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I am starting this thread, since it seems a lot of users are posting their problems in the Development section. It has become confusing for the other users who are new to this website to post thier queries in other thread. This thread will generally be answered by experienced users and we will continue to help as long as you guys do not create a mess here -:d

My phone have only 11gb internal memory. Is it normal? I though its 16gb phone

Crazy Ushi said:
My phone have only 11gb internal memory. Is it normal? I though its 16gb phone
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Ya thats normal 11 gb for user...around 2 gigs is for apps...plus rest for system..

New user of a Galaxy Note, I remarked a strange thing with the way the Galaxy Note manage the wifi connexion. At my home, I've one Wifi network. One access point is into my desk and the second into my living room. When I connect my Note on the wifi into my desk room, I got the Wifi at 100% (of course as I'm at 2m of the antenna ;-) ). Now, if I move from my desk to my living room, the Galaxy Note still remain connected to the Wifi of my desk room witch is not good because I lost the 90% of my wifi power.
My question is now: Does it exist any solution to have my Smartphone switching automatically depending on witch room I am ?
For example, with my iPhone and/or iPad, both device automatically use the more powerfull signal (the one of my desk room when I'm in and as soon as I'm more closer of the antenna of my living room it switch to this antenna).
Last information, same problem with a Galaxy S2.
Is it a limitation of Android or a "specificity" of Samsung devices ?
Thx for your feedback !

Force shutdown every time I runs any application
Hello, newcomer's here. I've rooted my N7000 & installed stable CM 10.1.3 ROM, but I can't run any apps more than 10 minutes or less.
When I runs an app (especially games), even when the battery was 100%, the device will force shut. When I immediately turned it on after the
force shutdown, it will force shut at cynogenmod boot screen, but sometimes when I managed to (barely) get in, the battery bar indicates there's
only 1% charge left. So, I thought I should try BatteryCalibration, but still the same issue. Then I thought maybe it's the ROM, so I
installed the updated nightly version CM 10.2 ROM, and the same issue occurs again. I've searched in "All Forums" and found the idea on "wipe
battery stats" in recovery after install new ROM, but I can't find that option in CWM. Then, I read the idea of wiping battery stats has no effect at
all in the battery issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256038). So, I flashed the stock ROM back and I didn't
face any issue on force shut and rapid battery drain anymore. But I've found a similar situation faced by other member in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506468. Do I have to go that far just for remedy?
Is there any solution for this? Because I like custom ROM than using the stock, it's fast and swift RAM usage. Thanks for any advice on this.

Did you try a different battery to start with.?

my N7000 (factory firmware 4.1.2) was in charging, then suddenly its turn off automatically, then i switch on it, it stuck at boot screen..
cannot go recovery mode,
can go download mode with android logo, not ' ! " logo
flash back factory firmware, ordin stuck at boot.bin..FAIL
help

nokiamodeln91 said:
Did you try a different battery to start with.?
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Nope, I don't have any spare battery for my device. Just bought it 2 weeks ago.
I'll consider your advice. Thanks.

N7000 screen
Hi, I'm not sure wether this is the right thread, but it is a question and I do need an answer..
Does anyone know wether the display of N7000 is the same as SHV-E160L?
I have one N7000 with a broken glass and LCD, and can get hold of a SHV-E160L for same price as the display only.. Would there be a way to frankenstein the LTE possibilities of SHV-E160L into the N7000?
Hope someone has hands on experience with this.. At least the screen part, since it is the main reason for the project..
LTE would be the icing on the cake..

Not sure of the screen but LTE is the compatibly dependent on SOC. The SHV has a snapdragon processor and Exynos doesn't have.

how to disable custom rom flashing twrp recovery? and just stay on cwmr?
First post ever on forum, sorry if i did something bad

You really can't. If the custom rom (may be you are referring to kitkat) comes only with twrp, you need to live with it till some kernel Dev makes a kernel with cwm compatible 4.4.

nokiamodeln91 said:
You really can't. If the custom rom (may be you are referring to kitkat) comes only with twrp, you need to live with it till some kernel Dev makes a kernel with cwm compatible 4.4.
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Ah, then i get it, thanks for your help!!

Need Help...Plz
nokiamodeln91 said:
You really can't. If the custom rom (may be you are referring to kitkat) comes only with twrp, you need to live with it till some kernel Dev makes a kernel with cwm compatible 4.4.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559371
Please help me with my problem if you can. My mobile is seen by odin but i am unable to find a Stock Jellybean Rom for N7000, i.e either .tar or .md5 file in internet.

lord_pmvk said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559371
Please help me with my problem if you can. My mobile is seen by odin but i am unable to find a Stock Jellybean Rom for N7000, i.e either .tar or .md5 file in internet.
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Then install philz kernel using odin. Then boot into recovery. Flash any custom rom.

I now got another question, i have the 4.4.1 alysum omni and i just can't get the "standard email"(the one that is original on stock rom) app working, its giving me messages saying i cant login, i took it out from the "removed apks .rar file" and just installed it on new fresh rom, everything else works but not that.. what can the problem be?
its chewing and chewing for like 5 mins when i press next for login.. and then gives error "cant sign in to server"
thanks

Ate you talking about the Samsung Email app? Then it won't work without a TW framework.

My phone got stuck at boot screen and unable to go into recovery mode but can go into download mode.
Should i flash back stock gingerbread via odin? Do i need to i stall any kernel? Pls help.

My phone got stuck at boot screen and unable to go into recovery mode but can go into download mode.
Should i flash back stock gingerbread via odin? Do i need to i stall any kernel? Pls help.

shokokatana said:
My phone got stuck at boot screen and unable to go into recovery mode but can go into download mode.
Should i flash back stock gingerbread via odin? Do i need to i stall any kernel? Pls help.
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Flash philz .tar file from download mode and you should have working recovery
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk

[Q] I messed up the RADIO on my i8190L and now stuck in bootloop

Let's start with a little background as to how I got into this mess
- I had a perfectly working i8190L running SlimBean 4.3 from Maclaw (and I should've left it alone since its the wife's phone)
- I wanted to try out the new SlimKat 4.4 (http://get.novafusion.pl/?id=955)
- After a clean flash of slimkat, the new ROM was running fine after I completed setup EXCEPT baseband was 'xxxx'
- I rebooted into recovery and flashed GT-I8190_modem.bin-XXAMJ3-update2.zip because it was in my sdcard. I thought flashing a new radio would change the baseband except now I'm stuck in a bootloop with NO ABILITY TO BOOT TO RECOVERY!!!!
- I can only boot into Download mode, so I can still ODIN flash the system
Can someone suggest how/if I can fix this? I'm just kicking myself for turning a fully working phone into a brick with my wife breathing down my shoulders
my working setup was TWRP 2.7, SlimBean 4.3 and I had no idea which radio the i8190L came with default
I created a nandroid before all this mess, but I just need a way to get back into Recovery

You downloaded the wrong modem file. You need the one for the I8190L, but you flashed one for the I8190.
Sent from Tapatalk on my GT-I8190 running Novafusion's Carbon 4.4.2

chan1628 said:
Let's start with a little background as to how I got into this mess
- I had a perfectly working i8190L running SlimBean 4.3 from Maclaw (and I should've left it alone since its the wife's phone)
- I wanted to try out the new SlimKat 4.4 (http://get.novafusion.pl/?id=955)
- After a clean flash of slimkat, the new ROM was running fine after I completed setup EXCEPT baseband was 'xxxx'
- I rebooted into recovery and flashed GT-I8190_modem.bin-XXAMJ3-update2.zip because it was in my sdcard. I thought flashing a new radio would change the baseband except now I'm stuck in a bootloop with NO ABILITY TO BOOT TO RECOVERY!!!!
- I can only boot into Download mode, so I can still ODIN flash the system
Can someone suggest how/if I can fix this? I'm just kicking myself for turning a fully working phone into a brick with my wife breathing down my shoulders
my working setup was TWRP 2.7, SlimBean 4.3 and I had no idea which radio the i8190L came with default
I created a nandroid before all this mess, but I just need a way to get back into Recovery
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Sorry but you are going to sleep on the couch tonight I suggest this:
You must download the original rom from SamMobile, install it through Odin and then install again through Odin the Recovery and through Recovery your "old" new Rom. When you are in the new Recovery check for the nandroid backup that you made . If it isnt there look for the couch because the phone is with the "old" new Rom without any of the past data.
Btw if you want you can upgrade your baseband from here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526831
Good luck

No recovery at all or bootloop in recovery as well?
Sent through time and space from my s3mini/CM11

chan1628 said:
Let's start with a little background as to how I got into this mess
- I had a perfectly working i8190L running SlimBean 4.3 from Maclaw (and I should've left it alone since its the wife's phone)
- I wanted to try out the new SlimKat 4.4 (http://get.novafusion.pl/?id=955)
- After a clean flash of slimkat, the new ROM was running fine after I completed setup EXCEPT baseband was 'xxxx'
- I rebooted into recovery and flashed GT-I8190_modem.bin-XXAMJ3-update2.zip because it was in my sdcard. I thought flashing a new radio would change the baseband except now I'm stuck in a bootloop with NO ABILITY TO BOOT TO RECOVERY!!!!
- I can only boot into Download mode, so I can still ODIN flash the system
Can someone suggest how/if I can fix this? I'm just kicking myself for turning a fully working phone into a brick with my wife breathing down my shoulders
my working setup was TWRP 2.7, SlimBean 4.3 and I had no idea which radio the i8190L came with default
I created a nandroid before all this mess, but I just need a way to get back into Recovery
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Don't bother trying to flash it if nothing happens, drain the battery, return to seller and get replacement. I got free replacement from Amazon with my bricked rooted S3 mini.

jstath1972 said:
Sorry but you are going to sleep on the couch tonight I suggest this:
You must download the original rom from SamMobile, install it through Odin and then install again through Odin the Recovery and through Recovery your "old" new Rom. When you are in the new Recovery check for the nandroid backup that you made . If it isnt there look for the couch because the phone is with the "old" new Rom without any of the past data.
Btw if you want you can upgrade your baseband from here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526831
Good luck
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just to clarify... what is consider "the original rom from SamMobile"? There are plenty of versions and country codes to choose from... I just wanted to make sure I'm downloading the correct one.... i've done enough of using the wrong files already

KoolKid98189 said:
Don't bother trying to flash it if nothing happens, drain the battery, return to seller and get replacement. I got free replacement from Amazon with my bricked rooted S3 mini.
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its not going to be that easy for me... i've had this phone for almost 2yrs already
tys0n said:
No recovery at all or bootloop in recovery as well?
Sent through time and space from my s3mini/CM11
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no recovery at all... it bootloops if i power on normally

chan1628 said:
just to clarify... what is consider "the original rom from SamMobile"? There are plenty of versions and country codes to choose from... I just wanted to make sure I'm downloading the correct one.... i've done enough of using the wrong files already
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It depends on what country you're in and if the phone is locked to any specific carrier.
If it's not locked then I believe any i8190L firmware will do, just to get the phone running again.

chan1628 said:
its not going to be that easy for me... i've had this phone for almost 2yrs already
no recovery at all... it bootloops if i power on normally
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It was a tough decision for me, it was either stick to a ****ty BlackBerry or get a free replacement and sacrifice the data. Some of it should be synced to your Google account

tys0n said:
It depends on what country you're in and if the phone is locked to any specific carrier.
If it's not locked then I believe any i8190L firmware will do, just to get the phone running again.
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ok, i will give all this a try and hope for the best
thanks everyone for the quick responses :good:

You could also try to reflash just recovery thru Odin and see if it works.
Sent through time and space from my s3mini/CM11

chan1628 said:
just to clarify... what is consider "the original rom from SamMobile"? There are plenty of versions and country codes to choose from... I just wanted to make sure I'm downloading the correct one.... i've done enough of using the wrong files already
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You are in Canada but the L version is for the Latin America countries. So the firmware must be from one of that countries. Which one i can't tell you. You should ask your seller.

[problem solved]
Ok, I was able to restore the phone with /u/jstath1972's suggestion
1. I went to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and downloaded the latest 'L' firmware
2. I used ODIN to flash the firmware
3. the phone REBOOTED!!!
(once the phone rebooted, the rest was easy)
4. powered off and ODIN flashed the lastest TWRP
5. powered off and booted into recovery
6. RESTORED NANDROID so wife would stop giving me the look
7. updated baseband as suggested: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2526831
THANK YOU THANK YOU :good:
side note: i wish my work was this effective in resolving technical issues (just my 2 cents)

chan1628 said:
Ok, I was able to restore the phone with /u/jstath1972's suggestion
1. I went to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and downloaded the latest 'L' firmware
2. I used ODIN to flash the firmware
3. the phone REBOOTED!!!
(once the phone rebooted, the rest was easy)
4. powered off and ODIN flashed the lastest TWRP
5. powered off and booted into recovery
6. RESTORED NANDROID so wife would stop giving me the look
7. updated baseband as suggested: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2526831
THANK YOU THANK YOU :good:
side note: i wish my work was this effective in resolving technical issues (just my 2 cents)
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Good sleep tonight, my friend ! :good:

[Q] Can I upgrade from a 4.3 based CFW to 4.4.4 and keep my Custom Recovery

Hi Guys,
Hope someone a bit more clued up than myself can clarify my questions or guide me..
I've done some searching, but am not 100% confident.
So, I have a I9305 running a Boeffla Kernel 5.2. If I recall correctly, I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.3, but
kept my old bootloader. So I am rooted and have TWRP on this 4.3 based CFW. No KNOX anywhere.
(Did all this about 12 months ago or more, and have had some significant life events in the last year,
so have been completely out of the scene.. )
Anyway, I was considering upgrading to 4.4.4 (stock)
Can anyone tell me if I can do this and remain Knox free and have a custom recovery such as TWRP.
(If so can you point me to a working guide?)
Thanks Heaps in Advance,
BrikHaus

BrikHaus said:
Hi Guys,
Hope someone a bit more clued up than myself can clarify my questions or guide me..
I've done some searching, but am not 100% confident.
So, I have a I9305 running a Boeffla Kernel 5.2. If I recall correctly, I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.3, but
kept my old bootloader. So I am rooted and have TWRP on this 4.3 based CFW. No KNOX anywhere.
(Did all this about 12 months ago or more, and have had some significant life events in the last year,
so have been completely out of the scene.. )
Anyway, I was considering upgrading to 4.4.4 (stock)
Can anyone tell me if I can do this and remain Knox free and have a custom recovery such as TWRP.
(If so can you point me to a working guide?)
Thanks Heaps in Advance,
BrikHaus
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Hi,
you have 3 options:
- Option #1: Stay with your old 4.1.2 firmware base with OLD bootloader and you can flash which custom KitKat ROM you want (N4 Elite ROM, TGP, AMCHA KK, etc.). If your favorite ROM is NOT compatible with TWRP, you will have to flash PHILZ recovery 6.48.4 instead and then flash the ROM. If the custom ROM is compatible with TWRP, you will only have to flash the ROM.
When you will flash the ROM, don't forget to choose a KK modem (XXUFNI3, XXUFNJ1 or XXUFOA1 depending on the ROM base) to have a working baseband and also, don't forget to choose a compatible Kernel with OLD bootloader (AGNi, HBO kernel or Dlite). Note : Stock kernel is not 100% compatible with OLD bootloader : WIFI will not work.
- Option #2: Upgrade to latest official 4.4.4 stock (I9305XXUFOC1) for i9305 with ODIN : this way, you will have new 4.4.4 KNOX bootloader and you will not have custom recovery anymore. If you want to stay like this, you will be 100% stock and 100% up-to-date from Sammy.
- Option #3: Follow the option #2 and then root your phone and flash custom recovery. You could finally stay like this or flash a custom ROM. If you choose to flash a custom ROM, one good thing is that you will be able to use stock kernel (100% working including WIFI) if available with this ROM.
You can follow that guide from @MaHo_66 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...covery-i9305-cwm-philz-twrp-versions-t2694249
Reminder: To go VERY clean wipe and install a custom firmware :
1. Backup all your data
2. Full wipe (data, cache and dalvik) in recovery including internal sdcard (internal sdcard format option in mounts and storage settings)
3. Flash a i9305 official firmware (4.1.2, 4.3 or 4.4.4) via ODIN. IMPORTANT : If you don't want KNOX BL because of warranty purpose, don't flash official 4.3 or 4.4.4 via ODIN.
4. Root
5. Flash custom recovery : (Philz for instance)
6. Install custom ROM
Steps 4 and 5 can be permuted.
PS: Off topic : @MaHo_66, you're now a RC, well done !

Thanks @FLooDW
Btw. youre spot on as always helping others, very good explanation you gave here :good:

MaHo_66 said:
Thanks @FLooDW
Btw. youre spot on as always helping others, very good explanation you gave here :good:
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Thanks
Ok, if it's good, I hope it will help BrikHaus.

FLooDW said:
Thanks
Ok, if it's good, I hope it will help BrikHaus.
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Im pretty sure it will

Legend!
Thank you VERY MUCH @FLooDW! Wish I could give you 10x Thanks!
Just the answer I was after. I wasn't sure if it was even possible to have a custom recovery on KNOX 4.4.4 bootloader.
I dropped out of the scene just as KNOX raised its ugly head...
I'm not worried about the warranty at all. Phone is two years old and well out of warranty period.
I'll go Option #3, sounds like just what I was after.
Thanks again!

BrikHaus said:
Thank you VERY MUCH @FLooDW! Wish I could give you 10x Thanks!
Just the answer I was after. I wasn't sure if it was even possible to have a custom recovery on KNOX 4.4.4 bootloader.
I dropped out of the scene just as KNOX raised its ugly head...
I'm not worried about the warranty at all. Phone is two years old and well out of warranty period.
I'll go Option #3, sounds like just what I was after.
Thanks again!
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Yes you can have custom recovery with Knox BL. It's my case and everything is ok for me.
I hope you'll be ok
Please let us know.

I saw your sig..
Philz looks like it has more features than TWRP.. Might try that.
How do you find your performance with that kernel & rom?
Cheers Mate.

BrikHaus said:
I saw your sig..
Philz looks like it has more features than TWRP.. Might try that.
How do you find your performance with that kernel & rom?
Cheers Mate.
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I'm very happy about perf with latest Amcha and AGNi. I have between 26000 and 26600 in AnTuTu without any overclock.
User experience is great in my case.
I don't use Fly-on mod (available in Amcha for instance) because I've noticed some big lags with my config on my phone.

All went pretty well. Had a couple of hangs, but got them all sorted.
Currently restoring, but having an issue where the phone switches from "USB Media mode" to "Dock Mode" and back and forth.
Weird issue I've never seen before....

BrikHaus said:
All went pretty well. Had a couple of hangs, but got them all sorted.
Currently restoring, but having an issue where the phone switches from "USB Media mode" to "Dock Mode" and back and forth.
Weird issue I've never seen before....
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About your USB media / Dock issue, I've never read such problem. Moreover, I don't use dock at all. I will not be very helpful about this. Sorry.

FLooDW said:
About your USB media / Dock issue, I've never read such problem. Moreover, I don't use dock at all. I will not be very helpful about this. Sorry.
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Yeah I don't use dock either. It seems it gets confused about what its actually plugged into..
Anyway, I'll figure it out. Thanks heaps for your help Mate. Very much appreciated.

Note 4 - Most stable ROM (custom or stock)

Hey guys, been a while since I've been here.
Currently, I'm running stock android 6.0.1 (N910FXXU1DPB1) on my Note 4 (Snapdragon).
I flashed this via Odin (because back then it wasn't released in my country yet). Did the usual, clean reset and when i flashed there were no problems (besides meh battery time). But since a week or two I'm having a lot of problems, a lot of random reboots, reboot time is way too long, battery drainage is awful and random freezes. A lot of these problems occur when using snapchat, not sure why.
So now I'm wondering what is the most stable ROM around. Battery life and smoothness are most important to me. At this point, I don't really care if it's a custom ROM or stock. With my old phone (S3) i had a lot of problems after i started running custom ROMs so I'm hoping you guys have some options where this won't happen.
Thanks in advance, Sam
BTW: Sorry for my bad English, it's not my main language.

Another weird thing happened. Just installed TWRP (once again via Odin), but when I reboot into recovery, I first get the message 'installing system update', then it says 'no command' and then it reboots in Android Recovery. Any ideas how to solve this?

Note 4 sucks after this MM update it is worst than any other small budget phone.

anasrizvi said:
Note 4 sucks after this MM update it is worst than any other small budget phone.
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So you'd recommend going back to stock kitkat?

SamC95 said:
Hey guys, been a while since I've been here.
Currently, I'm running stock android 6.0.1 (N910FXXU1DPB1) on my Note 4 (Snapdragon).
I flashed this via Odin (because back then it wasn't released in my country yet). Did the usual, clean reset and when i flashed there were no problems (besides meh battery time). But since a week or two I'm having a lot of problems, a lot of random reboots, reboot time is way too long, battery drainage is awful and random freezes. A lot of these problems occur when using snapchat, not sure why.
So now I'm wondering what is the most stable ROM around. Battery life and smoothness are most important to me. At this point, I don't really care if it's a custom ROM or stock. With my old phone (S3) i had a lot of problems after i started running custom ROMs so I'm hoping you guys have some options where this won't happen.
Thanks in advance, Sam
BTW: Sorry for my bad English, it's not my main language.
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I use and have been using Alexndr's ROM's for ages! They are reliable have plenty of options (root/no root, odexed/deodexed, xposed or not) ... he regularly updates and sorts out peoples' problems (although I have never had one) and produces a very stable ROM.
His instructions are clear and easily understood and he knows what he is doing! My favourite ROM maker ... Thanks Alexndr!!

robmeik said:
I use and have been using Alexndr's ROM's for ages! They are reliable have plenty of options (root/no root, odexed/deodexed, xposed or not) ... he regularly updates and sorts out peoples' problems (although I have never had one) and produces a very stable ROM.
His instructions are clear and easily understood and he knows what he is doing! My favourite ROM maker ... Thanks Alexndr!!
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Thanks for you reply.
Seems like a nice ROM, would want to flash it, but seems like I'm not going to be able to flash new ROMs (due to the problem described above.

I had the same problem. you must have the newest version of odin.

DrQuestion said:
I had the same problem. you must have the newest version of odin.
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Seriously? Is it that simple lol? I'll try that, thanks.
EDIT: Turned out it wasn't that simple, got the message 'There's no PIT partition.'

anasrizvi said:
Note 4 sucks after this MM update it is worst than any other small budget phone.
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I've been running Marshmallow on my N910C since it was released for my device, and I haven't experienced any major problems with it. Other than not getting the official OEM spare battery to charge correctly on it. Everything is work just fine.

I've been running the MM PaulPizz Rom for a few days and it's been rock solid so far. Not a single crash or error.

SamC95 said:
Another weird thing happened. Just installed TWRP (once again via Odin), but when I reboot into recovery, I first get the message 'installing system update', then it says 'no command' and then it reboots in Android Recovery. Any ideas how to solve this?
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Try this. When in Odin, uncheck auto reboot, flash twrp, wait for it to finish, unplug phone, pull battery, then boot into recovery by holding vol up+home+power.
Recovery should stick
Also, double check you have right twrp. Even re download, maybe you got bad download

aaron74 said:
Try this. When in Odin, uncheck auto reboot, flash twrp, wait for it to finish, unplug phone, pull battery, then boot into recovery by holding vol up+home+power.
Recovery should stick
Also, double check you have right twrp. Even re download, maybe you got bad download
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Thanks for your reply.
Alright man, I will try that tomorrow.
I think the download should be okay, downloaded V3.12.3 a few hours ago, or do I need a different one?
And should I also do this if I get the message that there's no PIT partition?
Thanks for your help, I'll let you know if it works or not.

SamC95 said:
Thanks for your reply.
Alright man, I will try that tomorrow.
I think the download should be okay, downloaded V3.12.3 a few hours ago, or do I need a different one?
And should I also do this if I get the message that there's no PIT partition?
Thanks for your help, I'll let you know if it works or not.
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I always use 3.11.1 straight from Sam mobile site. Here http://dl.sammobile.com/Odin3-v3.11.1.zip
Never had a problem with it.

Stock ROM's all the way.
I've used KK, LL and MM. After upgrading to MM (by mistake) and using it for 2 weeks, had to throw it away! MM is the worst case ever! I've went even back to KK, used about 2 days and went finally for 5.1.1 - best case ever! No lag, no "app stop working", no delay (which with MM was about 3 secs between opening closing apps). But, the 5.1.1 has a little distress about battery drain (about 5% more than KK or MM). Is the only thing is keeping LL for being best version. If you rollback from MM to LL or KK, you MUST untick Auto Reboot! Just let the flash go till the end and then take the battery out; put it back, start with recovery and wipe everything prior booting normally. And for the downgrade you have to use:
1. from MM to LL - Odin 3.11
2. from MM to KK - Odin 3.09

After trying myriad of roms(Almost all roms from Snapdragon section) + kernels, I prefer Stock rom for it's batterylife + stable performance. I haven't rooted after returning to stock. But i will return some sort of custom rom soon as my phone looks so boring without ported apps, multi dpi compatible apps, etc. If u prefer stable performance move to pure stock, If u need assortment of features use one of the ported note7/S7 roms, If u want slick and fast roms use AOSP/CM based roms but as far my experience goes they are not much stable while compared to touchwiz.
Currently running latest MM stock on 910G.

Stonewolf said:
Stock ROM's all the way.
I've used KK, LL and MM. After upgrading to MM (by mistake) and using it for 2 weeks, had to throw it away! MM is the worst case ever! I've went even back to KK, used about 2 days and went finally for 5.1.1 - best case ever! No lag, no "app stop working", no delay (which with MM was about 3 secs between opening closing apps). But, the 5.1.1 has a little distress about battery drain (about 5% more than KK or MM). Is the only thing is keeping LL for being best version. If you rollback from MM to LL or KK, you MUST untick Auto Reboot! Just let the flash go till the end and then take the battery out; put it back, start with recovery and wipe everything prior booting normally. And for the downgrade you have to use:
1. from MM to LL - Odin 3.11
2. from MM to KK - Odin 3.09
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Using Odin 3.11 to downgrade from MM to KK works just fine. I just did 2 days ago.

I had errors with 3.11; once changed to 3.09 worked like a charm. I've posted from my experience. Anyway, good to know other opinions and good to know that works either way (maybe my system had some conflict with vs. 3.11). However, that downgrade was done only to my first device, not the second one. I still keep MM on my second N4.

Stonewolf said:
I had errors with 3.11; once changed to 3.09 worked like a charm. I've posted from my experience. Anyway, good to know other opinions and good to know that works either way (maybe my system had some conflict with vs. 3.11). However, that downgrade was done only to my first device, not the second one. I still keep MM on my second N4.
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Have you tried 3.12? It's the only one that worked for me.

back to lollipop .......... one of the best Note 4 ROM ever build ...........
Been using Nameless ROM V7 ............

aaron74 said:
Try this. When in Odin, uncheck auto reboot, flash twrp, wait for it to finish, unplug phone, pull battery, then boot into recovery by holding vol up+home+power.
Recovery should stick
Also, double check you have right twrp. Even re download, maybe you got bad download
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This did the trick, thanks a lot! I finally got to flash TWRP and ended up installing Alexndr ROM (thanks for the tip @robmeik) but sadly I'm still having random reboots

OTA Beta Updates

Hi,
One of my friends told me not to do OTAs beta updates because it could bootloop my phone.
Last update I flashed the zip and all worked perfectly fine, but I had to re-root my phone and re-uninstall annoying stock apps with titanium backup.
Now I have a question :
Is it really risked to do the update with an OTA download ?
I really don't want to re-root my phone and do all the other stuff that comes with it.
I guess there is a way to do a safe update which keeps my data with the OTA but I need a confirmation about that.
Thanks !
(Original post [here] but probably faster answers on this forum, I guess ?)

I think it is ok with official updates. I have not any issue. Just i have not rooted or etc. All stock

gioyocho said:
I think it is ok with official updates. I have not any issue. Just i have not rooted or etc. All stock
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Thanks, but I would like to have the advice of somebody with approximatively the same setup as mine, I mean at least with a rooted op3t
If you have all stock, then I can't tell if doing the OTA update will re-stock my phone too

I always have stock phones, because early time when i tried root, unlock btl, install twrp, change rom... sometimes there were wrong things, examle booting only logo and phone make a stone looks like, also custom roms has some bugs and on stock i am sure that everything works good. I do not understan why people starting root, change roms or etc. Use stock always and everything will be ok

gioyocho said:
I always have stock phones, because early time when i tried root, unlock btl, install twrp, change rom... sometimes there were wrong things, examle booting only logo and phone make a stone looks like, also custom roms has some bugs and on stock i am sure that everything works good. I do not understan why people starting root, change roms or etc. Use stock always and everything will be ok
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U better off using an iPhone
To answer OP, yes you can struck in bootloop.
Remember it's beta version and not stable release.