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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] daveid:
In all honesty, having seen this same discussion in many a forum here, things like "I know this update that we all know is coming soon/now/whenever because I have inside information..." when we all know it is coming sometime soon, and it doesn't take inside information to know that, should just be kept to yourself. All it accomplishes its arguing, asking for proof, hurt feelings, some people start thinking you are a messiah, others consider you a troll, while some others wish you just kept your whole secret a secret. Always, they should question your motives for sharing that your friend works at Samsung and is sharing internal information with you, and you are willing to share that with the world. Especially when it doesn't matter what you know, or how. The T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2 is getting the same update that brings multi-window support that the other models are getting. At least some "messiah types" try to provide a date for the update/leak/whatever they have secret information regarding.

I've said enough, hopefully you understand this is not an attack, just trying to defuse this before it explodes and people start getting banned.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] aristo2jzgte:
No worries...Thanks! If u read one of my earlier post. I stated its coming out this week! If its not out by the 14 of this month! Than ill take all the hits! Like i said earlier, the build "is finish!!!" Its up to samsung now to release it!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mikedrums909:
Hell yeah, Thanks a lot man, works great now. Much appriciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] cashyftw:
Just want to say great job again guys, this is freaking awesome
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] cmenard:
You need to try the unlimited app mod ;) It's pretty cool...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] cfran55:
thanks i got it up and running quick question how does one go about changing their language from chinese to english. I have a voicemail and it shows in my notifications in chinese with the numbers to my voicemail.

also does anyone know the weather widget that came stock with the phone it wouldnt recognize my location, but i really liked it.

thanks again

Edit: restarted and somehow it got rid of the chinese and I got the stock widget app to work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastermindx85:
I was wondering the same thing I have root explorer all in Chinese how do I change this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Nyxagamemnon:
Question, so now will the phone be recognized as a N7105 and receive OTA updates just like a regular N7105 ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] rg1973:
Awesome just like the international note 2 .. Just what i wanted no carrier bs.. Using straight talk with att sim.

Call recording

Tethering

Video call options

Definitely recommend. This if your. Not using tmobile
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastermindx85:
Looks good after setup is finished
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pewterwest:
If your not using Tmobile? US Tmobile? Why is that? I have a T889 from Tmobile and I am going to primarily be using it here in the Cayman Islands on Lime network but when I go back o the US from time to time I plan on using it there. Is it going to have problems back in the US on TMobile?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] deeznutz1977:
Delete "re" in titanium. Edit: goddamnit unlimited multi window mod

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1961314 ---------> look for N7105 ,download
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mastermindx85:
Ok I got ir thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] cashyftw:
You'll be fine, this is T-Mobile compatible
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpepsi3:
Tests
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pewterwest:
Cool, I'm in. I'll give it a shot. Thank you to everyone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] teshxx:
This thread is moving too fast lol. So just to confirm, Full Wipe...Flash N7105ZHALJ4_NoWpie_CWM_Full and then T889UVALJ1_Modem and that's it right ?

and somebody asked if this is going to be getting 7105 OTA updates...answer is NO. This is rooted / deodexed version. So no OTA updates.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpepsi3:
Yes ota updates ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] teshxx:
Dude... I just answered that in the post above.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] jpepsi3:
Ota?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
ive been using CM10 roms for daily use and tehy do everything i need them to do without any limitations.

i suggest you make a nandroid of all your current setup and play with some custom roms. you can always revert back if you dont liek it or cant configure them match your usage. it made my S3 experience much better, btu everyone is dfferent.

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there are also sound mods and stuff that are accessible with ROMs. ive never tried them but some people swear by them
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
You don't have any sound issues of any kind? Does the rear camera work perfectly?

BTW, I don't want any sound mod that actually changes the sound. I want it to basically leave the sound alone and produce it as well as it can without modification. None of that Beats or whatever like some do (I think that was what HTC was pushing?)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
beats is a sound thing, yeah. it hink its just an equalizer though. i have used audio through headphone jack and over bluetooth to my headphones and the quality is fine for me. im not an audiophile though. it all kinda sounds the same to me lol

the only sound issues i have with my ROM are after flash some sounds do not function until you slide the volume slider from 100 to 0 then to 100 again. Its these types of quirks that come with custom rom sometimes.

my camera is working perfectly. its not as good as the touchwiz one however.

edit: heres a sound mod that might/might not interest you

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1883262

long as you do a nandroid you can always revvert back to your preferred current setup. you should also backup your IMEI
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
There are roms that are optimized stock. Maybe CleanRom. Don't think he adds sound mods but may be wrong. You may have used app to underclock CPU and it shows UC but probably not actually working on stock kernel as clocking must be enabled on kernel. Know this is true with overclocking. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
I actually prefer to avoid all sound modifications whatsoever. Even equalizer. I like the results of a relatively neutral sound being fed to these headphones, it comes out just perfect for me. That's part of what I was worried about as some of the custom ROMs sometimes try to have stuff like that built in (and I guess that equalizer or whatever it was was Samsung or Verizon kind of doing that in the stock ROM even.)

About the camera, I actually have a commercial camera app anyway. If the only problem people have been having was the built-in app, that's a non-issue.

What's this about sounds not working until you go to zero and back though? Does this interfere with anything such as receiving phone calls (eg does it sometimes not ring because the sound isn't playing?)

BTW, where do I actually find the "official" CM10 for this phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
no the sound works all the time after the adjustment. it takes 2 secodns to do. open volume, slide them all to 100, then all to 0, then all to 100 again.

http://get.cm/?device=d2vzw&type=snapshot

i think that these M builds are the monthyl most stable ones.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OnceAMatrixMan:
Personally I'm waiting for something built on the official VZW JB release. And yes I know I have months to wait... :-\
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
There is no DAC from Wolfson but yes it sounds kick ass! Qualcom is a beast! There S4 chip is there pride and joy so they didn't want to lag behind when it comes to quality audio! God does it sound so much better then my galaxy nexus. Qualcom is making the best arm chips right now. Can't wait to see how insane the 4 core S4 is!

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH MY FELLOW MEMBERS WHEN IT COMES TO AVOIDING ALL THOSE STUPID AUDIO MODS LIKE BEATS AND SOME OTHERS OUT THERE. THEY SUCK AND DISTORT THE AUDIO!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
Ah, have I misunderstood? Do you just mean it only needs this to be done after the initial flash of the custom firmware itself? That's definitely no big deal at all...

Well, I want to try to do this just once or at least no more than minor updates after this hopefully, so if I'm going to go ahead I want to go ahead and go straight to Jelly Bean.

I think SetCPU wouldn't be sold as only requiring root access to do its work if it required a custom kernel. It probably just works with the internal power management features that should be built in more or less by default.

Interesting... I do definitely wonder why some people have complained about hearing noise and such then. Perhaps a bad setting and/or that MusicFX app (finally had time to dig through the list to find out what exactly it was called and that's the one that I just assumed was probably an equalizer/effects processing thing that would modify the sound, but honestly I never had any use for it even if it's not and never bothered to try it.) I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks that the US SGS3 actually sounds good. I was beginning to wonder if my ears were maybe just getting that bad somehow even though I'm still far pickier than everyone I personally know, lol.

Let me ask you this, is the so called "Voodoo Mod" any good at least? I was never clear on exactly what it was supposed to do for audio. I know things like Beats probably mostly rely on a bit of processing to increase bass and probably play with things like stereo separation or something, but I've never been clear on what that one was trying to do exactly other than that people claim it's actually an improvement for many devices.

Anyway, back on the topic at hand, I think I'm more or less convinced to at least go ahead and give CM10 a shot. I'll use that newer monthly build from earlier this month after clearing enough space to make a full backup. (Besides CWM's backup option I've already backed up my apps and settings using TitaniumBackup, so in a worst case scenario it shouldn't be too painful if things go wrong and I have to go all the way back to a stock image with a factory reset or something. Is that option in CWM the correct thing, or must I use something separate for a Nandroid backup?) Also, it may sound silly, but how exactly do I backup my IMEI? I was looking for that already upon digging through a large tutorial thread a while back and it seemed to require something I couldn't get to work (when I try the numbers mentioned in the dialer I don't get any hidden menus, just a dialtone. Other than that I could only find something about manually restoring it if it has been completely damaged or lost which wasn't a fun looking process.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
It is sold that way. Depends on the manufacturer of the device. On stock HTC kernel it will lock 2nd core at max speed, kill battery life and cause heating problems. That is why I said it may not work correctly and without another app to monitor CPU you don't know what it is doing. How it works with Samsung I wouldn't know as I run custom kernels when possible and don't worry about clocking on stock kernels as they are under performing already. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
Don't restore system apps with titanium backup! Only data apps (apps from the market)

CM is great good choice. I love the theme engine CM10 has and all CM10 based roms.

I'll tell you a super easy way to backup your IMEI! Need Root!

Download (terminal emulator)

Enter these commands. su (hit enter)

reboot nvbackup (hit enter)

It will reboot and create the backup on a built in backup partition on your SD card. The only way you could delete the backup is if you formated your SD. Super easy I just hope it works lol....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
Two quick questions before I take the final plunge.

1. Is the CWM backup to external flash function sufficient, or do I need something further for a true backup? (It says "Nandroid" in one part, but otherwise I'm not sure if it's truly "Nandroid." It seems like it just backs up each individual file or something and I get the impression that Nandroid is more of an image of the firmware? If it isn't sufficient, what should I use?

EDIT: Found this tutorial. Basically that's what I've done except instead of bothering with Odin I used the EZ-Recovery app to flash CWM directly from the phone itself (along with EZ-Unlock 1.2 from here to unlock the bootloader) as per another tutorial. The other tutorial just didn't call it a "Nandroid" backup, so I wasn't sure.

2. If anything goes wrong, is there a stock ROM image I can use for the Verizon SCH-I535 with Odin? So far my searching has taken me to a site that practically has every stock ROM for the SGS3 but that one... (Or at least if it has that one I couldn't find it on there, which isn't saying much since every single region was listed separately...)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
The best way to get recovery is to get the latest recovery from the man who's created them all from the very beginning.

Get rom manager and flash the latest straight from that app. You must make sure your bootloader is unlocked. If you took the latest OTA from Verizon it locked your bootloader.

As long as your unlocked and rooted you can go straight in rom manager and flash touch recovery especially for your Verizon galaxy s3.

I've been using the latest touch recovery on my D2tmo, nexus 7,galaxy nexus and Asus infinity and it's worked perfect.

Make a backup of your current rom for safety before flashing. You can create a backup and rename it to whatever you want straight from rom manager!

I personally wouldn't back up to the external. It might work fine but when it comes to backups I just go straight to the internal

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I soft bricked my phone because after taking the latest OTA it locked my bootloader! Recovered it fully from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840030

I seen the take to your local Verizon store bla bla bla.

Got in download mode at 4am and recovered in 15 minutes.

I wish I had someone that knew what I now know and that's why I'm here to help my fellow members!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
Hehe, funny thing about that. It tried to automatically update without bothering to ask. I presume because I had the FWupdate app frozen (for I guess fairly obvious reasons) it utterly failed and then complained, then demanded that I update again after a while, giving me an option to defer it. (I never did figure out how to get it to stop pestering, but I guess that's a non-issue.) So I didn't ever get a locked bootloader simply because it failed to do what it was trying to do.

Anyway, I've installed CM10 and so far so good. Well, I gave myself a good scare by forgetting to do a factory reset (*sigh* I wish I didn't have to do that, but, after all, it's a significant change going from a highly modified VZW infested ICS to a cleaner custom Jelly Bean) and it sat there stuck on the boot logo until I reread the instructions and rebooted to fix it (at least CM doesn't wipe out the CWM recovery like the stock ROM does...) I still have a LOT to do to get everything all reinstalled and reconfigured. I'm not going to be able to finish it all tonight, so won't really be able to comment about the results of the switch until tomorrow I guess. It's not helping that it's taking absolutely forever to download the Google Play package and all (and then I get to redownload a lot of the apps, though hopefully TitaniumBackup can safely restore a lot of it.)

EDIT: BTW, is it just me or do they really REALLY need to provide basic info on how to do simple tasks like the actual installation process itself, installing Google Play, and etc? I'm no stranger to googling for info, but wow what a pain to figure this all out (especially it never occurred to me that the gapps zip would have to be installed using CWM. I thought it was for the firmwares themselves only, not them and apps...)

EDIT2: Oh wow. I had no idea how much work this was really going to be! I said before that a full ROM install is something I wanted to do once. Well, I definitely want to never do this again. I'm having to fight all sorts of things. Google didn't even want to recognize my phone at first despite successfully connecting my accounts and registered apps such as, oh, I don't know, Titanium Backup Pro just for instance weren't showing up as already purchased... -.- I think I finally got it all restored and they now properly show up as owned, but I've lost hours just fighting with all of these various things...

It also seems to have serious issues with my WiFi. I haven't figured out what is going on exactly, but it seems like I'm having to turn wifi off and on a bit to get it to properly connect again -- I've put in my password so many times I'm about to go absolutely insane (unfortunately, for various reasons I'm still stuck on WEP 128-bit, so I have to type in a large hexidecimal encryption key and I'm just about ready to go postal.) Hopefully once everything is finally all setup and configured all will be well, but at the moment I've lost a pretty good bit of sleep while fighting this and barely have it up and running. I probably should have waited for an off day to do this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ralph0015:
Strange that you are having so many issues. First off, when I flash a new ROM I put the ROM and the latest GApps on the sdcard. Do a factory reset, clear dalvik cache, install the ROM then the GApps. As far as wifi, I didn't have a problem when I ran CM10, but maybe there is something messed up in the latest version. Are you running the nightlies or the M versions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
Another word to the wise, backup your imei. Not sure if that was mentioned yet

Also, your ROM will work better after a charging cycle or two. It will initially scam for media and such I believe which maybe part if the reason you're seeing slightly higher usage at first. Also, in general you'll get slightly less battery life on aosp. I don't find much use in most battery stats though. They're easily manipulated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
No your OK you can get your IMEI underneath where your battery is. There's a tutorial on YouTube
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kjennings15:
Depending on how your cm experience goes, there are other options. If you find yourself missing the touchwiz camera or gestures, you might want to try a stable ics touchwiz rom like Bean's custom stock rom or cleanrom
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
Well, like I said, I replaced the camera already with Camera ZOOM FX. I still had a bit of Google Play credits so I searched around for reviews about a good camera app and actually this one is quite excellent despite its focus on adding special effects that I will never ever use. Special effects aside, it seems IMO to be better than the TouchWiz camera.

As far as the TouchWiz launcher goes, I actually replaced it almost first thing. I originally used Zeam which I had carried over from my previous PDA (the Archos 43) with its limited memory, but since memory is a non-issue here the launcher using less doesn't really make any real difference and I went ahead with Nova Launcher which I find to be extremely nice and FAR nicer than the stock TouchWiz Launcher (but then honestly I kind of liked Zeam better even. The TouchWiz launcher did not impress me.)

Overall I'm actually pretty happy with the results now that the WiFi issue seems to have stopped or at least I think it has. The battery thing is a bit of a concern, but either it was that particular battery maybe starting to lose its quality or it was just temporary stuff (such as the aforementioned media scan -- CM10 DID pick up all of my files from /sdcard/Ringers and /sdcard/Notifications and this time it picked up new ones that weren't in there before the reinstall that it wasn't offering as options back then, so I guess it did indeed do a scan. On that subject btw, is there any way I can initiate a manual scan whenever I add any new files?) Overall things are coming together pretty nicely now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nazo:
Ok, I guess I do have one more question on this. I know you're not really supposed to, but I really don't want to start over. If I keep backups and all, can I just install newer builds on top of older ones to update? Reinstalling from scratch isn't something I could do very often, but I do want to update from time to time. (Though, on that subject, does their own checking and update mechanism look only for stable builds or does it look for whatever I'm currently using? I know it's not telling me about nightly builds at least since several have been released since the date of this build, but I'm using a monthly build and a new one isn't out yet -- I guess on the 11th is when I should expect it -- so I can't be 100% sure just yet.) I've actually even wondered about trying nightly builds, but I can't find any sort of changelog (the biggest reason I'd try any would be if they improved battery life any. Right now it seems to be pretty bad compared to what it should be.)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
Donators/Suppoters:

*Donations aren't required or even expected but, a simple "Thanks" works well. :angel:

*PS: Want to help out in this movement of frost and snow?? PM me, I could let you be a tester for upcoming updates. Thank you to you donators and supporters. :cowboy:

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Tips N' Tricks:

*Want more butter? Set animation & duration scales to 0.5x in developer options! :cool:

*Anyone having problems with root? open SuperSU and update your superuser binary!

*I only have the some of the apps in the multiwindow tray, help? Just reboot and it'll be in the 'edit' tab.

*Why don't I have emoji? Unfortunately using some fonts breaks emoji.

*Are you having lockups? Are you using AOSP Lockscreen? Untick Ripple Effect while using AOSP Lockscreen!

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Thread Rules:

(Thanks evil1art)

*Search before you post questions

*DONT and I repeat DONT PM me about issues you have with your phone because you did not read the instructions in the op!!!

*Dont complain about battery life (99% of the time if its bad its user error!)

*If you have kernel questions, post them in the kernels op not here

*Dont complain about issues if you didnt wipe prior to flashing the rom!

*If you have an odd problem try to redownload the rom before posting your problems (download a md5 checker)

*Please stop asking me for ETA's... I try my best to get my roms out in a timely manner. (My internet sucks!)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
Banners anyone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] ionic7:
Cant wait!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] sluggersix:
Cant wait to try another one

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Thank you... A little appreciation :

Confirmation number: 4V394137DC784841J.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
Thank you! :highfive:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] evil1art:
Looks like Im going to have to blind dev a rom now lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] immunityx:
Look like the info is for the gs3 li6/li7
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] simplelife:
Is this good Saturday ? More love coming to T889.Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
Lol I'm not blind deving it tho. I got the Note 2 yesterday. :cool:

I still have my S3 too. We gotta make a Wicked Frosty already. Lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] evil1art:
I will start one tomorrow
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] djintrigue808:
Nice catch. Lol. OP updated. ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] evil1art:
Do you like the new phone?