yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yearziro:
Anyone have this issue??

Just got and activated my GS3 and its running the stock base-band L710VPBMD4 but having major issues holding any LTE service will usually hold steady on 3G and intermediately hold LTE service

And yes my area has a strong LTE presence so thats not the issue....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
MD4 is the newest baseband, anything else would technically ve a downgrade. But people have luck with older basebands a lot.

Sprint could also be working on towers in your area.

Sent from Under water
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joeyhdownsouth:
Sprint is working on network equipment and towers in a lot of areas.

Sent from my hybrid GalaxyS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yearziro:
Ugh I guess Im going to have to wait and see my area is blanketed with LTE live in one town work 35 miles aways (always LTEarea) and all day i have had no LTE

thought it might be from flashing CM10 but re-flashed and still no dice.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ReapersDeath:
Honestly, you could always just reflash md4, or go into your phones update area and update prl. Every single location is different with signal. So basically no one will have the exact same results. I live in a spot of town with clear view of the signal towers, with no obstructions, and I get 0 to 2 bars with 1x to 3g when less than 100 feet away you can get 5 bars and strong lte
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yearziro:
Problem solved......

I was having two issues (1) Im an idiot..... (2) I should have specified that Im using my GS3 with ting because my problem was all PRL/Provisioning related so if anyone is somehow reading this and having the issue I had this was the file I used to get working data....I have not yet tested the MMS

Get a file manager (Root Browser for me) download the zip either unzip on your PC/MAC or drop it onto the SD take the apns-conf file and move it into the System/Etc/ folder and overwrite the existing file and reboot and you should be good

Tested with CM 10.2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bounti:
As the title states, I was wondering if there are any memory swap mods released, other than the one made by mattiadj, that works 4.3 AOSP roms. I'd like to make the switch to stock Android (namely ParanoidAndroid), but I can't because all of my is stored on my external sdcard.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
You cannot memory swap on anything over 4.1.2

You can use folder mount to "move" internal sd folders to external
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahac85:
You can try this if you want to move videos and picture

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2408880

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinntheViking:
Is there any way to force a stock, non-rooted phone to change channels? When I pull up the debug menu on my wife's Samsung Galaxy III, and check under 1x engineering RF, it's running on channel 476. This prevents it from working with my Sprint Airave 2.5, which for some odd reason does not support channel 476 (this information came from Sprint Airave Support, they have an official Known Issue for the situation). Sprint says they're working on a resolution, but gods know how long that's going to take. Any ideas?
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
ChangeLog:

Version 1.0 Aug 23, 2013

- The two convert2xxx_bl.sh scripts are now integrated into one script convert_rom.sh.

- The new convert_rom.sh also accepts an optional switch [-stepmode].

./convert_rom.sh -stepmode #--> starts in step-mode for debugging purposes
./convert_rom.sh #--> runs unattended (with no pauses).

- A technique added to preserve whitespaces in converted lines. So converted files keep margins and whitespaces of the source ones.

- Script checks whether source rom is a newbl or an oldbl one, displays an error message if rom is not for the expected bootloader and exits.

Version 0.3b Aug 23, 2013

-a typo fixed in converting scripts

Version 0.2b Aug 23, 2013

-liblgeril.so is also replaced with the one for the oldbl or newbl accordingly.

-A forced removal (switch -f) added when removing files and dirs just in case.

-Converted ROM name will be built automatically from the source name suffixed by -oldbl or -newbl accordingly. (If source rom's name contains 'newbl' or 'oldbl' it will be substituted by 'oldbl' or 'newbl' accordingly)

-Converted ROMs are now created under 'converted_roms' folder.

-Converting to oldbl: Files 'check_sdcard.sh' and 'lgdrm.img' are being removed if exist (as they are not used)

-Converting to newbl: Charger dependent images are also copied in ramdisk (not only the charger binary).

-Kernel modules will also be replaced with the ones coming with specific kernel image.

-Kowalski Kernel images & modules, in kernels folder, are replaced with latest ones dated:2013072013. (it was my fault, the previous ones were downloaded from "releases" download folder and were dated 20230303)

-Some changes in display messages.

Version 0.1b Aug 19, 2013

-1st beta version
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[LG Optimus 2x] tonyp:
I really don't want to have all of the credits.

While it's been my idea to create such a script and I provided the input on what needs to be changed by the script, I couldn't have done it on my own.

I both lack the skills(!) and time.

Steve would say:

[youtube]8To-6VIJZRE[/youtube]

:D

Anyways, don't leech. If this helps someone, donations are appreciated:

Donate to spyrosk

Donate to me​
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
Thanks Android tool guru @spyrosk....and thanks @tonyp

just trying it out. A small comment....people might mistake this....there is no space between the / AND convert2new_bl.sh command line....should be the same with oldbl.sh command....isnt it?

thought of giving a feedback about this.

thanks once again

EDIT: battery charge script cannot be opened error....and cannot be removed error....

Creating new ROM zip ... zip warning: Permission denied

zip warning: Permission denied

something went wrong please zip contents in rom folder manually

done.
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
Hi my friend,

First of all sorry again for deleted post(s)..

and thank you.

The "typo" is corrected. Actually it was not a typo but I have noticed that it happens when pasting text from another editor.

Which ROM did you try to convert?

battery charge script cannot be opened error??? On which step did it happen?

I don't try to open any battery charge script

Did you add any file in "files2convert.txt"?
[LG Optimus 2x] wals46:
Very interesting tool.

Last july 7th I asked you if this were possibile and didn't have any reply. Now I'm happy that Tonyp convinced you.
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
I was on vacation sorry and when I came back I forgot to reply.

By that time I couldn't tell for sure anyway, before I have the total "picture" of the work that must be done, I mean.
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
@spyrosk,

my friend

Which ROM did you try to convert? Latest Avatar 3.1 Nightly OLD to NEW BL

battery charge script cannot be opened error??? On which step did it happen?I don't try to open any battery charge script It happened just the step before making the new ROM Zip

Did you add any file in "files2convert.txt"? NO

Nevertheless, I will try to flash the ROM and see what happens ;)

EDIT:

Just now, I tried to do the PAC Man by Metallica for the Old BL and had the same error of battery charge script....

Same in Django Adios Amigo 1.6.5 to OldBL....see the script error below:

STEP 2: EXTRACTING BOOT.IMG ...

Press [enter] when ready

rm: remove write-protected regular file `out/ramdisk/charger'?

rm: cannot remove `out/ramdisk': Directory not empty

mkdir: cannot create directory `out': File exists

STEP 5: PACKING NEW BOOT.IMG ...

Press [enter] when ready

Selected kernel: kernels/oldbl-Kowalski-126.zImage

Using base address 0x10000000

Using command line ''

error: cannot open './ramdisk/charger' for read

rm: remove write-protected regular file `out/ramdisk/charger'?

rm: cannot remove `out/ramdisk': Directory not empty

Hope this helps in checking....
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
I just converted Avatar-3.1 from old to new. No errors at all.

I don't like the write-protected error: rm: remove write-protected regular file `out/ramdisk/charger'

So it tries after that to remove the out directory but of course it's not empty.

Well,

Remove out directory manually and try again from the beginning..

After step 5, Before you continue to next step try to remove the whole out directory manually again.

Try also to give your account full control to the converter's folder.

This problem seems to he a windows security permission issue. Are you an administrator on the system you use?

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Stock based ROMs need more files to be changed, but they are not included yet, because I don't have the whole info needed.

Hope [MENTION=4409503]rugglez[/MENTION] or someone else will be willing to help.

Till then avoid converting stock-based roms,( or after converting replace the boot.img in converted rom with a working boot.img from another stock-based rom for the same bootloader of course. This may work)

Try ONLY CM-based roms.

I forgot to write it in OP. I'll do it asap.
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
I have a list of files/folders which I was using to port...Thanks to @rugglez ofcourse...

If you have seen the dev section....I was porting a few ROMs from Old to New BL including the stock ROMs.

So, I will send you the list by PM.

I will try the CM based ones with manual clearing...and will check that

EDIT: I am the administrator...so normally only one account and I have that rights too

thanks once again
[LG Optimus 2x] tonyp:
Okay, I just used the converter on Win8 x64 to create an oldbl version of my CM10.2 ROM.

I have uploaded the resulting zip here: http://tonyp.basketbuild.com/index.php?dir=main/CM-10.2/oldbl-untested-builds/

It is untested - so do a backup!

I will post the steps I took, this might help some people who never worked with tools like this.

Please try it out with different ROMs - and if the resulting zips work a) post that here and b) share the zip in the respective threads for others to use :)

If you have any erros post the complete cygwin output here.

To get it do a right-click into the cygwin window, then press Enter - it's now copied into the clipboard!

Okay, off we go:

Preparation (one time only):

Downloaded cygwin. and install it

The path C:/cygwin is perfecly fine.

Just press Next until you get to the paket selection, then use the searchbox to quickly get to the tools needed:

(just click once on it, the first checkbox will get checked. The second one is for the sourcecode, you don't need that).

- zip (Archive)

- unzip (Archive)

- cpio (Utils)

- perl: Larry Wall’s Practical (perl) (you might have to open "perl" and look for it manually)

- perl_vendor (perl)

Downlaod the zip attached at the OP, extract it.

I extracted it to C:/temp/ROM-Converter-tools/

done

ROM conversion:

Open the Cygwin Terminal (either in the start menu or execute the Cygwin.bat at C:/cygwin/)

Put the ROM zip into the source_zips folder

Type:

cd /cygdrive/c/temp/ROM-Converter-tools

Needs to get adapted to your path if you extracted the ROM-Converter-tools somewhere else.

My path is: C:/temp/ROM-Converter-tools/

(Hint: after /cygdrive/c/ autocompletion with TAB will work!)

I didn't try the drag&drop tip of spyrosk.

Type:

./convert2old_bl.sh

(or convert2new_bl of course if you're going the other direction)

Follow the instructions on the screen,

As it's still in the debug mode you need to press [enter] a couple times.

This will change in the future.

Done, your converted ROM will be in the out_oldbl or out_newbl folder.
[LG Optimus 2x] millionsun93:
do this tool work with CM7 :confused:
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
uhm ... in my case it got stuck at CM booting logo ... is flashing it recovery sensitive?
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Hummmmm, I tried experimenting, and it happened to me the same as the partner "SREEPRAJAY"! ...

Here are the errors I had during the experiments (three files *. pdf);
[LG Optimus 2x] Ultramanoid:
Hrmph.

Was running the latest CM 10.1 nightly. Rooted, old bootloader, CWM Recovery 6.0.3.1.

Made a Nandroid backup. Wiped everything from recovery, factory reset, flashed this :

http://tonyp.basketbuild.com/download.php?file=main/CM-10.2/cm-10.2-20130821-UNOFFICIAL-p990.zip

According to CWM all flashed and well. I rebooted.

Phone's bricked, won't even boot to recovery, gets stuck in the LG logo. Ouch. Halp ?

:rolleyes:
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
But...that ROM is for NEW BootLoader!!!...

Use All-In-One Toolkit to reattach the situation (reinstall again CWM Recovery);

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34809475&postcount=1
[LG Optimus 2x] Ultramanoid:
I know ! ( NEVER flash anything as soon as you wake up without checking twice, kids. )

I saw the one for old bootloader for the 20th, moved up a directory, happily flashed the one for the 21th... and for the NEW bootloader.

Don't have access to a laptop to tinker and won't for a few days. Sigh.
[LG Optimus 2x] tonyp:
No, and it never will.

GB relies on the old bootloader. It would be a lot of work to make it compatible, which isn't worth the trouble at all.

Ah that's a shame. spyrosk needs to have a look at that when he gets some free time.

You did a full wipe didn't you?

If you did it sound like an error in the fstab.

Your partitions are borked and you will have to use nvflash.

I'm sorry about that although I don't really know how you came to the idea to try the untested oldbl builds when you got no PC around to recover.

This could have even happened with the correct rom - again, it is completely untested.
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
I did the full wipe (I checked: I used the ext4 full wipe zip by dr4go for the old bootloader, as I usually do, using CWM 5.0.2.8)
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
[MENTION=3430536]trocopassu[/MENTION], [MENTION=2731014]SREEPRAJAY[/MENTION],

What edition of windows are you on? On my win7 x64 system and tonyp's win8 x64, the scripts are running with no errors.

Please extract in tools' folder the boot.img from a newbl cm-based rom.

Try to unpack and re-pack it only.

Open cygwin, change path to tools' folder, run these three commands:

./extractboot boot.img
ls -l out/ramdisk/charger
./packboot

Report the messages you get.

I just downloaded both newbl cm-10.2 and this oldbl-untested one.

All files listed in files2convert.txt (the ones existing in ROM of course) are converted as they should be.

Maybe something else is needed for cm-10.2 to work on oldbl. There is no oldbl working CM-10.2 for comparing, Is there?

So let's start with a ROM tested on both bootloaders. Tonyp's cm-10.1.

Please download tonyp's cm-10.1-newbl and convert it to oldbl.

Then flash it and report.

If you get same errors while converting, like trocopassu and SREEPRAJAY, I will upload a converted one, but later today after work.

As I wrote above, converted files are checked.

Maybe there is something we forgot and needed for cm-10.2 convertion.

Let's wait the results, for your cm-10.1, from flat__line.
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Hi! I've Win8 x32!

I'm not at home now, so I can't make a test :banghead:...I will do after

Thanks.:thumbup:

LG O2x[P990]@TapaTalkHD v1.4.3
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
[MENTION=4419327]spyrosk[/MENTION],

I am on win8 x64 and I will check and let you know after my work...

I have not only tried the CM 10.2 but also the CM 10.1 with Misjudgedtwat's ROM....it does not work, resulted in bootloop only

But, will try and let you know after work.

Thanks again tool guru [MENTION=4419327]spyrosk[/MENTION]
[LG Optimus 2x] derEremit:
convert2old_bl.sh : 163

let nkrnl=$(ls -1 kernels/oldbl-*|wc -l) >/dev/nul 2>/dev/nul

should be dev/null ??
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
Yes the typical linux is dev/null. I am not a linux expert sorry.

Anyway >/dev/nul serves it's purpose, to not show any messages, but it creates a file named nul under /dev

It will be changed in next version.

Thanks
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Well, I just finished doing test and this is the result...I hope that you may detect something, Buddy! Thanks for your response and interest
[LG Optimus 2x] derEremit:
Just to mention...

When not run as root a user script has no permission to create something in /dev. Thats how i discovered the error...
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
thanks

2nd command ls -l (-letter l not -number 1)

But it's ok.

the problem occurs when the charger is added from keep4newbl when converting to newbl.

Please give this command:

ls -l keep4newbl/charger

I get this:

-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators ???????? 248828 Aug 18 10:48 keep4newbl/charger

you?

Then do the same as before with these commands:

./extractboot boot.img
cp keep4newbl/charger out/ramdisk/charger
./packboot

Thanks for your help.
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Opssss ... I do not understand any of this, but something tells me that since I did not study as administrator?? [1 ????? Nenhum (NO)]

But yes I am, hehehehe

Tell me, Buddy, the remaining commands I do them with the previous files without deleting it?
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
[MENTION=4419327]spyrosk[/MENTION],

I have an suggestion....can we join together in gtalk.....where we can interact better?

but, I have just joined the party....and here is what I get:

Pradeep@SREEPRAJAY /cygdrive/d/LG O2X/ROM-Converter-tools

$ ls -l keep4newbl/charger

----------+ 1 Pradeep None 248828 Aug 18 13:18 keep4newbl/charger

So...waiting for the next... ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
OK...here you are!
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
So both of you have the same issue.

cygwin terminal sees it has no access on this file.

Try this:

Copy the whole keep4newbl folder in your "My Documents" (to inherit permissions from there), delete the one in tool's folder and move (cut n' paste) it back from "My Documents"

then run the ls command again and see if permissions changed
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
It shows the same thing again...but when I check the permissions, I have the rights of admin and user....
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Well, I copied the entire folder to the location you said (C: \ Users \??? \ Documents), then I deleted the folder from the original location (C: \ TEMP \ ROM-Converter-tools .)

Then I cut the folder keep4newbl of (C: \ Users \??? \ Documents) and pasted it into the initial location (C: \ TEMP \ ROM-Converter-tools)

The end result, after running the command (ls-l out / ramdisk / charger) was the same!!!...
[LG Optimus 2x] SREEPRAJAY:
Troco,

i am on gtalk and with tool guru [MENTION=4419327]spyrosk[/MENTION]....extract the whole thing in documents and do the exercise again....

it works now for me...I am converting now...lets see...fingers crossed
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Hmmm, you mean extract the content of ROM-Converter-tools.zip on My Documents folder?

OK...i will test!

Thanks:good:
[LG Optimus 2x] sephiroth225:
Thanks for this awesome tool ! Can you do it much easier for dummies like us ? Some GUI version could be nice !
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Well, after much insistence and banging my head against the wall, just pr verify that the solution was easy!! At least apparently.

Some time ago I changed the permissions on my computer and I went back to place as he had, which is why I now have had this, and other errors.

What I did was install TweakUAC and leave it OFF!...

Now we know that everything is operating??! ...

Thank you all
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
Just to report a new conversion successfully!

Now from OLD to NEW BootLoader...I will now test to see if everything is correct
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
From new to old ...

I've used the linux toolchain converting tonyp T04 newbl build to old bootloader:

the resulting rom boots (but it is unable to turn on wi-fi: I will shortly check that the oldbl by tonyp works correctly on the phone)

UPDATE1: the oldbl by tonyp boots regularly and activates wifi

UPDATE2: this is the set of files whose size differs between the original oldbl by tonyp and the result by the converting tool (don't if this can be useful)
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
At least it boots. That's great.

Regarding this set of files: The converted rom have the same files with the source newbl one. Do the comparison between these two and see.

Is it too much trouble for you, in this converted rom, to replace all modules in /system/lib/modules with the ones of last kowalski kernel 126?

and try flash it again?

Thank you in advance
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
Do I just drop them into the zip? Should the file kernels/....zImage match the file kernel/zimage in kk zip file?
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
New version 0.2b is uploaded

ChangeLog:

Version 0.2b Aug 22, 2013
-liblgeril.so is also replaced with the one for the oldbl or newbl accordingly.
-A forced removal (switch -f) added when removing files and dirs just in case.
-Converted ROM name will be built automatically from the source name suffixed by -oldbl or -newbl accordingly.
(If source rom's name contains 'newbl' or 'oldbl' it will be substituted by 'oldbl' or 'newbl' accordingly)
-Converted ROMs are now created under 'converted_roms' folder.
-Converting to oldbl: Files 'check_sdcard.sh' and 'lgdrm.img' are being removed if exist (as they are not used)
-Converting to newbl: Charger dependent images are also copied in ramdisk (not only the charger binary).
-Kernel modules will also be replaced with the ones coming with specific kernel image.
-Kowalski Kernel images & modules, in kernels folder, are replaced with latest ones dated:2013072013
(it was my fault, the previous ones were downloaded from "releases" download folder and were dated 20230303)
-Some changes in display messages.

Version 0.1b Aug 19, 2013
-1st beta version
[LG Optimus 2x] trocopassu:
:laugh::good:Thanks Buddy:good::laugh:
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
Great, thanks to spyrosk and to exec92 for pointing out the problem with the kernel version ...

Managed to convert latest CM10.2 newbl by tonyp to oldbl, booting fine with wifi, connected to my account.

Rebooted. But I get a message regarding internal sdcard

Blank SD card

UPDATE: When using the FileManager to access it I am told that the operation requires elevated permissions ...

and when I use Gallery it tells me no external storage (the one that I can actually browse with the file manager)??

Did I miss some important step?
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
I missed something. sorry

I will post here the new scripts to replace and retry.

Edit: Replace the scripts with the attached ones

Edit2: Whole package is uploaded as v0.3b
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
Working fine ... int/ext cards properly functioning! Thanks again and ... good night!
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
tonyp's CM 10.2 for the old bootloader

generated with spyrosk's tool is now available
[LG Optimus 2x] flat__line:
Cm10.2 old bl bluetooth...

I cannot pair: during input of the pairing code it 'disconnects'

Anyone else with the same problem?
[LG Optimus 2x] spyrosk:
!! New version 1.0 is now uploaded !!

After the 1st successful convertion, this can be the 1st released version.

Last changes:

- The two convert2xxx_bl.sh scripts are now integrated into one script convert_rom.sh.

- The new convert_rom.sh also accepts an optional switch [-stepmode].

./convert_rom.sh -stepmode #--> starts in step-mode for debugging purposes
./convert_rom.sh #--> runs unattended (with no pauses).

- A technique added to preserve whitespaces in converted lines. So converted files keep margins and whitespaces of the source ones.

- Script checks whether source rom is a newbl or an oldbl one, displays an error message if rom is not for the expected bootloader and exits.

It starts with this menu:

========================================

P990 ROM Converter v1.0

Converting script by SpyrosK

Converting info by TonyP

Date: Aug 23, 2013

========================================

Converts a ROM for the other bootloader.

Select the desired convertion:

----------------------------------------

1 - Convert ROM for OLD BootLoader

2 - Convert ROM for NEW BootLoader

X - Cancel

Please type your selection [1,2,X]: ​

and after making a selection it continues as you know it.

Cheers ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] gipigia:
Don't work for me. I've converted the last tonyp 10.2 and i have error 7 at the end installation.