Someone showed me the thread with the 12.1 cm rom and the .img for the recovery is it okay if I use flashify to put the recovery on my phone instead of using odin after rooting? Or does someone have a .tar recovery for the L520 in a drop box somewhere? also do I need to update my firmware before flashing a rom? I think I'm on firmware na7 on 4.2.2
it's fine, trust me use flashify. Odin doesn't flash .img files. No, you don't need to update your firmware, it's going to be flashed over anyways.
Seemed to work fine. That cm 12.1 rom still working okay for you?
There's a few little annoyances but it's working okay otherwise. I get an exclamation point by my bars sometimes and have to reset the apn to fix it. GPS has some issues so it's become more a roadmap than actual guidance and I can't send mms but that's not really an issue as I have unlimited data and can just facebook messenger as a workaround. I hope that these issues get fixed but I understand that alot of 5.1 roms have issues with the exclamation point thing and even some unrooted 5.1 phones have the problem. It would be nice to see a fix for these issues but I don't see anyone making any more roms for this phone and the guy that made this rom seems to have landed a job with cyanogenmod and is too busy to update this rom. What a shame but at least I have 5.1 now.
Hmm I suppose I'll stay at 4.2.2 till I feel like flashing 12.1 thanks for all the info. You don't have any overheating issues or random restarts right? Also how does the GPS not work well?
No overheating or random restarts. All things considered its a pretty smooth rom if just a little incomplete. I only tried using the GPS once and it came up with my location and the route for where I needed to go but when i was driving along the GLS was not updating my location. It may have been just a one time thing, idk, I havent needed to use GPS since.
Cool do you know a way to go back to stock if I don't like the cm 12.1 rom?
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I was running latest paranoid android and I wiped cache/dalvic cache after flashing Cerberus in recovery and when the phone booted up it was asking me to Activate (sprint service) my phone. I've never seen this with flashing roms and was wondering if this is a known issue with flashing roms on the S3 or something that can randomly occur from time to time.
Anyone have experience with this before? I had been running Paranoid Android for less than 24 hours but initially didn't have any problems whatsoever.
Itll do that sometimes depending on the rom. Usually does it after a factory reset and installing a cm based rom. Its just asking you to add your google account... you should be fine
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youdoofus said:
Itll do that sometimes depending on the rom. Usually does it after a factory reset and installing a cm based rom. Its just asking you to add your google account... you should be fine
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This didn't have anything to do with my Google account. I guess I should have been more specific, I mean that my phone is deactivated on Sprint's network as in I can't make phone calls and all the info is missing in about phone. Phone number, PRL and such. I am flashing back to stock right now and hope this fixes it. Will probably give paranoid another go but this doesn't sound like a common issue because I haven't been able to find anything by searching.
When you get back to stock it'll probably reactivate itself. If not (although you can do this regardless just in case), ##72786# in the dialer should set you straight. If I'm not mistaken the screen you're referring to should be gone when you boot stock regardless. Its a bug. Doesn't work for a sprint phone but still buried in the rom
Ahhh... could try manually flashing your modem after the install too
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When you get back to stock it'll probably reactivate itself. If not (although you can do this regardless just in case), ##72786# in the dialer should set you straight. If I'm not mistaken the screen you're referring to should be gone when you boot stock regardless. Its a bug. Doesn't work for a sprint phone but still buried in the rom
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Soon as I flashed the stock rom it tried to activate and initially failed and prompted me to reboot. Second attempt it was successful and then I immediately flashed back to PA and it is working. Going to give it another shot and keep the stock rom on my sd card this time in case I get stuck in a pinch.
I jumped the gun, phone activated fine but signal drops in and out randomly and will not connect to 3g. Just reflashed to stock again and everything seemed fine but signal was still back in and out. Checked under status and PRL read "0" tried updating to no avail so did the dialer code and it did the activation and all is right in the world again, or at least for the moment.
Just trying to figure out why when I flash Paranoid all my settings just disappear
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Just flashed back to PA this third time after fully making sure that the phone was working and had 3G data and all was right with the world (my phone). Will update if it goes South again but as of right now the phone is behaving properly. Maybe it just wasn't working right the first time and I didn't notice since I was on wifi. Only thing that keeps me from thinking that is I didn't get the Activation message until 12 hours or so after I had flashed and had been using the phone. /shrug
I still think flashing a modem in recovery after installing PA would yield a poisitve result
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I still think flashing a modem in recovery after installing PA would yield a poisitve result
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how do you flash a modem? I am new to this and this is also a problem that I am having with the same rom. I tried searching for a fix and this is where i landed.
Thank you,
and sorry if i am breaking forum rules
I am trying to find a fully functional rom. I have tried numerous roms and run into 2 or 3 of the same problems. What I need is working ? . Working Wifi. Working Camera. And working GPS. Most of the roms have given me a problem with the camera. For instance, I take a picture in a dark place and when the flash goes off I get a black screen and there is no display I am forced to pull battery as the phone will not reboot after. I have not had wifi or bluetooth problems in a long time so I can not comment on that. I recently tried Liquid Smooth's 4.4 rom and the camera works, however GPS will not work unless connected to WIFI which does me no good if it won't navigate. Has anyone found a rom out there that is fully functional? I do not have service on my device, which is d2spr by the way, so mobile data and 4g are not needed. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
If you want fully functional with no additional stuff except what you want, just use stock odex, latest firmware is NJ2, If stock untouched is giving you problems then you may have a messed up internal memory or something.
Wicked S5
Phone is Completely Screwed
So i flashed a MK5 Modem on my L710t due to the fact that my wifi and data were not working ... I though it would fix this ... before that on some roms, the wifi would work, but the data didn't ... and vice versa with other roms ... Carbon and LiquidSmooth to be specific. I can't seem to fix it .. so i tried Unrooting back to all stock everything ... and no matter what tar file i use i get a FAIL in Odin ... i tried three tar files and even tried the 1-click.exe. got an EPIC FAIL ... i tried flashing a stock MK5 deodexed rom because i had flashed a MK5 modem and the damned rom wouldn't boot ... I really just want to revert to a stock Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III with 4.4.2 and an N8 Modem or whatever modem it came out of the box with ... CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME ...
please and thanks
Thanks. It was a pain in the butt to get it installed as I had to update to ND8 but I think this is is quite functional and what I was hoping for will see in a few days how the system reacts but so far the camera works and i am bout to test gps. So thank you for recommending the Wicked S5.
Well after being plauged with all kinds of issues on various 5.0.x ROMs I think I'm ready to head back to kk. Everything from Bluetooth issues to dropping calls to message duplicates to no messages to no group MMS and everything in between has occurred on my poor G3. I'm just wondering if there's any issue with downgrading. Right now I'm running a rooted stock 20B.
If anybody has suggestions of a super stable 5.0 ROM I'm all ears but I've tried CM12 (nightlies) which I had the most faith in and then the stock thinking "there's no way this could be messed up". Clean flashed them both multiple times and still having an array of issues.
Sorry for the rant just frustrated right now with a fantastic phone because I had to go and mess with it lol
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Well anything other than stock is based on CM. So bluetooth is basically useless on those roms if you use a headset for calls. If one rom has an issue than most likely they all will so I generally stay away.
Stock 20b has been just fine for me though. I would suggest a kdz to 20b if your still having issues. Are you using stock messaging because the issues could be with your 3rd party app with texting issues?
Its basically CM, 20b or 10r. If you can't get 20b to work right for you then your best bet is to go back to 10r and be done with it till 20c is released.
I pesonally don't use CM based roms due to the camera and bluetooth. Too many issues with those yet.
I might kdz to 20b and see if that helps. I was reading about that last night. I've tried all messenging apps including stock. No luck. I've messed with the APN settings and then gone back to stock. No luck. Kinda banging my head against a wall here lol. I'll probably kdz tonight when I get home and fingers crossed that'll work. Thanks
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I might kdz to 20b and see if that helps. I was reading about that last night. I've tried all messenging apps including stock. No luck. I've messed with the APN settings and then gone back to stock. No luck. Kinda banging my head against a wall here lol. I'll probably kdz tonight when I get home and fingers crossed that'll work. Thanks
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I am in the same boat as you. I wanted all the bells and whistles of the CM12 roms but so many problems.
Planning to throw in the towel and get the Note 4.
I am currently on LP xTreme v1.0 and everything works on it so far. (Bluetooth, Wifi calling, Messaging, LTE sticks)
Did have a minor hiccup when sending SMS while connected on Wifi but it hasn't lately.
This will have to do for now until I go back to Samsung, they seem to have a lot of nice roms over there :crying:
Good luck to you.
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Well after being plauged with all kinds of issues on various 5.0.x ROMs I think I'm ready to head back to kk. Everything from Bluetooth issues to dropping calls to message duplicates to no messages to no group MMS and everything in between has occurred on my poor G3. I'm just wondering if there's any issue with downgrading. Right now I'm running a rooted stock 20B.
If anybody has suggestions of a super stable 5.0 ROM I'm all ears but I've tried CM12 (nightlies) which I had the most faith in and then the stock thinking "there's no way this could be messed up". Clean flashed them both multiple times and still having an array of issues.
Sorry for the rant just frustrated right now with a fantastic phone because I had to go and mess with it lol
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try micromod777 stock rooted debloated rom. It's been the most stable rom I've tried running lollipop
Do what you wish, but I'd wait til the re-release of lollipop.
hockeyhead019 said:
Well after being plauged with all kinds of issues on various 5.0.x ROMs I think I'm ready to head back to kk. Everything from Bluetooth issues to dropping calls to message duplicates to no messages to no group MMS and everything in between has occurred on my poor G3. I'm just wondering if there's any issue with downgrading. Right now I'm running a rooted stock 20B.
If anybody has suggestions of a super stable 5.0 ROM I'm all ears but I've tried CM12 (nightlies) which I had the most faith in and then the stock thinking "there's no way this could be messed up". Clean flashed them both multiple times and still having an array of issues.
Sorry for the rant just frustrated right now with a fantastic phone because I had to go and mess with it lol
Cheers
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krowley3 has released his version of LP rom based on stock LP. i have been running his v3.5 (kitkat) since it came out as I see no enhancements and too many issues with LP roms that have been released since. I will probably try his new LP version out in next week or 2 myself. Judging by the past year almost of running his rom...absolutely no issues and the most stable experience I have ever has with a custom rom...
Thanks for the info... Maybe I'll give that a shot before heading back to good ol KK
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try micromod777 stock rooted debloated rom. It's been the most stable rom I've tried running lollipop
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Would you mind sharing the link, I can't find it?
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Would you mind sharing the link, I can't find it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-g3/development/rom-tmo-d851-lollipop-20b-stock-t3096479
How Do I Downgrade back to KK??? I need to go back to KK because WiFi Tether Router does not work on LP and I absolutely need it.
I tried in TWRP wipe all / factory reset and restore KK from backup, but my modem DID not work.
What do I do? Please help
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How Do I Downgrade back to KK??? I need to go back to KK because WiFi Tether Router does not work on LP and I absolutely need it.
I tried in TWRP wipe all / factory reset and restore KK from backup, but my modem DID not work.
What do I do? Please help
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Unless you backed up your efs in twrp the modem will stay at lollipop. That is the only way to get back the KK modem. But hopefully others can chime if there is an alternative way that was recently discovered.
just flash the 10r kdz and it will take u back to stock and just re-root.... what i did..
Hello,
So I've flashed before Slimbean, but had problems with the "can't connect to camera" problem, so I decided to flash Slimkat 4.4.4 which fixed the camera problem.
New problem now is that i can't get any gps signal. I can turn it on, but no signal. Anyone have a solution to this, or is experiencing the same problem?
Downloaded from here: http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/1074-d2att-d2tmo
drakemiller40 said:
Hello,
So I've flashed before Slimbean, but had problems with the "can't connect to camera" problem, so I decided to flash Slimkat 4.4.4 which fixed the camera problem.
New problem now is that i can't get any gps signal. I can turn it on, but no signal. Anyone have a solution to this, or is experiencing the same problem?
Downloaded from here: http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/1074-d2att-d2tmo
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Hi, the link you provided points to build 4. You can find build 9 which is the latest slimkat here http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/1183-d2lte
This is the one I have for my Koodo I747M. *note camera seemed a little buggy in some instances, so I installed open camera. Seemed to work a lot better.
I'll give it a try, thanks for the help. Quick question, will this work on my phone model without bricking? I only tried the at&t not the d2lte.
Also can you send me the link for this open camera you were talking about for my device as well?
drakemiller40 said:
I'll give it a try, thanks for the help. Quick question, will this work on my phone model without bricking? I only tried the at&t not the d2lte.
Also can you send me the link for this open camera you were talking about for my device as well?
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I'd imagine it should be ok, since we have the same phone pretty much I'm on koodo which is pretty much telus without the customer service hehe. for kitkat at the end of development they basically lumped a d2att, d2tmo etc together. (this has reverted for the lollipop builds out there).
The last OTA I got was FOB1, so you may want to go to stock to ota to the latest updates from telus. Just so you have the latest bootloader/firmware. But that's up to you of course.
It's a google play app open source, the slimkat one I had seemed to lockup when switching from front to back camera and from camera to video. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera&hl=en
What are you using to flash them?
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I'd imagine it should be ok, since we have the same phone pretty much I'm on koodo which is pretty much telus without the customer service hehe. for kitkat at the end of development they basically lumped a d2att, d2tmo etc together. (this has reverted for the lollipop builds out there).
The last OTA I got was FOB1, so you may want to go to stock to ota to the latest updates from telus. Just so you have the latest bootloader/firmware. But that's up to you of course.
It's a google play app open source, the slimkat one I had seemed to lockup when switching from front to back camera and from camera to video. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera&hl=en
What are you using to flash them?
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Im not very experienced lol and got lost on:
"The last OTA I got was FOB1, so you may want to go to stock to ota to the latest updates from telus. Just so you have the latest bootloader/firmware. But that's up to you of course. "
I'm using TWRP
Ah, ok I just keep a backup in case anything goes bad flashing roms. If you use TWRP to flash them it only affects the boot image, data and system. So if you have problems you can restore from backup nice and easy.
I'm swapping between a few right now. So far my only uh oh experience was when I tried to upgrade TWRP, no problems with roms. But I use TWRP as well, works great.
Basically the baseband version on our phone, it's the radio and bootloader. Before I had rooted it I had gotten the latest updates by checking for updates. It downloaded and upgraded to FOB1 (Baseband I747MVLUFOB1), then I rooted and played with flashing. Not sure if you made a backup of your original install before trying another rom. But it's not a necessity for slimkat, I don't believe.
serathe said:
Ah, ok I just keep a backup in case anything goes bad flashing roms. If you use TWRP to flash them it only affects the boot image, data and system. So if you have problems you can restore from backup nice and easy.
I'm swapping between a few right now. So far my only uh oh experience was when I tried to upgrade TWRP, no problems with roms. But I use TWRP as well, works great.
Basically the baseband version on our phone, it's the radio and bootloader. Before I had rooted it I had gotten the latest updates by checking for updates. It downloaded and upgraded to FOB1 (Baseband I747MVLUFOB1), then I rooted and played with flashing. Not sure if you made a backup of your original install before trying another rom. But it's not a necessity for slimkat, I don't believe.
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Yeah I always create a nandroid and backup my IME.
drakemiller40 said:
Hello,
So I've flashed before Slimbean, but had problems with the "can't connect to camera" problem, so I decided to flash Slimkat 4.4.4 which fixed the camera problem.
New problem now is that i can't get any gps signal. I can turn it on, but no signal. Anyone have a solution to this, or is experiencing the same problem?
Downloaded from here: http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/1074-d2att-d2tmo
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First thing to try for GPS problems is taking off the back cover and snugging up all the little screws around the phone. Sometimes they work their way loose and the GPS antenna seems to be the first thing to suffer from it.
If that doesn't cure it you might need to flash a stock or at least stock based ROM and rebuild the nvram. Here's a link that describes how to do that if you need to.
I'm looking for an S7E/N5 hybrid with mostly everything working. Coming from a N3, this would be a Dark Lord ROM with fingerprint and NFC.
I started with a stock BPA1 phone which I unlocked/rooted. I wanted to upgrade to a true 6.0.1 ROM which meant upgrading firmware. I started with Odin flashing a tar.md5 of the CPD1 firmware - bad idea. It failed and messed up the bootloader. So broke phone.
I was able to Odin the stock BPA1_BPA1 and the BPA1_CPD1 firmwares. In each case though, it was very hard to obtain root. If it rebooted or locked up for any reason, I had to go back and reflash the stock firmware, wipe and reinstall kingoroot. Otherwise I was stuck in a bootloop with DL Mode saying I was locked. This is what lead me to fix it. I noticed after the first flash of samsung_unlock_n4-fix (root took that time and no crashes) it would bootloop. I went into DL Mode to reflash firmware but it finally showed Developer Mode. I gave it a shot and flashed twrp without issue. Instead of having to install the n4-fix twice or go through multiple roots, turns out that it took just took once to reclaim Dev Mode.
(I had been thinking that Dev Mode was wiped out with aboot when flashing the stock BPA1. Guess not)
So the bootloop I figured was due to a kernel issue. With Dev Mode, I Odin flashed TWRP. I formatted my sdcard and put a kernel on it, using twrp to flash it. And tada, working phone. This worked on both the BPA1_BPA1 and the BPA1_CPD1. So I was able to load the 6.0.1 firmware. It took so long to do this though that I didn't get a chance to try more than a few roms.
From a brief visit to these ROMs, I am still looking for something that has everything:
From T-Mobile:
Maximum OvrDrive 6.0.1 MM v.8 - Great ROM but I didn't have wifi afterloading it. I'm sure I was missing something to get it to work but I realized this was not an S7E port either.
Maximum OvrDrive S7 v3.7 - It's a 5.1.1. ROM and works well but is missing AOD, fingerprint and most importantly hotspot.
General forum:
Dr.Ketan 6.1.1 - could not get this to load. It bootlooped after flashing the M5 rom (910g?), kernel, datafix and supersu as per instructon. Will revisit.
Verizon forum:
Kyubi Note 5 Port - One of the first ROM I tried and it is amazing. This is a very stable ROM with almost all the bells and whistles. I wouldn't even look at another ROM except it doesn't offer AOD and a few minor tweaks (haven't figured out how to skin my status bar clock for example). I posted in the thread a fix for MMS btw. It's a 5.1.1 ROM of course and lacks in a few ways.
I'm still looking for a perfect ROM for me. Will update the list as I try them.
I flashed the Noble ROM yesterday. So far, so good.
If you get time this rom by @aukhan and the Emotriod team is great. It's a pure note 4 with edge features, but I can't remember if mobile hotspot works or not. I'm using the Nameless Rom at the moment and really enjoying it as well. On the Nameless Rom mobile hot spot works, I'll check to see if fingerprint works, everything else as far know works well. One more option is Kurama Rom, I got it to boot with data/mobile/wifi, but to be honest I didn't stick with it too long because as soon as I got it set up, the Emotriod Rom caught my eye and I just had to have it.
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I flashed the Noble ROM yesterday. So far, so good.
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Hahaha....I've been on Noble for a few weeks now, and just flashed hsbadrs cm13 7.17. release for a change. Noble is a beautiful rom, and I themed it with Marshmallow dark theme from the Samsung theme store. CM13 is just slightly more fluid, and used to be my favorite, Noble is by far the most stable s7 port on my phone.
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Dr Ketan rom you need to flash rom then m5 fix right away let it boot (can take up to 11 minutes no longer average 5-6) dont sign into anything ( google, samsung, etc.) then go back into recovery and flash louforgiveno's data fix for your bootloader and ketan rom. then reboot. It has to be a clean flash in my experience. It will take about 5 minutes to get data signal but it comes. The roaming indicator off text stays on lock screen it does not mean you are roaming though (check in about device), there is a way to get rid of it but i didn't doesnt bother me.
Does anyone know if there is a way to add Wifi calling to any of the N910F roms?
UPDATE: I went back to Ketans Rom but on the BPA1 bl and it works very nicely. I had to utilize my MMS fix to get the native app to send mms. I'm currently working on finding an Xposed framework that boots. Neither Wanam mod's or the stock seem to fit. Ketens is so far the most kitted out N5/S7E rom I've seen, with even a cobbled together version of AOD. Anyone have any luck with Xposed running the H Vitamin kernel? I'm thinking of switching to some other kernel to see how it works.
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If you get time this rom by @aukhan and the Emotriod team is great. It's a pure note 4 with edge features, but I can't remember if mobile hotspot works or not. I'm using the Nameless Rom at the moment and really enjoying it as well. On the Nameless Rom mobile hot spot works, I'll check to see if fingerprint works, everything else as far know works well. One more option is Kurama Rom, I got it to boot with data/mobile/wifi, but to be honest I didn't stick with it too long because as soon as I got it set up, the Emotriod Rom caught my eye and I just had to have it.
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Just curious what kernel and data fix are you using with the emotroid rom. I have tried Lous MMs fix v4 and also the 3b version but MMS is all not working properly.
Is there anything wrong with the mm bootloader? Seems like a lot of ppl Including me is having trouble flashing roms on it. So we Convert back to the lollipop bootloader... How can we get roms to work on the mm bootloader. I can't find any reason to this.