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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudosmurff:
Hey, I haven't figured it out or got an answer yet. Still would like to though. The thing is I just came from softbank and I was able to send and receive MMS through go sms pro on my old Galaxy S using some settings for the iphone for softbank. Just havent been able to find those kind of settings for the docomo network
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
OK. Cheers. It will be nice if they update and improve sp-mode mail. I noticed many people leave negative comments about it in Google Play.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
It has been updated recently, I updated in the dmarket. Its still awful. So slow and cumbersome. And it crashes with the latest SwiftKey keyboard. It really is so bad.

Can't you use the email app and set up your docomo email to be pushed to that instead?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user9988:
unfortunately sp-mode email only works with their software on their phones (I believe its even locked to IMEI somehow so you wouldn't even be able to get it to function on an unlocked phone from a different country/carrier).

However, there really is no advantage to using sp-mode mail in this day and age... the only thing you miss is the docomo specific "emoji". Which i think that Gmail might actually support these days.

If you're the type to be on xda and hacking your phone, you wouldn't normally be the type to care about emoji. Just use gmail or another free email service and be done with it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user9988:
Using a different email app on a docomo smart phone does not cost any more/less than any other email application. Using the default android "messaging" app ( SMS/MMS ) on docomo costs money no matter who you are sending the message to. Docomo to Docomo costs much less (like a few yen per message) Docomo to AU/Softbank costs a bit more (still under 10 yen per message), Docomo to international is prohibitively expensive (50yen per message).

Even if your boss is using an old style Docomo keitai (paka-paka phone) he can still recieve emails from your @gmail or @hotmail type addresses. It doesn't cost him any more money to recieve those emails than it does to recieve the ones from a @docomo.ne.jp address. Its all data, its all treated the same by Docomo.

The only thing you'd need to be careful of is if he has any anti-spam filtering set on his phone that might not allow email from the domain you are using. Gmail seems to be fine. I've never had any of my friends/family complain that they couldn't get my emails on their old-style keitai. I know my corporate email gets blocked by AU by default, however.

Also depending on the age of the phone, some types of HTML code may render the email unreadable on your boss's phone. But, I haven't seen any issues like that in a few years.... should be fine if he has a phone that was made within the last year or two.

Just free yourself from sp-mode mail... its pointless to use it. Its just a dinosaur feature built in to encourage the old school "paka-paka keitai" users to switch because they can still use the same email addresses.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
Anyone have a PIT they can attach here?

It's not needed but I prefer to include in the one click packages.

Worst case I'll repack without and include the tar files so you can flash with the PIT in Odin.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpate59:
Working ROM

Hi, new here. Read through the thread. Have you seen the work done by ken?

xxxx://vvv.redistribution.cc/blog2/20130301_1313/comment-page-1

Seems he has a working ROM, with LED, vib, tether, etc.

I am paticularly interested in apt-x and he has that working as well. I am going to buy a GN2 this week, but will get one from Hong Kong, if the NTT docomo SC-02E cannot support apt-x and is otherwise crippled when rooted. Hopefully, someone can confirm if Ken has indeed succeeded.

ROM is here:

xxxxs://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5xPmh_BlXDqVHlhUHZIb1l6TlU/edit

Thanks to everyone on their efforts so far. Anxiously waiting good news.:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Thanks. I appreciate everything you've said. For some reason he mentioned that it's cheaper for him to receive emails from my Docomo address. Usually, I'd use the default Android app to SMS everyone, or an email app which manages my Hotmail account.

Fortunately, he has recently bought a smartphone, so if he has a data plan, he shouldn't really care about the tiny cost to occasionally message each other. I never bothered about this with anyone in the past (I have 3 other bosses too (at different schools)). Only as he mentioned it. I'll encourage him to get the most out of his data plan.

Thanks. :good: Moving on..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
There is a rooted system.img in this thread somewhere that I posted which was made using the kbc developers script.

It works and I assume it is the same as what this Ken has done over on the other site, but he's done it with I'm guessing the MB1 firmware, mine was with the MA6.

I'm just wondering whether its stable or not? I might flash it to find out.

BTW what's apt-x? I know I can play some FLAC files on my Note 2 if that's what its for
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
I'm pulling the links for that rooted ROM and the full build now.

Edit: This is MB1 with the kbc-developers root method.... which after some lengthy conversations, reading tweets, etc looks to be the best way to root this device. Honestly, Docomo seems to have overkilled on it but guess they want to make sure the NFC apps (among others) are kept secure.

One clicks on the way. MA6 one clicks now available here:

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=171
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
MB1 - Feb update

I dunno who of you out there have it but I decided to do the same as that Ken and downloaded the MAMB1 firmware from Feb and root it with the kbc make_system_fs method. I also updated my boot.img and modem.bin with the files from it. I'm assuming mine is the same as his or his has had some of the pre load apps removed looking at the size difference.

If people want I'll upload mine and post the link in the morning proper. I'm off to bed!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
MB1 One Clicks Link

MB1 repacked using Ken's rooted - which is the kbc_developers method.

Looks to be just plain stock rooted.

Odin TARs and one clicks available here:

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=173

At time of posting I'm still uploading.

Should have it done before 9 am Japan time.

Enjoy!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] user9988:
MB1 seem to have better performance than LJF?

link works now. currently downloading. Will try to flash this today or tomorrow.

Curious about the reason for a "Stock" option download. Why would anyone flash this without root? Wouldn't it be simpler to just flash the stock ROM image off of samfirmware.com or something?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
Dunno yet only started running it since last night. But it's still 4.1.1 so I can't imagine their being a lot of improvement, but let's see!

You need stock I think if you're coming from an aosp rom for example.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpate59:
By it works, do you mean LED, vib, NFC, etc.?

And apt-x is an adaptive DCPM time domain compression algorithm-based audio codec. In Bluetooth A2DP, it can be used as the SBC to deliver high fidelity audio (near lossless) to Bluetooth peripherals. I have several high end apt-x enabled devices, so I was excited at the prospect of using the GN2 natively (I use a dongle at present). However, it appears that NTT disabled this feature. HK international N7105s are not crippled thus.

Also, have you used the Perseus kernel with STweaks? I am interested in the audio setting features enabled there. I was hoping to use the GN3 with an OTG usb cable to an external dac/amplifier. I have a lot of hi def audio in Flac and wav and the GN2 seems like the perfect audio player.

So can I ask a couple of off topic questions? NTT docomo SC-02E or HK N7105, which is preferable? LTE is nice, but i am usually in WiFi area, and I don't really want to sign another two year contract, but it might be good. What is your feeling about docomo? Are there 32 GB models available from docomo? Is the brown one ugly? lol Does the unlock code work? Or if NTT unlocks it, will I still have APN settings hassles? I travel a lot and one of my present carriers uses UMTS 800 or falls back to GPRS, so SC-02E has a slight EDGE there. :D

Thanks in advance for any opinions, I want to pick one up this week from docomo, or weekend when I will be in HK.:)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] octa_amide:
Thanks.

Flashed and using it now.

Data intact.

After Odin. Manually reboot twice. My habit.

Let the rom settle. Go to Playstore.

Install supersu.

Done.

So far so good.

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I have not try NFC. But vib and led works. Osaifu can be open, MobileTV works as well.

As for the unlock thing and traveling issue. read below.

Yes, no matter what you still need APNs. Docomo have only 3 APN in their ROM.

As for choosing which model, The choice is very simple.

Do you need sp-mode mail?

Yes=> Docomo. You have no choice.

No=> HK version.

Docomo sp-mode is using IMEI number filtering. if your phone is not from docomo. You will never ever get sp-mode. You can have data plan but only with MoperaU(something like that) without sp-mode address.

Seriously if you can live without sp-mode mail. forget about sp-mode.

As for the unlock issue, I am unlock using the unorthodox method. If you can spare 3150 yen, pay Docomo for the unlock code.

I am traveling very often. I have use many pre-paid sim card in my SC-02E.

I can't say there is no problem but I cannot be sure what causes those problem.

Because I cannot reverse the procedure. It is permanent!

I cannot compare. Many funny problem occurs. and it is different with each country I visit.

Hope those information helps.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
I always make a stock build in case people need to take it back to the carrier. The stock image from sammobile.com is a "nodata" where it doesn't wipe. If you're taking it to the carrier for repair, most people want to make it as clean as possible. So I made a "restore" version that wipes your data as well. (UMS should be untouched though)

Also, the stock tar cannnot be stuffed into a one click any longer without repacking. Started with GS3s and newer.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
MA6 Source is up!!

I don't believe it - OSRC actually came through!

MA6 source is now up - though it was about 12 hours from the time they said it would be before it actually was.

Put in a request to see if MB1 is same or to upload.

*Edit*

OK, here's the Community Kernel post for MA6:

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=176

I won't get more than the initial build done until I get back from over there.

However, will try to check in once in a while.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpate59:
Thanks octa_amide,

What a conundrum, the do como model is 32 gb, and the radio does UMTS 800 besides the 850, blah blah, that the international version does.

My carrier of choice in Thailand isAIS and 3G is 800 MHz, but could easily change to True, et. Al and work on 850 like the rest of SE Asia.

I have no need for docomo services, though suica on NFC is enticing. 1-Seg is worthless for me, but the 32 GBs is nice as I carry a lot of media ( audio mostly) with me.

I don't like the sound of many problems with other SIMs, but maybe factory unlock is real if I pay NTT?

Is there any difficulty with non NTT handsets and Japanese character input?

Is the Docomo handset a slouch, due to NTT bloat ware, etc.?

The best price I get in HK at the moment is ~ 61,000 yen for LTE model, 16 GBs, whereas NTT will chage me 72,000 for the 32 GB model.

If I pay upfront, canceling NTT contract is not so bad. And it would let me try LTE (I am the proverbially born every second sucker, lol).

If I go with the HK model, and skip the contract hell ( I am on SoftBank at present, but really want to cancel), does anyone have any suggestions for a cheap data and small call plan? Preferably one that I can turn on and off at will, as I am gone nearly every other month? Sorry for asking here, it just seems that with all the GN2 owners here, I might find some good counsel. Thanks, sorry once again to go off topic.

BTW, I am really excited about the GN2, and cannot wait to get it:victory:

Oh, one last question, did you find apt-x settings available in Ken's ROM?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pseudosmurff:
Quick lazy question:

If I go into the docomo shop to cancel some of the extra services on my contract, are they going to need to touch the phone at all? It seems obvious they shouldn't need to. I just don't want to go through all the flashing effort to reset the flash count.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
Anybody running the mb1 firmware experience the BSD? In that whatever process you're currently on fc's, but no message and basically phone freezes on a black screen, and you need to either long press power to reboot or pull the battery?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vipsavior:
Lost guy here hehehe

i had the same issue ,but it was because i remove something that i was not suppose to or the other thing is the stock docomo apps can cause this or a dirty flash .

Well i know i been out the thread,but i have been working on the wireless charging mod and I have to wait for the transmitter to come beside that the phone is all modded up ready to go .I will tell you if it works or not when it comes .Take care and hi to all the new faces
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
Still waiting for a response on the new source, just got one for sc-02c...

In the meantime seems colder than usual down south. Still trying to convince my MIL to get this when we go to Docomo this week.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
The weather seems to have turned a lot cooler again!

I wonder if this was the reason mb1 was delayed? I don't think it's the root as it happens randomly on any apk, system, root or just from play store.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vipsavior:
Wireless charging mod works I will post details tomorrow. alittle more testing is needed. :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dude496:
Starting to get this flashing stuff figured out lol

^Vipsavior, that is definitely awesome!!! I'm very curious to see how difficult it was to set it up...also, will the normal micro usb still work to charge the phone?

On a different subject...I'm testing out a few different roms for the phone...so far I have tried CM 10.1 and also one of the paranoid android ones....really wish I could find a paranoidkangdroid for this phone! I read above (i believe it was robobob, forgive me if I got the name incorrect) that there was a way to get the vibrate and flash to work, but I can't seem to figure it out....I'm still really new to this, so can someone give me a little more detail on it...I believe it had something to do with importing the system.img file or something like that.

On a completely different subject...I know this is the entirely wrong section, but not entirely sure where to post this...I'm trying to setup my boss's phone for use out here...it's a galaxy S3 from T-Mobile, sgh-t999 I've got it all working, updated the APN to use a Softbank Iphone 5 (jpspir)...from what I've read, I've seen some people getting speeds close to 15 mb/s with that phone out here...the most I have seen is around 6 mb/s. I've played with the build.prop changing the hsxpa, hsdpa, and a few other options that I can't think of right now. I've also tried several different T-Mobile modems to see if I could get it going better. Anyone have any ideas of any other places I can check besides the build.prop to see if it might be configured wrong? Another thought was trying to dig through the DoCoMo S3A and see what it has in it's build.prop (I know it's an entirely different phone and probably different band). I would think that the T-Mobile should be doing better than it is because it has the 2100 MHz band (same as Softbank) and also is capable of hsdpa+ 42 mb/s connection (i'll emphasis the word capable, because I doubt I would ever get close to that lol). Just looking for some ideas or maybe some leads on where I could start looking.

Thank you in advance, and a huge thank you to everyone that has done some amazing work to this phone so far!!!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
On AOSP, sorry, rear LED and Vibrate still not working, that's a kernel thing from the looks of it.

On another note(!), what are people running currently ROM, apps, mod-wise?

Any that you've found that work well?

EDIT: Speaking to a guy on Twitter (@akigunners) he directed me to this page of github

KBC-Developers WIKI. Looks like we have a custom stock kernel and some other goodies to flash to our phone. The custom kernel has most stuff working and triangle away can be used too! Not sure about other stuff yet.

EDIT: Felica/Osaifu Keitai works with it too, and it has its own CWM Recovery associated with it to keep Felica working. However you gotta go through a bit of a process to get it working. Requires you to use the app associated with the kernel to pull the key from the osaifu keitai application and then flash the custom kernel and restore the key to it after.

Only problem might be that the app is in Japanese only I think, at least the version on github is. Not sure if the paid version in the play store has translations.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garwynn:
Anyone try MC2 yet?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Hey NTT Docomo SC-02E peeps.

If you run this great app Awesome Note, are you able to do backups?

I'm using the stock TouchWiz rom and the app works nicely but fails when trying to backup.

I'm assuming it's something pretty simple that needs changing.

Great app. If you are a teacher (or anything really) it's cool for listing each student/customer or group and writing down the material used, homework given, etc. It's one of those apps I'd pay for in a heartbeat.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
When you say backing up, you mean using TiB? or a nandroid?

On another note, I managed to extract the MC2 .tar from the KIES updater. I'm currently uploading the firmware, and I'll make the link available once its downloaded.

I'm gonna make a rooted system image for myself and if anyone else wants it let me know and I'll upload that as well
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Sorry, I meant are you able to backup via that Awesome Note app? ie. Backup your notes?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39797902&posted=1#post39797902
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
I haven't tried it yet to be honest.

Once I got my phone back in working order I'll flash it and see what happens and if there is a way to back up the files. Might be that other files are necessary for that to work :eek:

Did you try changing the location of your backups?

Also what region is the awesome note app from?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Cheers. It's just an apk so it's easy to install.

It just errors when it's supposed to backup the notes. I've tried placing the backup folder in other places.

I'm not sure what region it's from. The .apk was extracted from N5110/Galaxy Note 8.0 ROM.

I'll keep playing.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
STOCk FIRMWARE; NON-ROOTED

SC02EOMAMC2_SC02EDCMAMC2_SC02EOMAMC2_HOME_REV04_user_low_true.tar

Here is the stock firmware for the latest update pulled from the KIES downloader.

Don't flash unless you wanna return to stock.

I'm just about to test my rooted image, and then I'll upload that if the process went ok.

EDIT 2: Hey Grant, just tried that aNote, and I was able to backup without a problem. I'll try again and see what happens. EDIT3: Double checked and yeah I can backup. What root method are you using, the old kernel or the system image?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
I just uninstalled, downloaded the apk from a different mirror and reinstalled again. It seems to work now. Hopefully it will continue to do so after I setup my folder and whatnot again. Not sure what happened. Thanks all the same.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NagoyaGuy:
Rooted image of the mc2 please. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
I'm still rooted the original way from Vipsavior's original YouTube video.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
Rooted System.img

Rooted MC2 System.img

^^^Here is the rooted system.img for the latest update, MC2.^^^

I recommend flashing the firmware from my previous post, and then flashing this so that your whole phone is up to date. I don't think you will lose any data :eek: I didn't

Or else update your phone through KIES then flash this rooted.img

Enjoy!!:good::good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
After making a lot of changes to the folders and removing the default example appointments, etc. it now has the same backup problem again.

So be warned just in case you get excited about perfecting it like I was. It seems to be OK for ages and then one little change possibly throws it off somehow.

EDIT: To replicate this error, try deleting all files in all of the folders you have. It seems that the system needs at least one item in at least one folder.

(That seems to be the case so far on my device.)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
Yep this did it. I guess it makes it like the app doen't exist or something like that. Who knows :confused:

Have you tried making it a system app?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
I haven't tried that, no. How do you make it a system app?

Fortunately, I need files in the folders anyway, so it's OK like this.

(I'm just backing up after most changes, just to be safe.)

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
Can use the option in TiB to convert it to system/app or you can do it manually with a file manager. Move it from data/app directory to system/app, then change permissions to rw-r-r (644), and reboot.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Thanks. If all else fails, I'll try that.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srichachasauce:
I have the same problem. It seems that somewhere in the framework there is a feature that prevents you from making the system folder r/w. I have tried pushing nova launcher to system but it reboots. I also tried with tibu but no luck.

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I also have a question. What roms from xda can I flash? I don't care for osaifu keitai or television. I apologize if this has already been addressed.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robobob1221:
I posted a solution somewhere in this thread for the TiB issue if you're using the old root method from me and vipsavior.

If you use the new rooted system.img I made using the KBC Developers method you will not have any such problems. Root is more or less 100% functional without any workarounds.

As regards to the roms we can use, AOSP-wise CM10.1, AOKP, Paranoid Android, Vanilla Rootbox, MIUI all work (from the n7105 forums and AT&T and probably t-mobile. The caveat is that flash and vibrate do not function on the current aosp kernels for our phones. I'm keeping an eye out for one but I'm not sure if or when they'll be one available.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srichachasauce:
Only aosp roms?