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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Best wishes my friend, you are certainly welcome to collect any knowledge you want from this thread. I just wanted to make sure that you understood the phones have differences, and that many things on this thread may not work for the i9505. That's all I was trying to relay.

It is interesting to me. I have not heard of a different 720T before, but It seems inevitable there would be other tribands. Please keep in mind this thread is specifically for Sprint SPH-L720T.

And I admit I am still young in this android world and learning much.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
I HAVE searched. Not just on XDA but all over the internet using Bing, Google, and a handful of other search engines - been doing so since February 7th. I wouldn't have asked this question without researching first. My phone's model number is SPH-L720T, and the chipset is GT-i9505. This is all listed in the phone info as well as under the battery, so I don't understand why you keep insisting this is two different phones. Is English not your native language? Are you somehow confused by what I'm writing? Just trying to understand where the communication is breaking down... it may very well even be the case that I'm the one misunderstanding somehow. But I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass when I say that my 720T has the i9505 chipset.

Thanks, I sincerely appreciate the offer and will PM you if/when the time comes. But until we're on the same page I don't know how much help you can provide. Your signature indicates you're on an L720 instead of an L720T - while I understand that this can be caused by some ROMs which make the phone merely think it's a L720 (told you I did my research) I just want to make absolutely certain that you understand what device I have. Last thing I need is for someone on the internet to try giving me assistance only to have the phone get bricked. It's not like you'd pay me for a new one if that happened, after all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
[MENTION=6419996]grabb0r[/MENTION] where do you see i9505 on your phone, can you please send a pic?

I've used several different hardware apps and I don't see that anywhere on my stock SPRINT SPH-L720T.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Omg man really. It has a VERY COMMON Qualcomm chipset the same as all the USA GS4 devices why is it so hard for you to understand that and if in have to screen shot my device info for you I will and if you keep on with this and not listening NO ONE on here will give you the help your looking for I have been using Samsung devices for ALONG time and I know what I'm talking about I have done the stock roots for this device and started work on a device tree for it I have been on this SPH-L720T since February 2014 when it got released soooooooo ifnyou want to sit here and TROLL move on
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
[MENTION=6419996]grabb0r[/MENTION] as a friend trying to help, I am telling you bthorne is one of the most knowledgeable people on this phone as well as some other android models. He is also one of the most helpful people I've seen. Just check his stats for evidence. He knows his stuff.

He will help you if you let him and you are cordial.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sberk:
Got a system update notification this morning......Guess it's the aforementioned oa3. Or do I dare dream that its lollipop lol. Stock non root Sprint s4

ETA: installed OA3 4.4.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Can you grab the OTA link or the OTA zip file and post it here?

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sberk:
Can I still get that even though I'm not rooted and I already installed it? How?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
I believe you have to be rooted - the link is in a log file. I don't actually know where to find it myself. The actual OTA zip file is also stored in a cache directory - but again you have to be rooted to get to it. Maybe someone can chime in who knows the particulars of where to find the link/zip file.

You may be able to see the file name if you boot to recovery and try "apply update from cache". It may list the file name in one of the cache directories under that option. If you can just find the file name I can build the link to the update file.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] esreveR Flash:
[MENTION=6419996]grabb0r[/MENTION] dude how are you going to come in here asking what is and isn't safe to flash but act like you know everything about the phone? If you can't listen to what people have to say without acting like a know it all then stop asking basic questions that have all been answered in the thread anyways. Idiot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] sberk:
Just noticed your edit. The cache is empty.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Oh well, it was worth a shot. Thanks for checking.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] conflikt:
Hello if I flashed a sprint branded phone over to att go phone after everything is working correctly. Could I flash the at&t software ovetop a sprint branded l720t? Without the modems that is. Just the software itself so I am not using sprint software on a att flashed software ? Also if this is possible what model number of the at&t galaxy s4 software would I flash that's almost the same as the l720t? Also will I loose my modified settings if I did flash at&t software overtop a sprint l720t? Reason I ask is because for example I dial 611 to add more at&t time to my phone and it brings up the sprint software? And anyone know how I would go about updating the profile and prl from sprint to at&ts profile/prl??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
I would say good luck the Att s4 has to use a safestrap due to locked bootloaders I've never had to mess with it but there a a few Roms out there . Me personally i would not. I don't flash Roms for other carrier or devices to many issue to come up brick being #1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] chad83181:
Hey im a noob here this site is fu@$&#* awesome, so thsnks for that. To the dirt I have the cf autorooted only model mentioned and have got Super Su of course with root checker free galaxy tools and ES file explorer. I recieved update I wont download it till I know what it is 109 MB

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Dont know if it's an actual update says restart and install lower right corner
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowcliffs:
How to install OA3 update?

OA3 update failed to install on my L720t which is on NG5, rooted , deodexed with TWRP. I followed the instruction to allow update. The phone restarted but stuck before entering TWRP screen. Then I manually entered TWRP and tried to install the update.zip in cache folder but got error message. This update should be OA3 which claims to enhanced WiFi-calling.

I guess I have to restore the stock recovery in order to have this update installed, or wait for a custom ROM with this update integrated.

For anyone who might be interested, here's the link to the update.zip copied from cache folder:

https://mega.co.nz/#!DE9mHQob!flrCGwfYpWsnpDcOFxTUpume8flAHpvgHgL64kZhhE8
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Did you check to see if it's in odin yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Thanks for posting the update link, but my firewall at work is blocking mega. Could you possibly post the full filename for the update file? I can build the direct google server link and post it if I have the full file name.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] jayshocka:
Should be uploaded to sammobile by now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Update.zip mirror https://copy.com/POuHsMe9QA398Ki1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] chad83181:
Thanks that's what happened on mine that's not an important update to have ifyoi never use wifi calling correct
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowcliffs:
I'm a happy user of the rooted/deodeced NG5 ROM from the link. Since OA3 update just arrived, any chance you would make a deodexed rooted flashable ROM out of it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Thanks again shadowcliffs - I went ahead and grabbed the file from mega using my phone.

I'm on a geek quest now though to build the google link so people can grab it directly from the source. I have the SHA-1 hash - which is the first part of the file name, but the naming convention for the last part must be slightly different than the last update. The NG5 ota file was named:

sprint_samsung_l720t/a1d9e055351ed0eb48c64967d0e8a2037750b6e4.USER_L720T_SPT_NC6_to_NG5_Update_FWD.zip

I tried replacing the SHA-1 hash and changing the NC6 and NG5 to NG5 and OA3 respectively, but it's not recognized. Apparently the format of the last part of the file name is different than the last ota update file. So shadowcliffs - if you get a chance - could you please post the original ota file name? Once I have that I will create and post the direct google server link for the update file.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Once the Odin tar comes out I can the update.zip is encrypted and just a patch file me I don't take ota files bad things happen when you do ??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowcliffs:
The filename is just "update.zip" in the cache folder.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
I can't even open the build prop from this update zip and the OTA updates can not be flashed from custom recovery only stock ota updates have also been know to lock phones which means probably no more root and locked bootloaders
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
It's not in KIES or on sammobile.com yet...

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OK, it must get renamed after it's downloaded. The full file name is stored in a log file (I don't know which one). It is possible to reconstruct the direct link to google's update servers with the complete file name. No worries, I already got it. Like I said, it's just a geek thing now. I just wanted to be able to post the direct google link if possible since it's a little easier to download directly compared to using mega or other file sharing sites.

Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
What do you mean by a direct google link there is none because it's an ota file
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cooljb:
Like this for the NG5 update:

http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/sprint_samsung_l720t/e8164e547675c9308288ecfeae989a149e82177c.USER_L720T_SPT_NC6_to_NG5_Update_FWD.zip

Your phone downloads the ota file from android.clients.google.com. The link for the ota file is stored somewhere in a log file when you download the ota to your phone. In the past people have pulled the link from that log file and with it you can download the file directly from android.clients.google.com from any browser on any device. This is the link the phone uses when it originally downloads the ota file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] joelv6:
Is there a way to flash it to boost mobile?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] reddjeep88:
oa3? wth?

My wife got the OA3 update a couple days ago. It's still 4.4.2. Nothing new appears to have been added. It must just be a security update? Where is the Change log??? Sprint people don't even know this update exists!!!

FWIW, my S4 currently runs a version of 4.4.2 that isn't even listed on the Sprint firmware history page for the phone. I'm not rooted. .. this came from Sprint. I have my doubts that they know what is really good on. LOL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Galane:
I got an S4 on Sprint last week and the first thing it did was suck up 100+ megs of my 12 gigs downloading the OA3 update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
News update from another xda forum on the next mobile Odin pro.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] shadowcliffs:
Is OA3 rootable?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
[MENTION=5662793]bgmg[/MENTION]

Any chance of updating the OP with a list of roms/kernels compatible with the L720T? I'd like to know what I have to choose from.

Also, figured out the confusion earlier. After reading this article I thought the 9505 and 9500 were merely processor identification codes, not phone model numbers. My bad, yo.

Also, was a way ever found to achieve root on NG5 without tripping knox?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
No way around triping Knox. I'm about to pm how to root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Agreed. No way to root ng5 without tripping Knox.

I'd be happy to update the OP with a list of roms/kernels compatible with the sprint SPH-L720T If someone want to provide me a list. I don't do any flashing (at least for now). Perhaps one day. For now, I'm delighted with my stock nc6 rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Also, I think that article is leaving of some other gs4 models. To my knowledge, my gs4 is neither a i9500 or a i9505. It is a stock domestic phone with a quad core snap dragon processor. I don't see i9500 or i9505 anywhere on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
I just updated the entire root section of the OP with regards to OA3. In short, the cf-root and twrp methods should work but are not yet confirmed. Currently no way to root OA3 without tripping Knox.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
Any and every rom for aosp now with TW I'm not sure I don't run Touchwiz
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] JG96EVO:
I can confirm cf auto root works on oa3 and twrp recovery as well
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Updated op, credit JG96EVO
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
Updated op, credit bthorne79
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
Not to be a butt-head, but this is hardly what I'd call "a list" of compatible ROMs/Kernels. This is just an amendment saying that "aosp-based ROMs work." I was personally hoping for a list that was more specific... perhaps with links.

This OP/thread really isn't newb friendly. Searching for "AOSP ROM" returns TONS of results with really no good summary or indication of where to even start - which is fine for people who are in the know and flashing ROMs/Kernels on the regular, but pretty terrible for those of us who are just starting out. Do I really have to read hundreds of pages in dozens of threads just to figure out which ROMs are going to work and get any kind of idea as to why I'd choose one over another?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
OK here is the deal no one is going to sit and make a list when this device can flash any jflte jfltespr rom do what everyone else does and read OP's and find out what rom you like OctOS aokp cyanogenmod slim carbon mokee aospa carbon and so on

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Don't mind helping but we are not here to hand you out everything cause you think we have to I've been doing android work since HTC G1 and no one handed out info back than I fell that these forums have gotten to easy for people. If you have a phone and have no clue what to flash you should stick to stock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bgmg:
I do understand your point. Bottom line is that I don't have a list, and that's the best I can do at this time. As more information comes in the future, the op gets better and better. That's how it works. As I said, I have not gotten into ROM loading myself yet.

Your best bet (if you accept the inherant ROM flashing risk), is to find a specific one you are interested in and ask about it on this forum. Someone will help you if they can.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] 4tech-ye:
to do that and flashing the zip update

you have to flash stouk recovery and copy the zip file to EX_card

go to recovery and flashing fot Excard

it's working for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
I don't think anyone "has to" help me at all. I just figure that since this thread is about the SPH-L720T and I have questions directly related to this model of phone specifically someone would be able to help.

What you said sounds like "Things were hard for me, so they should be hard for you too!" Did you also have to walk uphill both way in six feet of snow to get to/from school? If we all operated under the assumption that things should be difficult in order for them to have validity then plug-and-play wouldn't exist and I'D probably be the one teaching YOU how to set interrupt requests and whatnot. Why pointlessly obfuscate information and make things artificially difficult for people? Does it make you feel like some kind of special knowledge-master that you know things others don't? Is the idea of someone learning what they need to without going through all of the intermediate steps somehow threatening? Not everyone is familiar with the jargon and does this stuff regularly... if you aren't willing to help newbs then how do you expect the modding/hacking community to grow? I've written millions of lines of open-source code for a variety of applications, and never once has it even occurred to me that it should be LESS easy for someone to have access to the information they need.

The restriction of accessibility is precisely what locking down a device does in the first place, and the idea that someone such as yourself who works so hard on projects which thrive on openness would turn around and suggest that knowledge not be easily accessible is hugely hypocritical. It's like a stoner arguing for more ardent enforcement of marijuana restriction. I respect your work, but damn dude... you have a twisted personal philosophy.

I'm of course happy to read OPs about ROMs/Kernels to determine which ones will suit my purposes, but I'd just like to know which ones will definitely work with this phone so I know which ones I should even be considering in the first place.

I installed numerous ROMs/Kernels on my Optimus V, so it's not like I haven't done this before - it's just that the information about what's available for this specific model of phone is not straightforward and well organized, and some of us aren't fluent/up to date when it comes to ROMs/Kernels. Digging through a few dozen 200-page threads just to get caught up is pretty dumb when you can just ask a question and have HELPFUL people answer it. You seem pretty knowledgeable... it's a shame you aren't simply willing to SHARE that knowledge or explain things in a newb-friendly way.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Dngrsone:
There is a flaw in your logic. If you want newb-friendly, then you have to expect a certain amount of reading.

If you think you can snap your fingers and instantly get your heart's desire, you are in the wrong part of the internet. No one here is paid to compile lists. Actually, outside of a few people who keep the servers running smoothly, no one is paid at all.

Now, if some enterprising person with a touch of OCD were to flex some Google-fu and compile a list of known working ROMs for a specific model of phone, then the people inhabiting the forums here for that phone would gladly post that list in a prominent spot with full attribution.

If you don't see that, then it hasn't been done yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
Oh, hey, look what I found:

http://www.romlister.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-sph-l720-sprint-custom-roms-list.html

http://theunlockr.com/roms/android-...galaxy-s4-roms/samsung-galaxy-s4-sprint-roms/

Funny how something which is seemingly this huge hassle for XDA members - supposedly, the best cellphone forum out there - already exists elsewhere. I'm starting to think that there are just a lot more lazy, elitist a$$holes around these days than there was a few years ago when I was more active on these forums under a different name... back in the day we used to HELP people rather than come up with reasons not to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Dngrsone:
Funny how you conveniently came up with that so quickly...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] bthorne79:
I'm not going to get in to this with you. You are obviously trolling. The Roms are basically the same across the board for 99% of devices EXCEPT for OEM roms. It has not changed for years. The only difference with this L720T and the 720 is the triband. If you fell we did not help GIVE you a list of Roms than that's your hangup. Yes some threads they're are people who sit down and go through 200+ threads and hand out a list of kernels, Roms and themes but that's not this thread if the OP wants to take his time and sort through it all that's his choosing.

And with that said I'm done.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] lichan:
Perhaps you should have done your search first before calling the wah!mbulance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] grabb0r:
Isn't it, though? Funny how once I magically guessed to search for "jfltespr ROM list" after days of frustration and no help those results popped right up, but nobody here bothered to even explain wtf the jfltespr thing even means. Hell, I _still_ don't know for sure and am just guessing from the letters that it has *something* to do with the sprint version of the GS4. A search for "SPH-L720T ROM list" on the other hand just mostly points to this thread, and rather than finding helpful people who are willing to even point a newb in the right direction I'm having to deal with a bunch of hostile twats. You dickholes obviously don't remember what it was like to be going through the learning process of a new pursuit and being helped along by kind people. Or maybe you do remember and just revel in the selfishness of simply choosing not to help others.

Yeah, I understand this NOW after I randomly figured out WTF all on my lonesome. Thanks for providing absolutely no clarification whatsoever. I still don't have a straight answer of what ROMs and Kernels are FULLY compatible with the 720T - Are ALL of the 720s going to work with spark/triband without any missing features? I understand that it's not on anyone else to produce a list of ROMs, but you're just trying to justify being an obstinate and unhelpful jerk - like somehow it's more reasonable for ME to dig through 200+ threads to find the information than to just ask if someone else already knows. PROTIP: It's as big a waste of my time as it would be yours. As I've come to realize, you simply don't know the answer to my core question. However, rather than just saying so and move on you instead made it seem like you're the gatekeeper of knowledge and just don't feel like sharing the information. Check your ego, guy... ffs you have the writing ability of a brain-damaged chimp and yet act like people unfamiliar with ROMs and Kernels are some kind of peons.

Getting called out for being a prick and saying, "Why should things be EASIER for others than they were for me?" makes you quit. Go figure that you would avoid actually doing a bit of self-reflection and realize how selfish that mindset is. You have a lot of growing up to do as a person.

Thanks, douche. I couldn't do the right search until I knew what I was searching for - nobody in this thread even gave me a jumping-off point. As I said earlier, a search for "L720T ROM list" just mostly points here.