Before going into detail, I feel the need to say that I am a complete noob but I can understand most technical procedures. That being said..
I had a S5 from Metro PCS (SM-G900T1). I attempted to root this thing and couldn't successfully do it so I flashed the latest firmware for T-Mobile. My phone is now SM-G900T. Within both these points, I still didn't experience any issues.
When I successfully rooted my phone, I installed the latest ROM version of The Galaxy Project. Since then, I've been experiencing 3 issues.
1.) My 4G and LTE have been switched to H, H+ and 4G. I can't switch it back by restarting my phone, changing VPNs and changing connection types. More importantly, I don't know if my service has been downgraded. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
2.) My phone keeps sending random service reports. There's no way for me to check out why as they happen really quickly. Is there a way to disable this or at least check out the reason why?
3.) lastly, this is a minor issue and I don't care much for it but I can't access my themes without my phone saying that TouchWiz has crashed. Nothing happens after this and my phone is fully usable but I'd still like to explore everything since this is my first custom ROM.. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Edit 1: It appears that the H+ and 4G are equivalent to LTE speeds but slightly slower. I have tried to coax the changsetting by tweaking the build settings but no luck. Also a new issue has become a problem for me.
After a while of no use or after charging, the screen becomes unresponsive. The power button works but I cannot restart/turn off my phone and it requires me to pull the battery every time.
Try another ROM to see if the problem goes away. I suggest you give this a try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/development/rom-popwiz-telstra-note-5-port-v3-0-t3265997
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Hey i've got an AUSTRALIAN VODAFONE model GALAXY S3 (i9300T). But now i currently reside in Turkey.
The phone had been rooted in order to achieve the SIM Unlock capability, got through that.
Then this GALAXY NOTE 2 came out and when everyone started buying this phone i ended up really liking some of the new stuff BEYOND 4.0.4. Because the phones rooted obviously KIES and ANDROID didn't ever let me upgrade to the new firmware.
So i went ahead; unrooted the phone, reset the counter and loaded up 4.1.2 firmware into the phone. Now it seems like im having RECEPTION issues, have i done something wrong? I have loaded up the UK version of 4.1.2 (i think)? It was downloaded from sammobile but its been a week or two and i just don't remember which firmware i put in there.
How can i improve my reception?
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Question 2.
Sometimes i run into this weird ass annoying issue where, the phones connected to wifi the internet works completely fine. The phone gives no error as to whether the connections limited or anything.. But it just fails to LOAD up any webpage.. It starts loading the page with the blue bar and just gets STUCK, on ANY PAGE (excl. Google seeing how it's cached). This happens randomly i've tried triggering it, didn't make a difference, it happens on different WIFI connections not just my own. I did attempt a reflash of the firmware and experienced no difference.
Anyone else had an issue similar atleast?
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App to SD...
Why doesn't it work??? I tried every program and well i got to one that told me the reason it isn't working was because the SD card was "emulated" ? or something..
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Battery improving tips...
I'm no heavy user, however i use Bluetooth Audio/Headphones majority of the day. Occasionally once every couple days the GPS for about 1 minute for traffic monitoring. The occasional game (NFS MW i know this game isn't exactly battery friendly) but besides playing games.. is there nothing else we can do?
On my old S2 the aftermarket roms seem to give me better battery life.. I have taken all the precautionary measures, running battery till dead, then performing full recharges. etc.
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Wireless charging kit
Is it worth it? im after USER opinions here.
slimx91 said:
Hey i've got an AUSTRALIAN VODAFONE model GALAXY S3 (i9300T). But now i currently reside in Turkey.
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How can i improve my reception?
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Hello,
I'm looking for some help with my son's sgh-i757m phone. I'll try layout my history on the phone and question in some hopefully easy layout.
What I did
at my son's request, I changed the stock rom on my son's sgh-i757m (Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE) for him. He wanted to be able to install apps and customize his phone as he wished. i installed the paranoid android rom for him successfully.
Problem
Once installed he began losing cell phone network connection. This progressively got worse and now it barely works.
My troubleshooting
I tried installing other custom rom's to see if this would resolve the problem. Nothing seems to work. The present rom I have which is Dadoes. This one seems to work the best BUT i only get signal within 1 block of the cell phone tower. (oh ya... i live in a small town where we only have two cell towers in the valley here.)
I tried researching terminal commands to boost the radio signal but I haven't found anything for the sgh-i757m.
I've also done the *#*#4636#*#* trick... nothing... i've installed network boosters but those don't do anything.
What Haven't I done
I haven't tried to install a different radio rom... (maybe I did, but in my research there isn't an explanation if this is different from the OS rom).
I haven't tested whether it is a hardware issue as I don't know how
What I am asking
Can I get help regarding radio roms; is this different from OS rom's? if it is different... where do I find them and more information on this?
Can I get help on steps to test my hardware to see if this is the issue?
Any pointers if I am missing anything?
Thank you... oh and this is my first post.
I'm out of lurking and posting now.
Respectfully,
KrustyQ-tip
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HI buddy , welcome to our section .
Now your problem, did you tried to reflash the stock ROM back after you saw that your phone is having problems to see if the problem is solving?
I did took a search on this forum and I found this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707126
There you'll find a cwm and other useful stuffs for your phone
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Fixed - sgh-i757m connection problem
Well... thank you for your reply. I didn't have a backup of my son's original rom but my daughter just broke her phone and it was exactly the same. So, I thought I would back her's up then put it on my son's. What she did was break her screen. So, I thought I could swap screens or parts to make this work. I was able to take my daughters apart and was able to take my son's apart. In taking apart my son's phone, I found that the attenae cable wasn't attached to it's connector. So I plugged that in then tested and voila! It works!! pheew!! Was getting worried that I was losing my mind (maybe I did?).
Thank you for your help. I did do the custom roots and roms. Now my son can choose which one he wants!
Respects,
KrustyQ-tip
Hi all,
First, a bit of phone history. I rooted my phone before 4.4 and my sole purpose of rooting was to have the WIFI tether app working since I use my iPad at work and wanted to be able to connect to the internet there using my phone. I didn't care about custom ROMS, since I really don't have the customizing curiosity most of you have with totally overhauling my phone. (I'm getting old, I think, heh)
So it was working fine all summer and then about 2 months ago after I said to myself, "Hey, I wouldn't mind having fastboot turned on again", my phone got stuck in a horrid bootloop. It took about 5 hours of rebooting and swearing for it to finally give me any access to the bootloader.
When I was able to do anything to the phone, in a panic, I simply did a factory reset.
It actually went well. Though I had to do it twice for it to go smoothly. Now my phone runs much smoother. (Even though I don't do custom ROMS, I do install a ton of interface tweaks from the App Store. And yes, I pay for them) Also the battery lasts a LOT longer.
Now the bad news. My bootloaded shows I'm tampered and unlocked, but my superuser must be broken and nothing on the phone shows I'm rooted. Root required apps won't work and apps to check if I'm rooted say I'm not.
WIFI tether of course also doesn't work but that's not the problem I'm asking you all about.
The REAL problem is my 3G/4G radios seem to be broken. What I mean is if I set my phone to be LTE/CDMA the phone will switch back and forth every couple minutes between the two regardless of signal strength leaving the connection gone while it keeps switching back and forth. If I leave it on CDMA only, my connection is fine, except of course I'm on 3G which is slow. (duh) This problem occurs anywhere. The same at work or at home 20 miles away, which I assume uses a different tower.
Yesterday my boss at work got a new Galaxy 5 and asked my to help him set it up. We are both on Sprint and work in a factory which causes the 4G to be quite slow inside, but I promptly installed speedtest and ran it on both his phone and mine (I turned my 4G back on for the test) He scored a 22 Mbps while I scored a .5 Mbps.
Yikes! I guess my radio really is broken.
Can anyone help me to get this phone going in either direction? Either fully rooted with the radio and WIFI tether fixed or even backwards going unrooted stock with the radios fixed?
I'm heading out right now so can't reply right away, so forgive me if I can't answer any questions until later tonight.
Thanks in advance!
p.s. I'm fairly knowledgeable with computers and can follow most rooting guides without hand-holding, though I admit some of the Rooting process is beyond my grasp since I'm not really into the developing mindset.
Yikes, 24 views and no replies. I thought I might have been too long winded . ?
I should have just posted this; Help, I'm unlocked but my superuser isn't working
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Hello, I am by all means no expert and i had seen this and figured one of those would come here and help you but it seems everyone may be busy for the holidays. Kidding aside, if it were mine and this happened what I would do is flash a custom recovery like TWRP and then it will tell you you are not rooted and then you can install supersu from there. There may be other ways or easier ways to accomplish what you need but this is the method that I personally would try. I know just enough to get myself in and out of basic situations but I do believe this will work for you. Maybe one of the more knowledgeable folks will chime in with some better advise. Good luck and let us know if you get it sorted.
Bryon
Thanks Byron, I'll give it a try after work, don't want to screw up my phone right before I need it.
I still haven't tried it yet, I want to wait until I'm off for the holidays to blow up my phone
Hi everyone.
I'm having an issue with my G3 D851 this past week with losing signal completely and I get `ActionManager Service has stopped' error appears, only 'ok' appears as an option appears as an option for me to clear it. if in any app, boots me out of whatever app I'm in, if not in an app the screen kind of flicks and and reconnects. I hit ok and get the signal back for a matter of seconds or minutes and it does it again. I get the network strength indicator spinning then it comes back. my phone is a D851 that is running fulmics ROM 5.3, and android version 6.0 (for 4mths at least) please let me know if more specific info is required on my phone to assist. I'm a bit of a newb to problems. my last 3 phones I've been able to root unlock bootloader and flash a custom rom and have no issue for the life of the phone by following great tutorials. this problem seemed to be a once a month thing, that became once or twice a week.. now it's constant rendering the phone pretty well useless.
my problem sounds somewhat similar to this thread but I've not wanted to mess with anything being the fulmics is already tweaked and the settings within that seem to be the same already as what this thread describes to try as fixes. I read this as more being an LTE issue as opposed to complete data loss issue.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/annoying-lg-g3-problem-lte-signal-solved-t3293721
I`ve not installed any new apps or removed any or made any changes when this started. no setting changes, no updates. everything works as normal on wifi .. this is only a data issue. since this problem, I have done a complete backup and wiped and reset using TWRP wiping the cache and system data. same result.
any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping this is software related as opposed to hardware. with 6.0 and this ROM this has been the best phone I've ever owned.
Okay so I've been rooting/flashing for maybe a year but only have practice on xt1526 Boost variant so I'm still green. Also I haven't had a computer to work with in a while either.
So my problem is every time I get a phone call, even if I don't answer my "service bars" will bounce between 0 and full (and everything in between) non-stop. The only fix I've came up with is a power cycle then I have to wait 1-5 minutes before my speed will stabilize. I have flashed zips like lte fix and others like in the past. This issue has been ongoing for a while I have a suspicion it has to do with the radio. If it is you should assume I have no pc. If it can't be helped i can access one but if possible I will use otg and terminal. I saw the radio installation said to use .bat files and Idk if I can use them or bypass on my device. Thanks ahead of time for the help. This is my first post but I've been creeping this site since the beginning. This aspiring android enthusiast thanks all of you!!