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[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
You don't have to unlock the SIM or anything? Even if you do that's a lot less than getting the imei forgot about. Don't you have to get an msl from a comany. I know it's very possible send easy in free countries but i live in murica. You pay and pay here and the still put a cap on the data. If we're not careful we may use up all that data and then there would be no way to watch us 24-7 just we might go rogue.

A sticker that changes the sim? Details please.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
I've been trying to reply to this for 2 days. You see it's not the way my phone runs that is the issue it is my network that is completely raped. I can't lose my parasite. I screwed up my bootloader petty bad when I was learning about Samsung. If you ask how to unlock a bootloader the most common answer you get is "you don't, you use auto root". Auto root is as amazing for sure but I can tell there is a lot of people who don't read anything and just do. The the disclaimer is "don't use this with a locked boot loader, you will likely brick your device." As i mentioned I'm a flash junky. I didn't know once you blew the hole in thy boot you only needed a custom recovery forever. I like changing roms so i rooted with it a couple more times. Things for real bad after I ran the kitkat auto root on lollipop. I could use one of my back ups and add plasma kernel for a few months until the next update. Worse than that i flashed a something from an unlock sight with a special version of Odin. I didn't even need to because i had all ready changed the csc to xas so my apns were open. The effects were scary but cool. I got locked out of my phone for awhile except for virtual access on my puter screen. My home network for straight raped after that. I had everything set to home and share because i didn't think there would be even more bored than me so as to waste there life watching my life. There is and they are smart as #. I go in intervals of being angry to amazed. I thought they were gone but no. I was not keen on interweb when i got on here. Now that i could protect myself I can't keep the evil at bay because it lurks in the dark spaces I can't reach. FlashFire says it can remove the seemles. It is incredible to but I don't think so. It definitely can't mine. What's crazy is I've had a couple new bootloaderers since then but it remains. I'm with out root at the moment and am able to look at some of the data and dev were files. I can see the usb files that block adb is in but still no. Even though auto root totally changes the way and where from the device boots, I'm needing to extract or other wise terminate what is probably one card a ftp or smb. I can see in my win logs that if uses a machine to confuse the system in a barrage of security log ins while opening a door for daddy. I had the xml explaing how it's done but then a brand new 125gb card magically went to sleep forever. Some script out there is beyond amazing to me. Virtual net adapters that aren't on top of actual hardware blow my mind. It would have never crossed my mind in a million years they there is going to be a need for antivirus software on hardware like a Bluetooth keyboard.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMadScientist:
this device had a bad iemi person i got it from said they didnt pay for it on the sprint ezpay.

i checked and that was the truth. so i changed the iemi with another old sammy i had and put the sticker in for my records. so i know what the new iemi is without the device being turned on.

im trying to sim unlock it so i can use it on domestic gsm but no go sofar always invalid sim.

i guess i need to take this dissussion to another thread as so i dont get to far off the orig topic here
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
[MENTION=4906941]planb234[/MENTION]

I'm not following well what you've tried since getting a PIT file. Did you get the PIT file from Sammobile yet? Did you try the latest stock tar? If older ones, which ones fail?

If Odin fails, can you post the log and text on screen?

I believe what you're talking about is not needing to root if flashing a custom ROM. After a stock tar, you could Odin TWRP and flash a custom ROM. Custom ROMs include root and su. If using Chainfire Auto Root for Note 4, make sure to use the right one and latest for Lollipop and Marshmallow. KitKat had its own Auto Root. But the auto root uses a modified stock recovery which may make its use redundant if flashing a custom or even wanting just TWRP for backups if stock rooted.

Some fun facts for you:

The bootloader on Sprint Note 4 is unlocked. Flashing a stock tar will un-root it. Factory reset will cause you to lose systemless root. But flashing a full stock tar successfully will replace the bootloader. If you're trying to flash OB7 or older KitKat stock tar, your bootloader won't be replaced. As far as OTA, it patches existing baseband, bootloader and effected system files and partitions that need patched. Even if it's just a revision number in the update, it gets rolled up to match the update revision. While I feel stock tar updates are full and need no patching, the patching is sequential and should match the Odin'd bootloader and baseband once sequentially rolled up accordingly. So IMO, a patched bootloader is same as newly Odin'd bootloader. I could be wrong about the patching so not necessarily a fact.

I think your problem is unsuccessful flash of full stock tar. A blown eFuse may cause that but from what I've read in past posts of others that had issues back then is that flashing the correct stock tar after full wipe in stock recovery overcomes the flash. It leads me to believe it's only activating reset protection to try to roll the bootloader back to OB7 or KitKat. Maybe I'm wrong but if your phone isn't suffering a hardware issue, you should be able to recover it.

Other bootloaders between OB7 and OG5 like OE1 and OF5 were also exhibiting an inability to downgrade but bootloaders OG5 and up can so far can be downgraded to OG5. I haven't tried downgrading bootloader to OE1 or OF5 though.

I've seen phone info from posters claiming to roll their bootloader back to OB7 or older and they've actually reported a newer bootloader, post OB7.

As far as I know, the only true way to get KitKat ROM to flash and boot is to flash a newer kernel after ROM flash, but prior to initial boot attempt. Currently, I'm only aware of Android 5.1.1 kernel and post OB7 bootloader booting a KitKat ROM after bootloader is updated beyond OB7.

If you're capable of doing otherwise, I'd like to see legit screenshot of phone info or galaxy tools application.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
I have plenty to show you. The thing is the pit is the smallest part of the problem at the moment. My pc also is just slammed. I can't upload the stuff I've got at the moment because it will end up gone. What do you want to see? My recovery logs, my uberwipe logs, i have video
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
I can't upload anything. I have spent 3 hours just trying to find a browser that would let me get here. I just want my net work fixed but someones lust for me keeps on digging a hole. I would have pit my phone and forgot about the reason why it needed done but instead my time is spent trying to fix my network and now that i know what I'm looking for the evidence is stacking up.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
I know i need pit from my recovery logs and comparing stock roms to mine. I have a really hard time figuring out what to do because my parasite controls all of my devices. Even if I fix the pit right now it will do no good. I will set the biggest reason i know i need the pit, other than i did see the difference on my own, is a back up log from flashfire. If the wizard says it needs done i believe. NB flashfire may be able to remove the su but if you used auto root your device is never stock again. The folder that is used to store the factory reset in use gone and your ro build is modified. What sucks about what is going on with how mine is modified is that even if i root i can't change it. It will go back on every boot. The pit should change this. Instead of you build coming from /dev/block/mc1 .... It will come from the factory. Folder.

You really do don't do back to stock after Odin. Your are still rooted. The binary isn't active but it and it's cache remain. You think i was making stuff up before you would really think I'm a nut bar if i told you some off the things I've seen.

The fix is in a pit and and superssu. The important things is i modify the su to be specific for my device and and so it creates a ro build that doesn't redo itself on every boot.

It sucks i thought maybe the fota would help but no. I try to stay one boot loader below what is available. When I'm ready to pit I will be ready to make a version of the base tw that i like and can flash the bootloader if need be. As I've men ioned the wizard made that for us too.

Although auto root permanently alters your boot, a sacrifice we made to have root handed to us, it's creator also designed a way to fix it and have the perfect back up. You odin the version with the boot you will be keeping. Then you back with flashfire. right after the flash because that is when the system is secure enough to not lock down. You can back up the bootloaders a as part but i wouldn't. He says that to then root the system. I'm not sure how that happens I'll figure it out when i get there. You then combine the bootloaders from the stock firmware and put them with the rooted package. From that there is every possibility that includes the most important you have the full repair with a fresh boot loader. Obviously the best back up is from recovery but how cool would it be to have the full rooted package with a clean boot? I get excited thinking about the possibility from there.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planb234:
All right I've got a little calm now. I've got no root firewall with a vpn, vpn key and I'm using tapatalk now. In a different thread I'll share. I apologize samep. When I've been posting it was as quick as i can so before i get ejected.

I was able to get the pit files you posted in the first link. The VPNs are what made the difference there too. Those are way different than what I pulled out of mine with an emulator.

They look as such:

Parent folder

0BzyeAt2hy6XeNnBUSlFfT0U5X1E-1.bin

18 Dec 16 03:29:17 1.33K rw-rw----

0BzyeAt2hy6XeNnBUSlFfT0U5X1E-2.bin

18 Dec 16 03:29:20 1.33K rw-rw----

0BzyeAt2hy6XeNnBUSlFfT0U5X1E.bin

18 Dec 16 03:29:12 1.33K rw-rw----

I caught that you checked mine and it didn't match. You used an mp5 check from play or something?

I'm getting anxious to flash. It's been a minute. 2 whole days with out root. I've got to get the troll out of my puter or find some where else. Guess where the usb problems I've been having come from. I use pdanet for my interweb right now. It has one of the best adb drivers there is so that works out pretty good for the troll.

I tried to get the DPK1 files yesterday but couldn't. The only option available for me was the paid down and I probably wouldn't have got them anyways with only a mobile connection and a parasite eating at my USB.

I read this thread. It's a good know. I bricked a Walmart s3 by pulling the battery after a data interruption too. It's one of the free ways. Water will do it too. It's never a good idea to pull the battery the cable or the battery in down load. If there is an issue the proper way to get out of it is the same way you got in. Volume down +home+power. The system doesn't take until it boots in to recovery and i believe that is why there is 2 boot loaders. If you got out the way you booted in it wipes the cache then reboots. I've got to tell the adb driver story that happened yesterday so I'm going to jump to the end if you would start back where I have been missing. Checking the md5 on these files and something about a log file on Odin. Things I need to know. Also since i lost all of my data and back ups since I got this phone I got a different Odin. I can get another one dedicated to AP easy enough and that's what Sam Mobile says to use but the new ones it's saying to fill all of the loaders. Any idea of that?
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samep:
[MENTION=4906941]planb234[/MENTION]

Check this thread for Odin stock tar. The Odin application for PC thread is linked in post #2 of same thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63868221

If you're looking for a good md5 checker for your phone, here's the one I use for that.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fab.md5

I'm not in front of my PC ATM but can't always recall the md5 I started using on it without looking right at it. I'll try to post a link for it later.

Anything else I missed, let me know. I'll catch back up later. Sorry, I missed your reply earlier; been a busy day.
[Sprint  Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androodius:
Thank you for the help samep. I was able to flash with the pit file. You did all the work for me (with finding the links). You made it very easy. I appreciate the time you spent. I figured out before it wasn't going to solve my problems but still I gave it a shot. Sadly nut issues run much deeper than just one device.

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Oops. I forgot too mention this is planb234. I'm on a different account (obviously). I found out my internet access is all directed across a 3rd party before going through my actual accounts. I donated to XDA with the planb account so now signing with it forces across said 3rd party. It's interesting to watch (I have it on a screen record). It goes something like this - I sign in with the google account I've had for years and pull up a internet browser then go to xda-developers.com, this pulls up a window that says TWRP has released its first app to the play store and actually shows the date 2010. I then login, when this happens it will the certificate goes red and shows that it was issued by godaddy.com the url then flashes a could if times then shows a php?login and then brings the browser to a current page. I wish I could say this only happens on my note 4 but it is in every device on my network. If I sign in on a new device my passwords are not valid. To change the password is to bring the device current with the 3rd party. Therefore my accounts that I have spent money on are washed away. There are few apps I can save. Anything that leans on com.google.gms can be controlled by the 3rd party. It has helped me to find some great apps though. I highly recommend an app At tools. It allows you to disable app components instead of just disabling the entire app. With it I have been able to save quite a few of my paid apps.

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Thanks again samep. I'm just going through and giving you thanks. It's well deserved for the links you put in this thread. Anyone looking to PIT SM-N910P should be able to do Syu fairly easy by following your additions to this thread. I picked up a couple of other things trying to break free. The problems I have came as a direct result of browsing XDA with out protecting my IP. If you are browsing a developer site and you see a linux mirror that says this is your IP and this is your location you are doing something horribly wrong. I started using express VPN, not only does it protect my network but I am getting mobile data speeds in excess of 50mbs.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vin.matthew.var:
Hello xda! Please help me! my gs3 is having a bootloop. My volume button (up) is broken. I can't go to download mode because I am running RR v5.7.4. That's why I am having a bootloop because I install rr 5.8.0 but when i reboot into system, i entered bootloop. please help me!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivadow:
Try home+power+vol down.

Beamed in by telepathy.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oebbler1:
If that doesn't work, remove the battery, plug in a USB JIG, then insert the battery again and wait until the download mode appears. Then you can remove the JIG and flash the phone via Odin.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShanM:
Dear All,

myself,

HTC desire 816,

S Off status

I tried another A5_DUG Rom for indian htcdesire 816, everything worked well including mobile network and phone tower. but Wifi doesn't get turn on. Do you have any suggestions for me?

I remember, i've faced a same problem, while doing this root and modify rom on my htc desire v. that time i received a separate boot_img.img file from Rom developer to fix this bug. i believe we should have stock firmware to enhance a Wifi on our Rom. how to bypass enable wifi?.

Thanks In Advance,

ShanM
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince.713:
Antenna problem

hi,My phone is HTC Desire 816 a5dug and when the Android 5 was my device, there was no problem installing and the Internet was always 3G or H+ but since I upgraded to Android 6, the antenna is weakened and the Internet does not change from H.:(

Is there anyone able to help with this problem? Thanks:confused:
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Fz'Rot:
Hello , recently just purchase the LG V20 I noticed that I don't have the smart doctor app. is there any other way to download the app? Thanks
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] klau1:
what does it do?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Robert235:
Smart Doctor, an app that lets your monitor, analyze, and clean up your smartphone’s resources, particularly battery and memory. I think just like the LG G5 certain countries have it.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Pick_A_Name:
Probably because killing apps generally isn't a good idea anymore. If it's hanging then go into recent apps and kill it. Otherwise it's best to let Android take care of it.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] BROKEN1981:
It's called smart cleaning
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
I don't find any "ro.config.vc_call_vol_steps=......" or "...... music_vol_steps=....." settings in the A7 build.prop.

I added these lines to my build.prop to increase the steps from the default (which appears to be 7) to 30, but saw no change after reboot.

Is anyone aware of where the size of the volume steps is set, so I might make the steps smaller in adjustment?

Thanks
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] razorblader:
Try and see if ro.config.media_vol_steps and ro.config.vc_call_steps works for you.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
Tried it as you typed and also ro.config.vc_media_steps=30

but neither made a difference. I suspect it is set somewhere in the SystemUI where I don't have access.

Thanks
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] razorblader:
Thanks for the feedback, was gonna try this as well once I'll root my phone.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] awsomjgp:
If you want to, you can use gravity box to change it.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] razorblader:
I've just tested this on B08 rooted and it works are you sure you've disabled system write protection so that your build.prop changes survive a reboot?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
I'm good there.

Thinking back tho, I only checked the ring tone steps from the home page (and that wasn't one of the volume adjustments made), so very like that build.prop edit DID work for what it was set for. I'll try again.

BTW, did you use the "media" or "music" entry?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] razorblader:
'media' as the 'music' variant doesn't seem to work on newer iterations of Android any more.

ro.config.media_vol_steps=80

ro.config.vc_call_vol_steps=40

These settings work for me.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] mozerxdaven:
I just found this thread and I'd like to make this change on my phone too.

I find my phone has to go up to about 80% max volume before I can really hear things on the headphones/earbuds and at that point, it's only a couple clicks away from max volume.

I'm not very familiar with Android stuff yet, so could somebody provide me with some very basic step-by-steps on how to do this or where to find the file to change?

My phone is the US version, running B20 with locked BL but is rooted.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
The suggestions in this thread only change the increments between volume steps, NOT overall volume. Good luck!
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] mozerxdaven:
Yes, I understand this only changes the increments, but I would still like to find out how to make the change so I can have finer-grained control of the volume, even at higher levels.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
It's pretty straight forward since you are rooted: use a File Manager & Text Editor to add the lines below to /system/build.prop Save & then reboot. Your option as to the number of steps.

It is always good practice to make a nandroid backup prior to making changes to give you a recovery point in the event of a mistype or other error. Goodluck

ro.config.media_vol_steps=30

ro.config.vc_call_vol_steps=30
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] mozerxdaven:
I did as suggested but it didn't seem to change anything for me.

I had to use the command to unlock system file changes first, because the change wasn't sticking after reboot at first.

I put those 2 lines at the bottom of the /system/build.prop file

Is it working properly on your phone?

Edit:: Scratch that, i was looking at the ringtone slider rather than the media/apps volume control.

Thank you!
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] amphi66:
Yep, changing ringtone steps is tougher. It takes an edit of a System UI .jar file or the use of an Exposed Module.

Glad these worked for you!
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Aloha20924:
hi guys,

My name is Absame and I am U.K citizen with Somali descent. My parents came to U.K in 1990 during the Somali civil war. Since then we have been residing in London, there's a big Somali community in U.K in general and in London in Particular.

I wanted to watch Somali TV channels and also Arabic TV channels so I bought ZaapTV in the middle of 2013. ZaaptV was telling all the clients that this box is an one time fee box without any annual or monthly fees, but in 2014 they changed their mind. They decided to start to force the clients to upgrade to the new models and to start paying monthly fee for using their services. I was really disappointed with that change of rules.

This was why I decided to stop their service and want to find out a better box to replace it. Could anyone recommend me the best IPTV box to watch Arabic and Somalian channels? I'd prefer it to work without buffering and freezing.

Some of the channels I'd love to watch are:

Sky sport

Skye Movies

Bein Sport

and a lot of Somali channels. (Universal TV, Somaliland, Royal Somali,and so on)

Thank you so much for your detailed reply!
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Robertethornburg:
hey, one of my friends just bought an Android IPTV box called Easybox Arabia from Amazon. It got all arabic channels like bein sport, osn, art, mbc. Many of the channels in HD quality.
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Aloha20924:
What’s the difference between Easybox IPTV and the other IPTV boxes? Does it receive good reviews from users? can you show me some? thanks!
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Robertethornburg:
Easybox IPTV is built on the Android OS, with the Easybox IPTV you are getting a stable IPTV box with quality streaming and no buffering. Some of the differences are as follow:

- It's the Only IPTV company that offers customers 24 hours support 7 days per week.

- Premium severs based in USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.

- it's the most sold IPTV box on Amazon and eBay. (with 9/10 stars)

Easybox IPTV has been. awarded with several best in test awards. The latest one is from TestKingz. :good:
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Aloha20924:
Sounds great Robert. Is it compatible with YouTube and Kodi?
[Android Stick & Console Computers General] Robertethornburg:
Yes, Easybox IPTV comes with YouTube and XBMC/Kodi pre-installed.;)