I recently bought my galaxy note i717m from Bell in Canada and unlocked it with network unlock code purchased on internet. Then, I got someone from kijiji to root my phone and upgraded from ics to jb and made the phone to work with wind/mobilicity. I am now using a wind sim card on my phone but i found out that the jb system is very buggy and crashed too often, Anyone knows how to downgrade jb to ics or recommend a more stable jb rom? Does downgrading to ics or changing to a new rom will make my phone not supporting wind/mobilicity anymore? I dont know anything about android btw, anyone kind enough to write me a simple guide? Thanks a lot!
You got cwm?
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You got cwm?
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how to check?
Okay restart the phone by pressing power+ volume up and down at the same time until you see the first Samsung logo tht will take you to recovery that's is how you will see. Seems like you are new to this. Most of all the jb roms out there are good but buggy and also battery drainers I speak of past experience long story short if you want stability keep stock ics until jb is officially released...
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Okay restart the phone by pressing power+ volume up and down at the same time until you see the first Samsung logo tht will take you to recovery that's is how you will see. Seems like you are new to this. Most of all the jb roms out there are good but buggy and also battery drainers I speak of past experience long story short if you want stability keep stock ics until jb is officially released...
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How to get back to stock ics? If I did, can my phone still support AWS1700/900 frequency?
Daracasis said:
How to get back to stock ics? If I did, can my phone still support AWS1700/900 frequency?
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The note will work on tmobile or any other freq that is same as att or tmobile but obviously you will have to change the radios and since you are flashing stuff you be risking your phone but no biggie we all flash I flash my phone lol is not dead yet
quick question you want to switch to what network provider tmobile?
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The note will work on tmobile or any other freq that is same as att or tmobile but obviously you will have to change the radios and since you are flashing stuff you be risking your phone but no biggie we all flash I flash my phone lol is not dead yet
quick question you want to switch to what network provider tmobile?
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Im now using Wind mobile, it is using the same frequency as tmobile. I just want to downgrade to ICS without touching on other things so that my phone can still support the AWS 1700 frequency.
Daracasis said:
Im now using Wind mobile, it is using the same frequency as tmobile. I just want to downgrade to ICS without touching on other things so that my phone can still support the AWS 1700 frequency.
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http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-note-sgh-i717-att-android-4-0-4-ics-uclf6-official-102124/
Flash away!
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Nice guide, thanks so much! However, my phone was bought from BELL store in Canada,does it the same stock rom as AT&T? When it was bought, it was locked to bell, unrooted and only support 1900/PCS frequency, does not support 1700/AWS frequency till I got someone from kijiji to help me turn on the AWS radio frequency support in the phone by flashing rom, rooting and stuff. If I follow your guide, would my phone get locked and lost support to AWS frequency?
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Nice guide, thanks so much! However, my phone was bought from BELL store in Canada,does it the same stock rom as AT&T? When it was bought, it was locked to bell, unrooted and only support 1900/PCS frequency, does not support 1700/AWS frequency till I got someone from kijiji to help me turn on the AWS radio frequency support in the phone by flashing rom, rooting and stuff. If I follow your guide, would my phone get locked and lost support to AWS frequency?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1795384
This one you have to Odin it but ur ain't hard just make sure you back up all of your internal sdcard stuff since this Odin will wipe the crap out of the system lol happened to me luckily the external SD didn't got wiped. By the way
By doing this you will loose root and also clockworkmod you have to re root the phone
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and wihachs
That means the phone would not support wind sim card and its AWS frequency just like when it was bought at the bell store, locked?
Daracasis said:
That means the phone would not support wind sim card and its AWS frequency just like when it was bought at the bell store, locked?
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Now that is a ? You might want to ask a wind mobile representative if art phones can be used with that network BC when u go stock means you loose root and cwm but ur device will b still network unlocked
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Now that is a ? You might want to ask a wind mobile representative if art phones can be used with that network BC when u go stock means you loose root and cwm but ur device will b still network unlocked
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okay, thanks for your help, I will ask Wind about that.
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Im Kinda New To Xda, But Im Tired Of This Mytouch 4g ! & The Note Looks Like The Perfect Phone ! But Ppl Saying Its Not Compatible With Tmobiles Network ! So What Do I Have To Do To Make It Compatible ?
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Im Kinda New To Xda, But Im Tired Of This Mytouch 4g ! & The Note Looks Like The Perfect Phone ! But Ppl Saying Its Not Compatible With Tmobiles Network ! So What Do I Have To Do To Make It Compatible ?
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Read, lol.
timgt said:
Read, lol.
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I Was Just Reading Up On It & I Really Don't Understand & Never Found A Direct Answer To My Question, Idk What Unlock Code To Get & What Root I Use & Where I Find One To ? Help Please
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I Was Just Reading Up On It & I Really Don't Understand & Never Found A Direct Answer To My Question, Idk What Unlock Code To Get & What Root I Use & Where I Find One To ? Help Please
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you have to buy an unlock code from an unlocker online, usually around 25 bucks. Start there, get it unlocked so it can recognize a T-Mobile Sim.
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I Was Just Reading Up On It & I Really Don't Understand & Never Found A Direct Answer To My Question, Idk What Unlock Code To Get & What Root I Use & Where I Find One To ? Help Please
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Unlock
Root
Flash kernal and radio
In that order
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IllWill_ said:
Im Kinda New To Xda, But Im Tired Of This Mytouch 4g ! & The Note Looks Like The Perfect Phone ! But Ppl Saying Its Not Compatible With Tmobiles Network ! So What Do I Have To Do To Make It Compatible ?
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1/ The "NOT COMPATIBLE" issue(s) have to do with phone's freq. bands compatible with T-Mobile as a carrier operates on...etc
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...e-3g4g-hspa-on-your-att-galaxy-note-sgh-i717/
2/ The unlocking paid service is only a "SIM UNLOCK" that let you be free of choice of carriers.
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...our-att-galaxy-note-sgh-i717-bellrogerstelus/
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Point #1:
having a compatible freq. is only the start, at what freq. each individual carrier operates at what speed is another thing... hence the GNOTE is compatible for T-Mobile but NOT necessarily getting the 3G, 4G, LTE, the way the phone is designed for... to some, it matters... to others, the beautiful screen just blinded them from other considerations.
Point #2:
applies to all phones ( you have to know your phone's limitation before you buy...etc
unless you are upgrading a hardware with a carrier supplied phone ... SIM unlocking is NOT necessary until a point in time when you wish to change carrier ...etc )
ie:
contract ends... oversea ...etc.
if you're gonna do what the guy above me said, i'd recommend that you try the following
i'm on tmobile, using saurom, and latest blaze modem
however, here's what im running in to
the latest blaze modem that was released yesterday has increased my speeds by alot
yesterday when i was on telus sgh t989 modem, i was getting about 386kbps at my house and only 2 bars of service (my fiance's phone was getting around 2684 kbps with 4 bars of service, i wasn't happy). on top of that, at the time it seemed as though my 4g was having a bunch of micro disconnects. also my upload was around 2kbps
today i come home and try the latest blaze modem, and my download went up to 3.8kbps (decent improvement i would say), but my upload is around 10mbps... when looking at the other thread for the blaze release, there was word on some sort of update, so im hoping that will yield me better results
Where Can I Find The "Latest Update" For "Blaze" ?
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What Root Should I Use After Unlocking My Phone ? & What Is Blaze ? Is That A Root ?
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What Root Should I Use After Unlocking My Phone ? & What Is Blaze ? Is That A Root ?
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sounds like someone needs to read up on a lot of stuff before proceeding !! ... lol
Hi new user to the att note. Tried to Google this question but couldn't find an answer. Is it possible to use a tmo rom on an att note? Thanks
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Yes, go to the tmobile note forum and follow the instructions you can easily find in the general section. When I have a minute I well post a link to the thread I used.
edit: here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837907
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Thanks alot. I appeciate u help. Having another problem, Ive been trying to get the tmobile modems working on my phone without success. I get the circle with a slash thru it and flashing anyone of the. Kid, telus, blaze ect. Am i doing something wrong? Ive cleared cache, data, dalvic. Then flash radios and still doesnt work.
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Did you input the APN settings?
Yes i used apn manager to import. I keep getting insert sim card and in my pull down screen it saysno service select network (tmobile) unavailable. But if i reflash padawan. The sim card reads but on edge. Is there something going wrong with the sim card reader when changing radios?
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what if I get this note 1 unlocked from att? My mom has tmobile...would I have to flash a new modem on it or simply put her tmobike sim card in this device and it will work now..am curoius as I never had a unlocked device so this is new news for as well.?
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what if I get this note 1 unlocked from att? My mom has tmobile...would I have to flash a new modem on it or simply put her tmobike sim card in this device and it will work now..am curoius as I never had a unlocked device so this is new news for as well.?
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It will prob work as is, but you could also potentially achieve faster data speeds by flashing other modems.
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Afishl1 said:
It will prob work as is, but you could also potentially achieve faster data speeds by flashing other modems.
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You have to flash both the modem and Radio for T-mobile. I believe if you are flashing a Tmobile Rom then the modem is included but that's the tricky part- I never found a reliable modem/radio combination on the T-mobile Rom that gave me the consistency of the AT&T Roms. Also, I noticed that frequently I would have to wait for a few minutes after flashing something new before I would get mobile signal.
After flashing the Tmobile Rom the last time I lost the ability to return to AT&T Roms. I would flash and flash and still get no carrier signal. I had to revert back completely to stock- unroot and start over. Luckily this is VERY easy using Odin. Maybe you should try this and start over.
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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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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So I just unlocked my phone and was wondering the benifets. I know that I can use other networks like ATT Rogers Bell etc. But can someone explain in detail what I can do?
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So I just unlocked my phone and was wondering the benifets. I know that I can use other networks like ATT Rogers Bell etc. But can someone explain in detail what I can do?
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That is all you can do when you "unlock" your phone. You remove sim card based carrier restrictions. Once unlocked you can take an att phone and put in a tmobile sim and it might work! But that's all it can do.
You might be thinking of giving your phone "root access" if you want to do more. Once you root a phone you can remove preinstalled software or bloat. You can install custom roms. You can enable tethering when you might not of before... and so on.....
Rooting and unlocking are two different things. I hope this answers your question.
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That is all you can do when you "unlock" your phone. You remove sim card based carrier restrictions. Once unlocked you can take an att phone and put in a tmobile sim and it might work! But that's all it can do.
You might be thinking of giving your phone "root access" if you want to do more. Once you root a phone you can remove preinstalled software or bloat. You can install custom roms. You can enable tethering when you might not of before... and so on.....
Rooting and unlocking are two different things. I hope this answers your question.
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Ahh thanks for the help, but yea I'm way familler with rooting gingerbread
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Ahh thanks for the help, but yea I'm way familler with rooting gingerbread
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I figured you knew what rooting was because you have a decent amount of posts. I just wrote it so anyone uneducated would understand a lil better.
This is probably a stupid question but hey, can't hurt to get some input.
I have recently found myself in possession of an AT&T Galaxy Mega. I have T-Mobile as my carrier so have no intention of using the built in 4G from AT&T. Can I flash a T Mobile rom and baseband to it? I assume this will brick it and I am better off just leaving it be and using it as a plain wifi-only tablet but want to verify with the experts.
I am no novice to flashing/roming and the occasional brick recovery
Sorry, but you can't flash ANY rom to the ATT Mega. No one has been able to unlock the bootloader.
But, I'm sure, if you search, you will find folks are using a t-mobile sim in the ATT version.
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Sorry, but you can't flash ANY rom to the ATT Mega. No one has been able to unlock the bootloader.
But, I'm sure, if you search, you will find folks are using a t-mobile sim in the ATT version.
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Yeah, was hoping a stock rom from another carrier wouldn't need an unlocked loader. Ah well,, am rooted and just waiting for the official 4.4 then.
Thanks for the input!