Wait, are you saying my transform ultra might not be a sph-m930BST?
I mean I dig that we will all have different builds of firmware and revisions of hardware and I think that's probably exactly why it doesn't work for my phone and it does for most others, but the model number doesn't change just because they updated firmware or hardware ie: m920 is transform, m930 is transform ultra.
Out of curiosities sake I have hardware version M930.02 and the latest firmware. I'd be interested in seeing what others have and whether or not foxfi is working for them?
I read on forums a lot about phones and tablets related to firmware and I noticed something in particular, that may just be totally out there, but my previous comments you quoted are based on this single idea...
I have an asus transformer, tf101, and we both know the model is the same for the tf101s, but asus did something funny when they produced them.
It's like you said, phone name and model number are the same, but if you look at the serial number of my tablet, it starts with: B70
When I rooted, it really made no difference. But then ICS came out and I couldn't upgrade unless I unrooted. I couldn't unroot, because everyone who had a serial number starting with b70, had hard firmware that prevented them from loading an sdcard in recovery mode. I had to hack the thing and somehow replace the recovery mode to newer version, just to load the sdcard with the firmware flash in it.
Looking back in the above scenario, name and model number doesn't mean anything anymore, but companies are releasing different versions, that the only way you can tell if it's different is comparing serial numbers. Like I said, depending on when you purchased will determine which version you have.
I don't know, maybe this is too out there, but it seems logical if they wanted to do this, to patch something on the phone and not let everyone know they were doing it. I mean that's assuming that samsung did something similar with their serials.
I thought it was a pretty sneaky and clever thing to do. Obviously, it would make it harder for techies to be able to tell if something is patched or not.
Another thing you have to remember is that Google is attempting to phase out people rooting their devices, as they allegedly said in an article. They claimed that rooted phones are a security threat to Google's wallet thing.
ICS from what I noticed, was a clear move against rooted devices, considering how next to impossible it was for me to unroot and restore to factory condition. I did it, but I bricked my device several times and I was completely freaking out. I just got the thing less than a month before ICS release. Although I succeeded, its something that I don't want to do ever again, and i haven't rooted anything since.
If those of you who would like to read up on my little fiasco/horror story involving ICS and my tablet:
http://androidforums.com/asus-eee-p...-tf101-b70-tablet-will-not-take-ics-help.html