Scrolling issues - Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini GT-I9195. It is not so easy to explain but I will try:
I experience that when I do scroll most pages up and down at the end of the scroll it does not end smoothly but in jerks.
Is the problem related to firmware ver or does it have to do with something else?
I am waiting for Android 4.3 to be out for this model hoping to see if this issue disappear.
Obviously, it is not such a niche felling.
Please let me know what to do.
Thank you

Is the issu also there if you've a custom rom installed?

Flatric said:
Is the issu also there if you've a custom rom installed?
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I have never installed a custom rom and do not know how to do so. I do not have much experience with Android though I wish to learn and be able to manage it as I do on Windows OS.
Please let me kindly know what needs to be done to troubleshoot, although I noticed that this symptom I noticed also on a Galaxy S4.
I am really tempted to sell this device as I consider it not being worth the money I spent but I do not know if on other devices, like HTC One (which I might be interested) this behavior occurs.
As an example another user, on this forum, confirmed me that the phone signal is quite weak when compared to other phones, still with same carrier: This should not happen when you spend €400! Instead, Samsung covers its **** saying "I cannot compare brand names and even this model with other models", rather than just saying: we screwed up with this phone!!!
Please let me know.
Spiro

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The ROM who has killed my screen's NOTE 2

Hi everybody,
I bought a Note 2 in october 2012. I installed the ROM HD Revolution. Until now there was no problem.
Few days ago, my screen has swiched off and there was lot of reds pixels everywere on the screen.
The phone of course was rooted and the garantly not applicable.
So in the samsung shop, i explain that the phone was rooted... The techniciens has puted a new screen thinking that the problem was coming from a screen hardware. This new screen has well worked during 20 mn, after that, same trouble, the screen was killed....
My phone was sent to another tehcniciens ( more specialists and i think, working directly with samsung) in france, who can works on the motherboard. But just before to sent it, the technical personnal has succefuly replace the rom Revolution by another official ROM by Odin. (In order to keep my garantly.....wonderful techniciens)
Today the phone was return to me, with just a new screen. The third screen after mine who was killed in first.
No motherboard trouble, no graphic chipset trouble was fixed, only the HD Revolution ROM who is apparently , and i 'am sure now, has killed the screen
I'am not able to explain why and how, I am not found on the web or another forum the same trouble.
Somebody know what's happened?
thanks
You might want to contact the developer, but I doubt the rom was the issue.
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silentecho13 said:
You might want to contact the developer, but I doubt the rom was the issue.
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I'am sure, very sure that the problem on the screen is due to the ROM Revolution, otherwise explain me why the third screen has no trouble after changing only the ROM with the lastest samsung ROM?
The official technicians do try to convince you that a custom ROM is the cause of your problem. Not making a judgement on whether this was what happened in your case, but just my personal opinion.
I am in India, where anyway Sammy tries to avoid taking responsibility however possible. One of my friend had sds on his s3, and the guys from Samsung tried to refuse him warranty on the basis that they believed he had a custom firmware. They were adamant on this even on his pointing out that thousands had had this even on the stock ROM, and thus could not be in any way related to flashing a custom firmware. Only when he threatened them with legal action (as they couldn't prove it was flashed anyway) did they finally took it in for repairs.
My advice is, check out the devs thread for the ROM, if its a genuine problem then it is sure to be mentioned by someone there.
Sent from my GT-N7100.
Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
SacGuru said:
The official technicians do try to convince you that a custom ROM is the cause of your problem. Not making a judgement on whether this was what happened in your case, but just my personal opinion.
I am in India, where anyway Sammy tries to avoid taking responsibility however possible. One of my friend had sds on his s3, and the guys from Samsung tried to refuse him warranty on the basis that they believed he had a custom firmware. They were adamant on this even on his pointing out that thousands had had this even on the stock ROM, and thus could not be in any way related to flashing a custom firmware. Only when he threatened them with legal action (as they couldn't prove it was flashed anyway) did they finally took it in for repairs.
My advice is, check out the devs thread for the ROM, if its a genuine problem then it is sure to be mentioned by someone there.
Sent from my GT-N7100.
Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
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I understand but, the first technicians i saw works for samsung, it's not samsung technicians, and these technicians has tried to change my ROM revolution in order to preserve my warrantly. Unfortunatly we have decided together that in first my phone will not send to Paris at Samsung.
The local technicians has received a new screen, and it was impossible for them to change the rom, anyway they has changed my screen by the new, after 20 mn the new screen has crashed...
We decided to send unfortuntly the phone to paris because we has think that the trouble was the motherbord or the graphic chipset. I was very afraid concerning my warrantly. But the local technicians has success just before to send the phone to change the revolution rom to a samsung in order to keep my warrantly. Otherwise the technicians of Paris..
At paris they has changed for the third time just the screen, anything else , and the note 2 is working perfectly....
I have the report by paper of all investigations makes... I am not a lie.. I cannot saw another reason of this trouble....
aquasirius said:
I understand but, the first technicians i saw works for samsung, it's not samsung technicians, and these technicians has tried to change my ROM revolution in order to preserve my warrantly. Unfortunatly we have decided together that in first my phone will not send to Paris at Samsung.
The local technicians has received a new screen, and it was impossible for them to change the rom, anyway they has changed my screen by the new, after 20 mn the new screen has crashed...
We decided to send unfortuntly the phone to paris because we has think that the trouble was the motherbord or the graphic chipset. I was very afraid concerning my warrantly. But the local technicians has success just before to send the phone to change the revolution rom to a samsung in order to keep my warrantly. Otherwise the technicians of Paris..
At paris they has changed for the third time just the screen, anything else , and the note 2 is working perfectly....
I have the report by paper of all investigations makes... I am not a lie.. I cannot saw another reason of this trouble....
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I suggest you verify on the forum thread and contact the dev. I highly doubt its the rom. I imagine for what you say to be possibly its not rom related but kernel and would require some sort of color adjustment hack of sorts, even then I highly doubt it as more users would have experienced the same. As for your proof from samsung means nothing. I've sent devices and computers out to warranty and the document says one thing but when I take it apart I see things where changed that do not reflect what the work order says. Not saying its the case just saying take it with a grain of salt.
I can't seem to find the rom your talking about.
prbassplayer said:
I suggest you verify on the forum thread and contact the dev. I highly doubt its the rom. I imagine for what you say to be possibly its not rom related but kernel and would require some sort of color adjustment hack of sorts, even then I highly doubt it as more users would have experienced the same. As for your proof from samsung means nothing. I've sent devices and computers out to warranty and the document says one thing but when I take it apart I see things where changed that do not reflect what the work order says. Not saying its the case just saying take it with a grain of salt.
I can't seem to find the rom your talking about.
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It was the REVOLUTION HD Rom.
You think that the Samsung technicians when they changed the screen after the other first technicians has not been honnest?
It's incredible, i don't believe in this idea... I cannot see the interest... But if you are talking about the kernel maybe it yes...
It's a crazy story...
HD Revolution....? wait.. isnt it for a international version of Note 2?
No wonder why your phone is acting up. Flashing almost non compatible ROM on your device doesnt give you rights to discredit Dev.
I believe he is talking about this rom that is not in the att section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1925402
OP, when flashing did you happen to flash anything else such as that gpu rendering thing they have on that page? Also, any extreme overclocking or anything?
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Well then if that is the rom there is your problem. Your lucky Note II in general share the same SoC else you would have hard bricked. I suggest you do your research correctly before saying something broke your device. In the end its your responsability to know what you are flashing and even if said rom/kernel/mod does break your device its your fault, you flashed it not the developer. Its a risk we all take when modifying our devices.
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I believe he is talking about this rom that is not in the att section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1925402
OP, when flashing did you happen to flash anything else such as that gpu rendering thing they have on that page? Also, any extreme overclocking or anything?
Sent from the Bacon Pope's Galaxy Note 2
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I use the recovery mode after have put the zip's ROM on my SD card.
And i never use the o/c
I 'am sure that the trouble has been caused by the Kernel or the ROM... I don't remember what was the kernel... i thinking...
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Well then if that is the rom there is your problem. Your lucky Note II in general share the same SoC else you would have hard bricked. I suggest you do your research correctly before saying something broke your device. In the end its your responsability to know what you are flashing and even if said rom/kernel/mod does break your device its your fault, you flashed it not the developer. Its a risk we all take when modifying our devices.
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I know that, but on the french forum we are several with this ROM, i'am looking for the same trouble in France: nothing...
I'am wondering what's happened and i 'am not here to cry but to exlpain you this trouble and i 'am trying to have an elaborate conversation in order to find the origin, I find it normal beetween enthusiast....
aquasirius said:
I know that, but on the french forum we are several with this ROM, i'am looking for the same trouble in France: nothing...
I'am wondering what's happened and i 'am not here to cry but to exlpain you this trouble and i 'am trying to have an elaborate conversation in order to find the origin, I find it normal beetween enthusiast....
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Well you are disproving yourself. If no other LTE variant on that rom has had similar problems then its not the rom/kernel/mod. It was a fluke of bad hardware with lazy techs (don't want to generalize its easier to blame it on an external source than actually debugging). Second your arguments are null in the end becaus:
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No mate, LTE version is not supported.
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That includes I7105, I317[M] and T889[V]. It might work, but probably not 100% and the developer simply offers no support for it.
aquasirius said:
I understand but, the first technicians i saw works for samsung, it's not samsung technicians, and these technicians has tried to change my ROM revolution in order to preserve my warrantly. Unfortunatly we have decided together that in first my phone will not send to Paris at Samsung.
The local technicians has received a new screen, and it was impossible for them to change the rom, anyway they has changed my screen by the new, after 20 mn the new screen has crashed...
We decided to send unfortuntly the phone to paris because we has think that the trouble was the motherbord or the graphic chipset. I was very afraid concerning my warrantly. But the local technicians has success just before to send the phone to change the revolution rom to a samsung in order to keep my warrantly. Otherwise the technicians of Paris..
At paris they has changed for the third time just the screen, anything else , and the note 2 is working perfectly....
I have the report by paper of all investigations makes... I am not a lie.. I cannot saw another reason of this trouble....
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Relax man, I did not think you were lying, neither did I accuse you of it, I merely asked you to, and personally believe,that the developers on this forum (who are people like you and me) are anyday more trustworthy than repair men who are from samsung or freelancers (read people bent on profiting from me screwing up my cellphone). Thus I asked you to visit the developers thread and look for comments about the issues you were facing, that is what I would've done.
Apparently you flashed a ROM which was not meant for your particular model. Whether that is true or not, I am sorry for all the trouble you had to go through with the engineers and all. I hope your note 2 functions great from now on.
Je vous présente mes meilleurs vœux pour l'année 2013
Sent from my GT-N7100.
Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
prbassplayer said:
Well you are disproving yourself. If no other LTE variant on that rom has had similar problems then its not the rom/kernel/mod. It was a fluke of bad hardware with lazy techs (don't want to generalize its easier to blame it on an external source than actually debugging). Second your arguments are null in the end becaus:
That includes I7105, I317[M] and T889[V]. It might work, but probably not 100% and the developer simply offers no support for it.
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It was the REVOLUTION HD 4, installed in november, not the 8 or the 9
I used the ROM perfectly adapted for my note 2
Now my note is working without problem with the last samsung rom with 4.1.2 android version.
Nothing has been changed into my phone (hardware etc...) just a new ROM...
And never else was happened on my phone before the trouble.
aquasirius said:
It was the REVOLUTION HD 4, installed in november, not the 8 or the 9
I used the ROM perfectly adapted for my note 2
Now my note is working without problem with the last samsung rom with 4.1.2 android version.
Nothing has been changed into my phone (hardware etc...) just a new ROM...
And never else was happened on my phone before the trouble.
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Man you said your on a 3rd screen so don't say hardware hasn't changed. This is not counting for anything that changed when you shipped out. In the end it doesn't matter if it was a November rom, or January rom its based on the N7100 firmware not N7105 therefor although it might work probably won't work 100%. You are so caught up that it has to be the rom that you are ignoring key points in your argument. It is more likely to be a hardware problem than software. I'm not saying it wasn't the rom/kernel combination because its possible, who knows, however its a rom based on Sammy firmware that isn't made for your device. Plain and simple.
Cheers
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Man you said your on a 3rd screen so don't say hardware hasn't changed. This is not counting for anything that changed when you shipped out. In the end it doesn't matter if it was a November rom, or January rom its based on the N7100 firmware not N7105 therefor although it might work probably won't work 100%. You are so caught up that it has to be the rom that you are ignoring key points in your argument. It is more likely to be a hardware problem than software. I'm not saying it wasn't the rom/kernel combination because its possible, who knows, however its a rom based on Sammy firmware that isn't made for your device. Plain and simple.
Cheers
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I mean hardware (motherboard, chipset,....etc) of course screens are hardware.
And I have 7100 and the ROM I used was for the 7100.
The ROM has broken something on my phone, i don't know what, maybe my english is too bad and i'am not able to do understand my story with the corrects words
I'am not a noob to choose the wrong ROM for my note 2...
we thought that the problem has came from a voltage problem beetween the screen and the GPU or the chipset...
Without any else action from me (no o/c, no brutality) i cannot see anything else....
I think several people have made good points though who knows, it's also possible some part of your os got corrupted and it killed the screens. I've seen a lot of wierd stuff happen with computers over the years. I repair phones, desktops and laptops myself and I continue to see new problems. Some of it I figure out, some I never do.
Another explanation that occurs to me - a transitory short that fried the screens. Did you drop or jar the phone? Spill fluid? Have high or extremes of temp or humidity ? **** happens. Intermitant problems are the absolute worst to track down. If it is something lurking in the hardware and they didn't fix it completely, it may say hello to you again! Problem devices often stay problem devices even after a number of "final" repairs that work for a while. That's why if something like that happened to me, I'd be happier with a replacement device.
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Dumbo53 said:
I think several people have made good points though who knows, it's also possible some part of your os got corrupted and it killed the screens. I've seen a lot of wierd stuff happen with computers over the years. I repair phones, desktops and laptops myself and I continue to see new problems. Some of it I figure out, some I never do.
Another explanation that occurs to me - a transitory short that fried the screens. Did you drop or jar the phone? Spill fluid? Have high or extremes of temp or humidity ? **** happens. Intermitant problems are the absolute worst to track down. If it is something lurking in the hardware and they didn't fix it completely, it may say hello to you again! Problem devices often stay problem devices even after a number of "final" repairs that work for a while. That's why if something like that happened to me, I'd be happier with a replacement device.
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Maybe you right, and the phone has been exposed every time in good condition, and never droped or jared. I will see with the time if it was a another hardware problem.
I think actually the association ROM/kernel has revealed an intrinseq hardware problem on my phone and maybe later even with a samsung rom the problem should be appear again....
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I mean hardware (motherboard, chipset,....etc) of course screens are hardware.
And I have 7100 and the ROM I used was for the 7100.
The ROM has broken something on my phone, i don't know what, maybe my english is too bad and i'am not able to do understand my story with the corrects words
I'am not a noob to choose the wrong ROM for my note 2...
we thought that the problem has came from a voltage problem beetween the screen and the GPU or the chipset...
Without any else action from me (no o/c, no brutality) i cannot see anything else....
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Wait.....Your Note 2 is an N7100? Then why did you come to an i317 forum to complain about a ROM somehow breaking your screen?
If you really think you have a legitimate concern that a ROM may have damaged your phone in some way, contact the developer. Maybe it has happened before. Maybe the developer can make changes to prevent it from happening to others. What you probably shouldn't do is to make claims that a ROM damaged your phone on a forum for a different model of phone.

4.2.2 upgrade for AT&T GN8

So I'm starting to get a bit frustrated that I'm sitting here with the i467 and have heard nothing on any upgrades. The screen freezing is getting tiring and without an unlocked bootloader, there is no ROMs for us to upgrade to and none in development. At least we have root, but that hasn't solved our screen freezing issue.
So, my question is, does anyone have a clue on when we can expect an upgrade to 4.2.2 or maybe even 4.3? I have been searching and Googling and haven't seen a word.
Am I the only frustrated one here? Sorry to vent.
There is nothing wrong with venting. Unfortunately things are what they are. Products that are not used by a lot of users (i.e., GN8 for AT&T) don't draw too much interest from developers for obvious reasons. And you are at the mercy of AT&T for ROM update (even though Samsung develops the code).
After learning from my experience with Verizon (for Galaxy 7.7), I decided to stay away from carrier-based tablets. Battery life is better and you could use any product specific ROM developed by Samsung. For network access in non-wifi zone, I use Verizon mifi.
Sorry but you will have to wait for your ROM. Hopefully it is around the corner.
I agree completely. Next time I'm going Nexus for my LTE tablet. Unfortunately they haven't been available with LTE and we're likely only getting the 10.1 version next.
esoh said:
So I'm starting to get a bit frustrated that I'm sitting here with the i467 and have heard nothing on any upgrades. The screen freezing is getting tiring and without an unlocked bootloader, there is no ROMs for us to upgrade to and none in development. At least we have root, but that hasn't solved our screen freezing issue.
So, my question is, does anyone have a clue on when we can expect an upgrade to 4.2.2 or maybe even 4.3? I have been searching and Googling and haven't seen a word.
Am I the only frustrated one here? Sorry to vent.
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Finally signed up just to post my views.
Getting frustrated as well with the screen freezing, I too have searched for answers and have found nothing. We are certainly stuck waiting on ATT at this point. Is there anyway to complain to ATT or Samsung? What a crock of crap that this is still happening months after release.
kmeleon77 said:
Finally signed up just to post my views.
Getting frustrated as well with the screen freezing, I too have searched for answers and have found nothing. We are certainly stuck waiting on ATT at this point. Is there anyway to complain to ATT or Samsung? What a crock of crap that this is still happening months after release.
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Complaining is useless. All I can say is that it does eventually happen. Usually 3-4 months after Samsung releases it.
dmunjal said:
Complaining is useless. All I can say is that it does eventually happen. Usually 3-4 months after Samsung releases it.
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I get it that complaining is useless. What I was hoping was for any info that anyone might have on any possible update. Regarding your comment, does "it" refer to the wifi version? If that's the case, the if we say that 4.2.2 was released around August, that puts our version at Nov/Dec or so?
At Royaltiger, I remember you from the 7.7 boards. I also have the 7.7 (still have it, my wife uses it). I would love to go MiFi, but I appreciate having data built into the device. I could tether from my phone too, but sometimes I'm on a call and need data on the side. In any case, I agree with you and wish I could take myself out of the carrier versions, but there are always tradeoffs.
At dmunjal, I looked at N7 but like the 8" screen much better plus the Note capabilities. I take notes on my device all of the time. In any case, there are always 2 sides to everything. I just wish that we had more info from AT&T.
Ohh....I thought 4.2.2 upgrade for AT&T GN8 already out? no?
is this LTE version? what's your model number N5XXXX?

[Q] common issues

Hi! I'm planning to buy the LTE version of this phone tom. I wanna ask what are the common issues that I need to check and or common issue after months of using like screen unreponsiveness or not accurate touch screen deadpixels so I can think for other options or I can live with the issues if there is a work around.. Thabks in advance!
kimdarrel said:
Hi! I'm planning to buy the LTE version of this phone tom. I wanna ask what are the common issues that I need to check and or common issue after months of using like screen unreponsiveness or not accurate touch screen deadpixels so I can think for other options or I can live with the issues if there is a work around.. Thabks in advance!
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All the 'potential' problem you list may or may not happen to you/anyone with any phones...
The only real problem with the S4 mini is the KNOX protection. Which prevent you modding your phone, as a triggered knox voids warranty.
Got this for about two months now, only issue that I couldn't fix is GPS... Gps is very unstable as for me. Also there is not that many roms with this device. I wouldn't buy this now... In general no samsung devices for me...
kodyro said:
Got this for about two months now, only issue that I couldn't fix is GPS... Gps is very unstable as for me. Also there is not that many roms with this device. I wouldn't buy this now... In general no samsung devices for me...
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There's at least 8 ROMs if not more for the S4 mini... How many more you want? I have Sygic on mine, and it works perfectly.
However I may agree with the idea with no Samsung, but all the reason you given is not a valid one.
well i have to say, i don't really have any issues
Battery issue is a big problem. People talking around of it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775477&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2779448
in certain circumstances the battery drains very quickly.
Other than that, there is a custom roms, mine GPS working fine.
And i do not undurstand the fuss about KNOX, because if you want to replace it you can electrically shock the device, and no one can tell what rom did you had on it...
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Battery issue is a big problem. People talking around of it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775477&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2779448
in certain circumstances the battery drains very quickly.
Other than that, there is a custom roms, mine GPS working fine.
And i do not undurstand the fuss about KNOX, because if you want to replace it you can electrically shock the device, and no one can tell what rom did you had on it...
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That a software problem... particularly a kernel one. It not the phone itself. And if you want to talk about software problem, I want to know which phone doesn't have one? Even Google Edition phones that uses AOSP has problems.
Yes, all smart phones has software misgivings in one or another way, but all phones are comprised both of software and hardware, and for me, i cannot give hardware disadvantage to this one, i can only share my opinion on the problem with the battery (no one actuality confirmed 100% where the problem is, almost everybody suspects that it is a software - kernel, problem), because for me, the battery drains some times fast, some times slow, and this is really awful. I cannot relay on this phone.
TNCS said:
There's at least 8 ROMs if not more for the S4 mini... How many more you want? I have Sygic on mine, and it works perfectly.
However I may agree with the idea with no Samsung, but all the reason you given is not a valid one.
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basicly i've tried most of them, however it was device fault.

can a custom ROM work for a J2 PRO with another model #?

Title says most of it, but i'll put the specifics.
The samsung j250-n is a J2 model made specifically for students in south korea.
It's a dumb phone, with no internet capabilities to help people focus on studies.
I got one in order to curb some internet addiction without having to rock a flip phone, and I like it except for the samsung bloat.
There are plenty of custom ROMs on here that I'd love to try, but none have the sm-j250n model number listed specifcally.
I haven't tried flashing any of these yet because this phones are hard to get in the west and I don't want to brick it.
Is flashing a ROM for different model a bad idea? Will I have to build my own ROM?
Thanks for reading, sorry I know it's an old phone and no one cares lol
If you do happen to have the answer though I will be forever grateful
Edit: build number is NMF26X.J250NKOU1ARL1 btw
you can try
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you can try
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I did, I put ressurction remix on it, and it was actually crazy.
The ROM worked, and it straight up gave the phone the ability to connect to wifi.
I guess since it has the physical antenna the software is the only thing preventing it.
Anyways, the whole point was no wifi so I just went back to stock ,where ill have to stay : P

A71 Rom for M51

First thing first, I'm not an tech guru, im just a humble guy wondering things. I dont know any fancy terms you guys use. My only experiense is using Android 9 in my 10y/o gt n8000. So if you guys can explain stuff easily, that would be really nice.
As we all know A71 and M51 are pretty similar on paper. M51 is better on hardware and A71 on software (at least that what i know). So i thougt to myself... is it possible to use A71 rom on M51? And if so, would it let us use Good Lock modules and/or let us record videos in 60 fps?
Also another thing... i have heard that using wrong roms on wrong devices can cause pretty big deals, mainly hard bricking the device. I also heard that even if the specs are similar, things coded differently for different devices. Like chipset id, screen size and stuff like that. Is there any possibility to change A71 rom in a way, like rewriting some parts of the code, to work on M51?
Using Good Lock modules or 60 fps camera is not my goal. I know that there is a few trick out there to make it happen. I just wondered that would this theory work? If anyone can help me in this silly project, that would be awesome. Thanks for reading and have a fine fine day.
John Yankton said:
First thing first, I'm not an tech guru, im just a humble guy wondering things. I dont know any fancy terms you guys use. My only experiense is using Android 9 in my 10y/o gt n8000. So if you guys can explain stuff easily, that would be really nice.
As we all know A71 and M51 are pretty similar on paper. M51 is better on hardware and A71 on software (at least that what i know). So i thougt to myself... is it possible to use A71 rom on M51? And if so, would it let us use Good Lock modules and/or let us record videos in 60 fps?
Also another thing... i have heard that using wrong roms on wrong devices can cause pretty big deals, mainly hard bricking the device. I also heard that even if the specs are similar, things coded differently for different devices. Like chipset id, screen size and stuff like that. Is there any possibility to change A71 rom in a way, like rewriting some parts of the code, to work on M51?
Using Good Lock modules or 60 fps camera is not my goal. I know that there is a few trick out there to make it happen. I just wondered that would this theory work? If anyone can help me in this silly project, that would be awesome. Thanks for reading and have a fine fine day.
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I don't think it would be possible? As good lock is Samsung's properitory software and are closed-source.
it would take a huge kernel rewrite with driver changes and other technical details that I'm not well versed with ROM development to know about.
Just knowing that trying to recreate Samsung's stock roms would be very difficult or impossible to say at least
Kenora_I said:
I don't think it would be possible? As good lock is Samsung's properitory software and are closed-source.
it would take a huge kernel rewrite with driver changes and other technical details that I'm not well versed with ROM development to know about.
Just knowing that trying to recreate Samsung's stock roms would be very difficult or impossible to say at least
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Thank you for your answer.
So, let's say we just flash the A71 rom without any changes whatsoever... would it work, what would be the outcome, what's the worst case scenario?
And is there any method or a way of checking if the rom works without sacrificing a phone? Cuz i bought the phone like a year ago and since then it's price just straight up tripled.
John Yankton said:
Thank you for your answer.
So, let's say we just flash the A71 rom without any changes whatsoever... would it work, what would be the outcome, what's the worst case scenario?
And is there any method or a way of checking if the rom works without sacrificing a phone? Cuz i bought the phone like a year ago and since then it's price just straight up tripled.
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It's probably gonna lead to a brick or not even flash because of incompatibility, even if we tried to flash on Odin
Firstly, thank you for answering my dumb questions. That means a lot for me. I really appreciate it.
Kenora_I said:
It's probably gonna lead to a brick or not even flash because of incompatibility, even if we tried to flash on Odin
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My question is if that happens can it be fixed, like, via TWRP or by any means? Like a full data / cache erase or something like that can fix it?
Brick? Depends yeah we can just by flashing through fastboot again
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Firstly, thank you for answering my dumb questions. That means a lot for me. I really appreciate it.
My question is if that happens can it be fixed, like, via TWRP or by any means? Like a full data / cache erase or something like that can fix it?
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