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[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
Thanks

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This my gf phone so hopefully next time she root do a ota update first
[General Questions and Answers] Phillip T. Craig:
Metro PCS Galaxy Avant.

YES ODIN will root the Avant phone.
[General Questions and Answers] nthnlee:
Can confirm that the posted root method, recovery, and slim rom works with the Galaxy Core LTE, which is the Galaxy Avant re-branded for the Canadian market.

Has anyone else noticed that the music playback from this phone is sub-par? Even with Viper4Android EQ installed and low-power audio disabled, there seems to be a lack of low frequency (under 200hz) and a distinctive hiss on quiet music.
[General Questions and Answers] Stratis1978:
The G386T for T-Mobile and the G386TI for metropcs (very little difference):

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=g386t
[General Questions and Answers] Stratis1978:
Hmmmmm:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/co...Avant,Samsung-Galaxy-Grand-2/phones/8726,8235
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
I tried this and get on my phones wifi on my tablet, but I get no internet... somehing im missing? on the metro pcs fast apn, not the tethering one... upsale page
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
Not using the custom ROM, yet :)

Rooted the Metro PCS version of this phone and everything went as expected. Root works fine and KNOX worked too ;) Who cares!

I also noticed that Titanium Backup hangs when trying to unfreeze or restoring a deleted app from ROM. From previous experience with this in other Samsung phones I just wait a few minutes and do a reboot or pull the battery. When I reboot the app is either unfrozen or the app has been restored to ROM.

So where can I find the list of stuff I can rip out of the stock ROM? :D
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I have an idea for how to get a flashable k3 update. It might be possible to unroot by flashing the previous firmware then wait until the OTA update downloads, then flash TWRP with Odin and then use TWRP's built-in file manager to copy the update.zip to the SD card before re rooting. If this could be done people could download then flash tho OTA update through TWRP recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I didn't even think about that. It might work.

I made a flashable zip to upgrade the baseband. Was gonna add the rest of the files from the Odin package, but got side tracked. I don't know why anybody would need just the modem image, but if anybody wants it, I have it. Flashed it myself and it worked.
[General Questions and Answers] issacr:
none of my outward connections are working. WiFi, Bluetooth etc...

So i have the avant from metro pcs and i downloaded the slim rom but none of my outward connections are working like wifi, Bluetooth and mobile Hotspot. Anyone have answers because this is killing me
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Yeah, go back to stock firmware. The slimrom is way to debloated to work correctly. He removed some key things the phone needs to run correctly.
[General Questions and Answers] lox2013:
Will it work for anh3
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
I did as well. Went right back to stock and just did some minor debloating. Really wish an awesome developer like what they got on the note and s series would do a rom for us on this cheaper phone. Also since there is no menu button how the hell do i get to the menu in the xda app
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Then become the developer. I'm just learning too, that was the first thing I'd have ever done. And most of his problems were because he didn't read the thread. I had no problems with WiFi and data. Just Bluetooth and WiFi calling didn't work for me. Which I don't need.

Long press the recent apps button, or install exposed and gravity box and remap the recents to menu.

As soon as I get the chance I'll remove the rom. So people can stop *****ing about it.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
I would try but I'm in school for graphic design and work full time, i just don't have the free time. Not trying to knock you by any means and i apologize if i did. I just meant over in the s and note forums there's so much development going on its good for everyone because bugs get worked out fast. we don't even have a forum up over here for the avant, would be nice to have at least that
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Nah, not saying you were being disrespectful, it's just people aren't reading the forum before saying, " blah blah blah I have problems, someone help me" after me and a few other people that have been here since day 1 have already said multiple times that it's not a perfect rom.

The note is a very popular phone. It's gonna have more development than this low end phone. The only way we're gonna get stuff done is if we do it ourselves.

And I'm still pretty much in school too right now, so I'm limited on the time I can waste building for it. When I get the free time I'll do more. I'm currently working on on a 4.4.4 port right now. I just need to flash it and test it.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Right on. Yeah I'm not new to xda at all, i ran the slim rom knowing there were bugs, i read the forum. I just had too many force closes and sec.phone quit, ect problems so I'm back at stock. Still trying to get tether to work, I'm on metro, but I will play around more when time permits
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Yeah there's very slight differences between metro and tmo firmwares, but enough to make certain things not work.
[General Questions and Answers] xlogix:
The T-Mobile and metro variant aren't much different FYI. (Metro dealer here) the tether not working is a ROM issue not a metro issue. I've had the hotspot work on Verizon devices while on metro and T-Mobile also...the only time my tether has broken on any byod...was always due to the ROM. Tmo and metro use almost identical settings on the back end. Check your apn make sure its set to metro and not tmobiles(some phones get what I've coined APN confusion and have issues) try ipv4 only vs ipv4/6.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Keywords; "aren't much different" but still different. And different enough to make make a difference. Lol
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
This is my biggest fear. I live in an area that doesn't even have MetroPCS, but they do have the T-Mobile branded version of this phone. I want to get this phone and simply root it. I'll pay to unlock it, I don't mind, cause it seems like too much trouble to downgrade and then upgrade. But it seems like most of the posts are talking about the MetroPCS version. Like you said they're different enough that it makes a difference.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
You can flash the different firmwares between them though, and as long as you keep your original apns, it's fine. It seems like everybody is talking about the metro version just because the few things that have been made were for tmo.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
Well I plan to use this on Cricket (AT&T MVNO for those who may not know), and Movistar (phone carrier in Mexico second only to Telcel). With Cricket, seems I won't get LTE (missing band 17) but 4G should be fine. Movistar, no issues.

Seems like a neat little phone.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I like the phone, I came from the HTC Evo 4G lte. I missed the sense for a while but this one's specs are better than that one mostly.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
Its actually pretty powerful for a mid-tier phone. Haven't some folks even called it the S5 Jr? LOL

But yeah, this will last me a bit. I'll worry about an LTE phone later, but when I can just go into a Walmart and get one for about $150, why pass it up.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I was able to snatch a copy of the ota update.zip to upgrade the metro firmware from anh3 to ank3 but it is useless. Samsung encrypted it so you can't flash it with twrp or extract or open it with 7zip. I also tried the "apply update from external storage" option in the stock recovery and that wouldn't work either. So much for that idea.

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I made a zip to debloat the stock ROM if anyone wants to try it. It deletes all the carrierIQ and Knox stuff and removes all the MetroPCS & T-Mobile apps except for voicemail & device unlock along with almost everything that isn't required for the device to function properly. It gives an end result somewhat similar to flashing the slim ROM. I'm open to suggestions as far as things to add to or remove from the delete list. I've tried it on both firmwares and it hasn't given me any problems.

Download

http://www.mediafire.com/download/yirm1e3t3469bqb/Avant_Debloater.zip
[General Questions and Answers] issacr:
Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] spaniolo:
Hey friends, we know this phone is pretty amazing for a mid tier phone specs wise.. the deal just got sweeter, T-mobile anounced a special offer where you can get it for only $99 after rebate. http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones/samsung-galaxy-avant.html?icid=WMD_TM_GLXYAVNTMI_Z1Y7WEG44U1759
[General Questions and Answers] vorpox:
Just to clarify... If i root to get SU, will i lose my WiFi calling or is that only if i flash one of the other ROMs out there?
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
You will not lose wifi calling as long as you stay on t mobile or metro pcs firmware. If a CM rom ever comes out and you flash it you will lose wifi. I know when i had the s4 we'd lose wifi if we used att firmwares, but there isn't any other carrier with this phone
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Doubt it.. wifi calling Def will be lost, however wifi it's self really doubtful
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Um not true. You lose none of that simply rooting. Get your facts straight before you mislead people. I'm rooted and WiFi and WiFi calling work fine. Have always worked fine on ANY rooted phone I've ever had. Changing to custom Roms is what affects wifi and WiFi calling and even then if u are on a t mobile base firmware wifi calling still works
[General Questions and Answers] vorpox:
I'll try it and let everyone know the out come. Thanks for the input!

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I have root and my wifi calling is working. Good to go!
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
You'll be fine with root, until someone makes us an aosp rom. But all TouchWiz Roms should work fine since the base will be t mobile firmware or metro
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Just to clear this up. If the ROM is built correctly, you won't lose anything. You definitely won't lose a key feature such as wifi if someone makes a cm, usually the first thing to work signal wise after the build is WiFi. WiFi calling is a little different, seeings how the stock built in ROM is what verifys WiFi calling you will probably lose that.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
I meant wifi calling with cm as its only supported with the t mobile based firmware. Obviously you won't lose wifi, my bad for not being clear
[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
post 796

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58397825&postcount=796
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Possible tether fix

This may be a possible tether hack that Jovy worked up for the S3 but I don't see why it wouldn't work here.

Anyone with experience with apk manager or apktool?? I will look into it after I do my homework but I'm pretty confused trying to get apk manager to decompile

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2057344

Jovy is an awesome dev over on Tmobile, usually on the S series and Note.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
And you can't set up your Google account in settings/accounts?

Kinda lost on exactly why you'd be having a problem like that.
[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
I didn't see anyone respond to you, did someone message you? I'd love someone with the knowledge to do it, I'll give you links to what I've found...but source tree? is there another term for that? What does that have that would help you make a ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Maybe you need to just flash a gapps package for kit Kat 4.4.2 Google it and you should be able to flash it via twrp
[General Questions and Answers] :
I might being buying this phone for my wife. Im the maintainer for BlissPop Tmobile g3 and also a TeamBliss member. If I do get this for my wife, I'll see what I can do about building a rom for this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
That would be awesome!
[General Questions and Answers] :
Is the asop rom a kitkat rom? And is there any custom roms out?
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
There are no custom Roms over here, asop or twiz. Just suggested for the guy to flash gapps because he deleted his Google account
[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
no

I'm very lost on that as well. under add account it's not even listed as an option. Try to open google play? white screen like its doing it, then JUST KIDDING! back to home screen. idk what to do, never heard of this other than noobs uninstalling parts of the google play services. The only change was accidentally installing the "security" update for samsung because they kept pushing it so it'd pop up all the time and they got me once and that's what it did. Along with under "about phone" section the SE part at the bottom lists it as secured now

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will do. I have a bad feeling it's gna be more. I really hope yr right. Do you have a good link for this? I'm sure I can find it, but if you have it, that'd be helpful. Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
That's weird.. so you used Odin to flash the ank3 firmware then took the update? And now this is happening? Idk, either way, if flashing the gapps doesn't help, I'd just reflash the firmware and root from there. Just to have a clean set up again.

If you flash the firmware again, just for shiggles, do a full wipe in recovery. Then from there just reboot into download mode from twrp.

Let us know if you get it fixed.

Also, I pulled the slim rom from android file host. So that'll stop cluttering the thread.
[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
Flashed it with the 4.4 4 gapps and I now have my google account back. Thank you!

Sent from my SM-G386T1

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...Should I flash it with the 4.4.2 do u think? 4.4.4 worked, but do u think that's gna bring more trouble down the road? also, if not, I found a gapps for 5.0
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
I have no idea. I've never flashed a gapps package for a different version. I'd just leave it, and if you get any fc's or problems just flash the 4.4.2. Don't fix it if it ain't broken lol.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Yeah don't flash 5.0 as it will cause a lot of force closes. I'd flash 4.4.2 but that's me. If 4.4.4 works go for it. Glad that fixed your issue
[General Questions and Answers] Ace1652:
So idk what happened to my phone or sd card, or both but now almost every app I use or try to use gives me a storage error. I've gotten errors in Titanium Backup, Spotify, Xposed Installer and others I can't remember. It gives me this error with or without the sd card mounted.

My phone is rooted with CF-Autoroot and it has TWRP both through ODIN. I ordered another sd card and it should be coming tomorrow or in 2 days, I also formatted the card to see if that would have fixed it, and nothing. Please someone give me something to try to fix this, with this problem my phone is essentially unusable for me.

I created an album on imgur with 3 screenshots of the errors that I get, but since I'm a new user I can't include links. The album id is, a/drEbI if it helps.

UPDATE: Alright so I inadvertently fixed my problem by flashing the metropcs stock rom onto my phone, the reason i didn't try this before was because the download link at sammobile didn't work for me. So now I'm going to root and flash TWRP back onto it, see if it still works after and if it does mount my sd card back on and see if it'll still work.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
There's a few people working on a custom ROM on the android forums site, I don't know how far they have gotten but I think they are just porting cm11 over. There is a stock debloated ROM but its so debloated it broke WiFi and WiFi calling.

EDIT: Here's the link. http://androidforums.com/index.php?threads/897931/
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
They're talking of the one kirk did over here
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
There a few mentions of that but the person who started the thread is working on a cm build. I have him on hangouts and he's ran into a few problems seeings how he doesn't actually have the device.
[General Questions and Answers] xzuhto:
I'd be willing to help if I can. I've got a pretty busy schedule but I'm also pretty interested in getting some ports onto this phone. SlimKat in particular. CM would definitely be a step in the right direction.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Ah yeah owning the device helps. If we had a thread we could get donations for a developer to work on it, it would help
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
There is already a flashable zip to enable tethering attached to post #543

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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
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
The flashable zip didn't work for me. Still goes to the upsale page
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
The upsell page us coming from the tether itself, all the flashable zip does is enable the native tether app to work without having to pay for it.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
And jovys hack makes it so you don't get the upsale page. I'll message jovy and see if he'll help. I looked at our framework after decompiling it and it doesn't have some of the lines he said to Change
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
It works fine for my tablet as is and I use fiddler 2 on my PC to switch the user agent to kindle fire and I never get the upsell page.
[General Questions and Answers] xzuhto:
What would we need to do to get a legit XDA forum for the Avant? A 900+ page post isn't the best way to organize development thus far.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
We could just redirect all development to androidforums.com since they actually have a forum for this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
On my tablet i get the metropcs upsale. Are u on tmobile?
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
That's a bit strange.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
Quick question, those who have the Avant, how do you like it? No overheating? Fast? As in when you open an app there's no lag, or when you play games no noticeable lag? Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] gmolds:
It has been a good mid tier phone choice. I've not had any heat problems and it is relatively quick. Granted, I don't do a lot of gaming on my phones...
[General Questions and Answers] brainbone:
I don't play games on mine, but my daughter seems happy with it. It's a low/mid-end phone, but it does well for what it is. Don't think you can currently find another LTE band 12 capable phone at a better value.

One issue with the latest t-mobile rom is that using Google Now launcher seems to cause the phone to reboot at random times.
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
There is a memory leak that causes the chromium stock browser to crash tabs when memory gets past 1.08gb used. Aside from having to reboot every few days to clear the leak, it's perfect.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Agreed the phone does have to restart every few days but if we get a custom rom all will be well I would even think this phone would be super fast if we did.. battery life is pretty decent with power saver on, way better than the lg Optimus l9
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Battery is damn good with amplify, greenify and power saver on. Went all day yesterday (medium to heavy usage) from 5:30am until 10:00 and was only at about 64%
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
The Avant

So what is offered for the Avant(Roms,Stock Roms,Kernels,etc?) model#G386T1 Are there any developers out there for this phone? I've skimmed through and think there is basicly nothing yet except recovery. I am getting one next week and just getting a heads up on it.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
There is a booting cm on androidforums, having troubles with the display drivers right now. Once we have cm11 ported successfully the 2devs on androidforums will work on porting cm12
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
I'm use to my nexus 7 2013, lol, my battery has gotten alot better after getting rid of battery guru (Qualcomm app is junk btw), my phone isn't rooted yet so I would bet with greenify it will get way better when I do and allow that app to have full control.. still thought great phone even if it's not rooted
[General Questions and Answers] NicoGBN:
No lock unlocking the phone?

Hi I bought this phone and used it with a T-Mobile SIM for a few days. I have left the US two days ago and the temporary unlock stopped working just when I inserted a SIM from my country (Argentina). I did try sending T-mobile an email for the unlock code and according to them there aren't unlock codes for this model, so now I am stuck with a phone as a fancy decoration for my desk. The bad part is that I won't be able to travel back there for months and maybe a year. Any help? :S
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
hey guys, thanks for the responses. I remember seeing on gsmarena.com people complaining about it getting hot, so I was wondering about that. As far as the memory leak when using Chromium stock browser, actually my browser of choice is CM Browser, so if that's the case, I'd just delete the stock browser.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
It does get hotter than other androids I've had with heavy use. The highest I've seen the CPU temp go is 60° celcius with the average being closer to 50. My nexus 7 2013 usually doesn't go any higher than the mid 40s.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
I wouldn't think that's too too bad, maybe once cm gets on this badboy it'll run cooler. Might be all the touchwiz bs heating it up lol.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
:eek: Ok what to you is "heavy use"? To me, its Plants vs Zombies 2, and Google Maps (not at the same time, of course). Is it also possible this is a typical side-effect of having more than two cores?

Well at this point any phone I get I always put Apex or Nova on it. A different launcher might solve some of that. As for CM...hope it happens, but it also means the person developing it has to have the phone. If we can solve that hurdle this phone might take off.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
There are actually a few people deving for this phone with the guidance of other devs that have this phone over on android forums.