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do not be an idiot like me and use the partition sd card option in rom manager. It will mess up the phone's master boot record and you will have to rewrite the original one in order for voodoo kernels or anything that modifies the boot record to work properly.
once again don't be an idiot like me! Thank you
I don't know what to say to this... I think this is why you aren't getting any replies. Lol.
good thing this was put in development. Hey dev's, did this help you in creating your newest rom/kernel?
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do not be an idiot like me and use the partition sd card option in rom manager. It will mess up the phone's master boot record and you will have to rewrite the original one in order for voodoo kernels or anything that modifies the boot record to work properly.
once again don't be an idiot like me! Thank you
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Thanx For The Warning....
I Was Recently Considering Doing It Too! But To Be Honest, In The Back Of My Mind, I Was Wondering If I'd Have To Deal With The Possibility Of Eff'n Up My Phone!!
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So this is what happened to me. Could someone be so kind as to tell me how to rewrite the master boot record so I can get my phone back? Please and thank you! And please!
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I have DJ05, don't know if that changes anything. Thanks!
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If you do this to your sd card, will the kernel not rewrite the MBR when you reboot? Like the first time you flash a Voodoo kernel.
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Thanx For The Warning....
I Was Recently Considering Doing It Too! But To Be Honest, In The Back Of My Mind, I Was Wondering If I'd Have To Deal With The Possibility Of Eff'n Up My Phone!!
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Uhm... in light of your signature, you do realize this is the Verizon Samsung Fascinate forum, right? Not the Sprint HTC Hero forum.
Because this post does not apply to HTC phones. Or Motorola phones. Or LG phones. Or any phone that isn't a Samsung Galaxy S.
Check below:
http://galaxysense.com/Fascinate/
That site was allowing to browse directories a couple of days ago. I guess owner is here, on forum.
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My sister's Eris wouldn't boot (boot loop hell). She brought it to Verizon and they told her its broken and she needed a new phone. Her 2 year contract is not up yet, so she isn't qualified for an upgrade.
Luckily she told me about it and so I gave it a shot trying to fix the Eris. I'm usually only on the Viewsonic GTablet forum, so know nothing about the Eris. After about a couple of hours going through a number of posts on XDA >HTC Eris, I figured it out that for some reason, the Eris' recovery ROM (PB100IMG.zip) was missing on her SD card, not sure how this happened. I downloaded the PB100IMG.zip file on XDA, copied it to the SD card, booted up recovery mode, and told it to reloaded Eclair. And the phone is now functional.
And all this happened without me posting anything, this forum is awesome. I'm gonna try to root it to get CWM and maybe one of the xtr roms on her Eris next. Thanks to everyone that put in the time and effort to make XDA an awesome resource for Android devices.
TLTR: Vz told sis that her Eris was fubar'd. I fixed her Eris thanks to awesome XDA community.
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My sister's Eris wouldn't boot (boot loop hell). She brought it to Verizon and they told her its broken and she needed a new phone. Her 2 year contract is not up yet, so she isn't qualified for an upgrade.
Luckily she told me about it and so I gave it a shot trying to fix the Eris. I'm usually only on the Viewsonic GTablet forum, so know nothing about the Eris. After about a couple of hours going through a number of posts on XDA >HTC Eris, I figured it out that for some reason, the Eris' recovery ROM (PB100IMG.zip) was missing on her SD card, not sure how this happened. I downloaded the PB100IMG.zip file on XDA, copied it to the SD card, booted up recovery mode, and told it to reloaded Eclair. And the phone is now functional.
And all this happened without me posting anything, this forum is awesome. I'm gonna try to root it to get CWM and maybe one of the xtr roms on her Eris next. Thanks to everyone that put in the time and effort to make XDA an awesome resource for Android devices.
TLTR: Vz told sis that her Eris was fubar'd. I fixed her Eris thanks to awesome XDA community.
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Don't use CWM it has been known to brick phones. Use Amon Ra recovery instead.
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Don't use CWM it has been known to brick phones. Use Amon Ra recovery instead.
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Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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I personally am too scared to use cwm I've only used amon.
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Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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Get over it. I Just stated my opinion and from what I hear CWM has been found to brick the Eris.
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Get over it. I Just stated my opinion and from what I hear CWM has been found to brick the Eris.
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I don't care one way or the other, was just a warning since I've seen the flames that type of coment can flame.
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Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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You say that, but there is another example of a potential brick that happened from a clockwork recovery on androidforums: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/350856-htc-eris-ruu-wont-run.html#post2795130
I don't recall seeing that from a phone with Amon_RA as the recovery - if there are examples, there are far fewer. Root methods that put Amon_RA on the Eris seem to be much safer. (Running clockwork as a flash from Amon_RA seem to work just fine; I do this all of the time now, because I prefer Clockwork's data wipes and Nandroid backup procedures.)
A long, long time ago (on my old G1 I think or maybe the MT3G), I flashed a Rom that asked questions during the flash process. Specifically, I think it prompted me on which kernel I wanted to use and if I wanted to do a wipe.
Is that possible using CWM 5.x? Is there a guide or tutorial for setting up such a q/a script? If so, can someone point me to the thread? My google-Fu has failed me.
Or am I imagining things, and such a thing never existed...
I would think it could be possible by editting the updater script. But never tried it.
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I would think it could be possible by editting the updater script. But never tried it.
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It occurred to me after posting that that I think it was back in my G1 days and it required keyboard input (option 1, 2, etc)... could be why we don't see it now on keyboard-less devices. Maybe not an easy way to do scrolling in bash...
I have a small echo-like noise now that I hear during phone calls on my phone. I think it is a hardware issue because I don't hear it on my bluetooth headset. I called Verizon 800 number the other night because I was wondering about the 4G outage and mentioned my audio problem while I was on the phone with her. She said if I call back from another phone, tech support would connect to my Thunderbolt and troubleshoot the audio problem, and if its unfixable they would send me another Thunderbolt.
I am wondering if I need to unroot before I do this....would tech support be able to tell if my phone was rooted and thus void the warranty and not be able to do anything for me? What should I do?
Bare minimum I'd install the stock rom on there, I don't believe they would dig far enough to see if fastboot is unlocked.
As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
I don't think they can tell Cuz I called yesterday Cuz my screen is messing up they called me back on another line and wanted me to do a factory reset but didn't know that I was already on GB
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As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
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Tell us how
hallstevenson said:
Tell us how
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The only thing I can think of, and I'm no expert or anything so this is just a guess, is that they could look at the software version of the phone, and if it isn't the latest, or a previous release for this phone, then they could speculate that you are rooted, though I don't think that alone would hold up in court if it ever came to that.
When the support rep told the OP that they would "connect to my Thunderbolt and troubleshoot the audio problem", I think they were going by the standard "don't call tech support from the phone that's having the issue" practice.
Can they remotely connect to our phones ? I wasn't aware that they could.
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As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
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Over the phone? Absolutely Not
Correct, that's what they said ("don't call tech support from the phone that's having the issue" practice.)
So should I still unroot to be safe before I call them or no....
What ROM are you using ?
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If you want to be on the safe side, make a nand backup, flash a stock ROM, call them, then restore the backup. I'll pretty sure they can't tell if you have a custom recovery.
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Don't know how they do it, (simple user here) and not the first time I've seen this asked or answered. If you're bored jump on every TB forum your on and I'm sure you'll find your curiosity satisfied. Maybe it was on BAMF? I could care less how they do it. (No ins here) Call technical support and ask them what rom your on and how dare they know that.
via my mind while guzzling beer.
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Over the phone? Absolutely Not
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On the device in question, yes, why not... again I don't care and was just offering what I've read.
via my mind while guzzling beer.
I'm on many forums similar to this, including Team Bamf, rootzwiki, etc and haven't read anything like this.
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What ROM are you using ?
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Liquid AOSP 3.2.
I unrooted just to be safe and the tech rep never said anything and I got them to send me a new sim card and if that doesn't solve my problem (which I don't think it will), then they will send me a new thunderbolt.
When I rooted again after the phone call it wouldn't let me restore my rom and I got stuck in a boot loop. Luckily I had rom zip's on my sd card, so I installed one from scratch, reflashed cwm via rom mgr again, then it let me restore it.
Very weird, and I was terrified I jacked my phone up.
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I'm on many forums similar to this, including Team Bamf, rootzwiki, etc and haven't read anything like this.
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Hmm keep looking, I won't be at a pc till tomorrow maybe. But like I said I have no way to confirm only what I've read which is what I do. And that was second hand information. As most of this is. I'm really trying to remember because I know these site searching's are lacking at best.
I just recently used to work for at&t customer care and if vzw is anything like them, the only way they can maybe tell is if you have an unlimited data plan plus unofficial tethering app. Or if you send it in for warranty/Asurion replacement. Otherwise i don't really see how they could see in any way if it was rooted
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I just recently used to work for at&t customer care and if vzw is anything like them, the only way they can maybe tell is if you have an unlimited data plan plus unofficial tethering app. Or if you send it in for warranty/Asurion replacement. Otherwise i don't really see how they could see in any way if it was rooted
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That is understandable, thank you. Still gotta get to my pc. I know people have called in on their rooted devices for certain reasons and been called out only to deny. And of course unroot before going in. For whatever reason. Sticking to it.
That's why I asked what ROM. A support rep could simply tell the person to read them a version # that will be different than "stock".
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That's why I asked what ROM. A support rep could simply tell the person to read them a version # that will be different than "stock".
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this is true, didn't think about that. You could always just write the stock version number before flashing to be safe
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Just realized i meant to post this here
Been using ics passion for a couple months now as a daily driver and havent had many issues, but i recently read about the ics encryptiom bug that basically randomly bricks phones for no reason so im thinking about switching away till its safe...
I just wanna be sure what roms have this bug?
Also whats ics passion based on?
So would it be all ics or just CM9? Nexus ports? Aosp? Gsii?
Thank you in advance
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I encountered the deadly "Encryption Unsuccessful" bug while running doc masters ics rom v5. Now I don't know whether this is the case for all ics roms but just to be safe you should stay away from ics altogether. I was never able to fix my vibrant no matter what I did I couldn't bring it back to life...so you've been warned.
Of course things are much better now that I have a new Gnex with official ics 4.0.4
Very cool about the gnex... for the vibrant, have you tried unbrickable mod?? Maybe itll fix it
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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Jtagging.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-jtag-brick-repair/
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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The Jtagging method is not any different than odin. I am able to flash anything through download mode. But not CWM which doesn't exist in my case. I have lost complete access to my internal flash memory...it is unable to mount because it is encrypted with a key in which i don't know. And i don't know how to decrypt it at this point.
The second method which is the hard mod method seems to be a little risky. I won't even bother trying that method since it is useless in my case. You see my phone is not "hard" bricked it is "soft" bricked. With that being said my phone turns on...boots up...i can enter download mode...access stock recovery not CWM...and access external sdcard through adb...thats it.
The only way to save my phone would be to create a temporary partition on my external sd card to act as its main memory. All that while being done through adb commands if even possible. So at this point my phone is complete paperweight until someone finds a solution.
I think this will eventually become a widespread problem sooner or later on all ICS roms. When the time comes somebody out there on these forums will eventually find a solution. Or at least i hope.
Thanks for the help guys i really appreciate it but my phone is bricked for now.
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from my understanding, both jtag and unbrickable mod start at the primary bootloader level and rewrite everything up from there, which i would assume includes sdcard too..
Are you sure youre not confusing jtag with jig??
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My mistake. But i see that they charge $40 to fix your phone. There is no way I'm sending my phone to those guys. I have some personal data on my vibrant that I'll never let anybody get a hold of such as credit card info etc.
I am much happier now with my new Galaxy Nexus. I don't really care about my bricked vibrant that much anymore. But i still plan on fixing it in the near future when somebody comes up with a solution that is free of charge.
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My mistake. But i see that they charge $40 to fix your phone. There is no way I'm sending my phone to those guys. I have some personal data on my vibrant that I'll never let anybody get a hold of such as credit card info etc.
I am much happier now with my new Galaxy Nexus. I don't really care about my bricked vibrant that much anymore. But i still plan on fixing it in the near future when somebody comes up with a solution that is free of charge.
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I sent mine to them for a broken USB port, I just wiped beforehand just in-case (even though I left a backup). If I can't fix something myself, it's better to pay a little for it, than to have to buy a new phone.
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I sent mine to them for a broken USB port, I just wiped beforehand just in-case (even though I left a backup). If I can't fix something myself, it's better to pay a little for it, than to have to buy a new phone.
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True but the problem is that i can't wipe the internal storage because i don't have access to it. I can only wipe the external sd...but why do that when you can simply remove it.
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True but the problem is that i can't wipe the internal storage because i don't have access to it. I can only wipe the external sd...but why do that when you can simply remove it.
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Yeah youre sorta screwed.. even tho i dont think think theyll have any way of reading whats on your sd lol, i still understand why you wouldnt
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So I rooted this phone a few months ago and it originally had Eclair 2.1. I did some research on here and found a guide to root and first installed CM7 and then ICS Passion. Last night I had some issue with my Firefox browser. And I had to reboot it. Then it just shut down down on me and got stuck in a boot loop. I did a quick back up and tried to reboot it from recovery and it's still stuck in the loop. I then did a system restore from that back up, nothing. I did notice that it won't mount the /emmc or /data says it can't mount /emmc. When I try to go to restore anything from the internal SD card it Says there is some kind of error. Now when I try to boot it, it just shows "android" logo and is stuck in a boot loop there. Yeah I'm pretty new at this but I don't know what else I can do. Please help. Thanks in advance
Update: so I was able to revert back to factory settings and still kept ICS on it. The only major thing that I had changed before this incident was I downloaded Beats Audio Driver Root from the Google play store. I should've backed up, I know, bad NooB.
But can anyone tell me about the /emmc and /data folders or whatever not wanting to mount or read? Is that because of the driver?
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So I rooted this phone a few months ago and it originally had Eclair 2.1. I did some research on here and found a guide to root and first installed CM7 and then ICS Passion. Last night I had some issue with my Firefox browser. And I had to reboot it. Then it just shut down down on me and got stuck in a boot loop. I did a quick back up and tried to reboot it from recovery and it's still stuck in the loop. I then did a system restore from that back up, nothing. I did notice that it won't mount the /emmc or /data says it can't mount /emmc. When I try to go to restore anything from the internal SD card it Says there is some kind of error. Now when I try to boot it, it just shows "android" logo and is stuck in a boot loop there. Yeah I'm pretty new at this but I don't know what else I can do. Please help. Thanks in advance
Update: so I was able to revert back to factory settings and still kept ICS on it. The only major thing that I had changed before this incident was I downloaded Beats Audio Driver Root from the Google play store. I should've backed up, I know, bad NooB.
But can anyone tell me about the /emmc and /data folders or whatever not wanting to mount or read? Is that because of the driver?
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I've never been able to Mount emmc in recovery and don't use ICS passion wwwwwwaaaaayyyyy old. And also beats driver now has a new app that's works much better. No flashing just an installation and a reboot
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Well do what do you recommend for an OS. I'm not looking for anything complicated. I dig ICS tho.
I wasn't sure about what I was seeing in recovery mode if any of it was normal or not. This issue just really threw me for a loop.
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Well do what do you recommend for an OS. I'm not looking for anything complicated. I dig ICS tho.
I wasn't sure about what I was seeing in recovery mode if any of it was normal or not. This issue just really threw me for a loop.
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Well it depends. Jellybean isn't that hard to flash from ICS but if you want to stay on ICS you could try aokp. Unfortunately all ICS and jellybean 4.1.1 has stop being supported only 4.2.1 is still supported
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I've got to tell you that you dodged a huge bullet here. What was about to happen to you is the dreaded Encryption Unsuccessful bug that has been plaguing the Vibrant, Captivate and a slew of other devices. It is totally fixable. There is a workaround using your External SD but as for a cure, there is none. Some people have miraculously come out of it, but no one knows why and it is not reproducible.
Here is my guide for installing ICS from Éclair. Read the whole thread from start to finish. It is only 19 pages and there is a crap-ton of information in there. From Bootloaders, to ROMs, to the EU bug.
You can also go into my Repo thread or N00B_IN_N33D's Bible for any files that you may need.
I see you are in Cincinnati. If you ever need some hands on help, shoot me a PM and I might be around to help. When I first got into Android, I had a Motorola and joined XDA. Had a few guys hand-hold me threw some things but there were about 4 guys that were local in the boards. So that was a bit reassuring.
Skinzy98 - I took your advice on upgrading to JellyBean and it's pretty groovey. I appreciate the advice on that. Of course I did some dumb stuff first: I got all the files on my external SD card and forgot to put them on my internal SD card and then proceeded to do my wipe for factory reset, cache, and the delvik cache. Genius I know right?
Luckily I did a backup first but I got stuck in the boot loop. And as luck would have I still had the zip files from I originally rooted this phone from eclair to cm to ICS. So I tried the ICS zip... Boot loop again... Then I tried the cm9 zip and by George I got somewhere with it lol. And am now sending this with jellybean 4.2.1. I believe I am now an expert on how not to do this lol.
I did experience some initial difficulty with installing jellybean tho. The first time there was some error. The second time it got stuck on the a sung Vibrant load screen. And third time's a charm and bit worked out wonderfully.
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Woody..
Thanks for letting me know about that. I'm glad I worked my way out of this and got something more current. This is my first smartphone ever and I rooted it within a week of having it just so I could watch Netflix on it lol.. I did some catching up on the last five years or so of smart phone technology in about a week during that time. This forum has been a huge help. And now knowing that I got someone in cinci to walk Me thru a crisis is even better. Thanks!
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Its easier now that your on jellybean
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What ROM did you flash
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I got it from remics here on xda. It has the semaphore kernel. All I did was search the android development forum for jellybean and that seemed like a reliable one.
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Yes remics is extremely reliable and a great ron
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I thought it was pretty sweet when I installed the gapps zip that it started downloading all of my apps that I had on it from the play store. I still need to flash the touchwiz zip but I've been oogling over this thing since like noon lol..
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Well that is just an overlay so it looks like stock Samsung firmware. If you use titanium backup or any other backup app you don't have to do it from the Google store. You can set up your phone download whatever backup you choose and restore your backup of the apps and the data you created
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Well that is just an overlay so it looks like stock Samsung firmware. If you use titanium backup or any other backup app you don't have to do it from the Google store. You can set up your phone download whatever backup you choose and restore your backup of the apps and the data you created
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Well I didn't have much left after it took a dump on me and was the reason for this thread in this forum to begin with lol. Just out of curiousity. How do I know which version of Clockwork Mod Recovery that I have? Whenever I try to use the recovery section of it just to explore, it's always asking of I have to 2.x or 3.+ and I have no idea and I don't know where to find it. I don't wanna guess cuz I may just figure out another way how not to do some stuff. I have the premium version purchased, installed, and completely up to date.
Now that you're on jellybean it probably 3 but I don't know of a wah to find out
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apsonde bright
Did you guys get your GPS working on RemICS? Mine doesn't work
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Did you guys get your GPS working on RemICS? Mine doesn't work
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I haven't needed to use the GPS. Come to think of it, it didn't come with the AngryGPS app that I had on ICS Passion. I had no problems with gps with that app. The only time I have used the GPS since upgrading to JB is while I was using the GasBuddy app which uses my GPS location to find nearby gas stations and show me the pricing. What can I say? I'm a penny pincher. It seemed to follow me alright, but I can neither confirm nor deny without using an actual GPS app. Anyone know where I can get and how upload a copy of AngryGPS? I'm all ears.
Update:
Nevermind I found one a really good one. It's dead on where I'm at. Only took a couple of seconds to locate me. I am currently having no issues. I can test it out tomorrow on my way to work and so forth.
The GPS worked great the whole time. The only issue j experienced was trying to wake it up. It just wouldn't pull up my lock screen when it the power button. Not sure if that's an issue j can fix or not.
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