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Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Luceo posted:

It's been a while, but thanks for this recommendation, it's been great and should tide me over til new phone season in the fall.

Only issue I've had is that it won't seem to roam off T-Mobile at all now. I assume that's an APN problem, but I've yet to figure it out and haven't had to roam in a while. Maybe one of the weeklies fixed it. :shrug:

Apn settings for T Mobile:


Android APN settings

Open the Access Point Names or APNs menu.

In Settings, look under Wireless & Networksor tap the Connections tab.

Touch Mobile network. You may need to touch More settings, More..., or More networks first.

Touch Access Point Names.

Touch the T-Mobile APN if one is available. If not, press the Menu key and touch new APN.

Verify and update the following settings for the Data APN.

Name: T-Mobile

APN: Fast.t-mobile.com (for LTE devices) or epc.tmobile.com (for non-LTE devices)

Proxy: <Not set>

Port: <Not set>

Username: <Not set>

Password: <Not set>

Server: <Not set>

MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

MMS proxy: <Not set>

MMS port: <Not set>

MMS protocol: WAP 2.0

MCC: 310

MNC: 260

Authentication Type: <Not set>

APN Type: default,supl,mms ORInternet+MMS

Default Android provides a text field to enter: default,supl,mms.

Samsung provides an Internet+MMSradio button to select.

APN Protocol: IPv4/IPv6

APN roaming protocol: IPv4

Turn APN on/off: Grayed out unless there are multiple APNs

Bearer: Unspecified

Press the Menu key.

Touch Save.

Delete any other APNs that appear in the list. The FOTA APN can remain if available.

Touch the APN that needs to be removed.

Press the Menu key.

Touch Delete APN.

Verify there is a circle next to the remaining APN.

Perform a soft reset. Hold down the power button until the device turns off and restarts.

Test the data connection and/or MMS by accessing the Web or sending a picture message.

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Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

revmoo posted:

How do I root a Samsung Galaxy S10?

Unfortunately you can't even root the S9 yet

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

revmoo posted:

Seriously? I figured buying a flagship would guarantee the ability to root.

I guess I'll ship it back, I'm not really interested in a non-rootable phone.

EDIT: I don't speak the lingo, but doesn't this mean you can root the S9: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s9-plus/how-to/guide-root-s9-oem-fix-t3763974

?

That's for some weird overseas version of the S9 that uses a different processor.

If you want root you pretty much have to get a Pixel. Also it has to be the one directly from Google. The Verizon-made one sucks.

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Alan_Shore posted:

That's not true. You can root pretty much all Chinese phones e.g. Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE etc

Just go to XDA and look at the forums, some are easier than others

Oh I meant like major mainstream phones that you can get at like Best Buy or whatever, but still that's good to know. I was going to buy an S9 because of its form factor but didn't because of the US version being unrootable.

Off topic but I'm surprised with all the Chinese phone manufacturers out there no one has bothered to make a 4.2 to 4.7" phone with recent hardware. I'd buy one in a second.

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
Non-capped tethering is reason alone to use root. I won't buy a phone that can't be rooted. I tether hours a day.

All the other stuff is just a bonus.

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Eikre posted:

Two things I'm interested in:

Is there a simple way to make save-states of ordinary apps in rooted android? Like the kind of poo poo that you would expect out of an emulator or virtual machine: mirror an app's current exact state in memory and then just drop it right back into that snapshot at your leisure. It's easy with virtualization because you have the entire machine in a jar and don't need to dissect shared resources, but my understanding is that hypervisors on Android are already kind of a thing (isn't it how Samsung's Knox works?) so I was thinking someone might have made an app-wrapper to do exactly this.

Other thing: blocking calls with extreme prejudice. I have no idea how voice networking works these days but if there was enough information in the hailing package for a low-level demon to identify the caller's number and then just never respond so that, as far as the Telecom knew, the phone was just off? That would be great. But I would just as soon accept a solution where it catches the connection and immediately hangs up before anything in user-space even sees it. Actually, just give me options.

For the second one, I use You Mail and set one of the voicemails to "beep boop beep, the number you have dialed has been disconnected" for any number where I explicitly ignore the call. If you just let the phone ring and ring it will go to normal voicemail. Anyway do this enough times and your number is marked as inactive by their machines and you never get telemarketing calls again.

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Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Swolecialism posted:

What's the best phone for root now? Is it still oneplus because of the no warranty void?

It will always be the Pixel phones. They allow unlocking the bootloader right from the drat settings menu!



hoppits posted:

I'm running a nexus 4 currently rooted and running a custom rom of course of Android 10 and I have to say the experience has been surprisingly great. I have been able to multitask quite well and basically run anything from the play store with no problems that isn't google maps and apart from the poo poo tier battery life and degrading rubber I quite like this phone and have actually been dailying it. I would like to know has anyone else had a great experience with a ancient device such as mine where installing a custom rom suddenly made your device a million times more usable to the point where you actually daily it?

I'm not big into custom roms because of bullshit like "calling 911 doesn't work" or "certain radio frequencies not supported" that seems to plague every release but back in the day a custom ROM absolutely made my HTC Thunderbolt a way better phone.

I also installed LineageOS on my Nexus 5x (it's still my "phone to use while broken phone gets fixed" phone) and I have to say I like it a lot. However most of that is because of the customizations that are available, and I find that Gravitybox is light-years ahead of it on the stock AOSP Google ROM.

By the way you now can pass Safetynet with root again.

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