So Who here runs stock rom?
Do you run stock rom with Xposed or do you find better performance in running a rom?
I am running completely stock except for being rooted. I just haven't found a need to run anything else. Performance is awesome stock and I don't have time to deal with my phone much interns of playing. I need it for my work and it does everything just fine.
On my old Droid Razr Maxx, I used to put together my own Roms, but I just haven't felt the need at all with this phone.
I run stock 4.3, rooted. Been contemplating upgrading to 4.4.2 stock, but AFAIK, none of the root preserve KNOX.
Nowadays I stay with stock, less problem.
I was running stock 4.3 since I got my phone release day but decided to root and upgrade to 4.4.2 a few days ago and retain root so I can do the SD card mod. Wanted to see what the hype was about. I regret upgrading to kit kat but at least I'm rooted and Knox still intact and still "official" device status. So I'm still in warranty.
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I was running stock 4.3 since I got my phone but decided to root and upgrade to 4.4.2 a few days ago and retain root to see what the hype was about. I regret upgrading to kit kat but at least I'm rooted and Knox still in fact and still "official" device status. So I'm still in warranty.
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What's bad about KK that made you regret the upgrade?
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What's bad about KK that made you regret the upgrade?
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More battery drain. Can't use foxfi anymore so I'm trying to find another method to tether. Nova launcher animation reverts to opening app from center instead of opening from the icon location. Lost my ripple lock effect when connected to galaxy gear.
There's no benefit to kit kat for me. But now I'm stuck till someone figured out how to revert back.
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More battery drain. Can't use foxfi anymore so I'm trying to find another method to tether. Nova launcher animation reverts to opening app from center instead of opening from the icon location. Lost my ripple lock effect when connected to galaxy gear.
There's no benefit to kit kat for me. But now I'm stuck till someone figured out how to revert back.
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My Note 3 came with 4.4.2 when I got it. havent had an issue with anything yet (Coming from an Nexus 5) Tethering isant an issue as I have AT&T and have not had an issue with the T-Mobile tethering app.
Have been thinking about putting the S5 Messaging app and S5 accuweather widget but so far thats about All I want just for root.
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My Note 3 came with 4.4.2 when I got it. havent had an issue with anything yet (Coming from an Nexus 5) Tethering isant an issue as I have AT&T and have not had an issue with the T-Mobile tethering app.
Have been thinking about putting the S5 Messaging app and S5 accuweather widget but so far thats about All I want just for root.
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You've never had note with 4.3 so you won't see the difference with battery life. Specially coming from a nexus 5. I used to get 6-7 hour on screen time. Not talking standby time. T-Mobile tethering app limits me to my 3gb T-Mobile tether plan. With foxfi it bypasses it so I have unlimited tethering.
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More battery drain. Can't use foxfi anymore so I'm trying to find another method to tether. Nova launcher animation reverts to opening app from center instead of opening from the icon location. Lost my ripple lock effect when connected to galaxy gear.
There's no benefit to kit kat for me. But now I'm stuck till someone figured out how to revert back.
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Have you tried pdanet? It says it supports 4.4.2 and if you already bought the foxfi key that will also unlock and work on pdanet.
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I run stock ROM and love it. LeanKernel, root, Xposed, Foreverloco's inverted dialer and a few ported S5 apps are all I need to be happy. I'm usually one to run crazy modded ROMs, but stock MI7, NB4 and NE6 have all been perfectly stable and great on battery for me. I do PSX/PSP emulation, mobile gaming and watch a lot of media on my Note 3, so I'd say performance is fine in stock.
My wife ran stock unrooted MI7 for what seems like forever, until the NB4 OTA got forced onto her phone lol. After that, her phone started to heat up and drain in her pocket. It was easily fixed by a clean wipe and Odin to NE6 though. No problems since.
The only times I didn't run stock ROM on Note 3 were when I was running dwitherell's Tweaked ROM (this thing is a work of art seriously) and sbreen94's HyperDrive (really great NB4 ROM). But since going NE6, I haven't really felt the need to try another modded ROM.
I am curently running stock, but I am looking for a variant of multirom for the Note 3 (N9005). And I think I might have found it in safestrap.
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Have you tried pdanet? It says it supports 4.4.2 and if you already bought the foxfi key that will also unlock and work on pdanet.
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Thanks for the tip but it looks to be the same as foxfi in which it currently only supports Verizon kitkat note 3 devices only for now.
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You've never had note with 4.3 so you won't see the difference with battery life. Specially coming from a nexus 5. I used to get 6-7 hour on screen time. Not talking standby time. T-Mobile tethering app limits me to my 3gb T-Mobile tether plan. With foxfi it bypasses it so I have unlimited tethering.
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Does Foxfi really bypass the tethering limit on 4.3?
Stock 4.42 rooted. Knox is blown but don't care. Use Xposed and a number of other root apps. Battery use is good, no real issues unlike what others have reported. Have TWRP recovery, but mainly for use to make backups. No plans out interest to change ROMS or kernel
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Thanks for the tip but it looks to be the same as foxfi in which it currently only supports Verizon kitkat note 3 devices only for now.
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ahhh sucks, didnt see that part about verizon exclusivity, hope they fix it for our carrier soon than.
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Tweaked ROM ne6, tea other works fine for me, switch ton the tether apns and boom, no issues for me. Tweaked or bust
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Does Foxfi really bypass the tethering limit on 4.3?
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It does. I was actually using it before I upgraded to the new plan with 3gb free tethering. Only had the unlimited data option then. Had to make an empty apn and activate before I ran foxfi for it to work.
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I'm running stock everything non root. I updated OTA to KK. Phone lags once in a while. And my battery seems to be going very quick compared to my wife's note3. She can go 2 days on one battery. ( all she plays is candy crush lol). Other than that I'd say it's the best phone We've owned..
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Has anyone who rooted and flashed a ROM gotten the extra $40 in Google Wallet from Sprint yet? I was just wondering before I flash a ROM if I will still be able to get it. Also has anyone had the problem with the secure element committing suicide?
Has anyone who rooted and flashed a ROM gotten the extra $40 in Google Wallet from Sprint yet? I was just wondering before I flash a ROM if I will still be able to get it. Also has anyone had the problem with the secure element committing suicide?
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No money here yet but reading on sprint website I should get it next week. I have flashed 5 different roms without wiping the Google wallet and my Google wallet still works there is some people that has problems tho...
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My secure element committed suicide, then rose again on the third day.
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You would think Google would...
You would think Google would include a utility that would reinitialize the secure element when needed. Nothing to access the contents but just erase everything and format it like new. But, it would probably leave an open door for access somehow.
So no one who rooted get the money yet? That was one of the main reasons I bought this phone was so that I could get the extra $50. I don't want to lose it just because I flashed a ROM.
Wilsonium said:
You would think Google would include a utility that would reinitialize the secure element when needed. Nothing to access the contents but just erase everything and format it like new. But, it would probably leave an open door for access somehow.
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I guess they wouldn't consider it "secure" then lol.
The secure element contains a bunch of unique keys tied to your MEID that are used to facilitate secure communication with the servers. If you wiped its contents, you'd lose those keys and you thus access to google wallet.
The secure element has countermeasures that are designed to prevent somebody from stealing those keys and therefore being able to steal your money. If the secure element detects tampering, it destroys itself to protect that information.
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The secure element contains a bunch of unique keys tied to your MEID that are used to facilitate secure communication with the servers. If you wiped its contents, you'd lose those keys and you thus access to google wallet.
The secure element has countermeasures that are designed to prevent somebody from stealing those keys and therefore being able to steal your money. If the secure element detects tampering, it destroys itself to protect that information.
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So how you wipe them ?
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jgalan14 said:
So how you wipe them ?
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You don't, they commit suicide. If you are talking about how to get rid of google wallet so you can flash a ROM, you go to google wallet got to settings and clear the data or whatever it is.
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You don't, they commit suicide. If you are talking about how to get rid of google wallet so you can flash a ROM, you go to google wallet got to settings and clear the data or whatever it is.
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And that would make it not commit suicide ?
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And that would make it not commit suicide ?
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Usually, I heard thats the best way to make sure it doesn't happen.
So no one who has flashed a ROM has gotten the extra $40 yet?
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So no one who has flashed a ROM has gotten the extra $40 yet?
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I seem someone posting that he had and been rooted since he got it
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I seem someone posting that he had and been rooted since he got it
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Do you know if he had flashed ROMs or if he left the stock ROM?
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Do you know if he had flashed ROMs or if he left the stock ROM?
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I believe his sig was from AOKP
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Do you know who it was or what thread you saw it in?
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Do you know who it was or what thread you saw it in?
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So, is it safe (for wallet) to root as long as you dont apply a new rom?
I mean, I can see this thread is trying to figure out if flashing custom roms is safe, but In the meqn time id like to know if just plain rooting is safe for google wallet
thanks!
jgalan14 said:
No money here yet but reading on sprint website I should get it next week. I have flashed 5 different roms without wiping the Google wallet and my Google wallet still works there is some people that has problems tho...
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What ROMs have you flashed? Love to know your opinion
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Do you know who it was or what thread you saw it in?
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I couldn't find it sorry i look around threads alot but i don't reply to all of them
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What ROMs have you flashed? Love to know your opinion
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I have flash code name android, cm9 and aokp I'm on aokp at the moment I haven't got it but if I don't I'm calling sprint and they probably will credit me anyways that thing didn't mention anything about root so I don't care that I'm rooted I love AOKP so far
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So, is it safe (for wallet) to root as long as you dont apply a new rom?
I mean, I can see this thread is trying to figure out if flashing custom roms is safe, but In the meqn time id like to know if just plain rooting is safe for google wallet
thanks!
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Yes its safe to root, we are just trying to figure out if it is safe to flash ROMs. I have seen people saying they got it after root but I don't know if they flashed a ROM or not.
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Yes its safe to root, we are just trying to figure out if it is safe to flash ROMs. I have seen people saying they got it after root but I don't know if they flashed a ROM or not.
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Being that this is the first T-mobile phone with "offical" JB. Is there anyone out there who could pull the wifi calling system out of this phone and make a zip or apk file so we can try it on other T-mobile phones running JB roms? Thanks!:fingers-crossed:
Second the request - thanks fyremedik! Especially curious if the Wifi Caling app would work on an Int'l GN2
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Second the request - thanks fyremedik! Especially curious if the Wifi Caling app would work on an Int'l GN2
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I do not believe this would work...I know that when I was running JB leaks for my Verizon GS3 the Wifi calling showed up as an option but force closed and would not work...pretty sure it is carrier dependent...
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I do not believe this would work...I know that when I was running JB leaks for my Verizon GS3 the Wifi calling showed up as an option but force closed and would not work...pretty sure it is carrier dependent...
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It's TOTALLY carrier dependent, as far as I know. However I am a TMo subscriber... on my international HTC Sensation, I installed wifi calling apk that had been yanked from the TMo ROM, with no problems - I hope it'll work when porting from the TMO GN2 to the Int'l one...
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It's TOTALLY carrier dependent, as far as I know. However I am a TMo subscriber... on my international HTC Sensation, I installed wifi calling apk that had been yanked from the TMo ROM, with no problems - I hope it'll work when porting from the TMO GN2 to the Int'l one...
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You are correct, it is Carrier dependant and its a feature that Tmobile offers. It used to be able to be pulled from roms and installed (not as an apk cause there were more files it needed to work and the apk installation was not possible), however I see this being a problem in its current state. The reason for that is cause now Tmobile has it built in as a feature in the settings of the rom not as an individual app as before.
Developers would pull the app out with necessary files and offer it for porting to other devices and it was there. I have spent hours on this because I would try different Roms on my vibrant and if they didnt have wifi calling i had to find a way to install it (It was always a flashable zip to get wifi calling). Later I started playing around with insalling ics roms on vibrant and tmobile didnt have any phones with ics yet so there was no wifi calling compatible and devs were having a hard time and it just never happened. I then got the galaxy nexus with jb and went for 8 months without wifi calling (I think at some point the ICS version came out).
When Tmo offered the note 2 and with wifi calling i got excited that someone would be able to extract it and i might be able to get it working on nexus...but then i saw how they have integrated it into rom. It wont even show up in titanium backup as an app. Just the wifi calling settings. Im sure some dev will eventually be able to do it..but i see this taking time as it usually is not a priority for devs. I wish I knew enough to work on it
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You are correct, it is Carrier dependant and its a feature that Tmobile offers. It used to be able to be pulled from roms and installed (not as an apk cause there were more files it needed to work and the apk installation was not possible), however I see this being a problem in its current state. The reason for that is cause now Tmobile has it built in as a feature in the settings of the rom not as an individual app as before.
Developers would pull the app out with necessary files and offer it for porting to other devices and it was there. I have spent hours on this because I would try different Roms on my vibrant and if they didnt have wifi calling i had to find a way to install it (It was always a flashable zip to get wifi calling). Later I started playing around with insalling ics roms on vibrant and tmobile didnt have any phones with ics yet so there was no wifi calling compatible and devs were having a hard time and it just never happened. I then got the galaxy nexus with jb and went for 8 months without wifi calling (I think at some point the ICS version came out).
When Tmo offered the note 2 and with wifi calling i got excited that someone would be able to extract it and i might be able to get it working on nexus...but then i saw how they have integrated it into rom. It wont even show up in titanium backup as an app. Just the wifi calling settings. Im sure some dev will eventually be able to do it..but i see this taking time as it usually is not a priority for devs. I wish I knew enough to work on it
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Thanks for the info. I would have no clue where to start. Here's hoping some mad genius gets bored and gives the rest of us a gift.
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Thanks for the info. I would have no clue where to start. Here's hoping some mad genius gets bored and gives the rest of us a gift.
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Thats why we are all here...for the mad geniuses
A good place to start
http://code.google.com/p/the-ims-open-source-project-for-android/
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I'm new to tmobile but does using wifi calling use up your minutes also?
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I'm new to tmobile but does using wifi calling use up your minutes also?
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It is supposed to. I am on unlimited calling and text so I don't really know. I want it more for when I am at work and have no signal, I can plug into the wifi and still get calls and messages. I am in love with the JB roms and don't want to go back to ICS just for wifi calling. ( But I do when at work.:crying
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I'm new to tmobile but does using wifi calling use up your minutes also?
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It doesn't use up your minutes but you have to ask t mobile to add it to your plan so it doesn't use minutes
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It doesn't use up your minutes but you have to ask t mobile to add it to your plan so it doesn't use minutes
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you know what else is cool if your out of the country you can call home for free . as long as your connected to wifi
[DEV][MOD][JB] T-Mobile Wi-fi Calling
Thread By: Synthetic.Nightmare
Found this over in the Mytouch 4g dev site. Lets hope someone jumps on this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979130
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you know what else is cool if your out of the country you can call home for free . as long as your connected to wifi
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I've heard that but i haven't actually tried it to confirm..
I have Groove ip and can use Google voice for that
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Hoping it can be ripped out, so when CM10(11?) hits the NoteII, it can be flashed back on.
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Hoping it can be ripped out, so when CM10(11?) hits the NoteII, it can be flashed back on.
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It seems very unlikely that will happen as it's not an app anymore but built into ROM.
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Yeah, worried about that too.
We'll see how things go.
I flashed the n7105 ROM and I was resorting my titanium backup and saw this
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I flashed the n7105 ROM and I was resorting my titanium backup and saw thisView attachment 1470586
I searched the movial one and the Google code page came up that I saw here ...
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Did you try to restore that in titanium? And if you did, is it working?
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Did you try to restore that in titanium? And if you did, is it working?
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I saw the same thing. its not an app to restore, just the settings.. so you cant use that on a different ROM that doesn't have WiFi calling
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So I'm a fresh convert to tmo and was curious as to their average speed for rolling out updates for the phones. Pretty quick or like Verizon?
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Better than Verizon but of course that's not saying much. Ha ha!
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Slow as hell
TWEAKED 2.0
I find it to be extra slow since the only reason I have Tmobile is for wifi calling. On other carriers just root and install the latest OS that's inevitably leaked weeks to months early but we've gotta wait for tmobile to release that wifi calling... Of course the competition doesn't have wifi calling so at all...
It's slightly better than verizon, buy the difference is we have unlocked bootloaders so we can flash anything. Go nuts
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Can't go nuts need the wifi calling. Oh well will continue to wait and maybe ptmr will get kitkat on jedi.
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Can't go nuts need the wifi calling. Oh well will continue to wait and maybe ptmr will get kitkat on jedi.
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Since KK changed permissions for writing to SD card, most third party programs need to be updated before they will work properly if they use SD card, so chances are some things may break after update. There is a quick fix but you need to be rooted and there is no way to root KK without tripping Knox flag ATM. The benefits supposed to be little better speed and better battery life, but this being one of the fastest phones on the market ATM speed was never a problem for me, neither was the battery with 3-4 days of moderate use. I also believe being rooted right now, with Knox flag=0, I can tweak my phone for speed and battery life much better than any KK upgrade can, so I can't see any reason to upgrade as much as I try. Given more time all programs will hopefully be updated and someone will find a way to root without disturbing Knox, but for now T-mo can take as much time as they want to release update as far as I'm concerned. I already was stupid enough to update my old GS3 to 4.3 soon after roll out. The only difference I saw was that stupid Knox being installed, then had to waste few hours to root it and delete knox. I will try not make same mistake again.
TMO 4.4 is way down their list, I bet it doesn't hit till after July-Aug.....
Better off running the intl n9005 4.4.2 ....no wifi calling though...
if you root, but leave everything stock, does it break wifi calling?
I need that too
thanks
Wifi calling works on rooted and most of the stock based touchwiz tmobile roms.
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sorry, out of thanks, but thank you!
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TMO 4.4 is way down their list, I bet it doesn't hit till after July-Aug.....
Better off running the intl n9005 4.4.2 ....no wifi calling though...
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Are things running smoothly yet for international 4.4.2 on our tmo phones? I know they were a few things that needed to get worked on without an official kernel.
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I'm currently on 4.3 stock rooted 0x0 flag. I'm curious about KK but heard about a HUGE flaw with apps not able to write to external sd card...Therefore rendering them practically useless.
I'm assuming I shouldn't update ota and instead flash. But what will I need? And has the sd card issue been fixed?
I'm just looking for something more stable and a little slicker. Would like to stay tw or stock/ stock debloated.
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Since you haven't pulled the trigger yet, like me, I would hold off a little longer and wait to see what 4.4.3 brings us. It is just rumored right now but it is supposed to be a bug fix release. From what I have gathered, you really aren't missing anything big by not being on KitKat. I have had the itch to go ahead an upgrade too but I am going to wait to see when 4.4.3 is likely to hit us first.
in my humble opinion....
NO!!!!!!!!
So if I get any urges to want to change things up I should stay on 4.3?
I'm still debating breaking knox or not. I never plan to use knox and haven't decided if I plan to trade this in for jump or not. I'm loving the battery life and have no gripes but minor hiccups.
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I'm curious about KK but heard about a HUGE flaw with apps not able to write to external sd card...Therefore rendering them practically useless.
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If you root KK, there is an SD fix. Otherwise don't.
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If you root KK, there is an SD fix. Otherwise don't.
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Why are people telling me not to then? I thought the sd issue was the only issue with KK
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A lot of people are having problems with KK. If they have rooted, the SDcard issue is not one of them since there is a fix for it. if you don' t have root, then it is a problem with no fix.
I'm one of the minority. Rooted Stock 4.42 with no real issues. Battery is fine, SDcard is fine, WiFi is good etc...
Oh so those got it pre installed have issues but those who flash while rooted are fine.
Would you say you notice any stability or noteworthy features over 4.3?
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Yes. Absolutely no problems on stock rooted KK. Flash wicked and its even better.
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Oh so those got it pre installed have issues but those who flash while rooted are fine.
Would you say you notice any stability or noteworthy features over 4.3?
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I didn't say that.
I was rooted before on 4.43 however, keeping root was not an option when I did the update. I used Odin to flash 4.42 and re-rooted (triggered Knox), loaded the sdcard fix and loaded TWRP in the process.
I was not having any issues on 4.43 though. KK got me better battery usage and access to new software.
If you are rooted, you can apply the sdcard fix. If you are not rooted, I don't think there it's a fix for that.
krelvinaz said:
I didn't say that.
I was rooted before on 4.43 however, keeping root was not an option when I did the update. I used Odin to flash 4.42 and re-rooted (triggered Knox), loaded the sdcard fix and loaded TWRP in the process.
I was not having any issues on 4.43 though. KK got me better battery usage and access to new software.
If you are rooted, you can apply the sdcard fix. If you are not rooted, I don't think there it's a fix for that.
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Since you are still on 4.3, you can easily root using Kingo or de la vega method without triggering knox.
After that, upgrading to 4.4.2 is very easy and you still have root and warranty.
If you don't care about knox, then you can just update and use Chainfire to root 4.4.2 (knox warranty void). It is pretty simple.
I have 4.4.2, root (from my previous rooted 4.3) and warranty intact + SD fix and xposed mods. The phone is just amazing now.
Thats Like Saying Should I Buy These New BOSS rims for my car HAVING the money.
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The only issues I've heard due to the kitkat update are terrible battery life and the SD card issue. There's a flashable zip to fix the SD card issue and I believe installing the Foldermount app does some kind of fix. The battery life issue seems to be fixed after a simple factory reset, however, you'd have to root the device like others have stated. My phone runs great on KK. I'm getting awesome battery life and I have not experienced any problems whatsoever.
You can get improved battery life on 4.3 by removing bloat, and there's no need to apply a fix so you can use the sdcard normally. Is there any real improvement in 4.4.2?
Frank
After a week of hearing about the problems I just went ahead and upgraded why? Who doesn't like to have the newest? Plus there are fixes if your rooted. If not well maybe you are screwed but who wouldn't want to root? Been doing it since OG evo 4G
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Does anyone have any issues recording video with KK? I updated the just the modem (running Slimkat) and can't record videos or sometimes can't play youtube videos in HD. It's not a rom issues. Might go to stock KK and than try reinstalling everything.
chuko303 said:
After a week of hearing about the problems I just went ahead and upgraded why? Who doesn't like to have the newest? Plus there are fixes if your rooted. If not well maybe you are screwed but who wouldn't want to root? Been doing it since OG evo 4G
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Funny, me too. I still have my og Evo 4g. Have you noticed any difference in battery life compared to 4.3? I have root and knox In-tact and apparently it's easy to upgrade...but I don't want worse battery life.
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You won't have worse battery life bud. I'm pretty sure that will be rom and kernel related. Theirs like 4 to 5 kit Kat toms out their now. All good. All different, over in the international forum the rom that made me go to kitkat was XNOTE v11. Was a great rom but build international of course, hyperdrive is great one too good battery life I can't complain. Lean kernel will save the most battery
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Alright I'll have to do some digging and find a flash able rom...and finish my root by breaking knox finally and flashing a recovery.
As easy as it makes things, I'm worried to break knox. Not because of warranty. Lol I know tmo doesn't give 2 ****s about root...
My concern is when I want to sell the device, maybe retaining knox flag will help increase the price point.
This phone is a powerhouse. Easily able to last for the next few years until EoD. Throw In the obvious office features and a still working knox (albeit being able to be reset at samsung warehouses (I'd cite the info but I'm not in front of my desktop)) who wouldn't want this phone for work?
Thoughts?
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mike102871 said:
Yes. Absolutely no problems on stock rooted KK. Flash wicked and its even better.
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I did the same but I am having issues with my network sticking on the new baseband. Do you have any issues Mike ? I feel like my phone goes to 4G / 3G more then what it did before. LTE was working before I jump to KK. Also when I got phone calls before, my network would go from LTE to 4g on calls. Now it goes to 3G. What is going on ????
I currently have the M8, and most roms provide wi-fi calling. Are there any that provide it for the M9?
Thanks.
I also would like to know. But someone told me no because it's part of their own firmware.
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I currently have the M8, and most roms provide wi-fi calling. Are there any that provide it for the M9?
Thanks.
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OK, I just had to say it. The stock T-Mobile ROM supports WiFi calling.
I assume you meant custom ROM... but it was just too tempting.
stevedebi said:
OK, I just had to say it. The stock T-Mobile ROM supports WiFi calling.
I assume you meant custom ROM... but it was just too tempting.
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Thanks; I did mean custom ROM, and assumed it worked on stock. I'm thinking about getting it, and just wait.
Yep no Wi-Fi calling on Custom yet as I do believe none of the devs actually have T-Mobile so it's harder for them to troubleshoot. But as with the m8, the devs will eventually get to it after they iron out most of their kinks in their rom. I'm also waiting, but currently using T-Mobile's stock with all the bloat frozen which is pretty great actually lol.
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Teo032 said:
Yep no Wi-Fi calling on Custom yet as I do believe none of the devs actually have T-Mobile so it's harder for them to troubleshoot. But as with the m8, the devs will eventually get to it after they iron out most of their kinks in their rom. I'm also waiting, but currently using T-Mobile's stock with all the bloat frozen which is pretty great actually lol.
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Just curious, what do you consider "bloat"? I think there are three T-Mobile branded apps on there. What did you freeze?
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Just curious, what do you consider "bloat"? I think there are three T-Mobile branded apps on there. What did you freeze?
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It was more like apps baked in that I couldn't uninstall. Such as some HTC apps, all T-Mobile apps, twitter, lookout security, etc.
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Teo032 said:
It was more like apps baked in that I couldn't uninstall. Such as some HTC apps, all T-Mobile apps, twitter, lookout security, etc.
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I froze lookout also, because I use ESET. Haven't done twitter yet, although I don't use it.
Teo032 said:
It was more like apps baked in that I couldn't uninstall. Such as some HTC apps, all T-Mobile apps, twitter, lookout security, etc.
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if you have titanium backup and insecure kernel, you can uninstall all bloatware from your stock rom rooted. I removed HTC backup, HTC CD, twitter, lookout etc.. Then using xposed to get some of what functions I need from custom roms.
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if you have titanium backup and insecure kernel, you can uninstall all bloatware from your stock rom rooted. I removed HTC backup, HTC CD, twitter, lookout etc.. Then using xposed to get some of what functions I need from custom roms.
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Lol thanks for the advice, but you must've read the conversation wrong. I was answering someone else by defining which apps I removed or froze that I consider bloat.
BTW you don't need insecure kernel.
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Teo032 said:
Lol thanks for the advice, but you must've read the conversation wrong. I was answering someone else by defining which apps I removed or froze that I consider bloat.
BTW you don't need insecure kernel.
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oh ooops.. yup your right.. my bad.. what I get for doing a drive by read.. lol..
Teo032 said:
Yep no Wi-Fi calling on Custom yet as I do believe none of the devs actually have T-Mobile so it's harder for them to troubleshoot. But as with the m8, the devs will eventually get to it after they iron out most of their kinks in their rom. I'm also waiting, but currently using T-Mobile's stock with all the bloat frozen which is pretty great actually lol.
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This is good to hear! I am getting a new phone tomorrow night and I was leaning toward the Nexus 6 but as of a few weeks ago they have been hit with the loss of calling and data issue. They just get a "!" which requires a reboot and it happens again shortly after. Its not carrier specific either so its between a Google app and Motorola. I had the problem on my M7 and started a thread in Q&A to make sure that it wasn't happening here. I will be running stock ROM for a while and freezing the bloat as well...except for the ones I can uninstall of course.
JohnCorleone said:
This is good to hear! I am getting a new phone tomorrow night and I was leaning toward the Nexus 6 but as of a few weeks ago they have been hit with the loss of calling and data issue. They just get a "!" which requires a reboot and it happens again shortly after. Its not carrier specific either so its between a Google app and Motorola. I had the problem on my M7 and started a thread in Q&A to make sure that it wasn't happening here. I will be running stock ROM for a while and freezing the bloat as well...except for the ones I can uninstall of course.
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oh funny you mentioned that, my coworker who is still using his nexus 4 (i know) says he's been getting that "!" too. He's fully stock, so maybe it has to do with GPE roms. You'll like the M9 stock, pretty smooth and snappy. The "overheating" is only during backup or when the "Android is upgrading" on boot. Haven't felt it any other times really. But it's like that with most phones, this one just feels hotter because the metal conducts more.
Just keep an eye out for Viper or InsertCoin to integrate wifi calling, if it was like M8, those 2 were the first to bake it in their All Variant ROMs. Although the others eventually followed suit but much later on.
Teo032 said:
oh funny you mentioned that, my coworker who is still using his nexus 4 (i know) says he's been getting that "!" too. He's fully stock, so maybe it has to do with GPE roms. You'll like the M9 stock, pretty smooth and snappy. The "overheating" is only during backup or when the "Android is upgrading" on boot. Haven't felt it any other times really. But it's like that with most phones, this one just feels hotter because the metal conducts more.
Just keep an eye out for Viper or InsertCoin to integrate wifi calling, if it was like M8, those 2 were the first to bake it in their All Variant ROMs. Although the others eventually followed suit but much later on.
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I got my M9 on T-Mobile the night before last and the VoLTE calling sounds incredible when calling someone who also has T-Mobile. I am still running stock but I did stick a 64GB SD card in and my 30+ my4 movies sound and look incredible!
Oh, I guess the rumors about HTC throttling the 4 cores that max at 2.0 was very minimal, if not completely false. I couldn't get the 8 cores to max out all at 100% continuously so far....
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Bah, this is what I was looking for. On the M8 there was a flashable zip that could put T-Mo calling on any sense rom.
PcFish said:
Bah, this is what I was looking for. On the M8 there was a flashable zip that could put T-Mo calling on any sense rom.
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Some are already baked in. Issue is that T-Mobile firmware is still slow on updates so devs don't usually keep track of Wi-Fi calling as most devs aren't T-Mobile user. Also there's a thread already opened for the flashable zip. Not perfected yet.