Hello all, having some trouble with my old i9300 that has worked perfectly until recently.
The phone has had many different roms in its life when it was used as a main phone but now its used as a handy portable wifi radio streamer (save my main phones battery )
Gave it a clean lite rom install of ASOP NeatRom 4.4.4 which as always installed fine.
But upon trying to install apps from the Google Play Store I have paid for you get the install button but once pressed it asks you to pay again (have tried all the apps and they behave the same way) [tried on my main phone with the same account and the paid for apps install perfectly]
I have performed a factory wipe/reset as well as putting back on the official Samsung stock rom but still the same.
Hoping some wise person has an idea of why this problem is happening.
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Hi,
I purchased my phone some 1 week back. And was very unhappy with the battery drain issue of XWKF3 2.3.3 stock ROM. I recently read about updating ROM via Odgin and that it doesn't void the warranty since there was no update for India, I downloaded and updated my phone with ease to the KG5 stock ROM. The tutorial i read asked me to factory reset my phone to remove the cache from previous install and restart the phone in recovery mode. Did all that and lost all data on my phone most of which was available after my upgrade. The software update was fine. I had taken a backup of my complete phone via KIES (some 4 GB) left it overnight to restore (since it was taking million years to do so). As brilliant as KIES is i was not able to recover any data tried 1-2 days with only specific things (contacts settings etc) din work. Since i was doin this all sorts of pop ups for application installation failure came and i also did not sync my google account via the mobile data. As i wanted to restore backup and do a minimum possible recovery. So today morning i connected my phone to my home wifi (my company's wifi is AD based and has exchange 2010 so even KF3 din work with it. banged my head tried numerous things none works). Anyways previously(KF3) it was working fine but now i'm only able to access Android Market my explorer does'nt work neither does my apps and syncing (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail). I am highly frustrated. I've checked the wifi settings a million time everything seems to be in order. But nothing works . What am i doin wrong ? is it the firmware (web says it's supposed to be "STABLE") ? any help will be highly appreciated.
Hey guys,
I have resolved the problem. Well there was actually no problem at all. I just switched off my phone took out the battery and my data config started working again. Also some how when i loaded the new firmware i cancelled google sync when it was running the first time. Thus when i went to the sync settings it was disabled so i enabled it and synced everything.
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Dear Friends i have Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 phone bought in india in 2012 december. The phone was working fine with operating system which came with phone. suddenly today i felt to change the operating system to latest android OS jellybean. let me tell you one thing i am not a guru in this type of things so i tried whatever i could see on internet and installed Android version 4.3.1, Slim version Slim-4.3.build.2-OFFICIAL-1334.
Now my problem is the phone is working only for making phone calls and receiving phone calls. i cant even do SMS from this phone & its completely different then how it was. moreover i am not able to install whatsapp on this phone. and i am not able to see any google apps on the phone. neither my contact list is visible i had more then 700 contacts . and when i go on internet via WIFI and try to download whatsapp it says there is NO DEVICE. i am now confused and i dont know what to do. please can any one help me with simple steps how can I get my old version back or atleast how can i get google play store on this phone. Another important thing i tried to connect through Kies but even thats failure my device does not get connected to Samsung Kies anymore. i am worried i hope i havnt lost all my contacts.:
Tejus Mehta said:
Dear Friends i have Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 phone bought in india in 2012 december. The phone was working fine with operating system which came with phone. suddenly today i felt to change the operating system to latest android OS jellybean. let me tell you one thing i am not a guru in this type of things so i tried whatever i could see on internet and installed Android version 4.3.1, Slim version Slim-4.3.build.2-OFFICIAL-1334.
Now my problem is the phone is working only for making phone calls and receiving phone calls. i cant even do SMS from this phone & its completely different then how it was. moreover i am not able to install whatsapp on this phone. and i am not able to see any google apps on the phone. neither my contact list is visible i had more then 700 contacts . and when i go on internet via WIFI and try to download whatsapp it says there is NO DEVICE. i am now confused and i dont know what to do. please can any one help me with simple steps how can I get my old version back or atleast how can i get google play store on this phone. Another important thing i tried to connect through Kies but even thats failure my device does not get connected to Samsung Kies anymore. i am worried i hope i havnt lost all my contacts.:
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You have to install the Google Apps as a separate install when dealing with most non stock roms. Surely the guide you were looking at mentioned that...? Weird that you are having issues with Sms as it's rare roms have that trouble. Which messaging app are you using? Your contacts aren't there because you wiped your phone, installed a new operating system, and didn't install the Google apps to resync your account. I'm confused on why you're surprised by that... Kies doesn't work on non stock roms and is a much inferior tool vs Odin. Also, didn't you do a nandroid backup before installing Slim? If so, you could just restore that and you would be back to the previous version in like 10 minutes. If you didn't...well, you weren't looking at the right guides then. I think Slim is 10x better than stock, personally but depending on the phone and version, there can be some minor issues.
I think that Whatsapp doesn't recognize your phone because of the custom DPI. If you set that to stock value, it should work.
Tejus Mehta said:
Dear Friends i have Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 phone bought in india in 2012 december. The phone was working fine with operating system which came with phone. suddenly today i felt to change the operating system to latest android OS jellybean. let me tell you one thing i am not a guru in this type of things so i tried whatever i could see on internet and installed Android version 4.3.1, Slim version Slim-4.3.build.2-OFFICIAL-1334.
Now my problem is the phone is working only for making phone calls and receiving phone calls. i cant even do SMS from this phone & its completely different then how it was. moreover i am not able to install whatsapp on this phone. and i am not able to see any google apps on the phone. neither my contact list is visible i had more then 700 contacts . and when i go on internet via WIFI and try to download whatsapp it says there is NO DEVICE. i am now confused and i dont know what to do. please can any one help me with simple steps how can I get my old version back or atleast how can i get google play store on this phone. Another important thing i tried to connect through Kies but even thats failure my device does not get connected to Samsung Kies anymore. i am worried i hope i havnt lost all my contacts.:
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go back to stock rom by flashing it via odin .then just refer to this links to understand all droid's stuff http://trendblog.net/guide-to-android-rooting-custom-roms-apps-2014-edition/ or http://lifehacker.com/5789397/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-rooting-any-android-phone
and i have got list of good roms so refer this http://androidcure.com/best-kitkat-roms-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-i9100/
now you are good to go for Flashing and using Custom roms !!
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You have to install the Google Apps as a separate install when dealing with most non stock roms. Surely the guide you were looking at mentioned that...? Weird that you are having issues with Sms as it's rare roms have that trouble. Which messaging app are you using? Your contacts aren't there because you wiped your phone, installed a new operating system, and didn't install the Google apps to resync your account. I'm confused on why you're surprised by that... Kies doesn't work on non stock roms and is a much inferior tool vs Odin. Also, didn't you do a nandroid backup before installing Slim? If so, you could just restore that and you would be back to the previous version in like 10 minutes. If you didn't...well, you weren't looking at the right guides then. I think Slim is 10x better than stock, personally but depending on the phone and version, there can be some minor issues.
I think that Whatsapp doesn't recognize your phone because of the custom DPI. If you set that to stock value, it should work.
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Thanks for your reply.
How can install whatsapp as i am not able to locate play store icon on my phone any more. and you are correct about SMS my SMS is working. i was not seeing very well. please guide me how to install playstore and whatsapp
Tejus Mehta said:
Thanks for your reply.
How can install whatsapp as i am not able to locate play store icon on my phone any more. and you are correct about SMS my SMS is working. i was not seeing very well. please guide me how to install playstore and whatsapp
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I told you why you didn't have the Play Store in the very first sentence.
http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/d...146-addons4-3/8845-slim-aio-gapps-4-3-build-2
Boot to recovery, wipe caches, install.
Hello, i have a problem with samsung alpha on 4.4.4. kitkat. When i try to use google maps, if i click on directions and select car, application will crash. If i select bus, it will sometimes crash. If i select walking, it will never crash and normaly show path. If i upgrade application, it doesnt crash but instead locks up and heats the mobile phone a lot.
What i tried so far:
1) gps on/off, tried using only wifi/mobile data
2) tried all 4 versions of 4.4.4 for my country, first and latest update
3) it works fine on 5.0.2, though i want to remain on 4.4.4
4) tried resetting gps
5) tried rooting phone, uninstalling app completely and reinstalling it, doesnt help
6) tried like a 100 different stock roms from different countries and couldnt get a single 1 to work, they all fail or go into infinite boot loop
Please help me with my problem. I really like this phone and would hate it to leave a bad taste because if this 1 problem. Btw, the only roms that work for my phone are on the link below. I tried other links from my country (branded ones, not opened ones) and nothing works. I want to remain on stock rom btw.
https://samfrew.com/model/SM-G850F/region/SIO/
Google maps does the same for me. It hangs when I click on 'directions'. I have a Samsung Galaxy ACE4 SM-G357FZ with Android 4.4.4. It started happening to me a few months ago. I thought it was because my phone has only 1GB RAM, and I removed or disabled every app that I don't use regularly, but it didn't help. I switched to Sygic GPS. It is better than google for walking, and it works OK for driving, but I miss not having the bus and subway schedules on google maps. I don't have the option of updating to 5. As far as I know, the last update was a Jan 2017 security update of 4.4.4. I have a Nexus 7 tablet. Updating it from Android 4.4 to 5 made it so slow it is useless.
" though i want to remain on 4.4.4"
why?
Try the workaround posted 7/6/19 here: support.google.com/maps/thread/9075511
Or reverting to previous version of the app posted 2/17/20 here: support.google.com/maps/thread/3592231
I have a Galaxy S III GT-I9300 I bought in 2014. After three years, I downloaded a custom ROM from xda-developers (android 4.3 is all I remember about it) and installed it successfully. It worked alright until one day when I wanted to sell the phone and a customer wanted to buy it on short notice, and I rushed to delete my files from the phone, but I destroyed the Android... I connected it to my laptop and shift-deleted some system files.... since then, the phone is delaying when trying to unlock (if i lock it now and try to unlock it a few times, it opens harder and harder), when I'm using apps it continously shows that some .com processess stopped working, and if I try to turn on the bluetooth, the phone instantly freezes and restarts itself.
I tried reinstalling two original ROMs, (version 4.1.2) successfully, but the data on the phone&the system problems remain the same.
I'd like to know how can I make a hard reset, meaning in deleting all the files&settings as it was brand new, just to clear everything, like clearing CMOS. I also think the recovery mode is damaged and I'd like to fix it somehow (if this is possible). The installation process I did for installing the custom ROM from XDA-devs was long and complicated, I had to do a lot of things... and I just want to get the phone fixed and restore to default (or even to fix bugs on this android version) its android, kernel & everything could be ,,reflashed''.
I'm willing to pay if someone helps me fix the problems and it really works. Thank you!
I have a Galaxy S III GT-I9300 I bought in 2014. After three years, I downloaded a custom ROM from xda-developers (android 4.3 is all I remember about it) and installed it successfully. It worked alright until one day when I wanted to sell the phone and a customer wanted to buy it on short notice, and I rushed to delete my files from the phone, but I destroyed the Android... I connected it to my laptop and shift-deleted some system files.... since then, the phone is delaying when trying to unlock (if i lock it now and try to unlock it a few times, it opens harder and harder), when I'm using apps it continously shows that some .com processess stopped working, and if I try to turn on the bluetooth, the phone instantly freezes and restarts itself.
I tried reinstalling two original ROMs, (version 4.1.2) successfully, but the data on the phone&the system problems remain the same.
I'd like to know how can I make a hard reset, meaning in deleting all the files&settings as it was brand new, just to clear everything, like clearing CMOS. I also think the recovery mode is damaged and I'd like to fix it somehow (if this is possible). The installation process I did for installing the custom ROM from XDA-devs was long and complicated, I had to do a lot of things... and I just want to get the phone fixed and restore to default (or even to fix bugs on this android version) its android, kernel & everything could be ,,reflashed''.
I'm willing to pay if someone helps me fix the problems and it really works. Thank you!