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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jsdad:
re: sim unlock

I recently bought a soft bricked SGH-I317 (stuck on "firmware upgrade encountered and issue"). I tried flashing LJ2 firmware and got it to change to being hung on the "Samsung Note II" logo. I think this is when it changed as I was trying all sorts of flashing trying to get off the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" screen (also Kies would not recognize that the phone was connected). Tried different recoveries and firmware without making any progress until I flashed the 4.4.2 (I317UCUCNE5) bootloader. The phone booted into Philz recovery after that. I then flashed the stock LJ2 firmware w/ LJ2 modem, sim unlocked the phone and then flashed Skynote Air 4.3 along with the 4.4.2 (NE5) modem. This is the setup that I am using on T-Mobile now with no problems except that the Knox counter is tripped. Hope this helps shed some light on the problem.

I discovered a problem with Skynote 4.3 with the 4.4.2 bootloader. If I try to charge it with the phone turned off, the phone will freeze at the empty battery symbol and requires a battery pull to get the phone to turn on. Everything else seems to work okay.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] emikpogi:
My sister sell her note 2 to me because she's gonna upgrade to samsung galaxy S5. It was an att and I'm using T-mobile.

I did check the baseband ver and It was i317UCUCNE5 (4.4.2 OTA). the question is it is safe to flash base band ver i317UCALJ2 using ODIN?

Can you do the step by step process and also links of the files and software did you use please? thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
It's a network unlock, so you are free to use any GSM carrier. You can lock your sim card -- then a pin is required for your phone to connect to your carrier. It's the old skool method to stop unauthorized use, from the days before a lock screen pin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] trunks10k:
I bought a SGH-I317M today off someone. It was locked to Bell Canada. I did the dumb thing by letting Kies update the firmware. And as i've read I'm pretty screwed for downgrading it. I tried unlocking it but the hidden menu didn't give me the 4th option in the network lock path. So i tried bunch of things which at one point required me installing Kies for drivers and thats when I i let it slip and update. So now I'm still searching for a method to unlock my phone. I've gotten philstouch recovery on and Skynote working. I just tried flashing the rogers_j2 modem.. hoping this will work.. you think I should just pay one of those sites or a retailer for the sim unlock ccode?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] emikpogi:
Please let me know if it works. mine is galaxy note 2 4.4.2 NE5 baseband and I've done some research and they said that if you upload your firmware thru OTA there is a possibility that it will soft brick you phone due to unknown security reason.

I'm just waiting for conformation from some one that it's safe to flash J2 modem on a NE5 OTA :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
in the US, if your phone is more than 6 months old and your contract is in good standing you can ask for the unlock code. I don't know if Canada is similar.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bbq9:
I was going to post the same question about unlocking I317 4.4.2, and found this post which is similar to what I'm looking for so just want to add to pump the question.

It's been a while but I have done unlocking for other At&t models (S3, S4) and learned that later versions don't with the option in hidden menu to unlock, and the work around is to downgrade. However with devices that have OTA updates, it's not possible to downgrade the bootloader.

Is this the same for Note 2 I317? If so, any other method available to unlock this device to use it on other GSM networks? (I just bought one and it's on Kitkat 4.4.2 UCUCNE5, and looking for unlock...)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
It's only the modem that needs to be flashed. So whatever bootloader you're on doesn't matter.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
I wanted to unlock my phone today. ATT website wouldn't let me do it until my contract was fufilled, so I did some web searching.

Started with 4.4.2 and NE5 baseband. Loaded original baseband via recovery, and used the debug menu to unlock the sim. After that, updated the baseband back to the latest. Tmobile sim seems to be working just fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
What bootloader were u on?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
Baseband = modem. LJ2 is the modem with the unlocking menu
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bbq9:
As I posted earlier, I was also looking for the option to unlock my Note 2 (on 4.4.2) and didn't think I can downgrade to 4.1.1 to unlock... However, I just found this thread and successfully downgraded my firmware and unlocked my phone. Hopefully this information helps someone else..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2581321
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
Not sure how to check the bootloader version...

One other thing I noticed is I can make phone calls and send SMS, but I can't get the data connection to work. I've checked the APN settings to match tmobile. Not sure what the issue is here. I keep getting the message "sign into network"

I tried playing around with automatically selecting the network operator vs. manually - but that hasnt' seemed to help.....

Any thoughts?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Use this app to find out what bootloader ur on. Go to build info.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.electricsheep.asi

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
It says the bootloader is I317UCUCNE5, which matches the baseband version....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
And u were able to sim unlock just by flashing the other baseband? Do u have link for other baseband? But u stated earlier that u were having issues with ur phone after doing this.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
I just downloaded the oldest version that's in the modems section on the sticky post in this forum
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
I have same bootloader

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
Let me try to be more clear now that I'm in front of a real keyboard.

I wanted to test out t-mobiles coverage in my area, so I figured i'd order a SIM card, unlock the device, and give it a go.

SIM card arrives, ATT wouldn't unlock because I still have a few months on my 2-year agreement, so I figured I'd do it myself.

I started from the latest OTA ATT SW/FW, no mods. 4.4.2, I think. I saw some people said you can't downgrade the modem from that version, but I figured I'd try anyways.

First I tried to load the custom recovery (TWRP) via Odin, and ran into the auto-rewrite of stock recovery problem. Used the CF mod to get around that issue.

Once I got TWRP to run, I loaded the original ATT modem (from the STICKY) via TWRP. Rebooted phone, got the extra item in the DEBUG menu to allow SIM UNLOCK. Ran that, and turned off phone. Swapped SIM cards, and viola, I no longer got the SIM LOCK message at startup. Was able to make a phone call & txt from tmobile number. Didnt try data.

Now I reloaded latest modem (same version I had with 4.4.2), and rebooted. Everything seemed OK, still hadn't tried data (didn't occur to me that testing phone and txt weren't enough).

Thinking all was well, I wanted to try a custom rom, so I went to slimKat W03 (from the STICKY). As I played around with it I finally tried out the cell data, and realized it wasn't working. Updated APNs, and that didn't seem to make a difference.

So now I'm looking around to figure out how to get the data to work. The SIM is def unlocked (calls and txt works fine). APNs look right. Don't think I should NEED the AWS mod just to get data (phone SEES the networks, it just prompts me for network login or something like that).

So I'm thinking I will wipe fresh, and try another ROM, see if I get data working, and once data is working, then i'll do the AWS mod.

I just am not sure what my real issue is for getting the data connection working.

Sorry for the longwinded reply - figured I'd give you all the details...in short, I didn't have any issues unlocking from the ATT 4.4.2 OTA by going to the original modem relative to UNLOCKING the SIM.

Also, putting the ATT sim back in brings full data performance. So it seems like this is just a tmobile-specific issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
There was a thread long ago about switching to the correct bands for t-mobile. The steps are around, and I recall it being a dial code like *#4436#* or some such.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
I figured out what the issue was.

Since my SIM card was brand new, it needed to get "activated".

Apparently it does this through the web browser.

Well, the rom/browser wouldn't open to the link when I clicked the "sign into network" icon in the notifications bar, because it would default to google.com (and crash, with no internet connection)

I switched to a stock rom, and when I clicked on the "sign into network" icon, the browser opened to a special tmobile activation page. I clicked the activate button, and I was good to go.

Now I can switch between various roms and data works just fine. Something about the browser setup in the slimKat rom...

I guess I'll have to figure out if I need the AWS mod next.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
So if we got the latest bootloader we don't need to downgrade bootloader? All we need to do is change the baseband thane unlock?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
I quote myself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmrfresh:
That's what I did - seemed to work just fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Can anyone else confirm this?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rangercaptain:
Dmrfresh and I formed a conspiracy to brick your phone. Next we take over your identity.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Lol. Ok

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
Where are u getting the J2 modem and the stock one to revert to after u unlock.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
So what are you dialing to get in the service menu. A link you provide with instructions?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
I tried this code from this thread after I flashed the J2 modem. And I gor this error.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2037017

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] frizzdizzle27:
It's really easy guys

I have an AT&T note that currently runs 4.4.2 and all I had to do was download the UCALJ2 modem and flash it through TWRP, once it rebooted I went to the dialer and pressed *#197328640# to bring up the service mode menu, pressed 1 (UMTS), then 1 (Debug Screen), 8 (Phone Control), then 6 (Network Lock), then 3 (persoSHA256OFF) and left it on that screen for 30 seconds, press the menu button to go back and press (NW LOCK NV DATA INITIALLIZ) and left it on that screen for 1 minute. I then rebooted from that screen and inserted a T-Mobile sim and I not longer got a network pin auth. I then adjusted the APN to the T-Mobile fast.t-mobile.com so that I could get data and then restarted the phone into TWRP and reflashed the original modem that I started with which in my case was the CNJ1. Rebooted and am now currently enjoying an unlocked AT&T note on T-Mobile running 4.4.2. Hope this helps someone. I got the modems from this link forumdotxda-developersdotcom/showthreaddotphp?t=1987541 (replace dot with . obviously) within XDA since there is a ton of stuff specifically for the note all over XDA, so if you have any questions just do some homework and read the forums:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] noc1:
i got n7100 from france BOG, ive flashed to 4.1.1 but the menu is different also I lost IMEI. After i got back to latest update and IMEI is ok! but no unlock.

If I made any TWRM something will change or.. ?

Also I got NCK Code to unlock network sim, but it sais UNsuccsessfull!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jalabert:
My phone keeps whining about being low on discspace. Every time i delete an app i get an hour before it has eaten the new free memory.

Im now using 800mb and have only 80mb left og my 2gb. Im running pacman 4.3
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirtTrash:
This really pissed me off because I got the AT&T message "asking" me if I want to upgrade to NB4 and I declined. Then after I declined it showed update successful...WTF?!?! So now after two days of research and one attempt at reverting I am back to where I left off, exactly where I left off.

Please someone give me some good news. Am I able to revert back to MI9?? And please don't reply if your answer is going to be "someone told me", "I heard", or anything else along those lines. I was able to find a page that shows how to revert to MJ5 but one of the download links is broken.

Please excuse if you are offended by the above context but I know I'm not the only person who has lost MI9 and ROOT. Only difference between myself and them is my raging PTSD, and I am VERY PISSED OFF!!!

Again, pls help.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholaschum:
You cannot downgrade to previous iterations of firmwares. Especially a full firmware downgrade.

Also, if you want to ask these kinds of questions for your N900A, don't ask it in the N9005 forums, you most definitely will not get a firm answer because we expect you to have an N9005 with an

unlocked bootloader.

Go to the AT&T Note 3 XDA forum.
[Off-topic] arch_mastere:
Thank's got I am not the only one who thinks like you. For example, I just did a search with the following query: how to search in cpanel if grep is not available. And do you know what? The first results was: How to use Grep | Liquid Web Knowledge Base .... Uhmm... ok Google.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
That's because Google is very commercial when it comes to search results these days. It's all geared towards advertising revenue. Results are tailored to your location, cookies, history, content of your Google account and your Google+ account. It also returns sponsored results first, but they're not listed as such anymore. And a lot of sites are being filtered out as well.

Whenusing Incognito mode you'll often get very different results.

I searched for 'g900f brick after factory reset XDA' yesterday. The first XDA result? third from the bottom.. The first page was almost entirely random, not even Android Central. I even got results for the financial times and Reddit. But not related Reddit pages, nope.

And if you search for certain things, they manipulate your search. For the fun of it, try finding a torrent. Google automatically alters the results to the paid sites. And ironically they don't consider location in that. I searched for a book yesterday, redirected me to over 300 ebook webshops exclusively for USA and Canada. That's 4000 miles from here. Useful Google. -.-

I've resorted to using Bing for some things..
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Legaleye3000:
I want to get these Bose headphones but the volume and skip-track buttons only work on the iPhone. Any way to get it to work with Android?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i3axap:
Because it's a hardware problem you can only get the skip/repeat/stop track rockers, volume won't work. I use poweramp and it works like a charm.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Legaleye3000:
Are you saying Poweramp is an app that allows you to use the iPhone controls with android? Thanks.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bandjosh:
Yes poweramp is a replacement media player, that will allow in-line controls.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Legaleye3000:
Sweet- I'll check it out. Thanks.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thelastred:
No it's hardware here is a list of android headphones

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2789294
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lincer556:
Hello guys, yesterday from all sudden on my MROM-GB 2.3.7 the Google Play Market has died, when entering it says "com.android.vending has stopped unexpectedly", any workaround?

I've tried flashing gapps, installing system partition from scratch... rolling back to old market and let it update again and just nothing.

Installed 4.8.19/20/22 and still the same error.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andresrivas:
That has been discused before. I don't remember if they got a solution or not. Use search

Enviado desde mi MB860 usando Tapatalk 2
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lincer556:
Already seached, that's why i'm posting.

Haven't found anything useful..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andresrivas:
Here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53514441

Enviado desde mi MB860 usando Tapatalk 2
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knives89:
I keep it at 60% screen brightness, could that be it?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JesseMT4G:
What do you have enabled? Maybe try shutting down Google now and location, might help some, granted shouldn't have to do that in order to get good battery life.

Might have some wake locks as well.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hello00:
i dont see anything wrong with it? i keep mine at 23 and my screen time is the same as urs
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knives89:
No Google now or location, only settings I have on are Bluetooth, sound,sync, WiFi and rotation.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knives89:
Look at how much battery life I have compared to yours.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IXChicharitoXI:
That's horrible
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] F4M0U569:
you cant do anything about it as long as you are using stock kernel
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navlem:
Maybe you can

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[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knives89:
What you do recommend I do? Root then what else,
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hello00:
true..nvm didnt see it..my time on is 5hrs
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] F4M0U569:
you wont see much or any power savings from switching to a lower resolution..no matter what the resolution is your display is still having to drive all X amount of pixels that your display physically contains. get a lower power screen usually lower res ones will be lower power and thats about the only way. dimming helps too. just a few notches dimmed from full/half can make a world of difference. all the pixels will still be lit regardless of resolution used

root and wait till someone comes up with a custom kernel. that way you could control the wakelocks, cpu, voltage, gpu control etc.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphamini:
After rooting, Greenify seems to make a difference.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tarzan-:
Root and then install better battery stats and post your kernel wakelocks/partial wakelocks.

Is your phone getting good deep sleep?

Sent from G3
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navlem:
Assuming you are right, there is still much battery savings from lowering the resolution because the processor doesn't need to push as hard to drive the lower resolution.

I've lowered mine and definitely saw a difference.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4ndroid99:
I though LG default apps stopped working once you lower the resolution?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navlem:
Yes it does, so you have to use third party apps to replace it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicChineseTime:
Data Enabled, LTE.

32GB Germany

Sent from from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehpud:
What runtime are you using? If you are on ART then I'd suggest going to Dalvik. Significant boost in battery life. My battery is quite solid.

huge picture...sorry.

Anyways, on 83% battery life, been using it today streaming music and browsing while at the office.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SperVaxjo:
Im getting 2.5 to 3 hours screen time from 100%to 50% with auto brightness.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicChineseTime:
Dalvik has better battery life compared to ART???

Everyone says the opposite...

Sent from from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackwrx02:
I would have to agree with this. I switched to ART and my battery hasn't been as good. Not by much, but I was expecting and improvement and saw a decline in performance (at least my perception anyway). Phone has been off the charger for 12h5m and I'm at 8% with 2:49:59 of screen-on time.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
You're on WiFi.

ART on the G3 does not yet work properly, so battery life is not as good.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehpud:
Unfortunately, with the G3 it seems to be the case for me and many other users. When I enabled ART I encountered a significant amount of errors. My errors ranged from freezes, deep sleep locks, battery drain and more. Swapping back to Dalvik has given me a great experience. The slight change in speeds was not worth the cost. Quite honest, I don't notice any lag either. Especially if I use Nova Launcher.

Right now with the same settings as my earlier post - I am at 12h 36 min of battery usage with an estimated 13h 42 min remaining.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jroyjohnson:
I second this. My battery life was fantastic the first week with my G3 when on dalvik. I decided to try ART and definitely noticed a decline in battery life, especially while the screen was on. I switched back yesterday and noticed it's better again.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicChineseTime:
i used the phone for over 2 hours on 4G, then i reached home for the last 3%...

Sent from from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackwrx02:
Ran the phone yesterday until it died completely. This is the first time I've done that. Charged overnight, then booted up this morning and switched back to dalvik. Also killed Google now and I'm much better off so far today with pretty heavy browsing this morning.

I'm update tonight on how it goes the rest of the day.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Is two hours supposed to be a lot?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicChineseTime:
The 4G was all the time enabled.

Sent from from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
You said two hours on 4G, now it was enabled the whole time? It doesn't matter if it's "enabled" when you're on WiFi.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicChineseTime:
i mean the last minutes when my phone has 1% was connected to wifi and i took a screenshot.

The total screen on time was 4h.

I used the phone for over 3 hours on LTE - WIFI DISABLED (while Screen on browsing... ecc...)

then the last 2minutes i connected my phone via wifi and took a screenshot...

Sent from from my LG-D855
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshnichols189:
Your screenshot was 4 hours.. Why would you connect your phone to WiFi at 1% battery? And regardless, like I was saying two hours on LTE isn't a very long time.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackwrx02:
So I made it until about 3:45 today before getting the 20% warning. Plugged in to the charger on the way home. Not too happy with performance today after switching back to dalvik. It started well but once it got below about 87% it really started draining pretty steadily. I didn't use it more than usual today, other than about 15 minutes of browsing XDA this morning.

Not sure what to do. My S5 I could abuse and still have 45 to 50% battery at the end of the work day. I don't want to return this thing, but battery life is terrible with this screen and I don't know that the trade-off is worth it. I see no need for QHD at this point over 1080p. Nothing I do (or most people do) will use the display to its potential.

Battery efforts so far:

75% auto brightness from the time I bought it.

1. Switched to ART - no noticeable difference

2. Installed Snapdragon battery software and let it learn....no difference

3. Drained battery fully, disabled google now, recharged, and went back to dalvik. Maybe worse after this...

My day consists of a fair amount of texting(50+ messages), web/facebook throughout the day, and GOOD for Enterprise corporate email, with the occasional phone call.