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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] AndrewdXP:
No Free Internet after Phone Rooted

Hello Guys,

When my friend told me that I can have internet access for free (even without credit left in your phone) by rooting the device, I was curious to do so. I started searching How to Root Xperia P. I found some posts, viewed some videos from youtube and read some forums.

I tried DooMLord method, and I thought it was successful since my phone rebooted and everything went well. I found SuperSU installed in my phone. I tried to access internet (not via wifi) but to no avail. I reset factory setting but still the same.

Then i found a blog posted by Abhijit Guha and I tried it as well. It all went well but still I couldn't enjoy the free internet access they are talking about.

So what should I do now? I have xperia p, LT22i 4.1.2 android version, 6.2.A.1.100 build number. and Unlocking bootloader allowed: YES.

Please help. :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
Root won't give you no free internet, unless you can root your ISP servers :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] AndrewdXP:
So can you tell me how to root ISP server? Thanks!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
Joke dude, you just won't get free internet
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Wind07:
I tell you how. You break into their server room and hack the server and give yourself free internet.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] AndrewdXP:
Heheh. So what would I get from rooting my xperia? I am not techy so how would i enjoy this? And how do my friends get free internet from their mobile after rooting their device?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Wind07:
Rooting lets you do a lot like modifying your system and boosting its performance. You can flash mods too. I believe that there are no free lunches in the world so I advice you to stop trying to get free internet.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] AndrewdXP:
Can you share some tips how to improve/boost the performance of my xperia p? Thanks!!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Wind07:
I run moonwalker ROM its fast and smooth.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
Root for Linux is like administrator for window. With root access you can do whatever you like including brick your phone permanently.

Simple things you can do, like installing scripts to underclock the phone while at sleep to preserve battery, or install MODed system components , and even a MODed stock based ROM like [MENTION=5583765]AndrewdXP[/MENTION] said.

If you are going to root, be sure to read about it, have a full backup of your phone, and ready to flash stock firmware, before making any cahnges. Also you may want to be familiar with flashing stock firmware and be sure you can do it (e.g. Windows 8 may have drivers issues) BEFORE you attempt to make any modifications.

Soft bricks are common and useually easy to recover, simply by re-flashing stock firmware and restoring data, but may be time consuming.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sanjithxp92:
Hey Andrew ,

I am not sure how your friends are getting free internet.. or they might be joking with you. But yes with some ISP like in india Airtel few years ago i use to get free internet (2G) but it didnt required rooted phones as the ISP had some fault with their servers , its not the case now.

For a user who rooted his xperia p for the first time , i would suggest to use Apps like ' Font Installer ( you can try a variety of fonts , changes the whole look of xperia P) ' ; Greenify( for hibernating all power sucking apps) ; Root Browser( To view all hidden and system files on your phone) ; Advance Task Manager ( to kill unnecessary apps similar to greenify), Titanium backup( for making backup of everything on your phone) etc etc.

There are many other apps only for rooted phones on the playstore you should look for , just search with 'root'.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Wind07:
Nice guide I just didn't know how to explain lolol
[One (M7) General] erapmicks:
This tuesday, I will have my htc one. Tmobile gave me a good deal. Giving me 100 credit to my account and just paying the tax and 20/month. Im so excited. Now its time for me to dump my s4! I hope I wont regret it lol
[One (M7) General] hello00:
edit nvm a thought this was twitter
[One (M7) General] BenPope:
The only thing that gave it away was the length. Perhaps it was supposed to be a facebook update.
[One (M7) General] cjm1979:
And you felt the need to open a thread because of it? FFS
[One (M7) General] Goku80:
oops wrong thread wrong forum....how did i get here
[One (M7) General] pandaball:
Nothing to do with the International HTC One. Usually I would move it to the correct forum but this thread is useless so closed. Also, not really happy with the responses in the thread. Reporting the thread would have sufficed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HankStorm:
I haven't been prompted to update to VRBMF1 yet and haven't manually updated. I am still on VRBMB1. Ready to try Beans' one click root method but not sure whether to take the update first or not. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
Pretty sure it'll work, it doesn't really matter if you're going to end up flashing a custom rom; but it's all preference maybe if you want the new modems just take the update.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evm2556:
Can you provide info if the one click method works for you. I am on VRBMF1. Never rooted before.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RBarnett09:
Just root. The newest update had signal and battery issues, along with many other issues. Verizon even pulled the OTA. Flashing a newer ROM will give you the newer features anyways, and it will be better.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HankStorm:
That's exactly what I did. Haven't flashed a custom ROM yet - still deciding which one to try first.

It was incredibly easy. Only thing that tripped me up at first was that I didn't have the Samsung drivers installed on my PC. Since the thread didn't mention installing them I was assuming they weren't needed. You can get them here. Once I installed them and went through the steps in the thread, I was rooted and unlocked in a few seconds.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RBarnett09:
I highly recommend LiquidSmooth v2.7 if you'd like to get rid of TouchWiz.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PDAnuby:
I used the one click from Bean Town, everything went alright . I was having issues with an app just now and rebooted the phone manually... now I got the Verizon detected unauthorized software crap. Be careful. I am also on MF1, now I got to try and figure out a way out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] n07y0ur5:
um now what?

what if you're already rooted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hijqx:
I too am rooted and I am seeking the answer to this question. Personally I just want the annoying window to stop attacking me. It's assaulting me all day, but it won't install the update. Has someone setup a download that I can manually force to my SG3? (I have been searching but I admit I get lost reading other posts and then I'm outta time)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HeroesDieYoung:
What method do you use to root? I'm on the VRBMF1 build already, on Verizon. I have the S3 toolkit from mskip, but it says it can't do anything until I get the bootloader unlocked. Now I can't find any method to unlock the bootloader for this build. I feel I'm just missing something stupid, but I can't find it :crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] henslo:
I used beans casual method. One click was done. Also on the MF1 update, it updated when I was leaving VZW store, 5 minutes after got home was running Revolt rom. Make sure to have correct divers and set screen on time to 5 minutes and to have java runtime environment installed on your computer.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Now next to the i9500 Quick Flasher there also is the i9505 Quick Flasher, just slight changes to make partitions match

Download:

www.broodplank.net/I9505-Quick-Flasher-1.0.zip

Created for a fail-safe flash operation of boot.img and recovery.img, all other partitions (currently only system) are experimental.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
Tried this, it cannot connect to my S4. Yes, I have debugging enabled, and yes my device is in mtp mode.

I get:

Running checks, please wait...

<<< I9505 USB Connection >>>

[ ] I9505 USB Connection

Your I9505 is not connected or unreachable! Please read the instructions for reference.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
I had some issues with usb as well when I was testing the tool out, but It was fixed after a while, its actually not the tool but the way of mounting usb on the i9505. I fixed it by replacing the adb.exe file with the latest one (which is also included in the zip tho). Can you please test for me if your able to get a normal adb shell? (open cmd window in the quickflasher dir and type "adb shell"), if it says device not found there is an issue with debugging mode. if not then you should test this and pls give me the info:

adb get-state (should return "device")

adb devices (should return a connected device)

If you get negative results here you should kill adb.exe (taskkill /f /im adb.exe for group kill) and try again.

If it does work pls enter:

adb root

adb remount

adb shell

and tel me what you see.

The usb mode is a struggle on the i9505.. I thought hey lets upgrade to CM so I will have mass storage mode.. but no way, only MTP and PTP... (I added the Mass storage option and forced it to be available on my private build, but it still doesn't work..)

Currently trying to find out how to permanently enable oldskool mass storage + adb.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
My results:

C:\Windows\system32>cd \

C:\>cd s4 root

C:\S4 root>cd qflash

C:\S4 root\qflash>adb shell

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: more than one device and emulator

C:\S4 root\qflash>adb get-state

unknown

C:\S4 root\qflash>adb devices

List of devices attached

12138fc0 device

emulator-5554 offline

C:\S4 root\qflash>adb root

error: more than one device and emulator

C:\S4 root\qflash>
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
ah so you have the emulator in there as well.. thats the problem. to bypass the emulator use:

adb -d

for example adb -d shell or adb -d get-state

do you have an AVD emulator running currently?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
What emulator do I have, I've only used the files in your download, as far as I know. Any way to check / remove?

Edit: I had bluestacks installed a while back, but uninstalled it, could this have left some crap behind after it?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Hmm the emulator that comes with android sdk, is afaik the only one who can correspond with adb, but it would be odd if you ran it all the time.

check taskmgr, and look for emulator.exe/java.exe, to be sure also kill adb.

You can check if there is an existing emulator if you start AVD manager (if you don't have android sdk at all then its really strange :o)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
I didn't have sdk installed; I installed it and ran avd manager, doesn't show any installed.

when I run adb -d shell I get shell@android:/ $
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Ok the output is good. ill add a function to the tool to force adb usb connection ;)

for the meanwhile you can use:

(put boot.img in adb dir)

adb -d push boot.img /sdcard/boot.img

adb -d shell su -c 'dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20'

adb -d shell reboot
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
Do I rename my recovery.img from cwm to boot.img for the above, or is this for a different process?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
boot.img = mmcblk0p20

recovery.img = mmcblk0p21

the name of the .img doesn't matter but the partition is important.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
Ahh, looking at your image, this now makes sense, I can see the destination partition names as you describe..

Well have a go at this later, unless you plan to release an update later today?

Edit: couldn't get this working, so I just flashed using odin. Thanks for trying to get resolved tho.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] boterkaaseneieren:
Odin is the tool for me, no need more than that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] skywalker01:
Hi brood,

just stumbled upon this thread and read about Snakefood's problem.

Although he worked around the error by using Odin I want to give you a hint regarding this specific problem:

he obviously has an adb device installed called emulator-5554 but which is offline. He already gave himself the correct answer:

"I had bluestacks installed a while back, but uninstalled it, could this have left some crap behind after it?"

My diagnose is: yes, BlueStacks definitely leaves a lot of crap behind and does NOT uninstall cleanly. I tested it once and I saw myself compelled to restore an older windows image which I made BEFORE I installed BlueStacks on my windows machine.

BTW: BlueStacks is an Android emulator for Windows but a piece of *%$~#!!! crap, but that's just my humble opinion.

And BlueStacks uses such an adb emulator device entry although I'm not sure if it was called like that. But BlueStacks is not the only Android emulator and most probably other programs of this kind create such an adb entry as well.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Hi Skywalker.

Long time no see :P. Anyways, OT. I have installed BlueStacks once (in the alpha or beta phase I believe) and I don't remember much of it but I do remember that it was crap idd. Also that it leaves "traces" (if you call adb a trace xd, more like a fail uninstall :p) is very lame.. and causing problems for people who are not 100% familiar with adb and its daemon.

The AVD Emulator from the SDK may lag a bit but atleast it doesn't interfere with adb :silly:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dublinz:
Great tool broodplank1337, well done mate this will save ppl from making stupid mistakes :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Thanks ^^, I think that is true hehe, using 'dd' to flash images isn't for the absolute beginner idd ;p
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Snakefood:
Hi guys,

If you need me to assist more with ahh testing just let me know. Is there an uninstaller to remove what bluestacks left behind, or is the Windows disc the only definite uninstaller :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
You should first look in msconfig (start > run > msconfig) at the startup tab and look if there is any startup item from bluestacks.

If there is nothing there look in services.msc (start > run > services.msc) and check for any blue stacks service, and if there is any, disable it.

Next to that you can also use HijackThis (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/) to find startup items. hope it helps
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] smitharro:
Hey Brood,

See you're doing great work here on the S4 section.:good:

I'm missing your input in the S+ section unfortunatly:crying:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Hi Smitharro.

Thanks :p, I'm releasing a broodROM JB R4 for i9001 asap :cool:

If you buy a i9505 after the i9001 you can join me once again :p
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] smitharro:
Thanks in advance for the next release. And no, I can't buy an expensive phone like an i9505 (at least not yet). But we're being off topic here. Hope to see you soon in the i9001 section!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] blisk:
Hey. This is great. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] wobedraggled:
Avast is picking this up as malware, just a heads up...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pitastrudl:
nothing here, using windows defender. great program, saved me from making a flashable zip for recovery, couldnt find any, since sgs4 flasher wouldnt work on 4.3 google edition rom. thanks brood! :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] GabrielSousa:
afer using this my i9505 dont boot any more

i have "firmware upgrade encountered an issues"

i can go to download mode, but odin gives me errors trying to flash a recovery

i'm download a complere rom to flash on adon
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] marvelousdragon:
Hi

i've tried this method following the instruction provided, but it seems the flashing unsuccessful even though the log said it was. here is the log:

-------------------------------------------
I9505 Quick Flasher v1.0
Coded by broodplank1337 @ XDA
-------------------------------------------

>>> Flashing started <<<

[X] Copy boot.img to sdcard
[X] Wipe /mmcblk0p8
[X] Datadump boot.img to partition

Flashing Kernel done..

[X] Copy recovery.img to sdcard
[X] Wipe /mmcblk0p13
[X] Datadump recovery.img to partition

Flashing Recovery done..

[ ] Copy system.img.ext4 to sdcard

[X] Copy system.img.ext4 to sdcard
[X] Wipe /mmcblk0p16
[X] Freeze Device
[X] Datadump recovery.img.ext4 to partition

Flashing System done..

All operations completed!
Rebooting Device...

All done...

BTW, my I9505 current firmware is I9505XXUBMGA, i tried to flash with boot.img, recovery.img and system.img.ext4 from I9505XXUBMG5_I9505OLBBMG1_XSP

This problem was started when i tried to do OTA update, but was unsuccessful..now i can not enter download mode or recovery mode using the 3 combination buttons.. i was hoping that this method can help me..

Everytime i reboot the phone it was stuck on WARNING!! A custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OS, press the volume up key. Otherwise, press the volume down key to cancel. but when i tried to press volume up or down, no response at all.

I'm starting to trapped into frustration since i can not entering recovery or download mode.. i can not access normal mode too, because the only way i can start the phone is by pressing volume up + power button and it ends up in safe mode..there's no way i can access mobile odin or any flashing app from my phone.

I've tried motochopper method to root it, and i think it works for a while, i can access recovery, but when i tried to wipe/factory reset, the phone rebooted itself and ends up in that WARNING message. tried to start it using volume up + power button and it ends up in safe mode again.

Back to your method, can you tell me which part did i missing? any help are greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ramiwi:
Did you manage to solve this? Im having something similiar.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] erapmicks:
Tmobile gave me a 100 credit to my account to cancel out the 99 downpayment for the phone so I bit on it. Just got tired of samsung s2, s3, note2. Im gonna see how I like it, if I do like the htc better than the s4, im gonna dump it. I got a 20 day buyers remorse :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] rp56:
Trust me you don't get any updates from htc you wont like it one bit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] erapmicks:
lol who cares about updates. Root your phone, and flash ARHD roms, ordroid, trickdroid. u name it. HTC One Development > S4's
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aimfire72:
Not really, I have an HTC One and those roms are all essentially the same, based off the same beta leak. I've given up on waiting for the official 4.2.2 update and got an S4 tonight. Build quality better on One, no doubt, but S4 overall the better phone, IMO.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] erapmicks:
tell me the diff between applyon, wicked, s4x, arent they all from the same uvuaMDL base too? lol whats the diff? the the status bars lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] erapmicks:
s4x is from the intl edition. But isnt it the same thing too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] flipq88:
So why make this thread, no body here cares if you like it better. If you think it's better, good move on. Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself that it is better. Pointless thread is pointless.

Sent from Flip's Galaxy S4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] aimfire72:
I don't know yet, just got the s4 tonight, haven't even rooted yet, lol. But I will say, I'm glad to see the s4 roms on an official base, rather than a beta leak. ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] cjm1979:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2333805
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] KennyG123:
This should be in HTC section
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JackieDreamy:
Hello, I have already S-OFF my device, and install ARHD 10.3 rom. Yesterday, I install the ifonts application, and replace one of font by it. But, I cannot replace all of system fonts. Although in third-part applications can replace very successfully, in the stock or system application cannot be replaced, such as blinkfeed, setting title and so on.

Have you got the same problem about this? If you have any resolution, please let me know. Thanks a lot.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Loboman:
Go here to have a look.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] deoli:
hey, i saw that too this afternoon. wonder if it could be used by english speaking users? it says WWE, so i guess it is in english?

i'm uploading the unpacked installation folder to FTP now. maybe someone who knows his thing, could could magic a .bat file to change the carrier?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] pell0:
I have a S100 bought in Sweden with rom-version 1.3.00 WWE, anyone tried the upgrade on this version?

Is it possible to first upgrade 1.3.00 to 1.3.148? Anyone has a link to such an upgrade?

Appreciate all feedback!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] BadgerBoy:
pell0, try www.smartmobile.se go to the update page and enter your IMEI, if your device is supported wich I think it will be you will be abel to download the package and install it, make sure your device is charged to at least 80% befor starting the upgrade. Write a note here when your done so we know if it worked or not.

Or http://www.smartmobile.se/upgrade/upgrade.aspx for the update page directly.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] taron:
Damned, why don't we have the same in France ..... I can't find who is supporting Qtek and ROM Updates in France ...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] cpes:
Anyway, what's your opinion before/after an update, do you have a backup and then do a restore or do you start from scratch and re-install all programs.

The reason why I'm asking is that some companys recomends the latter, reinstall all programs instead of doing a restore.

Peter
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Guest:
OK, i have tested works so great with the update, connection with cradle is 5 times faster, i have 1gb card and lots of ppc movies goeas really fast now, but i recomend an hard reset and reinstallation.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] BadgerBoy:
After update I experience that the audio quality is soo much better then before, bluetooth seems more stabel and more easy to connect to. T9 Swedish input, yey that is soo much better then before. Anything els... Camera, better but still not good.

If the unit was a 3 on a scale of 5 before, its at least a 4 now.

After update I did everything from scratch. Why? Just feal so much cleaner then to use a backup. :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Loboman:
Tnx Badger for helping me out of a dreadful situation. I am pretty satisfied with my new unit.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Bi99uy:
The only real difference that i noticed was that the device responed a lot quicker and that i have Swedish, Finnish, Norweigan, Danish T9 Dictionaries. However they only apply when using "Phone Pad" as an inputdevice. Other then that, nothing. It´s still the same dreadful MS BTstack and it still have some bugs. I couldn´t restore. Either from ActiveSync nor from Xbackup. Activesync gave me an error about another version and after using Xbackup the touchscreen did not respond, at all. But i was time for a fresh start anyway,
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] taron:
Hello All,

Thanks for your feedback!

Can you please put your ExtROM content on the FTP?

Thanks !
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] popsi:
Thanks, I will update my norwegian Qtek s100 later today. I believe the message about the ROM only working for swedish models are BS... I've used ROMs from qtek.nu earlier (Qtek2020) and they always worked great, don't see what could be a problem now...