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T-MOBILE T999UVALEM firmware ready to play with :)

just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999

Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Edit: In that case, thanks PP
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999

I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite

my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?

Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.

yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!

It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.

So is this for un rooting our phones?
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sizer99 said:
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.

hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.

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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.

is this actually
T999UVALEM
or
T999UVLEM

M9x3mos said:
is this actually
T999UVALEM
or
T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?

does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?

Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.

Stuck in a boot loop

Rooted Att Note 2. I changed my fonts using Rom Tools and now my phone just sits at the Samsung splash screen. I did factory reset in recovery, still no dice. The recovery install only let's my flash updates and no I don't have a Nandroid. Kinda ran outta of ideas.

when you say the recovery install only lets you flash updates do you mean your still using stock revocery or have you flashed custom recovery and just dont have a ROM?
If you have custom recovery Id try to flash this :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546 Its been tested and works on our system. Its not stock but should at least get ya up and running again until a true stock is posted and you can flash that.

search in forums for an Odin tar file to reload the stock ROM. GL & do a nandroid before doing anything next time.

RMXO said:
search in forums for an Odin tar file to reload the stock ROM. GL & do a nandroid before doing anything next time.
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I always do, didnt think much of fonts

cjsspape said:
when you say the recovery install only lets you flash updates do you mean your still using stock revocery or have you flashed custom recovery and just dont have a ROM?
If you have custom recovery Id try to flash this :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984546 Its been tested and works on our system. Its not stock but should at least get ya up and running again until a true stock is posted and you can flash that.
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not custom, thats the problem. I flashed twrp thru odin but it didnt take, even though it went thru

Try to flash cwm then and see if that takes. You'll need the Odin version of this file at the bottom of the OP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33955697
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the cmw tar worked. flash the rom in the general section

Good stuff. Glad it worked out for ya!
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esincho said:
Rooted Att Note 2. I changed my fonts using Rom Tools and now my phone just sits at the Samsung splash screen. I did factory reset in recovery, still no dice. The recovery install only let's my flash updates and no I don't have a Nandroid. Kinda ran outta of ideas.
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I had the same problem with Sprint note 2 and i just went to download screen and then flashed the cwm tar file and then all was good. Whew!!! Thought I bricked it! I made the mistake of using a quick boot app to reboot in to recovery. DON'T DO IT!

chidochuck said:
I had the same problem with Sprint note 2 and i just went to download screen and then flashed the cwm tar file and then all was good. Whew!!! Thought I bricked it! I made the mistake of using a quick boot app to reboot in to recovery. DON'T DO IT!
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Just bought a ATT GN2... coming from SkyRocket... on the SR, I used to always use "Quick Boot" app to reboot, or reboot into CWM Recovery. When you reference "quick boot app", are you referring to this? When my GN2 arrives, want to be sure I avoid using "Quick Boot" app if it doesn't play well on the GN2 and JB. Thx.

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Just bought a ATT GN2... coming from SkyRocket... on the SR, I used to always use "Quick Boot" app to reboot, or reboot into CWM Recovery. When you reference "quick boot app", are you referring to this? When my GN2 arrives, want to be sure I avoid using "Quick Boot" app if it doesn't play well on the GN2 and JB. Thx.
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Most of the custom ROMs here use the built in 4 way Rebooter so ya really shouldn't need a quick boot program
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I've had rom tools boot loop the phone after a font change. Moral of the story-nandroid.
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That's the one I used. Wish I knew why it happened.
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Warranty - TouchWIZ - Charge Port not working

Hi so , i couldnt find a specific topic , so i just want to ask quickly..
my phone charging port is not working ... so i called att to get a new one , i have touchwiz installed .. so i dont want them to send me back the phone and charge me the 500$+ for having it, how can i remove it back to stock recovery .. again my USB port doesnt work so i cant do anything with pc.
Thanks

What you mean? TouchWiz is the stock launcher that Samsung puts on the phone.
You sure you don't mean TWRP recovery?
If so and your usb port don't work then you need to put the stock recovery image file on the sdcard and flash it. Need to find a flashable stock recovery image. I dont have links for it as I never had not revert back to stock recovery.
Dixit

dixit said:
What you mean? TouchWiz is the stock launcher that Samsung puts on the phone.
You sure you don't mean TWRP recovery?
If so and your usb port don't work then you need to put the stock recovery image file on the sdcard and flash it. Need to find a flashable stock recovery image. I dont have links for it as I never had not revert back to stock recovery.
Dixit
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lol yes im sorry, TWRP ... hmm i see... hmm i can perhaps wait for the warranty phone to get here , do a backup of that particular stock image , and then use it on this device? you think that would work?

You can do that. Or just search around. I'm sure someone has it on here. Cause you would need it to apply and OTA update. So some revert back to stock recovery to let the OTA apply, then flash back to TWRP or CWM.
Dixit

The easiest way would probably be to flash back to completly stock through odin that way it will revert everything including the modified system stat in the about phone screen
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jbradbury said:
The easiest way would probably be to flash back to completly stock through odin that way it will revert everything including the modified system stat in the about phone screen
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You forget that his usb port don't work. So he can't Odin with a computer. Has to be done all on the phone only.
Dixit

Sorry I meant mobile Odin
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That could work. I've never used it to fully flash an entire tar or md5 file. Ive only used mobile odin to manually flash recovery files like CWM touch.
Dixit

Hmm thanks guys, I guess I will just wait to get the warranty and apply it, since right now I'm running att latest OTA release of the software..
. I'll post see how it went... Also is there a way they (warranty center) can tell if I rooted, and did these custom installation etc..?? I've already unrooted the phone just need the touch recovery removed
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They can tell two ways,. First is your flash counter. Second is your status in settings under about device-status at the bottom it will say either modified or official . They will most likely check the latter one first, might not even check the flash counter if its just a charging port but im not sure.
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Use mobile Odin and triangle away and your good to go
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No need for triangle away after you odin to stock , it will already set counter at official
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Failed Root Attempt On Previously Unrooted I317UCALK7 - Bricked?

I wanted to try an AKOP ROM or two on my completely stock, never rooted Note 2 running the OTA UCALK7 update. I followed the guide here (flash the SU injected stock UCALJ2 image) to root and now my note gets stuck at the Samsung logo. I have tried the following:
Downloaded the completely stock UCALJ2 unrooted image and flashed via ODIN.
Tried flashing both stock and rooted ROMs on another computer using the stock USB cable.
Flashed CWM touch via ODIN after flashing rooted UCALJ2 image, it can boot to CWM but fails miserably most likely to the lack of root.
My guess is it's bricked because sammy closed the root hole in the UCALK7 update and flashing back to rooted UCALJ2 isn't enough to bypass the patched exploit. Is there an ODIN flashable complete UCALK7 image that I can try (I've looked to no end, all I can find are rooted zips flashable via CWM) or am I really up the creek?

Pull the battery.
Hold the Center Home Button + Vol Down + Power
Slide the battery in.
If you do this right you can get into odin before the Samsung logo. I just had the same problem because I flashed the wrong recovery. It worked for me.

shakabra said:
Pull the battery.
Hold the Center Home Button + Vol Down + Power
Slide the battery in.
If you do this right you can get into odin before the Samsung logo. I just had the same problem because I flashed the wrong recovery. It worked for me.
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Thanks but I can get into Odin and flash the stock ROM just fine. It then reboots and gets stuck at the Samsung logo.

Once upon flash completely stock threw Odin.... do the three finger salute, go into stock recovery and factory reset... done
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twanskys204 said:
Once upon flash completely stock threw Odin.... do the three finger salute, go into stock recovery and factory reset... done
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The three finger salute lol:thumbup:
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twanskys204 said:
Once upon flash completely stock threw Odin.... do the three finger salute, go into stock recovery and factory reset... done
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Thanks - I actually figured that part out since my second post. The phone boots after the factory reset however I don't get phone/data service. I've since tried flashing the two AT&T modems I could find, atti317ucalj2modemfixed.zip and ATT K7 Modem - Baseband.zip. Neither resolve the issue.

Cheack ur apn
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twanskys204 said:
Cheack ur apn
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Thanks but I can't even enter the network configuration settings - it tells me to insert a SIM. My SIM is in the phone.

I'm having other problems too which I think are partition related. Apps are acting funny, saying there isn't space on the phone (dropbox can't download anything, etc). I'm trying to get TriangleAway installed so I can just RMA it but I can't even download it to my phone. Also a CWM fix permissions fails even though I grant it root access.

It's really simple..download firmware from Sammobile.com flash it in Odin.. u might get stuck on the Samsung screen, if that happens factory reset. Make sure your downloading right file...u r now messing with Odin and it doesn't forgive
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twanskys204 said:
It's really simple..download firmware from Sammobile.com flash it in Odin.. u might get stuck on the Samsung screen, if that happens factory reset. Make sure your downloading right file...u r now messing with Odin and it doesn't forgive
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I know what you're saying, I'm definitely using the right file and process. I'm a pretty seasoned veteran when it comes to rooting/odin/RSD/fastboot, etc. I've run custom ROMs on dozens of phones since the G1. What's happening to me is apparently not a common failure with the note 2 or GS3. Is there a PIT file available for the AT&T Note 2? I see one for the Verizon Note 2 but I wouldn't dare try to flash that.

There is a pit file around but I really don't think it's that.
And also just checking don't mean to insult ur intelligence but if u are using Odin it will be a .tar, if it's a recovery its I .zip
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twanskys204 said:
There is a pit file around but I really don't think it's that.
And also just checking don't mean to insult ur intelligence but if u are using Odin it will be a .tar, if it's a recovery its I .zip
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Yeah, it's a tar file I'm flashing through Odin, got it from SamsungUpdates: Samsung-Updates.com-SGH-I317_ATT_1_20121005095854_bpaaavv07o.
I also tried flashing the stock ROM in deodex'd zip form after I got a custom recovery on there, still no dice. The non-functioning modem and lack of proper root/storage affects both Sammy and CM/AKOP based ROMs. I don't know about the modem part but I've seen weird things like this when the NAND starts going bad and things written to it don't "stick." I don't think that's the case here since it's only on its 4th or 5th flash. More than likely the latter problem is a file system issue. I have no idea about the radio.
I'm going to try and exchange it tomorrow. At least I got the flash count cleared and I'm back on a stock ROM (with the same problems).

Possible to damage Recovery section?

Hello all
I unfortunately had to get a replacement for my S3 because the charging port got screwed up.
I tried to root the phone by installing CWM and it seemed to go fine. I did this with Odin using qbking77's methods and files.
I went to look for my zip file to flash and I could find no zip files at all.
It kept saying that E won't mount and stuff like that.
I had a stock recovery tar file for my GalaxyS3 from qbking77 that I used before to get to stock recovery for updates
I flashed it with odin and it said it flashed fine.
Phone seems to be working fine.
I went back to make sure it was there and it showed the little android guy with his heart spinning and then turning red and he died!
Several error messages came up in red.
Anyone ever hear about this and what did I do wrong?
I am sure I used the files I have used for my Galaxy before.
The phone still works so far thankfully!
Any advise and help would be appreciated.
Mike

mikeinstlouis said:
Hello all
I unfortunately had to get a replacement for my S3 because the charging port got screwed up.
I tried to root the phone by installing CWM and it seemed to go fine. I did this with Odin using qbking77's methods and files.
I went to look for my zip file to flash and I could find no zip files at all.
It kept saying that E won't mount and stuff like that.
I had a stock recovery tar file for my GalaxyS3 from qbking77 that I used before to get to stock recovery for updates
I flashed it with odin and it said it flashed fine.
Phone seems to be working fine.
I went back to make sure it was there and it showed the little android guy with his heart spinning and then turning red and he died!
Several error messages came up in red.
Anyone ever hear about this and what did I do wrong?
I am sure I used the files I have used for my Galaxy before.
The phone still works so far thankfully!
Any advise and help would be appreciated.
Mike
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The issue is because of a change that was made to the Newer Devices. Use one of the Recoveries from THIS THREAD.

If it's a new s3 its a known issue with the phone...u need a modded recovery. Check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391616
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I am hoping that this means that I haven't fried that part of my phone and I can still install a recovery. Are these recoveries that I could use to root my phone or custom recoveries that I can revert to to get over the air updates. Thank you very much for your help you guys. I'm still kind of new with this even though I've been doing it for years
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mikeinstlouis said:
I am hoping that this means that I haven't fried that part of my phone and I can still install a recovery. Are these recoveries that I could use to root my phone or custom recoveries that I can revert to to get over the air updates. Thank you very much for your help you guys. I'm still kind of new with this even though I've been doing it for years
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Yes you can still use these Recoveries. I doubt you " fried " your device. Use these Recoveries in the Root process where you would use the older ones. Yes you can Revert them Back.

Then how can I revert back to get over the air updates? The stock recovery that I flashed showed the little Android guy had died..
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I think this should work for you just fine. Just be sure to not miss the step about the factory reset.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
[ROM/RESTORE][!MD4 OTA!](5-10)Quick Return to UNROOTED STOCK WITH FLASH COUNT RESET
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From what I read you have to have a recovery to flash this.. I have no recover... And CWM won't let me do anything... That's my problem.. This new style of phone won't let me put on a functional recovery.. Does that make sense?
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mikeinstlouis said:
From what I read you have to have a recovery to flash this.. I have no recover... And CWM won't let me do anything... That's my problem.. This new style of phone won't let me put on a functional recovery.. Does that make sense?
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In the OP of the thread I linked you it gives instructions on how to push the Recovery with ADB. It also has Recoveries you can do through ODIN.
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