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[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Yes things to fix are not as easy as they seem. Buy yes I plan to try to build lp also but right now my focus is getting pc finished and have a fully working kk Miui rom. Sorry but Miui is one of my favorite roms.

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Matter fact scratch that I'll get Miui for myself and try to get a new cm lp for ya. No promises I am still a noob at fixing things. I'll get cm built from source but definitely gonna need help wit fixes. Can anyone here help with fixes if I get built from source code.

I am not a dev just a quick learner

TEAM US!
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Yeah team us!

Sent from my SM-G386T
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Yes TEAM US! cause it's gonna take all of us together to get new cm running lol. Just got me parts for pc just waiting on power supply and 16g of ram lol

TEAM US!
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Y'all say AOKP is stable but I see few things not working properly on this 4.4.4 build I want a fully functional ROM fully stable. Not ssyin its not stable but in my eyes not complete
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Yeah I moved on before I fixed something and so did the other devs.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Lol
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
I'm on that marshmallow shiz lol
[General Questions and Answers] psycho_deth6:
Any progress?
[General Questions and Answers] malnash52@gmail.com:
Not good to ask a dev for updates he will give them when he gives them
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
Lol I don't think he meant progress for uploading a rom. Probably from just finding the right files
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Just wonderin
[General Questions and Answers] thomasbell:
I got this phone with no baseband I have made Roma for sgs4g and to fix the modem we padded them but for kk u just needed to move the modem.bin to /radio and fix perms. When u root this device it then shows many files in firmware-modem. Is there a way or a file to flash the baseband as I can't connect to anybcellyar. I can't odin or anything.
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
Some progress. My first priority is Nexus tho. But I'm started on avant mm

Wish me luck, and if you have an avant and want to test, I may as well start a hangouts group to get everyone syndicated on this stuff, so hangouts me at jamcswain2000@gmail.com
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
I for one, am extremely excited [emoji12]
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
You wanna test??
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
I honestly could as long as there's no chance of losing root or bricking my phone lol. I'm currently nowhere near a computer nor do I have the money for a new phone lol. As long as there's no risk of anything worse than something just not working or force closing then yea I can.
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
I'm down for testing. It will have to be when I get home from work at 0600
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
Possible light at the end of the tunnel? Possibly.
[General Questions and Answers] destinyninja:
I'd be down to test.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
I can test. You can probably just release test builds on here. I'm sure a lot of us are willing to help.
[General Questions and Answers] malnash52@gmail.com:
I'll test
[General Questions and Answers] havebrickedtoomany:
Wow. Mines metro pcs, bought the phone at Wal-Mart for 100 bucks last year. After 6 months of service, called and got the unlock codes... I didn't realize they ever charged that much for them. It is a great phone for the price. (At least At 100 bucks anyways)

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Reading back over all this old stuff. I paid 100 or 110 for my avant with metro pcs, everyone with t mobile seemed to pay doublE.. Same phone, same network. Just curious what so many people went with tmobile instead of metro. Metro has cheaper monthly rates for prepaid also. Doors it have to do with the location people are in?

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Id broken my s3. after having this one for a lil while, once the s3 was repaired. I chosE to stick with this one. It outperforms my first generation s3.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Whats the closest phone in specs to the avant. I'm trying to port please help find the best phone to port from thank you
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
Lemme get back to you on that. Dfuse told me. And his build using that tree as base worked. I'll check through my hangouts to see if I have it
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Probably the galaxy core prime.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Ty thankyou for ur help
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Thank you for working on this thing.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Just trying I like this phone
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
The main difference between metro and tmo is tmo prepaid offers a 30 bucks plan with 100 mins, unlimited txt, 5gb of high speed with slow down afterwards and tethering+international data and all that..that's why I stuck with tmo, I paid more than prob alot of people but remember I bought the phone right when it came out.. nexus 6 was to expensive.. and I wanted a phone with band 12.. now I'm lookin into getting a nexus 6 soon cause this phone more than frustrates me.. I've tried to get a kernel built with no luck I know why dfuse quit this sucker.. and honestly can't blame him, this Def is my last samsung phone ever along with lg..
[General Questions and Answers] ninjasinabag:
Lg doing some zneaky sneaky. My avant went kaboom about a month ago, used a bad usb to charge and ended up frying the usb itself. "Traded up" for the lg leon on tmobile since it is only 80 bucks, this phone is hell to work with in all rights. Too many variants and all of those variants just a bit or two different enough to make rooting or even porting a rom impossible.

Only thing good about this device is the surprising battery life when on stock.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Anyone have a working camera zip I can flash. I'm on DFUSE 2nd to last AOKP and I swear my camera just stopped working.... Says it can't connect and force closes
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxpjhAiHhrN0RjBLUDB5LTJPNHc/view?usp=docslist_api

Try that. It was just in my drive, so if it doesn't work ask me for my collection of possible fixes.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
What do I do with those files?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Just flash that one. If it doesn't work, I have alternative ones. At one point there were like 3 working fixes.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Hmm. there seems to be another firmware update for this phone. But no Lollipop.
[General Questions and Answers] NajdSyr:
hey guys , if i unlock and root the device will it be sim unlocked ? or what is it do i have to do exactly ? i have t-mobile g386t and android 4.4.2
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Root gets you root. Sim unlock gets you sim unlock. They're completely unrelated. If you want to use the metro variant on t mobile people have said that flashing the t mobile firmware with odin let's them do that.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I've heard of a few different people doing that. When you flash the T-Mobile firmware it allows the phone to accept a T-Mobile sim card.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
If I lost my original stock backup, and before I get rid of this phone to my cousin in a few months, does anyone have a stock ROM I can flash?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Stock Firmware has been up for a while. I don't have the latest ones up but you can always take the ota if you're not going to root.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=35831

If you don't have a pc or don't want to use odin Masterchief87 made flashable stock roms, they're somewhere on Android Forums.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Ok yea because I won't have a PC or Odin, I'll need to have a flashable version. Masterchief87, if you know what I'm looking for lemme know buddy
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
You can find it it's on Android Forums bro
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
I'll look. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
So is this still going? I managed to get my own cm12.1 rom to compiling. Though I get the boot loop after the welcome screen. I am changing a little around at a time.
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
Hey defuse06 how did you get passed the caf stuff with the missing declares?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Are you aware of the cm12 build that's already out? I realize you might want to do you own work, but there is a build that just has no WiFi and maybe camera, but there seems to be a camera fix.
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
Okay for one that's got to be a little upsetting. I'm am not after just having the CM12 rom not at all. I'm working towards trying to build it for myself so I can have my own CM12.1 rom. Why on earth would you want to promote just grapping someone's built rom when you can develop on top of what's known to build. So the question here is why can't I get my own build to compile and someone else can???

Totally defeats the purpose of why I'm posting on here. Honestly if I was wanting the rom I'd have it already... I wish I Could down vote you for that.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Even then the cm12 rom u speak of has alot more bugs then that. You must be a flash happy and havent really ran the rom for awhile.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
No WiFi+no camera=not worth using
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Avant= Not worth using
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Why is avant not worth using. Just because cm12 isnt finished. So why dont you step up and help on the rom biulding here and help make it worth using. Cause my opinion this is a very nice phone just in lack of devs.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Looks like the Avant has been discontinued.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Or the guy working on cm12.1 for it is right above you, but you know, sure
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Haven't seen any online at T-Mobile in a couple months. Best bet to buy is swappa or some other used marketplace.
[General Questions and Answers] chad357:
I rooted my t-mobile g386t. With kingroot4.5 or 4.6. Installed titanium back up free version. Debloated all the the t mobile apps and junk apps put in my AT&T Sims card it boosted the signal automatically from 2 bars to all bars it now has the fastest most strongest speed I ever had in any phone this phone was gave to me by a friend cause my s 5. Was totaled. It is some how like a super phone now. All ways has 5 signal bars and the speed pushes over 40 almost to 50 maps. Do not install no custom roms on your phones I've tried hundreds and it's a Crack head move. My factory roms have always preformed a lot better than any custom one which hardly even works.
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
I prefer actually custom rom aokp. thanks for your post tho?
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
From what i kept reading on here. The Avant is a nightmare when it comes to custom Roms. I remember the Galaxy exhibit was getting so much support that you can even backup your efs within TWRP. No third party tools needed. The Avant seems to be the black sheep of all trades or Windows Vista equivalent lol.
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
You know I'm working on it too. I think I might have figured out the camera won't know until I can figure out this audio_defs.h not being seen in the compilation.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
I misread the guy's post when I posted that but that's nice to hear man
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
I wouldn't be too sure. There are custom rom's which are really just the main guts of android without all the spaz of a mobile's company policy and lock downs. Gives you the flexibility of adjusting your cpu clock rate say if you are in a tight bind for a plug anytime soon you can lock down the performance so you aren't getting drained battery stats. Only a front end user making a comment like "Crack head move" lacks the knowledge of taking advantages because there's just no need for them to get into that part of android.

So I forgive you.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Don't think I've ever seen a crack head flash a ROM lmao. I have however seen a **** ton of crack heads that like touch wiz
[General Questions and Answers] ShineLikeMe:
I think so as well about the avant but I will say it has good memory 16 is a lot higher then even lollipop phones & it's Kit-Kat

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The only rom I ever had luck with was CM 11 and that only lasted so long because I kept flashing & experimenting with other ROM's but in the end factory was the best just rooted & recovery was the best
[General Questions and Answers] epicboy:
so what's up with this device? Are there any lollipop roms/sources? Are the kitkat roms stable? What's not working?
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Cm11 and aokp 4.4.4 are good stable enough for everyday but few things dont work like sensor to turn screen off while talking and few other things. Have to read back few pages to see all pros and cons.

In my personal opinion no not stable enough for everyday use. Aokp is def more stable then just cm11 but i like the cm11 way better just got to pull battery after playing some games phone just freezes. Im on debloated stock rom. Wish we had a stable. This phone is difficult to work on. ;(

Basically just do back up and flash and try for yourself
[General Questions and Answers] epicboy:
Well I need a stable rom I can't afford to have bugs.And I was thinking about building a few roms for you guys. But idk seems like since cm11 and aokp are available there's no reason to build it. What do you think?
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Had a similar thing happen even on stock rom. The lock screen frozed and the power button was not responding after holding the the power button for more than 10 seconds. I eventually had to pull the battery. I hate doing this because of the case that i use is a bit tricky to put back on. I did find that the next time your phone freezes like this. You hold the power button while holding the down vol button will then your phone will hard reboot lol. This 2 combo trick only works if your phone is completely frozen. Otherwise its the usual hold power until it turns off. Weird setup this phone has.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
What do I think? I think I want something newer than kk. The kk builds are still a bit buggy, having a lot of recents issues, and lately I've been getting a crash every few days. Granted, I am on the less stable cm rom.
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
Agreed.....we have root. Bootloader. Someone, anyone? Does anyone know where someone would learn to do something like rewrite a bootloader or recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
It looks like the bootloader is open to a extent idk for sure but what we will need to figure out is custom recovery and possibly being able to deal with Qualcomm secure boot
[General Questions and Answers] clu1688:
How to take screenshot on Avant

I have tried Power+Home, Power+Vol-, Power+Vol+, none worked.

Any advice?
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
What are you trying to do?

Vol down +home + power = download mode.

Vol up +home +power =recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
Press power and home at the same time, hold for 1.5 seconds. It will do an animation and toast and notification. Saves to a new folder called screen shots in your gallery.
[General Questions and Answers] Andro_Xone:
Please

Can you guide me to have that link for Samsung galaxy Star 2 plus Duos SM-G350E and i will be thankful :o
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Power and Home work on my Galaxy Light and Note 3. I can't imagine the Avant being any different.
[General Questions and Answers] clu1688:
It worked after I rebooted the Avant. Not sure why it didn't.

The first thing I tried was Home+Power. Anyway, it works now.

I use google Pinyin keyboard for Chinese input, as default. Recently the keyboard acts funny, and responds with a key left next to the one I intend to press. I have to reboot to clear it. FYI.
[General Questions and Answers] gmolds:
Still no forums for this device? DAG!
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Could someone who has a T-Mobile avant upload a zipped copy of the system/media folder? I really dislike the MetroPCS boot animation. And I'd like to see if there are any other different sounds/tones on the T-Mobile avant. Ty
[General Questions and Answers] sk8223:
Android 5.0 (Lollipop) will fix SD card problems! We'll get full access to our SD cards again: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...s-automatic-mediastore-and-improves-security/

Now I really, really, REALLY hope Samsung puts out an Android 5.0 update for this phone, and hopefully it gets ROMs soon (because I doubt Rogers will ever update this phone in the future).
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
So did I at first, I was expecting instant response. You have to hold it in for a bit, that's the difference.
[General Questions and Answers] MysticPhynyxe:
Need help, please...?

Everyone everywhere is talking about the SM-G386T Avant, while I have the SM-G386T1 Afyon. The Avant is from T-Mobile, while the Afyon is from MetroPCS, although it is sold as the Avant. Is there anyone else who has the same model as me? If not, I would gladly offer mine up as a test phone. Already tried TOWELROOT and a couple of others without any positive result. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] reeferbob:
Any good?

I'm thinking about getting this phone myself. I got the Galaxy Exhibit T599N a while back, and was planning on buying a new phone tomorrow. Well, last night, I literally FRIED my Exhibit at work. Slipped out of my hand like a bar of soap being squeezed too hard, went up, and down into a hot deep fryer. Once I got it out and put the battery back in (It took me a half hour to get the battery out of the grease) when I got home from work, put it back in, and amazingly, the phone still turned on. However, the oil had gotten into the screen, so there was puddle of oil under the glass, i guess it got in through the earpiece. So I took it apart to drain the oil, and wasn't careful enough. Busted one of the ribbon cables. Amazed though, that after sitting in hot oil for about the minute it took me to get it out (except the battery which took 30 minutes because it went down into the drain vent) that the only parts that were destroyed were the back cover (the Samsung logo is still there somehow though), which got warped as hell, and the SIM card. Even my SD card is fine.

Anyway, back on topic. I was looking at the Light, then from what I've been reading it's pretty much DOA, so I'm thinking about getting the Avant (MetroPCS) tomorrow. Is it worth the money? Or would I be better off searching pawn shops for a used T-Mo/Metro S3?

I have noticed reading through this thread that there has been some kind of progress.. What is the actual likelihood of getting CM on here? Or any custom rom. (preferably an Android L ROM as soon as I can get my grubby mitts on one.)
[General Questions and Answers] sk8223:
Does it have the same specs as the Avant? If so, it probably is the Avant, but it's been rebranded for some reason and has slightly different firmware. My phone is officially a 'SM-G386W', and Rogers calls it the "Samsung Galaxy Core LTE" even though its specs don't match said specs for that phone. My phone has the exact same specs as the Avant. Haven't tried rooting mine yet, though, since I care about my warranty. Damn Samsung. You've tried Chainfire, right? Even that's not working?

If you can get it for a decent price (like around $120), I'd say this phone is a steal. It's got 1.5GB of RAM which is incredibly rare for a mid to low-tier phone, and it's got a Snapdragon 400 which has amazing performance even at 1.2 GHz (it's the same SoC as the Moto G, another low-end phone that everyone loves). Samsung's version of 4.4.2 runs extremely smooth on this phone thanks to all that RAM. SD card support up to 64GB and 16GB internal storage for apps. It's great. The camera, though 5MP, is pretty good.

If you see it for $150 or anything above that, don't get it. Just get the 2014 version of the Moto G instead. I like this phone, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it. I only did so because Rogers was offering it to me for an extremely low price upfront (less than $100). And no, there's no point in getting a used S3 now. It's an extremely outdated phone, IMO. The standard variant of the S3 has less RAM than the Galaxy Avant (1GB vs 1.5GB for the Avant). Unless you can get your hands on the 2GB version of the S3, I don't see the point of getting it. If you want a 720p screen like the S3's, like I said, go with the Moto G. If you care about GHz, consider the 2013 Moto X, or just spend a little bit more and get a flagship phone. Anyway, you Americans are so lucky to have Motorola. In Canada, where I live all Motorola phones are exclusive to one carrier. :/

As for CM and Android L... who knows. I very much doubt the latter. This is a mid-range phone that was only released in North America (unlike other mid to low-end Samsung phones, which tend to get released globally), so developers from other countries won't care for this phone, thus limiting progress on custom ROMs and recoveries.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Here's the thing why I recommend th is over the light in the USA any day, if your on tmobile or metropcs consider this phone not because it's faster but because it has band 12 700MHz, that being said if tmobile rolls out in your area on that band you will see better coverage and better building penatration, thats something the s3 s4 and s5 do not have with tmobile.. Keep it in mind when your considering your purchase.. I bet that this will get updates, samsung wouldn't be so dumb to let this just run this version.. The light was the exception cause the device could barely run properly with TouchWiz on it.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I have the same model sm-g386t1 and the root method in the op worked for me without any problems. Also I talked to samsung and the person I spoke with informed me that the two phones are exactly the same other than the carrier specific apps and boot animation.They both run the same software and have all the same hardware. I made a backup copy of the system/app, system/priv-app, and system/media folders so if I mess my phone I can just use the T-Mobile softeare to restore my phone.

It would also be a good idea to make a copy of the apn for mobile data for MetroPCS.
[General Questions and Answers] reeferbob:
Well, I'm in the Denver area, and T-Mo seems to like the Denver market, we're among the first to get anything from them. My real conundrum is LTE. Is it really that much faster than Metro/T-Mobile's 4G? Because the 4G is pretty darn fast. I'm just wondering, because if at all possible, I would like a phone that I will be able to get custom recovery and a custom ROM on. I know somebody that has an S3 and recently got the Note 4, I could probably get the S3 for next to nothing, but it's from Verizon, so I'm pretty sure there isn't even a way to make it work on a GSM network.
[General Questions and Answers] Signa112:
Umm. T-Mobile FTW. If i could get some AOSP love for this phone i would be very satisfied
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Lte with tmobile is always faster than 4G or its that way here in texas/fortworth, i have seen 40mbps down and 20 up