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[Q] To Root or not Root?

let me give you some background info. I have owned my (AT&T) glide for less than a month coming from a overclocked milestone with CM7. Almost everyday I turn my computer on I go to XDA and skim over the rooting guides and the custom roms available. And then I read the "Read Before Updating" thread that says ICS is coming and it puts me off again. Even though my phone is unlocked and outside of the US now, so I not 100% certain I'll get anything. Every day I also check for updates on my phone, force check and everything.
So my question to you guys is this: Shall I patiently continue to wait it out in the fruitless hope something may well happen in the next month or two or bite the bullet and loose the bloatware now? I'm sure its a question on the minds of many glide owners right now

I put CWM + Osimood on mine just to get rid of the US-Centric bloatware, and am liking the cleanness of it. As you're in the UK too one thing you might sway you is that Osimood is based on Rogers which allows you to switch off 4G to save battery.

Why wait? Once it's out, it's pretty good chance it will be available here (or samfirmware). If you waited, would you even be able to get the AT&T OTA update through your UK operator? I would think you'd have to be on the AT&T home network to get the OTA.
But then again, it would take Samsung forever to finally get the ICS out for the CG.

lost_ said:
Why wait? Once it's out, it's pretty good chance it will be available here (or samfirmware). If you waited, would you even be able to get the AT&T OTA update through your UK operator? I would think you'd have to be on the AT&T home network to get the OTA.
But then again, it would take Samsung forever to finally get the ICS out for the CG.
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Agreed since you are not in the States and on the AT&T Network I would Root and install a clean Rom with no BLoatware. Then when we get the ICS you simply flash it.

Thanks for the replies guys
When I check for an update it does say it checks the AT&T server, whether its actually checking the AT&T server or its just a generic message and it actually checks my provider server who knows.
Think I'm going to bit the bullet and get it rooted today

Go for it! There's so much more you can do when you're rooted. I'll never go back.

Pablo 13 said:
Thanks for the replies guys
When I check for an update it does say it checks the AT&T server, whether its actually checking the AT&T server or its just a generic message and it actually checks my provider server who knows.
Think I'm going to bit the bullet and get it rooted today
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Root and flash or only root? Might as well jump all in while your getting your feet wet!

dudejb said:
Root and flash or only root? Might as well jump all in while your getting your feet wet!
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More than likely both
Just rooted it now, (well halfway there) seemed pretty easy to do, at least easier than my last phone.
when you flash the rom over you you do it in PDA section too or another option?
Just gonna download super user, ti backup, and a few other root only apps, have a quick play then flash to something else

Pablo 13 said:
More than likely both
Just rooted it now, (well halfway there) seemed pretty easy to do, at least easier than my last phone.
when you flash the rom over you you do it in PDA section too or another option?
Just gonna download super user, ti backup, and a few other root only apps, have a quick play then flash to something else
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If you did Clock work mod the instructions are:
1. Launch odin (v1.82 tested)
2. Boot your phone in "Download mode"
3. Select PDA in odin and choose the file "CWMR_recovery.tar.md5"
4. ONLY "auto reboot" must be check !!
Then just put aradat's kernel via CWM and your rooted. That is what I started with. Now I just flash everything with CWM and no longer touch Odin.

Right all fully rooted up.
In CWM it asks what device and only gives the choice of epic 4g and i9000 I tried the later and attempted to back up my current Rom and got and explanation mark in a triangle and a droid on my screen. not much happened for a few mins so i pulled the battery and rebooted it.
Any idea which I should select?
Thanks for all the help BTW

Pablo 13 said:
Right all fully rooted up.
In CWM it asks what device and only gives the choice of epic 4g and i9000 I tried the later and attempted to back up my current Rom and got and explanation mark in a triangle and a droid on my screen. not much happened for a few mins so i pulled the battery and rebooted it.
Any idea which I should select?
Thanks for all the help BTW
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Where does it ask you that? I did not get any prompts. I just went to flash from SD card and then chose the file I wanted to flash. Took a few minutes then the flash was complete and on reboot it took a little while in setting everything up and then I got the Google prompt for an account to use. Oh and if you say thanks feel free to use the thank you button.

Probably talking about the CW App on the Market (not supported, don't use it!)

Sorry for confusing you, not in recovery, in Rom manager.
Ive actually put mine down now and just spent the last few hours trying to root my girlfriend's HTC Sensation, which has been a bit more long winded.

Nice gl have fun!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I927 using xda premium

Help! phone won't turn on (t959d koodo)

Hi,
I just got the phone and flashed a custom recovery. I flashed a new rom (liquidsmooth) and it looked like it was successful. I selected reboot and the screen shut off. Now, It won't turn on. It's possible that the battery died but shouldn't it turn on again once I plug in the usb cable? Is it possible to brick the device from cwm?
thanks

Dear lord I hope that's a typo because this is the t989(d) forums. If it is a typo and you're using a t989 then you probably need to wipe cache/dalvik.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989

As Mr. Mintharis said... I'm hoping as well that you had a typo and you didnt flash a T989 (GALAXY S2 TMobile) rom on a (GALAXY S) device. If so your probably hard bricked. If that was a typo and you did flash a rom and it wont turn on then there may be a few problems that are solvable. I got a few questions.
1. DId you do a factory reset before installing? Did you wipe system?
2. Can you get into CWM?
3. Can you get into Download Mode?
If you cant get into download mode, recovery, or get the phone to boot then you are in serious trouble because the phone is a a fancy paper weight. If you can however, you could try doing a full reset on all the settings and deleting cache/dalvik and then reflashing and trying again. However you may be in luck since you said you just got the phone. I'm assuming you got it from your carrier (I'm guessing its T-Mobile, idk any other carriers for this device) and they will replace a broken device (that does not have extensive physical damage or water damage) within 20 days of purchase date. Since your phone is hard bricked they will do it completely for free with no charge (usually... if they do.. it will be about 5$) and then you're good. They will overnight a phone to you and you just send your old one back when you get it (MAKE SURE TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PROPERLY SEND IT BACK!).
Sorry for the long post but wanted to be through and give you alot of answers in 1 time so we dont drag this post out.

That's my mistake, it was supposed to read t989d.
1) I did do a factory resets
2) & 3) I can't turn on the phone or get into download mode
I bought it from koodo (carrier in Canada) yesterday. I'm going to try to exchange it today; hopefully they'll do it. For future references, is there a specific way I should be flashing? I used to have a t959, the t-mobile vibrant, and never had any issues with cwm because it never touched download mode. Anyways, thanks for the replies.
Edit: I did flash using odin which hung a couple of times. Regardless, i eventually got it back to original condition by flashing the custom recovery (by odin with green pass) and doing a nandroid backup. The bad odin flashes should have been negated when I did nandroid backup, no?

You said you had the problems after you flashed liquidsmooth? Exactly which file did you download and flash from the site?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

Ok, just figured it out. I flashed wrong version of liquid smooth. The link in their thread goes to their facebook page and I clicked on the first link like an idiot. I got it exchanged a few minutes ago so all's well that ends well. Thanks all for the replies.
Lesson of the day: Don't be stupid.

mani_is_ms said:
Ok, just figured it out. I flashed wrong version of liquid smooth. The link in their thread goes to their facebook page and I clicked on the first link like an idiot. I got it exchanged a few minutes ago so all's well that ends well. Thanks all for the replies.
Lesson of the day: Don't be stupid.
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Read read read.. If you are not 100% sure what you are doing just ask someone.. Sometimes you will get flamed for it but it's better than getting a bricked phone lol and you'll most likely get an answer..
I'm glad you got it replaced
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

[Q] Greetings, I understand I have a hard brick?

I first rooted and flashed a KANG JUGGERNAUT ROM 2 years ago, back when I first got my phone.
Just two days ago, a friend recommended flashing CM10 cause it's nearly up-to-date and stuff.
Was instructed to flash CM10 then GAPPS and wipe after; did so, boot loop.
Told me that I was supposed to wipe beforehand? Wish I known, still had soft bricks / boot loops.
Kept restoring and re-flashing; came to a point CWM became super slow, kept hanging when trying to restore/wipe.
Then I chose to flash ROM again, this time it kept rebooting/looping into installation process, hang, fail then rebooting to continue this cycle.
Told friend about it, said he'd look at it when he came over; cause my Odin kept crashing for some unknown reason.
He couldn't get it to stop boot looping so he offered to take back home where he said he had all the stuff he had installed on his PC/MAC.
After awhile he said it wouldn't boot anymore, hard brick.
Afterward he returned it to me, I confirmed a hard brick according to what I have searched/researched online.
Plugging into the USB gives me a connection beep but hitting the power button, gives a disconnect beep? So unable to go into download mode.
I have looked around and found a couple of possible solutions: JTAGGING and USB JIGGING
I'm not sure but I kept seeing a lot of testimony that jigging it wouldn't work on a hard brick phone, can anyone confirm this?
Not sure what JTAG is but apparently is the sure-fire way to get the device in working condition again; is this something I can do by myself?
I see the costs range from $50-100 but I'm not sure if I can afford that right now/tight pockets/strapped4cash/whatever as an unemployed student from LIF with other crazy stuff to deal with.
Worst come to worst, I will probably opt for this JTAG thing.
EDIT: I have this QHSUSB_DLOAD shown in the device manager as I connected the dead device; while searching/looking around, someone said it was fixable but it wasn't in the T989 thread so I'm unsure.
Is this really fixable? and if so, what would this exactly permit me to do after?
Any insight as what options I have? I really would like to get this resolved ASAP.
Thank you for reading; I am also located in NYC, if any locals can help.

Jtag
Hey buddy i recent hard bricked mine last month got it back today PM this guy tomy1986.nt only charged 25$ and had it back in 7 days sucker working good now hes in texas only cost me 5.80$ shipped from Phx Az hope that helps Sounds like a defint hard brick!!!

JahJahLoO said:
I first rooted and flashed a KANG JUGGERNAUT ROM 2 years ago, back when I first got my phone.
Just two days ago, a friend recommended flashing CM10 cause it's nearly up-to-date and stuff.
Was instructed to flash CM10 then GAPPS and wipe after; did so, boot loop.
Told me that I was supposed to wipe beforehand? Wish I known, still had soft bricks / boot loops.
Kept restoring and re-flashing; came to a point CWM became super slow, kept hanging when trying to restore/wipe.
Then I chose to flash ROM again, this time it kept rebooting/looping into installation process, hang, fail then rebooting to continue this cycle.
Told friend about it, said he'd look at it when he came over; cause my Odin kept crashing for some unknown reason.
He couldn't get it to stop boot looping so he offered to take back home where he said he had all the stuff he had installed on his PC/MAC.
After awhile he said it wouldn't boot anymore, hard brick.
Afterward he returned it to me, I confirmed a hard brick according to what I have searched/researched online.
Plugging into the USB gives me a connection beep but hitting the power button, gives a disconnect beep? So unable to go into download mode.
I have looked around and found a couple of possible solutions: JTAGGING and USB JIGGING
I'm not sure but I kept seeing a lot of testimony that jigging it wouldn't work on a hard brick phone, can anyone confirm this?
Not sure what JTAG is but apparently is the sure-fire way to get the device in working condition again; is this something I can do by myself?
I see the costs range from $50-100 but I'm not sure if I can afford that right now/tight pockets/strapped4cash/whatever as an unemployed student from LIF with other crazy stuff to deal with.
Worst come to worst, I will probably opt for this JTAG thing.
EDIT: I have this QHSUSB_DLOAD shown in the device manager as I connected the dead device; while searching/looking around, someone said it was fixable but it wasn't in the T989 thread so I'm unsure.
Is this really fixable? and if so, what would this exactly permit me to do after?
Any insight as what options I have? I really would like to get this resolved ASAP.
Thank you for reading; I am also located in NYC, if any locals can help.
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Got your phone this morning, an it is already fixed. Restore it to stock rom 4.1.2 everything is ready to go.
Will ship it tomorrow morning.
Thanks choosing my service.

Praise!
tomy1986.nt said:
Got your phone this morning, an it is already fixed. Restore it to stock rom 4.1.2 everything is ready to go.
Will ship it tomorrow morning.
Thanks choosing my service.
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All praise Tomy for his swift and kind work in helping a poor Samaritan. Thoust good deed shant go unnoticed.

How do I prevent these bricks? Just bricked mine and getting it back from JTAG
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How do I prevent these bricks? Just bricked mine and getting it back from JTAG
I'M BATMAN
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Good morning guys

tomy1986.nt said:
Good morning guys
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How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN
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Do not flash modified Rom. :laugh:

tomy1986.nt said:
Do not flash modified Rom. :laugh:
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What do you mean "modified"
Would I have to compare the md5 or what?
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN
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-DarkKnight- said:
What do you mean "modified"
Would I have to compare the md5 or what?
I'M BATMAN
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Alway flash phone with Stock rom.

tomy1986.nt said:
Alway flash phone with Stock rom.
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What about custom ROMs like cm10.1 or JediMindTrick?
I'M BATMAN

The note 1 SGH-i717 of Keith_Dallas,TX member has already fixed today give it back only about a hours.

Exactly what I DIDN'T want to happen....

So I've had the S4 for 1 month now and at first I really didn't want to root or change the ROM. I actually like the TW interface and think it's great as it is. I've been rooting and changing ROMs going back to the MyTouch, but for some reason the S4 had me worried. I debated over and over about doing it, but after getting tired of the bloatware, constant ads being displayed and wanting to stop the horrible startup/shutdown music, the time came for me to root it.
So, after pouring over many hours of reading and deciding the method, I went with the Chainfire route. I chose this because from what I read (and this may have been where I misunderstood something??), if I ONLY root the phone, don't install a custom recovery then I will still be able to receive OTAs (when and IF they come from TMO). So after a couple of heart-stopping moments at 2am last night with about 4 ODIN fails, I finally got it rooted. Turns out, the USB cable I was using might have been the problem. I went out to the car and got the original cable that came with the phone and it worked on the first try with that. I thought for sure I had hard bricked the phone when it came up with an error message at startup regarding a firmware problem.
Anyhow, to make a long story short, after doing the rooting, I checked the update option in settings and it's telling me the phone has been modified and is unable to receive updates. I then ran the triangle away program to reset the binary counter back to Samsung Official/Official, which it's reporting now instead of Custom, but then checking the updater it still reports the same thing. This is what I didn't want to have happen!
Any suggestions on how to rectify this or have I crossed that line and might as well just go ahead and put a recovery on there and do a backup and leave it at that until the day comes I decide to slap a custom ROM on it?
Thanks for letting me rant, but I would like some assistance if possible.

patriot1973 said:
So I've had the S4 for 1 month now and at first I really didn't want to root or change the ROM. I actually like the TW interface and think it's great as it is. I've been rooting and changing ROMs going back to the MyTouch, but for some reason the S4 had me worried. I debated over and over about doing it, but after getting tired of the bloatware, constant ads being displayed and wanting to stop the horrible startup/shutdown music, the time came for me to root it.
So, after pouring over many hours of reading and deciding the method, I went with the Chainfire route. I chose this because from what I read (and this may have been where I misunderstood something??), if I ONLY root the phone, don't install a custom recovery then I will still be able to receive OTAs (when and IF they come from TMO). So after a couple of heart-stopping moments at 2am last night with about 4 ODIN fails, I finally got it rooted. Turns out, the USB cable I was using might have been the problem. I went out to the car and got the original cable that came with the phone and it worked on the first try with that. I thought for sure I had hard bricked the phone when it came up with an error message at startup regarding a firmware problem.
Anyhow, to make a long story short, after doing the rooting, I checked the update option in settings and it's telling me the phone has been modified and is unable to receive updates. I then ran the triangle away program to reset the binary counter back to Samsung Official/Official, which it's reporting now instead of Custom, but then checking the updater it still reports the same thing. This is what I didn't want to have happen!
Any suggestions on how to rectify this or have I crossed that line and might as well just go ahead and put a recovery on there and do a backup and leave it at that until the day comes I decide to slap a custom ROM on it?
Thanks for letting me rant, but I would like some assistance if possible.
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If you've reset your binary counter and have modified nothing else, just unroot and you should be able to receive updates again.

Go into the Triangle Away app and check system modified workaround and problem solved
Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk 2

jbreeze228 said:
Go into the Triangle Away app and check system modified workaround and problem solved
Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk 2
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This. It explains this right in the app.

jbreeze228 said:
Go into the Triangle Away app and check system modified workaround and problem solved
Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk 2
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I went ahead and got SuperSU Pro because that's the only way the feature in Triangle Away will work. It was after 2am when I was rooting and having problems so I wasn't too sharp.
Thanks!

[Q] I messed up...... please have mercy?

Ok so background... I used to alway be android... rooted the works.. used to be really into it... then I got pissed one day at my android after it restarted taking what would have been like a nobel peace prize winning picture from inside a blackhawk... Literally... I almost threw this thing out of the doors from 3000 feet.... so next day i went to iphone. Fast forward 3 or so years...
I got pissed at iphone for sucking and releasing crapy phones without working bugs out. so I decided this time i was going back to android for good....
Two months ago i bought the Samsung Note 4 from sprint through their cut your rate in half plan... ($39/mo for unlimited everything... how could i go wrong?!)...
Took her home and started googling how I was gonna root her and get native hotspot for free.. cuz who pays for that ****... Learned what i needed to know (really refreshed my memory as i have done this in the past...) Flashed myself a new ROM and all was good in the world. Rooted and had my native hotspot.
Well, went to go use private mode and it didn't work. Back to the drawing boards... read a few things read the fine print and the ROM I was using didn't support it. No big deal, just gonna look for one that does... Found one that supports and read the page... well, I decided to do this after working all day and i was sick of being on the computer i just wanted to get it done, clicked the link downloaded the ROM I needed and loaded it.... as soon as it said done I realized... I messed up... I thought i had clicked sm-n910P... I clicked n915p..... quick search shows thats a note edge... so i download the correct one and flash that hoping I didn't **** anything up... WRONG.
Heres the problem.
My touch screen works FLAWLESSLY using the s-pen. perfect response, accuracy.. the works. When i use my finger, it responds.. sort of. The top left of my phone is spot on. as you move down and right, the cursor actually moves FASTER than my finger. So by the time I am 3/4 of the way down and to the right of the screen the cursor is actually already in the bottom right hand corner. Making texting or anything IMPOSSIBLE... now, I'm not a CIS major by ANY means and I avoid technical terms sometimes because I don't FULLY understand what some of it is. That being said, I am a tech savvy person in general, just not so much in the software dept. I'm more of a hardware person...
Question:
Did I mess up the phones HARDWARE.. Like would the digitizer be toasted? i figure that is a one way device so i don't see how that could be the case.. just throwing it out there... or did I fry something else? Anyone have FULLY stock EVERYTHING that i can flash onto this thing... (ROM, Kernel...) I found a stock ROM online to load but it isnt the same one and it didn't fix my problem. No i don't have a back up and yes i know shame on me...
Deets:
SM-N910P
Software Version: n910PVPU1BOB7 - last ROM i loaded hoping to fix the problem....
Hardware Version: N910P.05
Andriod: 5.0.1
Kernel Version: 3.10.40-4243283
[email protected] #1
Build Number: LRX22C.N910PVPU1BOB7
Knox is already tripped so IDC about that...
My recovery manager is back to stock. Tried CWM and i'm not sure if that is what screwed me... i did that and my ROM all at the same time i guess... help?
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Use twrp 2.85 for recovery. It's better for me. Read up on how to Odin the stock tar. Should fix it up. Be sure to do a full wipe of everything not on your xternal SD before odining.

galland1 said:
Use twrp 2.85 for recovery. It's better for me. Read up on how to Odin the stock tar. Should fix it up. Be sure to do a full wipe of everything not on your xternal SD before odining.
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i used Odin to push a stock .tar ... didn't fix it.. thats when i started panicking and started looking for other ROMS

Did you wipe internal before you Odin'd?

galland1 said:
Did you wipe internal before you Odin'd?
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I followed the little instructions from the .tar
if by "wipe everything" you mean clearing the cache and doing a factory reset yes.

My advise would be to back up everything with titanium backup to your external card, and start from scratch. If you are on 4.4 right now, download a program called SPCUtility to get your msl number. Load a stock tar, either nk2 if you want 4.4 or bob7 if you want lollipop (my recommendation). Once you load the stock tar with odin, reset the who device by going into your dialer and dial ##786#. It will ask for your msl number and ask if you want to reset. Say yes, and you should be good to go. At this point, when you phone restarts, get to the home screen and see if everything is working. If it is not, take the phone to sprint and let them fix it or replace it. If everything is working, you can root the device, and if you want to load a new rom, you can.

dschachm said:
My advise would be to back up everything with titanium backup to your external card, and start from scratch. If you are on 4.4 right now, download a program called SPCUtility to get your msl number. Load a stock tar, either nk2 if you want 4.4 or bob7 if you want lollipop (my recommendation). Once you load the stock tar with odin, reset the who device by going into your dialer and dial ##786#. It will ask for your msl number and ask if you want to reset. Say yes, and you should be good to go. At this point, when you phone restarts, get to the home screen and see if everything is working. If it is not, take the phone to sprint and let them fix it or replace it. If everything is working, you can root the device, and if you want to load a new rom, you can.
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There is literally nothing on the phone right now. i don't care if anything is backed up... the phone was bascially stock to begin with and i have my contacts and everything saved through kies. im on 5.0 i guess technically... can i still get my MSL?
I would have to Root my phone again, load the SPCUtility, get my MSL flash the stock .tar (any idea where i can get a better one? the one i have isn't the stock i knew)... then follow the rest of this?
BTW thank you SO much for helping me out. I appreciate it. A LOT.

bsil12 said:
There is literally nothing on the phone right now. i don't care if anything is backed up... the phone was bascially stock to begin with and i have my contacts and everything saved through kies. im on 5.0 i guess technically... can i still get my MSL?
I would have to Root my phone again, load the SPCUtility, get my MSL flash the stock .tar (any idea where i can get a better one? the one i have isn't the stock i knew)... then follow the rest of this?
BTW thank you SO much for helping me out. I appreciate it. A LOT.
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The only way to get the msl number is to call sprint but if you just got the phone they probably won't give it to you. So the other option is to flash this stock tar to go back to 4.4. Here is the tar file for nk2 and bob7.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/stock-n910pvpu1anie-stock-tar-t2944867
Go back to nk2, root and intall SPCutility and get your msl. Then flash bob7, and then use the msl number and ##768# and reset the device.

dschachm said:
The only way to get the msl number is to call sprint but if you just got the phone they probably won't give it to you. So the other option is to flash this stock tar to go back to 4.4. Here is the tar file for nk2 and bob7.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/general/stock-n910pvpu1anie-stock-tar-t2944867
Go back to nk2, root and intall SPCutility and get your msl. Then flash bob7, and then use the msl number and ##768# and reset the device.
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You sir, are a god of sorts. I will try this when i get home. I can't download anything on my work computer or i'd do it right now. THANK YOU! I'll keep you posted.

I will pm you my email address. If you have any questions email me and i can respond faster.