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[General Questions and Answers] MVolta123:
Hi everyone. Just checking in. I created an account so I could subscribe to this thread and get any news regarding roots and ROMs for this phone. I bought it as a cheap ($120) replacement for my broken Nexus 4 and am pretty happy with it. Would love to tinker with it more.

Chainfireroot successful! Now what?
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Yes I dropped the phone, for the first time.... Cheap. I need a LCD now [emoji24]
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Darn I've dropped mine a fee times but not on concrete just wood floor
[General Questions and Answers] clu1688:
Hi, I have rooted it, and removed a bunch of apps. I would like to make a nandroid backup, but I understand I need to install a custom recovery first.

I do have (purchased) ROM manager premium, but it cannot find available recovery for this Avant G386T.

Is there still a way to do a stock ROM backup? I also have ROMtoolbox pro.

Any advice is appreciated!
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
We just wait for a talented fellow to port a recovery and make a ROM
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Kindly, this thread is not that long, so if you're new here, please read it through, and you'll get most of your answers regarding what's possible and not ?

I just recently shared what worked for me to delete and stuff, and here's screen shots of what I'm freezing (instead of deleting) to be safe.

Be sure to have the G386TUVU1ANFD Android 4.4.2 Kitkat firmware update downloaded so you can reinstall it (with Odin) if your phone crashes.

Link to firmware download:

http://www.androidofficer.com/2014/07/g386tuvu1anfd-android-442-uvu1anfd.html?m=1
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
Does that mean you removed the tmobile boot splash? Is that possible? I heard galaxies dont have their bootanimation in the /system/media folder
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Boot animations are located in /system/media

bootsamsung.qmg

bootsamsungloop.qmg

shutdown.qmg

Just copy and save the original ones if you want first and then rename any new ones to the same names as the original ones, and paste them (replacing the old ones) into /system/media

Don't forget to set permission to 644. Well, I'm not sure if that's really needed, but I did it to be sure ?

Here's a couple ones I like:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x0t5rynzc8e8vkm/Boot Animation.zip?dl=0
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
For those of you who like Htc Sense Blinkfeed ☺

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2735764
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
If i have rooted ang6 will i loose root after i upgrade firmware via kies?

Sry for the noob question in advance.

I read everywhere that once u root then upgrade manually u loose root, i thought i would ask the bunch of people that have more exp than me.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Yes you will loose root, however I believe you can reapply the same one if I'm correct
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
Ill give it a try morrow and thank u if it works. ALSO Did you root and upgrade then re-root? Or just root from ANHA?

One last question is the progression

ANG6 then ANHA then ANFD? OR ANG6, ANFD, ANHA?
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Every time I crashed my phone to death by my experiments, I just reinstalled the G386TUVU1ANFD Android 4.4.2 Kitkat firmware update:

http://www.androidofficer.com/2014/07/g386tuvu1anfd-android-442-uvu1anfd.html?m=1

And rerooted it this way:

http://androidxda.com/root-samsung-galaxy-avant-sm-g386t

Both with Odin, smooth and easy. Never lost any private data.

I'm not sure about the following, but to be on the safe side, after rooting, don't connect to the Internet before you deleted or freezed all the t-mobile apps and Knox, if you plan to cover up your tracks one day to use your warranty. Too late for me, it already says I'm rooted on my T-Mobile profile ?
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
Worked flawlessly. I upgraded via kies and just flashed binaries via odin. Restarted my xposed framework and voila, (after deleting bloatware) my phone is back :)

Thanks for the help.

Now to sit and wait for custom recovery and bootloader
[General Questions and Answers] Deceptitech:
Best way to remove bloatware?

What program did you use to remove the lovely programs?
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
Es file explorer

I dont know if there is a better app for it. Es is also my main file manager and network music player.

Can be found in playstore. I cant post links yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Deceptitech:
Unlocking

As for unlocking the device through the device unlock app, all you need to "qualify" is to pay for 2 months of service, and they will unlock it remotely.

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I have gotten a few programs off, any place where there is a list of bloatware we can get rid of?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
So I guess new ROMs for this thing aren't happening? I honestly don't see how this phone is bad. Yeah, it ain't shiny metal but it's quick and cheap. I think this phone would be pretty popular with some love from more people. Not that I can talk, as I don't dev or anything, I just think it's very underappreciated.

Dust, just hit Galaxy Avant under supported devices. They are under dfuse ROMs after that. They are both kitkat and work well. They have a good bit of lock screen lag and the Prox sensor doesn't work. You might need to download the Google camera app. Other than that, they are great ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Wait I found it ?

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So. If I hear the overall consensus loud and clear, the aokp version is closer to 100% functionality Blu8?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Haha nice man and yes that one was worked on the most.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Do you know if the stock android encryption on reboot works on that build?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=62241365

If you'll only give the man time to work out what he has going on in life right now.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Ahh. Forgot about that. Sucks about the crash. Looks like he got nailed. If D-Fuse sees this, thanks for the kitkat ROMs!
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Oh geeez. So no prox sensor on any ROM for avant? Does that mean a lot of cheek dialing? Lol
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Only if you're not careful lol
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Did you see my post about the android encryption within security settings? Does that work on these ROMs?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Oh sorry bro. I really couldn't tell you honestly, not something I ever use and nobody ever brought up whether they tried it or not. My suggestion is flash it and get everything set up then make a nandroid and try it out.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Will do. Thx Blu!
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
And then the ghost appears.....
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Are you the dude from "let's get cm onto the avant?
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Yup...
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Ghost is right lol
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Hey Blu8 hows everything??
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Can't complain man, what about you? I know you had some stuff going down
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Everything so far so good rite now on vaca with the wife and kids. Hopefully soon might get some stuff together. Dfuse and me where talking on hangouts almost 2 weeks ago
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Sounds good man, enjoy yourself and don't hurry back lol
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
I've cleaned up a lot of what I sent you too but been dealing with life myself. Hopefully soon we can get back on it.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Hey guys . So with twrp just hit wipe, then flash new rom? There's no special way?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Well tap wipe and you get a menu, you can swipe to do a simple factory reset which 90% of the time is enough or you could tap on "advanced wipe" and format system, data, cache and dalvik. Either way works.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Any chance we'll ever see a 5.0 rom?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Seriously?

At this point in time there's no lollipop rom, if there will ever be depends on a lot of things
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Anyone know why the Play Store app force closes on the latest AOKP?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Did you flash gapps? If not, flash them. If you did, reflash. It didn't force close fr me.
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
Hey guys I have a question.. I took the updates that Metropcs has for the phone there was like 2 of e'm?

And since I did that.. I can't make calls.. the second I get on.. make a call it just ends.. phone doesn't seem to ring either goes straight to VM from calling it.. Umm I updated cause I wanted access to that band 12 network which I do have now.. I switched it back to band 4 (which is what it was using) but that makes little difference.. however the 4G internet does "seem" to work..

I put my truphone sim in there which has access to both ATT and tmobile.. but all I got was was "not registered on network" so I don't really know what this update did to disable my phone.. what should I do? factory reset? This phone was unlocked with a key code before I updated it.. and I guess it's still unlocked but maybe some of that was changed in the update?
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Mostly because you are using lte only this phone needs you to be on lte/3g for calls
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
OK. So the RAM usage at the top of the recent apps screen, and RAM usage at bottom of ' Running Apps' screen under App Settings are both different, by like 250mb of RAM. Which is accurate? BTW I'm on the latest AOKP
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
yah well for the record "I didn't change it" I only did one thing.. that was hitting b12 after the update... and I didn't test calls, unfortunately after the update.. cause I would have "assumed" it wasn't broken. :(
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Yeah I'm still gonna say users error [emoji1]

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It's the same way on stock too. This phone sucks and doesn't have enough ram and I don't know which one
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
Hell, no.

I got it working again by using "networks" "network mode" so it is making calls as Wcdma/gsm..

lte/wcdma/gsm was not working.. but I'll try again.. and I got a ton of text messages in this mode.. so maybe it started working again in that mode???? I dunno..

but so far.. I'm not sure that mode works for calls.. gonna keep testing trying to get.. lte/wcdma/gsm working

the reason why I was interested in this update and or band 12.. was the hope the ****ty cell service I have in my home might be better..? so far "the data" is slightly better.. I actually saw 2 bars and according to LTE Discovery I had like -108 db of band 12.. vs band 4 at -120 db
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Flash the mobile firmware then. I'm sorry metro sucks
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
If your signal is that bad at home why not use WiFi calling?
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
awesome.. is now working in that mode..

I dunno if I suffered piss poor signal or some kind of bug.. but doing much better now.. :good:

but user error it was not.. it refused to make calls 5 or 6 times on me even after reboot and monkey'ing with the LTE settings wonder if that caused it..? band 12 LTE was showing -109 db last I looked.. but only 1 bar this time..?

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I'm with simple mobile.. that I'm aware even though I'm on tmobile.. they don't bother to let you use "wifi" calling :(
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
I haven't ran into a ROM issue yet, and since I was on the crappy zte z667 with only 500mb ROM for a year this avant feels and performs like a champ! ?
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
If the rom starts feeling sluggish just open the recent menu and clear your apps and remember to push the power button on calls and you'll be good to go.

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You got a free thumbs up. I didn't mean to hit it, but if you were messing with the settings how isn't that a user error ? Also where do change the band because mine just jumps on it when it is available
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
What was the issue with prox sensor DFUSE? Is it a software issue?
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
To be honest I couldn't figure it out.
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
The first thing I did after I "upgraded" twice the galaxy avant for metropcs was open "LTE Discovery" to see that I was in band 4.. then I activated the *#2263# which didn't even work until I upgraded! And then I hit band 12 lte.. and saw it working in "LTE Discovery"

I basically assumed "calls" were fine until I found myself unable to make them :( (and I was unable to make them with my 2nd sim as I reported, I got errors about "registering on the network" which ATT was reporting -50 db and has good signal inside my home)

So no it's not in my book.. From my way of seeing it was the upgrade that broke the phone.. (for a while) I can't even tell you why it's mysteriously working now... it just is.
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
So you forced the band 12 by using a dial code?
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
I wanted to see band 12 working by using that code yes.. and before the upgrade.. "the code didn't work" as I said.. that was the first time I saw the menu.. I'd read about..

band 12 and or 17 and bla blah.. is all about VoLTE or so I read but i still don't understand how it works..? (I assume it uses data for calls.. but wtf do I know?) but I do see some new icons on the phone.. so I can tell that the metropcs upgrade did more then just band 12.

all I can tell about band 12 so far is.. because it's in the 700 mhz spectrum.. it definitely has better building pentration etc. and given that DATA rarely works at my house.. it may now be a improvement? :confused: but I can't tell you for sure.. I am happy that the phone works now.. because I was worried I had a useless brick that had 'data'' only :(

I was also worried that update had maybe re-gsm locked the phone.. but that is definitely now "not" the case.. I also assume now if I put in my ATT/tmobile sim.. it'll work..? but I'll find out later..

I've been using these galaxy avant's since december.. but maybe this software update.. will rectify some of the bloated kinks they have :( But I've been trying to change away.. maybe one day get a cheap moto X that is sold as a droid on verizon/ebay for a $100.. that one has 2 Gb of ram.. but verizon does like there bloated apps :( and as far as I know "no" it doesn't have LTE.. it'll be HSPA+
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Yup 100% user error. It's all good though it happens to the best of us. VoLTE is voice over data and you force band 12 in a area that probably has a weak signal. Sometime it is better to leave things alone. When there is a strong enough signal it will jump on it automatically. I'm just saying.
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
No, it isn't.. I agree to disagree.. As long as the phone works.. that's all that matters.. ultimately.
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Okay lets me break this down for you. Out of all the people who took the 2 updates you're the only one with the problem and the only one who messed with dial codes. You explain to me how that is in a user error. Please do!!!
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
It looks a lot to me that it may ultimately be a signal issue.. because I get poor signal in my house.. I seen a couple code running-dialing issues in the last few minutes.... also I reported the code wrong.. the code is

*#2265#
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Did it work before you use the dial codes?
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
No I didn't test.. I assumed it did.. cause shouldn't you update your phone and it still make calls right?

and no.. I got it right.. it is *#2263#

I see now that menu has access to the lte/wcdma/gsm stuff.. so it's possible that menu can goof things up a little.. but after several reboots.. "the goofs" continued.
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Yeah but you're saying you changed the settings when using the dial codes. So if it worked before and you changed network settings even after you update those network settings are gonna stick. Therefore it is a user error. I mean I really don't care I don't have a issues you do. Maybe you just call the company and tell them you changed network setting and ask them to fix it for you.
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
I just entered the menu to make sure LTE is on "prefered"/choose or option 6

After I did that.. I lost phone service/the ability to dial.. aka I immediately get the phone dialer to not redial

Now I'm on.. REBOOT #1.. I'll see if I have service..

NEGATIVE I cannot dial out.. I immediately get kicked back..

So I now believe the fix for this ****.. which was what had me post in the first place.. is a HELL OF A LOT OF PATIENCE.. I look forward to my phone dialing.. in 10-20 minutes or whatever it takes..:confused:

BUT THIS IS NOT ****ING USER ERROR.. this is messing with a menu that knocks out your phone for however long... :( BTW the data is still working.. so :good:

I decided I wanted to make sure the LTE was set to auto.. so I've now recreated the problem.. the fix is patience.. based on the last time.. or turning phone to wcdgma/gsm and then back.. or not.. I dunno yet? "phone broken" again...
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Dude this because you set it to LTE only and you need gsm or wcdma to make calls user error
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
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It's not user error.. it's not willing to be patient.. or just ****ty programming.. "whathaveyou?" :confused:

Anyway since my phone came back from the "no phone calls" dead.. I'll just wait it out... or play with the settings until it's fixed..

i just checked.. I still can't dial out.. so now I'm gonna play with wcdma/gsm.. because it did seem to start working after I did that...
[General Questions and Answers] redsfan27:
I haven't been following that much but can't you just set it back to auto all?
[General Questions and Answers] theemaster:
Yes, switching to wcdma/gsm worked.. so I fixed it.

So the cause is playing in that menu.. it breaks the phone.. (which is not user error, it's ****ty programming or not understanding how it works) and the only way to fix it is not a REBOOT! It is to take the phone it a different mode... and then back to lte/wcdma/gsm which is the normal-natural mode for the phone...

yah, I've done that several times now.. I was just "making sure" by doing it again this time.. I'll keep a eye on it to see how many times it may now choose the new band 12
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
User error because this phone doesn't make calls on LTE just call them and tell them to reset it
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
If you messed something up in a menu that was made for troubleshooting the phone's signal (not necessarily for the average user that as you said yourself, HAS ABSOLUTELY ZERO CLUE WHAT HE'S DOING) that's on you, it's not bad programming. That's like trying to cut bread with a fillet knife and getting pissed at whoever made the knife and call them out for making a bad knife.
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
I just don't understand why he just doesn't admit it was a user error and call the phone company and have them fix his network issues that he messed up.
[General Questions and Answers] psycho_deth6:
Nicely meme'd my friend
[General Questions and Answers] redsfan27:
[MENTION=2074508]DFu[/MENTION]se I've shown this to many of my friends and they think it's hilarious.

Edit: its not sideways on my phone. Weird.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Need help guys. I accidentally allowed that stupid Samsung Security Update to download and now I can't get my TWRP recovery to boot, it hangs on the boot screen and never gets to recovery. Any ideas?

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D-Fuse, check my last post, I hope I didn't screw the phone up lol
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
You'll need to Odin back to stock
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Are you serious? I don't have pc access. Can I do anything to fix this? I have backups of the Rom but obviously can't get into recovery to flash them. Dang man. I'm pissed
[General Questions and Answers] redsfan27:
I allowed the security update when I got a a month or so ago. I remember that twrp didn't load after, it would hang at the boot screen like you said. I think I just held down the button combination again and it worked though.
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Sorry man you'll need a PC
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Here's what's weird. The security update under play store still says update, seems I cut the data connection before it finished. Does that mean anything?
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Dude I really can't tell you anything I don't take updates and I don't mess with touch wiz. All I know to do is to Odin back
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
K thx. I'm gonna try using the no bloat app to remove all the knox related system apps off the phone
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
Sorry bro!
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
[MENTION=6682878]dustdu2017[/MENTION]

Actually, hold on. Are you using the twrp2.8.1.0 that Shabbypenguin built because a lot of times it will sit at the powered by android splash screen for a solid couple minutes before it finally boots. That Samsung security policy update crap is just an app and it doesn't do anything unless you are booted in android. It should have no effect on your recovery. Also, you can just uninstall it if need be because it is just a regular user app.
[General Questions and Answers] redsfan27:
This.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Well, yea, it was wayyyy weird. It finally started working again. But then, like an idiot lol, I tried enabling the android encryption option under the Security menu. Spent 3 hours encrypting, then would stay stuck on the AOKP boot animation. I went into twrp, and it couldn't mount /data. I was freaking out. Took an hour until I realized I could format, not wipe, but format the data partition.... then it would let me restore a backup from external SD. Don't encrypt on AOKP or cm. The recovery cannot mount an encrypted partition. It was a heck of a night you guys....
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Yeah the encryption is almost always broken in custom ROMs and recoveries

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If you want to use encryption you have to stay on stock with stock recovery and be careful which system apps you delete
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Is there a list of which system apps I can safely remove from the stock touch wiz ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
hey i know this isn't the place but where is? I lost an app and the name. you can change basicly any parameter of the app. anybody know anything about it?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Try a different forum. I don't know, and based on the vague description out offered us, none of us will. Honestly sounds like the settings app to me.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Guys, I just tried flashing back to my stock OEM avant backup I made from day 1. Why the heck is it prompting me for the encryption password on boot? I never encrypted it before that backup was made!?!