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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Psychotic-Cerebellum:
Yeah that's what I figured after I found out I was totally unable to install a recovery. Was just thinking maybe someone knew of some awesome work around I was unaware of. But alas my fears rang true. Was trying to hold out until the labrats update was out. Oh well, have already pulled out the pc and ran through Odin just hadn't had a chance to update the post. Thanks for the reply though. Very appreciative as always for the advice of someone infinitely more knowledgeable than myself!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
You need full root access to install recovery straight from the device itself. From your post I assumed your root didn't fully take and was causing the issues. Probably outdated or corrupted su.bin causing su to not properly gain root access. Oh well, at least odin only takes a second to get done, and it's much less likely to end up with a corrupted recovery img that way. A lot of people don't know about, forget about or don't understand the recovery install script that replaces a custom recovery with <3e> on boot which ends up confusing them even more when the recovery flashes right but won't stick.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Psychotic-Cerebellum:
That was my assumption too. Not having proper root access even though I was able to run root only apps and super su said everything was dandy. I was just unsure because with the aforementioned data issues was thinking it could possibly be related to that. And yes luckily Odin is easy peezy especially with the Odin one click
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Yeah it could have been bad downloads as well. I usually like to take the safest route when fixing someone else's phone tho, even if it does require more steps and some extra work. The one thing we could have tried if root was actually working was Mobile Odin, it works very similar to regular odin and flashes the same files bin, tar, img, etc. (can even flash one clicks if you extract them properly)

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[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spooky71:
Installed TWRP ver 2.4.4.0, it gets into the menu but wont see the sd card, I tried different card, wont see it, And it also wont mount the usb adapter.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DracoMoye:
That don't look like a real brick, i suppose you format all your internal sdcard. You can send a rom with the command adb push from your computer or reinstall the official rom with fastboot. Make a search on the site everything here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
Hello everyone,

I heard that if I root the device, I can remove all the junks added by AT&T and Google: can I just have the bare-bone Android OS on the device in that case?

If so, would you mind indicating me what the best rooting procedure is and where I can look-up the steps?

Thanks you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] triavq:
You could just disable the at&t and Samsung stuff in the application manager settings. You can also root your phone and flash an aosp based ROM. Although some phones don't like aosp very much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
Thanks triavq but this is tedious.

I'm not familiar with the Android Open Source Project so I'd really like to have the opinion of someone who did root the device and who's happy with the result.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
You don't have to root the phone to flash a debloared rom.

Don't quote, reply. If you quote, edit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
Thanks but I'm still waiting for the URL of a page that would clearly explain how to do that for a newbie like me (just rooted a Nook a long while ago...).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] 440bro:
I am a fan of the pure stock AT&T rom frankly because everything works! Sure I'm missing some frills that version 4.2.2 has but oh well. I updated my phone with kies to ver 4.1.2, installed twrp recovery, rooted, and removed a lot of bloat. I'm pretty happy with my device now. I'll list below the steps I did.

To update to latest firmware (from any rom even rooted)

1. Open http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/

2. Click Download for windows

3. Install Kies

4. Open Kies

5. Write down serial number of phone device (it's under battery)

6. Plug in phone to PC and power up phone while HOLDING volume down

7. Once you see the download screen on phone press volume up

8. On PC in Kies click "tools - Firmware Upgrade and Initialization"

9. Type in SGH-I717 (all caps)

10. Type in serial number

11. Follow directions

12. Once phone reboots you will have the latest OFFICIAL AT&T firmware (JB 4.1.2 as of 6-1-2013)

13. Perform a factory data reset before proceeding (it helps it run smoother)

14. Type in google info and enjoy!

To root the stock 4.1.2 rom

1. Use Odin 1.85 in Admin Mode for Windows users.

2. Install TWRP 2.5 via PDA settings.

3. Reboot phone into Recovery.

4. Install SuperSU via the Zip.

5. Reboot phone and viola. SuperSU is there and works.

Download TWRP recovery the Odin Method here:

http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/96

Download SuperSU located here:

http://download.chainfire.eu/204

Your now on the latest software for the i717 and rooted.

To remove bloat my favorite app is Titanium backup pro. I always "feeze" an app, then use the phone for a day or 2 to see if anything doesn't work properly. If it does unfreeze it to fix. Stay away from freezing system settings. There are very few you can get away with freezing. Some of the apps I froze you may or may not want to depending on how you use your phone. Like for example I don't use allshare or quickpic but you might. I'll try to list what I removed thru titanium backup. But I might of uninstalled some and cant remember. I'll add to the list as I remember, freeze more, or if someone add's in future posts.

Froze or uninstalled apps:

Allshare play

Allshare service

Att drive mode

Att familymap

Att hot spots

Att locker

Att ready 2 go

Att smart wifi

Att navigator

Aurora

Blue sea

ChatOn

City ID

Device Help

Favorite apps 1.0

Featured Apps 2.0.47.256

Google search 1.0 (I left google search 2.5.8.... alone but freeze it from time)

Kies Air

Kies via wifi

Media hub

Ocean weather

S Suggest

Samsung account 1.4

Samsung backup provider

Samsung Browser sync

Samsung Calendar sync

Samsung Cloud data

Samsung Contact SyncAdapter

Samsung Push Service

Samsung Snote SyncAdapter

Samsunc Syncadapters 2.5.3

ScloudStarter

Try panning

Weather widget

weather widget main

windy weather

**BACKUP FIRST! **

*** Always freeze and test for a while before uninstalling.***
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!

Exactly what I was looking for.

Looks like I'll have some fun during the week-end... ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jonahly:
Unless you want to flash a AOSP rom if you want to you have to root, unlock, and add a recovery and then flash the ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
One question: as I'm already on 4.1.2 (see information below), can I just skip the step about installing it via what you described?

Baseband version: I717UCMD3

Kernel Version: 3.0.31-1117019, se.infra@SEP-97 #1, SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 6 07:12:29 KST 2013

Build Number: JZO54K.I717UCMD3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] 440bro:
Yes just skip to the root part with odin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ptgptg:
The other thing you could do is do a factory reset. I had a terrible experience with JB at first and had to factory reset twice. Now my phone is snappy (really snappy) and I have the stock ROM and I am rooted. There are multiple reports that flashing the update does not get rid of all the bits and pieces from prior ROMs, which may have the effect of slowing down performance. This I got directly from Samsung (although I paraphrased it here).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] bryanizmir:
I suggest just reading the super everything thread about 10 times if you are new to rooting/flashing. It is in the general forum. I was a complete n00b about 2 months ago, now I flash roms because I'm bored while driving in my car :P My personal opinion is to install twrp/flash supersu, then make a backup. Once you have that backup, go crazy and flash away. Just make sure you factory reset before flashing new roms. Don't do advanced, and if you do, don't wipe emmc or sdcard. emmc hosts that nice backup you just made. Even with the bugs in most of the roms, they are 100x better than stock, and much faster. Even after taking all the AT&T and Samsung garbage out, it is still slower than a custom rom. I just tried stock again 2 days ago, wanted to give 4.1.2 a twirl, and it was much slower than the revolt or carbon I normally run. Have fun and good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
You don't have to unlock a phone to flash a rom. You unlock only if you need to use a different carrier's sim card.

You don't have to root a phone to flash a rom. You only root if you need to access the main file system ( access the root directory ).

You don't have to flash a recovery to flash a rom. You can flash a rom using Samsung software Odin3, or Samsung Kies, or a linux version Heimdall. You flash a custom recovery to make backups and have a convenient method to flash roms and do maintenence.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Yves.Dolce:
But to uninstall the ATT/Samsung apps, rooting is the path. Right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rangercaptain:
Yes then install Titanium Backup app. Freeze the apps you want to get rid of to be sure they aren't essential, then afer a fewbdays delete them.

But you can just flash the stock debloated JB rom.

Don't quote, reply. If you quote, edit.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zolo185:
I want to flash Cm 10.1 rc4. I had a metro pcs S3 and knew how to flash and root and everything but with the t-mobile s3 i se ppl having to download and flash radios , new bootloaders and other stuff that i never had to do with the metro pcs s3. So can anyone help me flash Cm ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Make sure recovery is up to date: CWM 6.0.3.1/TWRP 2.5.0.0.

Flash this bootloader update first: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2282603

Flash CM RC5 (out today).

Use the gapps from my signature.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayakumar6591:
GUYS!!! im been trying to connect NETGEAR readyshare to my phone through ftp ...

im using NETGEAR DGN2200 and SEAGATE 1TB

but i can see (usb_storage) through ftp on es file explorer but cant access ..it shows"Sorry, no application available"

pls help me guys!!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Montago:
So...

I just tried some of those Stereo test videos on Youtube... and the LEFT sound and RIGHT sound come out of both speakers !?

so... i thought that ALL media would play in stereo on this phone :confused:

is it a setting i missed somewhere ?

EDIT:

seems that some YT vids are mono.. tried an HD version, which did play in stereo
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paul_59:
I wouldn't be surprised if most YouTube video had mono audio tracks embedded and very likely low bit rate (low quality) mp3.

Post a link if you find high quality / stereo audio
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] aFoodStampBaby:
Has anyone got this error message lately? For some reason I cannot update any of my apps I keep getting this error message. Can someone please let me know how to fix this issue thank you much appreciated
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jaxzr55:
You can change the background of setting.apk

if it can be in white as do other apps

please. sorry my bad English

Xperia S, JB .200

THANKS!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] davidbar93:
Yeah you need to be very sorry cause I don't understand nothing. Explain yourself.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Basically, he wants the settings.apk to have a white instead of black BG.

@OP: The problem is that it isn't a job of simply changing a png, there is a need to edit many and many icons, and many other lines to make everything perfect lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] davidbar93:
Ok. SemcGenericUxpRes.apk can be changed to white BG but I don't know how to chane the white font in settings menu ,so can't help.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jaxzr55:
I wanted something like the xperia honami with white BG setting.apk

please can you do?

sorry for my bad English
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Pandemic:
wrong topic man, your request turns now into a questions ;/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] carlito-lt26i:
i have white setting from xperia v with change icon

but not support stamina mod

i will add code to setting tonight

now give you this be first:D

http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=2074290263&uk=1177437904
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] carlito-lt26i:
View attachment 2096726
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ehabbo:
Does this support english and JB 6.2.B.0.211?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] salda:
Tanks, Work Xperia V JB 140

Enviado desde mi LT25i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mr. Khan:
It's follow language you use..

Try it before ask.. ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pharix:
Working fine on my Ion running 211. Just few bugs like text not showing when typing new password. Just have to change color codes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] carlito-lt26i:
sure support and all application stock have all language
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MATR!X:
Xperia S JB 6.2.B.0.211
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pharix:
If anyone give me original settings.apk of hanomi/ultra (little confusing here) I will try my best to make our settings look same as the original one. I am NOT promising. But I will try my best.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] carlito-lt26i:
http://db.tt/A6t6IaGM

this link is white setting fix stamina mod

iam add activa code to start stamina mod
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] caferoom:
Is possible ???????
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] M4io:
If you like to live dangerously.

Himalaya has different hardware.

It's like putting diesel in a gasoline car.

I haven't tried it (not the rom, nor the diesel) , but i STRONGELY advice against it.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Guest:
how about putting the mini xda rom in xda IIs or pda2k???
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] henrylim:
The Mini has different device drivers that are not all compatible with XDA2. I suppose Mini is using different bootloader as well???

The worst case scenario is that you kill your XDA2 device and are unable to restore back to XDA2-based ROM. I will salute whoever's willing to sacrifice their XDA2 for such a potentially expensive experiment.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ngr.hd:
Hello All!

I just want to clear some of my basic doubts before I flash ROMs in my GN2. So, here goes:

Is it right that custom ROMs donot have some of the Samsung proprietary features such as Air View, Smart Rotation, Smart Stay, etc.? and

Are kernels also flashed in the same way as the ROMs are i.e., .zip flash via Recovery?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone:
Hi,

1.) It is possible.

2.) Yes
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeminswe:
1) yes, cyanogenmod rom paranoid rom will Disable Samsung applications, but there are still so many roms, like Android revolution HD, Crash rom ( I'm currently using now) , just google " the best custom rom for galaxy note 2" , those roms keep all of Samsung features + many system tweaks. Just try them. :)

2) exactly yes

Here, I'd like to advice to back your stock rom before flashing a custom rom. This is very important to recover your phone in case something went wrong
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aukhan:
ALL TW ROMS have these options s whereas Aosp don't

Yes the same way to flash the kernel
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kremata:
Your question has been answered already but I would like to explain a bit more for others who can be confused with all this.

There are 4 kinds of custom ROM available.

TW (stock Samsung)

AOSP( Pure Google Android) Won't have any of the Samsung features

AOKP( Based on AOSP but with some more features) Won't have any of the Samsung features but they got the S-pen working.

MIUI (Chinese version of Android with very different style than others) ?????? not sure

ROMs and Kernels comes in 2 formats. ZIP and TAR.

If it's a ZIP file, you flash it in recovery using CWM, TWRP or PHIL.

If it's a TAR file, you need to put your phone in Download Mode and flash it with ODIN.

Custom ROM' almost always come in ZIP(never seen one using TAR but it's not impossible)

Official Samsung ROM almost always come in TAR files

Hope it helps.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rishab993:
OK.. I'm Using SonygenMOD ROM on my Xperia PLAY. [ http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2244764 ] Its a JB ROM & the battery life is not that good. I wanted to know does the KERNEL's effect the phone battery life? If yes, then which is the best KERNEL for JB ROM which will give more battery life? And does the Kernels effect the smoothness of the ROM also?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zer0sky:
To my knowledge the kernel and rom both can effect the battery life and the "smoothness" of the phone. I recommend the Lupus JB kernel because the dev does a good job at what he does and the last time i tried it, the kernel worked great. It's still a better option to check all the jb kernels out, like turbo kernel, for yourself first though.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masteril:
lupus jb v8 best kernel for jb
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toledo_JAB:
Best of threads are not allowed on XDA

Pick the best rom for you and try it

thread closed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] CZ Eddie:
ParanoidAndroid has a statusbar battery theme I really like a lot (Digital Numbers).

If I'm not a developer (have never compiled a ROM), is it somehow possible for me to copy that battery theme from PA to another ROM like SlimBeam?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] oddspec:
It can be done by editing the stock battery icon files I can't explain it since I haven't done this since the days of GB it has changed some since then but it is possible with a little theming knowledge
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] plwalsh88:
Same here - been a while. But all you need is 7zip. No need to decompile/compile. Just pull the apk (either framework-res.apk or SystemUI.apk, I think the latter now) and "open archive" with 7zip. Then find the 201 battery PNGs and swap em (copy and paste) into your apk. Somebody can help on the directory: res/drawable/ and the high resolution folder. Somewhere thereabouts. And then the icon filenames need to match what the XML file is pointing to. Do some more research and you should be able to fill in the gaps of my spotty answer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AxAtAx:
Good info..thanks for sharing that...easy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] plwalsh88:
No problem. It's basically what the UOT Kitchen does, except not automated. But I haven't heard of the kitchen working since ICS was released. Unless they updated it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] CZ Eddie:
Hahah, I was actually using 7zip to look for something similar to this solution.

I found a dozen drawable folders though. With dozens of files in each one. Really difficult to figure out where/what it is. Don't even know what the filename should be.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] plwalsh88:
It's something like sys_status_battery_*.png. I duno, it's been a real long time. Just do a search for "battery". There should be 100 for discharging, 100 for charging, and one for fully charged, or something along those lines.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] oddspec:
I know its a lot of reading but its in here how to do it somewhere https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YFrDqBjk7U1w0RIJgvmwH7_famvjxUO9grFR9C15rA/mobilebasic
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] CZ Eddie:
:eek:

Thank you, that link is going into my favorites.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mydougiefresh-:
The Official update page. If someone receives us tell us so we can all enjoy actually using our SD cards :)

I still haven't :(

Fun Fact: My phone was rooted but I wanted this update so I factory reset it and now it is not rooted - alternative to using ODIN :) So you can receive the update!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cusa:
I check for updates daily and so far nothing.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joshuadjohnson22:
AT&T drags their feet sometimes on phone updates, no telling when you will get it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mydougiefresh-:
Ok I want to use my SD card hah!

I know I used to have the HTC One X that only took them a year hahha!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sabre31:
You guys will be refreshing for a long while. I would not expect ATT to release this for a month or two if not longer unless Samsung releases it via Kies. Plus I would wait until we confirm root and Loki works on it or you will regret you ever updated.

Plus from what I read the move to SD card is a joke it moves app but not data. Example the app for a game can be 15mb but the data it downloads can be 2gb in size. Well the 15mb would move but not the 2gb.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jetlitheone:
Yep. That's why I got the 32GB :laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] haloimplant:
Yeah I was looking at how the big games I have put their large extra files into data.

Advanced rooted users could move them microSD and then symlink to them, and don't need an update to do it...

I'm looking at Asphalt 7 and it is just one big 1.05GB file (is that typical?) so it would be pretty easy for those who have root and know their way around the terminal (or ROM toolbox apparently has a 'create shortcut' function).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] polish_pat:
ATT S3 still didnt get Premium Package...it's been out since november. So my guess is, you can stop refreshing the update, you birthday will pass before this update is release to you guys
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
I would normally agree with you about this, but the AMDL update was pushed pretty quick for this phone and Designgears already has his hands on a leak of the new firmware updatet. So I would say it might come out a little sooner than updates for other phones are released. But it's still hard to know exactly when.

For everyone else...

I'm not sure why people with AT&T S4s are checking for this OTA anyway? The only safe way to get it will be to let the DEVs check it and release it. With the I9505 update already being cooked into ROMs, I doubt there will be any further benefit to the AT&T release. Give it a little time and more DEVs will safely include it in future ROM updates if they choose to. It is their choice.

When AT&T does start to push this OTA, DO NOT INSTALL IT! Wait until the final release has been checked and cleared by the DEVs. Consider this a warning so if you install it or do not protect yourself from it auto-installing, it is your own fault! No excuses.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jetlitheone:
Hand on a leak?

I thought he was just looking at the international update..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] polish_pat:
By this, do you mean the Internation update? Because thats pretty much useless for us
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
In it's raw released form, it is useless, but Developers are already using portions of the update in their AT&T ROMs.

Example...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2313469

Again, I highly recommend you do not touch the AT&T version of the update (when it is released) until DEVs can rip out the safe parts and make them available to AT&T users. It's up to you if you want to take the chance or not.