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Looking to remove all bloat/Rogers crapware.... Better battery/performance always appreciated. I just got the phone today, I'm about to look around.... But if anyone can suggest a rom, I'd appreciate it
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Anyone? Thx
Well theres not a whole lot of ROMS yet and Diet ICS is partly based off the Rogers rom so if you wanted to try a ROM I'd say try Diet. However, I'd suggest rooting your device and just removing bloat yourself for now.
Do you have a new thread up on redflag yet about the Rogers model you have? I read your i9100 last year and i9300 this year.
You probably know this but the i9300 has a lot more development at the moment so don't be shocked seeing only a few roms here and there. It will take time as it always does on the variants.
Not yet, I just grabbed this device last night because the price was right.... I just unlocked it now.... Now Rogers boot screen, so I guess it's just uninstalling apps? I'll give that a go, thx
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Not yet, I just grabbed this device last night because the price was right.... I just unlocked it now.... Now Rogers boot screen, so I guess it's just uninstalling apps? I'll give that a go, thx
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Yours has a Rogers boot screen when you boot the phone up? I got mine at launch and it doesn't have any boot screen other than the Samsung screen that comes up. Just curious if in fact it does have Rogers branding during boot.
The problem right now flashing ROMs is that really only the AT&T ones work and you may end up losing the ability to turn off LTE since AT&T removed that ability. Also, you may end up with AT&T boot screen. I gotta tell you, I love LTE but I hate variants. lol. Miss my i9300 but don't miss the HSPA only connection which was very slow downtown
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Yours has a Rogers boot screen when you boot the phone up? I got mine at launch and it doesn't have any boot screen other than the Samsung screen that comes up. Just curious if in fact it does have Rogers branding during boot.
The problem right now flashing ROMs is that really only the AT&T ones work and you may end up losing the ability to turn off LTE since AT&T removed that ability. Also, you may end up with AT&T boot screen. I gotta tell you, I love LTE but I hate variants. lol. Miss my i9300 but don't miss the HSPA only connection which was very slow downtown
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No boot screen I meant, lol
I'm on rogers and im using diet with no issues it kinda sucks not being able to turn off late but whatever. I'm also using the ktoonz kernel without issues. Just look in the att dev thread.
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I'm on rogers and im using diet with no issues it kinda sucks not being able to turn off late but whatever. I'm also using the ktoonz kernel without issues. Just look in the att dev thread.
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Do you know any themes with 1% battery that will work on Diet ICS since this rom does not come with 1% battery ...
What is needed to make Sprint or VZW S3 ROMs to work on the USCC variant in terms of the radio? Hoping someone could answer this. I'm not familiar with the way Samsungs devices are. I'm attempting to help the USCC folks from being left behind with ROMs. All Sprint ROMs are working flawlessly on the USCC variant. Just not the radio. So again, what needs to be done to make it work?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I would also like to figure this out. I'm on USCC myself.
+1 on this.
I too am a USCC customer. Came over from Sprint. Really happy with the phone and the service. Last weekend I pulled 10mb down in Paoli Wisconsin!
Anyway, want to get a few things modded. Like 180 degree rotation and would really like to get away from that black on white email app!.
Bump.
This is starting to feel like the Photon/Electrify situation all over again. USCC releases a doppelganger phone of one from Sprint and like the red-headed step child USCC is left behind. In that case Jokersax stepped up and started releasing ROMs for the Electrify even though he wasn't a US Cellular customer. Oh, did I mention U.S. Cellular (gotta make sure we got all of the possible spellings so as to hit the search engines).
Not complaining though. Really, if I wanted a tweaks or a custom ROM I would step up and learn how to do it myself.
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Bump.
This is starting to feel like the Photon/Electrify situation all over again. USCC releases a doppelganger phone of one from Sprint and like the red-headed step child USCC is left behind. In that case Jokersax stepped up and started releasing ROMs for the Electrify even though he wasn't a US Cellular customer. Oh, did I mention U.S. Cellular (gotta make sure we got all of the possible spellings so as to hit the search engines).
Not complaining though. Really, if I wanted a tweaks or a custom ROM I would step up and learn how to do it myself.
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The electrify never got left behind like this. All photon ROMs have always worked with no tweaks.
Sadly Samsung is different and won't work as easily with different radios ):
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Yeah, I guess the USCC variant is a bit different than either the Verizon or Sprint versions. I was monkeying around and somehow mucked up my phone so the display wouldn't turn on. I downloaded the Snapdragon Toolbox and was able to reflash stock (I was on rooted stock) to get it back working again. Funny thing though, Now I'm required to hold down the physical "Home" button along with the power button and the corresponding volume button to go into CWM or into download mode.
Jig works fine. Quickboot works fine. Toolbox works fine. Just somehow changed it to require the home button...
Wondering what you're experiences are with LTE. I've gotten blindingly fast speeds when I get an LTE connection--50mbps but for the week that I've had the S3 that's only happened about 2 or 3 times.
Telus tech support said nothing as far as whether this is normal or not, wondering what others are experiencing. Normal or not?
Figured it out I think. Had the phone rooted and seemed to have lost the ability to toggle connections. Flashed back to stock last night and have had LTE back consistently.
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I was able to get mid to upper 40 Mbps in New West late at night once. It lasted all the way till the Ikea beside Hwy 1. The download speed was so fast that I thought my Speedtest.net app wasn't showing the whole download animation. :laugh:
Other than that I don't go into LTE areas much. This will probably change in the Fall as the roll out continues. I live on the border of the roll out and where I work is not covered yet but should be soon (Surrey).
When you went back to stock are you still rooted? Some ROMs do not support the LTE switch because they are based on AT&T ROMs.
I've been using Task's AOKP ROM since it has the LTE switch enabled (read the OP) even though he doesn't officially support it. It works great.
KyanROM's LTE switch also works since it is based on Rogers S3 ROM.
Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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Ah yes, the IMEI fear. I totally get you on this. I waited about 3 weeks before rooting and then another couple weeks until flashing a ROM. And this is coming from flashing the crap out of my HTC Hero for the last 2.5 years. I HIGHLY recommend going to these 2 threads and backing up your IMEI number in case anything goes wrong in the future. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
If you decide to root, install the TWRP recovery. It was observed that people who used TWP over CWM hardly had any IMEI issues, if any at all. Jury's still out on this though. Take it with a grain of salt. I've flashed numerous times and have not had any issues. TWRP can be installed by way of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s0up.goomanager&hl=en - you need root to run this.
So I reflashed the rooted rom last night and haven't experienced the LTE problem again, I'm happy with that for now.
What the consensus with Task's AOKP, I took a look at the "known issues" list and it just looks a little to long for me at the moment. After flashing my S1 typically several times a week, I think I'm really just longing for some stability. That and my family misses me.
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Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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Well, i was on the same boat where I was afraid of losing the IMEI. But it's not a problem any more. Those devs here have it all figured out pretty much. You can back up your IMEI before you messing with your S3
As soon as I use stock based roms - whether it's based on Rogers or AT&T roms, the LTE connection is pretty solid within the coverage. However, the AOSP based roms are not very friendly with canadian LTE.... I constantly go back and forth from H+ to 4G on CM10.. The battery life is kinda sucked... The one of two reasons I have to come back with stock roms....
Oh, btw, I believe 40 - 45ish mbps speed is pretty normal on LTE as long as you hold a good connection.
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Well, i was on the same boat where I was afraid of losing the IMEI. But it's not a problem any more. Those devs here have it all figured out pretty much. You can back up your IMEI before you messing with your S3
As soon as I use stock based roms - whether it's based on Rogers or AT&T roms, the LTE connection is pretty solid within the coverage. However, the AOSP based roms are not very friendly with canadian LTE.... I constantly go back and forth from H+ to 4G on CM10.. The battery life is kinda sucked... The one of two reasons I have to come back with stock roms....
Oh, btw, I believe 40 - 45ish mbps speed is pretty normal on LTE as long as you hold a good connection.
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I think I'm just gonna wait till the devs have things nicely smoothed out for now.
I remember back in the olden days (couple weeks ago) when a guy lost his IMEI he'd just replace his efs folder with a backup, reboot and voila! So easy, so simple...
Well, I've read about the links to backing up the IMEI files and QPST tool to backup, and have now figured out how to use ABD finally to push cwm to my phone. So, I'm wondering if you guys have any new roms you're liking in particular or can recommend.
I know Task's AOKP is a popular one and I've been kicking around CM10 and have been eyeing Slimbean since I spent alot of time with that one on my S1.
Any recent flashes you guys are big on at the moment that you care to tell me about?
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Any recent flashes you guys are big on at the moment that you care to tell me about?
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I've been rocking WanamLite 1.3 the last few days and it is very good. It is based on the latest release for the I747M for Canadian carriers which is VLALH1 I think. This is an ICS Sammy based ROM. I have ktoonsez's latest kernel installed and it is very nice overall. (Note, I do have the latest modem installed - the one that came with VLALH1, not that it has anything to do with ROM performance.) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782732
The ROM before that was Slimbean. Since you've used it before you're probably more familiar with it than I. I found it to be nice too. Close to what Task's AOKP ROM is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865262
If you want to try something new there seems to be an ICS 4.1.1 Bell release that is floating around here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869300
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Some more info for LTE:
I was in Burnaby today at 8 rinks and did some speed tests. HSPA+ was approx 11.5Mbps up and 3Mbps down. LTE was 23Mbps up and 7ish Mbps down.
Okay, so I've been on Tmobile since taking the dive into the wonderful world of Android. I had the S2 for a few months and thdn after becoming infatuated I went out and got me an S3. Recently I decided to move on to Sprint as the coverage I received at work was, well, nonexistent. So, I am completely new to CDMA and my beautiful new Note 2, and after reading through the forums I've discovered that I am bout back to square one. Well, maybe not entirely, but definitely been knocked back quite a bit. Which when considering I've only been involved in the xda community for about 9 months pretty much leaves me with the feeling that I'm stuck in Paris with no map and no translator. So, I was hoping I could reach out to the wise and informed members of xda and ask a broad, but simple, question. What do I need to know so I don't F up my new mistress? I'm not asking for a tutorial on rooting or flashing, nothing generic. Just some helpful specifics. I saw somewhere that they were talking about resetting Wallet before flashing a new ROM or else it may be blocked on the phone, I guess, forever. I'm also unfamiliar with the modems and the updates yall have gotten. Etc, etc. And as I said, not looking for another, what is the benefit of rooting, what is CWM and TWRP, can I get rid of all the darned Sprint apps baloney. I was just hoping to basically just kinda do a crash course intro, a CDMA and/or L900 101 kinda thing so to speak. Any info you can offer up would be greatly appreciated!
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Okay, so I've been on Tmobile since taking the dive into the wonderful world of Android. I had the S2 for a few months and thdn after becoming infatuated I went out and got me an S3. Recently I decided to move on to Sprint as the coverage I received at work was, well, nonexistent. So, I am completely new to CDMA and my beautiful new Note 2, and after reading through the forums I've discovered that I am bout back to square one. Well, maybe not entirely, but definitely been knocked back quite a bit. Which when considering I've only been involved in the xda community for about 9 months pretty much leaves me with the feeling that I'm stuck in Paris with no map and no translator. So, I was hoping I could reach out to the wise and informed members of xda and ask a broad, but simple, question. What do I need to know so I don't F up my new mistress? I'm not asking for a tutorial on rooting or flashing, nothing generic. Just some helpful specifics. I saw somewhere that they were talking about resetting Wallet before flashing a new ROM or else it may be blocked on the phone, I guess, forever. I'm also unfamiliar with the modems and the updates yall have gotten. Etc, etc. And as I said, not looking for another, what is the benefit of rooting, what is CWM and TWRP, can I get rid of all the darned Sprint apps baloney. I was just hoping to basically just kinda do a crash course intro, a CDMA and/or L900 101 kinda thing so to speak. Any info you can offer up would be greatly appreciated!
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The worst part about the android community, unfortunately, is the fragmentation of general knowledge. The rooting process for a Nexus is probably identical to a Note 2 but the names of everything and builds and versions are all different, so you have to learn new 'words' like it is a new language. Fortunately you have a great community so you just have to learn how to search for things. Check the general section for android development I think there is a sticky that has a glossory of terms that explains all the acronyms.
I've had mine for 3 months but I would still welcome a crash course as well.
Well I prefer twrp as my custom recovery. Depending on your firmware version you can root without your phone ever going to download mode. I did. I used exynos abuse to get root. Then used mobile odin to flash a new rom. Always reset google wallet if you are reseting or flashing a new rom. Its tempermental. I would stay around only the sprint veraion for now. There is a way to use roms from other note 2 variants. I believe its in the dev section. Recovery is standalone. So swirching roms doesnt change it. You cannot talk on the phone and be on the internet at the same time unless you are using wifi or 4glte. If you like to draw or doodle there is sketchbook mobile which is awesome. Btw ma7 is the most current firmware that I know of. Also you can sideload the google wallet apk with no extra work to get it working. Goodluck and read alot.
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what is the benefit of rooting
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You need root to do most modifications to your phone. I find that I need root for everyday stuff too (Titanium backup, Stweaks, Root app delete, etc).
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ClockWork Mod and TeamWin Recovery Project. Both have custom recovery pieces. I personally had some troubles with CWM on this phone and just use Odin now. I head TWRP works better than CWM on the Note 2, but Odin is the Tool Samsung suggests. Note that TWRP is MUCH more feature-rich than Odin. You might choose TWRP (or CWM) if you wanted to flash stuff from your SD card rather than from your PC- good for jumping around between kernels on the fly, for example.
Odin and the other two are all ways to flash stuff to your phone. That's all Odin does; the other two have lots more features.
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can I get rid of all the darned Sprint apps baloney
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Heck yeah! Simplest way is to root it and uninstall everything you don't like (Root App Delete from the Play Store seems to work pretty well; be sure you have a backup before you start blowing stuff away).
If you'd like to take it a step further, get a custom ROM that's been debloated; they normally require a full wipe, so bye bye sprint stuff. (Again, root it and back it up first!)
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You need root to do most modifications to your phone. I find that I need root for everyday stuff too (Titanium backup, Stweaks, Root app delete, etc).
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I appreciate you taking the time to go through all that, but I think maybe I didn't explain too well what I was trying to get. I wasn't asking for the general info, just things specific to CDMA and the L900. Like what was replying about. Not trying to be a jerk, but I know there's already a thousand threads on recoverys, ROMs, and rooting. Just didn't wanna do anything to my phone that would be irreversible (i.e. The resetting Google Wallet thing) or something that would cause signal issues (I read stuff on flashing certain ROMs on certain modems may create issues). Stuff like that. Like I said though appreciate the time you took, and any info you may have like that would certainly be appreciated.
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Oh I forgot. If you are on ljc expect to not go back to it if you update to ma7. For some reason lots of people have had trouble going back. It would cause slot of problems. Ma7 is just fine for me though. Great battery life and what not. I would say do the update. If you are going custom rom and are currently unrooted just do the ota. Or there is a firmware file around here to flash. I updated firmware before going to ma7. Although I was already rooted using exynos abuse. Ma7 eliminates the exploit. So be prepared to do that before going to ma7. If there is anything I am missing that you still need answers to or don't understand just ask. Its also a good habit to update profile and prl when switching roms or modems.
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...If you are going custom rom and are currently unrooted just do the ota. Or there is a firmware file around here to flash. I updated firmware before going to ma7. Although I was already rooted using exynos abuse. Ma7 eliminates the exploit. So be prepared to do that before going to ma7...
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I picked up something along those lines from reading around. It took all of 15 minutes out of the box before I got all rooted with new ROMs being flashed after playing around on stock just to get a baseline with all the ROM hoping that was sure to follow. Needless to say I didn't read up on anything modem wise before doing all this as I, admittedly, jumped the gun a little (I was just so excited to have a whole new community with new dev teams and all these foreign ROMs to explore). I used Max's trusty galaxynote2root site to root (love that guy). And used the GalaxyNote2RootSprint.zip to obtain root. Then, went straight into the original development section and immediately flashed the absolutely amazing Liquid Smooth. Now I should say, I did receive a message saying the was an update to the phone through sprint and I did proceed with the OTA while dling the zip and giving root instructions a quick once over. So, I'm guessing that took care of going to ma7 for me? Cuz I'm definitely using the ma7 modem. Now I did leave my beloved aosp as I did want to see if I would actually use all the S pen features that aosp sadly doesn't offer us. I jumped around from Whapasaurous to Venom Ice a d finally to Macks All Star, but I'm assuming that unless it's totally different from GSM that flashing a new ROM has no effect on your modem (but by all means correct me if I'm wrong). So just wanna make sure I went about things the right way here.
P. S. I did use the zip to revert the sd cards file format when returning from aosp so I didn't have to deal with all that "0" and "legacy" nonsense.
Thanks again!
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P.P.S. I don't really seem to have any data issues so I'm guessing all is well, but I am having an issue where my wifi keeps turning itself on, like multiple times a day. I thought at first I may have been accidently hitting it, but upon further review, nope, not me. Sounds more like a ROM issue to me though, but as it seems like it may pertain I figured I'd bring it up
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Okay, so I've been on Tmobile since taking the dive into the wonderful world of Android. I had the S2 for a few months and thdn after becoming infatuated I went out and got me an S3. Recently I decided to move on to Sprint as the coverage I received at work was, well, nonexistent. So, I am completely new to CDMA and my beautiful new Note 2, and after reading through the forums I've discovered that I am bout back to square one. Well, maybe not entirely, but definitely been knocked back quite a bit. Which when considering I've only been involved in the xda community for about 9 months pretty much leaves me with the feeling that I'm stuck in Paris with no map and no translator. So, I was hoping I could reach out to the wise and informed members of xda and ask a broad, but simple, question. What do I need to know so I don't F up my new mistress? I'm not asking for a tutorial on rooting or flashing, nothing generic. Just some helpful specifics. I saw somewhere that they were talking about resetting Wallet before flashing a new ROM or else it may be blocked on the phone, I guess, forever. I'm also unfamiliar with the modems and the updates yall have gotten. Etc, etc. And as I said, not looking for another, what is the benefit of rooting, what is CWM and TWRP, can I get rid of all the darned Sprint apps baloney. I was just hoping to basically just kinda do a crash course intro, a CDMA and/or L900 101 kinda thing so to speak. Any info you can offer up would be greatly appreciated!
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I think you should have stayed with Tmobile and there 70 dollar unlimited because in a few months to a year you would have had lte and hspa+42 &21 as a fall back before you went to slow data. Im making the jump slowly but surely. My wife is getting the S4 on Tmobile and when the note3 comes out ill be going as well im sick of cdma amd the slow data when there is no LTE
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P.P.S. I don't really seem to have any data issues so I'm guessing all is well, but I am having an issue where my wifi keeps turning itself on, like multiple times a day. I thought at first I may have been accidently hitting it, but upon further review, nope, not me. Sounds more like a ROM issue to me though, but as it seems like it may pertain I figured I'd bring it up
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Sprint Connection Optimizer will do that
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P.P.S. I don't really seem to have any data issues so I'm guessing all is well, but I am having an issue where my wifi keeps turning itself on, like multiple times a day. I thought at first I may have been accidently hitting it, but upon further review, nope, not me. Sounds more like a ROM issue to me though, but as it seems like it may pertain I figured I'd bring it up
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You need to turn off sprint connection optimizer in setting more settings I believe
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I think you should have stayed with Tmobile and there 70 dollar unlimited because in a few months to a year you would have had lte and hspa+42 &21 as a fall back before you went to slow data. Im making the jump slowly but surely. My wife is getting the S4 on Tmobile and when the note3 comes out ill be going as well im sick of cdma amd the slow data when there is no LTE
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I really only made the move due to the fact that T-mobile is the only service provider that gets absolutely no coverage inside my work, and, unfortunately, I work 12 hour days, 4-5 days a week. So, being as my contract was up, I didn't wanna sign up for 2 more years with lte "coming soon." I know you all with Sprint know how that has the possibility of turning out. Plus, just because they were getting lte doesn't mean I'm going to see any improvement at work. Now I'm getting consistent 3g inside work and I'm loving it. Actually typing this inside, infamously, the worst service area in the entire building and still getting an almost constant connection. Occasionally I am getting 4g, not often, but it's happened. Playing around with modems tonight though. Did end up trying LJC after being on MA7,no problems so far, actually seeing improvement. Thanks for the heads up on the Sprint Connection Optimizer, gonna check that out now. Super annoying, especially as I do work 12 hour shifts and with wifi turning randomly on, don't wanna look to see my battery down to nada. That's just the kinda info I was hoping to get here, thanks again!
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I really only made the move due to the fact that T-mobile is the only service provider that gets absolutely no coverage inside my work, and, unfortunately, I work 12 hour days, 4-5 days a week. So, being as my contract was up, I didn't wanna sign up for 2 more years with lte "coming soon." I know you all with Sprint know how that has the possibility of turning out. Plus, just because they were getting lte doesn't mean I'm going to see any improvement at work. Now I'm getting consistent 3g inside work and I'm loving it. Actually typing this inside, infamously, the worst service area in the entire building and still getting an almost constant connection. Occasionally I am getting 4g, not often, but it's happened. Playing around with modems tonight though. Did end up trying LJC after being on MA7,no problems so far, actually seeing improvement. Thanks for the heads up on the Sprint Connection Optimizer, gonna check that out now. Super annoying, especially as I do work 12 hour shifts and with wifi turning randomly on, don't wanna look to see my battery down to nada. That's just the kinda info I was hoping to get here, thanks again!
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Yeah the wifi thing Will kill your battery. Sprint is not as bad as everyone thinks and says I have great LTE in 90% of where I go. I'm thinking of going to T-Mobile because I'm sick of cdma devices we are always are considered last ro none over GSM. If sprint keeps up the good work with the LtE and 3g ill be saying. Glad you hot it figured out for rh the most part.
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Why is the LTE version of our phone merged with our thread? The few ROMS it provides confuses me into thinking I can use them for the original S3. Can we not divide them and give it it's own thread?
The roms are interchangeable. Just like the T999V that's been part of this forum since the beginning.
I don't see what there is to be confused about though. If you're not sure about it, don't flash it! Or ask.
I have the original T999. But I'm running the T999L rom. Several T999L users are using T999 roms. If you gave it its own forum, everyone would just wind up here anyway. Theres just no reason for it that I can see.
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I am using CM10.1 Nightly for T999 (d2tmo) on my T999L, works just fine.
I have read your threads about the ROMS for that phone and yes I'm impressed but even you said inside the thread that flashing the T999L will provide a few bugs if it's not the LTE provided device. That's the only reason I made a statement about dividing them as to avoid problems. I know you can flash ROMS that are not particularly for your device but all devices are different.
Your OP said you were confused into thinking that you could flash the lte roms onto your S3. As I said at the top of the T999L thread, you can.
The Root Explorer "bug" was a simple scripting error on my part (which will be fixed soon), the others are not rom related as they are that way out of the box (and one of those was only reported by one user). And even so, I wouldnt really say they are truly bugs as they do not in any way affect the functionality or experience.
One or two extremely minor glitches do not warrant another separate forum. If this were the case, you would literally see a dozen or more S3 forums! (US Cellular, Straight Talk, mobilicity, wind, videotron, etc, etc, etc.) And several of them would be T-Mobile S3 forums. THAT would make things waaaaayyyy more confusing and you would probably see a whole lot more of the bricked device threads.
Also, for the most part, the T999, T999L, and T999V are identical. Its mostly just the radios that are different (yes, i know there are other minor differences, but for the most part, they are the same)
In the end, the roms and kernels are interchangeable so that should be enough. And if you are still confused or worried about it, just don't flash it.
Again, even if a change were warranted, everyone would still wind up here anyway.
I hope that helps to clear it up a bit better for you.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Your OP said you were confused into thinking that you could flash the lte roms onto your S3. As I said at the top of the T999L thread, you can.
The Root Explorer "bug" was a simple scripting error on my part (which will be fixed soon), the others are not rom related as they are that way out of the box (and one of those was only reported by one user). And even so, I wouldnt really say they are truly bugs as they do not in any way affect the functionality or experience.
One or two extremely minor glitches do not warrant another separate forum. If this were the case, you would literally see a dozen or more S3 forums! (US Cellular, Straight Talk, mobilicity, wind, videotron, etc, etc, etc.) And several of them would be T-Mobile S3 forums. THAT would make things waaaaayyyy more confusing and you would probably see a whole lot more of the bricked device threads.
Also, for the most part, the T999, T999L, and T999V are identical. Its mostly just the radios that are different (yes, i know there are other minor differences, but for the most part, they are the same)
In the end, the roms and kernels are interchangeable so that should be enough. And if you are still confused or worried about it, just don't flash it.
Again, even if a change were warranted, everyone would still wind up here anyway.
I hope that helps to clear it up a bit better for you.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
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I have a SGH-T999L, with a SGH-T999 AOSP ROM on it. Everything works except the camera (I get a "Can't connect to camera" error). The major difference I've encountered so far is I can't Odin to any stock SGH-T999 firmware (which seriously confused me when Odin kept failing with an aboot.mbn error though I thought I had the firmware for the right device).
Be glad it didn't work. You might have bricked your device doing that!
As for the camera, its an issue for the T999L in some aokp roms, but I don't think all of them.
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Camera works fine on CM10.1 nightly since (at least) 6/22/13, even the HDR and Panorama functions. Try updating the ROM.
DocHoliday77 said:
Be glad it didn't work. You might have bricked your device doing that!
As for the camera, its an issue for the T999L in some aokp roms, but I don't think all of them.
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Yeah, after I realize I tried flashing the wrong firmware, I felt very lucky... Fortunately I had read somewhere (if I remember correctly) that one possible cause of an aboot.mbn Odin error is that the device model in the bootloader in the image being flashed doesn't match with the model number in the device. (Hope this helps any other SGH-T999L owners!)
DJ_SpaRky said:
Camera works fine on CM10.1 nightly since (at least) 6/22/13, even the HDR and Panorama functions. Try updating the ROM.
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Thanks! I saw your update in the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2308829&page=3 thread (as well as in the CM forum). Bottom line is that cm-10.1-20130703-NIGHTLY-d2tmo is working for me now, including camera, as you said!!! I actually had some initial trouble flashing using CWM which kept abort with a status 7 error, even after removing the asserts in the updater script. CM10.1 nightly ultimately flashed without updater script modification using TWRP.
Cool, glad to hear that you got it working. I prefer TWRP over CWM, but it is just choice, both work fine.
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DJ_SpaRky said:
Cool, glad to hear that you got it working. I prefer TWRP over CWM, but it is just choice, both work fine.
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Can I ask if I can install the AOKP rom on my t999L I only saw it for att s3 unless I missed it
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Can I ask if I can install the AOKP rom on my t999L I only saw it for att s3 unless I missed it
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Should be OK, certain things might not work (camera, etc). I found it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088764
Thank you Dj in running LiquidSmooth now and it seems to be flawless
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