for new GS2 owners in China who aren't sure what they have, dial *#1234# and something like the following will come up:
PDA: I9100ZNKI1
PHONE: I9100ZNKI1
CSC: I9100CHNKI1
Build Info: Mon Sep 5 12:37:29 KST 2011
That's for my new China Unicom (联通) GS2.
I've spent all morning browsing the GS2 section of XDA and still require help. First, though, I'll list what I know to avoid repetition...
the Chinese versions of the I9100 come with all sorts of "enhancements" designed to help us increase/maintain our "social harmony"
some carriers/shops are selling I9100Gs... which are a little different under the hood and don't play nice with some rooting apps/ROMs. If you have a G-thang, be careful!
the current lists of official firmwares and insecure kernels don't include our phone
there is a decent Chinese-made solution for those who want to improve their GS2' flexibility without really going all the way down the rabbit hole...
Now for my questions, which I humbly beseech those in the know to answer:
based on my phone data posted at the top, can I currently use CF-Root or S2 Root?
if my official firmware is not posted, does that mean I cannot return to stock after modding the phone?
can I sub other insecure kernels in during the root process, or must I have a matching insecure kernel?
is there any way I can dump my firmware/kernel and upload here to help with GS2 development?
Thank you for your patience.
Thanks for listing this out. You obviously know more than me. If you get it worked out can you PM me? I am in Beijing, and rely on the shops at Zhongguancun, since I can't do any of this myself..
2011universal said:
Thanks for listing this out. You obviously know more than me. If you get it worked out can you PM me? I am in Beijing, and rely on the shops at Zhongguancun, since I can't do any of this myself..
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I've been pretty busy at work lately, but I think I'll have time in November to dive into the Chinese half of the internet and sort through all the utter ****. Hopefully I can find something useful and reliable for us Chinese i9100 owners in the event that xda's own experts don't solve it all first.
i order the samsung galaxy s ii sgh i777 from ebay. it was listed new and unlocked, but later found out it was rooted and had a unamed rom on it. i want it remove it. can anyone help. its giving problems
need more info, do you want to go to another rom? or restore defaults?
What problems are you experiencing?
You can try reflashing UnNamed, its honestly a great rom.
alford6 said:
i order the samsung galaxy s ii sgh i777 from ebay. it was listed new and unlocked, but later found out it was rooted and had a unamed rom on it. i want it remove it. can anyone help. its giving problems
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This may help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
Or this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
sometime when someone calls the phone . nothing comes up to answer. and the network keep droping at times. i want to fix it or go back to the default
alford6 said:
sometime when someone calls the phone . nothing comes up to answer. and the network keep droping at times. i want to fix it or go back to the default
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This is not root or rom related. Are you using it on at&t?
A search would have led you to the "return to stock" sticky and then we'd have one less of these same threads.
alford6 said:
i order the samsung galaxy s ii sgh i777 from ebay. it was listed new and unlocked, but later found out it was rooted and had a unamed rom on it. i want it remove it. can anyone help. its giving problems
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Can you contact the seller?
Return the used device and demand the brand new one.
You spent money for a new product, not a second-handed one, do you?
Worst case, the seller doesn't do the honor, post their Ebay name on so others won't purchase products from them
Suggestion: When posting in an Internet forum, read the sticky posts at the top of the forum first.
The answer to your question is right above in the stickies.
its unlocked and rooted
Galaxy S II unlocked and rooted, but no wifi.!!!!!!!
... Kids these days.
Hi,
I just bought the SII LTE from Shanghai, unlocked, and i was thinking if there is way to change the ROM/Firmware to a non asian and if yes how i can do it code a very fresh guy to Android family. Most of the notifications are in Chinese and i don't understand anything.
Thanks,
John
Yiannis_Tsal said:
Hi,
I just bought the SII LTE from Shanghai, unlocked, and i was thinking if there is way to change the ROM/Firmware to a non asian and if yes how i can do it code a very fresh guy to Android family. Most of the notifications are in Chinese and i don't understand anything.
Thanks,
John
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Does NO ONE read?
Download the firmware you want to use in the area you are using the phone and flash via Odin, I mean come on how hard is that. I've had my S2 less than a week and have read through hundreds of threads, and it really gets under my skin that the moderators allow for the newbies to post senseless questions such as this and clog up the forum
Search in google a guide how to use Odin... It's very easy and in about 30 minutes you ll change your firmware
Hi guys, I think we should have a separate section here so that we could share our experiences with this particular model...I am very sorry if I pissed off any moderators here but since there are no threads regarding this model I felt like I had to do it
I wanna start by telling you that I bought this model for 550$ from Seoul just a week ago and I am very happy. Actually my aim was to get Samsung Galaxy S 3 but I missed it by a week But then saw this phone and said lets give it a try. And guess what , I am more than impressed Anyways after checking couple of forums I saw that official ICS Package was out I upgraded it and then rooted by the help of this forum. Definitely better performance and nice tweaks. But this came with one small issue ; sms problem. when there is an incoming SMS it says "No Caller ID" . Again after little bit googling I found the app called Handcent and it did the trick. Until an international or custom Rom comes out this could be the solution I suppose
One of the biggest differences of the Korean version is you cant go in to the secret menus by typing the secret codes in to the keypad so that caused some trouble while looking for the imei number and trying to change the SMSC ...
Lets share our experiences here so that anyone who has this version can find it here without too much hustle...
Reported rule 15
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using XDA
From the Moderator
This is a bit off topic but..... this link....
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=3569&c=samsung_shv-e160l_galaxy_note_lte
shows it to be basically a ATT type Note....... so other than country specific software quirks........ it is just a 717 note...... I will leave open for now but I think this will not go far, since there are not a lot of Korean Note user to interact with........... If you could please root your phone and provide a sys-dump and kernel and modem extraction would be very helpful to the community....
Thanks Oka1
oka1 said:
This is a bit off topic but..... this link....
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=3569&c=samsung_shv-e160l_galaxy_note_lte
shows it to be basically a ATT type Note....... so other than country specific software quirks........ it is just a 717 note...... I will leave open for now but I think this will not go far, since there are not a lot of Korean Note user to interact with........... If you could please root your phone and provide a sys-dump and kernel and modem extraction would be very helpful to the community....
Thanks Oka1
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I already investigated , the blocks dont seem to be the same , the kernel is not the same either , probably needs to be reoriented or somethign and the usr key layout (obviously) needs to be changed . so with a modified updater script and proper kernel by flashing only system it *should work*
Why is this in the development thread? Rom/Mods/Modems only from what I am aware of.
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Why is this in the development thread? Rom/Mods/Modems only from what I am aware of.
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Well oka1 posted on it and is his decision to make if the thread is closed or moved, maybe they will get the system dump so others with the Korean note can benefit from it.
Sent from my CM9 Note.
Nah...... brain freeze forgot to move to general........ moved now......
roloracer said:
Well oka1 posted on it and is his decision to make if the thread is closed or moved, maybe they will get the system dump so others with the Korean note can benefit from it.
Sent from my CM9 Note.
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where are the korean devs at? there's got to be android development there
uraz said:
Hi guys, I think we should have a separate section here so that we could share our experiences with this particular model...I am very sorry if I pissed off any moderators here but since there are no threads regarding this model I felt like I had to do it
I wanna start by telling you that I bought this model for 550$ from Seoul just a week ago and I am very happy. Actually my aim was to get Samsung Galaxy S 3 but I missed it by a week But then saw this phone and said lets give it a try. And guess what , I am more than impressed Anyways after checking couple of forums I saw that official ICS Package was out I upgraded it and then rooted by the help of this forum. Definitely better performance and nice tweaks. But this came with one small issue ; sms problem. when there is an incoming SMS it says "No Caller ID" . Again after little bit googling I found the app called Handcent and it did the trick. Until an international or custom Rom comes out this could be the solution I suppose
One of the biggest differences of the Korean version is you cant go in to the secret menus by typing the secret codes in to the keypad so that caused some trouble while looking for the imei number and trying to change the SMSC ...
Lets share our experiences here so that anyone who has this version can find it here without too much hustle...
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Why don't you just make a bounty thread? If money is involved maybe it might convince a dev to try cooking up a rom and making a custom kernel. It is always nice to get free development but money can motivate people. Put up some money and I am sure others will too and see if you can't get it done. I have seen lots of other threads on your model and I know everyone with your device wants it badly. Its worth a try anyway.
So if I was to unlock my i717 and took it to Korea it would work with their service providers? :s
Sent from my SGH-I717D using Tapatalk
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hi people, i use this korean model as well.
I am new to android (in fact, started 2 months ago) and not a native english speaker. So, i'm having a lot trouble with some technical words u guys use.
The thing is, i'm thinking of rooting my phone. but there arent much forums and threads on this model. I was wondering if the rooting guides here would work on my phone? and there are so many of em (also for i717...) ...
SOOooo, if possible could you quote the rooting guide (or link to thread) which will definitely work on my phone. i cant afford to make my phone obsolete
Help is much appreciated. Thanks
(btw, i'm from Mongolia. heya, fellow earthlings... haha)
Korean devs are at androidpub and matpclub, but not really serious development is there. Few kernel devs like tegrak and mostly cosmetic/porting from International ROM.
Korean note have 32GB/64GB variety, three diffrent carrier (SKT: HSPA+2100 LTE800/1800, KT: HSPA+2100 LTE1800, LGU: CDMArev.B1800 LTE800), hardware button, DMB, carrier specific addon plugins and frameworks, and pink note
and SHV-E160L for LGU, which is CDMA only(like Verizon). Pretty sure ATT note ROMs are not portable.
khurleesnote said:
hi people, i use this korean model as well.
I am new to android (in fact, started 2 months ago) and not a native english speaker. So, i'm having a lot trouble with some technical words u guys use.
The thing is, i'm thinking of rooting my phone. but there arent much forums and threads on this model. I was wondering if the rooting guides here would work on my phone? and there are so many of em (also for i717...) ...
SOOooo, if possible could you quote the rooting guide (or link to thread) which will definitely work on my phone. i cant afford to make my phone obsolete
Help is much appreciated. Thanks
(btw, i'm from Mongolia. heya, fellow earthlings... haha)
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Hi my friend , if you would do a little bit of research you could have find this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26828626
Anyways glad you are here
tyler79durdan said:
Reported rule 15
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using XDA
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Reported for taking the discussion off topic.
Why would you even tell him? Better yet...why care? At least he started one thread for a whole model, to discuss all parts. He could be proliferating. Lets be nice here.
When there was no i717 forum, people discussed it in the Int. forum.
The i717R is discussed here...even though the forum is titled "AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717" as it should be.
Be easy on him. This is good for a chat, and it's about as close to the right place as it gets. He was honest about the fact that he knew there was no other place, and he was nice.
And his specific version has LTE and is powered by a snapdragon. So perhaps this truely is as good as it gets on XDA.
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uraz said:
Hi guys, I think we should have a separate section here so that we could share our experiences with this particular model...I am very sorry if I pissed off any moderators here but since there are no threads regarding this model I felt like I had to do it
I wanna start by telling you that I bought this model for 550$ from Seoul just a week ago and I am very happy. Actually my aim was to get Samsung Galaxy S 3 but I missed it by a week But then saw this phone and said lets give it a try. And guess what , I am more than impressed Anyways after checking couple of forums I saw that official ICS Package was out I upgraded it and then rooted by the help of this forum. Definitely better performance and nice tweaks. But this came with one small issue ; sms problem. when there is an incoming SMS it says "No Caller ID" . Again after little bit googling I found the app called Handcent and it did the trick. Until an international or custom Rom comes out this could be the solution I suppose
One of the biggest differences of the Korean version is you cant go in to the secret menus by typing the secret codes in to the keypad so that caused some trouble while looking for the imei number and trying to change the SMSC ...
Lets share our experiences here so that anyone who has this version can find it here without too much hustle...
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It'd be cool if you could post some pictures and do a hardware impressions review.
Thanks for understanding guys. That is the xda spirit that we seek here is the first quadrant standart benchmark that I had.
It is with the latest ICS and rooted firmware. Cant wait to flash a custom rom to this(if there would ever be one)...
Sent from my SHV-E160L using XDA
hidden menu !!!
I was searching for an answer for my sms problem and I found out an answer for something else. I was not able to enter any secret codes for the system menus before now it turns out that there is a hidden menu placed by the korean network which you can enter by typing 319 712 358 and then when it asks fr the password you type 0821 and Vala! You have access to the system settings now.
Now here is the question I can not make a video call because my LTE/3G server dns is a korean server address. Does anybody know where I could find the network server dns addresses for the Gsm Networks...
i broke my e160s menu and back button by flashing i717 kernel. i was able to flash cwm and i717 roms but orientation and those buttons are not working. flashing back original kernel and firmware didnt restore those buttons. i could get the phone back working without those buttons. but now i have to use another app to trigger those buttons.
jagr said:
i broke my e160s menu and back button by flashing i717 kernel. i was able to flash cwm and i717 roms but orientation and those buttons are not working. flashing back original kernel and firmware didnt restore those buttons. i could get the phone back working without those buttons. but now i have to use another app to trigger those buttons.
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Hi , as far as I know you can unbrick or recover your phone from any kind of situation. They have released the tool to do that. I can not post another forum's link here so just check the chinese version xda which is koxda and use google translate. You can find a lot of info there but it is hard to understand because of the translation. So actually that is the main reason I started this thread...
Im Glad man that youve open this threat for us.
i also use this device. Galaxy note shv-e160..UNRAZ how did you fix your sms problem? need it badly?? please
As I have wrote before in one of my posts in this thread I solved this with the free app called Handcent sms where you could download it from the market I can both send and recieve sms with no problem. But one handicap is I cant use any Turkish characters nor can exceed the 160 characters limit. Then you see the failed sending the message error... I am waiting for the update which would hopefully solve all the miseries One of the guys in this forum installed Honeycomb from the Koxda forum and solved the problem like that but I dont like using old firmware while there is an update
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but basically I'm looking for a reliable site to purchase SHW-M250S parts from. I'm looking to buy a new usb charging port for my SHW-M250S Galaxy S2. I actually tried buying a i9100 version just to see if it would work but alas it was a bit too big. I've been searching for parts for my SHW-M250S and I can't believe how difficult it is to find them. If anyone has any suggestions they would help me out a great deal and I would very much appreciate it.
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Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but basically I'm looking for a reliable site to purchase SHW-M250S parts from. I'm looking to buy a new usb charging port for my SHW-M250S Galaxy S2. I actually tried buying a i9100 version just to see if it would work but alas it was a bit too big. I've been searching for parts for my SHW-M250S and I can't believe how difficult it is to find them. If anyone has any suggestions they would help me out a great deal and I would very much appreciate it.
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Im looking for the exact same part and also tried the part for the i9000 only to find out that it doesnt work. In searching for the part, i came across one >here on ebay< and also this thread so i thought i would pass on the find. I hope i can get the part, ive been having trouble getting things from china lately.