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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svd1977:
In triangle away try to tick allow tracker to run reboot,then try again to update

i tried to test it earlier and maybe it will work for you as well
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
Hi. I have an i9505 with Omega V12. Trying to change kernel to KT-SGS4 but it won't boot. I'm trying to delete that file /etc/init.d/01abyss - but it won't allow me. I'm trying this from ES file explorer. Please let me know how I can delete that file so I can get KT-SGS4 kernel. thank you! :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: kernel

You do not need to delete any files and you do not need ES file explorer to install/flash the kernel.

Every time you install/flash a kernel it will over-write any existing kernels.

Just download this KT-SGS4 kernel here: http://ktoonsez.jonathanjsimon.com/sgs4/TW/KT-SGS4-JB4.2-TW-INTL-09.17.2013.zip

and copy it to your phone's sdcard then flash it using twrp or cwm recovery.

Just flash the kernel exactly the same way as if you were flashing some other rom in these 9505 threads.

For best results always do the following AFTER installing/flashing the kernel:

Do this in twrp or cwm recovery

1. Clear cache

2. Clear dalvik

3. Fix Permissions

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
I did all those. I'm with Omega since S2, S3 and now on my S4. :D

I flash omega, clear all the stuff, flash kernel, clear stuff, won't boot, stops at the animation or something :|

let me flash again and will tell you exactly what it does.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: flashing

I bet you have NOT done a "factory reset" in twrp / cwm,

If it was me, I would reflash the Omega rom but before flashing

I would wipe system/cache/dalvik cache/data and "Factory Reset"

before flashing the rom. Usually after a clean flash it can take the

phone 5 to 8 minutes before it fully boots... Have patience.

All of the better roms here in xda are at least double the size of the

roms used for the S2/S3 phones so it takes it a lot longer to flash

and for the first boot to be completed.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
After lots of patience it boots. And freezes when i try anything. i change kernel, all is fine :|
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Like you mentioned before flashing an other kernel on Omega v12 you need to remove the 01abyss file in /system/etc/init.d.

If you don't the wrong settings will be loaded and you run the risk of having problems.

The reason you can't is because the /system folder is read only by default, you need to set it to read/write before you can delete the file. Try long press on the /system folder in EFS file explorer and you should get an option to do that (I don't use EFS myself)

Make sure you download the correct KT kernel, you need the TW 4.2.2 for Omega v12.

After the kernel flash you can do a wipe cache and dalvik, although it's my personal opinion that it not needed after a kernel flash (I never do it)

EDIT: one more tip, forget about "Fix Permissions", it causes more problems than it solves. It's not needed at all.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
EFS is dumb. just tried, no go. Any ideea what I can use to make that folder writeable and delete that 01Abyss bla bla file?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: kernel

Glad it worked for you, and thanks for clicking the "THANKS" button :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
Hi all,

I just bought the Samsung S4 I9500, How can i check the status of bootloader ?

// I had Xperia SL previously. so am unaware of samsung developments and other stuffs.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
I always use Root Explorer, never had any issues with it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: deleting files

If your phone is working fine I cannot see why you still want to delete files in your phone.

But if you must do it, get "Root Explorer" from the play store...

It has options to change the read/write attributes for all the root folders and files.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
hckhcD the

Thanks but it actually didn't work. Reverted to abyss kernel by reflashing. On v12 Omega it seems to not be able to clear crap files by itself when switching kernel to KT. V1-11 worked ok with KT.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: status

First turn your phone off and then go into download mode pressing the power and volume down button

down and the same time and wait until you see download mode robot screen.

Once in download mode you should see the status.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shinsan:
Thanks Mistejunky and Kantjer! Root explorer worked! Deleted the evil 01Abyss.ini crap file, rebooted, flashed KT kernel - NOW IT WORKS!!

Many thanks! I have a happy S4 - Omegav!@ - KT Kernel. Now let's do some tweaking!

Any clues how I can get the best out of battery? I tried disabling useless stuff, undervolting 1 step and limiting cores to 1Ghz.

Of course, no gps, LTE, and other crap. Screen to -3 light :)

Any suggestions to max out battery life are appreciated. Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: battery

The first thing you will need to find out what is draining your battery the most .

I would recommend "betterbatterystats" which you can find at the google playstore.

Then go to this link below and follow the step by step guide telling you what needs

to be done in great detail.

Here is the link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2357417

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
There are a few links under "Battery Saving Tips" on the first page of this thread, start there.

If you think your phone is still using to much juice like [MENTION=3516441]Misterjunky[/MENTION] said you need to find out where it's coming from.

Besides BBS I can recommend "Wakelock Detector" and "GSam Battery Monitor" for that.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinjo2312:
my s4 is rooted, if i put in the official jellybean 4.3 into my fone with kies, will it still be rooted ?? thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HS™:
if u have it rooted u may not be able to update using Kies rather flash pre rooted firmware using Odin

or flash stock firmware using odin and the re Root again

u can get firmware from sammobile.com

Edit Always give ur phone variant no it helps us giving u with the links
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P3rsistent:
S4 wifi tethering

Hi All. Bought the device about a month ago but have recently found out about an unfortunate issue:

wifi tethering does work, I can enable it, but when a tablet or a laptop connects to it, the internet is not getting shared.

Tried different firmwares, pure google one, had it rooted, now stock, same thing... Also tried to change radios, to no avail. The device is a normal 9505.

Can anyone advise on a useful solution? Many thnx.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinjo2312:
thanks mate, think ill look at custom roms as i did with my s2,,thanks again for the reply
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
That didn't worked :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
No problem with I9500 bootloader
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J__:
gotta hold home button as well to get into download mode. Volume down + home + power
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MegaHz:
sync contacts do not appear.

Hi there,

a friend of mine got a new s4. We booted it and added google information. Everything syncs under settings/accounts/google account, including app data, chrome, gmail, google photos etc

The problem is that there is no Sync Contacts so the google contaacts do not sync with the device.

any ideas?

thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lou 270:
Does anybody have a link to the forum on ss compatible roms for the galaxy s4 I went under search and nothing and I can't remember which subject it was under
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: safe strap roms

Here is the link for the Verizon Safe Strap compatible roms.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2448726

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelyb:
Call Recording Issue

Hi, I've been researching a lot about one issue with Call Recording on Wicked Custom ROM - it's sort of weird that when I call to certain numbers I'm able to record the call; however for other numbers,like my house, the "record" button doesn't do anything. I basically tried every single workaround there is on the internet, but nothing worked. Anyone has the same thing? :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: call recording

Go into recovery and start flashing Wicked rom again and when you are at the

options screens where you can select stock or custom themes/dialers and so

on select the stock themed dialer/contacts then after its flashed again wait

3-4 minutes then reboot the phone.... See if this solves the problem......

Be sure to make a nandroid backup first.

I have seen many people who have had issues with call recording when using/selecting

the themed dialer in Aroma installer.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
That did worked.

What i saw in the ODIN mode is

What does that mean ? My bootloader locked or unlocked ?

Also i bought the phone from my friend. It's having SuperSU app in it even after factory reset. That means the phone is pre-rooted or something like that ?? :mad:

Edit : My build version number is :I9500UBUBMG1 and when i check for update it says like the phone has bee modified, no updates are available. Is that common ?

Whoa, there is a lot of questions from a samsung noob. Someone gimme a brief explanation.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
If your phone is an international i9500 you're bootloader isn't locked. Only some carrier specific US i9500 models have a locked bootloader.

And yes, SuperSu will survive a factory reset. With a factory all user data like user apps/data and system data is wiped. SuperSu is installed as a system app and wont be deleted. It will be removed when you flash a ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
Thanks. I am coming from Xperia forum, thats y i have a lot of doubts. I hope my phone is International and am worried because of the SuperSU app, now its fine (My thought was the app will only showup if the phone is rooted bu someone.)

Can you brief how the phone comes up in market

Bootloader Status :

Rooting Status :

For Xperia it was like locked bootloader and unrooted device.

Does it break warranty if it's rooted ?

And also a little help about the Update issue i mentioned in the previous post.

Thanks for the help in advance :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Bootloader and rooting status have no effect in market (I assume you are talking about Play Store here), I don't think market even sees that.

Yes Samsung's official statement is that modifying your phone, including rooting will break you're warranty. But you can always go back to an unrooted stock Rom before sending it in for warranty if that's ever needed.

Modifying your phones software will often break the OTA update, but for most XDA users that's no problem because we have flashed the update long before it comes available as OTA from Samsung.

As a new 9500 user check the first page of this thread, there are a few interesting links for you to read.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
Thanks bro :good:

In between the market i referred is not the Play Store, the other one, real market where we buy new devices. :)

I'll look into the the help links in first page. :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Th3DON:
Hi, i can't see the bootloader status except

CURRENT-BINARY : Custom

SYSTEM STATUS : Custom.

Hell, i have a lots of questions in my mind.

If my phone is rooted and bootloader unlocked, then i should be able to install custom recoveries then the Custom ROM's. right ??

And what about official OTA updates if my device is rooted and unlocked, (Links mentioned in the first page of this thread is not helping me to find answers, sorry)

Regards.

Ajith
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willhub:
If my phone base is currently the following:

I9505XXUDMH8

Which bases can I update to? I'm wanting a base using the MI1 or MI8 firmware as some of the ROMS that I want to try are based on these.

As mentioned it's an UK unbranded SG4 I9505.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Billy141:
Can some one link me to rooting s4 9505 post please with latest update and how safe is it etc
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Yes you can flash a custom recovery and then through the new custom recovery flash a custom ROM.

Forget about OTA updates, they won't work with a custom ROM, Updated custom ROM's will be released on a regular basis and need to be flashed via recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelyb:
Misterjunky, thanks for your reply! :good:

However, I've tried that several times, choosing different dialers. When flashing OMEGA everything is fine (but the rom itself is laggy). With Wicked, I get this problem. I've tried a workaround with Xposed, flashing different call recorders from XDA, installing Wanam Xposed etc, basically everything. I don't know whats going on, but the only one that worked (50%) was Xposed, in which it lets me record only certain numbers that don't ring before picking up, such as calling to 1-800 or so. When calling to regular numbers the button doesn't do anything.

Still :crying:

None of those worked:

http://forums.usofttech.com/t14093.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2355639

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2370289

I even tried installing the dialer from Omega, but it didn't work...

My phone is S4 international i9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
any official newer version available MHA, MHB or MI1.

AFAIK you can directly flash any custom rom based on new firmwares.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidcmc:
CyanogenMod site says that I can install CWM by using the Heimdall tool and the Download Mode of Galaxy S4.

My phone is an unbranded I9505, using baseband version I9505VJUBMG3.

I've read some other sites saying that you need to root the device before installing CWM, but CyanogenMod site says that it's not necessary (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_jfltexx).

So, what's the best way to install a custom recovery afterall?

Is Heimdall really the best tool out there to do this?

And does baseband version affect which custom ROM I can use on the phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
You don't need to be rooted to flash a custom recovery. AFAIK Heimdal is needed for Mac users, Windows users can use ODIN. If you are rooted you don't need either of them.

Edit: baseband has no effect on the Rom you can flash. You can have any Rom/baseband combination you want.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juventusmvp:
im new with S4

i use S4 already 2 month.

my S4 become some lag in any application when i slide the animation is not smooth, i dont have a game in my S4 only a socmed

and when i open a camera, gallery is delay 3-5sec

i've seen a S4 with benchmark score up to 32000, how to be like that i wish my S4 like that :o

thx before
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Please remember to state the S4 variant of the phone that you have.

It will help people to give you the correct answer.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
usually a restart or a cache wipe should fix.

if not, backup, reset device.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willhub:
But won't using a rom for say mi8 on mh8 base cause some compatibility problems or random reboots for example?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hey Guys, i'm looking for the following mod

from here.

All Mods seem to be offline, can anybody help me out?

Need it for my fresh flashed S4 I9505 GE 4.3 ROM.

edit: solved by myself, Cheers!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Try an other browser, the link is working fine for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bmsv:
# Help Sensor Hall ( magnet sensor )

Hello ,

My magnetic sensor of my galaxy s4 Gt-I 9505, is blocked.

the smartphone was locked on the screen like when we use the (S cover) only indicates the time and date, I only can receive calls, everything else is blocked, even to turn off the smartphone.

I bought the unit in Portugal, but I am currently living in Brazil.

So warranty was void.

and the arrangement is too expensive for me to afford.

Is it possible to disable the magnetic sensor of the original Rom? Or can I use a custom ROM that does not use this sensor to be able to use my smartphone as it should be.

I would appreciate help on this issue.

thank you in advance

Sorry if my english is not to hell.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enn44:
can somebody help me please

can somebody help me please i have a problem with my i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

In order for someone to help you properly,you must give as much information about your problem as possible.

What is the problem?

Have you taken any steps to fix it ?

How did the problem start?

Any information you can give will be useful.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enn44:
help

I wanted to restore my phone to complete factory so i flash the last chinese firmware in sammobile i thought are all the same

but it was in chinese language so i want to flash a other firmware so i download a other and tried to flash it but odin fail

i tried with another firmware and again fail i dowload some firmware and in all odin fail + when i am in download mode it says GT-I9500CHN

that can i do ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubics:
I do not clearly understand what was your intention. You flashed Chinese rom, but you didn't want it in Chinese language? Or you flashed it by mistake?

You should try to perform factory reset in recovery mode and then flash original rom for your country and carrier via Odin. Do not forget that Kies must not be running.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enn44:
:( :( :(

I want my phone to completly fabrick stoke and i want to unroot i was rooted so i go to sammobile.com and download the last chinese firmware i thought all the firmware were the same only it change's the location you buy the phone i live in europe so via odin i flash the I9500ZNUCMI1_I9500CHUCMI1_CHU

when it turn's on the phone i was expecting play store but not hapend there were some chinese apps , under the batery my phone says made in vietnam by samsung so i download in sammobile a vietnam firmware i put the phone in download mode open odin connect and put pda push start

but odin fail i do it again with the russian firmware the same with some other firmware the same

i dont know what to do please help

sorry for my bad english
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bmsv:
someone you know programming to help me with this question please.

or can explain how I can disable the sensor through build rom.

please
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
Dont flash China or Hong Kong firmwares, they have different partition. I guess it fails at system flashing.

Flash another firmware and use pit file with it.

Sent from my Galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubics:
Look at this thread and find "Note 6" in the middle of the OP. It should help you in your case. Good luck.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Good to see you here buddy.

Not so long ago you where asking advise for you're new S4, and know you're giving it ;)

Did you have your screen repaired?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kubics:
Thanks for your kind words, buddy ;)

Visual effects on my screen under all those cracked pieces of glass are so beautiful, that I still have it broken :D

BTW, after several days of seeking for the solution and after I found tens of different services that can repair my screen in my and neighbor countries I found that the cheapest repair service provider is original Samsung service center in my town ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faschoda:
Hey Guys,

am I able to upgrade from the leaked 4.3 android version to official firmware? Right now I'm on MI8 from Djembey's thread.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HS™:
I doubt u will be getting /able to update as it already has a latest leak Os installed

but u can ignore that as the moment u have update Djembey will update and flash it as usual
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bmsv:
Help Plase

Hello ,

My magnetic sensor of my galaxy s4 Gt-I 9505, is blocked.

the smartphone was locked on the screen like when we use the (S cover) only indicates the time and date, I only can receive calls, everything else is blocked, even to turn off the smartphone.

I bought the unit in Portugal, but I am currently living in Brazil.

So warranty was void.

and the arrangement is too expensive for me to afford.

Is it possible to disable the magnetic sensor of the original Rom? Or can I use a custom ROM that does not use this sensor to be able to use my smartphone as it should be.

I would appreciate help on this issue.

thank you in advance

Sorry if my english is not to hell.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wireshh:
Confused

Hi everybody,

I've searched the forums for the answer about my question, but didn't found it, so forgive me if I haven't searched correctly.

I've recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505. It has Android 4.2.2 on it. But when I checked in with my friend's S4 i9505 (also on 4.2.2), mine phone lacked a few features:

- I don't have the transparant notification balk

- I don't have the full 16gb space available (just 9gb)

- I don't have the smart pause toggle

Also the icon next to "About device" is blue at mine phone, and the other S4's I've checked they were all orange.

I have no idea what this means or what kind of S4 I got, I hope that anybody can help me with this. And is it possible to get the features that I don't have right now? Because I just want it to be like a 'normal' S4.

If you need more information about mine phone, please let me know which information.

Thanks in advance! :o
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crook79:
good combo

Any1 has a good combo between custom rom and kernel i can try for i9505?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Your friends S4 just has a newer firmware version that's why you are missing a the transparent notification bar and have the blue "About device" icon instead of the yellow one.

Having about 9GB free on your 16GB internal sd is normal, the rest is used by the ROM itself.

Nothing to worry about, you have a normal S4, it just didn't receive the latest updates yet.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sotos_2002:
Hi, i have a gt-i9505 from france and i flashed original samsung greek software. I also have rooted my device.

When the french 4.3 is released, can i use kies "upgrade and initialiazation"?

I am asking because i don't know if kies supports customized devices...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
look at Q8 of this thread

If you want to know users personal favourites look at there signatures ;)

---------- Post added at 05:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:57 PM ----------

I have never used Kies, but since your device is rooted it isn't stock any more so I don't expect it to work.

Why should you want to use Kies?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Once you have rooted,you will no longer be able to get OTA .

You need to flash stock firmware again,which will remove root.

Kies will also detect customization

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wireshh:
I see. But with 4.3 around the corner, does this mean that I won't get that directly, because I first need the other firmware?