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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mnasledov:
You can avoid using Odin and flash old firmware (excluding system / kernel) directly via heimdall or dd (which can be nicely bundled into an update.zip), avoiding the whole mess of needing Odin/Windows and having to backup+restore your system.

I think I'll make an update.zip just to flash the oldest firmware onto our phones -- I just made one that flashes the latest UVDMD5 firmware. The ROM shouldn't make a difference as far as trying to clear the flash counter really, it's the firmware that would be blocking that.

Also, flashing ROMs through CWM Recovery (and probably other custom ones) avoids tripping the flash counter. If you can root your ROM and dd the recovery directly to your eMMC, it avoids tripping the flash counter. Then you can use CWM Recovery to flash things without tripping the counter as well.

Remember, these are just computers with Linux + kernel modifications + custom Java VM running on them, essentially. It's good to become comfortable with UNIX commands like dd.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bobolinko:
I think you might be a tad off on this ......

just booting into recovery when you use anything other than a stock recovery will trip the flash counter. the ONLY way that counter won't trip is when you use a stock recovery. At least that's been the case with all of the doings on my rooted gs3 and Note 10.1
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mnasledov:
Really? I mean I'm no authority on this, so I could be wrong but I based this off my findings last night. I was in Download mode quite a few times and got to see my Flash Counter which was at 3. I've gone into recovery dozens if not hundreds of times by now on this device as well as flashed dozens and dozens of things ...

Even if it was just an 8-bit counter that overflowed, I'd need to have flashed over 256 things which I don't think I've reached yet and it would be totally silly if Samsung made the counter so easy to defeat that an 8-bit numeric overflow would bring it back to 0.

Can anyone else chime/weigh in? I'm curious now. I heard that using dd is supposed to avoid the flash counter. As a software engineer, I'd think there has to be some hook to trip that counter and that hook would belong to whatever firmware is on the phone for flashing (i.e. the stock recovery) and that if any other software gains control of the phone, all bets are off.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
I don't know who told you all of that or where you read it but you are wrong.

The only things that trip the flash counter is when you flash a custom rom or a custom kernel.

Simply booting into stock or custom recovery will not trip the flash counter at all.

Think about it, that's why it's called a FLASH counter, it counts the number of rom and kernel flashes. LOL
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
It trips whenever I boot into TWRP though. Maybe some phones are different?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Misterjunky:
re: unlocked?

Perhaps since I have an unlocked phone it might make a difference?

I have a Galaxy S3 AT&T I747 Unlocked phone and am using it with Tmobile service.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheLastSidekick:
That makes sense actually lol as it says I have an SGH-T999 and mine isn't unlocked. Probably the model of the phone acts slightly differently with Ta and recoveries.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mr_Jay_jay:
In my case My counter won't move from "1" no matter what I do, Restart to download or Recovery ( TWRP), or flash a new rom which I do alot, only way it goes from 1 to "2" is when I do something to my phone and I need to odin back to stock and re root(which I did for research) ... it's then it gets trigger again.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mnasledov:
Haven't tried TWRP but CWM doesn't trip on my T999. Which sense of unlock do you mean? My bootloader is still in a secured state and I only did the SIM unlock yesterday finally.
[General Questions and Answers] trojan_hors:
Good evening. The roblem with m phone started as follows. After a phone call, the phone stuck and turned in black screen. After this, to restart the device took off the battery and started till the logo of HUAWEI. Also refer to that from the first time I had rooted the device, had unlock the bootloader and had passed the CMWwith instructions from www.huaweig300.com, successfully. One week earlier than the problem I had take a backup through CMW. At this time I have access to pink screen and CMW. I tried to setup ICS (UPDATE.APP) from the site of the companybut always crashes at this point and never finishes (pic 1). When I try to restore via CMW keep getting error in partition. I cann not do wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, wipe dalvik cache. These are the errors that show at CMW (pic 2).

Can somone help me please?

ps: can i use my guarantee after all this?
[Asus Transformer TF700] leipy:
Is there a reason not to buy a tablet in the USA and use it in Europe? is it compatible whit wifi etc.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
A similar case: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2269211&
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxal:
I live in the UK and I have had my tablet for 8 months now, I bought it on Ebay from the USA and I have never had any problems at all.
[Asus Transformer TF700] xorob0:
They are exactly alike, but check if the tablet work before leaving.

Envoyé depuis mon Galaxy Nexus avec Tapatalk
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
The only difference is the US one is software locked to less wifi channels. You can't see anything above 11 I think.

Obvious you can undo that if you unlock and root or just root.

Other than that they are exactly the same and you can flash the WW firmware on a US one.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Cheapxj:
From what I've read on here, it sounds like my WW SKU TF700 is possibly better build quality? I have ABUSED this poor thing and it hasn't missed a beat. Thrown around, dropped, run through airports every few weeks, this thing is borderline indestructible imho (the scratches and dents on the back don't look all that great, but I don't care. I care that it works, and it continues to do that just fine!
[Asus Transformer TF700] ShadowLea:
I, too, have gotten that impression.

Everyone here complaining about build quality and quality control is American. (most got it from Best Buy, as well.) I've heard maybe one or two European users with issues (which is a much more acceptable percentage.). Loose buttons, loose screens, docks breaking the screen, misplaced plastic strips, broken USB ports, broken charger ports... It's all US issues.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Cheapxj:
I abused it again yesterday, dropped it face down onto a tile floor, nothing broke and it still feels solid.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhrsolanki2020:
hello ,

I am trying to build cm10.1 from source of cm for galaxy tab 2 from the guide over here :

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_p3100

while doing

"brunch p3100"

the compile wasnt sucessfull

the output in the terminal was this : (pasted at paste bin):

http://pastebin.com/iBg1Vhbb

can someone help me with it

i am using ubuntu 10.04 lts
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] said_abush3leh:
after root. I can't use readers hub ((readers hub not working, root detector))

any help please
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Hi Folks,

I hope you can help me with a data roaming issue I am seeing on my RAZR i. I have data roaming disabled in the options.

There seems to be a lag of some kind, where the RAZR i will not recognize a cell/operator switch while in standby/locked mode.

I can reproduce the error everytime - I have the phone locked and connected to my bluetooth handsfree in the car - it will show my home network operator. I cross the border and drive to a point where I know 100%, that I have lost home operator connectivity. The BT handsfree will show my home network operator - data will be sucked in the background, since the phone believes it is still booked in under my home country operator.

I helped myself by setting my contract to explicitly activate roaming everytime by sending an SMS message - I am getting the notification SMS everyday, that data roaming has to be enabled, and I am now trying to consume data in a foreign country....

As soon as I press the power button and wake the phone up, the network operator will immediately switch to the foreign countries operator and data roaming activity will cease...

I have tried this well over hours already as well, to leave it in standby state, to see if it will eventually recognize the operater switch, but even after 6hrs at my workplace (50km away from the border) it was still showing my home countries operator.

This has happened to me on ICS 4.0.4 as well as JB 4.1.2 - I thought the update might resolve it.

I am stock JB Retail EU, unrooted (thanks Moto) and locked BL.

Anyone else observing this or able to reproduce the fault? I have opened a ticket with Motorola but their first "repair" attempt was to flash the latest firmware again, which did of course not resolve the error....

thanks a million for your time reading this and maybe offering some insight on what might be causing the issue.

cheers, Stefan
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar-Avelar:
Out of curiosity, is this your first Android phone? And also do you have data to show that other Android phones switch instantly when crossing the border?

(Not trying to be rude, just that the expectation on that behavior might not be feasible and it is not the Phone's or Motorola's fault, I have no idea at the moment)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Appreciate the quick response Omar, and no worries I don't see your question as rude. This is indeed my first Android phone, however - I think a fundamental function like Data Roaming should work immediately when the event is about to occur, since it can inccur significant cost..

When it is switched off, I expect the phone to not download data when it is on a foreign network, so I assume it would be an easy thing to "program" polling cell-information again before I start the download, no?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar-Avelar:
Need to block international roaming - I live near Canadian border

Since we do have that option to select "Home Only", see if that makes a difference. I think that might even block the phone calls too .. but try it as a first approach.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
I am not sure where to find the "Home Only" option.. I looked through the data and phone menu - where is it located? Maybe it is not available on the "Retail" phones?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar-Avelar:
Oops, I couldn't find it ... maybe it was there on ICS? But you can also try under Network Operators try unchecking "Choose automatically".
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nick7722:
There's an option for data roaming under Mobile Network settings, just uncheck it if it's enabled...
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
This is what I have unchecked from the very beginning, but the issue is, that the phone is not obeying that setting.. thus the thread...

[MENTION=5103965]Omar-Avelar[/MENTION], I don't have my Razr currently to check your suggestion with the operater selection - Motorola had me send the phone in another time, "to fix it" - so apparently they are admitting there is an issue in the way it is behaving.. I wonder if anyone else has the issue or it is just my phone - which would mean hope in terms of an "easily repairable hardware defect"...
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Hi Omar, received my phone back yesterday - tried this morning and of course it is still not working.. I will try your suggestion of disabling the automatic network selection tomorrow morning on my way to work and see if that works.

What I did notice, is that I seem to have a different baseband version, than the official specs are suggesting:

according to this site:

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=reposi...0_android_4.1.2_ota_system_upgrade_91.2.26001

the baseband is supposed to be:

SUNRISE_SMB_REV30_V2_R3_1233.C7_sec

however, my phone is showing:

SUNRISE_SMB_REV30_V2_R3_ENZO_1251.B_SEC

the name somehow smells custom made fishy to me - I am sure I never messed with this however. My girlfriends Razr i is showing the same version and I know she never ever touched it other than doing the OTA upgrade, so I wonder if there was a faulty OTA distributed at some point?

Could this be the culprit? If so, can I switch to the "correct" baseband without unlocking/rooting?

Really appreciate all your feedback and help so far.

cheers, Stefan
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenrw7:
I'm in the UK with a retail UK firmware and the same baseband as yours.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Thanks for the feedback, do you have a chance to test, if you are having the same issues disabling roaming capabilities?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenrw7:
I'm on Tescomobile (O2 provide the network) and have my data roaming off and the phone never locks onto another provider, as I understand the problem for you is when cross a country border which I don't (being an island and no borders) I'm due to go to vacation in South of France in 5 weeks and I'll check then whether my roaming switches on when I change to another provider there.

Have tried select another network (Orange) but cannot connect,

Hope I understood your problem.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
yes, you got it exactly right. I have no issues within my country (Germany) either, phone stays on T-Mobile and never locks onto another network (O2, Base, etc..), it is like you said, when I switch to another countries roaming partner, the phone in standby mode still believes to be in the home network (T-Mobile).

Watch out in France then, although the issue might not be happening for you - assuming you fly in and switch off the phone. Once you reactivate the phone in the foreign country, it will be actively pulling and seeing the foreign operator I suppose.. In my case the phone switches countries in the background in standby, thus not actively searches/recognizes the change... at least this is my current theory that would match the behavior that I observe on an external hands free unit display...
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenrw7:
Right I'll watch it when in France, might even make a working visit to Munich before then. I do know when I went to Hoogeveen in Jan I had a xperia go and that retained roaming off when on kpn.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Hi [MENTION=5103965]Omar-Avelar[/MENTION],

I tried your suggestion this morning and disabled automatic network selection - guess what, I am observing a similar behavior.

The phone does in fact loose network connection at a point when the home network is no longer in reception, but the phone/hands free unit is NOT updated.. it keeps saying "Telekom.de" and shows 3 bars.. Even turning off the external bluetooth hands free unit and disconnecting the bluetooth link, then re.enabling the bluetooth link on the hands free, does NOT update the network operator status. You have to wake up the phone for it to realize it is disconnected from the network.... (good news obviously in the state of being disconnected from the network there is by the nature of design no possibility to retrieve data....)

My non-technical skills tell me, that the baseband is doing it's job of handling the network connections/operations properly, but when it comes to passing on the network piece to the "software/android side" this is where the disconnect is. Obviously the roaming setting is an android feature, that is not handled within the baseband, so if the phone/software doesn't know what's going on, it can't interact.

Any suggestions? fixable? did you take a look at my previous post on the baseband version?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Hi there, how did your trip to France work out? Did you run into the roaming issue?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Hi [MENTION=5103965]Omar-Avelar[/MENTION],

I think I made some progress - I believe the culprit is the intel deep sleep mode. When I interprete the sources correctly, the RAZR i enters deep sleep mode directly when going into standby/phone is locked/screen turned-off. To prove my theory, I installed "WakeMyAndroid" ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gejos.android.wakemyandroidpro&hl=en ), the program is intended to prevent deep sleep mode and keep the phone in standby.. I set the timing to 9 sec and advanced invisible smart wakeup, as well as force wake if data lost - guess what, it works. Network operator switches and the phone immediately turns off data roaming.

Downturn of course is increased power consumption, since the phone never enters deep sleep. It brings me still over the day, so it is an acceptable workarround, I may play with the wake interval, too to increase usage, but I guess there should be a way to check network status in deep sleep mode, no? I am not a developer, so I don´t know what would need to be done, but shouldn´t it be able to poll network status in deep sleep every couple of seconds? Or rather a baseband function to "invisible wake" the phone when network operator changes?

Hope you or anyone else reading this, can help me. Appreciate your time.

cheers, Stefan
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] besoft:
Hi [MENTION=456453]StefanGA[/MENTION] do you have any tips or update on the issue?

In my country we pay data traffic by just roaming with another operator (within the same country). Because the signal of my current operator isn't always good, the roaming happen often, resulting in a lot of additional 0,01€ - 0,03€ that pile up.

Thanks
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StefanGA:
Sorry, Motorola admitted, they have no solution to the problem - I.e. No interest to invest time to research it.. I returned my RAZR i and exchanged it for a RAZR HD.
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] rickyjune:
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=I-MATE_III

:lol:
[MDA, XDA, 1010 General] Rudegar:
about the device ?

about the fact that what is also called mda3 and qtek9090 is now interduced as imate2 ?

about that you can get an imate with an o2 subscription
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] slopokdave:
I'm getting text, but no data otherwise it seems. Nothing in web browser, etc. I see a 4G logo. My network info says:

Operator Name: T-Mobile

Mobile Network Type: UMTS

Service state: In service

Is it the mobile network type that is wrong? How do I change it?

EDIT: Seems like maybe I have to set the APN? Are these correct? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2236735
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Newcron:
Yes, when switching carriers you will need to manually add the APN if the SIM card didn't automatically do it for you.

I don't have T-Mobile, but that looks good to me.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] slopokdave:
Thanks! Everything seems to be working swimmingly. Speedtest is even faster than on my Nexus 4 on T-Mobile, interesting!
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] shook187:
So are you on EDGE or HSPS+? If you're on HSPS+ what APN you entered?

I'm considering going on T Mobile with my AT&T One but when I insert my girlfriend SIM card it seems I'm always stuck on EDGE
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Newcron:
He is likely in a T-Mobile refarmed area so 1900 MHz UMTS is available, while your area doesn't have this.

Go to http://airportal.de to get an (unofficial) view of where this is available.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] slopokdave:
I'm on HSPA+. I was pulling 12 down on speedtest. The settings I used are in the first link of the OP. Very nice...
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] revamper:
I've pulled 25 mbps on t mobile on my nexus 4. T mobile has fantastic hspa+ speeds in high signal areas.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] slopokdave:
I'm not sure what happened, but now I can only get edge... all night. I've soft reset and still stuck on Edge. Perhaps I was picking up 1900 at work? Everywhere else is Edge. Ugh.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] manaurys:
im on Brooklyn new York and i want to know if im gonna be able to use an at&t htc one on tmobile hspa+ network
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Newcron:
Yeah, that's probably what happened. If you don't get it, then you don't. It does look like they keep adding new area though.

I have posted above a link for a map where you can get a feel of whether you have refarmed T-Mobile towers in your area.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] shook187:
I could almost guarantee you the answer is No
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] manaurys:
I hate this i got more than two people saying yes and two more people saying no has anyone that is saying something actually test it
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] Barsky:
What about calling T-Mobile and asking? :)
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] unremarked:
The final answer is yes. The AT&T HTC One and the international/developer edition are exactly the same. Both support the frequencies used by T-Mobile. However, if you're not in a refarmed area listed here, then you won't be getting HSPA+. You'll get calls, text, MMS, but restricted to 2G as far as data goes until your towers are refarmed.

There are alot of threads on this topic in this forum as well as on the international/developer forums supporting this.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] ToiletSalesman:
I had been getting speeds well over 20mbps on my Nexus 4... cracked the screen this weekend and connected an unlocked HTC One, from AT&T. I'm getting 5mbps now. I changed the settings as the OP did.

I am wondering if the speed reduction is due to the new phone, or because I recently switched from a "Unlimited" (with 5gigs of unlimited data) contract plan to a truly unlimited month-to-month "uncarrier" plan.

I made the change on Monday or so of last week, and within 24-48 hours was having poor/limited reception in my home and nearby, in my town, which I previously NEVER had issues in.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] _MetalHead_:
@OP- How did you go about getting yours unlocked? I'm trying to unlock mine to make it more valuable on craigslist and AT&T said that someone will get back to me by the 9th, which won't work for me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Kamau54:
I just flashed a TW rom yesterday with the 4.1.2 release, and now have multi-window.

The thing is, it only has about 10 or so apps in it. How do I add more apps to it?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
the mod in the dev section http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2278022 remember to look around and search before making a thread ;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Kamau54:
I did, but came up with this;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2060050

It only specifies certain roms, which the one I have isn't on the list (jovi's newest).

Anyway, thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] papi5120:
There's an app called samsung multi window manager in the play store that lets u any app with multi window

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.multiwindowmanager
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bobolinko:
Unfortunately, and it has been noted in many other threads on different forums about the search function on XDA......:

The "Search" function on this forum is one notch up from a shot in the dark and many users have been chastised "Use the search before".....

That's so uns, man! using the search is just about a waste of time!

Google search from OUTSIDE the forum finds stuff better than the "search" of this board... Those individuals that spend their life on this board and know where everything is, and where everything "should be posted" need to develop a new life.... Playing in the streets is a good start!

just my 2 cents
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Okay, I'll give the "playing in the streets" a try and stop helping here.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] daxecutioner24:
[MENTION=1960167]mt3g[/MENTION] you really going to listen to this knucklehead? Bobo if you wantt google do your google search.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Sarcasm doesn't come out well for me in text lol.

T-Mobile SGS III