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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
I recently upgraded from a samsung droid charge that I had rooted regularly to keep up with new ROMs and such and picked up a samsung s3 via a craigslist deal and got a phone in fantastic condition that was already rooted with synergyrom on it. I'm loving the phone but I have had a major issue with it! I cannot access the google play store and there are several other strange things that lead me to believe that there is a bigger underlying issue. I'll try and be as descriptive as possible as I have searched the internet for several days trying to find answers before resorting to asking you guys (the experts).

Events from the beginning:

1. Picked up the phone. It is unlocked and rooted to synergyrom. When I picked it up it had a tmobile sim card in it. I went to verizon the first night and had them put in a new sim card so that I could activate the phone. I activated my google account to the phone and it sync'd my contacts, emails, etc. no problem.

2. Noticed the first night that the google play store wouldn't open up. Tried wiping cache and dalvik in recovery. Still no go. Got error code RH-01. Googled error code and found several ways of potentially clearing it involving clearing data/disabling google play store and google framework services. Still no go.

3. Installed Synergyrom from my external sd card with a full system wife. Also installed titanium backup pro from the rom package. Titanium backup pro would not recognize that I had purchased a full version and it wouldn't restore any of my previous information.

4. Tried installing cleanrom via external sd card and doing a full wipe on the system memory. Still no access to google play store

5. Flashed the phone back to stock (still no play store: Server Error) and took it to Verizon to see if there was anything they could do about it. Associate tried downloading google play store from the internet as well as several other apps. It would let me click to download the apps but they were not downloaded to my phone. I can't even install anything from the internet google play store.

I read that some phones can somehow lose their IMEI or their ERI, but both of those fields have values in my phone settings and it identifies that it is activated on verizon. Any ideas? I will check back regularly so if there is anything that you need from me on my end just let me know.

Thank you for any suggestions/Help
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
I'm going to try and re-root the phone and then change the radio. I am thinking maybe the issue had something to do with it being used on tmobile prior to me purchasing it...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] countryfolk07:
Are you sure the phone is a Verizon phone? SCH-I535 in the about phone menu? As you said it had a T Mobile Sim in it, that would lead me to believe it's a GSM phone.

Sent from my slightly modded........... phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
Yeah it's a SCH-I535. I'm currently running:

- android 4.1.2

- kernel 3.0.31-86

- ERI version 5

- IMEI is 990001150832830

- Network: Verizon Wireless

I have no idea. I am willing to pay for someone to help me out but don't know if I can trust craigslist modders to not waste my time. Everything with the phone checked out at Verizon so I'm sure it has to have something to do with the software. It was ulocked and rooted when I got it and I was a bit hesitant because of that but everything checked out until I got it activated and can't get access to the play store.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
When the associate was downloading the playstore, were they using your data or wifi? Was it stock browser?

I have had trouble downloading anything from the internet with the stock browser, it will always fail. Try a different browser. I'm sure you can find a browser apk or even the playstore apk, download it to your comp and then move it to your sd card.

I am on synergy right now, just tried download an apk and it will not even start. I don't mind, I don't use the stock browser.

Try a different browser and see if that helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
Thanks Bob,

I'll try the putting on a different browser and see if that works. That would be a good enough work around for my purposes. I was using data connection when the associate was trying to download from the playstore from the browser.

EDIT:

I was able to install a different browser using the apk process and was able to install netflix on my phone by downloading an apk as well. That could be a decent workaround in the meantime but it sucks that it doesn't fully recognize my google account. Right now my biggest gripe is that apps that I paid money for like titanium backup pro and several games won't show up as purchased even if I do download and install through apk. It's really strange because all of my contacts import from my google account but the apps don't and the licences don't show up. Still no access to downloading through the google play store no matter what browser I use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
SUCCESS!!!

I was able to get the play store to come up and get everything to update!!!

I fixed it by downloading and installing a different radio through odin. After I installed it, I went through and did a trick I had googled and tried previously with no success where I basically cleared data and cash on google play store, google services framework, and then restarted the play store. This time I also cleared data and force stopped google play services, not sure if that had any effect on it though. Finally! Now it's time to reinstall synergyrom on this phone and enjoy it like it's meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for the suggestions and replies guys
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
Just posting for future users who might experience my problem. I recreated the issue and the fix was to install a different radio which allowed the phone to access the google play store and my information. Hope this helps somebody because I know that they last week sucked trying to figure out what was wrong with my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnAreBee:
Maybe you should flash the phone back to latest stock via Odin or Other methods layed out in Dev section. Sounds like when you first got it, it was a franken phone. :) So who knows what software, images, radios, ect.. you have flashed in there. I was gonna say revert it to latest stock [AS LONG AS YOU ARE SURE YOU HAVE THE VERIZON MODEL AND THE APPROPRIATE SOFTWARE THAT GOES WITH IT]. Then unlock, root, change rom yourself. It's not complicated at all. Just a thought. Enjoy your new toy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jefmoody1:
It it ok to provide links to the correct (latest) radios?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Superfizzo:
John,

I actually went all the way back to stock and still was not able to get the google play store to work. I had the device working great until I tried to flash a different kernel and got a message from verizon telling me unauthorized software was on my phone. I had to flash back to stock once again and my google play store wouldn't connect once again. After installing the correct that I linked below, the play store came back up. I don't know if it has something to do with how it was unlocked previously, but I had thought that just returning everything to stock via odin would fix it and was surprised when it didn't.

Here is where I got my download from. I used I535VRLHE. Installed and it solved the problem.

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-modems-vrbma2-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535-recovery-flashable/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chriskon149:
I got my Nexus 4 in the mail yesterday and it worked great for awhile. I did an OTA update to 4.2.1 a few hours after I got the phone and it seemed to be alright. I plugged my phone into my computer and when I unplugged it it hard reset itself. Then, I plugged it into the charger it comes with, and when I unplugged it from that it hard reset (it had ~40% battery life). For the rest of tonight and today, I can get to my home screen but then it freezes 10-30 seconds later and resets. Is this a known software bug that's easy to fix or do I need to RMA it? I did some looking around but I couldn't find much on the issue other than people having a few random reboots daily, but my symptoms are different.

Thanks,

Chris

EDIT: After going back to 4.2 and still having the bug, I'm going to RMA.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shushwap:
There has to be a way to tether with this thing... From what I have read around they say... The latest update to JB blocked the tether option... I have it unlocked and using it with Telus... This is going to be a real pain in the rear... I used to use my S2X to tether when I was in the usa on Tmobile daily plans....

Anything I can do ?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
Are you rooted?

If you are, pickup an app called sqlite editor and follow instructions in this post (modify for your tethering apn obviously)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27099169
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shushwap:
No I am not rooted... Its looks like something I may have to do... Is there any other way around this
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XRCIST:
I'm on JB and I can tether, I don't believe the ability to tether is a function of Jelly Bean but a function provided by your carrier.

Cheers
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shushwap:
I just called my provider they say there are no blocks on my account and I should be able to tether
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
You need to add a Dun profile for your provider, if it is prevented by regular way of adding apns, you'll have to use my method to hack it in. No other options that I know of, sorry.
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shushwap:
I was able to go in and edit the apn.... Changed it to dun and it worked... The only this is it wont allow to mms until I change it back... Not a big deal...

Thanx for everything
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danifunker:
Oh great, then just add dun to the profile that mms resides on. You can add multiple services for each APN. Try making the apn type in this apn like the following :

default,mms,supl,fota,agps,hipri,dun
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shushwap:
That works great... Thanx for everything.... I can hot spot and receive pics...

Any Idea as to why I cant send pics ?
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saloums7:
Having the exact same issue, can receive pics through mms just fine but can't send anything. Solution would be great :P

Sent from my XT925
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidjames4:
My tethering want working either gave an error. When I went into the apn I saw there was a FIDO tethering apn pre installed. When I clicked it the first time it still did not let me use it but I clicked on it once our twice more and it seemed to work. Tested it out and tethering was fine once again.

I didn't have to input anything just clicked on it
[RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grant2:
On my Razr, tethering would disable the internet on the phone. Eventually I solved it by adding the "old-style" APN (for rogers) instead of using the "LTE" apn that by default was in the phone.

So my suggestion is either search the internet for new APN information for telus, or, find someone who has successful tethering on their telus phone and copy the APN they use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MCASTILLO:
Greetings to you

as I can boot into recovery, I'm using TWRP, when I have the device off

I hope your help, thanks...

I appreciate that there are people like you who help us get our phones better ...

Thank God for the help of all of you....

:):):)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Falco:
I think he's thanking us?:confused::confused::confused::confused:

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ROM: All-star ROM v7

Kernel: Lighting

Radio: LB7 blaze

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I'm trying to make an app, message if you are willing to help!

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] MCASTILLO:
when I have my device off. I must do to start it in recovery mode?

I apologize for not explaining well. :o

Also thank you for your great help by contributors and developers.

:):):)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] moxiot:
hold volume + - (both) and power at the same time. let go of power when phone starts vibrating. i usually wait 'till it vibrates 2 or 3 times. you are good to go

also dont thank god for the users of this forum. i think god has an iphone...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kingears:
Hi guys, before i start I absolutely love my note. At first I thought the screen was too big, but now I could never go smaller. (now I know how women feel :D)

However, my biggest complaint is the black clipping/crush, which seems to affect people differently according to their individual note.

This evening I was reminiscing the music I listened too in my youth. One of the videos to a song I love nearly made me throw my note out the window, because of the black clipping. This video is the WORST case of black clipping I've seen during my ownership.

Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJvT6ruolA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I am stuck with my note until July at the earliest, when I can upgrade. I do not have the luxury of buying the latest handset as soon as it is released, therefore I will have owned my note for 18 months. I am not sure whether I will buy another Samsung device again. Yes they slack on releasing sources, but for me if they cannot get the basics of a good quality screen right on a high end device, they may as well give up now.

Up until my note, my previous 2 devices were HTC. The Desire and Sensation. Their screens were SLCD, and suffered no clipping. I am aware the cause of clipping is an OLED problem and i can see no power saving or display quality reason for an OLED display. Yes I've looked into ppi but seriously there is little difference.

Every android handset I've owned will only give a maximum of around 4 hours screen on time, regardless of what you do with it or settings you disable (pointless in my opinion, its a SMART phone)

I feel its time Samsung ditched OLED displays before they lose customers. I know s3 owners who changed from iPhone to android (hooray!) but because of the clipping there changing back asap. I keep telling them its a Samsung issue but they don't care. First Impressions count for a lot.

Anyway rant over, just wondered how other SGN users felt about this and how its shaped their future device choice.

King
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tom-Helge:
Did you miss this topic or didn't you search before you made the post?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kingears:
I am aware of that thread. (I own a note so of course I am, Samsung knows yada yada yada *yawn*)

I was under the assumption that the general sub forum was for non development posts, which this is. So I apologise that I do not conform to your idea of a non development thread.

All I was seeking was similar experiances too my own, whereby I probably will not buy another Samsung device as long as they continue too use poor quality screens.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kingears:
In fact had you bothered to read my post correctly you would of seen this

"However, my biggest complaint is the black clipping/crush, which seems to affect people differently according to their individual note."

Now, to me that suggests I've done my research (I'm not a member since 2010 for no reason, post counts mean nothing)

All you've done is show me what I'd already known to a point, xda is going downhill
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] borich:
Did you try gammatest.png image in a dark room?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abhinav quietly brilliant:
dude that was the fav. song of mine from past and last time i have seen this video on a htc hd2 there was no such black clipping and now on my note it is so bad.. really it made me that much mad that i wanted to smash the phone on a concrete ground.. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] djoni_gitara:
This is very poor quality video. That is the first thing I noticed... Not only that I saw black clipping, but also white and gray clipping :silly:

So I'm not sure what I was more worried about. Whether because of a couple of squares that move around the screen (poor quality), or because some of these are gray black or white? (they all three appear crushed/cliped whatever) :silly:

The next thing I did, was look at the second video that was offered in the results, some (darker) HQ video (for ex. "theslowmoguys" videos are usualy very good quality videos and you have enough time to find critical parts of black cliping), and there is significantly less black clipping or no black clipping at all in hq videos

So I am not worried about that problem at all. Despite that, I'm in love with a black color of AMOLED screens. And I would buy another samsung product (Note3) because at Note2 this problem has been resolved

p.s. if you want a greyer black and you want solve this problem, you can download from play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uZXRtYW5zbGFiLnNhIl0.

or some similar app:good:

my few cents:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] The-Captain:
Thread Closed:

I don't really see a point to having this topic when there is already this one (and I would guess several others):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2094222

Please post there to discuss it.

Thanks.

~ The-Captain
[HTC Wildfire S] BuffMcBigHuge:
Are there any ROMs that have tethering working? JellyKing does not seem to tether properly. :(
[HTC Wildfire S] crossfire77:
try cm9.1 or speeddroid v1.4 its based on cm9.1 with some tweaks and smoothness.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
Is there anyway of having live feeds on our Android phones, like live feeds of sports/tech stuff/news etc... Kinda like the drop down window on the iPhone that shows stocks, something similar and possibly in the same area?

Thanks
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Setup a google one and add the ones you want then get the app for the phone job done.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
Say what lol, can u explain that in dumb down terms?:confused: lol
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Go here and then add the feeds you want.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
How do u add them cuz I just see a bunch of feeds but what next and where do they show up, it won't be as I mentioned above right like having feeds actually show up on my pull down window like the iPhone?

Edit/ Got it but still would be sweet to have live scrolling feeds ya know but maybe someone could include some way to incorporate that into a ROM, just maybe? lol
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Ya the google app is lame maybe there is one with what you want.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mojorisin7178:
So I am a well seasoned samsung vet. I had the vibrant the s2 I curently have the note 2 running the latest cm 10.1 nightliy and now I am the proud owner of a brand new s3 Yay. So I was wondering if this is the same as the note 2 as far as design across carriers and software across carriers. Can we use att roms without port or kernel changes? Are the AOSP roms identical? I havent looked yet but I assume that all I got to do is use odin to install twrp or cwm and then I can install su and root. Also It came with jb 4.1.1 the build number is t999uvdlja. Is that the latest build? every time i check for an update it tells me i have to wait in line. not word for word but that is what it is telling me. I have never seen that. So I am just wondering if I am up to date. I dont know if I will be doing any heavy modifications because it is my girls phone so I might just root it and leave it at that.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DigitalUnderground:
You practically up to date. There was a newer base pushed but very minor changes. If anything, you can always flash the new modem that came with it to try it out for better results.

You are right about the root process

You can use att builds... Just may have to edit build.prop to make it say t999 and not t747

Enjoy
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mojorisin7178:
Thanks for the quick answer galaxys3guy I have one question about the root process. On the newer android builds like what came on my note2 there is a built in fail safe that automatically rewrites the stock recovery. So 1. has that been implemented on the latest jb builds on this phone? And if so how do we get around it? When I went to root my note 2 I actually was able to use the exploit that samsung screwed up. If I remember corectly that exploit was originally found on the s3 but I know that samsung recently updated the nate2 so I would assume they updated the s3 to patch the exploit. So the only other way is to A install a custom rom with root via odin or use ADB to disable that function that rewrites recovery. I looked around and didnt see much about rooting for this phone. So what I think I will do is use chainfire's autoroot. Then flash twrp via odin and be done with it. But I was just wondering about the workarounds. As you can probally tell I only half know what I am talking about. I am self taught so sometimes things just dont make sence to me when they should it takes me a while but I usually get it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DigitalUnderground:
Lol I'm glad u know half of what u are talking about cuz I don't :D:o

All I did... Was booted into download mode... Put twrp in the PDA section of Odin, and flashed the recovery. (After it was done... If I remember right, I had to unplug and manually reboot because something with Odin was not working... But that was just for me... So if u have that issue where your phone won't boot after it says pass, just unplug and reboot urself). From there I booted into recovery and flashed supersu...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] myowin:
Hey congrats on New gs3 bro!

I kind of went thru something similar to your rooting proces.

You should check out galaxys3root.com. it is super helpful site. basically when you run Odin to root ( installing custom recovery like cwm or twrp, ) you need to uncheck all tick boxes especially auto-reboot and F.reset time buttons. Otherwise phone will reboot and reinstall stock recovery and in some case stuck on boot.. when you un-check them phone will not reboot after installing. You just pull battery after install and boot into custom recovery by volume+ , home and power together. I'm afraid there no patch that I know of ATM. Good luck..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DigitalUnderground:
Thats what I meant ^^^

Thanks man
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] GTWalling:
I did have a problem with my T-Mobile branded S3 going back to stock recovery and found there are 2 files that need to be renamed using the file explorer of your choice.

install-recovery.sh located in the /system/etc folder

recovery-from-boot.p located in the /system folder

I just add a .bak to the file name. Once this is done install CWM again and it will be OK. Also of note it will trip the counter built into the phone every time CWM is used. Download Triangle Away from the market to reset the counter when needed.