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Howdy, Blaze'rs... Finally was able to get an account here, (have sprint-virgin mobile for comp, and YES ITS A T-MOBILE BLAZE).
So my first question is... Will I be able to log in via comp & phone when I go home? IE. Back to Sprint and T-Mobile.
Second, Where do I start? Want to help with this phone, it is my very first cel (and am not going to tell you how old I am, but guess old enough to be some of you's grandpa ). And I am hooked.
I would like to learn to make apps and other cool thingies for this Blazing Hot Intelligent phone.
Anyway, be safe and have fun.
Cool beans... sprint works...

Welcome! Not sure I understand your first question unfortunately.
As far as where to start I would start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574556

Welcome too our small, yet quite functional community.
Diving into development I'd no small task, but we all welcome anyone eager to learn.
With ics releasing here hopefully in the coming weeks, I think people may be more interested in this phone
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Welcome! Not sure I understand your first question unfortunately.
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Got that one fingered out... Was able to login on comp when I got home. Not tried phone yet, (( FINALLY I THINK )) got Dark Night Rom installed properly...
rbeier1221 said:
As far as where to start I would start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574556
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Funny how things work out. That link is on my Bookmark Bar. Only thing missing there is how to make the LOGCAT, get 404 error. Got the Dumbies ADB ready to read.
But mostly was looking for a place to start helping. Am guessing, testing, as I can mess up a wet dream, so Documents for Dumbies helper too.
Anyway be safe and have fun. LOL Farmville is going to miss me!!!

Might want to check out this thread as well....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777957

Howdy, Now I have a few ???
And my head hurts and eyes are sore. Been reading, then reading some more. Search this and that, and read again. Just for the mod of the XDA Forum New User guide... Re-using my first post thread, instead of starting a new one.
Ok, question that is driving me nuts. "Directory Structure". Is there a template (of sorts) for sgh-t769, that will tell me what all that "junk" in /acct, /efs, yada yada, is? So I have a better idea what I can play with. (yes, I have several IAmADumyDroid backups)
Main bak is freash virgin root,cwm. Secondary is just after frying "DarkNight".
What I am wanting to do is put a few of MY FAVORITE games and apps in the system then back it up, so I don't have to keep re-installing them after I go try out one of the other ROM's. Yeayea, get this backup app or tat one works better. No they don't.
I keep a copy of everything rar'ed on my comp. Play yyyy game a day. Find something else, then week latter go back to yyyy. Only thing I can't seem to bak is the bak program. And a few times while playing with the roms, to fix it back, I have hade to re-format the sdcard.
Next, there has to be a better way to get this stuff back and forth between comp and phone. USB cable is pain and that keis just plain xxxx the big one. I have laptop with virgin mobile usb inet stick thingie and this cool phone. No routers, no cable modem, no land line phone. Comp does have wifi but unless I pay the shell gas station to hook up for an hour oh well. Wifi tethering just lets me use the phone for the comp's inet. And found a program for the comp that lets me go the other way.
Well that is enough for now. Time to go read some more...
Be safe and have fun.
sgh-t769 -- 2.3.6 -- t769uvlf4 -- 2.6.35.11 -- gingerbread.uvlf4 -- dKnight-build7_fixed

Aw man... I'm excited about this phone all over again.

I bought this phone maybe two months or a month and a half ago. At the time, I had no idea that root was impossible. I also own a Play Store Galaxy Nexus, so after being so free to do what I wanted with it for so long, the One X was giving me anxiety fits (anxiety over a cell phone, yes I know).
I don't really need two phones, so I should sell one. Which one though? The HOX is a monster in every aspect, but I can't fiddle with it. The Nexus is so nice in that arena, but the camera is borderline putrid and the screen is sort of dark. Plus I have good eyesight, so the Pentile nature of the screen boasts its presence at every turn. It runs everything pretty well and gets updates very quickly. The development is second to none. But the HOX. That screen. That camera. It has LTE. That snapdragon. I'm going to have less "spending money" available to me soon, so I want the phone that's most futureproof. That's obviously the HOX. Software is important. So what do I do? Hold out for the next Nexus? Sell both and get a Galaxy S3? I really prefer the HOX over the S3, so I don't want to do that. If only I could root the damn thing and put CM10 on it like I have on my GNex. Damn damn damn. I guess I'll be patient and see if the heroes of legend at XDA can work their magic.
I sift through the forums reading about this and that. CM10 on the HOX has a bunch of wakelocks? Wifi problems? Man, is it worth it to wait or should I just sell this thing while the prices are good? AT&T is purposefully crippling my baby. The one phone I want and I'm at the mercy of damn AT&T. Why can't HTC have the sort of power necessary to stand up to carriers like that fruit company from California? If only.
And just two nights ago, BAM. I worked until 12:30AM and have to return to work the next day at ~4:30AM, not to mention wake up at 3:30 so I can shower and shave with time to pick up a coworker at her place. It's 1:30 and I really ought to get some sleep. But I'm not finished with this delicious beer yet. Guess I'll check XDA in the meantime. Oh god... "Exploit found" says the bounty thread. Welp, so much for going to sleep now. So after fighting with both my computer and my phone for a while, my bootloader is unlocked. I don't know how to root yet because this is my first HTC phone. But we're off to a good start. I get an hour and a half of sleep and come home from work, tired and miserable. Should I nap? Hell no, I need TWRP. To XDA! Hello, custom recovery. Now I need root. What's this? A flashable SuperSU .zip? Hmm... let's try it. Better install a root check app since I don't know how to tell if I have root otherwise. Success! Well damn it, now I'm ready to flash the CM10 zip from Goo manager. Oh, no I'm not. I have to flash the boot.img with fastboot first. I've never done this before (GS2 and Gnex were my previous phones) and I don't know what the hell S-On is, but whatever. Let's do it. Good Lord, it worked. I'm one step closer to the love child of the Gnex and HOX that I've been so long waiting to adopt. Now I can flash the CM10 zip? Alright, let's do it.
And here I am. This is what I've been waiting for. After switching my sim card between my HOX and GNex almost every other day, I can finally leave it in one phone for a while. The ROM I'm running is labeled "experimental," but it really seems to be anything but. Aside from some visual quirks and some in-call echo, I've had practically zero issues using this phone. The battery life is comparable to stock, and while it seems to be lacking some of the butter of the CM10 Gnex nightlies, it's just fine for me. Fast. Stable. Powerful.
So this is me gushing over the devs here at XDA. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to righting what is repeatedly wronged by the juggernaut telecoms here in the US.

While most people hate AT&T for locking the bootloader, you can understand why they did it if you read the threads here about people flashing incompatible roms and hard bricking their phones. Especially this guy:
Originally Posted by timthatank05:
no... after trying to get it to work all day yesterday, i finally gave up and drove the car over it and then called the insurance on it... no phone for a few days at least...

cool man , dont forget to try other roms! many of them are cm10 based, you should try paranoid android :good:

area51avenger said:
While most people hate AT&T for locking the bootloader, you can understand why they did it if you read the threads here about people flashing incompatible roms and hard bricking their phones. Especially this guy:
Originally Posted by timthatank05:
no... after trying to get it to work all day yesterday, i finally gave up and drove the car over it and then called the insurance on it... no phone for a few days at least...
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Lmao
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What can I say. The OP is a showman haha.. awesome OP, glad to have you here in this awesome community
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area51avenger said:
While most people hate AT&T for locking the bootloader, you can understand why they did it if you read the threads here about people flashing incompatible roms and hard bricking their phones. Especially this guy:
Originally Posted by timthatank05:
no... after trying to get it to work all day yesterday, i finally gave up and drove the car over it and then called the insurance on it... no phone for a few days at least...
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Lol that's just plain funny

area51avenger said:
While most people hate AT&T for locking the bootloader, you can understand why they did it if you read the threads here about people flashing incompatible roms and hard bricking their phones. Especially this guy:
Originally Posted by timthatank05:
no... after trying to get it to work all day yesterday, i finally gave up and drove the car over it and then called the insurance on it... no phone for a few days at least...
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still fraud. :'(
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To the OP, I felt the same type of excitement when I saw it. I appreciate the time and effort put into this exploit and anyone who may have helped. It's even more exciting that theres awesome people who freely release these to the public so that awesome ROMS can be put on. I was so ticked off with my locked bootloader I almost switched it out for a motorola atrix HD. The first time I took it back was legit though, it had the muffled voice syndrome, and the phone was only 6 days old, the corp store tried to give me a refurbished phone! ... I refused it and got a new one, and that one had battery issues, had to take it back a second time but finally got it straight right on the day of the root exploit. At the end of the week if I got any spare change I am definitely going to donate for the hard work it took and the time and patience.
area51avenger said:
While most people hate AT&T for locking the bootloader, you can understand why they did it if you read the threads here about people flashing incompatible roms and hard bricking their phones. Especially this guy:
Originally Posted by timthatank05:
no... after trying to get it to work all day yesterday, i finally gave up and drove the car over it and then called the insurance on it... no phone for a few days at least...
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LOL, good quote find.
On one hand yes, I can understand why a company may lock down a bootloader and I am sure many companies going forward may get the same dangerous idea. Maybe its true intentions is to protect people from bricking the phone or wasting their time with claims etc .. but on the other hand imagine if you bought a computer and Dell or HP comes in and says, well we locked down the firmware we dont want you putting any other OS in there but microsoft. Also, on top of that we dont want you using any other video cards besides an ATI card .. to prevent you from this we locked down the firmware. It's poisonous to creativity.
I believe in open source and feel saddened when we get locked bootloaders. I love the Android OS, I feel it should be completely open without any company interferences so that many great devs can continue to create and modify the existing OS/ROMs. Its a two sided coin.
I really am loving XDA, so much useful info, so many things to learn.

Lmao I nearly messed myself when I first saw that thread. That douche is never gonna live it down.
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Stories like that kind of worry me, I just got the phone and love playing with Nova Prime but have dug into rooting it yet until I read more about it.
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Everyone is guilty of the childlike excitement you get when you successfully root a new phone and see that first Rom you want to try
:fingers-crossed:

[Q] Has anybody gotten a GT-P5113 rooted with Jellybean yet?

I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 GT-P5113 and I want Jellybean on it pretty bad. Jellybean is android 4.2, I think. Right now I have 4.0.4 and turned off OTA because I have a rooted stock ROM. My Friend has the same tablet, NOT rooted and took the latest OTA update. She still has 4.0.4 but a different kernel. Samsung is really dragging their butts about releasing Jellybean for this tablet, what is the problem?
I use Clockworkmod ROM manager to manage my ROMs, but originally rooted with Odin and a Windows 7 laptop. Does anybody actually have a GT-P5113 rooted and working on Jellybean yet or is this just a fantasy?
If so, could you please tell how you did it, source files, or at least a URL to the howto page?
Thanks.

I am using Jelly Bean 4.1.2. It's not 4.2 but is Jelly Bean. Look in the tab 2 development forum a couple topics down

superdog404 said:
I am using Jelly Bean 4.1.2. It's not 4.2 but is Jelly Bean. Look in the tab 2 development forum a couple topics down
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Yeah? No kidding? Well that is better than what I got, I did a cyanogenmod through clockworkmod and it was pretty cool and all, but no jellybean. Still had 4.0.4. I messed with it for a while, but all my stuff was gone and even Titanium could not bring it back. Since the new ROM didn't do anything spectacular, I used CWM to put back my old rom and apps. I do not want to start all over again if it is not what I want.
I will go see if I can find it. If you can, give me some links to check out. Thanks! :good:

Ohmster said:
Yeah? No kidding? Well that is better than what I got, I did a cyanogenmod through clockworkmod and it was pretty cool and all, but no jellybean. Still had 4.0.4. I messed with it for a while, but all my stuff was gone and even Titanium could not bring it back. Since the new ROM didn't do anything spectacular, I used CWM to put back my old rom and apps. I do not want to start all over again if it is not what I want.
I will go see if I can find it. If you can, give me some links to check out. Thanks! :good:
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Yah, it is true, there are JB updates for this thing. All ROMs are rooted so there we go! What I found is:
[ROM][GT-P51XX][JB][4.1.2] CyanogenMod 10 official nightly builds
Now the instructions say to use the P5100 ROM but there are P5113 ROMS too. We also need Google Apps: Oh Christ, good luck figuring out which one you need.
For JB we need a CyanogenMod 10. Can be found here for P5113.
We get Android 4.1.2 and Jellybean! I did this last night from the Cyanogen mods in CWM and was not impressed, plus I did not read the instructions about using Titanium to backup only my user apps and NOT the data. NO system apps. Thus, I could not use Titanium to restore my stuff and was pretty pissed about starting all the way over and not even having JB. This is different and this I can do, besides, it is not even difficult.
I am definitely going for this but this time, I will do it right, get my apps backed up in Titanium the way it says, get the right ROM from the page I gave you the link for, and follow the instructions in the above link. I need some time for this but tomorrow I have to go and get my girl. She is close to 100 miles away and I got a roommate moving in for a few months, this will be hectic but I will get it done. Since doing this ROM will put me back to stock with all my stuff gone, I need my apps and google maps and navigator to get my baby, I restored back to my rooted Touch Wiz because everything works great. In the car, I use my Verizon Razr Maxx to get WiFi without that hot spot bill with an essential tool for rooted phones: wifi tether for root users. I turn this on, I have wifi for the tablet and can use Google Navigator on the big screen, not to mention great music and talk radio with Tune In, Pandora, or Slacker. If you got a rooted phone and a WiFi tablet, this is a Must Have app and it is totally free!
Thanks man. If anyone is interested in what happened, did it work, is it cool? Is it difficult, and do I have any tips, I will be glad to post them here, upon request. Wish me luck and thanks dude!

Hi Ohmster - Ok, I thought about giving you the rom I am using but decided you should see which one you want. Aside from that I am using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892046.
It seems to be working very well for me.
Good luck picking up your girl. Since you are where you are you shouldn't have any weather (snow) problems.
superdog404

superdog404 said:
Hi Ohmster - Ok, I thought about giving you the rom I am using but decided you should see which one you want. Aside from that I am using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892046.
It seems to be working very well for me.
Good luck picking up your girl. Since you are where you are you shouldn't have any weather (snow) problems.
superdog404
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Yeah, that is the one I was looking at. Hey, did you backup your apps to Titanium? I never backed up "just downloaded apps without data before" and that is what I have to do or else I will be stuck trying to remember and install almost 400 apps. Did you use Titanium to restore your apps or did you just do the ROM and then do everything by hand after that? Oh, do you have a GT-P5113? Thanks!

I have a I777 ATT so I have a lot of my backups with titanium and just transfered them over to the Tab. Most of the time I just restore app and no data. Some I get them fresh from the market. Yes I am using Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WiFi, GT-5113 same as you.

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I have a I777 ATT so I have a lot of my backups with titanium and just transfered them over to the Tab. Most of the time I just restore app and no data. Some I get them fresh from the market. Yes I am using Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 WiFi, GT-5113 same as you.
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Cool, thanks for the tip!

I want what you have on your GT-P5115
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Hi Ohmster - Ok, I thought about giving you the rom I am using but decided you should see which one you want. Aside from that I am using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892046.
It seems to be working very well for me.
Good luck picking up your girl. Since you are where you are you shouldn't have any weather (snow) problems.
superdog404
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Yep, that's the one that I am looking at. I have had this thing on my screen for days, wanting to do it, but not wanting to lose the tab if I have to pickup my girl, she lives about 75 miles away and the huge 10.1" tab screen is excellent for Google Maps and better yet, Google Navigation. It gets me right there and if I am low on cash, I can tell it to bypass tolls. The Florida Turnpike and I95 pretty much run, side by side, so either is about the same drive, but the Turnpike will cost about $7-8 each way, only two lanes, no stops but for 50 mile apart rest areas. I95 is free and has more lanes but chokes with traffic during the week at rush hour.
The rest of you guys can skip this stuff in red, it is way off topic...
This really sucks man, she is watching over her sick dad, he has black lung on oxygen all the time, Virginia and the coal mines, you know. Then he is hospitalized with a heart attack. So, she stays at his side 24/7. Sleeping on the hospital floor and all that. The other kids, many older, do not bother this much. He comes home and she sleeps in his room, on the floor, by his side, to give medicine on schedule and in case he has any sort of complication. I tell her that she is burning the candle at both ends and will not make it, come down by me, let me pamper you for two days, decompress, and feel good. We will get you a self inflating air mattress to cover your sleeping needs, plus whatever kind of girly stuff she needs. It takes her a whole day and night to start to loosen up and feel better. Now she goes into the shower, next stop, Netflix in the bed for some fun and rest. They phone rings, it her family, telling her dad needs her, he is getting worse and she is the only one who can care for him proper. She made out a detailed notebook of prescription medication, dates, times, initials, just to make sure that he is cared for proper, and the lazy ass sister iwth 6 kids and all the rest of them cannot "take care of dad" so she has to come home, NOW. *@# Dammit, there goes our "happy time"
AND the next day of rest and pampering for my baby. She is a good chick, she makes me lay down and does her thing, she won't leave unless I am "so satisfied that I won't even look at another girl" (I don't look at other women anyway, I am old fashioned and never cheat.) and right back into the car we go, to take her home and then I drive back home again. I only got like 4 hours sleep the night before and I am way too tired to make this drive but I have to. She is *****ing the entire way to let her drive, but she does not have a license so I am a bit uncomfortable with that so I have to put up with her the whole time and she is right. (She owes fines from a long time ago and we do not have the money yet to pay them all off, payment plan.) I make it there, dad seems no worse than when we left or so it seems, and I drive home. Got pretty close too but then got nailed by a State Trooper, caught me not staying in my lane and everyone is doing 65-70 MPH, do 55 and you will get run over. I show my credentials and explain that I am way tired, the entire dad/girl/sick stuff so he gives me a sobriety test. Follow the pen with your eyes only. What is your education level, high school graduate? Recite the alphabet, NO singing, from A to Z. I pass both tests with ease. He says fatigue and intoxicated appear the same to a cop so I think maybe he will give me some sort of break, only 15 miles from home now. NO. On ticket for "Fail to stay in single lane", $166 plus one for "Unlawful speed 70 Interstate", $266. $432 in fines plus points, could this day get ANY worse?!! And I am a decent guy too. Never lie, never cheat, don't steal, faithful, the whole 9 yards! I need a ticket lawyer. ...sigh.
Yeah, here is the happy couple... Pictures Attached.
So yeah, that is exactly the ROM I am looking at, you say it is good, I am up for it. I did grab a Cyanogen 9 from inside of CWM, but that was not Jellybean and then everything was gone. ClockworkMod made the entire thing fast and easy, but did not offer cyanogen 10. I restored the previous backup.
Okay, so help me out here. The download links on that page do not work, man. The Google Apps are so numerous, which one did you install for your GT-P5113? I want to do this really bad but when I tried CMK9, CWM made it real easy, backed up the current system first, did the update really fast, wiped all caches, and I was left with, not much of anything. I did install Gapps and downloaded the Titanium backujp that I paid for, wanted to put my stuff back but Titanium could not find any backups. I forgot to do the setup and tell it to look on the SD card as well as Dropbox and G Drive, I think I am supposed to restore apps only, NO DATA. Once I put my gmail account back in, my contacts and all should come back and Titanium will do the apps so this should not be that hard.
I can download the ROM and install from SD card with CWM, should be a piece of cake, but I need good links to the ROM AND Gapps. Can you help me out? I want what you got. Thanks!

[Solved] 4.2.1 installed!
I finally got Jellybean installed with the Cyanogenmod ROM 10.1. This one works good.
cm-10-20121130-EXPERIMENTAL-p5110-CODEWORKX.zip
gapps-jb-20121130-signed.zip
This page tells exactly how to do it and where to get the files.
By the way, you can forget all that attach the cable to the PC stuff and just use Clockworkmod ROM manager to install this, piece of cake. Put the two files on sdcard, boot to recovery, wipe both caches, install the zip for the ROM and install the zip for gapps. Done!
Thanks everybody. Just wanted to close this thread properly.

A great thank you to this community

I just wanted to post, saying thank you to everyone here.
I've had my Infuse for almost 2 years now, and while it will kinda be sad to let it go here soon for a Nexus 4, I have to say, you all turned my opinion on the phone around.
I run through AT&T, and when I got the phone, it was my first smartphone. My biggest problem was all the AT&T bloatware on it. It kept running in the background, making it hard to do anything as it lagged up my phone. It really ruined it for me. I looked up online to see when I could finally leave Froyo and maybe see if it would run faster on GB, and learned about the Kies upgrade. I started the method, and it sat there for half a day doing nothing but sitting at 30% until I finally disconnected it in frustration. Turns out, it was upgrading, but the cord wasn't good enough to do it, and I had bricked my phone. I panicked, as I was trying to find a job, and without my phone, I was screwed.
I came to this site looking for help. When I finally tried a new cord and Heimdall one-click, it worked gloriously (big thank you to qwkster for all of your help on that with your informative posts here). I was so excited to run gingerbread, but something was wrong. I couldn't save contacts, and my phone just generally didn't want to work. I didn't want to try messing with it again, because I didn't want to break it. Eventually, my phone bricked itself, and at this point, I checked to find a warranty on it. My warranty had expired 3 months after I got the phone, so as AT&T tried to run me through the hoops of either an insurance claim or an early upgrade, both of which cost me money I didn't have, I finally told them I was not doing either, and told her that the best help she could give me was telling me that I don't have a warranty. I decided to root my phone that night.
After 4 hours of searching for a one-click that rooted my phone and removed all the bloatware, I finally found one of qwksters helpful posts and got it to work. My phone was finally mine, actually mine to fully control, and it was great. It ran so fast, and it just felt amazing to use, I was so excited. I started working at a corporate radioshack after that, and thats when I started getting some nice cases for it to just make me feel more like this phone was truly my phone. The cases made people think I had a stronger phone than I did, and it just made it that much more awesome.
The night before Halo 4 released though, I had remembered that halo 4 would support smartglass, and went to download the app. M$, being the great people they are, didn't let it support GB, so I looked on here again to find a work-around, and learned about Cyanogen Mod. My night was cleared and set ahead of me, and I prepared to turn my already awesome phone into something even better.
I did all the work-arounds, and got my phone upgraded to JB. At first, I worried that there were some big issues with it, such as facebook sync not working. Found out, that was really a minor issue that made me worry a lot, and it was fixable, though I've been too lazy to use it lol. Either way, I got to work to next day, and my Store Manager was dumbfounded at my phone, questioning why I didn't get a new phone at the store. I told him it wasn't a new phone, and he was surprised at what I had done to my phone, one that was discontinued and kinda forgotten about. I love what this phone does now, I love what google did with Android, and even moreso, I love the xda community for making me realize just how good an Android phone can be when the user is given control of it.
The biggest downfall is the battery life, but it lasts a day so its really not that bad. Plus, we have chargers all over radioshack, so its normally fine lol. Either way, this phone is spectacular, and I have to admit, I will hate to see it go, but I can't wait to try out an officially branded google phone.
When the day comes that I jump over to the Nexus 4 forums, I just want it to be known here that you guys made my Android experience the best it could be. The CM team and qwkster in particular are two of the greatest assets to this, and I can't thank you enough. I love this phone, and I love google even more for how well they have done with their OS and supported the community to do even greater.
Keep on doing what you are doing here, it works, it works miracles

Are you on the backorder list for the N4 as well?
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Well written. Most of us have had similar experiences with XDA community.
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Absolutely. You couldn't have sucked it out of my mind any better. This entire community is awesome. I donate to everyone whose code I use, and am quite happy to do so.
The Infuse is an awesome phone and my first smartphone too. It was indeed scary to to that first rooting...but it opened the door to lots and lots of other great experiences and trials with my phone.
Whatever my next phone is, I will be turning again toothed excellent folks here, and hopefully can give some code of the my own back someday.
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Let us know how you like the Nexus 4

That was beautiful :'(
Yea i am also proud of the infuse and all the support it has been given.
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Love the infuse. I would definitely still use that as my daily driver, but i am using a 4s just because it will not ever fail, like my phone on debloated stock gingerbread, stable as a rock. But it is on a heavily modified CM10 i made lol, still rocks. I was looking at a nexus 4, and played with the optimus G at Best Buy, and boy let me tell you, i could not slow the dang thing down! I was looking at the G, Note 2, and One X+ but something way better like the S4 will be out soon, and i might as well wait now until my contract is up in 4-5 months now.

To be honest, I have not heard one good thing about the N4 to date. Granted I haven't heard any really bad things, like the phone exploding in your hand the second you try to run it at 100%, but enough to sway me away from it.
Like you in a way, I came to these forums some time ago whilst working on what was one of my first smartphones, the HTC 8195 Wizard. Slider phone with full keyboard, halfway decent graphics, but sucky WM5.0 OS.
Next up was the HTC 8925 Kaiser, AKA "ATT Tilt", which ran WinMo 6.0 at best, but some pretty crafty and resourceful devs here on XDA ported Android to it, not just firmwares but kernels as well. L1q1D taught me a few things on kernel structure and memory mapping (really important on those phones), and the rest just seemed to fall into place; I was hooked.
The best I could do was try to port Honeycomb through use of "blind porting" from another HTC phone, but I couldn't get the kernel to fully come on line with the new memory structure, and all I could get was a really long bootloop and an almost non-functional homescreen.
Which brings me to the Infuse, which I aquired through the normal upgrade channels when contract came up. I got 2 of them, one for me, one for the now ex-girlfriend, who constantly bugs me to upgrade her phone since she's still on 2.2.1 Froyo.
Everyone here, devs and noobs, are always kind and willing to lend a kernel of knowledge, if it's something they know how to fix. If they can't fix it, they can point you to someone who can.
Lots of love and respect for everyone here on XDA, not just this forum.
There is a wealth of knowledge and information out there on just about any phone/smartphone available around the world. You can even step outside the bounds of your subscribed forum (this one) and find another phone using similar hardware, and maybe use some apps that also run on that device, even some "bloatware" from the manufacturer that you find useful, yet is not included in your favorite firmware.
Again, hate to lose another "Infuser" to the N4, but choice is choice... just don't drop it...ever.

PoXFreak said:
Again, hate to lose another "Infuser" to the N4, but choice is choice... just don't drop it...ever.
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I went the way of the N4 as well. I read many things about the phone that were bad, but after about two weeks of use I have nothing to complain about. I still use my infuse at home for browsing the internet and some games, I guess you could say my "phablet" because I can't make calls with it. I still browse these infuse forums daily! Don't think I could ever get rid of it.
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I bricked it......

I flew too close to the sun! I'm an amateur just living off of the greatness that makes this site popular, but I've been fortunate over the years. It finally caught up with me. I have put many, many ROMs on my Nexus 7, Droid X and SG3 without any problems. I think I became over confident in my abilities. When I first started I would read through the whole process and research before leaping but this time I must have missed a step.
The steps to death of a phone
1. Had Pure Google AOSP on my phone for months with no problems (loved it)
2. Thought I had worked a a trade for a Galaxy Note II, so I put the newest Samsung Version back on the phone
3. Trade didn't work out, so I was just going to keep it and try a few other ROMs
4. Used my same 'ol procedures for trying to FLASH, didn't work because of the new Samsung Version
5. Played around awhile got in put CleanRom 6, but the cellphone would not not connect(Stuck in roaming) crap happens
6. Took it back to stock. dialed *2767*3855# everything worked fine
7. Decided to try a few other ROMs
8. This time I during flashing I the phone posted some message from Samsung saying the phone had a improper OS, contact Samsung. (can't remember exact message) This is were I probably screwed up. I got a little lazy and was playing around with my Note 10.1 while things were loading on my SG3. I had a few problems getting back to CWM. Finally, and I'm not sure how, I got back into recovery.
9. Loaded crDroid, got a little confused on which modem to pick, I think I picked XXELLA, everything else seemed straight forward.
10. Package seemed to install
11. On final reboot, the phone went off and never came back... No CWM, No Download mode, Won't charge, zero response to Odin
Oh well, crap happens! I knew it was always a risk. I will send it to MobileTechVideos and see if he can help me out.
EDIT: Oh, I just wanted to say to everyone, I love this site and the people on it.... I could never say that in the "Developer" section because I didn't have enough post. I don't know what drives you people but keep it up! And please don't take my screw up as a negative against any ROM. This is surely my fault for getting lazy. Works for thousands but fails for me? That is me not the package. Will I stop? NO! I'm getting ready to put something on my Nexus 7 as I type this.
SECOND EDIT: I think BattsNotlncld found the problem in two minutes. I don't think there is a crDroid package for SCH-1535. I was on another webpage looking for packages and ran across crDroid.

Easy to see where you messed up. I've never heard of crDroid or XXELLA but a quick google search brought me to the Galaxy S III I9300 forum (aka International version). Flashing a ROM made for the International version will surely give you a hard brick.

Go to www.mobiletechvideos.com
They are the best at fixing bricked phones. I bricked my SGS2 and they had it back to me good as new in 10 days.

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Easy to see where you messed up. I've never heard of crDroid or XXELLA but a quick google search brought me to the Galaxy S III I9300 forum (aka International version). Flashing a ROM made for the International version will surely give you a hard brick.
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Yeap, it looks like in my hast to download packages, I slipped into the I9300 world and left my SCH-1535 world. I just recreated my download chain and I clicked on a external link from another webpage to get to the crDroid download. Stupid hurts. I should have stopped when I saw the modem question, but I didn't.

damn this is tough to see. sorry to read about this.
after a mistake like this you will be more careful, bricked an HTC Droid Eris (my first smartphone) and also loaded a leaked firmware, which, stopped us from getting root, which came about a week after that new leaked firmware (lesson learned).
hope to see you back in action soon

thanks
Thanks for taking the time to post your follies! As a novice, I will remember your tale and read everything to the point of understanding before flashing anything.

I've been a long time user of the site & just signed up a few days ago lol I've seen this many times.
Yeah, international versions will brick your phone. That's why it's extremely hard to port an international rom
Good luck man! But like bigtom said, mobiletechvideos can fix almost anything.

Cooter007 said:
I flew too close to the sun! I'm an amateur just living off of the greatness that makes this site popular, but I've been fortunate over the years. It finally caught up with me. I have put many, many ROMs on my Nexus 7, Droid X and SG3 without any problems. I think I became over confident in my abilities. When I first started I would read through the whole process and research before leaping but this time I must have missed a step.
The steps to death of a phone
1. Had Pure Google AOSP on my phone for months with no problems (loved it)
2. Thought I had worked a a trade for a Galaxy Note II, so I put the newest Samsung Version back on the phone
3. Trade didn't work out, so I was just going to keep it and try a few other ROMs
4. Used my same 'ol procedures for trying to FLASH, didn't work because of the new Samsung Version
5. Played around awhile got in put CleanRom 6, but the cellphone would not not connect(Stuck in roaming) crap happens
6. Took it back to stock. dialed *2767*3855# everything worked fine
7. Decided to try a few other ROMs
8. This time I during flashing I the phone posted some message from Samsung saying the phone had a improper OS, contact Samsung. (can't remember exact message) This is were I probably screwed up. I got a little lazy and was playing around with my Note 10.1 while things were loading on my SG3. I had a few problems getting back to CWM. Finally, and I'm not sure how, I got back into recovery.
9. Loaded crDroid, got a little confused on which modem to pick, I think I picked XXELLA, everything else seemed straight forward.
10. Package seemed to install
11. On final reboot, the phone went off and never came back... No CWM, No Download mode, Won't charge, zero response to Odin
Oh well, crap happens! I knew it was always a risk. I will send it to MobileTechVideos and see if he can help me out.
EDIT: Oh, I just wanted to say to everyone, I love this site and the people on it.... I could never say that in the "Developer" section because I didn't have enough post. I don't know what drives you people but keep it up! And please don't take my screw up as a negative against any ROM. This is surely my fault for getting lazy. Works for thousands but fails for me? That is me not the package. Will I stop? NO! I'm getting ready to put something on my Nexus 7 as I type this.
SECOND EDIT: I think BattsNotlncld found the problem in two minutes. I don't think there is a crDroid package for SCH-1535. I was on another webpage looking for packages and ran across crDroid.
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It's very refreshing to see a user take responsibility and not whine and complain for their mistake. I commend you for that.
With that being said it sucks to see this happen to you. I have never heard of mobiletechvideos.com before this thread but did some looking and it's impressive what they promise. (damn good reviews to back it up too) Looks like it's $60 or so plus shipping to get it up and running again, sounds like a good deal to me.
Good luck, let us know what you do!

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It's very refreshing to see a user take responsibility and not whine and complain for their mistake. I commend you for that.
With that being said it sucks to see this happen to you. I have never heard of mobiletechvideos.com before this thread but did some looking and it's impressive what they promise. (damn good reviews to back it up too) Looks like it's $60 or so plus shipping to get it up and running again, sounds like a good deal to me.
Good luck, let us know what you do!
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I bricked my SG3 just before Christmas and had it back from mobiletechvideos.com before New Years Eve. Pretty good for standard shipping and holiday season!

Mailing it off tomorrow! I bought a Note 2 until my SG3 gets fixed. I had to do something, because I don't have a home phone and my wife travels frequently. It is extremely hard to time an airport pickup without a cellphone. I love my SG3 but I really like the Note 2. I will be selling one in a few weeks. Which one? ....... we will see!

Cooter007 said:
Mailing it off tomorrow! I bought a Note 2 until my SG3 gets fixed. I had to do something, because I don't have a home phone and my wife travels frequently. It is extremely hard to time an airport pickup without a cellphone. I love my SG3 but I really like the Note 2. I will be selling one in a few weeks. Which one? ....... we will see!
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Some of the best lessons are the ones learned the hard way... but still sucks!
When I got my S3, coming from a HTC Incredible, the biggest concern I had was how big the phone was.... now I would totally consider the Note2. Post which way you decide!

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Cooter007 said:
Mailing it off tomorrow! I bought a Note 2 until my SG3 gets fixed. I had to do something, because I don't have a home phone and my wife travels frequently. It is extremely hard to time an airport pickup without a cellphone. I love my SG3 but I really like the Note 2. I will be selling one in a few weeks. Which one? ....... we will see!
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You have any updates??

I feel your pain....hard bricked mine on Apr. 1, shipped it off to MTV on Apr. 3, and just found out today it'll be shipped back this week, so.... $95 lesson learned lol