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[ACS][DEV] Lets Get Rid of that Yellow Triangle.. Proof of Concept.. **Updated 10/28

I guess the title is a little misleading... because I've already figured it out. No jig needed.
Well lets get to it.
Contains this kernel:
http://www.forums.acsyndicate.net/showthread.php/3167-KERNEL-ODIN-Stock-Pulled-Repacked-with-CWM5
First, flash a custom kernel so you can root your phone. Doesn't matter, just get it rooted, how ever you wish.
Then, flash the "Pulled" stock kernel provided by Bubby323
http://www.forums.acsyndicate.net/s...ed-from-a-non-rooted-phone.?p=12012#post12012
Thanks JBN:
http://min.us/l3W76zVg6eNNi
After that, this is where I come in...
Go to
http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/
and download FlashzImage.zip
unzip it to your PC, it requires that you have drivers installed to ADB into your phone.
ADB binary is in the zip, so you don't need that, just debugging mode turned on.
Run Install.bat
Make sure your screen is on, so you can accept the SU prompt. your phone will reboot at some point, and it will have my newest test kernel and no yellow triangle...
Thanks to QbKing77 for the How To Video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySskTt-S-cM[/media]
From there, you can install any kernel you want from CWM using zips, and not increase your odin mode binary counter.
Also if your prefer, you can replace the zImage in the original zip with any kernel to flash...
This could be adapted to mac or linux pretty easy im sure, but I'm not gonna do it, thats why I labeled this a proof of concept. all the bat file does is push the files. you can manually push them and chmod and run the script and get the same effects..
anyways, heres my small contribution for the day...
Thanks to Orionstein and Rjmjr69 for help testing...
and freenode #lostkernel

Does it reset the binary counter?

$2 jig does both
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed

no, just removes the custom binary flag.... which removes the triangle..
sorry but im not gonna try to decompile the boot loader and what not... especially since i dont have the phone..

chris41g said:
no, just removes the custom binary flag.... which removes the triangle..
sorry but im not gonna try to decompile the boot loader and what not... especially since i dont have the phone..
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Much appreciated and good work! I was just asking cuz I know its going to be asked lol

churro7 said:
$2 jig does both
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed
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yes youre correct it does...
but why should you have to buy a jig? why should you have to odin kernels at all?? it should be used as a safeguard...
this method is to get cwm on your phone, and this method only needs to be used once, then you can use CWM to flash everythign from then on out...
or you can buy a 2 dollar jig, use odin every time, use your jig everytime...
doesnt matter to me, like i said, this is my small contribution for the day...

You, sir, are a man among men... Thank you for your Kernel and for this fix (that yellow triangle just BUGS - like an itch you can't scratch).

thanx chris, great work as usual.

That crappy yellow triangle is GONE, thanks Chris!
dja2k

chris is it normal to still be on your LoS beta kernel after running this? triangle is gone but phone info. says im still on your beta kernel.

darren.wlsn1 said:
chris is it normal to still be on your LoS beta kernel after running this? triangle is gone but phone info. says im still on your beta kernel.
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That's what he included in it from my understanding.
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yes, the LoStKernel is whats in the zip

Tiffany84 said:
That's what he included in it from my understanding.
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chris41g said:
yes, the LoStKernel is whats in the zip
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ty for answers.

Would bmlwrite not achieve the same result as DDing to the partition?

I don't think so, since it doesn't have a bml layer, though I could be wrong..
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Work is much appreciated but I only used it once and any subsequent flashes showed no triangle or binary counter
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed

churro7 said:
$2 jig does both
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed
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Don't use it then. Simple. Thanks Chris.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!

Thought I lost root there for a minute. Actually, I did. I don't know. Mixed emothion about Sammy device. I hate the the pre-configured product; love your software Chris. Hope you get one of these.
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Nice...can't wait to get to work to try this
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After doing this, if I want to flash another kernel that was packaged for odin, do I just get a cwm packaged kernel and replace the zimage with the one found in the tar?
Edit: I was an impatient prick and did just what I asked and it worked out fine. Thank you for doing this. My theory is that the way were putting CWM on our phones via Odin was the reason that some of us got more frequent LOS after flashing. Only time will tell. I know that when I am on stock pulled kernel, I go days without LOS. As soon as I flash CWM via Odin or flash an Odin custom kernel, I am back to LOS within hours or even minutes in between instances. I have a feeling that this will make things better for custom kernels. Fingers crossed.

[Q] yellow triangle

it there anyway to remove the yellow download? without odin or a usb jig. so like an app that works on gingerbread(EL29)

There is a proof of concept thread in the dev section that's supposed to work. It's worked for others but it never would for me. Oh and yes you will still need things like Odin and the like. Also the only real way to do it via a App is TriangleAway and it's only for ICS based roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297999&highlight=proof+of+concept

ok i guees ill upgrade to ICS to remove it then downgrade back

jamcar said:
ok i guees ill upgrade to ICS to remove it then downgrade back
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By the time you flash back to gb the triangle will be back so its a lost cause
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Chain made an app for it. I remember seeing it on Majijjah's post?

Haha 4 post and 20 views
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Triangle Away
The current FC18 ICS leak is a very good right now. I've been trying all the releases and FC18 is about complete as i can tell. I would not be afraid to recomend just flashing a FC18 rom and staying with it. That also lets you use the Triangle Away app that's in the Market. If you search around i belive the developer has it posted for free on XDA. I have used the app and it works just fine.

The best way I can figure,
First of course, make a full Backup to flash back to at the end of this so you can keep all your settings.
Follow the instructions from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101 this post. This will basically flash you back to stock, El29 with root.
After that, follow the instructions from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728 this post using the e4gtauto.exe or zip if you perfer to get a working recovery.
Then reboot into recover, restore your backup and enjoy no yellow triangle.
None of this ups flash count (I believe, don't quote me on it). All of this is assuming your planning on staying Gingerbread.
THIS ASSUMES GINGERBREAD TO GINGERBREAD EL29-EL29. THIS MIGHT WORK FOR ICS TO GINGERBREAD BUT DON'T TRY THIS FOR GINGERBREAD TO ICS, IT JUST WOULDN'T WORK AND WOULD BE STUPID.
If this works for you, make sure to thank the authors of those two treads, they did all the work, I just did the research to find their work.
I don't know if there is a quicker way (probably is somewhere) but I have used this and it has worked with no problems.

I have a USB jig. What can I do with it? How do I use out to remove triangle?

iSaint said:
By the time you flash back to gb the triangle will be back so its a lost cause
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Not true. I had the triangle use TriangleAway and used Odin to go back to a GB build I've never seen it again. I also do not push kernels via Odin however anymore for that reason alone.

what exactly does the yellow triangle do and why is it bad?

orb360 said:
what exactly does the yellow triangle do and why is it bad?
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It tells Sprint/Samsung that you rooted your phone if its there. That and it just looks ugly.
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orb360 said:
what exactly does the yellow triangle do and why is it bad?
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It's annoying to look at lol but triangle away is a quick and easy fix.

jamcar said:
it there anyway to remove the yellow download? without odin or a usb jig. so like an app that works on gingerbread(EL29)
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Here is the Triangle Away App...works just as advertised:
http://db.tt/UsVrwgbq
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USB jig won't work?

I had to have my phone replaced due to a bad power button.
Now, the USB jig that I had and that worked on the other phone, won't work on the new E4GT. Are they making the phones now not work with jigs?

agentfazexx said:
I had to have my phone replaced due to a bad power button.
Now, the USB jig that I had and that worked on the other phone, won't work on the new E4GT. Are they making the phones now not work with jigs?
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I believe they disabled it after EL29. Flash back to el29 and try jig.
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killaphatboy said:
I believe they disabled it after EL29. Flash back to el29 and try jig.
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Won't work from EL26 CWM kernel...

agentfazexx said:
Won't work from EL26 CWM kernel...
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Flash any of the ODIN OneClick packages in my signature and it should work. I would use EK02 if you are returning it since it is pure stock, w/o su or even busybox, so it saves you a step of unrooting.

sfhub said:
Flash any of the ODIN OneClick packages in my signature and it should work. I would use EK02 if you are returning it since it is pure stock, w/o su or even busybox, so it saves you a step of unrooting.
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Well I'd rather use my jig so I can stay on the configuration I am at now and get rid of the stupid triangle.

agentfazexx said:
Well I'd rather use my jig so I can stay on the configuration I am at now and get rid of the stupid triangle.
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Then you need to flash the bootloader separately. Look in the wiki.

If you flash an ICS ROM, you can try Triangle Away.

Here. Flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391624
Worked for me.

Fc18 still takes it.
-jr
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tubasteve said:
Fc18 still takes it.
-jr
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Not working for me.

FC18 takes it if you used the Full pre-rooted OneClick. It also works with Calkulin's zips and the NoData OneClicks if you've never used a raw leaked tar.

sfhub said:
FC18 takes it if you used the Full pre-rooted OneClick. It also works with Calkulin's zips and the NoData OneClicks if you've never used a raw leaked tar.
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Point is, I'm doing the same thing I always have but with this new phone it doesn't work. I feel like Samsung has a newer version of the E4GT that doesn't take jigs.

agentfazexx said:
Point is, I'm doing the same thing I always have but with this new phone it doesn't work. I feel like Samsung has a newer version of the E4GT that doesn't take jigs.
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Flash the old sbl

agentfazexx said:
Point is, I'm doing the same thing I always have but with this new phone it doesn't work. I feel like Samsung has a newer version of the E4GT that doesn't take jigs.
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Your new phone (and likely most new phones at this point) came with the new bootloader, which is the same as flashing a leaked tar.
Point is, if you do what I and others suggested, it will be resolved.

Here is the bootloader from EG31. Flash this (pda slot in odin) and your jig will work. This will not mess with anything on your phone other than the bootloader.

shiftr182 said:
Here is the bootloader from EG31. Flash this (pda slot in odin) and your jig will work. This will not mess with anything on your phone other than the bootloader.
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Cool, so ROM and CWM are left alone when flashing this?
Is there a thread for this bootloader?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391624

shiftr182 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391624
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Sweet. No risk of bricking?

Nope, Ive done it on a lot of my friends phones and my own. It just reverts the bootloader back to the originals one that allows the odin counter to be reset.

agentfazexx said:
Sweet. No risk of bricking?
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Actually risk of bricking is high. Chance of bricking is low.
If you mess up the flash of a bootloader, you'll likely be bricked. The chances you mess up the flash are low.

Get rid of Yellow Triangle

I tried this and it worked!
Flashed EL29ROOTED OneClick
Mobile Odin to EL26 Kernel CWM
Flashed calkulins Format all (I don't think this is needed, you can just wipe everything)
flashed rom
rebooted.
No more triangle

But I think the count is still there. Go into Odin mode to look.
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AMunozXS said:
I tried this and it worked!
Flashed EL29ROOTED OneClick
Mobile Odin to EL26 Kernel CWM
Flashed calkulins Format all (I don't think this is needed, you can just wipe everything)
flashed rom
rebooted.
No more triangle
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It works because the kernel inthe EL29 has official binaries. You can flash a kernel with official binaries in CWM.
I posted how to do it with CWM here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26775864
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Count will not reset this way.

Why does no one listen. If on ics use triangle away. It will reset flash counter and get rid of yellow triangle ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

daniel4653 said:
Why does no one listen. If on ics use triangle away. It will reset flash counter and get rid of yellow triangle ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
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Because that deals with decompiling the bootloader that really dangerous
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USB jig is quick, easy and safe. Takes away the triangle and resets the counter.

jamcar said:
Because that deals with decompiling the bootloader that really dangerous
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Its completely safe, no matter what its doing. I've used it countless times. Triangle Away works great but you must be in ICS.
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jamcar said:
Because that deals with decompiling the bootloader that really dangerous
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It is not decompiling the bootloader, an act in itself not dangerous. Can decompile anything you want, doesn't mean your going to be recompiling and putting it back.
It does edit information in the boot partition. Bad information, or bad write locations (change in bootloader) can either cause the bootloader to fail initial booting or render it useless altogether. Yes it can be dangerous. Tested on a given bootloader by other individuals you should be fine, check ahead of time before using it on new builds.
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Its completely safe, no matter what its doing. I've used it countless times. Triangle Away works great but you must be in ICS.
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It is safe on our phone, on our tested builds so far. A change to the bootloader could turn the application into a one stop bricker. So it is actually not safe. But it is at the moment.

Rooted with Zedomax + Caulkins Rom. Constantly rebooting.

Reboots usually about 10+ times a day. During calls etc. Any way to remedy this?
Note: it doesn't restart from the very beginning it freezes, goes black then boots up the lock screen all media connects are restarted etc.
From the limited amount of research I've done the zedomax method for rooted is no longer used? (Currently I get the yellow exclamation point at reboot).
What do I need to do (in lame mans terms) to get my phone back to normal?
TIA!

Easiest way is to one click Odin. I'm not sure which your on. I'm assuming GB. So you can one click Odin to stock el29+ root. Or if you want one click Odin to FF18 or FH13 to upgrade to ICS. And if your on ICS you can use triangle away to get rid of yellow triangle on the splash screen.
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If ur on the GB ROM look at the op for calks page and he has a mention and zips to flash to fix that. Scripts more or less to undervolt it
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Using ZedoMax kernel is your problem from the get go. Even Zedomax would have a good laugh at that. Its an OLD OLD kernel.
EG30 and EK02 can be rooted via usb with the zerg exploit and sfhubs auto root made that easy. Easiest way with EL29 or the newer ICS firmwares as well is just to flash a prerooted one click. But you can always odin a kernel with custom recovery and flash super user.

RainMotorsports said:
Using ZedoMax kernel is your problem from the get go. Even Zedomax would have a good laugh at that. Its an OLD OLD kernel.
EG30 and EK02 can be rooted via usb with the zerg exploit and sfhubs auto root made that easy. Easiest way with EL29 or the newer ICS firmwares as well is just to flash a prerooted one click. But you can always odin a kernel with custom recovery and flash super user.
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Yeah, Zedomax is quite a flashback. I'm actually slightly impressed OP was even able to find the kernel in the first place...

Freeroot said:
Yeah, Zedomax is quite a flashback. I'm actually slightly impressed OP was even able to find the kernel in the first place...
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There's been quite a few new epic users to the forums lately as their evo phones were replaced with this one for a replacement thru sprint. Quite a few old threads on rooting, kernels and themes have been resurrected in the last 30 days or so as a result.
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g_ding84 said:
Easiest way is to one click Odin. I'm not sure which your on. I'm assuming GB. So you can one click Odin to stock el29+ root. Or if you want one click Odin to FF18 or FH13 to upgrade to ICS. And if your on ICS you can use triangle away to get rid of yellow triangle on the splash screen.
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Yes I'm on GB EL29. Would this be the correct method detailed in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc

dante32278 said:
There's been quite a few new epic users to the forums lately as their evo phones were replaced with this one for a replacement thru sprint. Quite a few old threads on rooting, kernels and themes have been resurrected in the last 30 days or so as a result.
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Yhup, you would be correct. Coming from old EVO.

simply dave said:
Yes I'm on GB EL29. Would this be the correct method detailed in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc
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Other relevent info is I am using a Mac and can't open .exe files. Is there a work around? . . . and do I need to unroot before doing this one click odin or will this just replace my old root while preserving my info?
Thanks.

simply dave said:
Other relevent info is I am using a Mac and can't open .exe files. Is there a work around? . . . and do I need to unroot before doing this one click odin or will this just replace my old root while preserving my info?
Thanks.
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Use Heimdall to flash tars then. Grab the one for FH13 if you want the latest official ICS or EL29 if you want the last GB out. Sfhubs one click threads have a second post with the tars as for FH13 dunno how Garwynn and rwilco have their stuff arranged.

RainMotorsports said:
Use Heimdall to flash tars then. Grab the one for FH13 if you want the latest official ICS or EL29 if you want the last GB out. Sfhubs one click threads have a second post with the tars as for FH13 dunno how Garwynn and rwilco have their stuff arranged.
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I would like ICS. I haven't done any rooting/ flashing in a long time. Is there anyway you'd be able to explain so that an idiot like me could understand please?
(I looked at sfhubs page and got really confused)

You can check out QBking's videos on YouTube he has quite a few tutorials for the e4gt
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dmonger11b said:
You can check out QBking's videos on YouTube he has quite a few tutorials for the e4gt
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Thanks, I've seen his videos. I linked to it in my previous post however he doesn't have detailed instructions for Mac users.

simply dave said:
Thanks, I've seen his videos. I linked to it in my previous post however he doesn't have detailed instructions for Mac users.
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You have CWM recovery right?
If so copy Calks rom onto your phone, if you don't still have it there.
Download the EL29 zip file to your phone from http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com...y Kernels/GB/Rogue Recovery/Stock Repacks/ZIP.
Instll that zip from recovery and reboot back into recovery.
Install Calks Rom again.
You should be fixed now.
If you prefer to go with FH13 (ICS):
Download the AGAT_v0.5.4.zip file to your phone from http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com...y Kernels/ICS/Agats Source Built Recovery/ZIP
Copy this file to your phone http://d-h.st/Txi
Install the FH13 Rom from recovery.
Instll the AGAT_v0.5.4.zip while still in recovery.
You should be fixed on FH13 now.
If you want the Modem you can download the FH13 modem zip from here and flash it from recovery. http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com/ModemSite/?dir=MODEMS/ICS/ZIP

crawrj said:
You have CWM recovery right?
If so copy Calks rom onto your phone, if you don't still have it there.
Download the EL29 zip file to your phone from http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com...y Kernels/GB/Rogue Recovery/Stock Repacks/ZIP.
Instll that zip from recovery and reboot back into recovery.
Install Calks Rom again.
You should be fixed now.
If you prefer to go with FH13 (ICS):
Download the AGAT_v0.5.4.zip file to your phone from http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com...y Kernels/ICS/Agats Source Built Recovery/ZIP
Copy this file to your phone http://d-h.st/Txi
Install the FH13 Rom from recovery.
Instll the AGAT_v0.5.4.zip while still in recovery.
You should be fixed on FH13 now.
If you want the Modem you can download the FH13 modem zip from here and flash it from recovery. http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com/ModemSite/?dir=MODEMS/ICS/ZIP
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Thanks for being my hero. Everything works (so far). And after some trial and error even the wireless tether works. Now if I could just get my iPad to link to my wifi I'd be golden...
Thanks again!

simply dave said:
Thanks for being my hero. Everything works (so far). And after some trial and error even the wireless tether works. Now if I could just get my iPad to link to my wifi I'd be golden...
Thanks again!
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No problem. I am partial to the Sprint hotspot hack myself. In the dev section by rejulus22.
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Bump.
Different issue:
1. I keep getting a FI27 Software Update reminder. I am able to clear it out of my notifications but 5-10 mins it's back again. It will interrupt whatever it is I am doing at the moment.
2. Is there a separate current radio I can download? My gps can never find my current location, rendering the turn by turn feature useless since I can't use it.
Any thoughts?
TIA

simply dave said:
Bump.
Different issue:
1. I keep getting a FI27 Software Update reminder. I am able to clear it out of my notifications but 5-10 mins it's back again. It will interrupt whatever it is I am doing at the moment.
2. Is there a separate current radio I can download? My gps can never find my current location, rendering the turn by turn feature useless since I can't use it.
Any thoughts?
TIA
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The link given earlier to download the modems contains the FI27 modem. You could flash that and it may get rid of the update reminder.
http://rwilco12.androidfilehost.com/ModemSite/?dir=MODEMS/ICS/ZIP

Use titanium backup freeze system updates. Then go to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G

patrao_n said:
Use titanium backup freeze system updates. Then go to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G
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What this guy said. Didn't think about that.