Usb mass storage mode? HELP!!! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok so I just upgraded yesterday from the HTC inspire and I must say I'm liking the S3. Except for one thing, no usb mass storage mode? Duuuwwwhhhaaaatttt??? This is awful...just awful.. I work night shifts and play minecraft a lot at work
D) and alwayed used my inspire for transfering the save data on my work computer to my personal desktop at home... I NEED this FIXED.!! I have the 16GB sd card I pulled out of my inspire shoved in the S3's ext-sd slot and would love to know how to use it as a usb mass storage like I did on my inspire.. I have tried the easy ums app and it doesn't work :/ so here I am, humbly asking for help from you geniuses...
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family682guy said:
Ok so I just upgraded yesterday from the HTC inspire and I must say I'm liking the S3. Except for one thing, no usb mass storage mode? Duuuwwwhhhaaaatttt??? This is awful...just awful.. I work night shifts and play minecraft a lot at work
D) and alwayed used my inspire for transfering the save data on my work computer to my personal desktop at home... I NEED this FIXED.!! I have the 16GB sd card I pulled out of my inspire shoved in the S3's ext-sd slot and would love to know how to use it as a usb mass storage like I did on my inspire.. I have tried the easy ums app and it doesn't work :/ so here I am, humbly asking for help from you geniuses...
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First of all, does MTP not work for you? Secondly, Easy UMS should work as well -- what is the error you are getting?

No, it doesn't work at all... when I try to transfer a folder with the saves in it to either the internal or external sd card it says 'cannot copy "..." the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected. And when I tried to use easy ums it's would do one of two things, either it would kinda work (I could browse my ext sd card but it only showed the folders, not the files in them) or it would say something like 'cannot detect sd card. Maybe busy box isn't installed.?' I know for a fact that busy box is installed I actually did that earlier today after rooting my S3 of course.. lol what should I do? Maybe I'm using the easy ums in an incorrect way?
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theres an app in the themes and app sections..use it to mount your s3 in mass storage mode

family682guy said:
No, it doesn't work at all... when I try to transfer a folder with the saves in it to either the internal or external sd card it says 'cannot copy "..." the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected. And when I tried to use easy ums it's would do one of two things, either it would kinda work (I could browse my ext sd card but it only showed the folders, not the files in them) or it would say something like 'cannot detect sd card. Maybe busy box isn't installed.?' I know for a fact that busy box is installed I actually did that earlier today after rooting my S3 of course.. lol what should I do? Maybe I'm using the easy ums in an incorrect way?
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Also make sure you are rooted.
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My S3 is rooted for sure... superuser and even used a root checker app.. which app would you recommend? And thanks for the quick replies, guys. Y'all are awesome
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You are another in the wrong forum this is I9300 forum .
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Ah.. sorry.. I'm a little new... how might I get to the proper one?
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family682guy said:
Ah.. sorry.. I'm a little new... how might I get to the proper one?
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The sticky at the top of the page .
jje

At least you didn't flash a custom Rom. That would have really been a horrible way to find out your in the wrong forum
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Haha yea that would've been, I'm not new to the rooting/Rom flashing scene ... I'm just new to xda lol but I've relocated this topic to the correct area. (Thanks JJEgan) and thanks to everyone else as well. Please, if you think you can help me, find my topic in the correct forum.
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k786 said:
theres an app in the themes and app sections..use it to mount your s3 in mass storage mode
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Sorry chaps what is this app called?
I`m also having issues with my GT-I9300. I have tried SGS# easy UMS, but get message about "Device not rooted" I`m not familiar with rooting. Please can someone suggest how I go about doing this. I need to sync certain apps using mass USB.
I migrated to Android from windows mobile & not familiar with these syncing terms. I have managed to sync with Kies & Companion link software, but unable to sync with E Wallet.
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Stock firmware sdcard-ext question

So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Vold.fstab
cubexg said:
So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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Switch the vold.fstab around.
Make sure your permissions are set right
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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OK. I see what to do to swap. Rather then swapping it, is there a "better" mount point for the external so that programs like rhapsody would use it properly? I assume using a bind command from shell would be enough to get the Gameloft games moved.... right? Or do most people simply swap internal with external?
Thanks.
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I'm curious too, been wondering this for a while but never thought to ask on here.
Is there a step by step guide for doing this or is it going to be too complicated for someone not familiar with coding.? I would love to accomplish this.
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
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Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
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Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
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Sweet, can't wait cause I really want this. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.
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Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
schollianmj said:
Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
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Lol question is was she actually talking about sdcards lol jk
To get slightly back on topic , I was wondering if someone could spell out exactly how to do aa 'junction' (this would be the windows term for it) where you have an invisible link for the OS to follow from one place to the next. So instead of modifing the root files,instead running an app that manages it or a script at boot that would allow it. Again - on stock firmware if that matters.
Mnt/sdcard/gameloft redirected to mnt/sdcard-ext/gameloft
Make sense?
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Usb mass storage mode? HELP!!!

Ok so I just upgraded yesterday from the HTC inspire and I must say I'm liking the S3. Except for one thing, no usb mass storage mode? Duuuwwwhhhaaaatttt??? This is awful...just awful.. I work night shifts and play minecraft a lot at work
D) and alwayed used my inspire for transfering the save data on my work computer to my personal desktop at home... I NEED this FIXED.!! I have the 16GB sd card I pulled out of my inspire shoved in the S3's ext-sd slot and would love to know how to use it as a usb mass storage like I did on my inspire.. I have tried the easy ums app and it doesn't work :/ so here I am, humbly asking for help from you geniuses...
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Did you try switching to ptp mode?
Helped on my work computer which doesn't have ntp drivers installed
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Hmmm.. well hell, it's worth a try ain't it? Ill be sure to try that when I wake up, but for now.. I need sleep haha I'll let you know how it goes later today.
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According to your signature you're in the wrong forum.
This is for the international i9300/i9300T
Easy UMS does not work on the kernels for the US-version since they don't include a necessary module.
dr.m0x said:
Did you try switching to ptp mode?
Helped on my work computer which doesn't have ntp drivers installed
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I've tried that now and it didnt work for me.. is there any way to get easy ums to work for a 1747? Or are there any other apps like it that I could use?
And I'm still in the wrong forum? :/ I'm so confused...
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You're in the wrong forum this one is for the i9300 as the SINGLE sticky post (aswell as the forum name) at the top tells you.
Here's a link to the correct one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1667
is there any way to get easy ums to work for a 1747?
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No kernel for the US-versions I know of supports the s3c-gadget module, sorry.
Or are there any other apps like it that I could use?
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You could use Wifi-based apps such as Samba Fileshare. It's easier to use since you don't actually have to plug the phone in the computer.
family682guy said:
I've tried that now and it didnt work for me.. is there any way to get easy ums to work for a 1747? Or are there any other apps like it that I could use?
And I'm still in the wrong forum? :/ I'm so confused...
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Here's a thread for the AT&T S3 on Mass Storage, requires some tinkering though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768752&highlight=mass+storage
For future reference, here are the AT&T (And other non-international S3) Dev forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1667
d4fseeker said:
Easy UMS does not work on the kernels for the US-version since they don't include a necessary module.
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that sucks for them, easy UMS is pretty awesome
Yep. It's probably not that hard to implement but not being a kernel hackers myself I honestly don't know (I always need at least 2-3 attempts to even compile a configured/patched kernel right for my freaking servers... I'm wondering when the data center techniciens are gonna get annoyed at my requests for a KVM/IP every other day on the test server *g*)
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Here's a thread for the AT&T S3 on Mass Storage, requires some tinkering though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768752&highlight=mass+storage
For future reference, here are the AT&T (And other non-international S3) Dev forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1667
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You are a life saver... thank you so much!
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Apps go to sd, help please

can someone tell me how can i make my extsdcard my main card? every gamy i instal it Goes to internal memory, likr fifa 2012 is about 1,5gb, my memory is almoust full.... is there any way to change main memory?
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General section, sticky thread with Mods and tweaks.
Or use forum search, it's come up a lot.
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Can someone provide any link or sething? i cant find anything....
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realy nomeone? cmon guys im sure someone can do it....
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you cannot move app to sd. i'ts new android policy..have discussed about it before..
Use directory bind app. here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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ascariz said:
you cannot move app to sd. i'ts new android policy..have discussed about it before..
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new android policy ? its samsung policy
ascariz said:
you cannot move app to sd. i'ts new android policy..have discussed about it before..
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Google say it can be done but phone since they using Exfat it means Samsung have to put some more effort into making it work, but Samsung decided they not gonna bother even though they have on other phones it is completely Samsung's fault.
thanks m8, u r my master!
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Search in development section internal2external by Mattiasdj
Works like acharm
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Michael_P said:
Google say it can be done but phone since they using Exfat it means Samsung have to put some more effort into making it work, but Samsung decided they not gonna bother even though they have on other phones it is completely Samsung's fault.
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That is not totally correct.Google stopped the external SD support and Samsung tried a workaround and can be done.
exfat is a supported conversion on our phone but not standard.
U can flash this to be able to move apps to SD. But u need to convert it to fat32
I was actually looking for a solution too. But its sad that I need to use fat32. I prefer ExFAT so that I can store high def movies on my External SD card. Hope theres a solution for those who use the ExFAT file system soon.
U r Big m8, i did what u said, just flashed the mod and now my memory card is showing as sd,not extsd, im very happy guy right now! Thanks for answer everybody!!!
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moving apps to sd card

i didn't see any priors threads to this so i am asking is this possible i don't see any options in the app managment section and app2sd card pro didn't work do custom roms have this if so i will be rooting asap. EDIT: Looks like i have found a way around it those of you interested in moving big data to sd card, app does require root but works flawlessly in my experience so far http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.slf.ListglApp
Bfitz26 said:
i didn't see any priors threads to this so i am asking is this possible i don't see any options in the app managment section and app2sd card pro didn't work do custom roms have this if so i will be rooting asap
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It is there you may not have searched with the correct terms.
Apps2sd hasn't really worked in a while on a lot of phones. Least that I have owned.
If you flash a custom ROM you can do an SD card swap. So if you had a 32GB mem card it would become your "internal" and your 16GB would become the "external"
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I have been looking for a guide that is successful
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that is so lame how they did this some of these graphic intensive games have up to 2 gigs of sd data that was a really stupid move on samsung or googles part whom ever was resposible for this, i hope developers can find a way around this at one point
Bfitz26 said:
that is so lame how they did this some of these graphic intensive games have up to 2 gigs of sd data that was a really stupid move on samsung or googles part whom ever was resposible for this, i hope developers can find a way around this at one point
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Could be worse...could own a nexus device and not even have the ability to use an external SD card.
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nosympathy said:
Could be worse...could own a nexus device and not even have the ability to use an external SD card.
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lol i just came from a sprint galaxy nexus but it just almost defeats the purpose of a sd card only for music i suppose lol
Though I haven't tried it yet, there are reports that directory bind works on the note 2 in a similar fashion. I hope this is true because the nand in the phone is much quicker than a card.
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JeramyEggs said:
Though I haven't tried it yet, there are reports that directory bind works on the note 2 in a similar fashion. I hope this is true because the nand in the phone is much quicker than a card.
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I can confirm that Directory Bind does work providing you're on a non-4.2 rom. Android 4.2's new multi-user feature causes Directory Bind to not properly mount apps to the external SD card.
Anyway, here's the link if you're interested. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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I can confirm that Directory Bind does work providing you're on a non-4.2 rom. Android 4.2's new multi-user feature causes Directory Bind to not properly mount apps to the external SD card.
Anyway, here's the link if you're interested. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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meaning anthing works so assuming stock jb rooted will work fine this will solve so many problems for me as my internal is already full
And that's what chaps my hid about our devices... In my apple days I hated deleting things to make room ... android could set themselves so far apart from them with expandable storage and they don't use it as they should
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exactly is this a os limitation is this somethjing possibly that some of our devs can work out in the future and do other newer devices have this issue or is it just the note 2?

[Q] 3/22/14 Verizon note II I605 jellybean 4.3 bootloader lock?

Hey guys!
I'm starting a new thread because I been wondering if any Xda developers have found a solution for the new update jellybean 4.3. I been searching day and night to see if any one as successfully found a solution for this product problem. If anyone knows any method on unlocking the bootloader will be helpful. I seen Adam and he's XDA teams been working on some projects but I'm not sure if it's for the I605 ver. 4.3 note2.
you can pay 75 dollars to mobiletech for them to downgrade it for you. The remove the emmc chip and reflash it.... I might be testing a method soon but it seems kinda risky. You have to short a small resistor.
Can you elaborate on the resistor part?
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Jorden7491 said:
Can you elaborate on the resistor part?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2690033 its this method. It forces a bootloader flash but hasnt been tested to downgrade. I currently dont have a micro sd to sd adapter for my laptop atm.. so idk how im gonna put the img on my sd.
What's your address maybe we can help each other out and mail you one
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roflcoptersoisoi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2690033 its this method. It forces a bootloader flash but hasnt been tested to downgrade. I currently dont have a micro sd to sd adapter for my laptop atm.. so idk how im gonna put the img on my sd.
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roflcoptersoisoi- just an idea.... do you think it might work if you put your sd card in another phone and then hook that phone into your computer to connect it as a usb mass storage device? Maybe that would let you access the external sd card through the computer and use win32diskimager to write the image to the external sd card.
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roflcoptersoisoi- just an idea.... do you think it might work if you put your sd card in another phone and then hook that phone into your computer to connect it as a usb mass storage device? Maybe that would let you access the external sd card through the computer and use win32diskimager to write the image to the external sd card.
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Tried that it wont show up
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Tried that it wont show up
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So win32diskimager would not recognize the sd card when you had the phone connected your computer? Darn. I was hoping that might work. Oh well, at least it was worth a try. I hope you figure something else out. Sounds like you might have to just go buy a cheap SD adapter.... or take Jorden up on the offer .
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mattnmag said:
So win32diskimager would not recognize the sd card when you had the phone connected your computer? Darn. I was hoping that might work. Oh well, at least it was worth a try. I hope you figure something else out. Sounds like you might have to just go buy a cheap SD adapter.... or take Jorden up on the offer .
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were working on that atm. XD. Im testing safestrap till then .
Well anything I can do to hack the bootloader on the 4.3 we need to come up with a way
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Jorden7491 said:
Well anything I can do to hack the bootloader on the 4.3 we need to come up with a way
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we got safestrap to boot roms atm. But you are limited to 4.3 touchwiz roms... So this still needs to be tested as we can use kit kat roms and future stuff that comes out
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we got safestrap to boot roms atm. But you are limited to 4.3 touchwiz roms... So this still needs to be tested as we can use kit kat roms and future stuff that comes out
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I would be happy flashing TW ROMs. Are you at the point where you can share what you have, or need someone to try it out?
Your bootloader is locked but there is a work around on xda where you can run your rom virtually and still keep stock rom just be careful about how you do this because you might brick your phone
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were working on that atm. XD. Im testing safestrap till then .
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:fingers-crossed: have u had any success with safestrap on the new ota update?

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