Hey guys. Recently updated my US verizon s3 to kitkat ((NE1). Just rooted it successfully using towelroot. I found a site that showed how to modify two lines of the build.prop to get the S5 toggles on my S3. Changed to (ro.product.name=SM-N900S) and (ro.product.device=SM-N900S) and it did work. I attached a pic. I did notice that my 4G icon doesn't say LTE anymore. My question is, I know the S5 name is kltevzw and I'm wondering if I replace the sm-n900s with that if I'd get the same icon and toggles. I'm hesitant because I'm not sure if I'll get stuck on boot or something.
Has anyone tried this?
btw, modifying the build.prop is dangerous. It worked on my phone, but that doesn't mean it works on yours. If your phone gets messed up, its not my fault.
Thanks.
It works on my GSIII but I like the bigger toggles better. It's an age and eye thing .... lol
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I wonder why that works. I don't know much about programming or build.prop mods, but does that mean that the code is built into the system? It just seems silly that two lines displaying product number changes the phone so much haha
JacobManning17 said:
I wonder why that works. I don't know much about programming or build.prop mods, but does that mean that the code is built into the system? It just seems silly that two lines displaying product number changes the phone so much haha
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Samsung often leaves dormant code in their software. They have often left some Note II dormant hooks of different kinds through some updates on our S3.
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Samsung often leaves dormant code in their software. They have often left some Note II dormant hooks of different kinds through some updates on our S3.
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As if TW didn't have enough bloat already xD I guess in this case its cool though
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BTW, changing the build number to kltevzw did still give me the new toggles and recent tasks. It also brought the 4G LTE icon back. Love it!
sammyroot said:
BTW, changing the build number to kltevzw did still give me the new toggles and recent tasks. It also brought the 4G LTE icon back. Love it!
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can you please be a little more specific about what exactly you changed to 'kltevzw'?
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can you please be a little more specific about what exactly you changed to 'kltevzw'?
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build.prop settings (ro.product.name=kltevzw) and (ro.product.device=kltevzw)
Even the boot animation was a lil different! thanks for the mod
I did notice, the 4G icon doesn't go away when connected to wifi, clogging up the status bar when center clock is enabled.
omair2005 said:
build.prop settings (ro.product.name=kltevzw) and (ro.product.device=kltevzw)
Even the boot animation was a lil different! thanks for the mod
I did notice, the 4G icon doesn't go away when connected to wifi, clogging up the status bar when center clock is enabled.
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That's because the S5 has the ability to connect to WiFi and 4G at the same time utilizing both at a faster speed. In most cases the carriers disabled that feature
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omair2005 said:
build.prop settings (ro.product.name=kltevzw) and (ro.product.device=kltevzw)
Even the boot animation was a lil different! thanks for the mod
I did notice, the 4G icon doesn't go away when connected to wifi, clogging up the status bar when center clock is enabled.
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ShapesBlue said:
That's because the S5 has the ability to connect to WiFi and 4G at the same time utilizing both at a faster speed. In most cases the carriers disabled that feature
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It is usually caused by the Caller ID app. Debloat canid.apk and 4G icon should turn off when on WiFi.
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It is usually caused by the Caller ID app. Debloat canid.apk and 4G icon should turn off when on WiFi.
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I don't see a canid.apk. I see a Caller Name Id, but even gone, I still get a 4g icon on with wifi.
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I don't see a canid.apk. I see a Caller Name Id, but even gone, I still get a 4g icon on with wifi.
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Won't be in app drawer. Have to remove from system/app. It is in all S3 stock roms including NE1.
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Won't be in app drawer. Have to remove from system/app. It is in all S3 stock roms including NE1.
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I was checking with Titanium... I guess I need to use a file browser?
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I was checking with Titanium... I guess I need to use a file browser?
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Yea. Will see it with file browser. It is in the stock deodexed 4.1.2, 4.3 and 4.4.2 roms I have made and it will cause both signal meters to show.
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I was checking with Titanium... I guess I need to use a file browser?
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Best free one out there is either es file Explorer or jrummys root browser free. With the 2nd one he has a thread on xda where you add something to the system folder and it makes it add free, just throwing it out there
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Does this only work on the kit Kat update?
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It might. I'm not on kk or the new update but I tried it anyways and it didn't work, it might be specific to already being on kk
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Thanks it worked great I love the s5 toggles I wonder what else can be used by editing the build prop to get s5 features
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While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight)
No search button, including assigning long press to an app.
Notification toggles
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have.
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol?
Anyone get Google voice working?
Sure was spoiled having root during my entire prior android experience. I've went ahead and got this assuming we'll have root in the not so distant future. Just trying to get by till then. I have a hard time seeing myself with anything else but a htc phone but I'll switch to the s3 if nothing changes by the time its released.. Grr.. sure don't want to.
Ty so much for any help I can get.
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Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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As far as google voice, I set it up on the phone and it would not work correctly, so I logged in on the pc and went to settings and it gave me a code to type into the phone and it works now, but in the voicemail settings on the phone it still says my carrier but under call forwarding it has my gv number
I think I had to deactivate it then reactivate it
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While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight) - requires root to modify neccessary files
No search button, including assigning long press to an app. - second half requires editing locked files, needs root
Notification toggles - someone made a thread about an app that will do this
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have. - Most app data can be restored to /sdcard/Android/
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol? - hosts file in /system/etc requires root to edit
Anyone get Google voice working? - Did you enable your device via the google site?
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kravguy said:
Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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warri said:
I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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I previously used google voice with my inspire. Just seems that some people haven't had issues while some have. Just wondering why
was wondering about the GoogVoice issue as well. dude... i cannot freaking wait until we get this thing rooted. so many problems on the software side. it's pretty horrendous imo. there's quite a lot i'd like to tweak.
kravguy said:
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Have you tried Apex? Has the menu button and looks very similar to the Sense 4.0 launcher.
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Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
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Yes, I've used Apex before. Nova (for me at least on the Inspire) just seemed to be smoother (and I had already paid for the prime version). I might give apex another shot on this phone.
There is a Google Voice thread on this forum. It worked for me. You have to log in on the computer and use a number. After that it works like a charm regardless of what the VM settings on the phone say.
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Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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Yeah it kind of stinks having to run another app but it is very customizable which is very nice. You can even make more than one toggle bar if you want to.
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I have seen, for the Nexus for example, a way to remove/change the Verizon Wireless text next to the date in the notification pull down by pushing an edited spn-conf.xml to /system/etc.. but it did not work for the SGS3 it seems.
Anyone have another idea?
Taking it from your signature, it appears that you are already rooted. Since that is the case, it may be worthwhile flashing a custom ROM. You can take roms that are based off of the Stock TouchWiz firmware that came with the phone, such as SynergyROM or Bean's Custom Stock, to name a couple. If memory serves me correctly, those roms get rid of the carrier label. Then there are AOSP based roms, such as Cyanogenmod or AOKP. In AOKP, there is an option to change the carrier label, but you can only do it once.
Thanks.. but ROMS are not my thing, I like to do small custom tweaks, mods, hacks like this. I am sure it can be done outside of a full ROM, like the Nexus and many other phones can, it is just a matter of finding the right hack to do it. Heck, I know there is an app you can pay for that will do this, but there must be a manual hack.
You need to either edit the strings.xml or tw_notification_extended.xml
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You need to either edit the strings.xml or tw_notification_extended.xml
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which I think means apk tool and compile/decompile, no? Yeah, if I cannot do it with root explorer or Ninjamorph, I have to pass.
Search for an app named ccname. It should do what you are looking for
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Search for an app named ccname. It should do what you are looking for
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no can find. was removed from market and all links references I find in Google are old. even ones here are DOA. App was last updated well over a year ago.
I'm not sure if it's compatible with the S III, but look into the carrier name change app by conap (xda dev). I think the actual apk was called ccname or something. You just type in what you want in place of the carrier label and it'll cycle through airplane mode and voila.
I used it for my Droid Eris without any problems. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for the S III.
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Taehee. said:
I'm not sure if it's compatible with the S III, but look into the carrier name change app by conap (xda dev). I think the actual apk was called ccname or something. You just type in what you want in place of the carrier label and it'll cycle through airplane mode and voila.
I used it for my Droid Eris without any problems. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for the S III.
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read a few posts above yours
Lock-N-Load said:
read a few posts above yours
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Here you are
http://i.minus.com/1344707357/8JbJnROOp7GTGJWCcGoalQ/inJMXsJ6zwNQo.apk
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It didn't work for me.
I'm G1 stock, rooted+BusyBox odexed with this installed: custom blueui
nope, not working with the s3/
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Here you are
http://i.minus.com/1344707357/8JbJnROOp7GTGJWCcGoalQ/inJMXsJ6zwNQo.apk
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Thanks tried to find on Google & evertvlink is old as it looks like the app is abandon. I will try it but given the above posters I'd say its a no go.
Is there any app that any of you guys know of that would display the current amount of download/upload that's going in/out of my phone whether it be Data or WIFI? I know speedtest can accomplish this, but the MIUI had it built into the ROM to show the current download speeds on the status bar.
I reverted back to CM10 and I miss that little tool badly.
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Take a look at 3G Watchdog in PlayStore
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Take a look at 3G Watchdog in PlayStore
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I think he's looking for current network activity, not total data usage.
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Is there any app that any of you guys know of that would display the current amount of download/upload that's going in/out of my phone whether it be Data or WIFI? I know speedtest can accomplish this, but the MIUI had it built into the ROM to show the current download speeds on the status bar.
I reverted back to CM10 and I miss that little tool badly.
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Might look at Network Speed in the market. Don't know if you want app specifics, though.
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That's kinda what I'm looking for. I assume it would be a mod for what I was looking for. Basically a mod that would show: 0.00 KB/s in the status bar, but I don't believe there may be one.
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Interesting idea here for a concept app. It might make more sense to have a basic display in the status bar and more info in the notification tray. This could really be useful for developers monitoring how much data an app uses over time to optimize their app's usage.
Try Network Monitor Mini.
UpDownMeter?
Well, are there any apps that would have a widget? I do like the app(s) you guys have suggested, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for.
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UpDownMeter?
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Ooh, I like it but of course it's $3.50 for the widgets. Heh. Just wasn't sure if someone had already created a mod similar to what MIUI uses
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Try this one: Data Usage Defender
Although I don't think there's notification in the status bar.
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Ooh, I like it but of course it's $3.50 for the widgets. Heh. Just wasn't sure if someone had already created a mod similar to what MIUI uses
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But you said you wanted it in the status bar, which the free version does? I haven't seen MIUI so I can't comment on that.
Having said that, I think it prevents deep sleep, so if you like your battery, I wouldn't use it. Still need to verify that though.
I notice sometimes while WiFi tethering.. my 4g signal well seem to drop.. the 4g icon goes away very briefly..I seem to notice it mostly with the red WiFi logo.. the grey one in some of the roms.. doesn't show how many are connected to your device. .but seems to run better. .I recently lost my IMEI.. But have recovered and I noticed the problem before I lost my IMEI.. I use my wifi at work to connect my work computer to a VPN.. It could be my work computer just being finicky but it gets booted off a lot. All in all it works really good I just wonder if there's a way to check 4 G for any problems.. Just sitting here now with it running with the tether I never lose 4g only sometimes when I'm doing something data intensive such as going to the vpn on my work computer..
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Cool story.
I'd probably ask a mod to move this from development, as you didn't release anything.
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you are correct lol. I definitely didn't develop anything.. But it is a developmental question of sorts but yes please move somewhere else is it would be better there..thanks.
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you are correct lol. I definitely didn't develop anything.. But it is a developmental question of sorts but yes please move somewhere else is it would be better there..thanks.
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Nah, man. Good rule of thumb: if it's a question - not development. This would be Q&A or General.
I'm not a mod or I'd move it. One will be here soon though I'm sure
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you are correct lol. I definitely didn't develop anything.. But it is a developmental question of sorts but yes please move somewhere else is it would be better there..thanks.
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Everyone always tries to justify their mistake with this same response of it is a development question.
Yet they are always wrong lol.
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Fwiw I have the same issue...
And next time just say sorry and that you'll post the next one in the correct forum.
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Ok..my bad..will do that. So you have the wi fi issue as well?
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Since this thread is still here I thought I would share also. This happens to me as well and is definitely annoying.
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Development is for developers to post releases
Questions go in Q&A
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I went back to CNA...and the intermittent no reason at all 4g drop stops while wifi tethering ..the wifi indicator at the top is the older grey icon..doesn't show how many devices are connected like the newer red icon wifi..but I did notice it dropping internet to wifi if I make a call..something that didn't use to happen..the 4g icon disappears and drops internet to my lap top..I might try an ICS rom to see if it stops..I wonder if Verizon has successfully snuck in a wifi tether bug..because it definitely seems on any JB rom the wifi is acting screwy..seems like its working, but not very stable..
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Well..using the third party tether app that was included with the ROM I'm on now.. Beans ICS.. When I use the built in WiFi it works but I experience data drops..the 4g icon only goes away...the bars stay there, but the icon disappears.. with the tether app included in the set up of the ROM works great..I guess I will go back to a JB ROM and see if they have a third party tether installed..
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droidxxxxx said:
Well..using the third party tether app that was included with the ROM I'm on now.. Beans ICS.. When I use the built in WiFi it works but I experience data drops..the 4g icon only goes away...the bars stay there, but the icon disappears.. with the tether app included in the set up of the ROM works great..I guess I will go back to a JB ROM and see if they have a third party tether installed..
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Now on Baked Black Bean 6..using free Wi-Fi tether and it's working great.. I think something in the last leak of jelly bean is killing the wifi tether..
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Have you tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1988735
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Have you tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1988735
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I will have to give it a try.. right now BB6 is working pretty good for me.. Is 4.1.2 older than 4.1.1?
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I will have to give it a try.. right now BB6 is working pretty good for me.. Is 4.1.2 older than 4.1.1?
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No.
Edit: I should probably clarify, as Android versions go, no 4.1.2 is not older than 4.1.1. But the TW 4.1.1 was released more recently than AOSP 4.1.2 that Baked Black Bean 6 is based on.
Just got a new update...don't know what is...since I'm on OG5...I'm taking it. Here goes...
So what is it?
New everything. OG7...new baseband kernel...I haven't seen any new things outright. Phone seems more responsive... Holds an LTE signal better in my area. Still looking.
3 options in Notifications On Lockscreen now...the new option to Hide Content is present
I can confirm an update is available on mine too. I'm currently on OG5 and downloading a new OTA now. I'm in Oregon.
Memory leak issue fixed?
What about the new icons like the international version? Oh and live broadcast mode in camera?
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What about the new icons like the international version? Oh and live broadcast mode in camera?
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No live broadcast
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any reasons why i cant update OTA? It said i have update, i DL fine 30mb, and it always fails to install. I had to get to 5.1 through smart switch and when i try that, there is no update.
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any reasons why i cant update OTA? It said i have update, i DL fine 30mb, and it always fails to install. I had to get to 5.1 through smart switch and when i try that, there is no update.
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Have you disabled any apps particularly system apps? Maybe something was inadvertently disabled and is keeping the update from being able to install. Do you receive any error message or codes?
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Have you disabled any apps particularly system apps? Maybe something was inadvertently disabled and is keeping the update from being able to install. Do you receive any error message or codes?
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YES ALL THE VZW CRAP AND SAMSUNG STUFF I DONT USE. I updated and it failed and i need the 5.1.1 og5 tar file ASAP. Please. I am constant boot looping now, tried to wipe reset and clear cache. Still boot looping. Cant find vzw 920v tar anywhere.
I went ahead and took the update, now my phone seems slow, specially when texting, is dragging ughh!
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Just got a new update...don't know what is...since I'm on OG5...I'm taking it. Here goes...
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it was posted on their site and just says some security fixes
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sd_N said:
New everything. OG7...new baseband kernel...I haven't seen any new things outright. Phone seems more responsive... Holds an LTE signal better in my area. Still looking.
3 options in Notifications On Lockscreen now...the new option to Hide Content is present
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The notification thing isn't new. I've always had that.
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The notification thing isn't new. I've always had that.
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yup.. on oe2
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I am on 5.0.1 still. There is a person on this blog
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...band-3-5-7-t3115021/post63019227#post63019227
posting that this update allowed for new locked LTE bands to become unlocked. Is this possible? I need to know because updating the phone is going to be a big hassle since mine is rooted and cannot update without first restoring it..
Please let me know if this is possible and if you find any links confirming it.
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Memory leak issue fixed?
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Seems better now... No weird battery drains...email sync used to eat my battery.. Now it's down at the bottom of a VERY short list.
kingoanklebreakn said:
The notification thing isn't new. I've always had that.
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Not the whole time. Before it was either show or hide all. On mine anyways.
Lmao...wow.. I coulda swore mine was show all or hide all. I'm going to bed. Good night XDA...maybe I'll wake up with OG6 bootloader unlock...lol
Samsung pay?.........
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Samsung pay?.........
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What about it?
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Does this update rename it on Verizon being that it officially went live yesterday in the US