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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] autoprime:
after 90 days Sprint unlocks them when you ask the international department. My phone came sim locked. Had the invalid sim error and everything. It was then unlocked. I have had multiple GS4's unlocked. No more sim error. International sims confirmed working.

the issue is that not everyone asking has waited 90 days. There's a good number of people that have this phone and are't even using Sprint as their carrier. This is where most of the questions and confusion comes from.. those two groups. Then there are the last two groups... those who have been but (incorrectly flagged as unlocked but no true unlock was performed OTA... and those who are just like me that have unlocked and used the device overseas.

Since there's not a ton of Sprint users that have used their device overseas... after waiting 90 days... and being unlocked properly OTA... we arent seeing lots of posts about success... but they exist. Also, you aren't accounting for when the device's unlock method goes public and Sprint is no longer needed. That's the real goal behind all of the unlock questions. How can the phone be hacked to bypass the sim lock. Then everyone can unlock at their own free will. Then the next project will come... getting the unlocked GS4s working on ATT/TMO(something I've already started working on). If you've been paying attention to the HTC forums.. they have just figured out unlock method without needing Sprints help. This was after 80+ pages of people saying it wasnt possible and failed attempts.

You mention Best Buy devices... is there something in the system not allowing anyone that purchased a phone there to not be unlocked? You mention a first batch of phones maybe working... but my most recent GS4 is 2 weeks old.. so surely thats not from the first batch... yet still unlockable.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] daniel4653:
[MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION]

so if I want to check if my phone came unlocked as you say one of your many gs4's did. All I would have to do would be to buy an international sim from eBay, or amazon if available and pop it in. Then if I don't get the sim error notification, I am unlocked?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] autoprime:
none of my phones came unlocked out of the box. they were all unlocked after. then tested with GSM sims... unlock confirmed working. That was my point in responding in this thread... so people knew an unlock was possible.. despite what the OP suggests.

you can use any non-sprint sim card to test if you are unlocked... even AT&T or Tmobile. If you are unlocked.. you wont get a sim card error after booting up with the new sim in. if you get the error, youre not unlocked.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ic3M4L3:
hi,

so i have 2 galaxy s3 i9300 both network unlocked one in red and one in white

the wife has dropped both, the red is put away for now, i managed to remove the lens from the white one, but wer the bang happend the volume up doesnt work and neither does the camera, i get sum exetion error, the chrome is rather tatty too, i puit a temp lens on for time being, and yep she dropped and broke that too,

I have a new lens here with the adhesive , the top and bottom kind, touch works fine

im trying to find a guide on how to swap the complete innards from the white housing to a new midframe if i buy one, but cant seem to find the actul working lcd removal, only the logic board and cameras

and the new lcd and screen complete are rather expensive at the moment my plan is this.

and i guess il need to order new camera.

buy new housing something like this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRONT-REP...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2577355c8d

ande then remove the lcd and logic board form the white one i have now and put it in this and attach the new lens,,

is this atricky job, i was told removing the lens was, took me a hr but i did it with no damage,

help would be great! just sum advice or point me in right direction for a actual lcd removal and refitting giude, but not the complete unit as i have a lens already ,

thanx
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
My mother has a epic 4g,and it has been giving her problems. I am hoping maybe someone here can help me make her phone better. Here I go with all her problems.

1.drop calls frequently

2. Service drops - 3g & voice

3.has trouble picking up signals in places. Where other phones have no problem

4.takes it forever to boot up.

5.freezes when talking to someone & incoming calls. Have to take the battery out to get it to

6.hardly any battery life to it. Battery is the one it came with I believe so it is old.

I am willing to root and give it a better rom, kernal, mods to make it a better phone for her. All she does is phone calls, fb, and some internet browsing. If anyone have any recommendations I am all ears. She doesn't feel like upgrading her phone cause she doesn't have the extra cash for one.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyYan:
Stability first for mothers. CM7.2 is your best friend. Still available on get.cm.

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM10.2
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
Would that fix all her problems? I know it probably won't fix the battery to much since she probably should buy a new one. Is there a stable release of android 4.1.2 as stable as the cm 7.2? But if 7.2 is the most stable and bluetooth, txt, internet, voice is more stable

and working on 7.2, I will go with that one. I just want to make her phone work to the best of its ability for her. Watching qbking77 vids on rooting it. I was hoping to find a review vid on cm but he only has it for epic 4g touch.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
We have an old device, so if the battery is not holding a long enough charge & it's the original that came with the phone--you should purchase another on eBay/Amazon/etc. The SGS2 battery fits snug in our phone without an extended back.

What release version is she on? (FC09?)

What modem is she on? (FC09?)

Do other Sprint devices have better signal in the same area the Epic is being used?

You could just be in a crap or nearly dead coverage area. It happens when you're on the edge of a tower's coverage radius with no connecting tower to jump to.

It also helps to find out which apps are consuming the most battery. Install this app to find out which apps are consuming battery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Focus on partial wakelocks and other.

Though, since you're saying signal is a problem, I bet her Time without Signal (TWS) % is pretty high. That would destroy a battery's charge. After a day's charge/use, open Settings > Battery > Cell Standby. Look at the the bottom % "Time without a signal". If above 3%, then the phone's loss of signal and constant searching for one is killing the battery fast. The only 3 solutions are:

1.) Call customer service and complain about very poor signal. With enough complaining, they should send you a free AirWav. You'd be responsible for taxes only.

2.) Use Airplane mode in crap coverage areas to conserve battery. (But voice is not usable in this option. Can still use Wifi for Google Voice and whatnot.)

3.) Drop Sprint for a carrier with better coverage in your area. Can probably get out of any contract, if by strange chance she's still on one for this phone, by complaining to customer service enough.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyYan:
Alright I'll try going into details.

Question 1, 2 and 5 can't be answered, I don't use Epic for cellular network other than mobile data. But for question 3, coverage is fine here and both CM7.2 and CM10 (4.1.2) gets strong, equal signals compared to local GS3 handsets on the same carrier. Keep in mind that I'm in China and Epic's flashed to China Telecom, so things could be kinda different for ya. And don't forget to flash the latest radio (FC09 or FC19).

4. CM7.2, when properly set up, boots as fast as my new Nexus 4! CM10 takes ~20sec longer, but they all fall within a minute for me. Much faster than Touchwiz-based ROMs.

6. Again, you'll get UNBELIEVABLE battery life with Gingerbread - may need a new battery though. Once I charged my Epic, left it there with CM7, turned off airplane mode (usually on to save battery) and somehow left it in my drawer. ~10days after, I dumped my drawer for things when Epic slips out and tells me it still has 11% battery left and yes, it has signal all this time. Which means ~12days of standby time! WTF enough speaking of battery :D

CM10 is stable in everyone's eyes. The only reason I recommend CM7.2 first is that it has nearly 1/2 the battery drain of CM10 (for me). If you miss the appearance and some cutting-edge features, CM10 would still be a nice choice. Don't try 10.1 (and any 4.2.x ROMs) though, as BT is borked more or less.

You could always wait a bit more and listen to what other members have to say. I'm Chinese and may not give practical advices based on US network environment :o

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM10.2
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
Thanks for all the advice guys. I am looking at a new battery for her. Been looking at the battery thread on here to find her the best one. I like 4.1.2 but she hasn't seen it, all she knows is what her phone looks like now.

And to answer the questions

What release version is she on? (FC09?) - not sure as of the moment, I want to say yes. I'm at work and don't he her phone on me.

What modem is she on? (FC09?)- not sure as of the moment, I want to say yes. I'm at work and don't he her phone on me.

Do other Sprint devices have better signal in the same area the Epic is being used?

Yes other Sprint phones get better signal in the same area where she has trouble.

Example :we were at a hospital and my sister's evo shift, my old evo 4g had no problems at all. But her's was having trouble getting service.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Don't use a hospital as your example. Hospital's are notorious for having horrible cell service due to the concrete walls and other interference. Use the location that she is in most for your baseline location, and if that is a hospital--then she will likely have poor service in such a building complex.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
I just called her and asked her where else she has trouble with service. She said mostly everywhere. I know our area is good in 3g and voice, no dead zones shown on coverage map. I know our 3g in our area is a little out of whack do to updating the towers. But this has been problem before the tower updates. And I asked her to look at phone info and she said it says gingerbread fco9.

I am looking at buying a Onite 1900mAh Li-ion Battery for her aswell. Unless you have a betterssuggestion.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boocephus:
My wife complains about her phone and I have tried to convince her to root it. Unfortunately, she's heard me complain about mine through rooted stock ginerbread all the way to CM10.1.

I never did CM7, but CM10.1 RC5 has been the best rom for me. Battery life is great. Great control. I don't have any issues with it, including bluetooth. it acts weird. like it connects and then when I make a call it says "disconnected" but I hear the phone ring and it functions normally. It just says "disconnected" in my headset. Otherwise, it works fine.

It's tough for a guy who screws with his phone all the time, like me, to give good counsel to someone like your mom or my wife about having a hacked phone. I honestly don't think you'd have as much trouble if you rooted it that the bone stock sprint gingerbread load. that totally sucked for me. GPS didn't work. Battery life sucked. And it had all those cutesy sprint apps like Nascar and sprint tv.

The good thing about rooting it, i think, is that once you do it the first time, it's really easy to load different ROMs in case you want to try some other ones. I downloaded the dominator one, but I have been so happy with cm10.1 rc5 that I am sticking. This is the best my phone has ever been.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
Thanks for all the feedback guys. I will have to sit down with and explain all this stuff and let her decide on what she wants to do. I've been working doubles at work lately so haven't been able to talk to her about stuff.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
She has told me to root her phone. I see you can get twrp recovery for this phone. So my new question is since I have been having trouble finding the answer is how do I flash twrp in? Do I flash it through cwm, odin, goomanger? I was going to follow the steps to root her phone in qbking video. But his way only shows putting cwm in.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boocephus:
I had rooted a few years ago and found the easiest procedure to follow here:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/epic-4g-rooting-roms-hacks/

I rooted gingerbread first and then did other roms. But I think the Cyanogenmod web pages have a straight forward process too., You difinitely have to have the recovery console CWM or similar loaded to start which requires Odin as far as I know. So that is going to be your first step. Those links are in that android central forum. At least they were at one time.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
TWRP: Flashes through CWM; OR you can pull the recovery.bin file from the zip file and flash that in Odin.

Root:

Power down device

Open keyboard, press and hold both the 1 key and power button. This places the phone into download mode.

Plug the device into your computer, and most likely drivers will install. Allow that to finish before proceeding.

Within Odin, wait until you see COM and a port number appear. That means your phone is recognized.

Next, uncheck all boxes on the left side, including auto-reboot.

Place the victory_8G_100528.pit file in the PIT box. Place CWM v5.0.2.7 .bin/.tar/.md5 file in the PDA box.

Click start and will complete relatively quickly.

Disconnect the phone from USB and pull the battery out.

Replace battery.

Press and hold Vol down, Camera and Power buttons until the capacitative lights light up, then release. This will place you in recovery mode.

From there you will boot into CWM, where you can flash whatever you want (custom rom or a compatible kernel for FC09 & SuperSU) off the SD card. So place those files prior to doing all the above.

Keep in mind, that if you want to remain on stock FC09, but rooted, you will need to flash a custom kernel. The stock kernel will replace CWM with stock recovery every time. That is why in the list above you must disable auto-reboot and battery pull.

All files are in my devhost, in my signature. If not, then they expired and I can reupload them if notified.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
Thanks for the for the walk through. I plan on doing this tonight for her and I will let you guys know if I was successful or not. Lol
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukiyohikage:
I got cwm, falshed FC09 BML Deodexed Prerooted Stock ROM. As of right now the screen is black and the 4 buttons are lit up.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikon120:
Battery pull and try to get back in recovery. If you can't, then Odin CWM again. If that still doesn't fix it, then you should reflash stock FC09 again and go through the steps above again.

Bad flashes happen. It could also be a bad download of the ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] Mirthoneist:
Samsung Galaxy S2 - Virgin Mobile - Android 4.2 - Wild the Night ROM (CWM10.2?)

Whenever I play a song in PowerAmp and there is a soft part it will go completely silent until the louder parts come in. For example, David Bowie's Space Oddity starts off very very quiet with a guitar but when I'm playing it in Android the song starts "playing" like 30 seconds in when David Bowie starts to sing. I believe this isn't a PowerAmp issue as it's doing the same thing in the music app Apollo, on multiple different songs as well.

I've endlessly tried Googling and cannot find the answer. I've checked through all of the Gapless settings in PowerAmp and those are off, even though I don't think it's a PowerAmp issue.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Se7enLogic:
Please delete this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeSloth:
Things went south when I accidentally tried installing the wrong rom. restored back, but now I can't connect to my sprint network.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] patrao_n:
Look up rwilco. He has all the modems in his repo
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeSloth:
Thanks. took me a few to find it, but I did. Got cell phone coverage back, but no data at the moment. About to try one other modem and then try switching roms again after that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeSloth:
Seems I'm more screwed than I thought. Phone Number is showing up as 000-000-3891. Network says Samsung and not Sprint. Mobile Network state is disconnected.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] patrao_n:
Did you restore with odin?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] vvp777:
Just get the new Qtek 2020i.

Please tell me, what is te latest ROM version?

Another question, how not to install all package, whis is in ROM?

Beforehand, i had Magitian, and after hard reset I could make a soft reset and ROm opened without istalling, and I could install what I wanted. But in 2020i it does not opening.
[Ouya Android Development] professorpoptart:
This app is currently in an alpha release, the AlternateOuyaStore app. This will basically do the same thing that the windows version does, except this one you can run right on the Ouya itself. Like I said this is fairly early, it doesn't look nice, but it does give you a list of all the games with game images (just like the windows one) and you can download the game apks. The download shows up in the notification area and you install it just like side loading any other app, except these ones are recognized by official Ouya Store! I tested and basically developed this thing on cm10 and it seems stable there. Had issues running it on my old HTC one x though...

So if you run into any issues please post below so they can make it into the next commit!

Usage:

1) Tap/click the "Get List" button. (this will load the list)

2) Select a game from the list. (this will put the game title in the textbox next to the download button)

3) Tap/click the "Download" button. (this will start the download for the apk file) Due to the game changing as you thumb-stick through the games though I find it easiest to just use the touch pad to tap download. Annoying... so this is on my list.

4) Either tap the completed apk download in your notification or go to you default download location and tap the apk file.

5) Play the game! You can also play through the official Ouya Store Play menu( as the biggest issue was getting the Discover area to load on CM10)

For now the download is basically done by sending the download url as an intent, which then launches whatever you have as your default browser. This saves me from having to have extra permission like saving to storage and progress bars and a whole mess of stuff that I will get to later but don't want to worry about right now.

To Do list:

- Better GUI

- Sort list functions

- Generalize functions to reduce coupling with the main activity.

- Add internal download and install functionality

I'm releasing this under the GNU GPL so have at'er!

Github-

https://github.com/ProfessorPopTart/AlternateOuyaStoreProject

(This is my first android app so go easy on the code sloppiness! lol)

For the non-coders that just want to try it out, the install apk can also be found in the AlternateOuyaStore folder in the link above.

Irc FreeNode #ouya-dev
[Ouya Android Development] wyllem:
Sounds Kool will give a try
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
you know what really sucks is that I saw this at 5oclock this morning an hour before I gotta go to work. I WANNA PLAY
[Ouya Android Development] Skater4599:
Just downloaded, Checking this out now! The Ouya store needed this type of sorting VERY badly! thanks for the efforts :)
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
I'll try again later tonight but I was having issues downloading apps with this? So I got an issue the source is built with the odk :( I feel like an a$$ for saying this. But I ain't touching the odk with a ten foot stick for a couple months. Honestly I've done a bit of theming, hacking and phone flashing but all of that was either hacking apks, building them from android source or with the android sdk. Right now I'm learning how to straight up code android and don't want to mess up my machine with the odk (some old school themers know what I'm talking about).
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
So about a half an hour ago I set this up on eclipse and got it up and running made a few changes so far. I haven't tested on my ouya yet but ran it on my phone (htc evo 4g lte) to make sure that the array list would work. It does but it doesn't download. I changed the screenorientation in the manifest because on screen orientation it resets. It's a temp fix that does work but later we'll have to do something about handling runtime changes a little bit better.

On a side note I made a webview that goes to the ouya update site. Eventually I want it to go to the site download the text as a string checks it against our build.prop and if different then it downoads the url (update zip) to your device to install. I can't give a time frame right now on how fast this will take right now I'm working six days a week 10 hrs a day at universal building project 722. But this stuff isn't on the shelf.
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
Expect a new release around 9pm eastern.
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
Here we go

update 1

added a sort function so that the list is alphabetical

changed name to simply "the store"

added icon to appear in ouya launcher ( I hope it works)

no more clicking buttons to download list it starts automatically

added a counter in top of screen that displays the number of apps available

when you click the list it automatically downloads the app

think thats it :D

problems

the only problem I have is that it doesn't display the icons a custom adapter is required for that.

Ui needs some more work but it takes time

source code here https://github.com/asadullahibnrob/AlternateOuyaStore
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
Alright this update is a little back and forth.

I removed the counter and lost the the ability to sort the apps (temporarily).

But gained a nice big picture but need to add a cache to get to run smooth.

Not really excited LOL.

Source code here https://github.com/asadullahibnrob/theStore. Any questions comments or complaints let me have em.
[Ouya Android Development] limker:
Hey guys,

I have tried both apps. I appreciate the effort you are putting to this. Both application are in very early development, but in the right track!

A note to both apps

When you click a paid app (with no free trial) i.e. Towerfall, the app crashes. I believe this is because when you request the data for that app, it won't return a download URL as expected, and i assume you guys are not validating this :p.​

I recommend that you mark which apps aren't free for download, and either do nothing when clicked or redirect to app's official entry on the original app store.

Keep up the good work :good:
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
That's my fault I'll see if I can fix it today. ........

EDIT: Actually i was wrong kinda they changed the auth token to something else. I glance through their code and didn't see anythng in the ouya oobe.apk I'm wondering if they give one to each user. But maybe I could set it up so that it goes to the info page so that you can send it to your ouya.
[Ouya Android Development] Asadullah:
Hey guys just a heads up I'm gonna working 7 days a week 12 hours a day for a few weeks.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] kentondb:
Thread title says it all.

A lot of people buying retail are having issues and if I knew the Google ones were a better batch I'd order direct but do NOT want to get another bad unit without the luxury of exchanging in store.

Thanks.