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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3711samsung:
I wont be rooting my gs3 but if anyone has any tricks that they have found itd help if you posted them! Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
The only real trick is to root the phone .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w1nter456:
1 trick, install adobe flash player and watch porn on your phone. Enjoy.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacer00ster:
I second that
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josefmawas:
Not really helpful what you are writing guys :banghead:

What you mean by tricks? If you root your phone you could ad free your phone or undervolt it and many other things, but without rooting there is nothing special you can do
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ole12:
Trow the phone up in the air, and count how many times you can clap your hands before you have to catch it.

That is a neat trick for you :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kickasskev:
there is an option some where in the device where you can phone people, havn't figured it out yet though
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chunology:
Doesn't look like this has been posted yet but.... OTA!!! Phone has been out for less than two weeks... this gives me hope!

Samsung Galaxy Note II Software Update - L900VPALJC

Enhancements/Fixes

- GPS lock settings can be defaulted by corporate device administrators

- Emails go to Outbox when in no coverage area or airplane mode

- Text message notification will beep while in a voice call

- Multi Window View feature to run two apps on the screen at the same time - Wooohooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

EDIT - Looks like the update will roll out in phases - all devices will be updated within the next five days.

Source: http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/102622
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ls3mach:
GOOD. I am tired of this thing vibrating my damn ear off 50 times a day. Everyone keeps asking what that sound is while we are on the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Has anyone tried to manually update yet? I'm afraid to try it because I'm rooted and using TWRP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jefbal99:
Just awaiting the update for TWRP/CWM users.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chunology:
I'm 100% stock and manually updated - update hasn't been pushed to me yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lepapirriky:
Good news!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lopies:
Very good news.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] misury:
Well now I'm torn. Running Blazer ROM but want the multi app function. Sigh.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingoftowns:
saaweeeeet! I love this phone but have been dying to try the multi-window feature!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Delirious17:
Any way to find a download of this and install it manually?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] hopefulfarm:
I just tried, nothing yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wanderr:
There goes the week... all I'm going to be doing for the next 5 days is pressing 'Check Now' until I get this update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Richardsonke:
This is great news. Does anyone know if the same root method works on this release?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bullet2300:
You and me both haha. I've already done it twice this morning :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wanderr:
Gonna be mad if I run out of power checking for updates and then it arrives when I can't update :laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] theoner1:
East/North bay Cali still nothing yet and I'm completely stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tahde:
Great news! Thank you (OP) for this. Only stock rooted, so torn to either go back to stock to take full update or just wait until one of these great devs get a flashable out.........that is the question. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Sir Alphonse:
This is awesome.

I was waiting for this update before I rooted. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] emilioloveseva:
Patiently waiting for a flashable update!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chunology:
Once someone gets the OTA - the update.zip can be pulled for a manual install through stock recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrnamster:
I'm on CleanROM.

Could this be done by simply flashing stock recovery with mskip's toolbox then boot to stock recovery to install patch? Then reboot to ROM and install TWRP via GooManager?

EDIT: I guess you can't with root. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33856226&postcount=7
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tahde:
Nah, no race. I believe they were (like me) talking about how long the process was.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] uluaz:
Anyone working on a flashable zip for those running CWM/TWRP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
I will have one for you all probably later tonight.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Method found for rooted and on stock rom with TWRP or Stock Recovery - All credit goes to viperboy, cincyelite22, & guirae http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33859646&postcount=39

PS - I lost root using this method

A. If you're on stock and using TWRP, use GN2 Toolkit and Reflash Stock Recovery via Odin (Option 6)

B. If you're using Stock Recovery or just reflashed Stock Recovery follow the bbelow steps.

1) downloaded viperboy's stock .tar - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1968136

2) change the md5 to a .tar format and place in PDA then ODIN to stock. Your Phone will need to be in download mode for this Vol Down + Home + Power

3) download cincyelite22's OTA update file on your phone and make sure it's on your external SD card- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1980260

4) boot into STOCK RECOVERY - Vol Up + Home + Power

5) navigate to external SD card then flashed the update zip file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] neles86:
I was initially stocked rooted with custom recovery. I then odined back to fully stock which didn't touch my data. Then flashed OTA update using stock recovery, then re-rooted and all is fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] uluaz:
Do we lose any data by using this method?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
If you're referring to the method I posted, then no. I lost no data and I'm about to root again via the GN2 Toolkit. I'll post back here with my results.

Edit: Or I guess I'll have to wait until there is an LJC recovery tar.

Edit 2: Well I just used the LJ1 boot image tar via the Toolkit and it worked (Option 3 ALLINONE with TWRP & SuperSU). Only thing is that I'm unsure if I actually had root prior to this and just forgot to update the binary lol. Either way it worked, rooted with TWRP & LJC!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] akneipp:
Very much aware that this was just pushed to us, but anyone looked or going to be looking into the unlimited apps modification for MultiView?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kingoftowns:
don't know that i would use this all that often, but it is kinda cool, pretty impressed with how the phone doesn't stutter or slow down at all when I have two windows and a video going.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
Thread should be locked right here at your post.

Totally easy.

Totally perfect.

15 minutes.

!Muchos muchos gracias!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Hehe... For getting root back after this, first try updating the binary for SuperSU by opening it then updating. If that doesn't work you can root via GN2 Toolkit using the old LJ1 file that the Toolkit tells you to use (I used option 3 with TWRP & SuperSU).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 48548:
That also fixed my error as well... Now the question is do I root my phone again, as the counter is showing 3 and I want to reset that back with triangle.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] uluaz:
agreed. just finished re-rooting and installing TWRP. A+ method.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
I just ran the tar through Odin again, then downloaded SuperSU again from the play store.

:good:

Thanks again for your post.

ETA: I ran the Auto-root tar through Odin again. Not sure I was clear on that. When I rebooted, phone did not have SuperSU installed as before (at least icon was not visible in app list). Went to Play Store, searched, found, downloaded, installed. Glorious. Have not gone back to TWRP (yet).

Now the question I have is: how do I get the bar to auto-show when I boot phone? Each time I reboot, I have to manually turn it on. Thing is, the icon is illuminated like it's toggled on (in bar), but the tab does not display. I toggle the switch off then on again, and it shows.

Anybody else run into this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -viperboy-:
I will also take care of this when I can, hopefully tonight as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cherylbaker:
How do you re root after doing the upgrade?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Oh that's normal. Just hold the back button after you reboot ;)

Read my last post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cherylbaker:
Sigh..I read your post I do not understand.. if I use the toolkit wont that downgrade me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lenng:
I'm loving this multi window app nice

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
That's what I thought too, but it's only the LJ1 boot image, not the LJ1 recovery file and it stayed LJC for me. I have no idea whether there will be any potential problems using the LJ1 boot image, but that's what I did.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tahde:
Yup. I asked Viper earlier today as I was gaining root after the update and thought about it. Said its fine, it just touches the recovery.img.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bronzwarlock1225:
T away

Just to be 100% sure triangle away is safe to use on this phone to reset the custom binary counter right? Also thanks for the update method worked great!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Right. Can't do it with root. Must be stock AND not root.

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Then root again, install TWRP through Odin. But, we are now on a stock ROM that is just rooted.

I'm waiting for a modded ROM to include the multi-view.

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I used it right before it updated to .25 (I think it was .22 or something). It worked then but I don't know about now.

Good question.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bronzwarlock1225:
I am to scared to try lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Well DONT install Chainfire 3D EVER!!! I soft bricked the phone took me an hour to fix it .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
If you have changed your prl this update will change it back to what it was. I had to reinstall my prl.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rwright64:
I agree, the multiview is pretty damn cool! Now, whats up with you not calling Katrina back?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lenng:
Lol :rolleyes: I should I use a different 1

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MiguelHogue:
LOL!

-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Tell me about the PRL change. I have noticed that S voice always has random network errors on my current PRL. Does the PRL update help? Have you actual noticed any real time difference with signal or speed or more 4 G areas available?

What is the thread for the PRL update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tahde:
LOL. I thought I was the only one that seen that. Had to chuckle at that.

Better call Katrina back......................lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lenng:
I already called her it's all good lol

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jamesey:
Can't add netflix in multiview :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] emeraldayotte:
I'm still having issues installing the update. I flashed back to stock recovery and am getting:

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "t0ltespr" | | getprop ("ro.build.product") == "t0lespr"

E:Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip

(Status 7)

any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Read both of my posts on page 19

Oops I copied and pasted that, sorry. Fixed and Thank You :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cruecu:
Download mode is volume DOWN, home, and power....is it not? It is on mine anyway. Your tutorial post says otherwise.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Don't worry. That is a fix that is coming.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1961314
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jutaejrtouch:
Anyone made a zip for rooted, custom recoveries/roms for the new ota?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] A2CKilla:
I just forced the update, honestly, not that great if you ask me :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jocelyn:
Lol really? What else were you hoping for?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
I dont use s voice, but the app opens fine for me. I live out in the boonies, so I dont even get a signal without my airave if I dont have the 24006 prl on my phone. Our internet goes out once a month and when that happens we have no airave. Tonihgt we are getting lots of snow and our power has flickered twice, turning off the airave. sorry I cant be of more help.

Other people use other prls. you might want to research which one is best for you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957805
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Kelvala:
Fully Stock, CF Root and TWRP

I just did the update on mine and here is how I did it.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33893934&postcount=78
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bronzwarlock1225:
Ouch, I only ever install chainfire 3d if I'm having issues with smooth gameplay. Something makes me think that won't be a problem on the Note II. Didn't you have cwm or twrp installed?

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I use a Verizon prl if I am having issues with my sprint service. I'm in southern PA and use the prl 52644 and get great Verizon 3g speeds.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
Please pardon my lack of knowledge, however after some searching all day (not very productive day at work), I could not find anything which might provide guidance on determining which one would be best.

Any suggestions, link(s), etc.? After reading up on countless articles, I think I have a feel for what the premise is for changing PRL, just not certain on determining which one would be best, and how to determine that.

Any and all advice welcome.

TIA!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] kat3k:
Sprint OTA

Just got my Sprint OTA update this morning. Off to work, so can't see what's new just now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tw1sted247:
Ya they said the updates would be pushed out to all within 5 days in random order. Well yesterday was day 5 and I still had nothing at 6pm PST so I called Sprint told them the situation. I then asked for a manual push to my system they said that wasn't an option and the updates will literally be going out till midnight. So I constantly checked and passed out around 10:30 woke up at 4am to take a leak and finally saw the update had finally rolled through at 2:09am. LoL of course I get it at the very last moment. Don't know why I didn't just manually do it. Oh well I finally got it, and absolutely love it.

Now I want to root and either theme the **** out of it or drop a good custom ROM on like JellyBomb.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] gula187:
I received my ota update this morning, but when i was installing it got 1/4 of the way. Then a yellow triangle appeared on the screen and the phone rebooted.

Anyone else experienced this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coferj:
Woke up to notification. Let the phone do its thing while I got ready. When I came back, it was on the (vol up/home/power) screen. Was I supposed to do something from there, or did the install go ok?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JPLOWZ:
Battery

For me I have noticed a change in the battery right after i did the update this morning.. Was not rooted completely stock..B4 the update the battery was amazing.. Any1 else notice this??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bhupinder408:
The update showed when I woke up, it did everything itself and I did not touch a single thing.

The update is really amazing if you ask me. I feel like its a lot smoother than before and the multi view feature really just puts this device ahead of any phone. Battery life increased for me a little bit.

I am not rooted and was thinking about rooting the phone cause I do to all phones and I wanted the multi view feature. I have everything I need now and the phone I'd SUPER stable. No rooting for me.....well not yet at least :D

Sent from my Sexy Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cecilia:
I also had a nice smooth update experience

I was delighted when I saw my notification bar
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
I read your previous posts but I'm still getting the " E:Error in /tmp/sideload/package.zip (status 7). I'm stock rooted and now stock recovery through GN2 toolkit. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Yes! Even re-applied the perseus kernel and I'm using the rotation lock while screen is off hack. Something is eating battery. I need to run that app for battery processes. I can't remember what it is called. Someone mentioned it in one of these threads.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
I got the update yesterday. I'm completely stock and the update went smoothly. So far, I haven't noticed any difference in battery or anything and multi view is nice. (Even though I dont use it too much). Overall I'm pleased. I did just get the phone like a week ago though. Haha.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] hankbear:
You have to be completely stock and unrooted. You can re-root once upgraded. though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] NinjaMom:
I wonder if another ota will give us the ability to add more apps to the multi Window since rooted users can mod it to work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tw1sted247:
I personally do not think Samsung will push that feature out, reason being is they want anything coming from them to be a fluid experience. And with the added feature of all apps in the multiview window on the rooted phones although you can use them all only the ones that originally came with the update are actually optimized for it. Like when Qbking was reviewing the all app hack he placed a few apps in the multi mode and ones like speed test although it can run in multi mode you cannot scroll on it so you literally have to shrink the other app to virtually out of the screen in order to use the functions in the speedtest app. As well as others like the camera app, he had to scroll to have the camera cover damn near the whole screen in order to hit the shutter button(although if your rooted im sure you can use the volume button hack to fire off the shutter when in multi view :D ).

I am in no way down talking the feature I think it is bad ass and to those that helped get it to the community :good: to you!

I am just simply stating the reasons as to why I don't see Samsung pushing the feature themselves. Unless they release the sdk or w/e it is for future app makers to have them optimize their apps when building future apps. Like Samsung did for the S-Pen they released it's sdk to the developers so they could incorporate S-Pen functionality in their upcoming apps if they so chose. Which I hope that they do because I think there will be a pretty strong following with the Gn2. Much like the Gs3 probably not as large but up in that area!!:p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ZenInsight:
Anyone use all share cast on a Samsung TV yet?

I'm interested in Widi 3.5 (10x less latency than previous widi) and the Mircast setup.

Apparently Google is approving Mircast (open source widi) for 4.2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/WiDi-Miracast-wireless-display-Wi-Fi-Alliance-Intel,17706.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6312/intels-widi-35-much-faster-usb-miracast-support-and-new-receivers

Devices----

Intel's WiDi 3.5 will be Miracast certified, and is joined by tech provided by Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Ralink, and Realtek. The first consumer-based products certified since testing opened to vendors include the LG Nexus 4, LG Optimus G smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone and Samsung's Echo-P Series TV.[9]

Nvidia announced support for it in their Tegra 3 platform,[10] and Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Marvell Technology Group and other chip vendors have also announced their plans to support it.[11] Support for Miracast was added to Android in version 4.2 on October 29, 2012.

Both devices need to be Miracast certified for the technology to work, but if you want to stream music and movies to a non-certified device, there will be Miracast adapters available that plug into HDMI or USB ports.[12]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mhester50:
I used the tool kit to root then went back to stock to get OTA. How can we re-root if we went back to stock. Is there a tar or md5 for odin or ?

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
thanks but I was rooted and complete stock already. Anyways I think the error was from freezing unwanted system apps in titanium.

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The All IN ONE option, I think it is number 3 in the toolkit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] transistor62:
How good are the radios in the samsung phones

I was wondering, How good are the radios in the samsung phones? I currently use a motorola photo 4g phone and I can conect to a tower 16 miles from where I live. I usually bounce between one of two towers, one is 14 miles away and the other is 18 miles away. I was never very fond of motorola devices in the past, but have to admit that the radios in the photon is very good at reaching the cell tower at 14 miles away. does anyone know if the samsung phone radios can do as good or better than the photon radios? I am lookingin the future to getting a samsung galaxy note2 when my photon dies as I am tired of the way motorola keeps locking things down just so you have to buy a new phone to get the latest firmware. The samsung phones seem to be a pretty open phone to work with as I have found out so far. You ask how I know how far these towers are? I was given a debug mode code from sprint to assist the with a problem with the cell network where I live. The code ##33284# alowed me to see the coordanace location of the cell tower I was connected to. I then used the info I recorded to diagnose the network problems I was having and reported everything back to the sprint engineers. After all that was done, they fixed the problem. I only worked with them as I really liked the photon at the time I got it on May 29 2012. I have learned more than I thought I would ever learn about an android smart phone. Will someone please let me know what type of range you have gotten out of the samsung phone as this is a critical factor in the decision I make on the next phone I get. Thank you for your time.

Edit: I need lots of input about this

Matt

Systems Administrator

Agremlin.com
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] radrian92:
I owned the photon too and the radio on it is superior than the Samsung ones or so it was the case with the s2. The s3 and gn2 both are great, haven't lost a call and GPS is always 6-10 meters accurate. I wouldn't worry much about it. Just my 2¢ :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] nuc noob:
I went from the photon to the evo LTE, now on the note II. As far as I can tell, the note II has really good radio reception. I don't have any numbers to prove it, other than I gave my cousin who I work with my photon, and I have to say that this phone is pretty much on par if not a little better at getting a signal in Our work area. We have really bad reception in our building due to all the electrical interference. The PHOTON was an awesome phone, but it doesn't even compare to the possibilities of the note II. Don't be afraid, its an amazing phone right out of the box. I've rooted basically only to change the look and debloat, but this is the first phone that I honestly felt comfortable and happy with the way it came right out of the box. Great radios, great features, and endless possibilities.