Hello all,
So I have a bit of a weird problem. I read about The Google Now for ICS Project with Voice Search now added (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1747224) and I decided to give it a shot. My first problem might be that my phone is not rooted. Now my phone is not this exact model but I cannot find a correct forum for my phone. It is a Rogers Samsung Galaxy S II LTE phone. To use the ICS Google Now Project will I need to root my phone?
Next question is when I plug my phone in, activate USB storage and search through my phone, I do not have the folders they say I should. I am looking for systems/apps which I do not have. Any reason behind this?
Thank you to anybody who is able to help me out
Your phone is an SGH-I727R. Also known as a skyrocket which has its own forum. Also you do have a system/apps folder but in order to access it your phone must be rooted.
Omg what's with all the slowrockets here and a Rogers one at that. Guess att and rogers are pretty similar? Lol...yeah...
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brandonarev said:
Omg what's with all the slowrockets here and a Rogers one at that. Guess att and rogers are pretty similar? Lol...yeah...
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Their version of the s2 is the same as the skyrocket lol
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Can we unlock the. ATT Galaxy S 2 using the unlock app?
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Same question here. Mine will get here on Tuesday...I do know there are a bunch of methods to sim unlock i9100 though.
So... long story short, the GS2 still uses nv_data.bin files like on the GS1.
Of course, Samsung has encrypted/obscured plain text access to the unlock codes within this binary file. However, I do believe the folks over on the i9100 forum have figured it out, so it's probably not going to be too much of a stretch to get the AT&T GS2 to work too.
The phone literally just dropped though, so give people a few days to actually get the devices in their hands, get nice stable root and all that (already done maybe even), and from there, carrier unlock will come.
Or, if you're the impatient type, and don't mind the chance of screwing something up, try some of the methods from the i9100 forum and see if they work!
I used the galaxy s unlock app from helroz, worked like a charm. Can't post a link but it's on the market.
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TheMattS said:
I used the galaxy s unlock app from helroz, worked like a charm. Can't post a link but it's on the market.
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That's awesome. May I ask whether you had rooted your S2 before you ran the unlock program?
Thanks a billion.
ljwnow said:
That's awesome. May I ask whether you had rooted your S2 before you ran the unlock program?
Thanks a billion.
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Yup, rooting is required to unlock.
Sorry, I'm fairly new to the term "unlocking" phones. Does this mean that you can use with any carrier? Is there anything else that "unlocking" a phone does that a normal one can not?
Thanks in advance!
TBayTom said:
Sorry, I'm fairly new to the term "unlocking" phones. Does this mean that you can use with any carrier? Is there anything else that "unlocking" a phone does that a normal one can not?
Thanks in advance!
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1) yes
2) no
you need root and i used this to unlock
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result
tried with my friend's T-mobile sim it worked great!!
All I need to know is am I ok with stock international Rom on Art&T
No.
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No.
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What should I do to get it on the AT&T network?
I have already purchased the phone and the sim card from AT&T is already on its way here.
I have tried searching but I only find threads on rooting and flash custom roms but I havent found one that states which rom would work for International phone on ATT's network
Any help would be appreciated. Cause I am now worried I bought a $700 paper weight I cant use.
Noob-Tard said:
What should I do to get it on the AT&T network?
I have already purchased the phone and the sim card from AT&T is already on its way here.
I have tried searching but I only find threads on rooting and flash custom roms but I havent found one that states which rom would work for International phone on ATT's network
Any help would be appreciated. Cause I am now worried I bought a $700 paper weight I cant use.
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The international one WILL work on at&t, I think the op was kind of misleading.
It seems slim thought you were asking if international roms will work on US S3.
Tbh I thought the same.
Any rom in the development section here will work on your phone. No problem.
Just as long as its the international model, GT-I9300.
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My bad. Yeah, it's one of those confusing sentences. If you have I9300 then whatever is in this board will work.
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nodstuff said:
The international one WILL work on at&t, I think the op was kind of misleading.
It seems slim thought you were asking if international roms will work on US S3.
Tbh I thought the same.
Any rom in the development section here will work on your phone. No problem.
Just as long as its the international model, GT-I9300.
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My bad. Yeah, it's one of those confusing sentences. If you have I9300 then whatever is in this board will work.
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Sorry for the poorly phrased sentence, I am a product of NYC public school system. And thanks to you both for your replies.
hello. i just picked up the new samsung galaxy siii for sprint. i was previously on a htc evo 4g and have been flashing roms n kernels for years on that one. i would like to do the same thing with the g3. but first i need to root and it seems like alot of the methods, and roms, etc etc depond on whether it is i9350 or i9300. how can i tell which i have. this is greatly confusing.
I9300 is the International version
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When u boot up the phone, it should say i9300 or i9305.
Or
Just go to Settings > About
Look at the "Model Number" and it will display GT-i9305 or GT-i9300
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hello. i just picked up the new samsung galaxy siii for sprint. i was previously on a htc evo 4g and have been flashing roms n kernels for years on that one. i would like to do the same thing with the g3. but first i need to root and it seems like alot of the methods, and roms, etc etc depond on whether it is i9350 or i9300. how can i tell which i have. this is greatly confusing.
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Remove the battery cover, remove the battery, and there you go, the number should be there,
okay but is this even the right section for sprint sgs3's? im very confused bc there are SOOOO many sgs3 development sections....i dunno which root guide to use which roms to use or anything
operationstack said:
okay but is this even the right section for sprint sgs3's? im very confused bc there are SOOOO many sgs3 development sections....i dunno which root guide to use which roms to use or anything
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No this is the wrong forum. You need sprint galaxy s3 forum.
If you do anything from this section it will brick your device.
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jetbruceli said:
No this is the wrong forum. You need sprint galaxy s3 forum.
If you do anything from this section it will brick your device.
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thank you sooo sooo very much
A friend of a friend was giving us a lift today, and she asked if we could turn on navigation on her phone since she was in the middle of driving. Her phone is a Galaxy S II, definitely i9100 and not the other variants (4.3" not 4.5", physical home button). She was running it on Telus but she bought it second-hand a few weeks ago so I assume it was a Bell or Virgin model.
Anyway I could see from afar that it was most definitely still running Gingerbread, and I wondered why it hadn't gotten the ICS update. I asked if I could see the phone and I went to the About screen - it's running 2.3.6, and the build number says Super ROM. Then I looked in her app drawer and saw Superuser. She is not the type who knows how to root a phone or would even want to, so the likely explanation is that the seller had installed a custom ROM and neglected to revert it before sale.
I've never owned an i9100... If she were to ask for help returning it to stock, would the simplest way just be to flash the Bell ICS ROM using Odin? Are there any precautions I'd need to take in case something the last owner had installed would be incompatible with the flash?
Create a backup and flash via odin the new jellybean leak
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Create a backup and flash via odin the new jellybean leak
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+1 or not wait for official jellybean for her phone and flash that...no point in upgrading to ics.
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+1 or not wait for official jellybean for her phone and flash that...no point in upgrading to ics.
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To be clear, she is a non power user. The ideal ROM for her is whatever would've been on there by now if it had never been hacked. So I believe that'd be ICS.
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cmstlist said:
To be clear, she is a non power user. The ideal ROM for her is whatever would've been on there by now if it had never been hacked. So I believe that'd be ICS.
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Just flash the ics of bell version since shes not a power user i did the same for wife shes has no intentions of using any custom roms for her just basic use
and i assume you know where too get that and yes flash in odin the stock version either from here you can get it or samfilmware ics version for 19100m
cheers
Thanks!
Actually I should add... The SuperROM she had on there said the device was i9100G. Is it possible that's just because it's what it says in the ROM, and it's still really an i9100m? Cause now I see they have different processors...
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Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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Hey I'm also looking to update my phone and I'm sort of in the same situation as this girl. I bought my phone second hand and found out later that it was rooted and has CyanogenMod 7.1 on it. My model is the I9100 and my provider is Telus. I was looking to update it to CM10, but one of my concerns is that it might get locked again and I won't be able to use my phone on Telus. Should I just settle for CM9? Will it for sure get locked again? I'm a noob.
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Hey. You better first make sure that the Galaxy S unlock tool isn't there, otherwise that's how the seller sim-unlocked the phone. Putting it on ics may lock it back up but you can unlock it again. If you move it to jellybean though, the unlock tool doesn't work yet. Ics is good enough for her.
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Presumably if it's genuinely an i9100G and not m (I'm not sure, as I only saw the phone once), it wasn't from a Canadian carrier. In which case who knows how it was unlocked.
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Has anyone looked into this? I understand they run on different firmware but would it work?
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has anyone looked at what? running an i9100 on AT&T network? sure....just pop a sim in and go
if you are referring to running i9100 firmware on the i777, have you even bothered to WONDER why there is a PORTED DEVELOPMENT SECTION? ever thought to look for yourself?
And sir, here's your cat.