yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
XM6R2a is NOT wm5...if you "installed" it and you are still on wm5 then your phone is NOT cid unlocked which is probably what the communication error (302?) was trying to tell you in the first place. Follow the "how to flash a wizard" guides that are a sticky at the top of the forum.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nannhy:
Hey thanks to everyone who have been offering information, my progress so far, i've CID unlocked my phone and i reinstalled the pro+home wm6 and all is working, except i cant use my camera, cause i dont have enough memory as is replied by the os, i'm going to try the t-mobile updated as pointed out in a previous post.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mumin230:
Hi guys, I've been playing with Lucky Patcher lately, to be exact, I wanted to remove Google Ads. Unlucky enough, it won't let me connect to Google Play anymore. I tried forcing stop on Google Play Store and wiping cache, factory reset many times but nothing works. Please help!

EDIT: I can't even add any google account because it says: "There was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later"
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorpmuller:
Use AdAway instead. Root necessary.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Is there a way to install the Google Play Store on a Chinese Note 7? Or some way to download the apps i've purchased from Google Play Store? I've tried going to the the Play Store site but my phone's not recognized since i can't add my Google account to the phone...
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
I read on a Chinese forum that people suggested loading the stock Hong Kong firmware for the Note 7 to get Google Play working and that it'd work fine on the Chinese model (and wouldn't break knox). Is this safe to do?

(and for reference, this is the page i was referring to: http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=9875562&pid=193800403&to=1)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] tom0927:
I'm just speaking from experience on my China model of s6edge, flashing the HK firmware on that phone was definitely ok, I had no problems with the phone since going on the HK firmware. I haven't looked too deeply into the note 7 but you'll have to make sure the hardware is exactly the same, as well as the partition table of the two versions or you'll get an Odin fail.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] NIKKOTUASON:
Wait you cant have Google Play Store on a Chinese Note 7?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] tom0927:
Nope, there's no Google anything by default on the Chinese market phones, some sort of falling out between Google and China. You'll need to flash the Google framework yourself.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] acheney1990:
Yeah Chinese Android phones don't have Google Apps or anything on them because the Chinese government won't let them.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] NIKKOTUASON:
Ouch! Thanks for this little info. Is it illegal or not ideal for one to have Google softwares on their phones there? Hmm I wonder if this will affect travels to China?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] tom0927:
It used to be that all Google apps won't work in China, even gmail. But I think they loosened up the policy recently.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Thanks for the info, i'll try flashing it on there this evening. And a couple years back Google services were hit or miss, lately everything is blocked. Sites like this also have trouble loading because they use files hosted at googleapis.com (such as jquery), which are also blocked and a lot more annoying. So i've gotta use a VPN to view the site properly. It's not illegal, just inconvenient. My previous phone was a Chinese Vivo phone and i could install a package from the Vivo app store that installed the Google stuff for me (and use a VPN to access the Google Play Store). The Galaxy App Store is basically empty and doesn't have anything like that. I've tried installing the Google apps individually but it's still not working.

The Chinese and Hong Kong models are both "SM-N9300", i'm pretty sure the hardware is the same (and i know they also use the Snapdragon processor), is there any way i can check these things for sure?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] tom0927:
Trial and error? ;) The only thing I did was read up on the chinese forums for other people's success or failure stories. Once I saw numerous reports that they were successful, I felt more confident to do the same on my phone. Having an understanding of Odin and emergency restore also helps.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
I just tried and my 电信 card doesn't work anymore. It's got Google Play though. Now i'm not sure which is better (assuming i can get the card to work), having the phone loaded with Google's stuff which doesn't work without a VPN or not having any of my purchased apps or easily download/update them but being able to actually use the phone... I might just switch back and wait for another method to pop up to enable Google Play on Chinese phones.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] tom0927:
Both voice and data doesn't work? or just data?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Neither work, i can't make phone calls or use data. I've got another card with a different company (China Unicom or China Mobile, i can never remember which) but it's too large to fit in the simcard slot, i'll see about getting it cut tomorrow and testing that.

Alternatively, i stumbled across this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/note-7/development/recovery-official-twrp-galaxy-note-7-t3458413

I might just try using that to root it and then installing something like Open GApps.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] winol:
luck
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Sorry, i don't understand what you're asking. Why would i want what? I just want to be able to access the apps i've purchased through the Play Store on my old phones with my new phone. The apps aren't even available to purchase in the app stores in China and Chinese app stores generally only keep Chinese apps (like QQ, WeChat, Taobao, Alipay, etc.) up to date. I could just find a free way to get them (easy enough in China), but it makes updating more of a pain.

Anyway, gonna revert it back tonight to the original firmware and try installing TWRP with Open GApps.

EDIT: i've flashed it tons of times now and just finished flashing the Chinese firmware back on (again). I tried installing Open GApps but it just crashed the phone. I rooted the phone but it refused to install any APKs for some reason, not sure what exactly i've done to cause that. I just reflashed it again and am going through setup now, hopefully it'll be fixed. I'm not sure if it's got something to do with TWRP complaining about being unable to mount /data. It's too late to check into that tonight though.

EDIT2: Everything's working fine now on the stock firmware again, gonna try rooting it again tomorrow and see if i can manually install the Google Play Store.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] Psytric:
I'm having the same issue. I've tried manually downloading the play store, services framework, play services and google login apks. Tried installing manually through sideloading. Tried copying to /system/app. In all cases both the play services and google services frameworks crash constantly. The play store itself is a white screen, with VPN enabled (from China).

If this method isn't going to work, where can I find an HK firmware version?

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Just to add, I have rooted with SU.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] Boy Bisaya:
If you have a working Google Play (outside china), a VPN while within China should allow you to update the apps. Please note, Oculus Store is also not accessible.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] Psytric:
Yes, however I cannot install any of the google apps on this device. All attempts, including using google installer apks, manual installs, flashing Gapps, ,etc, all result in crashing apps. It almost seems aggressive.

My latest attempt to flash Gapps results in "Unfortunately the setup wizard has stopped" endlessly, essentially bricking the phone. I cannot get to any screens unless using the multitasking icon, and even then homescreen etc are inaccessible.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] phame:
Try installing the APKPure app. Its pretty much just like the playstore (For free apps). And lets you update etc. And it doesnt require root.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
That's the same issue i had with Gapps. I could press the menu button to bring up a list of open apps and use those, but going to the main homescreen just repeatedly prompted me with the setup wizard stopping dialog.

Google apps works with the Hong Kong version (comes preinstalled) so you should be fine with that. I think i flashed N9300ZHU1APGI, but i think that's the oldest version. The newest seems to be N9300ZHU2BPI5. If it has ZHU in the middle, that's for Hong Kong. ZCU is for China (TGY is the region code for Hong Kong, if you see that). The issue i had with that is that then everything is Google Apps and thus blocked in China, maps in WeChat use Google Maps instead of Baidu Maps for example. If you don't care about that, then i suggest trying to flash a Hong Kong firmware. It worked for me.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention that at first i couldn't use my SIM card, but later i'm not sure what i did, i think i booted into Recovery mode or something, but after that it worked. I'm not sure what it did.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Hi everyone, like all of you i want to put Gapps (at least playstore) on my brand new Note 7 bought in Beijing yesterday. So far I tried to manually install google framework apk, google play apk etc and as you know if you tried it, it's just crashing over and over again.

When I found this thread I was like :"Damn of course I need to flash The HK version". As Chickndude said, the last HK version is N9300ZHU2BPI5.

After downloading it I tried to flash the ap tar.md5 using Odin, But i got a fail for the system flash... :/ i guess it's because the mapping of Chinese and HK ROM's is not the same. (also noticed that Chinese full rom is 2.3Go but the HK one is 2.6Go)

Because of this flash error i now have a "dm-verity verification failed" error when trying to boot the phone up. I can only access recovery or bootloader. (my recovery is stock, and i didn't attempt to root)

So my question is : How to you managed to get working The HK rom on your Chinese note 7 ? DId you flash only the Ap tar.md5 file ? Did you flash the 4 files : AP, BL, CP, CSC, HOME_CSC (the whole rom in fact)

Or do you only flash Ap while using The TGY (HK rom) Pit file ? If so can you provide a link for the pit file please ? :p

EDIT : I figured out that a pit file is in the CSC of the HK rom, i extracted it, I'm not sure if I should flash it... if I messed up there is risk that I won't be able to boot in download mode right ?

EDIT 2 :IT WORKS NOW SEE MY NEXT POST :)

Thanks in advance ! :)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
I believe i could just flash the HK firmware as is. The difference in size could just be because the HK version has more apps included with it. I installed everything using the CSC file instead of the HOME_CSC file. I can't remember what else i had to do, if anything, like turning on USB debugging or unlocking OEM.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Finally the solution was to :

1) flash the CSC alone, because it has the new pit file in it.

2) flash AP BL and HOME_CSC

I was quite frightened at first because after step 2 even if I got a pass on Odin, the system didn't boot up and I got the doing little Droid logo.

But I flash over it a second time and it works like a charm.

In fact I'm writing this from my note 7 :D

Thanks for your answer though :)

I hope this can help others :)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Great, glad to hear you got it working :)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] dizti:
Hi!

I have BL, AP, CP and CSC in ODIN, do i just put HOME_CSC file in CSC slot? And do i skip the CP file? I did what u said and got a android logo with a big ! on top ... flashed 2 times now, no succes.

This is what i did:

1. Flash CSC solo. (Passed)

2. first time: flash AP BL CP and HOME_CSC (didnt work)

second time: flash AP BL and HOME_CSC (didnt work neither)

Thanks!
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Hi !

First you flash the CSC alone, then you flash BL AP AND HOME_CSC simultaneously. :)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] dizti:
Hi! Yes thanks i got it done but is your GPS working???
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Just tried with Baidu Maps it's totally working :)
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] s327374:
I don't have a Note 7, but this process seems far easier than it used to be with my Note 4. Is it not simply the following steps or something like them?

1. Download Odin and most recent HK firmware for N9300 from reputable samsung mobile firmware site.

2. Open Odin, connect, phone, put phone into download, add new firmware (AP or something like that) and ... boom. New HK 9300 with Gapps replaces the Mainland firmware which has no Gapps?

3.Then leave it for quite a while on initial reboot.

Isn't it as simple as that?

Then install your vpn software and boom boom, you have a useable phone, right?

Long gone are the days of the N9108v (shudder) where there was no HK firmware with gapps incorporated.

Or am I missing something...
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] OnlyAndroid:
Hi Chickndude, as I do not really understand chinese in your link, will be great if you can direct me to the exact Rom for downloading?

Thanks,

DL
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] glaxyhd:
From where you get multi files rom ?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] newstar:
Yes ?
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
From sammobile!
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] chickndude:
Yeah, it might take a while to download, but you can get the HK ROMs from SamMobile. Search for N9300ZHU2BPI5, which is (at present) the latest available firmware. Click on firmware at the top then just copy and paste the number into the search box that appears. Alternatively, you can search N9300. I'm not sure why, but it doesn't show up when i search "SM-N9300".
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] gregersdk:
So I'm buying a Note7 tomorrow when I get to Beijing, but I haven't played with ROMs or Android in general since the happy HTC Desire Z days, about 4 years ago...

So searching for a more comprehensible guide, is this accurate? I'm (slowly) downloading the ROM from Sammobile, so just need to know if the method is true...

Link: http://samfirm.net/threads/official-stock-rom-full-galaxy-note-7-sm-n9300-hong-kong-n9300zhu2bpi5-tgy-22-09-2016.120/

Any other advice? I'm looking forward to having my brand new Note7 soon, hopefully with usable Play Store!
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] OnlyAndroid:
Hi SylverSun, in my Odin version Odin3-v3.11.1zip I can't find HOME_CSC only BL, AP, CP, CSC.

Will be much grateful if you can direct me how to access Home CSC?

I had successfully flash CSC but not BL, AP, CP. After I got a 'pass' for flashing CSC, I flash BL,AP,CP together but the result is: Success-0, Fail-0 amd now I am stuck. The phone also can't connect to the PC now. Desperately needed some advice from experience members and will be grateful if someone can help. FYI, this is the first time I am flashing a phone so basically, I am totally new and at a learning stage.

Thanks in Advance!

DL
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Hi!

Did you download the Zip file from sammobile? Normally there is the 5 files in it.

Sorry I'm not at home this week, so I can't check on my computer.

There is a thread about how to solve the brick of the phone using smartswitch or Odin : http://xdaforums.com/note-7/how-to/fix-samsung-note-7-snapdragon-exynos-sm-t3443753/page1
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] calinormy:
If you downloaded file is only one file with extension .md5 then you should open odin, load the .md5 file to AP and start write. If it's a zip/rar file then unrar it and check if you have a single file .md5 or multiple files. If you have one file apply the first rule from above, if you have 4 or 5 files load each other to the right category in odin ( BL is bootloader, etc). After than begin flash process.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] Wad12355:
Hi, I did use Odin_3.12.3, and also did get a N9300ZHU2BPI5_N9300ZZH2BPI5_TGY.zip file from SamMobile, flashed just fine ( zip had a "Home CSC" file in it). Everything works OK, however the phone runs a bit warmer around 10C-15C which I didn't like, couldn't find the reason why, and also "mainland version" had all the "bells and whistles" like built-in network meter, ability to disable the camera shutter sound, buil-in camera "anti-fog" filter, built-in camera barcode reader and so on.
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] OnlyAndroid:
Thanks SylverSun for you reply and link.

As of now, you should have known that Note 7 is dead as they are discontinuing the production for good.

So what I really need to do is to get it back to the original state and send it in for an exchange.

Will go thru the link that you had provided and try to un-brick it.

Cheers,

DL

---------- Post added at 04:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 AM ----------

Hi Calinormy, thanks for the instructions and unfortunately I had done these but not working.

As I had replied SylverSun, my priority is to un-brick it and send for an exchange for other model since Note 7 stops its production for good now.

Cheers,

DL
[Note 7 Questions & Answers] SylverSun:
Hi!

Let us know how it goes!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TMCThomas:
Hello everyone! I was wondering if more of you have experienced that the S5 plus can get quite hot while doing heavy things like gaming? Mine gets between 60-70 degrees celcius within 10-15 minutes. (Which makes the GPU clock go back to 240MHZ and the CPU to ~1200MHZ). The back and screen of the phone both get quite hot too. Not so hot that you can't keep going but just warm. Never had a over-heating message in the 1,5 years that I got the phone. Anyone got the same experience? (The Environment temprature is 25 degrees celcius btw and I don't have a case.)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakuu:
You have a handheld computer, they get hot
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TMCThomas:
I know but I was just wondering if someone had the same experience.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeRalouf:
I'd say anyone with any modern phone would have the same experience :)

That's what happen when there's really no system to cool down both GPUs and CPUs on a computer, even more so a very little one like a phone.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TMCThomas:
Ok, Thanks! :)
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phamanhvu01:
none

Are you using stock ROMs or something? Never had this behavior on CM ROMs on my niece's G900F. BTW just saying if you want to disable the throttling, use a Xposed mod named DVFS disabler or just switch to CM ROMs instead since DVFS only persists on Samsung ROMs
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Hey All :)

Wondering if anyone has had any luck with Wallpaper picker from the new Pixel Launcher ZIP located here:

http://llabtoofer.com/2016/09/12/pixel-launcher/

I've installed it on my 6P along with the picker but the picker just crashes whenever i try and change my wallpaper.

Cheers
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] claude906:
I'm using the launcher and the picker and have no crashes.

I'm not using from the zip file I have the apks
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] popper668:
how do we change the color of the app drawer??
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Very odd! Where did you get your APKs from? I am running stock N as well...brand new phone with nothing fancy installed
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] claude906:
These are the apk's ether from Android authority or another Android blog site. Also running stock N with nothing moded heck my bootloader is still locked
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Thanks for that! But still doesn't work :( I even tried the old Nexus launcher which came before Pixel Launcher and that doesn't even work! But again did work on my P9!
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] claude906:
Maybe try a factory reset?
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Cheers but if it came to that I'd just leave it. Spent all day setting this thing up haha. Was hoping there was something simple I was missing...shouldn't need a factory reset anyway as the phone is brand new and I only got it this morning
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] linkisoc:
I want to like the pixel launcher but you can't make folders in the app drawer and you can't hide apps either. I'm not rooted and I don't want to root so until Google think to implement these features I'll be giving the pixel launcher a miss...
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] djsonoman:
Put launcher in /system/priv-app/NexusLauncherPrebuilt/NexusLauncherPrebuilt.apk, picker to /system/app/WallpaperPickerGooglePrebuilt/WallpaperPickerGooglePrebuilt.apk, set the correct permissions to folder and apk and restart.
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] claude906:
Ya guess you would not need a reset
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] 510jungleboy:
wow. Thank you for the APKs. Both work great on Android 7 , Stock and Lock Bootloader.
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Well this is odd! I'm already on Nougat (official latest build) as I say but this morning I got a small 40MB update stating that it fixed bugs. I installed it, I then installed the Pixel Launcher and Wallpaper Picker and this time they both worked fine!
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] Fargo_Zoidberg:
carrier update?
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] sheppy1:
Nope, I found out I was infact on the beta programme! It was a beta update which somehow fixed the problem...very odd though how it didn't work till I got the update.
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] romusht:
Someone post the launcher homescreen
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] xdamember143:
Here u go
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] okydoky:
I have No problem about pickin wallpapers I do it well wth picker apk but what about rotation bug? Why the hell noone talks about it? After I toggle rotation switch in its settings ,when I try to rotate it gives fc. How can we fix it??
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] cell2011:
Anyone able to do their magic with the getting the new 7.1 Pixel exclusive launcher?
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] phillymade:
Works 100% for me
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] ilyassnexus:
You're right ! Works fine on NB90X
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] whitesn0w:
Does this version of the launcher have animated wallpapers as can be seen in some Pixel hands on videos?
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] kitsVA:
Is there a way to get weather on home screen instead of Date as seen in the Pixel hands-on videos?

Here
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] DaGr81:
I did a normal install and it worked.
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] faricool:
After download its shows file not open
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] Raiden8816:
I really want the date "widget" only. I do not want to give up nova launcher
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] NeoS:
Anyone else have the problem that you can't swipe left to open Google Now anymore?
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] afilopou:
You must be rooted and move the pixel launcher apk in /system/priv-app.If you install it as a normal apk, swipe left does not work.
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] Alekxxx:
Swipe left worked on Google Now Launcher...

Tapping G first for search and the second time opens Google Now :)
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] mukesh22584:
Hello everyone

I've made flashable zip of latest Nexus (Pixel) Launcher, Working flawlessly on my Angler....
[Nexus 6P Themes and Apps] thecoach1999:
Works great......... Good job.
[General Questions and Answers] mr steal ur gurl:
i wanted to flash a custom rom inside samsung s3 mini but it said "failed" when i flashed it .help :crying: i already wiped my the whole data so theres literally no os installed inside it :crying: but the twrp is working just the os cant installed inside it
[General Questions and Answers] raymondbqg:
I think u r facing this problem because :-

1) the versions of s3 mini are s3mini I8200/N/Q.So chose appropriate ROM for ur version.

2)flash ROM by appropriate recovery and versio which is recommended by the ROM's dev.

BTW u can ask for ur problem in s3 mini forum.

Link:xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3-mini
[Sprint Note 7  Questions & Answers] smiley45:
can some one dump there note 7 system please and post it on here