yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Hahaha this phones camera sucks. So I wasn't too worried about it.

Honestly I was just clicking and forgetting when I was removing apps. A few I left just because I simply missed them.

As far as gapps go you can flash them as long as they're for our version of android.

If anybody wants a flashable zip to install certain apps back just let me know and I'll make one when I have time.

I left the music player in too just because it was hard enough switching from the sense music player to this one, and didn't want to even try to get used to another player. I gotta have my music.

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Also, I removed everything that had the word KNOX in its description. Doesn't seem to have affected anything. As well as the carrieriq apps. Pretty much made the apps and priv-apps lighter by 200 or so mb.

I tried removing all other languages except English which took the rom size down to about 600mb but the keyboard didn't like that. I was bombarded by "unfortunately XXX has stopped" by various apps when I booted it up. So had to put those back in.
[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
When we will see aosp rom
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
My advice, if you just can't live without aosp or aren't patient enough to wait, get a phone that already has a stable version of your favorite ROM. Either that or get a Linux machine and learn how to build aosp from source yourself, which isn't easy even if you already have programming skills.
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
About to flash now, downloaded without errors.... Thank you for your time making this.

edit

Ok flashed, wiped cache. Runs very fast, seems pretty de-bloated. One issue is that wifi will not turn on.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
When you get to making one I guess.

Are you done yet? When will you have one put out? How much longer? Got an eta yet? Can you add in a feature for me?
[General Questions and Answers] dbpaddler:
So this phone was originally advertised as having a FM Radio. Since, any traces of FM have been removed from both Samsung's and Tmo's site. Every tech site mentioned FM too. Guess they don't have editing features on those sites. Any way to check if it actually does have the tuner and if it can be enabled? Part of the reason I picked this phone was to listen to games which you can't do over Internet radio. You have to pay the respective league's app for that "privilege".
[General Questions and Answers] Michaelchka:
I was able to go into settings in my wife's phone and just copy all the apn info into mine by adding apn. that worked and I re flashed your rom to my phone did the apn again and it stopped turning my mobile data on and off. I've stayed on mobile data about 3hrs now hasn't kicked me off ounce. Before re flashing it wouldn't stay connected for even a minute. I'm usually on WiFi so didn't notice the data thing right away but I've had zero trouble with the WiFi actually fixed some issues with it drooping WiFi I was having.

If anyone needs the tmobile apn info let me know I'll post it. Not sure if that's just for tmobile in this area though. But I'm sure if anyone had this problem they could call tmobile and get the apn info since that's the only problem

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Not sure about newer versions but the one I have has the fm radio.

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It's like ant radio something I used it one time to listen to a browns game but that was awhile ago I've uninstalled it now. The Browns games aren't worth the battery life!
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Sweet. Thanks for sharing. I'll add both apns to it like the newest one and re-upload it.

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wifi wont turn on?? use a root file explorer and go into /system/lib/modules and see if wlan.ko is symlinked to the pronto folder.

i did a full wipe and had no problems getting anything to work. im running the same thing right now and wifi is working.

also i need to know when reporting problems which firmware you had, ang6, ank3 etc etc, and if youre with metropcs or tmobile.

edit

also go into /system/bin and make sure swapon, swapoff, and mkswap are there. if all those files are in and theyre symlinked then wifi should work.

i use fx file explorer. if their names are a goldish looking color then they have a symbolic link and they are working.

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https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95887005526786506

android file host got the avant added to their list so i was able to upload the avant-slim.zip there.

md5: 60f408db18a09fe17c97cb714f6d2791

im about to get another computer that ill put linux on. so i can really start working on a cyanogenmod rom and other aosp's working.

just bare with me, im learning as i go.
[General Questions and Answers] Michaelchka:
Could you get that on a laptop? I have a really good Samsung laptop could I put Linux on it?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Yep. Linux can be installed on pretty much any computer/laptop.
[General Questions and Answers] codenamesql:
This is old, why isn't this lollipop? I hope it'll support my nokia analog car phone. I'd like to replace the buttons with lollipop rom...

bwahahahah.. good lord

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UEFI SecureBoot can be frustrating at first if you try to install on a newer machine, but now most every distro will have clear instructions on how to set it up and work around it. If your Samsung has a standard BIOS you won't be bothered with that. And if you choose something other than say, building ARCH from scratch, it'll probably be pretty much plug and play to get you up and running in Linux. I wouldn't even have a Win machine anymore (dead heart attack serious) if I didn't need it for such trivial things as earning a living.
[General Questions and Answers] docfreed:
WiFi Calling

Is WiFi calling working on the newest avant-slim (T-Mobile version) - it's a must have for me as my cell reception sucks
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Hmmmm, you know what? I don't know. It shows it being turned on, but usually a message pops up and the signal bars go away and it's not doing any of that. I don't know why it wouldn't be working, but I'll look into it.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
He could always use a virtual machine though.., and uefi is pretty easy to disable and re enable after you get use to it.. it took me a bit to get windows 8 re install to work and for it to pull the key from the board... but that's another story
[General Questions and Answers] Michaelchka:
How can I get calendar app back? I've tried installing one from the store butt they all need my original one to run? off of? I need that I can't live without it!
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
It might work but I'd make a back up and get a copy of stock image before trying just in case
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
Metropcs Avant, was using the TMO image G386TUVU1ANFD_G386TTMB1ANFD_G386TUVU1ANFD_HOME.tar flashed through odin.

checked if wlan.ko, swapon, swapoff, and mkswap is linked, and it is.

Also which distro of linux do you use to compile, wanna TRY and help
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I'm using windows right now. Don't have a Linux atm.

You're still on anfd? Try upgrading to ANK3. And see what how it does. I'm on ANK3 firmware and haven't had any issues with what I've built except for wifi calling. I can't figure out why that isn't working.

Also someone mentioned calander. Did Google calendar not install and work right? That's what I'm using.
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
Just realized i was using firmware 4 updates old from july.... wow.

Dec 2014 G386TUVU1ANK3 must be the one I need.

I noticed there is no calender after flashing slim, just to confirm. (although I dont use goo cal so no prob for me)
[General Questions and Answers] codenamesql:
WiFi calling is the only real issue I've run across so far. I had to drop back to stock during the day for work due to that one. I need to go ahead and dump CarrierIQ off my stock. Is it safe to delete the programs/data? or is there more to it?

Michaelchka:

Here's the google apps I use and they appear to work fine for this antibloat rom (remember, I'm back on stock and didn't have the time to try breaking them properly):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942

edit: at first glance that might appear to be the 5.0 page, but it isn't. scroll down and click on the comparison button.

You can choose as much or as little as you want via the various versions or even customize/tweak the installation exactly to your liking. They install in system memory so effectively have a smaller footprint. As long as you get "google calendar sync" any calendar you install which syncs with google should work.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
i honestly dont know why wifi calling isnt working. i reflashed the ank3 firmware and it still didnt work until i did a factory reset. so now im back to 100% stock, no root or twrp. but wifi calling is working again. im about to re-root and pull the system files and start over from scratch, we'll see how it goes this time.

edit:

I'd say its safe to delete those and uninstall the apps, thats what i did the first time around and had no side effects. the slim rom had all those removed along with knox.
[General Questions and Answers] Fernando valiente:
Samsung galaxy avant i have root and twrp

Is there any cool roms?
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
So far just a debloated stock rom
[General Questions and Answers] Fernando valiente:
^^^^^

Do you have a link id like to try it out
[General Questions and Answers] glitchbit:
Enabling the FM Radio

First off I am not going to do this unless regular headphones are not required as I am completely wireless, but since the canadian version has FM it should not be difficult to enable FM on ours. Just follow the info here and rip the .so and .apk files from a canadian rom and the feature will likely work. Bluetooth tethering was more difficult as it required a framework file to be updated as well and I am not sure if any of the 386 roms have the profiles enabled by default. I have posted a file a few pages back to enable bluetooth tethering and other missing profiles.

http://www.droidforums.net/threads/tutorial-how-to-unlock-fm-radio-without-using-adb.86906/
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Got my phones today. Testing out stuff before transitioning. Installed the ANK3 firmware from Sammobile.

A couple notes for new users:

1. Root first because after rooting it will install the stock recovery

2. Install the TWRP recovery next

3. After booting up, go to Play Store and update your Super SU app and then run it to update the binary and you should be good to go

Xposed installs fine on rooted phone. The Wanam Xposed module works great and nicely tweaks a few things.

Looking forward to testing out the de-bloated ROM once the WiFi issues are confirmed fixed-- is there a manifest of either which apps have been removed, or which apps are remaining on the device?
[General Questions and Answers] ygb:
I dont think the Canadian version has FM. Its appears to be Identical to the American version. None of the actual Canadian carriers list FM radio on specs.

The earlier European model had FM with different chipset and radio. I dont have Canadian model to know for sure - maybe someone with one can chime in?

Edit: Just checked the user manuals. G386f has radio. G386w does not.
[General Questions and Answers] Stratis1978:
Cool I'm rooted with a custom recovery! Now to get a kernel to tweak...
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Samsung's Open Source page

Search results there for sm-g386t has source for:

G386T1UVU1ANH3

G386TUVU1ANFD
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
I got wifi working, had to flash the latest firmware from sammobile (dec. 2014), then flash root, then twrp via odin.

factory reset, flashed avant-slim via twrp = win

(Battery life is really good now)
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I pulled the system files yesterday after I did a fresh install of the ank3 firmware. Gonna try and get another slimmed down version of the rom up again with wifi calling working.

The only file that wouldn't pull was in /system. It's the csc_contents file, which is symlinked to /system/csc/TMB/scs_contents. Which doesn't exist. So it shouldn't be a problem. Last rom had no scs folder or customer xml files. Might have been the issue. We will see.

Glad you got wifi working though.

Saw a few new people post in here, please read the thread before asking any questions. It'll answer any questions you could have.
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Answering my own question--

Kdkirk08's Avant Slim apps

Chrome

Contacts

Device Unlock

Google

Google Play Games

Google Play Movies & TV

Google Settings

Messages

Messaging

Mobile HotSpot

Music

Nexus Gallery

Phone

Play Store

Settings

SuperSU

T-Mobile My Account

Video

Voice Recorder

Voice Search

For comparision, Stock ANK3 apps:

Amazon

Calculator

Calendar

Camera

ChatOn

Chrome

Clock

Contacts

Device Unlock

Drive

Dropbox

Email

Flipboard

Galaxy Apps

Gallery

Gmail

Google

Google+

Google Play Books

Google Play Games

Google Play Movies & TV

Google Play Music

Google Play Newsstand

Google Settings

Hangouts

Internet

Lookout

Maps

Memo

Messages

Mobile Hotspot

Music

My Files

Phone

Photos

Play Store

S Voice

Settings

T-Mobile My Account

T-Mobile Name ID

T-Mobile TV

Video

Visual Voicemail

Voice Recorder

Voice Search

YouTube
[General Questions and Answers] asheehanjr:
Does anyone having trouble with Google Now Launher? It will let me install but when I tried to make it deafault, nothing shows up except for the touchwiz launcher.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Not having that issue. Installed just to test.
[General Questions and Answers] asheehanjr:
I don't know why its not working for me that's weird. Thanks for testing it out for me. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
theres an app that actually does this on the app store

it enable the radio chip on the phone even if its disabled, like the HTC one m8 on verizon, it has FM but is nowhere to be found on the phone, he got the app and it searched and detected the Fm chip, tried it on mine and didnnt work..
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Spirit FM?
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
might be, it was on the play store/
[General Questions and Answers] EvoTheBoy:
Idk if this is just me, but I did what was instructed here and... well... TWRP doesnt recognize the SD card. I put the SD Card in a reader to see if the files were deleted but they were not. I formated data, system, cache, and dalvik only to have no system to boot into now. All I can do is recovery and download mode and now am stuck with having to flash stock tmobile rom through odin. If anyone knows a better solution to my problem, please help.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Should have made a back up first.

Which version of twrp were you using?

Edit: if you used the twrp linked in the op, 2.8.1.0, and you copied the rom to the root of the external SD card, when you hit install you should have hit "upalevel" - "extsdcard" - "avant-slim"

Either way, first rule when flashing anything is to make a backup first.
[General Questions and Answers] EvoTheBoy:
I like to live on the wild side 8) haha just playing. Yeah I made a mistake. Got it installed. Only problem is.. I dont have WiFi working and by my understanding, I need to install the Dec 2014 update then root, then install recovery, then install rom again lol. Which I will do now.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Haha, Yeah Idk what it is about the older firmware breaking wifi but if you update to ank3 it should work. The only thing not working though is wifi calling. If that's not a big deal then the rom is perfect-ish. Good speed and batter life. It's a minimalistic rom.
[General Questions and Answers] EvoTheBoy:
Weird. I just finished flashing over k3 firmware but wifi still doesn't work O.O
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
New boot.img no need for /etc/init.d/01Permissive I've compiled the kernel from source to disable selinux Makefile from setting the mode always to enforce cause that's how Samsung modified that Makefile. I used shabbypenguin kernel config. But besides that the boot img still has init.d support and su still running as daemon on boot. So now we have a permissive kernel
[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
Can I flash avant slim ROM with this firmware I'm using or I should wait till aosp ROMs come in
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
Link to newest firmware on sammobile here

best practices for flashing this rom.

back up anything you wanna keep.

1.Factory reset (you dont have to but I always do)

2.Put in Download Mode

3.Flash ANK3 firmware via Odin

4.DL Mode again

5.Flash Root via Odin

6.DL Mode once more

7.Flash TWRP via Odin

8.Boot into TWRP factory reset (no need to wipe internal storage)

9.Install Avant Slim.zip

DONE

(Great debloated ROM)
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
To add to this, please do a back up in twrp no matter what. Since there isn't a 100% stock rom that has wifi calling working. I can't seem to figure out why that breaks even if I do 0 mods to the system files.

If you don't do a back up and want to have a 100% stock rom again you'll have to to flash the firmware to do so.
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
[MENTION=5360251]kdkirk08[/MENTION] is this the Ricky's Kitchen that you used for creating the Avant Slim ROM?

How difficult is it to pick up? Are there any pitfalls that folks should be wary of when trying to do their own?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I tried using that but it broke a bunch of stuff. That just gave me an idea of what the updater script needed. I had to add a few lines and make some changes to it. Doing stuff to the stock rom is easy, except for wifi calling. Idk wtf is wrong with that. If you can get wifi calling to work on a stock rom I'll **** a brick.

Edit: also be for certain you know where you're installing the boot.img too. That's a quick way to get a new paper weight.
[General Questions and Answers] Fernando valiente:
Samsung galaxy avant metro pcs

So i rooted my phone and got twrp but i got a system update the other day on my phone it said

it could not be installed because the system was modified in a unathorized way is there a way to get the new update
[General Questions and Answers] docfreed:
RE: WiFi Calling

My experience w/ TMO is that WiFi calling is activated by a small (often invisible update) pushed to the phone by TMO. That is, the appropriate protocol is built in to the OS framework but is triggered by TMO. That seems to be the reason WiFi calling usually does not work on non-TMO phones. I've had this on Blackberry, Android and Windows phones. And we know that phones with a non-stock recovery (or a rooted phone) will not allow updates.

I'm just kind of speculating here as I have no direct proof just anecdotal evidence from years of rooting TMO phones. But I am on ANK3 on my Avant, rooted stock with TWRP recovery with WiFi calling working perfectly. But I installed TWRP (ODIN) after rooting ANG6.

And bottom line, why bother with a debloated stock when you can use Titanium Backup to freeze and/or remove bloat (including Carrier IQ)?
[General Questions and Answers] fluidfocus:
:good:
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Eh a debloted stock helps cause some people don't have time to go threw all that, and plus some people need a stock that they can flash on the go with out pc.. I applaud kdkirk08 work
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Took the words right out of my mouth. The first step to any development is to get the stock rom put out. Say, like some have already done, someone flashed a rom without making a back up first, realized they didn't like it and wanna go back to stock. Then they would have to flash the firmware in odin and re root etc etc. Plus the debloated rom I put out also had a customized kernel and a few extra goodies which at the time wasn't in a flashable zip.

Side note, got my 2nd computer today. Just swapping some parts before I put Linux on it. 2GB of ram would not have cut it lol.

I'm putting ubuntu 14.04.1 on it. Can't remember who asked off the top of my head. Sorry. But that's what I'm doing.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I agree completely. I love aosp, cm and carbon to be specific but its always good to have a flashable stock ROM to use as a foundation. Do a little debloating and a little theming and you can have a good stable ROM that still looks good. With budget friendly androids you don't always get aosp that is stable enough for daily use.
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Is that kernel based off of G386TUVU1ANFD which has source available, or is it based off the more recent G386TUVU1ANK3 (no source on the Samsung site as of yet)? Or is there any difference between the two (ie do folks need to be running an ANFD rom to use it)? I've seen on some threads that mixing older kernels with newer firmwares or vice versa tends to produce quirks.
[General Questions and Answers] cragains:
It was I who asked. Probably going to try that, or Kali. I've worked with Kali a bit more, but not for cooking:laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
If I knew where to read up on rom cooking I would I've tried to set it up a few times and never did it..got ubuntu and a decent machine but I get lost lol, I'm gonna try searching a bit more and read up
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Can you post this on phandroid so its easier for people to find? The avant has its own device forum there.
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Its based off the metro anh3 kernel source
[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
Do I have to update my stock ROM do to avant slim to work or I can flash it now
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
If you're not on ank3 firmware wifi probably won't work. Make a back up before flashing.
[General Questions and Answers] EvoTheBoy:
flashed slim rom on ank3 and wifi + bluetooth don't work for me
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Are you with tmobile or MetroPCS?

Did you do a full wipe?
[General Questions and Answers] EvoTheBoy:
Metro PCS. Yes I did a full wipe.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I'm not sure then. It seems like it works perfectly fine for some, and not for others.

Can anybody else using that rom with MetroPCS say if they had any issues?
[General Questions and Answers] Fernando valiente:
Samsung galaxy avant

How do i check if i have ank3 ?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Settings - about device. Look at the build or baseband version. It'll end in either ank3, ang6, etc etc.
[General Questions and Answers] Fernando valiente:
Samsung galaxy avant metro pcs

My say's anh3 instead of ank3 ?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Go to sammobile and download the ank3 firmware for metropcs. That's who I'm assuming you have. It'll say tmobile but after SM-G386T there will be a 1. That's for MetroPCS. SM-G386T1
[General Questions and Answers] sk8223:
Thanks for that. I didn't know GSMArena had that variant of the Core LTE. However, the Core LTE that Rogers is selling has the same Snapdragon chipset as the Avant, and the phone was available in Canada before November 2014 (I got mine back in September), unless Rogers is selling this version of the Core LTE now instead of the one I got from them. In any case, it's essentially the same as the Avant.

I'm not going to attempt to root yet because my warranty hasn't run out.
[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
Thanks did u test it out or anybody else did