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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
It seems to be hit and miss. Maybe Samsung are opening up slots a little at a time at certain intervals. Everyone will get the update eventually. Monday they will probably open up a lot more.

At any rate, we can still try and figure out how to update the baseband. Here are my MJ4 backups that I made right after taking the update.

This is ONLY the firmware and includes aboot, tz, rpm, sdi, sbl1, modem, and apnhlos.

The modem and apnhlos should be the baseband bits(flashing those two in theory should update you to the MJ4 baseband)--aboot, sdi, and sbl1 are bootloader related ... I think.

If someone wants to play around with them and figure something out, here you go:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17013328/MJ4FirmwareTest.zip

The zip is flashable, but for reference, here are where they write to:

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/aboot

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/tz

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/rpm

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/dbi

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/sbl1

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apnhlos

It appears as though the baseband partitions are either write-protected, only accept signature signed images, or simply flashes them back to previous firmwares from a hidden backup partition during the boot process.

Good luck guys!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] TuscaloosKen:
[MENTION=309990]freeza[/MENTION] I'm downloading your test zip right now and will report back. I accepted the MI5 update and installed it before I rooted my phone. If there is anyway I can help just let me know.

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No dice...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
I think a lot of the problem is is in the past there was no problem .. I bought my note 2 and had it rooted and a new rom on it within a day or 2 if release. No jumping through hoops.. it was soo nice . Having come from HTC where all we did was jump through hoops it was so nice.. I hate to think sammy is going that way. Nothing against the phone itself as it is awsome .. but these games are for the birds (in my opinion)..

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danweb66:
So what im doing right now is creating my own odin flashable .tar so that we can flash the files through odin I've been trying to do it through cygwin which sucks. so I am going to boot into ubuntu and make it there. so give me a little bit longer but this should work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Wacky2bakky:
sweet! will this update our baseband as well?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Is there a reason we are still worrying about this? I thought now that the official mi5 is on sammobile everyone who us messed up can just odin that and everything is good to go?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danweb66:
thats the goal. but when flashing a non samsung signed tar you will increase your flash counter. on a side note this was so much easier when rwilco used to make these oneclickodin files for us. oh well now I have to stop being lazy and do it myself fml:crying:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Joey121215:
Not a developer, so not sure if this would work, but if you're able to find wherever they're backed up to, couldn't we make it so the new firmware is flashed to both partitions, that way if it tries to restore the old firmware from the backup it'll just flash the new firmware
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 00_MACKIE_00:
Yeah, I believe all are heading this direction.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] LMMT:
I'm doing the same, just playing the waiting game. I 'think' I'm finally getting closer, though. I tried the # code to wipe my phone, and force hands free activation, and for the first time, I got a pop up saying something to the effect of "reporting firmware version to network", or something close to that. So, now after trying about 20 times, lol, at least the network knows I exist.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DruoGaby:
this is some region issue...hasnt reached mines yet
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] danweb66:
Well I was able to create the tar.md5 but the problem is odin does not like it one bit lmao. when it was just a .tar it would start but then would stop after verification fail. then after I made it into a .md5 odin just stops and shuts down immediately. says odin has stopped in an unusual way. so I dont know. I need to eat again and clear my head.

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also I dont know about it being a region thing because I know 2 people within 5 miles of me who recieved the update yesterday.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DruoGaby:
ok its not regional...serial number it goes by...suckss man!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
i managed to finally trigger it by flashing mi5stock

also managed to get root on mj4 without tripping knox.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46871333#post46871333
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gerald410:
Excellent I wish I could lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] drewiskee:
tried flashing firmware (mj4) test= no dice

tried flashing kernel(mj4) (boot.img) through terminal = no dice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] aCeMaN2001x:
Hey mjcollum do you know if the hot spot mod works on the new update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
Reports were no. But I haven't taken a look yet. I'll get to it shortly and post results.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 12MaNy:
Same steps freeza posted a page or two back....except I had to Odin MI5 twice to get it to stick, then triggered update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] argueta42:
I just tried to update and it finally went through... just FYI in case you guys wanted to start it up again...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] LMMT:
Alright, I checked for updates every hour, on the hour. I finally received my update at 12:01 am central time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gerald410:
Yeah mine is downloading now:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DruoGaby:
same here mines downloading now!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] piaa_nissan:
Just got my update @ 10:18 PM Pacific. Downgraded via odin on Saturday to MI3 followed by the OTA to MI5 and have been trying to get the update every since. Success!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DruoGaby:
im good now...just gonna root now and stay on stock till some issues are worked out with freezas rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] stereo386:
Seems like the link is live now it took for me rite at 4:45 am Eastern Time. And the call issues are gone as far as I can tell. Thanks to all the devs we have here at xda. Ur work is appreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 00_MACKIE_00:
I got it also...download it when I get on wifi

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Updated..finally...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cyclonut:
So if I'm stock rooted mI5, Knox counter tripped, twrp and only some apps frozen.

Can I Odin back to mI3 restore and let it update to mj4 then reroot?

Or is the Knox counter tripped a deal breaker in my case?

Swyped from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk Pro.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
I had to Odin mi5. Couldn't get update from mi3. But maybe was just me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] drewiskee:
was your Knox already tripped?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Soundwavblike04:
I was on stock rooted mi5 with twrp and knox counter tripped I powered down took out my sd card and then used odin v1.85 to flash the mi5 stock tar provided by joshbeach when I rebooted update was already downloading. Now I just gotta reroot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] drewiskee:
thanks for this info bro
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Soundwavblike04:
No problem and when I powered down I went into twrp and wiped everything except internal
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
I'm searching and can't find the Stock MI5 Tar that you're referring to. Can you please post a link?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rpenrod23:
From Josh's website here

http://server03.xdafileserver.nl/in...omination/SPRINT+GALAXY+NOTE+3/ODIN+TAR+FILES

Which you can follow links to from his thread here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2481510
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
That DL link is blocked here at work. I'll have to mess with this at home later. Thanks for the info though
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
So I am stuck. I can download the mj4 but upgrade fails with signature verification failure... here is what I did to get here

Odin mi5

Reboot

Created file for deja root and odined It

reboot

Copied file for root

Rebooted

Deleted files

Rebooted

Wanam official status

Reboot

Check for updates downloaded

Phone restarts to install update

Fails and restarts

Downloaded file and did not install upgrade instead went to recovery and manually installed upgrade and it reports signature verification failure..

Any thoughts

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 00_MACKIE_00:
Go straight from MI5 to MJ3... you can root or install a recovery after the MJ3 OTA:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
No. My knox still 0x0. However there are reports that mj4 has a modified bootloader and trying to downgrade back to MI3 -5 will flip knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
I assume you mean mj4.. how do you root mj4 without tripping knox

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 00_MACKIE_00:
What is the problem with tripping knox?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
It just makes me nervous.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] 00_MACKIE_00:
I tripped mine and ran the script with terminal...

Not sure what there is to be nervous about? you can always ODIN back to stock so the device status says Official. I am sure at some point the Knox deal with get worked out.

Just my 2 cents worth...

MACKIE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
When people fix rooted and tripped knox people had a lot of problens. No way if knowing if this was knox related. Rumor has it there will never be a way yo Un trip it. read Horror stories on the internet. Just would prefer not to if I do not have to. Not sure why I have to defend myself about this to you. Never asked for your 2 cents :) a time may come where I have to trip it or it accidently gets tripped and if that happens so be it.. but I would prefer not.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
That's kinda how I feel. If it trips no biggie. But if I can avoid it I will. You still having issues? Did you try and do.

Official mi5

Mi5 vega

SD card files

Then factory reset wipe cache in recovery. Check root and ota from there.

May also look into something called kingoroot heard it roots with no knox flip maybe someone tried on mj4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
What I dont understand about this whole KNOW thing is why does the device still show modified when I have completely removed all Knox related files???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
The knox flag. And the system status are unrelated. You can have one without the other.

Example with vega knox safe root you will get knox 0x0 but system status custom because of root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Yup still cannot take ota.. I did factory reset and still unable to install uograde. Root stayed (thankfully ) .. I was thinking of trying that.. I was thinking of going back to mi5 taking ota to mj4 and trying Kongo. But i want to make sure this upgrade is in fact mj4.. I dunno why it would fail..

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
So then it's the system status causing our devices to not update and not Knox if we have removed it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mjcollum:
I know for a fact the system status will prevent upgrade ota.

However when going from mi3 to mi5 I was able to do it with all knox files removed as long as system status was official. So knox should have no effect.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
I wonder if the SuperSU full unroot option will reset the device status rather than having to go and Odin back to stock and start from scratch. Or has anyone tried Triangle Away?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway&hl=en
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beandip-Javier:
tried what another member suggested, i was on mi5 with knox tripped,

turned off phone

removed sd card

booted into TWRP erased everything except internal x2

turn off phone and booted into odin

flash mi5 tar

phone did its thing and when it came back on the update was already downloading

now im on MJ4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] SantinoInc:
Yeah, but how do we restore a MI5 nandroid?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Compusmurf:
Ok, here's how I did that after MJ4.

Used the CF root method to root.

then used goomanager to install the latest TWRP

Then booted into recovery and restored my backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
I wonder if you can restore Data only so you will get all your settings and apps back?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Compusmurf:
I liked my personal custom rom so I wanted the whole thing back. I didn't want to redo everything! Seems like most of the fixes were in the firmware and not the OS.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rpenrod23:
I was on Freeza's stock rooted ROM. After Odin (twice) back to MI5, I accepted the OTA, re-rooted with Chainfire's auto root, used Goo manager to install TWRP, and then restored data withTWRP... All is well since
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] onemanruler:
Did this revert you back to mi3?

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For this use titanium back up great app to do just that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rpenrod23:
Nope. I neglected to mention that I also removed my SD card prior to doing a factory reset and flashing MI5 Tar upon the recommendation of several others. I've seen no issues
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] onemanruler:
Nice Thanks for the reply I'll try this my self when I get home.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rpenrod23:
Good luck :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] SantinoInc:
That's what I attempted to do after I got MJ4. However, when I flashed CF root it was frozen in ODIN for a couple minutes so I decided to pull the plug. At that point I thought I bricked my phone because MI3 and MI5 tars would not flash through odin.

On someone's advice I flashed TWRP via ODIN and that got me to boot into stock unrooted MJ4. That is where I stand right now. What should I do?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Frizzanko:
I ran into that issue. I simply ran CF again, and it worked. Give it a shot. It worked for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] anthony67:
According to Android Police, the Knox SDK has been released by Samsung.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...d-updated-sdks-at-their-developer-conference/

Scribbled from my Galaxy Note 3.

Stock, rooted, hacked, beastly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cyclonut:
Ok..I followed the steps several people have done and I get "can't get updates" your system has been modified.

I was stock rooted MI5 with knox flag at 1..

Wiped all except internal...

Removed sd card...

Flashed through odin the MI5 restore from Josh's site...twice...

System boots back fine and starts downloading and updating apps but when I go to software updates...says modified...

What did I miss?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beandip-Javier:
not sure if it makes a difference but i removed ext. card before wiping
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cyclonut:
I actually did that before wiping just wrote the order wrong...

Still scratching my head at this point.

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Does yours under settings, general, about device, status, device status..says custom after your MI5 restore?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Beandip-Javier:
[MENTION=1843473]Cyclonut[/MENTION] before I Odin backed to stock mi5 i was stock rooted on mi5 with status custom knox tripped at 1

after using Odin3-v1.85 i did the following

turned off phone

removed card

boot into TWRP wipe everything except internall x 2

removed battery and booted into download move

Odin the stock mi5 it took a bit and phone restarted,

after the phone compeletely restarted i skipped the add google account and the MJ4 update was already downloading so i didnt get a chance to check the status at that time.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cyclonut:
Thats pretty exactly how I have been doing it...I am gonna try the battery pull and see what happens...can't hurt at this point.

thanks for the reply :good: I'll give it another go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ifly4vamerica:
Try doing a factory reset with stock recovery after the first Odin flash to mi5. Then continue on as before, you should be good to go.

Note 3 or Gear Sent
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Sameh Amnoun:
I root my phone as a thread

In the site but when I use root Explorer to edit permissions of some

Folders ex: system it says Warning

Permissions change was not successful. Please note that some file systems

(E. G. SD cars) do not allow permission changes

Also I use root Explorer as r-w
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
you rooted your phone as a thread?

what does that mean?
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] TripRex:
No some permissions are unable to change because it is for safe purposes because you might screw up your phone if you change the permissions or there is a duplicate file of it
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Sameh Amnoun:
Sorryyyyyyyy for confusing you by not describing the way that I rooted the phone with

I ROOTED the phone by

1.put the phone in download mode

2. Flash CWM by ordin

3. put the phone in recovery mode

4.install zip superuser 3.1.1 arm. Zip

And I want to edit permissions of system folder to copy files to system/bin
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
ok... i think there is a newer one in development section, with superuser 3.1.3

but i don't know if that is the problem, anyway you can redo the whole process of rooting, starting with flashing stock or you can change the app

i use root explorer and it works nicely, never had a problem with it

another thing you can try is flashing a custom rom, maybe its a firmware problem
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] Sameh Amnoun:
May you tell me a nice custom room
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] ShadowsDie:
stock based: inspiration v17.3

AOSP: CM by TheWhisp
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Connorelsea:
Hello,

I am currently have an HTC One V on Virgin Mobile and was wondering if it would be possible to acquire a Samsung Galaxy SIII on Verizon and make it work as a functioning phone on the Virgin Mobile network. If you could assist me in doing so or point me in a direction where I could find out more about the process then that would be great.

I am already familiar with rooting and flashing custom ROMs. My HTC One V runs Cyanogenmod 10.1. But I do not know what I would necessarily need to do to get a different phone running on Virgin Mobile with my phone number and data, etc.

Thanks for your help,

Connor Elsea
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Connorelsea:
Bump

Bump. If anyone could just tell me what to search for, or even how to get started on trying to figure this out, that would be great. Thanks!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] birt:
Hi everyone,

First I'd like to thank everyone for the info shared here about all the bluetooth stacks and how to disable/replace them, which has helped a lot to finally solve my problem.

I'm posting this in case there is someone with a similar Qtek S100 (as sold in Belgium) issue, to make their experience a bit smoother. I'm just outlining the procedure, for full details, search for the relevant posts as that's why there is a search function :-)

1. Do a backup, in case you make a mistake. In some post someone recommended Sprite Backup, I went with that and it's quite ok.

2. Do another backup, just in case :-)

3. Search this forum on how to disable the default MS bluetooth stack, and then disable it. (Duh :-))

4. Search this forum on how to install the Bluesoleil stack, and install it. It has a 60-day limitation, but there's a file posted somewhere to get around that limitation.

(I tried the toshiba stack too, didn't work for me)

5. You should now have a BT icon again, tap it and open 'Bluetooth Manager'. Turn on your BT GPS, set up pairing and create an SPP link. When connected, check the properties to find out the COM port for the connection.

6. Start tomtom5 and find the GPS preferences. Depending on your BT GPS receiver, pick 'other bluetooth gps' and select the COM port from step 5, or pick 'Cable-NMEA-GPS' and select the COM port from step 5. For the Dectel BT gps, it's the latter one.

7. And there was much rejoicing.

Hope this helps. Greets,

Birt

p.s.: people with tom tom 5 stability issues should try an upgrade to 5.1 - it worked for me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espana897:
Good, i have a blu dash 3.5d170 and would like to know if any cm9 rom or if this device the support
[Sony Smartwatch] MO3iusONE:
I was wondering if there were any decent note apps for the phone. I just ordered one off Amazon. I use to use my iPod nano as a note app. I would write down notes and save them and jpgs and load them on my nano to see them through the gallery. Just wondering if there's an easy way of loading notes or writting notes on this here watch.
[Sony Smartwatch] jschall:
My suggestion: Smartnote

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.smartwatch2.smartnote

This is a dedicated note-writing app for Android that posts your selected notes to the SmartWatch 2 The advantage over SmartWatch Note Extension (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.simthing.weardevice.sony.smartwatch.notes) is that it syncs with the phone/tablet notes, so you don't have to re-send and delete following an edit. The disadvantage is that it doesn't sync with a web app like Google Keep.
[Sony Smartwatch] MO3iusONE:
sweet, this might work. I will have to check this out once I get my Smartwatch, thanks!
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Sahaab:
Well i am here with another port from the Z1

I have ported the Z1 tasks app

Bugs:

- FC when going back a screen

- - Hence FC when

- - - Moving back from task screen

- - - Saving Task (Tho Task saves)

- - - Deleting Task (Tho Task Deletes)

All bugs will be hopefully fixed soon

I have implemented the library file needed into the app

If you like this port please press thanks and maybe consider donating for my hard work, it took 35 hours + to port this, porting is not an easy task, so to encourage me to work harder, plz donate

Instructions:

- Download and install as normal apk

ChangeLog:

- Initial Release

Download Link:

Tasks App
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Sahaab:
Screenshots:
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Sahaab:
-RESERVED-

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[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] alinolaw71:
tanx alot bro.i want chang my phone but your works help me for save my mony.

and bro make black font;)

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[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Sahaab:
Thnx and link added

New email app and new home will be coming up soon

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[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] adamka13:
New Home ?? :eek: :D
[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] Sahaab:
Ya 6.0.2.A.0.13

But this will take time as it requires atleast 60 hours of work

And that with bugs

I wonder whats new in the new home

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[Xperia Arc Themes and Apps] alinolaw71:
tanx so much.we are wating..and testing and say tanx to u.if i can donat to u of course do this but paypal page remove my cntry.

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