yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
In my personal opinion if u can biuld roms from source then start biulding lol
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Development for the avant is dead. We have had at least 2 developers that spent months trying to get lollipop on the avant that was stable enough to release and they didn't get anywhere. If you want something newer than kk then get a better phone. I've learned my lesson getting s***box little phones like the avant that get nothing more than root and recovery. If you really want a phone that has stable ROMs and gets updated to newer versions of android I'd recommend a one plus one or a nexus. If you insist on buying cheap phones then don't expect good or new ROMs. This is what I've learned in the last 3 years after all the headaches and frustration. I will never again buy a device without making sure that it not only has root and recovery but is also officially supported by my favorite ROMs.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
First off who cares about lollipop. I would rather have cm 11 stable then worry about lollipop. See this the reason nothin got done. All the fu******! Jumping around. Not sayin we didnt have great devs here for a sec. But jumping around doesnt help things get done. I have been around since the g1 days.and have notice one thing make one stable cyanogenmod and rest comes from ports. Everyone sayd the aokp we have is stable but seems like no one here even knows what stable is. Im not sayin im not greatful for the hard work that was done but dang giving up never gets no one anywhere. And sorry to say i would rather biuld for this bad a**! Cheap phone i can repkace 20 times compared to buying one phone thats $400 to $500 paper wait when bricked. This phone shouldnt be any harder to biuld then then anyother phone. Yes this is a cheap phone but with decent specs. Guess everyone has there own opinion. Well enjoy jumping around but ima stick here for awhile because i have faith in this phone.

And just fyi i feel if devs didnt jump to the next phone like everyone else i think they would have figured it. But no one seems to have patience anymore when sh** hits the fan.

And getting root and recovery is a big start/ door opener

And dont get pissy cause like i said everyone has there own opinion. I dont mean to come off like a a$$.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
His main point still stands, people expect every single cheap phone they get to have great rock solid roms just because they bought the phone. People are entitled idiots sometimes, just look back at this thread, we got people begging and cussing about roms not being put out. Half the people whining don't understand in the slightest how much work that is, some guy said "why are you porting a nexus rom and not a galaxy rom???" That kind of ignorance and sense of entitlement is a big reason devs abandon devices or go underground. I'm not putting you down, you wanna put in the work that's awesome man, but I think there's more to take into account when saying why a device has a stable rom or not.
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
Almost there since no one has returned any collaboration "dragon or dfuse06" so technically it's the debugging part. I got the camera to build without disabling it. Something to do with declarations in the CameraWrapper.cpp and how GCC 4.8 doesn't like empty "static int" which I have no programming skills whatsoever. Well that and I don't know if the network was working on this rom in the first place since the phone isn't reporting a sim.
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
I understand what u mean but i dont care what phone u biulding or porting roms for u always have people begging for something, crieing for more no matter what phone ur on to be honest with ya. But def ty for ur input.
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Its funny how many people get butthurt when you call a ****box little phone a ****box little phone because that's what it is. Also, how does it have descent specs when it has crappy signal reception, less than 2 gigs of ram, a ****ty chipset, crappy cameras, a crappy speaker, and one of the worst displays I've ever seen? Yeah maybe it has descent specs if you're comparing it to a zte score
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Uh Halo dude, you need to chillax. This is a progress thread, not an "insult the phone" thread. The point is that its a phone with an above average amount of ram, a quad core, and a decently large screen, and we want it to be better. So please step aside while our precious devs try to make progress.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
It's a crappy phone man, he's got a point lol
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
I wouldn't call it a crap phone at all. Does well just lack of support and availability for modifying a custom operating system for it. It's actually better then quite a few LG tablets running the same adreno 305 chip. For a Medium level phone it does just what it's suppose to do. Signal hasn't dropped out and unlocking to other GSM service was a cinch. Opinions are biased do to the fact of A.) User ability to do what they want with it. B.)Lack of better judgement. If you thought about how you use the phones and how heavy some apps are loading the memory including battery life those are the main concerns to a device's usefulness. In a lot of the cases when running towards getting a custom rom it's to help tailor to compensate for these hindering factors that originally wasn't tackled. Remember this device is a Medium grade phone and has potentially great features it's the programming on how it's utilized to use the hardware efficiently. So in all actuality no one should be saying as much negativity towards a device because something is not available or just not happening. I'm not that experienced but I know with all things in life to get things you want you have to work pretty damn hard for it to appreciate the final product. So enough wasting efforts with the smack talk about stupid meaningless things and be positive. This phone is not "crap."
[General Questions and Answers] malnash52@gmail.com:
These specs aren't decent especially with touchwiz on top but with the avant I learned my lesson to never get another decent phone with no dev support This phone had a lot of potential I can admit that especially if it got dev support but that didn't happen and since this phone is a year old now it probably won't ever sadly
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
A phone shouldn't be disliked because a lack there of developers. This is really disappointing since this is just showing me how many people don't know how to do things. If anything the only reason why other phones get love is because they are easier to modify. REALLY disappointing people are quick to give up while few stick around. CM-12.1 runs really smoothly it's just getting the modules to work. Kernel needs the wifi built into the kernel supporting back and camera needs some definitions spelled out. Audio-caf needs a source to fix. Permissions to the keymaster images aren't getting the right permission. I could go all legacy since I know my HTC Glacier has legacy qcom and has CM-12.1 which this device only has 500mb of ram. SOOO you guys are really talking some bull**** and shouldn't be talking down about devices that don't work out for your lazy asses.
[General Questions and Answers] 06nono2015:
the truth is not always good to say but must be told, while maintaining respect for those who have worked on this cell :p
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
I would be more willing to help however I can but I don't even have this phone anymore. Sad that I can't come here and voice a very popular opinion. Like I said before good on you for wanting to put in the work but get down from your high horse, people are entitled to think whatever they like and devs don't always leave projects because they're lazy, they have lives as well, getting a rom on a phone isn't their top priority with family and jobs to take care of. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's worth it.
[General Questions and Answers] 06nono2015:
there is a bit of truth
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
Uh Corncob Lobster whatever the fick name guy the phone is a piece of SHlT you must be comparing it to devices that are 3 to 5 years old because those "above average" specs are the bottom of the barrel.

I didn't call the phone "crap" I called it a SHlTBOX get it right. SHlTBOX!
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Think what you want; please don't waste space on this DEVELOPMENT thread.
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
Don't have anything good to say please gtfo
[General Questions and Answers] josh2020glacier:
This is def stupid just showing how people have no respect not just for the phone but for xda. I can read back and see 100 rules broken do to people wanting tocry out there opinions. End of the day this phone is not as bad as u make it seem. Yes other phones have better specs but common since shows they need more specs to run bigger screens and etc. I love the size of the phone doesnt drop signal for me. If i wanted to put a tablet to my ear i would buy one. I have htc glacier still dont hate love it. G3, note 2, note 5 but in my opinion this is a perfect phone for my pocket. Who wants a phone takin space in ur pocket when ur money suppose to fill ur pocket not a phone lol. Now please stop NOW this is a dev thread the only one we have. So kick rocks with negatives.

Oh and dont forget i do have htc m8 with 2 front speakers and with a few tweaks this phone is by far way louder. Just a fyi
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
I would agree that the Avant has potential. I mean, not bad for a mid-range phone that has a quad core with 16GB OF INTERNAL STORAGE. Have you seen the latest mid-range Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime?. That phone only has 8GB internal storage. Only 5 or 4GB is useable for apps. Now that, is a true mid-range phone, and it is the "latest"lollol. i'll take the Avant over the grand prime because of this. How the hell Samsung takes a step back after the Avant in storage?? I don't get how businesses thinks sometimes.
[General Questions and Answers] vekenti:
Cm 12.1

I was wondering if cm 12.1 is still being fixed? Can't wait to try it out once Wi-Fi gets fixed. Also where can I find the latest cm 12.1 download? Only one I've found is one that gives an infinite boot loop
[General Questions and Answers] malnash52@gmail.com:
The project was dropped a long time ago
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
I think the working one is the second newest one.

When I say working, I mean booting.
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
It hasn't fully dropped. But it's slow right now, just not in here.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
If you don't mind not having camera or WiFi the 6/19 build is the last one that boots. After that source from a different tree was added and that's why the newest builds he has up bootloop.
[General Questions and Answers] malnash52@gmail.com:
Where is it taking place at
[General Questions and Answers] games906:
It's a hangouts group but nothing is really working at the moment.
[General Questions and Answers] vekenti:
Cm 12.1

Where can I find the latest build though?

Edit- nevermind
[General Questions and Answers] jrny99:
If you build it they will come
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
Does anyone have the latest stable version of aznrice`s kernel for the avant
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Is it not on his Android file host?
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
No those build all cause random reboots I'm looking for 6 12 build of his kernel
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
For what rom?
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
AOKP
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
You're better off not flashing a kernel over that, it just makes the whole rom more unstable.
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
I was only looking for the kernel because when I added it to the build it seemed to extend battery life and smooth things out some at least from my time using his kernel
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Dangit I just deleted that.
[General Questions and Answers] rck01:
I PM'd you a link.

RCK
[General Questions and Answers] vekenti:
Can i get the link too? I wouldn't mind trying it out
[General Questions and Answers] Reaper351c:
Thank you I am glad you still had it.
[General Questions and Answers] dboypipes:
Help please, stuck in download mode for odin

my cable accidently got unplugged while using odin, now phone stays stuck in download mode with msg saying to connect using kies for emergency recovery or something like that. i already rooted and installed recovery (twrp), however the twrp folder on my sd somehow got deleted.

can anyone please guide me in the right direction to fix this problem or point me in the direcction of a guide that might work?

thank you, dboypipes
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
Did you get it to work? If you can get it into fastboot mode you can reflash stock firmware on it.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Odin mode, this is a Samsung and we don't have fastboot.
[General Questions and Answers] Official_Rainbow_Dash:
So no command prompt to flash? I havent flashed something on the avant in a while so i forgot
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
No command prompt to flash firmware on any Samsung, firmware gets installed using odin
[General Questions and Answers] smilingcruel:
Any custom ROM for Galaxy Avant? Tried to find one but no joy....
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
http://androidforums.com/threads/cm12-1-wip.969292/

Got wifi working but I'm in a bit of a bind trying to figure out audio and the camera.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Holy cow! It's been stale for months!
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
I've been working on it on and off wifi was right under my nose
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
How was WiFi fixed?
[General Questions and Answers] adknight87:
Using msm8226 kernel seen I had a nv bin mismatch which then I just wrapped one from a Sony device don't remember which but it just works. Though my audio is broken along with the keymaster symlinks which don't work I manually copy them over and make the proper rights. Audio is broken though but I figure a upstream will suffice for only the audio stuff problem is I have never merged a kernel before.
[General Questions and Answers] USA-RedDragon:
Dang that's a neat thing to catch. Good job bro. Me and dfuse are working on it to. You're not alone
[General Questions and Answers] rck01:
So dfuse is back working on the Avant again? That's good news. :)
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Can anyone send me a TWRP stock OEM ROM backup .zip for the ANK3 baseband? I deleted mine and wanna stock the phone back. I'll pay $$ lol. Let me know someone . Thx
[General Questions and Answers] dboypipes:
i did finally, found a link for the stock firmware in another thread, flashed it using odin followed by thr root zip and twrp recovery and wala
[General Questions and Answers] smilingcruel:
Can you please share the links for stock?
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Blu8, is this a flashable .zip that I can restore within TWRP recovery? Or ODIN only?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
These are for use with Odin, I think there were flashable zips somewhere around here but they gave trouble when you try to use them to update.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Oh. I don't have access to a PC to use ODIN. Would there be any way to get my avant back to stock without ODIN? I'm running the ANK3 firware.
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Other than getting a backup or something you can install in twrp no, I'd help you out but I don't have the avant anymore.
[General Questions and Answers] smilingcruel:
Can't you try mobile ODIN? It's a great tool..OR you can use FlashFire (still in beta by Cf..you can get beta app ..search in xda)
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Where do I get mobile ODIN?
[General Questions and Answers] smilingcruel:
Search in Google play..its a paid app...if u want a free version check in developer site...developer name is chainfire....
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Thx I see it but I don't see the avant supported. Have you used it before successfully?
[General Questions and Answers] smilingcruel:
Aaahhh...i see...Sorry man...i didnt think of that...my device is S4 and my wife device is Avant....in S4 it works not sure whether it works for Avant or not....can you check FlashFire app, may be that app is supported....

OR

You can use Flashify...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify&hl=en
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Have you checked the avant section on afh? I seem to remember stock zips.
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
Yes but they are apparently zips that require ODIN to flash, not TWRP
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
I thought Odin used a different file format...
[General Questions and Answers] dustdu2017:
I'm not sure
[General Questions and Answers] DerpyTails:
Hey There

What is the latest T-Mobile Firmware for the SM-G386T1 version of the Avant? I wanted to switch from MetroPCS to T-Mobile in the future and I wanted to switch firmwares to the latest one for my device :)
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
Look it up on sammobile
[General Questions and Answers] DerpyTails:
Then here's another one? Are the SM-G386T1 and SM-G386T the same phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Blu8:
It's the same thing but firmware is different because each carrier puts in their own bloat

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So if you want the T-Mobile firmware you'd need to flash the files for the G386T
[General Questions and Answers] DerpyTails:
Thanks for that, I'll just flash the AOH3 firmware from the SM-G386T page (I currently have AOH2 on my Avant) :)
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
Hey all ..I Seem to run into an issue. The down vol is stuck. It still works but, does not seem to click, like it stucked pressed. Any way to fix this?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jdmedeiros:
WCDMA and FDD LTE Bands

Has anyone one successfully turned on additional WCDMA and LTE bands? On WCDMA I tried to turn on 900 and 1800 and on LTE I tried 3, 7 and 20. I managed to change the NVs to the right numbers and it does connect 4G, but it's continuously disconnecting and connecting the signal and eventually stops trying. While it's connected works great, but the behavior is unacceptable.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] juancollado2003:
What did you do and how you did it [MENTION=6107756]jdmedeiros[/MENTION]?
[General Questions and Answers] jdmedeiros:
Following this guide: http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/thread-progress-please-leave-im-updating-t2871269 :)
[General Questions and Answers] big_c:
I haven't been around for a long wile so there's a lot to look through and I know a lot of people hate this but is there any working Roms rod metro. And on a did note I use my phone to play online with my ps4 anyone know how to open my Nat type. Thanks in advance I know stuff like this bugs some of u. So I'm sorry.
[General Questions and Answers] juancollado2003:
I see no difference, I also tried the s5 guide witch is more complete, no difference either, my phone connects to the same bands

Enviado desde mi SM-G386T1 mediante Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] The Wire Guy:
stumped on recovery

im not sure if i just double posted but i clicked quick reply cuz i couldnt remember my pw, then did and now im pasting. sorry if its twice in a row and if it is i will be sure to delete one of them :)

hello, ive been searching forums and google for the past several hours now, ive used odin to flash twrp, cwm but i cant seem to get it to work. ive been able to root the phone with success but cannot install the custom recovery for the life of me, ive followed the tut's to a T and am now at a loss and need help because when i try to put it in recovery mode it goes to download mode. i push vol up home and power and in the top left of the screen the blue lettering says recovery mode or something but extremely fast then reverts to download mode, im now guessing i dont even have a working recovery anymore haha. heres my phone name and such. splash screen says samsung galaxy core lte, model number is SM-G386W android version 4.4.2 baseband g386wvlu1anj2, developer mode enabled, usb debugging enabled. in the past ive successfully rooted and installed custom roms on the s2 s3 s4 and rooted my s5, dont wanna mod my s5 i like it too much to maybe mess it up lol. anyways when i use odin everything looks to go perfectly fine, it says pass and everything, but cant install or boot up recovery, i want to install cm or pac, undecided, but my fave has always been cm so im probably going to do that one but yeah lol someone please help :)
[General Questions and Answers] Cobra11Murderer:
Odin way is a pain for the recovery for some reason mine would act like it installed but didn't.. Use Odin to root first then download avant exploded by dfuse from the playstore, install busy box to and then run his app and let it install a recovery that's the simplest way of doing it
[General Questions and Answers] DroidJP:
TWRP 3.0.0.0 has been announced. I wonder if it's going to be ported to this phone.
[General Questions and Answers] romeroom:
Galaxy Avant upgrade to Android 5.0 - NOOB

I have to apologize from the start. I know next to nothing about rooting, ROM installation, etc.

I have an Avant from T-Mobile. Since the unofficial promise of carrier initiated upgrade to 5.0, I've been waiting for it, though clearly it won't happen.

I would really appreciate it if any of you who have successfully "installed" (I know, wrong terminology probably) Android 5.x on an Avant could point me in the "How TO" direction. And if so, have you been able to get WiFi Calling to work.

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
Wifi calling is NOT going to work unless we either get an official update or some genius comes along. Any 5.x right now is not 100% working, but you can get 4.4.4. There's a pretty good chance we will never have a good 5.x ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] romeroom:
Thanks for your prompt reply. Did you upgrade to 4.4.4? If so, any advantages?
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
It depends. What do you want from it?
[General Questions and Answers] romeroom:
Better battery life and the ability to remove and or completely disable what runs in the background.

Honestly, for entry level to mid-range, I think the Avant did not get enough credit and should have been given an official 5.0 upgrade. Nearly 2 years ago I bought 4 Avants for our family when we witched over to TMO from VZN. These phones have never failed us and are still going strong.
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
You might just want to root then. If wifi calling is important, then you will be able to do whatever you want to with rooted touchwiz.
[General Questions and Answers] romeroom:
When you say "you might want to root..." my ignorance about these things takes over.

If you don't mind, how would I go about rooting my Avant? If you do mind, I totally understand. I should know those procedures by now.
[General Questions and Answers] TheHeroBilly:
What are the issues with this rom? because I have yet to see a bug free rom, that isn't stock

-Billy
[General Questions and Answers] der_cobester:
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Check out post one of this thread.

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I believe it's just the proximity sensor, but I'm not sure. I know the kk Roms for this thing seem to have recents menu problems, but they aren't too bad.
[General Questions and Answers] romeroom:
I decided to take some responsibility and look online on how to root my Avant, though any advice from you is really welcomed and preferred.

Two more questions:

1. If I want to go back to the the stock, T-Mobile rom the phone came with, is it possible?

2. With a rooted phone, will I have access to the Google App store?

Thanks again.