Recent content by phredog

I gave away my GN1. Later someone gave me a "bricked" one that I was able to recover. The Wifi would not authenticate at my workplace. I tried everything, and gave up months ago. Today I had my phone in my backpack, and out of the "blue" my Wifi is connected. How can this be? It is still...

I contacted Samsung. They just gave me a run-around. I bought the phone in the USA for my wife. I first powered it up in Singapore, and was greeted with this crap. What to do?

My experience with the first generation, early rev, GN1 was not very good. It was a waste of money, and Samsung refused to support it out of region. I switched to an iPhone as my primary. I bought a Samsung S2 duos as my secondary. Both phones work reliably. I recently loaded Jellybean on my...

I am giving my GN to the in-laws to use with Viber. Anyway, I had the ROM customized. I decided to undo all the changes before sending it to its new home. I downloaded the factory ROM image for Jellybean. I was pleasantly surprised to see much of the rubbishware was not present in the ROM...

I replaced touchwiz with another launcher (I forget the name). I removed touchwiz, but I still have the apk file stashed on a memory card. Anyway, I forgot, and did a factory reset. Oops, no UI. It is now an "answer only" phone because I can answer calls. I can sometimes get into settings as...

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I backed up badgeprovider.apk and removed it. A week or so later I noted that it broke SMS. Ok, not much of a loss, but still somewhat important. I could not get it to badgeprovider.apk to re-install. I uninstalled messaging, and installed the replacement from the Samsung store. It works...

No icons. I can answer a call, and then get to settings, and contacts. Otherwise my screen is black. Yes my GN is rooted. How can I recover the launcher? :confused: Some phones "loose" icons, but mine lost all of them. Can I start apps through some other means? Haha, I guess I discovered...

I flashed the CW recovery 82 times on my Galaxy S Duos with no success rooting it. It seems that someone posted bad instructions that were copied all over the net. to The instructions stated to hold vol-up, home, and press power to bring up the CW recovery after flashing, and removing and...

Once the Windows drivers break, what can you do? I uninstalled and reinstalled Kies three times, but the drivers are dead. Odin can not see my phones. What is the fix ?????? :o

Back in the USA disabling voice mail, and text messaging was a matter of calling the carrier and arguing for 10 min while they tell you that you are nuts. Here in Asia nobody likes voicemail so the carriers actively give out info about the USSD codes used to disable it. I do not know anyone...

Best place for N7000 Android 4.12 ROM? I turned my GN into a rock. I re flashed it with an old ROM 4.04. I want 4.12 back.

I finally rooted my GN. I have a data only plan, but it comes with a phone number, that is hit with a lot of incoming spam and wrong numbers. Incoming is free, anyway. I permanently uninstalled everything to do with voice recognition or speech (I am not comfortable with devices that speak...

When I first bought my phone the one thing I wanted rid of more than anything was vice talk. Back in the gingerbread days there was no way to disable it except by rooting. I have Jellybean 4.12 now so Voice Talk has been silenced. Anyway I have, over the last year, attempted to use Odin, one...

Will it still take updates once rooted? I presently have 4.12! Will I be able to freeze the telephone app? I have a data only plan, but it has a phone number assigned to it. Solicitors keep calling. If I answer the carrier will charge me by the min. Voicemail is turned off via USSD commands...