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[Q] Just bought a Galaxy S - advice please.

Hi all,
I have just bought a Galaxy S on eBay, and it's locked to Three (in the UK btw). Whilst I wait for the unlock code (I'm on an O2 sim only contract), I thought I'd ask people for their advice on whether I should stick to the Three ROM, or should I root it and put a base Samsung ROM on it?
Also - what does this mean for me in terms of upgrades (thinking Froyo obviously). Do I need to get a Three specifics upgrade, and how do I get that if I'm not a Three customer?
I have searched the forum, and read lots of discussions of ROMs, but was hoping for some advice for my situation from any of the hugely experienced peeps on here.
Cheers,
James.

start with the wiki
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series
it has everything you need to know, including the unlock code
the best advice is to not go crazy on the ROMs unless you want to fix something in specific

Thanks for that. I read that unlock stuff, but unfortunately as I don't have a Three SIM, I can't get onto the market to download the necessary stuff.
I do think it's a bit strange you can't sign into your google account etc over wifi, but figure that's partly how they keep the phone locked to a provider.
James.

that doesn't sounds right
i always unlock and download the rooting stuff over WiFi
i don't even need to use the phone as a mass storage device, because WiFi works right off the bat
what happens when you try to go on the internet using WiFi?
are you able to go to Cnn.com or google.com login to your gmail account in the phone browser?

Hi Allgamer,
thanks for your reply - sorry I've not responded till now!
I could connect to the internet, but not sign into my google account. Don't know what the problem was, but I got round it by performing a factory reset of the phone.
All sorted now.
I do still have an issue with some 3 apps like Skype starting themselves up and consuming resources, despite the fact I can't use them over the O2 network
Loving the phone otherwise though. I've rooted it and installed the OneClickLagFix. Waiting eagerly for Froyo though.

[Q] Can I also use this build?

Hey guys,
on Saturday I switched from my DHD to my new S3 LTE but I'm already missing all the nice features of having root access.
So as usual I checked the S3 LTE area but it seems like being more complicated compared to the DHD and because I just bought it I just want to be safe that I understood everything correctly.
I downloaded this toolkit as I bought the S3 LTE in Germany (provider is t-mobile) so I guess that the international one should be correct, shouldn't it?
But after I downloaded and installed the toolkit, I saw that the build shown on my phone (JRO03C.I9305XXALI7) isn't in the list, there are only XXALI5, XXALJ4, XXALJ7, but I don't get which one is the most similar: ALI5 (sharing the first letters except the number) or ALJ7 (sharing the first letters + number, but not the third letter...)?
And is it relative safe to use? (I'm well aware that anytime there could be going something wrong, just want to know if there's a real high risk ) and if there was something going wrong, would it still be repairable?
[By checking for updates for the toolkit I saw there's an update but as I'm not a donater, autoupdate didn't work and in the thread there's only the 6.0.0 version.]
And just another question: I also checked this thread but unfortunately by backing up I immediately receive the error "Received an invalid command from the phone."
Do I really need to this when I'm using the toolkit?
Hopefully you can help be and I hope that my English is just good enough + best regards
baushi

[Solved] RAC lock on a used phone, need help accessing phone

Hello all,
I have been all around the intertubes in my day and have always been able to solve all of my technical problems with some advanced google searching, because if I am having this problem then someone out there has had it also and thought to ask right?
Not this time...
I bought this phone off craigslist, checked imei and it came back clean, got the phone running on t-mobile no problems at all, about 2 weeks later I get this RAC (Rent-A-Center) logo saying this phone won't work anymore yadayadayada, please call us with IMEI....my thoughts are someone sold me a phone they were leasing from RAC for a quick buck. I turned the phone on and it literally would not lot me access a single setting. Came up to an unlock screen wanting a Rent A Center associate PIN. I walked on down to RAC on my day off and they couldn't help me at all. They didn't even ask for the phone back, they informed me that the phone was "junk" and they couldn't even find out who it previously belonged to let alone unlock it for me (they didn't seem too interested in the latter).
I decided to take matters into my own hands and attempt to resolve this issue, no help what so ever out there. Plenty of RAC lock fixes for the s5 and other android phones but no specific help for my model. I attempt stock firmware through ODIN to no avail, then TWRP, custom roms, etc, etc etc, and it always comes up with the RAC lock screen.
I need help please, otherwise i'm out $325
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S6
Model: SM-G920T1 (as it says on back of phone)
USA Market
Any other information needed I am happy to supply.
If anyone could please help me with this issue, I would be more than happy. I finally made the switch back to android and this is how it is going so far. Thank you for any help anyone could offer.

Found related threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/general/how-to-remove-rac-g920t-dojc-t3356087
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/help/samsung-galaxy-s6-sm-g920t1-t3335973

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Unlock bootloader on SM-A600FN

@ moderators: Could you please close the thread? I received help from a company that unlocks phones. Thanks
Hi all. I have a Samsung A6 which is locked and every time I try to use a different SIM other than the one it came with, the phone simply will not work. I did my research but so far I have not found something (in case there is, apologies; also i will be obliged if you send me the links to read them).
So long story short: is there a way to make the phone usable by other network providers? If there is could you please tell me how to do it? On a separate note, I managed to root the phone but the issue with the network provider remained so I put back an official firmware and now the phone wears Android 9.
Thank you very much in advance.

Advice for newbie needed

Hi, I've owned a Galaxy Note 9 (SM-N960F/DS, Dutch unbranded) for almost two years now.
I've always kept it at Android 8 as I didn't want to lose call recording, but I didn't know about the option to actually block updates so I just ignored the notifications.
Unfortunately my phone got updated recently (my fault, niece left alone with phone to play games on, wanted to help aunt... stupid mistake on my part).
I'm at Android 10 September 2020 update now.
I've been looking into downgrading (didn't work because apparently bootloader is updated) and changing csc without rooting (tried using *#272*IMEI# but that didn't do anything, after that tried the ChangeCSC Free Tool from this post https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82875851&postcount=181 but I couldn't get that to work either as Themes doesn't show 'Try it out' but only offers Delete, Update or Buy).
What is the best way to get call recording back on my phone?
I'm not averse to rooting my phone if I have to, but I don't know where to start and I don't have the funds to buy a new one so bricking it is something I'd like to avoid.
If you need more info, please let me know.

Try custom rom may be is the best solution.

Yep Dr's ROM
Best one
Call recording working 100%

custom rom will trip knox, and samsung pass and others samsung applications will not work.

Thank you all!
Husband looked at the Dr's ROM and did whatever he had to do to get it to work, and I have call recording again