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Just picked up a Epic 4G Touch. Coming over from a Sprint HTC EVO. Questions!

Well, I stopped on the way home from work today to see what was new at Sprint. I've been thinking about getting the EVO 3D... I came home with a Touch.
So. I want to root, so I can run root apps like um, Ad Free etc. What do I need to know about rooting this before I jump in head first? Do these phones have any stupid security etc or anything I need to know about?
I just wanna make sure I don't mess anything up.
What do we have for a recovery etc?
Any tips would be GREAT!

E4GT doesn't have all the locked bootloader stuff to worry about like EVO 3D.
You can start off here:
[ROOT][EG30] Automated root of your existing stock ROM (w/o ODIN or ROM Flash)
That will get you rooted on stock and won't involve flashing anything. It doesn't use ODIN.
There is also a tool called ODIN which lets you flash stuff to the phone outside of Android. It provides fastboot-like functionality. Using ODIN, if you flash unsigned kernels, your boot screen will get a yellow triangle and there is a flash count that gets incremented. Also it'll identify the phone in the boot screen by the real model name (I9100...) rather Galaxy S2. Other than that it'll still boot and work.

Question about this ODIN flasher thingy and the unsigned kernels. Why the increment count etc? What is the point to that?
Thanks for the info btw. I think the link you sent will be a good start. Don't need to flash any custom roms yet. I wanna get the hang of the stock one first. This Samsung has a very different feel then the HTC EVO/Sense stuff.

Need to ask Samsung.
Probably they want to keep track of whether you installed non-standard software, possibly for service reasons.
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BTW you can use a USB jig to get rid of the Yellow Triangle and reset the flash counter.
If you just want to get rid of the Yellow Triangle, you can flash back the stock kernel, then use other methods like the Root Installation Kit I pointed to earlier.
Once you get CWM, flashes through that won't affect the Yellow Triangle and flash count.

Just watch the roots right now the odin has an issue with LOS from what I have seen. I am currently using a direct root which roots the rom.

I assume LOS means loss of service?
OK! Noted.

duced said:
Just watch the roots right now the odin has an issue with LOS from what I have seen. I am currently using a direct root which roots the rom.
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Stock phones suffer from LOS too. Rooting and some kernels MAY make it worse. I've flashed nearly everything available for this device in the last month and have not had 1 serious unexplainable LOS.
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OK! Well I did the MOST important thing I wanted to do which was to get root in there so I could use Adfree!
I also did the EG30+CWM5 while I was there. Now what? What cool stuff is there to play with? Looking around the forums now, just not sure what to check out first.

kdoggy said:
OK! Well I did the MOST important thing I wanted to do which was to get root in there so I could use Adfree!
I also did the EG30+CWM5 while I was there. Now what? What cool stuff is there to play with? Looking around the forums now, just not sure what to check out first.
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If it were me, I would use the phone as is for a few days to get some feel for whether your situation will get LoS and what the battery life is. Then you have a baseline to compare to after you start making changes.
It is easy to get really excited and install a whole bunch of stuff and all of a sudden you get LoS or really bad battery life, and then you can't figure out what caused it or even what to expect with the stock phone.
This could lead you to think the phone is at fault when it is actually something that was installed later.

Also with the official Samsung rom out now most of the roms in development will be getting reworked shortly.
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Can someone point me to a thread that explains LOS and what do you do if you get it?

kdoggy said:
Can someone point me to a thread that explains LOS and what do you do if you get it?
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As far as I know the only thing you can really do is reboot the phone. going back to a stock kernal also helps.

kdoggy said:
I also did the EG30+CWM5 while I was there. Now what? What cool stuff is there to play with? Looking around the forums now, just not sure what to check out first.
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Install set CPU and underclock that puppy! Especially with the screen off. 200 min has worked flawlessly for me, and 800mhz Max still flies for most things.
The battery savings are staggering.

N00dle said:
As far as I know the only thing you can really do is reboot the phone. going back to a stock kernal also helps.
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clearing ram fixes it sometimes too
MoMatt said:
Install set CPU and underclock that puppy! Especially with the screen off. 200 min has worked flawlessly for me, and 800mhz Max still flies for most things.
The battery savings are staggering.
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completely agree. been underclocked to 800mhz for a while. No difference in performance and battery increased probably 20%

MoMatt said:
Install set CPU and underclock that puppy! Especially with the screen off. 200 min has worked flawlessly for me, and 800mhz Max still flies for most things.
The battery savings are staggering.
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I'll have to give that a try. I've never been into overclocking these phones. I don't game, I don't use them for video either. I just use them for work to look up help desk tickets while I'm going building to building.
Beats the hell out of lugging my MacBook around just to read some notes on the go.

[Q] Screen is unresponsive with finger

I was running the tweeked rom on my Note 2 and was loving it, was running great for a few days...
Today the screen froze when I went to unlock and check a missed call. I am unable to get any response from my finger, nothing... The S pen does work though.
T-mobile tech knew nothing about how to fix it. I tried a different rom and still the same.
Any suggestions? Calibration? Anything? Thanks so much.

As it exists across roms, it regrettably sounds like a hardware issue. Have you tried flashing a stock odin? Likely won't help but it might be worth a shot.

dwitherell said:
As it exists across roms, it regrettably sounds like a hardware issue. Have you tried flashing a stock odin? Likely won't help but it might be worth a shot.
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Thanks for the reply. I am afraid that is a pretty big problem too, related to hardware. 10 minutes before the finger freeze I was just realizing how much I loved the phone with the Tweaked Rom and totally set-up.
Anyways, it's going back to T-mobile. I used Odin to flash to stock and used Triangle Way to reset the flasher... Now I am scared to root it and run a rom on the new one, but I know it was just a freak incident...
Just sucks, I hate getting a refurb replacement... I don't know what dirty, grungy, smelly pocket it's been in for a couple months, uh...

I had an issue on my first note 2 where the top right and left of the screen couldnt register the s pen, had to send the phone back. I flashed jedi as soon as i got the second one and been happy ever since.
Moral of the story, DONT WORRY AND FLASH AWAY. ur right, it was a freak accident and it wont happen again.
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moabizzi said:
I had an issue on my first note 2 where the top right and left of the screen couldnt register the s pen, had to send the phone back. I flashed jedi as soon as i got the second one and been happy ever since.
Moral of the story, DONT WORRY AND FLASH AWAY. ur right, it was a freak accident and it wont happen again.
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Thanks, appreciate the help... I will definitely flash away and have fun with the new phone.

At&T i467 Question

Im rather new to the note 8 forums but I was curious if there are any plans anybody has heard of about this device getting 4.2.2. I cant seem to find a straight answer anywhere.
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agent929 said:
Im rather new to the note 8 forums but I was curious if there are any plans anybody has heard of about this device getting 4.2.2. I cant seem to find a straight answer anywhere.
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There is a UK version of 4.2.2 for the 5120, that works great. I screwed up and tried to put a 5110 ROM on, then had to scramble to find this one. Took me 4-5 days, but I got it finally.
Link to thread with UK 4.2.2. ROM

_Allan_ said:
There is a UK version of 4.2.2 for the 5120, that works great. I screwed up and tried to put a 5110 ROM on, then had to scramble to find this one. Took me 4-5 days, but I got it finally.
Link to thread with UK 4.2.2. ROM
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This won't work. Your device is different than ours plus we don't have a recognized/confirmed way to unlock the bootloader.

esoh said:
This won't work. Your device is different than ours plus we don't have a recognized/confirmed way to unlock the bootloader.
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Is it just me or does the display not respond sometimes?
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Jeez, I'm not to sure this device is all that great..I'm using a Note 3 phone and this thing is a piece of crap compared to it lol. The screen not being responsive to touches sometimes are really getting annoying. Also I'm thinking AT&T may never update this thing. Seems like they always care about the initial release then it's history.

agent929 said:
Jeez, I'm not to sure this device is all that great..I'm using a Note 3 phone and this thing is a piece of crap compared to it lol. The screen not being responsive to touches sometimes are really getting annoying. Also I'm thinking AT&T may never update this thing. Seems like they always care about the initial release then it's history.
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Lots of threads on this. Yes, the screen is unresponsive. It's a true bummer. I have hope that we'll see 4.2.2, hopefully in the next month or two. When it's released, I hope it has the screen responsiveness fixes and S-Pen offset fixes in the latest wifi version OTAs. I agree with you, I'm losing some patience with this device. As a whole, I love it. I need the pen, like the screen, like that I can use PAYG data, good specs, and the form factor is perfect. Don't like that it's not updated, the screen freezes, no unlocked bootloader, no custom ROMs, and not-so-great battery life.

[MOD]Disable EndCall Screen for Smsung Phone app(SecPhone.apk)

Hate this annoying screen that pops up after call is complete? Flash attached zip in recovery and you wont see it any more. Enjoy...
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nijel8 said:
Hate this annoying screen that pops up after call is complete? Flash attached zip in recovery and you wont see it any more. Enjoy...
For more details see here ...
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Would make a sweet exposed mod

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nijel8 said:
Hate this annoying screen that pops up after call is complete? Flash attached zip in recovery and you wont see it any more. Enjoy...
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Awesome!....Now I could resist the urge of calling/texting back the person I just hanged up on just 2 seconds ago.
No really this is great...THX!
Sent from my Blutiful Note3

Nice , I find the screen useful but others may not.
I'd much prefer eliminating some of those shadows and making the caller ID picture more prominent.

re: excelllent mod
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Hate this annoying screen that pops up after call is complete? Flash attached zip in recovery and you wont see it any more. Enjoy...
For more details see here ...
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I did not like that screen either, never had any use for it and when it pops
up it looks and acts like some kind of hesitation or lag in the phone before
it finally goes back to previous screen after any incoming or outgoing calls.
This is a great mod!
Good luck!

What firmware is it based off of? MI7
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ktetreault14 said:
What firmware is it based off of? MI7
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Yes, MI7...

Have a restore file?
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CoogiMane1996 said:
Have a restore file?
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Backup should be created in /sdcard/vrthemeundo folder. If you don't have it just replace /system/app/SecPhone.apk with one from the ROM you are using.

OP...long shot question....do you know of any way to flash this via MOP? I am KNOX 0x0 running Wicked, but not able to flash vrthemes, or at least not found a way.

droidkevlar said:
OP...long shot question....do you know of any way to flash this via MOP? I am KNOX 0x0 running Wicked, but not able to flash vrthemes, or at least not found a way.
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Don't know what MOP is but if you can push apps to /system/app then you can replace classes.dex in SecPhone.apk with the one from this zip and push it back. That's what flashing do.

nijel8 said:
Don't know what MOP is but if you can push apps to /system/app then you can replace classes.dex in SecPhone.apk with the one from this zip and push it back. That's what flashing do.
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MOP is Mobile Odin Pro...ok, good to know. I know how to do that. Thanks for the heads up.

Does this work on kk 4.4 base
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oxidation868 said:
Does this work on kk 4.4 base
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I tested it. it does not work with Kitkat. It did not cause me any problems, it just does not work.
Could the developer please update this mod to work with Kitkat?
AC
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droidkevlar said:
OP...long shot question....do you know of any way to flash this via MOP? I am KNOX 0x0 running Wicked, but not able to flash vrthemes, or at least not found a way.
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Why in the world are you still Knox 0x0?? Who gives a crap about Samsungs Knox stuff. Trip your counter. If you mess it up, flash another boot loader from like the s4 or note 2, no one will ever know. Just say it won't turn on. Bam, new phone. Keeping your counter 0x0 is like having a model GF and never sleeping with her.
Your missing so many benefits of kernels and themes.

antiochasylum said:
Why in the world are you still Knox 0x0?? Who gives a crap about Samsungs Knox stuff. Trip your counter. If you mess it up, flash another boot loader from like the s4 or note 2, no one will ever know. Just say it won't turn on. Bam, new phone. Keeping your counter 0x0 is like having a model GF and never sleeping with her.
Your missing so many benefits of kernels and themes.
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Reason I didn't want to trip it was for resale value. I've already sold the phone and moved on. Thanks though.
sent from my m8 in my pants

You convinced me though!
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antiochasylum said:
Why in the world are you still Knox 0x0?? Who gives a crap about Samsungs Knox stuff. Trip your counter. If you mess it up, flash another boot loader from like the s4 or note 2, no one will ever know. Just say it won't turn on. Bam, new phone. Keeping your counter 0x0 is like having a model GF and never sleeping with her.
Your missing so many benefits of kernels and themes.
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That cracked me up man, that's a perfect analogy because you're exactly right. Whenever people ask me what rooting is, I always say it's basically like giving a rape victim the ability to at least put a condom on their attacker before it happens. You're still gonna get screwed regardless, but at least you can have some control over how it happens! LOL! I definitely know what ya mean as far as Knox goes because I actually popped mine in the parking lot 5 mins after I walked out of the store with it lol.
droidkevlar said:
Reason I didn't want to trip it was for resale value. I've already sold the phone and moved on. Thanks though.
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To each his own and it's obviously up to you how you decide to do things, but what you're doing is literally what they expected you to do. By making people worry about the resale value possibly going down because it has been rooted or more specifically Knox has been tripped, it allows them to stay in control and basically force whatever they want down your throat. Technically there's no such thing as "resale value" with these phones anymore (when it comes to T-mobile at least), because now you're paying for the entire phone over a two year period so by the time you finish paying it off and then try to sell it, you'll never get anywhere near what you paid for it to begin with. It's actually even worse if you go through Jump though because not only are you paying them a down payment for the device, you're also turning it back in to them so you're letting THEM resell it for all the profit.. on top of that you're also paying them another down payment for the next device and the "giant wheel of dongs for your butt" cycle continues. The only way to even kind of "get ahead" is to either buy your phone outright somewhere at a discount or by actually keeping your device for the entire two years to pay it off, because then whatever you're able to sell it for at that point will at least recoupe some of the money you spent on it (and 99% of people buying it outright could care less whether Knox is tripped or not, because Jump has nothing to do with them anyway). So in my opinion "Jump" is nothing but a suckers bet designed for people who have to have the latest and greatest or simply can't wait until their phone is paid off before getting something else. So if you think about it worrying about the resale value is a total waste of time unless you're into suckers bets, and unfortunately it looks like that might be the case considering you said you already moved on. My biggest question would be what could you have "moved on" to that's anywhere near as powerful and awesome as this one?! But that's where to each their own comes in I guess
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Ok , lets not get hostile. We wirk hard on these roms. And as its hard to please everyone, we try. There are other roms. And there are other phones. Please try to remember. Thus is as is free of charge. As updates come it's on the free time of the OP.
¡♤Redux♤!

Vibration stopped working

I've been using Hyperdrive ROM for a while and today I noticed that none of the alerts are producing vibration. I thought it might be related to the kernel I installed so I reverted the kernel but that did not fix. So I installed a new ROM (Resurrection) and I still have the same issue.
I installed Vibration tester and I'm still not getting any vibration.
Any suggestion ?
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ajamils said:
I've been using Hyperdrive ROM for a while and today I noticed that none of the alerts are producing vibration. I thought it might be related to the kernel I installed so I reverted the kernel but that did not fix. So I installed a new ROM (Resurrection) and I still have the same issue.
I installed Vibration tester and I'm still not getting any vibration.
Any suggestion ?
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have you dropped your phone, or did it get wet. happened to me once. the vibrate stopped after getting wet on an HTC phone.. also if you drop it, the connector could get loose.

ajamils said:
I've been using Hyperdrive ROM for a while and today I noticed that none of the alerts are producing vibration. I thought it might be related to the kernel I installed so I reverted the kernel but that did not fix. So I installed a new ROM (Resurrection) and I still have the same issue.
I installed Vibration tester and I'm still not getting any vibration.
Any suggestion ?
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If I were u I would flash another kernel and try.

mdiaz33685 said:
have you dropped your phone, or did it get wet. happened to me once. the vibrate stopped after getting wet on an HTC phone.. also if you drop it, the connector could get loose.
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I don't recall phone getting wet but it has definitely been dropped on carpet many times but I have a bumper cover so no physical damage to the phone.
jdidtht said:
If I were u I would flash another kernel and try.
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I have tried new kernel as well as new ROM. I installed KK Remix and still I don't get any vibration. :crying:

ajamils said:
I don't recall phone getting wet but it has definitely been dropped on carpet many times but I have a bumper cover so no physical damage to the phone.
I have tried new kernel as well as new ROM. I installed KK Remix and still I don't get any vibration. :crying:
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Do u have power savings mode on by any chance? Because that would kill vibration.

jdidtht said:
Do u have power savings mode on by any chance? Because that would kill vibration.
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I don't think so. I just installed a brand new ROM so I don't think it has power saving mode on by default. Does it? I'm on KK Remix, where can I check?

ajamils said:
I don't think so. I just installed a brand new ROM so I don't think it has power saving mode on by default. Does it? I'm on KK Remix, where can I check?
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Nope, alright, weird, tw has power savings mode that would kill it, but aosp specifically that ROM I'm unaware of said feature. And since its occurring on both ROMs you may be in a pickle.
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Did it work when phone r was new? When did it stop? Did u Odin stock and see? Sorry driving so I didn't really read back too far

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Nope, alright, weird, tw has power savings mode that would kill it, but aosp specifically that ROM I'm unaware of said feature. And since its occurring on both ROMs you may be in a pickle.
[/COLOR]Did it work when phone r was new? When did it stop? Did u Odin stock and see? Sorry driving so I didn't really read back too far
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Yes, it's been working fine until few days ago when I noticed that I'm missing calls and texts due to phone not vibrating in my pocket. At first I thought it was a kernel issue (I was using Hyperdrive rom at that time) so I tried different kernel and it did not fix the issue to yesterday I installed KK remix to see if that fixes the issue but had no luck with that either. So at this point I think it might be a hardware issue and the vibration motor is toast. I went ahead and ordered a replacement and will try my luck with replacing the original one.

ajamils said:
Yes, it's been working fine until few days ago when I noticed that I'm missing calls and texts due to phone not vibrating in my pocket. At first I thought it was a kernel issue (I was using Hyperdrive rom at that time) so I tried different kernel and it did not fix the issue to yesterday I installed KK remix to see if that fixes the issue but had no luck with that either. So at this point I think it might be a hardware issue and the vibration motor is toast. I went ahead and ordered a replacement and will try my luck with replacing the original one.
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Yes definitely weird.. I would've tried to Odin the latest ne6 stock before in ordered a replacement, but as long as you have it solved that's a plus.

jdidtht said:
Yes definitely weird.. I would've tried to Odin the latest ne6 stock before in ordered a replacement, but as long as you have it solved that's a plus.
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I thought about going back to stock to test but then decided against because I didn't think that it would make a difference as I have already tried different ROM with no success. Do you think that going to stock could make a difference?

ajamils said:
I thought about going back to stock to test but then decided against because I didn't think that it would make a difference as I have already tried different ROM with no success. Do you think that going to stock could make a difference?
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I do actually , when all else fails Odin back to stock, and if that fails you know the phone is at fault. Might as well if ya get bored, give it a whirl see what happens..

jdidtht said:
I do actually , when all else fails Odin back to stock, and if that fails you know the phone is at fault. Might as well if ya get bored, give it a whirl see what happens..
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I see different version of STOCK ROM in the forum. Is there any particular one you recommend?

ajamils said:
I see different version of STOCK ROM in the forum. Is there any particular one you recommend?
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Yea I would use this one, they all are the same build, just packaged a little differently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2764944

jdidtht said:
I do actually , when all else fails Odin back to stock, and if that fails you know the phone is at fault. Might as well if ya get bored, give it a whirl see what happens..
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jdidtht said:
Yea I would use this one, they all are the same build, just packaged a little differently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2764944
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Flashed stock ROM but still no vibration :'(. So I guess I will just wait for the part to arrive so that I can operate my phone.

ajamils said:
Flashed stock ROM but still no vibration :'(. So I guess I will just wait for the part to arrive so that I can operate my phone.
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Yup, for sure. Super odd to me still that its broke like it is, but, can't argue with stock fw I guess. Thanks form taking the time to actually trouble shoot the issue. Surprised how many people don't want to take that time.

jdidtht said:
Yup, for sure. Super odd to me still that its broke like it is, but, can't argue with stock fw I guess. Thanks form taking the time to actually trouble shoot the issue. Surprised how many people don't want to take that time.
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Ya, it is very odd. Never had that happen to any of the countless phones that I've owned in the past.
Thanks for all your help.

For anyone who might be following the thread, I got the replacement part from Amazon and replaced the the vibrator. Everything is working as expected. Thanks to everyone who replied.
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ajamils said:
For anyone who might be following the thread, I got the replacement part from Amazon and replaced the the vibrator. Everything is working as expected. Thanks to everyone who replied.
Sent from Galaxy Note 3 via Tapatalk.
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Whoop. Glad to hear you got bit all fixed up man. Awesome.