Does anyone know if the usual bloatware from TMO is on these phones? Some used to be hidden and not removable while others were just annoying.
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As the title says, I've been dying to get a Note 10.1. I finally got one but it happens to be a T-Mobile version and the sim card has been removed. I don't plan on getting 4G service ever if I can avoid it.
So now I have a few questions:
1. Will I be able to get updates like the wifi only tablets do or will I be forced to get T-Mobile service when updates come out?
2. I have these annoying notifications about the missing sim card. Is there a way around this? I have Sprint service for my phones so I really don't know much about sim cards. Do I need to go to T-Mobile and just ask for one to pop in without getting service? Are they free or would they send me packing because I don't have their service?
3. I also have the x'd out signal meter that I would love to get rid of.
Any advice you guys can give me as a sim card/carrier tablet noob would be very helpful.
Thank you
If you're rooted, you can use xposed mods to do almost anything to the tab you want. As for updates, I'm not sure about since I have the 8013 and Samsung has said fu to it.
krispy521 said:
As the title says, I've been dying to get a Note 10.1. I finally got one but it happens to be a T-Mobile version and the sim card has been removed. I don't plan on getting 4G service ever if I can avoid it.
So now I have a few questions:
1. Will I be able to get updates like the wifi only tablets do or will I be forced to get T-Mobile service when updates come out?
2. I have these annoying notifications about the missing sim card. Is there a way around this? I have Sprint service for my phones so I really don't know much about sim cards. Do I need to go to T-Mobile and just ask for one to pop in without getting service? Are they free or would they send me packing because I don't have their service?
3. I also have the x'd out signal meter that I would love to get rid of.
Any advice you guys can give me as a sim card/carrier tablet noob would be very helpful.
Thank you
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if you are running stock rom. I would go to amazon and Order a sim card for data devices. I think you can get one for like 14.00 with 1 gb data PRE PAY. setup t mobile account and then change your plan to pay as you go DAILY . Your sim will not expire and if you want or need to use the devices on there network even once a year you can just jump on there site and buy a day or weekend pass.I have not checked this lately so the above cold be slighty different now. Good Luck
Hello mateys, so here's the plan. I just got this phone for my gf and it's an att phone. She wants to use it on a straight talk network though. That's no problem but I want to get rid of all the att bloatware and possibly put lollipop on here so she'll be good to go. Is this possible? I've not done this rooting and flashing thing in almost 2-3 years now. Thank you.
Anyone?
blueandigo said:
Hello mateys, so here's the plan. I just got this phone for my gf and it's an att phone. She wants to use it on a straight talk network though. That's no problem but I want to get rid of all the att bloatware and possibly put lollipop on here so she'll be good to go. Is this possible? I've not done this rooting and flashing thing in almost 2-3 years now. Thank you.
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Without rooting your device it would not be possible to get rid of all the bloatware. In case you are willing to root the device, you can use Titanium Backup to uninstall all bloatware.
Had to return my most recent phone for an unrelated reason. But I had a galaxy S5 from verizon that had svlte. It would let me make calls and use data without being connected to wifi. Phones like the G4 and note edge do not support this. And using advanced calling feature under settings is not an option for me since I use a straight talk sim card in the phone and verizon refuses to give access to advanced calling unless you're on a contract account. But yeah so I'm in the market for a different phone. And would like to know if anyone knows of a good list of phones out there for verizon 4g capable that support the svlte. I know there are other phones that have the VOLTE and the SVDO but I don't fully understand them. But I do understand that the s5 with the svlte did what I wanted it to do. And I know a LOT of the newer phones don't have the dual radio to support this. So yeah anybody know of a good list of phones? Because it seems this is either really hidden or not available knowledge on the internet.
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Had to return my most recent phone for an unrelated reason. But I had a galaxy S5 from verizon that had svlte. It would let me make calls and use data without being connected to wifi. Phones like the G4 and note edge do not support this. And using advanced calling feature under settings is not an option for me since I use a straight talk sim card in the phone and verizon refuses to give access to advanced calling unless you're on a contract account. But yeah so I'm in the market for a different phone. And would like to know if anyone knows of a good list of phones out there for verizon 4g capable that support the svlte. I know there are other phones that have the VOLTE and the SVDO but I don't fully understand them. But I do understand that the s5 with the svlte did what I wanted it to do. And I know a LOT of the newer phones don't have the dual radio to support this. So yeah anybody know of a good list of phones? Because it seems this is either really hidden or not available knowledge on the internet.
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32 views and then pushed off the board? Thought my title was pretty clear to where only people that knew would click on it. Guess not. But on top of that still looks like everyone knows as much as me. Phone companies should make this more well known. Or in my case verizon should make it more well known.
I looked at the related threads and search is broken for some reason, but I couldn't seem to find anything on this.
My question is is it possible to flash another carrier's firmware over a VZW S6 edge without horribly breaking anything? I ask because I've got a friend who's getting fed up with the "Non Verizon sim card" notification and is now considering the iPhone 7 because of it. It's stupid, I know.
Over on Verizon S7s side they've discovered that you can flash AT&T firmware over Verizon's, which results in better overll performace, less bloat, and no more SIM notification. I tried it and it worked miraculously well - I've never been able to flash anything so effortlessly before. Maybe I just suck at it.
Anyway, does anything similar exist for the S6? TIA.
Hi folks I''ve read quite alot about the Straight Talk Variant of this phone.
Carrier is pageplus cellular. They were recently bought out by tracfone.
When booting, the phone displays the ugly Tracfone logo and came loaded with default tracfone apps and browzer bookmarks, though both phones were sold by pageplus.
EVERYTHING I know about any fone sold by tracfone (much less the OLD TFn) or its subsidiaries reflects they are really really hard to root or mod, but b/c it was a genuine S3 I took the chance, usually I get an old VZW unit off ebay.
What I have:
sch-s968c
Android Ver.
4.1.2
BaseBand
S968CUDUANH2
Kernel Ver.
3.0.30-1564380-user
[email protected] #1
Build No.
JZO54K.S6968CUDUANH2
Date
Aug 7, 2014
Mobile Network
EvDo-rev.A:8
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pageplus cellular was unable to get the mobile broadband working, I got that fixed chopping down an OLD (3 years at least) TFn SIM and poking it in the slot -- eazy peazy
However, Stock 4.1.2 utterly BLOWS CHUNKS. 2 bars at best in my rural area. I hear USC, SPR, and VZW (all cdma) users are getting 3-4 @ my place (my kids friends)
I know threads exist for the StraightTalk variant of the s968c, however I don't know which 'Destructions' to use. Some say a special version of the OctOS (?) TWRM recovery, but the link to it is broken. What about Heimdahl? Reason I ask is I don't use windows, ever since too many things no longer work on XP... Do I HAVE to use windows? Running win7 in a VM is an option but then there's the struggle to get the VM to correctly access USB...
Once I get root, I NEED a ROM, rooted with no google or chrome, I'm a security freak and won't run any app that needs that 'Safeguard' or whatever that is... Basicly I don't run google anything and don't use fB etc on the fone. In order to effectively firewall and adbock I need root ~~ Can't figure out which RELIABLE stripped down RoM to pick.
Then there is the notorious Camera issue. What do I need to back up, in order to reload the decent Proprietary Samsung Camera? (I truly do require good camera for my work) I don't mind to use Stock VZW etc firmware as long as I can root the thing and disable the bloat and calling home crap. I have seen some ROMs that are stock based, but I do not see any rooted ones.
Is the solution found in rooting after I load (which one?) ROM?
The poor signal strength ~~ is this a firmware issue or a hardware issue? I have heard that some S3's are just "wrong" (Verizon type -- might not be some) others have said its RIL or APN related... but since the APN comes from the SIM, I wonder if Id be better off experimenting with different SIM?
Thanks in advance ... Before I get Napalmed for starting a new thread, I looked everywhere and couldn't find much on a phone originally from Tracfone, much less on my rinky dink carrier
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