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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehsieh99:
I just got an n7102 tonight, and gonna root it tomorrow to get my google service back: p

BTW , you could not just install google play, you will get fc. You need to install googleserviceframework.apk as well.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pat.:
Ok, thanks for correcting me, can i ask about where you bought & price?

i understood the 7102 to be available for delivery only from 3rd Dec.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troppodel:
Thanks guys let me know the questions I'm going to china next week I can ask to my friend and I will go in a store for test the phone

Thanks buddy let me know about root and many other info about the phone that u got it

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingcedz:
U should be able to flash the GAPPS to get all google services back from http://goo.im/gapps, once it's rooted and custom recovery installed. The 3rd Dec delivery is for some online retailers only, from what I heard its already available for sale domestically in China.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tantewu:
Hi there,

You mean i need root access for the phone to enable all western functions?

Isnt it the normal samsung UI?

I need german language, google play, gmail and maps.

If not working out of the box i better not spend this ammount...

Thanks for help!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingcedz:
It won't have the standard google apps out of box. The software is a modified version of android with pretty much all google service removed. There s no way using gmail google play maps or YouTube apps without root.

I can't verify this but I don't think it comes with German language UI either.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehsieh99:
I just rooted my N7102, and reinstall back from my GSG3 backups. then removed all the default apps.

All work fine! Google account, google play, google map....etc.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tantewu:
thanks a lot for your prompt reply!

Will this beast then launch in Hongkong with full functions out of the box?

Got my Tab 7.7 there which works perfectly without flashing etc..

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troppodel:
Hi buddy did you root the phone with odin and cf-root? did you install the cwm?

let me know if the guide is the same of the note 2 classic

thanks

I will buy the phone in shanghai if somebody want receive info in real time install whatsapp and send me the phone number by PM, I will be in China from 5 dec to 14 dec.

Ivan
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehsieh99:
yes, I use the normal N7100 odin and cd-root to root N7102. It works fine! I didn't re-install CWM but recover from my backups.

and CWM shows that N7102 is not supported! So I uninstalled it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingcedz:
It's not clear that will happen.

There s no indication this model will be released outside mainland China.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakfreenow:
Which version should i used for my n7102? and where to download it?

Thanks

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Hi Matteo

Where could i download the 2 different n7102 roms you mentioned.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
I used the N7102+CWM 6.0.1.9 root package for the rooting.

Steps:

1. goto ODIN mode, flash the root tar as PDA section. The root package is attached. Credit to 平海浪子 & 夜貓@xiaolu of 52samsung.com forum.

2. after rooted, go recovery mode, flash gapps-20121011

3. wipe data/cache

4. reboot, and go through the initial steps setup ur google account.

5. install gmail, gmap etc from play store.

6. after rooted, you can use adb or root explorer to mount ur system as writable and remove the apps u dont want. for example, Flipboard, Weibo etc. (Make backup before your modification)

The latest stock rom for retail N7102 device is LKA, quite huge, 0.9G. It can also be found at 52samsung.com N7108/N7102/N719 forum.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakfreenow:
Matteo

Thanks for the file.

My base version is the LK8 and can I used the rooted version you sent?

Btw, how to do the step 6?

Thanks a lot
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
The root package can be used on LK8 as well.

For step 6,

easy way:

Install Root file explorer or ES file explorer, enable root functions, use option to make /system writable.

Navigate to /system/app, remove the application's apk and odex you don't want.

Navigate to /data/dalvik-cache, remove all files.

Navigate to /data/data, remove the data folders for your deleted application.

complex way:

if you have Android-SDK and adb tool installed. You can enabled the USB debugging in Developer options of Settings, then connect your device to your PC / Mac via USB. In CMD or terminal window, type adb shell to connect to your device, then use following commands:

su #superuser will pop up to ask you grant permission

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmc0p13 /system #mount /system as writable, replace mmc0p13 to your system partition device node

cd /system/app

rm Weibo.apk # remove the package u dont want. replace the package name. If corresponding odex file exists, remove it as well

when you finish your modification, run

rm /data/dalvik-cache/* # remove the application cache

If you like to save some space, you can delete the corresponding data folder in /data/data/.

If you have not done the configuration, you can just do a factory reset to replace the remove cache and data commands.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakfreenow:
Thanks Matteo. I will do it in a few minutes time.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nitricjs:
Hi Anton

Do you have the address of the store you bought in Shenzhen. I will be going next month

thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonadt:
I have downloaded 2 stock ROM CHU (LK3) and CHN (LK8) and tried each for some days. Almost identical ROM, stable and easy to flash as well. We still have the same problem with contacts and map and I do not find the way to uninstall fully Baidu search machine to replace with google for our international using.

Matteo, can you help me to fix those about problem? I do not understand 52samsung because I do not understand Chinese.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarcoTNT:
N7102

I bought it!!! :fingers-crossed:

Rooted with CWM 6.0.1.9 installed gapps and all work fine.

Now testing better.

For Italian:

Vodafone - GSM and H3G - WCDMA no problem
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
N7102 used Baidu for NetworkLocationProvider. I tried to replace the NetworkLocation_Baidu.apk with google's NetworkLocation. But it does not work. The "Use wireless networks" in Location Services is for Baidu NTP. Even with google's NetworkLocation.apk, we dont have option to turn it on. I am stilling looking for solution for that. Maybe replace some codes from international N7100 SecSettings.apk will work.

If you like to use gmap outside China mainland, you can enable GPS, the gmap should get the location via GPS signal. You can also install FasterGPS and set the NTP to the server in your region. It can make the GPS locating faster.

For search engine in stock browser, Baidu is the built-in engine in the SecBrowser_CHN.apk. I just install Chrome from play store.

For contact issue, I dont really understand what the problem is.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarcoTNT:
Remember to delete or rename two files:

com.google.widevine.software.drm.jar

com.google.widevine.software.drm.oden

using RootExplorer, otherwise everytime you reboot you will see that android upgrading.

Thanks to joehsieh99 :good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
First if all thanks for your help with this.

The contact issue is that I have all my contacts on my account saved in international format "I.e. +74629203747".

In my country "and probably in others" the caller id is sent in local format "0629203747"

So when receiving a call or even when looking at the call log the contact is not shown and only the number is.

This does not happen on my n7100 "in both incoming ajd outgoing calls" I tried different things like make a backup on the phone and remive the google account and just restore the contacts and it does not work.

Pleaaaaase someone halp us. If you can ask the guys at the chinese forums to save us we would appreciate.

K.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
All my contacts in google account are stored in international format, +country_code area_code number for fixed-line, +country_code number for mobile. The caller id is sent in local format, it get recognized and displays the contact name.

See the attached call logs, the number I call out from contact is in international format, +86 xxxx etc. Reply call in local format 025 xxxx etc. Call in number also in local format. All the numbers I saved show the contact name directly.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakfreenow:
Hi Matteo

Thanks for the help. My High Speed Internet works now. Though not the incoming calls' display which didn't show up the contact names.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] welkyn:
Hey guys... just got myself the GT-N7102 from Vietnam while on a biz trip.

I'm a noob to rooting and all that stuff so I've been messing around a bit, rooting and installing the google apps and all; but I'd like to know if you can upload the stock ROM for GT-N7100 onto the GT-N7102.

It may lose dual sim capabilities but I was wondering if you could restore the needed apps with something like Titanium backup so you'd have the basic stock ROM of the international GT-N7100 with just the dual sim capabilities.

Basically, I know it's a noob question but I would really like to find a way to get the basic international stock ROM for GT-N7100 with just the dual sim capabilities added in.

Even better would be a little luv for this potentially great phone and someone who knows what they're doing could cook up a nice ROM.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks guys.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
Now this weird. The first thing I have done was to root the device as soon as I got it so I didnt check with the stock if this is the case. I also used the n7108 file and I wonder if it is any different from n7102.

I will flash stock again and see how it goes.

Can you please tell me how many digits you have in local and international format? I want to try to see if it is realted with the number of digits.

Also if any custom rom is coocked by our chinese friends please let us know here so we can give it a go.

K.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anton1203:
Huaqiang North MTR. just walk along the street and peek in places with huge amount of little stalls. actually, none of these resellers have this phone in stock. they just taking it from warehouse on request, so theres no big difference with what seller you'll talk. and always demand price cut!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
For mobile number, it is +86 123 12345678. For fixed-line, +86 area_code number, area_code can be 2 or 3 digits, number can be 7 or 8 digits.

At the moment, there are some modified roms. All based on stock rom with some beautify and remove useless applications. Pretty hard to do the source based customization due to lack of resources. If any new information, I will post here.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonadt:
At the beginning, I use Chrome to have google search engine, for map I turn off "Use wireless network" and only use GPS signal. That's OK.

Contacts: I think the problem is that the ROM is for Chinese market, you shouldn't have trouble for +86 prefix. All of us who are living out of China have these similar problem.

Sonadt
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ben_london:
site in english

how do i view this site in english? any ideas? I do not speak chinese. (official samsung N7102 website in english)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
Thats fine man even if it is based on stock its fine I still wanna give it a go if thw debloat and maybe add some english stuffs.

Just put the links here so I have the correct roms and then google translate can take care of it.

If the numbers are working for you indont see any reason why they shouldnt work for me. I will post again anyway.

K.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markzh:
How to setup Internet Calls (SIP account)

Hello! How can I setup a voip account on the N7102. Under phone settings I can't find the settings for internet calls. Thanks and merry Christmas. Markus
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
I also have contacts from other countries, Singapore, Germany, US and etc. The contact name display properly.

I just did a test with a friend in Singapore, the country code is +65, see the snapshot, his name is in my call log.

BTW: I am using English as locale. Not sure whether it is a locale related problem.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kms108:
It's a chinese model sold in china, and the official site is in chinese.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
Thats fine it works since his numer is in international.format.

Try and dial daniels number is local format and see if his name appears. I am sure it would work as i did a test with a chinese random number and it did not work.

I have a feeling it is realted to rooting with n7108 file. My PC is not working at the moment so i cannot try anything with odin.

By the way i tried the chinese forum and have to register to see files and.have not been able to. I am after the stock 7102 LKA and also any custom debloated rom if you can just put the links here. I downloaded something that looks like stock 7102 called v1.0 but its a rar and looks like its encrypted and root explorer could not decrypt it. Heeeelp lol

K.

EDIT : i got thw file from here

http://download.52samsung.com:82/phlz/N7102/
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ben_london:
can anyone give me a reliable answer to these 3 simple questions - which will determine if I get this phone - "Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (GT-N7102) Dual SIM Version"

- will the phone work on UK mobile networks?

- where online can I order it from in the UK ?(I don't want to end up with a fake phone from an unreliable supplier)

- is there a LTE version of the dual SIM phone?

email me at: let_it_rayn@mail.com or post here.

thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
The answer to LTE dual sim version is "Nope".

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I am in China. If I remove country code (+65) from daniel's number, the phone just call a local number and display the number instead of daniel's name.

N7102ZCALKA_www.52samsung.com.rar is the leaked official stock rom from samsung. It is a 5 files package (PIT, BOOTloader, pda, mobile, csc) using ODIN.

The LKA_1.0 one is modified rom based on LKA. It is a CWM update zip file. Rooted, Deodex, Removed some apps, status bar mod, multiple-task mod, busybox, google packages and others.

I cant post external link here. So I just copy the thread title here.

LKA_stock: [N7102讨论] [2012/12/13]Samsung Galaxy Note II 國行零售版ROM N7102ZCALKA

LKA_1.0: [N7102讨论] [12/17]Samsung Galaxy Note II N7102ZCALKA_V1.0_精簡版

You must reply to see the download link and uncompress password in 1st post.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
Now thats weird. I forgot to ask you to replace the +65 by 0 to simulate the same thing. I wonder if it works only for chinese area codes or something.

I would love to reply but it seems I need to register first. I havent been able to register though.

Any chance you can reply and get us the password please? I ma trying to unzip the v1.0 version to install it through CWM.

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Just tried a new test.

If i use at least 11 digits and a preceeding 0 it recognises the number from the cpntact list anything less doesnt work. This is stupid really.

I would have tried to replace the apks but only the chinese model works with dual sim which the dialer needs.

Dont know what to do now. Having said that i still.did not try the latest version “LKA” and maybe they addressed the length issue.

K.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
Samsung should use the same code base as international N7100 phone.apk, just add dual-sim and phone number locator capability into N7102.

So the phone number / contact display logic part should be the same.

The only thing does not work outside China might be the phone number locator function. Can you turn it off in call setting of phone application and try again.

In my contacts, I added a fake contact with 012345 as number. When i dial out this number, the contact name also display properly. I can not test the call in part...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonadt:
PNL we have to turn this function off right at the begining, otherwwise they will display Chinese province name in all the incoming call. I think this "0" number is Chinese mobile operators related issue. The IP Call feature is popular in China and government authority assign a lot of prefixes in the numbering rules. That will create some differences from internation rules and cause the problem.

Using my son handset Lenovo S880 (Android ICS, 2 SIM), test phone like this:

Save a number as +8412345 for name ABC (I'm in HCMC, Vietnam). In the contacts app I input 012345, the name is still not display intill I press the call icon. When I press call icon after inputting 012345 the name is display ABC, so I think the contacts app will check this "0" issue only when we decide to make a phone call and all the protocol for this must stay inside contacts app itself. I've done the same thing with my N7102 either with LK8 ROM and with LK3 ROM, the contacts app do not display the name ABC as Lenovo S880. So if some experts can integrate the contacts app from other device, it will be ok for "0" issue for international market.

Sonadt
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
Ah, I produce the same problem on my own phone.

It seems the logic for mapping number to contact is based on the last 11 digits. If the number is less than 11 digits, the call number must exactly same as the number in your contact info. In China, the mobile number is always 11 digits without country code. Thats why for the mobile number in China, it always displays properly.

I tried some fixed-line numbers, using following patterns:

cross province call:

+86 898 12345678, I dial out use the local format 0898 12345678. It shows correct contact name. (The last 11 digits is as same as the international format).

+86 20 12345678, I dial out use the local format 020 12345678. It shows only number.

local call:

+86 25 12345678, I dial out use the local format 025 12345678 or 12345678 directly. It shows only number.

Workaround:

Before Samsung fixs this issue, or porting N7100's related packages to N7102 + dual sim capability, there is one workaround to display the contact name.

Add the phone numbers that formats exactly same as the local format from your mobile operators.

Then, for +86 25 12345678, I have to add 2 additional numbers 025 12345678 and 12345678 to make the contact name displays properly. After you add these local numbers, you can see the name in call log immediately.

It is really stupid problem...

Updated:

You can try TouchPal Contacts from play store. Seems it can recognise the correct contact and display the name. It also supports dual-sim. Click the contact icon it will pop a window to let u select which sim card you like to dial from. But if you dial a number from dial pad directly, you can select sim card at this version. It will be dialled out from ur current selected sim card. I will report this to the developer team, hopefully can get better dual-sim support in next version.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazzle8:
i am interested to get a N7102 from China. Is there anything to take note of regarding the package ?

Is there a specific package that i need to get for an unlocked phone ? I understand that there are some that are locked to the 3 telcos in China.

Appreciate any advice on what and how to get one from China please.

thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
N7102 is for WCDNA+GSM, there is not network lock for both retail and China Unicom version. Retail version have less trash applications from mobile operator.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pressa:
Any chance to have the password to unzip these files?

There is no way for me to correctly register on that site to answer the post and read the password ...

Thank you.

Pietro from Italy
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matteo.Weng:
I will repack these 2 roms without password and PM you the link.

@kar200

I will PM u the link as well.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pressa:
You are very kind. Thank you very much.

Pietro from Italy
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazzle8:
Thanks for the info.

Where can I get the retail version ? Is there a trustworthy online site to buy ? I am located in Singapore.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markzh:
Hi. I have bought mine from etotalk.com and got it within 5 days.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarcoTNT:
Link

Ciao Pietro,

can you give me the link in PM?

Grazie

Marco
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
Thanks Matteo for all your help. We would hqve been lost without you.

I know you don't wana give us the password but I already downloaded the file which took a few hours. IF you can PM Me the password it would be perfect otherwise I will just wait and redownload the repacked ROM.

For the touchpal I thought about the dialer thing but the bigges isse with this is the incoming calls and the fact you cannot see the name appear. I don't think the dialer will fix that. I think the best course of action now would be to add the number in local format to the name although it sucks.

I wonder if Samsung or anyone can fix that. Fancy Samsung creating a very good phone just for one Market.

K;
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazzle8:
Thanks. Will check out etotalk.

One question that I have been trying to search for an answer. Appreciate any help please.

Since n7102 is dual sim and with two numbers. Is there anyway I can run two instances of whatsapp ? One number for each instance.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troppodel:
I didnt try yet but i think yes

You can configure whatsapp with both numbers but using only one by one
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kar200:
I doubt you would be able to. This is a whatsapp limitation of course as it only uses the phone number as an ID and after that its all the application.

If the whatsapp team creates a special version then it would work but in all devices and not just dual sim ones

K.

---------- Post added at 04:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------

Touchpal works well. I was not expecting it to add the caller id in the middle of the screen when makingnor receiving calls. This makes a huge difference.

Last issue now is the call log. The samsung one shows the oncoming and outgoing calls with the sim card details. The others just the names.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazzle8:
Thanks to both for the reply.

I was asking cos it is possible on iPhone and thought it would-be possible on android.

It would-be a useful feature to have. I have asked whatsapp for a dual sim version. From their repky, don't think they are providing the solution soon.

Is the any client which talks to whatsapp server ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonadt:
Matteo,

Is there any difference between LKA and the others LK3 and LK8. I've had LK3 and LK8 in my PC already... If LKA is better, PM me the link please.

I've just installed TouchPal Contacts and will test it 2morrow.

Thanks for your help.

Sonadt