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OK, I've been having miscellaneous and very annoying problems with my phone ever since I updated to 2.2 OTA (I wasn't rooted before, I am now as of just a few days ago, and still running stock 2.2), so I want to wipe the phone to get it back to "factory" 2.2 and start over. I've already backed up my installed apps using Titanium, and I also installed AppBrain, so it should (if I understood the product description correctly) be able to download any non-purchased apps as well.
My question is, should I just do a Factory Data Reset (settings, privacy, factory data reset), or should I do something else in place of or in addition to that?
Ok if you have not done any flashing of any roms then I would unroot via however you rooted and do a full data cache wipe and factory reset ....if you have flashed roms or just want to be safe you can always reflash the sbf using these links and instructions
http://forum.androidcentral.com/mot...ces-droid-x-2-2-system-sbf-rsdlite-4-8-a.html
Thanks, I actually just bit the bullet earlier today and did a factory reset. Some of my widgets didn't reload correctly for some reason, so it took me a while to try to remember what each of them actually were...but other than that, after I re-rooted and restored everything via Titanium Backup, it seems to be working OK. Hopefully the various problems I was having before the reset won't come back!
Well since most of your problems were more than likely 2.2 related then they may come back but let's hope not .....maybe you should look into a good asop rom or.some of the others and you will more than likely experience far less problems if you go with a nicely built rom
I'm still pretty new to Android, I want to get into customizing my epic, specifically learning how to load custom roms.
I'm looking for some good how to resources, I've done some preliminary forum searches with some success.
So far I've updated to 2.2, and had the gps problem. Searched for a solution, found multiple threads for the fix, most involve using Oden, I've had zero success with getting oden to see my phone.
So I searched for alternative methods,
I finally fixed the gps problem, by doing one click root > made a clockwork back up > flashed back to DI18 > stepped outside, got gps lock > Flashed to the DK28 > Then Restored my clockwork back up. After that the gps has been super fast to lock, usually under 5 sec.
But I'm still chasing the dragon, I want the AOSP Lockscreen, I've tried clockwork installing different versions from the popular thread about the AOSP Lockscreen, to no success.
But now I get an occasional black out screen, the phone is still on, it if I leave it alone, the stock tw lockscreen comes back.
Now frustrated that I've come across another quirk, I want to try one of the 2.2 based roms, particularly the Nebula.
One problem, I can't find instructions on how to install it.
I do see instructions for other roms, I'm assuming that it's a similar procedure.
The Epic experience says oden to a stock 2.2, then in clockwork "wipe data/factory reset" before flashing the rom.
One question, when I do an oden flash to 2.2 and "wipe data/factory reset" will it delete my clockwork back up?
Current mission.
1. Have a backup of my data and apps.
2. Install a custom rom
3. Restore my data from backup.
Questions:
1. Anyway to use a custom rom with out Oden?
2. Is it completely necessary to do a factory reset?
3. Factory reset, will this effect my phone account information, such as being associated with my phone number and sprint account?
Any information is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
I'm a linux user, I've never used odin and I'm running the current rom of mammons.
When using clockworkmod to do the resets for factory and cache, it will not wipe anything stored on the sd card. So as long as your clockworkmod backup is on your sd card, and it should be, you won't lose it.
Factory reset and deleting cache its required. Do it 3 times to make sure its done before flashing the me rom.
It will not mess with your phone number our account info.
I recommend downloading titanium backup and backing up all app data and user system info.
If you have more questions that you couldn't find on the forums, our need clarification, ask away.
Sent from my shoe, I mean....Epic shoe... I mean Samsung Epic! http://mobilehighway.blogspot.com/
Thanks
Thanks mxcoldhit, I'm now running my 1st rom, Nebula, so far so good.
A few notes from my experience:
From my previous clockwork back up, restored that, installed titanium, backed up my most used apps & info, exported my contact info from the contacts app.
Went ahead and wiped 3 times, loaded my rom, installed titanium, restored all my apps and info that I've had since day one.
Things of note to noobs like me, clockwork is awesome, back ups seem to work like ghost images, whole frozen snapshots of the os with all data & apps.
Titanium and clockwork both store the backup data on your micro-sd card.
So you can play with different setups and if you want to go back, just restore the back up file, they don't get wiped when you wipe the phone.
Titanium works in much the same fashion, install it on your system and you can make back ups of apps and phone data, when you load a new rom, just go ahead and install Titanium if it's not already there, and you can restore your favorite apps and data.
One thing that confused me before realizing what i was doing wrong, was that after I flashed the custom rom, I restored my backup thinking that it would just add my data and apps back, well it does that and the os also, so just keep that in mind.
Started with OMNI shown on galaxynote2root.com. Was working nearly flawlessly until today when I lost my mobile network (all services: phone, text, data - antenna was essentially gone). Not clear on exactly what I did when it occurred but I did flash 1/13/14 nightly manually via CWM (have done this with the previous nightly's without any problems). Tried wiping cache/data, Dalvik w/o luck. Tried formatting my internal SD also w/o luck. Doing a fresh install (as opposed to restore) did restore all mobile network services but of course I am now having to re-setup my phone. After installing fresh install, tried restoring w/o any wipe - again no luck.
Quite frustrating. I had read something out there that talked about remapping the tree (not sure what this means). In any case, is there a fix for this so I can restore my prior backups with mobile services working and also avoid this the future?
So here we go again; no service after wipe. Grrrrrrrr!!
hammerchucker said:
Started with OMNI shown on galaxynote2root.com. Was working nearly flawlessly until today when I lost my mobile network (all services: phone, text, data - antenna was essentially gone). Not clear on exactly what I did when it occurred but I did flash 1/13/14 nightly manually via CWM (have done this with the previous nightly's without any problems). Tried wiping cache/data, Dalvik w/o luck. Tried formatting my internal SD also w/o luck. Doing a fresh install (as opposed to restore) did restore all mobile network services but of course I am now having to re-setup my phone. After installing fresh install, tried restoring w/o any wipe - again no luck.
Quite frustrating. I had read something out there that talked about remapping the tree (not sure what this means). In any case, is there a fix for this so I can restore my prior backups with mobile services working and also avoid this the future?
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So here we go again. Went to load the stock Sprint TouchWiz ROM. Wiped cache partition, wiped Dalvik, and did stand wipe cache/data. Had some issue with the stock ROM flashing so I went ahead and loaded my backup I just made of my newly setup OMNI ROM. And once again no network service what so ever. I really enjoy this ROM but it's thinks like this that push me back to the most supported ROM for my phone, the TouchWiz ROM. It's like I'm being held hostage to this Omni ROM in the sense that it appears that should I want do any wipe of any sorts or anything to that effect I'm essentially screwed and might as well just flash the the original ROM all over again.
There's got to be one of you Dev's out there that knows why this is happened and can let me know if there is a fix for this that will allow me to keep my setup as is. Someone who's knows, please response. If you need more info, please ask. I'm about to ditch this ROM over this issue. Otherwise, nearly flawless use of the ROM until this point.
Okay, so I was able to find a fix for this problem. After the complete wipe as described in my second post, I restored my recent backup. As mentioned above, no mobile service whatsoever at that pont. I then restarted back into CWM recovery and flashed the same version nightly as that of my backup and it appeared to do an update. I was then able to boot back into my restored backup with everything intact and all mobile services working.
Yes, I found a fix for myself but Devs why the heck do I have to go through that? Why cannot I not simply restore my backup and go on with life? Much headache over the past day or so over this.
So I installed the the 1/13/14 nightly as a fresh install. I stared messing around with advanced restore. When I restore only the /system folder that is when I lose all mobile cell services.
Good Afternoon,
I searched around and was unable to come up with any answers, or similar forums for that matter.
I would post this in the thread that I downloaded the update from, however I'm apparently a noob
and am unworthy to post there until I post ten times.
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2761322
Anyways, I downloaded Google Play Edition 4.4.2 for X907, I updated from the official VZW 4.4.2
using RSD Lite. So far I love it, however there's one thing that erks me, when ever I try and open
"Backup and Reset" under the Settings Menu I'm informed that "Settings has stopped working".
When I flashed the update, I kept userdata, I did however Erase Cache and Dalvik Cache.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, it bugs me that this one thing doesn't work
Thanks.
kcurran907 said:
Good Afternoon,
I searched around and was unable to come up with any answers, or similar forums for that matter.
I would post this in the thread that I downloaded the update from, however I'm apparently a noob
and am unworthy to post there until I post ten times.
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2761322
Anyways, I downloaded Google Play Edition 4.4.2 for X907, I updated from the official VZW 4.4.2
using RSD Lite. So far I love it, however there's one thing that erks me, when ever I try and open
"Backup and Reset" under the Settings Menu I'm informed that "Settings has stopped working".
When I flashed the update, I kept userdata, I did however Erase Cache and Dalvik Cache.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, it bugs me that this one thing doesn't work
Thanks.
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Same here. Even the celluar data and wifi won't turn on for me. Mabey it's a rom thing.
ozeyguy said:
Same here. Even the celluar data and wifi won't turn on for me. Mabey it's a rom thing.
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Hmm. just a thought on yours, might be wrong but did you flash an official or take the OTA for 4.4.2 prior to upgrading to the Google Play Edition of 4.4.2? If not that's your problem.
Hope that helps..
kcurran907 said:
Good Afternoon,
I searched around and was unable to come up with any answers, or similar forums for that matter.
I would post this in the thread that I downloaded the update from, however I'm apparently a noob
and am unworthy to post there until I post ten times.
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2761322
Anyways, I downloaded Google Play Edition 4.4.2 for X907, I updated from the official VZW 4.4.2
using RSD Lite. So far I love it, however there's one thing that erks me, when ever I try and open
"Backup and Reset" under the Settings Menu I'm informed that "Settings has stopped working".
When I flashed the update, I kept userdata, I did however Erase Cache and Dalvik Cache.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, it bugs me that this one thing doesn't work
Thanks.
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I'd just backup using TWRP and then if you want to factory reset, do it on TWRP as well. I had GPE and don't recall this issue, though I did a full data wipe when I did because I wanted a fresh start.
xKroniK13x said:
I'd just backup using TWRP and then if you want to factory reset, do it on TWRP as well. I had GPE and don't recall this issue, though I did a full data wipe when I did because I wanted a fresh start.
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Thanks, I was hoping not to have to resort to that, as it's such a tiny problem, I just realized that my camera app is having difficulty focusing
although I think that's a KitKat issue. Oh well I already have a NANDROID backup, so I'll do just that, factory data reset and see if that helps if not oh well I'll just restore.
Thanks again.
kcurran907 said:
Hmm. just a thought on yours, might be wrong but did you flash an official or take the OTA for 4.4.2 prior to upgrading to the Google Play Edition of 4.4.2? If not that's your problem.
Hope that helps..
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I took the OTA. Guess i should flash the full stock rom. Will I be able to use xposed?
ozeyguy said:
I took the OTA. Guess i should flash the full stock rom. Will I be able to use xposed?
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As long as you are rooted and not on ART xposed will work. I did it on my stock ROM, and also on GPE.
kcurran907 said:
Good Afternoon,
I searched around and was unable to come up with any answers, or similar forums for that matter.
I would post this in the thread that I downloaded the update from, however I'm apparently a noob
and am unworthy to post there until I post ten times.
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2761322
Anyways, I downloaded Google Play Edition 4.4.2 for X907, I updated from the official VZW 4.4.2
using RSD Lite. So far I love it, however there's one thing that erks me, when ever I try and open
"Backup and Reset" under the Settings Menu I'm informed that "Settings has stopped working".
When I flashed the update, I kept userdata, I did however Erase Cache and Dalvik Cache.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, it bugs me that this one thing doesn't work
Thanks.
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Go to the App Info page for the Settings app and clear data. That usually works when the settings crashes after a rom update
carb0nrain said:
Go to the App Info page for the Settings app and clear data. That usually works when the settings crashes after a rom update
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Thanks, it's just a bug in the gpeLse for the XT907, other users are having the same problem, no matter how many times I re-flash
and or wipe dalvik and cache the problem persists.
Probably do to the removal of something Motorola Had in place in the 4.4.2 release for the XT907, as I knew it was working with the Stock Rom.
Thanks All.
I'll try to be as thorough as possible.
I started out with the stock S4. Everything worked, minus a terribly damaged screen which I replaced. It was originally on 4.4.2 the NG2 build. I rooted with CF-Auto Root through Odin 3.09. I flashed PhilZ recovery through Rashr's Recovery Tools. It says 6.15 something, but when it boots in recovery mode it just says 6 and CWRM 6.0.4.7 (not sure if this matters or not). I then installed the latest snapshot for CM 11-20141112-snapshot-m12-jflte.zip and gapps-kk-20140606 which was fine. I got LTE service, but no SMS/MMS at all. I then tried CM 12.1-20151116-snapshot-yog7dao1jn-jfltespr.zip with gapps-5.1-arm-2015-07-17-13-29.zip which looks and works great (LTE works) minus the SMS/MMS again.. I tried the same with the latest nightlies of both CM 11 and 12.1 to no avail. I wipe phone, cache and dalvik before flashing every ROM.
I have tried changing the "Bearers" to LTE for all of the n.ispsn options under APN which I'm not even sure is a valid solution anymore. My preferred network is set to LTE. I am rooted through developer options both app and adb. I have come across other Sprint SMS/MMS workaround threads, but they seem dated; it's hard to sift through what is still relevant.
My baseband still shows up as the NG2 version with Android version 5.1.1 (I am currently on CM 12.1). Does this matter? Am I using the correct versions of what I should be?
My goal is to have CM 12.1 running so I can use mobile hotspot among other features. I don't necessarily need CM, but mobile hotspot is my biggest wanted feature. And obviously SMS/MMS needs to work.
As a last ditch effort, can I go back to stock rom/does it have to be an NG2 one?
I have temporarily reactivated my previous phone (HTC One M7) until I have a sure way of accomplishing my goal with the S4.
Thanks in advance!
Just did a full wipe and installed latest TWRP as my recovery. I flashed the Optimized CM 12.1 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...lop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696
and the latest gapps from 11/29/15 (nano fwiw).
Still have LTE. Still no MMS/SMS. I changed the same APN bearers to LTE. I tried Textra (APN settings seemed correct) and Google Messenger to no avail. I even did this dialer fix method found here (post #3):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...int-note-4-t2973257/post57613217#post57613217
What am I missing?
If it was MMS only that you were having issues with, then fiddling with the APN settings would make more sense to me.
However, since you have neither SMS nor MMS, it suggests something other than the APN settings.
Some potential things to try:
Turn off mobile data and see if SMS works.
Turn off LTE and drop down to 2G or 3G and see if SMS/MMS work.
Try updating your profile (hiding somewhere in the Update Software in the Settings menu) and then trying to see if SMS/MMS work.
I have had reasonable functionality on the NG2 baseband with the Dirty Unicorns ROM (v9.7) on the L720, though I did not explicitly verify that hotspot was working.
fireguy85 said:
I'll try to be as thorough as possible.
I started out with the stock S4. Everything worked, minus a terribly damaged screen which I replaced. It was originally on 4.4.2 the NG2 build. I rooted with CF-Auto Root through Odin 3.09. I flashed PhilZ recovery through Rashr's Recovery Tools. It says 6.15 something, but when it boots in recovery mode it just says 6 and CWRM 6.0.4.7 (not sure if this matters or not). I then installed the latest snapshot for CM 11-20141112-snapshot-m12-jflte.zip and gapps-kk-20140606 which was fine. I got LTE service, but no SMS/MMS at all. I then tried CM 12.1-20151116-snapshot-yog7dao1jn-jfltespr.zip with gapps-5.1-arm-2015-07-17-13-29.zip which looks and works great (LTE works) minus the SMS/MMS again.. I tried the same with the latest nightlies of both CM 11 and 12.1 to no avail. I wipe phone, cache and dalvik before flashing every ROM.
I have tried changing the "Bearers" to LTE for all of the n.ispsn options under APN which I'm not even sure is a valid solution anymore. My preferred network is set to LTE. I am rooted through developer options both app and adb. I have come across other Sprint SMS/MMS workaround threads, but they seem dated; it's hard to sift through what is still relevant.
My baseband still shows up as the NG2 version with Android version 5.1.1 (I am currently on CM 12.1). Does this matter? Am I using the correct versions of what I should be?
My goal is to have CM 12.1 running so I can use mobile hotspot among other features. I don't necessarily need CM, but mobile hotspot is my biggest wanted feature. And obviously SMS/MMS needs to work.
As a last ditch effort, can I go back to stock rom/does it have to be an NG2 one?
I have temporarily reactivated my previous phone (HTC One M7) until I have a sure way of accomplishing my goal with the S4.
Thanks in advance!
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I would suggest flashing latest stock and make sure everything works, the CM builds you were flashing may be having issue with the fact you were in NG2. Go to sammobile.com get latest OH1,flash that via Odin, make sure everything is working, then flash TWRP via Odin. Now you will be stock with custom recovery, then you can flash your latest CM in TWRP and everything should work.
mattzeller said:
I would suggest flashing latest stock and make sure everything works, the CM builds you were flashing may be having issue with the fact you were in NG2. Go to sammobile.com get latest OH1,flash that via Odin, make sure everything is working, then flash TWRP via Odin. Now you will be stock with custom recovery, then you can flash your latest CM in TWRP and everything should work.
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Thank you (both of you guys). I am downloading the stock OH1 rom from sammobile right now (1 hr+ download though..). I'll try to post up later if I get the chance.
Download is complete; however I can only find TWRP 2.8.7.0 as a .img file, even on their official site. I can download 2.8.4.0 as a .tar file, but I'm pretty sure I have to be rooted to flash an .img. We'll see I guess..
fireguy85 said:
Thank you (both of you guys). I am downloading the stock OH1 rom from sammobile right now (1 hr+ download though..). I'll try to post up later if I get the chance.
Download is complete; however I can only find TWRP 2.8.7.0 as a .img file, even on their official site. I can download 2.8.4.0 as a .tar file, but I'm pretty sure I have to be rooted to flash an .img. We'll see I guess..
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Just Odin the 2.7.4.0
mattzeller said:
Just Odin the 2.7.4.0
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Yeah, I Odined the 2.8.4.0 after installing the stock rom which was successful after a factory wipe. I reactivated the S4 with Sprint and have just tested SMS and MMS-both of which work. Now to flash CM (fingers crossed!).
TWRP didn't take over my recovery.. Guess I'll reodin it.
Reflashing TWRP 2.8.4.0 didn't seem to work.. Do I need to go back through the CF-Auto Root process?
I think I got it. I had to hold up immediately after odining TWRP. I am backing up now.
Success so far! I have SMS and MMS working correctly and LTE working. Thank you!
However; I lost my backed up apps + data from Titanium Backup Am I able to restore a backup from this ROM earlier today to somehow recover this information?
Apparently flashing the stock ROM via Odin wiped out everything on my internal storage. I do have a backup from the 29th I made on CM 12.1 with CWM. Can I flash/Odin CWM and then restore this backup to get back my app data? Or can TWRP restore this backup as well? I also see an "extract from nandroid" option in Titanium Backup, but it is a paid option. I don't have a problem with this if it is my only option, but why would TB back up my apps/data internally by default? Backing up to SD card makes way more sense to me.
fireguy85 said:
Success so far! I have SMS and MMS working correctly and LTE working. Thank you!
However; I lost my backed up apps + data from Titanium Backup Am I able to restore a backup from this ROM earlier today to somehow recover this information?
Apparently flashing the stock ROM via Odin wiped out everything on my internal storage. I do have a backup from the 29th I made on CM 12.1 with CWM. Can I flash/Odin CWM and then restore this backup to get back my app data? Or can TWRP restore this backup as well? I also see an "extract from nandroid" option in Titanium Backup, but it is a paid option. I don't have a problem with this if it is my only option, but why would TB back up my apps/data internally by default? Backing up to SD card makes way more sense to me.
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Should always make your backups on external SD card. By default TB backs up to internal because a lot of phones either don't have external SD card capability, or they just don't have one. TB is worth the couple of bucks, try googling to see if there are any free options to restore apps from nandroid
There are apps that should be able to pull apks from the nandroid backups, but I'm unsure if they can pull the data as well.
The long and tedious way to do it is to just reload your previous CM12.1, rerun Titanium backup, then restore your current firmware.
Make a nandroid back up of your current working OH1 from TWRP and copy it to your SD card or somewhere else. I believe the backup resides in a directory called TWRP on the sdcard.
Use TWRP to restore your backup of CM12.1 (copy your backup directory into a corresponding folder in the TWRP directory). I believe it should be a standard nandroid backup if you used CWM to back it up. If it doesn't work, then flash CWM recovery with odin and then use CWM to restore your backup.
Then boot into your CM12.1, run Titanium Backup, then copy the Titanium Backup directory on to an SD card. Copying might not be necessary since you won't need to use odin to get back to stock OH1 firmware. You could probably also check to see if MMS/SMS is working.
Once you are done making the new backup of your apps/data with Titanium Backup, then use TWRP to restore your working OH1.
When restoring your apps, just be careful to choose just the ones you need. I have never tried it, but I would expect that there would be some incompatibilities between apps in CM12.1 and apps for TouchWiz (i.e. funny things may happen if the cLock screen lock app got restored).
Now that you have SMS/MMS working, do you have mobile hotspot working yet?
So good news/bad news I guess. I installed paid version of Titanium Backup and chose extract from nandroid. None of the apps I'm looking for were in there. I must have made nandroid after installing gapps but before other apps which is my fault. I'm guessing I'm SOL on this issue now.
I did test mobile hotspot and that seems to work though :/
And now SMS/MMS doesn't work through stock messaging app.. It does in Hangouts though thankfully..
I got my app data from the nandroid after all! I had to reinstall the app from the play store and then install the app data afterwards. The app data was named something completely different than the app name and from what I was looking for. $6 well spent
I am still on the 11/1 optimized build. I still have issues with MMS. I won't receive them at all in stock messaging app. I experience major delay (and no notification unless I am in the app) if I use Hangouts. And I cannot receive them at all through Google Voice. SMS is also very much delayed except through Google Voice (with Sprint Integration). Is there anyone here that is using a CM 12.1 ROM with Sprint and having success with MMS and MMS? All of the research I have found seems to just go nowhere. I hear Hangouts and Sprint together don't work and you're not supposed to integrate GV with Sprint either (although it is the only way I can use SMS consistently and get notifications). Apparently GV isn't even compatible with MMS?
BTW, the 11/30 build destroys my Bluetooth. I can't even enable it successfully. Didn't even bother to try SMS/MMS. Flashed right back to 11/1.
I'm wondering if I can/should just flash to a rooted stock ROM. Not having reliable SMS/MMS is rather annoying..
fireguy85 said:
I am still on the 11/1 optimized build. I still have issues with MMS. I won't receive them at all in stock messaging app. I experience major delay (and no notification unless I am in the app) if I use Hangouts. And I cannot receive them at all through Google Voice. SMS is also very much delayed except through Google Voice (with Sprint Integration). Is there anyone here that is using a CM 12.1 ROM with Sprint and having success with MMS and MMS? All of the research I have found seems to just go nowhere. I hear Hangouts and Sprint together don't work and you're not supposed to integrate GV with Sprint either (although it is the only way I can use SMS consistently and get notifications). Apparently GV isn't even compatible with MMS?
BTW, the 11/30 build destroys my Bluetooth. I can't even enable it successfully. Didn't even bother to try SMS/MMS. Flashed right back to 11/1.
I'm wondering if I can/should just flash to a rooted stock ROM. Not having reliable SMS/MMS is rather annoying..
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Have you tried Google Messenger?
mattzeller said:
Have you tried Google Messenger?
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I did and it did not initially work either. I did not spend much time troubleshooting this as the general workaround seems to be just using Hangouts.
I am now in the process of switching to T-Mobile. I could not pass up on their $200/line deal for being a Sprint customer (I have 5 lines). I'm sure I'm going to have to go back to stock for awhile on this device and then maybe flash a different CM ROM to get back to where I am now. Idk, maybe not. I guess I have to have Sprint unlock my device first. If it doesn't go smoothly, I'll just sell my S4 and get a T-Mobile one. T-Mobile says this one is compatible with their network though..
EDIT: Probably not going to be fully compatible. Likely going to have to get a T-Mobile S4. I'm guessing the CF-Auto Root is still valid for rooting being it is the same device? Thank you for the help!