yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I haven't either. But I have faith. I just wish this phone was a little more popular.
[General Questions and Answers] soremekun:
Just checking in to see if there is a stock JB ROM available yet for this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Have you found anything yet? I still have no update on my phone.
[General Questions and Answers] elcybernetico:
Help

Need Stock Camera App and Gallery Apk urgent!
[General Questions and Answers] dominicana35:
use e-root tool

the easy way to root this zte n9500 is with the tool e-root......very easy and fast :good:
[General Questions and Answers] sunilromy:
zte sprint flash

you still need it..

anyone interested in ZTE flash development. please let me know.. Anyone I have figured to backup complete stock dump..

next plan is to develop recovery for it? but i need help & testers...
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I hope there are some testers. I would but I had already returned mine once. Now I would have to pay the deductible if I mess it up again.
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
I could test. I got 4.1.2 running..
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Was it stock ota update ?
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
ok nvm i am just going to buy a new phone actually the same one and use it to fix my last one so i have 2 one for testing one for use :)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Ok
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I have been having it out with Sprint and ZTE about the lack of update. Sprint blames ZTE for not releasing it in time. ZTE told me it wasn't them that gave Sprint the info that is posted in their community forum. They also told me that it was just a sprint subscriber posting that and not a Sprint rep.

I am not sure I believe that. You would think Sprint would be monitoring their forums better, but who knows.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
ZTE says that they never gave sprint jellybean for n9500, but Sprint has it in their database?

Ha.
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
well i have my other phone and to be honest i think there both lying but if so how dose this one guy on here have jb or was he lying ?
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
The guy who has JB got the corporate update from the store. It's legit.
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
well did he ever show us he was running jb or just say he was because i dont think he uploaded a screenshot to show us if not im js its really dumb how this is all being ignored of the jb update :/
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48366797&postcount=43

and then

Originally Posted by beatstork View Post

Funny how his says B16 and was supposed to be Jelly Bean and mine like others is B18 and is still ICS.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Im beginning to rethink my position on this, perhaps he edited build.prop
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
uhm to be honest his kernel is different from ours and his version is the version sprints sight claimed to be jelly bean my kernels 3.0.8 his is 3.4.0 i think his is the uk phone and maybe they got jelly bean and we dont because of the kernel difference

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unless this is a diff phone and he changed the model and everything than so when he flashed cwm it bricked ? i think he got a bad phone from sprint or someone else because that dont seem to be our phone ours says hw version his says it all out and he has 4g settings
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Maybe the Sprint Vital.

Never mind the picture says n9500.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Heres a badly edited collage that i made for comparison.

Compare them.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
You cant see it now. :banghead:
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
lol even if his says n9500 hes rooted he can always change the build XD

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or maybe thats the new kernel with the jb
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Thats what I was thinking
[General Questions and Answers] aimzzz:
Lost su binary

Let me say up front that I'm on the n00bish side. There are a few posts here about loss of su binary but I didn't see a solution. (maybe I missed something)

The phone is a ZTE Flash N9500 & the carrier is i-wireless. Last month, I rooted with Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v32 from xda. Everything was great for several days. Then I suddenly lost root.

Opened SuperSU & got this msg:

There is no su binary installed & SuperSU cannot install it​

Phone isn't bricked or anything-- everything else has been working fine.

There isn't a recovery image, or if there is I don't know how to access it. I'm not sure if it's possible without root

I did a factory reset & ran the root setup again. The su binary wasn't reinstalled. Today I saw that "Root MANY ANDROID" has been updated so I did another reset & ran the root setup. Still no su binary

I'm not even sure what I may have done to lose su binary unless maybe I disabled something important. Since I don't know enough, I didn't mess around with things except with Titanium Backup & Root Explorer (at least not that I'm aware of).

How do I go about getting su binary back? :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
here is the recovery forum http://androidforums.com/flash-all-things-root/790943-cwm-beta.html and use the zip i uploaded to root and you be done dont flash this zip extract and run it
[General Questions and Answers] aimzzz:
update on su binary loss

Thanks for the suggestion michaelway67. I finally got it fixed a few minutes ago. Somebody told me that software updates on my phone might have blocked the pathway for Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v32. He suggested an alternative. I appreciate your help very much anyway

;)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Ya i used motochopper because root_with_restore never seemed to work.
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Anything new happening here?:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I wonder if suckme got his new phone
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
lol i am him and yes i got my phone XD
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Ok good :)
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
i been trying to sell it with the broken one together but no luck
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Oh, ok
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
well good news there are now stock rooted roms ! :) and we now have super user 3.1.1 working no more supersu :)

http://androidforums.com/flash-all-things-root/818039-rom-iwireless-stock-b18-ics-4-0-4-a.html

http://androidforums.com/flash-all-things-root/817676-rom-sprint-stock-b14-ics-4-0-4-a.html

here you go we have a developer :)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
YESSSS
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I always used Superuser on mine.:cool:
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
well me to but mine updated and permissions broke and wouldnt update to the newest one lol
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Ah I see.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
My phone is really starting to suck :mad:

Im trying to learn how to compile CM11 but someone might beat me to it :P
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
isnt that kit kat ?
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Yes
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
are you doing it from source or other based roms ?
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Source.

The only rom that we actually have is stock right now.
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
True but wish you luck :)
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
i made this and i might make a debrick image also if i find a way :)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Nice. In which ways can this be used?
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
I can make a factory .mbn file to flash in qpst
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Do you know where I can find a simple tutorial to port cm to our device.

I learned a lot now i need to start working.
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
like this ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1598713

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or this

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I found one, but I need source code for Flash. Time to bombard ZTE with emails.

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nvm, i confused it with typing repo sync
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
you can get the sorce from the phone i think
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
How
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
read this

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro#Some_tips_on_porting_CyanogenMod_to_your_own_device
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Thank you, i even found a helpful YouTube video in ny searching.
[General Questions and Answers] michaelway67:
i have made a important stuff here XD check this out
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Cool

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I can't get to my computer for a while can you tell me what's in it?
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
Hey! I'm the guy with the jb ZTE Flash...

Just wondering if there is a chance to unbrick my device, I don't wanna throw it away. Does anyone know if it's possible? Also

Has anyone tried to do what I did? I went to two different corporate stores and both updated my device... Actually it was two different devices, I got the first one updated to jb by them because I soft bricked it.. Then I bricked it again but took it to a different corporate store where the guy just told me that there was no hope for my device, even when the first corp. store fixed it by just flashing it. He just didn't seem to get it.. The phone was stuck at the sprint animation. So he ordered another one, and when I got it I just simply asked for the update and they took it to the back and did it.

And by trying to flash cwm. It got bricked to the point where it won't boot into anything. It just gives me the Red led... With a black screen.

Just so u know, I did not photoshop the images. It was a legit copy of jb.. Provided by two different sprint corporate offices at different times/dates to different ZTE Flash n9500 devices given by them, not bought online, not European, African, Puerto Rican, or Mexican...

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I can't believe how much sprint and ZTE have lied about this update.. Come on

pos companies

Btw, I got ripped off when I bought my N5.. They lowered the price of the phone and charged me with a jbl blue tooth speaker. I ended paying the same amount anyways. I just called them a week later and told them what happened and said "I just want what I bought, I don't wanna make a big deal" and they told me to go back to the store and they gave me the speaker :)

It's loud, I recommend it to anyone
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Its been a .month since I've last seen activity here!

Any news?
[General Questions and Answers] espeon:
I might build AOKP 4.3 if I get this phone; I've been looking at it since my Opti S died.

Only problem I might have is with the kernel, since there were well-developed kernels for the Opti S. I'll have no clue what I'm doing with the Flash's kernel if I do get one.
[General Questions and Answers] Riomaru:
My camera is not working, I flashed a system.img I found on android forums. But I am still rooted and my camera is not working. Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Can I have more detail? Like in which way is it not working, is it just a blank screen? Have you tried to to re install camera.apk?

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Sounds like good plans. All you have to do is study up, like I'm doing so i can port CM 11 tk the Flash. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Riomaru:
Sure at first ill boot up the camera, then its just a black screen. So i flashed a recovery.img and system.img maybe thinking it would work. So i went into the apps and force closed and cleared the data. And now it shows can't connect to camera. Ill try to re install the camera.apk
[General Questions and Answers] BryanMohr:
Anything I can do?

I've got B14 (with root) so I'm not sure if there's much I can do. But if there is, please let me know and I'll be happy to contribute, I haven't installed CWM yet (lost the link for the beta and haven't been able to find it again) but will if I can find it. I'm fine with soft-bricking this phone if I have to since I have a couple backup phones to use if I need to ... as long as I have a small chance of unbricking it in the future.

I keep getting messages from Sprint about an update each time I reboot, but the install fails every time (I'm assuming because it's rooted) and I would love to get Cyanogenmod on this phone!

I'm also an application developer, with dabblings in low level system development under my belt so if I can help out there (with some initial instruction) I'd be more than happy to. Just let me know if there's anything I can do. I'm still fairly new to Android, but I've written device drivers for DOS 3.1 and am quick to pick up things.
[General Questions and Answers] darkkhanmk9:
Hello all I just installed cwm and I have a nandroid backup of ics but I want someone to use it and make a custom Rom with it are there any developers :)
[General Questions and Answers] espeon:
I just got the phone; I'm probably going to work on pulling the kernel and system stuff this weekend. I did notice that it has the same specs as the xperia tl, which'll be handy if we get stuck.

I'm probably either going to build aosp or cm instead of aokp since they tend to be easier.
[General Questions and Answers] espeon:
Thanks to this guy over at androidforums I don't have to bother to pull all that info so once my exams are done with I'll work on making a device folder for this :D

I'm probably going to take the lazy way and take the xperia S's device folder and modify the relevant stuff since it has the same specs as the Flash.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
i have this phone but its dead completely sadly so moved onto the lg pro e980 but any ways i tried everything possible to unbrick it and had no luck :/ but there are stock rooted rom for b14 so if soft bricked no problem flash that rom :) http://androidforums.com/flash-all-things-root/817676-rom-sprint-stock-b14-ics-4-0-4-a.html
[General Questions and Answers] Radiohead84:
I have this phone. Not sure if this will help with anything but I am attaching a screen shot of my setup. I also have clockwork recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] Crwolv:
me also,

same happened one day way after rooting it just died,either a solid or blinking red light!! new battery and tried so many button combinations!! ANY DEV TO HELP??:confused::confused::confused:
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
I edited the build. Prop I was noob then an

Now I'm not ugh
[General Questions and Answers] espeon:
Does FTM (vol up + power) work? If not it's probably irreversibly borked.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
Its dead bricked only red light and shows up as a com port
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I hate to reply to a 4 month old thread but....

This device is still trash.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Yeah I never got an update either, I did find a CWM build for this phone though. It's through 4Shared though so I reuploaded it to my Google Drive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0mwUR-5_mvSWUszbzhHVVBxOVE/view?usp=sharing

Credit goes to junkie2100 at Android Forums. I zipped a readme file in the tar.bz file, it has the link to the original thread on AF. I hope this helps somebody.

Update:

Oh, it seems like you guys have already found this lol. Ig this is a bump lol.
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
I downloaded a tool app from the market and it bricked my phone. I took it to the sprint store they reflashed it with jb.... Way snappier than ics.. I'm happy
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I need drivers for this device. Can someone post a link?
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Makes me wonder why they haven't rolled out the update for the rest of us yet.

Pretty lame to still be running ICS on a phone now days.
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Hello.

You seem to know a lot about this device.

I want to know if I can get CWM on this device in it's current development state. Do I only need to root my phone and then I can start getting CWM on it?
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
i have the system file extracted on th ics :) if you need that :)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
OK, I'm going to start compiling CWM. Any testers available?
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
could you upload the jb system files and i can start testing
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
So what have we got on this? So long between posts....:(
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
What will we be able to do with system files?

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Hi.

I'm going to compile CWM for this device. However, right now my computer with Ubuntu on it crashed. I'm going to put Ubuntu on my other computer, and compile CWM asap. But please answer this question. With the JB system files, can we flash jb onto our devices?
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Any help would be wonderful. It doesn't look like Sprint is going to get of their ass and send us the jellybean update.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
with the system files you can edit software and try to at least pack it as a rom and use android kitchen to create a custom recovery
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
Do what I did. Go to a corporate sprint store and tell them to upgrade your device, it made a huge difference in performance
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Not sure how that would work. I was on the phone with Sprint and they said they don't even see that update as available in their system. The latest one they see is B14 on 5/30/2013. Just said give it some more time and keep checking. It really is a bunch of crap to buy a phone that is out dated when you first get it.
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
I did it twice.. At two different locations. It worked for me twice. I'm just ssaying
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I will go by there when I get a chance during the holiday break. :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Yup, I called them on the phone too. They couldn't find anything.

Back in August, I took my phone to a Sprint store to get it flashed. That didn't work out, as the associate helping me was a complete idiot who was supposed to be "specialized" in Android. One thing about Sprint is that the people on the phone are smarter than the people in stores. Maybe it's because the ones on the phone have Google right in front of them... haha
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Ok fellow N9500 users, I have some news.

There's 17 days until Christmas, which is when I'm going to "gift" myself a new computer. At least an XP build of CWM will be compiled before 2014, if I can. After that we can move on to bigger projects like CM or some other rom.
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Sweet... we need some development. I am having serious flashing withdrawals.
[General Questions and Answers] steadydecline:
i dont think we are supposed to be getting JB:

support.sprint.com/support/article/Find_and_update_the_software_version_on_your_Sprint_Flash/WServiceAdvisory_542_GKB50614
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I got an update!!

But it wasnt jelly bean.

Nice one sprint.

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I guess we're on our own. Maybe a sprint store might still have the update in thier database.
[General Questions and Answers] steadydecline:
I don't know why sprint has to pages for the zte flash one stating JB and one now. I just got the DEC 3rd update from the second page:

https://community.sprint.com/baw/community/buzzaboutwireless/phones-and-devices/blog/2013/08/02/sprint-flash-software-updates

htttp://support.sprint.com/support/article/Find_and_update_the_software_version_on_your_Sprint_Flash/WServiceAdvisory_542_GKB50614

tried asking sprint chat support about they were ZERO help
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
For when I port (or attempt to port) CM 11 or 10 to the N9500, does anyone know a device that is very similar to the Flash that is supported for CM 10/11?

Please reply.
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
Yup
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Was that corporate or OTA? It says B16 instead of B15.
[General Questions and Answers] beatstork:
L say it again. I went to a corporate store, 2 actually. Both times they flashed The new os. Just go to your nearest corporate store and ask, if they don't know have them call the second closest one
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Meh.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
do you have a back up of your ics stock apps ? because i got a update and i cant install iy because i deleted my system browser app on my phone

and the s3 i think is close well kinda same it has the same processor almost same screen size same s/n but anyway please if you have it tell my if you do :)
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
I got the B16 update as well. Crappy Sprint ....still no JellyBean.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
someone else made a cwm for this phone :) ill upload a link when he sends it to me :)

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http://androidforums.com/flash-all-things-root/790943-cwm-beta.html
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!

CM 11 time guys! :)
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
i didnt make just found all gose to junky :)
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Yes, and as for your earlier request, I do not have a backup, as I'm not rooted yet.After daemon starts the script just stops. If you can help me fix this, I can get them to you.

Also, I will fork from the S3. :)
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
i have a root tool that only works for this phone just dont update the su binary if you give me your emial ill send it :)
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
nvm here it is yes it isnt mine but i put the su binary that will work with permissions that they sisnt hav just extract and run the run tool
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
sorry if i seem a little hyper and not patient im only 18 XD so please as soon as you installed cwm backup your stuff factory data reset and backup again add the attachment of the second backup thanks :) i really want that update :)
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Can someone help me. I installed the cwm custom recovery. But when I try to reboot into recovery the phone just sits there with an Android on the screen and red light lit up.

EDIT: works now. I downloaded it again and reflashed it. The first one I had was same exact size....weird. BRING ON THE ROMS.
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
It looks like the ZTE Vital is pretty darn close in specs.

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/compare.php?p=4150,3930
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
Yes, but the Vital doesn't have Cyanogenmod.
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
did you try to just boot into it by holding power and volume down till it vibrates?
[General Questions and Answers] nvcboss:
I still have a problem with my root, because of the driver called "Android". My computer doesn't seem to recognize my phone. I use the ZTE drivers already but they dont work with Android.
[General Questions and Answers] JAWheat411:
Does it have to be ZTE? The HTC Evo 4G for Sprint is close also. Lots of development there.

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3742
[General Questions and Answers] suckme69:
what windows ?