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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] MeatHammer311:
I have searched.

I have looked everywhere for a root for my mega on 4.4.2 it is not possible. And if I am wrong please point me in the right direction so I can get root! I need it badly!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
First of all.... you don't have a Completely locked Bootloader like Verizon and AT&T do right? If you don't then try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53608952&postcount=20

Now this was the method I used and suggested for Sprint L600 owners on NE4 KitKat so if it works for you, great. If not then I don't know what to tell you. Again try at your own risk.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] MeatHammer311:
US Cellular..

I have the SCH-R960 version of this phone from us cellular. Its a CDMA phone. I am not sure if the boot loader is locked. I cant not find any info on this model to let me know either way. I love this phone but need help on figuring out either way what my options are. I uploaded the stock boot.img to the bounty thread on here but past that I cant do much else because of the lack of root. I don't want to brick it as it is the only phone I have and can not get a replacement without it costing me a lot. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Goosemeister:
MeatHammer, RELAX..You're like a flea on a hot BRICK..It's not like your phone is going to self destruct without root. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] MeatHammer311:
kd0wvn helped me last night to get root on my R960 using philz touch recovery. He knows what he's doing! If you have any questions about this model and root process just ask him. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
So basically you can obtain root just like I had linked you from my post as well...............

Glad you got root. :good:

For info, you can swap between TWRP and PhilZ all you want til your hearts content.

Flash TWRP like you wanted, make a backup, then flash PhilZ over TWRP just in case TWRP didn't already flash SuperSU/superuser for you to gain Root when exiting/rebooting. ( Wont hurt to try it ) . Then install the SuperSU/superuser apk from the market and update binaries. That's it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] MeatHammer311:
I didn't mean to take anything from you. We all appreciate your work here! Thank you for what you have done as well!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] wallywallywally:
I have the SPH-L600 running 4.2.2 as it came from Sprint.

I have it rooted running TWRP as the Recovery and as far as root goes, it's working perfectly.

My only complaint is, the Bluetooth connection sharing doesn't work with any device. I don't know if pre-root Bluetooth worked. I don't use phones very long with rooting them.

I pair, tell the phone to Bluetooth tether and tell the device to Bluetooth network. It all looks like it's working. But it isn't. I can't TCP connect out anywhere.

What's wierd is, DNS resolution works on the tethered device. I can run ping and get the ip address of something like "yahoo.com" but, the ping icmp packets fail and general network connections fail too.

I used to have a Note 2 and Bluetooth tethering worked flawlessly

For this reason alone I want to upgrade to 4.4.2 and see if it works but I don't want to risk getting KNOXed on my ass.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] joem789:
Kingo didnt work for me no matter how many times I tried it. But the older version of Odin worked like a charm.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
I cant get anything to work can anyone help me
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
;) Nothing taken, this method has been out for a while now.

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When you say, "anything to work" ...... please explain.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
It means I have been unable to get any method to work. I would love some assistance.

I have limited access to a windows computer so finding something that works with ubuntu would be best but I will take anything I can get.

My phone is running 4.4.2
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
Have you tried JOdin3 yet? As quoted from the CASUAL-Dev from the well known Adam Outler " The major notable difference between JOdin3 and Odin3 is that JOdin requires, and offers to obtain, a PIT file before flashing."

Pretty neat as I have tried it several times. This is how I get my PIT files for my phones as well. The Download Links are at the bottom of the the page in the link.

http://casual-dev.com/2014/01/04/jodin3-web-browser-or-offline-flashing-tool/

XDA Thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49133090
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
it seems that the pit file it downloads is corrupt? twice so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
Weird..... I know it was giving me an error when I would try to download my pit but after I updated my libUSB it was all good. How big is your pit file? Are you using JOdin3 or the Heimdall Frontend? I used the Frontend to get my pit.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
I have no clue, dont know anything about pit files

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the error message says the file was corrupt. could it have to do with the password prompt that comes up? im like what password does this want?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
Well Ubuntu or any variation, like when needing access to root, will prompt you for your password. The password is the same one that you use to log into when performing sudo commands in the terminal and wanting to install certain programs. That is why it is needed when setting up Linux, so no one can make major or fatal changes to your system.

In order for programs, let's say JOdin3, Heimdall or even Odin in Windows you need to either have "root" access ( this being for JOdin3 ) and "sudo" command in the terminal ( this for heimdall-frontend ) which is also root. Same goes for Odin in Windows, you need to run it as an Administrator.

If you don't you will get prompts for access which delays the process which can or may cause errors when performing certain tasks.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
ok that is the password i used but it still didnt work. I am kinda bumming.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
I dual boot on my Netbook/Laptop and use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

JOdin I use r1066 Linux64

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Heimdall I use the Ubuntu 13.04 1.4.0-0 amd64 with or without frontend &/or Suite-1.4.0

They both look different. I used Heimdall to extract my pit.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] tatmark1:
I am on the same but i dont dual boot. I was so hopingwhat you told me to do would work.

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any way you can guide me thru it?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] DarkAngel:
Check you PM.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] deorlando:
SPH-L600 Galaxy Mega

Greetings:

I have a galaxy mega sph-l600 with the build L600VPUANA7 and using 4.2.2 and I want to use that Sprint phone in Net10. I've being seeing lots of tricks and tips for i9025 and others but I haven't seeing anything that could help me unlock or use Net10 in my phone. Can someone point me in the direction I need to Unlock my phone and use it in other carrier.

Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] juggamonkey:
Hey I flashed dirty unicorns and had no 3g data im flashed to verizon straight talk 3g though and rotatiom was backwards ..hope we fix issue soon im ready for aosp on my mega
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] blackbirdsinging:
A friend of mine has the same phone and has asked me to find a way of rooting it- anybody able to help? It appears that 4.2.2 has some KNOX software, but I can't find the actual application on his phone.

edit 9-19-14 Shortly after the previous post I decided to get a Mega, knowing full well that if it was my phone I'd have the motivation to figure it out, plus I would risk bricking anything on my friend's phone. I was successfully able to root using Kingo.

NOTE:

if you're rooting with Kingo on this device (SPH-L600), you need to turn off the screen lock timeout!

During the root process, the phone began restarting every two-three minutes. It was never unresponsive, it always turned on fully and worked properly the whole time the screen was on with no restarts. Eventually I realized it was restarting only when the screen timed out and the lock came on. As soon as I turned that off, it finished rooting within just a few minutes.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] mash4077fan:
I was able to root my sprint mega running 4.4.2 with odin and then i used twrp manager from playstore to put recovery on it. I can get into recovery but nothing seems to work. I wanted to backup my current setup but when i do it starts for about 1 second then it goes back to the main twrp screen. If you hit the menu button on the bottom it shows a message that there is some problem with the stock kernel . Anyways I was wondering if anyone has had this problem and if so what did you do to fix it. I even tried to just wipe cache to see if it would do just that and when i swipe for it to go, it starts for a second and then goes back to main screen.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaintDaniel:
Hello, i want to extarct the ROM from my moms S4 any way to do that? and i preffer a way that wont damage the device or any data on it i just need a copy of the ROM
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
What exactly are you wanting to achieve by doing that ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
The only way I know is to make a backup on her phone in CWM and then restore it on yours.

Pointless though.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: extracting a rom

What's the point in doing that?

If your mom's phone has a stock rom in it right now, why not just download the stock rom

from SamMobile.com ?

If your mom's phone has some custom rom in it, why not simply download the same

custom rom which you can find here in xda ?

Or perhaps you just want to spy on your mom and see all her texting, email and phone numbers? LOL
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaintDaniel:
My moms S4 has a modem that works well in israel the i9505 works badly if its bought not from sanny ( a i9505 supplier ) and my is a T mobile from the states so yes getting her rom would work best for me and i couldnt get to copy her modem to the PC always stops before starting like its blocked or something
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger4740:
Ummmm you should make sure that its not an i9500 if it is that will explain why it doesn't seam to be as good I think.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skipjacks:
Hers is a different model than yours. The ROMs are interchangeable but the modems are not. You cannot use a 9505 modem on a t mobile 919. Besides, the modem isn't part of the ROM so backing up her ROM wouldn't let you move the modem to your phone.

Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaintDaniel:
They are both the same phone I installed lots of different ROMs and they all work except it still drops calls when I'm on 3G+
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigbabyjesus:
Yeah but extracting/flashing a ROM on the s4 will not change the modem. Modem can only be changed with Odin or heimdall and flashing the wrong modem=bad news. If you're asking how to extract a ROM to fix modem issues you probably shouldn't be playing with your modem... but here you go.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2324667
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaintDaniel:
Dude i live in israel why give me T mobile antenas?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigbabyjesus:
Well, there are a plethora of modems in there. Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada for a few different firmwares. I don't know what exact phone or baseband you have but I linked that for the reading about modems.
[PAC Q&A] speedsolve:
Hi guys,

How do you overclock on pacman rom? I have a galaxy nexus on android 4.3.1 and i want to overclock but no kernel supports it. Can anyone give me a link on where to download a kernel that overclocks higher than 1.2 gigahertz?
[G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] f1ux:
Has anyone found a working copy of xbmc for the gpad?

The official build didn't seem to support hardware acceleration as 1080p video was jerky.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Edge-Case:
Ok, so if your even reading this like "what in the world?" I wouldn't blame you, that just means you understood the question the way I meant it.

I have a Linux system running side by side on Android (I'd imagine this might be possible in a chroot as well), anyways I am installing build-essential, flex, bison etc, the following :

apt-get install git git-core gnupg flex bison gperf \
build-essential zip curl libc6-dev libgl1-mesa-dev \
mingw32 tofrodos \
python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc \
libesd0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev lzop \
pngcrush schedtool squashfs-tools

they are still installing.-will check make, jdk, git, and python versions to be sure when done. Damn, I ran out of space. I have all my Linux files on an external sdcard ( I changed it so that it doesn't get mounted with the sticky bit ) formated to ext4 and all the directories get bind mounted to Androids / to empty directories with the apropriate names. Thats my general set-up. Anyways I ran out of space because /usr is on the external sdcard with everyting else and it is only a 2GB card. I'm going to have to buy a 32GB card soon.

I am wondering what if anybody has built on android before?

I might try building the ndk on my phone or maybe the kernel, cuz I still cant get nfs to work.

Maybe only Gingerbread and below will be possible because I think ARMv7 is 32 bit,( not sure if big or little endian or how much it wouold matter). I have python 2.7 I believe and gcc works, I compiled a few C programs that I am learning.

hmm

what does anyone think?:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I don't think it's so much practical more than that you can't do it...I mean, we have 2 GB ram and a 32 bit processor, but with the ongoing advances in mobile device technology, I'm sure this will one day be possible and maybe even be faster than using a dedicated computer to build

Also, you will be cutting it really close (space-wise) if you want to go on to syncing source and building, as source takes up a good chunk of space and building creates tons of intermediate files
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Edge-Case:
Yeah, I had a lot of that in mind, I need to set time aside to learn how to set up a samba server and find out if it functions like an nfs server. If not, then I need to try and fix the nfs stuff on android, I read some people having similar problems and some people saying it was a piece of cake.

Maybe, just maybe, if I could set up a nfs server (or samba if that will work the same) and some swap, (swap over nfs???) anyways, maybe. Maybe I could, never mind I read about share memory over a network but I think I would need fiber optics to pull that off.

I got a lot to do, like get my mods to work agian, I borked something and the boot loops again. I'm going to try "wait" for /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 and then mount that in my own init.cyandekali.rc file instead of trying to tweek the ones already there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] das_webos_transformer:
No no no, go USB otg. Use a big ass external hard drive. I don't think this will work though. The lack of jdk for arm is the real reason.

Edit. I guess there is a jdk for arm. Building however will be a serious pain. However I'm encouraging you to try to do this to its fullist. You may have to compile libs on device but I'm telling you, this would be some serious ground breaking work.

Edit edit.

If you used Google fiber it could work. You'd need less than half that to be on par with a conventional HDD but I don't know how that would work.hahhahahahaa
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Edge-Case:
Maybe with USB 3, forward port over adb, I heard something about ppp and this but that might be for vpn (little over my head). But I think the G S4 only has usb 2.0.

Maybe Solid state disk with micro usb adapter, still USB 2.0 seems to be the bottle neck, If I could only wire in gigabit ethernet, I would be happy with that.

Still, I wonder what the effect of a swap file over fiber optic nfs would be for a PC?:confused: Distributed shared ram? What if the swap file existed in tempfs (or RAM somehow)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Edge-Case:
Uh Oh...

I got NFS working over wifi, figure out it was the whole hostname resolution ( That doesn't work on Android, yet ) so while I was taking my morning dump, I ssh'ed into my server and changed the exports file so that it use an IP address instead of a hostname, then I used the -o nolock option as other have said to do, it worked, I started listening to my music, I guess this is how hemroids happen?

Anyways, now I am going to try to figure out what this guy was talking about, ppp and forward port over usb to get a connection...

If not I might try it over wifi, now I gotta get that rom I have cyandekali-0.25.zip and see if I can get all my build tools etc installed, (been running plain Cyanogenmod lately... # .25 was the only revision that booted, I lost my sources when I reinstall Kali on my laptop, I figured it woulld be easy to replicate, boot loop is easy to replicate, at least I can respect that what I did wasn't all that easy...

Got some interesting work to do,

Edge-Case

Update: I set up my wifi to use 802.11n and am averaging 72megabits/second .

I found this here at xda about ppp and usb, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=835912

I hope it works out, that would be nice since it is supposed to top out at "480 Mbit/s" (wiki), I wish they used 3.0 though, "up to 5 Gbit/s" (wiki). That would actually out perform Google fiber,( FYI Goofle Fiber is Internet connection, if the router only puts out 100mb/s it makes no f'ing sense to buy gigabit internet connection) I can get 1000mb/s between my devices if I had ethernet connection on phone(unrealistic and uneeded if they would just get with the times and use USB 3.0) I think internal bus (not sure if thats the right word) transfers rate is 3 to 6 Gbits/s depending on medium, (sata, sata2, solid state drives).

I have been researching ashmem (Android's implementation of Linux's shmem) maybe I could write up a program on my Linux machine to tunnel a connection from Linux's shmem to Android, idk, I still think a simpler way would be USB 3.0 and a swap file in Linux's tmpfs (I think tmpfs is in ram) and then mount that over NFS and then mount the swap file to swap. Might work, I am not quite there yet, maybe somebody can implement this idea effectively.

Update:

localhost system # ls
abi development kernel prebuilt
android device libcore prebuilts
bionic docs libnativehelper sdk
bootable external ndk system
build frameworks out tools
cts gdk packages vendor
dalvik hardware pdk
localhost system # exit
exit
shell@android:/media/cyan/system # exit
shell@android:/media $ exit
edge-case@HIVE-PC-01:~/deploy/CyAnDeKaLi$

Got it mounted over wifi at about 72Mbit/sec, not too bad considering a lot of ethernet connections are still 100Mbits/sec though

I still havent figured out the adb and ppp/d thing, I want to use NFS over that interface but netstat on phone or ifconfig on pc don't show any ppp# devices. Any advices?

Edit: Actually, the wifi(802.11n I think at 5GHz) is faster than USB 2.0 which has been averaging at 31Mbits/s
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Edge-Case:
It's an early undercooked breakfast:

localhost system # breakfast d2spr
including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh
build/core/envsetup.mk:81: *** Unable to determine HOST_ARCH from uname -sm: Linux armv7l!. Stop.
Device d2spr not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from CyanogenMod Github (http://github.com/CyanogenMod).
Found repository: android_device_samsung_d2spr
Default revision: cm-10.1
Checking branch info
CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_d2spr already exists
Syncing repository to retrieve project.
Fetching project CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_d2spr
Fetching projects: 100% (1/1), done.

Repository synced!
Looking for dependencies
Done
build/core/envsetup.mk:81: *** Unable to determine HOST_ARCH from uname -sm: Linux armv7l!. Stop.

** Don't have a product spec for: 'cm_d2spr'
** Do you have the right repo manifest?

What to do, what to do?

Looks like it can't determine host_arch...

well thats suprising....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuzz1369:
Do we really need 22 threads pinned. The xda app is completely ruined because of this. What is the point of having half of the damn threads pinned. Fix this crap mods.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aooga:
ummmm...there's 5 in General and 3 in Q&A. What's so abnormal about this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrro82:
Maybe he's counting the paper clips as pinned.

Sent from the jaws of my Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george241312:
Actually its pretty damn annoying seeing sticky threads in the premium xda app i cant cant take em off.

ever since the new update i have been trying to search my computer for an old titanium backup to bring back the old xda app...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Settings > uncheck "Notices & Stickies"

Done.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george241312:
Still shows unread stickies .....

i dont have time for that ...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barry_:
but time enough to complain:rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuzz1369:
Thanks that helped a lot. The problem was they just keep loading. Trying to scroll down to find a particular thread and everything just kept jumping around d as more got loaded on top.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuzz1369:
Must have been removed or the app was acting stupid like it does a lot. Crapatalk sucks. But I am left with little alternative.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wise.Guy:
Hello, everybody.

I start by saying i'm sorry if this kind of problem has already been discussed here, but i didn't find anything like it, and i'm a noob in this kind of problems and i'm begging for help.

First of all, i've rooted my Ace S5830 and i installed CWM Recovery and wanted to install cm-10.1-20130503-NIGHTLY-cooper rom.

Now i'm getting an error like this one in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2521201.

When i press HOME+POWER, it appears CWM based Recovery v6.0.1.5 and i can't do anything, i get all the errors like in the link from above.

I've heard that i shoul use Odin, but i can't do nothing with it. I don't understand what version should i download, what original ROM from Samsung site to download, when a i press volume up+down+home+power to put the phone in Downloading mode it does nothing etc.

Please, can someone show a noob like me how to re-alive my phone step-by-step? Thank you in advance and sorry for my english.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
Brother try to flash some other recoveries like twrp or px recovery or try to do a factory reset from storage settings in phone and also try to flash stock rom again and then flash cwm 5.0.2.7 it works properly

good luck :good:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wise.Guy:
Thank, it worked ! :D
[General Topics] frem:
:?: UP :?: Come on help me out please :) everybody has to try to send a MMS with his phone and see if he get a "Delivery Report" or "Read report".
[General Topics] markyhedgehog73:
i've never had a delivery report back either

my setup is the xda2i on o2 network, my other problem is that most of the time i cant even receive mms!!

i send one from my wifes xda2i and mine wakes up the screen lights up but i dont get the mms , and vice versa.

i've tried my sim in another phone and it worked fine for sending and receiving! go figure :?

phoned o2 they said hmmmm dun know

ive even tried it after a hard reset on both devices and still no joy :(
[General Topics] frem:
I know I want to make people understand that this is a REAL issue !!!!

MMS COMPOSER AS A BIG BUG.

Come on poeple TRY TO SEND MMS WITH IT and give us feed back for the delivery report !!!

I also noticed a other bug but this time with SMS M$ client for WM2005 devices. Since the 2005 version of the OSit always says that sms are delivered successfully even if it did not arrive, this didn't happen before under WM2003