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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thonyj:
do you have any idea on how to fix a galaxy s4 att (I337) i tried to do a few things to it. now it is bricked and the firmware i had when bricked was lollipop 5.0.1 i have been trying a few ways to recover it but nothing. i have given up on it just trying to get info on how to fix it. but i end up on the same thing and it just don't work. i want to know if it is bricked for good or do i still have a second chance to revive my phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mafsi:
Reflash the same firmware with odin.

If you can enter download mode ( volume down + power ) you can solve the problem and your phone is not bricked for good.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thonyj:
could you give me a link please? if you know any?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apathyap:
Hi guys, I bought recently a Galaxy S4 (I9500) from eBay. I noticed that the camera is blurry. Could it be possible changed? I entered Antutu and made a screenshot, seems there it says it has a 12.8 megapixel instead of 13 MP.

Please see the link..

http://imgur.com/yJxkTso

Does anyone know why the rear camera seems blurry?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finac94:
Try messing with the camera settigs and turn off auto night-mode
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walttheboss:
I think that's a bad move. Twrp is much more up to date. Try 2.8.7.0. Some people swear by 2.8.1.0. Antares one made a 2.8.7.2 for f2fs filesystem but I had trouble restoring backups. Recommend 2.8.7.0!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rohi09:
can anyone tell me which files and libs are for IR blaster exactly? i need those files and libs
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forleo90:
I tried to flash latest modem ( like seen on Albe astra port ) but during the flash odin stop working when it says "get mapping pit". What's the problem? I just open odin, check phone, check moden .bin and start. Thank you everybody

Inviato dal mio GT-I9505 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Isn't that any kind of configuration or app pre-installed? I've never seen this before though...

Hi,

SPH-L720 is the Sprint variant, try this recovery - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2262999. And check custom ROMs from there too :).

Hi,

Have you tried [MENTION=329570]malybru[/MENTION] link a few posts ago?

Hi,

Check if you're not selecting something that involves PIT. Also, try another Odin version, or another USB port or cable.

Hi,

Have you tried uninstalling the wireless print driver and reinstalling it? Or checking if it's discoverable in the network using a computer?

All the best,

~Lord
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwaril_james:
Can anyone help me with changing boot logo, S4 GT-i9507v??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mitchs4:
Sorry if this has been asked but I can't seem to find a solution for my problem.

Have a galaxy s4 sch-i545 android version 4.4.2. I was able to root using kingo. It held for less than 24 hrs before knox saw it and started blocking everything. I tried to re root in with kingo and now my phone reboots twice during the root process essentially making the root fail. I've tried going into odin mode and it just freezes in downloading do not turn off target. I've tried downloading the supersu zip file, extracting it and running and to no avail, knox trips and won't allow anything. I've tried towelroot. Says it rooted but then I go into root checker and it says there's no root. I've talked with a samsung rep and they won't remove a factory app such such as knox. Said they will flash the current android version but not remove knox so I can customize it myself. Mind you this is a verizon phone. I've tried what seems to be all suggestions on the net for this android version and nothing works to disable/uninstall/erase knox from this phone. Ive also tried the method of uninstalling knox in the knox settings and it wont allow it as i need device administration permission which is locked out. NOTHING seems to work. Does anyone got a suggestion that maybe I haven't tried to I can get this phone fully rooted?

Thanks

Mitch
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
have u tried cf-autoroot? the super auxiliary s for flashing in a custom recovery like TWRP o Cwm or philz touch.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulikiam:
I have a SHV-300s whose mainboard was fried, so my technician replaced that with a SHV-330S running 4.4.2 SUCNI1 fine. I mistakenly apply TWRP 300s on it, and after that I try to flash 5.0.1 DOH2 (nonblack). The end result: its screen get completely back, irresponsive to touch. Its other functions like sounds (volumn sound), startup sound are ok. It can even receive phone call, but not accepting phone call since the screen is black.

Plz help!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Annunneo:
Can you boot into download mode? If so flash a stock firmware via Odin and see if that solves your problem.[emoji4]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amstro:
Do i still need to unlock my bootloader on my GT-i9505 running on stock Touchwiz Lollipop 5.0.1. for me to flash [ROM] Albe95 S6 FULL PORT 4.7 [S6/Edge FEATURE PORT] ? I would appreciate it very much if someone replies...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sulikiam:
Yes I can, and I did. However during the whole process the screen is completely black, It's Odin's COM recognition that I know it's download mode. I try to flash SUCNI1 (442) and DOD2(501), DOH2(501) but none of them took the screen back stably. The technician guy tested the screen and said the screen is OK, it's the compatibility between 330s mainboard and 300s body. I flashed nonstop among TWRP/CWM/stock 442/stock 501 and once or twice the screen went functional but only for a very brief amount of time (max: 15 minutes), and there is no clear patterns how it went back.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaankkaraman:
Do battety calibration
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrts:
Hi there,I have a galaxy s4 gt i9505. yesterday I installed cm13.0 20151230, it run but when I unlock SIM it says UI has stopped. Then it shows continously that i have to update google services. Then I decided to install gapps nano for 6.0. After installing gapps with twrp, When I restart the phone the only thing that I could do is to access settings with a message showing, and without access home screen by pressing home key. The fact that nothing went good I decided to use twrp and back up to cm12.120151226. After I tried to install the newer cm13.020151231 but the things were worse. I let it update apps as it was saying and nothing. It only shows the cm logo for 40 mins then I backed up to cm 12.1 again. What am I doing wrong with the install of cm13.0? Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AntaresOne:
Hello,

On the Galaxy S4 with Qualcomm Snapdragon it's not possible to edit the splashscreen at power on because you need to HEX edit the bootloader and once did cannot be flashed back as the phone won't accept it.

Instead, if you meant boot animation, simply edit QMG files in /system/media (on phone). You could check out these useful links:

How to create QMG boot animations

How to convert bootanimation.zip to QMG

Or simply make a search on Google ("Android QMG") to find them ready.

Happy new year :)

Hello,

Sounds like you didn't make all the proper wipes, we have a dedicated thread of CM13 here. Just make sure you follow the installation steps, everything is going to be okay.

Happy new year :)

Inviato dal mio LG-H815
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klarnet2009:
happy new year!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryn70:
Any method to root Samsung galaxy s4 lollipop 5.0.1.

Tried kingroot bt not working
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finac94:
Cf auto root
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Have you tried CF-AutoRoot or, my preferred method, flashing a custom recovery and then latest SuperSU?

Happy new year,

~Lord
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrts:
By whiping data will i have any problems with the root? And if I have is it better to root again device or flash supersu and which supersu is suitable for the 13.0?

Thanks again and a happy new year!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryn70:
Anyone provide drivers for Samsung galaxy s4 i9500 lollipop 5.0.1
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Annunneo:
What kind of drivers do you need?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thonyj:
Could you give me a link for the firmware? That could work with Odin. It is lollipop 5.0.1

Please help
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mafsi:
Go to sammobile.com enter your device (e.g. gt-i9505) , choose your country and.your carrier and download your firmware. Then simply flash it with odin, but before that do a factory reset.

Trimis de pe al meu GT-I9505 folosind Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerryn70:
I what to root my Samsung galaxy s4 i9500 lollipop 5.0.1.

So i need Samsung drivers to install it on my pc
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Annunneo:
You can use kies to get the latest drivers.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jithin91:
Help pls..

hi my friend has a Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505 Branded to 3 Mobiles UK.

The device is now unlocked and other sims are accepted by the device.

The device is now in India. The Problem is he cannot make a call. (shows error SIM not registered).

If we call to that device it tells the subscriber is out of coverage area.

The device is accepting the SIM and shows Signal (full strength) but can't do SIM based activities.

Currently using Vodafone Sim in India. Tried out all carriers here, but no use.

What might be the issue. Is the problem is with Bands.?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
try flashing official firmware for India via Odin

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fahadjaseem:
I want to root my Samsung galaxy s4 i9500 .. but i am not familiar with the terms like flashing .. bricks. . Cwm .. could you suggest me something about root
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jithin91:
we don't have an Indian version of I9505 here.. Instead we have I9500. Can i flash I9500's ROM into I9505.

OR

Can i flash an International ROM Firmware to it. will that work..

The ROM Stated here..

http://www.android.gs/manually-upda...5-lte-to-android-5-0-1-i9505xxuhoa7-lollipop/

by flashing this will the SIM functions work.. does flashing a firmware change the modem or radio of the device..?

don't mistake me am new to android
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shivamd:
flyme os

whenver i try to flash flyme os on my galaxy s4(19500) it gives me error while other roms are flashed easily

i m using philz touch
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolutesaneman:
WiFi Fix Not working

Hi !

Device: i9505 Stock

Flashed Modem : XXUHOF2

Flashed Bootloader: XXUHOF2

android version 5.0.1

build number: LRX22C 19505 XXUHOJ4

knox 0x1

Flashed the above LTE/GSm modem and Bootloader. Wifi button stopped working.

That is the current version for my Network, (3IRE).

Tried *****E2 aswell, wifi did not work.

Do I keep trying bootloader/modem combinjations until I find one that works ?

or

Could it need a new firmware aswell ?

Thanks for reading,

Absolutesaneman
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
if on stock ROM you'll need to flash full ROM otherwise WiFi won't work.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolutesaneman:
Ah ok., cheers.

So flash the same firmware, bootloader and modem. One at a time ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
yeah happened to me on both S4 & A5, works fine on custom ROMs but not stock for some reason. goes to switch on but switch's off straight away again.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohaimed:
anyone using the latest lollypop for SHV E300L- E300LKLUGOL5? Can anyone tell me whether it has fixed the wifi connection bug?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] painx:
I tried to root S4 LTE with Kinga and fails. Can you give some sugestions or other tutorial for rooting without ODIN or FLASH?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
Google cf-autoroot for your device, download the zip to your PC,

go into the zip and extract everything to a folder u can easily find,

boot your phone to download mode via these buttons......volume down+power+home, it will bring up a warning, press volume up to continue,

in the folder u extracted the files to click on Odin, within Odin you will see PDA button, click on it and select cf-autotoot.tar.md5 file, it will load up, now connect phone to PC, you should see a box light up with cl"comm9" or any number doesn't matter,

now your are ready to flash, just click start and let the magic happen,

as long as it was all good your phone will reboot and u will see a red android with White writing on your screen, don't panic its rooting, after that your phone will reboot again.

Once rebooted find the supersu app and open, normally a popup appears saying Knox is trying to prevent this supersu from running and do u wish to disable, select yes. now your rooted and can flash a custom recovery ( TWRP) is preferred choice and then u can flash custom ROMs via that recovery. any more help ask away. :)

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shingz96:
My s4 I9500 keep saying that dock is connected which cause my phone cannot be detected on PC , luckily it still able to charge, but i hope there is a fix for it as i don't even know what the dock is....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Apad121:
Clear the Dark Background in Recent Apps Lollipop Touchwiz

Hi there

In Stock TouchWiz Lollipop 5.0.1, the recent apps screen has a darkened background. For example look below.

[IMG="Recent Apps Stock with Dark Background"]http://i.imgur.com/rvO7hze.png?1[/IMG]

However could we make it look more like the S6 new Touchwiz design looking like this:

[IMG="S6 Recent apps with Light Background"]http://assets.hardwarezone.com/img/2015/04/Screenshot_2015-04-08-09-51-32.png[/IMG]

I personally think that the S6 has the better Recent apps menu as you can actually see the chosen background.

Hopefully there is a way to clear the S4 recent apps background to show the wallpaper like the S6 does.

Thanks in advance.:D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgv:
Usb problems on CM12.1: keeps disconnecting (win7 pc) or will just stop transmitting data until I pull plug and reconnect again. Hard to send even a single video file 50-100mb although some smaller files transfer before connection fails or resets.

I have an S4 i9500 and was running a TW rom before with no usb problems at all. Just installed CM12.1 a couple days ago and everything works perfectly except for this. Do I need to change my usb drivers for the phone or something else? I've tried searching everywhere for this problem but I can't find any info on it.

Please help, thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
happened a lot to me to. seems to be a common issue on cm side

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgv:
SUBJECT: Dropped usb connections on CM12.1 and S4 i9500.

Seems a little crazy if it's common that it wouldn't be easier to find info about this bad usb connection problem... Did you just switch roms to fix it? For now, I'm using wifi ftp transfers to hold out for a fix.. Anyone know where to post official bugs or check if it a known bug? There is a forum on: http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/forum/1080-samsung-galaxy-s4-intl-development/ but it doesn't seem like the place for bugs (or even frequently read).

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] walttheboss:
This always happened to me when using f2fs. Ext4 works fine. Just an observation.

Also change screen timeout to 30 minutes so it doesn't lock. Some ROMs stop transfer on screen lock.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgv:
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, just checked and my phone partitions are all ext4.. Will try usb file transfers to a linux machine and see if the same dropped transfers problems occur.

EDIT: FIXED (apparently). For anyone who's having this issue.. In checking my partition formats with "mount" via adb, I had to enable usb debugging (Developer options -> Android debugging) and now I have flawless usb behavior with everything else unchanged. Odd, perhaps via adb the phone uses a different driver to the PC and that one works well with CM12.1 ? Hope this helps anyone having the issue (and curious if anyone knows why this fixes things). Thanks for the replies!

EDIT2: Not Fixed. Problem persists, unfortunately.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chikyu Tenshi:
Okay so I'm using a rooted Galaxy S4 i9000 version 5.0.1 and wanted to install xposed but sadly I can't because I'm on stock rom

So I was wondering what custom rom do you guys recommend I switch to that will allow me to have xposed?

~Chik
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X-Lucky-Messi-X:
How do I fix '' this phone is not supported '' in towelroot on my Samsung Galaxy S4? I tried all codes, but they don't work. Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarcelRobinson:
My advice would be to find a custom deodexed rom. (:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chikyu Tenshi:
Any recommendations off the top of your head?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sanji-:
Does someone know how can i have ios emojis on CM Rom?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
Towelroot only works on some older versions of 4.4.2. If you want to root use cf auto-root.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oiphal:
What would be a good ROM to use as a daily driver?

I'm finally upgrading from an infuse where I used CM11 (10 most recently). The phone is like four years old so I figured a fairly cheap upgrade made sense. I ordered an SGH-1337, which from everything I can look at seems to be a I9505? Anyways, won't have the phone for a few days, but wanted to look into what some of the better options were. Seems like there's a lot more viable ones than the infuse had.

I mostly use my phone for reading and texting, which likely won't change, but the possibility to actually use it for games + browsing without needing to wait 5 minutes for a page to load is appealing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X-Lucky-Messi-X:
I rooted my phone with kingroot and it succeeded. Then I launched a file root.sh in terminal emulator made by Mr. W0lf to replace kinguser with SuperSU from Chainfire and SuperSU installed, but when I opened it, it said that SuperSU can't install SU binary and that's a problem. It also said that I have to get a root permission and that I should see on forums about that. My phone is GT-I9505 and I'm running 4.4.2. I did root it before with kingroot and when I rebooted it, I lost root. Then I did it again and Kingroot asked me if I want to deactivate KNOX and I said yes and now everytime I'm in terminal emulator there's a number 1 on the left side of text. My guess is that KNOX has been triggered. Right after I I rooted with kingroot it said that phone is rooted on root checker and when I agreed to deactivate KNOX, it said that the phone isn't rooted on root checker. Please can someone help me and tell me what to do. Thank you really much.

Edit: I just checked in volume down +power + home and KNOX wasn't triggered. It was 0x0 (thank God). But I still don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
there is a video on YouTube about replacing kingroot with supersu.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sadkate:
OK to flash with brand new SD card?

Hello and TIA. Rooted my i9505 and a bit out of my depth tbh!

I rooted successfully with Odin and then flashed the CyanogenMod 5.01 official stable ROM. Somethings are a bit wonky*. I'm getting a new SD card tomorrow do thought I'd do a clean install with that to try again. Can I load the ROM and Gapps zips onto the new card, put that in and go for it? Does TWRP custom recovery live in the phone itself?

*Specifically root checked out OK until I flashed the new ROM and then Rootchecker said not rooted correctly. I fixed it by turning it on in settings and updating the binary in SuperSU. Also I'm getting some force closes with apps like Facebook and wonder if (old?) app folders I see on my SD card are the problem, hence thinking shiny new SD card might help.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rapper01:
Hard/soft brick help

Long post, grab a snack.

Well, my I9505 was running CM12 or 11, and I dont know what I did while I was sleeping, but when I woke up in the morning and tried to turn it on, it was stuck on the boot animation (the CM original one, weird because I used a themed one).

As it wasnt booting, I tried to use ADB backup to save my data, but the desktop auth for backupping wasnt activated, so I failed storing everything. Also tried to use the CWM recovery to backup /data, but it said: "Cant mount /data."

After this I gave up my storage and just wanted my phone back to work. I wiped cache, data, dalvik, but nothing worked. Tried flashing the stock ROM over CWM recovery with an SD card, but also nothing, then I used Odin to do the same, but failed.

At this point I was trying everything I read , for example flashing the stock ROM with the I9505 pit file.... I know it was a dumb move, but ok. Searching the errors that Odin encountered, I read that my motherboard was gone and "this is a hard brick because you lost your NAND board as the flashing always failed on NAND writing (this is true) and bla bla bla..." Is this really a hard brick? Bye-bye Galaxy S4?

And now I dont know what should I do.... Try to flash a stock ROM with a random I9505 pit file but marking the "NAND Erase All" option? Probably not as everyone said not to mark this, but whatever. Does it still have warranty even with root and without the original ROM? I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X-Lucky-Messi-X:
So I tried to root my galaxy s4 GT-I9505 with kingroot, but when it rooted my phone, when it reached 100%, the phone rebooted itself and now it cant boot all the way. It can't get passed the flashing samsung logo and when I put it in recovery mode, it said no command and when I clicked reboot now, it said "mistake". I think I'm stuck in a bootoop. Please, please help. Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
if over 2 years old then warranty is gone so flash cf-autotoot for your phone. should fix the issue.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] X-Lucky-Messi-X:
So, should I then put my phone in download mode, connect it to PC, download cf-auto root, put it in Odin and then flash it? Will that definetely save the phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbomodder:
yes try that, if that fails then only fix is flash full stock ROM again via Odin.

Sent from my SM-A500FU
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artstylee:
after flashing latest stock firmware from sammobile I9505 ( 1-file )soft keys stopped working.

they didnt flash too... after that ive tried different firmwares but the keys still didnt worked.

any ideas how to fix this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duddits1998style:
Hai I have an issue with my galaxy s4 (verizon) it connects to the wifi just fine and it works perfectly until I restart it, then it forgets all wifi passwords entered ever. So I have tried, factory reset, looking at the file where it is saved, when I see it after I enter the password it shows its there then when I restart it, it magicly rests don't know why it just does, any solutions?