Root [Boost Mobile] Tri-Band S3 (SPH-L710T)

stolikat said:

I am also on sprint and waiting to see if this works. Are there any ROMs working on Sprint prepaid phones?

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You mean the sprint spark S3 aka L710T for contract and pre-paid on sprint right? and what works if your on contract will work on pre-paid.....generally unless the devices are fundamentally different (but they aren't).....so what will work for the Boost/Virgin Variant of the Spark will work for the Sprint one....you just need the APN to be fixed for LTE

Ok well I will try the APN fix you suggested tomorrow and see if that works. I will report back.

BTW does anyone know how to grant write permission to the SD for Titanium backup?

I just used "NetApp SdcardFix" app, and then changed TB Backup folder to my sdcard1...

^ Crud I used that and now TB is not working properly and my SD card is not recognized in my phone or PC. SO I can not even restore. Thats epic fu**** yo!

Not saying its your fault but something is not right. Sprint Prepaid here.

Seems like your sdcard went bad...

vce2005 said:

Seems like your sdcard went bad...

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Yep it must have fried. Weird though i read elsewhere that it happened to another kat on xdforums

Toasted a brand new name brand 32gig micro sd

stolikat said:

Yep it must have fried. Weird though i read elsewhere that it happened to another kat on xdforums

Toasted a brand new name brand 32gig micro sd

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If it's a program that ruined it and it didn't just happen from age or just being a bad card:

You'll need a USB flash drive (it doesn't need to be blank, but has to be between 4gb and the size of the SD card) and the ability to read the SD card on your computer.

Download and boot into a Linux (I use Ubuntu) live CD. If you don't have a blank CD, use unetbootin and the flash drive.
Unplug any external drive with important files on it just in case.

Open terminal (press ctrl+alt+t) and run "sudo gparted", use the drop down list to see how many drives you have and where the letters stop (/dev/sd(letter)). Alternately you can use the command "lsblk" in the terminal.
Plug the USB drive in (if you haven't already) and make a note of what letter it is. Plug the SD card in. In that order.

Don't unplug anything or plug anything in except the SD card right now or you could wipe a different drive.
If you use the wrong letters you will wipe a different drive and lose all the files on it, or it just won't work.

Close gparted, go back to terminal, enter "sudo dd if=/dev/sd(flash drive letter) of=/dev/sd(one letter after all the letters in that list)".
Example: I have one internal hard drive and no external storage plugged in and I'm booting off of a CD, the command is "sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc".

It'll take a long time (upwards of 10 minutes depending on your flash drive and SD card) especially if it's a large flash drive, but after that you should be able to reformat your SD card and use it. I was able to use this to recover my SD card from being unrecognizable to my computer as well as my phone. I did this with a 4gb flash drive and a 16gb SD card.

I also can't guarantee that this'll work and you won't ruin your computer or something. If you do ruin your computer though it's because you entered the command wrong. Knowledge of how Linux handles filesystems is recommended but not required.

stolikat said:

BTW does anyone know how to grant write permission to the SD for Titanium backup?

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I think the problem is that /storage/sdcard0 is the internal storage (at least it is on my phone with the conquest ROM). I had to set TB's folder to /storage/extSdCard to get it on the SD card.

Hey guys so i got the sprint spark l710t and ive read through this post im currently running the conquest rom with the kernel fix. Im just wondering if i could do this with any more of the sprint s3 roms. Also is there a confirmed fix for the LTE ? If so id appreciate someome confirming one for me

I just flashed the conquest ROM and kernel and I had no data.

stolikat said:

I just flashed the conquest ROM and kernel and I had no data.

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I had the same problem with the sd on stock i couldnt write to it and i used the SDfix by nextapp in the playstore it worked perfect

luis7474 said:

I had the same problem with the sd on stock i couldnt write to it and i used the SDfix by nextapp in the playstore it worked perfect

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Sorry i meant that 3g/4g didn't work after flashing conquest.

The wicked S5 Xperiance is a great Rom.
The only problem I am getting is I cannot use screen mirroring with my Samsung TV anymore.
Might go back to stock.

stolikat said:

Sorry i meant that 3g/4g didn't work after flashing conquest.

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Have you tried the apn fix yet?

folkvar said:

The wicked S5 Xperiance is a great Rom.
The only problem I am getting is I cannot use screen mirroring with my Samsung TV anymore.
Might go back to stock.

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I found it didn't work on anything but stock. I think in Samsung, the screen mirroring is kernel Dependant. So without the stock kernel it doesn't seem to work. But I need to do some more testing to be sure.

Madbat said:

I found it didn't work on anything but stock. I think in Samsung, the screen mirroring is kernel Dependant. So without the stock kernel it doesn't seem to work. But I need to do some more testing to be sure.

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I tried to use the stock kernal with S5 Xperiance.
But was to no avail.
this is probably the best rom I've ever flashed.

folkvar said:

I tried to use the stock kernal with S5 Xperiance.
But was to no avail.
this is probably the best rom I've ever flashed.

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Can't use stock kernel on that ROM, its based on nd8. So unless you have nd8 boot loader and baseband, you need a custom kernel (like ktoonsez) to have data.

Madbat said:

Can't use stock kernel on that ROM, its based on nd8. So unless you have nd8 boot loader and baseband, you need a custom kernel (like ktoonsez) to have data.

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Ahh I see.
Thank you for sharing this with me.

So is Liquid Smooth our best bet for AOSP ROM currently on the L710t?

Somebody please explain which custom roms can be flashed on the triband NF4. I've been reading the forums and I see ND8/NDC all over the place and I'm confused on which roms are safe for this phone.

ZingBot said:

Somebody please explain which custom roms can be flashed on the triband NF4. I've been reading the forums and I see ND8/NDC all over the place and I'm confused on which roms are safe for this phone.

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Most of the touchwiz singularity is nice.I'm using the lollipop build but rotation is jacked up so I use adaptive rotation apk for when I need it.Also I use snap can for the camera.
The wicked x both work just read it tells you to flash the kernal fix and APN fix as needed for your carrier.

Flashed s5xperiance along with ktoons along with apnfix. Everything good

Where is this apn fix everyone keeps mentioning?