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Samsung Galaxy Grand Philippines

This thread is for those who own the Galaxy Grand from the Philippines.
Mine has been updated to 4.2.2 XTC. So far these are my expwriences:
1. it has better memory management.
2. battery life is about the same as 4.1.2
3. google play now recognizes some games like subway surf as compatible.
Please comment if you are from the Philippines.

Nice one... a dedicated thread...
Same here Grand owner from the PH.
Still on stock.. waiting for the right FW for phone..and unrooted...
Will be rooting soon too...there are so many mods to try

FYI the firmware marked "XTC" on sammobile and samsung-updates.com are Vietnam CSC. I have not tried the other fw. I had to root then used csc chaner app to change to sun csc. It us not reallt of utmost importance but then it is good feeling to have the proper csc.

Phil firmware is bit laggy..even i reboot my phone
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10xian04 said:
Phil firmware is bit laggy..even i reboot my phone
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did you factory reset and wipe cache after updating? You lose data and settings but you start fresh in doing so.

Right there seems to be worst lag in XTC fw. Might get back to SER Russian rom or Gennxt SER. Indian fw also showing lags according to users.

Hi guys, from Davao here. Running the INU firmware, rooted and some apps frozen via Titanium Backup.

Hi kabayans!
I might make available/share for download the "rooted deodexed zipaligned" and cwm flashable XTC 4.2.2 I cooked using kitchen. I am reluctant to do so because I may not be able to support it. I am not a dev.
What do you all think!

muntinlupa said:
Hi kabayans!
I might make available/share for download the "rooted deodexed zipaligned" and cwm flashable XTC 4.2.2 I cooked using kitchen. I am reluctant to do so because I may not be able to support it. I am not a dev.
What do you all think!
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lets give it a try @muntinlupa
go for it :good:

Still having problem with CSC unknown. Will update the file when I have time. It is booting ok . But I dont want to share it with no csc.

stock 4.2 malaysia
I'm currently using the stock malaysian 4.2. Updated using odin without wiping and factory reset. It started out fine for a week. Now, the lag is getting worse. Do someone know of a better region to choose without this lag problem?

Try the latest Russian SER update.

Russian Firmware
jrfailma said:
I'm currently using the stock malaysian 4.2. Updated using odin without wiping and factory reset. It started out fine for a week. Now, the lag is getting worse. Do someone know of a better region to choose without this lag problem?
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try using Russian Firmware plus Gennxt XUBMGA Rom 4.2.2 or the Latest Gennxt MHD

tatzkie nga pala from davao
How are your galaxy grand doing guys? My grand has a broken usb port. It can charge but is not recognized by the pc. So i cant update nor root my galaxy grand. Im just waiting for someone to post an update or a root tutorial capable of flashing through stock recovery and not using odin and cwm. In technicalities i would rate myself 9 from 1-10.. so i pretty much know what im doing. And btw for what its worth, using the philippine update is actually ok.. all updates are fluid and good but u need to make sure first that before u update to a new firmware that your device is reset to factory default. And before you install an update, make sure to clear cache and factory reset the device first for effecient and smooth update. How i wish i could update and root my grand.. looks like i need to spend 2k-3k more just to have it fixed. But anyway, if you guys need my help, just reply to this thread.
And for faster and more efficient usage of your sd cards, make sure to use CLASS 10 SD CARDS ONLY.

BNB2 stock rom here. so far no lag issues.
for those of you who are experiencing lag on any stock rom you might wanna try this:
format /sys
format /data /media /sdcard
flash AMF7 4.1
flash BNB2(which ever stock rom you prefer)
I've been using BNB2 for less than a week now. the only issue that i've encountered is the color turning negative. i dont know if it has something to do with the rom or the system apps that i've uninstalled using nobloat app. anyways, it only happened once and the fix is just turning the screen off then on again.

venom621 said:
I've been using BNB2 for less than a week now. the only issue that i've encountered is the color turning negative. i dont know if it has something to do with the rom or the system apps that i've uninstalled using nobloat app. anyways, it only happened once and the fix is just turning the screen off then on again.
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Since the very first week, Grand has this screen issue, for me atleast... The screen's colors become faded... the saturation drops!! and after the BNB2 update... it started becoming negative... God know after next update what will be happening! Switching to Note 2 now

@sidkota
Did you try Samsung service center ?
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akiratoriyama said:
@sidkota
Did you try Samsung service center ?
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yes... I've got my motherboard replaced... Still no solution...

@venom621: Do you have the link for the ROMs you used? I have my grand rooted but still on stock 4.2.2. Very laggy and I would like to try your version :laugh:. Is it still based from a stock ROM that can support dual SIM? Salamat ng marami (Thanks)

bahtul said:
@venom621: Do you have the link for the ROMs you used? I have my grand rooted but still on stock 4.2.2. Very laggy and I would like to try your version :laugh:. Is it still based from a stock ROM that can support dual SIM? Salamat ng marami (Thanks)
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i just updated to this I9082XXUBNC1 >> http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9082
stock 4.1 - AMF7 4.1
again no lag issue. you can also try changing launchers. Touchwiz is really laggy on previous stock roms. Although touchwiz is pretty decent on the new rom, I still prefer nova launcher, much faster.
here is a video on the new rom(I9082XXUBNC1). nova launcher vs touchwiz
Video is a litlle bit slower while using screen recorder.
http://youtu.be/GetJTPV5qCM

[INDEX][Everything you need to know][All In One Guide]

Welcome to the note 3 forums. We welcome you as long as you do your job and search before making 1,000,000 new threads.
So,You just got your shiny new note 3 and dont know where to begin?
Well that's ok because, this is the all in one thread.
Lets begin​
How do I Root?
That is the common question around here. Im going to simplify this.. Here you go
For 4.3
1.The best and safest way is this method by @evilpotatoman. It does require a little work but in return you do get root Here is the link for That,
2.Another method that is faster, but does not offer busybox with install, nor did it originate from XDA-forums is Here,
For 4.4 Or KitKat
You have to Go to My thread located
Here,
This does root KitKat and provides a custom ROM.
How Do I Install Custom Rom's
First What you should know is that our phone has a locked bootloader. This means that we can not boot kernels. But we still can flash custom rom's Thanks to @Hashcode
To install custom rom's on 4.3, Head over Here,
Another method That i originally created, but does not work as good as safestrap, could be found Here
If you are on KitKat, Then you could either install my KitKat rom or wait for safestrap to be updated.
What Do I Do If I Bricked My Phone? Or if it wont boot?
Well There are 2 methods to get you back to stock and running again.
To Restore back to Jellybean (4.3) Follow this Thread Here
To Restore back to KitKat (4.4.2) Follow this Thread Here
Why are Rom's Based off different Bases & Whats the difference?
A little basic intro
MJ5,MI9 & MI1 Are all 4.3 AT&T Bases
Ml2 Is an international 4.3 Base
MlG is a leaked AT&T 4.4.2 Base
Mj5 Is the latest 4.3 AT&T Base
Ml2 Is the latest international Base
The difference depends on what you need. Right now There are pro's and con's to all bases
Mj5
-Fast Data speeds
-Better indoor Signal
-No Bluetooth internet tethering
Ml2
-NO group messaging
-lower signal in areas
-slower data
-Does have Bluetooth internet tethering
Leaked Kitkat base (MIG)
-Extremely fast
-Newer modem with better signal & speeds
-Safestrap is not yet updated to work with kitkat (But you could still install my 4.4 ROM)
Why is my GPS Crappy and How do i fix it?
This issue is well known with our phone. The main reason is bad software coding.
To fix this issue Flash this fix made by me, in safestrap or manually push the files using root explorer.
4.3-Click Here
4.4-(Coming Soon)
What is "SafeStrap & Why do i have to use it?
Safestrap is our main method of flashing Rom's and could be found Here,
Always WIPE before flashing a new ROM or expect to receive errors. DON'T BE LAZY
Issues with safestrap
-Sometimes the storage is messed up and shows that you are using all your memory, when you really are not.If you use a different app to check, then you should see your real memory usage.
Where are all the kernels located?
Like i stated earlier, We don't have kernels yet, because of our locked bootloader
Where are all the Roms compatible with my phone?
All compatible and ready to install rom's could be found Here
There is currently NO AOSP,CM Based Rom's, So don't ask
What is KNOX and how does it effect me?
KNOX is basically made to **** us. But Samsung calls it security.
KNOX is removed from most custom Rom's. Knox does prevent root apps from working properly and should be removed asap.
How do I transfer My bookmarks from ROM to ROM?
Follow the guide i created Here
Im still working on a list of roms,and cool mods that are compatible with our phone. they will be located in the second post.Mods please sticky this thread​

For me, to post mods and roms compatible with our phone

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Great information.
Thank you very much.
I have tried your KitKat 4.4.2. Glad to see it is rooted!
Now, it is easy to switch between MJ5 4.3 and MLG 4.4.2 through SafeStrap and Odin.

Wow very nice! Hopefully this will prove helpful.
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I will send people here. Thanks man. Wish we could donate to you. I bet there is a bunch of people who would love to buy you some drinks or whatever your in to....Thanks again for being organized and detailed. You have your Sh** together and its great!!!

Awesome work. Me personally Im waiting for SS to be updated but definitely keeping an eye out.
Im curious on one thing. When you discuss Knox and to 'remove it', would freezing this via TB server the same purpose? Also since youve had a go with 4.4, does Samsungs iteration of 4.4 still have the GPS issues or did they fix it? Just curious
Thanks!

Guys where can I get the stock rom my N900A (Note 3 AT & T) now install version 4.4.2 filtered want to go back to stock!
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Read the first post!!
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Thank you love your rom and glad to see you are so involved in the community
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No problem buddy
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hi, how do i manually fix push the GPS files?

So no root for sm900a. How can I load a custom rom without having to use a computer? Possible?
I really hate this thing as of right now wish I had my note 2 back
I found Ultimate rotation control but it fails to work properly

thanks, perfect thread for an android newbie :good:

Nix A Nerd 2 said:
So no root for sm900a. How can I load a custom rom without having to use a computer? Possible?
I really hate this thing as of right now wish I had my note 2 back
I found Ultimate rotation control but it fails to work properly
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If you are referring to the N900A, thew is root! Just gotta search.
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Thank you. Now my almost $800 Samsung Galaxy note 3 has basic gps working properly. Samsung needs to hire guys like you

only thing missing is how to back up and restore...
so if you want a new rom...youre good to go..

Wanting to down grade back to JB rom from KITKAT v2
I Used to be on JB rom 4.3 And I really liked it. But I wanted to upgrade to to KitKat v2 because alot of people said they liked it. After I upgraded to KITKAT 4.4.2 I really did not enjoy it as much JB 2.6. I used to get 35000 score from Antutu Benchmark but now on V2 I get about 30000 score. And I thought the JB 2.6 was setup nicer. I dunno, but what I do know is that I would like to go back to JB 2.6 because I think it was a nicer piece of work. Anyone know where I can find the tutorial to downgrade back to JB 2.6? I thought I seen it before but I cant seem to find it. Thank you for your time.
htsl

I have now soft bricked my phone I am lost and need help! no one last night would help me! PLEASE help me now!!! I am stuck on step 4 of http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2559715
when I select "show all devices" it only list 2 "Samsung mobile usb cdc composite device" and " samsung mobile usb modem" what am I doing wrong????
some one on another thread said I am using the wrong drivers... where Do I find the correct drivers?
Thanks
Rick

Are you in download mode?
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Bootloader for 4.4.2

Hey guys.
Got an international Note 3 and I'm getting really sick of waiting for the the update from 4.3 to 4.4.2.
I was thinking of flashing the Poland rom so that my bootloader is flashed then just flashing a 4.4.2 rom of my choosing. But, will the bootloader be more up to date / stable / better in general if I just wait for my official update?
I'd like to let it update 'naturally' but, this is getting beyond a joke. 4.4.2 has been out for frigging ages and I'd like to know when Australia is going to get it. I've flashed an open Australian firmware so technically I don't have to wait for my carrier. I just can't believe if I bought my phone from Samsung directly, I STILL wouldn't have 4.4.2... Anyway, I'm sure with this rolling out and changing so many times, the bootloader has been changed too. But, it's probably no big deal anyway. I can always flash the official 4.4.2 when it released I supposed to update my bootloader if I wish. Or can't I?
Thanks guys.
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Lambetts said:
Hey guys.
Got an international Note 3 and I'm getting really sick of waiting for the the update from 4.3 to 4.4.2.
I was thinking of flashing the Poland rom so that my bootloader is flashed then just flashing a 4.4.2 rom of my choosing. But, will the bootloader be more up to date / stable / better in general if I just wait for my official update?
I'd like to let it update 'naturally' but, this is getting beyond a joke. 4.4.2 has been out for frigging ages and I'd like to know when Australia is going to get it. I've flashed an open Australian firmware so technically I don't have to wait for my carrier. I just can't believe if I bought my phone from Samsung directly, I STILL wouldn't have 4.4.2... Anyway, I'm sure with this rolling out and changing so many times, the bootloader has been changed too. But, it's probably no big deal anyway. I can always flash the official 4.4.2 when it released I supposed to update my bootloader if I wish. Or can't I?
Thanks guys.
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Shouldn't matter... Once on KK you have the option to go up and down on KK without triggering Knox but not back to JB.
Did the update fairly quickly after it was released in Poland. Never had a problem with going to others.
Have heard however that carrier roms seem to be a problem as the partition table is different, probably due to the proprietary apps carriers load into the rom needing more space.
Would suggest using broken up polish rom NA6 to flash first - this will make sure you're bootloader is flashed, then go to what you want like the latest NC2.
Better yet, root the polish rom, install a custom recovery and do a nandroid backup then use a custom rom.
All the little niggly problems are circumvented then....
You can't root KK without triggering Knox warranty void.

NEED HELP!!

Ive been having some issues with my note 3 sm-n9005. out of no where the phone started spazing out meaning it overheats aps randomly close i cant download any apps from the play store(always getting this error 960 or it says package file invalid) and the phone sometimes restart it self so right now i have no use of the phone. I've tried rooting it and trying some custom roms like cm i tried the bobcat rom but that did working and i used the omega rom all of them did the same thing. I'm not sure if the note has some bad flies that causing it to do what its ding so i would really like it if somebody could have me. I live in the Bahamas so i don't have the luxury of sending the phone back I'm not even sure if the phone can be fix im sure its a software problem i just don't know now how to fix it. and right now i had it on a stock rom and i tried rooting it again and now it would up then restart and then go into recovery mode. i rooted it usinf clockwork mod. SOMEBODY HELP ME PLZ!!:crying:

rashadblack242 said:
Ive been having some issues with my note 3 sm-n9005. out of no where the phone started spazing out meaning it overheats aps randomly close i cant download any apps from the play store(always getting this error 960 or it says package file invalid) and the phone sometimes restart it self so right now i have no use of the phone. I've tried rooting it and trying some custom roms like cm i tried the bobcat rom but that did working and i used the omega rom all of them did the same thing. I'm not sure if the note has some bad flies that causing it to do what its ding so i would really like it if somebody could have me. I live in the Bahamas so i don't have the luxury of sending the phone back I'm not even sure if the phone can be fix im sure its a software problem i just don't know now how to fix it. and right now i had it on a stock rom and i tried rooting it again and now it would up then restart and then go into recovery mode. i rooted it usinf clockwork mod. SOMEBODY HELP ME PLZ!!:crying:
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my suggestions?
flash a stock ROM, and do a clean up (factory reset & clear cache) from stock recovery. This is the simple way.
my guess (if I'm wrong, correct me), you come back from CM/AOSP to TW, and it start to be like this.

Well im not sure if I had rooted it properly but I did all that I downloaded the stock hk rom to try see if thag will get it from booting in recover I know thats the easy fix. My big issue are all the other problems I had before I even tried to root the phone
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rashadblack242 said:
Well im not sure if I had rooted it properly but I did all that I downloaded the stock hk rom to try see if thag will get it from booting in recover I know thats the easy fix. My big issue are all the other problems I had before I even tried to root the phone
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stock HK firmware ?
Is your device is N9005 HK/Taiwan version ?
if not, you can't just use the HK/Taiwan firmware onto your N9005.

Its the sm-n9005 the international model
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Its the sm-n9005 the international model
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if yours is the international model of 32GB N9005, it is strongly suggested not to flash HK/Taiwan firmware.
This 2 firmware is basically only for HK/TW N9005, which is earlier was came in 16GB. Means the partition is different from the 32GB.
after that, they come up with 32GB, but... I might be wrong (correct me if I do), I read somewhere the partitioning also different.
So, Why don't u flash other international firmware ?
Have you tried other than HK/Taiwan firmware ?

I believe so as well. Regardless either 16 or 32gb HK fw doesn't play well with other regions n9005
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Well what region do you suggest I flash on it?
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I haven't has yet. I downloaded a UK rom thats about it I dont know what else to try
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UK rom should be fine
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Ok so do you have any other idea how to fix the other issues I described because flashing a new rom wont slove it.
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rashadblack242 said:
Ok so do you have any other idea how to fix the other issues I described because flashing a new rom wont slove it.
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If you haven't flash stock rom then just flash it first to see if the issue persists. Factory reset and wipe cache from stock recovery after done odin flashing.
If issues persist, root you phone again, install custom recovery sych as TWRP, use DrKetan's imei backup tool here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2698639,
make a nandroid backup if your current rom, wipe system/data/cache(don't wipe internal or external storage if you save your nandroid backup and imei backup in any of them else you will lost it. You will never know when they would be handy if you lost your imei in any way). Then flash again stock with odin.
My friend's note3 has terrible lag after upgrade to KitKat. It took a few minutes after reboot just to get unlocked so I helped him to reflash using odin but after 3 different firmwares flashed still not get resolved. I did the same. No more issue after that.
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[Q] Samsung S4 i9500, freezes and reboots after a while of use

hi, a friend of mine, here in El Salvador, had this s4 i9500, but for some reason an employee from TIGO company offered him to flash it with kitkat, the phone has no use, we downgraded the thing, no go, with three different version, Guatemala, Panama and Colombia, no go!!!!, if you use WIFI or 3G or simply opened an app. freezes and reboot, even we tried flashing it with cyanogenmod cm11, i dont know what else to do, the thing is useless, somebody told me that "KNOW" was related with this, because the previous JB stock rom had root and then tried with KITKAT stock rom with no root, i dont know about that, please help us
any help will be much appreciated
best regards

Did you flash again with a JB custom ROM? It might work, then wipe data/clear cache partition
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Spike97 said:
Did you flash again with a JB custom ROM? It might work, then wipe data/clear cache partition
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i already did all that, some dude tried to root the phone with android 4,4, stock version, after that the phone was unstable, i tried with 4 stock version, 2 jb versions and 2 kitkat versions, 1 cyanogenmod, no use

efeboAbel said:
i already did all that, some dude tried to root the phone with android 4,4, stock version, after that the phone was unstable, i tried with 4 stock version, 2 jb versions and 2 kitkat versions, 1 cyanogenmod, no use
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I think you might have a problem with the cpu...you bought the phone on second hand? Maybe someone forced it in overclocking mode. I recommend you to send the phone to an authorized service, but if you say you tryed everything, the motherboard is the problem..
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I agree, but samsung would say that the warranty is voided, other friend of mine thinks that this is related some knox partition, there has to be a solution for this