Hey guys I got a I727 but I live in Brazil.
I am having a lot of issues with the connectivity here.
I tried a lot of combos ( roms / kernels / radios / SIM cards) and it still acting randomly. Sometimes it works for days and it makes me believe that I got it fixed, sometimes for hours on even less than that. I've trying almost everything.
I know we can use radios from t989 and blaze's and note but all I got here in the forum was from Canadian or American devices.
So my next attempt is to try to port a radio optimized for my country from a device that is similar to the i727.
Does anyone have an idea of how to port radios? I want to use one optimized to use my country's frequencies.
Thanks in advance guys.
And please take easy on me, I m just a newbie
No one ever tweaked radio to date but Sammy!!! sad but true lol
mahanddeem said:
No one ever tweaked radio to date but Sammy!!! sad but true lol
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Sorry, but whos Sammy, and also if none tweaked a radio how do we are able to use blazers and t989 and notes? PS: ( Iknow t989 are twin of ours i727, but i believe the modem hardware is a bit different since they dont have LTE) .
Sammy = Samsung.... Its a common nickname
Some SR users USE blaze or T989 radios as is (so they can use their phones on T mobile) ... Those are never tweaked radios and nobody can
mahanddeem said:
Sammy = Samsung.... Its a common nickname
Some SR users USE blaze or T989 radios as is (so they can use their phones on T mobile) ... Those are never tweaked radios and nobody can
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I use bell I757m skyrocket HD
tjsooley said:
I use bell I757m skyrocket HD
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How did you know that this modem was compatible with your device? Just try and error?
Is it possible to brick my device if I give a try in other devices modems?
filipeangelo said:
How did you know that this modem was compatible with your device? Just try and error?
Is it possible to brick my device if I give a try in other devices modems?
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Never mess up with things like radio...you might easily end up bricking your phone or messing the IMEI number which is at least a pain in the ass to fix...you can just use (flash) things that are commonly known to work with your skyrocket (learn here)..And talking about t989 radio in a skyrocket , never think it works right..expect ton of problems in connectivity.. But at least you can run t mobile on SR (even though very buggy) !
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How did you know that this modem was compatible with your device? Just try and error?
Is it possible to brick my device if I give a try in other devices modems?
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Looked up the radio chipset and found it to be the same
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tjsooley said:
Looked up the radio chipset and found it to be the same
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The chipset isn't the mainboard "brain"? If I do an analogy with PC, main boards controls everything and a modem is just a PCI card controlled by the motherboard. If so, that does not mean that my radio is actually the same but that the brain is. Maybe the way that the modem communicate with the motherboard is standard?
If so I will look up to some Sam modem for a phone from here that got the Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset, and then I will try to flash it.
Im aware that Sony got some models here, but I not as much crazy to flash their modems
The modem/radio chipset not soc chipset
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The modem/radio chipset not soc chipset
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Where do I find this info?For the i727 and other devices.
Thx
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OK it looks like you're an as*ho** who doesn't like to listen... Good luck bricking (q&a section people don't like these days topics like: flashed LG stuffs and now my SR never turns on)...
Some people you waist time helping them !!!
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Im aware of the risks of bricking it. If it bricks it doesnt matter to me, thats already a useless device, since I cant receive calls or send message properly and Im not a fan of cell games.
I have flashed radios/roms/kernels/boots thousand of times for the SR and many other devices.
About the Q&A dont worry i wont post nothing like that.
I am just looking for info from ppl that had the same idea that i did ( flash other devices radios) to minimize my bricking risk. Again I dont care abou brick it!!!
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Im aware of the risks of bricking it. If it bricks it doesnt matter to me, thats already a useless device, since I cant receive calls or send message properly and Im not a fan of cell games.
I have flashed radios/roms/kernels/boots thousand of times for the SR and many other devices.
About the Q&A dont worry i wont post nothing like that.
I am just looking for info from ppl that had the same idea that i did ( flash other devices radios) to minimize my bricking risk. Again I dont care abou brick it!!!
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You did nothing wrong. The other guy was just rude, and I have already reported him for the rude and hurtful post.
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Where do I find this info?For the i727 and other devices.
Thx
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Alot of searching on google and this forum. I would not recommend anyone to try what i did. I also have ~15 years experience as a IT Professional with computers, linux, Security & Mobile devices. It was also in part a educated guess. The imei issues the other guy was talking about can happen if your not carefull and I also had to see if the cwm files had ril or not (They dont). Others are testing this modem/radio so Just wate.
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You did nothing wrong. The other guy was just rude, and I have already reported him for the rude and hurtful post.
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Alot of searching on google and this forum. I would not recommend anyone to try what i did. I also have ~15 years experience as a IT Professional with computers, linux, Security & Mobile devices. It was also in part a educated guess. The imei issues the other guy was talking about can happen if your not carefull and I also had to see if the cwm files had ril or not (They dont). Others are testing this modem/radio so Just wate.
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Thx for your kind answer man. I guess i got no lucky to find technical info regard the modems chipset here.
Ill have to dig deeper on google.
Thx anyway
You do realize that every single thing done on this entire website incurs a risk of bricking, right? It's his own responsibility to know that, not your responsibility to shove it up his butt. He's trying to figure something out to make his device better for him, which it sounds like he knows the risks of, and which is also the whole point of this website. If you have no useful advice to offer, don't talk.
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After a lot of testing I have to the conclusion that the ROMs and images from the S4 cpu versions of One S is NOT compatible with the ones with the S3 cpu variants!
This includes ROM and CWM. This means also for now there is way to root the S3 one s variants. If you try flash the cwm anyway...you will screw your recovery and you can no longer hard reset the phone.
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To All Developers!!! For now, please add a prefix [S3] or [S4] to your thread title and mentioned it in OP
i just ordered another One S from Tmobile, do u know if they send out S3s now instead of S4s?
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i just ordered another One S from Tmobile, do u know if they send out S3s now instead of S4s?
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All T-Mobile ones will have the S4. The S3 models are only for certain Asian and European markets.
Still though that may be true I haven't checked I still think the forum should be divided by version bases EU, UK, US etc.
Even if it had to be done by sub forum for VB it's really easy to do and would clear up a lot of issues people are having over here.
Duh? Isn't this an obvious warning? Does it really need a thread? Who the hell would flash a kernel made for another soc to their phone?
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Duh? Isn't this an obvious warning? Does it really need a thread? Who the hell would flash a kernel made for another soc to their phone?
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Because you have not used a one S that's why you don't know. There is no way to tell physically whether the One S has an S3 or an S4 processor. No markings, no physical differences, no model name differences on the box, nothing at all. This means to most people, a one s is a one s, most people do not know there is even two versions until they flash it and its too late.
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Duh? Isn't this an obvious warning? Does it really need a thread? Who the hell would flash a kernel made for another soc to their phone?
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Additionally...because literally everyone assumes there is only one version of the one s, nobody states that whether their rom or cwm is for the s3 or S4 version...making it a real bummer... but as of now, unless someone specifically mentions its for the s3, DO NOT try to root or flash an image for you one s, because literally none of them out there are for one s for now
Are there any RUU's for the S3 version ?
I think the only conflicting issue would be the boot.img, so if you just flash that along with a S4 ROM you should be fine.
as for CWM, I assume there will be a line of code which specifies which device it is for, Edit it to the S3 version (VilleC?) and all should be fine.
As for the root package, That should require a simple updater-script edit and it will work !
As I told on another thread.
If partitions are the same (we need someone to check if true) the S4 roms should work with the S3 variant except for the Kernel and the boot.img . I guess a new cwm would be needed too
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Because you have not used a one S that's why you don't know. There is no way to tell physically whether the One S has an S3 or an S4 processor. No markings, no physical differences, no model name differences on the box, nothing at all. This means to most people, a one s is a one s, most people do not know there is even two versions until they flash it and its too late.
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This is XDA we are a huge community, don't tell me we can't and nobody ever thought about asking around people's serials, part number, FCC ID and look for differences. They CAN'T be no differences. Anyway, the S3 models are 1.7GHz and the GHz is writen on the back of the box.
Yes, It will state on the box which version it is. And also in HBOOT it will say VILLEC So users will know before flashing which model they have.
If it becomes too big of a problem, Im sure we can get the mods to add a sub section. But they wont open one until we have some development and tutorials for it, Other wise it will be empty
I have requested that we get a S3 Development forum for this phone. We had a previous war about splitting the forums, but in this case, I think it's warranted. There's a decent difference here, so this distinction needs to be made and understood.
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I have requested that we get a S3 Development forum for this phone. We had a previous war about splitting the forums, but in this case, I think it's warranted. There's a decent difference here, so this distinction needs to be made and understood.
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Yeah, I agree with that, The previous split between US and EU was a bit un needed, However i think this S3 - S4 split is important
nickmv said:
I have requested that we get a S3 Development forum for this phone. We had a previous war about splitting the forums, but in this case, I think it's warranted. There's a decent difference here, so this distinction needs to be made and understood.
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Definitely, I don't want to get crippled/bricked/whatever because a dev forget to write S3 or to state clearly S3. If the Tegra and S4 One X forums are TOTALLY separate, we should at least get a sub forum for each S3 and S4!
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Yeah, I agree with that, The previous split between US and EU was a bit un needed, However i think this S3 - S4 split is important
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Canada isn't in EU -_-
NienorGT said:
Definitely, I don't want to get crippled/bricked/whatever because a dev forget to write S3 or to state clearly S3. If the Tegra and S4 One X forums are TOTALLY separate, we should at least get a sub forum for each S3 and S4!
Canada isn't in EU -_-
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We haven't forgotten about your square wheels.....
All jokes aside, yeah yeah yeah.....
Canada ?? Whats that
I meant the Tmobile & International split that we had.
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Because you have not used a one S that's why you don't know. There is no way to tell physically whether the One S has an S3 or an S4 processor. No markings, no physical differences, no model name differences on the box, nothing at all. This means to most people, a one s is a one s, most people do not know there is even two versions until they flash it and its too late.
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Users should be aware of what they are doing... XDA and/ or the Dev aren't responsible for what you do with your phone!
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Additionally...because literally everyone assumes there is only one version of the one s, nobody states that whether their rom or cwm is for the s3 or S4 version...making it a real bummer... but as of now, unless someone specifically mentions its for the s3, DO NOT try to root or flash an image for you one s, because literally none of them out there are for one s for now
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You can always ask politely on the specific thread... when it's clear, dev should mention it in OP title!
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If it becomes too big of a problem, Im sure we can get the mods to add a sub section. But they wont open one until we have some development and tutorials for it, Other wise it will be empty
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Agreed... so for now, be aware... i will take this to my other forum moderators to discuss and close this thread, keeping it sticky for others to be warned and to prevent an other war....
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To save battery and because I'm usually on wifi, I've been using phone info till to turn off LTE and using 3g.
If I set it now I cannot make a call as I keep getting pop up, "mobile network not available". I can choose cdma and that still works.
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Did you also make sure your modem updated too? Check under About Phone... Some ROMs won't update the modem at the same time.
Thing is it works just fine on LTE and CDMA, if this were a modem issue from the jb K1 leak, I'm assuming others would have same problem.
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Not what I asked but whatever, have fun with that.
jank0023 said:
Thing is it works just fine on LTE and CDMA, if this were a modem issue from the jb K1 leak, I'm assuming others would have same problem.
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No not necessarily. Every single phone is different and a lot of the problems people have with with the different radios is because of the area they are in. Change your radio to either the newest and see if that helps, and if not flash some of the older radios.
Also next time if you're asking for help you might not want to be a smartass to someone trying to help you. .
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I had issues on leak 2, ended up odining back to stock. Couldn't get 4g, was stuck in 3g when I switched to save battery. I am not touching phone info on any further leaks.
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Download this app called 4G toggle.
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shangrila500 said:
No not necessarily. Every single phone is different and a lot of the problems people have with with the different radios is because of the area they are in. Change your radio to either the newest and see if that helps, and if not flash some of the older radios.
Also next time if you're asking for help you might not want to be a smartass to someone trying to help you. .
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Errr..missing out how my response was being a smartass...that said, if my problem was due to the latest ROM, would have thought perhaps others had an issue.
Whats interesting is I reverted to prior ROMs and I have the same issue. Weird how all of the sudden I can get connected and even read the signal but if I try to place a call when on EvDo, i get that no mobile network available message..
Well then its either your radios or your areas. Why don't you flash a new radio?
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I read phone info doesn't play well with JB roms don't use it. Others have had the same problems
dnar56 said:
Download this app called 4G toggle.
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Well that app is completely pointless. You don't work for them do you?
XRSTOY1 said:
I read phone info doesn't play well with JB roms don't use it. Others have had the same problems
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That makes sense, any other tools folks are using to toggle LTE on and off with JB?
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That makes sense, any other tools folks are using to toggle LTE on and off with JB?
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Solved my own problem I guess...I was choosing EvDo Only or CDMA Only..when I choose CDMA PRL, it actually connects to 3G and phone calls worked..
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I think the statement about JB and Phone Info may be right though..before JB, I would choose EvDo Only and it would use 3G, if I chose CDMA Only it was actually on 2G..
shangrila500 said:
No not necessarily. Every single phone is different and a lot of the problems people have with with the different radios is because of the area they are in. Change your radio to either the newest and see if that helps, and if not flash some of the older radios.
Also next time if you're asking for help you might not want to be a smartass to someone trying to help you. .
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I also fail to see how he was being a smartass...?
He simply said he assumed if it was a modem issue that the others would be similarly affected...
What's so smartass about that?
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Elite49 said:
Well that app is completely pointless. You don't work for them do you?
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When I was stuck on 3g using the phone info app on synergy rom I used this to get lte back...
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josh995 said:
I also fail to see how he was being a smartass...?
He simply said he assumed if it was a modem issue that the others would be similarly affected...
What's so smartass about that?
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Well for one he is asking for help, when someone offers a suggestion and he comes back and says, if that was the problem others would be experiencing it, that's being a smartass. If you know anything about modems or have read through any of the threads about modems then you would know just cause you have a certain issue on a radio doesn't mean anyone else has that same issue or even one similar. There is a guy one one if the threads, I believe its the PA thread, that updated to the J1, and I believe the I5 also, radio and when he did he experienced complete service failure no matter what he did but as soon as he went back to HD everything worked fine.
I am glad his issue is fixed and that hr has service but when you ask for help, and I have been called down before for doing this same thing, and someone asks you something to help you debug your problem you don't just come back and say, and I am paraphrasing here, I don't think that's the issue. You answer the question and then say, if that was the problem wouldn't more people be experiencing the same issue.
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Well for one he is asking for help, when someone offers a suggestion and he comes back and says, if that was the problem others would be experiencing it, that's being a smartass. If you know anything about modems or have read through any of the threads about modems then you would know just cause you have a certain issue on a radio doesn't mean anyone else has that same issue or even one similar. There is a guy one one if the threads, I believe its the PA thread, that updated to the J1, and I believe the I5 also, radio and when he did he experienced complete service failure no matter what he did but as soon as he went back to HD everything worked fine.
I am glad his issue is fixed and that hr has service but when you ask for help, and I have been called down before for doing this same thing, and someone asks you something to help you debug your problem you don't just come back and say, and I am paraphrasing here, I don't think that's the issue. You answer the question and then say, if that was the problem wouldn't more people be experiencing the same issue.
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You're right he could have answered the question and then say he doesn't think that's the issue, however I don't think what he said should be taken as being smartass. He just genuinely didn't think that would be the problem.
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hi guys,
so i am in the market for a new phone and decided to sticking with Samsung and going to an S4. the problem is that with all the bs about the locked bootloader, i do not feel confident about buying the AT&T model and to be honest, i also don't feel like giving AT&T any of my money. so that leaves me with 2 options: go with the GE which is a lot more expensive and also only comes in white or just buy a T-Mobile model and get it unlocked so i can use it on AT&T. so my question is if anybody here did that and just bought a T-Mobile model and runs it on AT&T?
any other advice?
I bought the t-mobile s4. I run it on AT&T and have had no real problems. The one thing that I have noticed, running a few custom roms, is that LTE drops in and out.
I've also noticed some weird behavior regarding talk and data. If I take a phone call, data ceases to work for a few seconds. I'm pretty sure this is an apn setting or a rom issue. Nothing to do with the network I'm running on or anything like that.
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How much did it set you back the tmobile branded one? Can you just walk into a tmobile store and buy one outright?
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r_diaz13 said:
How much did it set you back the tmobile branded one? Can you just walk into a tmobile store and buy one outright?
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http://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-s-4-tmobile/us
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prata said:
I bought the t-mobile s4. I run it on AT&T and have had no real problems. The one thing that I have noticed, running a few custom roms, is that LTE drops in and out.
I've also noticed some weird behavior regarding talk and data. If I take a phone call, data ceases to work for some few seconds. I'm pretty sure this is an apn setting or a rom issue. Nothing to do with the network I'm running out on or anything like that.
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Are these roms AT&T roms or tmobile roms? That can be your issue, make sure if you are running tmobile roms to apply the right apn
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http://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-s-4-tmobile/us
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Are these roms AT&T roms or tmobile roms? That can be your issue, make sure if you are running tmobile roms to apply the right apn
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so technically all you need to do is get he t-mobile phone, unlock it and then run whatever t-mobile rom you want and simply manually set the ATT APN?
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so technically all you need to do is get he t-mobile phone, unlock it and then run whatever t-mobile rom you want and simply manually set the ATT APN?
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That or just run a AT&T Rom. I am under the impression they are the same device, once you confirm that I would recommend just running an AT&T rom to avoid issues. If I am wrong please someone let me know. It would have to be the non Loki version.
Their may be some international roms you can flash as well
Please double check this information before flashing, even though they seem to have almost everything in common they may differ in minor ways (radios and so on) I do not have a S4 to test and have not read around.
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That or just run a AT&T Rom. I am under the impression they are the same device, once you confirm that I would recommend just running an AT&T rom to avoid issues. If I am wrong please someone let me know. It would have to be the non Loki version.
Their may be some international roms you can flash as well
Please double check this information before flashing, even though they seem to have almost everything in common they may differ in minor ways (radios and so on) I do not have a S4 to test and have not read around.
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time to do some more reading but i am pretty sure that i will go for the t-mobile one (can you tell that i really really don't want to give AT&T any money?).
edit: looks like you are right and most roms will work on the t-mobile device, you just need the correct kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
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time to do some more reading but i am pretty sure that i will go for the t-mobile one (can you tell that i really really don't want to give AT&T any money?).
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Lets just say if I was in your shoes and had the option of paying for the full price of the phone I would do the same thing.
I am more than satisfied with my active but if tmobile sold the active you bet I would get it
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Lets just say if I was in your shoes and had the option of paying for the full price of the phone I would do the same thing.
I am more than satisfied with my active but if tmobile sold the active you bet I would get it
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trust me, if it was up to me, i would have kicked AT&T a LONG time ago since i really do hate this company and how they treat their customers. however, since i don't actually pay the bill (my company pays for my phone and it is their account), i don't have any other option.
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trust me, if it was up to me, i would have kicked AT&T a LONG time ago since i really do hate this company and how they treat their customers. however, since i don't actually pay the bill (my company pays for my phone and it is their account), i don't have any other option.
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Honestly I do not mind AT&T at this point. Yes, locking down phones and cheating people out of money bugs the crap out of me... but they have been really good to me.
In the last couple of months they have:
1. Let me upgrade to the HTC One for $200 without charging one of my upgrade and waived the activation fee
2. Gave me the option of canceling all my lines early or take credits for my trouble
3. Gave me about $300+ in credits
4. Told me that I can upgrade early on my line that isn't available for an upgrade until May of 2014 (just as long as it is not an iPhone)... I'm going to save it for the next big thing.
How can I complain?
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Honestly I do not mind AT&T at this point. Yes, locking down phones and cheating people out of money bugs the crap out of me... but they have been really good to me.
In the last couple of months they have:
1. Let me upgrade to the HTC One for $200 without charging one of my upgrade and waived the activation fee
2. Gave me the option of canceling all my lines early or take credits for my trouble
3. Gave me about $300+ in credits
4. Told me that I can upgrade early on my line that isn't available for an upgrade until May of 2014 (just as long as it is not an iPhone)... I'm going to save it for the next big thing.
How can I complain?
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your experience is much different than mine and i agree, hard to complain after what they did for you.
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your experience is much different than mine and i agree, hard to complain after what they did for you.
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Yeah I got really lucky. Talked to all the right people and they were great. I find that you have to push a little and they will help, don't accept the first thing you hear. Everyone at AT&T will give you a different answer so it can be hard. I also noticed that a lot of them have different policies and things they can do. They have no idea what the other call centers are saying.
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Yeah I got really lucky. Talked to all the right people and they were great. I find that you have to push a little and they will help, don't accept the first thing you hear. Everyone at AT&T will give you a different answer so it can be hard. I also noticed that a lot of them have different policies and things they can do. They have no idea what the other call centers are saying.
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looks like i am the new owner of a used T-Mobile Galaxy S4. just bought one off of ebay for $490 unlocked with a case and spare battery.
prata said:
I bought the t-mobile s4. I run it on AT&T and have had no real problems. The one thing that I have noticed, running a few custom roms, is that LTE drops in and out.
I've also noticed some weird behavior regarding talk and data. If I take a phone call, data ceases to work for some few seconds. I'm pretty sure this is an apn setting or a rom issue. Nothing to do with the network I'm running out on or anything like that.
Sent from the depths of the ether.
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I have the issue where I can't use data while on the phone as well :/
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toxicpaulution said:
I have the issue where I can't use data while on the phone as well :/
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wait are you using the T-Mobile one like he is?
Rattles said:
wait are you using the T-Mobile one like he is?
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Nope. I'm on att with an att sim. Its weird.
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joshuadjohnson22 said:
That or just run a AT&T Rom. I am under the impression they are the same device, once you confirm that I would recommend just running an AT&T rom to avoid issues. If I am wrong please someone let me know. It would have to be the non Loki version.
Their may be some international roms you can flash as well
Please double check this information before flashing, even though they seem to have almost everything in common they may differ in minor ways (radios and so on) I do not have a S4 to test and have not read around.
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I have run AT&T as well as T-Mobile ROMs. I believe you need to (I have been doing so, after getting a black screen) run a T-mobile kernel though. None of the custom roms I have flashed have radios or modems in them. Generally, custom roms don't include them, because well terrible if you flash the wrong thing.
It seems that most 5.0 ROMs on the forum do not include the necessary package to run Sprints APN program. It was an issue getting ROM developers to do this when the Nexus 5 first released as well, but mostly everyone caught on quickly. Is there something else that is preventing this from being added that I am not aware of? Us Sprint users would appreciate not having to flash an APN fix, mostly because PRL/Profile update still do not function this way. Thanks!
It may take a while. The necessary files needed are odexed and they needed to be deodexed to run on the aosp builds. Also I agree the so called apn fix is not a fix at all but a temporary work around. People are looking into it but if you remove the omadmclient apk from the rom it works without any issue except not being able to update profile/prl. No need to flash any apn files.
No need to rant and rave, people are aware.
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Literally every 5.0 ROM on the forum does not include the necessary package to run Sprints APN program. So the "Activating Mobile Data" screen never appears. It was an issue getting ROM developers to do this when the Nexus 5 first released as well, but mostly everyone caught on quickly. Why has literally NO ONE included this in their 5.0 ROMs? And no, flashing an APN .zip is NOT a substitute, because one, PRL/Profile update still do not function this way and second, quite frankly we shouldn't have to. My concern is this has been brought up for weeks now, but still nothing has been done about it, everyone keeps pushing this "APN fix" malarkey instead of fixing the issue...
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I find your sense of entitlement disturbing.
P.S. Blame Google (or maybe Sprint?) for the missing proprietary vendor blobs.
Yea sounding like the spoiled sprint guy doesn't make your case appealing....
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And don't use "malarkey" anymore....
david279 said:
Yea sounding like the spoiled sprint guy doesn't make your case appealing....
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And don't use "malarkey" anymore....
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Lol. I was going to say something about malarkey...
Yea this guy is making sprint guys look bad and we already get a hard time from the community and he hit us with a "malarkey"
david279 said:
Yea this guy is making sprint guys look bad and we already get a hard time from the community and he hit us with a "malarkey"
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This, especially.
upndwn4par said:
I find your sense of entitlement disturbing.
P.S. Blame Google (or maybe Sprint?) for the missing proprietary vendor blobs.
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And this too.
So yeah, I actually sounded like a raging asshole there. I guess this is why one shouldn't create threads while cranky and in a hurry. I have edited, well...everything to get my point across without sounding like an entitled idiot. Sorry about that.
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It may take a while. The necessary files needed are odexed and they needed to be deodexed to run on the aosp builds. Also I agree the so called apn fix is not a fix at all but a temporary work around. People are looking into it but if you remove the omadmclient apk from the rom it works without any issue except not being able to update profile/prl. No need to flash any apn files.
No need to rant and rave, people are aware.
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Well, this explains why the one ROM that had it was odexed. Thank you for that information. I've run into the issue where if you factory image, the APNs are reset. So for example, if you factory image then immediately install a custom ROM without omadmclient, you need to edit APNs(manually or via recovery) otherwise you have no data. But you are correct, going between ROMs via recovery will keep the APN settings correct. No need for the zip.
Also, what's wrong with "malarky?" :laugh:
Sprint sucks. Change networks.
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_jordan_ said:
Sprint sucks. Change networks.
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Do they? I have excellent signal wherever I go, good speeds and unlimited data. Contract is up this month and I don't see why I wouldn't stay with them.
I hope this addressed by devs in the future as well
I'm in Hong Kong right now and would like to be able to use VOLTE. Both models are on sd835, but the g9550 has 2 extra gigabyte of ram and dual SIM, also the modem might be different too. So I'm not too sure if this is possible.
seems no one has answered you as of yet. I am currently investigating to see if some parameters of devices rom could be edited. Not sure as of yet, but, will have an answer for you soon enough. will keep in touch.
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seems no one has answered you as of yet. I am currently investigating to see if some parameters of devices rom could be edited. Not sure as of yet, but, will have an answer for you soon enough. will keep in touch.
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Definitely not possible, completely different partition tables and the Chinese variant has some extra CDMA and LTE band support to be used in China only.
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Definitely not possible, completely different partition tables and the Chinese variant has some extra CDMA and LTE band support to be used in China only.
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Actually, China used the GL CP for an earlier firmware it has. Ive been seeing a lot of "cant do's," on this forum and am amazed at how people has set everything to be IMPOSSIBLE. I and another person thats part of these forums have been secretly investigating and am coming up with ideas on how to do things. you are correct as China uses only 2g and 3g on their basebands but are incorrect as to it not being able to work. Research and dig and dig and dig and you will then find the answer. And although my posts and thanks are low does not mean i am a noob. Name change to create a better name for myself with more logic and optimism to contribute what others may feel wont happen. Thank you and have a good evening and its not an attack but a formal gesture to do a bit more research before claiming not possible= impossible.
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Actually, China used the GL CP for an earlier firmware it has. Ive been seeing a lot of "cant do's," on this forum and am amazed at how people has set everything to be IMPOSSIBLE. I and another person thats part of these forums have been secretly investigating and am coming up with ideas on how to do things. you are correct as China uses only 2g and 3g on their basebands but are incorrect as to it not being able to work. Research and dig and dig and dig and you will then find the answer. And although my posts and thanks are low does not mean i am a noob. Name change to create a better name for myself with more logic and optimism to contribute what others may feel wont happen. Thank you and have a good evening and its not an attack but a formal gesture to do a bit more research before claiming not possible= impossible.
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Didn't take it as an attack.
Would love to see it happen.
Keep updating this thread if you have any updates.
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murtaza02 said:
Didn't take it as an attack.
Would love to see it happen.
Keep updating this thread if you have any updates.
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pm'ing you with some info if you dont mind bro
pocho_dobo said:
pm'ing you with some info if you dont mind bro
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Not at all.
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To answer this question, "YES." Yes it is possible to flash the US version AP, CP( it works but has its issues and wouldn't recommend it) CSC should be able to install. !!NOTE!! Please do not attempt to flash BL as it has different settings scripted into it such as ram, storage,etc. G9550/128gb6gb ram G955U/64gb/4gb ram.
Also Note that if G9550 with G955U firmware boots properly, it has been said to be a bit choppier than normal. What is recommended is using the G955U1 firmware. Also, same as above is ONLY able to be flashed and updates with either version have to be done manually, I, have not tried this myself as i am in the process of this attempt. It has been discussed in foreign forums and has been done.
Please do not attempt if you are unable to come out of a brick or soft brick. I am in no way responsible if you mess up your phone. Good luck
tried flashing through normal odin and a no go. trying the modified Odin,but, before i do further readings say the AP and others have to be slightly modded. will look into this more once i finish up here.
Volte probably won't work if the carrier only supports g9550 though, yeah? Would probably give it a go on the weekend. Cheers.