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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] happygolucky919:
Hi all. New to android and I'm coming from Windows. There's just so much source material to read over with varying methods. I need a few clarifications before I begin flashing.

I just recently unlocked my T989 I receive from a friend so that I could use it on AT&T and that put me on 4.0.3 ICS with UVLE1 Radio band. I've rooted using TWRP 2.7. That's what I've done so far.

I want to go from my current ICS to one of the 4.4.4 Paranoid or Beanstalk roms in the Android Dev subforum.Do I need to flash to the latest t-mobile Radio band first? I'm assuming the install guides from Para/Bean's thread just don't mention it because it's an obvious prerequisite? Are there any other steps I should be taking before flashing to the roms other than the Radio?

I just wasn't positive I could go straight from 4.0 to 4.4 without doing something in between.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Do a nandroid first, to fall back on.....and go for it!

First make sure you have the recommended recovery.

Nandroid backup in custom recovery.

Wipe system, data, cache and dalvik cache.

Flash radio, then rom , then gapps. Done. ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] happygolucky919:
Thanks a ton, KJ. Your advice was invaluable. Decided to run Paranoid and it's sexy as fuark.

One thing to note for anyone else who ends up in my predicament. After installing the rom and gapps and booting it for the first time. Turn the phone off and head back into CWM/TWRP and do another factory reset if your WIFI doesn't work. I couldn't even get the WIFI to turn on. A google search on the issue made me think I fried the WIFI chip since that seemed to be a common issue with the S2, but a factory reset in recovery fixed it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lilhgarcia1:
does anyone know a working way to root from the 4.3 update on my Mac or on phone i tried just about every option.. safe root, towel, motochopper, heimdall is giving me an error. if anyone can help thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
You tried towelroot? It should work perfectly as it works fine on 4.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lilhgarcia1:
Yes I did doesn't seem to work for me either unless im doing something wrong with this one click process lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I'd have to say you did something wrong then. Try again from scratch

Remember that all it does is give you root. Anything else you'll need to do research on outside the towel root app
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Hello,

I want to share some Hidden features and Secret codes available in our Note 3, as shown in the screenshot.

Here is how:

- Download the attached file, EXTRACT it to your sdcard.

- Install Shortcut Master, open menu Export/Import, browse and select the file above and click Import.

You can add more your own shortcuts in the list, and then Export to backup or to share with each other.

NOTE: some features need ROOT to be launched. It is due to Samsung's security policy.

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bdrhan:
siklenmeme rekoru kırmış aq :D
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Updated, added more shortuts.

[IMG="Shortcut Master"]http://s16.postimg.org/vuedm9911/2014_07_04_23_09_04.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Secret codes to change RRC HSPA Control:

*#301279#

*#279301#
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mrjmac84:
Code

*#1234# Firmware Information
[Galaxy Note 3 General] ultramag69:
This has been done before -

*#06# -- To check IMEI No.

*#9090# -- Diagnostic Configuration

*#1234# -- to check software version of phone.

*#272*IMEI# -- Reset User data + Change Sales Code

*#12580*369# -- to check software and hardware information.

*#0228# -- Battery status (ADC, RSSI reading)

*2767*3855# -- Full factory reset (Don’t dial it does not ask you to confirm unless you have problem)

*#0*# -- This Code shows Screen Test Menu (LCD Test Menu) Hidden Menu

*#7353# -- Self Test Mode (2nd Hidden Menu)

*#34971539# Camera firmware check/update

*#2263# Service Mode - Baseband selection

*#9900# SysDump

*#0011# Service Mode - Radio parameters

*#0808# USB Settings

*#2222# Service Mode - FTA HW Version

*#1111# Service Mode - FTA SW Version

Here's the ones I have...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Yes, I see, there are plenty of code list available on the Internet, but they all have 2 main disadvantages:

1- The list is not full. While you can get a full list in my app. As you can see in the screenshot, there are 174 secret codes in my Note 3.

2- Not all codes work by dialing in the phone's numpad. While you can get all codes worked with my apps. Some codes require ROOT permission to work.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] CekMTL:
I can confirm your app working sweet to fine-tune bands for LTE, 3G, etc...

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] nolteks:
Thank you.

They're helpful.:good:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Glad that you find it useful.

Please share your hidden shortcuts and secret codes and their meaning.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] ktetreault14:
very cool

---------- Post added at 03:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:31 PM ----------

just enabled HSPA-AMR
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
Thanks.

Can you share the step-by-step instruction?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] lqhorochi:
*#0011#

==> [MENU] + [Back]

==> [MENU] + [Key Input] + "Q"

==> [MENU] + [Key Input] + "0000"

==> <wait ~5-10 seconds>
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
2767*2878

open GPRS SETTING menu.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Vanto:
Wow ... great stuff ?

Keep goin'

?

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:51 PM ----------

If it's not much trouble .. a simple "how to do it" would be nice

Thanx
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
To create shortcut for the hidden setting "Auto power-off", go to Search menu, enter 'powersetting' to search.

Tap and select Launch button to open, or Favorite button to add a shortcut to the favorite list.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
I have update the shortcut list in the Post #1. Please download and import to your app.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
To create shortcut for "Task Manager", go to Search menu, enter 'JobManagerActivity' to search.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] vndnguyen:
For your convenience, you can download the shortcuts list files and import in to the app.

- Android 4.3 Hidden Shortcuts.rar

- Samsung (Note 3) Hidden Shortcuts.rar
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dash REZA:
+1
[HTC One Max] appro77:
I've unlocked my bootloader, rooted and installed CWM custom recovery. Not surprisingly the Sense 6 update will download but it won't install. I tried to flash it manually with CWM but that won't work either. Again, no surprise.

Is there a workaround that I can use to install the Sense 6 update?
[HTC One Max] jerrycycle:
Yes, you need the stock recovery not custom recovery to install the ota plus stock rom installed.
[HTC One Max] appro77:
Ok, I flashed stock recovery and the update looked like it was going to install but it failed about a third of the way through and gave me a red triangle. I rebooted and fortunately the phone is still working. I tried installing the update a second time with the same result. Any ideas?
[HTC One Max] jerrycycle:
You have to have a pure stock rom. You may have to nandroid a stock or RUU but you have to decide that, but it have to be stock not root or any system file edits. Sorry, missed the bootloader need to be locked.
[HTC One Max] appro77:
My rom is stock (Telstra Australia) but I've installed a few Xposed mods. If I do a factory reset I'm assuming that will take the rom back to stock. If I then remove root and relock the bootloader will I then be ok to flash the Sense 6 update?
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
Mate, I'm having same issue, Telstra Australia.

Check out his thread. I think you need to save three files that get wiped when you unlock bootloader. The update looks for them. I'm still trying to get it to work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2800140
[HTC One Max] appro77:
Thanks. I tried the 3 files thing and it didn't work for me probably because the bootloader was still unlocked. I got sick of dicking around with it and decided to try to get S-off which I'd been having trouble achieving with Hboot 2.49. Finally got S-off and then flashed this.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53890999

Cheers.
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
Which method did you use to gain s-off? I couldn't get it to work.
[HTC One Max] appro77:
Nothing was working for me and I'd almost given up but I was pointed to this.... http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/

I was already rooted but for some reason the first method wouldn't work for me. ADB is very new to me so I may have done something wrong even though I tried it a couple of times. I used the second method but didn't use temproot cause I figured as I was already rooted I didn't need it. When I used the commands in the second method S-off was achieved.

The rom I mentioned above looks really good btw.
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
Yeah it does look pretty slick. Wasn't sure about the large icons through. I watched a review on youtube. Looked a little strange...
[HTC One Max] appro77:
Not sure what you are referring to there. I didn't see anything overly large. Was that on the stock launcher? I'm using Apex.
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
When the OTA update fails and you get the red triangle, have you tried holding the vol up button then pushing the power button?

This should take you to stock recovery and you can see why the update failed...

Might give you a point to work from.:confused:
[HTC One Max] appro77:
No I didn't do that. I'm on a custom recovery and custom rom now though.
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
I'm all back to stock with the three files saved. Just waiting for the OTA update to download now.

I'll let you know if it works.

So what's the sense 6 camera app like? I have never really been happy with the camera on the max.
[HTC One Max] appro77:
I haven't had a really good look at it but I don't like the fact that you have to tap a button before you choose video. On the old app both camera and video were one tap away. Now if you aren't in video already it's 2 taps.
[HTC One Max] Cjohn1200:
I ended up getting this to work....

When you save the three files that are missing with a root file manager, you have to save them to \data\preload NOT system\data\preload

Worked a treat after I did this:good:

How did you get firewater to work?

I keep getting a kernel error. It says that my kernel has a anti firewater patch. Very frustrating i just want to be able to lock my bootloader so my finger print scanner works properly again.
[HTC One Max] appro77:
That's interesting what you say about the 3 files. Now I know why it wouldn't work for me. Regarding Firewater I just followed the instructions in the link I posted earlier.

I've actually reverted to a Nandroid of my stock Sense 5.5 rom. I like it better than Sense 6.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Weststar:
Lately ive been noticing my phone not responding when i wake up in the morning. the backlight wont turn on or anything. i try pressing the power button and everything but it wont go to standby. anyone know whats up? thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] frazell:
Try forcing it into standy by after you've powered it back up. My guess is something you have installed is causing you problems. Finding out what that is will fix it.

For me SmartSKey caused all kinds of weird things to happen on my Wizard.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] peraltah:
This is happening to me as well.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] felipely:
Mine would lock up too after I would put it on stand by. But I think I found the problem to be magic button, because after i uninstalled it, it never did it again. Try uninstalling/reinstalling any apps and see if that helps you find your problem.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] joshmastaaa:
i had that prb when i installed Yahoo Go!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] patrickem:
I have this problem all the time. It is random, it used to happen just in the morning but now it happens all the time. I have even done a hard reset and wiped the phone a few times and it still happens.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crown Clown:
Exactly i'm the same problem and with stock rom ruu IMEI and baseband is unknown and auto-reboot and with custom rom auto-reboot is removed but imei and baseband are unknown :(

in One X i flash boot boot.img and imei is back , but in One is'nt :(

please help , thank you

sorry for my bad english
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nateboi81:
Unfortunately you are stuck then. Just like me with my warranty replacement phone. I can't s off. There is an app called sunshine that is used to s off the m8. They say there may be support for the m7 in the future. That's really our only hope
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crown Clown:
but there are people who can s-off the hboot 1.56

but not everyone , only a few people :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
did you try rumrunner in Ubuntu 32bit ? sometimes the PC is the problem
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crown Clown:
i haven't :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyrusct82:
If you get the "whelp this sucks....." message then you can't s-off no matter what you do (as the measure says). I'm in the same boat with you and I wait a new exploit like SunShine to be available for M7.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardstyle123:
I had the same problem on HBOOT 1.56

Was rooted and bootloader unlocked.

RumRunner & Revone did not work.

Firewater did not work at first either.

What I did was changed the CID to GOOGL001 then I ran Firewater again and it finally worked. Flashed the GE RUU and everything is good.

Phone went from AT&T to GE Rom and got all the updates.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyrusct82:
How did you changed CID being S-ON? If you changed CID you were already S-OFF.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crown Clown:
this is my question too , how did ?!??!?!?!?!?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seanie280672:
This may help some people, it is possible to change CID without s-off, however very risky and very dangerous, this is how we used to do it on my previous HTC One SV in order to even get s-off, not sure though if this is the same address between both phones mmcblk0p4, so you do this at your own risk, and if you brick, don't come to me.

you have to know that you are pulling your bootloader from your device, yes that's your BOOTLOADER, modifying it and then flashing it back.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2264322
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawyerone:
Have pretty much similar problem, running Viper One

tried Firewater, followed the step like

But it doesn't S-OFF my device

instead, in the command prompt, an infinite loop of "y" appeared, and nothing happen.

Then, tried to redo the procedure, stucked in the booting logo after adb reboot command, but somehow is able to boot via the bootloader

Any tips?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
try typing Yes instead of yes, iirc it is case sensitive
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawyerone:
yea, finished that alr, thx anyway

now trying to return stock, stucked at flashing ruu, the cmd said

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\19>adb reboot-bootloader

C:\Users\19>fastboot oem writecid HTC__044

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 0

(bootloader) Input CID is not super CID

(bootloader) Start Verify: 0

OKAY [ 0.069s]

finished. total time: 0.069s

C:\Users\19>fastboot reboot-bootloader

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.043s]

finished. total time: 0.043s

C:\Users\19>adb reboot-bootloader

C:\Users\19>adb reboot-bootloader

C:\Users\19>adb reboot-bootloader

C:\Users\19>fastboot oem rebootRUU

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 0

OKAY [ 0.048s]

finished. total time: 0.048s

C:\Users\19>fastboot flash zip ruu.zip

error: cannot open 'ruu.zip'

C:\Users\19>fastboot flash zip ruu.zip

error: cannot open 'ruu.zip'

C:\Users\19>cd c:\android-sdk-windows

c:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot flash zip ruu.zip

error: cannot open 'ruu.zip'

c:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot flash zip ruu.zip,zip

error: cannot open 'ruu.zip,zip'

c:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot flash zip

unknown partition 'zip'

error: cannot determine image filename for 'zip'

c:\android-sdk-windows>fastboot reboot-bootloader

rebooting into bootloader...

OKAY [ 0.043s]

finished. total time: 0.044s

got my ruu from http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu-zip...0-01_release_312087_signed_2_4_decrypted-zip/

sorry it its kind of out of topic

turning my handset to the service center on monday, speaker issue
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
"error: cannot open 'ruu.zip'" = MyFileNameIsWrong

use DIR command in command prompt to check filenames (and extension), and make sure MD5 on your downloads is correct
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawyerone:
what is DIR command?

And checked the MD5 matched, now tryng to figure it out

btw my cpu only have USB 3.0 port, is it fine?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkk71:
USB2 is

very

preferred, Windows 8.1 is a deal-breaker

check my guide's FAQ section: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2541082

DIR lists the directory contents in windows command prompt, similar to "ls" in unix
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lawyerone:
well just completed mine, with USB 3.0

Thanks for the answer anyway

Is now stock with S-OFF

Running Win 7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FullWipe:
Hi to all,

Could someone explain to me how to fix the LOST.DIR problem on the latest version of gustavo_s kernel 21-06?

Thank you very much mates [emoji106]

Sorry for my poor english.....

Inviato da "Highlander" SII con:

ROM --> SlimSaber KK 4.4.4

KERNEL --> Gustavo_s
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G3new:
When I use TRacer/Total Recorder(Killer Mobile Software), it recorded only 3-4 minutes. Not whole call.

Sometimes calls longer than 7-8 minutes recorded around 1 minutes or nothing.

I asked 'Killer Mobile Software', they think the call recording is being cut off towards the end, then it's more likely that your device at some point is running out of RAM and killing the call recording thread. They are certain this is simply a low RAM issue during the call recording.

Does LG G3 has a special manumacturer's power saving options, task killer, memory cleaner or app limiter applications?

(I can find only Smart Cleaning in setting/preference and I don't know what is the backcround process for RAM)

Something kills or prevents TRace/Total Recorder from recording whole call.

I'm not sure, it comes from LG manumacturer's customized software process or KitKat OS.

What can I do for call recording?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chimmachanh:
Hi All,

My name is Ben, writing in from AUS this evening as I try to get past my boot menu!

I wanted to do a simple factory reset on my Samsung GS3, but wanting to be "smart" I thought I'd back up everything first using Titanium Backup, ie I had to root the phone. I read as much as I could and thought the safest method was using the Android Toolkit.

After getting over various obstacles (eg: bluestacks interrupting the toolkit), I followed the instructions and the Toolbox informed me I needed to restart the phone and use the program to change the stock recovery filenames as they were relucant to be shifted from the primary recovery. I went to restart the phone and it left me at the boot screen, and now I can't get past it.

The phone is a stock GS3 GT-I9305T running 4.3. I have backed up as much as I could without root, so hopefully that'll minimise what I'll lose?

Can I use the Toolkit to recover my software? Or should I use the factory reset option in the boot menu? Or just burn it and go live in a cave? Lol.

Thanks so much for your help.

Cheers,

Ben
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Did you flash the correct file? You've posted in the i9300 q&a instead of the i9305 one.

Follow the sticky guide in general forum on how to flash with Odin, download the right firmware from sammobile.com. Afterward boot into recovery and factory reset.

To root use CF auto root, again read the sticky thread.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chimmachanh:
Thanks boomer for the reply,

I double checked the file in Odin, I was following the android toolkit instructions pretty carefully.

Is there any chance of recovering the original OS?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chimmachanh:
Nevermind, I strapped on my big boy boots and tried the factory reset, which instantly worked and now the phone is working again.

I'll get some help from a friend who's done it before with the rooting.

Cheers for the help!

Ben
[LG Optimus G (International)] niknik76:
Hi there,

I'm using myMail as my default mail app - I really like and would like to continue using it - but somehow it stops giving me notifications.. I have tried to uninstall/reinstall several times and also uninstalled Greenify (if it should mess something up) - but can't get it working..

Any of you know what I can do?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b.o.n.s:
After installing a RUU on my One everything was fine.

But i installed the latest OTA during my holiday in a other country (i live in holland, went to thailand).

The strange thing is i'm missing multiple languages after the OTA. I'm missing the dutch language.

What can i do?

Software number is 5.11.401.10
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jakin1818:
Hi, I have accidentally deleted images from my internal storage of Galaxy S3 GT-I9300.

My phone is un-rooted.

After updating to 4.3 when I connect to PC i just get MTP/PTP option now mass storage mode.

kindly help me out.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Hundreds of identical threads on people trying to recovery data, search and read. You are unlikely to recovery anything useful, it's like trying to unscramble eggs.
[Moto X Q&A] frenchie007:
I've safestrapped a rooted 4.4.2 rom on my AT&T locked moto x for quite some time and I can't see any real downsides.

I even had a look to see if it's possible to flash non-stock roms with it and from what I understand it's totally possible.

So my question is: What's the point of unlocking the bootloader on non-DE devices (with, say, the chinese middleman method, which costs about 40-50$), when you can simply bypass the protected /system directory by using safestrap?

If I understand though, the only real limitation is that we have to wait for the sbf of the newer versions of android to be released for our specific device, in order to flash the correct kernels and all. I think.

Please correct my statements as they may be wrong, and thanks for your replies!
[Moto X Q&A] samwathegreat:
Once you have updated your CORE SOFTWARE (and bootloader) to 4.4.2, safestrap is useless. The 4.4.2 bootloader is impervious to known write-protect-disable exploits.

Many people updated to 4.4.2 without reading the consequences and now BL unlock is the ONLY method to achieve Root AND Write-protect-disable.

Additionally, the process is much more streamlined and far less complicated than installing and configuring safestrap. Simply unlock, and flash TWRP. Done.

Also, non-stock-based ROMS (AFAIK) cannot be used with safestrap because as I understand, it uses an "overlay" technique which would not work on a non-stock-based ROM.

Good Luck
[Moto X Q&A] HeroOfTime:
Also, using safestrap takes up more space on your device, since you have an underlying core OS (as samwathegreat puts it), essentially meaning that you have two full ROMs on your phone. If you have the 16gb Moto X, that will suck up a good chunk of space (though that's not the end of the world). If you have the 32gb version, you are probably ok. I agree with everything else samwathegreat says though.