[Q] Best ROM That GPS & Wi-Fi Teather ABSOLUTELY works on?

[inkmachine]

Hi everyone,

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900P) on Sprint and am currently running the latest Cyanogenmod.
I absolutely NEED for both Wi-Fi Teather AND GPS to work on my phone and so far, the Wi-Fi Teathering works perfect on Cyanogenmod, but GPS will not work no matter what workaround I try on the phone.
So, I thought I'd come here to ask you all for recommendations on the best and stable ROM that BOTH Wi-Fo Teathering and GPS work on without a doubt.
If I need to go to a ROM that is extremely close to Stock, then so be it. I just need to be sure that these two things work without issues.

Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!

Best,
Jason

 

[FreddyFredFred]

I use stock rooted touchwiz and they both absolutely work for me! :good:

 

[KennyG123]

Hi everyone,

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900P) on Sprint and am currently running the latest Cyanogenmod.
I absolutely NEED for both Wi-Fi Teather AND GPS to work on my phone and so far, the Wi-Fi Teathering works perfect on Cyanogenmod, but GPS will not work no matter what workaround I try on the phone.
So, I thought I'd come here to ask you all for recommendations on the best and stable ROM that BOTH Wi-Fo Teathering and GPS work on without a doubt.
If I need to go to a ROM that is extremely close to Stock, then so be it. I just need to be sure that these two things work without issues.

Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!!

Best,
Jason

Stick to stock or stock based ROMs. Asking what's the "best" is always relative here and often meaningless. If you are looking for a non-TW based ROM for all of this then a 1000 factors come into play. Did they flash the ROM clean or dirty? If dirty from what ROM? Was these things working before flashing? If they got GPS working...did they have to do something more? Does that work for everyone? Are they calling the ROM the BEST because they like the color? How many have they tried?
Another thought is, has anyone gotten GPS to work on CM? If so, have you tried the same methods? If it worked for them and not for you, that should tell you something about trying to find another non-TW ROM where it does work. There are variances from phone to phone causing something to work on one and not another.
With all that said, if you are not heading to a TW ROM, the trial and error may be in your hands to work this out, not someone's opinion.

 

[inkmachine]

I use stock rooted touchwiz and they both absolutely work for me! :good:

Can you provide a link to that stock rooted touchwiz that you use? Just want to make sure I get the correct one lol.

 

[jimzweb1]

Can you provide a link to that stock rooted touchwiz that you use? Just want to make sure I get the correct one lol.

If you are new to the note 3 my thread linked here http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/general/samsung-note-3-rom-flashin-basics-t2896440 will give you step by step how to root your device. There is no magic pill, it takes about a hour or less to do. All stock roms on the Note 3 are touchwiz, so it does matter what version of KitKat is on your phone i.e. 4.3 NAB, 4.4.2 NC5 or 4.4.4 NH7, when you root your device it will become stock rooted touchwiz.

 

[inkmachine]

If you are new to the note 3 my thread linked here http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/general/samsung-note-3-rom-flashin-basics-t2896440 will give you step by step how to root your device. There is no magic pill, it takes about a hour or less to do. All stock roms on the Note 3 are touchwiz, so it does matter what version of KitKat is on your phone i.e. 4.3 NAB, 4.4.2 NC5 or 4.4.4 NH7, when you root your device it will become stock rooted touchwiz.

Hi!

Thanks for the info! I'm going to read through it after work today.

I'm already currently rooted with CWM based Recovery v6.0.4.7
compiled by Xiaolu (20140125)

My current and only ROM on the phone is the most current version of CyanogenMod.

I hope none of the above causes any problems for me when trying to go to the rooted stock touchwiz!!

 

[jimzweb1]

Hi!

Thanks for the info! I'm going to read through it after work today.

I'm already currently rooted with CWM based Recovery v6.0.4.7
compiled by Xiaolu (20140125)

My current and only ROM on the phone is the most current version of CyanogenMod.

I hope none of the above causes any problems for me when trying to go to the rooted stock touchwiz!!

I'm going to assume you received the phone that way. First I would make a backup of the Cyanogen rom on the device, "you know that one works", to an external sd card, or use the internal sd card, and then copy and paste the back up file you just made to the desktop of your PC via USB cable. Now the with phone connected to your PC go to the internal sd card, copy and paste the DCIM, music, and any other data you want to keep to the desktop of you PC. Then go to settings/general/Backup and reset/Factory Data reset/reset basically you are going to do a factory reset. That should take you back to unrooted stock. It will delete all your data, like the device was new. Now, you need to go to settings/general/about device and see what version of KitKat you have. Then you need to go to download mode ( press the power button, volume down button, and home button at the same time a screen will come up then push the volume up button) it should look like this :

If both lines are not OFFICIAL the you need to flash a fresh copy of what ever stock version of KitKat 4.3, 4.4.2, 4.4.4 you want with odin. Check out the thread I listed above to do that, and get to stock, then follow the steps to stock rooted touchwiz. Make a backup of the stock rooted TW rom that way you can always get back to square one it's like system restore on your PC.

Ok, with the stock rooted TW rom up and running get the device connected to the PC, and copy and paste the data files on your PC desktop back on the internal sd card. Get the device to the point of a daily user, then make a backup. Now one more twist and your done, if and when you try to restore that Cyanogen rom first backup you made, the md5 will not match your new stock rooted rom. Here is the fix, first try and restore the Cyanogen backup maybe you will get lucky. If not download a root file manager like Root Explorer, go to the Cyanogen backup that failed and click on it all the files that make the OS will come up. Find the file named "nandroid.md5" and delete it. Now use root explorer and create a new file and install in the same place, check permissions should be rwxrwx--- . Then go ahead and restore the Cyanogen backup again, this time the system will ignore the empty nandroid.md5 file and install the Cyanogen backup. I know this looks tough but you can do it, and be a flashaholic like the rest of us !!! Lol