Hello everyone. New to this community, have been around XDA for quite some time now. Was inactive for the most part. Cheap phones don't have the best support in the developer community. My last phone was the LG Stylo and the Galaxy Light before that. Now I have this phone and it is activated on MetroPCS. The only features I don't have is video calling, it is not available. Probably because Verizon makes you pay to use that feature. Is there any way that I can get everything to work on the stock VZW firmware or can I flash a stock tar from the Metro S5?
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Hi guys!
As you can probably tell I'm pretty new to Android, and I just started getting into custom roms.
I noticed many T-Mobile roms say they support the Canadian models, and I have been able to get some to install with everything working great! This is exciting coming from an old iPhone
That said, even with a custom kernel installed when I get into the OS I always get an alert saying I have no carrier because I have data roaming turned off. I'm assuming this is because my phone now looks like a tmobile phone and not a telus phone.
What is the fix for that to make it look like the Canadian variety again? Is that something saved in the csc files or do I just fix the apn settings?
How do you folks handle this?
Thanks!
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Ok,... a NOOB question.. (ok.. three questions) (and yes, I have looked around, and I did not see answers to my question… or i was too dim to understand it….. :/ )
Question 1)
I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile. my Note 3 is is unlocked, and rooted.
This is probably a silly question, but When I look at “ROMS” and “MODS” for my phone, should I be looking for an “AT&T “ phone? or a T-MOBILE” ?? is there any actual HARDWARE difference?
I have a SM-N900A (branded AT&T) … does that mean I can not use ROMS that are for the T-Mobile note 3s? or do I have to only use ROMS that are for the AT&T note 3?
Should I just sell my AT&T note 3, and buy a T-Mobile Note 3 ??
I would like to get rid of the AT&T bloatware… especially since I am no longer on their network.
I am not trying to go over the top with my phone, and I would like to be able keep the s-pen features (but I have to admit, I still need to LEARN how to use it better!)
Question 2)
I just tried to use my hotspot on my Note3, and I am gettingan "invalad sim" error...
I am guessing that I do nto have enough of the AT&T stuff out of it?
Question 3)
Another “feature” that I would like, (maybe a second question/thread?) if about tethering.. I have unlimited data on my phone, but as I understand it, they will only allow 2gigs as a hotspot. I think I read somewhere that some ROMS combine the two…
Thank you for any advice…
Danny
Okay, I can help you with a few of your questions...
Q1. Since your phone (the service provider doesn't matter, the hardware does) is ATT, you will need to get your Roms and such from the ATT area.
ATT, in all their ridiculous glory, locked the bootloader on our phones, and thus we have to SafeStrap in order to use roms.
It's a little wonky, but it's almost as good. Our development is growing and more roms are getting ported over every day.
But if you want more control over your device and can afford it, I would personally recommend to switch to a TMo device.
As for removing bloatware, most of the roms are pre slimmed, and you can fix the rest by freezing apps with TiBu. And you can still do that without losing the TouchWiz and SPen functions.
Q2. The Invalid sim issue is likely because you have a TMo sim card in ATT software. There's a Tether Provisioning app that can be frozen to prevent that.
Q3. I'm not too sure how TMo handles it's Tethering monitoring. You'll have to ask that in the TMo note forum.
I hope I could help you at all. =D
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Ryo Misaki said:
Okay, I can help you with a few of your questions...
Q1. Since your phone (the service provider doesn't matter, the hardware does) is ATT, you will need to get your Roms and such from the ATT area.
ATT, in all their ridiculous glory, locked the bootloader on our phones, and thus we have to SafeStrap in order to use roms.
It's a little wonky, but it's almost as good. Our development is growing and more roms are getting ported over every day.
But if you want more control over your device and can afford it, I would personally recommend to switch to a TMo device.
As for removing bloatware, most of the roms are pre slimmed, and you can fix the rest by freezing apps with TiBu. And you can still do that without losing the TouchWiz and SPen functions.
Q2. The Invalid sim issue is likely because you have a TMo sim card in ATT software. There's a Tether Provisioning app that can be frozen to prevent that.
Q3. I'm not too sure how TMo handles it's Tethering monitoring. You'll have to ask that in the TMo note forum.
I hope I could help you at all. =D
Sent from my SM-N9005 using xda app-developers app
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Thank you for the help!!
I have decided to buy myself a T-Mobile Note 3, and sell my AT&T version...
I had rooted my (using Kingo) about a month ago, to fix the GPS driver problem... But that was ALL I did, after rooting it... and I think this week, AT&T sent out an update (mandatory... cause I never saw it!)... which not only broke my "root" ... but broke my GPS again as well.
So now I say good bye to my brand new, with the EXTRA insuarance plan from Best Buy phone, and start looking for a used Note 3 that is not bootloader locked
AVOID AT&T
D
Hello everyone. I need to flash my Samsung Galaxy S4 from Sprint to MetroPCS. What is the most recent way to do this? Thank you in advance.
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Hello everyone. I need to flash my Samsung Galaxy S4 from Sprint to MetroPCS. What is the most recent way to do this? Thank you in advance.
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Flashing is no longer supported by MetroPCS and not really practical anymore. Since Metro has stopped using Houdini no new ESNs can be added to their CDMA database, so the only way to get a working flash is to illegally change your phone's ESN.
Now, even if you did successfully flash your S4 over there a re a few reasons why it's a bad idea. For one Metro is going to be turning off their CDMA network completely soon, since Metro merged with T-Mobile thy use GSM now. Two, a flash would only get you 3g. And lastly Metro dealers will most likely not even activate the phone for you if you bring it into the store, because they are not allowed and will get in trouble if word got out that they were activating flashed phones.
If you want to use your Sprint S4 on Metro just follow this guide here to complete a SIM unlock, which will allow you to use your S4 with GSM networks.
Hey guys, I've been out of the loop for a few years when it comes to root and roms. My past experience was with my S3, but after that broke I got an S5 and never had the ability to do much of anything with it. Well it finally broke yesterday and I happened to see one of the local Best Buys carrying the G935U developer edition. Picked it up, went to Verizon to get a new even smaller sim, and have been browsing XDA trying to figure out how to properly go about it for this particular model on the Verizon network.
So here I am now looking through way too many different forums for the G935(variants) and a bit overwhelmed.
TL;DR
Please point me in the right direction and/or share links with me :laugh:
This should hopefully be helpful - http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...de-flashing-sm-935u-firmware-verizon-t3415145
I'm running into a lot of issues, even just trying to use MMS on the phone, the APN settings are all empty and un editable.
Also to be clear, I have an unlocked developer edition GS7E and trying to use it on Verizon network and maybe root/rom it for some better battery life
EDIT:
Got the MMS working and APN straightened out. Was an issue on V's side with activation not going all the way thought.
Hi all, i'm just recently joined this site
I just bought an unlocked galaxy s8 from Samsung website, but now i'm worried. I currently have AT&T and was planning on continuing to use my plan from them, but I was reading that things like Wi-fi calling don't work on unlocked phones with AT&T. Is this true? I was debating on returning the phone (haven't gotten it in the mail yet) and get an AT&T associated one, just because in my work building, there's quite a few dead zones where I don't get service and sending texts was always frustrating until i learned about the wifi calling feature on my current phone. I really don't want to have a brand new, amazing phone like the s8 and still struggle with text messages not going through.
I was reading around on here, that there might be a way to flash AT&T firmware onto my unlocked phone so I can get Wi-fi calling abilities, is this true? How could I go about doing that? I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to messing with phone software like that (but I can follow directions easily), so would it be worth trying to figure out or am I better off just spending the extra money for the ATT specific phone? That one doesn't have the color I wanted either so it's a little bit of a bummer.
Thanks for any possible help
shaml96 said:
Hi all, i'm just recently joined this site
I just bought an unlocked galaxy s8 from Samsung website, but now i'm worried. I currently have AT&T and was planning on continuing to use my plan from them, but I was reading that things like Wi-fi calling don't work on unlocked phones with AT&T. Is this true? I was debating on returning the phone (haven't gotten it in the mail yet) and get an AT&T associated one, just because in my work building, there's quite a few dead zones where I don't get service and sending texts was always frustrating until i learned about the wifi calling feature on my current phone. I really don't want to have a brand new, amazing phone like the s8 and still struggle with text messages not going through.
I was reading around on here, that there might be a way to flash AT&T firmware onto my unlocked phone so I can get Wi-fi calling abilities, is this true? How could I go about doing that? I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to messing with phone software like that (but I can follow directions easily), so would it be worth trying to figure out or am I better off just spending the extra money for the ATT specific phone? That one doesn't have the color I wanted either so it's a little bit of a bummer.
Thanks for any possible help
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Read these treads, you will get an idea and if you decided to do it or have questions, then this is your go to guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/snap-guide-flashing-standard-fw-carrier-t3625817
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/switch-to-carrier-firmware-100-t3609487
Basically u will not get wifi calling unless u supply ATT with a imei number from a legit wifi calling capable phone even with the flash. Since this seems to be of major importance to u I would get the ATT phone.
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unlocked carrier free model OTA updates have also been already palpably behind Verizon and T-Mobile.