Hello all,
I have an international version Note II (GT-N7100). I am on T-Mobile in an area where most of the towers now use the 1900mHz band. I'm wandering if I can flash a T-Mobile branded ROM to get the use of Wifi Calling, which I've cherished the ability to have (sometimes with hacked apks and libs), on previous phones. Would flashing one of these ROMs work well with my version of the phone? Or if even better, is there a package I can get like THIS that will push the wifi calling to my phone?
If it is workable for me to flash one of these ROMs, should I be flashing a radio as well? Or any other tips to make this conversion work out?
Do not flash an LTE Note 2 modem on the non-LTE version, they have different hardware. I know there were some porting guides to modify ROMs to go from one to the other, so this won't be a straight-forward flash.
You should be able to flash t-mobile roms and get the Wi-Fi calling feature.
I am using it on my AT & T note 2 and Wi-Fi calling is working flawlessly.
Try Tweaked ROM from T mobile note 2 section and make sure you keep your existing RADIO/Modem.
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Thank you both for the replies. I will try to get one working. Had some issues for a couple days recovering from trying Android 4.3... lol I like to experiment.
Curious as well
I bought this international version as well I live in the states and have been using it with att but now I'm about to switch to tmobile. I have rooted the phone but I am curious if I can flash it with a stock tmobile version of firmware (where ever that is) and use it with our services here. I understand Ill need to reset the counter and all that crap too. I have experience with rooting and installing CFW's but having a tmobile stock firmware that will accomplish things like wifi calling and ota updates would be very beneficial at least until that final firmware update is released then I will probably root it again.. real shame they wont let you OTA update just for a simple root but then again I guess with warranties and law suits and the chance of screwing up your possible custom firmware maybe its a good thing. Anyways point me in the right direction HAHA. The phone is amazing so far and works flawlessly with the towers here. Thanks. I checked the tweaked firmware for tmobile seems like it might work like you said but Im extra cautious at times and so I would like to know If what i stated above will work ok or not ???? Its not a huge deal if i cant have ota updates but yeah I would def like to have wifi calling and maybe some of tmobiles other things but yeah Looking forward to some advice
Same issue here
DemonLoader said:
Thank you both for the replies. I will try to get one working. Had some issues for a couple days recovering from trying Android 4.3... lol I like to experiment.
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Were you able to get the software on your N7100? I am curious as I would like to know how to get it done as well. thanks in advance.
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Hey all, atm I use the stock rom, rooted for tmobile. (Stock rom isnt that bad for JB tbh.. to my surprise) However I just switched to ATT, waiting on my nano to micro adapter to come in so I can switch back to use it. Now as far as I read, I should have the 3g and 4g bands just fine, I just wont have LTE on ATT, correct? Next up, aside from using titanium backup to force uninstall TMOs software, was wondering, should I change out my rom too or is stock still cool to use for ATT?
That or what is everyone else doing if they took their S3 to ATT or tweaks that could help for network speed etc. That or apps that are good for ATT on it. Thanks.
Anyone? Or is there no tweaks or more ideal rom builds. Atm I mange to get 3-4 Mbps download speeds. Not sure how fast Iphone 5 gets.. Didnt test and dont feel like taking the sim out again tonight lol.
As suggested by the ATT S3 section of the forums, Ill put my post here too with more details on what I could be looking for.
Hello, Just changed from Tmobile to ATT. I already unlocked it, and am running it on 4G. Sad part is, download is only like 1-3 Mbps it seems. While my Iphone 5 can get close to 7 Mbps (Now this is just 4G band, NOT LTE)
So I am wondering if there are some tweaks I need to adjust in the build.prop or anything else. Atm I just use the stock rom thats rooted. (Since it seems nice enough for JB and honestly, I havent figured out which custom rom beats the stock rom 100% without losing any features.
Also noticed I cant install the ATT Visual voicemail as it claims device isnt compatible. (Which that I am sure I can use a build.prop edit for the model. Question is, which model and items do I need to adjust and to what value?)
Anyways, if anyone has some good advice about using the tmobile S3 on ATT and getting it tweaked to be the best it can be, or a rom that is perfect for switching between ATT and Tmobile (should I use my prepay tmo sim in it again) and provide high data speed. Would be great.
Oh also.. just so I know. Can I use the ROMs posted in this ATT section of XDA for the t999 tmo s3 or do I need to still only use roms from the tmo s3 section of xda? Thanks. =)
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Oh also.. just so I know. Can I use the ROMs posted in this ATT section of XDA for the t999 tmo s3 or do I need to still only use roms from the tmo s3 section of xda? Thanks. =)
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Not sure about the other stuff, but with regard to this, your phone is still a t999 no matter what carrier you are with. Hardware doesnt change, so I would recommend you stick around in the tmo section.
Some att ROMs may work, but not sure which, so if you DO want to use an att rom, I would suggest asking the dev if it will work for the t999.
Sorry I couldnt answer about the rest, im too noobish for all that
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Yea thats the trick, Seems its hard to even find that advice lol. I mean long as I dont use the international s3 roms. Just between Tmobiles and ATT. I dont know. I dont even know if its considered the same model and could use the same rom. Perk of using an ATT rom, may increase my network speed some along with being able to use their apps. Atm I cant use the ATT Visual voicemail since it says my phone isnt compatible. Which I know I could prob bypass that with the build.prop provided I knew which model to make my phone.
Hello, Just changed from Tmobile to ATT. I already unlocked it, and am running it on 4G. Sad part is, download is only like 1-3 Mbps it seems. While my Iphone 5 can get close to 7 Mbps (Now this is just 4G band, NOT LTE)
So I am wondering if there are some tweaks I need to adjust in the build.prop or anything else. Atm I just use the stock rom thats rooted. (Since it seems nice enough for JB and honestly, I havent figured out which custom rom beats the stock rom 100% without losing any features.
Also noticed I cant install the ATT Visual voicemail as it claims device isnt compatible. (Which that I am sure I can use a build.prop edit for the model. Question is, which model and items do I need to adjust and to what value?)
Anyways, if anyone has some good advice about using the tmobile S3 on ATT and getting it tweaked to be the best it can be, or a rom that is perfect for switching between ATT and Tmobile (should I use my prepay tmo sim in it again) and provide high data speed. Would be great.
Oh also.. just so I know. Can I use the ROMs posted in this ATT section of XDA for the t999 tmo s3 or do I need to still only use roms from the tmo s3 section of xda? Thanks. =)
Probably you are better off posting this in TMo section too... cos there would be higher chances for finding someone who already tried putting the AT&T version of ROM on his TMo phone.
Posted there too, not much luck on responses yet. So figured maybe this side knows more. I dont even know if one can use the ATT Xda rom side for the tmo s3 for example. Was there any hardware differences (aside from the radio since I know tmos doesnt have LTE) Also what is the model for ATT s3 for the build.prop?
Anyone least know if the roms in ATT section would even work on the Tmobile model? Kinda thinking I should switch out and have all the setups and apps for ATT.
First of all i wanna say, you all do an amazing job with all of this. So ive been looking around the forums and i cant find an answer to my question, so i will post and wait for replay. i have the at&t version (i747) of the gs3 and had updated to 4.1.1 via kies. early march i found a post on your forums about sim/carrier unlocking and tried it out. it worked w/o any problems, so i headed to t-mobile to jump on their monthly unlimited 4g plan. installed sim and had no problems. all functions work: calls, im, sms, mms, data (edge, 3g, and HSPA+), everything. on march 17th, i decided to try out a custom rom. i odin rooted my phone with cwm then tried out [ROM][4.2.2][STABLE] LiquidSmooth v2.1 - d2att - 3|16|13. works absolutely fine. sorry for the long wind but i just want to make sure i give all info before posting my question as i may prevent unness replies. having an at&t phone using tmobile as the carrier, can i use roms intended for t-mobile only, or do i have to stick to at&t/multi-carrier roms only?
Honestly making sure you have a T-Mobile put in is all that matters. Other than that they are fairly interchangeable.
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hednik said:
Honestly making sure you have a T-Mobile put in is all that matters. Other than that they are fairly interchangeable.
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I have been making roms, from Canada claro i747m, and tmobile t999 and att 747 and they all work as they should. no problems at all, using stock att modem i747ucdlk3 without any issues...
all I did was change the build prop to represent d2att..
I have simplemobile which is a tmobile company.. except for now I just used up my 4g.. I usually get 3g, but for some reason im getting an E which speed is like 2g edge.. slow at the moment.. never seen that in 3 months..
check my signature, for my roms... they r all stock original roms..
I'm in the same situation as the op. I have at&t i747 unlocked to use with tmobile. My question is, if I flash a multi-rom What carrier do I choose during the aroma install? do I pick tmobile because thats what network im using now or do I pick at&t because its originally an at&t device? any help or advice would be greatly aprecciated.
during the install of liquidsmooth i chose att since i do have the branded phone. i cant use the lte settings for network cause tmob doesnt have their lte out yet (soon to drop), but i am wanting to try the tmobile install and see if i get any difference in data speeds. other than that, liquidsmooth is a pretty solid build. this is the only rom i have tried on my gs3 so far. id like to try others to maybe help give feedback for builders, i just wasnt sure if i could use tmobile or had to stick to att roms. thanks for the info.
on a side note, the rom unlocked a 1080p video record and i like showing ppl the OC ability. 1.9Ghz. YAY!!!
when I first made my Canada Claro rom d2can everything worked out the box. the only thing was it was showing me info of I747m, everything was still working, same when I made my tmobile rom, it was showing d2tmo, everything worked out the box, just that it showed me info of T999, so both of the roms worked, all I did was change the build prop to represent d2att ATT info..
So the answer is yes, u can use other roms... just be careful not to install the modem. I never changed that. I remove them from the rom.
Danger,, I tried making the international GT I9300 and removed the modem, changed the build prop.. almost bricked my phone, played with it to try to make it work, It would hang and sometimes not boot up... so stay away from international one.
so if u try Canada or tmobile u should be safe, its the same phones... or if someone post roms that are ported to att i747.
I am using i747 for T-Mobile.
Can somebody tell me what ROM i should use in order to get WIFI Calling on it ?
Thank you.
i unlocked a sgh-i747 sgs3 for use on tmobile. when i was stock, i could get 4G and Edge only. After a suggestion, i updated my phone and it connected to all manner of 4G and HSPA networks.
i decided that i wasnt happy with the ROM and upgraded to CM 10.1.2-d2att by means of CWM v6.0.3.1.
after getting this happily flashed, i loaded CM and am now stuck in 3g.
any ideas???
I may be wrong, so don't try it without confirmation, but if you don't touch the radios, don't you need the t-mobile roms rather than the at&t ones? I suspect the problem using an at&t Rom is your apn's are messed up. Also check the order your networks try.
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but if you don't touch the radios
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can you elaborate on this? i know what a radio is, but i don't know if i follow you. as someone pretty new to all this, i feel that i did mess with the radio in order to get the AT&T phone, before i installed CM, to connect properly to the 3G signals.
In recovery you can flash modems and baseband. These are specific to the hardware in your phone. You should only flash ones specific to your model number. However the Roms are basically the same between different versions of the phone but with minor changes (at least between t mobile and at&t). There was a thread around explaining how to use a t mobile Rom on an at&t phone.
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i tried to straight flash the tmobile rom and the little android guy died
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meh... im in a bad place. i can't flash the CM i want because apparently the bootloader that fixes the 3G issue for me is based on ICS. if i update the bootloader so i can get the good CM, i guess i lose the fix... right now, i've reverted to the touchwiz that comes with the fix i talked about in my OP and 4G works properly again.
rock and a hard place.
Am glad you got something working. Can you sell that gs3 and get the T Mob version? If it were me, I'd probably stick with a touch wiz version for a while.
I'll try and read up some tomorrow.
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Can you sell that gs3 and get the T Mob version?
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heh, i just bought it. got it this morning from the post office! it was the cheapest one i could get given certain circumstances. you're right, it would be so much easier to just have the official tmobile version.
i have it back in CM now, but it's CM10.0.*. android 4.1 i think. and i'm getting HSPA+ with it. my biggest issue is that 3G fix... it sticks me on a ICS bootloader and that holds back the CM version from being anything 10.1.*. but at least i'm running CM now, even if it's not 4.2.
Is it possible to flash a TMo ROM, Stock?, on my old ATT SM-900A (OC1) in order to get WiFi calling? I am a new T-Mobile customer and using my old hardware for the moment. Wifi calling is a huge deal for me in my weak service area.
No, it is impossible to flash stock TMo ROMs on AT&T's phone as far as I've read:
Here
However, I think there might be some ports of TMo software (custom ROM) for AT&T phones (which include Wi-Fi calling)
As seen here
I am NOT responsible for anything you decide to do at this point. I am giving you the resources to do your own research. I do not own a AT&T Phone and have no way of testing it out myself, proceed with caution.
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No, it is impossible to flash stock TMo ROMs on AT&T's phone as far as I've read:
Here
However, I think there might be some ports of TMo software (custom ROM) for AT&T phones (which include Wi-Fi calling)
As seen here
I am NOT responsible for anything you decide to do at this point. I am giving you the resources to do your own research. I do not own a AT&T Phone and have no way of testing it out myself, proceed with caution.
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I have flashed with TWRP (hlte) a N900TUVUFOB6.zip ROM and have WiFi calling, working on my Sprint Note 3 with a T-Mobile SIM. Installed, setup and did a backup. I restore it when I got WiFi but no cell signal. Not my daily driver but works.
Are you sim unlocked?
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Phredeee said:
Is it possible to flash a TMo ROM, Stock?, on my old ATT SM-900A (OC1) in order to get WiFi calling? I am a new T-Mobile customer and using my old hardware for the moment. Wifi calling is a huge deal for me in my weak service area.
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I'm not too familiar with the AT&T N900A Note 3, but I know about would need to be done. Now if I remember correctly, nobody was ever able to unlock the bootloader on that device, and that is definitely not good. Hopefully I'm wrong though because it would be fairly straight forward if the bootloader can be unlocked. You'd need a recovery like TWRP installed so you can flash a kernel, Safestrap won't work for that. If you could flash an actual full T-Mobile N900T ROM that includes the baseband and kernel, it should work. The N900A and N900T is almost identical except some of the network bands supported. I've looked some, and I'll look around a little more, but so far I haven't seen a single N900T ROM on a N900A device and it have functioning Wi-Fi Calling.
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However, I think there might be some ports of TMo software (custom ROM) for AT&T phones (which include Wi-Fi calling)
As seen here
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I know that ROM won't work the way he needs it to. The actual Wi-Fi Calling components have removed from it. I read through it and no one was ever able to get it functioning at all. *shrug*
There is no way to unlock the n900a bootloader and probably never will be. The phone is still a great device imho but it's considered old in the rapid pace of cell phone hardware.
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There is no way to unlock the n900a bootloader and probably never will be. The phone is still a great device imho but it's considered old in the rapid pace of cell phone hardware.
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That's what I thought. I didn't think the BL was ever unlocked on AT&T's variant, and you're correct, if it's not unlocked by now it's pretty much guaranteed it'll never happen.
I definitely agree that the Note 3 is still a great device. I'm still rockin' my N900T with it set up like the Nexus 6P/Pixel XL. And this little Snapdragon 800 can still get down. The phone is only really lacking stuff like camera hardware with OIS. But it's still really good if you don't use stuff like auto-focus. It'll turn out great pictures if you know how to manually adjust settings.
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That's what I thought. I didn't think the BL was ever unlocked on AT&T's variant, and you're correct, if it's not unlocked by now it's pretty much guaranteed it'll never happen.
I definitely agree that the Note 3 is still a great device. I'm still rockin' my N900T with it set up like the Nexus 6P/Pixel XL. And this little Snapdragon 800 can still get down. The phone is only really lacking stuff like camera hardware with OIS. But it's still really good if you don't use stuff like auto-focus. It'll turn out great pictures if you know how to manually adjust settings.
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Hey...did u update to newest firmware fqd2? If so, what were the updates?
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That's what I thought. I didn't think the BL was ever unlocked on AT&T's variant, and you're correct, if it's not unlocked by now it's pretty much guaranteed it'll never happen.
I definitely agree that the Note 3 is still a great device. I'm still rockin' my N900T with it set up like the Nexus 6P/Pixel XL. And this little Snapdragon 800 can still get down. The phone is only really lacking stuff like camera hardware with OIS. But it's still really good if you don't use stuff like auto-focus. It'll turn out great pictures if you know how to manually adjust settings.
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Autofocus works well in the note 3 thread...magma, phronesis and even cm 14 roms
the only phone that is att that can be flashed to tmo that I know of is the galaxy s4 because they are the same phone but this i've no idea