yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mac of York:
Sometimes it doesn't activate as fast as the regular lockscreen, but tbh it's a great app. Downside? It's not free. xD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] et4g:
Yea not as good as stock but otherwise it aoght
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loserp4:
Hey guys,

I've recently bought the S3 from someone (2nd hand).

I would like to know if the IMEI of the device is legit and that it wasn't tempered with so i could in the future upgrade to JB..

can you help me out ?

Thanks in advance

Mike.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alchopop:
Firstly welcome to XDA.

Secondly, why do you think it isn't legal? At the top of this forum are some stickies which are available all the time for you to use. They cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to your new phone, not sure about imei number though!

Check out those stickies and hopefully most of your questions will be answered.

Have fun with your new toy
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitjag:
You really helped him.... Noot

You could check on sites like this if it was stolen:

http://www.amta.org.au/pages/amta/Check.the.Status.of.your.Handset

To check if imei is changed is almost impossible on phone itself. But if you got papers from first buyer then on bill and on box should you find imei.

But would help if you tell your country.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billybobjones:
ask him for the box or receipt.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alankstiyo:
kies, using the serial number and imei you can see if it exists and if it's related to any specific carrier
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loserp4:
Hey,

Thanks for your reply.

so I should install kies and there's a function there that will tell me if my device is legit ? Where should i get the serial number from ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randong:
OK this is what I do with all my phones I buy 2nd hand....call Att or your carrier and give them the imei number that's under the battery...tell em that you are buying it from someone and u wanna make sure that its not blacklisted ...

2nd , press *#06# on the dialer and compare the imei number with the number under the battery

I actually got my s3 with a messed up imei ...either that or I messed it up on my first flash idk..fixed it with the tool here on xda and I'm up and running with full data speeds and works like a charm now
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R0g@t:
Try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30797809
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a67543210:
What tool did you use to correct/change your IMEI?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
You are only checking to see if the imei is correct right?

If so, dial *#06#, then check if it's the same one on the sticker on the back of the phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arjen:
^ What he says
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobu4ever:
help me plss

hy...i have a problem.how did you restored your IMEI???plss help.:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Stupid to hijack a very old thread that has nothing to do with your question.

Restore IMEI is as per XDA flashing rule two backup your EFS .

So simply restore your backed up EFS .

No backup service centre is your next step .

jje
[HTC Wildfire S] tizzy7prelude:
I've been trying several Sense 3.5 based ROMs now but am experiencing bootloop and system crash problems with all of those i've tried. Aroma .sense seemed to work well but wifi not working any ideas to fix or suggestions on a stable ROM/Kernel?
[HTC Wildfire S] Jayson Woodham:
EQDKP 5.1.. it's stable,has good battey life, fast, has link2sd support, and has beats audio im currently using it right now.

LINK : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1865976
[HTC Wildfire S] harender singh:
this is very nice rom but sir why these rom does not show 'H' network continues its only shows 3G network does it not support hybrid network
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] x714x:
So I flashed back to stock with odin a couple hours ago (F2) and wanted to update to G7 but I have been getting a "update service unavailable". Anyone else having this issue or had this issue in the past? I searched and it seems some people who get this pretty much cant update for months and end up getting their phones switched out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shinjielric:
If you just want the G7 modem just head on over here and download and flash it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1788313

or you can check this page out for the whole G7 ROM.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1892670
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] titanshadow:
I've been getting this message since the 29th... I don't have anything specific I want to flash, but, any idea why we can't check for updates?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zedocus16:
A lot of speculation, but it seems like a new sim from Verizon fixes it for 95% of people.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DRX1983:
There are 3 possible ways to fix that issue, 1 - Try clearing the Google Framework Services 2 - Factory reset 3 - New SIM card. I tried the first two with no luck, then I got a new SIM card and that still did not work at first(after I got the new SIM card I ended up doing the first 2 step again and that's when it worked). Now i get the "No Update Available" lol. Hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AJ26T:
I had same issue couple days ago. I reset phone 3 times cleared google framework nothing works.

I wouldnt waste your time and just go get a new sim card i did and in 2 mins it was downloading update
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] josh995:
I had that issue.

New sim didn't work... had to get a new phone. Luckily I was within my 14 day return/exchange.

Verizon store didn't want to, but they gave me a brand new phone.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] mrazndead:
new to the lenovo tablet game, came from acer a500.

picked up a brand new k1 32 gig black for $150. now how do i root and install ICS? this 3.2.1 is yucky!!!!

thanks guys
[Thinkpad Tablet General] mrazndead:
okay so it was amazingly simply to upgrade from honeycomb to ICS, took about 5 minutes of research. now rooting is the next step. still looking for that root..

ok, well that didn't take long to install ICS with CWM and root. damn this lenovo is so much easier than the acer a500.

this device is pretty nice. the back plastic is bugging me tho. will get a nice case for it.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] DevsAwesome:
It is a really good tablet! As far as cases go I got a nice one off amazon for bout $20.

Enjoy!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] mrazndead:
is there a kernel to overclock the rooted ICS version?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] DevsAwesome:
I haven't seen one. I know krook1's CM10 ROM will have overclocking in V5
[Thinkpad Tablet General] Mordred69:
There's a kernel over at Krook's jb CM10 thread.

Where did you get that tablet for that price?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] DevsAwesome:
I was just wondering the same thing.. where did you get it?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] detriod:
well, Singapore is selling it at SGD399 now. just started yesterday. i bought mine already
[Thinkpad Tablet General] twe69:
They are dropping in price I think, £150 in UK previously £210+
[Thinkpad Tablet General] DevsAwesome:
I got mine for $300 in Jan
[Thinkpad Tablet General] detriod:
it should be, because they have a new one coming up soon i guess. thats why they want to clear stock
[Thinkpad Tablet General] fanaras:
Good choice mate. There are already two great guys working on Jellybean Roms for your tablet. It's a nice machine, but it's creator stopped supporting it. God bless Khanning and Krook for their work.
[General Questions and Answers] TheKryptonite:
I did the mod (on my SGP 5.0) where you swap the internal drive for the sd card, and I see this on the storage settings:

SD Card

Total memory: 5.01GB.

Available memory: 1.40GB.

USB storage

Total memory: 29.71GB.

System storage

Available memory: 1.64GB.

So did I do everything correctly? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalf:
Hi guys,

I'm using Virtual box and I would like to use my S3 (Japanese model) on my Linux Mint GUEST.

Virtual Box 4.1.22 (Guest additions, oracle VM virtualbox extension pack).

Host : Win7 64bits

Guest : Linux Mint 12 Lisa. I have installed Android SDK, and I can run ADB.

I tried to do like this without success : [HOW-TO] ADB via VirtualBox USB passthrough (Windows host to Ubuntu guest)

Everytime I'm doing "adb devices", I have an empty list.

My samsung galaxy S3 "USB Debugging" is checked.

In the settings of my VM:

USB *> Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller => CHECKED

USB > USB Device filters => SAMSUNG_Android_SC-06D[0400]

install oracle VM virtualbox extension pack

restart Virtual box

unplug the S3.

start the VM.

plug the S3.

run the command "adb devices" => List of devices attached (nothing)

In the VM, when I click on "Devices > USB Devices > SAMSUNG_Android_SC-06D

I have this error:

If you have any idea, please let me know !

edit:

I forgot to mention that I created the file: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"

and "chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kangburra:
Are you a member of plugdev group. Is the device connected to the host or guest.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalf:
Yes I'm a member of plugdev.

When I plug the device, it is connected to the host (win7). When I open the windows explorer, I can see the device.

And nothing happen to the guest.

edit:

I didn't install Kies on my host (win7).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kangburra:
That's the problem, if you can see it in Windows it is not attached to the virtual machine, you have to connect it to the virtual machine and it will not be visible in the host.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalf:
Exactly, that's why I'm posting :)

But how ?

It looks like my host (win7) always "detect first" the device. And my guest (linux mint) can't do anything about it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kangburra:
This is a virtualbox FAQ I suggest you head over the their forum.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dalf:
It's working now.

I was trying the USB ports in front of my tower, but in fact I should use the ports in the back (directly connected to the motherboard).

Now I have no problem

Dalf is happy :eek:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DROCSID:
Me is happy too ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpowell8:
I had the exact same problem, and plugging into the back USB ports worked fine with the filter. Thank you. These SS ports on the front of the tower must be handled differently than straight USB. Very nice find...

I'm curious to know if you remember how you came to the solution? Trial and error or were there documents guiding your debugging?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwars:
Can N7 support for USB on the go feature?

I have 8gb version....It seems like not enough for my photo collection....

Any Help?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwars:
Pendrive

Simply ask Can I connect pendrive for my N7?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k02a:
I don't know anything about your device, but generally there are three scenarios:

The USB-OTG support...

...is included into the kernel. You are set to go.

...is compiled as a kernel module (.ko) and can manually be loaded into the system. Normally, you will find kernel modules in /system/lib/modules/[sub directory]/

...is obviously missing. If this is the case, you can compile your own kernel module. This is off topic, but I might take some time to write a beginner's tutorial - if there is a common interest?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logic_:
Yes
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mustbepbs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackjaguar25:
I do it. I have a ton of movies on mine.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maztahbr:
There are a few threads about it. You will also need a OTG compatible adapter
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] olm3ca:
Here's the scenario: say you try out encryption on a ROM, either because your employer makes you or because you want the extra security. What happens when you can root your phone, like we can (easily) with the S3, and you want to flash a different ROM? The problem you will find yourself in very quickly is that you cannot do a successful wipe. You can't format an encrypted /data in CWM or any other recovery. If you cannot format /data, you can't flash a ROM - it fails, because /data is encrypted, and it cannot proceed. It turns out none of the recoveries can format an encrypted /data. You also cannot reverse encryption once you've done it. You're stuck, all because you flipped the switch on encryption.

I found myself in this problem as others have in many other forums (like this one for the GNex) (and another one, more detailed).

I also tried, admittedly somewhat out of desperation, the soft-brick instructions here. That didn't work because Nand Erase All fails. You can flash on top, and luckily you can use your same password to decrypt your /data (which I did) but you're still not going to have a clean ROM. Dirty flashes = lots of problems down the road.

I finally found a simple way to do this and wanted to save anyone else the trouble of digging. You can do it using CWM and adb and a few commands. Credit goes Shawn Webb's blog and utkanos on FreeNode's irc at #cyanogenmod.

Here is how to do this on our Verizon S3:

In CWM, wipe cache

adb shell

mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p15

mount /data

mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /data/media

If adb doesn't work in CWM, reboot recovery. You might need to create /data/media after mounting /data in order to do the last step, which I opted not to do. I hope this saves someone else a few hours of frustration, and I also hope that someday one of our recoveries can handle formatting encrypted data. Until then... I'm just not using encryption, period. There already is a lot of documentation against it, and this is one more reason in my book.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kitleon:
Thanks for this. I fell into the same scenario yesterday but after reading a lot of helpful posts from people like yourself I have managed to solve the issue. Basically I found two ways of doing it, one is as you have suggested and the other is by just replacing the custom recovery with the stock recovery. The SGS3 toolkit available on XDA made the 2nd option just slightly simpler for me and by spending less than 10 mins (excluding time for backups and downloads) the issue was resolved.

Just to share this option to save others from the headache of looking for a solution:

1) Get the toolkit

2) Install drivers as recommended and follow instructions to choose the build, or closest build, for your S3

3) Restore stock recovery with toolkit via ODIN (follow instructions)

4) After rebooting, go into Android and reset to factory settings, this would bring you to the stock recovery and wipe

5) Restore custom recovery with toolkit via ODIN (follow instructions)

6) Restore your system (luckily for me I had a nandroid backup before I encrypted)

Note: I did "lose" my internal sdcard files (pictures/documents). But I backed that up on my external sdcard before starting the process. My sdcard was not encrypted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PadVonDo:
You just saved my month. Drop me a message if I can get you a beer via paypal for this.

Cheers!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] walleyeuk:
THANKS!

Just wanted to say thanks very much for this. I'd tried the method of reloading the stock ROM as described by a previous poster, but this way worked.

I did run into a small issue I was wondering if you could shed some light on. When I entered "mount /data", I got the following:

~ # mount /data
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p37 on /data failed: Invalid argument

I bullied ahead and entered the last line "mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /data/media" and got this:

~ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /data/media
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 on /data/media failed: No such file or directory

However after doing this, I was able to perform a complete wipe of /data using CWM and load a new ROM without issue.

I'd curious to know what might be causing these Invald argument responses.

My Device: HTC One (GSM)

Thanks again! :laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stephanberlin:
I'm trying to follow your instructions but fail at finding out my mount points.

Sorry for the noob question, but who do I find out what the mount points of internal and external SD card are on my device (Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini International 4G)? I found this post

stackoverflow. /questions/6824463/how-to-get-all-the-mount-point-information-for-android-device

which seems to include the answer but I don't know what tool / software they use. I'm no programmer.

My phone is encrypted and doesn't turn on, it doesn't accept my password saying it's wrong, though I know it's correct. OS is Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable. Booting into CWM v6.0.3.7 is possible though.

I appreciate everyone's help.

Stephan
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] terminalerror:
It is my first forum post and I believe I am posting it in the right section... I tried finding a similar problem to mine, but seemed to only find people that wanted to turn LTE off instead of on. The AT&T Galaxy S3 phone is rooted and I have gone between ics and jb roms and have gotten LTE to work every time. The problem is after I reboot the phone I lose LTE. I get 20+ up 10 down on LTE. After I loose LTE I get around 8 up 4 down.

I have tried.

1.) Re-installing a rom which gives me LTE until I reboot phone.

2.) I have tried installing modems from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831898. If I have lost LTE after reboot, I can (9 out of 10) get LTE to work again after installing a modem. I lose it once I reboot the phone again though and am unable to flash a new modem to get LTE back to working and it won't unless I do 1.) again.

3.) I have made sure apn settings are on the correct pta lte setting. Usually most of the rom's have that already set to begin with.

4.) I have tried the *#2263# to change it to LTE. This WORKS and will reboot my phone into LTE everytime, but I lose being able to make phone calls, etc. From what I understand as well, I am unable to go to 3g/2g after settings LTE ALL and I don't want that either...

It is the only problem I have had with this phone. I notice a lot of times after I install a rom and reboot, it upgrades, and I lose LTE. I install a modem and get LTE back. I reboot phone normally without doing anything to the phone and it upgrades apps again and I lose LTE. That is the only conclusion I can come to as to why I lose LTE after reboot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ph3n1x:
I am in the same boat as you. I can force LTE with *#*#4636#*#* and setting it to LTe only. But I lose phone calls and if I restart it goes back to WCDMA.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] offwiththeface:
What rom are you using some roms don't have the late icon they have 4g instead. Also double check that you have the right lte apn enabled
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] terminalerror:
Yea I realized that jb roms do not show 4g lte, they just show 4g. I check to see if I have LTE by doing going to the Settings->About Device-> Status and looking at Mobile network type... and/or a speed test as well.

I came from and tried these rom's

Year of The Dragon

Ariel.2.07 [2ETO][Aroma]

WanamLite Smooth,Stable & Battery

Right now I am on Stock TouchWiz Jelly Bean PORT (JellyBean 747 Milestone 3)

I have gotten LTE speeds on every single one of the roms until I reboot phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] terminalerror:
[Update- Best Solution So far]

I found that using the WanamLite Rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1782732 enabled me to get LTE back fairly easy.

Everything is in the Settings->More Settings->Mobile Networks area.

1. I entered in a new Access point and just put Name: "pta" APN: "pta". You can fill out the rest like the MMSC, MMS proxy, etc but I did not need to.

2. Then went to Network Operators and waited for it to search for the networks (takes a minute or two). It showed up for me as two options being Maritime and AT&T. I selected Maritime and registered it. I was not able to register on AT&T and I don't even know what Maritime is. However,

3. I went to Network mode: Set it to GSM/HSPA/LTE(Auto mode). I get LTE every time.

Every time I reboot I can get LTE to work by doing steps 2.) and 3.) and is a little annoying, but better than having to flash a rom every time I reboot and lose LTE. I would like to try and find a solution though where I wouldn't have to do this every time I reboot.

[EDIT] There might be roaming charges, but by disabling Data roaming you should be fine. I believe you might incur charges if you try connecting to this network while on a cruise and have data roaming enabled. I have not done a lot of research on this so I could be wrong.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mdt73:
Tonight I made my first accessory purchase at the local Verizon store... as their prices have always been pretty bad, but I have a military discount of 15%, so I bit the bullet and purchased an iBolt cradle system. If you haven't seen it, there is a review in the accessory section, it's pretty spot on, but this important update is for those of us who don't have A2DP streaming in the car, and are forced to use the AUX IN jack.

Long story short, when using this dock, you have the option of sending the sound thru your micro USB port or out the phones speaker in back. This dock comes with a nine foot long cable that has micro USB at one end, and regular USB and a 3.5mm audio jack at the other. This beautiful setup allows you to not touch the evil headphone jack (trump card) on the phone, but rather it lets you the phone play music out the USB connection while retaining Bluetooth phone connectivity thru your cars Bluetooth connection! (while charging)

Silly that I had to buy a $32 device to get functionality that the AT&T version of our phone has natively... but at least it's fixed!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OnceAMatrixMan:
Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but what is the advantage of playing music through the USB instead of bluetooth? I actually like the BT option - plays music but pauses when a call come in and lowers the volume for GPS directions. Works great all at the same time...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mdt73:
There's a large portion of G3 owners who do not have bluetooth streaming (A2DP). Just because you have bluetooth phone connectivity does not mean you have bluetooth streaming. We are forced to use the aux in jack in the car to listen to music. I think a large portion of S3 owners simply tried to use the headphones jack on the phone... But if you do that, you cannot use bluetooth. Every sound is routed thru the headphones jack. You cannot toggle this.

So, using the iBolt cradle, witch ports the sound out via usb instead of the headphones jack, I am able to retain my cars bluetooth functionality.

Side note, not sure if you know this, but the sound quality of bluetooth streamed music is pretty bad compared to a cabled connection.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] con247:
I'd recommend this if you don't have BT streaming: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10827&cs_id=1082704&p_id=9472&seq=1&format=2

That combined with a USB car charger to keep it charged at all times would maybe be a nice way to solve your issue for ~$30

Note: I don't own the product, but the reviews are good and it seems it would just be nice to have.