I am pretty sure all these carriers now have this device here in Canada. Any one have know where to find their ROM images?
i957D
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I957D&r=5#regiona
i957M
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I957M&r=5#modelsa
awesome thanks
Is there any way to repack the Telus ROM so that it can be flashed on the AT&T version without tripping the flag counter?
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cmstlist said:
Is there any way to repack the Telus ROM so that it can be flashed on the AT&T version without tripping the flag counter?
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just curious why you would want to flash the Telus ROM? is it better than the AT&T one? is the only issue with it is the increase of the flash counter? ie exact same hardware so should work?
The Telus ROM comes with native wireless tethering enabled. It's absent in the AT&T ROM. As far as I can tell, bloatware removal still won't enable it on the AT&T ROM, and the solution most have resorted to is using third party apps which are usually worse for battery life than native tethering.
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ah good to know thanks. wonder how the Bell and Rogers ROMS compare?
Bloatware can be removed in the ATT ROM. I tried the Telus and wiped cache/data/factory reset, all to no avail. Besides cranking up the custom flash counter, the lockscreen doesn't respond 9 times out of ten.
YMMV. Good luck if you do try it.
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Bloatware can be removed in the ATT ROM. I tried the Telus and wiped cache/data/factory reset, all to no avail. Besides cranking up the custom flash counter, the lockscreen doesn't respond 9 times out of ten.
YMMV. Good luck if you do try it.
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Yes but the important question is, does any of the bloatware removal you can do to the AT&T ROM result in functional native tethering?
I obviously don't own the device (yet?) so I can't comment, but it looks like some other posters did not have any trouble at all installing the Telus ROM on their AT&T devices and responded very positively to the results.
i should be getting an AT7T version in the next day or so and I will post back with results
Telus/Bell/Rogers ROM shouldn't increment the flash counter since it's an official ROM.
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Telus/Bell/Rogers ROM shouldn't increment the flash counter since it's an official ROM.
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Nonetheless it has been reported that it does increment the flash counter on an AT&T unit.
It could be that the device has a built-in ID that checks whether the ROM you flash matches it, and if not, it increments the counter.
well i got my at&t unit today. tried to flash the telus firmware via odin (did not have the re-partition checked). everything went fine until amss.bin which I think is the modem. now it won't boot and am having trouble flashing with odin. also the flash counter has been incremented.
any tips to at least get this restored?
ok got the at&t firmware back. just couldnt get the telus firmware flashed in odin. any tips?
I'm wondering if the system.img and boot.img from the Odin file could just be flashed manually using dd in recovery (possibly catastrophic if done wrong, so take a nandroid backup first).
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ok finally got the Telus ROM flashed. they trick was to root and install custom recovery first. then it doesnt care about the security error on the odin flash. imho telus rom much cleaner and closer to "stock". also, dont use sp.telus.com as apn on the at&t rom, it results in data overages.
Haha sorry for the blow by blow updates. The first root method does not seem to work on the telus rom. Will try 2nd method later.
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Somehow got it rooted with method 1 eventually.
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Telus/Bell/Rogers ROM shouldn't increment the flash counter since it's an official ROM.
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I tested. It does increment the counter. I believe (but have no firm proof) that any non-ATT kernel flashed via ODIN will increment it.
Then there's the problem of ODIN being unable to flash the modem due to "security fail". Like a bootloader lock?
In other news, the Skyrocket guys have an update.zip that fixes the custom flash counter! All it takes is one person who hasn't increased their counter extracting a special file. Not sure exactly which one.
So even if you've flashed Telus onto an ATT device there's hope to clean up the counter.
I've heard there's a second counter on some Samsung devices, that counts when you reset the first counter
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hi everyone, im a newbie and im having a little trouble understanding and fixing my phone.
so ill start at the beginning, i bought a note 3 from at&t N900A and then moved out of the US (after contract expired and i sim unlocked with the code they gave me.)
I could not connect to at&t servers from outside US to OTA update. (i dont remember if i was mj5 or mi9)
So i learned about rooting while trying to update and decided to use kingo root app and got root access
then i installed safestrap 3.71 for a custom recovery, then i backed up my stock rom and made a new rom slot. Then i resorted my stock rom to rom slot 1.
this is my mistake: i flashed the knoxraid rom from here
http://galaxynote3root.com/att-galaxy-note-3-roms/knoxraid-kitkat-rom-for-att-galaxy-note-3/
however i forgot to do the data/factory wipe. To make matters worse i realized this and pulled the battery out after about 20 seconds (the download bar was about 10% complete)
when i put the battery back in the phone went straight to recovery (recovery and download mode were the only ones working)
i started panicking as this was my first time rooting/installing roms and tried to find a solution
i found one and used this:
http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-unbrick-att-galaxy-note-3-sm-n900a/
i flashed all the files correctly and odin got to about 95% and the said FAIL
i panicked again when i turned my phone on and it went to an error screen saying firmware upgrade incountered an issue etc.
before i harm my device further i would like to know what to do (i can still get to download mode)
odin mode say it is A2 so i belive that is mj5
i want to know: should i reflash stock mj5, and if so please provide link
should i do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48243768&postcount=1
should i use the N900AUCUBMI9_OneClickBin.exe
or should i flash nc2 files found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-att/general/n900aucucnc2-odin-files-t2838117
will the nc2 kitkat brick my device? keep in mind it is running A2 which im sure is mj5
Thank you everyone in advance
NC2 won't brick your device, but it'll upgrade your bootloader to A3 which will prevent you from ever downgrading back to MJ5 (not that you'd want to anyway). I'd just go with NC2 since it's rootable with TowelRoot anyway. Also, in your case I'd recommend using the 4-file method rather than the 1-file method since it's an upgrade from 4.3 rather than just a restore to stock 4.4.2.
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andygev35 said:
NC2 won't brick your device, but it'll upgrade your bootloader to A3 which will prevent you from ever downgrading back to MJ5 (not that you'd want to anyway). I'd just go with NC2 since it's rootable with TowelRoot anyway. Also, in your case I'd recommend using the 4-file method rather than the 1-file method since it's an upgrade from 4.3 rather than just a restore to stock 4.4.2.
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thank you
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thank you
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You might want to consider adding the Pit file too to repartition your phone just in case anything got messed up in the failed odin flash that would definitely clean everything up. It might be overkill but I don't think it would hurt to do since you're doing a factory reset with the 4-file install anyway
So I'm about to root my, phone and possibly install a new rom. Just want to know if there is a safe way to go back to stock if I mess anything up lol. If I have to return the phone for a warranty exchange will they know that I rooted the phone?
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Root trips Knox, which voids warranty. There is no way to avoid tripping Knox & no way to un-trip it. It is very easy to go back to stock, though.
I had a difficult time finding a way going back to stock for a little over a month now. I've searched and downloaded numerous version of stock N910TUVU2DOK2, even a version directly from Sammobile, and none of them worked. I would get an error message when trying to flash stock N910TUVU2DOK2 using Odin on every attempt. But I was able to finally get back to stock after using a mirror link of stock TW N910TUVU2DOK2 which I found here on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/development/mirror-stock-tw-t3260858
So when the time comes that you want to go back to stock, swing by there and download the mirror link
I'm on the tmo Galaxy N4 (SM-910T) and I want to try a N7 port, but I flashed one and it's in a boot loop. I have reason to believe that it will not work on will I am still on DOK2 so, I wanted to know if there's any way to update my phone through ODIN to 6.0.1 because I've tried going back to stock but it won't let me update for some reason.... So I'm trying to figure out if there is some kind of file I could flash to update it, or perhaps a rom I could use that would let me update since my stock won't let me... Thanks in advance.
(PS. I seen a thread on someone wanting to downgrade from EPG2 to DOK2. They say you can't go back, and I only have one phone still on 5.1.1, which is my N4. Is EPG2 worth it? Should I stay on DOK2 or should I really persue updating?)
The epg2 tar should be available from Samsung or here on the forums. I believe I downloaded it from a post here somewhere because I couldn't get my phone to install the update through ota due to bad home Internet and using an mvno so there's no free update data. I like the stock MM although the settings screen and colors are all awful. It's not been bad on battery for me or had any real issues. Using stock with magisk only.
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The epg2 tar should be available from Samsung or here on the forums. I believe I downloaded it from a post here somewhere because I couldn't get my phone to install the update through ota due to bad home Internet and using an mvno so there's no free update data. I like the stock MM although the settings screen and colors are all awful. It's not been bad on battery for me or had any real issues. Using stock with magisk only.
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Alright i'll go search thank you
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Alright i'll go search thank you
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-maximum-ovrdrive-6-0-1-mm-beta-4-13-t3358326 it's in the first post of this thread. Near the bottom in the downloads section.
What is the easiest route to do this? I have been gone from xda and phone stuff awhile but my mom has the note 3 and I need to update it, it is simply rooted, but the very first firmware. I was thinking maybe the Samsung folks at bestbuy would kindly update it then I could root it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!