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color=#0000ff size=4>I had to replace my S2 because it's Wimax calling
technology is obsolete and Sprint will de-commission all towers in
October, going to an all 4G LTE
network. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=995505616-28082015><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Not sure how or whether that may affect your
case, but my S2 had developed high incidence of call dropouts and a few other
idiosyncrasies.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=4>Got an S5 used. MUCH better basic specs than S2,
newer bluetooth spec, etc, and everything seems better. No cost or plan
impact with Sprint to substitute hardware bought privately.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>gregrwm<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 27, 2015 5:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
tclug-list@mn-linux.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [tclug-list] t989 begging
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<DIV>since firefox frequently grinds GINGERBREAD.UVLDG to a standstill, i want
to upgrade the OS on my galaxy sii sgh-t989.<BR><BR>i've tried both
Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall and jamiejackson/Heimdall, either can examine the
phone partitions, and both seem to go thru the motions of flashing the
recovery partition according to the linux end, but the phone doesn't show any
blue progress bar, instead shows "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue"
(clearable with "close-pc-screen"). i think my usb cable is fine because
adb push works and the pushed files' md5/sha1 are fine.<BR><BR></DIV>so i
guess my options are<BR> o read into heimdall&fix it<BR>
o scour the house for that xp cd&install
virtualbox/xp/odin<BR></DIV> o find a root method that works via
linux<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>the third option appeals, but the info i'm finding is a confusing array
of rather old or otherwise doubtable posts, not to mention nearly always
requiring windows.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>thought i'd try posting here first. any
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