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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] chillimac87:
I've done a lot of digging around here and I haven't found anything that's worked.

Also, my sim works completely fine in my GS2 so there's nothing wrong with the sim.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] androidtv11:
Similar thing happended to me att galaxy note unlock T-Mobile sim card I put custom ROM installed T-Mobile radio out of 3 only two would recognized my T-Mobile sim.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] chillimac87:
which radio did you flash? I've tried the Blaze radio and of course the stock at&t but I'll try the other ones. And which ROM would you recommend?

and thank you so much, I've been working on this phone for a while and it's been kinda stressful lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] N1vek215:
OP, I had the same issue, once I flashed any radio, my sim would not be recognized. I tried everything and it seems the only thing that worked was to flash original GB AT&T stock rom using odin and basically unrooting it. as factory as it could get. Then from there, root it. then upgrade to any rom. Make sure everything works before before flashing another radio. before you do so, do a nandroid to save you hassle.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] chillimac87:
Well I've it back to stock odin but it still says no sim. I've flashed the stock radio and modem as well but still nothing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] scottx .:
Does it work with your sisters sim?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] chillimac87:
no, it doesn't work with her sim anymore either.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heshamxoxo:
im from egypt

i bought my note 2 from 2 days ago

found this black ink scratchs & spots while i test the black color

the screen go alittle bit grey & this scratchs & spots appare in dark room

i draw a pic to explain my problem

it show black vertical lines ,horizontal lines & black spots

its something like that

is it worst or it k ? is it going to be more worst in future? is it effect on the screen?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reb0rn:
Typical samoled issue. There are tons of threads about this issue.

either you deal with it or get another phone. Besides. When do you sit in the dark watching a totally dark phone!?

I sit in the dark now and... I'm writing... actually using my phone...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heshamxoxo:
i tried to contact samsung care here but they said its normal no need for other phone & if u want leave ur phone for 10 days to see if its need to replace or not

but here in egypt we have a bad service they dont know anything & say its normal

its show in notifications bar & anything have a black color

it shows in just in dark with low brightness

is this spots & lines r normal?is it going to be big in future?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reb0rn:
What I know they don't grow or get worse. They are static.

I have some on my device too but as I said, only see them in unnatural circumstances. Just try not to focus on them.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vickysud:
Luckily i dont have this problem had this problem in S2 & Note. Not even a single black spots on the display during screen test. :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] pazzo02:
What does the wifi error say? As far as rooting, I don't know of a workaround for broken volume button, You need it to navigate the bootlaoder.
[HTC Inspire 4G] niavaran:
Niavaran

****

Niavaran:

*For flashing using PD98IMG

HBoot method search for

((PD98IMG_Ace_Gingerbread_S_

Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_

12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_

release_200368_rooted)) download it then,

(C For flashing using PD98IMG

HBoot method search for

((PD98IMG_Ace_Gingerbread_S_

Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_

12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_

release_200368_rooted))

(Change the name to =

PD98IMG.zip ) case sensitive, and

put it in your SD Card not in any

folder just the root of the SD Card.

Then, hold the volume-down

button and press the power button,

then rest happens on its own. hange the name to =

PD98IMG.zip ) case sensitive, and

put it in your SD Card not in any

folder just the root of the SD Card.

Then, in your case "no volume button working" turn on your device go to Settings>Power>Fastboot=uncheck the box. then go to Settings>Applications - check mark third-party application installation. And click the Developer tab and check mark all the options. download "root-checker" app and "root-toolkit" use these to see if you can reboot into Hboot. accuse once you enter into Hboot the PD98IMG will start update. if so for navigating around you can use the function buttons. There is another way if you can create 4EXT PARTITIONS ON SD-CARD using another device similar to yours then 4EXT has a full touch recovery MOD which eliminates the the use of volume tuggles.
[HTC Inspire 4G] niavaran:
****

In most cases the WiFi issue can be solved by modifying the file: "wpa_supplicant" it is located in /system/bin/wpa_supplicant . but since it is encrypted you will need to replace it with modified one. you have to change the name of the original one to wpa_supplicant.bak then past the modified one in the same folder:bin ... the only way that I know is to have root capabilities so you can do these mods. I will post a thread which will guide you to do this step by step.

My previous reply was for you to gain root access without the use of your volume buttons. so you can change your device root properties. so, fist make sure you got root access then you can fix your WiFi issue.

Use this thread,

(( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34784036#post34784036 ))

and you will see I have an instruction for another fellow about the similar issue..
[HTC Inspire 4G] baghyarga:
Wifi broken after flashing 4.0.4 ICS ROM

Hello,

I've flashed ICS 4.0.4 aospX 1.0.0-MR1 and since then my wifi signal is too low and I can't connect to any network:(. Any advice please?

Thanks in advance
[HTC Inspire 4G] bananagranola:
Full wipe? Radio?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Flame Red:
Another Newbie Question here.

So AT&T only provides the 16MB Note 2, so of course we add a nice juicy 64GB SD card. But it seems that the stock phone does not really use it for much (that I can tell) to store anything.

First question: On the stock ROM, what apps can be told to use the SD card as default, and how do you change the app settings?

Second Question, for the future: Assuming one Root's the Note 2, what can be safely moved to the SD and how? Or is another ROM required?

Humbly yours - thanks in advance!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jrockttu:
I also have a 64gb card. I put all of my Titanium backups and Nandroids on the external SD (right now TWRP doesn't work with the exfat formatting of my card, so if I want to restore I'll have to move it from ext to int SD).

I also have Spotify set to store any offline music on the external SD. You can do this by installing an old version of Spotify, pointing it to external SD, then updating the app. A quick Google search will find this if it's something you want to do.

It's hard to tell you what to move to the external card without knowing what apps you use. You can get an app called Directory Bind that will point any internal SD location to your external SD. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889550
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dponte:
SD card setup/directory optimization

Really like Android and the Note 2 so far.

Thanks for the directory bind guide link...interesting. Maybe my answer is somewhere in there, so I will take a look either way.

New to external SD use on Android as well (or any phone, that is). I have a 64GB sandisk as well, and It was pre-formatted for Android apparently with some s/w on it. Which is fine, if that is the way I should go.

Just playing around with it at first and copied a music album over, in similar format to my iTunes directory structure -I figured, why not. Perhaps there is a better way to structure my directories though? More general way for all apps to recognize? Moot point?

I assume different apps might require different directory structures...to be efficient, or to be able to work with those dirs/files. I'd rather have the most optimal structure now, before I start messing with creating more directories, etc down the road.

The general questions are, should I format this as something else? What is best to use? (Still looking into different file manager/transfer apps for now, and MAY root and keep stock ROM in the future, but acclimating myself with Android OS has been more than enough for now...I do enough Linux at work, so not in any rush :))

Since I went there, I don't know if the OP's question was fully answered...so again, here's a quick (newbie) question for those who root but keep the stock ROM: can apps be moved to the SD card in that case? Or do I need to break out of stock ROM to do that?

Thanks in advance!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Flame Red:
Wanted to report back that I tried a simple case of using Directory Bind for something non-critical as a test. Used it to remount Titaniumn Backup to the external SD. Yes, I know you can just point it there. Just wanted to test Directory Bind.

It seemed to work until I rebooted the phone. Then it lost all the binding even tough I had checked off to save it for reboot and saved the binds to a file. So just beware that if you were using Directory Bind for something critical - you might have to recover the phone! I removed the package for now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jrockttu:
If your'e just talking about music, you can put it in any folder and any structure you'd like. The Android Media Server process scans your entire SD card for media (including music) except for folders with a ".nomedia" file in them. It will use the tags to identify the artist, song, and album, then sort them based on that information.

bummer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] wase4711:
don't bother moving any apps to the external sd, since you have TONS OF ROOM in your internal memory on this phone..On the original note, I had over 300 apps installed on the internal, and still had over 5 gigs of room left..

just keep your music, movies, pictures, and other space hogs on it..trust me, leaving apps alone will never be a problem when you have a phone with this much storage space!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dponte:
11GB is a lot (available to start with on the ATT model) if you use the external for media (and app cache) and leave the internal for apps mainly...agreed.

Most apps are small in size...however, one app like NOVA3 is 2GB and that is a big bite of your 11GB available, so that is a little concerning :)

I haven't had the device or android long enough to know, but, are app databases and cache allowed to reside on the external card --in lue of the ability to move apps to the SD being taken away since Jelly Bean (was it at that update)? Can someone point to a good thread on the reason and discussion about that? Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bodoct:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1994046

App2SD change external to internal.

You can make your external your main storage device by using this root technique. But some people don't advise it saying it slows down your processing on apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] raduque:
Note II is a Unified Storage device. It has 11gb available for both user content (pictures, movie, music etc) and apps. I lost 2gb of space moving from my S2 to the N2.

S2 is not a Unified storage device, so it has 11gb of storage available for user content and a separate Apps partition of 2gb.
[Member-Found Deals] glenroebuck:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...chBargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=9SIA1NX0F62434

seems like a good tablet I found a review on youtube.
[Member-Found Deals] Product F(RED):
It has the exact body (except the back) of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. I know because I have one. The speaker placement and 30-pin port are in the same places. That being said, this looks good if it gets developer support. It's at the same price at the 16GB Nexus 7 ($199), but with a 10.1 inch screen.
[Member-Found Deals] Zyxxeil:
It looks like a pretty cool tablet, its a bit tempting. ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steeldiver88:
Greetings and salutations!

I have a question which I cannot find the answer to through searching, sadly enough.

I was wondering if it is possible at all to stop Google Play from syncing/registering which apps are installed on your phone and showing them on the web version of Google Play? Turning off auto-sync does not seem to help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
All samsung "touchwiz" based devices contain files in /system/csc that set variables dictating how certain parts of the phone act, what is pre-configured, etc. In the case of the AT&T variants, the contents of these files are often dictated by AT&T.

This post is an attempt to try and catalog some of the more useful values that can be changed (and the result of changing them.) Not all the variables seem to do much, and only by trial and error can we really know what will happen... So far, I've only played around with items I found interesting, but will continue to expand in this and if people reply to this post with actual experience changing other variables, I'll add the information to this thread.

PLEASE TEST THINGS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THIS THREAD.

Please don't reply with guesses as to what things may or may not do or with requests about specific variables. I'm hoping that eventually document every CSC variable available and "requests" won't make it go faster. If you want to know what a not-yet-documented variable does, try it out (and post your results.)

First, in order to play with the csc files, your phone should be rooted. This isn't optional, as you'll need the ability to overwrite files in the phone's /system partition (the firmware - sometimes improperly called the "ROM")

I'd strongly suggest making a nandroid (or backup via CWM Recovery or TWRP) before making changes. It's possible to mess things up badly enough that the phone won't boot properly.

It's possible to edit the CSC files directly on the phone, but I'd strongly suggest not doing that. Therefore, you should have a good text editor on your computer that's able to properly deal with unix/linux style line endings (notepad isn't good enough.) Notepad++ is a very good editor and freely available. Google "notepad++" For a linux box, plain "gedit" is fine.

In order to edit the files, you'll need to be able to mount the /system partition as read-write, and to move files from /system/csc to your PC or other location for editing. You have several options for this including root explorer, ES File Explorer, or just using adb. I prefer adb myself, but I'm a commandline type of person.

I won't be spending time describing how to get the CSC files off your phone to your PC, nor will I tell you how to overwrite the existing ones with your edits. This isn't because I'm elitist, an a**hole, or anything like that. (I _am_ some of those things, but that isn't my reason here.) My purpose for leaving out the information is to force inexperienced users to learn these things before editing system files. If I give you all the information, you become dependent on me for more information, and I don't want that (and trust me - neither do you.) As well, if I spoon-feed this, you won't have any idea what do to when something goes wrong.

Find this post helpful? If so, please make it MORE helpful by testing one of the other CSC features and replying to this thread telling us what result you had. ​

First up... feature.xml...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
feature.xml

The CSC "feature.xml" file is in XML format. This means that everything "variable" has a start and end tag. Both contain the name of the variable,

but the end tag has a slash in it. The value of the variable is between the start and end tags. For example: <VariableName>value</VariableName>. So, if this message describes changing "CscFeature_SamsungSucks" from "false" to "true", you'd search in the xml file for "CscFeature_SamsungSucks" and might find this:

<CscFeature_SamsungSucks>false</CscFeature_SamsungSucks>

You'd change the "false" to "true" (no quotes!) and be done. In some cases, the entire line can be deleted (as noted.)

This file has a LOT of variables in it and this post will concentrate on that particular file. Almost all tinkering will occur in this file, and it's also the easiest to edit (as there aren't any complex xml structures.)

CscFeature_Common_DisableMenu4GalSearch: setting this to false didn't seem to bring up any new global address list options on my device (I'm connected to an exchange server) in the email app or contacts/dialer app.

CscFeature_Settings_DisableMenuFindMyMobile: (see next line)

CscFeature_Settings_FindMyMobile: setting "DisableMenuFindMyMobile" to false and this entry to true will enable the "find my mobile" entries in the Settings->Security menu. I'm unable to get these items to function properly, however. (They worked with my international note2, so it might be that there are other support files missing on the AT&T variant I'm using now.)

CscFeature_FMRadio*: editing these seem to have no effect (I don't think any of the LTE capable NoteII phones are capable of FM Radio.)

CscFeature_NFC_StatusBarIconType: If you delete this line, it will get rid of the "N" statusbar icon when NFC is turned on.

CscFeature_Message*: Be warned that editing some of these may break SMS/MMS messaging on your device. There appears to be many carrier specific settings in here that have dependencies on the specific carrier. For example, I don't think that AT&T's network supports proper SMS Delivery reports, so even setting the corresponding variable to "true" would be futile.

CscFeature_Email_UseFixedBgColorAsWhite: if changed from true to false, the email app will appear inverted (with a black background and white/gray text.)

CscFeature_Sip_DisableAutoCorrection: doesn't seem to have any impact on the samsung keyboard

CscFeature_Sip_DisableSpaceSuggestion: doesn't seem to have any impact on the samsung keyboard

CscFeature_Sip_DefaultOff4AutoSubstitution: doesn't seem to have any impact on the samsung keyboard

CscFeature_Launcher_*: all these seem to be for setting defaults for the touchwiz launcher, so no sense in changing them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
language.xml

(coming soon)

This appears to control what languages are available to the system. Canadian users might want to play with this file to see if adding en_US to the "Display" and/or "SupportList" tags will allow them to choose US English (and perhaps get google's TTS to talk to them in google now.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
others.xml

(coming soon)

This appears to set some carrier defaults, including the APN information and the carrier built-in dialer contacts (such as "AT&T Customer Care")
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
customer.xml

(coming soon)

I've only glanced at this file so far, but it appears to be carrier specified network information, some carrier specified settings defaults, and even some carrier specified browser bookmarks. There also appears to be some APN related information in here, but I'm not certain what it's in here for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mjwhirly:
Nice how to guide man its very informative, im going to play around with this later when I get home...do you mind if I add it to my reference thread so it doesnt get lost when this thread begins to get bigger?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
This isn't mine to control. This "belongs" to the community, and I hope that the community contributes to it in a meaningful way. Please feel free to reference it elsewhere - perhaps with (contributions welcome) noted. My ONLY demand is that no one profits from effort I've given freely.

My secret motive is to nudge people out of the "MyRom" mentality and more into the "lets all work together to learn, develop and share" mentality often seen with kernels and open source projects.

Take care

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] antiochasylum:
Gary, have you seen the CSC feature web, set user agent?

Possibly an option to set "Desktop" as default user agent in browser, I for one despise mobile sites.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not: Start the browser, tap the "menu" button. Turn on the "desktop view" checkbox.

There are some UAgent related entries in the feature.xml file. Please play with them and post your results:

CscFeature_Web_SetUserAgent // currently empty

CscFeature_Web_SetUAProfile

CscFeature_Web_Bool_EnableUAProfile // currently false
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Romee74:
Thanks so much for this. Sorry for the noob question but I haven't done much with xml files. What is the character to just comment out a line?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
In XML, in order to comment out a line (instead of completely deleting it), it has to be surrounded by special tags:

On the left of the commented out area, you need "<!--" (no quotes) and on the right, you need "-->"

See the below code block for an example.

<Is_This_Commented> false </Is_This_Commented>

<!-- <Is_This_Commented> true </Is_This_Commented> -->

Take care

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hai Karate:
On my Galaxy S III, the file /system/etc/feature_default.xml appears to contain default settings, and feature.xml can override those defaults. I'm not sure how comprehensive the list of settings in feature_default.xml are, but I would imagine that many of the available ones are covered there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
That's interesting. Which variant of sgs3 do you have? Would you be willing to attach the two files to a reply in this thread (or point me to someplace I can find the firmware your using to investigate?)

Thank you

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] UCLAKoolman:
It would be amazing if we could somehow enable auto-replace on the samsung keyboard. I ended up switching to swiftkey because of how many mistakes I've been making with the stock keyboard, but now I don't get to take advantage of swipe, stylus writing, or the one-handed features...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
I completely agree, but I wasn't able to get it working when tinkering with the CSC values (as noted in the corresponding post.) Perhaps there's some other combination of values that might get it going.

Please give it a try and let us know how it works out.

Take care

Gary
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MonsterBandit:
Removing the NFC icon from the staus bar is awesome but has anyone tried switching this line;

<CscFeature_NFC_DefaultCardModeConfig>DISABLE</CscFeature_NFC_DefaultCardModeConfig>

To enable? Im not sure why att would "block" this feature, especially with google wallet getting more support for non-nfc devices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] garyd9:
I'm not sure why people keep asking if other people have done this, that, or the other thing. TRY IT and let us know what happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MonsterBandit:
fair enough...thanks btw...im slowly growing the courage to make changes and explore deeper into these devices...changed the value to "ENABLE" (minus the quotes) and seemingly nothing changed. Google Wallet app still says Not supported. That might be on Google Wallet's end tho. I guess the better question might be has anyone with a Note 2 gotten Google Wallet to work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] silentecho13:
When I first got my GN2 running stock, carrier billing worked. I then flashed Jedi 3.3, and it disappeared. I remember that on my HOXL, someone mentioned a fix on the build.prop. Is there anything I can do on the GN2's build.prop to get my carrier billing back?

I'm on AT&T by the way.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] DAGr8:
this is pretty much a how to thread ..

you seem to be having issues with a rom , you should post in there ..

here is how I fixed it in previous roms ..

compare your build.prop form your att rom to the one you are using ..

and add / replace with the att stuff .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] silentecho13:
I can't seem to locate the at&t build.prop file anywhere, or else I'd be able to compare.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] MonsterBandit:
should be system/build.prop