yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 General] blk_jack:
Buy one in Canada off contract from koodo. It's $625 and the bootloader is not locked, unlike the at&t version.

Don't give at&t any of your money.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
T-Mobile model also supports the Canadian frequencies.
[Galaxy S 4 General] McDan1el:
Wow, that is cheaper too! Does koodo have retail stores I might nip into Vancouver when I visit Seattle and pick one up before my proper move.
[Galaxy S 4 General] blk_jack:
They do, check out their website. Call first though and try to get a csr to hold one for you. In Toronto they have kiosks mostly rather than actual stores, may be the same in BC
[Galaxy S 4 General] McDan1el:
Looking at their plans also and are quite good, will prob just wait till Toronto and do everything at once, just being impatient. thanks for the info.
[Galaxy S 4 General] DvTonder:
Happy to say that CM10.1 is running perfectly on the Canadian S4 :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
Very cool. I have TWRP installed already but I'll wait for you guine^H^H^H^H^Hbrave testers to go ahead first :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] mickliq:
Holy cow that was fast! I just read that Steve K has it running on the T-Mo version, we had confirmation yesterday that Canadian BL is unlocked, TWRP today, and now CM10.1 ... OMG!

Not ready to install this yet (though I can't wait for a mature version!). What is most exciting is that it seems the differences between the T-Mo version and the i337m are small to get CM running on the Canadian variants?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
We have basically the same hardware so it's not surprising.
[Galaxy S 4 General] mickliq:
Well, you never know. It doesn't seem that obvious (at least yet) for ports between the i9505 and the NAM variants, and yet those should be pretty close too.
[Galaxy S 4 General] DvTonder:
It's essentially identical
[Galaxy S 4 General] David Dee:
Blk_jack is not biased on this one either, Koodo definitely has the lowest price in Canada for an outright purchase of the device. Another advantage of you buying with koodo is although they are a discount carrier, they are owned by telus (one of the big 3 Canadian networks) so you won't have to worry about coverage issues. Also, if you unlock your device, it will be fully compatible with the other 2 big networks: bell and rogers.

By the way: Welcome to Canada!
[Galaxy S 4 General] QuickSkope:
Got mine yesterday. The thing is AWESOME! Just one question, I'm wondering if the Canadian versions (specifically rogers) has an unlocked boot loader.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
Yes, we're unlocked and free. We even have CyanogenMod working already!
[Galaxy S 4 General] QuickSkope:
Ya, I saw the CM 10.1 :D. Can you link me to a decent root and the CM thread? Cheers.
[Galaxy S 4 General] chargen2:
Koodo

Does Koodo require an account, or can I just walk up to a kiosk (or 'mobile shop' at my local Loblaw store) and say "lemme buy an S4"?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Zer0_:
I bought my phone from Koodo as I'm with them, but I asked them if anyone can buy the phone for that price, since it's cheaper then any other place; unfortunately they said that price is only being offered to THEIR customers, and no one else's, which why it is cheaper. So i'm assuming that you can buy the phone, you won't be on contract, but you must sign up to be a Koodo customer.

IMO - I think Koodo is awesome since I'm paying only $43 bucks a month and I have everything Unlimited Canada Wide (except data, which is capped at 2GB) and LTE.
[Galaxy S 4 General] duykhang524:
I'm on retention at Fido, paying 55$ (25$ plan + 30$ 6Gb data w/ unlimited data for the next 6months) Getting around 40+mbps on LTE
[Galaxy S 4 General] Zer0_:
That's a pretty awesome plan. I get around 40-50mbps too. I was with Rogers before, but I wasn't getting reception in a lot places like my cousins, etc. Koodo has pretty amazing reception! :) Plus my bestfriend works at Koodo, so he hooked me up with an additional 25% discount
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kevin36:
I am from puerto rico I have the sgh-i337m canadian variant and I checked download mode and it says write protection enabled but I rooted and flashed recovery twrp 2.5.0.0. made a backup and it fixed root. If I did this can I flash cyanogenmod?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
Write Protection doesn't mean Locked Bootloader.

The SGH-i337m is unlocked so you can flash away.
[Galaxy S 4 General] murphmar:
Using my Bell i337M... I rooted with motochopper, installed TWRP, and flashed CM10.1. Works perfect, no issues with wifi/cellular and most things appear to work except NFC/sdcard? Awesome.

Sooo much smoother than it was on TW, dear god...
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kevin36:
I want to flash cm10.1 but I dont want to lose all the new sensor gimmicks this phone brings and to top that off I dont have a stock odin rom to put phone back in factory state in case it messes up? what to do?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
Using TWRP, do a backup before you try wipe and install Cyanogenmod.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kevin36:
Did a backup almost 2g is that correct? i used compression
[Galaxy S 4 General] AznBoy00:
How did you get that sick deal? I'm with Koodo for almost a year, I'm paying $45 for 400minutes and 1gb data...
[Galaxy S 4 General] Zer0_:
The original plan is $56 dollars. My bestfriend works at Koodo and he was able to hook me up with a few discounts (he can only give it to like 3 ppl). After everything, the plan came to like $43 dollars and a few cents after taxes.

I got lucky :P
[Galaxy S 4 General] AznBoy00:
And what did you use to root the s4? Is it safe, if something happens can we revert the root? I am kinda scared because I used to have an s2 and ics back then used to brick entirely the phone. Idk if an s4 could be bricken like that.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
So we can you Tmobile not At&t versions?
[Galaxy S 4 General] murphmar:
Not too sure what you mean... there's a build of CM10.1 specifically for the Canadian model now :) So root with motochopper, install TWRP via GooManager, download GApps/CM10.1 canadian nightly, reboot into TWRP and backup your S4... then wipe and flash.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tom0927:
Does anyone know if we can use Tmobile 3g with the Rogers S4 without flashing a new modem/radio? I've searched and people say we can use the Tmobile S4 on the canadian providers, but not sure about the other way around. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
I was able to flash ROM, but my SD card disappeared.
[Galaxy S 4 General] special1zed:
Stock Firmware

Does anyone know where to download the stock firmware for the SGH-I337M model? I am trying to un-root my phone. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] mickliq:
Steve K is aware of this bug and apparently a fix is forthcoming, which hopefully the Canadian devs will incorporate into their CM10.1 for the i337M
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
Yeah, so that from Tmobile forum, hope that it will be soon, had to rollback from Cm and already missing this ROM to put back
[Galaxy S 4 General] tietherope:
Open up Root Explorer or Es File Explorer or whatever it is called. Go to system, then xbin. In there delete "busybox" and then delete "su". After, uninstall superuser or supersu, whichever you are using. Reboot the phone twice and check your phone status. Should now read "official".
[Galaxy S 4 General] special1zed:
Same issue. Had to recover back to stock. Has anyone had this issue too?

EDIT: Disregard, I read above
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
As mentioned before, it is known issue :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] special1zed:
Got it, I'm a new user so I can only post 5 minutes apart. So by the time I posted it, it was too late!
[Galaxy S 4 General] special1zed:
Thanks for the tip, but it did not work. It said I could not delete those two files that were in your post. Still looking for the SGH-I337M stock firmware, though. Does anyone know where I can download that? Thanks again
[Galaxy S 4 General] mickliq:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41124628&postcount=34
[Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
I had all these issues with stutters big time! and running hot plus a terrible battery life. So I called Rogers and they are shipping me a brand new one (should get it by Friday) and then I just ship this one back. Simple. Just hope i dont get the same issues again!
[Galaxy S 4 General] David Dee:
In es file explorer, go into root explorer settings, install and be sure to click "mount r/w" as well. Then you will be able to delete those 2 files.
[Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
This worked for me to unroot it BUT it still says Device status: Custom
[Galaxy S 4 General] chargen2:
I was about to ask the following question when I did a search and found the answer here: http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/175

How do I install TWRP via goomanager? Do I use a package under 'Browse all files'? If so, what options do I select under there?

Adding this to the thread in case it helps someone else out!
[Galaxy S 4 General] tietherope:
Even after 2-4 reboots? It worked for me just last night.
[Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Yup even after ten reboots. I've tried everything. Oh well lol
[Galaxy S 4 General] mpsrent:
For anyone on Bell looking to root their i377m, I used the Motochopper download at the following link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252248&highlight=supersu

I added some detail to the instructions at the following link:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41127761&postcount=396
[Galaxy S 4 General] David Dee:
Just go into options and select install OpenRecoveryScript. Follow instructions and you are done. You need to be rooted for it to work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] QuickSkope:
Anyone's charger make a funny sound? Like a high pitched squeek when the GS4 is plugged in?

---------- Post added at 12:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 AM ----------

What are most people doing for insurance? Anyone hear anything good about ensquared.ca?
[Galaxy S 4 General] special1zed:
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
did anybody install new Rom? does microSD works?
[Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
FINALLY got my device status to Official! Only way i was able to was by using Triangle Away first, then doing the unroot as instructed in the guides available.

Now I can send mine back lol Have a new one being sent to me because this was so slow at first and bad battery life
[Galaxy S 4 General] Edu616:
Any one have links for some working roms?? Where to find some development love for this s4??
[Galaxy S 4 General] dennka:
http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#jfltetcan/cm10.1/next

here
[Galaxy S 4 General] nacos:
...just wondering, since the official ROM's for all the Canadian variants are now available at Sammobile, would it be possible to just flash Bell's ROM over Koodo's - using Odin - idea being to make it work on Bell/Virgin, without having to SIM unlock it?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] blk_jack:
You can just change the build.prop to reflect bell rather than flash anything.

Fellow i337m users running builds of CM10.1, you guys notice anything broken? I haven't done any testing really, but so far I noticed lower resolution in the camcorder (again, could be a configuration thing, I've not looked into it at all) and of course NFC being gone for now.

Other than that it runs everything, from what I can see, perfectly. This is incredible.
[Galaxy S 4 General] nacos:
Would you mind elaborating on how to safely change the build.prop?

...I've done some researches meanwhile and while I have ROM Toolbox installed and able to access the build prop editor, I'm not quite sure what field(s) would I need to change in order to reflect Bell. I would appreciate some advice here. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 General] ChronoReverse:
For the camcorder at least, you can just switch resolutions to 1080p.

It seems like if there's a low signal for both HSPA and LTE, the phone tries to switch between the two too often.

Reboot doesn't work; it'll just shut down.

I don't know of any app that can use the IR function.

Battery life may be worse but I not 100% sure without longer testing. Battery life often seems worse after initial flashing before settling down for whatever reason.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hansonator:
If you want to use a koodo locked phone on bell you have to have it sim unlocked. Flashing a bell firmware will do nothing but add bell bloat to your phone. Firmware is irrelevant, you can have whatever you want on there but if it isn't unlocked it won't work on bell's network.

Edit:

Afik, changing the build prop won't unlock the sim. It will look like a bell phone but still won't work with a bell sim.
[Galaxy S 4 General] nacos:
Bloatware aside (that can be easily removed/frozen once rooted), are you POSITIVE that flashing Bell's firmware on top of Koodo's, without SIM unlocking it won't work?
[Galaxy S 4 General] hansonator:
Yes, I'm positive. They are not the same thing.
[Galaxy S 4 General] nacos:
Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] amirsat2012:
hi

plz where to find a multilockscreen mod for a jb rom in me galaxy s2

would you plz help me and give a flashable file to add this nice mod to my phone..i am in a deodexed rom

thx
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] immortalneo:
Which build version?

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

Sent from my SGS II
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] amirsat2012:
with 5 lockscreen

xperia-blackberry-s3-optimus 4x-acer

if you mean my phone

i9100xwlsn
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] amirsat2012:
any help?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] davidwilson83:
If you use AllianceMod by Goldieking you can choose which lockscreen you want, plus tons of other customisable options. There's a thread in this forum, have a look and give it a try. You can choose either stock or AOSP theme too. Very great mod. Give it a try.

Sent from my ICS Blue SGSII
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] amirsat2012:
I dont use alliance rom now

Any solution for the other roms?

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9100 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] immortalneo:
I think u can use AllianceMod on other roms also. Try searching or asking the the AllianceMod thread about ur rom.

Sent from my SGS II
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Can I obtain all of the stock apk's that come with an unrooted NST? I want to see if I can run an NST environment on my CM7 NookColor. If I can get these apk's I will make a custom firmware for the NST.

And yes, I have an NST.
[Nook Touch General] straygecko:
Download the latest firmware from B&N and pull the apk's from there. You also might want to join the NST CM7 thread.
[Nook Touch General] osowiecki:
http://su.barnesandnoble.com/nook/n...s1ypATSufC9bS7WCNbMJmvnTq/nook_1_2_update.zip
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Alright then. I'll be compiling this firmware if you need me! :) :) :)
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
You're not going to be able to get the unmodified Reader.apk or ReaderRMSDK.apk to run.

They use android.hardware.EpdController

You'll have to either stub in the class or modify the apk.
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Alright. I read this message while I was having issues with them. Ill try to fix them manually. Thank you.
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
I successfully unzipped the firmware download on a windows machine, but I no longer have access to it. When I try to extract the files from the Zip on my mac, it cycles through zips and tar.gz's infinetly. When I try to extract it on my NC with rom toolbox, it says, "failed to extract tmp.zip"

Any suggestions?
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Nevermind. I got it working.
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
:thumbdown::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: :banghead::thumbdown:

After flashing (with CWM) what I would have posted as alpha-1 to test it, I am pleased to say that the Nook Simple Touch just sucks.

What happened:

I built the ROM entirely from Eclair source-code and the Nook's stock software. I flash the ROM to test it and BAM, bricked. I looked over what I had built again, and again, and EVERYTHING should have worked. (Yes, I checked superuser, etc.) Frustrated, I recompiled the majority of the firmware, and reflashed, after restoring to pure stock. This time, it boots to the Android Launcher, which is what I intended, but then, I click on The Android Market Icon, and it says: "Barnes & Noble permissions breach detected, factory resetting." It shuts down, boots up without resetting and then when booted says that Android Launcher, System UI, etc. Has crashed, reboots, factory resets (???), and then boots up to the Nook welcome screen. I skip OOBE, and factory reset once more.

Now, I am selling this useless Ereader, and will use the money to contribute to the purchase of a Nook HD, which now ships with Google play installed. With the Nook HD, I wont have to deal with this crap, because it is a TABLET unlike the Nook Simple Touch, which is and will always be, just a black and white Reader.
[Nook Touch General] mariog:
Hello Mineturtle33, as I wrote in the other thread,

First of all I want to really say you thanks for your efforts trying to port CM7 to our Nook Touchs...

I and more people like me appreciate very much your work, and we know the how useful would be updating our Nook Touch to Android 2.3 because every day more, developers cut support and compatibility for older Android versions like the our...

I known it's only a BW tablet, but I thinks that in its area is still the best, the only with maybe limited but support for apk, only missing with newer apps is the flaw.

So in name of mine and many people like me on this and the another forum I say to you: Please don't give up!

At the moment you seems the only with the knowledge that can reach it.

I will also be pleased also to make a symbolic offer of the 25$ if instead of sell your nook, you can just make some more try on it.

Count me also for beta-testing also if dangerous :)

You are our only hope :)
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Thank you for your support. I just want to let you know, I will keep trying, though, release #1 will most likely be Android 2.1. When we make progress on porting CM7, I promise that I will do a 2.3 release. While thinking about what I will name this ROM it popped into my head, SnowMOD? (since it's white) Is that a good name? Anybody else have name ideas? I will make an official progress thread later. Don't worry about give ng me 25$. I don't really need it.
[Nook Touch General] dorfd1:
I can test the new custom rom once significant progress is made.
[Nook Touch General] mariog:
Mineturtle33

I think SnowMOD it's a good name and will become famous.

Thank you in advance :)

I can't wait to see it..and flash it.

Good work!
[Nook Touch General] Mineturtle33:
Making a new thread in general section...
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] TehAce24:
I'am planning on getting the htc one from the tmobile site and then canceling the plan that comes with it, seeing as i can't seem to buy the phone without some kind of monthly bill. . My cousin said if i did this they would close my account and lock my phone.

The reason I'am doing this is because I'am trying the $30 prepaid plan but I'am not sure which HTC One are compatible. I looked on htc's website but the 32GB version says its not compatible with Tmobile. I'd buy the 64GB version but I'am not sure if it has the correct bands as tmobile's prepaid plan. I haven't had a smartphone before so I don't know all the technical stuff yet.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Element515:
They will just charge the early termination fee. Which, right away, will be huge. You're better off waiting with the contract a few months ago that fee is less. At six months it's $100 you have some math to do to find when it's cheaper. If you just jump ship, yeah they won't be happy because you got a phone for cheap... That's the reason for the fee
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] rschauby:
/flameshield on

Just buy a Nexus 4 if you want to do the $30 month plan.

If you're going the pre-paid route you need a truly unlocked phone or you're not getting the freedom you're going for. Trying to pull a fast one on a carrier is not a good idea.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] Prod1702:
With T-mobiles new plans when you bu ya phone it is full price. Only they let you put part of it on the bill. The HTC One is 100 up front $20 on the bill for $580 total. Go into a store and bu ythe phone at full cost.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] teiglin:
Depending on where you live, you may or may not be able to get 3G or "4G" (HSPA+) from T-Mobile using the unlocked/dev edition from HTC's website. If T-Mobile has LTE in your area though, the version HTC sells is fine for that. In either case, you will be more likely to get good reception from T-Mobile if you buy the T-Mobile version instead of the unlocked version.

I definitely recommend going into a store and seeing if they will sell you one outright, and if they won't, I would ask them what happens if you buy one with a plan and then cancel the plan immediately, or at least call customer service and ask. I doubt they would do anything as dramatic as blacklisting your IMEI (i.e. making it so you can't use the phone you bought on their network), but you will probably be charged for a prorated day's worth of service, plus the $35 activation fee. I suspect the lack of standard two-year contracts and ETFs mean that is all you would pay, though.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] bricky23:
Bought mine at walmart. No service. $650 I will use mine with solavei.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] stevedebi:
650? You could have gotten the Dev edition for that! Is it 64Gb?

---------- Post added at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:21 PM ----------

If this is the new plan pricing, you can pay off the phone and leave, but you need to be sure and unlock the phone first. On their new plans you must pay in full if you have monthly charges for buying the phone. It is a form of loan that has to be paid back. If you attempt to break that it will show up on your credit report as a bad loan.

If it is some kind of classic plan, the early termination fee will bite hard.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] clninja:
So much misinformation....

You can get it from a Tmobile store at full price without a plan. Just do that.

Also if you start a plan you have 2 options. Pay in full or put it in monthly payments. If you cancel your account it doesn't "hit your credit as a bad loan". It will simply apply what is left to be paid on the phone to the next bill. If you Dont pay that bill THEN it will effect your credit. Tmobiles new plans also have no contract, no termination fee, and no activation fee
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] mosi76:
You will not be able to purchase online right now without a new plan or adding a line. That may change in the future but supply is constrained right now and they are using this as a technique I guess.

Here is what I did: I purchased a sim kit from the tmobile site. I activated it online and chose the $30 plan. Then initially I tried to order online. I even tried to order with a new line but ran into issues with fulfillment that tmobile still has not solved. I was going to cancel the line after getting the phone which would have been my right since I paid the full amount.

Nevertheless I found a store in Arlington, VA that actually had the phone in stock. I walked in and purchased the phone and gave them my number that I got when I activated the $30 plan. The phone was $30 higher in the store then on the site but I am working that with tmobile to get compensated.

By the way, the phone works great on the $30 plan. I get constant HSPA here in DC and some spotty LTE.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] stevedebi:
I was assuming that the customer was attempting to walk away from the loan, which would hit the credit. Also, t-mobile isn't selling the phones without some kind of plan, and won't issue an unlock code until after the buyer remorse period.

Edit. The contract states that off you leave t-mobile the balance is due in full. I think Sprint has a different policy.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] valleyboss209:
So what happens if you get them and can't pay the early termination fee? Just hits your credit or what?
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] clninja:
Goes to collection agency and hits credit