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[REQ] Sprint Galaxy Nexus Forum

I am trying to get a forum organized for us recently members of Sprints version Galaxy NEXUS. I will try and have as many people to post in this thread to show the love and support for our new found device. Well I'm Kevin and I hope we can get this to happen thank you
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Got mine this morning. The store had only two. I got he first one and the second one was gone it few minutes

Good Idea, I agree we should have a separate Sprint CDMA Galaxy Nexus Android Development Forum

I agree that we need our own separate forum. It was a mess on the ns4g until you split it for us, please start us with our own. Devs will appreciate it as well for having separate threads for reporting bugs and giving kudos...
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+1 avoid confusion since verizon cdma doesn't work for us anyways. Less broken devices for everyone and less headaches for devs
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I'll add my voice (for what it's worth) to this. It already looks difficult enough to find what you're looking for with only VZW roms in the forum - I can't (or don't want to) imagine how cluttered it would be if you were trying to find Sprint vs. VZW in the same forum.

+1 This is a good idea to split the two cdma variants for a number of reasons.

CWM - Versus TWRP
I posted t his question in the other "Sprint Nexus" thread and didn't get a response yet - I was hoping someone here could offer advice -
What are the advantages - if any - for using TWRP versus CWM? I have CWM Touch installed and it works well - but I have seen several referrences to TWRP (I think that is the spelling) and wondered if it was better than CWM ? More stble or more appropriate for our Nexus?
Anyone have any thoughts?
While I am at it - here is a question that will certainly give me "NOOB" status - when rooting my Nexus, I had to learn how to use ADB to push files and flash files on my phone - it was a first for me - having come from the EPIC 4 G - is using ADB to push or flash things to the phone really only necessary when first rooting the Nexus? Or will there other instances where I have to do it? (like Modum changes possibly?
Thoughts?

yeah plus one its been awhile but I might throw my in development (last time I was doing roms WM6.5 was the **** lol) Maybe I'll take android seriously this time

Does the Sprint GNexus come with an actual LTE SIM or an embedded one like I've been reading about?

+1 i love my gnex

+1 Please add

Product F(RED) said:
Does the Sprint GNexus come with an actual LTE SIM or an embedded one like I've been reading about?
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I think its embedded
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Anon9mouz said:
I think its embedded
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Take your back cover off. See anything? If it's embedded, that sucks. Not a deal breaker, but it sucks since Verizon uses them :/

mocsab said:
I posted t his question in the other "Sprint Nexus" thread and didn't get a response yet - I was hoping someone here could offer advice -
What are the advantages - if any - for using TWRP versus CWM? I have CWM Touch installed and it works well - but I have seen several referrences to TWRP (I think that is the spelling) and wondered if it was better than CWM ? More stble or more appropriate for our Nexus?
Anyone have any thoughts?
While I am at it - here is a question that will certainly give me "NOOB" status - when rooting my Nexus, I had to learn how to use ADB to push files and flash files on my phone - it was a first for me - having come from the EPIC 4 G - is using ADB to push or flash things to the phone really only necessary when first rooting the Nexus? Or will there other instances where I have to do it? (like Modum changes possibly?
Thoughts?
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Ask in the other thread this is so we can have our own section .... just +1 adds whatever saying we need this section lol thanks
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GRRemlin said:
Got mine this morning. The store had only two. I got he first one and the second one was gone it few minutes
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whered you get yours man? I got mine in towson and they only had 4. 2 were for display. the rep told me i was one of only 7 people that had one through sprint today. went to best buy in towson and they didnt have them at all and didnt have a clue. just curious bro.... love the device so far. feinding to root and flash something but the support is just not there yet. a little dissapointing i must say

Product F(RED) said:
Take your back cover off. See anything? If it's embedded, that sucks. Not a deal breaker, but it sucks since Verizon uses them :/
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If I seen this earlier I would have just put an otterbox on and its gonna be a ***** to get off lol sorrie bro
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Product F(RED) said:
Take your back cover off. See anything? If it's embedded, that sucks. Not a deal breaker, but it sucks since Verizon uses them :/
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Ask them in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1607026
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Anon9mouz said:
If I seen this earlier I would have just put an otterbox on and its gonna be a ***** to get off lol sorrie bro
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its embedded. theres an option in mobile settings for lte/cdma or just cdma. switched it over for ****s and giggles and just stays on 3g; obviously. In in bmore and should be one of the launch cities. so i was told by an informed rep that maybe june for the evo 4g lte, but by august for lte in bmore. still putting up towers he said!??!?

People put in ur request for our own section
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[Q] Triple Checking that i am looking in the right directions

So i am finally pulling the trigger and getting the nexus. I am not new to XDA flashing ROMs or even development in general but i have learned the hard way it is better to be safe than sorry. Anyway I live in San Francisco and will be buying the GSM version from the google play store so i will just fire off my questions.
1. so this would be where i go to unlock root and flash a custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310 and on the list my phone would be option 7 correct ???????
2. are there any steps that i should be careful on or just take extra care???
3. Any useful tips in general i will be testing other ROMs and Kernels but will probably end up using AOKP and Franco kernel since i know him from a previous phone.
Thank you in advance and anything you think of that i didn't

dislplin01 said:
1. so this would be where i go to unlock root and flash a custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310 and on the list my phone would be option 7 correct ???????
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No, use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
2. are there any steps that i should be careful on or just take extra care???
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Be careful with all commands.
3. Any useful tips in general i will be testing other ROMs and Kernels but will probably end up using AOKP and Franco kernel since i know him from a previous phone.
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Do nandroid backups before flashing new ROMs so you can always go back to your previous setup.

Let me all another question is there a radio our Ril I should flash to get better data speeds any thread you suggest
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Use this tool kit. Easy unlocking, rooting, relocking and unrooting all in one program. http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/gnex-root-toolkit/
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chancy319 said:
Use this tool kit. Easy unlocking, rooting, relocking and unrooting all in one program. http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/gnex-root-toolkit/
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No. Please don't use this. Use the link marton gave
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Zepius said:
No. Please don't use this. Use the link marton gave
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I was actually wondering about that program I don't like things that are to ready lol what is wrong with it
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dislplin01 said:
I was actually wondering about that program I don't like things that are to ready lol what is wrong with it
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Technically nothing is wrong with it, but if you have problems with the way marton posted , its easier to find out what went wrong where
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Zepius said:
No. Please don't use this. Use the link marton gave
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+1 billion.
At least when you do it manually you will know what went wrong and at what step and if you need to ask for help it will be a lot easier for you to get it of you have that information.
And as a bonus you get to learn!
Learning is fun! :thumbup:

There's nothing wrong with the program. It works flawlessly but I know most people on here like to do it the manual way.
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The script is a horrible way to do things. It's slower than using advice and fastboot directly, unless you are a beginner in which case it still sucks because it's much better to actually take the time to learn how stuff works.... makes it easier to fix things later on.
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One Toolkit argument:
If you "break" your phone in a week/month/year/whatever...
And come back requesting help...
We're MORE than glad to help.
However, you'll find the process of diagnosis and repair to go much more smoothly when you have ADB/Fastboot set up.
Which is really 99% of the work in unlocking/rooting manually.
If you have a bricked device you're
a ) in a panic
b ) not going to be able to tell if the actual ADB/Fastboot set up isn't working...
Or if your device is broken to the point where it won't be recognized even on a working set up.
KNOWING you have ADB/Fastboot set up correctly is, again, %99 percent of fixing your phone.
If you come in and say "adb devices" doesn't show anything it could be TWO possible reasons, rather than one.
Oh...
And learning ftw.
And the fact that adb pushing items to our MTP phones is sometimes easier than using drag-n-drop.
And...you might at one point need this ability to unbrick =].

Thanks for the help guys any baseband you would recommend I'm in San Francisco just want the best coverage
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Jubakuba said:
One Toolkit argument:
If you "break" your phone in a week/month/year/whatever...
And come back requesting help...
We're MORE than glad to help.
However, you'll find the process of diagnosis and repair to go much more smoothly when you have ADB/Fastboot set up.
Which is really 99% of the work in unlocking/rooting manually.
If you have a bricked device you're
a ) in a panic
b ) not going to be able to tell if the actual ADB/Fastboot set up isn't working...
Or if your device is broken to the point where it won't be recognized even on a working set up.
KNOWING you have ADB/Fastboot set up correctly is, again, %99 percent of fixing your phone.
If you come in and say "adb devices" doesn't show anything it could be TWO possible reasons, rather than one.
Oh...
And learning ftw.
And the fact that adb pushing items to our MTP phones is sometimes easier than using drag-n-drop.
And...you might at one point need this ability to unbrick =].
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Yea I'm familiar with adb and fast boot I just like to be safe and know what guide is the most up to date and reasent for the version of phone I am getting
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I need a stock rom!

Yea... so I kinda lost my nandroid, and I need to return this phone due to the infamous USB charging/debug fail. I need some stock vanilla, could someone throw me a ROM?

babelfish42 said:
Yea... so I kinda lost my nandroid, and I need to return this phone due to the infamous USB charging/debug fail. I need some stock vanilla, could someone throw me a ROM?
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Look in the dev section for return to stock. Use Odin. Its easy.
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tomzefi said:
Look in the dev section for return to stock. Use Odin. Its easy.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614990

Fourth day in a row... wtf.
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I'll post this here as well, since it's relevant;
"If I learned one thing on XDA, it's this. Most people like to post in the wrong sections, because they know that they will get a faster answer and that more people will see it. They do it, despite the fact that they shouldn't. So, in theory, we should just ignore those that do it, because lets be honest...they know better and so should we. Now, I've also seen many members that know better, reply to these people and give them their answers, but they fail to see that, they are only feeding these people, to keep on doing it."
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iSaint said:
I want a woman that makes my **** hard. Not my life.
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Can you pm me the link. Hahahaha
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Source Posted

http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource.jsp
Category is "Mobile Phones" and search for "LS970"
Oddly there are two different versions. Even more oddly, searching for "970" (the generic number for the Optimus G) the Sprint version is the only one available, even though the International and AT&T versions have already been released.

I don't suppose this will help much in getting the bootloader unlocked but good to have at least. Will be useful if we do. No one is worse than HTC about releasing source.

The bootloader is almost unlocked. Follow progress in #lg-optimus-g at freenode

xboxfanj said:
The bootloader is almost unlocked. Follow progress in #lg-optimus-g at freenode
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Holy crap really? That is amazing, I thought it would take months.

latindor17 said:
Holy crap really? That is amazing, I thought it would take months.
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Most devices don't get the resources that sextape gave us, so they rely on guesswork primarily. We are very lucky to have thecubed also who is doing all of the actual unlocking and has experience with lg devices and bootloaders.
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xboxfanj said:
The bootloader is almost unlocked. Follow progress in #lg-optimus-g at freenode
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this is fantastic news! :good:

And I grabbed the kernel source before I saw this and I will build if someone can pull the ramdisk. I need all the init and ueventd files and everything in sbin.
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xboxfanj said:
And I grabbed the kernel source before I saw this and I will build if someone can pull the ramdisk. I need all the init and ueventd files and everything in sbin.
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I have my G pre-ordered on Sprint so if you still need those I'll be happy to do what I can as soon as I get the phone. I'm not super smart with this stuff but I can follow directions on adb
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ncfastls1 said:
I have my G pre-ordered on Sprint so if you still need those I'll be happy to do what I can as soon as I get the phone. I'm not super smart with this stuff but I can follow directions on adb
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You can pull in root explorer and that may be easier.
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Hey, i want to ask something, is that possibilty to get "an unlocked bootloader" is just for spirint,at&t or something related to carrier? I'm living in turkey and probably i will be able to get international one but i don't want to live with lg updates forever, so could you guys give me an idea?
Sorry for my awful english and ignorance...

BomuDicq said:
Hey, i want to ask something, is that possibilty to get "an unlocked bootloader" is just for spirint,at&t or something related to carrier? I'm living in turkey and probably i will be able to get international one but i don't want to live with lg updates forever, so could you guys give me an idea?
Sorry for my awful english and ignorance...
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I'm assuming that if one gets unlocked, then the process for unlocking the other variants will be fairly the same if not the exact same. So if one gets unlocked, then they should all be able to be unlocked, assuming that all of the variants are locked down the same. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Awesome. I really wanted a Nexus 4 but I guess I'll settle for it's step brother.

Can't wait for boot loader unlock. I want my own franken nexus

ackNalej said:
Awesome. I really wanted a Nexus 4 but I guess I'll settle for it's step brother.
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* Big Brother..

xboxfanj said:
The bootloader is almost unlocked. Follow progress in #lg-optimus-g at freenode
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Great news- about to pre-order, think a non-removable battery is a deal breaker? Invariably seems I need to pull the battery at some point.

gregajones said:
Great news- about to pre-order, think a non-removable battery is a deal breaker? Invariably seems I need to pull the battery at some point.
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I don't think it's a problem. I have a Nexus 7 with a sealed battery and I've never had to worry about it. Any times that it completely locked up (including while in fastboot), I can hard reset it by holding all the buttons down for a while.

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I don't think it's a problem. I have a Nexus 7 with a sealed battery and I've never had to worry about it. Any times that it completely locked up (including while in fastboot), I can hard reset it by holding all the buttons down for a while.
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Thanks, never had a phone with a fixed battery- don't need an expensive-- but good looking-- paperweight.

ncfastls1 said:
I don't think it's a problem. I have a Nexus 7 with a sealed battery and I've never had to worry about it. Any times that it completely locked up (including while in fastboot), I can hard reset it by holding all the buttons down for a while.
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Agreed. Same for my galaxy tab 10.1. You'd think it'd be an issue, but there are other ways to enhance the juice pack and other ways to force reboots.
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Go devs!
Yay!

[Q] Can the AT&T SGH-i257 VoLTE(HD Voice) be rooted?

Can the *NEW* AT&T SGH-i257 VoLTE(HD Voice) released on 5/23/2014 be rooted?
I have seen root methods for other SGH-i257 variants, but not certain that will fly on this recent iteration.

Have you seen this thread? ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696260

mdawdy said:
Have you seen this thread? ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696260
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I did Thanks. I posted my question there an will update this thread with an answer when I confirm.
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dynamiclynk said:
I did Thanks. I posted my question there an will update this thread with an answer when I confirm.
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I am interested to know the status of this. Have all of the files waiting for your update.

funkypunk69 said:
I am interested to know the status of this. Have all of the files waiting for your update.
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Yeah no one has replied on the SGH-i257(M) root thread above link, just don't want a brick My device comes in tomorrow so hopefully someone will confirm that that method should work.

dynamiclynk said:
Yeah no one has replied on the SGH-i257(M) root thread above link, just don't want a brick My device comes in tomorrow so hopefully someone will confirm that that method should work.
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I received mine a few days ago. It is a great device for it being a little aged spec wise. It has been a while since I have messed with a Samsung device. Reading up this knox thing seems to be a huge pain in the rear.

funkypunk69 said:
I received mine a few days ago. It is a great device for it being a little aged spec wise. It has been a while since I have messed with a Samsung device. Reading up this knox thing seems to be a huge pain in the rear.
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Yeah I played with the demo at the store I liked it alot and ordered a new one on eBay because of the size, and spec wise it is pretty decent due to the size and it supports microSD I am very happy. Yeah I miss the good ole days with Sammy when boot loaders were unlocked, but AT&T and other carriers forcing their hand

dynamiclynk said:
Yeah no one has replied on the SGH-i257(M) root thread above link, just don't want a brick ...
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I posted in ExileX420's thread a copy of his post with some extra notes and explanations included, for beginners like myself. Perhaps some of those notes will help? ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53021435&postcount=17

mdawdy said:
I posted in ExileX420's thread a copy of his post with some extra notes and explanations included, for beginners like myself. Perhaps some of those notes will help? ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53021435&postcount=17
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Has anyone been able to try this yet?

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Has anyone been able to try this yet?
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I haven't tried that just afraid to flash anything odin related, especially without a stock odin flash file.I looked on http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ but nothing as of yet.

dynamiclynk said:
I haven't tried that just afraid to flash anything odin related, especially without a stock odin flash file.I looked on http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ but nothing as of yet.
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If I had a few more tools and was more up to date I would do it. Unfortunately I have always relied strongly on the skills of the members here. I know someone will be through here in a bit after the phone has a little more exposure. It looks like we probably do need a few files that are more specific to this device. 1 thing I already noticed is that some variants of this device do not have a notification light.

funkypunk69 said:
If I had a few more tools and was more up to date I would do it. Unfortunately I have always relied strongly on the skills of the members here. I know someone will be through here in a bit after the phone has a little more exposure. It looks like we probably do need a few files that are more specific to this device. 1 thing I already noticed is that some variants of this device do not have a notification light.
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Seems there are ways to root the SGH-i257M but it sure would be nice to have a definite and tested root for the SGH-i257

slick4747 said:
Seems there are ways to root the SGH-i257M but it sure would be nice to have a definite and tested root for the SGH-i257
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Check this out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3157980
Now can we install twrp on this phone? ?