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[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
When I say heavy use I'm talking about using the hotspot to stream Netflix on my tablet or extracting/modifying/compressing roms and flashable zips with root explorer, but mainly what I'm talking about is booting into twrp and making a backup then restoring a different one. I'm really putting it through its paces when I do this stuff but ive done this with a few different devices and the avant gets noticeably hotter. Honestly I think that Samsung already has the CPU in this phone set to run at max speed or very close to it.
[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
Another thing to remember is that flashing firmware with odin doesn't wipe data. If you still have old data from your previous setup it can cause conflicts and problems. When I flash back to stock with Odin I always do a factory reset right before or after. Also, now that we have TWRP, cf auto root is no longer needed. Anymore if I mess something up and have to reflash firmware I just flash TWRP then flash the newest update-supersu.zip then factory reset and voila everything is gravy[/QUOTE]

I did 5.0, it worked. I did the cf auto root installed original recovery, thus letting me factory reset and start with fresh system. I had that not-so-custom ROM installed. I haven't had any issues at all. Actually it seems to run more solid if anything. I know that isn't right, I was being reckless cuz I was curious. You were right with that advice, but as odd things sometimes work, it did. Oh, I had to do it the way I did because I didn't have stock recovery at all. Cf-root got rid of the TWRP

You wouldn't believe what I gotta do tonight on someone's Huawei phone...I'm gna post it on their Y536A1 thread. Thanx for the help guys.
[General Questions and Answers] d@vo:
Hi did you pay for the Hotspot service or what program you use.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I use the flashable zip attached to post #543 on page 55 no I don't have the hotspot addon. I got it one month and the 2.5gigs was gone in 2 hours.
[General Questions and Answers] d@vo:
I downloaded everything and install all but can't connected, it send me to the metro website, am root, any idea
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
if ur on metro u need a ua spoofer unlike tmo which has hotspot enabled on their plans
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
That is because MetroPCS and T-Mobile use user agent detection to block tethering without the hotspot addon. If you are going to connect a PC to your hotspot you need a user agent switcher so that you won't get blocked.

I use fiddler2 to change the user agent because it changes the user agent for any program on your pc that uses the internet. Just download and run the installer then open it and click on "rules" in the top left corner of the window then click on "user agents". It will give you a whole list of user agents to choose from. You can click on "kindle fire" or click on "custom" and leave the value blank. I think that you can use any of the user agents on the list but those two are the ones that I know for sure will work. You can get it from their website here http://www.telerik.com/fiddler/web-debugging or use this direct download link http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler/fiddler2

If you don't have any other means of accessing the internet you can download it on your phone then transfer it to your hard drive via USB.
[General Questions and Answers] OldManJax:
I have been using WiFI Tether Router on all my devices for a very long time. I use it to tether my Lenovo Windows tablet to my phone and I don't have to run a user agent on the tablet for it to work and not count against my data on T-Mobile. I use about 120gb a month with out issue. I let people at work tether off of me and it is a wide range of devices from iPhones to Windows tablets.

On the T-mobile version you will want to edit the APN setting and change it from IPv6 to IPv4. I also used Wanam Xposed to disable the tether provisioning for added protection.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.snclab.wifitetherrouter
[General Questions and Answers] DerpyTails:
I also haven't really noticed any overheating issues with the Avant, as for the gaming lag question, the only game I've noticed with lag in it (and I'm not sure if it's normal for it or not) is Fat Princess: Piece of Cake and that's during the actual gameplay. Otherwise, every other game I've tried was pretty good :)
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
I've played dead trigger 2 with out much issues on it besides getting warm I don't have a case on my phone so
[General Questions and Answers] DerpyTails:
Yeah, I've noticed a little bit of warmth for when doing some much work (and I'm using a Case as well) but I've only noticed the warmth on the Touchscreen, so the case does help with keeping the warmth down :)
[General Questions and Answers] HeaT420:
Just got the the Avant from T-Mobile for free. I have it registered under warranty. If I root, will it void the warranty right away from the counter? Also I really am interested in rooting this phone to get rid of the crapware and wait for CM port. Do I just follow the guide to root then the guide for TWRP or do I just follow the avant slim tutorial?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
If you're gonna root, just flash twrp through Odin. Then flash the newest supersu zip through twrp.

As for voiding your warranty, it will void it if they bother to check it. If you have to turn it in for anything just wipe everything and flash the firmware to take you back to stock. They've never checked when I had to take a phone in as long as it looked stock.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
But what your saying is that TWRP 2.8.3. is good to flash? Or is some of the posts correct and must use TWRP 2.8.0.?
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
If you factory reset first then flash stock firmware it will only show that the warranty is void if they boot it into download mode. If you look in settings/about device/status/device status it will say official. The factory reset before flashing is important because if you don't it will still say custom instead of official.
[General Questions and Answers] tahersyed34:
help!!

So I have been trying to find a custom rom for my galaxy avant but I cannot find any; also I have having a hard time installing a custom boot program like Clockwork mod and twrp. This is a phone through metro pcs.

Can anyone help

yes the phone is already rooted
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Custom boot program? You mean custom recovery?

---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 PM ----------

What is the issue you are having with installing twrp

There is no cwm for avant

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I believe that TWRP 2.8.1.0 is the only one available because the links for TWRP 2.8.3.0 have been removed

Edit:Link for TWRP 2.8.3.0 is still up. My mistake.

The only issue I've noticed is that sometimes it takes a minute or two to boot up all the way. This is the same with either version.
[General Questions and Answers] tahersyed34:
OK I am having a hard time with TWRP too. sometimes it will say no ROM found

What are some good custom roms for the avant? I don't think there is any out there. Avant is a brand new model right? Also now I have hard bricked my phone trying to use a random TWRP for another phone but now I know better. not to play with other twrp that are made for other phones.
[General Questions and Answers] HeaT420:
Thank you, that was easy. Rooted in under 5 minutes.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Hard bricked as in can't get into download mode, recovery, nothing?
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
If you can get into download mode by holding power+volume down+home then it can be fixed and isn't truly bricked. If you want help we need to know...

(1) Will phone boot at all?

(2) Can you boot into download mode?
[General Questions and Answers] epicboy:
Cwm is built for avant! Check out android forums. Its in the "lets build cm for avant" thread.
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
i was able to compile clockworkmod recovery for the avant.

its a recovery flashable zip

cwm recovery

thread:

cwm recovery androidforum
[General Questions and Answers] drapp:
lol

I was just about to post cwm and give you credit but i see youre following both forums. Keep up the good work man
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Just got the G386T1 today at metro pcs $69. Seems pretty snappy. Its build ends in ANK3 so no updates correct? And does Chainfires root work? I tried Kingo Root and it sat 25-30 with out changing so it was unsuccessful
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Yes cf root works, most people flash twrp through Odin then flash the updated SuperSU.zip through twrp.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
There's a booting test for cm11, its no where close to using for a daily driver or even a semi working alpha build.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Wow Metro PCS sure has the wifi tether and regular usb tether blocked stone cold. or so it seems. I mean before I could at least usb tether on my old phone.

And tell me about the ext sd card, we don't really get to move stuff to it. It goes to the internal sd card right? Or that was how it was on my old samsung.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
In order to restore full access to the SD card you just have to download and run a SD fix app as long as your phone is rooted. Even if your phone isn't rooted you can still use the My Files app to move stuff to the SDcard.

USB and Bluetooth tethering can be done with foxfi or pdanet without rooting. You just need a user agent switcher on your computer so your browser doesn't get redirected to the T-Mobile/MetroPCS upsell page.

If your avant is rooted you can use the WiFi hotspot by installing xposed framework and wanam xposed.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
I went with your advice and went with Xposed frame work but I can't seem to get it to work.
[General Questions and Answers] rudmarley:
app not installed

Dear, masters..

Just got avant for 3 days, I did flash twrp and root. Dunno how, I just can't install any app on it. Always show "app not installed" whatever app I tried. Even in play store show "unknown error occurs bla bla"..

Hopefully get help for this. .

Thanks for all attention. .
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
In case anyone else is stocking that thread. Seems he is getting close. Wish i had the time to learn

http://androidforums.com/threads/lets-get-cm-onto-avant.897931/page-16
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Ya i saw that
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
After installing Xposed framework and installing and activating wanam Xposed, make sure to open wanam Xposed and select "system" and check disable tether provisioning. That alone should be good enough to connect a tablet or other android device to your hotspot(although there are some android devices that won't work with this method). To connect a windows PC to your hotspot you will need a user agent switcher like Fiddler2.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Doesn't work with my note 10.1 2014 ed or my tab 3, trust me I'm not new to this, the flashable fix didn't work either
[General Questions and Answers] rudmarley:
stock rom

Need help..

Does anybody can help me to get stock rom in direct link, please..

Desperately try to download from Samsung update.

It's SM-G386T.

Thanks. .
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
No need to get defensive man I believe you. I amended my previous post to note that although it works for most android devices there are some that it won't work for.

What problem are you having on your tablets? Are you getting redirected to the upsell page?
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Don't know if this is different than what you tried

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=SM-G386T

I know i saw it mirrored somewhere for the odin file, haven't seen a zip anywhere
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
You can get the newest stock firmware from here.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=23836
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Didn't mean to come off defensive. Just saying it didn't work for me. I get the upsale page all the time. If i really really needed it id buy the wifi tether app which I've heard works, funny thing is only time i wish it would work is at school. Our wifi is terrible there. Thanks though man. I had these problems back with t mobile til jovy 23 hooked it up and Re wrote the framework
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
It sounds like your tablets have a different user agent that makes them look like a PC to the servers and that's why you get blocked. I'm taking a shot in the dark here but maybe if you can install a aosp rom on your tablets you won't get the upsell page anymore. Hopefully this helps you. Of course I don't know if or what roms may be available for the tablets you have.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
That may be, there is no rom alternative for the att tab 3, and my note 10.1 is just a wifi tablet but I'm running the note 12 Pro firmware, aosp is just not stable and i lose too many functions regarding the s pen., as i said it's really not a huge deal, just the seldom times i am out without a connection it would be nice. I'm really just hoping we get some rom soon, stock is crap in my opinion, i have to restart the damn thing all the time just to stay connected
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Agreed, i love aosp on some devices if it runs right, this phone should have zero issues with it eventually, it will be nice to have a speedy phone without all the gimmicks they put on them now that slows them down
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Audio is working on the custom rom thats over at Android forums, some issues still lingering but looks promising that we will have 4.4.4 cyan soon
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
How do we not have a forum yet for this device. Seems a lot of people on here and I'd think a lot of people have this device, i know i can't drop 700 on a phone anymore
[General Questions and Answers] samsungavantsuser:
mhm

Hi i just got my avant and i do realy like it but i was hoping someone can tel me if theirs any news on iT getting rooted?
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Read this thread, and you know as much as anybody else.
[General Questions and Answers] aR3alCoo1Kat:
I put in a request and Chainfire already posted a file. :eek: :D

It's located under Odin flashable devices.

autoroot.chainfire.eu

If you guys can, give Chainfire a thanks:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1980683

Or a donation if you can spare it.
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Man I'm really scared, this is my main and only phone, is this Odin thing safe? Has anyone tried it yet ? If it works in rooting at installing vipers audio, that's the only reason I do it, and possibly to get a android L CM version instead of waiting months for Samsung to update us if they ever do..

EDIT: the odin root requires a unlocked bootloader, so yeah we are stuck.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Yeah I downloaded it and was about to run it and then saw the bootloader issue. Which is what I was having problems getting around earlier. So yep, still stuck.
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
man this sucks, we need support, or someone talented :D, this phone is like 2 months old. Honestly my main issue is that i would KILL for android L on this phone. There was an update for this phone that enabled VOLTE, and some small improvements, they dont notify you about it so go check on the software update tab
[General Questions and Answers] thobbs66:
I just installed and it worked for me. It asked to disable Knox and I allowed it.
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Wait what?!? You followed the Odin post,went to the p

Odin website, downloaded the zip and flashed it?on that website it states that if your boot loader is locked that you will most likely brick the phone, you must've got lucky.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Pictures or it didn't happen.
[General Questions and Answers] thobbs66:
Here you go!
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
...wow, so this "If you have locked bootloaders, flashing one of these will probably brick your device - with the exception of Nexus devices" does not mean anything or what? are our bootloaders already unlocked or what the heck. im really close to just doing what you did but it just seems its too easy to be true. Downloaded the file in the uploaded photo, moved to SD/Internal data, flashed and thats it? WHAT. i want to do it badly but if i get bricked im SCREWED, we are currently paying for this phone monthly, if i screw it up, there goes 220 bucks my mom has to pay.
[General Questions and Answers] thobbs66:
My bootloader was not "locked" and I have owned many Samsung devices and never found one "locked". My G386T was bought from Best Buy and I use it with my T-Mobile pre-paid account.

You need to follow Chainfire's directions at his web page. Download the file and extract on a PC and run Odin. Odin is Samsung software to flash many devices and was leaked many months ago... OH, also there are no guarantees.....
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Oh so it's a Samsung thing not just a community thing. Cool, well I'm going to take the chance and try it when I get home today, please wish me luck, honestly this is sketchy.

Sent from my Galaxy Avant
[General Questions and Answers] radiohead7778580:
can you please take a pic of your bootloader screen
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
oh by the way it wipes all data right?
[General Questions and Answers] thobbs66:
Here is a picture of the device in download mode. (From another device, but the same on my Avant).

From Chainfire:

Make sure your device is in ODIN download mode (usually you can get there by holding VolDown+Home+Power when the device is turned off), then start the included Odin .exe file, press the PDA button, select the .tar.md5 file, and click Start. You can find more detailed instructions and assistance at XDA.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Hmm.... well I'm going to have to give this a try now.
[General Questions and Answers] thobbs66:
I forgot, no data wipe occurs.
[General Questions and Answers] radiohead7778580:
I would be very very careful
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
No worries. It does indeed work
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Because this isn't a "flagship" device. That's all XDA really cares about, go over to android forums and they literally have a forum for every unloved device from XDA lol.

EDIT: Link to normal forum: http://androidforums.com/forums/samsung-galaxy-avant.2792/

Link to all things root forum: http://androidforums.com/forums/galaxy-avant-all-things-root.2793/
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Yeah i realize that it isn't flagship. I was spoiled with having all the s series till the 4, note 2 and 3, then someone claimed insurance claims on my account somehow and T mobile tried to bill me 1600 and cut my service even though the insurance phones weren't even shipped to my address and a different first name. Now I'm sticking to pre paid. And I'm already on that forum, just prefer xda
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
When I first installed Xposed and several MODs I couldn't get a power menu when I pressed the power button so I uninstalled everything and got my menu back. Then I tried to install the framework again and it wouldn't install. That began my "journey". I went thru a number of combinations with an Xposed toggle, an Xposed Disabler, an Xposed version in zip form, and many versions of Xposed apk files and finally got Xposed on my phone and it's running fine (with a couple of fix permissions ) but it's version 2.4 I don't want to have to go thru all that again if the update doesn't install.

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[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Was wanam kit one of the modules you were using? I've noticed that as soon as its activated I lose my power menu and as soon as I deactivate it the power menu comes back
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
It has nothing to do with being a "flagship". The Moto E 2015 already has a forum. It's more a matter of popularity and availability. The Avant is only available through T-Mobile/MetroPCS and some Canadian carrier that I can't remember the name of. Thus, it's limited to North America, and limited within North America. Doesn't really warrant its own forum, where it won't get any more attention or discussion than it already does within this thread.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
yes Wanam kit was one. Nice to know exactly what it was.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Mine works and i have enable 4 way menu checked as i prefer the advanced menu
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Is there any reason to have flash player installed on 4.x versions of android? Im not sure why it stopped being included after ICS and I know you can pull it from an older device and it'll install on jb and kk but I'm wondering if there is any point in doing this. Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] Lonnie355:
Adobe couldn't keep up with everyone's OS. So they dropped support for everything Linux.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
not anymore, use to it was still something that android had as a advantage but the web has moved on to the likes of html 5 pretty quick so flash player isnt really needed for the most part theres still a few things out there that require it but not like it use to be
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Now i noticed that i can't use a third party app for sms (text) messaging. I've tried three. I even called samsung to make sure they didn't have something blocking the apps. So then I unchecked everything under wanam xposed setup page for notifications, thinking maybe that would work. Still no 3rd party app for messaging works. Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Wanam Kit is for AOSP based ROMs. Wanam Xposed is for this Samsung stock Touchwiz ROM stuff.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Go to default applications in settings and clear defaults for the stock messaging app. Also if you want the aosp mms app you can pull it from the stock deodexed Nexus4 4.4.4 ROM and it'll work. I tried pulling it from about a dozen different cm11 ROMs before I found this.

You can also replace the touchwiz calculator, calendar, clock, and email apps with Google/aosp versions pulled from this ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Can't wait for cm to finally be finished wont have to do all that
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
I borked my LG G2 from T-Mobile so I picked up this little fella for $149 (I figured $6 a month rather than dropping money out of pocket I don't have right now). I am pretty happy with it. I wish it had a better camera (but I'm coming from a G2 so my expectations are too high lol)

I'm rooted using Xposed to disable and tweak alot of stuff. Couple things I don't understand..

1. Why is there no light sensor or LED notification? I mean clearly there is some type of sensor or something (I see two) right beside the forward facing camera.... You have to wonder what that is. Maybe you just need the right developer or kernel to make it work (see: LG Nexus 4 and LTE radio)

2. Why is there no haptic feedback in the keyboard? I even am using Swiftkey and it's just not there. Isn't haptic Feedback basically again just using the system vibration to respond to touches on the screen? Again maybe that could be cleared up with the proper kernel or development...

I am happy with this and will probably keep it until the G4 is out a little while and I get my wife's GS5 paid off on the EIP plan...