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[Galaxy S 5 General] risestar2:
Not sure about internationally, however North America region lock seems to be disabled if you first activate with the carrier that the phone was built for and then unlock. If you just buy a phone from a carrier that has it region locked and you never activate it with them, you will have issues.
[Galaxy S 5 General] hemander:
You have any way to unlock it with no issue in the future?
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
The phone is already unlocked as I used different UK sims For more than a week. The region locking only becomes apparent when trying to software update the phone. The phone was on Kitkat but there was an update available but couldn't update due to the issue mentioned.
[Galaxy S 5 General] electric0ant:
If it is the international model (G900F) just flash it with the stock UK S5 rom.
[Galaxy S 5 General] jorge_moran_jams:
Do you know if it's possible to root and flash something else without having removed the region lock?
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
Dont have the phone anymore with me and think the person having it now is flashing cyanogen mod rom for this phone.

Dont think will be getting a samsung phone again as tired of the pr1ck5 at samsung p1ssing off paying customers with some locking cr4p or the other. Presently still have 3 other samsung phones (S4 note 3 and note 1) and many of my playlists on youtube have loads of samsung phone related. But really fed up with samsungs locking idiocy and will look to sony or LG from now on.
[Galaxy S 5 General] Hellscythe:
I don't think the SK Telecom model is the same as the G900F.

I think Korea uses some different network brands.

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Don't look at Sony.

You will receive software updates like 7 months after the release of that android version.

My Xperia Z still doesn't have kitkat.
[Galaxy S 5 General] eezeh:
Region lock on the 900A

I am looking to buy the galaxy s5 for use in several Sub-saharan African countries. I already have an old ATT sim with me and I will probably be ordering the 900A in/from the US and i want to make sure that the region-lock is not an issue. Will i be able to region unlock with an ATT sim card while in Africa or do i need to have someone make the 5min call for me while the phone is in the US? and is this call meant to be to or from the s5?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 5 General] fffft:
No one likes self serving restrictions by manufacturers or carriers. But Samsung is far from the only manufacturer doing things like this. And region locking is one of the easiest obstacles to overcome.

On single SIM phones at least removing the subsidy lock nullifies the region lock as well. In any event if you couldn't make a few calls in the area that the phone originated, you could simply have edited the region lock blacklist to circumvent the region lock.

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[Galaxy S 5 General] -PiLoT-:
yes that completely legal regioin lock this discourages grey market selling and scams

does this mean you arent buying blu rays or DVDs??
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
I had the S5 but no longer have it. Bought the one plus one which is half the price but 64gb and miles better with no region locking crap and call recording apps work on it unlike on my several samsung phones. Call recording apps did work earlier on samsung phones and after software upgrades by samsung they no longer work on them. But they work on other android phones. So samsung is deliberately gimping android with their "updates". Sane way triple sim adapters don't work on the S5 but they do on my s4 and note 3 and other phones.

Coming to your reference to dvd and bluray. .. i don't but them anymore as have several paid digital subscription packages and don't buy dvd and bluray anymore as realised i haven't bothered to open the packs of several of my earlier purchases.

Several other android manufacturers don't region lock or block call recording apps or triple sim adapters so there are better and cheaper options.
[Galaxy S 5 General] -PiLoT-:
did you research if the s5 was region locked, or had issues with call recording apps or sim adapater issues before you bought it. or did you buy it assuming they would work?
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
I did research like i do all my purchases. My opinions are just that. ... my opinions!

Are you a Samsung employee or funded by samsung in any manner!

edit: If you see my youtube videos for the S5 you might notice that i had uploaded my video BEFORE the UK release date as it was imported from korea.
[Galaxy S 5 General] -PiLoT-:
region locking isnt an opinion. its an actual thing

heres my point

you want to buy a phone, you want it to have multi sim adapters support, no region locking and ability to record in calls.

you do your research like you do "all your purchases"

then you buy a device knowing these things wont work. then you ***** about samsung doing it anyway?
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
Dude pull that bee out of your bonnet. Dint you have anything better to do than dig up a few months old thread of mine!

Triple sim adapters work on the S4 and note 3.

Call recording apps do work on android phones and even older samsung phones and other new android phones and don't work on new or software updated older samsung phones.

Yes i know what region locking is.

I now choose to spend my money on other companies android products which i think are better. If that bothers you then that is not my problem. I have better things to do today than argue on the Internet with someone i don't know.

Good night.
[Galaxy S 5 General] -PiLoT-:
I didnt actually dig it up, read back a page

But research you said you did said it wouldnt on the s5

But you said you did research so you knew this

No one said you didn't. ever

My issue isnt with you buying anything. my issue is with you being such a vocal detester of certain features or lack thereof, when you bought them knowing full well they had these things wrong with them because you did the proper research.

why would you even buy a phone that you know wont work the way you want, better yet why moan about samsung doing this. even though you knew they did it before you bought it
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
One last time. .. my trile sim adapters did work then on my note 3 and S4 but they didn't on the s5. That was my experience as I hadn't come across posts regarding that it didn't work on the S5. The adapter actually 'works' on the s5 too in the sense that the sim number 1 works via the connector but the other sims can't be used as samsung blocks the launch of the sim app but it doesn't get blocked on older samsung phones. Ps. they work on iPhones and other android phones.

Getting to call recording apps. . They did work on s4 and note 3 and stopped working on note 3 after software updates. Sometimes software have glitches so I gave them the benefit of the doubt but since on the newer s5 it didn't work either and works on other new android phones like my one plus one it is my understanding that samsung is blocking some features which you can gather if you read up more on the topic.

As explained AGAIN above and

in my personal experience the triple sim adapters worked in s4 and note 3 (but not after software update indicating it is samsung doing the blocking) and didn't work on the s5.

Call recording still works on loads of android phones including my one plus one. It used to work on my older samsung phones till later software updates and didn't Work on the S5.

If you need more of my reasons why I think the are better ones out there than the S5....

water proofing is **** as shown in my videos. Sony is better.

Internal memory is loads better on cheaper phones like the one plus one.

Camera is worse than much cheaper one plus one.

Speaker is much louder on the one plus one.

Battery life "without cutting back any features" is better on the one plus one. But would be better on s5 using that black and white ultra power saving mode which stops many features working.

Edit. I still have my note 3 and note 1 and s4 but I do like my gadgets and have other 6 android phones, 5 android tablets and 2 android mini pc's and ipad air. So after owning the and using many other android devices which I no longer have my personal impression of the S5 is that there are better ones out there.

If the above bothers you then not much I can do but say agree to disagree. Cheers.
[Galaxy S 5 General] bubblesmoney:
Ignore some of the apologists for Samsung on this thread trying to pester people who purchase their own android devices unlike the usual reviewers on many websites who get their free review phones and do your own research before spending your money.

Word of warning even when buying an unlocked or no region lock samsung phone in a country with no region lock, it can subsequently get region lock if you do any software updates while traveling or moving to another country with region lock as shown long time ago in the Note 3 thread (thread with hundreds of posts) http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47664261&postcount=1380 As you can see paying customers who bought unlocked (no region lock phones) samsung phone later got region lock with software update while travelling and working in the Eu and their phone would no longer work with their home country sim. Please note phone was bought from official samsung store and not so called grey market what ever that term grey market may mean! So any person who travels and works across countries or even travelling abroad and wants to use roaming or local sims would be at risk of region lock unless they never want to update their phone or need to resort to hacking the software which most wont be able to do.
[Galaxy S 5 General] ronnie498:
Mod Edit

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[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDH313:
So I'm reading up as much as I can about flashing a custom kernel for my m7att and have some questions:

1. I am looking mostly at Elementalx, but I run SlimKat, what version should I use.

2. What is Aroma installer, is that instead of Clockworkmod?

3. Can I brick a device by doing it wrong, or will I always be able to get back to the recovery?

I know these are basics, but any help is greatly appreciated. I am looking at this mostly for battery savings and to cool down the device.

Thanks again!

Edit: meant Aroma, and I see that I would just use Clockworkmod. Is it running more stable now on the ONE, I've seen some bad reviews...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmb6420:
Aroma is the script Language used to automate the install. Helps keep us beginners from completely messing up. I use twrp so I can't speak about CW
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDH313:
I switched over to TWRP so I know it'll work

Will Viper 1 work with the Elementalx kernel?

Thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmb6420:
Don't know. I'm on Insert Coin. Maybe someone familiar with Viper 1 will come in.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
1. We will not recommend you a particular kernel, you'll have to try which one works best for you

2. Like said before aroma installer s a script that allow you to install things (i.e kernel) via a graphical user interface. When you choose ''install'' in twrp and select the kernel, it will lauch the Aroma installer and from there you can install the kernel and choose some customization. It looks like this (this one is the aroma for the bootloader reset tool):

3. Yes you can softbrick a device if you flash an incompatible kernel for your rom. In most cases this will result in a bootloop and you should be able to restaure your device either by flashing a proper kernel or restoring using a ruu or other solutions.

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ElementalX is for GPE based rom or Sense Based rom ONLY. So if your rom is GPE or Sense based, it should work without any problem. ViperOne is based on Sense so afaik it should work.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] shodenskie:
any news for the ascend p6? any other updates or upgrades???

im from b118 to b125....

is this mobile will stock on 4.2.2 and b125 firmware?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] bok27:
http://huaweinews.com/2014/04/official-kitkat-ascend-p6/
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] kabirjedi:
Offical B132 europe rolled out:

http://www.huaweidevice.ro/support-software/

(100% same as leaked)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] cd65:
Actually, that official update is only for Eastern Europe only. Western Europe still has not received an update as of today.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] kabirjedi:
Lol

Use everywhere in europe!

Leaked and this(same)working without problem in all europe region(East,west,south,north.hahahahahahah):laugh:

Nothing eastern special............
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] primo:
File name says U00. I have U06. Is it okay for me?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] kabirjedi:
It s ok but keep in mind not my responsibility if you phone damaged....Do full backup first.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] doverjosh8:
Well, I've been having a few issues with my phone recently and I tried to contact Samsung multiple times to try and get some help. They did answer after a few tries, but their support is pretty much useless. They tried to help and then passed me on to another person who took 20 minutes to answer the phone and then said to take it into my local shop. I tried again and they basically said the same thing (to bring it into the shop).

What can I do.. I want to bring it into the shop, but I'm scared they'll take it and end up charging me hundreds to fix it.

Any suggestions?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
If you are looking for Warranty support then that's what you will need to do.

You do know, this forum is not a Support helpdesk right ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
When u take it in ask if they are going to charge you before you give it to them.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rwilco12:
XDA is probably not the best place to be discussing this. I would encourage you to follow the Samsung help lines recommendations and take it to the local shop.

Thread closed.

Thank you,

Rwilco12
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mika70:
Hy guys,

I have a QYEC WIZA 200 and I have installed a TTN 5.21 with WM5.

I have paired the GPS BT into the BT connection and put it on the COM6 with secure connection. It looks it is paired.

Once I go on the TTN menu I select other BT GPS then choice com6 but no connection. It looks that TTN5 doesn't see the GPS.

Any idea how to solve the problem ???

Many thanks

MIKA
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cgrillo:
TT5 and BT GPS

What's the name of your BT GPS - when it has been identified?

It MUST end in GPS...

Charlie Grillo
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mika70:
I use BT-GPS 338 with sirf star III. It is strange that the PDA but a question mark ? before the name of GPS BT. It is like it cannot understand what kind of device it is.

The GPS BT instruction says to set up the connection speed to 38400 but I do not know where to set up this.....

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aalaap:
This is a year-old Galaxy S3 i9300 (Intl) which came with a stock 4.something, which I replaced after a couple of months with CM10. After that, I've tried plenty of different ROMs, but I mostly stuck with CM. There were often problems with some apps FCing and plenty of random reboots, but it was still mostly usable. Until recently, that is.

After a few more updates with the more recent CM11 builds, the phone just went into this boot loop that seems to trigger around the 1 minute mark regardless of what mode the phone is in. In most cases it's the CM11 boot animation, but even if I manage to get it into recovery or download mode, it still reboots. As a result, I'm unable to perform any repair via recovery (no fix permissions or wipe) and I can't get it to stay in download mode to send a different image.

Is this a hardware issue or something that can be fixed via software?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
If it reboots in recovery and download mode then it sounds like a hardware issue to me most probably your power button is the cause.;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aalaap:
I guess :-/

I did read several other boot loop issue posts, but most of them only reboot when the OS is booting, not recovery or download. The ones that have a 'global' boot loop issue are usually much shorter (3 sec or so) and can sometimes get it to stay by removing the memory card or just keeping it off for 5-10 minutes. None of thes things worked for me.

I have three Samsung phones with hardware issues - the i9300, the i9250 and the i9020 - which I'll take to the service center now.

:highfive:
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
So I'm using one of the kitkat roms and I can't seem to get USB OTG and USB charging to work at the same time? Is this just not possible? Or do I need to do something special? I bought one of the OTG Y cables that allows the hookup of a charger and a USB device and it's still no go, it'll show it's charging for a minute or so after a USB device is mounted but then the charging icon goes away?

Someone had mentioned to me that a custom kernel may be needed?
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] ThatFrigginAzn:
Yep you would need a custom kernel.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Any documentation around on how to build this kernel to do what I need?
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
Look in my signature for a guide. For the specifics, you will need to find a kernel on github that has what you are looking for and port it to your build. My roll your own kernel guide will get you started. You will need a partition with Debian Linux to complete the guide. I suggest AntiX.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Can it be a kernel from another device? or does it need to be similar?

Also how about Ubuntu? I'm familiar with Ubuntu, but I'll look at AntiX

From what I gather I only need USB host mode so that the USB port is not outputting power.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
Ubuntu should work, though the names of the dependencies might be off. Easier to just partition off and install Antix. Damn good distro. I went with stable for the guide, but you can easily switch later to testing or unstable by changing up the sources list.

For what you need, you may find it as an option when adjusting the menuconfig during the make process.

The second post in the thread tells a bit about changes necessary for the 500 device, as I originally made the guide for the 510.

There are currently two other kernels for the 500 that were successfully made using the guide. One of them also has a decent install through recovery script
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
What's the difference between the 500 and 510?
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
The 510 is the Google play edition, whereas the 500 is the lg version. If you didn't buy it through the play store, you have the 500.

The best way to learn would be to follow the guide all the way through, copy and paste, and then figure out what you are doing while you are doing it!

Also, this should be posted in the questions thread rather than development if a moderator would be so kind to move this post.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Oh ok the 510 is the google play edition. Either kernel should work right? They are the same device... I'm not running the stock rom as I wanted a basic 4.4 rom as this is eventually going in my car.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Well you posted right before me lol, but I made the post here because I know there are a couple other people looking for the same thing so I was hoping we could develop a kernel for everyone.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
Unfortunately no, there are some differences, mostly with naming, but that can be important.

There are two parts to the boot image for our device, the ramdisk, and the kernel itself. The ramdisk plays a key roll in deciding certain options for the device, while the kernel controls more common options you may find on any device.

Most of the install from recovery scripts, repack the kernel zimage with the existing ramdisk from the device. But this doesn't really matter either.

All of the multi device kernels tend to be larger than necessary and have problems they shouldn't.

Long story short is that each device has it's own kernel source, which has supposedly been optimized for its device. This isn't exactly true, and the list of changes I've made to better the 510 device's kernel is astounding.

If you follow my guide, all of this will become apparent.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Alright thanks I'll look over it.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
So what makes the510 different?? Is the firmware different? Obviously they didn't change the hardware so could one somehow convert the 500 to a 510? Only reason I'm interested is because some of that stuff you said doesn't work on the 500 it seems? Such as fastboot?
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
Lg specific drivers mostly. Fastboot requires an unlocked boot loader, which the V500 does not have. An exploit is used to bypass the boot loader on the 500. Loki.

The gpe is pure android, with just a couple of perks thrown in, as it uses an Lg platforms. Our device , that being the V510 most closely resembles the Nexus 4 (Mako) version, and was probably based off that device. The items I have added to the 510 kernel as enhancements, mostly came from a mako kernel with the rest simply being tweak corrections to the existing source code.

Those changes alone made huge improvements in performance and battery.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
Yea I just found the long thread about converting, its strange they can't seem to get it to work? Quite strange... Well I'll have to research the other bits I guess from others that have made V500 kernels or something.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] oubeichen:
maybe this commit is what you need

https://github.com/oubeichen/android_kernel_lge_v500/commit/ee86db750adf2bb7b4f7b988ba6937d92551373b

I havent tested yet but this is ported from a nexus4 kernel thread. v500 and nexus4 have the same power management ic
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] sleekmason:
If anybody wants this, I'll compile it into the V510. Looks pretty straightforward. Thank you for the link.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] treetop777:
Indeed! :fingers-crossed:
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] Hdale85:
I'm going to take a stab at a custom kernel, but I have to setup linux on my desktop again so I'm not sure when I'll get around to it lol. Might be able to this week sometime.

If I can't get USB Host mode with charging enabled I'm going to have to look into a wireless HD solution or something, and even then that won't fix the setup I wanted to use for high end sound.
[G Pad 8.3 Android Development] mannyy:
news ???? :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jubei_mitsuyoshi:
Please Please help been smashing brains out on google trying to find this :)

Am trying to build various ROMs without selinux support, i noticed a while back in 4.1 there was a selinux build flag in one of the thousands .mk files in the android source tree, which seemed to be a global switch to enable selinux (modules i assume ).

With 4.3 and 4.4 selinux seems more integrated, is the SElinux env var still there ?,if not can i just build a NO SElinux kernel and remove the selinux components from the manifests ?

SElinux has considerable userland components, do i need to clean up the init to remove refs as well as remove the binaries ?

Any info and help would be greatly appreciated thanks
[Windows RT General] willz06jw:
Thanks for reading,

I have a jailbroken surface rt and I am trying to use SCUMMvm. The download page says that I need to put sdl.dll and zlib1.dll in the same directory as the executable. Where can I find these files? Do they have to be specifically built for windowsRT?

Thanks

Will
[Windows RT General] MaliceX:
Have a look at the bottom of this post in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36534446&postcount=2

SDL and zlib have already been ported to Windows RT, it's why DOSBox also works under Windows RT. :)
[Windows RT General] willz06jw:
Perfect

Thanks for your help -- that's exactly what I was looking for