yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Starflare5:
Yeah, I would say your expectations are pretty high here because, you need to take some things into consideration:

The Samsung Galaxy Avant series is basically the next Samsung inexpensive prepaid series after the Exhibit. While it has more storage space, a quad core processor, and better memory management, it still is very similar to the older series.

Yes, that is a light sensor on the front, but, with the factory OS, all it seems to support is when to turn the flash on and off in auto mode and how far to brighten low light situations. There is no front flashing LED on this phone.

A big difference between LG and Samsung phones is that LG focused on more of the photography aspects of a phone, where as Samsung focused on more entertainment and ruggedness.

The best thing about Samsung phones, however, is that Samsung tries to build all of their phones across the board with the same level of quality and construction, and, pretty much last forever.

So, yeah, you're not going to get everything you had with the G2, but you will get a really good and long lasting phone out of the Avant.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Yeah I would never expect a $150 phone to be the equavalent to a flagship phone. I didn't mean to give that impression at all. Hey what about the haptic Feedback thing... Is that just me? Am I missing something?
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
I've noticed it to even though it has it it just doesn't kick In at all outside of calls and what not.. I think a custom firmware will help on this but it's a wait and see Samsung does some crazy things like the light sensor.. They tend to limit certain parts of the phone because they want people to buy the higher end ones.. Of course though we will prob figure out most of this in the rom that is being built time will tell
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Here's what I'm using as for notifications. Works well enough and doesn't seem to drain the battery too much. Anyone using anything better or different?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
It's cheap. Gotta cut costs somewhere.

No idea. On my Galaxy Light it doesn't have haptic feedback on the stock keyboard, but I can turn it on with SwiftKey with the options in SwiftKey's settings.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Yay! I just needed to turn up the ms on the time for the haptic Feedback to work....
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
You can use GravityBox to blink the button backlights for notifications and getting haptic feedback for the screen just requires installing Haptic Switch from the play store. If you want to get haptic feedback from the back and recent buttons you need Xposed Additions.

This thread on android forums tells you how to get haptic feedback.

http://androidforums.com/index.php?threads/889435/
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
What are ya'll seeing as far as average battery life. (I know that depends on various factors etc.) but just as general usage. I feel like I'm always plugged up to a charger. I use it for the basic stuff. Facebook, YouTube, kids games, etc.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I've noticed that the battery lasts a long time for certain things and other things drain it quick. I can talk on the phone for over an hour and the battery won't even go down 10 percent but when I watch videos or play music it seems to drop pretty quickly. Then again I kind of got spoiled with my old f6 cause it had a bigger battery and a smaller processor so it was like the energizer phone. All things considered the avant is definitely a great buy when MetroPCS has it for 70 bucks plus tax and activation. My only complaint is how how hot it gets. After about an 30 minutes of using the hotspot to stream Netflix the processor can get up to 80° Celcius.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
I agree. It's a solid phone for the price. Used the camera some today and with the outside light you can't complain with 5mp. Even my wife's Galaxy S5 wasn't typically on par with my G2 with the modded camera Haha. I'm used to the 3000 Mah battery on the G2 so it's definitely an adjustment. $70?!?! That's practically giving this phone away. Great deal.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Yeah $70 is a steal I wish I had waited longer to get mine. I got it back last fall the first week metro started selling them and it cost me about $180 after tax and activation. I could have saved $80 if I had some patience.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Lol i bought the device the week it came out for tmobile it was tough to find online but 220 I don't regret it one bit, especially with cm on the horizon.. But seriously it's not a bad phone we got root and low band on this phone which was the major reason I bought it im in a area where it's rolling out
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Are some bands of lte better than others or is it just that if not all the phones are on that band you'll get faster speeds due to less congestion?
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Well this is the first phone to have band 12 700mhz what this means is when tmobile lights up that frequency in your area your coverage for the most part is fixed the signal can travel up to 20 miles from one tower.. Its the same thing att and Verizon has rolled out, now the other frequencys that tmobile has can handle more capacity than that of band 12 but don't go very far at all.. Maybe 2-7 miles give or take.., the 700mhz will def not be as fast but it will help on coverage more than anything else
[General Questions and Answers] linsalata28:
I don't have a computer at this time so is there any way to get root without one. Like a apk or something?

Thanks for any help.
[General Questions and Answers] Rican Bx Bomba:
I've been trying all week..

Anyone got tether and vpn to work and connect with playstation servers? Tried a few apps.. Metro blocks communication to playstation (playstation app won't connect). Trying to tether with the ps4.

Tether works, flashed the file found in the thread. Just can't get it to work with supervpn and simular apps..
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Sorry but there's only two ways to root and both require Odin and a PC. You need to either flash cf auto root with odin or download twrp and flash it with Odin then flash

update-supersu.zip with twrp. Those are your only options. Also if you have updated to the newest baseband that ends in ank3 you may have to factory reset when you root in order to keep root from being lost when you boot up the phone. The method I reccomend is to download

update-supersuV2.46.zip to your phone then open odin and uncheck the auto-reboot option then connect your phone to the pc and boot into download mode then flash twrp. Once it is installed hold power volume up and home to boot straight from download mode into twrp recovery. Once you are in twrp, factory reset then flash supersu and reboot.

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THIS TUTORIAL might help you. It works for the ps3 and might work for the ps4.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Couldnt he download mobile odin on his phone and do it that way? Or would that not work...
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I just checked and mobile Odin requires root so it wouldn't help with obtaining root access
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Oh right, completely forgot about that, derp lol
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Don't feel bad I wouldn't have known without looking it up in the play store.
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
If u have a mac you can try jOdin online, it would not work for my htc desire so i dual boot windows, didn't try it on this phone
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
To me a design flag in this handset is that if you lay it either flat on the back or front it lies directly on either the camera glass or the screen glass. So, you almost have to get a case. Especially for it laying right on the camera. Otherwise it wouldn't take long to get pretty scratched up.
[General Questions and Answers] dbpaddler:
I hope you have a bag full of flags considering many phones have one if not both of those aspects.

And if the camera sticks out, that means the bottom of the phone is shallower than the camera so it technically should rest on the bottom edge of the lens housing. So the area of the lens that matters should not touch the surface unless the surface is uneven.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Never had a phone rest directly on the camera lense this bad. You can try it yourself. Not takin anything away from the phone I mean it's great. Just an observation. You're right lots of phones have flaws. This is just one of em.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
A case would solve the "phone rest directly on the camera lense" just fine. They're plentiful on eBay. And you don't have your phone in a case because...?
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
I've got a case.... :confused:

Why does it seem like a lot of people in this thread have issues with sarcasm and seem to almost take offense if someone points out a defect or flaw? Totally different than any other thread I've ever been in. Typically you've got a bunch of folks talking about flaws and ways to improve them. Here it seems like if someone says there's an issue you have like 10 people all the sudden trying to justify that issue or trying to make it seem like it's OK. Rather than proposing solutions. But, yes I'm not an Idiot. The first thing I did was get a case..... :banghead:
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
I may have found a fix to the camera problem, its shown here on the iPhone 6 but I'm sure it could be applied to just about any phone with a protruding camera.

https://youtu.be/WKd6gT3Kz10
[General Questions and Answers] dbpaddler:
I'll take your word. I always throw a basic slim tpu case on my phones. The only phone I wouldn't use a case on is a slider, and I don't have to worry about that anymore, unfortunately.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Hahahaha good fix... Only for the IPhone..
[General Questions and Answers] linsalata28:
First the first link in the first post is not working. Second the TWRP download md5 does not match.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Did you read in the android forums link? It explains the MD5 confusion
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
The md5 may not match but twrp works just fine. Make sure you use 2.8.1 and not 2.8.3 cause it has issues.

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@J03lpr86 is hosting the newest firmwares for both variants of the avant on android file host. Here's a [URL'= https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=23836/]link for that[/URL]
[General Questions and Answers] linsalata28:
Yeah I figured it out. Thanks for your reply.

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So is the TWRP recovery and slim ROM only for the T-Mobile variant ?

Thanks again for your help. I still haven't gotten to a PC to root yet but I'm just trying to get all the right files for when I do.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I'd reccomend just debloating the stock ROM and tweaking it to your liking. I think the slim ROM is no longer available anyway.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
For both
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Does anyone have this phone,rooted, with Xposed frame work and have Pandora with out problems?
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Yeah, got everything running perfectly fine.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
I can't get pandora to quit hanging up
[General Questions and Answers] Jaythor:
Erm, I did something dumb and lost root

So I was trying to install Wanam Xposed and it's frame work but it wasn't working (I did have root). I started looking through the apps on my phone and noticed that Superuser had an option to clean it up for a reinstall so I figured that I'd try that.

--And it didn't reinstall anything AND I lost Root Access. (Well, kinda)... Some Root checker apps say Root is fine but some say it isn't. However, I can't use any apps that require root access. They just freeze up.

I downloaded another SU app from the market thinking that that might help but.. that didn't help.

So, I went into TWRP recovery and recovered a backup I made right after I rooted... Still no root.

Then I went through the process of flashing Root through Odin again.. still no go.

Any suggestions on what to do to get root back?

Thank you in advance!
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Have you tried flashing SuperSU zip through twrp or cwm?

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What do you mean by quit hanging up? You are talking about Pandora radio right?
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
When I try to back out of the app the phone gets stuck and I have to take the battery out to reboot the phone. This has been going on for a few days but I may have fixed it I fixed the permissions and so far so good (about 1 hr)

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nope started hanging up again and yes Pandora radio.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Are you using Pandora patcher by chance? And if you are did your Pandora update to 5.8 through the playstore? And if its yes to all of this, have you updated Pandora patcher to the version that supports Pandora 5.8?
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
No I have Lucky Patcher but I wasn't using it. I had uninstalled and reinstalled Pandora and still had problems but you gave me an idea, I went back to Pandora 5.7 and so far no problems.
[General Questions and Answers] afr33sl4ve:
Looks like I'm not the only one. What permissions do I have to set on it?
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
i went into recovery TWRP and went to advance then fix permissions hope it works.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
You shouldn't have to worry about permissions unless you're putting it in system/app or system/priv-app. In any case the permissions need to be rw-r-r
[General Questions and Answers] spaniolo:
Hey friends, sorry I am not checking this as often as I should as my Avant is now my back up.

[MENTION=253045]MasterChief[/MENTION] you seem to be very active here. If you feel is time for me to update somelinks on the OP please let me know, (you may PM anytime) as this thread has grown quite large I would like to keep it useful so people don't have to go blind reading all the post over and over. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
No problem
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
What type of links do you have, if I may ask
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Might want to put this in the op, its working cm. Only things that aren't working is camera and video playback.

LINK: http://androidforums.com/index.php?threads/897931/

Also, the latest build is post #517, there is a fix for the buttons on the phone in post #519.
[General Questions and Answers] Bobby Tables:
A followup to my Firefox problems: 36.0 and up have been working fine. I'm still running stock/unrooted for now.
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
EDIT: Nevermind... took me 10min to find post, but got it.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
I just got this phone, big improvement over the galaxy light. I see a lot of support for this phone going on this thread. Wow. One thing I did notice is that, the youtube app. No 720p option. I find that odd for a phone that has a qhd screen. Anyways, I love this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
HERE is a thread on android forums that may help.

You also may want to check out their Samsung Galaxy Avant device forum and the Galaxy Avant all things root section.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
I would have to root. How is it that the Galaxy light supports HD without root, But the Avant with a larger screen size does not out of the box??. I am confused. Shouldn't it be the other way around or at least, both should support HD playback. I don't get it.
[General Questions and Answers] Jaythor:
Aaah to Flashing Root via TWRP
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Hey if I was to want to completely get back to stock everything, recovery, unroot factory reset, how would I do that? I unrooted it. And factory reset but I've still got TWRP and would like to get back to the factory recovery. Is there anything I can flash via odin or anything that would so that?
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
You'd have to flash the stock firmware with Odin. Also if you want the device status to say official again you actually need to flash an older firmware then factory reset then flash the current firmware then boot into download mode one more time just to make sure that both system status and current binary both say official and not custom. Once you get to this point the only way to tell if the phone was ever rooted is to boot into download mode and look at the Knox warranty void counter to see if it says 0×0 or 0×1
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Where can I find such a firmware? And I would just flash it via Odin under PDA right?
[General Questions and Answers] big_c:
So I've been reading through this thread and I'm guessing no one has got tethering working for ps4 there's a lot to read through I may have missed something hopefully I did. Been trying to find a fix hopefully there's one I missed
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
This method is known to work with the PS3 and may also work with the PS4.
[General Questions and Answers] big_c:
Seems to be the only opinion I'm guessing. Just seems like a lot of work. I'll try it out.

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Some one needs to build a tethering app that does this if even possible I would gladly pay 10 or 20 for that app. Lol.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Does the WiFi Tether Router app by Fabio Grasso not work on the Avant? It works with my Galaxy Light.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I'm pretty sure it does there's a thread in the galaxy avant section on android forums that explains how to set it up but I don't think it stops them from checking the user agent string and blocking any requests coming from anything that isn't a mobile device.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
That doesn't happen with my Light or Nexus 4 though. Why would the Avant be any different?
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
I spent part of the evening and this morning looking for stock firmware. I can't seem to find a reputable download site. Where can I find a proper download for official firmware? My ultimate goal is to get unrooted and back to stock for return / warranty exchange.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Still wondering if I should root or not. How long do most of you wait before rooting after buying a new phone? Also, there was an update for the security policy regarding knox. Sounds to me, this is some sort of anti-root measure. Need some clarification on this. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
You could be right. I just haven't used it very much. Ive been using wanam xposed til last night. I'm trying WiFi tether router now I'll let you know. So far it looks like the data I use with WiFi tether router isn't counting against my tethering allowance. I guess this would be because instead of just disabling the tethering provision it bypasses the native hotspot all together.

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It looks like I used about 4gb with my hotspot yesterday streaming Netflix on my tablet and metro still shows my hotspot usage being the same as it was before I started. It only shows the 74mb I used playing Xbox live a couple days ago when I was using wanam xposed.

Edit: I only needed wanam xposed cause for some reason even though I get 2.5gb of tethering, my hotspot would still turn itself off if I didn't disable the tether provisioning.

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I usually root a new phone within less than a week from buying it. This wasn't always the case though. When I had my old Moto Photon 4g with Sprint I actually waited a whole year to root it until the warranty was up. If you are unsure whether you should root a device or not just weigh the pros and cons and figure out if its for you.

The security policy stuff won't keep you from rooting your phone but I always get rid of that crap because its of no use to me and just consumes battery, ram, and CPU.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
I want to root because its worth it and that, for every phone upgrade. It just keeps getting worst to stay unrooted, but I am on a 7 day warranty period. Not having HD playback at all regardless what video service you use right out of the box is a big deal to me. I love sammy phones but this time, Samsung really has dropped the ball with the Avant when it comes to HD playback. The list of reason to root just keeps getting longer. This is absurd! lol.
[General Questions and Answers] jcnbama:
Totally worked Masterchief87 ( were you in the service Masterchief Petty Officer? )

I had no idea there were so many scam sites out there trying to act like firmware hosting sites... Thanks so much. I owe you a :beer:

I've enjoyed my time here but opted to grab a Nexus 5 used. I just couldn't get used to the smaller screen and 5mp camera (although it's a solid phone and you guys are Kool to talk to). And if it's any consolation the battery life on this Nexus 5 is worse than the Avant.... Jus sayin.... :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I just picked my Masterchief87 for my screen name cause I love halo and I think it sounds cool.

Another drawback on nexus devices is that you can't replace the battery without ripping the phone apart.

If you want your old avant to pass as completely stock remember what I said. Flash old firmware, then factory reset, then flash newest firmware that way the device status will say official in settings/about phone/status like it did when you first got it.

Since you got a nexus now I reccomend giving Carbon Rom a try if you like aosp. It blows cm11 out of the water when it comes to customization options. Good luck with your new nexus and I hope you have fun with it.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
The method for rooting the Avant trips the KNOX counter. This may or may not be checked by whomever if you need to send it in for some reason.

I don't have the Avant myself, but if I got one (to replace my Light), I'd probably use it for a few days to make sure there's nothing wrong with it, then root it. It's not like we're talking about a Note 4 or GS6 here.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Honestly, I rooted my phone within an hour or two of getting it... I may have gotten a little excited when I heard "debloat/de-touchwiz" the phone lol
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Yeah, that's true. Though this does makes me wonder if the Avant is going to be the last phone with a removable battery and the end of microsd slots. GS6 is a game changer. I certainly hope Samsung caters to both and not just one size fits all like Apple sees fit.
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
Well there's still the Note 5. That might keep the removable battery/SD card slot.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Just looked at the GS6's specs on GSM Arena. The thing has 2 quad core processors, a quad HD display, and only a 2550mah battery. WTF! That seems like a recipe for terrible battery life. Plus it runs lollipoop out of the box, and if that isn't bad enough its Touchwiz lollipoop.