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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] venture51:
So I'm wondering if other Note II owners in the DFW area can chime in.

In the 4 days I've owned the phone, I have only been able to get 4G LTE coverage once. The Speedtest logged 14513 kbps down and 3992 kbps up. I was not far from home - and within a quarter mile of a reported Sprint cell tower. I have noticed though, that I do not get a 4G LTE signal at all at my home in east Richardson, nor at my work place in north Plano. For the most part, I have only been able to connect to 3G - and have gotten download speeds ranging from 16 kbps to 369 kbps.

I contacted Sprint Customer Service and told them I had updated the PRL and Profile - and that it had not made a difference. They suggested that I take it to the Sprint store to have it checked out - and that they would likely have to replace my phone.

My question to you other Sprint users in Dallas-Fort Worth - how consistent is your 4G LTE connection? Does this sound like my phone is bad, or are you experiencing bad connectivity as well? I found this interesting article about Sprint claims for connectivity in the Dallas area - it basically stated that coverage was actually 10% - which matches my experience so far:

http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/report-sprints-lte-coverage-far-less-advertised/2012-10-04#top_select

Any other anecdotes on Sprint 4G LTE connectivity on your Galaxy Note IIs?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JimSmith94:
I live in Valley Ranch and work near 635 and the North Tollway, so I'll be watching for replies to this too. I really want to jump on the Note 2, but not without consistent LTE.

I bought a used Sprint Nexus a few months ago, but resold it because of little to no 4G LTE. I get great 4G Wimax with my E4GT, so having the Nexus stuck on 3G was a bummer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cybervyrus8587:
I don't have an lte device yet but I will soon. Although I live and work in north fort worth and can say that lte here it's not only good but fast. I have friends that have ltevo and notes and connection is good. The tests were pretty consistent 5-10d and around 16up.

Just for reference I live near 820 and 35w
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chrisc627:
I'm in the hurst area and I get lte all over the place around my house. I'm 3 minutes from NE Mall.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
No issues here in North D

I work at sprint...I am glad to check addresses.

Its not comunicated well at cust care that though LTE is launched it isnt complete. I can't comment on actual completion due to non disclosure but I know and see it isn't complete.

If you want me to check specific coverage pm me addresses
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] venture51:
So I'm sure now that it isn't my device - unless the antenna is messed up and can't pick up weak signals. I'm fairly certain that Sprint's map of coverage is overestimating the actual LTE coverage area. Hopefully other people's experience here will verify that.

On the way back from work which is the NW corner of Plano near Frisco - I checked LTE coverage all the way across the middle of Plano from Preston - Springcreek Parkway across to 75 (middle of Plano). I found that the area near Preston and 121 (almost Frisco) is devoid of 4G LTE. As I neared the middle of Plano and on towards 75 - LTE sprang to life - I was getting readings of around 5-6000 kbps down. Going down 75 to George Bush the signal gets very strong around Renner and George Bush, then dies off about a mile in - and ironically is completely dead in my neighborhood.

Yesterday I was down by Parker and the Tollway - and there's no 4G LTE there either.

Apparently despite switching from 4G WI-MAX to 4G LTE - I am no better off then I was before - my work and home are in dead zones! I'm going to have strong words with Sprint - hopefully they'll give me some more credits.

Does anyone know of any third party sites that aggregate people's Speedtest readings and 4G LTE coverage - for a more accurate coverage map?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] TWO515TY:
I live in Plano and get consistent 4G around most parts of the east side of town (Spring Creek/75, Park/Jupiter, and a few other places). At work, my EVO 3D would catch a weak WiMax signal, where my Note 2 gets a decent, very fast LTE signal that's much more consistent and usable than my WiMax connection was. I can't comment on coverage in Richardson, but I know the coverage in most parts of Plano is pretty decent.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rjc2233:
I live in McKinney and work in Richardson. I have the original evo now and just ordered the note from wirefly. While I obviously can't speak of lte,I can say that my 3g and Wimax have recently gotten better, so hopefully I'll get lte as well. I'll report back in a few days when I get my note
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] a454nova:
I live in Roanoke. Near the Speedway. I've had all the phones and by far, the Note 2 is the best one when it comes to LTE. Ive posted my results in several places too. Lots of info on S4GRU.com

But, the DFW area it sitting at about 22% complete. They are upgrading them all tho, soon. The site stated above has maps of the towers and what ones are done too. The best way to know is with an app called Sensorly. Its in the store. It will show you where real ppl have had 4G and you can compare your findings to see if its your phone. As for the phone compared to others. It connects, holds and finds the 4G lte better than any device that Sprints put out. Nexus and Evo LTE being the worst.

Heres an example... My dad works for American at Alliance Airport. He got the Note and has LTE in his shop now. The S3 would cut in and out. Note never drops. Laughs at all the Evo guys that can't. Now a lot of them have bought the note. Lol Its sad when other new smart phones tether to your internet. The shop is a steal box. EMP could go off, and they wouldn't know it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
The map online is planned coverage. As I mentioned above, DFW is not complete bit is higher than 22% completed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] a454nova:
Sprints Coverage map?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
is planned coverage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] a454nova:
From what I have found so far is that the Map is correct. Its just that our phone will not hold it. If you force your phone into LTE. So it will hold on to the lower signals, it will show up just as their map. I think they use an antenna on a truck, giving it more credit than we can see. Maybe a PC card would do better. But I've been all over the west DFW area and the same story hold true. If your in a area that Sprint says is covered, and your not picking it up. You will if you force it Lte. In a sense, the map is right. S3 or Note.

I also live right on the line of Lte. Very outside edge. Sprint Says I'm covered.... only if I force it tho. Now with the note, I'll actually pick it up after sunset.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
I can assure you...the map is planned coverage.

read back where I mention my employer ;)

the map may accurately show your location...there may be live towers near you...but not all of dfw. this is fact...it is planned coverage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] C63BS:
I live in Las Colinas/MacArthur area, this past Saturday 11/17 I was over my buddy's place on Luna RD/635 from 9:00-11:00 AM, looked at my phone and saw 4G icon and did a speed test to see what kinda of speed is around this area. I was surprise what I saw.

this one was around 09:00AM

As I was leaving buddy's place I did another test
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] JimSmith94:
You're very close to where I live. What kind of speed test results do you get at your place?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] fuel451:
I'll add to this post for those still interested. I live in North Arlington and have an AT&T Note 2. Getting 4G LTE pretty solid with 12.5mbps/2.5mbps u/d. My wife has a Sprint Note 2, and even though Sprint claims they have solid LTE in Arlington, she barely gets 4G if LTE. Even the 4G is very weak. Only had it a week and haven't really got to work with hers much. May be the phone. Have to do a little more testing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 00mred00:
DFW is nowhere near completion. where it works it works great...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] a454nova:
Your agument is invalid. Lte is 4G (for the note 2) and right now it's not full deployed yet. If you read the site correctly, it says street coverage. They don't have all the towers upgraded yet. You can also use an app called Sensorly to find to true coverage.
[Nexus 4 General] fye85:
**** you for that funking Google

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] spencer88:
Rofl

inb4l
[Nexus 4 General] crachel:
Please direct your messages to Google.

Thanks

Closed
[HTC EVO 3D] dacornholio:
Hi there,

Here is the background info:

Phone: GSM HTC EVO 3D

Bootloader : revolutionary.io (S-off)

Hboot: 1.49.1107

Recovery: ext4

So first i unlocked the bootloader via htcdev, rooted the phone, realize this will not let me install other firmware/ custom roms, so I install revolutionary boot loader, hoping it will let me, i did it but my CID is weird (i get 11111111 when i do oem readcid, and get 0202 when i do getvar cid), not sure if its normal, and somehow my Hboot is 1.49.1107. (this happen after i installed revolutionary). So if anyone can somehow point me to the right direction that will be great. I can only restore my gingerbread rom, but can't flash any other roms (boot loop/ stuck in boot screen). I did flash an ics firmware before i try to install ics rom (i wasn't able to before i install revolutionary)

Thanks in advance.

J
[HTC EVO 3D] flashallthetime:
You should be able to flash ICS and JB roms, my hboot is the exact same, s-off with revolutionary also, did you do a fully wipe? Which rom are you trying to flash, your Cid? Could be the issue but I have no idea

( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! :D)

---------- Post added at 05:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:33 PM ----------

What is your radio(baseband)

( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! :D)

---------- Post added at 05:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:34 PM ----------

My Cid is Rogers 001

( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! :D)
[HTC EVO 3D] dacornholio:
I tried Yoda ICS 6.0 and Nonsense 4.0, and both i'm stuck in boot screen
[HTC EVO 3D] flashallthetime:
Your radio is? It could be the firmware that you flashed?

( Don't ask me for help as I couldn't care if your phone explodes, eh! :D)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] esely2007:
hi ,

I've a T-mobile MDA Pro, it is only works on Dutch , does any one can help me adding the English without installing a new rom:confused:

thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] Hakim Rahman:
for that, you need to install t9 English.cab on device
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] esely2007:
Thanks Hakim Rahman

thank you Hakim Rahman and sorry about my late reply, I installed the cab file and the deceive restarted but no thing happened , still the start menu and system runs in dutch lang:confused:
[Surround General] jh20001:
Anyone else ever see tmp files in the download folder (Zune Software) for the camera roll under pictures? If so, anyone know what causes them and can the be deleted without harming anything or are they required for something?

I've been pondering this but didn't care much until so many were created over time...(image is attached)

Phone: HTC Surround, Windows 7.5
[Surround General] jh20001:
Never mind...I renamed them to jpg from tmp and they seem to be copies of some of my pictures....in some case 8 copies of the same image and 80% of the image doesn't open...so I'm guessing it's a corruption issue of some sort...
[Microsoft Surface] jgibo1:
When I try to lower my volume a bit it will go all the way down to zero. Then when I try to go back up a little to say 50. It shoots up to 100.

Has anyone noticed this behavior?
[Microsoft Surface] netham45:
I've noticed that the displayed volume bar doesn't always update to what the system volume is.
[Microsoft Surface] TheAccuser:
I do. I think this is by design maybe. If so, it is poorly implemented.
[Microsoft Surface] userno69:
Seems to be a hardware issue affecting a good number of Surface tablets:

http://forums.wpcentral.com/surface...rs-can-you-reproduce-volume-rocker-issue.html

:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scandiun:
I forgot to mention, but run commands inside android as superuser or may fail (just after adb shell):

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
[B]su[/B]
/system/bin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/bin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12

And greetings for the guide, I didn't know of VHD Tool, congratulations!.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oliverpowell:
Great Work

Good and informative tutorial indeed. Thanks though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Good point...

Thank you again scandiun (:

You may be right about the superuser command: su

For my part I did not have to use it but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to run as su. Some systems may actually need it though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Here's hoping...

Thank you oliverpowell (:

I just hope the people who need this actually find it before they give up and start overwriting their lost data. Even having to get root access may cause a certain amount of data loss for some. Thankfully I was already rooted and already had busybox....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] marhensa:
YOU..

YES YOU....!!!!!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE? :(

s*it mate, i wish this thread comes earlier...

i lost my precious files on sdcard about 3 months ago when unlocking bootloader.

um..

anyway do you have any idea how to make files from computer back to internal memory,

but without changing the date modified timestamp?

i'm using adb push for that, but that's painfuly slow..

while mtp transfer messed up the date modified.

thanks, bookmarked.

just in case i do something stupid next time.. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Not many options...

I'm afraid painfully slow is probably the only option, just like my step that takes three hours. Start it and go build a birdhouse or window box for flowers....it's going to take a while.

I'm sorry you lost files. It's very sad to hear some of the stories of people losing pictures of their children's birth, or the last pictures of their husband going to Afghanistan... and not returning. :(

I'm hoping that this approach or one like it can be made popular. It needs to get out there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I've also linked this thread and scandiun's thread in the second post of this sticky thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Nice!

It looks good! Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xda_toronto:
Thanks for this tutorial. :good: It worked as indicated. I just wish I knew earlier as I had been trying for the past few days to use recovery tools and trying to make the internal drive USB Mass Storage capable when all this time there was this tutorial. Unfortunately, it only returned a dozen photos. Thanks again for this tutorial... this should be spread across xda forums for any others running into these issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Agreed - lol

Firstly, I only recently created this guide. I'm sorry you lost files :(

Secondly, I attempted to link to older threads that mention the same issue so that they would be more likely to show up in a future Google search but I was scolded for waking up old threads, which makes sense. I just thought this was a rather seriously important issue that deserves a lot of eyes. Loss of personal photos is a little more significant than troubleshooting a bad ROM flash, IMO. But the Mod correctly canceled those other posts. It is a little douchey to try to increase a post count by linking all over to a single (my first, really) post. However, I couldn't give less of a pbbbttt about post counts. If you don't mind me asking, how did you find this thread?

Lastly, if you add it to your sig then this will show up on all of your posts...just sayin'...

I'm glad it at least helped you get 12 pics back...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Med1a:
Proplem

Sir .. I'm facing problem .. it won't receive any data from 5555 port .. I tried to make it copy the RAW file but it stopped without getting any data .. is that normal ?? see the picture attached
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CADude:
I have a question. Let's say we don't want somebody to ever use this guide to recover our stuff after we sell them a phone. What's the most secure and thorough way to destroy all data on the Gnex, making it impossible to recover, short of destroying the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hetunandu:
i have the same problem
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
A couple things from you screenshots...

Did you try without using su command? Also where is busybox installed? /system/bin or /system/xbin?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
If you use the erase command in fastboot, it should work (i.e., "fastboot erase userdata"), otherwise, flashing the stock userdata image will do the trick (i.e., "fastboot flash userdata userdata.img") <-- this writes a blank image in the userdata partition.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
...well, that's a good question!

I would imagine you could do this guide, use a Guttman algorithm wipe utility on the attached VHD and then figure out a way to push the entire VHD back to the phone. Unfortunately, that may not actually overlay the physical phone memory in the same way. Perhaps you could wipe the VHD again and push it again, and then again...?

I want to say that someone asked the question on scandiun's post too. Go see if they figured out how to push back to the phone.

Good luck (:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hetunandu:
busy box installed properly in the right directory

su command used
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scandiun:
When running su check on phone that permissions are granted. Furthermore using absolute paths is for when you are running it from clockworkmod recovery. If the phone is powered on you can use

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
su
nc -l -p 5555 -e dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12

Open another Cygwin terminal and enter:

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
cd /nexus
nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | pv -i 0.5 > mmcblk0p12.raw

If you are still having problems you can try the command within the phone only and see if dd works:

adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/dev/null

Also, make sure you run all the commands in the two terminals each time and in the proper order, if you are not sure cancel with Control+C and close them and restart again.

For those who want to try backing up the partition via wifi, you can send it via ftp. Read this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27793062#post27793062
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
Don't use su...?

Please try no su exactly as in the first post.

Did you follow the steps exactly? I can only say they worked for me ):

What phone do you have?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
1. Your warranty is fine. You can flash back to stock.

2. Are you saying that the files you want are actually encrypted? If so then it may not be possible to unencrypt them even if you do recover them. I suggest looking into recovery software that allows browsing of more file types. Recuva seems to be limited to certain, more common file types only.

I think I am going to have to write a disclaimer that the root should be done with a non-destructive method so that the device won't be wiped a second time. I think I was lucky enough to already be rooted when I dealt with this. I'm starting to recognize this as a pattern with people who weren't initially rooted.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus Toro that is way better than yours [see also: "Mmuzzy"]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] isom383:
I've tried EaseUS Data Recovery and Pareto Data Recovery, etc but still no luck on the files I actually want.

EaseUS' recovery seems to pick up corrupted files, Pareto's seems to be in between that and Recuva, Recuva didn't find many files at all, really, only about 4,000 and those were ones I didn't want to recover or actually weren't deleted at all.

Well I have the original raw and also a copy as a vhd file, I suppose it doesn't matter now if I continue to use my tablet do you think?

I'll try again tomorrow if I can but I have to use the tablet. I've lost photos of my family/friends, a couple of fun drawings and a painting a certain somebody put a lot of hard work into (they'll be sad if I don't get it back. It really sucks), business (even money-related docs, i.e. hard work, excels and that exported as png for presentation software and hidden to keep them safe), receipt snapshots, voice recordings and study docs, too. I don't think I'll use Android again after this unless they bring back the USB mass controller capability, I feel it's really unsafe removing such an interface.

Anyhow this'll teach me for deleting random things and hopefully if anyone reading this will realize not take the risk and be careful.

And flash it back to stock? Do you know where to get stock images? I don't remember getting a way to create a backup (I used odin 3).

Also, I have a question slightly more off-topic: I noticed a lot of icon spam both deleted and undeleted which made it longer to find what files to recover, what applications are causing this? I really dislike this unnecessary use of hard disk and want to prevent the apps that are doing this from doing this. Some of the icons were really high depth although low resolution.

Thanks for your response.

EDIT: In the edit in my previous post I mentioned it seems Hide It Pro doesn't actually encrypt files? It just encrypts the file name and renames the file extension. Nonetheless, if I could have the encryption data in the case it does for some, then Hide It Pro should hopefully be able to understand the data, providing it is not corrupt.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] decalex:
Lmao. But seriously, really good idea. I'm not too worried about the sexts or missile codes, but this is shortly after I was poking around draw something, and saw they have Facebook passwords stored in plain text in their webview.db.. Just got me thinking.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scandiun:
I don't think the second encryption is necessary. Is just that I don't know where the key to encrypt/decrypt is stored, and in the improbable case that the thief gets it, would have also to know how to use it to decrypt the contents, which is a bit overkill.

The bad thing is that if your phone is protected the "thief" can't turn it on, and so you can't use lost phone applications that may help you if the phone connect to a network.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wartickler:
That's...disturbing. Not that they store the passwords in plain view (which is SUCH a craptastic rookie error) but that anyone is still playing that game.

Couldn't you go watch some grass grow or something??

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus Toro that is way better than yours [see also: "Mmuzzy"]
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahha10:
help!

the process:

In the menu select Action-->Attach VHD.

For Location enter [c:\cygwin\nexus\mmcblk0p12.raw] and select the OK button.

The problem:

Attached

or

Error: A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found.

Any help please :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jcarmi04:
I would guess you didn't correctly convert to VHD. Retry or see my post where I still feel this is an extra step...though welcome data rec people to weigh in.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahha10:
thanks for the replay, but, what i should do now?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hikari:
Hello! Im having issues... I think the breakpoint is when I type

/system/bin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/bin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12

it returns:

and stays like that forever..

then if I go and type

adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
cd /nexus
nc 127.0.0.1 5555 | pv -i 0.5 > mmcblk0p12.raw

the terminal returns nothing just as if I had typed "enter"..

Then the mmcblk0p12.raw files appears under /nexus. and when I vhdtool convert it I get:

Thanks in advance for anything!