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[Galaxy Note 3 General] PatienceWithin:
Selling it wouldn't be an issue. I'm just looking for an answer "If anyone is actually looking into tweeking the N9005 to read At&t's bands or not." Why I kind of posted this question if I should keep the phone or not. Hate to sell it, two weeks later. Someone found out how to add the two bands.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
The bounty for changing the bands has been up a while, now the HW does support it, but there is a reason someone/people haven't changed them (yet) - plus there is a legal side to changing frequencies in countries etc
[Galaxy Note 3 General] PatienceWithin:
Which is why I'm thinking with the whole legal spectrum of it. The tweek hasn't been released. :crying:

Could possibly just keep it for a rainy day and have both variants.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
Indeed you could, if you can afford to have both then do so, you can play around on the 9005 variant with ROMs etc or use as a media player or a backup phone.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] PatienceWithin:
Still have yet to break her in but noticed the N900 variant. Would that be classified as the unbranded version of the variants At&t and T-Mobile are running or?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
Yes would be similar/same as unbranded

The difference is the A and V variants have a locked bootloader - whereas the 900/9005 don't iirc
[Galaxy Note 3 General] PatienceWithin:
Not to sound "stupid" but I am sounding stupid. Therefore that variant would read At&t 4G/LTE? Google isn't very friendly when trying to search this.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
It should do yes, unless ATT have some stupid agreement with Samsung which I doubt.

Give ATT a ring, ask them if they support the N900 to be 100%
[Galaxy Note 3 General] PatienceWithin:
To kill anyone's doubts. For future readers, it does support At&t 4G/LTE.

Thanks Rad for the help!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] radicalisto:
No problem :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
Hi there!

Okay so here's what's going on:

I had installed the Linux dual-boot ROM ontop of CromiX, and it worked fine. Both Android and Ubuntu booted without any errors.

Well, except that Ubuntu wouldn't show any websites, so I tried to fix that. Somehow while trying out a few different things, I had accidentally deleted Android, but Ubuntu still worked. But as evident here, this fix I was suggested ****ed everything up.

Whenever I boot the device, the screen stays black/turned off, but it still vibrates. That's it. I've tried booting normally and booting into recovery, but the screen stays off, so idk what's going on.

So what do I have now? I've got a tablet without Android, but with Ubuntu. I'm not sure if TWRP is still there somewhere though.

Any ideas? :(

(And sorry if the thread is a mess in terms of details...)
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
have you tried the reset button, it the little pin hole above the hdmi port? push it with a needle or something.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
Yes, I have tried, but nothing seems to happen. I've been told that I need to hold down the power and volume down button while doing the reset, but I've only got two hands.
[Asus Transformer TF700] chromefinch:
hello

lol, i had no idea there was a reset button, i just hold the power down.

have you tried holding the power and the volume down for 5 sec.

I have been following for a while but never post, i'm trying to get to my 10 so I can post on Dev threads.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Feedback

Plug it into your PC and see if your PC will see it at all....
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
Yes I have. I even said that in the OP.

It recognizes it as "APX".
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
So its stuck in APX mode.. Do you have NvFlash enabled??
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
I highly doubt it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
Bump.

So it's stuck in APX mode, what do I do now? I'm pretty sure that my warranty is gone by now, since it's about a year ago since I've bought the tablet.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
If you only have apx and no nvflash I'm afraid you need to send it in for a repair. It'll be cheaper to sell it for parts and buy a new tab mate.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Wadesauce:
NVFLash?

Do you put NvFlash on the tablet while it works? The Nvidia description just says that it's for Windows; do you have to put an Android client on the tab side first?

Mine works at the moment, I just want all of the low-level support I can get
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
NVflash

Check this out https://www.androidroot.mobi/pages/guides/tegra3-guide-nvflash-jellybean/
[Asus Transformer TF700] Wadesauce:
NvFlash

Damn, this seems like a lot of work for a noob like me (as in a lot of time in lower level stuff that I imagine could go wrong). Is this the bootloader that I need to upgrade the tab to CM11? Cheers
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Yes - if you want to dabble with this low level stuff, you will have to invest quite a bit of time and effort to learn it. Judging by your other thread you have been quite reckless so far by my standards. Admittedly I am totally chicken when it comes to this stuff, but I do a have my NVflash blobs, I do have a working fastboot connection and a rudimentary knowledge of how to use it.

NO - the recovery mentioned there is a custom recovery for generating your NVflash blobs and for nothing else.

CM 11 is not your solution! Learning how to properly flash it or anything else for that matter is.....

Sorry, if I come on a little strong here, but you have been THIS close to bricking your tablet already. I seriously suggest you put on the brakes and do some reading.

And even if it doesn't sound like it: I mean well ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Wadesauce:
thanks yo

Hahah no worries! I do need to learn this stuff, I just have a tendency of thinking I've grasped things better than I do.

I'm gonna wait a few weeks for a snapshot to come out. I still really want CM11 because I want to run 4.4, but I must admit that 4.3.1 does run pretty nicely.

Let's say I put aside the flashing for now - is there anything I should do to make myself safe? As I mentioned in another post, it seemed almost like it tried to reboot to bootloader when I just did a soft reboot. I sort of want to walk away from it for a while, but I'm afraid I might've broken something.

I really don't have any time to do any serious studying, unfortunately. My day is already full of studying other random crap - I know, that means I shouldn't have even tried rooting or flashing.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Now that you started, you got to face the music....

With all the stuff you did I have no idea what situation you're in... and that would make me nervous.

Find out what bootloader and recovery you have and if you have a working fastboot connection.

Then we can get you to a safe place and you can take your time.
[Asus Transformer TF700] n0xlf:
Have you tried holding the power button down for quite a while (like 30 seconds, and through the first vibration)? Mine has done the single vibration with no screen quite a bit and a very long power button press has solved it...I'm not sure why this occurred on mine, but it hasn't done it since a wipe...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kosai106:
Hi, sorry for the late reply. I've been busy.

Anyway, how would I know if I have nvflash enabled?

Okay I just looked it up, and I'm pretty sure that I haven't done all that, but then again, I've done a lot of things with it, so idk. Gonna check it out again once it's recharged.

And if anything, how would I go about selling it for parts? I'm from Denmark, Europe and I have never heard of a place that does that.

I'm fairly sure I've done this already, but let me recharge the tab and try again, just to be sure.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benhc911:
I imagine that this, like my other problems with my n4, is likely to be the result of my tinkering more than the phone itself... But seeing as I'm not terribly skilled, and I don't as much time as I'd like to fiddle around with my phone... I'm reaching out to the hive mind.

One of the problems thats annoying me the most right now is the voice to text button on the google keyboard. Namely it isn't doing anything. No error message, no change to the helpful microphone shaped circular button waiting to convert my dulcet tones into words... nothing.

To be honest I'm not entirely sure when this began, because its not a feature that I used frequently, unless alone in my car at a stoplight or something and I want to slam out a quick text. The mic still works fine, and gNow has no problem triggering and responding to me - it just seems as though the action is never triggered by the button.

I'm currently running KK, bootloader unlocked, rooted, xposed framework, gravity box, and a few other smaller modules (dictionary blacklist for example). Minimal rooted applications such as titanium and tasker, but nothing fancy is being done with them (didn't deepfreeze any system apps or set up any related tasks). The keyboard app is the google one with only small tweaks that are built in like the blue trail and shorter longpress time. I have offline voice to text set up, and this issue is present on wifi or network regardless.

Any tips? has anyone had this problem before? can anyone point me to a potential culprit or a way of finding one?
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Okay, so one of the issues currently with the leaked firmware is that some apps (e.g titanium backup, file explorers, etc) cannot save files to the extsdcard due to a incorrect parameter in the platforms.xml

So here is the fix:

Method 1

1.) Download the extsdcardfix-flashable.zip below and save to sdcard

2.) Reboot to recovery (CWM/TWRP)

3.) Flash the zip

4.) Reboot

Method 2

1.) Download the platform.xml.zip attatchment and extract

2.) Navigate to ~/system/etc/permissions

3.) Replace the platforms.xml with this one

4.) Set permissions as RW-R--R-- (644)

5.) Reboot and test if apps now have access to external storage

And NOTE this may or may not work so do so at your own risk!
[Galaxy S 4 General] votapero:
Great ! It works. My Titanium and even Sygic 13.4.1 (starting from SD Card) is working again on my S4!
[Galaxy S 4 General] sdunne:
Eh? those permissions not equivalent. Which should it be ?

rwxrwxrwx == 777

rw-r--r-- == 644
[Galaxy S 4 General] votapero:
I set permission as the original file was...

rw-r--r-- == 644
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Sorry, thanks for that.

I'll update the OP

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[Galaxy S 4 General] seba84_2005:
What root explorer You use to set permissions?
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Yes

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[Galaxy S 4 General] votapero:
I use "ES File Explorer". The best Tool for Filemanipulation (copy, paste, delete) I know.
[Galaxy S 4 General] seba84_2005:
Can You upload me original platform.xml? I change file and i have error...
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kriomag:
after i replaced file i missed that permissions changed... then i had to reset default to get everything working :/ bluetooth stopped working and i had terrible glitches and freezes.. even when i changed to 644... so secont time i just added media_rw line by editing permissions.xml and now it worked flawlessly :)

I noticed that even now when i have rw acces to sdcard not everything is working as in 4.3 - for example solid explorer does not see by default external sdcard :/ but it is only beta so i can live with it ;)
[Galaxy S 4 General] HC4Life:
Works like a charm!

Thx for this :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] Phone_Guru:
Works. thank you so much
[Galaxy S 4 General] nikosma:
Yes...it works!!!!

I had problem before with Sygic, now, everything works just fine..

Thank you very much!!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] pinktheater:
Works perfect! This is what I needed to really give CM a try.

I was able to get my Go Backup file and restore my apps.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rodrigoger:
Sorry,

But how can I do the step 4?

I changed the file, but I don't know how change these permissions...

Could someone explain it to me, please?

Ps.: sorry for bad english.
[Galaxy S 4 General] pinktheater:
What explorer are you using? On most of them you just have to long press the file and it will display the menu option (copy, move, delete, PERMISSIONS).

Click on permissions and you will find where to check the option you need to make RW-R-R.

I use Root Explorer by the way.
[Galaxy S 4 General] rodrigoger:
Ok,

So I change only the permissions of platforms.xml file?

Is that right?
[Galaxy S 4 General] mitky82:
Deleted
[Galaxy S 4 General] pinktheater:
Yes.
[Galaxy S 4 General] leon0602:
Works perfectly on Echoe13!! Thanks a lot!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] RK KINGKONG:
i need help here

i would love to try this but i cant download anything it says i dont have space , Google play keeps crashing regardless of clearing cache and data , sd card shows mounts in certain apps ...

this mount and permissions problem etc started when i install a folder mount app folder mount app store link by mistake thinking it was like a file explorer and it destroyed me because i uninstalled it .,.. now i have this issue where i cant access anything . if i reboot recovery will that fix this mount or partition issue whatever it is ..

i would like to try the OP method but i cant download it or put on sd because i cant access it ... but i know my stuff is there
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jonnyaces187:
I understand everything except the changing to 644 thing. I added line. Then go to properties and only see option to change r - RW - RW where to I change or add the 644? Please any help would be appreciated sir
[Galaxy S 4 General] thebestiam:
Does it really?
[Galaxy S 4 General] simonbigwave:
no. it worked for me at that time. no problem.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Kyonyx:
I have the same problem as you, what have you added and where exactly?

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 General] zackwire:
probably not, but...any method to chance those preferences on an unrooted device?
[Galaxy S 4 General] rodrigoger:
Worked!

Big TKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] fefuzzo:
for me doesn't works...i have official poland 1 file rom :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Hi.

Please read the OP.

This is for the 4.4.2 leaked firmware not for official roms.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] Andrewtst:
It is working for official Poland ROM, you didn't do it right if not working.

Working fine for me and yes official Poland also got this issue.
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
I think this is due to google slowly trying to kill the codes for external storage.

I'm sure in the upcoming versions they'll finally reject support for external sdcards.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] fefo1993:
I did everything according to procedure but doesn't quite work… how is that possible? I need of external memory!

Inviato dal mio SM-N9005 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] Andrewtst:
Did you change the permission and the permission confirm change. I always use root explorer to change permission and this permission thing is important, else it won't work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] xax41:
Pls Original Platform File for Poland Rom. Total Error. THX

Solved - Reinstall
[Galaxy S 4 General] Bladerummer:
Can't change permissions

I'm on Echoe V13, so have root. Also have ES File Manager. When changing permissions on platform.xml I get "Job failed". Can't delete the file and can't replaced it with the downloaded platform.xml. Any suggestions?:confused:
[Galaxy S 4 General] fefo1993:
I use root explorer too...but doesn't works..

Inviato dal mio SM-N9005 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] charlypaez:
Good afternoon.. Sorry friends can anybody create a fix.zip (flasheable) of the correct Platform.xml?? Thanks :)

Sent from my N900W8 Telcel México for XDA Mobile Premium :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] GDT:
Does this work only for rooted devices?
[Galaxy S 4 General] czarnozeby:
How to set permissions as RW-R--R-- (644) on the unrooted phone?
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
I'll try to come up with something. But you need a custom recovery.

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[Galaxy S 4 General] rodrigoadbraga:
POWERAMP

Works fine, except for poweramp, "some storages umounted"
[Galaxy S 4 General] AAFFonso:
Me too, works fine, except for Poweramp still "some storages unmounted"
[Galaxy S 4 General] ManUtdRul3:
I did exactly that and got a bunch of errors. Do you have the original file?

edit: even Root Explorer doesn't work now, ****
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
This is the original file (taken from an SGS4 phone)

Rename the extention to XML
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
This is SO annoying to me that nothing works for Poweramp. I contacted the Dev guy and I'm waiting for his reply.

For me, just adding a line to "platform.xml" made "Airdroid" work (cause I couldn't send any files on the extsdcard before), it also made "SMS Backup & Restore" app work, but no way to make that damn Powerwamp app work...... :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] sassakat:
it works! thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] denski101:
I'm Such an idiot! I went to see if I had this problem with poweramp, I wanted to check if adding the extsd permissions actually fixed this as it did with other apps. Any how, my poweramp was working, I could still get all my old music on the sd card. So I went into music folders setting and saw "warning some storage(s) unmounted I then tapped select folders to get out of there. And then I see three albums, the three albums I had on the phone's memory. All the rest disappeared and now I'm stuck in the same boat!

Funny thing was I was still listening to music from the sd card when it all disappeared, so music was playing with no more info than the time bar.:eek:
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
oh no... I feel responsible! Sorry...

Yeah, I'm still searching for a solution, but nothing so far... I'll post here if I find anything
[Galaxy S 4 General] denski101:
Haha no worries, I take full responsibility. I'd already fixed the permissions before I saw this thread. The thing I was on the look out for was apps that didn't work even after the fix. The first app that stopped for me was a youtube downloader that downloads to the sd card. It was fixed straight away after the permission change. I was really surprised power amp, an app the reads data from the sd card was affected. Out of Curiosity I checked and then... You know the rest:crying:

I was still able to play music before I F'ed things up:silly:, so hopefully it's a quick fix. Real quick fix cause I'm on the trial LOL (poweramp newcomer)
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
Yeah I'm surprised too it doesn't work. I contacted the dev, but he must be busy at these days, no reply as of yet. Poweramp is a really good app. I used PlayerPro before, but it has too many issues with scanning the folders after a change has been made to them (adding an MP3 or deleting it), so I went for Powerwamp and I don't regret it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] diddsen:
hmm, so its a bigger problem for all i think :(

yet is poweramp and then....?....
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
Are you talking specifically about Poweramp here or more generaly about the SD card mount fix?
[Galaxy S 4 General] ascanio1:
I did everything exactly as instructed in post#1.

I used File Explorer PRO to reset the permissions.

It didn't work.

I even tried by ticking every box (read, write, execute) for every category (owner, group, all).

Still nothing: File Explorer PRO cannot read the card and apps can't write on it.

Please help!

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N9005, 4.4.2 polish, root
[Galaxy S 4 General] AMoosa:
This also works for the latest leak
[Galaxy S 4 General] ascanio1:
[MENTION=5659603]TheJeremyWhite[/MENTION]

Thanks.

Yes, Root browser and Astro file manager work. But that doesn't solve the problem.

I gave all the permissions to all the categories but my apps still cannot access the microSD card memory! it's driving me crazy!

---------- Post added at 05:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:27 PM ----------

@ AMoosa

Not for all latest leaks. Mine is a polish 4.4.2 and this fix does not work.
[Galaxy S 4 General] magikmichael:
Thanks. But i dont have root. I dont want to trip my knox counter. But i will try it when there is a safe way to root without tripping knox.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 General] ascanio1:
No, I did not change the permissions in the media folder. This instruction was not in the original post. Did I miss something?

Where is this media folder? Which permissions should I give to it?
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
For me, most apps are working now, but the solution was NOT to replace the platform.xml file with the one attached to this thread. This, on the contrary, made things worse.

What I did, is just add a simple line to the platform.xml file:

(the one added is the 4th line below, in bold)

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >

<group gid="sdcard_r" />

<group gid="sdcard_rw" />

<group gid="media_rw" />

</permission>

And that's it. Now, I still have issues with Poweramp but I think that's because the path name of the ExtSdCard changed from 4.3, as they had changed it from 4.2 also.

Other Music players are not working either because they can't find the sdcard. JetAudio Plus can find it though.
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
you can find full instructions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2537793
[Galaxy S 4 General] denski101:
Poweramp still a no go?
[Galaxy S 4 General] vivelafrance:
No it actually works doing the instructions mentioned in the link above and what TheJeremyWhite did (which is the same thing basically).

I totally missed the part where I had to change the permissions on that folder. That FINALLY solves every single issues I had with my Ext SDCard now!
[Galaxy S 4 General] denski101:
Legend, this was the final thing that fixed it up. Completley Breezed past your post. Cheers
[Galaxy S 4 General] Rawand Kurdy:
Advice: dont try this on Galaxy note3 Official kitkat for N9005 ,i tried it and of course apps will be able to access external card but bluetooth wont turn on .

it may be just me but i wanted to let you guys know it. (i am reflashing the official kitkat)

Edit 28th February,14 /Tested again but on the latest kitkat

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50705979&postcount=147
[Galaxy S 4 General] denski101:
Just tested bluetooth no problems here. Stock Official firmware. I didnt use the platform.xml in the OP, I edited the one on the phone.

Take what happened as a lesson to back-up the original file in future, just in case something happens like it did.
[Galaxy S 4 General] deathnotice01:
Okay so I added a new method to those who want a easy flashable zip without root.

However custom recovery is required.

Method 1

1.) Download the extsdcardfix-flashable.zip below and save to sdcard

2.) Reboot to recovery (CWM/TWRP)

3.) Flash the zip

4.) Reboot

Also OP is updated

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[Galaxy S 4 General] Rawand Kurdy:
Hhhh , what lesson ?

Anyway maybe the xposed framework , modules caused the problem (was working fine before touching the file ), and I did a backup of course , restored the original file but didnt worked (tried alot of thing but didnt worked)

Are you using the leaked one ? Or the official one ? (Mine was Official XEO one)