Hi I just bought this phone, come in to share your experience on rooting and many more features inbuild in this beast.
I was pretty interested in the inbuilt antenna did anyone exploit it ?
Has anyone solve the video call , roaming issue, which prevent you from using.
I root my phone via this link
http://people.sarang.net/index.php?mid=gsga&document_srl=3139869
Very straight forward.
Another Link, custom rom seem not bad, anyone have tried ? I am downloading now.
http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=6582719&extra=&page=1
I guess, as all other Korean version of Samsung phones, this phone has problem with SMS more than 70 chars and multipart SMS?
Also, this phone comes with two lame colors making it out of my interest
I'm waiting for I9506 with traditional black color. Well, kind of black, but anyway better than blue or red.
The latest firmware solve the issue. I have tried no issue for me,,,
sorg said:
I guess, as all other Korean version of Samsung phones, this phone has problem with SMS more than 70 chars and multipart SMS?
Also, this phone comes with two lame colors making it out of my interest
I'm waiting for I9506 with traditional black color. Well, kind of black, but anyway better than blue or red.
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kollybie said:
The latest firmware solve the issue. I have tried no issue for me,,,
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This is not an issue. This is the standard for Korean mobile network operators. Nothing to fix there. Probably, you didn't understand what i meant.
Can you send SMS with, let's say 300 characters? both latin and non-latin symbols?
Thanks for the info... I know what u mean after 160 character, it should split into two SMS.
I have tried for more than 300 character, it will sent as MMS.
sorg said:
This is not an issue. This is the standard for Korean mobile network operators. Nothing to fix there. Probably, you didn't understand what i meant.
Can you send SMS with, let's say 300 characters? both latin and non-latin symbols?
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May be it's possible to fix it using some parts from I9506 firmware if E330S doesn't have too much hardware differences in modem connections.
Actually, I'm very familiar with this problem because I've used SHV-E210K for more than a year. I've succeed to use whole I9300 firmware with some framework patch and few libraries from E210 firmware. But since it's very tricky and not exactly will work for E330S, I'm not confident to buy this phone, although I can buy it here in Taiwan without much hassle and for a good price.
I still hope I9506 will widely spread later this year, so i don't have to mess with Korean firmware anymore
Well actually I dun use SMS that often now... it is really useless to me.... everyone is in watsapp and other application for chatting.
I hope someone could solve the video calls and update of software still prompting required of SKT SIM and ROAMING not allowed.
the mcc and mnc is hardcoded into the firmware.
sorg said:
May be it's possible to fix it using some parts from I9506 firmware if E330S doesn't have too much hardware differences in modem connections.
Actually, I'm very familiar with this problem because I've used SHV-E210K for more than a year. I've succeed to use whole I9300 firmware with some framework patch and few libraries from E210 firmware. But since it's very tricky and not exactly will work for E330S, I'm not confident to buy this phone, although I can buy it here in Taiwan without much hassle and for a good price.
I still hope I9506 will widely spread later this year, so i don't have to mess with Korean firmware anymore
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kollybie said:
Well actually I dun use SMS that often now... it is really useless to me.... everyone is in watsapp and other application for chatting.
I hope someone could solve the video calls and update of software still prompting required of SKT SIM and ROAMING not allowed.
the mcc and mnc is hardcoded into the firmware.
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Yeah, there are lot of SKT (in my case it was KT) things are hardcoded in firmware(framework) of Korean version. That's why I've decided to move to I9300 firmware with patches instead of trying to patch E210K firmware.
I agree that SMS is not as important as it was before, but still in some cases you cannot replace it by whatsapp or other internet messengers. Still many people i know don't use mobile data plans. So, SMS is the only way to send the message to these people. The problem with SMS even worse when your communicate in non-english language where you limited by only 70 unicode characters. For example, in Russian language with its usually long words is really hard to fit sentences into 70 characters
Hi guys
I am new at forum...I want to root my phone but i don't know how...Please can you explain me the way step by step?Also it is my first android phone...
Thanks for your time
I tried go sms pro seems to be another alternative..
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http://people.sarang.net/index.php?mid=gsga&document_srl=3139869
The above link is how I use to root my SHV-330S
I'm curious if dimensions of E330S are exactly as I9500/I9505?
My E210K is a little thicker than I9300 making almost all hard cases incompatible.
Also, curious if back cover and its hooks of E330 is compatible with I9500/I9505? I know about antenna corner cut (which is easy to make), but besides this back cover of E210 has completely different hook positions than I9300 making covers completely incompatible.
I have some kind of itching I want SD800 version, but don't wanna wait for I9506. But having experience with complete absence of accessories for SGS3 SHV-E210, i don't want to loose accessories again.
Flipcover
sorg said:
I'm curious if dimensions of E330S are exactly as I9500/I9505?
My E210K is a little thicker than I9300 making almost all hard cases incompatible.
Also, curious if back cover and its hooks of E330 is compatible with I9500/I9505? I know about antenna corner cut (which is easy to make), but besides this back cover of E210 has completely different hook positions than I9300 making covers completely incompatible.
I have some kind of itching I want SD800 version, but don't wanna wait for I9506. But having experience with complete absence of accessories for SGS3 SHV-E210, i don't want to loose accessories again.
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Hello,
Im using the S-view Flipcover with my e330s. The only thing I did was the "corner cut". It fits well.
Greetings from Germany
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kollybie said:
The above link is how I use to root my SHV-330S
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Hi,
Did you use CWM to make a Backup before you flashed?
If not how did you restore your Apps and Data?
Greetings Germany
I use odin..
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pischill said:
Im using the S-view Flipcover with my e330s. The only thing I did was the "corner cut". It fits well.
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Do you wanna say that you bought flip cover for I9505, cut the corner and cover sits as genuine E330 cover?
sorg said:
Do you wanna say that you bought flip cover for I9505, cut the corner and cover sits as genuine E330 cover?
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Exactly.
By the way I'm happy that I bought the e330s. Speed, 32gb, charger and second battery are worth the trouble to impoprt it from Korea. All is as I hoped it would be. The only drawback is that I didn't figure out how i get NFC working.
My nfc is ok
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My I9500 came with 32GB, second battery and charger as well. The only difference for me will be Snapdragon vs Exynos. I hate the way Samsung did by splitting market to two incompatible devices. Although Exynos is very competitive comparing to SD600, game developers don't bother to tweak their games to Exynos version.
While Exynos is more interesting by CPU (i wanna wait to see if 5410 will get HMP support or not) and better sound, i want to have well supported device, i.e. SD version. Although i don't care of CM/AOSP/GE ROMS.
Well, going to order E330S in Black Mist color. I've found such version!
SD800 is pretty insane in term of performance... u wun get any phone that is purely make in korean, even for the battery.
sorg said:
My I9500 came with 32GB, second battery and charger as well. The only difference for me will be Snapdragon vs Exynos. I hate the way Samsung did by splitting market to two incompatible devices. Although Exynos is very competitive comparing to SD600, game developers don't bother to tweak their games to Exynos version.
While Exynos is more interesting by CPU (i wanna wait to see if 5410 will get HMP support or not) and better sound, i want to have well supported device, i.e. SD version. Although i don't care of CM/AOSP/GE ROMS.
Well, going to order E330S in Black Mist color. I've found such version!
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I bought a Chinese Samsung Galaxy Grand (GT-I9118) and much to my regret it has frustrating limitations. I really want to use a custom mod, but I don't know which phones have compatible hardware. There doesn't seem to be a CM that applies specifically with my model.
Are all S IIs the same?
Are all I91xx the same?
And most of all, can someone point me to a site that may have this info?
I looked for months and I can't find anything.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Flash5
May ask here galaxy-grand-2.
All the best.
Hey all.
I have looked around, and call me clueless, but I still don't understand if there are or what ROMs are floating around for the snapdragon version of the S7. Does anyone know if there are any? And if so, is there a single, more popular one that is more likely to work well?
And if someone wanted to start development for building a Nougat build, where would one start?
Thanks for any help!
-Cake
cakemaker said:
Hey all.
I have looked around, and call me clueless, but I still don't understand if there are or what ROMs are floating around for the snapdragon version of the S7. Does anyone know if there are any? And if so, is there a single, more popular one that is more likely to work well?
And if someone wanted to start development for building a Nougat build, where would one start?
Thanks for any help!
-Cake
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same
I wonder why Snapdragon variants have no AOSP ROMs. Before S7 Exynos based devices have no community support.
I see that some users have found kernels and what not but i'm not extraordinary at this stuff. Could someone that has honestly, fully rooted a Gear S3 frontier with android please post a video showing how to do it. I don't understand all the terminology and when to do which steps. I'm just a guy who wants his expensive watch to run google play music and have access to the android market. Please help!
NO known Android Port exists... not for Gear S2 nor S3...
Different reasons...
On Gear S3 also bigger problems to achieve ROOT... as higher security exists.
Thanx to Samsung.
Best Regards
So anything i'm seeing where someone is claiming to have done it is fake?
adfree said:
NO known Android Port exists... not for Gear S2 nor S3...
Different reasons...
On Gear S3 also bigger problems to achieve ROOT... as higher security exists.
Thanx to Samsung.
Best Regards
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So anything i'm seeing where someone is claiming to have done it is fake?
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You have to differ few things...
Leaked Service Firmware packages called Combination Firmware are rooted... because Samsung Service Firmware.
Example for rooted SERVICE Firmware... BQC2 for SM-R760:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/development/rom-samsung-gear-s3-sm-r760-t3588082
But it was NOT possible yet... to root "normal" Firmware like BQC5:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/development/rom-samsung-gear-s3-sm-r760-t3588062
Their are BIG differences between Combination Firmware and normal Retail Firmware for End user...
So for most users Combination Firmware is useless... as limited in Features you know...
Best Regards