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[Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
If you're not experiencing the issue anywhere outside S Note, then it's just the app. (I've seen a few more threads about it here.) I don't think it's actually optimized for 12.2".

The device isn't the problem, the app is. I've also heard people complain about sluggish S Note on the Note 3, Note 4 and Note 10.1"

Maybe someone else knows a fix. I just simply not use S Note. ;)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zammy1032:
I am new to the world of Android, coming from an Iphone. I have no first hand knowledge about rooting or installing custom roms.

I have an S5 which lags alot and its because of the touchwiz as i've read.

I want to install the pure android, like the one on the nexus 5 on my S5

Model number is G900H. I dont want custom roms like cyanogenmod. I want The one from google pure stock android for my s5.

Can someone please help me out with this and provide step by step instructions as to how I can get that?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elliwigy:
you cant. lol unless you have a unlocked BL and someone has a pure aosp rom.. usually cm is close
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zammy1032:
Unlocked BL ? Now that I dont have a choice. I would really appreciate if you could guide me step by step.. through the latest rooting technology to installing CM on my s5

Thank you
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
Very doubtful someone will guide you step by step, the general idea is to root your phone, install a custom recovery, then install a ROM, there are many guides on how to do this which are tried and tested.

Have a search, it's hard to miss them.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zammy1032:
Ok which custom roms would you recommend. One that won't send my apps crashing and much more stable than the touchwiz
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Airboner:
there is no many ways of choosing custom roms of g900h cauze the dev arent few :/

take a look on thread ;)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zammy1032:
"root your phone, install a custom recovery, then install a ROM" Anyone care to link me a nice and easy tutorial .. Ive gone through many.. and they seem to be talking about knox.. and custom roms like cyanogenmod

Much Appreciated :)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Airboner:
u have to read some tutorials ;) we did the same u are not the first or latter ;)

start reading
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
Downgrade your device if you're on a new firmware, use a firmware for your model, flash it via odin (there are plenty of tutorials) root using towel root and you have a rooted phone, the way I did it will void your warranty and knox will be set to 0x1, this happens when you flash something you shouldn't via odin, I flashed a custom recovery, bootloader and modem via odin so my counter is no longer 0x0, there is a way you can root, install a custom recovery and flash a rom, find the Neat Rom thread in android development, get everything you need from there and fire away.

Research and read everything, until you understand it, but the general idea is, root, recovery then rom, forget about original android development for now, concentrate on actually finding a rom that will work on your device, the most common is mine which is the 900f, you're on h so you need to find one that is compatible, don't leap in without guiding yourself first, check and double check.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
As most custom roms are pre-rooted flashing a recovery with Odin will do and there is no need to root the device first , then make a nandroid backup of your current rom in recovery and flash the rom (and Gapps for CM) of your choice. Flashing a custom recovery/kernel may void warranty though as KNOX will be tripped to 0x1. As you have the G900H CM is not option atm. You could root the phone and freeze all not needed apps and widgets with Titanium Backup.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
I keep getting errors in Odin and it's likely due to what I'm trying to flash. Is there a 4.4.x official stock rom? Do I have to use 4.3 instead?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
What bootloader and baseband is on your phone?

Don't use Odin to try and flash any ROM that attempts to downgrade your bootloader if your bootloader is 4.3 or higher.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
I would say whatever is the latest based on the 4.4.3 Pacman rom I've been using. I already wiped the phone so I have no idea what it currently is
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrrocketdog:
if you go to settings > about phone, you can get baseband version.

if you have terminal emulator, type in

getprop ro.bootloader and will give your bootloader version.

err on the side of kindness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
If you have the stock 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 bootloader, you could flash the stock 4.1.1 ATT ROM from sammobile.com. If you have the 4.3 or newer bootloader, you cannot flash any stock ROMs from sammobile.com using Odin. You must use a ROM that is designed to be flashed via Odin or a custom recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrrocketdog:
:good: much better explanation. thanks audit13.

err on the side of kindness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
OK thanks. So that means I have to use someone's rom because I've flashed a rom that is further along in updates than what Samsung / at&t has done?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrrocketdog:
ROMs dont 'usually' (or ever) include bootloaders. so , if i'm not mistaken it still depends on your bootloader version. i have flashed many KK ROMs on 'old' MJ2 bootloaders.

bootloaders and ROMs are two separate things.

err on the side of kindness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
Thanks guys! I ended up figuring out what my bootloader ( MJB ) was by using the terminal window in TWRP. After that I searched for MJB and saw it was based on 4.3. Anyway, I used this as well..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2789917

To get back to stock
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrrocketdog:
good job

err on the side of kindness
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bloodstorm666:
I went back to stock just by flashing the stock ROM in cwm.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] JJ2525:
Anybody successfully using a wearable device with the AM2?

I'd love to get the Sony SmartWatch 3 because you can use it as a gps/run tracker and music player without needing the phone nearby. However, I don't think it's compatible with the AM2.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] Coffee Freak:
Wearables work fine. I have the lg g watch. But because the phone isn't getting updated anymore with Google's 18 month rule the Android wear app won't get updates after April 2015 so I'm guessing it would still work but you wouldn't get the features from newer Android wear releases.

Sent from my MT2L03
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] gierso:
O dont. Think app updates and os updates are cut with the same knife..

I think that as long it's Bt 4.0. And android 4.3 + can be compatible ..

More like I hope hahah

Enviado desde mi MT2-L03 HAM2 ... i'm lovin' it
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] nrfitchett4:
Just got ham2. Only problem I have with the g watch is music controls don't work. Guessing its a jelly bean thing. Got an app for the watch that works.
[Huawei Ascend Mate 2] icyboyice:
Using and loving my pebble watch in conjunction with my HAM2. Two beasts when it comes to battery life. The pebble has enhanced my experience with this phone.
[Sony Xperia M2] HatchetEgg:
Hi guys I recently acquired the xperia M2 (D2303) and a previous owner of the xperia L (C2105)

I was looking around the forum and noticed there is not a lot of kernels or roms for this device.

So I was wondering is that because it is an unpopular handset or is there another reason?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia M2] Crim Soukyuu:
From what I know, Sony took a while to release the sources needed to start development. After that, work on CM started almost immediately.

But yeah, it's not really a popular device. Which is kind of a pity, I'm really satisfied with it (except for that bluetooth issue, but it seems I'm alone on this, so it's probably a lemon).

On the other hand the Sony ROMs are really not that bad, so I don't know why I'd want to switch to a custom ROM atm...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] artisan_lewa:
*** SOLVED, see third post ***

Hello, I'm trying to use my VWZ Note 2 on MetroPCS.

I'm rooted, stock 4.4.2.

When I use the buildprop edit suggested here, my "add access point names" menu disappears entirely:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...41691-mod-add-apn-editor-system-settings.html

If I remove the buildprop code, I get the menu back, but I can't edit anything.

I pushed my own version of "apns-conf.xml" to /sdcard/ and then pasted it into /system/etc/ and replaced the old one, changed permissions to read-only. Also tried read/write all permissions open.

I can now click the "+" button in the APNs screen. I can add/save APNS, but when (and only when) I have ALL of the correct APN info put in, it instantly deletes the APN I've added. Up to that point I can save the APN, see it in the APN list, and edit it further.

I restart phone, the APNs are all gone except the grayed-out "LTE - Verizon Internet". :mad:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] artisan_lewa:
I got an app to read the APN settings from the SIM card itself (the one I'm already using on my metroPCS phone). Interestingly, these are the networks on the SIM card:

T-Mobile US

Simple

StraightTalk T-Mobile

solavei

T-Mobile LTE

Added both of the T-Mobile APNs, which did save to my access point names, but no network still.

Then I realized that I am a monumental idiot. I put the SIM back in my old metroPCS phone and got the APN settings from there. For future use, here they are:

Name: MetroPCS

APN: fast.metropcs.com

MMSC: http://metropcs.mmsmvno.com/mms/wapenc

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

APN type: default,supl,mms,hipri

APN protocol: IPv6

APN roaming protocol: IPv4

Let's try putting those in my note 2. Why the heck I didn't try this sooner is beyond me.

Still nothing, "No signal." Also, "SIM from unknown source."

EDIT: As I suspected, the APN settings weren't being saved to apns-conf.xml in system/etc/

So I pulled, edited, pushed my new version of apns-conf.xml to have the correct metro pcs settings, put it back in system/etc/, set the correct permissions (read-only for the system).

Now I have the MetroPCS access point name, it matches apns-conf.xml, but still no connection.

I think I'm about out of options.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] artisan_lewa:
SOLVED.

If mod wants to truncate this into one post total, that's cool.

My process to get MetroPCS working on a VZW (Verizon) Note 2.

1: Root it

Get ghettoroot 2.2: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2924899&d=1409874318

Download android SDK

Set environmental variable for adb commands. Note that you add the command after whatever is already in "path" variable, with a semicolon between: http://jaxov.com/2010/10/set-up-adb-on-windows-7-vista-xp-for-android-phones/

Uninstall any samsung stuff, especially KIES. Then install samsung drivers: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SCH-I605TSAVZW

Ghettoroot your phone. You'll need to enable usb debugging, under developer options. How to enable developer options: System settings > about phone > Build number. Press "Build number" like 7 times or so and it will unlock dev options.

Now we need to do some APN settings. Follow this for the method, rest of this post for the info: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2044449

APN info (if value not shown, leave blank/default):

Name: MetroPCS

APN: fast.metropcs.com

MMSC: http://metropcs.mmsvno.com/mms/wapenc

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

APN type: default,supl,mms,hipri,*

APN protocol: IPv6

You'll want to have those settings both in the apns-conf.xml, and in the More Settings>Mobile Networks>Access point names

Activate your phone with MetroPCS.

Remove "Unknown SIM card" notification: Long press the notification to figure out which app is creating it (app info), then use titanium backup to uninstall it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jfin79:
I have read and read i am having issues now since the sim message is generated by tbe system ui i cant kill this is in the verizon note 2 when i install the sim it force closes everything any thoughts would be great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] artisan_lewa:
Ugh. Try doing a factory reset and starting over.

Make sure you use TitaniumBackup to uninstall (preferably freeze if you own pro) the app that's causing the SIM message. You must be rooted of course. Not sure why things would force close, you might have got rid of wrong system app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dmarie1275:
If you are rooted, install Root Explorer, open it and click on the r/w at the top , navigate to the app folder, find the setup wizard folder and delete it. Restart phone and the message will be gone!
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
I was trying to install viper4android and it got out of hand. i decided to factory reset then restore a backup i had made earlier, when i try to do this it says it failed and then It asks me if i want to install supersu but i already have it installed so i put no. Also when i try to reboot it says Set Warranty Bit: kernel on the top right. What can i do? everytime i try to reboot it gets stuck there. Also on a possibly unrelated note the backup was compressed when i made it, do i need to decompress the file?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clownberg:
brick

u gotta brick bro...time to buy another note 4
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
i sure hope not....
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
Have you just tried flashing the stock tar via odin and starting back off fresh?

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonytunes:
This will work. Download the stock tar from: http://www.shabbypenguin.com/getdownload.php?file=Sprint_Note_4-trltespr/Stock-NIE/N910PVPU1ANIE_N910PSPT1ANIE_SPR.zip

Get into download mode and use odin. You will be fine.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
Thanks guys, this is my first Samsung phone it is very different from htc phones. So once the file is done downloading do i put the file in the AP slot and flash via odin?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
Also will i need root again?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
Yes, you will need to root again. Once you flash, you will be back stock as if you just got from store.

Without looking, Im pretty sure its AP.

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
Ok thank you very much for the speedy replies. Another question sorry, the file is a zip, do i extract it? because the zip is not showing up.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
Yes. Unzip. You should find the tar file after extracted.

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
i only found a md5 file is that okay?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
So we are clear. Your talking about that N4 stock NIE file correct? If so, yes. Should be tar.md5.

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
The one from the penguin site. It does say tar.md5 i didnt read the whole thing . Thanks a bunch again for you time, that one dude scared me a bit when he said it got bricked
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
Should be good to go. Just put in download mode (as looneytunes said earlier), connect device as well as inserting tar file in correct slot. Should work just fine. Please post back with results. Just want to make sure your good.

Did you check MD5? I find habit of doing so now to ensure its a good download.

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMessedUp:
It worked! Back to normal,and I know i said this millions of times now but thanks again!
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tahde:
Good deal. Just glad your back up and running.

Sent from my SM-T807P
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonytunes:
It's kinda really hard to permanently brick these phones. As long as you can get to download mode you can usually get back with odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Erunur:
Hey guys. I just got a galaxy s3 from virgin mobile SPH-L710 last week and I managed to install cyanogenmod 11 m10 on it. But to go to cm11 m11 asI've recently learned needs the latest bootloader and baseband.

I know there's two threads in the development section on how to get the latest stock nd8 update.

One had a link to download and open in Odin however the link doesn't seem to be good anymore.

The second thread is for the Odin one click full restore but when I run it it fails on aboot.nbm. I've tried using different USB cables too but it doesn't seem to do any good. Any ideads on how else to upgrade?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Higgs_Boson:
I can assure you this is false. I have a Virgin Mobile SPH-L710 on baseband MK5 and I am running a nightly build that is newer than M11 and have no issues.

You should be fine with a dirty flash over M10. Just wipe the cache before flashing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Erunur:
OK that's intriguing. How did you get MK5 baseband? I just got my s3 last week and its on NF4 which I have no idea where that is in relation to any of the others i've seen around.

I've used the cm updator in settings to try one of the m11 nightlys earlier last week but I had no service so I restored a recovery of m10. Would performing a dirty flash of a nightly build be any different?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Higgs_Boson:
My phone came with MK5 on it, when the phones were shipping with 4.3 installed.

To be honest with you, I would disregard the modem/baseband concerns altogether if I were you. These phones do come with KNOX on them and flashing bootloaders and modems is seriously a huge risk. Flashing a bootloader older than the one you are currently on will trip the killswitch and you will have an irreparable hard brick.

The only time I could possibly think considerations with the bootloader would need to be made is if you were looking to flash a rooted stock TouchWIZ ROM that needed newer bootloaders/modems. But, I really can't speak to that, as I am trying to avoid TouchWIZ and am only familiar with AOSP ROMs.

You may need to flash an APN fix in addition to the ROM and GAPPs. I also use [MENTION=4932679]decimalman[/MENTION]'s custom kernel, the DKP kernel and have no issues. Basically, when I am clean flashing nightlies the order goes like this:

In PhilZ Recovery found here: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/

ROM

GAPPs

Kernel

APN fix

Re-Root system for SuperSU

Reboot

I sent you the link for the APN fix, available in another active VM S3 forum, in your inbox. Download and flash the zip and that should fix any service-related issues you're having.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Erunur:
OK I did a clean flash of the latest nightly, flashed the apn fix then booted. Still no service. No apn are on the device nor is it able to save any I manually put in. And settings shows the baseband version as unknown as well as anything else that has to do with cell service.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Higgs_Boson:
And, you tried flashing all of those with the lateat version of PhilZ recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Erunur:
Yes. I tried it with the latest version of philz and flashed all the zips you had listed in order but still the same old issues. However I noticed that WiFi still works. I can also go back to M10 and have no service issues. The other thing im noticing is that CyanogenMod thinks this is a SPH-L710 but apperently its really a SPH-L710T. The difference being that my phone has a tri-band radio for something to do with Sprints Spark.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Higgs_Boson:
When you're on M11, have you checked in system root --> /etc folder to see if the apns-conf.xml is there? You might tru copying that over from the M10 build.

In the meantime, I'll look into the modem a bit more. The CM forum users all seemed to agree on that as a fix.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] syntropic:
I want to install the 3.32 OTA so I had to restore my phone a bit. Last time I did this was about a month ago, and I must be forgetting something... but I cannot run the OTA because of problems with the build.prop file.

I flashed the default recovery and uninstalled one app that I know tweaked the system by modifying the build.prop file, however, this didn't work. The log still says "unexpected content in system/build.prop".

I have uninstalled 3 or 4 other apps that I suspect may modify the build.prop file and turned on the SuperSU logging to make sure I wasn't missing any other app which was getting root permission to modify it.... I thought I found them all. However, I just tried running the OTA for the third time, and it still shows that the build.prop file has been altered.

I know I could download the OTA, modify the updater script, then copy it back to the phone, but before I do that I wanted to just get a default copy of the file. What could I download (i.e., a RUU, a stock nandroid, etc.) that I could unpack to get one??

Thanks!
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] FreydNot:
This is a tough one. The OTA only has the patch file so that is out. You can unpack the RUU but then you get disk image files. If you can figure out a way to unpack the .img files, I'm guessing would be in there.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] syntropic:
Thanks for replying... I must have had a brain tumor for breakfast yesterday because there was already a backup copy in the system folder. I don't know how I missed it.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiej79:
Is there any molded stock kernels for tab z? Got a sgp311 like running stock just like to oc
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rootk1t:
there were stock modded kernels, for 4.1.2 firmware. But not for the latest firmware.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] nervana1:
I was finally able to S-off with sunshine and now I want to upgrade the firmware, but im pretty lost on this, does anyone have a video or any tips on how to upgrade the firmware? I would really appreciate it.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
There's an entire thread in the dev section dedicated to it. You have two options. One requires a pc and the other does not.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] nervana1:
saw the post but it doesnt really help as there are tons of different files, and coming from a brand new 4.4.2phone im lost.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Download and run the exe on the first post here. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2883845

That will put you on latest stock software and firmware. Then flash whatever recovery you want and then venom.