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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
This is my fourth Samsung Android device, and you'd think I'd be beyond brilliant noob moves... but apparently not.

I got TWRP recovery installed on my device fine (Sprint SPH-L600)... but, since I saw this phone is a Tri-Band, I assumed that it was more or less identical regardless of provider (yeah... I know already... don't say it)

So now I'm looking for my old factory firmware to Odin back in because now my Samsung message just sits on my screen after boot animation.

All I wanted was root... which I managed to find after it was too late... so if I can get back to stock I'm good.

Anybody out there have any ideas on downloading the stock firmware again. I see the customs that are out aren't fully working yet... and all I was really missing with stock was hot spot and root access. I can live w/o hotspot and usb tether for now, and I solved my root issue.

Thanks in advance for any help.

B
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Im in same boat as your I soloved it by cwm recovery install silent rom temporarily it worked , now till we get hands on the stock usa version sprint rom, for those who have sprint galaxy mega 6.3 dont do rooting yet till someone figure out a safe way to root sprint version

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Correction its silentlight rom but no lte or 3g works grrr!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Hmmm

Maybe all we need is some kind soul to make a nand backup of his stock firmware and post that back? Not sure. One of the drawbacks of being the first on your block with the new toy? I think so...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Yea right sprint mega is not the same rom as att or verzion!

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One thing is if you had checked about and seen the firmware info what prefix is that for usa region?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] stinger4321:
How is lte working on this phone? Have the lg g2 and there are serious issues with sprints spark....
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
LTE Performance

Well... off topic, but I boot-looped the phone the first day that I got it... so not a great idea about how it runs on the network. My old phone (Epic4GT) was WiMax and it occasionally had 4g (and was fast when it did...). Sprint is phasing out WiMax in the coming months so I wanted an LTE. BUT... as far as I've observed so far, I NEVER had a 4G connection. Missing in the setup screens is the traditional "4G switch", but you can switch selection between CDMA and LTE/CDMA/Evo (among others)... and I tried toggling in and out of the LTE option and it never indicated to me 4GLTE on the notification area. Again, though... I only had it running for a short time, so I could have missed something. Really hoping someone antes up a stock firmware somehow so I can get on with trying it out for real. (to bring it back around to originating topic)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] stinger4321:
I think for now you can only pickup the 1900mhz lte until sprint updates the APN with logon info for the other bands. Though you won't see 800mhz for a few years they are converting the wimax towers over to ltd so you will get that once the APN works
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
I finbaly got the phone mode working but stilk at 1x instead of 3g hmmmm
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Tri-Band information

I actually read this morning that the S4 Mini is the only one (of the 4 sprint phones that will get Spark LTE) that is actually functioning. They are planning on doing OTA updates to enable it in the other three in the coming months. As for the 800 MHz broadcast... it's not WiMax, but actually the old Nextel hardware that their going to use. So for now, unless you have the S4 Mini, don't plan on using your 4G or Spark at all until Sprint updates your phone OTA.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Firmware Version Anyone?!?

So I found some other stock firmware for the Mega on different carriers by searching the actual firmware build number. Is there anyone out there with a Sprint Mega who would be willing to look into their phone info to see what the build number is on your firmware and pass that along in this thread please?

Thanks so much in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
You da man!

Thanks dude! Exactly what I was looking for. Much appreciated...

Err... I take that back. I thought I was bright enough to figure out how to solve my problem with that information... but I'm just not that smart, darn it.

Any techier types out there who can tell me what I can do with this info (not THAT!)... I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction. I guess for me the only way I can think to get back running again is to get the L600VPUAMI6 Firmware so I can flash it with Odin again... but I can't find it posted anywhere and (as stated before) I brilliantly neglected to do a nandroid backup of my stock setup before flashing the new firmware (wrong model).

Alternatively, if anyone has a stock SPH-L600 and could make a nandroid backup of all the pretinent files I did figure out how to write that into an "update.zip" (from a helpful online primer...) so I can plunk that in with recovery... but I haven't had any takers yet with the backup intact (for my model).

So I'll keep trying to figure it out I guess.

Of course any help is welcome.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
For those planning to roit it please perform a nandroid backup there are apps in google playstore that not need root espically the boot.img! Id want anyone upload virgin sprint stock rom itll help us get back to working normally you can link the uploaded file here
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
fyi.... you can always go to any sprint store and find that one and go in setting,more,about phone and take a snapshot of that revision including kernel version with your camera phone and post the pic in here simple?

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It has dawned on me that why no 3g or lte is bec the roited boit.img made by other mega from diffrent carrier is not the same kernel version so what I would do is use the boot.ing and extract it theb build a kernel with correct version and make a new boit.img it should restore it the config is very specfic about this model ive done mune on htc evo 4g and it worked like charm what I need is for someone who has stock rom and note the kernel version and adb pull /proc/config.gz and send that to me?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Firmware Version

I actually had done what you suggested yesterday (sort of... since I'd already upgraded my old phone to the Mega, I don't actually have a [working] camera phone at the moment)... so I did it the old fashioned way... pen and paper.

The firmware version for the Sprint version is L600VPUAMI6 (that's a capital "I", like in Ice Cream... not a 1).

I still can't find it, even though I now know the version number. Still hoping someone may post it up here. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
The kernel version is really 3.4.0 with build number appended yeah I looked at it in sprint store I noticed in phone satus it should show imei and network status saying evdo,3g ... hmm mine didnt shows so I suspect the sim card or efs protected folder is screwed fyi the sim card I cant figure out how to remove it bec it dies have inei is printed so if those who have mega please use efs pro to back it up!

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Also those have stock boot imge in mega is pull up /proc/config.gz by mean of adb pull and id like to get that file for compiling kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Running wrong rom (sort of...)

Learned a little more last night. Apparently Samsung has a arrangement with Best Buy (learned in chat w/ a Samsung tech). You can take your Samsung phone in and they can reflash it w/ stock rom again. You lose everything you had installed - but my phone was brand new, so I wouldn't lose anything really. The caveat is that they have to HAVE the rom in there proprietary system. They still DON'T have the SPH-L600, so I remained out of luck getting the stock rom. I don't know if they have the T-mobile rom.

What I HAVE ended up doing is putting an I9205 rom in (Cassie's XtraLite?) and "most" of my phone is working again. No 3G (or 4G), but phone works and wifi works... so it's limping along. Going to play w/ Kies today to see if it can figure the phone out, now that it's actually booting. It appears that, like Best Buy, Kies still doesn't have access to the factory rom (online) yet. I may just try to flash some of my old modems onto this and see if I can wake up the 3G if Kies doesn't come up with a complete package.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Will they charge to reflash it? Thanks for the info i was afraid not take it to sprint store for voiding warranty if they find out

So...

About kies, i have trouble with it not reonizing my phone no matter what drivers are properly instalked either kies or kies3 so what gives?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Ive got info from one of xda user that successfully rooted his sprint mega with lte working im going get him to back up the stock rom and hopeflly he agrees to....
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Best Buy

They tried to flash my rom (no luck...didn't have the SPH-L600 rom available to their proprietary software [SMART?]... he even called Samsung and they said it's not available yet - have to wait until they distribute it I guess). Anyhow, they didn't charge or say anything about charging. Maybe they have the T-Mobile... not sure on that one.

BTW... Finally got Kies to understand which firmware I wanted (have to ask "case sensitive", i.e. sph-l600 doesn't work... SPH-L600 does!) Then only to have Kies say it doesn't support flashing that rom yet (lol - I detect a theme here, i.e. play the waiting game until either Samsung releases it, or an actual Sprint tech has a heart and leaks the rom so we can get back to stock).

For now still limping along mocking an i9205 w/ Cassie's XtraLite custom rom - no 3G or 4G (or data of any kind). Phone works... so does wifi.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
That cassies's rom is missing email app sigh

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The rom gas to be sprint specfic king not tmobile or att bec of lte the tmobile uses diffrent kind of lte and also the bootloader is specfic for this model and must be paired with the boot.img for lte driver for specfic carrier
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Got a snapshot of about phone from sprint store gotcha!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
News flash new sprint firmware update is version mk1 that replaces inital version ml6 it has new lte ui enchancements any one got it and try copy that from sdcard dir to ....
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
I have the open source files...

Okay... I found the open source files for the kernel and platform for both the MI6 and MK1 builds...they even came with instructions on how to compile to load into the phone... but alas, I'm not Linux proficient enough to follow the directions (seems there are some details missing that perhaps someone a little keener on Linux might catch, and be able to supply the missing data). I don't know the difference between a "target" and a "rule" when I'm just typing in what some instruction is telling me to do... so when my attempts to compile Bork, I just stop and wish I hadn't done so much LDS in the sixties (chuckle if you catch that one...).

I'll keep looking/trying if you will. Sounds like the MK1 update came out OTA? Maybe I'll hit up Best Buy again and see if they've got ANYTHING to flash yet. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Rwally? Where did u find the source file? Mine is MI6 havent update ut because of borked stock rom that I backed up all I do is replace incorrect boot.img with the one from stock boot.img that have kernel version 3.4.0-1708610 YES FASHIFY CAN BACK UP THE boot.img to sdcard in linux user and have done compiled kernels on pc and used it on my htc evo 4g no problem

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Perhap you dont want ti do cwm back up the rom and zip it up and upload it for us to be able to recovery it? Thats easy
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
MK1 Source

Source was on opensource.samsung.com I think. Looks like they are ALL there, so takes some filtering to get to the one you want.

I'm uploading the MK1 zip to my mail's file server and I'll share it here for a time until someone successfully compiles it (and sends me a copy - :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Anehab:
A little Late

II guess i didnt do ENOUGH research before trying to root my mega. I have the same phone from sprint. And im in the same exact predicament. Except i cant get passed the boot screen. At least i can sleep now knowing there isnt much i can do for this. I have friends that write this type of code so ill give them the opensource file. Other than that. Can i have you img file so i can at least use wifi for my phone. Im so sand and frustrated about this whole ordeal, after the fact that i bought this phone after my iphone 5 broke. so now im stuck with a bricked phone...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Ouch! For you too I went through same thing with bad instruction from mega 6.3 from other carrier it is not the same mega as sprint diffrent boot loader and rom rendering my sprint meha with a stuck "samsung" bootlogo and I flashed simon's gt1905 rom and it killed my lte! For now im limping in acient 1x so I belive it is special bootloader for this sprint phone only way is reflash it with orginal sprint mi6 version the vrrsion mk1 is an upgraded version
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Good news

Best Buy successfully flashed my rom last night. I'm not back up and running on MK1, no less. Did the kingo root and had no problems rooting... now just to enable the hotspot and I'm all good.

I'm going to nandroid my rooted stock and put it up this weekend for those who are stuck like I was. Alternatively, just go to the Samsung counter in your local Best Buy. Assure them that there IS a download for the Sprint Mega (I had to wait 90 minutes or so for him to download it - but he was super cool about the whole thing - connection speed is hardly his fault). He even saw I had a custom bootloader (TWRP) and asked why I didn't have CWM... but that was basically all the grief he gave me over my debacle.

So either swallow your pride and go to the store, or just look for a download link this weekend from me in this thread.

Werd.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Did they charge you for that? And is the rom they flashed is a sprint version?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
News fkash! Mk1 is up at sammobile.com/firmwares under sph-l600 unfortunatley no mi6 version dang it
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Good news I flashed the mk1 version and it now works and lte is back working but wifi keeps turning offf hmmmm.....
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
soo.... major issue with wifi as in stuck wont stay on in this mk1 rom so i really need a nandroid backup copy from someone with mi6 version pm for dropbox or google download link
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Bad news , since wifi not work and 3g shaky I decided to swallow the pill and unrooted it and had bootloader back to orginal offical before taking it to sprint store they tried to reflash it with original and wifi still not work so good news im getting a replacement one this friday
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
All right im vack to stock sprint mi6 and backed it up but will not post it till I remove the efs folder bec it contains my imei id
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] professorfoxx:
Not trying to get off topic but if you use odin and download this version, you should be golden. I have the same model and bricked my phone trying to root with methods not meant for sprint and after hours of being pissed, I found the stock firmware and installed using odin. All is well and phone is back to stock. use this site: samsungis.com/download/SPR-L600VPUAMK1
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
That one I used did screw up wifi rendering it useless ....

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Safest way to root using kingo root
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Are the firmware 20mb update mk1 savfe to do without screwing up wifi like it did to mine resulted in new replacement mega
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vwbug2007:
Any q before I take a dive into update to mk1? Cause nobody tell me its wifi safe?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] jsimonson0:
nm
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Jahcrist:
MK1
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] bdepompa:
Help

Hello, Like many of you i followed instructions that were not meant for the sprint model. I tried adding nav bar but accidentally replaced my systemui.apk without making a copy. now I'm in a constant force close. Could any of you post a copy of your systemui.apk and systemui odex? I replaced one and deleted the other in my attempts to follow the thread. Im not too tech savvy but i think if i undo what was done i could make my phone usable again. Any kindhearted soul willing to help? Im willng to pay at this point. btw im on mk1
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moosiemooses:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pzx4v152anoia6c/SystemUI.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Tucker4769:
hotspot

How do i use the hotspot on my sprint galaxy mega.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blohman:
Really?

Subscribe at Sprint and pay for it (for now).
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ashikrobi:
Corrupted my efs partition

I programmed my SPH-L600 few days ago with dfs cdma tool. I was trying to unlock gsm sim but failed. Yesterday i was playing with radio in dfs. I just pressed read range and then write range in dfs cdma tool. Now my efs is corrupted and cannot fix it because i don't have any backup. Now signal gone and when i press status of esn in dfs it shows nvi, dps but null at efs. Even imei was gone. I wrote imei with dfs but when i tap *#06# in my phone, it shows only meid. Please someone help to fix this issue. Can anyone post ur factory efs pls. I m not professional but i believe i can fix this issue with your help.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Frezi Evan:
I think you may be want to wish sprint hotspot..

Here you can found how to set-up it in your model..

http://eguides.sprint.com/support/e...l#samsung_galaxy_s_iii_ug/sprint_hotspot.html
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Ura535:
we can share this firmware L600VPUAMI6?

I have been unable to find it:crying:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Rolldog:
I've had my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 WiFi 2014 Edition for about 2 weeks now, and I've been consistently having problems where the device boots, passes the screen which reads Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, it goes through the sequence of pulling up the Samsung logo (the blue wave makes it's circle), and then it either sticks right there or constantly reboots. I can't find anywhere how to do a soft reset so my only option has been to do a factory hard reset. Since I've had the device, this happens approx every other day. The first time this happened, it happened right after installing Nova Launcher, so after the reset, I re-installed everything except Nova. Same thing happens again. Most recently, I thought it was happening because I was moving some of my apps to the SD card. After resetting it again, I didn't move anything to the SD card, and the problem continued. I've tried everything except using it in the condition it comes in out of the box. Does anyone know of any incompatibility issues with any software? I have quite a few apps installed, so if anyone knows of any incompatibility issues please let me know. I'm not sure if I need to return it or if it's a software related issue.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Dusko75:
Check my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46696727

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[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Rolldog:
Thank you! At this point, I thought I had tried everything. Hopefully this works. I'll repost whether it does or not.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Rolldog:
Since my last post, I've had no more problems. Some people said moving apps to the SD card would do it, others said to turn off Wifi scanning. Well, I've done both and hopefully it keeps working. I did notice in the manual I downloaded from Samsung's website is it said the SD card should only be used to store music and such on, which is a shame because I bought the 16GB knowing I was going to put a 32GB microSDHC card in it. I bought the Nexus 10 before this one and returned it within 2 days. I've been using Samsung's products since they were originally released, and I won't use anything else. I hope Samsung figures out a way for me to move some of my apps to the SD card so I can free up some internal memory. I think they released it when they did knowing it wasn't working and knowing they can send out an update later. They just needed some new products out on the market before AAPL and also to makeup for the missed growth assumptions on their other products. They have to do whatever they can to keep their earnings around expectations.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] snake2332:
You know how you can move apps to SD card from within Application Manager? That doesn't move it to the microSD card - it moves it to /sdcard/ on internal memory. Android mounts a folder on the internal memory as /sdcard/, while your actual microSD card is mounted as /mnt/extSdCard/. It's been like this since ICS came out 2 years ago and seems kind of dumb to me. I guess apps can have issues if they rely on the microSD card, so to avoid that, they cripple the ability to install apps onto microSD cards without using a 3rd party app.

The solution for most of us is to use an app known as Folder Mount. I am using it on my Galaxy S4 and my Note 10.1 (2014). It basically creates an alias, or pointer, from one folder to another, tricking the operating system. For instance, most larger games put the bulk of their data in /sdcard/android/data/obb/, which is on the internal memory (of which you only have 9gb on a brand new 16gb Galaxy S4). You can set up a mount in Folder Mount very easily for this folder. You just create new mount, browse for source folder, then choose 'yes' when it prompts you to automatically create the destination folder on /extsdcard/, then 'yes' again to move data in existing folder. Using this method, I have over 30GB of apps installed on my 16GB Galaxy S4 and still have plenty of room to spare on the 64gb microSD card. The only problem I've seen from moving the whole /obb/ folder is that some apps that try to open themselves at start-up will fail and cause a boot-loop because the app is missing its data because it tries to start before Folder Mount has a chance to mount the alias. You can do this with a few other folders that tend to grow over time and you'll never run out of room on that 16GB device! All you need is root. And if you get boot-loops from moving /obb/, eject your microSD to stop the boot-loop then install Autorun Manager and disable startup for any apps whose data you moved with Folder Mount. Hope this makes sense, and good luck!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] Rolldog:
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S4 and a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition as well. I also have a Galaxy S3, Galaxy Tab 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, and a Google Nexus 8. When it comes to rooting, I got a bad taste in my mouth when I tried rooting my Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. I tried rooting it using Odem and it gave me tons of problems afterwards. If I knew of a way to root some of my devices that were trouble free, I'd be more than willing. I hate the fact that the wireless carriers lock the phone where you can only use their software/applications. Can you refer me to a thread that discusses how to root, the best way to root the device, the best ROM flash, etc? I'm note sure which device I would root first, but since I don't use my Samsung Galaxy S3 or my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 (which was purchased through AT&T), I would probably start with those. I just don't know the best way to do it, because apparently, the last time I tried rooting the Skyrocket, I had nothing but trouble.