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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
As long as your coming from LJ1, this is correct.

Even if you to the LMA2 update OTA, all you would need to do is re-flash CWM via odin, then flash superuser or superSU through CWM.

....in response to your post post below me... flash LJ1 through kies or the link in my thread. Then flash or update OTA/kies.

It would be easier to update LH1>LJ1>LMA2>flash swm>slash root>done!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
I have build number IMM76D.T699UVALH1. I see that's not the "lj1" ROM.

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But Odin doesn't work on Linux, right? That's what I use. I don't have a Mac, and I only have occasional access to a PC.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
You can use heimdall to flash, but you have to untar the file until you get to the recovery.img file. That is what you flash with heimdall.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
OK. I'll check out heimdall. Thank you. I guess that version 1.3.2 is the latest. Can anyone confirm?

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OK. I got Heimdall working. I'll get all the necessary software and go from there, and I'll be back later.

Thank you.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
1.41RC1 is the latest version. You'll have to compile/make it. I have gee ones guide to build heimdal for 12.04 in my sig. You'll need build-essential, pkg-config, qmake-qt4, libusb, and a couple of others. You'll need both the pakages in gee ones post and those in the heimdal appendix b in the readme. I'm in the process of working on a how-to-guide, just haven't finished it yet :)

This is for ubuntu 12.04. You'll have to google the package names to get the most update names for apt-get.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
I just did this and lost root, and presumably also recovery.

I followed the instructions above, exactly.

What did I miss?

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OK. I'm up to having LMA2, back to unrooted.

I want to make sure I don't mess up the flashing steps, now that I have a working heimdall.

To do the "flash cwm" step, do I do the following?

1. Make sure I'm in USB debugging mode.

2. Hook up the USB to my linux box and then the T699

3. ./adb devices (make sure I'm really connected)

4. ./adb reboot-bootloader

5. ./heimdall detect (make sure I'm really connected)

6. ./heimdall flash --recovery cwm-apexqtmo-2012-10-11.zip

Are there any arguments to the heimdall command besides what's listed above?

Thanks.

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I got it working. The heimdall arguments were correct. I had to tweak Nardholio's rooting procedure a little, but I got it to work.

All is well with my rooted T699 UVMA2 now.

Thanks to all.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] RazoE:
Strange, the .zip posted shouldn't have messed with your recovery. Flashing super user would have been fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
yeah, I'm surprised it worked too. I would have unzipped the zip file until I saw recovery.img and then flashed that.

what happens when you boot into recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] RazoE:
Same as before. Backups and everything are the same.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
Is there a setting in the email app (not gmail) to use a dark theme? I thought there was, but now my email uses a light theme?? This is on the uvma2 rom.

In other news, I made a cwm uvma2 rom. Anyone want to test it? It is rooted, and somewhat debloated. the ideal tester should have cwm and be able to unbrick/restore their phone. Pm if interested.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] racosta201045:
Send it here.!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Thanks.

Well, it's now too late to test, because I've already re-flashed the CWM recovery (cwm-apexqtmo-2012-10-11.zip).

Perhaps I was mistaken about having lost recovery.

But I did indeed lose root and had to re-root the device. The "... without losing recovery or root" title led me to believe that root would have been maintained.

... or maybe I did have root, and just not the "superuser" app, or something like that.

Anyway, I got it all working, so all's well that ends well.

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PS: after all that's said and done, I'm not sure that the upgrade to UVMA2 was worth all my effort. I don't notice any meaningful differences in performance or features.

I think I'm going to avoid T-Mobile upgrades from now on (I've frozen the "Software update" app and blocked the otacerts file as I described above), and I'm just going to wait for a usable custom ROM. I think a CM10 version is well on its way.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
Send it too me too. I'll see if it can be done without wiping /data. Won't be until Monday though.

@gee. With your cwm I should be able to backup/restore?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
The file is about 500mb. Anyone know any cloud storage that will allow big files and the bandwidth to download them.

Edit: a rom question: if I look at settings/about phone/status... all the way at the b ottom, I have "device status" modified. I'm running a custom rooted rom, custom boot, and custom recovery. What do other people have and what changes have you made? Anyone flash back to stock and still show modified?

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
Have you checked mega and google drive?

Mine says modified too. There is a post about how to go comeplete stock and reset the flash counter. I haven't tried it yet, pretty sure its at the bottom ish of my op thread.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onelikeseabass:
I dunno, it worked great for me and I didn't lose root or recovery. Did you flash from within recovery? If so, after the flash completed, did CWM tell you that root may have been affected and to "fix" root?

I tested this on my own device is why I ask. Sorry you had a different experience.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Thank you. I now think the issue was my confusion and lack of knowledge, not that I actually lost root.

I did get that message and responded that root should be fixed, but when my phone came back up, none of my apps that required root could get it. I now realize why: I still had to re-install a Superuser app, which I hadn't done.

I was just speculating about having lost recovery, but now I think that wasn't the case.

I apologize for my confusion about this.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onelikeseabass:
Stock rooted with Noptys' build of the cwm apexqtmo recovery. Mine says modified as well. Haven't flashed anything other than recovery and my tweaked OTA.

Wishing I had more free time to tinker!

SGH-T699 aka "apexqtmo" (Stock, Rooted, Noptys' CWM, UVAMA2 Firmware)
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
Is it possible to do this with the de-bloated stock rom? It's one of the reasons why I like CM9, but if I could get/make this it would be awesome.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2002620
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] racosta201045:
ÕJust flashed GeeOne's rom...Works smooth. Nice and debloated. I was having troubles on my stock rooted rom. Gallery crashed atleast 5 times a day. Now this rom is more than stable. Been running wifi,netflix,facebook, twitter,google+. Has good 4G signal. Idk about the battery yet. Let me work it and I will get back to yall. All in all 100% recommend!!!!!!

Edit 8:10pm

Music, video, camera, instagram , browser.

Call quality is about the same from regular stock rom. But can tell much difference. I do notice better signal in my area overall. I havent been able to properly use nfc but once I try that it will be posted. Oh yeah Special thanks to Gee One for his

time and dedication to this rom.

Edit 10:40am Battery life is at max!!!

Left phone off charger with 32% last night. That was at 11pm and at 6am on wifi all night it decreased to 29%. Ran music and muti-tasked polaris office and phone is at 19% right now. (4 hours and many tests later .) This is Awesome!!!!

Downside is that is uses alot of ram. Previous to this rom the stock rooted rom had a average of 450M available. But on this rom its significantly lower at a average of 298M available...

Get this Relay users!!!!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
UVMA2 ROM and radio

Thanks to racosta and Nocturin for testing this. I think it's ready to go live. Nocturin has figured out a place to put the file so that we can all access it.

Here are few links from the uvma2 update. These are all flashable through CWM. I didn't notice anything groundbreaking or revolutionary over the lj1 rom in terms of new features

This is the rooted, debloated stock(ish) rom. This is a large file because it is the full rom, not an incremental update. Backup before flashing! If you are on a stock system (not CM), then I would wipe system and cache before flashing, but leave data intact. If you are on CM9/10.1, then you will probably want to backup first and then wipe system/data/cache. I took out some of the apps, including some of the google ones that are in the market. If you have applied any app updates, you probably won't notice any of them missing, since the update saved in /data/app will replace the one that was previously in /system/app. You will, however, be able to uninstall the updates. Tethering isn't patched, although the LJ1 tethering patch should work on this ROM. I have a version that uses the LJ1 frameworks-res.apk and tethering seems to work. The APN in customer.xml is patched for tethering, but that is in the LJ1 tethering patch anyway. I also added Superuser.apk, the su binary, and busybox in /system/xbin. I took out app/IQ* and lib/libiq*. This is meant to be a more or less stock experience without some of the extra apps. Let me know if there are any extra apps that can be removed because they are available in the market/other sources.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9yvmRZNbRDuN1dzaGJlMmhhZkk/edit?usp=sharing

This is the radio and tz.mbn. I don't know what tz.mbn does, but the OTA file updates it. If you aren't comfortable flashing this, then by all means, pass. I did flash it on my phone and I didn't see anything odd, but I didn't use it too much today.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bkbd3ny2k3bg1zv

I also have a modified version of CWM- it uses the recovery binary from the SGS3 and the init/ueventd files from the stock lh1 recovery. The home button works as select. Charging is also patched to work when the phone is off. This version only has access to the external sdcard. You can flash this as is via cwm. To flash using heimdall, unzip it and flash recovery_mod.img via heimdall.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ni0o5oo5l2h5if3

Again, thanks to the racosta and Nocturin for helping to test this.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
I've started a wikia if people want to start helping with the community. With you guys help, we should be able to make a decent little home base for our budding community.

CM9 and CM10 on the rise, woot. Go Relay Go!

Samsung Relay 4G/ApexQ Wikia

I'll start filling things in, and you guys just keep adding more! With all of us being able to contribute, you won't have to wait on my to add it to a resource.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] croogrog:
Hi all

I found this thread back when I first got my t699 and had it rooted within an hour. All was well until the t-mobile update failed. I got on google and found this thread again. I have now successfully updated and restored root access. :victory:

Thanks to all who keep this alive.

Should I add to the request thread?

Also how is the cm9 coming along? Any chance of a beta any time soon?

I'm off to click thanks where its deserved.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] COZ'N'EFX:
T699 DAC?

Does anyone know what DAC is in the Relay?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] orange808:
Given that the device is powered by the S4, it should be a Qualcomm WCD9310.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gtmaster303:
Can anyone else elaborate more that the sim unlock method works?

I just follow the instructions on the stock rom?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] :
CM9 works for the most part. AOSP camera is broken, and wifi tethering is broken (third party cameras work and bluetooth and usb tether work). There is also an annoying screen flickering. It's labeled as alpha but it won't brick your phone or anything.

Work has all but halted on it in favor of CM 10.1. There's no screen flickering and wireless tethering works. The cameras are busted hard. Bluetooth is touchy but it does work. Once we get the bluetooth issues ironed out I'll release a public build.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] croogrog:
Has anyone had issues with the size of widgets downloaded from the google play store? (especially those with transparent background)

I got the thermometer widget supposed to be 1x1 current temp but is actually 1x2 on my phone. As a sanity check I put it on a LG lgl45c running android 2.3.4 it is a 1x1 widget.

Could it be a compatibility issue with the os or is it just my phone?

I am currently running UVMA2 android 4.0.4 rooted w/ supersu, but I first noticed this problem before rooting or upgrading from LH1 while looking for a good clock.

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Thanks for the info. I'll be waiting for the cm 10.1
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
I tried it on the lh1 rom and it worked. The directions weren't 100%, but they were close enough that I figured it out and it worked.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Codename_Falcon:
Can anyone tell me how to root UVAMA2 without flashing the full ROM? I don't want to wipe.

Also does it display a yellow triangle or trip flash counter etc.?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
You could just flash Superuser and the su binary. I believe Nardholio posted a cwm flashable zip (but you'll need cwm).

Flashing a zip through cwm won't trip the flash counter, but flashing a recovery through odin/heimdall might.

You shouldn't need to wipe data to flash the full uvma2 rom and you could probably flash it without wiping the stock system. Edit: I'm not sure what that would do. Also, the ota udate from onelikeseabass does not include su/superuser.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gtmaster303:
Can you provide more complete directions or points that aren't included? I want to make sure I don't screw this up.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36400199&postcount=783

This is pretty clear. I just walked through it again and it's straightforward. I recall that during one of the times I had to wait, there was a pleasant confirmation message. As far as points that aren't included, I seem to recall it was pretty straightfoward getting back to the network menu. Just go slowly. I think this tip came from the SGS3, so maybe poke around there and see if anyone has more insight. You'll also need a non-T-mo sim card, so find someone with an at&t or other phone. I used a NZ vodophone that I just happened to have lying around. ;)

While you are at it, you might as well write down the directions in the wiki http://relay4g.wikia.com/
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gtmaster303:
Will do. Getting my phone within the next week. The wikia and summary post are coming along nicely. Nocturin has done an amazing job keeping this device organized. All butt kissing aside, genuine cheers to him.

I'm going to get in touch with the wiki CM maintainer and get him to add our device to the wiki. So there's more spots to find all the information you need.

Why the f%&! xda won't make a thread for the relay 4g is beyond me. I've tried getting a thread made for you guys down so many different avenues, all of which lead to dead ends. Only thing left I can think of is flagging this thread for a news story. Lol maybe if we end up on the portal, someone may notice us.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] tany.jags:
Things are great

The rooted MA2 works just fine (with LJ1 tethering fix), tested more or less everything, and even with the same amount of free ram as LJ1 allowed (yes about 100mb more free ram is available all the time on this baby), gaming is smoother!. The new recovery is problem free up till now with the broken samsung at recover boot logo fixed. All in all with this not feeling the need for a CM10.1, also touchwiz would be hard to part with!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] WetLlama:
I hope this question isn't frowned upon (and I did do a search), but this being the Relay catch-all thread I figured it was the best place for it: Is the Relay actually 4G LTE (GSM of course) capable? I'm seriously considering this phone, and just curious if, after being unlocked, it would be usable with an AT&T/Straight Talk SIM and have access to AT&T's LTE network (and T-mobile's upcoming actual 4G)? The bands seem to match up via spec sheets, but I just wanted to get a straight answer before I pull the trigger.

Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
AFAIK. That's the great thing about it being a "global" phone, supports all those bands. If someone I knew had AT&T and LTE service, I would sim-unlock my phone an attempt to find out definitively for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] WetLlama:
Well I'm glad you said that, because I already pulled the trigger before you responded. ;)

I'm tempted to do one month of AT&T and T-mobile pre-paid each to compare and contrast; I mean, as long as I have one SIM somewhere with my number on it, I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm sad to have to get rid of the Stratosphere II because it's a good phone, but no root and $120/month service with Verizon makes the WetLlama an agitated camelid. Besides, it can go to my girlfriend who has an OG Stratosphere and no desire or need to root. :good:

Thanks for the reply!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onebornoflight:
This might be a weird idea - and I'm not a programmer so I'm just throwing this out there lol feel free to call me an idiot, but wouldn't the stock rom be a great candidate to deodex, add the "Tweakwiz" launcher (from the GS3 forum) and V6 supercharge to help the RAM issues it seems to be having? I don't know why a debloated stock rom would seemingly leave less free RAM, excuse my ignorance I just thought it seemed like a good idea.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
I tried to deodex the lh1 stock rom a while ago, but I'm not that saavy with smali. The rom never finished booting. I did deodex a rom for other devices, but this one seems to have conflicting dependancies. Ext.jar and framework.jar both depend on each other. If I could figure that out, then we might have a go.

I suspect it has something to do with the extra twframework-res.apk and framework2.apk, but I'm not 100% sure... I'm just lucky with google searches, I guess.

Regarding the free ram, where are all checking this? In terminal? Or about phone? I'm almost, but not quite, ashamed to say I don't know where to look for this.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] orange808:
You don't need to be a programmer to try that config. You just need to follow a few instructions.

Make a backup and try it out.

I don't know why the debloated custom has less free memory, but my first guess would be that the dev locked the launcher in memory. That way, it comes up instantly and you think your phone is fast.

I'm using CM9 and I prefer to multitask with keyboard shortcuts. So, a launcher eating ram doesn't make a lick of sense to me. But, it might work well for you...
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onebornoflight:
V6 supercharger is a pain in the backside on odexed roms...I haven't been able to get the services.odex automatic patcher to work because my pc is on dial-up at home in rural Alabama lol and I have NO idea how to edit smali. That's why I haven't tried it yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
What is deodexing anyways?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onebornoflight:
http://www.wugfresh.com/guides/deodex/

According to my google search it's about theming but I can see a wealth more use in deodexing than just easy theming personally...
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
Yay! Link doesn't load at work.

Theming like Nova?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] racosta201045:
I feel the same way. A CM10 might be pointless. But thats how I feel. A camera with panorama option would be nice. And customizable boot animation. I still think that weve gotten a lot accomplished in a short period of time considering thqt the Relay isnt as popular as the SG3 & 2....
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
A few thoughts- deodexing would allow theming and other mods. We could take some of the wiz out of touchwiz.

As far as cm10.1 goes, I would rather have a cm rom than touchwiz. The devs are working hard and I think we'll see some great stuff soon. At this point it's a balance of being on the bleeding edge with cm and having some functions work with the stock rom.

I've figured out the boot logo (not animation) and can change that at will. If we, as a community, want to come up with a splash screen, I can put together a zip that will flash it. Maybe we need a thread to submit images and we can vote?

I think we can change the bootanimation as well, although it's in a different format than I am familiar with. I guess that is part of the fun. On my phone, I did get rid of the power on and power off sounds, so that it is completely silent.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
What's the size (resolution) and file type for the boot logo?

When you removed the start-up and shut-down audio it it remove the vibrate associated with it too?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
The boot screen is 800 x 480. The format is rle, but I wrote a python script that changes bmp to rle format. ;)

I think the vibration is part of the boot process and not part of the boot sounds.

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[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
Ah, ok. Well someone talented with vector graphics would prolly whip us up a "Team ApexQ" relatively easy :P.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onebornoflight:
Back on my Doubleshot I had an old fashioned, BIOS - style startup image... if I could upload that could someone take it and edit the indivifual screens to reflect the Relay's info?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Nocturin:
I could give it a shot if i knew what font to use. Did you make it? If so, original files (.psd ect) would be awesome :)

Then we could figure out hwo to replace it.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] onebornoflight:
Unfortunately no I did not make it. It's a boot animation so it's set up pretty standard, or at least for what I'm used to with my old HTC devices. Haven't checked this device's setup yet. Let me go back and see who did and message him about making one for us in the same style - make sure he doesn't mind that we use his work, then I'll see about getting the base file to you.

(I know it isn't copyrighted or anything but I always thought it was really cool and wouldn't want to jack his style - even though a standard PC boot is old school)

Note: the boot animation seems to be a compressed folder with two subfolders - part 0 and part 1. Each has a series of jpegs inside that make up the animation in one frame each, with a desc.txt file that has instructions. Shouldn't be too complex unless Sammy uses a different format:)

EDIT: PM sent... though after accessing /system/media which is where HTC put their bootanimation.zip it appears Samsung uses a .qmg format? Though in /system/media/video there are some MP4s that aren't used in the boot or shutdown process that could be pretty cool - especially the androidinspace that could be used either in portrait or landscape mode (240 or 480 versions in said folder). Anyone know what these are for?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] gee one:
Yeah, the boot animation seems to be a qmg format. I suppose there is something on the google android sites about how it is coded.

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