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That's weird! Read the tmobile goodies thread by tomin. (lol) this is that thread!!!!! He had an excellent guide for all the new tmobile note users. His guides are usually pretty spot on. There is alot of good info there expecially the 1st couple of posts. That's the one I followed for 1st putting the tmo stock rom on my att note in August. Maybe that will answer your questions. As for the other help with the other steps- I don't know about them. Never did it that way.:(

Sounds like you have had many headaches hacking your toys!:p If you get frustrated, walk away for a day or 2 till you get new resolve ;). I always have a good reliable phone to use while hacking the other. :D

Just another tip- if you are stuck on something specific- type exactly what you want to do in your browser search bar- not the xda search- and usually you will get your answer, and most times it is an xda thread!

Also, look into other tmobile note forums- sometimes info does not cross over into other forums.
 
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sashusmom said:
Sorry to hear you are not rooted.:crying: GooManager just replaces CWM if that's what you have. There is a way to flash TWRP as a flashable zip with CWM- just find that file for your model phone. Google it. or search the sticky threads. I put it on first that way, then lost it with a stock flash, but I saved my root with voodoo OTA rootkeeper, then was able to use gooManager to reinstall twrp.

good luck!
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I had tried to find someone to answer the question: 'if cwm is installed, does twrp overwrite it, uninstall it, or fail' - the answer is: fail.
I tried a second time to use GooMgr to install TWRP and it flew through, gave the happy sign - "successfully installed" - did a reboot-to-recovery - nope. CWM happily in charge :p
However, that was sorta good news, because the first failed twrp attempt had botched the recovery so the Note would not boot into CWM - just download mode. I guess Goo makes an excellent CWM nanny :good:

something that looks like salvation to me is "Online Nandroid" !! yeah baby. have you installed? I would urge everyone to dl that one from the store and apply the SGH-T879 specific patch [God bless them for thinking of the few of us....]... also has patch for i717.
Why do I like? because with CWM in the ditch courtesy of Teamwin, I was in danger of frying my hard-worked rom and not being able to recover.
O-N does a full backup with the handset in 'normal' fully booted mode. nice clean interface - it just works.

guess I'll just learn to love CWM, and uninstall Goo.... but where are the fragments of TWRP fails?
 
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cognus said:
I had tried to find someone to answer the question: 'if cwm is installed, does twrp overwrite it, uninstall it, or fail' - the answer is: fail.
I tried a second time to use GooMgr to install TWRP and it flew through, gave the happy sign - "successfully installed" - did a reboot-to-recovery - nope. CWM happily in charge :p
However, that was sorta good news, because the first failed twrp attempt had botched the recovery so the Note would not boot into CWM - just download mode. I guess Goo makes an excellent CWM nanny :good:

something that looks like salvation to me is "Online Nandroid" !! yeah baby. have you installed? I would urge everyone to dl that one from the store and apply the SGH-T879 specific patch [God bless them for thinking of the few of us....]... also has patch for i717.
Why do I like? because with CWM in the ditch courtesy of Teamwin, I was in danger of frying my hard-worked rom and not being able to recover.
O-N does a full backup with the handset in 'normal' fully booted mode. nice clean interface - it just works.

guess I'll just learn to love CWM, and uninstall Goo.... but where are the fragments of TWRP fails?
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FTI:

Not sure if My CWM is gone or just Hiding but I had to use CWM on my T879 to install TWRP and I have never seen CWM since. Strange? I wondered if I needed to uninstall it but guess not. I believed TWRP Replaced CWM but I may be wrong.
 
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It is usually replaced cause both can't run at the same time. Only one or the other. But keep your nandroid backups file cause you can always just reflash the recovery you want- either cwm or twrp. Unfortunately the nandroid backups are not interchangable:(
 
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cognus said:
I had tried to find someone to answer the question: 'if cwm is installed, does twrp overwrite it, uninstall it, or fail' - the answer is: fail.
I tried a second time to use GooMgr to install TWRP and it flew through, gave the happy sign - "successfully installed" - did a reboot-to-recovery - nope. CWM happily in charge :p
However, that was sorta good news, because the first failed twrp attempt had botched the recovery so the Note would not boot into CWM - just download mode. I guess Goo makes an excellent CWM nanny :good:

something that looks like salvation to me is "Online Nandroid" !! yeah baby. have you installed? I would urge everyone to dl that one from the store and apply the SGH-T879 specific patch [God bless them for thinking of the few of us....]... also has patch for i717.
Why do I like? because with CWM in the ditch courtesy of Teamwin, I was in danger of frying my hard-worked rom and not being able to recover.
O-N does a full backup with the handset in 'normal' fully booted mode. nice clean interface - it just works.

guess I'll just learn to love CWM, and uninstall Goo.... but where are the fragments of TWRP fails?
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Don't use Goomanager to install TWRP. Put the TWRP zip file on your device and flash it through CWM instead. It will be installed and CWM will be gone.

Download the zipfile here and install it just like you would a zipped rom through CWM recovery.

goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/sgh-t879/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.1-sgh-879.zip
 
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GooManager comes in handy when you (I) flash a rom and lose recovery completely. If you are still rooted, install gooManager and get twrp back on. Then you can replace with CWM if that's your preference.

If you have the recovery files in zip form that's great, but without any recovery in place you can't flash the zip files. GooManager is good and avoids Odin stuff.

Just my opinion :D
 
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pad - in essence, that's what I like about Online Nandroid - same sort of safety net. you're worried, but your device is up and running... you don't want to go through an uncertain reboot-to-recovery...

I love the Note 1 btw... its a better tablet than the nexus 7 and a better phone than I have had.
we need an official de-bloating thread....
 
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odin wont recognise recovery.img.. how do i use this to flash back to stock recovery so i can get ota? just rename it to tar?
 
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Go to the general section and flash my stock recovery using CWM/TWRP.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda app-developers app
 
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Odin Fails!!

I have the I717, trying to use Odin3 v1.85 to load T879UVLG3 Stock rom from Tmobile. I have ran it twice now and it continuosly fails when it gets to the Modem phase of the flash. The recovery and system go just fine.

So I reboot the phone, and it just stands on the OS loading screen.

Open to any suggestions.
 
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Yes go to the Att note SGH-I717 forum and download the T-mobile port made for for your phone, and save it to your sd card, you mat need a card reader. Pull your battery out to stop the boot loop the replace it and charge it fully. Reinsert your sd card. Then while pressing both up and down volume buttons, push and hold the power button. When the Samsung logo flashes you can release the power button followed by the volume buttons. This should bring you into cwm. Then install from sd. Just a note for future use try not to flash roms meant for other phones. Especially with oden.

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Can someone plzzzz help me. Lol. I've looked high and low for clear directions but can't find them. I have a At&t note and all I want to do flash the 879 modem.

Here's the problem. When I flash it it makes my phone lag really, really bad. Am I doing something wrong? I had this modem on my S2 and I would get download speeds over 30Mbs every time. Thanks.


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Try to track down this radio-UVLG3modemfori717_gt-n7005amss

I don't have the link for you but search it. This is a good cross between the tmo and the variant n7005 which is very close to the i717. Works great. Also try the blaze radio- that's my other go to radio for tmo.

I find the zip files and have flashed them in cwm or twrp. Will just overwrite the current radio you have on it.
 
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sashusmom said:
Try to track down this radio-UVLG3modemfori717_gt-n7005amss

I don't have the link for you but search it. This is a good cross between the tmo and the variant n7005 which is very close to the i717. Works great. Also try the blaze radio- that's my other go to radio for tmo.

I find the zip files and have flashed them in cwm or twrp. Will just overwrite the current radio you have on it.
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Will the modem I suggested work? I would also like to know why the 879 modem DESTROYS my phone when I flash it, being that it's a Tmo Modem.

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sjohnjuan said:
Will the modem I suggested work? I would also like to know why the 879 modem DESTROYS my phone when I flash it, being that it's a Tmo Modem.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
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When the tmo Note first came out it was thought that the radio swap to the att note would be the perfect quick fix. There was a whole thread about it. Read it and it will explain and answer your questions. It's in the t-mo note section that's hard to find since they pulled it out of the drop down menu. It turned out that something is not quite the same in the hardware used in the phones. I think it was the antennas were different- don't remember who- but someone swapped antennas and it made no difference using the tmo radio on the att version.

It just doesn't work. The consensus was that there was enough of a difference in the hardware to not be interchangeable in the modems.

Blaze works well, and the combo modem of the n7005 and tmo.

When they came out with the port of the tmo rom to the att note, I did it and the modem just didn't work well and my phone was just like yours. It didn't work well. I also had a heat problem. So I went back to my ATT roms and alternate radios which work very well.

I have used sence the tmo roms- jedi4 with blaze or the combo modem and that worked well. Also, Flapps tmo rom worked well. With both of those, you had your wifi calling.
 
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sashusmom said:
When the tmo Note first came out it was thought that the radio swap to the att note would be the perfect quick fix. There was a whole thread about it. Read it and it will explain and answer your questions. It's in the t-mo note section that's hard to find since they pulled it out of the drop down menu. It turned out that something is not quite the same in the hardware used in the phones. I think it was the antennas were different- don't remember who- but someone swapped antennas and it made no difference using the tmo radio on the att version.

It just doesn't work. The consensus was that there was enough of a difference in the hardware to not be interchangeable in the modems.

Blaze works well, and the combo modem of the n7005 and tmo.

When they came out with the port of the tmo rom to the att note, I did it and the modem just didn't work well and my phone was just like yours. It didn't work well. I also had a heat problem. So I went back to my ATT roms and alternate radios which work very well.

I have used sence the tmo roms- jedi4 with blaze or the combo modem and that worked well. Also, Flapps tmo rom worked well. With both of those, you had your wifi calling.
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Cool. I'm using Alliance Novena Rom. With the n7005 modem. I only get 1.69 down and. 07 up. I've tried blaze also, it gives me 1.3 down and. 06 up.

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sjohnjuan said:
Cool. I'm using Alliance Novena Rom. With the n7005 modem. I only get 1.69 down and. 07 up. I've tried blaze also, it gives me 1.3 down and. 06 up.

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Have you tried the *#2263# to open up the menu, open up wcdma, select 850 band, back out, let signal return, go back into the same menu, and select all, and close. This boosts your data speeds. (there is a thread about this too- called something like "boost your tmobile speeds") I am pulling this up from memory. Think its correct. I can't get into the menu anymore with that code on 4.2. This usually doubles your upload speed and makes a difference on DL too. I use to redline in the DL and got anywhere from 1-2 up. You have to do this with every boot.
 
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Have you tried the *#2263# to open up the menu, open up wcdma, select 850 band, back out, let signal return, go back into the same menu, and select all, and close. This boosts your data speeds. (there is a thread about this too- called something like "boost your tmobile speeds") I am pulling this up from memory. Think its correct. I can't get into the menu anymore with that code on 4.2. This usually doubles your upload speed and makes a difference on DL too. I use to redline in the DL and got anywhere from 1-2 up. You have to do this with every boot.
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Yeah. I found that thread. After about a hour of looking. I went from. 1.69 to 9.28. I'm happy with that. Lol.

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    Greetings folks. Been playing with my T-Mobile Galaxy Note for about a week and thought I would put together a little basket of goodies and quick starts to make the transition a little easier for the rest of us. I will keep this short and sweet. Follow up rooting guides posted in post 2. If these help, don't forget to hit the thanks button and/or donate. For anything that's not my work, I'll post/clean up the sources/credits/references tonight. Also, I am testing out a new online storage facility, so mirror these as soon as you can since I might have to bring it down in a month or so. If you need anything that's not here, just ask.

    Disclaimer:
    1. This post is intended for the T879 only. Some tweaks are necessary to get a full port of the build/baseband from the T-mobile Note to the AT&T Note. Stay tuned.
    2. As is common knowledge, you use of any of these files/guides at your own risk and I am not responsible for any damages your may incur in doing so.

    1. T-Mobile Note Goodies

    a. T879-PRE-ROOTED STOCK SYSTEM IMAGE UVLG3 BUILD - WILL NOT TRIP FLASH COUNTER. https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3s7FNMjsmCGLMW​
    i. This is the latest build from the OTA update. It has been pre-rooted with the Super user, su, and busybox 1.21 installed. Flash this through ODIN. It will not increase your flash counter. Thanks to roloracer for doing for the i717 first and letting me know this was possible!​

    b. T879-STOCK RECOVERY IMAGE - https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3sx0g1iX7W331U​
    i. This is the stock T-Mobile recovery for the T879. If you rooted using rotohammer's UVLF5 nandroid backup then you are likely stock with the UVLF5 build and cannot get the OTA update to complete because you don't have the stock T-Mobile recovery. Flash this recovery to revert to stock recovery, then the OTA update will complete without aborting and bring you to the UVLG3 build/baseband combo.​
    ii. After you complete the OTA update, flash the pre-rooted system image in 1.b. above for easy root.​
    iii. N.B. If you used Android Revolution's nandroid backup and you already have the UVLG3 build but not the UVLG3 baseband, the OTA update will not initiate because it thinks your phone is already completely updated. Flash the radio below to get the updated baseband to match the UVLG3 build. Speeds are best for me with the matching build/baseband.​
    i. This is the latest modem from the OTA update. Flash through CWM.​
    i. Most useful for folks trying to get AT&T Galaxy Note roms to boot on the T879. Flash this in ODIN. I managed to get DAGr8's AOKP CM9 rom to boot and it was functional except for mounting external_sd so some tweaks are needed. May post a guide on what I did.​
    e. T879-FLASH COUNTER RESET - https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3sifFwMg3wmcKR​
    i. If you flashed CWM through ODIN you tripped the flash counter. Use this to reset it to zero. Thanks to braway for this for the i717.​
    f. CWM TOUCH RECOVERY - https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3sFurRZpksbs6k | ODIN FLASHABLE CWM TOUCH RECOVERY https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3sYujqhSWDjt5I​
    i. Self explanatory. If you don't care about the flash counter, or you are going to reset it, flash this through ODIN to get up CWM recovery up and running.​
    i. Self explanatory. If you don't care about the flash counter, or you are going to reset it, flash this through CWM recovery to get root.​
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    Rooting Guides

    General Guides

    How to get T-Mobile 879 Galaxy Note into download mode

    To get the T-Mobile phone into download mode it MUST be connected via usb to your computer first. Then hold volume button up and down while turning the phone on. When the warning prompt come up, press the volume up button.

    Rooting guides.

    If you're like most people and couldn't care less about tripping the flash counter (especially since you can reverse it) rooting is easy.
    1. Apply the OTA update
    2. Download the odin flashable CWM touch recovery in bullet item f. in post 1.
    3. Flash that through ODIN
    4. Download the super user zip in bulllet point g. of post 1 and flash through CWM. You should now be rooted. Alternatively, download a rooted custom rom - karryt has a UVLG3 build posted here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1838067. I think that rom is rooted. If not just apply the super user zip after installing that rom.
    5. If you did not complete the OTA update as stated in 1. before flashing CWM or a custom rom, download the modem in bullet point c. in post 1.
    6. Now, download the flash counter reset in e. in post 1 and flash through CWM to reset your flash counter.
    7. That's it. You should be cooking. When more roms pop up, you will have your phone in CWM all the time flashing roms and missing calls like a player.
    8. Thank rotohammer, Android Revolution, karryt, and easyguy for getting the ball rolling doing all this and posting about it. Thank braway for flash counter reset. Thank me too ( it's just a button :D ).

    If you have an unrooted t-mobile note and you want root without tripping the counter:
    1. Apply the OTA update now when you still have the stock recovery.
    • Do that first. If you wait until after flashing CWM you won't be able to get OTA and will have to use another method (easy enough) to update your phone
    2. After your OTA update successfully completes, download the pre-rooted stock image to your computer
    3. Flash that image in odin. To do that:
    • i. Put your phone in download mode.
    • ii. Click the PDA button and select the tar ball you downloaded
    • iii. Make certain only "Auto-reboot" and "F. Reset time" are selected
    • iv. Click start
    4. Let the phone reboot
    5. Now you should be rooted but WAIT. You cannot use any custom roms just yet. now you need CWM.
    6. If you want CWM but are paranoid about tripping the flash counter:
    • i. Download rom manager from market and use rom manager to flash CWM - Select the version for the i717 if a T879 is not yet available
    • ii. Now you have CWM and can create your nandroid backups and get started flashing custom roms.
    • iii. If you prefer CWM Touch, download if from the list in post 1 (fourth in the list) and flash it through CWM.
    7. Thank rololancer for showing us i717 folks this was possible. Thank me too :cool:

    Running T-Mobile T879 Stock rom and radio on the i717

    *EDIT: Had to change these instructions a bit

    1. Download the pre-rooted image (first in the list above)
    2. Download the odin flashable boot.img
    3. Put your phone in download mode
    4. Start odin.
    5. Flash the pre-rooted image
    6. Your phone will reboot - keep holding the volume down button so you get back into download mode
    7. If you miss download mode, the phone will try to boot but you will end up at a blank screen
    7. Turn off the phone, remove the battery, reinsert the batter and power on the phone while holding the volume down button. This will get you back into download mode.
    8. Now that you are back in download mode, start odin
    9. Start odin
    10. Flash the odin flashable boot image from post 1
    11. Lastly reboot into CWM and flash the radio for the i717 from here this brew in CWM.
    12. That's it.
    13. No promises on improvements especially upload speeds. Like I said on jeet's thread ... "Not much of a speed improvement though. The T-mobile Note gives me 10-16Mb down and .8-1.2 Mb up. Best I have gotten with the modem on the I717 is 6.7Mbs down and .4 Mbs up and that is with a fully stock T-Mobile rom running on the AT&T note so the T-mobile lib files are being used. When I flashed the radio on an AT&T i717 rom - AOKP CM9, so lib files built for the i717 were being used, the results were about the same. So, the radio/rom themselves don't present that much of an improvement, but the complete T-Mobile Note definitely gave me more love in the speed department. Still funny though that I cannot get past 1.2Mbs on uploads. Anyhow, seems unless someone is able to edit the amss.bin without breaking the signature, that's the best we can get out of the i717 for now."

    EDIT: Got 10Mbs and 8 Mbs down on this modem consecutively, then 3Mbs down. Uploads still 500kps. Then another 9Mbs, so teh modem seems capable of pulling high speeds, just not as consistently as the T879. On the T879 I can hit 9Mpbs and above consistently. Uploads vary between 800kbs and 1.2Mbs.

    EDIT2: Last edit. Downloads are more consistently in the 8Mbs - 10Mbs range now with some 3-4Mbs in there.Attached are two speed test screen shots to give you an idea.

    Booting I717 AT&T Galaxy Note Roms s

    Ok, I have only tried this with DAGr8's AOKP CM9. It boots and is useable but there is an issue with mounting the external sdcard which I was working on but ran out of time. Anyhow, these are the steps to get it booted.

    1. Get the rom flashable zip
    2. Get CWM specifically for the I717. This will save you a lot of trouble because most devs use assert checks to verify the you're installing the rom on the "correct" device (in this case the i717 not the T879. Safety first, but it can be a pain. I don't think I have that file on the server so do a quick search on the I717 forum for the quincy-att cwm.
    3. Flash the rom in CWM
    4. Flash the T-mobile boot.img in odin. Alternatively, restore your boot.img from CWM from a T879 backup.
    5. Reboot. Don't be alarmed if there is no boot logo (AOKP unicorn). So long as the second Samsung logo pops up at some state ... the one that glows, the rom will continue to boot and you should soon be greeted by the home screen.
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    Lvnlegendinc said:
    Im on a rooted att note.... What would be the recommended way?
    I also dont know what flash counter or tripping flash counter is lol
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    Not worries. Writing up a little guide for people on the AT&T note. Just testing it on mine first.
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    stock recovery full ROM for the T879

    Maybe I'm slow or I'm missing something, but the one thing I don't see in tomin's original post is a stock (unrooted) ROM image for the T879 for recovery/unrooting purposes. I dug around, and found one here: http://hotfile.com/dl/169933943/8dc43a7/SGH-T879_TMB_T879UVLG3_T879TMBLG3_Original.zip.html found via http://androidromupdate.com/2012/09...y-note-sgh-t879-ics-4-0-4-original-stock-rom/

    I successfully applied the .tar file through ODIN and can confirm it takes the device back to unrooted state - good for me, since I've got to do a warranty return. :D Hopefully this is of use to others, too.
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    sjohnjuan said:
    Upload speed went from .7 to 2.71

    Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
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    Very Nice!!! Enjoy:victory:
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