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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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..
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Just Odin the 2.7.4.0
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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..
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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?
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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!
I recently switched from AOSPA after not being particularly impressed and went back to oxygen. However, after attempting to send a message I was unable to send one and noticed that I also am unable to receive. Phone calls and cellular data seems to work perfectly. I have flashed the proper firmware and reflashed the OS several times, but for no avail. I've also tried to clear cache l, but still no luck. I haven't been able to test the SIM card on another phone yet, but as the problem started as I switched OS I doubt that the problem lies there.
Some weird things I've noticed:
- Both Facebook and Google Messenger refuse to even attempt at sending a message, whereas textra pretends nothing is wrong
- In gsam battery monitor the phone line is greyed out
- Right after boot a message saying there is no service appears, but disappears fairly quickly.
Thanks in advance!
And this is after clean flash? Also without trying to restore any data using Titanium backup or other?
Clean flash, but I did use titanium backup. Guess that could be the cause. Seems like I'll have to do another clean flash anyway.
So I looked everywhere but I can't seem to find an answer. My Google searches take me to iPhone threads.
I wanted to update my N6P with the new October security patch so before attempting to flash the OTA I made a nandroid with twrp 3.0.2-2. After flashing the new OTA I was having trouble with updating apps through Play Store. I tried to find the problem to no avail until I remembered installing one of those ToolBox Apps to manage my startup apps. I figured that could be it so I got rid of it. It seem to work afterwards but since I had reset some other system apps before this, it wasn't working well, very laggy so I decided to restore my Backup via twrp.
The issue:
After restoring Backup via twrp 3.0.2-2, everything seemed normal until I received a text message this morning. The problem basically is that I can send texts find to anyone of my contacts but whenever they respond, the phone shows the message through another contacts phone number / text thread.
If I am texting for instance Adam and he responds, I receive his text in John's text thread... I don't know what could possibly fix this. Can someone give me guidance on how to pinpoint the problem and or a fix?
thanks so much
Sorry about blabbering so much I assumed a detail description would help the helper..
Just clear the app data on the application. You'll lose all your old texts though. I'm not sure what causes this but it happens to me too
I am trying to login to Snapchat but it keeps saying there's an error with the login and I found out it is because I am rooted. A fix I found involves full unroot and I don't want to do that. Can anyone help me?
Snapchat
Ive used snapchat rooted. On mutiple roms.
Snapchat for some devices (like the v20 now) is checking for root. It's hit or miss really. On my VS995 Snapchat wouldn't work till I did suhide. So you'll have to most likely use Magisk or SU-Hide or some kind of root hiding thing to get past it.
Just install Snapchat on a other device, log in, make a backup with Titanium Backup and load it on your main device.
This worked for my rooted S5 KLTE
D.Va said:
I am trying to login to Snapchat but it keeps saying there's an error with the login and I found out it is because I am rooted. A fix I found involves full unroot and I don't want to do that. Can anyone help me?
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magisk hide is option 1
rootswitch is option 2
full unroot, sign in, then re-flash the supersu zip to re root is option 3
restore a app+data backup from a logged in device using backup app like titanium is option 4..
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magisk hide is option 1
rootswitch is option 2
full unroot, sign in, then re-flash the supersu zip to re root is option 3
restore a app+data backup from a logged in device using backup app like titanium is option 4..
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Personally i feel option 2 is easiest but not all kernels like it.
I wish these things could be put in to roms so when we flash them, there's no alternate flashing needed that could cause issues.. I had nothing but issues tryna get both of those options to work, but again it was probably kernel related so I just gave up on it..
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I wish these things could be put in to roms so when we flash them, there's no alternate flashing needed that could cause issues.. I had nothing but issues tryna get both of those options to work, but again it was probably kernel related so I just gave up on it..
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Actually, the Stock deOdexed US996 ROM has them built into it, also allows for hotspot provisioning without having to edit anything. I've been running it for a few months now, and been flawless on every aspect, other than it disables the ability to use MyVerizon apps, and Verizon's visual voicemail.
I noticed recently that I can't create a new backup using the OnePlus Switch app. When I go into Backup & Restore and tap New Backup, it'll briefly show "Loading" then kick me back to the previous screen. I think this started happening after I updated OOS to 9.0.12, because it worked before that. I don't use it often. Pretty much only to backup my SMS before doing an OOS update. When I went to install the 9.0.13 update, that's when I found Switch wouldn't work.
I've tired clearing the app cache & storage. I've uninstalled/reinstalled the app. I've tried a few previous versions of the app. I've allowed all the permissions it asks for. Nothing has worked.
Anyone else come across this? Any ideas on how to get it to work?
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I noticed recently that I can't create a new backup using the OnePlus Switch app. When I go into Backup & Restore and tap New Backup, it'll briefly show "Loading" then kick me back to the previous screen. I think this started happening after I updated OOS to 9.0.12, because it worked before that. I don't use it often. Pretty much only to backup my SMS before doing an OOS update. When I went to install the 9.0.13 update, that's when I found Switch wouldn't work.
I've tired clearing the app cache & storage. I've uninstalled/reinstalled the app. I've tried a few previous versions of the app. I've allowed all the permissions it asks for. Nothing has worked.
Anyone else come across this? Any ideas on how to get it to work?
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Never used it before, I always backup via TWRP.
Are you rooted? If so try re-flashing the 9.0.13 via TWRP and see if that helps.