Electronics & Appliances Which Dumaguete company will root a Samsung Phone

Well now I don't feel so stupid :-) The guy at the cell phone shop followed similar steps to what I did when rooting the phone. He got to the same conclusion I got. That being the phone was rooted but now required a password to use the phone. The difference is that he knew how to reset it to original condition and so that's where it is now. Still unrooted and still with an 8 GB storage problem.

So has anyone encountered a problem when rooting a phone where you end up with a password to get into your newly rooted phone? How did you solve that problem?

@Plainspoken the same guy said he could unlock an Apple phone so it will still be worth visiting him for that.

 

Please continue keeping us up to date on this. I have the same phone and even though I barely use it, I have ran into the 'not enough memory to install app' issue. Since my wife is on the phone constantly, I swapped her J2 for my wonderful, never an issue, Galaxy S5. The J2 covers my main use of texting just fine, surprised by the memory issue of just a few travel apps. Not enough priority for me to figure it out but since you are leading the charge, I will follow lol.

 

What a PITA.

The fix for this IMO is to get a phone with better specs or don't install apps.

There are many systems being sold (even laptops) which barely have the specs to run the software they are loaded with (or don't last long). Fighting this is like trying to polish a turd.

Once you start using a smart phone, you realize the only app worth a **it is that which allows you to make calls and send texts.

Use web apps.

The most useful app outside that basic functionality which allows calling and texting is the web browser. For example, you can run FB in the browser on your phone, it takes up no additional room and you can close the ****ing thing when it starts getting lippy.

Manufacturers don't give a **** about your phone specs.

Many developers are developing for relatively high-end phones. They aren't optimizing for phones with low specs. Many of these applications take up a ridiculous amount of space in your storage and eat up RAM running in the background.

Many applications are now running as web applications anyways. Developing for Android, IOS and Windows is a PITA. Then you have the desktop as another possible device. The easiest way to build your app to run on almost everything is to package it up as a browser app. To the busy user, it looks and feels like any other app and you install it via the app store, but the controls and layout are all the same as you would use if you were building a web site . You're basically just downloading a running multiple instances of Chrome.

For example, on my Windows 10 laptop each of Skype, Spotify and Facebook have options for installation from the app store. Each of them are basically running in separate instances of Chrome (you wouldn't know it from using the app) and they all eat ridiculous memory and storage because the browser is a beast. I prefer running the actual web app (without having to install anything from the app store) if possible.

Most people end up using only a handful of apps after an initial app happy phase with a new phone. And of this handful, some of them can be loaded through the phone browser. Rather than wasting your life away trying to fight the reality of cheap hardware, it might be best to take a close look at what you actually need on the phone.

Also note that storage works differently in different versions of Android. If my memory serves me, I believe the app manufacturers decide how their apps use your storage in Marshmallow. Some applications may allow you to run them on an SD card and some might not. I believe in later versions of Android, you get full control over this as the user.

As mentioned earlier in another post, your phone storage has better performance than removable storage. This is why app developers would force their app to run on phone storage given the option. They don't want crap reviews because their app is slow.

 

Well since you asked, I had given up and the phone guy has given up so in a last "Hail Mary" effort I contacted the Samsung support chat line.

I think it was Abdul who I was chatting with. and he simply confirmed that there is no way that Samsung permits to add additional internal storage. They will not support any programs to use the SD card to run apps. They suggest the SD card for media storage only. They will not support any plan to add additional internal memory, such as a hardwired plug in. In effect he said: What you have is what you get.

The phone seems great. My gf really loves it. But she has NOT managed to transfer any parts of her apps from Internal storage to SD card so now she is running with 5.5 out of 8GB Internal Storage and 436 mb out of 32GB on the useless SD card. (Brings tears to my eyes because if it was rootable it has the Marshmallow to run the SD as Internal but not rootable yet).

This is after 24 hours of use as it was just reset to factory specs yesterday when the final rooting attempt was made. All she added is Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Candy Crush, and Pitu. That's it! That's all she has loaded and she is pretty much screwed if she ever wants to add additional apps. In 3 months she will hate it.

And Samsung says: Sorry there is nothing we can do.

 

Putting this in a separate reply:

It looks like you have the best idea. I barely use the apps on my cell phone and I think I would do as Dude suggested and run everything I need from the web, so the only app I would have to download is a couple games to play while waiting to be served in Dumaguete restaurants.

So better off to follow your lead and give a good phone to GF and keep the Samsung for my own use. I'll see what she thinks of the idea.

 

Ya, where I got into 'trouble' was not anticipating a memory problem with a current model, I just started installing everything I had added on my S5 without thought about how much/if I used it. Just now looking at the J2 I have several that I may use once a year or can just use the S5 if I 'need' it (like open signal). Basically the S5 made me lazy as I had memory to waste.

 

Unfortunately, we're not smart. Friends/family who are getting our off-contract iPhones go to Dos Unlock and then recently, they found JM Cellshop to be cheaper P1,300--cost is about one pint of a fine draft beer in Japan.
Luckily, I found out today that we can have our phones unlocked now before giving them away. Unlocking a Japanese iPhone to Use with Cheap SIM | Tokyo Cheapo

 

ooops, I was looking at the figures in yen the current exchange is equivalent to ¥2,900

 

This seems to be a Samsung trait, even if I reset my phone to factory settings I only have a little over 40mb's free without installing any apps (as well I removed sounds and background images in an attempt to free up more space) and even using my memory card to store pictures, that free space quickly disappears and browsing folders via my PC, all come up as 0 bytes in size. Very frustrating! As stated earlier; I will never buy another Samsung phone/ device again...