Samsung Galaxy SIII SGH-i747M Android 4.1.2 kernel version 3.0.31-1189444-user Rogers phone
Canada
Background - purchased Rogers smart phone - used condition in good shape.
I am a Pay-As-You-Go customer thru Rogers. They swapped my sim card
for me.
Don't have a plan and I go on the internet thru my home connection or
anywhere else there is Wi-Fi.
Phone worked well. Set my own ringtone and checked it out in general.
1]Hard reset?
I put the phone online thru Kies and was told there was a firmware update,
so I went ahead and did the update.
Now when the phone rings, it is not the ringtone I assigned it. Although,
when I go into Settings>Sound>Ringtones>device Ringtone it shows the ringtone
I assigned as being the one that will play when a call comes in. I did some
searching thru Google to try to solve the problem. I followed instructions to reset
the ringtone, but it will not change. Further searching came up with possibly
hard reset for the phone could solve this problem. That possibly the firmware Update?
caused this problem? Does it sound like a hard reset is in order?
2]Rooting
This sounds like something I would like to do, but am uncertain how it affects the
Rogers Pay-As-You-Go. Does this mean I could use any company's Pay-As-You-Go
once the phone was rooted? Do I have to wait until my minutes with Rogers are finished?
Would I simply root the phone without the sim card in it? I have read some about
rooting, but found nothing to answer these questions. Possibly because not many
people operate a smart phone without a data plan. Anyway, I don't intend to get a plan
with anyone until pay-as-you-go is defunct. One other question, what is the difference
between unlocking a smartphone and rooting?
Thanks
Canada
Background - purchased Rogers smart phone - used condition in good shape.
I am a Pay-As-You-Go customer thru Rogers. They swapped my sim card
for me.
Don't have a plan and I go on the internet thru my home connection or
anywhere else there is Wi-Fi.
Phone worked well. Set my own ringtone and checked it out in general.
1]Hard reset?
I put the phone online thru Kies and was told there was a firmware update,
so I went ahead and did the update.
Now when the phone rings, it is not the ringtone I assigned it. Although,
when I go into Settings>Sound>Ringtones>device Ringtone it shows the ringtone
I assigned as being the one that will play when a call comes in. I did some
searching thru Google to try to solve the problem. I followed instructions to reset
the ringtone, but it will not change. Further searching came up with possibly
hard reset for the phone could solve this problem. That possibly the firmware Update?
caused this problem? Does it sound like a hard reset is in order?
2]Rooting
This sounds like something I would like to do, but am uncertain how it affects the
Rogers Pay-As-You-Go. Does this mean I could use any company's Pay-As-You-Go
once the phone was rooted? Do I have to wait until my minutes with Rogers are finished?
Would I simply root the phone without the sim card in it? I have read some about
rooting, but found nothing to answer these questions. Possibly because not many
people operate a smart phone without a data plan. Anyway, I don't intend to get a plan
with anyone until pay-as-you-go is defunct. One other question, what is the difference
between unlocking a smartphone and rooting?
Thanks
