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[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Have you seen touchwiz lollipop? Its actually halfway decent now, sure its got its uses of... Odd colors but all in all you could probably actually stand it for a while lol.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
To be honest I hate touchwiz and can't stand lollipop so a combination of both is about as appealing to me as a turd covered in vomit. I've got a nexus 7 that I could update to stock 5.0.2 or cm12 right now but I just prefer the dark holo theme of android 4.x versions and IMO Google really did an awesome job with kitkat other than restricting SD cards and tethering.
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
The big.LITTLE processor should mean for better battery life. It remains to be seen how well it'll perform in the real world. IMO the Galaxy S6 is a misstep in the right direction. It's obvious they're trying to compete with what has always been their main competition - the iPhone - by offering a more premium build, but they're also abandoning what separated them from the iPhone, ie: microSD card slot and removable battery.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Still 2550mah seems really small. My last phone, the lg f6 had only a dual core 1.2ghz processor and a qhd display and it has a 2450mah battery. It is the only android I've had that didn't have disappointing battery life. I wish you could still get extended batteries like they made for the evo 4g and other old flagships from back when gingerbread was the latest and greatest.

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I'd get a 4000mah extended battery for the avant if anybody made one. I usually have to fully recharge my avant a minimum of 2 times a day
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
They do make extended batteries for the avant...

LINK: http://mugen.co/mugen-power-4600mah-extended-battery-for-samsung-galaxy-avant-with-battery-door.html
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
That's a good find. Too bad they want 90 bucks for it
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Yeah, that's not completely ridiculous. A battery pack that costs as much as the phone does.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
I was just letting people know it exists lol, it is a bit much for just a battery lol
[General Questions and Answers] RodimusConvoy:
Agreed (I also don't believe in skimping on the case, but that's another thread I guess). But personally, I'd rather have an extra battery the same size as the original than a Mugen extended battery. Its something I started from my Epic 4G days, an extra battery the same size I can just swap our when the first battery gets low. Though I know some people prefer Mugen extended batteries because it makes the phone a little bigger and they like the feel of extra weight in their hand. That it makes it feel like a regular phone.

I mean its good to have options. But that price isn't bad for what it is and does. I'm as cheap as the next guy, but some things yeah you gotta pay for.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I guess I was a little hard on Lollipop there. Now that Xposed has been ported to Lollipop I gave it a try again and it isn't so bad with Xposed and GravityBoxLP. Its growing on me now.
[General Questions and Answers] htsl:
Where do you reset apn? I do not know the location for doing so. And after that is completed does one use the default tethering app that came with the phone?
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
[MENTION=5360251]kdkirk08[/MENTION]

I installed your rom.

Followed directions, Wi-Fi still not working.

G386T1 Metro PCS.

ANK3 firmware.

Also, none of the USSD codes work for the phone any longer... I used to be able to dial *#2263# to select what band I wanted to be on... it does not work, and neither do any other codes.

I love bloat-free ROMs... don't get me wrong. I just feel that you took out too much from this ROM. In an ideal world where there is LTE access everywhere, it'd be perfect... but I travel to places where there is less than 3G connection as well, and Wi-Fi is required.

I DO love the tether bypass... which is the only reason I am not switching from this ROM back to stock. Saves me money at home with my unlimited 4G LTE plan.

I only installed it last week, but I'm not sure if you had any updates/fixes to it since, or if I downloaded an older copy.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
You can flash a tether fix on your stock ROM ;)
[General Questions and Answers] BariB523:
Please teach me how Oh great one?!
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
Not interested in the stock rom.

Uses too many resources, even for as much as this device is capable of.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Cm is being worked on few more bugs to sort out but its going pretty fast
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
For as many problems as the slim ROM has I'd rather stick to stock and debloat it myself. If I want a broken rom I'll break it myself :)
[General Questions and Answers] BariB523:
Does anyone have a flashable zip to enable tethering?
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
That's pretty harsh talk from someone who doesn't seem to have much of a clue as to what goes into development.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Just because I don't have a Dev tag doesn't mean I know nothing. The reason I don't Dev is because I don't have a machine that can run a virtual box with a build environment, and I don't want to dual boot my computer with Linux just to build A rom.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
There is a flashable fix for tethering on page 55 and another one a few pages later. I think the one on page 55 is just for MetroPCS the other one is for both MetroPCS and T-Mobile and includes a desecured kernel.

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As harsh as it may sound, to say that the slim Rom is broken is merely a statement of fact. WiFi calling doesn't work, Bluetooth also doesn't work. Its impossible to change the lockscreen wallpaper or use pictures from your sdcard as wallpaper. The camera and gallery apps that are included in the Rom force close randomly. Also, no calendar app will work because the calendar provider was removed.

The problem is that many of the system apps in the stock rom are intertwined together and codependent. For example if you remove the stock gallery app it becomes impossible to change the lockscreen wallpaper or use any pictures from the gallery as your wallpaper. When you remove the stock camera the camera shortcut on the lockscreen becomes useless and in the specific case of the one included in the slim Rom it makes it impossible to save pictures directly to the micro sd card.
[General Questions and Answers] big_c:
Would using the flash with the desecured kernel make any difference when trying to tether to the ps4 been trying to get this working but no luck yet. Not sure if I didn't set up fiddler up right or what. Anyone get this working yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Nah it won't make a difference. The flashable tethering fix just disables the tether provisioning and allows the hotspot to be to be turned on. Wanam xposed does the same thing. The desecured kernel with init.d allows you to run init.d scripts at boot and gives adb root access without having to type su then grant it superuser permissions.

If you dont use adb or init.d then you don't need the kernel and if you use wanam xposed then the fladhable tether fix isn't needed either.

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Also, If you're talking about THIS WORKAROUND its for the ps3 so you might have to make some changes to get it working with other consoles. Since I only have an xbox360 I can't help with this.
[General Questions and Answers] TSoprano:
The link for the Slim Rom in the op is not working. Anyone have a mirror link for it? Is there a description for the Slim Rom?

I bought this phone for my wife and I'm just looking to debloat it.. Is the Slim Rom just stock debloated or is there more taken out of it??
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Slim Rom is broken. See my previous post.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Why even remove the gallery app?. Hardly takes up any space, and it's a critical app for android to function properly lol. Every time I try a custom rom. I am never happy. Something is always broken. Maybe because whoever was working on it. Removed too much?

No working bluetooth. Now that's funny.
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Go to settings, mobile network, then access point name and then reset to default.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Actually the gallery is one of the biggest apps that comes on the phone. If you use Explorer or Root Explorer ( by Speed software ) to navigate to /system/priv-app/SecGallery2014.apk you will see that it's over 30MB which is several times larger than the aosp Gallery2.apk
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
Anyone have a copy of the stock rom? Kinda getting pissed at having no wi-fi.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
I see what you mean. I still say it's a good app though lol.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Has anyone with metropcs tried installing the t mobile stock and then unlock the phone using samsung or t mobile new app that unlocks your phone? Which brings me to another question, if you put a custom rom on the phone will it unlock it by default.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Installing a custom Rom won't unlock the phone but flashing the T-Mobile stock firmware on a MetroPCS Avant will allow you to use it for T-Mobile without buying an unlock code. I don't have any need to switch to T-Mobile but some people who have T-Mobile have used this method so save a lot of money buying one.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
Well if you go t mobile stock use the app to unlock the phone go back to metro will the phone still be unlocked?
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
It should
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Everything I've heard indicates that the unlock app is just for a temporary unlock and isn't permanent. Also, because of minor differences in the firmware, flashing the other firmware might lock your phone again. Someone just had a problem where they got and used an unlock code for a MetroPCS Avant then flashed the T-Mobile firmware and it re locked the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
okay, so when you totally wipe your phone no operating system, i know you still have download mode and recovery mode but what is still on the phone that keeps the lock active. Not that I am trying to unlock my phone, I mean metropcs 50$ unlimited is pretty good. I just am trying to learn some of the things you don't get to read about to much.
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Not only that the unlock app doesn't work if u flashed the complete t-mobile firmware. I tried it when I switched over to tmo and all I ever got was server not responding.
[General Questions and Answers] Andronote3:
CM ROM available... needs a bit of work.

A group of guys have managed to make a build for our device, it's 90% functional. we need some testers and developers to finish. here's the thread. http://androidforums.com/threads/lets-get-cm-onto-avant.897931/page-24
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
I just tried to tether with fiddler and it seems to no longer work. Anybody have the same prob?

nevermind it started working. i thought metropcs figured out how to block it.
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Is there any way to improve LTE signal for this phone. Not liking how it switches back to 4g that easily. I just keep finding more flaws for the Avant. Not even trying to criticize this phone lol. Seems like the galaxy light has it right. LTE no matter where you at, even in spotty areas. No so with the Avant, unless you are outside, out in the open. Only "4G" is what you'll be getting most of the time. I did read somwhere that some of the LTE bands are not enabled and that it could be enabled.

The only 3 things this phone has over the GL is. Larger screen, more internal storage and USB OTG. For everything else, GL wins the real world performance. Better LTE and HD right out of the box lol.
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
You could enable band 12 that could help if your in a 700mhz area
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
How do i enable band 12?
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Completely Dependant on area, I'm inside majority of the time, in 3-4 story buildings in fort worth Texas and I get full bars LTE all day long. Only time it switches to 4G is when I'm on a call obviously.
[General Questions and Answers] tahersyed34:
can you convert

so how do i install this on my avant? .img file how would i put it for use

or

how can i get the tar.md5 version to flash through odin??

i feel frustrated that i cant get twrp or clockwork mod on my avant even after root. lost and frustrated; help!!
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
Well, I've sorta "acquired" an Avant. Meaning that a co-worker found it on the side of the road and gave it to me. Screen is locked with a PIN (good for him/her), but no missed calls, no text notifications. nothing for several hours. Put the SIM in another phone hoping to pull contacts off of it to track down the owner, but no contacts were saved. All I've got is the owner's phone number, which does me no good.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
I would say give it about a week and if nobody calls it, reset it and pull the Sim... I mean it's not stealing, you tried what you could to find any way of contacting the owner and they're... "Untraceable" lol so do what my uncle does at the airport, doesn't get claimed in a week, you've got you a new toy! Plus you could always boot into recovery mode and wipe it or go to download mode and flash new firmware to get rid of the pin :D lol
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
There u go
[General Questions and Answers] tahersyed34:
i extract the files and it is still a disc image img. I need a tar.md5 file bro.
[General Questions and Answers] JaCkO-MaYhEm:
Well then... LOL
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
U can flash the tar file through odin no need to extract
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Haven't been on in a while, but reading through some of the pages, we seem to have a lot of **** talkers on here. So let me explain a few things AGAIN.

1. I made the slim rom using t mobiles firmware. for me, using that rom the only issues I had was WiFi (CALLING) and Bluetooth. Both of which I don't use.

2. If you're not on tmo, and decided to flash it anyways after the fact that I and many others reported problems between the two firmwares, then you're the dumb ass.

3. If you want a broken rom, then yes, go and break it youself. You know who you are. I don't see you contributing to the thread at all other than taking up space. That was my first and now last attempt for creating anything for this device to share.

4. As stated above, unless you're creating something and sharing it with the rest of us, don't talk **** about others work. It's a free world here on xda. Did I force you to flash the rom? No. Did I not try to help every single person who asked or was having problems when I was on here all the time? I did. And did I not post it a million times that there were problems with the rom.

5. I removed the rom from android file host. I can't remember if I switched the Google drive file for to private or not. But in any case, if you read the thread you'll see that there were problems with it. Don't like it? Don't flash it. But don't talk down on it unless you've made something better.

6. Don't ****ing message me saying there's problems with it. Are you stupid?

Seriously, from here on out if I do make something for this device this will be that last place to find out. There's only a hand full of people on here who helped or gave good feedback to me that I was in the process of fixing until, you know, real life important **** came up and I had to bail for a while.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Hey bud, didn't flash the ROM because of the problems, didn't talk **** just said it was broke because that's a fact :) didn't mean to push your very (very) sensitive buttons. If you can't take criticism about your work then make it for yourself and only yourself, don't share it with the rest of us. Like you said, its a free world here on XDA! Also go look at the android forums for this phone for a while, I don't contribute here because everyone here obviously can't read, still posting about your ROM when we and yourself have already posted the problems already. Have a nice day and remember, an opinion is like an asshole, everybody's got one. Don't let it get to you so bad.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Nah "bud" you made a remark that wasn't needed. It wasn't constructive criticism, it was just you being a ****. It wasn't needed. And that post wasn't just about you. Just skimming through here there's still people *****ing about that rom that like you said, we've already established the problems with it. And you're correct again, nobody here reads the posts. They're morons.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
You think what you think and I'll think what I think, go have fun on whatever forums your going to go to now. Come see us again if you get that nasty chip off your shoulder :)
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
Need a Metro PCS stock or rooted rom

Well it appears I did the Bonehead maneuver. I accidentally wiped the phone and my rom backups. I still have root and can get into the TWRP recovery so no problem if I can get a rom. :o

Can anyone give me a backup copy of the Metro PCS rom? I saw a custom rom here a while back, but I see it is gone now. So what's the deal with TB not being able to integrate updates of apps into the rom? I tried everything and no cigar. :confused:

It's an odd deal because sometimes it works right and sometimes it don't. Can updated apps be inserted with a root file manager? I didn't get around to that as yet. Anyone got a deodexed rom?
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
Pshh, you started it *****

come back when you have something useful to share with the group
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
Your the one with a problem here, I have no problem with you lol way to be mature by the way :) that's exactly what we want here at XDA, someone calling people names for not liking their software. Keep it up my friend! ?
[General Questions and Answers] crutchcorn:
Sorry for bothering you with a PM. I was only trying to figure out your process so that I could replicate and fix the issues for others (no disrespect meant to you)

Also, for others - on AndroidForums, CM11 is in the works currently.
[General Questions and Answers] kdkirk08:
You sent me a pm? I don't remember ever talking to you, sorry. No disrespect either. But I've cleared out my inbox a couple times so who knows. And I was referring to that jacko-whateverthehellhisnameis. He was being a real stick in the mud.

And I wasn't trying to offend anybody. If someone gets offended at what I Said they must have a guilty conscious.

I've seen too many devs leave this place because of people like them.

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Unless someone's made a stock rom, you're gonna be stuck flashing the firmware and starting over.

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Are you just blind? Or do you not see how saying that was just being a douche. (I cant be the only one who thinks so). I didn't tag you in my post, I was clearly stating that if you don't like it, don't use it. We know what the problems are with it, no need to add insult to injury with your snarky remarks.

That was the first rom I'd ever built. You'd be excited too if you even got the dam thing to boot up and and semi work after building it from scratch.

Hell, the updater-script I'm sure is causing 70% of the problems. Alot goes into making just that.

And it isn't hard to add back in things I removed. WiFi calling won't work without touchwiz for starters.

I don't have a problem with you, I'm just saying keep your negative comments to yourself and show a little respect. Build your own rom, show me up. Not being a ****, I'm serious. Build something and share it. That's the only way we're gonna get stuff done.

I don't know if I've said this before, but nobody needs permission to take my work, change it/fix it and re-share it. Do whatever you want to it. You don't even have to give me credit for it. I'll probably use it myself.
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
Yeah I figured that so where can I get the firmware? I can Odin it or if someone has a backup of a Metro PCS rom I can copy it from a SD card to the internal storage and recover the rom, right?
[General Questions and Answers] tylerholbrook:
Lol children. Anyways, this thread has gone no where since it started. I think I'm splurging on the s6 soon, miss phones with options with lots of devs and high end specs.
[General Questions and Answers] linsalata28:
I need help. I have all the files and when I plug in the phone odin says added but when it gets to recovery it says fail.

Any idea why this happens. I have the metro pcs variant.

Please help.

I know I have all the correct files.
[General Questions and Answers] codyedmonson:
You could go over to android forums and download the mostly working cm11, or you could download the firmware from a post earlier in this thread, its a lot quicker than downloading it from sammys firmware site.
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
Have any idea of approximately where in this thread?
[General Questions and Answers] jcl972:
I put my phone g386t1 into ultra power saving mode now my phone is stuck in bootloop the lock screen comes up and then in a second or two a notification that emergency mode is being turned off then its the metropcs screen. If I swipe to open it shows me emergency mode then the notification pops up that says turning off emergency mode. I'm rooted and am running Xposed framework. Any ideas? Ive tried to turn it on and turn it back off (ultra power saving mode)
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
I see a rom for the Tmo, but not for the Metro PCS. Will the Tmo will on Metro PCS?
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Ya
[General Questions and Answers] j03lpr86:
Stock metropcs lastest firmware:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=24477
[General Questions and Answers] Top Nurse:
Awesome :D

My last phone was a S3 with a custom rom/recovery called Bonsai and I was used to my rom backups going onto the ext SD card. Some peeps thought it was a pita because you had to copy what you wanted to flash over to the internal SD, but it didn't wipe out your backups :)

EDIT: Just curious if there is a way to use the SDK or Android Studio to rip a copy of the ROM off the phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Planterz:
It's been a full 48 hours now, and still no calls, no texts, and the SIM is still active.

I guess it's a good thing that I've been following this thread since its beginning. I've pondered getting one cheap to replace my Galaxy Light, since it's basically everything I felt needed improving on the Light (bigger, more RAM, more storage, etc). Now that I have one, it shouldn't take me much time to reacquaint myself with the specifics. And if the phone gets IMEI blocked, then I guess I've got a media player.

EDIT: Owner just (finally) called. This marks the 2nd time I'll have returned a lost Avant to its owner. A couple months ago I found a MetroPCS Avant on the side of the road, but at least he called 5 minutes after I picked it up.