Hello good people of XDA,
I come again, seeking assistance from the knowledge y'all have acquired with rooting and "fixing" android devices.
This time, my adventures have landed me in a position of owning a Galaxy Tab4 8" model SM-t330nu. And I purchased it with
the intent of rooting it and playing with different custom roms, and making it function better as I know Samsung devices are full of bloatware.
I was able to purchase the tablet relatively inexpensive, but soon found it to be super laggy and slow, though I do not know the issue, unless it's to do with the age of the device being 5 years old. I have traversed through the pages of the Tab and have learned that it is not much supported in terms of custom firmware, and not even TWRP is available for it. This made me sad.
The last time I had rooted a device was quite some time ago, so I have forgotten a lot of the processes. If it would not be too much, can someone guide me in the direction of an available rom as well as a custom recovery so that I may flash my rom. And since I have become rusty, if there exists a step by step guide? I am really good at those
Thank you all for reading
Is there anyone willing to take a shot?
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Hey all. I'm new to the forums and its been quite some time since i've owned an Android device. I've worked for Apple for a few years and recently decided to switch back to Android. At this point I'm re-familiarizing myself with the OS.
I used to be VERY involved with the "Jailbreak community" when I had my iOS device. And now I want to get to the same point I was regarding knowledge. First thing is to get this Note 3 "rooted" so I can do what I want with MY device.
Specs for my device:
Model number: SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
Baseband version: N900AUCUBMI9
At this point I really don't know what other information is needed to find what I need to make sure my "root" process is smooth. And yes, I have already searched the forum for both of those numbers above and found nothing. I guess the fact that it was released yesterday makes for nothing at this point. Please, anything would help my cause.
Thanks to everyone for your help in advance.
Hello guys,
I just joined the NOTE 3 community, [SM-9005] model. I am really excited about the device it's such a beast.
Now I wanna root my phone and install an awesome custom ROM. I am very confused with 3 of the ROMS on here.
1.Crash ROM
2.Echoe ROM
3.X-Note ROM
They all sound sweet and highly customizable which is what I am looking for. I am looking for a ROM that makes my phone even more beast-mode
as well as increase my battery's lifetime and an overall performance upgrade.
Beast-Mode :- Even more powerful and can handle anything you can throw at it.
Note 1: If anyone could provide more information about rooting and installing a custom recovery that would be great because I am still too confused with the KNOX and all the weird stuff on this phone.
Note 2: Please don't ruin my fun by asking me to search for other posts. Had I found what I was looking for I wouldn't have wasted my time typing this.
Note 3: To that life saver that will give me the answer of my dreams. THANK YOU!
Ruining your fun. Such is life. Every single one of your questions can be found by searching. Everyone else manages it.
Why do i even bother, but, I said it before, and i say it again, i hate lazy noobs. Wtf, the Note 3 is now half a year old, there are millions of threads describing what you want. Google is your friend.
Sent from my N9005
Dejan Sathanas said:
Why do i even bother, but, I said it before, and i say it again, i hate lazy noobs. Wtf, the Note 3 is now half a year old, there are millions of threads describing what you want. Google is your friend.
Sent from my N9005
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I feel just like the OP, I have spent a long time reading and googling by now, and it is still not clear to me how to go about rooting and flashing custom Roms, and this is having a lot of experience rooting and flashing Roms with Odin during the past 4, 5 years or more since I had the Galaxy S.
There are a lot of threads and posts, as usual, and an up2date summary is really needed in the Note 3 subforum.
This isn't about lazyness, I love modifying my devices and I am happy to spend a full weekend reading, googling and figuring it out, but with this device right now, especially with the Knox issue, it is going to take much more than 2 days to get this right and well some people do have real life to deal with, too.
1. You root you will trip Knox... Period...
2. CF-Autoroot is easiest - ODIN Flash. Make sure it is the latest and supports Kitkat
3. Install CWM or TWRP. I prefer CWM because that's what I'm used to. CWM 4.0.4.7 for Kitkat - ODIN Flash.
4. Copy rom file to sd card - external preferably, go to recovery and flash. It will take a little while to reboot for 1st boot bu shouldn't be more than around 10 minutes...
I like Androidnow, older rom but battery life is AWESOME... You can also flash the OTA updates for theming options to be included in settings....
MrWil said:
I feel just like the OP, I have spent a long time reading and googling by now, and it is still not clear to me how to go about rooting and flashing custom Roms, and this is having a lot of experience rooting and flashing Roms with Odin during the past 4, 5 years or more since I had the Galaxy S.
There are a lot of threads and posts, as usual, and an up2date summary is really needed in the Note 3 subforum.
This isn't about lazyness, I love modifying my devices and I am happy to spend a full weekend reading, googling and figuring it out, but with this device right now, especially with the Knox issue, it is going to take much more than 2 days to get this right and well some people do have real life to deal with, too.
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I also feel like you guys, I've been googling my butt off (that sounds wrong) and I'm still confused about some things. I feel like this note 3 subforum needs more stickies which would cancel the need for noob questions from people like me.
Hey All,
Long time lurker and consumer of ROMs for previous phones (Most recently the Razr) and recently decided it was time for an upgrade. I did my homework and it looks like the Galaxy S5 is the best phone out there in terms of features. I have grandfathered data on big red for now and I'd kind of like to keep it. I almost switched away because of how horrid VZ is being about locking their phones down, but I came across the Dev edition and figured I'd give it a go. It should be here Friday.
I've noticed that there's a flourishing community for the naively unlockable S5's but no such luck for the VZ phones, and that seems like a gap that I might be able to fill. I have a basic background into the parts of a ROM (Kernel, Bootloader, Libs, Recoveries) and do have a solid foundation of programming knowledge, but I have never built a rom nor ported one (nor written an app), so I'm popping a big cherry here.
I'm doing my research (xda-university, developer.android.com and some threads I found ) by searching and have a lot to learn, but I wanted to get some dev's perspective on what specifically I need to learn in order to successfully get started on S5 development.
First thing I'd like to do is go through the steps of building a 'beginner' ROM (Maybe an AOSP rom? or port an existing rom to the VZ dev edition? Might even just start with a de-bloat of the stock software) Basically I'd like to start getting my hands wet and learning what it takes to cook roms.
Specific questions i'd like to pose to the chefs/devs out there are:
Do you think a port or AOSP build is the best first step? If not, what should be?
What do I need to do to get started? Any additional guides or reading would be greatly appreciated.
What tools that I need to learn about?
Anything specific to Samsung / Galaxy devices that I won't find in the "General purpose" guides that I should google?
What should I NOT do in my first forays? I'm looking to cook roms, but not looking to have a $600 doorstop!
Finally, hopefully someone with more Samsung / Dev edition experience might be able to answer my last (and to me personally, most important) question:
From what I've read, it sounds like Samsung is crap about releasing OTAs / New Android builds that are compatible with the dev editions - Will this stop those of us that have dev editions from upgrading to further versions of android? A big reason I bought such a powerhouse of a phone is to somewhat future-proof it against future versions of android inevitably becoming more resource heavy. If we're not going to be able to upgrade I'm not sure I chose the right device.
Thanks in advance!!
-McAtom
Its been a long time since i posted but wanted to share this in off chance it will be helpful. Anyways i have been doing some research to try and help me decide whether i am going to get the s7 edge 935t or the international 935f, 935fd i believe are the model #'s. While reading about the locked bootloader and rooting difficulties on the 935t and other u.s. models i thought about how i was able to root and install a custom rom on my Verizon galaxy s4 with a locked bootloader and remembered using something called safestrap. i believe it just made like a separate partition but here is the link incase a similar method can be used on the tmobile version of the s7. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441441
I used the same exploit on my Verizon S4 and S5, even wrote my first ROM for the S4, thanks to safe strap. Unfortunatly the developer of safestrap gave up a long time ago...
Our only option is flash fire. The phone is a couple years old now, the S8 and Note are most of our remaning developers priority. And without a bunch of heads being bashed against the boot loader we will never find the cracks to exploit it.
We have a PR issue with devs. They work their butts off to give us a custom created operating system with a bunch of bells and whistles for free and we brow beat and demand more from them until we push them into giving up and moving on. Just look at the ROM threads for the TMobile S7 here on XDA, @jrkruse has been helping folks like me for years here on XDA, creating ROMs for phones he doesn't even own and helping out extremley amature devs like myself when we get stumped. How do we repay him? We flash without reading, we ignore and complain, we demand fixes and updates... For a free product from a guy who creates in his valuable and minimal free time...
I know I went off script, my bad I am just disappointed with the lack of development and developers lately.
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yeah I noticed theres seems to be a lot less going on these days compared to when I got my first android phone, the Samsung droid charge and after rooting it I was hooked. then came the s3,s4,s5 which I had till was stolen a few months ago and now deciding on what to get next. leaning towards the g955fd which I would like more if it had the physical home button(fingerprint scanner config is ridiculous) and the i.r. blaster although I think I read somewhere that it is f.m. radio capable at least on the Chinese variant. It would be cool if Samsung released a version that was a little tougher like the one that is made by att but it seems as people have become content with what the manufacturers give you these days. Seems like a waste to spend so much money on a device with so few roms and other development options. I miss getting on here and checking out the progress all the developers had made then downloading and flashing new goodies for hours on end but it looks as maybe those kinda things are history. sad
Hey All - I'm REALLY new to this whole thing (hence my name). I HAVE successfully rooted a nexus 5 and installed lineage OS without issue, but about 2 years ago I attempted a similar process for my Galaxy Tab E POS and I finally just gave up. Since then, I have been suffering along with the stock Samsung OS which is awful as i'm sure you all know. Before I take the damn thing to the shooting range for target practice and replace it with something better, I'm looking for some advice from you all who are clearly way more knowledgeable:
Important context, the ONLY thing I plan to use this for is for my kid's school work (youtube and basic web browsing). So my questions:
Custom ROM Recommendations:
IF I attempt a root and custom ROM install again - I want something fast enough (compared to the samsung stockOS) to be worth my time doing it, but I also want it to be STABLE and not a buggy experimental/trial version. What do you recommend?
Replacement Options:
IF I end up bricking the thing in the process (again I don't care, It's fate would have been at the end of a barrel anyway) I need to replace it with something. Recommendations for a rock solid android tablet that is LIGHTNING fast, under $800, and that I can root/install a custom ROM on to wipe off the bloatware?
Thanks all!
You can package disable unwanted apks* with no root needed. Or use ADB editing.
Much easier and safer than rooting.
I use this on my stock Samsung phones.
*most disablers are based on Samsung Knox, if the tablet doesn't have Knox there is a non-Knox variant.