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Root [Boost Mobile] Tri-Band S3 (SPH-L710T)

This is my first post, but I have had one of the 710t phones with virgin mobile for about 4 days now and have been facing issues discussed here and elsewhere. First off, I want to thank EVERYONE on all forums I have checked, ESPECIALLY this one for ultimately solving my issues.

Here is what I did that screwed the phone up in the first place.
Rooted no problems
installed "universal" Hyperdrive rom and rebooted

It was at this point that I started having problems with system processes crashing, landscape orientation screwed up, camera upside down in landscape, no cell service.

I installed slimkat and the cyanogen mod and limped along for a few days with basic cellular service restored. Restored Mobile network and lte service by manually setting the carrier apn. Samsung does not have the setting accessible for this, but there are apps in the google play store that allow the user to manually set this.

I found that the landscape issues were getting on my nerves and got sick of manually setting the rotation through an app.

HERE IS THE FIX THAT WORKS.

Flash the stock backup posted on this thread through recovery. I did this through Clockwork mod.
-download all files
-place them on the sd card in clockwork/backup/StockRestore
(you can use any foldername you like for StockRestore, but if there is a space in the name you get the md5 checksum error)
-blank the nandroid.md5 contents
-run restore from sdcard1, select the StockRestore folder
-boot to system and verify screen rotation issue fixed

Stock restore is now complete. I encountered some processes crashing, but the landscape view was repaired. Also, the launch screen is from Sprint, don't be alarmed when you see this.

Flashing the custom rom and kernel fix
-download conquest singularity from xda and place in root of sd card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2774902
-download ktoonsez 4.4 touchwiz kernel fix and place in root of sd card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1871946
-boot phone into recovery
-select install zip from sdcard1
-install conquest zip
-immediately afterwords install the touchwiz kernel fix
(I ran these seperately. I do not know if this will work on a batch install)
-reboot phone and enjoy.

If you cannot connect to your network, or the phone connects but mobile data does not, look up the carrier's apn settings on the computer and then download an app through the playstore that allows you to manually set the apn.

As to the bootloop issue, I ran into this and solved it by booting into recovery and reinstall the last rom you used that worked correctly, or do a stock restore as I listed above and that should solve the problem.
 
would also like to add i booted in to philz made a back up to sdcard1 took the sd card out of the brand new phone and put it in the phone that would not boot in to OS i could only get philz and download mode!
i then restored a back up from the sdcard1 wiped cache and dalvik/ then selected to install supersu then rebooted system and it took about 3 minutes and then the system started!!!!! yaaaay ...NOT!!! it then was glitchy when changing screens and it would not let me downlad wallpapers and save them through zedge......so i then thought lets erase the efs folder with EFS PRO it gave me an error...so i closed efs pro and then opened kies and selected firmware upgrade and initialisation and it then prompted for me to agree i agreed to the tos and then it installed a new firmware...and removed my philz recovery put the stock back and also all stock boost apps are back ....and now its running smooth and gliding between screens ...zedge is working....all is awesome.... hope this helps some one
 
would also like to add i booted in to philz made a back up to sdcard1 took the sd card out of the brand new phone and put it in the phone that would not boot in to OS i could only get philz and download mode!
i then restored a back up from the sdcard1 wiped cache and dalvik/ then selected to install supersu then rebooted system and it took about 3 minutes and then the system started!!!!! yaaaay ...NOT!!! it then was glitchy when changing screens and it would not let me downlad wallpapers and save them through zedge......so i then thought lets erase the efs folder with EFS PRO it gave me an error...so i closed efs pro and then opened kies and selected firmware upgrade and initialisation and it then prompted for me to agree i agreed to the tos and then it installed a new firmware...and removed my philz recovery put the stock back and also all stock boost apps are back ....and now its running smooth and gliding between screens ...zedge is working....all is awesome.... hope this helps some one
 
The_Dumbest_noob said:
so boot into download mode (vol down+home+power) install philz in odin put it in the (AP) box and be sure only auto reboot is ticked and F.reset.time ar only checked be sure your phone is recognized and flash it
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Even I do that what ROM I'm going to use I'm making sure my l710t sprint will work again I have no way to transfer stuff unless my sdcard can fit in a computer

The_Dumbest_noob said:
so boot into download mode (vol down+home+power) install philz in odin put it in the (AP) box and be sure only auto reboot is ticked and F.reset.time ar only checked be sure your phone is recognized and flash it
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Even I do that what ROM I'm going to use I'm making sure my l710t sprint will work again I have no
 
rootinghaven said:
Even I do that what ROM I'm going to use I'm making sure my l710t sprint will work again I have no way to transfer stuff unless my sdcard can fit in a computer


Even I do that what ROM I'm going to use I'm making sure my l710t sprint will work again I have no
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so use this back up in philz recovery ...... its a back up of my phone befor i set it up....
then once the phone boots start kies 3 (click here if u dont have it) and select tools then firmware upgrade/initialisation
will turn you back to stock....everything will be as it just come out of the box
 
OUT OF CONTROL! I finally fixed it without * stock tar without a nandroid. Had no baseband, no profile, no imei... Nothing. So if anyone needs info let me know. I will be getting a step by step together, but with me being so new on here, I'm not completely familiar with the posting rules and what not....
 
The_Dumbest_noob said:
im not sure!!!!!

give me about 45 mins and i will let you know.... i will go flash a random rom brick the phone and plug it in to kies and see if it updates!!!
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I really need my phone up in running please let me know is a solution to the problem bc I hate having my phone off I like my s3 then my moto g
 
I can confirm that CM11 M10 works for everything except rotation. I've tried M12 but that seems to break the radio. I haven't tried any others.

Anything I can do to help make things work on this phone? I just want to be able to use either CM or (preferably) AOSPA like when I had the non-T model. I hate having to use the Singularity ROM.
 
kdude, that's exactly what I'm looking for. As close to pure Android as I can possibly get. Hopefully we eventually get an AOSP of Lollipop on our devices.

Has anyone got CM11 M10 working with rotation?
 
kdude63 said:
I can confirm that CM11 M10 works for everything except rotation. I've tried M12 but that seems to break the radio. I haven't tried any others.

Anything I can do to help make things work on this phone? I just want to be able to use either CM or (preferably) AOSPA like when I had the non-T model. I hate having to use the Singularity ROM.
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Send me the link for cm or a ROM that works 100% for l710t sprint
 
rootinghaven said:
Send me the link for cm or a ROM that works 100% for l710t sprint
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The only ROM that works 100% is the Singularity ROM with Ktoonsez's TouchWiz kernel, as detailed by Jahziel near the top of this page.

Edit: Okay, near the top of the previous page since this post just happened to fall onto the next page.
 
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