Hello guys,
I am new to the forum, so please excuse me if this isn't the right place to post this thread.
Okay, so my problem is really strange... I live in Bulgaria, and I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge from one of the carriers here - Telenor. Of course it came with lots of junk on it, including the annoying custom Telenor animation with sound on startup and shutdown, and a "telenor default theme" which replaces the S7 default theme. All this is very annoying so I decided to flash it thru Odin with the official Samsung firmware for Bulgaria, and it was awesome - no more telenor bulls hit, but I noticed that I can't play any videos while on LTE, and the GIF-s only load while I open them externally ( in the facebook's build in browser), also sometimes when I try to download a file from the default browser it fails. None of those problems occurs while on WI-FI. So I desided to flash again thru Samsung Kies 3, but since it requires a serial number - it flashes the Telenor firmware... Anyway I decided to see if the same problem occurs there, but no none of the problems occur. Some of the other differences I noticed between the firmwares is that when first initializing the new telenor firmware all of the text is in Bulgarian by default, and on the official firmware for Bulgaria by default the language is (I beleive) Polish, also the icon for mobile data is "4G" for telenor and "LTE" for the other one(which should be the same thing but still...). Sorry for giving so much info, but I really tried anything I could think of and I didn't came up with a solution... So basically now I am stuck with the Telenor branded firmware, because of the problems with the other one...
P.S. I downloaded the official firmware for Bulgaria from SamMobile- Bulgaria (BGL) (model number SM-G935F).
Thank you for your help
Why not get it below LTE then like 4g or 3g.....then try....
Hello, thank you for your answer. I tried to restrict the phone from using 4g LTE ny chosing "3g/2g autoconnect " in the settings, but the problem remains.
stunito0o0 said:
Hello, thank you for your answer. I tried to restrict the phone from using 4g LTE ny chosing "3g/2g autoconnect " in the settings, but the problem remains.
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Did u set any data restrictions??try disabling powers saving mode and attempt again
Also goto settings>data usage is your background data on or off?
Make sure it's On and see if u restricted apps
Hello,
Background data is on, no power save, no limitations of any kind. It works fine for YouTube, messenger etc. Only Facebook videos and GIF-s ( pictures load fine) and browser downloads don't work
stunito0o0 said:
Hello,
Background data is on, no power save, no limitations of any kind. It works fine for YouTube, messenger etc. Only Facebook videos and GIF-s ( pictures load fine) and browser downloads don't work
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Or do this....settings>backup and reset or try the one above which says reset all settings
Nope, no change. I tried " reset network settings" and "reset all settings", but still no effect. Now I'm thinking could it be some carrier network setting ( proxy or whatever) that comes preloaded on the Telenor branded firmware, but has to be manually typed on the official Bulgarian firmware? I can flash the Telenor firmware again and check it, but I don't know what/where to look for...
I'm surprised they can advertise their a stuff on instead of it being a Samsung firmware
Is this it??
http://forum.youmobile.org/downloads/?sa=view&down=23500
102skysx said:
I'm surprised they can advertise their a stuff on instead of it being a Samsung firmware
Is this it??
http://forum.youmobile.org/downloads/?sa=view&down=23500
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Yes this is it, except the version for Bulgaria. Anyway It looks like I fixed my problem(I decided to test it for a day, before posting). The problem was that the Telenor branded firmware comes with preloaded Internet settings since it is obvious that you would use telenor, if you have a phone bought from telenor. But the official version for Bulgaria can't come with that settings since you can put a different Sim card in it. So I just dialed 123, and chose to receive a configuration sms, from the menu, for my Internet settings- BAM problem solved. The only thing that is still a mystery for me is how was it able to use other apps, but not to watch videos in Facebook and download files from the browser lol.
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Since I have upgraded to cyanogens 4.19 and later builds using the new market, It seems that 95% of my downloads are unsuccessfull. I am living in China and love my phone but can only deduce that China is blocking downloads. This occurs over both wifi and edge connections.
Any ideas how to get around this??????
Is this because of the new radio required by google? Is this because of the new market? Is this simple a flat out great firewall of china block? Are there any proxies available for the market? Any alternative to market? SSlide is very limited. Thanks
I can synch, but even that is not very stable.
I have used my phone since the dudes long ago and no problems through all roms until the 4.19 series...
Currently on c 4.21 stable... dream G1
Have you tried a different ROM perhaps? Or at the very least wiped/cleared ext3 and put CM back on?
edited your hosts with:
74.125.93.113 android.clients.google.com
203.208.39.104 www.youtube.com
203.208.33.100 gdata.youtube.com
128.121.146.228 twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets1.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 static.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets0.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets2.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets3.twitter.com
168.143.162.101 assets4.twitter.com
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74.125.93.113 android.clients.google.com
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this is real necessary for login google account & market due to damn&f**k GFW of china
I have tried the last 2 or three cyanogen roms. Also I have tried the stock google 1.6 dev rom. I have reformatted my partitions, and wiped several times. Thanks for your reply. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Doesn't China sensor certain things because it's an communist country? I'm not trying to be an ass, but that might be the reason. I think google sensors webpages and searches because of government regulations.
Ayerwin said:
edited your hosts with:
this is real necessary for login google account & market due to damn&f**k GFW of china
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Great! Can you tell me how to do this! It is so annoying! I am having a problem even using gmail.
It has been a long time since china blocked something.
you can replace your hosts file.
Since you live in china,why not go to
www.androidin.net & www.hiapk.com
I know about these sites... the only problem is I can speak some Chinese, but not read or write it .... I hardly have time to learn so I came here!
Thanks for any ideas.. any one know how to edit the hosts as the posster a couple of posts up described?
AntiNSA said:
Great! Can you tell me how to do this! It is so annoying! I am having a problem even using gmail.
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upzip attached and copy to /system/etc with SUFBS or RootExplorer.
or use below in windows "CMD"
adb remount
adb push "path of hosts file" /system/etc
try this
extract the 2 files to 1 folder,connect your G1 with your PC
than run push.bat and enjoy it.
You need android usb drivers&adb before doing this.
If mine doesn't work,try Ayerwin's hosts file.
replace mine hosts with his,than run push.bat.
mine method is simpler ^_^
I used the abd method from aryewin first , rebooted and tried to install the speech synthesis files from the market...It is downloading as I type this. Thank you. It is hard to say if it worked yet because 5% of the time downloads work. I will test it using the new hosts file today and report back as soon as I get some time. Thank you so much for your quick help there are so many things I use from the market this can really help if it is successfull.
i am also in china now, if you do a logcat you see that the market cannot estabilish an ssl connection
for me, a reboot (or using wifi with china unicom) fixes the problem
are you on china mobile (edge) or china unicom (umts)?
i think it is just temporary, as for me 90% of download works, and also i managed to buy 5 paid apps using market enabler
edit: putting youtube.com in the hosts file will make youtube work?? it sounds strange, che GFC is so strict in its checks (lol try to go on wikipedia to take a look for freegate, and see the epic fail, the page will load and then "magically" return an error)
i tried on my pc and i get
很抱歉，在 www.google.cn 上没找到您要访问的网页
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(cannot find google.cn)
this is because google tried to do the smart guy, and put youtube and google on the same ip address (to avoid ip blacklisting)
unfortunately the gfc is not stupid and will do DNS poisoning on some domains...
btw i can do everything with my g1 in china, everything works, gtalk, maps, push gmail, market (except youtube, twitter, facebook, and nimbuzz)
i am using china mobile (cmnet), maybe is that you are using cmwrap+cmwap? it is no wonder that it will fail to connect if you do so...
Checking back in I can say the new hosts file made the market run great the last three hours. Its great to have unlimited access again.
Yes, I am too using cmnet. Its too bad we cant use Chinese 3g with our g1. My phone has also worked great since I got it. The best phone in the world I have ever had.
It has been my experiance that China blocks sites differently in different regions and cities. Using China Mobile here.
If you are having a problem, I would suggest you using the host file in this thread. Has worked so far for me.
cyanogen 4.21
Thanks for everyones help.
(except youtube, twitter, facebook, and nimbuzz)
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I heard you can access twitter by android platform frome China and have seen people tweet from China using twidroid. I'm not sure if which service provider they use. But this may suggest something else wrong there.
Moreover, try to set your google service as .com instead of .cn. That one's totally useless. Massive amount of keywords are filtered out.
Good luck bro. It's really sad they are doing this do mobile network. Dunno what would happen to the iPhone network tho.
yes, it looks the market it is working good with the new hosts, but i cant tell for sure
adding youtube/twitter on the hosts file has no effect
the GFW does packet sniffing imho, it detects i am going on blogspot even if i am using a proxy!
btw, for the filtered sites, on the pc i don't care, i've setup a VPN from europe for that
you can replace google.cn with google.com, but it is not the same. you can use the automated translator, and the cached page feature only of the chinese website
and the result is the same
if you search for "freegate" on google.cn you get a warning "illegal search"
if you search for that on google.com you get a DNS error that will "kick you out" from all google-owned servers unless you do ipconfig /flushdns
btw there is a chance to use the 3g on the g1 in china, with china unicom (umts)
too bad, i went to 8 different china unicom reseller and none of them were speaking english, so i was "forced" to use china mobile (edge)
the china mobile agent insisted to give me the 30mb/month flat, as 2gb "is too much", and insisted to come back when the limit was reached
she was shocked when i come back the day after "how did you use all of the 30mb in a single day???"
wngmv said:
I heard you can access twitter by android platform frome China and have seen people tweet from China using twidroid. I'm not sure if which service provider they use. But this may suggest something else wrong there.
Moreover, try to set your google service as .com instead of .cn. That one's totally useless. Massive amount of keywords are filtered out.
Good luck bro. It's really sad they are doing this do mobile network. Dunno what would happen to the iPhone network tho.
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I'm in beijing, people in china must use proxy to visit twitter, like dabr. Market works for me without hosts change on cm4.2.1 and KiNgxKx ROM 2.0. Thanks for these great roms.
I can use china unicom 3g, it's works ok.
A couple of small niggly issues now appear, and from speaking to others on Twitter it seems it might be a common issue. I wonder if it is from manually updating or just a bug?
On the lock screen, next to the carrier name I now have the | character so what was "O2 - UK" is now "O2 - UK |"
Any ideas why this is? Its not a big issue but slightly irritating as it means my device isn't the perfect device I want!
Also, the polar clock, with working dynamic wallpapers now, seems to be showing US time despite the main clock showing as UK. I wonder if this is to do with the manual update being US based, as the phone reset itself to US time after the update before automatically changing back to UK time. Polar clock never changed, not even after a reboot.
Any ideas and help always greatly appreciated.
Paul.
Carrier: O2
Country / Language: UK
Since I did a manual update, even though I am at the default middle/home screen, the small indicators show that I am one screen to the left.
I don't have your problems though.
optimus82 said:
Since I did a manual update, even though I am at the default middle/home screen, the small indicators show that I am one screen to the left.
I don't have your problems though.
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Same issue here, only one so far.
I've seen this home screen dot bug, toggling the screens fixed it.
I did manually update, but I don't think this is the reason.
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Same issue here but O2 - UK|
I am not experiencing the | character after T-Mobile
T-mobile UK or USA?
mobiousdigital said:
T-mobile UK or USA?
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oh, US but why would it be any different?
Seems to be a lot of UK users with the | pipe issue that's all.
I manually installed the update last night. I live in the U.S. Neither of the issues mentioned on this thread have affected my Nexus One. In fact, I havent found any issues...yet.
- Greymarch
I write about technology, including the Nexus One at my website:
greymarch.com
didn't
I'm getting the dots not being on despite being at the home screen. I'm us. I don't get the l after T-Mobile. MUST be a UK thing.
Idk if this because of the update, this hasn't happened before the update but after I uploaded some videos to youtube, they seem to get deleted from my gallery. Not sure if there is a setting for that. Can anybody confirm?
*****NVM THEY SHOW NOW
Not on my AT&T and I did manual as well.
JHaste said:
I am not experiencing the | character after T-Mobile
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Same here.
I don't have that issue with the extra | and i'm in tmobile usa. the home screen dots get fixed by just swiping to another screen and back.
I too have the | sign after my carrier name followed with a standard message from my carrier )usually sth like 'have a nice day' or my location). Previously it was displaying this message in a separate line. My guess is that O2 UK has an empty carrier message and that's why you see only the bar.
Got the the pipe showing with Sonera in Finland also, annoying.
It seems it could be a Broadcast Channel Message "bcch" and these operators are sending NO MESSAGE hence we get nothing after the | not sure why Google would of altered the way this is handled but I'd like to see it sorted out but also the annoying "dots" glitch too.
The actual app from Optus works a treat, but the widget just says "There was an error displaying your usage". Anyone else having trouble with it?
Same problem here. Nfi how to fix.
No luck here either.
If it actually worked, took up less space on the screen (maybe 4 icon spots or less instead of 8!!!), and usage was updated more regularly (delayed up to 24hrs tsch...) then it would be perfect.
But alas, it fails. Still, I keep the app on my homescreen.
Not sure what issues you guys are having, im running Version 1.0(1) and it works fine!
do you know by any chance the link to download this app?
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Not sure what issues you guys are having, im running Version 1.0(1) and it works fine!
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Have you tried the widget, not just the app? Cause it's the widget that doesnt work for us (should display the usage but errors).
Also I think theres only 1 version out atm.
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do you know by any chance the link to download this app?
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Luckily I dumped it before firmware (CSC) update, because that removed all the optus apps.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O7ZROHSW
http://www.2shared.com/file/EUMsvDwv/My_Account_10.html
oswade said:
Have you tried the widget, not just the app? Cause it's the widget that doesnt work for us (should display the usage but errors).
Also I think theres only 1 version out atm.
Luckily I dumped it before firmware (CSC) update, because that removed all the optus apps.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O7ZROHSW
http://www.2shared.com/file/EUMsvDwv/My_Account_10.html
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you're the man...
btw,which firmware did u dump?
EDIT: and the widget not working for me too
hihihehe said:
you're the man...
btw,which firmware did u dump?
EDIT: and the widget not working for me too
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No worries.
Sorry I wasn't quite clear in my wording...
I meant I dumped the optus app before I upgraded firmware.
I flashed to JFB, then JFF, then JG1. I can't notice many improvements... In fact my phone is a bit more laggy at JG1 (but I have more apps installed so I presume it's that).
I would flash to JG3 but... I don't wanna have to restore all my settings and data again... (done it about 5 times).
I wouldn't mind having a copy of original AUS firmware for safety reasons... or at least the CSC (contains all the carrier specific info).
It's doing the same thing for me. Curses.
ahh common problem I see. wonder how this stuff is logged...
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
also, he he.. curses..
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
We should complain to optus... maybe?
BTW optus owner singtel, has various widgets for their customers which look way better...
Hey guys, quick 2 Optus-related questions. Switched from 3 to them when I bought my Galaxy S yesterday.
1) How can you find out your account number? I've registered a username and password for using the My Account app, but it wants an Account Number that it states will be on my bill, the first of which I obviously won't be receiving for a while...
2) Is there a backup of the stock Optus firmware (JF3) including all the pre-loaded apps just in case any of us ever need to return the phone under warranty to load it back to its factory settings and firmware?
Cheers!
1) It's annoying you don't get it when you first sign up, but it's written on your first bill (pro-rata which is only a few days).
Apparently you can also call up optus and get it off customer service, however I didn't know this so I just waited.
2) No there isn't a proper flashable dump, unfortunately. If you do decide to flash your firmware (it's worth it if you can't wait for official updates.. which are very slow).
AXIS of Reality said:
Hey guys, quick 2 Optus-related questions. Switched from 3 to them when I bought my Galaxy S yesterday.
1) How can you find out your account number? I've registered a username and password for using the My Account app, but it wants an Account Number that it states will be on my bill, the first of which I obviously won't be receiving for a while...
2) Is there a backup of the stock Optus firmware (JF3) including all the pre-loaded apps just in case any of us ever need to return the phone under warranty to load it back to its factory settings and firmware?
Cheers!
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I noticed that Optus is chargning two mpnth's billing in the first bill. Same for you guys?
eaglesteve said:
I noticed that Optus is chargning two mpnth's billing in the first bill. Same for you guys?
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Yep, same here.
Well, I flashed a newer firmware but now I don't have mobile internet since the APN settings need to be set. =(
Where can I find the settings to use, or is there some way to get it to find them automatically?
AXIS of Reality said:
Well, I flashed a newer firmware but now I don't have mobile internet since the APN settings need to be set. =(
Where can I find the settings to use, or is there some way to get it to find them automatically?
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Aha, found them thanks to the awesomeness of Ausdroid!
http://ausdroid.net/apns/
^ use those to find the APNs for all aussie networks once you've flashed a new firmware. Make sure you have wifi turned off when you enter the info, and once the settings are in press menu -> save and within a few seconds the 3G icon in the notification bar appeared.
Hi,
I just recently picked up my Samsung Focus and I'm loving it. One problem seems to be that my Focus cannot search for businesses or addresses using the Maps application that came with the phone. I do have a data plan and tried both connected with wifi and running on 3G. My phone can find my location but still can't search any local businesses. Do I need to unlock or is there another fix available?
Try going into your settings menu and change region and language seetings:
1. Region Format: Eng (US)
2 Browser $ Search Language Eng (US)
3. Scroll to click text above (no button..just hit the text) to accept changes and restart the phone
Bing doesn't work well in Canada so just make it think it is in the US.
Might work...might not.
Thanks so much! Now my phone can find local businesses!
Glad it worked.
I can't take credit for it. There was a blog post....I just couldn't find the blog.
I managed to navigate to www dot bbc dot com/future on my Nexus. I tried to access this page from a PC, but it said not available in my country. This started ringing alarm bells, but didnt really think anything of it.
I went on laterooms earlier and everything came up in dollars. I thought this was a bit strange and had to change the default on the page.
I just went on another website and it asked if I was shopping from the USA and if I wanted to convert everything to dollars.
Any ideas if I can change this?
Do you use this new feature in chrome for bandwidth saving? (US proxy)
der187 said:
Do you use this new feature in chrome for bandwidth saving? (US proxy)
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It was turned on, yes. I turned it off to test and unable to get to BBC future page.
Is there not a UK proxy?
Thank you