im using the sprint note 3 on pageplus and everything was good on mj4 then i updated to nab. well now I have no signal at all. im using kitkat killer rom. Found out that I need to roll back to the mj4 modem but I dont think it is working. everytime I flash a prl in dfs it says it sticks but on the phone under prl it just says 1.also after flashing the mj4 modem should my baseband also say mj4? **** me running!! after 4 hours of troubleshooting I odin back to stock and flash the mj4 modem. would not work when i was rooted and on a custom rom but once i went back to full stock and no root the I was able to flash the mj4 baseband and flash a different prl
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im using the sprint note 3 on pageplus and everything was good on mj4 then i updated to nab. well now I have no signal at all. im using kitkat killer rom. Found out that I need to roll back to the mj4 modem but I dont think it is working. everytime I flash a prl in dfs it says it sticks but on the phone under prl it just says 1.also after flashing the mj4 modem should my baseband also say mj4? **** me running!! after 4 hours of troubleshooting I odin back to stock and flash the mj4 modem. would not work when i was rooted and on a custom rom.
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Long shot, but you might try Viperboy's PRL Helper from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viper.prlhelperfree
Works flawlessly for me, although I don't have cause to use as much as I used to.
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I upgraded to att ics update 4.0.4. Installed CWM, rooted and tried to install ics blaze 4g, tmo_kid, tmo_vlk1, and back to the stock i717UCLF6 baseband. It showed up as unknown baseband even returning to stock. I did a factory recovery with Kies and it works now, but I can only get edge still. Any suggestions or something I missed? Thanks
Flash the blaze modem and reboot until you see the correct baseband. Sometimes the flash doesn't stick.
Don't forget to check packet data and enter your APN settings.
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Flash the blaze modem and reboot until you see the correct baseband. Sometimes the flash doesn't stick.
Don't forget to check packet data and enter your APN settings.
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I tried what you mentioned about rebooting until you see it come up. I tried over 8 reboots and no luck. I tried flashing the i717UCLF6 baseband back, still would not come up. Under settings, about phone, baseband states unknown. Then goto to status and the imei is unknow and the serial number of the phone doesn't match. Any ideas?
Maybe reinstall the UCLF6 base from scratch at the samsung site using Kies.
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Maybe reinstall the UCLF6 base from scratch at the samsung site using Kies.
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Are you saying to do a complete restore? If so, is there no fix at the moment for the modem running ICS stock from Att? I'm currently on Tmo
Somehow your system got borked. I'm suggesting return it to stock to get your SN and IEMI back, then try again with the Blaze modem.
RESOLVED Upgraded to Att ics, stuck on egde now
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Somehow your system got borked. I'm suggesting return it to stock to get your SN and IEMI back, then try again with the Blaze modem.
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I have an update. I finally got the Blaze ICS modem to work. Its on a SGH-I717 already upgraded to ICS by Kies. First thing I did was restore the phone with ICS fresh using KIES. The only reason was that I needed to make sure the modem was working. Then powered down and booted into CWM. Created a backup so I could restore later. Restarted phone like normal. Copied the ICS Blaze modem firmware zip. onto my sd card. Powerded down. Restarted in CWM. Installed from SD card the Blaze ICS modem zip. Restared phone normally. The modem would not come up. Restared the phone and booted into CWM again. I did a restore from my backup earlier. Restarted the phone and now it works. So let me know if this helps any of you...
Alright guys, this is gonna be kinda long so get ready. I was running stock 4.4.2 NEW and I saw that there was a way to get GPE 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 rom working on the s4. I followed all the instructions on RickGrimes's post and wifi didn't work. Not and big deal. I couldn't soft reboot, so I tried flashing gogolies nc2 wifi fix and this modem worked. I then tried to update to 4.4.4, also following the instructions and the wifi didn't work once again. I flashed gogolies nc2 wifi fix again but it did not work. I also realized that I had no service at all and that I couldn't send or receive any messages or calls. So I did the safe thing and used Odin to get back to stock. I am currently running stock but the service is still terrible in places where I usually get great signal. Also, my wifi strength seemed to go down from what it usually is. Another issue is that my contacts that were backed up in backup assistant aren't there anymore at all. I generally know what I'm doing when it comes to this stuff but for some reason I have no idea how to resolve these issues. Any help will be appreciated.
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Jessooca said:
The easiest way to fix your phone or any phone for this matter is always to download and flash the stock tar file of whatever version of Android you were last on in Odin.
Then visit towelroot.com in your browser on your phone and root it again. (Don't forget to enable usb debugging first)
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I wound up going back to stock 4.4.2 via Odin, but the problem still persisted. I figured out the my network settings were changed to Global instead of CDMa/LTE. Changed it back and all is well! Thank you though!
I'm not sure why all of the sudden this is such a problem. The issue is that I only have a good signal when in 4G mode. When I'm not in 4G the signal is either extremely weak (1x) or gone completely! When I first flashed MJ9 everything seemed to work fine, this is not he case anymore. I also noticed that when using anything GPS related it goes completely nuts when not on 4G...
What can I do to get my phone to work when I'm not in a 4G area?
I'm running 4.1.2
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"... When I first flashed MJ9 everything seemed to work fine, this is not he case anymore.... I'm running 4.1.2 I605VRAMC3..."
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So, it sounds like you're on the 4.1.2 build , but you've ODIN'd Beanstown106's MJ9 firmware to update your modem.... and it's not working right anymore?
If you made a full nandroid backup, (including the modem), of your current ROM when it was working without problems, then you might try restoring it to see if that would help.
You could also try reflashing Beanstown106's MJ9 firmware to see if that would help. Or... if you want to try to go back to the VRAMC3 modem, then this link with recovery flashable modems might be helpful : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36942418. (It would be a good idea to make a backup of your EFS if you haven't done that yet before starting to mess around with the modem).
Dr. Droidberg gave instructions in this (thread) for flashing the new modem in your custom recovery... He says, "... Download the desired modem...Reboot into recovery...Wipe cache & Dalvik cache...Install modem. If you don't like that one for some reason you can repeat the process to go back or try a different one..."
If all else fails, you could ODIN back to stock 4.1.2 and reroot with Casual to start over again.... hopefully that would fix things.
Good luck! :good:
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So, it sounds like you're on the 4.1.2 build , but you've ODIN'd Beanstown106's MJ9 firmware to update your modem.... and it's not working right anymore?
If you made a full nandroid backup, (including the modem), of your current ROM when it was working without problems, then you might try restoring it to see if that would help.
You could also try reflashing Beanstown106's MJ9 firmware to see if that would help. Or... if you want to try to go back to the VRAMC3 modem, then this link with recovery flashable modems might be helpful : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36942418. (It would be a good idea to make a backup of your EFS if you haven't done that yet before starting to mess around with the modem).
Dr. Droidberg gave instructions in this (thread) for flashing the new modem in your custom recovery... He says, "... Download the desired modem...Reboot into recovery...Wipe cache & Dalvik cache...Install modem. If you don't like that one for some reason you can repeat the process to go back or try a different one..."
If all else fails, you could ODIN back to stock 4.1.2 and reroot with Casual to start over again.... hopefully that would fix things.
Good luck! :good:
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Thanks for the advice! I just got around to flashing the new modem and it worked great! It's so nice to have service again when I'm at work...
Thanks agian!
James Mac said:
Thanks for the advice! I just got around to flashing the new modem and it worked great! It's so nice to have service again when I'm at work...
Thanks agian!
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Cool. Glad you got it fixed. :thumbup:
I am having an odd issue with my modem. I recently went from the GPE rom to slimkat, and ever since then my phone has not been able to use 4g at all, no matter what rom or backup i restore, even on touchwiz roms. I have tried flashing the mdk non-hlos modem, the regular nc5 modem, regular ng6 modem, and also fully odin'ing back to mdk. Nothing is fixing it! Please help me, 3g is very slow!
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I am having an odd issue with my modem. I recently went from the GPE rom to slimkat, and ever since then my phone has not been able to use 4g at all, no matter what rom or backup i restore, even on touchwiz roms. I have tried flashing the mdk non-hlos modem, the regular nc5 modem, regular ng6 modem, and also fully odin'ing back to mdk. Nothing is fixing it! Please help me, 3g is very slow!
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By any chance did you type in *228? Verify the APN settings to LTE?
Nevermind, found the issue. If interested, read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2667189. Looks like ill have to wait a week for my 4g back
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By any chance did you type in *228? Verify the APN settings to LTE?
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Yes, i did type *228 the other day! I unfortunately didnt know that it is for 3g phones only, i am currently on verizon website trying to get a PRL update pushed to my phone to get 4g back. Apn's are correct, thats the first thing i checked. Thank you for the extremely quick reply.
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Yes, i did type *228 the other day! I unfortunately didnt know that it is for 3g phones only, i am currently on verizon website trying to get a PRL update pushed to my phone to get 4g back. Apn's are correct, thats the first thing i checked. Thank you for the extremely quick reply.
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No problem..You can always go into the store and get a new SIM if needed.
For anybody that wants to go back to 4.4.4 from 5.0 I can confirm it works great, I just flashed back with Odin. The 4.4.4 firmware is at sammobile right below the lollipop firmware. The 4.4.4 flash put it into a bootloop to which I then factory reset and it started up perfectly with none of the completely unusable issues I was having.
Bummed out that I can't use lollipop for the time being, but more than relieved that I have a usable phone again, I thought it was toast.Lollipop made my phone worthless, literally couldn't do anything, major bootloops and constant crashes.
I made another thread about it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-note-3/help/reboots-lollipop-t3090421
You should retry the upgrade, it's faster and more stable. You just had a corrupted file or something, if you really want the best is worth a try. It's 40% faster. There was just something wrong with your install.
Did you do a factory reset when you upgraded? A lot of Note 4 users who upgraded had similar issues which a factory reset corrected.
I took the upgrade and found it to be faster and more reliable as well. Still fingers crossed for a root exploit. At least we know if an exploit ever happens for 4.4.4 then we can downgrade to get it. Good to know!
Oh really? I thought we couldn't roll back after taking 5.0. I am having a hard time a stable host to download 4.4.4
Can someone help me out with this? <confused>
@ lost perfections:
Success! The 4.4.4 firmware took forever to download but worth it! Thank for this!
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You should retry the upgrade, it's faster and more stable. You just had a corrupted file or something, if you really want the best is worth a try. It's 40% faster. There was just something wrong with your install.
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Trust me I really wanted it and tried all the usual steps. I think something is wrong with my phones hardware that works mostly ok on this version. I actually stayed on an old version for a very long time, I rooted "root de la vega" and took one ota using the supersu option to keep root when using an ota. The next update after that would not work for me, I would have had to wipe and odin to update, so I held off thinking I wasn't missing anything. Till about a week or less after 4.4.4 came out then my phone started crashing the moment I received or made a call. I hadn't gotten any new apps or anything like that but just in case I factory reset to see if it fixed with no luck. So I finally upgraded via odin, no root now, but miraculously my phone could make calls again. I am giving you this essay because I have a feeling this issue is related. It seems it's my phones hardware that is messed up and i'm just lucky that 4.4.4 works at all. I still have issues every couple days where I make or receive a call and hear nothing, with a reboot needed to fix, that is confirmed still after a fresh install of 4.4.4 after all the 5.0 stuff I tried. Anyways thats why I think it's my phone. I wish I had an extended warranty so I could just update and make a claim.
As for everything I tried in the update, I took the ota, which was literally unusable by anybodys standard, I could use the phone for about 5-20ish seconds before it would crash, turning the sound to mute would help, but still crash at a couple minutes of use. I downloaded the firmware and flashed via Odin, same exact issues, changed nothing. Did several factory resets between all these steps. I kind of walked through the process on that thread I posted in the OP.
After making this thread I did try it one last time and flashed via odin, knowing that I had a workable fix, but same exact thing again. If they release another update I'll try then, but looks like I'm stuck till then at least.
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Did you do a factory reset when you upgraded? A lot of Note 4 users who upgraded had similar issues which a factory reset corrected.
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Yeah I did anything and everything I could, no luck. I think my phone itself is the problem.
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@ lost perfections:
Success! The 4.4.4 firmware took forever to download but worth it! Thank for this!
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Awesome, glad it helped. I'm SO glad they didn't block the ability to do this, I'd have been out a phone if they had.
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Awesome, glad it helped. I'm SO glad they didn't block the ability to do this, I'd have been out a phone if they had.
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Can you be more specific? There are two firmware versions that are 4.4.4-NJ6 and NK1. I assume you used NK1? I'm a newb and sort of know how to use Odin/download mode. What version of Odin did you use?
I want to rollback to the previous build until they sort out the radio issues. My phone was fine on NK1 but on lollipop it drops LTE indoors frequently. Aside from the radio issue, lollipop runs great. I factory reset after the update, didn't make a difference.
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Can you be more specific? There are two firmware versions that are 4.4.4-NJ6 and NK1. I assume you used NK1? I'm a newb and sort of know how to use Odin/download mode. What version of Odin did you use?
I want to rollback to the previous build until they sort out the radio issues. My phone was fine on NK1 but on lollipop it drops LTE indoors frequently. Aside from the radio issue, lollipop runs great. I factory reset after the update, didn't make a difference.
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You can use any radio with any rom. Just flash the modem file via flash app or Odin.
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You can use any radio with any rom. Just flash the modem file via flash app or Odin.
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Are you certain I can use a KitKat radio on lollipop? Verizon Note 3. If so, I'll do that right now.
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Are you certain I can use a KitKat radio on lollipop? Verizon Note 3. If so, I'll do that right now.
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I haven't done it, but I have mixed radios and roms before for example kitkat radio with JB rom.
Well, I'd still rather 4.4.4.. it's too bad. When I have strong LTE it's amazing. Did this speedtest today - kilobytes per sec. Incredible.
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Well, I'd still rather 4.4.4.. it's too bad. When I have strong LTE it's amazing. Did this speedtest today - kilobytes per sec. Incredible.
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No matter what....once you go to lollipop, you can NOT go back to any earlier version.
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Doesn't the OP state that you can revert back?
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Can you be more specific? There are two firmware versions that are 4.4.4-NJ6 and NK1. I assume you used NK1? I'm a newb and sort of know how to use Odin/download mode. What version of Odin did you use?.
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Yep. The OP did. Hell that's the title of the topic and there's two confirmed posters that did it successfully. I only wanted to know if they flashed NJ6 or NK1 and what build of Odin they used..
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Yep. The OP did. Hell that's the title of the topic and there's two confirmed posters that did it successfully. I only wanted to know if they flashed NJ6 or NK1 and what build of Odin they used..
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Okay, to anyone whose interested: I used Odin 3.09 & NK1 (most current VZW build of 4.4.4) and it worked. Phone went into a bootloop, started recovery did a factory reset an it's back to normal.
Lollipop ran fine on my phone-probably because I reset it as soon as I updated...BUT, my data signal was halved. I get a weak LTE signal at work and by weak I mean 1 or 2 bars 105-115DB at best. Old brick building and I work in the basement. On lollipop, it wouldn't hold onto LTE anymore. It'd flip between 1x/3g..usually settling on 3G. Voice was unaffected. Hopefully they sort this out but this sort of signal performance (especially when it was fine on KK) is unacceptable.
Rolling back to NK1 has solved that. Thanks to the OP!
I can also confirm that flashing 4.4.4 NK1 from 5.0.0 OB6 works.
Tried it myself, but after I got done playing with it I went back to 5.0.0 OB6 afterwards.
I didn't look to see if it kept the 5.0.0 radio when downgrading to 4.4.4, but it kept the 5.0.0 boot loader.
I did not test the radio (as I didn't have a usable sim card at the time.)
Also, don't try to run URDLV on the 4.4.4 firmware before flashing, it will not boot (even with a factory reset.)
But I didn't try to flash a modified 4.4.4 firmware after 4.4.4 was already on there.
so just so I understand there's no root for 4.4.4 or 5.0 but it's possible to go back to 4.4.4 from 5.0 ?