Sup all,
I am somewhat familiar with rooting. I rooted several tmobile g2's in the past and loaded them with CM7 and what not. However, I am having some trouble with my Tmobile Vibrant.
I recently got my phone back from samsung and it has gingerbread 2.3.6 on it. I was just wondering, how i could root the phone and flash ICS roms? All the guides i have seen are for 2.2 or 2.1 and I really dont want to brick my phone again. I don't know why working with my vibrant has been so frustrating but i would really just like to know what to do step by step.
Thanks for reading and for any help you guys provide, I really appreciate it.
Umm, I would be very interested to know what your "About Phone" says (since you can't get a copy of the build.prop w/o being rooted). Especially the model number, ROM description and Kernel. Samsung does not have an "official" GB ROM running for the Vibrant. The GB ROMs that we have are mainly ports and kangs and have and will never come from Sammy.
I would suggest you make sure you have a T959 and not another model and also double check the above before you do anything. Once you do that, come back and let us know and we will help you further. But until then, I would say you run a risk of screwing it up if it is the wrong model number and try to flash a T959 ROM on a T959v or I-9000 phone.
I'm betting you have a galaxy s 4g (aka t959v). This is now the wrong forum for you to be looking in, since we are the vibrant section.
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hah i bought this phone used so i didn't even know there was a 3g and 4g variant...it is the t959V
firmware version
2.3.6
baseband
t959VUVKJ6
kernel
2.6.35.7-t959vuvkj6-cl694130
is there anyway a moderator could have this thread moved to the appropriate section?
Thanks for your quick responses guys
how do i "thanks" you guys?
Wow. I have the EXACT same scenario. Did you ever figure it out?
discinplay said:
Wow. I have the EXACT same scenario. Did you ever figure it out?
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Probably have better luck figuring it out in the Vibrant 4g forums.
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Hey fellow xda members,
I have to check out my sisters vibrant this weekend.... (she is so not tech friendly)
Its her 3rd vibrant and all had same issues... Rebooting, dropping signal and data and the whole not sending sms and mms messages.... She talked to tmobile and they had no clue and essentially gave up on her....
What are my options to trying to get this working for her. And/or what can/should say to T-mobile about resolving this issue... They offered her an exchange at one time but it was a very low end phone... Not a good deal if u ask me..
1. Tried rooting on her first phone-wasnt successful...(i didnt root it so not sure)
2. Possible bad kernel or radio causing these issues... Hard to believe that 3 phones .
3. Still running stock software as tmobile told her not to update phone to latest software . (she did that with her 2nd phone and same result)
4. Could rooting and a finished rom resolve some or most of her issues?
(I have had several android phones and all were rooted so i know)
5.... CLUELESS....
Well if your trying to update your phone to froyo id recomend you to flash a custom rom from the vibrant developement if you dont know how to root your fone download the vibrant toolbox on your pc and it has like 10 steps (all of them are in order so you wont get confused and since your phone its not rooted theres and option that says ROOT YOUR PHONE start from that step.. click on that box and it tells you the steps and what you should do but you must have usb debbugin ebabled
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Naw its all good I know how to root just not too sure if a custom rom would correct the issues she is having.
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Try it if its still the same go to SETTINGS, WIRELESS AND NETWORKS, MOBILE NETWORKS make sure that the USE PACKET DATA box is checked and if motbtry to contact one of the devs one of them could be WHITEHAWKS or somethin lik that... they are gona tell you what to do
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Odin to 2.1 then d/l rom manager then root then get Biwinning or Trigger or ZenDroid all are Froyo roms all will resolve you problems
The problem you are having is a result of human action......... the chances of 3 phones all having the same problem is like winning the Lotto.......
Human action I love it!!!! Lol will show my sister that. . Lol
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I went over to my families house the other day and my sister said, "look its doing it again". When I looked over the phone was shutting down and rebooting. I asked her if it did that alot and she said it had just started in the past few days. She did not mention dropping data connection or having problems with sms or mms. A while back I rooted her phone and added MobileAP but that is all. Everything else is still stock and no official updates were applied either.
My plan is to backup all her stuff this weekend and flash something onto it. I told her we would find a good stable ROM for her and some theme options she would like and just do it all on sat or sun. I'm not sure if that is gonna fix her problem as I wanna believe its a hardware defect but she doesn't wanna exchange it just yet and I'm done arguing with her. If that doesn't werk I told her we would have to put it back to stock and call T-mobile. That's our plan, hope it helps on ur decision. Good luck!
@kawika thanks it didnt help lol
Im going to root her phone and install Iunno looking at a 2.2 rom maybe...Trigger rom.
I cant believe that three phones later she has same issues.. Specially since her hubby and daughter have a Cliq xt and have better reception then hers...
? do i need to install a new modem/radio as well as flashing rom? And how do I know which is the right one?
twiztidnutzzzzz said:
@kawika thanks it didnt help lol
Im going to root her phone and install Iunno looking at a 2.2 rom maybe...Trigger rom.
I cant believe that three phones later she has same issues.. Specially since her hubby and daughter have a Cliq xt and have better reception then hers...
? do i need to install a new modem/radio as well as flashing rom? And how do I know which is the right one?
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And you stated in the OP, she is on stock software. For sure? The rebooting when signal dropped low was a bug in the services.jar of our initial i9000, android 2.2.1 ports. This was of course patched by Eugene373 with further work by birgertime (and some fumbling by myself) in the official ports of 2.2.1 for the Vibrant. If she is definitely on stock software with no mods though, then that doesn't apply, but was my first instinct.
Most roms we have out now, with the exception of GingerCloneR3, come bundled with modems. They are most likely the modem that the rom chef/dev likes the best, but you can always flash a new modem on top of a custom rom. Different users in different areas have different results with different modems. Gotta test them to see what works the best for her.
Flashable modems are all here, courtesy of scrizz: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868774
Those can be flashed over any rom, just make sure you grab a 2.2 modem for froyo, or 2.1 for eclair respectively.
You might want to start with running Odin to flash her back to stock software, and then go from there. If you are going to do that, I recommend a modded Odin package by Eugene, available here: http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=3 . Its stock-ish JK2 Froyo for the Vibrant, already rooted, with superuser and busybox, and modded 2e recovery so you can easily flash and install Clockwork Recovery if you choose to do so. That file is my go to, when all else fails and I need to get back to stock.
Good luck with your endeavors, hope some of this helps.
she is def on stock 2.1 for sure.!.
thanx... will keep yaz informed heading on the road now.. b there in 5plus hours
This sounds very familiar to problems my Vibrant was having. It turned out to be a flakey SIM card. I went to my local T-Mobile store and they swapped it for a new one at no charge. That fixed all of my SMS & connectivity issues. It might be worth a try, it definitely wouldn't hurt anything to get a new SIM card put in.
Lol she had one replaced as well and same issue..
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I just go the new I9000, it was an unlocked phone but it seems to be a Tmobile version (international perhaps?)
anyways, I am on the ATT network and the HSPA+ without a problem. and it currently came with the XWKDD firmware installed. I would like to keep it stock, i just had lots of issues with my ATT Captivate after i moved to Gingerbread, and this one seems to have everything.. so far it was an easy root, i also got the CRT shutoff setup.
I would like to have the battery mod where I can see the % of the battery.
but this seems like an older Rom, and the updates do not let me move up to 2.3.4(?).
is there anything newer out there, that is stock, also if I do put a rom on it, how hard would it be to go back to stock?
and for the love that is all holey, how do I turn off the 100% warning.. that wakes my butt up when i really would rather not know!
thanks
Eaton
sorry for the newb question, i feel odd with this phone.
I9000? You're sure you don't mean the I9100?
In case you're talking I9100 (SII):
Here's a huge pile'o'stock-ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
incl. instructions on how to flash.
KDD is fairly old (oldest one I've seen so far).
And there's also a thread about the 100% notification, but don't have a link to it ATM, just look around, it's there
Can we use some of the mods in the global sgs dev forum? I know we cant use anything that would change the modem but since the phones are very similar what can and what cant we use from the global Dev forum?
Thanks
As best as I understand the big ones to stay away from are modems, kernels, and bootloaders. As long as you don't mess with bootloaders you'll always have download mode (not that bootloaders by definition are incompatible, but 99% of what is done on a phone should not include messing with bootloaders, unnecessary risk for most people)
Just keep in mind using anything from a different phone is a risk that could make you lose all yours files and apps or worse.
People have accidentally flashed international roms and been able to recover, though it can be an uphill battle for some.
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Hi,
I would like to know if I can change the baseband on my SGH-I777 from UCKH7 to UHKE2??? Currently the phone is like this:
PDA: I777UCKH7
PHONE: I777UCKH
CSC: I777ATTKH7
My goal is to enable CR carrier options on this phone. Is this possible? Please advice.
Thanks in advance
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gacuna said:
Hi,
I would like to know if I can change the baseband on my SGH-I777 from UCKH7 to UHKE2??? Currently the phone is like this:
PDA: I777UCKH7
PHONE: I777UCKH
CSC: I777ATTKH7
My goal is to enable CR carrier options on this phone. Is this possible? Please advice.
Thanks in advance
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Basically what I want to know is if changing the baseband the phone would be able to support "video calling" without using a 3rd party app, just by calling. Like the Global/International SG-I9100.
I see my friend's phone has baseband UHKE2, please advice if changing this, it would make any diff.
Pretty sure your modem isn't going to get the result you want.
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So there's no way at all to make video calls with the SGH-I777 like a normal voice call??? Just like the SG-I9100???
I haven't checked out a i9100 at all, nut I do remember er on my i897 captivate when running an i9000 ported rom we would have the call screen with the video button (until a dev for the i897 removed it). I believe it is part of the phone.apk and another .apk that had to be changed.
So I guessing it is the same on the 9100? Maybe ask one of the devs that have ported over a i9100 rom for us. I think DG is using a i9100 rom as well as the Hellraised rom too (I haven't even looked at these roms but I think they are using i9100 roms with some changes).
This would be a really nice feature too in my opinion. Not sure why it wouldn't work for us also. The reason it had to be removed from the i897 Captivate is it didn't have a front facing camera and the i9000 did. So hope you get it figured out.
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Thanks for the explanation!
But i havent got it yet, so you say i wont be able to make at&t phone work as the international one? Please dont use too much tech words cause im pretty new using android so i get confused
well then you shouldnt be randomly flashing modems... its a good way to get yourself in a very, very deep hole. especially if you dont know how to get out. id suggest doing some research on what modems do... you cant change the modem and get video calling. here is a very brief explanation of what is going on.
everything on your phone is an app. just like windows has .exe android has .apk. the launcher, calendar, phone, update services and everything runs as a .apk. so when you hit the phone symbol on your launcher you are opening up an app. that app is called the phone app and is on your phone as a phone.apk. to get this video calling capabilities you would need to fins a phone.apk that supports it... but ait there's more. the phone.apk is tied into other things like telephony.apk which does stuff. and other apks, and heck een the framework (its hard to describe this one). if this video calling is specific to samsung, which i think it is, you need to have the samsung rom because you cant just take the phone.apk and make it work, it relies on other things specific to the samsung rom.
having said that, you can find a i9000 rom that has it and hellbreak it but that is a lot more complicated than i think a new guy to android can handle.
It may be that there's a dependency between the phone app and the modem.
I have the video calling button since I'm running Hellraised VillainROM but I have never tried it.
Most likely AT&T's network doesn't support it and will block attempts to use it.
If there are any modem or network dependencies it won't work.
My girlfriend recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S 4G (SGH-T959V). I enjoy all the features I get from rooting, etc on my G2. I saw the Gingerbread update from T-Mobile and have installed it for her. I wanted her to be able to have root, remove bloatware and have the lagfix (voodoo, assuming it is still needed) working. As I was getting ready to find her a good ROM this CM 911 dustup happened. It's ok if she keeps the Samsung ROM, my question is where is this 911 "feature" stored? In other words, what can be done to her phone without destroying emergancy calling? I am pretty sure just rooting it is fine. Removing bloatware after rooting should be good also. I believe the lagfix replaces the kernel. If the kernel gets replaced will that break 911 calls? Is anyone working on a stock GB ROM (as officially released Nov 15) that would have root, removed bloat, and anything else safe that keeps 911 working? I would be glad to wipe the phone, root, remove bloat, (lagfix?) myself and post. I just do not know what is safe to play with. Is this just a radio issue, library issue or kernel issue? Any information would be appriciated. I would like to make her android experiance a good one that still allows her to call 911. I have searched the forums and the web but can't seem to nail down a good answer of what can be changed and what must be left alone to allow 911 to work.
911 operators are drunks anyways... here's some proof, provided from a random Google search.
This is the vibrant forum,sgh-t959 not t959v... very different..
From my understanding, cm7 is the only one with the 911 problem (and any rom coming from cm7)
. Stick to samsung roms and your good. Also the 911 thing isnt the end of the world.. you call them, they cant hear you.. hang up and theyll call you back
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This is the vibrant forum,sgh-t959 not t959v... very different..
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Ah, since the download for the updater said "Vibrant" (offical from Samsung) and the model number is so close I assumed they were mostly the same. I see now there is a S 4G forum. Sorry for the mix up. I would assume this phone could have the same issues if CM was ported. Currently it is listed as not supported. I'll move to the right forum and dig some more. Sorry for the waste of space. If anyone knows if these are affected by the 911 issue feel free to chime in. Or if a moderator wants to move this to the othe forum feel free.
Thanks
Lol the waste of space is no big deal and your right, id forgotten that they call yours the vibrant 4g. But still the two phones are very different hardwarewise, idk why.
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hi guys, do T959 and t959V have different operating system? Can I use vibrant's rom for t959v 4g ?
thanks
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hi guys, do T959 and t959V have different operating system? Can I use vibrant's rom for t959v 4g ?
thanks
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You cant use vibrant rom. Both phone have different hardware. BTW you know the T959v 4g have Official Gingerbread.
Hey guys, I dont post here much but i did some searches and read the FAQs and cant find any info on my questions.
Im wondering about known bugs.
Is there a problem with the bluetooth audio streaming profile? My legend streamed perfectly over BT to my car sterio but Amaze wont.
Lately it does not switch to wifi automatically when I get home. bug?
Has HTC released ANY updates in the last year, b/c Mobilicity in Canada has not given me ONE update.
I found in the FAQ that, when you record video, the audio on the video sucks, all my concert videos suck
the keyboard seems slow and flakey, swiftkey is waaayyy better
So im thinking if selling and getting a nexus 4.
Will a root and rom install fix issues and make it a better phone. Any inut appreciated. I think Ill stick with nexus branded devices in the future. Not getting any updates is unacceptable.
thanks.
so, seems there is a BT issue for audio streaming
support.t-mobile.com/thread/23589
first of all its hard to reply to any of what you stated, because the only thing ive been able to figure out is that you have the Mobilicity HTC Amaze... are you running (STOCK)? is your phone unlocked/rooted/s-on(off)/? are you currently on GB or ICS i don't think there's an offficial JB release for the amaze as far as i know... unless you flash a custom JB rom... lets see what else am i missing.. what version Hboot/Radio are you on, and also not everyones phone works the same way, so the 'in general term" is vague lol
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first of all its hard to reply to any of what you stated, because the only thing ive been able to figure out is that you have the Mobilicity HTC Amaze... are you running (STOCK)? is your phone unlocked/rooted/s-on(off)/? are you currently on GB or ICS i don't think there's an offficial JB release for the amaze as far as i know... unless you flash a custom JB rom... lets see what else am i missing.. what version Hboot/Radio are you on, and also not everyones phone works the same way, so the 'in general term" is vague lol
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sry, that was very noob of me
stock rom
android: 4.0.3
htc sense: 3.6
NOT unlocked
thanks
and it never roams, what a POS phone
highplains said:
sry, that was very noob of me
stock rom
android: 4.0.3
htc sense: 3.6
NOT unlocked
thanks
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so your phones practically out of the box then? are they any real issues with stock roms though.. i mean besides compatibility with the other actually devices that your using with it.. your car etc... i would suggest unlocking the bootloader, and flashing a few roms to try something new and different.. but be warned... once you flash a rom you'll never stop wanting to flash rom
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so your phones practically out of the box then? are they any real issues with stock roms though.. i mean besides compatibility with the other actually devices that your using with it.. your car etc... i would suggest unlocking the bootloader, and flashing a few roms to try something new and different.. but be warned... once you flash a rom you'll never stop wanting to flash rom
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thanks yea, new phone. i guess ill try rooting and flashing,
i was hoping it wouldnt get to this point. I mean i love 'hacking' hardware to put on new firmware and stuff but not when its a huge hassle and could destroy my unit.
but i guess i have not choice, i know ill like it when i get off my ass and root it ,
thanks