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So for probably the first time in a long time, I went into the USB Settings on my phone to change from mass storage to ask on connection, and I happened to notice that Kies had 'firmware upgrade' beside it. Keep in mind Ive never used Samsung Kies before. I currently have Onyx 4.2 on my vibrant, with everything that came with it (Kernal-2.6.32.9, JK2) and Ive went through having to un-softbrick my phone a couple of times in the past, so I figured I better do a little research.
From what Ive read, if youre on a 'unapproved rom' you shouldnt even be able to get updates from kies like that. Also, is there any way to tell what it is? Im doubting its 2.2, and since Ive never used kies, and seen that theres a new v2.something now, possibly that? But like I said, I have no clue how long its been there, the last time I got any kind of update was back in October, which was JI6.
Im probably not going to install it, since Ive read alot of bad things about installing a update on a custom rom. I just dont want to plug my phone in to my computer and have to start dealing with something that couldve been avoided, so that being said, is there anyway to like, make it go away?
Also, Just out of curiosity, would it hurt anything or be a bad thing to download kies on my computer and see what its about? Ive seen that its not really super great software, but I was thinking, why not. Do you have to register your phone when you do?
Thats about all I got, so thanks in advance.
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So for probably the first time in a long time, I went into the USB Settings on my phone to change from mass storage to ask on connection, and I happened to notice that Kies had 'firmware upgrade' beside it. Keep in mind Ive never used Samsung Kies before. I currently have Onyx 4.2 on my vibrant, with everything that came with it (Kernal-2.6.32.9, JK2) and Ive went through having to un-softbrick my phone a couple of times in the past, so I figured I better do a little research.
From what Ive read, if youre on a 'unapproved rom' you shouldnt even be able to get updates from kies like that. Also, is there any way to tell what it is? Im doubting its 2.2, and since Ive never used kies, and seen that theres a new v2.something now, possibly that? But like I said, I have no clue how long its been there, the last time I got any kind of update was back in October, which was JI6.
Im probably not going to install it, since Ive read alot of bad things about installing a update on a custom rom. I just dont want to plug my phone in to my computer and have to start dealing with something that couldve been avoided, so that being said, is there anyway to like, make it go away?
Also, Just out of curiosity, would it hurt anything or be a bad thing to download kies on my computer and see what its about? Ive seen that its not really super great software, but I was thinking, why not. Do you have to register your phone when you do?
Thats about all I got, so thanks in advance.
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Just make a backup using Titanium Backup and backup your ROM if you'd like. Then ODIN stock using this pretty simple and comprehensive tutorial
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
Then you should be fine on that stock rom of downloading the kies update.
My wife and I both have a DNA, and hers was updated a month or so ago while mine has still not received an update OTA. Anyone else experience this? or is there something wrong with my DNA?
If i force it to manually check for updates, it says checking for new software updates, then the window disappears and nothing happens.
What do you guys think?
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My wife and I both have a DNA, and hers was updated a month or so ago while mine has still not received an update OTA. Anyone else experience this? or is there something wrong with my DNA?
If i force it to manually check for updates, it says checking for new software updates, then the window disappears and nothing happens.
What do you guys think?
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i think there is an option to only have only data over wi-fi? or maybe it requires wi-fi, cant remember. i could be wrong. but if you're not having SIM card issues, there is really no reason. plus, it might hinder a future unlock for 2.04
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i think there is an option to only have only data over wi-fi? or maybe it requires wi-fi, cant remember. i could be wrong. but if you're not having SIM card issues, there is really no reason. plus, it might hinder a future unlock for 2.04
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Yeah I really don't have any sim card issues at all. I see a lot of people wanting an unlock for 2.04, but reading through threads our best shot at getting an unlock sounds like it would be with finding some kind of loop hole in a new update.
I wish Verizon would just get it together and realize they're only hurting themselves by acting the way they are.
Is anyone still working on an unlock for 2.04? I don't blame them a bit for giving up on it if they have...
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Yeah I really don't have any sim card issues at all. I see a lot of people wanting an unlock for 2.04, but reading through threads our best shot at getting an unlock sounds like it would be with finding some kind of loop hole in a new update.
I wish Verizon would just get it together and realize they're only hurting themselves by acting the way they are.
Is anyone still working on an unlock for 2.04? I don't blame them a bit for giving up on it if they have...
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well, from what it looks like, the devs have root, but its not permanent, and until they can get something solid for an unlock, they arent going to release anything that isnt solid publically. other than that, it seems like work has really slowed down. but im not "in the know", thats just what it seems like. i think you would be safer sticking with your current version and skipping the update (reference the bounty thread). especially if youre not having sim card issues.
BUT, what you should really do it get it Jtagged. it only takes a couple weeks and there is no damage to the phone. i'm so glad i did it. ALSO, i hear official sense 5 and JB4.2.2 update is coming soon too. so, its up to you. i wouldnt worry about the update though
beaups just achieved software s-off (see original development section) it should be available sometime in the near future.
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Hey all, I'm new here and to Android phones in general.
I just picked up a Photon, not the Q, from a friend who had flashed it to Cricket. I'm looking to put it back to Sprint and replace the Duramax I have, but I'm not smart enough in phone tech to do it. I read somewhere that Motorola made it almost impossible to change PRLs and all that, and everytime I do the ##PRL# deal the screen shuts down for a split second and then pops back up the dialer screen, that happens with a few different ##codes. I've found a few different posts about how to do it, though pretty much all of them are for EVOs, but nothing in it seems to work for me, plus they assume one has the general know how already to do it. I'm a pretty quick learner and don't mind spending time getting to know different systems, so I was wondering if anyone could give me any extra info or links that could set me in the right direction. I appreciate your patience in this, I just want a better phone...
I'm looking through everything about flashing and I'm losing heart pretty quick. I was in the marines for four years and I though they had a lot of acronyms, holy crap... I'm about to call it quits and toss the phone unless there really is an easier-to-understand way of doing it. I don't care about rooting it or anything, I just want a smartphone that works with Sprint...
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Hey all, I'm new here and to Android phones in general.
I just picked up a Photon, not the Q, from a friend who had flashed it to Cricket. I'm looking to put it back to Sprint and replace the Duramax I have, but I'm not smart enough in phone tech to do it. I read somewhere that Motorola made it almost impossible to change PRLs and all that, and everytime I do the ##PRL# deal the screen shuts down for a split second and then pops back up the dialer screen, that happens with a few different ##codes. I've found a few different posts about how to do it, though pretty much all of them are for EVOs, but nothing in it seems to work for me, plus they assume one has the general know how already to do it. I'm a pretty quick learner and don't mind spending time getting to know different systems, so I was wondering if anyone could give me any extra info or links that could set me in the right direction. I appreciate your patience in this, I just want a better phone...
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I would say don't give up. I think it's quite simple.
Go here and read the last item in the post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20331623&postcount=6
The pack below made by loki should have everything you need to flash an sbf file in rsdlite. I have never gone back to stock, but I did this process when I unlocked and rooted.
http://billionuploads.com/users/LokifishMarz/31/SBF's & Root-Unlock
You may want to confirm some of this with someone more experienced, but usually if you break something, it can be fixed.
I really really appreciate your response and suggestions knG333.
I tried what was posted, flashing the "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf" file through RSD Lite a couple of times, but each time it would tell me there was an error flashing it. Do you know if, besides RSD mode, the phone has to have any other settings on it? Like, does debugging have to be on or anything?
Please forgive my ignorance in this, we all started from somewhere, right?
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I really really appreciate your response and suggestions knG333.
I tried what was posted, flashing the "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-154_5-CM-release-keys-signed-Sprint-US.sbf" file through RSD Lite a couple of times, but each time it would tell me there was an error flashing it. Do you know if, besides RSD mode, the phone has to have any other settings on it? Like, does debugging have to be on or anything?
Please forgive my ignorance in this, we all started from somewhere, right?
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There is one error message that is normal. Have you tried booting the phone up after flashing in rsd despite the error? "*RSD lite has a known bug where it will give a "failed" error during the final "rebooting phone" phase. IGNORE THIS ERROR AND MANUALLY REBOOT PHONE "
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There is one error message that is normal. Have you tried booting the phone up after flashing in rsd despite the error? "*RSD lite has a known bug where it will give a "failed" error during the final "rebooting phone" phase. IGNORE THIS ERROR AND MANUALLY REBOOT PHONE "
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Yeah, I rebooted it manually and nothing seemed to have changed. Plus it said it failed during the flashing stage, not during the final rebooting stage, it didn't even get to the rebooting stage.
When the phone shows up in RSD Lite, is the program supposed to show all the details of the phone like IMEI and such? The phone is being recognized by the program, but only the model number is coming up, all other fields for the phone are saying N/A. Am I supposed to put the phone in any specific mode before hooking it up to RSD Lite besides RSD mode from the boot screen?
My previous distress has turned into stubborn perseverence, I'm going to get this thing fixed
Has anybody ever really "bricked" their Device? Whats your definition of "Bricked"?
I asked because I hear this a lot and i hear just as much if i that if it hows any life at all, it can be saved. ( i fully agree). and also you will hear just about everything you do can and will brick your device. ( i understand why this is said) but how many of you have actually had to use your device as target practice as this is the only fun thing you can now do with it? I get everybody defines it as pretty much any problem you have...just get on this site..every single post somewhere is "help i bricked my phone". "did you turn it on"..."oh wait , thanks" Now i get the fear, especially when i first started messing around with android.. i guess i am the type who thinks its easier to just try and figure it out by reading then to ask and I afraid you will laugh at me and call me names.."DID YOU READ ALL 6567 PAGES BEFORE YOU ASKED"..NO THEN TOUGH, HERS HOW..." JK love you all, casue i will ask in the future.. so on the topic if you all don't mind I would like to tell you about how I and I alone have a hard time bricking.... Please don't take this and go try any of what i said i did in this story...you will brick your phone OK now that is out of the way I would like to say ... I think its impossible.. ( its not....) yes it is
Hello land of android. I just wanted to tell my story of the S7 edge Live demo unit of H Ell. I have one and I went to remove the retail version or what ever it just wouldn't boot anymore. I could get in blue down load screen but that it. I tried for 2 months, in between my other phones and not caring anymore about the phone ( my friend gave to me, he had two that he got while working at a Verizon at best buy store in the Midwest and it shut down.. he managed the store and they told him to toss the phones....in case your wondering as every post i see about these somebody is calling the guy posting a thief in one way or another...EVERY SINGLE ONE, besides this one ha ha jk, one of you will) anyways I have flashed and flashed and flashed with no success, I finally got twrp on it...OK, now i am getting somewhere. still took 3 days and many a thing I flashed, at this point it has a boot loader exception error that i have never seen nor could find many people on here that have. Used to have "USE smart switch to recovery cause your update failed" or something like that and a half a dozen other errors from doing stuff that i don't fully understand. I tell you, to people who are worried about bricking their device.....I am starting to think thats a myth...i tried my hardest to brick this phone ( i flashed every zip file i could get my hands on, its started to be a joke to to see how much the phone could take..i was flashing zips of different phones he ll i was flashing zips that had nothing to do with Android at all. back to what i was saying couldn't get it to boot either so i was thinking maybe that this mythical BRICK i keep hearing about. I do this to all my phones and every single one of them, thanks to all the knowledge and amazing people on this site, reading posts not asking..wanted to point that out, i am not wasting peoples time asking them to help me fix things I am trying to screw up on purpose. ok back to it..I got all my devices running, rooted and blazing away every single time...."knock knock"... he he get it cause i am at my desk.. huh ..my WOODEN desk.. right...come onahg nevermind..i suck at life, anywho back at it.... ITS my way of leaning. ( should of seen my computers back in the day trying to learn what the hell "Windows was". ) Anyways I am just rambling on about this to just say, its a lot harder to brick your phone then it is to do anything else to it. IF YOU LISTEN TO ME AND GO TRY ALL THIS DUMB STUFF AND BRICK YOUR PHONE...TOTALLY YOUR FAULT FOR LISTENING TO A RANDOM STRANGER ON THE INTERNET...DON'T DO IT. Anyways, i finally got the live demo unit SM-G935X booted with a Rom..i tied them all.. like 4 at least ha ha and a bunch of stock firmware. I flashed the Flyme on it, which i know nothing about and the mo-fo booted up after two months of nothing and just crazy errors.. Its now saying its a SM-G935F. its rooted and everything..way cool. I just thought i would share or if anybody needs to test a program, file, or apk..... anything...ill be your GG PIGGY. ( for stuff you are actually trying to make work, i don't need programs written just to F my S up... i can most likely handle that on my own....edit...actually,,this would be funny....nah never mind. no intentional screw ups...yet..just talk me into it... Its going to be my mission to see how much this phone can take...you know ..for science and all that. But later, right now i am gonna enjoy playing with my new S7 since i just got it going. BUT SERIOUS..DO NOT ATTEMPT ANY OF THIS, YOU WILL BE THE ONE WHO BRICKS THEIR PHONE.. Also wanted to point out my S5......yeah that little F'er can take some abuse as well. Even my daily driver one plus 6t has already seen its share of the Jrod thinking he is some master developer hacker dude. that going to figure out the next awesome thing we didn't know we could do. ( not even close...not even in like dog years of life times or ...wait that s shorter isn't it,,anyway back at it the One Plus 6t oh yeah ... it cries at night, i pretend i cant hear it but I know whats up. Anyways thanks for letting me ramble on & on. Sorry this was a mess...i get to excited and type way faster then i can think. ( my English teacher said i was going places....ADC but still its somewhere,,,i did ,,damn,ok never mind back at it. wait no i am done. I would like to hear if anybody has like totally killed their device with software ... i get you could put it in the microwave and brick it,,, i fell for that twice.. i want to hear if it happen to you and how. .so next story. or just completed delete this and ban me.. I deserve it.
So I run the S9+ on Xfinity Mobile. When I got the phone I uninstalled just about everything Samsung (per bloatware removal instructions here). Everything is great. With each update some stuff may come back so I uninstall it again.
Android 10 came, and everything works fine except the recents button on my home screen. I usually open recents to either close a program or quickly switch to another program. I also use it to split screen 2 apps at once.
Any ideas what to do?
I guess you uninstalled stock launcher/samsung experience/one ui.That would be why this happens.
ordeniz said:
I guess you uninstalled stock launcher/samsung experience/one ui.That would be why this happens.
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I've always had them uninstalled and it worked before.
yuppicide said:
I've always had them uninstalled and it worked before.
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this is the cringiest thing people say when troubleshooting. Ive been in leadership positions at 2 different companies in the tech support dept and when helping customer service reps, if someone told me that a customer told them exactly what you responded with, i would either just walk away (jokingly, then turn around and explain that it doesnt matter) or (if they were new) id gently tell them that people say this all the time and that it having worked prior is normally irrelevant. Uninstalling those is the same as uninstalling touchwiz on a touchwiz based ROM, youre begging for trouble doing that.
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this is the cringiest thing people say when troubleshooting. Ive been in leadership positions at 2 different companies in the tech support dept and when helping customer service reps, if someone told me that a customer told them exactly what you responded with, i would either just walk away (jokingly, then turn around and explain that it doesnt matter) or (if they were new) id gently tell them that people say this all the time and that it having worked prior is normally irrelevant. Uninstalling those is the same as uninstalling touchwiz on a touchwiz based ROM, youre begging for trouble doing that.
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Cringy - Usually classified by seeing something and feeling extremely embarrassed.
Why would you be embarassed? That's a stupid word to use.
Anyway, I know it can be risky, but I'm not begging for trouble. I've been using this phone since 2018 without 99% of the Samsung stuff using this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-bloatware-youd-recommend-to-rid-off-t3759500
Anyway, I'ma get ready to factory reset the phone, run update, then remove everything and be back to normal.
Definitely not irrelevant. That's like saying "Gestures used to work, but now they don't".
Anyway, I did a factory reset, update, proceeded to uninstall everything again.. all good. Just takes a few hours.. to set every setting back up again, etc.
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Anyway, I did a factory reset, update, proceeded to uninstall everything again.. all good. Just takes a few hours.. to set every setting back up again, etc.
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Did you uninstall stock launcher/samsung experience/one ui again?
yuppicide said:
Cringy - Usually classified by seeing something and feeling extremely embarrassed.
Why would you be embarassed? That's a stupid word to use.
Anyway, I know it can be risky, but I'm not begging for trouble. I've been using this phone since 2018 without 99% of the Samsung stuff using this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-bloatware-youd-recommend-to-rid-off-t3759500
Anyway, I'ma get ready to factory reset the phone, run update, then remove everything and be back to normal.
Definitely not irrelevant. That's like saying "Gestures used to work, but now they don't".
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its far from a stupid word to use, and youre reply now falls into that same category. Go to urban dictionary and read their definition of cringey. And read past the first sentence where examples are given. it goes a little something like this "Cringy Someone or something that makes you embarrassed to be a part of the human race. Usually classified by seeing something and feeling extremely embarrassed, throwing your head back and closing your eyes to block your view of the cringy media, and biting your lip to keep in your scream of utter disgust. In some cases, a person viewing cringy media may also feel an almost unbearable feeling of wanting to (insert horrible act here). The first example shows usage of the word that defies the first definition. When attempting to help someone with anything really and the person youre helping says "well ive always done it this way and its never been a problem before", i guarantee you that 99% of the helpers in those situations have either facepalmed or very much wanted to. Cringey, plain and simple. Something or someone that usually makes one cringe.