[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lee_Garington:
Please give credit to the original uploader (Tsar3000!)! im running it now and it works perfectly. here is the actual link just highlight and copy http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/development/stock-fw-metropcs-sm-g530t1-t3340513

PS. The T-Mobile Firmware works just fine also so its entirely up to you. i have ran it myself on my phone for months and i almost liked it more jus sayin...:cool: Good luck

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]Please give credit to the original uploader (Tsar3000!)! im running it now and it works perfectly. here is the actual link just highlight and copy http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/development/stock-fw-metropcs-sm-g530t1-t3340513

PS. The T-Mobile Firmware works just fine also so its entirely up to you. i have ran it myself on my phone for months and i almost liked it more jus sayin...:cool: Good luck

so i bought this phone about 3 months ago (SM-G530T1) and i bricked it 3 days after i bought it by installing busybox un-rooted. still not sure how that happened but that is not the point, the point is i flashed the only stock firmware i could find (at the time) and it just so happened to be a mis-marked T-mobile firmware package. i didn't let it bother me though and continued to gain root and flashed ShinySides [AOF8]. It worked like a charm! I was just running T-mobile FW on a MetroPCS phone and it just got confusing if you had to call costomer service lol. so i made sure it worked in every way and removed all the bloatware. the only problem i had was with the hotspot feature, it had a mind of its own and that got annoying but i dont really use it that often so i could live with that. the phone was a champ! so i went to find a recovery or twrp. i was looking and found TWRP 2.8.7.0...it was not for the SM-G530T1 but it sorta worked and when i say sorta i mean it does pretty much everything you want it to do except BACK UP FILES! Lol! (at least for me anyways) so i ran that with the T-Mobile software for a few months until lastnight... see I didnt know about the failure to back up my files issue so you have to understand that i fully expected the TWRP Backup files to work and last night when i went to restore one of the BUps it informed me that i had no OS anymore !! oh man i wanted to puke! Upon further inspection i realized that it was only backing up about 20% of my system only and i should have noticed but i didn't expect that and that is how we learn the difference between knowledge and wisdom right? OK so at that point i had a bricked phone (MY DAILY DRIVER i might add) and i was not to happy to lose all my personal info either, so i went back on XDA to see what i could do. i was very pleased to see that there was now a working MetroPCS Package compliments of TSAR3000 and I went to work. I flashed it via Oden and was happy to see the familiar MetrPCS logo again, but i needed to re-root it so i used the ShinySides [AOF8] just to see if it would worked with the metro Firmware and it did! it trips KNOX but i could care less cause i dont want that crap anyways and i get rid of it right away lol. I debated if i sould put this next part in the message but i decided i would because people should be weary of programs and roots applications and remember that this is the true reason we root and unlock our phones to begin with... so Im not a paranoid person by nature but i dont trust King root or any of those one click apps companies because of some article i read a while back about how the Chinese root apps and downloads could possibly contain spyware but i never found any truth to it but from what i do know about the Chinese government i dont take the chance but its my opinion and i like the good old fashion (though a little more involved) flashing of SuperSU or whatever you like. So yes if you want to use ShinySides root procedure do it cause it works with metro just fine. Good luck. i believe i ran in to a dangerous twrp thats floating around. i didnt know so i ran it probably before anyone even knew it worked for metro/t-mobile. im not running it anymore and ill tell you why.... main reason- it does not want to create back ups properly and when i say properly i mean you set it to backup data, system, boot cache and recovery but when i go to restore it only backed up my System!!! Everytime no matter what i did! i first found this out because i went to restore and honestly i didnt think to check if it got everything backed up properly i just swiped the screen and went to get a cactus cooler out of the fridge... when i returned to get my phone i felt very sick because i was looking at a screen that asked me "are you sure you want to restart you have no OS" I said thats ok i made more backups and i did! but everyone of them just backed up the system only and not even the whole system just about 30% (not that it mattered) so that cactus cooler didnt taste so good afterall sadly. i lost all my photos and personal info that day and learned a valuble lesson.... do not flash packages that are not specifically for the variant you have because although you can get lucky once in awhile it is very far and in between. im pretty sure if i remember correctly it even said.a different model number in the titlie page. i dont want to say it was all bad because i really do prefer a TWRP over CWM personally because of the added features and freedom.... even if it only "kinda works" lol but in the end i went back to CWM because it was just...well ... Safer. Sorry dude not a big fan of that particular TWRP I wonder if anyone else had major recovery issues with their um.. recovery lol??

im currently using CWM-Based-Recov-v6.0.5.1 and as of now i have Not had any issues with it other than the typical boring layout of the program but i suppose that's on purpose because CWM focuses on functionality not comfort-ability . if i can help i will.