yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cornucrapia:
I'd be willing to give that a shot, phone is pretty useless to me as is. Would those partitions contain a factory default image? Or would they be for the ROM I installed. If the former, is there a way to just restore from them? If not, wouldn't it be safer to just try and extract a boot.img from the ROM on my computer? Thanks a lot for the advice!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkshado:
They would be from the ROM you flashed, which leaves you in a bit of a bind...

One of the first things I did back when I got my Gio 5660M was to make a backup of the stock ROM because it was nowhere to be found (it took a many more months before an "official" leak showed up on samfirmware).

The mount command will give you the stl partition numbers for those that are of concern, namely the /system /data and /cache partitions, the remainder you should just stick to bml.

I have a bit of tl:dr-itis going on and I haven't found gblues's ROM. If its Odin flashable, and contained an AMSS file in the tarball, your modem has been overwritten.

If you cannot find another, unmodified (or only rooted) T589W to make a stock ROM backup from and you need the phone to work, you could as a last resort try flashing the Froyo T-Mobile T589 firmware, since its modem image is also for the AWS band hardware.

Good luck,

Darkshado
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Probie85:
Im Back

I took a little break from this phone while I finished the software on a tablet and another few phones. I am finally only left with this one. What is needed to finish up this phone with the unlocking of it and getting a better android version. I am here to test and help with what ever is needed. Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srjvargas:
Overclocking and Kernel, maybe different ROMs too :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
SGH-T589W Firmware / Android 2.3.6

Hi Everyone,

Had to fix a phone for someone!

I'll be uploading the ROM as a mirror sometime soon, but for now this is what I did.

1) Used ODIN 4.4.3, made a new folder C:\odin.

2) found the tmobile galaxy q ops file ( http://www.droidevelopers.com/f363/11722-[download]-ops-pit-files.html ) and renamed it to copper_v1.0.ops (I was reading a different thread and found that it worked for them...)

4) Downloaded the ROM from here : http://sampro.pl/?s=sgh-t589w

5) Installed ROM using ODIN (worked fine!)

6) During first boot, I noticed the phone was hanging, so I booted into recovery holding the T key and pressing power to power on and cleared the data and cache folder

7) Restarted phone and was good!

This is my first Samsung (non-nexus) phone I've unbricked so I'm pretty happy!

Does anyone want to see if this firmware does anything for your phone? Also, is it possible to flash the Rogers radio to this phone? I want to get Rogers 3G on it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
Free Unlock

Hi Everyone,

This method can cause bricking...

Just read through this thread from Galaxy Ace and was able to achieve a free unlock. You need to be rooted in order to do this though:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1296133

This method has not been proven to cause bricking ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19112680&postcount=1

Good luck!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkshado:
For the Rogers radio you'll need to either remove the other files from the Rogers Odin image (the one you want to keep is AMSS) or make your own tar image with Cygwin.

Otherwise it should work just fine.

On a last note I don't think that renaming the ops file changes anything.

Ac tually, one more thing: please, pretty please do not use the stl5 method it bricks phones.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
I just read the stl5 partition and copied it to my PC to read the unlock code. No writing to stl5 partition.

Also this firmware allowed both Mobilicity 3G and Rogers 3G, I tested both SIM cards.

Sent from my XT894 running CM10
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkshado:
Trust me, when I say not to use stl5 I mean reading it alone has been reported to corrupt the IMEI and EFS data on other MSM7227 based phones. I'm not against leaving the information out there, but it should be accompanied by a proper warning. This thread wasn't.

OTOH, bml5 is fine and works just as well to get the code.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
Are you saying this method can be used to flash on any variant of the galaxy Q...?? i just got a galaxy Q which is a Fido phone... its unlocked and rooted but running android 2.2.2... i want atleast gingerbread on it... its a t589R... so you think i can flash the rom you posted with odin as instructed...? im not a noob to flashing... but this is the first time im dealing with these carrier specific phones... have always used international versions normally...

Edit: Ok so i downloaded the 2.3.6 firmware you had posted bu its for the t589W... not sure what exactly i need to do with it if anything to get it to work on the t589R... also downloaded the ops file and renamed as mentioned but not really sure what im supposed to do with it... :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
First, make sure your phone is unlocked before upgrading the firmware, I'm not sure if you can unlock it with a different firmware on it. You can use the bml5 method, which requires root.

Next, download Odin 1.83 (I'll confirm this a little later) you Can find links to Odin from this forum. Once you get Odin up, point it to the ops file and the firmware .tar.md5 file. Power off the phone fully and boot it in download mode (I think you need to hold vol- and press power).

Plug the phone into the computer now. If the phone isn't detected by your computer, you need to get the Samsung Mobile phone usb drivers installed. Once the phone is connected, it will detect as green in Odin. At that point, just hit the start/go button. The firmware week start flashing.

Once the firmware is flashed, you'll need to boot the phone in recovery mode to perform a factory reset. I don't remember how to do that but it can easily be found. God luck and let us know if this works for your phone! Once completed, be sure to test all functions of the phone including cellular data, wireless networking, sound/call quality, etc... we are all very eager to know.

Sent from my XT894 running ICS
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
dude i know how to flash it... its just this ops file which has got me confused... where am i supposed to put that in ODIN and where the md5, because the link you posted previously to download the rom from says , "T589WUQLD4-T589WUQLD4-T589WUQLD4-HOME.tar.md5" ... generally it says PDA or CSC or PHONE etc in the name so you know where to put it...

This is just one file which generally you put in the PDA section but i just want to make sure...

As for the ops file... i just cant figure out where that goes... there is no option or anything anywhere that mentions ops... in odin 1.83 and 1.85 there are no options for ops ...

tho in odin multi downloader 4.28 there was the ops option and the ONE file option, but its just not detecing the phone tho odin 1.83 and 85 are detecting it just fine... :S

EDIT: Also tried odin multidownloader 4.43 but still its not detecting the phone... :S

---------- Post added at 08:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:13 PM ----------

ok sooooo... i got it to detect the phone... and tried to flash annnddd... bricked the phone... says connect to kies for emergency recovery... but kies doesnt detect it... i can get it into download mode tho... any help...? :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
Ok here is a Major update to the situation and will provide answers to ANYONE who falls in my situation again... thankfully i was able to fx the phone with HOURS of searching... this should come in handy for someone...

So here is the deal... when flashing anything on this phone with ODIN, it MUST be version 4.40... and it turns out the ONLY place it can be found is HERE: http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f200/samsung-t589r-flasher-needed-urgently-1429361/#post8155274

Believe me... iv been looking and looking and looking... the OPS file is actually the same one as mentioned above but no need to rename it or anything... after i realized what had to be done it was just a matter of finding WHERE to get the required files from...

The firmware can be found at samfirmware which is the latest 2.2.2 for this phone unfortunately...

The firmware posted in the above post is for the t589W which is NOT compatible with our phones which are of the "R" type. I tried but it wouldnt get past the samsung galaxy Q screen, where it would say SGH-T589W... which is NOT this phone...

For the BEST rundown i used to tell you exactly what to do is this site... MUST go to if you have any problems

http://gravitysmart.wikia.com/wiki/Recovering_your_Samsung_Gravity_SMART

The rom mentioned there is wrong, you need to get the one i mentioned specific for our model... the rest is all the same...

I decided ill just upload the odin and ops file here anyway for ease... having it in JUST one place was really really tough to find...

Anyway... thanks anyway for the help... atleast the phone is alive anywhere... even if just on froyo... but hope this helps someone else out if they in a jam...

EDIT: By the way i just realized this thread is for the Gravity Smart... what iv just written here applies for the Galaxy Q t589R variant which you probably figured by now :)

The above rom mentioned should be fine for the Gravity Smart, but not for the Rogers or Fido variant (t589R)...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkshado:
If you haven't tried it yet, you could repackage the T589W ROM, minus the AMSS partition, with Cygwin's tar binary and flash that.

By the way, a lot of info from other Samsung MSM7227 phones should apply to this one too: Gio, Ace (5830 and other "original" Ace variants like the 5830D only), Mini, Fit and so on. For one they all have that older Odin protocol with ops files instead of pit.

I don't think anyone has bothered building AOSP for the T589x, but the device sources from these models might enable it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
Unfortunately I don't know the first thing when it comes to developing so I can't really go about trying any of the things you mentioned... a bit too risky when this is the only phone I have currently...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Q
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamdufour:
I rooted my samsung Q T589 and T589R with super one click apps, u can find it on google (sorry i can't share the link because i m new member)

* Shortfuse dot org *
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaitonFox:
Hey I have the same phone. But the problem is, no matter what I do, whether it be gingerbreak or superoneclick, it never works. Superoneclick keeps not responding on me, and after an hour, gingerbreak still doesn't finish rooting my phone. What should I do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
Well I got root by flashing with the one ROM by arthard or someone... its the only ROM out there for this phone... its debloated and already rooted...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Q
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShaunOfTheLive:
Use SuperOneClick, but under the "exploit" dropdown, select "psneuter".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wad alsheikh:
[Q]

i want cooked rom for samsung sgh-t589r galaxy q ??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mazout360:
Posting here since there's no subforum for the SGH-T589W.

I'm a kernel developer (currently working on the G2X) and my girlfriend just bought this model. I got the sources synced and I'd like to know how much development has been done for this device. I may be able to fix anything kernel-related, tweak it to make it much snappier and port CM 2.3.7 and CWM recovery eventually. It's not a powerful device but I think it has a lot of potential. If somebody wants to give me a quick résumé I'd appreciate that to help me get started. PM me or reply.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrunkFuX666:
I see you found this thread too... ;)

The files I was speaking of are posted on this page... The ODIN and ROM... Along with my full story... Lol

Might come in handy... Good luck...!

Sent from my Nexus⁴
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gorilla p:
Close.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salvadorjihane:
CWM can be installed on this phone SGH T589R ???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gorilla p:
No it cannot. Reports of people bricking their phones attempting to install CWM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salvadoryjihane:
samsung gravity Q

thank you very much, and installed the rom on the forum and I'm doing well, there are some rom but prove to be Trusted

I can install any rom android 2.2 froyo

thanks for answering
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riichard:
Hello,

i´m trying to have root acess to SGH-T589W using SuperOneClick 2.3.3, i also installed kies for usb drivers, but at the end it says "operation not permitted" :(

anyone know other way, or what i´m doing wrong?

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red_nnnno:
Thanks!!!

Just wanted to thank you for your update.zip. Even though it didn't actually work out for me, it wokred out enough for me to enable USB Debugging and made my own update_red.zip with the script mainly inspired by yours using what I think was a stock SGH-T589W firmware!

So you allowed me to fix my phone! Thanks a lot!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulino.zelaya:
ROM samsung galaxy Q SGH-T589W

EN ESPAÑOL:::::

Hola amigos del foro, fijense que necesito una ROM samsung galaxy Q SGH-T589W, le habia instalado una ROM de SAMSUNG GALAXY Q SGH-T589 y me parpareba mucho la pantalla del telefono y no se que pueda ser!

Entonces queria ver si me donaban una ROM original de el, o una compatible con el!

gracias!

IN INGLISH:::

Hi forum friends, I need a ROM fijense Samsung Galaxy Q SGH-T589W, he had installed a ROM SAMSUNG GALAXY SGH-T589 Q and really parpareba screen phone and it can not be!

Then I wanted to see if I donated the original ROM, or compatible with!

thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comoc85:
thanks for all the info arhtard! Just got home from work, so I'll see what i can do. I do have a bit of experience with adb and flashing roms, as this was really the only way to get the Cliq to work worth a ××××! Not even cyanogenmod 7 and setcpu could help that device! Anyway, I'll post once I get things up and running. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
sweet.

myself and others have bricked this phone uninstalling stuff..

thank gawd for exchanges.. my best advice would be to use titanium backup pro and freeze apps u dont want, for now.. you may regret it soon if u start uninstalling things.. remember to look at the slide out keyboard and its shortcut keys and also the settings page at what categories are there, if u uninstall some things listed under settings and open settings, you will get force closes.. sorry i'm tweaking on uninstalling stuff, after bricking my first one, and reading about people bricking theirs, i'm just wanting to help others understand the importance...

if u have a sd card laying around >2gb i'd suggest partitioning it to fat32 and then ext2 and using the link2sd app... 218 apps installed and i still show 86mb available internally.. this will solve any "space" problems you have, till we get data2ext support on a custom rom. the reason i say ext2 is, the stock rom has built in support for ext2 and nothing more.. sure u can try ext4, but u may run into problems later, i dont know.

adb remount command doesnt work with this phone/kernel.. u can change the settings in "default.prop" but they won't stick when u reboot.. i'm understanding that its due to the programming in the kernel rewriting the prop file on boot..

adb push doesnt work either, only pull... i use file expert and "mount" as writeable then move files around, etc.

the boot animation can be changed also, its not as simple as dropping a bootanimation.zip in the media folder like other roms.. if u want directions i can post them. start up and shutdown sounds can be renamed so they won't operate, without any problems... if u use uot kitchen to cook some theme stuff, u gotta upload framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk.. u can't flash the cooked file, u have to pull those 2 apks and move them via an explorer, be sure to set permissions once u paste them.. be very careful doing that, i didnt use twframework-res.apk the first time and bricked my 2nd phone, lol.

anyway, i've messed with alot so far and kinda got a feel for the limits..

just holler if u need help or pointers...

late

you probably know how to do this already, but if not, i'll be happy to help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Busybox commands to remove + move files

i used these commands to change the framework apks to themed ones.

use at your own risk, they worked hassle free for me, just saying...

adb shell

su

busybox mount -o remount rw /system

busybox rm /system/framework/framework-res.apk

busybox mv /sdcard/framework-res.apk /system/framework/

busybox rm /system/framework/twframework-res.apk

busybox mv /sdcard/twframework-res.apk /system/framework/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Build.prop edits

u can safely add these lines in the bottom of your /system/build.prop file for a couple tweaks..

ro.sf.lcd_density = 160

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180

persist.adb.notify=0

mot.proximity.delay=25

windowsmgr.max_events_per_sec=150

the phone is so smooth and responsive now and when i answer a call my cheek doesn't seem to put the caller on hold all the time anymore... disabled the adb debug on notification and also increased the wifi scan interval time to help increase battery life...

i also changed these two lines(dont just add these, modify the existing lines to match):

debug.sf.hw=0

dalvik.vm.heapsize=64m

to this:

debug.sf.hw=1

dalvik.vm.heapsize=32m

i did all these changes at once, so i'm not sure which improved my phone so much...

also u can change the quality of the pics and movies by changing the values to what i have done in the following lines (dont just add these lines in, modify the existing ones):

#MM Camera

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.fps=5,25

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.width=176,320

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.height=144,240

ro.media.enc.vid.m4v.bps=90000,8000000

ro.media.enc.vid.h264.fps=5,25

ro.media.enc.vid.h264.width=176,320

ro.media.enc.vid.h264.height=144,240

ro.media.enc.vid.h264.bps=90000,8000000

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.fps=5,25

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.width=176,320

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.height=144,240

ro.media.enc.vid.h263.bps=90000,8000000

ro.media.enc.vid.height.min = 144

ro.media.enc.vid.height.max = 240

ro.media.enc.vid.width.min = 176

ro.media.enc.vid.width.max = 320

ro.media.enc.vid.bps.min =90000

ro.media.enc.vid.bps.max =8000000

ro.media.enc.vid.fps.min = 5

ro.media.enc.vid.fps.max = 25

ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000

ro.media.dec.jpeg.memcap=8000000
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Default.prop edits

these need to be changed in the default.prop file to allow adb remount command to be successful... but the kernel rewrites this file to the default settings upon boot, so this post is pointless....

change from this:

ro.secure=1

ro.allow.mock.location=0

ro.debuggable=0

persist.service.adb.enable=0

to this:

ro.secure=0

ro.allow.mock.location=0

ro.debuggable=1

persist.service.adb.enable=1

like i said though, the changes get overwritten upon reboot... so, pointless post.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Bootanimation change

i used the following methods to successfully change the bootanimation without any repercussions... as always though, i am not responsible if you brick your phone, these instructions worked flawlessly for me:

1. Using any root explorer app, rename the "samsungani" file to located in /system/bin

to "samsungani.bak" (so u can restore it if u want)

(some phones have samsungloop and not samsungani, rename samsungloop in this case)

2. Rename the file 'bootanimation' (also located in /system/bin) to 'samsungani'

(or samsungloop - whichever your phone has)

3. Now put the bootanimation.zip of your choice in /system/media folder

In some cases the "samsungani" will not be available so replace with "samsungloop".

Reboot and watch screen, kernel boot logo will still be present, but the tmobile one wont.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Remove startup and shutdown sounds

To remove (disable really) the start up sound:

mount the /system/ directory as read/writeable

find the file located in /system/etc/poweron.wav

rename it to poweron.wav.bak - so its there if you want to restore it later

done

To remove (disable really) the shut down sound:

mount the /system/ directory as read/writeable

find the file located in /system/media/audio/ui/shutdown.mp3

rename it to shutdown.mp3.bak - so its there if you want to restore it later

done
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erktheerk:
Crossing my fingers and waiting for development on this phone. I can most likely help once there are roms. But building from source or porting is not my strong point. But good at customizing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
alright i'm posting my modified framework apks and a screenshot.

i'm assuming they will work will all the other gravity smarts out there on the stock rom.

i had to zip the framework-res.apk because of the file size limit..

like always, use at your own risk, i'm not responsible for your phone or actions...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DragonSeeker:
Thanks for this bit of info. I am infernally sick of seeing the tmobile boot screen and I wanted a change. Keep up all the great work. Many thanks.

Keep Moving Forward,

D Seeker
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonyburnsred:
Thank you!

Umm so i can install your twframework.apk just like that? :p

Sorry.. im new :l

Oh and you included the original framework.apk file from the stock rom?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
no =)

i included 2 apks, both work together and both are themed.

u have to move them via busy box commands and make sure permissions are set right

if you arent careful it will brick your phone where u cant use it

i'm not sure, i'm assuming other people with the stock odexed rom can use those files

i uploaded the stock odex framework files to a kitchen and cooked a theme to recieve those 2 files themed

i've not got any feedback or replies from anyone who have tried to use them

since youre fairly new to modding, i'd ask you to wait until we have some responses from others stating that it works no problem.

i'd really hate to see you brick your phone, it would make for a bad day to the both of us.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comoc85:
Hello again. Sorry it took so long to get back, I have a dump of my system apps compressed and ready to upload. Alas, it is a 65 MB file and I've never uploaded anything like this before. Any suggestions? (May I remind you, ME=NOOB)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Hell yeah!!

alright, just a quick question - did you factory reset or wipe your data before u dumped the apps? (for your privacy)

i see most people in these forums using http://www.mediafire.com/ to share files

maybe try that and let us know... this is great news!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
Apps safe to remove?

i found this web page while searching for safe apps to uninstall...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asmxs-itQDPBdDlWUGQ4cjBZV09EMzFyNVVNQWYtX2c&hl=it#gid=0

i know its for a different samsung phone, but, its a guideline, better than nothing i think.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comoc85:
Well, yes. But I (not thinking) checked Google Location Service right before I pulled the apps. I don't know if that will give away anything major.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arhtard:
did u sign into google in the phone?

if so, don't post the files
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comoc85:
Well, I can't post links until I have at least eight posts. So I'll just PM you the link. Maybe share it on the thread for others. :D