Continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the Korean Galaxy Note work in Canada, I'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware I found on KOXDA.
First, make sure you have a nandroid backup, if not I'd recommend following the guide I made here to install CWM Recovery and use it to make your nandroid backup, it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary, but it will make things a hell of a lot easier for you.
(my previous post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28899883)
After you've made your backup, download this firmware:
http://www.sharebees.com/6lvyjdfv8tv8.html
This is a custom SHV-E160L firmware that has international features enabled and made by a really talented programmer on koxda who goes by the username teamleader, he also made an custom AT&T ROM for the galaxy note which I cannot find as of yet, so if someone finds that one, let me know.
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using Odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the ROM working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(Codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different Samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
As soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**WARNING**
IF YOUR TOUCH KEYS ARE WORKING FINE, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING JUST LEAVE THAT SCREEN NOW!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but I wouldn't have learned anything to share if I hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after I believe) and test out your touch keys.
If they work, congratulations, but the reason why I don't use the teamleader ROM with all its useful features will become readily apparent. First, it does not have google market and I was never successful in installing it properly. Secondly of all, it tends to be rather unstable, at least for me and crashed like crazy.
So now you're going to want your old ICS system and all its novelties back. You can at this point flash the stock ROM I posted in my previous link and go through the entire process of rooting and getting the SMS to work.
~~OOORRR~~~
If you have a nandroid backup, just boot into recovery and restore that backup.
The touch key firmware update will survive the restoration if it started working already and should remain working with your restored backup image.
If all goes well, then congratulations you now have a working phone once again.
I hope the hours I spent in frustration trying to fix my damn phone helps someone and feel free to pm me if you have any questions, please note I am very bad at responding.
Good luck everyone
OMG it worked like a charm ^^
thank you soo much man! XD
I almost gave up hope!!
just a small comment:
in order to enter touchkey firmware i typed : *#2663#
the KOXDA rom is working with me without lagging until now so I will give it a run for a while ^^
sure hope they release an ICS international rom soon ^^
thanks again for the awsome thread! XD
Congrats
No problem, glad it worked for you, if you figure out some new tricks for your phone, be sure to let me know.
njthenj said:
OMG it worked like a charm ^^
thank you soo much man! XD
I almost gave up hope!!
just a small comment:
in order to enter touchkey firmware i typed : *#2663#
the KOXDA rom is working with me without lagging until now so I will give it a run for a while ^^
sure hope they release an ICS international rom soon ^^
thanks again for the awsome thread! XD
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I have ICS upgraded one, and after flash it doesn't load the rom. Did you guys have gb? meaning i have to downgrade firmware before installing this teamleader rom to work?
edit:
No worries! I downloaded a wrong version from koxda. This version works perfect, touch key updated by *#2663# function. works instant.
njthenj said:
OMG it worked like a charm ^^
thank you soo much man! XD
I almost gave up hope!!
just a small comment:
in order to enter touchkey firmware i typed : *#2663#
the KOXDA rom is working with me without lagging until now so I will give it a run for a while ^^
sure hope they release an ICS international rom soon ^^
thanks again for the awsome thread! XD
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Hey. Thanks Gods I found it. My E160L's menu and back button disabled when I flash wrong version of CMW in ROM Manager (I chose Phone Model i717). Could I use this way to recover my button??? Would you please Reupload file SHV-E160L-PDA_V1.0.tar to another host, such as mediafire or 4shared.com or dropbox? In my country loading from Sharebees is very difficult.
Thanks for everything. Really Grateful.
mycatisether said:
Continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the Korean Galaxy Note work in Canada, I'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware I found on KOXDA.
First, make sure you have a nandroid backup, if not I'd recommend following the guide I made here to install CWM Recovery and use it to make your nandroid backup, it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary, but it will make things a hell of a lot easier for you.
(my previous post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28899883)
After you've made your backup, download this firmware:
http://www.sharebees.com/6lvyjdfv8tv8.html
This is a custom SHV-E160L firmware that has international features enabled and made by a really talented programmer on koxda who goes by the username teamleader, he also made an custom AT&T ROM for the galaxy note which I cannot find as of yet, so if someone finds that one, let me know.
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using Odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the ROM working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(Codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different Samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
As soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**WARNING**
IF YOUR TOUCH KEYS ARE WORKING FINE, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING JUST LEAVE THAT SCREEN NOW!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but I wouldn't have learned anything to share if I hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after I believe) and test out your touch keys.
If they work, congratulations, but the reason why I don't use the teamleader ROM with all its useful features will become readily apparent. First, it does not have google market and I was never successful in installing it properly. Secondly of all, it tends to be rather unstable, at least for me and crashed like crazy.
So now you're going to want your old ICS system and all its novelties back. You can at this point flash the stock ROM I posted in my previous link and go through the entire process of rooting and getting the SMS to work.
~~OOORRR~~~
If you have a nandroid backup, just boot into recovery and restore that backup.
The touch key firmware update will survive the restoration if it started working already and should remain working with your restored backup image.
If all goes well, then congratulations you now have a working phone once again.
I hope the hours I spent in frustration trying to fix my damn phone helps someone and feel free to pm me if you have any questions, please note I am very bad at responding.
Good luck everyone
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I had downloaded this ROM from 115.com and Upload it to my account.
Here you are.
http://www.fshare.vn/file/TS0925X8DT
i tried to flash the rom its went well for about an hour but suddenly i cant receive any text message..
plsss guide me to fix this..i like the rom its good but i cant receive any text...thanks
Hello Mycatisether
Thank u for sharing a lot of useful working posts and guides.
i Followed "Using the SHV-E160L in Canada [ICS][Root][CWM][SMS]" Guide and made it good. But after rooted i inserted micro-sim and calling and other service is working Perfect, But only one thing is not work that is NOT SMS SENT.
so i googling and Found your new Post, if Your first post is not work 100% and this is working 100%, i suggest u Delete previous post. if u do that Users will Following One perfect working Guide of yours. . i am trying this method on my E160L after few hours after downloaded the 823MB file.
So i report any of result. Please be keep in touch us :good:
Best wishes man!
No Service after flash by This ROM LOL. . So i am trying another Chine ROM
God bless you
mycatisether said:
continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the korean galaxy note work in canada, i'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware i found on koxda.
First, make sure you have a nandroid backup, if not i'd recommend following the guide i made here to install cwm recovery and use it to make your nandroid backup, it's not absolutely necessary, but it will make things a hell of a lot easier for you.
(my previous post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28899883)
after you've made your backup, download this firmware:
http://www.sharebees.com/6lvyjdfv8tv8.html
this is a custom shv-e160l firmware that has international features enabled and made by a really talented programmer on koxda who goes by the username teamleader, he also made an custom at&t rom for the galaxy note which i cannot find as of yet, so if someone finds that one, let me know.
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the rom working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
as soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**warning**
if your touch keys are working fine, do not touch anything just leave that screen now!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but i wouldn't have learned anything to share if i hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after i believe) and test out your touch keys.
If they work, congratulations, but the reason why i don't use the teamleader rom with all its useful features will become readily apparent. First, it does not have google market and i was never successful in installing it properly. Secondly of all, it tends to be rather unstable, at least for me and crashed like crazy.
So now you're going to want your old ics system and all its novelties back. You can at this point flash the stock rom i posted in my previous link and go through the entire process of rooting and getting the sms to work.
~~ooorrr~~~
if you have a nandroid backup, just boot into recovery and restore that backup.
The touch key firmware update will survive the restoration if it started working already and should remain working with your restored backup image.
If all goes well, then congratulations you now have a working phone once again.
I hope the hours i spent in frustration trying to fix my damn phone helps someone and feel free to pm me if you have any questions, please note i am very bad at responding.
Good luck everyone
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god bless you. Everything worked for my e160l.
I want to thank you again and again.
You are genius. You are the real man!!!
mycatisether said:
Continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the Korean Galaxy Note work in Canada, I'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware I found on KOXDA.........
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using Odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the ROM working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(Codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different Samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
As soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**WARNING**
IF YOUR TOUCH KEYS ARE WORKING FINE, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING JUST LEAVE THAT SCREEN NOW!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but I wouldn't have learned anything to share if I hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after I believe) and test out your touch keys.
Good luck everyone
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Thanks Dude for this awesome work...
m having the issue, messed up with touch keys, bcoz of using wrong firmware i717...
well, wanna know how much time its taking to update touch firmware..
bcoz i tried last night n its almost 14 hours, still phone showing me " Now Updating...Warning! Do not turn off! "
thank you @mycatisether you are a real life saver!
at the begining the code *#*#2663#*#* had not worked and i was begining to lose hope... but after trying many combination i got it to work by using *#2663#* maby because I have a SHV-E160S (JB rom)
@crazy_kamal if is not to late.. for me the update procedure lastet 10-30 seconds (conected to a router with the speed of 10 Mbps if it counts)
sir
mycatisether said:
Continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the Korean Galaxy Note work in Canada, I'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware I found on KOXDA.
First, make sure you have a nandroid backup, if not I'd recommend following the guide I made here to install CWM Recovery and use it to make your nandroid backup, it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary, but it will make things a hell of a lot easier for you.
(my previous post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28899883)
After you've made your backup, download this firmware:
http://www.sharebees.com/6lvyjdfv8tv8.html
This is a custom SHV-E160L firmware that has international features enabled and made by a really talented programmer on koxda who goes by the username teamleader, he also made an custom AT&T ROM for the galaxy note which I cannot find as of yet, so if someone finds that one, let me know.
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using Odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the ROM working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(Codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different Samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
As soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**WARNING**
IF YOUR TOUCH KEYS ARE WORKING FINE, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING JUST LEAVE THAT SCREEN NOW!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but I wouldn't have learned anything to share if I hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after I believe) and test out your touch keys.
If they work, congratulations, but the reason why I don't use the teamleader ROM with all its useful features will become readily apparent. First, it does not have google market and I was never successful in installing it properly. Secondly of all, it tends to be rather unstable, at least for me and crashed like crazy.
So now you're going to want your old ICS system and all its novelties back. You can at this point flash the stock ROM I posted in my previous link and go through the entire process of rooting and getting the SMS to work.
~~OOORRR~~~
If you have a nandroid backup, just boot into recovery and restore that backup.
The touch key firmware update will survive the restoration if it started working already and should remain working with your restored backup image.
If all goes well, then congratulations you now have a working phone once again.
I hope the hours I spent in frustration trying to fix my damn phone helps someone and feel free to pm me if you have any questions, please note I am very bad at responding.
Good luck everyone
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sir can i have another link.. i cant download it/
will this work with galaxy note shv-160k pls help
mycatisether said:
Continuing on from my earlier post on how to make the Korean Galaxy Note work in Canada, I'll continue on some troubleshooting you can do with a custom firmware I found on KOXDA.
First, make sure you have a nandroid backup, if not I'd recommend following the guide I made here to install CWM Recovery and use it to make your nandroid backup, it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary, but it will make things a hell of a lot easier for you.
(my previous post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28899883)
After you've made your backup, download this firmware:
http://www.sharebees.com/6lvyjdfv8tv8.html
This is a custom SHV-E160L firmware that has international features enabled and made by a really talented programmer on koxda who goes by the username teamleader, he also made an custom AT&T ROM for the galaxy note which I cannot find as of yet, so if someone finds that one, let me know.
Anyways, once you've downloaded the firmware from sharebees, flash it onto your phone using Odin in the same way as you've flashed other firmwares. Once that is done, you'll have access to a gingerbread build of the ROM working on your phone. From here, you'll need the secret menus.
Open up the phone dialpad and type in *#*#2663#*#*
(Codes courtesy of this thread here on xda note they're for the i9000 but lots of codes are reused for different Samsung products: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7882964&postcount=42)
As soon as you finish typing that last * in, the phone should open up a secret menu with two options. One button to upgrade touch screen firmware and another to upgrade the touch key firmware.
**WARNING**
IF YOUR TOUCH KEYS ARE WORKING FINE, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING JUST LEAVE THAT SCREEN NOW!
Please note that perfectly working touch keys (the menu and back buttons beside your home button) can be ruined by updating the firmware, not sure about the touch screen but hey, don't mess around with something that isn't broken (should've taken that advice for myself but I wouldn't have learned anything to share if I hadn't, anyways you've been warned).
Once in this screen, press the button to upgrade your touch key and wait. Eventually it'll finish, you can try rebooting the phone (though mine worked immediately after I believe) and test out your touch keys.
If they work, congratulations, but the reason why I don't use the teamleader ROM with all its useful features will become readily apparent. First, it does not have google market and I was never successful in installing it properly. Secondly of all, it tends to be rather unstable, at least for me and crashed like crazy.
So now you're going to want your old ICS system and all its novelties back. You can at this point flash the stock ROM I posted in my previous link and go through the entire process of rooting and getting the SMS to work.
~~OOORRR~~~
If you have a nandroid backup, just boot into recovery and restore that backup.
The touch key firmware update will survive the restoration if it started working already and should remain working with your restored backup image.
If all goes well, then congratulations you now have a working phone once again.
I hope the hours I spent in frustration trying to fix my damn phone helps someone and feel free to pm me if you have any questions, please note I am very bad at responding.
Good luck everyone
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will this work with galaxy note shv-160k pls help
just the code *#2663# worked for me to fix the touchkey issue of shv-e160k. i just flashed different custom rom and when i see the keys does not work, i came here. i mean you do not have to install any firmware just try the code and update. thanks friend!
Hi, I need help for my I777... I really don't know what to do.
I have been on Slim Bean for 5 months (previously I had CyanogenMod 9 & 10), but four days ago it started to reboot randomly. At first I didn't pay much attention to these crashes, but then they became more and more frequent, until the free interval was only a few seconds. There were no strange processes active, and even wipe cache / wipe dalvik / fix permissions solved the problem. In the meantime I also noticed that the phone was doing like phantom power button presses, and it did also while I was in CWMR, making it really hard for me to do this things.
I did a full wipe and clean install, but nothing changed.
So I tried to revert back to stock gingerbread with heimdall on my mac, and to flash different official rom versions, either rooted or non rooted... but nothing worked. Countless full wipes, mr Cook wipe script... nothing. The phone even rebooted while it was in download mode and Heimdall was flashing new kernel and rom.
I tried also with odin from a PC. The last firmware I flashed was official UCMD8 Jeally Bean Stock, non rooted, from your download repository, which also had bootloader in it... but nothing.
Reebots are still there. It seems that random presses are gone on Stock Recovery, but maybe it's just a matter of time... while the phone is switched on phantom presses are still there.
I tried everything I know... events seem to be completely random and I can't find any trigger for them. The problem is passing from rom to rom without noticeable changes... I don't know what to do.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much... and sorry for the long post, but it's quite difficult to describe such a strange behaviour.
Sounds to me like a faulty power button. There are a few guides on how to repair it yourself, or you can send it in to Mobile Tech Videos and they can fix it for you at a price.
I agree with SteveMurphy, you have described the classic symtoms of a failing power button.
Before attempting a replacement, or sending it off, I do suggest buying/trying a can of contact-cleaner (after completely removing the board from the device). This worked for me us a few months ago, and has reportedly worked for others as well.
-Cyril
Kefka88 said:
[...]it started to reboot randomly. [...]but then they became more and more frequent, [...]I also noticed that the phone was doing like phantom power button presses, and it did also while I was in CWMR, making it really hard for me to do this things.[...]The phone even rebooted while it was in download mode and Heimdall was flashing new kernel and rom.[...]The last firmware I flashed was official UCMD8 Jeally Bean Stock, non rooted, [...]
Reebots are still there. It seems that random presses are gone on Stock Recovery, but maybe it's just a matter of time... while the phone is switched on phantom presses are still there.[...]
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Thank you for the answer!
cyril279 said:
I agree with SteveMurphy, you have described the classic symtoms of a failing power button.
Before attempting a replacement, or sending it off, I do suggest buying/trying a can of contact-cleaner (after completely removing the board from the device). This worked for me us a few months ago, and has reportedly worked for others as well.
-Cyril
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I tried this solution, but it didn't work... Tomorrow I'll go to a local repair centre and see if they can do something for me!
Thank you guys
Hello,
I'm not the best at flashing and all that, and I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here:
I have the problem like many, there is a 2cm bar over top of the screen where my touch is not responding, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Some say to zap it with a lighter's spark, tried it, didnt manage to do anything; others said custom ROM solves it.
(if you know a fix I'm not aware of, feel free to post).
From the "LineageOS" topic on the Elephone forums it says I need Android 6.0 (tried with 7.0, just to try -> bootloops),
the problem is I cant manage to get 6.0 working on my phone, I flash it with SPFT and when it says its done, my phone doesnt turn on, doesnt charge and does nothing. The only way to get it up and running is to flash stock ROM while holding VOL+ and plugging it in.
What am I doing wrong? Am I misunderstanding the steps? Am I just plain dumb? (probs)
If you need any more info, please ask.
Thanks fellas.
Update:
If I understood corectly you cant downgrade because the bootloader gets also updated to and doesnt allow downgrading if not unlocked, so I went and tried to unlock OEM.
It all works fine and dandy until I get to the "Press Volume UP to unlock or Volume DOWN to cancel" part, when I press UP nothing happens, and when I press DOWN it just cancels.
TWRP is flashed, and is rooted.
VirusWar said:
Update:
If I understood corectly you cant downgrade because the bootloader gets also updated to and doesnt allow downgrading if not unlocked, so I went and tried to unlock OEM.
It all works fine and dandy until I get to the "Press Volume UP to unlock or Volume DOWN to cancel" part, when I press UP nothing happens, and when I press DOWN it just cancels.
TWRP is flashed, and is rooted.
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Thats wrong, this device comes unlocked by default, which is why you are able to boot twrp.. The reason the device doesnt boot when you try to downgrade is because the preloader is too old, you need to go to the lineage 13 forum and download the preloader tool provided there and flash it, alongside lineage 13 flash it from twrp, it should be android 6, you can still go to android 6 stock rom if you flash stock rom and then the preloader provided in the lineage (the most resent preloader for the 6.0) u should get android 6 stock booting
Thanks for clearing things up, it worked.
Sadly, it didnt fix the touch screen problem, I guess its faulty or something like that, I'll replace it when I've got the funds.
Thanks for the help.