yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Yes and yes
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Hey guys, just switched to the last AOKP build from cm11, and the xposed in ap repo does not work. Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind I'm going back to stock and rooted.
[General Questions and Answers] HeadWingnut:
I haven't found a rooting method for the Avant that doesn't involve Debugging under Developer Options and a PC or Mac because booting into download mode to root the Avant requires tether.

If there's someone out there who hasn't figured it out yet, open your Developer Options in Settings and ensure that you have the tethering provision, which is part of the stock ROM. It's in the App Manager and they're alphabetized. To get your Developer Options, press your "Build Number" in "About" in your settings seven times.

I know it sounds like a lot of fooey, but I've had the Avant I'm holding now rooted once and I'm just about to root it again because I paid for the phone and I pay my bill, so I will have the right to say what I can and can't do with it.

After you run a backup, debug, and tether your Avant, boot into download mode by pressing and holding the power button, the home button, and the volume down key. When it starts back up and you see the warning, don't back down because you're almost there! Hit the volume up key while keeping the power button and home button pressed and about twenty minutes later... Voila! Root access.... But you didn't hear it from me.

Now go be free, my Young Apprentices and may the Schwarts be with you!
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
That is a lot of "fooey" though, get the device drivers installed and boot into download mode, that's it. No need to tether just to have Odin mode working....
[General Questions and Answers] rsa2226:
Will the rooting method (using ODIN to flash root) still work if I'm on Baseband version G386TUVU1AOH3?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Yes
[General Questions and Answers] TheEnekaign:
I've been running this rom for a while now with almost no bugs.

Anyways, I have a qquestion. Every time it boots I have a little message saying the kernal is not enforcing, but otherwise it runs perfectly. Is there anything that would get rid of that error?
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
Nope. Just happens as it's a custom rom and kernel
[General Questions and Answers] nathan1314:
Has anyone tried the lastest rom on a G386W? Would it work?
[General Questions and Answers] 5ex:
yes G386W

kernel 3.4.0-2988301 any working rom out there?
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Anyone know where I can find Knox remover for avant stock rooted ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
I'm slick salty that I got the at&t s5 (unlocked) but it's not even rootable due to the locked lollipop bootloader?

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http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/6782144
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Well guess thst's it. This phone has reached the end of it's life cycle. Couldn't even release Lolipop on it. Now It is time for an upgrade. Overall, it is a good phone. But the support has ceased. Farewell.
[General Questions and Answers] adrw4:
can anybody send a new link to aokp 4.4.4 for avant or cm? all the links ive found are broken.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Been dead for a while.. I went with a n6 no longer have to deal with the manufacturers b* thats the last time ill ever buy a samsung
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
Go over to Android Forums
[General Questions and Answers] 06nono2015:
Hi,

http://androidforums.com/forums/root-samsung-galaxy-avant.2793/

rooting section :)
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Farewell Avant. It has been retired and replaced by Samsung Galaxy J7.
[General Questions and Answers] JazzMartian:
[MENTION=3042344]D-FUSE[/MENTION]

Thank you sir for making the phone twice as valuable (imo)! Without your development on it, it would have still been nice, but I'm really glad to have been introduced to AOKP, which made the phone event better.

The only custom ROMs I've run, are CM and AOKP. I greatly prefer AOKP (R.I.P.), and would love to see it ported to the Nvidia Shield Portable, and JXD S192 Singularity (buying one in a few days). I'm relatively new to Android (only been using the OS for about a year and a half). I'm not sure if there'd be a better choice of custom ROM for the two gaming droids, but based off my experience with the stock ROM on the NSP, and AOKP on the Avant...I'd be thrilled to be able to be able to run the Kangling's Unicorn Bytes on my gaming portables.

Anyways, the Avant was a great phone. Especially considering its price. Its Achilles Heel was its pathetic screen quality, but after running a couple of the right screen calibration apps, it looks a LOT better.

For anybody still using the phone: for much better screen quality I recommend:

Lots of options; More "hands-on" calibration process; Screen can be calibrated to look pretty amazing:

DS Display Expert Pro

by Droidsail

Either/And

One button push calibration; Takes seconds; Screen quality looks twice as good afterwards (imo):

Display Calibration Pro or Quick TuneUp Pro (calibrates multiple different aspects) by RedPi Apps

There are free/lite versions of all 3 apps on GP.
[General Questions and Answers] GoddessRee:
Need help with carrier unlock

I have a T-mobile Avant that I would like to use my Metro PCS sim card with. The device unlock app does not work, refers me to Tmobile Customer Care. & they do not care, I have not been able to get any help from them. I am not arguing with them anymore. I am rooted, can install any custom roms if needed. Please tell me that I can bypass this somehow before I go crazy. Thank you in advance for any help
[General Questions and Answers] DMedina559:
T-Mobile phones should be able work with metro pcs sim cards no problem without any modding/hacking/unlocking?
[General Questions and Answers] GoddessRee:
No, T-mobile has a carrier lock
[General Questions and Answers] brainbone:
You should be able to flash your T-Mobile AVant with a Metro PCS avant ROM. I did the reverse to use a MetroPCS Avant on T-Mobile.

You'll need to download an original Metro PCS Rom for the Avant, and then use Odin to flash it.

Instructions and links on this page may work, but I've never used them:

https://blog.unlockbase.com/update-samsung-sm-g386t-with-metropcs-firmware/
[General Questions and Answers] JazzMartian:
Is it just me, or is there no button to move apps to the SD card? I gave the phone to my wife awhile ago, and my daughter is using it as well, and they're running out of space all the time. I don't recall that option ever being missing before?! I know there's apps that can move to external, without needing to do it from Settings/Apps. One is called Force2SD, but it often fails. I recall using another one that worked A LOT better, but can't remember what it's called.

Does anybody have any insight as to what's up with the move to SD option being absent?
[General Questions and Answers] tyson170:
Any apps that are capable of running from the SD card can be moved from the Application Manager. You can take it a step further and try using Link2SD with a partitioned SD card.
[General Questions and Answers] BTC053013:
Can it be unlocked?

I got one from my dad it's his old phone from T-Mobile. But thy won't unlock it without paying the bill so I was wondering if there is a why to unlock it so I can use it on at&t s network?
[General Questions and Answers] BTC053013:
I'm wanting to know the same thing or find an unlocked stock rom my sister screwed me on unlocking thru the app. I really love this phone and know you can do it but has anyone unlocked it or has a unlocked stock rom. Cause I need this phone unlocked. I've been using a Samsung j1 and it's giving me problems
[General Questions and Answers] The Smith:
Hey, has anyone been experiencing poor echo cancellation on D-FUSE's AOKP rom?

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I have searched extensively for an unlock method and I ended up buying a remote unlock on ebay for a few dollars.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
I wish we had more ROMs at least stable. I still run my avant cynogenmod of coarse. it does all I need it to just wish we had something new and stable. O well I guess!
[General Questions and Answers] BTC053013:
Mines still locked to tmobile with every rom i put on im fixing to say f it and sell the dang thing even though i love it
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
That was stupid. T-Mobile gives unlocked codes if the device was on them for 3 months
[General Questions and Answers] BTC053013:
Not if the bill is 600+
[General Questions and Answers] D-FUSE:
I'm sorry you don't pay your bills!
[General Questions and Answers] BTC053013:
I have no control over my sisters contract and and could care less after all the crap she put me through so that is not my bill i just care about the phone
[General Questions and Answers] LAQ25:
do you happen to have a link to the CM ROM download?
[General Questions and Answers] Mallos31:
Unlock this thing!

Has there been any luck SIM unlocking this thing yet? It's driving me nuts not being able to use it. I was with WalMart Family Mobile and because I'm not anymore they seem not to want to help me.
[General Questions and Answers] vladsanders:
Unlocking ?

Tell me, there is a unlocking russian sim or are preparing firmware with odin?

Not where I can not find:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
Just google it. Or search back like around 10 pages
[General Questions and Answers] vprasad1:
Anybody running G386TUVU1AQD2 4.4.2 that was released back in May this year? Any noteworthy features or is it just a security update? Available on SamMobile
[General Questions and Answers] TheLegendofMario:
Roms

What are the best Roms in this thread and what are the links for them?

Also are any of them compatible with the newest version of the OS, AQA1?

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] Alberhasky:
Rom

Thank you very much!! I know this is old but I just flashed it into my old Avant and gave it to my little daughter, it runs way better than that stock **** lol
[General Questions and Answers] OuijaElite:
Possible SIM unlock method found

So playing around with things as I do, I might have found a way to sim unlock the g386t on stock, rooted.

I have one last part to try, that will tell me if it works, or not, I just need to figure out how to go about accessing it. I've not seen this, but it might be known by now.

Don't know if this is still needed for some people, or if the method might help in other areas. I am not a dev. I have no clue.

If I can try this and it works, I'll post findings. Just need to figure out obtaining this last part. ♠️
[General Questions and Answers] OuijaElite:
Abit of an update**

So I able to replicate the network unlock code entry that pops up, which is good,cuzni wadnt sure if it was a one-off error or not. But every time, I was able to get the code entry to pop up. Image will be attached of code entry popup, and device info, rooted stock TMO firmware. NOT**METRO**

NOW, anyone know a code distributor wiing to donate a code(s) to see if this works? Final step. Fingers-Crossed

Thanks! IF someone can or would like to donate a code, pls shoot me a PM or email. Does anyone know or can verify if anyone has been able to pull the code entry on TMO fw yet?
[General Questions and Answers] James Lucas:
Hello, I have an old Samsung Galaxy Core 386W and I was wondering if it's possible to update from Android 4.4.2. to 5.0 (or higher)?
[General Questions and Answers] greggit1986:
Hello James,

Not sure if you are still looking, I somehow managed to successfully build lineage 16.0 and 18.1 + lately twrp 3.7.0 for the SM-G386W. If you ou anybody are interested in testing or buildind it, I am willing to share as well as the sources. There are obviously few bugs to fix so I hope someone more knowledge will chime in and take the lead. I am still a total noob!!!Not sure how to go from here since I do not yet have the credentials to post links.
[General Questions and Answers] James Lucas:
Thanks for replying. That's neat! Would this be able to update beyond the 4.4.2. Update and allow me to download Disney+?
[General Questions and Answers] greggit1986:
I would caution to not get your hopes too high! As I said I am a total noob and there are still a few bugs i am not able too fix even after almost 5 months of effort. The most stable is lineage 18.1 but not working:

- both cameras

- RIL ( sim not detected, so no calls or sms)

- Auto-rotate

- Screen stay frozen for few minutes after unplugging charger or ear plug jack

- May be other stuff I don't care about...You are going to unfortunately have to find out yourself.

You will need to upgrade to stock firmware G386WVLS1AQA1 if not done yet for the installation to be possible. PM me if you are still interested.
[General Questions and Answers] greggit1986:
Good news! 16.0 is now stable: Everything works except back camera in photo mode. I will post it somewhere here tomorrow.
[General Questions and Answers] greggit1986:
Here we go! Hopefully this will be useful to someone one day!

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unoffic...9-lineageos-16-0-for-galaxy-core-lte.4618441/
[General Questions and Answers] thunderstruck!:
I ran across my old Avant that I used on T Mobile. I got a SIM but both the old one and new one have phone saying no SIM. Anyone have any insight? It was a decent phone for the day, perfect size to throw in my pocket. I'm a VZW customer on prepaid.
[General Questions and Answers] billa:
If it's showing "No SIM", there might be a sim connection issue. Check the orientation carefully with the beveled edge, also try another sim adapter (some are too thick). Lastly, the 386T & G386T1 models do not support CDMA, therefore will not work with a Verizon SIM card even if your get it to read.
[General Questions and Answers] Signa112:
Yea best ive got here in Reno was 51 down 23 up
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Ya i bet you can see higher speeds I rarely go to fortworth but that's what I got on a Saturday night, which is faster than att when I check so I like it, where I live at now I get easy, 20mbps down and about 10-13 up so not entirely bad and mineral wells isn't a big town at all we have roughtly 16,000 pop so that's not bad
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
Just a quick hint for anyone missing the ability to add shortcuts to specific settings options. the notification panel buttons are those shortcuts. just long press them and it will take you to the settings screen for that option. For example long pressing the wifi Toggle will take you to the wifi Setup screen.

Should work for most latest Samsung devices AFAIK
[General Questions and Answers] zeroshot:
Ya i wish you could add buttons like data. Think it's dumb is not there already
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
You can, there is some mods that add more buttons. Requires root. For some reason Samsung enabled different set of buttons on each model. Stupid Samsung
[General Questions and Answers] zeroshot:
If you know how, could you point me to a link? I havent rooted yet but i would to fix that
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2732722 same applies to us
[General Questions and Answers] zeroshot:
Thx alot check me a minute but got it working.

If anyone else does this. If you get a code 14 error. Download and run tb restore fixer. Then try again.
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Moto G Qualcomm MSM8226 snapdragon 400

Anyone know if this is good news for us or if it's always phone/model specific? They unlocked their bootloader!

Moto G 2014- (Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400)

http://www.usoftsmart.com/t269129.html
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
So, I have a suggestion ☺

If we really want our phone to get real attention, why don't we focus on twrp or chainfire (or you name it), make a request and donate $10 or more each + donate a phone??? I'm pretty sure things could change if we did...

How many of you guys would be interested?

I can possibly donate my phone...
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
Always make, model, age, revision, carrier, engineer dependent. Unlocked boot loaders are common, as well as hacks, but a moto device being cracked doesn't mean anything for a Samsung device. Samsung unlike others is an asshole about locking bootloader.
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
So it doesn't really matter it's the same (Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400)? It's all about what Samsung did then? I don't think this fact will help Samsungs profits....
[General Questions and Answers] Signa112:
What we need is a custom recovery. We have an unlocked

Bootloader and chainfire root.
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Samsung have locked our qualcomm badly.... That's why we haven't got a custom recovery yet.... Chainfire helped us root but he didn't unlock the bootloader (yet)...
[General Questions and Answers] eduardomal100:
is there a custom recovery

This phone is fairly decent for its price and i like it but i would want to do stuff like mod it and every but i wanna have a custom recovery anyone help or start working on it??
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
I believe this is one possible way to speed up the progress, if we really want someone to bother ☺
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
I have to agree, im willin to pitch In a little, cant do much though sadly about to pull my motor out of my truck.. Got a hole threw a piston so ya lol
[General Questions and Answers] gmolds:
I'd kick in some paypal fundage...
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
same here, i got my replacement avant in today so going to have to update and root again with chainfire
[General Questions and Answers] Signa112:
No. Samsung doesn't lock T-Mobile boot loaders
[General Questions and Answers] asheehanjr:
Does anyone know a quick and dirty way to pull the system recovery files that we need to make cwm? I have root and adb all setup I was trying to do it but was have some trouble. Everything I tried was either path not found or denied in adb.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
The bootloader is locked. We have root on the device but not through adb. Hence why it says permission denied. To get that working we need an unsecure boot.img. but we can't get that until the bootloader is unlocked. It's a vicious circle. I made an unsecure boot image but when I flash it the phone won't boot.

If you go into system and find default.prop. the line that says ro.adb.secure=1 needs to be ro.adb.secure=0 for adb to have root permission.

If you're trying to get the necessary files for whatever it is you were wanting then just find them using a file explorer with root privileges and just pull em through the phone. (Copy them to another path) but it won't do any good until the bootloader is fully unlocked.

TL; DR: We're still screwed.

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Also, there's an app called adbd insecure that will allow adb root to work. I found this out after just minutes of doing some reading. It's amazing isn't it? You know, reading before asking questions?

You can find it on the play store or chainfires dedicated thread for it. ?
[General Questions and Answers] asheehanjr:
I was able to backup the recovery and boot img via flashify. I don't know if this will help any? Here is my Dropbox link.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ph0a4vxxs7uqkv8/AABxJAyFJibbqLX7ad0Qbsqca?dl=0

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Believe me I know all about "search before asking" policy here. I was having trouble finding my answer. :)

Reason Why i want the files so we can have something to at least work on that is experienced to make a stock image back up. Even though the bootloader is locked, then how come when I did the whole adb shell, su through the cmd prompt I was able to give it super user permissions?

Thanks for the response. ;):good:
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Just curious if Avant from MetroPCS and t-mobile have the same bootloader and recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Why do you have to use that to make a stock image backup? All I did was download the newest firmware from sammobile and pull what i needed to from that. That has all you need in it.

As for having root through the shell, adb shell-su is different from being able to mount the device with root permission using adb.

Chainfires thread for his quick root even says adb remount and su actions won't work through adb until you get an insecure boot image.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Are you asking to see if you can use chainfires root method?

Since t mobile owns MetroPCS I don't see why it would be an issue. What does your bootloader say? Better yet what version does your phone have on it right now? If it's still ang6 or anha then I'd say your safe to use it.

I just read over on android forums that someone rooted their metropcs version using this method. Didn't report any problems so I'd assume it's safe.
[General Questions and Answers] CB620:
Can someone post a screenshot of your device build.prop specifically the line ro.product.device

Use rootexplorer and navigate to system/build.prop

T-Mobile Model

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Signa112:
I can upload anything you need
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
No, but thanks ? I'm all rooted and happy already ?

Downloaded the files from asheehanjr's Dropbox a few posts back, and it looks like he's got the MetroPCS Avant? Not sure? Just curious if it's exactly the same for both phones? I have the t-mobile one BTW...
[General Questions and Answers] zeroshot:
anyone got a fix to make the sound louder
[General Questions and Answers] chaostic_2k1:
Chainfire auto root works by taking the stock recovery, replacing it, which point the unlocked bootloader loads the replaced recovery. That recovery makes a change to something in the system, then flashes the stock recovery back over itself. That's all chainfire does. It would not work without a fully unlocked bootloader.

At this point all we need is to mod the boot.img for custom roms based on stock kernel and touch wiz. Once we get the kernel source, we can mod even more like porting cyan o gen with custom kernel. We can immediately port a custom recovery too.

But between Odin and expose framework, a custom kernel and recovery is only needed if you aren't willing to flash via pc back to normal.
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Vipers Audio!
[General Questions and Answers] zeroshot:
vipers audio didnt do anything
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
you need root and you need to go into the settings and use vipers audio as default because the phone has another sound mod as default.
[General Questions and Answers] nyttliv7:
Maybe good buy Avant?

Me and my girlfriend were on a family contract together with a friend (x friend). This "friend" reported our phones stolen (reason is another story). We went to the t-mobile store straight away and proved it wasn't true, he confirmed and told us there's nothing we can do! Our "friend" have to "find" the phones and release us from the contract... He was probably one of us (xda freak) cause he recommended us to check online for a imei change or to sell the phones abroad... Kind guy ☺ (I'm aware of the grey zone regarding imei change)

Me and my girlfriend loves our Avant phones, but now we're kind of ****ed ?

I've tried everything, the closest so far is EFS Professional, but no luck. And of course there's the online services, but I'm not sure if I can trust them?

Might sell them as they are for parts or development?

Any thoughts?