I have galaxy s2 i9100. In my country s2 official JB STOCK ROM is not released so i flashed JB OFFICIAL STOCK ROM SPAIN via odin. Everything working fine. can some body please confirm me that does it will void my warranty...what if i change my CSC..pls reply
Yes.
If they find out
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i think if this is an official release and you dont root your phone, you garanty will not be voided
There's one way to know for sure - call the store/the carrier who sold you the phone and ask them.
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RmXsTyLe said:
i think if this is an official release and you dont root your phone, you garanty will not be voided
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Yeah, they'll go like "Yes, you are not rooted, but here's the thing, this phone is based on Brazil, what are you doing with a Spaniard ROM if you haven't tempered with it?"
gouravclaudius said:
I have galaxy s2 i9100. In my country s2 official JB STOCK ROM is not released so i flashed JB OFFICIAL STOCK ROM SPAIN via odin. Everything working fine. can some body please confirm me that does it will void my warranty...what if i change my CSC..pls reply
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I don't think warranty is void...you can always flash back the official ROM which will come for your country..
After the stock ROM is back, you shouldn't have any problems....Rooting/custom ROM usually voids warranty..
In India, many Samsung Customer care flash the updates via odin and not kies(mostly downloaded ROM from sammobile)...so you can claim the warranty for sure after you flash back the official stock ROM for your country via Odin...(Nor i think they'll know what firmware you had in your phone before putting that, they don't check every details and stuff, plus it was in the end stock)
Press Thanx if i helped..
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Yeah, they'll go like "Yes, you are not rooted, but here's the thing, this phone is based on Brazil, what are you doing with a Spaniard ROM if you haven't tempered with it?"
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i had this case. i had a htc desire from t-mobile. i flashed a stock ruu without branding. then i need to bring it to the t-mobile store, because gps doesnt work pretty (right from the beginning). i didn't find a german t-mobile stock ruu (im from germany) so i took a stock t-mobile ruu from uk.
and there were no problems with the garanty and i get a new phone. so why u attack me ?
RmXsTyLe said:
i had this case. i had a htc desire from t-mobile. i flashed a stock ruu without branding. then i need to bring it to the t-mobile store, because gps doesnt work pretty (right from the beginning). i didn't find a german t-mobile stock ruu (im from germany) so i took a stock t-mobile ruu from uk.
and there were no problems with the garanty and i get a new phone. so why u attack me ?
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I'm not throwing things at you or anything, know that in that occasion THEY made a mistake so you dodged a bullet there.
Any other shop will tell you that you've flashed it hence warranty voided.
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gastonw said:
I'm not throwing things at you or anything, know that in that occasion THEY made a mistake so you dodged a bullet there.
Any other shop will tell you that you've flashed it hence warranty voided.
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it sounded to me like u throw some big things on me! my opinion is still that if u flash original, official stock roms, u dont have to be frightened of loosing your garanty. maybe some other users can post their expieriences ?
RmXsTyLe said:
i had this case. i had a htc desire from t-mobile. i flashed a stock ruu without branding. then i need to bring it to the t-mobile store, because gps doesnt work pretty (right from the beginning). i didn't find a german t-mobile stock ruu (im from germany) so i took a stock t-mobile ruu from uk.
and there were no problems with the garanty and i get a new phone. so why u attack me ?
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You can't assume that all the service centers work this way.
HTC service center and Samsung have different hardware, technicians and work procedures. If one techniciad didn't care what software was on the phone, it doesn't mean that all technicians work this way.
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RmXsTyLe said:
it sounded to me like u throw some big things on me! my opinion is still that if u flash original, official stock roms, u dont have to be frightened of loosing your garanty. maybe some other users can post their expieriences ?
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Imagine you buy a Big Mac in germany, you save it for later.
You travel to the netherlands and you remember that you saved a BM for a snack. You're half way thru and you notice that there isn't any ketchup in it, so you go to Mc D's and ask them to give you another one. They check the ticket and they say "Sorry Sir, we're not responsable for hamburgers made in germany, go back to your country and ask them to deal with it".
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Hi there.
I'm sort of itching to root my Galaxy S II, but I am reluctant in doing so because for the first time, I have this phone on contract from o2. Not to mention the rooting process looks more complicated than other phones I have rooted in the past (T-Mobile Pulse and ZTE Blade). I'm not too sure on installing a custom rom as the stock rom is fine, at least until CM and/or MIUI is availble for stable use.
Can anyone suggest a safe and easy way of doing this please? Much appreciated!
Willbuh said:
Hi there.
I'm sort of itching to root my Galaxy S II, but I am reluctant in doing so because for the first time, I have this phone on contract from o2. Not to mention the rooting process looks more complicated than other phones I have rooted in the past (T-Mobile Pulse and ZTE Blade). I'm not too sure on installing a custom rom as the stock rom is fine, at least until CM and/or MIUI is availble for stable use.
Can anyone suggest a safe and easy way of doing this please? Much appreciated!
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just follow the directions in the first post. Its tried and trusted. Chainfire is quite a respected dev.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
Willbuh said:
Hi there.
I'm sort of itching to root my Galaxy S II, but I am reluctant in doing so because for the first time, I have this phone on contract from o2. Not to mention the rooting process looks more complicated than other phones I have rooted in the past (T-Mobile Pulse and ZTE Blade). I'm not too sure on installing a custom rom as the stock rom is fine, at least until CM and/or MIUI is availble for stable use.
Can anyone suggest a safe and easy way of doing this please? Much appreciated!
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I bought it on friday, by saturday mornning it was rooted w/o problems, I just installed Chainfire rooted Kernel via Odin, took me like 3 mins, after that installed Cognition
Alright then. I reckon if I sit down and read it through properly, I can root it easy enough. Though the thing I am worried about is the fact I'm on contract with my phone, with no insurance. So could this void my warranty? And is there any way of ****ing it up and bricking the phone?
Just checking
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Alright then. I reckon if I sit down and read it through properly, I can root it easy enough. Though the thing I am worried about is the fact I'm on contract with my phone, with no insurance. So could this void my warranty? And is there any way of ****ing it up and bricking the phone?
Just checking
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Yes its very very very slightly possible to brick a phone but recoverable .
Warranty Root or Stock Rom = no warranty. You would need to resore a stock firmware and clear the rom counter .
jje
JJEgan said:
Warranty Root or Stock Rom = no warranty. You would need to resore a stock firmware and clear the rom counter .
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Is that easy? Because with any luck, I wouldn't need to do that at least for another 20 months when I return the phone.
Willbuh said:
Is that easy? Because with any luck, I wouldn't need to do that at least for another 20 months when I return the phone.
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You don't need to return your phone when your contract ends - it's yours as soon as the contract starts!
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You don't need to return your phone when your contract ends - it's yours as soon as the contract starts!
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Really? DAMN! Shows how much I know about this. Thanks
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Really? DAMN! Shows how much I know about this. Thanks
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No worries mate. Obviously you still need to return it to stock state if you need to send it back to your provider for repair, but it's your phone now
The way it works with a contract is the phone is a gift as an inducement to take out the contract . Saves the network responsibility for two year warranty on phone .
jje
I have a Galaxy s2 with BELL that's rooted, custom kernel and custom ROM and im wondering how I can put my phone EXACTLY how it was before I rooted and put my custom rom on it.
I want it exactly how it came when I got it from BELL.
If anyone can help that'd be appreciated.
Thanks,
Well you can get it back to stock, but not "bell stock." The reason being that there is no bell firmware anywhere on the internet yet, you can flash one of the generic european rom from samsung but unfortunately you cannot revert to the bell KG2 that came with the phone...
Awh man..
Whyy hasnt anyone ripped their own stock rom yet
Basically... when its available..IF its available. Would I be able to throw it on and get OTA upgrades again? I really dont see a difference between stock and rooted.. I mean I DO understand what It gives you.. but honestly the phone is already powerful enough that I really dont need to tweak it.
SGS2Pwns said:
Awh man..
Whyy hasnt anyone ripped their own stock rom yet
Basically... when its available..IF its available. Would I be able to throw it on and get OTA upgrades again? I really dont see a difference between stock and rooted.. I mean I DO understand what It gives you.. but honestly the phone is already powerful enough that I really dont need to tweak it.
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I read somewhere that bell has to actually release a FW update before we have something to go back to, i don't think anyone ripping their rom would work for us. Then again I'm not sure, but as it stands theres literally nothing on the net with bell on it for the GS2 so you are pretty much stuck with the generic european stuff.
To be honest, i think if you want oTA updates you'd be much better off going with a generic european Fw, bell always always takes forever to deliver updates because it has to go through them, i remember it took a while for bell to get froyo on the GS1 when it had been out forever for the european gs1's and it worked fine.
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I read somewhere that bell has to actually release a FW update before we have something to go back to, i don't think anyone ripping their rom would work for us. Then again I'm not sure, but as it stands theres literally nothing on the net with bell on it for the GS2 so you are pretty much stuck with the generic european stuff.
To be honest, i think if you want oTA updates you'd be much better off going with a generic european Fw, bell always always takes forever to deliver updates because it has to go through them, i remember it took a while for bell to get froyo on the GS1 when it had been out forever for the european gs1's and it worked fine.
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Ah i see.. WELL THEN.
What Kernel and ROM are YOU using?
I bought a protection plan at bestbuy so hopefully i can bring it back and they'll give me a new one.. I liked the look and stability of my bell rom kernal etc right now i got villainrom running and it keeps going from hspa+ to 3g etc and its annoying...
Edit: seems to only happen when data is not being used. Makes sense. Battery saving feature maybe? When bell comes out with an update If they ever do, will it also include a kernel update? Making my phone completely bell again. I would like to have my bell account app back lol.
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Ah i see.. WELL THEN.
What Kernel and ROM are YOU using?
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Im just using a rooted kernel off CFROOT, with stock bell KG2 Firmware. Haven't seen a reason to put any modded rom yet, the stock rom actually is perfect, good battery life too. Tempted by CM7 though, I'm constantly tempted to try it.
Hmm yeah when they release a rom you can flash using odin, it will write the kernel, modem etc and your phone will be totally "bell" again. I'm pretty sure you can download the bell account app from market?
Lol I was smart and used cwm to back up my bell rom, thanj god custom works perfectly well
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Yeaa... I didn't do much research before flashing a custom rom stupid me didn't back anything up. And no there's no bell app in the marketplace
SGS2Pwns said:
Yeaa... I didn't do much research before flashing a custom rom stupid me didn't back anything up. And no there's no bell app in the marketplace
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Same here, but then again i did the same with my SGS1 and i have never looked back...
cge10 said:
Lol I was smart and used cwm to back up my bell rom, thanj god custom works perfectly well
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So from your backed up bell rom, can you get the 3 files for Odin out of it? Or i guess its not that simple?
Surely if you root, you flash a non-stock kernel? So even a nandroid/CWM backup will not be COMPLETELY stock?
Why is everyone so worried about going back to stock? Just wondering, because the european versions work just as good as the stock one, if not better, because of root.
The real question we should be asking is will Bell or Samsung release the stock files? Im sure they will, and if they don't someone will find a way to extract the stock files.
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Why is everyone so worried about going back to stock? Just wondering, because the european versions work just as good as the stock one, if not better, because of root.
The real question we should be asking is will Bell or Samsung release the stock files? Im sure they will, and if they don't someone will find a way to extract the stock files.
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One word.... Warranty.
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I have the same 'problem' as you.
Did you update to KG3 modem ?
Take a look. hopefully we'll find a solution soon... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193196
Electroz said:
One word.... Warranty.
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Yeah i understand that.. All i was trying to say is relax, if your willing to take a chance and temporarily void your warranty flash away, because soon enough someone will have the stock bell files.
Hi all i have returned to the android scene from IOS trying to work out a means of downloadong the factory/carrier Firmwares i remember from when i had a i9000
It was possible to force kies to download the releasle from Samsung with the spoofer tool despite googling for two days straight and trwaling thru the forums i have not been.able to find a means or even of a download of the. firmware im wondering about
Galaxy S 2 running 2.3.3 gingerbread
PDA: I9100TDOKH1
PHONE: I9100TDOKG2
CSC: I9100TTNZKH1
Im presently dubious about attempting to attain root on this device if i cannot get kies to flash it back to stock rom or even.maintain a copy of this rom
any heads up or advice where to move forwards.
Im hoping the carrier soon releases the 2.3.4 update shortly... failing that i will just debrand with another 9100T rom
cheers any advice for the next move would be great!
I would suggest asking Intratech for it in his carrier-branded firmware thread in the development section. The Voda firmware is listed, so TCNZ's shouldn't be too hard for the man to track down.
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Keep trying on fus.nanzen.se. Finally it will hopefully give a response. I have added it to the preset list even though it's not giving a response atm.
I'd be quite interested in a dump of your stock Telecom /system/csc/ folder if that'd be possible?
knightnz said:
I'd be quite interested in a dump of your stock Telecom /system/csc/ folder if that'd be possible?
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As soon as i get the Balls to Attempt root and figure out what method is best for me ill post a .zip up here of it..
LuffarJoh said:
Keep trying on fus.nanzen.se. Finally it will hopefully give a response. I have added it to the preset list even though it's not giving a response atm.
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Is it not possible to spoof Kies for the i9100 to force a Update/Save a Rom
i know it was possible when I had a i9000 i used the spoofer and saved the Factory Firmware down at the time
LuffarJoh said:
Keep trying on fus.nanzen.se. Finally it will hopefully give a response. I have added it to the preset list even though it's not giving a response atm.
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Wow on further inspection... thats what i call a Awesome/Innovative Tool!
Nice work man!
I think it may come available soon
I think Telecom only released their branded handsets in the last 6 days.. so perhaps the Firmware will come available soon..
Failing that maybe the 2.3.4 update will be what comes available (if ever)
Perhaps a debrand is inorder...
It sounds like Telecom have fairly heavily modified the firmware which is going to make future updates very slow. By comparison Vodafone left it almost completely stock-standard.
knightnz said:
It sounds like Telecom have fairly heavily modified the firmware which is going to make future updates very slow. By comparison Vodafone left it almost completely stock-standard.
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Oh Joy... so should I just void warranty and install a Debranded rom or Darkysrom perhaps?
ho hum.....
abarbarich said:
Oh Joy... so should I just void warranty and install a Debranded rom or Darkysrom perhaps?
ho hum.....
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Yes you should flash a stock ROM or AOSP ROM. Flashing doesn't void warranties these days. You can reset your download count using what's called a USB jig aka resistor, So when you break it you can just reflash a stock rom reset the download count an Samsung will never know any better.
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Yes you should flash a stock ROM or AOSP ROM. Flashing doesn't void warranties these days. You can reset your download count using what's called a USB jig aka resistor, So when you break it you can just reflash a stock rom reset the download count an Samsung will never know any better.
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Any 2.3.4 Stock/AOSP Roms you reccomend for the I9100T
I was going to root first so I could suck all the CSC , efs etc etc out of the phone
and then go for DarkyRom2 but not sure
With regards to wiping the counter i thought there was a second counter that cant be wiped yet!
abarbarich said:
Any 2.3.4 Stock/AOSP Roms you reccomend for the I9100T
I was going to root first so I could suck all the CSC , efs etc etc out of the phone
and then go for DarkyRom2 but not sure
With regards to wiping the counter i thought there was a second counter that cant be wiped yet!
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well be careful before you try any roms or even customs roms from here ..as they are all meant for 19100 not the T version..
the T version has different frequencies or something
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I'd be quite interested in a dump of your stock Telecom /system/csc/ folder if that'd be possible?
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Got your Dump of the System/csc folder coming soon..
(i got bored i rooted the phone...) joy...
CSC - TNZ I9100T (dump)
Here you go mate... hope thats what your after???
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Here you go mate... hope thats what your after???
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Yup, thanks very much. I'll trawl through that and see if anything is worth shoe-horning into my Vodafone-derived SGS2.
Was there a TNZ sub-folder inside the CSC folder?
Edit: This section suggests fairly conclusively that XT does NOT support Fast Dormancy (figured as much so no surprise).
<NetworkName>Telecom NZ</NetworkName>
<FastDormancyEnableStatus>off</FastDormancyEnableStatus>
<LCDStatus>on</LCDStatus>
</FastDormancy>
<FastDormancy>
<NetworkName>Telecom NZ</NetworkName>
<FastDormancyEnableStatus>off</FastDormancyEnableStatus>
<LCDStatus>off</LCDStatus>
</FastDormancy>
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If you do flash a firmware and you want a JIG to reset it then I've got one you can borrow if you're around Wellington. Otherwise I think mine was about $12 including postage off eBay.
knightnz said:
Yup, thanks very much. I'll trawl through that and see if anything is worth shoe-horning into my Vodafone-derived SGS2.
Was there a TNZ sub-folder inside the CSC folder?
Edit: This section suggests fairly conclusively that XT does NOT support Fast Dormancy (figured as much so no surprise).
If you do flash a firmware and you want a JIG to reset it then I've got one you can borrow if you're around Wellington. Otherwise I think mine was about $12 including postage off eBay.
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out of interest what is fast dormancy
abarbarich said:
out of interest what is fast dormancy
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Here's an email I received after asking Telecom if they supported it in July (originally posted on Geekzone):
Thank you for your email query and we apologise for the late response, as this needed to come from our network team. Please find their response below:
"No we currently do not have NCFD feature enabled. Because only the handset benefits from Fast Dormancy for battery life purposes. In fast dormancy the handset notifies the network to release the air interface so it’s put into IDLE state much quicker than going through to Cell-FACH and finally to Idle. This can cause much more signaling on the network between the RNC, NodeB and mobile device which (increase in signaling load) can lead to congestion.
We have a number of features on the network that can work with Fast Dormancy and not cause a large increase in signaling load, however there is no current ETA for deployment."
Should you require any further assistance please email or call 0800550120 or *120, we would be happy to assist.
Regards
Harvey
Complex Mobile Support team
Well after Trialling a few Firmwares.. i end up restoring to the Stock erm well mostly stock) Telecom Branded firmware...
the phone when under the influence of other firmwares seems to randomly restart...
or loose Data or what ever..
rather frustrating really...
abarbarich said:
Well after Trialling a few Firmwares.. i end up restoring to the Stock erm well mostly stock) Telecom Branded firmware...
the phone when under the influence of other firmwares seems to randomly restart...
or loose Data or what ever..
rather frustrating really...
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I've been running darkyrom2 with no issues at all, and I'm undervolted. Have you tried that yet? I've never lost data on any non-wipe flash, but also use titanium back up, so am safe if I do.
Is there a link for the stock firmware now? Which modem does it use?
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abarbarich said:
Well after Trialling a few Firmwares.. i end up restoring to the Stock erm well mostly stock) Telecom Branded firmware...
the phone when under the influence of other firmwares seems to randomly restart...
or loose Data or what ever..
rather frustrating really...
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k1000716 said:
I've been running darkyrom2 with no issues at all, and I'm undervolted. Have you tried that yet? I've never lost data on any non-wipe flash, but also use titanium back up, so am safe if I do.
Is there a link for the stock firmware now? Which modem does it use?
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I'm also interested in which modems you used and any link to the stock firmware or how you returned to it.
Any updates would be much appreciate
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I'm also interested in which modems you used and any link to the stock firmware or how you returned to it.
Any updates would be much appreciate
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I've used many different modems (probably all of them to be honest), but am quite happy with the KI3 one at the moment. It's giving me no issues as far as XT's network goes, but I don't travel a lot so am not really a good judge. It does give me more range with Wifi though, something I have had issues with on other modems.
No idea on stock firmware. Has Intratech posted a link? He finds most of them.
I'm looking to break my android cherry, having been an iOS user so excuse the noob questions. I have been looking to get a i9305 from Orange (UK). My question is if I get the phone from orange, have it unlocked but not rooted and use a sim card from another carrier like O2 or vodafone will I still get OTA updates as those network carriers don't even sell the i9305.
I'm probably going to go with T-Mobile as they have a good sim only deal at the moment but as only Orange sell the phone on payg, would a T-Mobile sim work without having to unlock the phone?
Lastly how easy is it to remove the stuff that network carriers put on the phone, simple a case of deleting apps or is that where rooting comes in?
If you unlocked it you would get orange branded updates, you can solve this by flashing an unbranded or O2 branded stock ROM.
And to debloat you need to be rooted because the carrier apps are installed on the system partition which is only accessible by the root user.
Also I would ask T-Mobile or Orange about the sim question because they are changing carrier to EE now so it may work if not just buy what you want and unlock it (or flash everything can be solved by flashing)
I take pleasure in welcoming you to the world of Android and hope you have a nice time being free from the shackles of a corporate entity.
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If you unlocked it you would get orange branded updates, you can solve this by flashing an unbranded or O2 branded stock ROM.
And to debloat you need to be rooted because the carrier apps are installed on the system partition which is only accessible by the root user.
Also I would ask T-Mobile or Orange about the sim question because they are changing carrier to EE now so it may work if not just buy what you want and unlock it (or flash everything can be solved by flashing)
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Thanks for the info. Couple more noob questions. If I get the phone on orange, unlock it and use a t-mobile sim, flash it with for example and unbranded stock ROM, then which updates will I get or from who? Directly from Samsung?
Wouldn't flashing an unbranded ROM automatically remove the bloat and by that I mean the stuff Orange put on not the original bloat from Samsung if that makes sense. And for future updates should then install without any problems as it's a stock ROM not a custom one? Would a stock rom increase the flash counter? If so how can I reset it?
Where can I get an unbranded ROM for the i9305 from, if there even is one (Sammobile isn't showing a UK version yet), and do you know of a guide I can follow? I've got a old HTC, might try on that first just in case I end up bricking it.
Sorry about all the questions. Really appreciate the help.
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I take pleasure in welcoming you to the world of Android and hope you have a nice time being free from the shackles of a corporate entity.
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Thanks, just ordered the phone. Free from apple's shackles lol
jahuss65 said:
Thanks for the info. Couple more noob questions. If I get the phone on orange, unlock it and use a t-mobile sim, flash it with for example and unbranded stock ROM, then which updates will I get or from who? Directly from Samsung?
Wouldn't flashing an unbranded ROM automatically remove the bloat and by that I mean the stuff Orange put on not the original bloat from Samsung if that makes sense. And for future updates should then install without any problems as it's a stock ROM not a custom one? Would a stock rom increase the flash counter? If so how can I reset it?
Where can I get an unbranded ROM for the i9305 from, if there even is one (Sammobile isn't showing a UK version yet), and do you know of a guide I can follow? I've got a old HTC, might try on that first just in case I end up bricking it.
Sorry about all the questions. Really appreciate the help.
Thanks, just ordered the phone. Free from apple's shackles lol
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Yes flashing an unbranded ROM will remove the bloatware and you will get updates from Samsung.
There is a PC application which can find stock ROMs direct from Samsung's servers called checkfus, search with that if a ROM exists it will find it.
And a stock ROM shouldn't increase the flash counter only custom you can use the triangle away app to reset it from chainfire.
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delsus said:
Yes flashing an unbranded ROM will remove the bloatware and you will get updates from Samsung.
There is a PC application which can find stock ROMs direct from Samsung's servers called checkfus, search with that if a ROM exists it will find it.
And a stock ROM shouldn't increase the flash counter only custom you can use the triangle away app to reset it from chainfire.
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Thanks. I'll have a look at checkfus. :good:
Hello!
After flashing many custom ROMs and leaks my phone was acting a little funky, so I decided to go back to factory stock. I fired up kies on my pc and went to "Emergency recovery" It asked me for my serial number (I thought this was for getting the right stock firmware) After everything was done the phone booted up normally but I ended up with a "La'Fleur" boot logo
All I wanted was my stock firmware (Without having to look for the firmware, modem,etc myself) I though kies would do a better job than me :silly:
Sigh...
Any of you experienced this before?
Same problem here
Dont know how this happens...
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Kies gives you the firmware that matches your serial number. So, your phone originally has this firmware, or an earlier version of it, i.e. your phone was branded.
If you don't like it get the latest unbranded firmware for your region from sammobile.com and flash with odin.
wangdaning said:
Kies gives you the firmware that matches your serial number. So, your phone originally has this firmware, or an earlier version of it, i.e. your phone was branded.
If you don't like it get the latest unbranded firmware for your region from sammobile.com and flash with odin.
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Well it's suposed to work like that... but my phone is the plain gray international version. That's why it's so funny to me. I created this thread to see if some other people were having this issue as well and it seems so.
Anyway, it worked for me because it restored the stock modem and cleaned the whole nand. As soon as I saw that "La'Fleur" logo, I wiped it and threw CM 10.1 at it. Working great so far.
My point is, Samsung should do better (as usual, with everything) at keeping their records.
Well, none of us know what happend. Could be the carrier originally planned to carry this model, bought it from Samsung, and later changed their mind and sold it to a third party.
Nothing to show Samsung's records are wrong.
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wangdaning said:
Well, none of us know what happend. Could be the carrier originally planned to carry this model, bought it from Samsung, and later changed their mind and sold it to a third party.
Nothing to show Samsung's records are wrong.
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Well, I bought mine at a retail store, unlocked and without any carrier bloatware. Just to point out "La'Fleur" is a special edition of galaxy devices featuring a special 'floral' design paint coat, that Samsung released for valentines; with ROM customization to match the design. As with mine being the plain grey version and using the 'official' method to get the stock ROM, I think I'm pretty safe to say that there's something wrong going somewhere at Samsung.
This is exactly what I was trying to avoid downloading the firmware, modem, etc and flashing it myself, getting something different than the one that came when I first took it out of the box... And this is exactly what I got using Samsung's method. LOL :laugh:
Kudos at Samsung! /s
Zealhybrid said:
Well, I bought mine at a retail store, unlocked and without any carrier bloatware. Just to point out "La'Fleur" is a special edition of galaxy devices featuring a special 'floral' design paint coat, that Samsung released for valentines; with ROM customization to match the design. As with mine being the plain grey version and using the 'official' method to get the stock ROM, I think I'm pretty safe to say that there's something wrong going somewhere at Samsung.
This is exactly what I was trying to avoid downloading the firmware, modem, etc and flashing it myself, getting something different than the one that came when I first took it out of the box... And this is exactly what I got using Samsung's method. LOL :laugh:
Kudos at Samsung! /s
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Ah, got it. Still, never know where the mix up came from, but I am more clear about your issue.
Zealhybrid said:
Well, I bought mine at a retail store, unlocked and without any carrier bloatware. Just to point out "La'Fleur" is a special edition of galaxy devices featuring a special 'floral' design paint coat, that Samsung released for valentines; with ROM customization to match the design. As with mine being the plain grey version and using the 'official' method to get the stock ROM, I think I'm pretty safe to say that there's something wrong going somewhere at Samsung.
This is exactly what I was trying to avoid downloading the firmware, modem, etc and flashing it myself, getting something different than the one that came when I first took it out of the box... And this is exactly what I got using Samsung's method. LOL :laugh:
Kudos at Samsung! /s
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Also Got the plain Grey version...
And Also Got lafleur firmware after kies recover
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After flashing is the answer .
The hdswver codes that are presented to Kies match that firmware release and that's what you get .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978840
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same problem, what is the fix?
dli7319 said:
same problem, what is the fix?
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Find the correct ROM on sammobile.com and flash it yourself using Odin.
There are guides here (In General) to help with this
rootSU said:
Find the correct ROM on sammobile.com and flash it yourself using Odin.
There are guides here (In General) to help with this
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The problem is that, it is the same rom -.-
Edit: Oh, there are 2 different roms and lafleur is newer so kies selected that one, got it
flashed the other one and all is good
dli7319 said:
The problem is that, it is the same rom -.-
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Find an unbranded ROM for your region on sammobile.com and flash it yourself using Odin.
There are guides here (In General) to help with this
EDIT> You don't even have a regional version?! Flash ANY unbranded ROM
got la flour too... but then instal custom room like imperium hd or other, my imei is ruined... problems in modem but nothing helps... cyanogen works...
xenixas said:
got la flour too... but then instal custom room like imperium hd or other, my imei is ruined... problems in modem but nothing helps... cyanogen works...
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I got that too. Before you do anything to your phone, make sure yo do a Nandroid backup, also make a backup for your EFS partition as there is where your IMEI and radio paramaters are stored.
I had to send my phone to Samsung, and they replaced the motherboard.
Sorry to hear this happened to you
Zealhybrid said:
I got that too. Before you do anything to your phone, make sure yo do a Nandroid backup, also make a backup for your EFS partition as there is where your IMEI and radio paramaters are stored.
I had to send my phone to Samsung, and they replaced the motherboard.
Sorry to hear this happened to you
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but does no one knows hot to fix it I read about modem version its about EFS partition format like new one from samsung, its readable by samsung firmware but not custom rooms I'll tried to flash custom and I need to chose modem version witch could read EFS partinion. My phone originaly is SEB it's baltic, I have 4.1.1 XEO instaled no imei... kies updated to xeo 4.1.2 and now it says software is changed cant update lol somthing bad is going with samsung
On the same boat i9305
xenixas said:
but does no one knows hot to fix it I read about modem version its about EFS partition format like new one from samsung, its readable by samsung firmware but not custom rooms I'll tried to flash custom and I need to chose modem version witch could read EFS partinion. My phone originaly is SEB it's baltic, I have 4.1.1 XEO instaled no imei... kies updated to xeo 4.1.2 and now it says software is changed cant update lol somthing bad is going with samsung
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Sad to learn that I am not the only one. Mine is i9305, bought from Samsung's authorized retail shop, International edition grey. firmware changed to la fleur edition after emergency FW recovery. embarrassing to use it in front of others. Need to change lock screen. Has anyone tried to get help from Samsung? thanks