yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
You should help these folks that stumble upon this from google as well to show them how to unlock the phone to use in the States on ATT or Tmobile. When I unlocked mine I used the regionlockaway app after rooting using the s4 mini rootkit and was on stock rom. Was painless and smooth. Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470551

Also you could inform them that all lte roms work for our phone as in 9195 roms. BUT there kernels DO NOT work.

And just another thing about roms, Cyanogenmod is a basic AOSP with very little customizbility, Liquidsmooth is the best option for AOSP on our phones, Ive always hated basic cyanogenmod builds link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2676053 and also ive never liked clockworkmod recoveries as well lol.. we have twrp touchscreen recovery as an option on our phone: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2589011

EDIT: also if anyone is looking for stock rom firmwares to flash to odin they can be found here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ by searching for i257m and picking which carrier you want.

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All LTE roms work on our device. look for 9195 roms, there are plenty!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Omega2513:
They do but then they get identified as a 9195 and we lose features that are I257M exclusive.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
And what features are those? I thought we gained not lost,FM radio wasn't an option stock and it is after 9195 roms
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ninjablackwing:
Is this confirmed to be working on MK5? And does MI3 have KNOX installed or is it the MK5 update that installs it? Thanks in advance :)
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Omega2513:
There are some S4 features such as the smart stay and some of the gestures that was put into the I257M and I haven't seen a 9195 rom with those in it. The radio is nice if you use it.

I do believe that MI3 has KNOX but there is something in Mk5 that makes it harder to get around.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ninjablackwing:
Thanks for the reply but I still want to know whether or not this method can root and install cwm on MK5.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] dynamiclynk:
does this method work on the newly released i257 US AT&T?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] funkypunk69:
I appreciate the detailed directions an did locate them through the search function of the forum.

I do not see that anyone confirmed that this process and these roms would work on the newly released AT&T SGH-I257 with volte. I appreciate any constructive responses.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] hitibiti:
thx for that but i have problem
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] suvir:
Just for everyone using ATT model. This doesn't work for the Samsung SGH-I257 ATT model.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Jemh1472:
Heya,

I was wondering if someone could let me know where I went wrong! I've rooted my mini, but I'm afraid to move forward with CM or other ROMs.

The first time I tried flashing custom ROMs was on the Galaxy S Gt-I9000M <--- I hate the M! It was the same thing as the mini, having to use files built for other variants.

I ended up with a phone that could make phone calls if I was near cell towers, other than that, it would show know service.. everything else worked fine

Do you think this was most likely caused by,

a) being a stupid flash crazy newb

b) the fact that I restored a previous version of the phone dialer (to retrieve contacts)

c) SIM card.. I never tried replacing

I even flashed back to Eclair and let Kies update it with proper firmware.. Nothing fixed the phone service issue.

Thank you for any insight and thank you OP for a great guide :) At least I can remove some bloatware!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] LilStevie204:
hey there i am new here you said to flash clockwork to the phone using odin but first we put the other 2 files onto a sdcard? is that what we do?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] realestone:
has anyone tried this on the at&t version sgh-i257 ive been unable to find a root solution for this phone
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
Receive my phone today ans flash cm on it. It work great. Ans the FM radio work tout.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Muraad:
Noob here

Hi guys I'm fairly new to phones and stuff. I am not used to all these terms like Clockwork etc. What I remember is that I did root my S2 without having to factory reset it. Is there a way to root the S4 mini SGH-i257m without doing the factory reset? :confused:

Also I've followed many guides with no success, but a lot of them asked to turn on "USB debugging". Am I suppose to do the same here?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] paradigmcrime:
AT&T I257

does this method work for an AT&T american I257? (no M, just I257) ... which seems to be impossible to root!!! :(
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ExiLeX420:
Been Away!

Hey guys!

Sorry for the long absence life has been very interesting lately and I haven't had time to check my thread!

I am back for the most part so feel free to message me when have any problems.

As for the people with the AT&T version of this phone...unfortunately I can't test it because I don't live in the states :/ if someone comes up with a method to root that version I will gladly update the OP with a link to your method or add it in with credit to you for the find!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xdeverett:
used this guide successfully, but with battery drain

Hey there,

Thanks for your walkthrough I found it very helpful. I followed this guide exactly, read all the original articles, and things went through smoothly.

The only issue is that my battery is draining in about half the time it was before, When i look at my locksreen on the bottom most of the time it says "emergency calls only (ROGERS)". Looking at the battery under setting cell standby is right at the top of the list usually at about 34% consumption with 69% time without a signal. So obviously this is where the battery drain is coming from, the weird part is if i go to make a call or send a text or something it picks the signal up as if it had always been there..? I have great cell coverage but the phone is pretending i don't 70% of the time.

Before trying this I had successfully rooted my phone on the firmware that came with my phone i believe it was MI3, then i had the play store error and blue tooth stopped working, but i had adaway and superbeam working and was just getting apps from google, happily. Then adaway stopped being able to reach any sources and i could not navigate beyond google on the internet. So i upgraded to MK5 which got rid of my root but fixed my internet and play store connection issues. This is when I found your thread and wondered if cm11 could fix my problems, and it did, but now i've got this weird cell standyby problem

Sorry for the long story but I am just looking for some help on this confusing issue, the xd foroums seems pretty friendly, please prove me right!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
I'm using CM11 and don't have any of the issue you have. Firmware MK5
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] xdeverett:
thanks for the reply but i got it figured out, I went into settings>mobile networks>access point names and saw rogers-core-appl.apn selected. I didn't have this option before so i figured this was the cause. I changed it back to ltemobil.apn and this fixed the weird connection issue. now when i look at cell standby under batter it says 9% without a signal and i only lost about 5 % battery over night when before it was more than 30.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
WARNING, for those using CM11 rom. DO NOT update any nightly or M release after october 03 release.

There is a bug in the compatibility kernel between i9195 and I257m

You will get stock at Samsung boot screen
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
The bug is still there and has something to do with kernel. Sammsung has change someting on our phone that it's not compatible with newest release of CM11. I'll post a link to the last nightly working release for our phone cauz it's nont on CM webstie anymore.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
Here is the link.

«?*cm-11-20141003-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip?*»?*: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=7E1128C2FF96DABB!9332&authkey=!APqCExynqKJzKPA&ithint=file%2czip
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] yllanesgene:
American Verizon S4 mini lte i435

Hi there,

Does you believe this applies to the American S4 mini lte i435 too?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] thillyer:
This worked awesome.

This was pretty easy to follow. Small hiccup in odin but no harm done. Worked easily the second attempt following instructions. Just used an M9 snapshot file of CM11 from August. Hopefully this thread or another I may be able to find will stay updated on which versions of CM11 stay stable.

Everything working great so far. Have not found any issues or bugs in the build.

Thanks for posting this for us Canucks!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] endz420:
Other ROMs?

Thanks for the guide.

So any roms made for the I9195 will work with a I257M? Has anyone tried Carbon?

If kernels for the 19195 won't work, would I have to flash carbon, then re-flash the stock kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
You are safe with flashing 9195 ROMs coming from a stock ROM as the kernal is untouched.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] 1988keneth:
gab_hamelin

Keep getting This item might not exist or is no longer available would like to get the file Needed. phone stuck boot screen Cyanogenmod logo and head with arrow around it thank's

I'm in need off the "cm-11-20141003-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip" anyone post working link to this would be great thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
My phone is fine with la test release. I dont have 0310 release I think. I'll look, maybe I atill have it simewhere.

Have you tried full wipe?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] 1988keneth:
I did full wipe data Reset everything Right and stuck on the logo part let it sit on that for 15mins then took the battery out. then I just put my stock Rom back on till I got information here.

Android Version: 4.4.2

Model Number: SGH-I257M

On Bell Network... Locked to Bell
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] gab_hamelin:
I can't help you. I'm on latest nightly ans everything work. Maybe post on CM thread
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] agrothe:
Update on the SGH-i257m phone (Koodo Mobile). I've just installed CM12-20150324-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx and so far, everything seems to work fine.

Android 5 is awesome. The device is super fast now without all the samsung bloatware.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Evald:
I have a Samsung Galaxy mini (canadian fido SGH-I257M with LTE; android 4.2.2; baseband version 1257MVLUAMK5; IC 649E-GTI9195L). I would like to use polish language.

Is it possible to:

1) use polish official rom for 9195? If yes, do I set warranty flag to 0x1?

2) or install custom rom with polish language (CM has this language? <-- i checked and it looks it has polish language too)?

Please help and thx.

Evald
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Evald:
Everyone has any advice?

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Did I understand good? If I have canadian 1257M (IC: 649E-GTI9195L) with android 4.2.2 I can flash any rom for I9195 (even with polish language) and it should work??? I would choose something from this:

h t t p: // www . sammobile . com / firmwares/database/GT-I9195/XEO/

Is it possible and dont brick my phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
You're trying to accomplish what here? If you go to sammobile you can go through the i257m ROMs and flash any of um. If you're trying to do a custom ROM the 9195/lte ROMs are what you want after you've put q custom recovery in
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Evald:
Once again:

I have official rom for i257M but it lack of polish language. I wonder if I can do something to have polish language (change to other official or unofficial rom).

I understand from first post than it is possible to use CM 11 for samsung 9195 (or newer?) on this phone (i chacked on internet and CM 11 can use polish language files).

But I wonder if it possible to flash other official roms for 9195 (even for poland market) or it brick my phone. If it is dangerous then I will try flash this CM11 - I understand that it was checked that it works on this model?

I refer to:

"WARNING:

!*!*!*!THE METHODS EXPLAINED BELOW DO TRIP THE KNOX 0X1 WARRANTY FLAG!*!*!*!

If you are at all afraid of tripping the flag and voiding your warranty the please DO NOT continue as I, nor anyone else here are responsible for ANY damage or warranty issues you may run into after this. You are still able to flash a STOCK ROM back onto the phone but the 0x1 flag will always be there.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Another thing I should mention is that although these posts/files are technically for the GT-i9195(LTE) model, I have tested this on my personal phone (SGH-i257m) and I assure you it works GREAT with no problems if you follow the instructions given.

If you DONT want CyanogenMod 11 and want to roll with the stock ROM, you can refer to THIS post. Just follow the instructions as if your phone is the GT-i9195

Quote:

Originally Posted by arco68

Actually, the SGH-I257M and GT-I9195 are pretty much identical in every way. Unlike the US carriers, the Canadian ones didn't see the need to go about and change everything on it.

The recovery and ROM's for the 9195 should work just fine on it. The only thing is that the model number will be set as GT-I9195. However, in latest CM11 nightlies I've added a routine which will identify which variant it is, and it will set the model number accordingly. "
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
I wouldn't flash a stock ROM from a 9195, cm11 based ROM is your best bet.

http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=SGH-I257M

That is the Samsung language update website. I've never had to do something like this but maybe you can add the language to the i257m firmware!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] Evald:
Thanks. then I will go for CM11.

But additional questions:

1) Someone posted that CM12 also works? Should I use CM 11 or CM12 then?

2) Should i use latest CM11 or I should avoid latest vesrions? Someone posted that there was a problem with some versions of CM11?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] civicsr2cool:
No clue, I'm on liquid smooth 3.0 and have zero problems. Cm11 based and full of features.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ScratchMang:
UPDATE : Aug 11th 2015.

So I was trying to find an upgrade from 4.2.2 on my SGH-I257M for some time and stumbled across this thread (After much banging of head against wall) and figured I would give it a shot. Following the instructions int he first post with the slight modifications of using the following file(s) rather than those listed and I can happily state that my SGH-I257M is now running CM12 with Android 5.1

Files I used....

cm-12.1-20150811-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip

gapps-lp-20150420-signed.zip

Odin3_v3.09.zip

recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.6-serranoltexx.tar.zip

Following the links in the original post will get you to the right downloads for these files, and obviously the cm-12.1-20150811-NIGHTLY-serranoltexx.zip will change, well nightly, but it will indeed work on Canadian Phones.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] shazeda:
hi i did everything u said and it worked perfectly how i dont have root? i enable root in development but still the root is not working?

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my phone is not rooted help me? i enable root in development option but still root checker saying no root
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ScratchMang:
And an Update on CM13 for the Canadian S4 Mini....

After a Complete (And I do mean a complete) wipe fo the phone, including the /Cache and /Data and Reset to Factory with the CM12... I installed the following....

cm-13.0-20160418-SNAPSHOT-ZNH0EAO2NJ-serranoltexx 270 MB (284,050,107 bytes)

open_gapps-arm-6.0-nano-20160601 131 MB (138,024,956 bytes)

And the phone is working well on CM13. No issues so far with anything I've installed.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] cbnestor:
Can I install Spanish lenguage/keyboard? on I257m

Hi, i'm new on this,

I've just bought a samsung S4 mini Sgh-i257m from amazon but it did not came with spanish lenguage installed...

Is there any way/solution to install Spanish lenguage/keyboard officially or Any stock-Firmware compatible with the i257 that's compatible with spanish?

Thank you so much for your time. hope it is not too much to ask.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] intermedE8:
ScratchMang, you're a genius.

I followed the main post, and your two posts (Aug2015/Jun2016) and it absolutely worked for my SGH-i257m. My 4.2.2 Jellybean is a 6.0.1 Marshmallow in one shot.

Just, thanks so much.

Odin3_v3.10.6.zip

recovery-clockwork-6.0.5.1-serranoltexx.tar.zip

cm-13.0-20160418-SNAPSHOT-ZNH0EAO2NJ-serranoltexx.zip

open_gapps-arm-6.0-nano-20160715.zip

To get past the Odin "Write Protection Enabled" screen, I had to disable Windows Firewall, but I also started Odin in Administration mode as well.

Other than that, it worked out great.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] ScratchMang:
No Worries,

Not always a lot of info on the Canadian Side of things when it comes to this sort of thing. Glad you found the info Useful.

ScratchMang
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] iJudgement:
It won't allow me to sign into my google account? keeps telling me there is a problem communicating with google servers
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] XerotoHero:
I've been running CM 12/13 for a while but I'm getting some hinky things going on lately with connecting to wifi and to Telus. Has anyone changed out their baseband, are you still running BNG1 or the stock modem file?
[Galaxy S 4 Mini General] kyalejamison:
did you ever find a solution?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelith:
Hi I managed to to get to SDCARD Download mode from a dead boot N7105 using the SD Boot Repair SD. Odin recognizes this and phone was previously on 4.3 JellyBean already. Now when I'm trying to flash with Odin 3.09 , it says "There is no PIT partition" . Should I click the Phone Bootloader Update checkbox also? Need some advice from all the gurus here to guide me along this, thank you very much
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nodier29:
Hi guys,

I have a very similar scenario but with an Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300:

Couple of days ago my phone went into booting loop but after removing the battery for a couple of minutes the issue was solved.

Then 3 days later it restart out of the sudden and was stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S III splash screen.

I rebooted and tried putting the phone in Download mode. The phone went into the Samsung Galaxy S III screen twice and turn off not to boot again. Seems like a hard bricked, no response with any buttons combinations.

I read other posts here saying that I could probably boot the phone with an micro sd card. So I donwloaded image I9300UBUGML1_I9300UWHUGMK1_I9300UBUGMK1_HOME from SamMobile and mouted in a 16 Gb type 10 micro SD (my phone is also 16 Gb version)

At first I tried booting the phone pressing the power button for about 10 seconds and the screen ligthted up very quickly (less than a second) saying

SDCARD MODE

UP KEY: NORMAL BOOTING

DOWN KEY: DOWNLOAD MODE

But it was so quick that I was not able to press anything.

A day later I figure out that if I was quick enough I could press down key and put the phone on Download mode (SDCARD)

After putting the phone on Download mode I connected the phone to the PC and tried flashing it with ODIN v3.07

Odin is able to see the device but when trying to flash the phone (selecting PDA and the image mention before) a message came up saying:

There is no PIT partition

And failed.

Reading about this error in this forum, I have tried using different PIT files to re-partion the phone but no success so far.

GT-I9300_mx_20120220.pit

GT-I9300_mx_20120322.pit

GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit

mx.pit

Odin stays on Get PIT for mapping after initializing the process.

I would like to know if anyone here have an idea on what else to try (before talking about JTAG reparing the phone as I am not 100% the phone is hard bricked)

I have not attempted to use a USB Jig yet, should I?

Other details:

I am not able to get the download with any other image file in the sd card.

If the phone is on download mode and connected to the PC, the battery can be removed and the phone stays on.

If I press up key in the SD CARD Mode the phone freezes.

Do you guys have any ideas here?

Thanks,
[Paranoid Android Features Development] nAFutro:
Hi,

Is it possible to include a function to kill a foreground app by long-pressing the back button. CM has this option in the developer settings and sometimes it can be convenient.
[Paranoid Android Features Development] Pirateghost:
Not going to happen. It has been this way since 3.x

Sent from my Nexus 5
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anos1:
my device is htc one dual sim

i unlock bootloader with app computer his called

HTC Bootloader Unlock.exe

and rooted my device and install recovery mode but not make s-off

But by mistake from recovery mode i formated system file and my device not swich on again

i tried to relock my bootloader to install ruu software but Did not work

and after that i cant unlock boot loader again because i dont have unlocked bin

please can you help me

my phone is dead
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anos1:
no one answer me only view :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDelCrOsSen:
Unlock bin

Unlock bin was sent to you in mail when you first unlock the device. Try to re-unlock your device from fresh.

For pushing the zip (rom) file into your internal memory, use this on command prompt:

cd xxx(locate your fastboot folder)

adb push (name).zip /sdcard/

PS: There is a SPACE between .zip and /.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anos1:
no i dont use my email or any email because i unlocked my bootloadrer in program not in htcdev
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] T3kB0i:
Hello everyone, I have a question about feasibility, and the likes. This is what I want to do: Run OUYA natively on my Nexus 7 [2013]. I heard there are dual-boot options available for my Nexus 7, and I could just as easily add external storage with meenova, slap on a cheap case, stick on a GameKlip to it, and wala.

I figure if I sell my OUYA, I'd be able to buy everything with that money that I need to get my set-up going. One problem, I can't find an OUYA rom anywhere. All I can find are hacks and tweaks to get the OUYA launcher going. I don't want that. I want to run the OUYA flavor of android, natively, and solely, giving it full-use of my 2GB ram available.

Is this possible? Does a native OUYA rom exist for any device, are there any plans to make one/keep it up? I loved the idea of OUYA initially, but I hate it now. It's just staying there, and I never use it. Seeing Ben Heck's portable OUYA inspired me to look for an alternative option. He said something like, "sure we could've taken a tablet and slapped a controller onto it, but we wanted to make things more difficult and hack it." Then I thought to myself, how about we don't make things more difficult, and lemme try to find a way to port this controller-centric experience to my tablet. The only thing I love about OUYA at this point is the fact that over 700+ andriod games exist that not only work, but work better with a controller.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] T3kB0i:
From the looks of it, there doesn't seem to be any hope for OUYA then. Oh well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnosticx:
How can I convert my Anycall Galaxy S2 to International Version? I can't seem to find the thread. Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinstallsys:
I want move my app to /system/app/, I did follow steps under ROOT privilege

mount -o remount,rw /system /system
cat /data/local/tmp/abc.apk > /system/app/abc.apk
chmod 644 /system/app/abc.apk
mount -o remount,ro /system /system
reboot

but the abc.apk file disappear from /system/app after reboot.

if I use update.zip package under Recovery mode to write the abc.apk to /system/app, it will be normal after reboot.

so, what's the difference for wrinting system partition under Recovery mode and ROOT privilege? :confused:

Thank you very much!