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SecretControlModem.apk

dying to try damageless's v1 rom, but;
wtf is SecretControlModem.apk (and odex)
maybe just being paranoid...

I had a previous post about this. It was in the original 2.1 flip and them posted. No one ever answered me. So, it's not Damage's.

google search gives nothing either. it references these threads. fishy.

Why don't you flash and pull those files out and see what happens

sleejay said:
google search gives nothing either. it references these threads. fishy.
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Yea, just pops up our posts. lol lol It could be wired tethering, but I don't think Damage has it?

i am
also im not saying anyone has DONE anything fishy with their roms... (we're all basically using the same rom now anyway, whole lot of cut and paste going on) its just weird that this package is referenced NOWHERE

sleejay said:
i am
also im not saying anyone has DONE anything fishy with their roms... (we're all basically using the same rom now anyway, whole lot of cut and paste going on) its just weird that this package is referenced NOWHERE
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Except by you and me. Our posts are the only ones that pop up about this.

I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.

gbhil said:
I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.
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Huh?
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gbhil said:
I saw that in the Eris dump when i was playing with it. The way i figure, if it's some call home tattletale app built into test software, it calls back to verizon and I have unlimited data - at that point I chuckled and stopped caring.
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so we can just ditch that one right...

notasimpleway said:
Huh?
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it comes from the Eris dump. If it's some tracking software put in there to keep people from sharing it, it will call back to Verizon. It wont cost me anything, since data is free.
then i realized i was getting freaked out over phone software, so I just laughed at myself and installed anyway.
It very well could be something that whoever leaked it out put in. I don't have anything I care about on my phone. I'm not suggesting it's safe, just that I thought I was silly.
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so we can just ditch that one right...
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Can't hurt to try it.

Just pulled them out.
Phone, SMS, MMS, Email still work
market works

I un-apk'ed so to speak...and it was just an icon.

um... can we have some of the original developers comment on this ? lol

dmitriandsnow said:
um... can we have some of the original developers comment on this ? lol
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It was in the Eris ROM. I don't know why any of the other devs didn't catch it.

how do i remove this? i tried it via root explorer and it didn't work...

hmmm. under further inspection i believe it takes screenshots as it contains the same exact instructions as shootme in the apk. very strange. kinda scary. i remember someone on said on the forum where the eris was leaked tht the guy who posted it will be able to see everything you do and he and the guy who started the post has only 1 post on xda to this day
but no big worrys lol it also contains png's with htc's logo.

dmitriandsnow said:
how do i remove this? i tried it via root explorer and it didn't work...
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Yea how do we get rid of this? If it's taking screenshots wouldn't they be stored somewhere on the phone - at least temporarily?

gthing said:
Yea how do we get rid of this? If it's taking screenshots wouldn't they be stored somewhere on the phone - at least temporarily?
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im not sure. in the resources theres nothing to specify that. its like it takes a screenshot when you do something to trigger it and bam it sends? lol creeeepy

I've tried examining the apk myself, where are you seeing instructions that relate to ShootMe? Is it not also possible it is similar because you are looking at aspects of the APK that would be shared across most APKs in general?
Not saying this isn't something malicious, just curious what we have to suggest that it truly is.
I'm hoping its a case of "Paranoia will destroy ya", but I supposed it is possible we are all running some kind of screen-grabbing trojan. In the meantime, either follow gbhil and remove them, or hope its something legit we just don't understand.

[WTF] Gingerbread ROMs=android forgets the PIN

So with any type of lockscreen password I try to put on my phone in any GINGERBREAD ROM, when I try to enter it, it says "Incorrect password" and I can try it until my phone locks itself until the universe ends, but it never remembers it. Not after a reboot, no special ROM (non-GB ones don't have this problem on my phone, however), no kernel. No SD removal.
Nothing works, it just forgets it like I entered something random when I set it and don't remember it. But I do. It happens with any type of lock, pin, password, pattern...
My question is... why gingerbread ROMs? I can put any type of password on any froyo ROM including the AT&T one and it doesn't forget it.
Return phone to Samsung because the only option is defective hardware with a few bad sectors on the internal SD? Or what do I do?

But... But... Didn't you say that Rogers Gingerbread was perfect and we were all idiots for looking forward to an official AT&T release?

No, leave my thread and go re-read my post. And then do not return.
I never even mentioned Rogers. How bout you try to actually look at someone's username before you troll them?

strychninetwitch said:
No, leave my thread and go re-read my post. And then do not return.
I never even mentioned Rogers. How bout you try to actually look at someone's username before you troll them?
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hey buddy entropy, I never realized u were a troll on these forums!!!
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Return phone to Samsung because the only option is defective hardware with a few bad sectors on the internal SD? Or what do I do?
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1. Try formatting the internal SD in windows.
2. Try a clean install of ROM on ur phone.

strychninetwitch said:
No, leave my thread and go re-read my post. And then do not return.
I never even mentioned Rogers. How bout you try to actually look at someone's username before you troll them?
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You said Gingerbread, so by definition you are talking about the Rogers UXKG3 release since that's what every Gingerbread ROM is based off of. There's work on integrating some of the features and fixes from the UCKI3/I4 leaks, but really all I3/I4 have brought us is so far is fixed video recording and a bunch of bad builds.
But - according to your first post here (yes, I DID look at your username) UXKG3 is apparently perfect and we're idiots for looking forward to an official AT&T update and being excited about an official release and the leaks.
So why don't you just stick with ROMs based off of UXKG3 and accept that they are what they are?

note to self. don't cross entropy...

strychninetwitch said:
No, leave my thread and go re-read my post. And then do not return.
I never even mentioned Rogers. How bout you try to actually look at someone's username before you troll them?
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grow up .

diablo009 said:
hey buddy entropy, I never realized u were a troll on these forums!!!
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1. Try formatting the internal SD in windows.
2. Try a clean install of ROM on ur phone.
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Will try when I get bored with my phone sometime this weekend. I assume format in the same 'file system' as whatever it already is? And default block sizes or whatever they're called these days? Allocation units or something...
But yeah, thanks, will try, will report.

Entropy512 said:
You said Gingerbread, so by definition you are talking about the Rogers UXKG3 release since that's what every Gingerbread ROM is based off of. There's work on integrating some of the features and fixes from the UCKI3/I4 leaks, but really all I3/I4 have brought us is so far is fixed video recording and a bunch of bad builds.
But - according to your first post here (yes, I DID look at your username) UXKG3 is apparently perfect and we're idiots for looking forward to an official AT&T update and being excited about an official release and the leaks.
So why don't you just stick with ROMs based off of UXKG3 and accept that they are what they are?
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Pretty much sums it up right there.

So much RAAAAAAGEEE! and just FYI all 3 types of pins work on my phone... pattern password and pin...
Entropy: Thumbs Up

FP1 OTA coming

And it gets a great big "meh" from me.
http://phandroid.com/2012/03/20/droid-charge-fp1-update-brings-verizon-remote-diagnostics-bug-fixes/

Woot
"...biggest change is the addition of the Verizon Remote Diagnostics app which will allow customer care representatives to better troubleshoot any problems you’re having with your device."
More bloat with the added benefit of the verizon nitwits rumaging around my customized system, yay!!

It looks like the FP1 radios might finally get rid of the squeal/click that some people are experiencing on their phones. That's a bonus, if nothing else, especially since it can most likely be ripped from stock and flashed separately.
Complete calls without experiencing choppy audio, clicking noises, and/or one-way audio noises
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Cilraaz said:
It looks like the FP1 radios might finally get rid of the squeal/click that some people are experiencing on their phones. That's a bonus, if nothing else, especially since it can most likely be ripped from stock and flashed separately.
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Actually, if history is any indication, we'll have wait for a leak of the full firmware. The LTE radios can be extracted from the device, but the CDMA radios can't be dumped, and the update files from Verizon usually only contain the diffs/deltas. We ran into that with EP4D...it was a couple of weeks after the OTA before we had a flashable radio that didn't require you to be at stock EE4.
The only path on the radios at first is probably going to be flashing full stock, taking the OTA, then flashing an EP4 rom on top of them.

Can't wait for the fix for the cracking and popping issue.
It doesn't always happen, but when it does, my ears bleed.

shrike1978 said:
Actually, if history is any indication, we'll have wait for a leak of the full firmware. The LTE radios can be extracted from the device, but the CDMA radios can't be dumped, and the update files from Verizon usually only contain the diffs/deltas. We ran into that with EP4D...it was a couple of weeks after the OTA before we had a flashable radio that didn't require you to be at stock EE4.
The only path on the radios at first is probably going to be flashing full stock, taking the OTA, then flashing an EP4 rom on top of them.
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Well - there was a workaround for such things if interested in only modem updating - assuming the same can be done here you'll just have to be on the EP4P radios for this one. That ought to save a little hassle anyway.

Does anyone know what the "new UI" is?

mtmerrick said:
Does anyone know what the "new UI" is?
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Maybe they finally finished that new GB theme XD

Only good thing about the update is the radio update. Else this is fail sauce.
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luis86dr said:
Only good thing about the update is the radio update. Else this is fail sauce.
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Well at least they got the radios working properly.
Anyone think they will change kernel or something related again? Also anyone know when this is supposed to roll out?

Yay!!!! VZ Navigator update
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LaserEyeballs said:
Yay!!!! VZ Navigator update
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Yeah this update will make it totally worth the $10/mo.
As a side note, this may improve the GPS even more.

It's likely a modem+kernel update to fix the radio related issues. Given the reported size and the changelog, I'm wondering if they did completely retheme the system, as I don't see any reason for it to be 85MB for anything else.

cliMAKtic said:
"...biggest change is the addition of the Verizon Remote Diagnostics app which will allow customer care representatives to better troubleshoot any problems you’re having with your device."
More bloat with the added benefit of the verizon nitwits rumaging around my customized system, yay!!
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You can always delete it from your system/apps folder as I am sure it will be an APK

motcher41 said:
You can always delete it from your system/apps folder as I am sure it will be an APK
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I hope so. They have been known to embed things more deeply though (I'm looking at you, Mobile Hotspot).

shrike1978 said:
I hope so. They have been known to embed things more deeply though (I'm looking at you, Mobile Hotspot).
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Ih that's true...well u can always not allow them to dig around your phone...
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I was going to post this >__< lol
I'm also wondering what the UI change will bring.
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shrike1978 said:
I hope so. They have been known to embed things more deeply though (I'm looking at you, Mobile Hotspot).
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LMAO! It's so funny cause it's horribly true. I imagine that new addition wouldn't allow them to access anything that they weren't already able to. But regardless it's bloat and if possible I'll be removing it. *curses Mobile Hotspot, you and your elusive trickery*

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LMAO! It's so funny cause it's horribly true. I imagine that new addition wouldn't allow them to access anything that they weren't already able to. But regardless it's bloat and if possible I'll be removing it. *curses Mobile Hotspot, you and your elusive trickery*
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It should be possible to remove. I am pretty sure nitro managed to do it in Eclipse.

i have lost all faith in samsung getting anything right on this phone so ill stick with my eclipse rom pbj kernel phone that actually works like it should as opposed another cluster of crap from samsung that is still in the end just another gb update.

[Q] Google Wallet

Does anyone have their Google Wallet still working? Seems like a wide spread disabling of google wallet on vz occurred over the last two weeks.
Device is rooted, load a back door wallet apk, installed fine, grayed message "Not supported"
Using stock ROM, is that the problem??
VZ GS3 SCH-i535
Thanks

It says not supported but still works fine.
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I'd imagine you'd have to do the sprint build prop edit as the nexus is no longer supported. I haven't set it up since jumping on incubus jellywiz.
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I believe people changed their build.prop to have the phone appear as "jewel" or the HTC EVO 4G LTE

I have my original build.prop and everything has been working time for me since it came out and I installed it
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Working fine here. I got the build. Prop changed to the Sprint S3 version...
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SMR-DINO313 said:
Working fine here. I got the build. Prop changed to the Sprint S3 version...
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This^^^ i have just stayed with the Sprint build.prop edit, my wallet is installed from the market and updates normally. No ill effects that i can see staying with the Sprint edit.
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hesh.monster said:
This^^^ i have just stayed with the Sprint build.prop edit, my wallet is installed from the market and updates normally. No ill effects that i can see staying with the Sprint edit.
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Just tried installing from the market after changing my build prop. It's giving me the insufficient secure element privelges error. How did you get it to work?

mustbepbs said:
Just tried installing from the market after changing my build prop. It's giving me the insufficient secure element privelges error. How did you get it to work?
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You broke your secure element. You can't use it anymore from what I've read until someone finds a way to fix this
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techgov8 said:
You broke your secure element. You can't use it anymore from what I've read until someone finds a way to fix this
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Like hell I have. I've had this issue before and it's just because of Google Wallet being an ass. I've had it working on here for weeks but I recently switched ROMs and haven't put it back on. I reset it the correct way every time. Don't go spouting FUD.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769083

mustbepbs said:
Like hell I have. I've had this issue before and it's just because of Google Wallet being an ass. I've had it working on here for weeks but I recently switched ROMs and haven't put it back on. I reset it the correct way every time. Don't go spouting FUD.
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Chill out if you see the part where I said "from what I've read" so I was just suggesting. People need to calm the **** down on these forums and still being such *******. There's no need for people to act like that when other people are trying to help them
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Chill out if you see the part where I said "from what I've read" so I was just suggesting. People need to calm the **** down on these forums and still being such *******. There's no need for people to act like that when other people are trying to help them
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Because I know as soon as I say anything about secure element, people immediately say that I borked my secure element. It happens every time.

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Because I know as soon as I say anything about secure element, people immediately say that I borked my secure element. It happens every time.
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Then you knowing this already you should give more of the details and say that's not what it is instead of flaming people for no reason.
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Then you knowing this already you should give more of the details and say that's not what it is instead of flaming people for no reason.
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I was hoping the guy I quoted would chime in, or the other folks who had successfully changed their build prop to sprint and just installed from the market.
And I wasn't flaming. I simply stated that I have gotten this before and I know it's not that and you shouldn't throw blame around, saying that I broke my secure element.

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I was hoping the guy I quoted would chime in, or the other folks who had successfully changed their build prop to sprint and just installed from the market.
And I wasn't flaming. I simply stated that I have gotten this before and I know it's not that and you shouldn't throw blame around, saying that I broke my secure element.
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These forums are just getting ridiculous the way people act. If you would have gave a little more detail about the problem then this wouldn't have happened. And you didn't have to come off like that to my response. The whole point of the forums are for people to help out and learn from each other otherwise if everyone was so smart there wouldn't be a need for them. Next time I suggest you just realize how your responding to someone before you just go off posting.
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These forums are just getting ridiculous the way people act. If you would have gave a little more detail about the problem then this wouldn't have happened. And you didn't have to come off like that to my response. The whole point of the forums are for people to help out and learn from each other otherwise if everyone was so smart there wouldn't be a need for them. Next time I suggest you just realize how your responding to someone before you just go off posting.
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Pardon? Did you even read my post? It was pretty specific. I said what I did, where I downloaded, and what issue was coming up. My question was even directed at someone. Before you go pointing fingers, you should make sure you know what you're talking about, tough guy.

I had told u earlier that I changed my build. Prop to the Sprint version and working fine for me. I I actually reverted back to the verizon build prop more than once and back to the Sprint one and never any any issues.
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mustbepbs said:
Because I know as soon as I say anything about secure element, people immediately say that I borked my secure element. It happens every time.
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I've borked my secure element...restored a backup of when GWallet and NFC worked and off I went. Flashed multiple roms after with no issue. Have you tried that already?

Marcismo55 said:
I've borked my secure element...restored a backup of when GWallet and NFC worked and off I went. Flashed multiple roms after with no issue. Have you tried that already?
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The last time I got this issue I didn't flash the correct order of zips from the wallet thread. Upon doing so everything was fixed. I know how to install wallet, I just didn't know if changing your build prop to Sprint made it any easier since they were talking about updating from the market no problem. That was my only question.

worst fear, cdma (sprint) data issues already?

so stock is great but we all know we love our custom roms and have our favorite devs. i saw cataclysm rom pop up the other day and flashed, all working fine (data provisioned like it should, etc). this morning i noticed a good number of custom roms appeared for us. so i naturally wanted to give them a run (alpha or not), 3 different roms (omni, unofficial carbon, and asylum) all with the same result. it will sit on the provisioning data service screen until it times out and asks you to try again. now somebody in omni replied saying it was a known issue.
here is my concern/question i guess, are we going to see issues bc sprint didnt actually get out of the way and just give up binaries to google? my understanding was one rom should work on all variants. i am not foreign to data issues and sprint as i had the sprint gnex but this was me giving them one last chance before taking it to tmobile, which we can fortunately do with the n5.

Definitely frustrating today for sure. There's a lot of cool ROM's that we're not able to enjoy yet.
I've been sending some PM's around and I can assure you that there are people looking into it. I see the following scenarios as possibilities:
- We may need to create a flashable zip of the Sprint APN settings. It would need to be flashed after every ROM/Gapps install. AT&T and Straight Talk already have a thread for this.
- The devs (except for Rascarlo who already said he will not do this) may start to take notice and try to fix it when building their ROM's. It may be a HiddenMenu issue.
- Worst Case Scenario - we have a separate Sprint Development Forum. Because we have the same model number, I doubt it will come to this though.

mjs2011 said:
Definitely frustrating today for sure. There's a lot of cool ROM's that we're not able to enjoy yet.
I've been sending some PM's around and I can assure you that there are people looking into it. I see the following scenarios as possibilities:
- We may need to create a flashable zip of the Sprint APN settings. It would need to be flashed after every ROM/Gapps install. AT&T and Straight Talk already have a thread for this.
- The devs (except for Rascarlo who already said he will not do this) may start to take notice and try to fix it when building their ROM's. It may be a HiddenMenu issue.
- Worst Case Scenario - we have a separate Sprint Development Forum. Because we have the same model number, I doubt it will come to this though.
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well this is really dissapointing then. this "one phone for all" seems to be a bill of goods. will probably just be switching to tmobile when i can and not having to deal with sprint being in the way. if it is this way already and there hasnt even been an update, i do not have high hopes for us cdma users.
edit: i am sure devs are working on this and will get it working in some way. just stinks and its weird that cataclysm is working just fine when it comes to data but 3 others didnt.

chasew83 said:
well this is really dissapointing then. this "one phone for all" seems to be a bill of goods. will probably just be switching to tmobile when i can and not having to deal with sprint being in the way. if it is this way already and there hasnt even been an update, i do not have high hopes for us cdma users.
edit: i am sure devs are working on this and will get it working in some way. just stinks and its weird that cataclysm is working just fine when it comes to data but 3 others didnt.
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Looks like we have a fix already. More to come son.
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mjs2011 said:
Looks like we have a fix already. More to come son.
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What's the fix?
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mjs2011 said:
Looks like we have a fix already. More to come son.
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i second jboyer, whats the fix? flashable zip?

Cordell was able to add something to the SlimROM he's been working on. In not going to post it without his permission, but what he did today should fix any future issues of compatibility.
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mjs2011 said:
Cordell was able to add something to the SlimROM he's been working on. In not going to post it without his permission, but what he did today should fix any future issues of compatibility.
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nice...i remember slimkat having working data when i gave it a go the other day. i am happy to test the fix if you or he wants to pm me. i used to test for sourcery on sprint gnex so i am good at putting things through the paces and can run logcats if need be.

I also think someone is going make flashable zips that I'll be testing later as well. That way we'll have options for ROMs where the devs don't build the fix in their ROMs.
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mjs2011 said:
Cordell was able to add something to the SlimROM he's been working on. In not going to post it without his permission, but what he did today should fix any future issues of compatibility.
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What about a link to github
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Honestly the devs need to post roms compatible with cdma or not post them in this forum. nexus firmware is the same for both variants and custom/aosp roms should follow the same rule.

patience, padawans. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47396073&postcount=192 answers you will find.