Hi Guys,
I have a T-Mobile N910T and am looking to enable native bluetooth tethering (this seems to be something that T-Mobile disables in their releases?). I tried flashing to a custom rom this morning but ended up in a reboot loop even after several attempts. I then used the ODIN tool to take me back to a stock N910TUVU2EQI2, which at least has gotten my phone running again.
Anyhow, would be really nice to have BT tether as I am looking to put a tablet in my car and would like it to pick-up my phones data connection when I"m in the car.
I feel like custom roms seem to have a bit of a learning curve to get working properly, though, I have learned a reasonable bit as I spent most of the night figuring out how to flash my phone in the first place and then recovering it to a stock rom etc. ...
Any suggestions as to what rom I should attempt to flash that would likely lead to the least number of issues, but allow me to have BT tether ?
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Hi, I have used many ROMs to find out what is best but after some use of most ROMs (all froyo), I have noticed that no matter what I do, mobile internet won't turn on. It usually happens after the second reboot and various methods of toggling the mobile internet fail toturn it on, even when they say that the internet is connected.
The problem is that I have decided that my favourite MOD is a 2.2 (froydvillain) and the fact that I have no internet is not helping.
Basically, can someone help or is it a Hardware fault?
-- will updating my Radio help?
Hmmm, strange. I have no idea why it works first but then stops after a few reboots, I'm using FroydVillain and internet is 100% ok.
Yeah it is always recommended to have the latest radio,... give it a try, cant hurt can it, and you can always roll back to an older one if the update causes issues.
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?307-radio-roms-download-links
I just got a Samsung Vibrant yesterday from a 3rd party, and I'm very excited. I know I need to read a lot on this site, but since this is my 1st smartphone, please forgive my basic/naive questions, be gentle on me, and give me some directions so that I won't have to walk in the darkness.
1) I haven't done anything essential to the phone yet, and I'm considering to root, unlock and the phone, and upgrade from 2.1-update1 to 2.2. Which one should I start first, root, unlock, or upgrade? Even though I haven't done much on the phone, do I still need to go through the backup before rooting?
2) Between the IMEI and S/N barcodes, there is '10.10' on the phone which I assume is the manufacture time of Oct. 2010. Would the GPS 'fix' be done with my phone (Build Number: Eclair.UVJI6)? Considering the amount of complaints about the GPS on Samsung Vibrant, how does the GPS work with offline applications like CoPilot? Where should I put the CoPilot Map, in internal or external SD?
3) If I want to make phone calls through WIFI connections without eating up my minutes, what kind of VOIP combination should I consider? Google Voice?
4) What web browser do you recommend? Other nice applications should I put in?
5) When I select Avatar, it says "File not found". Is it supposed to be in the external SD (which seems empty)? Where can I get the file?
Thanks a lot for your help!
I would suggest reading the bible in the Development section. or this
get the proper drivers here.
root with Superoneclick found here. There is another version floating around that works better that is called SuperOneClick for Froyo.
fix 3e recovery (if running stock froyo) software found here runs from your computer with your phone connected and usb debugging turned on.
download the Clockwork Recovery Unlock.zip from either Rom Manager or here (put it in your phones internal SD root)
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TeamWhiskey's Rom Bionix-V 1.2.1 found here
But I would suggest getting to know your Vibrant/android phone if you have never owned one first.
Edit: Calling over wifi uses your plan's minutes. Its meant for poor reception areas where you might have wifi with broadband internet.
Edit2: Most people get rid of the "Avatar" its just the movie and takes up space. I believe it should be on the SD card that came with the phone.
Congrats on the phone
1st is to root it you can use the super-one-click, like the previous post said. There are other rooting but this one is very easy
After that, Read up on the roms the Axura, Trigger, Einherjar, and Bionix are all fine and depending on your need you have really great choices, the Axura has remarkable battery life, for example. So do the reading on which you would like. Once you pick one flash it. Then get Rom manager and Titanium back up. Free from the app store. Then you can start playing. Should you decide that you do not like or just want to try another rom, you can flash over the last most times with out problems. One thing (read the bible) if you do flash over one of the custom roms you will need to disable the voodoo lagfix. This is actually a file conversion. So Read up on that as well. Hope that helps you.
[Q] Newbie Questions
I too got a vibrant yesterday and then upgraded to 2.2 of skies mini. The problem is now I have not found a way to get it rooted with 2.2. Any ideas?
coldasice304 said:
I too got a vibrant yesterday and then upgraded to 2.2 of skies mini. The problem is now I have not found a way to get it rooted with 2.2. Any ideas?
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There is the super one click or you can get a copy of the update folder that roots the phone.... place it on the internal sd card go to recovery and install update...... that also will do it. LOOK IN THE STICKY/BIBLE
Thanks a lot for the great help, FlyingPoo and oka1! I really appreciate it.
A couple of more newbie questions:
1) When making phone calls, sometimes I need to key in some options after the phone is connected (for example, when you call a customer service 800 number). How can I bring up a on-screen keyboard when the phone is already connected?
2) It seems my Samsung Vibrant has much weaker WIFI reception than my Mac laptop, and I have to bring the phone closer to the router to get detectable WIFI signal. Is there anyway I can boost the phone's reception capability?
Thanks a lot!
So just picked up a MyTouch 4g and so far I love it! Glad I switched from being a Windows Mobile user to a die hard Android now! Anyhow so the first thing I did when I got home was of course root it and found a custom ROM for it. I went and got [ROM][07/04/11] Virtuous Unity Sense 3.0 based on Pyramid [1.27.0] and finally got it flashed after some tinkering. Thank god I used linux before! So the phone seems to work fine, but today I noticed some annoying issues with it. I upgraded the sd card to 16gb from 8gb and had to reloaded a few of my games, no biggie, everything works now. But the WiFi is starting to piss me off. At work the wifi shouldn't be an issue, it is slow, but works. The phone just seems to keep dropping connection for no reason, then says emergency calls only and then picks back up the WiFi, etc. Does this while WiFi calling is enabled, now when I disable that, the WiFi still has issues like it won't keep a good signal. Hell I am sitting beside the router and still the signal goes up and down. I know the wifi works because I am using it thru my laptop to type this atm (using ubuntu 11.04 of course!) I have done some searching thru out the forums and noticed some others complaining about the same issue. I am asking because didn't know if this was ROM related, or maybe needed a different radio like my HTC tilt 2 used when I had it? Any ideas or maybe point me in the general direction?
I have tried reading on these forums for a little while, and am overwhelmed with the vast amount of content. I apologize in advance if this has already been addressed.
I purchased my first Android device and am having some serious Wifi issues. I am able to connect to both of my wireless routers, however there seems to be something blocking the data from streaming to my phone regularly. I have factory reset my phone twice now and am about to just sell it off to get a different one, which is a bummer because I really like it!
The wifi worked perfectly fine for the first couple of weeks and then suddenly stopped being reliable. Is there anything I can do, like root the device (would love to remove the ridiculous amount of bloatware) or change some settings? I have used almost 1gb on my mobile network in less than 48 hours, which is more than I used the entire month before because I simply cannot conduct any online business via wifi.
Please, when replying, keep in mind I am a noob. You may have to explain it to me with crayons...
Routers:
Hitron Technologies CGN Modem+Wifi - Provided through Mediacom
4th Gen Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n v7.6.4 - used to extend my wireless network
My PC is running Windows 7
Hi guys.
I wanted to try a custom ROM on a friend's i9505, so after reading a bit around the forums I updated the phone's modem and bootloader (all ROM threads seemed to recommend this one):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62593102#post62593102
And then tried a few ROMs.
However, they all seem to have the same issue: the WiFi signal is INCREDIBLY WEAK. If I'm not literally 1-2 meters away from the WiFi router it just loses the signal. Where other phones see a full or almost full signal, the s4 doesn't even see the network, or it sees it with just one "bar".
So, discouraged, I flashed back the stock ROM, using the instructions from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
using the "Latest Lollipop" file in that same page. I see from Odin that it indeed flashed everything, including the modem.
But the WiFi signal is still weak! Everything else is perfect, seems pure stock, but that one thing just doesn't work!
How do I get it working again? I'm not even concerned about custom ROMs anymore, I'd just like to have a stock (or anything really) with a working WiFi.
Any ideas??
Could there be a loose connection in the phone?
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Could there be a loose connection in the phone?
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Anything is possible, but it seems weird that it happened just the moment I flashed a new modem/rom, don't you think?
Yes, it is rather coincidental, but you never know. I recommend checking it just to rule out.
Was the phone purchased brand new from a carrier?
Well, I tried everything, flashed countless different stock packages and modems, disassembled the phone and checked and re checked the antenna, even brought it to a repair guy who couldn't figure it out.
I guess I'll have to take it back to Samsung and pay their extortionist repair fees...
Yes I had also issue on WiFi after flashing ROM.. Most of the time WiFi saved and secured but not connect