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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Exactly my thoughts.

I have a PIN protected SIM and if I'm away from home a pattern Lock Screen (could even set that to PIN for more security)

Thats all the protection I need without making it to difficult to even use the phone.

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Based on this response I doubt you know the difference between NFC and Qi, sorry.

The battery is NFC compatible, meaning you can use NFC out of the box. For wireless Qi charging you either need the Samsung solution that comes with a modified background with for me the big disadvantage that it makes your phone thicker :eek:

Or you go with separate "Receiver Card Coil", that won't ad any bulk to your phone. I'm using this one and it work perfect and NFC is still working.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ench18:
Good day guys. I've been reading about ClockWorkMod recovery. Now my question is.. Does my S4-i9505 need to be rooted first before i put ClockWorkMod recovery or can i just put ClockWorkMod recovery on? Also looking for ClockWorkMod recovery .tar file that can be used on my firmware 4.3 I9505XXUEMJ8. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance guys.

By the way, are these instructions correct? - http://www.duetips.com/2013/09/install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-galaxy-s4-i9505.html
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
I need an app like usb port lock for windowses of pc systems

i want that when someone connect my phone to pc by usb , he can not transfer files between pc and phon but can see the files in my phones.

only prevent transfering files
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

You do not need to be rooted in order to install recovery.

Yes,those instructions are fine.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Then I think google will be your best friend for this;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
thats why i asked it here

i did not find anything in google after 1h serch:(:(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
the NFC circuitry is inside the battery, and not inside the phone. if you want any NFC features on the phone to work you must have a compatible battery.

why? because of space limitations. if the NFC sensor was behind the battery, the battery would block the signal. Its just a design choice samsung made.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ench18:
Thanks for the quick reply malybru. Can i use this ClockWorkMod recovery version (i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2(0611).tar) together with my 4.3 firmware?

edit - Could you point me to which clockworkmod .tar file i can use. Thank you so much again.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
I would imagine so....This is also a good recovery - HERE 4.3 compatible:cool:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Yes, recovery is phone specific not Android version specific.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ench18:
Thanks CarlM34. I'll give it a go. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luthorex:
Guys, I have installed this ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2521384 and changed the runtime to ART, now my device doesn't start. Get crash on Samsung Galaxy S4 screen. Also if I try to enter the TWRP it get crash on the TWRP screen too.

What could I do?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Are you able to get into download mode and re-flash stock......And start over?:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luthorex:
953 26544499

Yeah! I reinstalled TWPR with odin and reflash the ROM. Thanks! :D:D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nunjabusiness:
Thank you for actually answering the question I asked! :good:

So, essentially an NFC-capable battery provides the path for the NFC comms to go through it. Now I see the connection.

I guess kantjer just did not understand exactly WHAT I was asking or he missed my point entirely. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
OTA update

Hi xda i have a rly simple question.I am on 4.3 TW rooted ,twrp recovery and custom kernel.I have my knox flag 0x1 and my Device Status on custom.If i put back stock recovery and kernel,and unroot (dont know if unroot is necessary)my device status will become again Official?And if that happen i could get OTA?Thnx
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
I don't think it's a battery problem. It all started after I first flashed 4.3. I had no sound at first, WiFi didn't work, etc., etc.

After I flashed back to stock 4.2.2 it worked fine at first. After a few days I installed PVZ2 and that's when this stuff started happening :mad:

And now it's just getting worse. I think I'm going to flash 4.1 and see if that helps me in any way.

I'll keep this updated, maybe someone else has this kind of problem. And I've gone through at least nine smartphones in the last two years. All of them had weird problems.

My Galaxy S II burnt my hand :eek:

And I really don't want to exchange this phone. Lol. The Telekom is getting suspicious. Rofl
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
You will need to un root also....Will probably be easier to flash official stock rom though :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GermainZ:
Are you undervolting your phone? That's the only thing I can think of, other than defective hardware.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
You'll need to flash a Sammy ROM, with stock kernel, use Triangle Away (search the forums) and then flash a complete stock ROM. But why would you flash stock 4.3 anyways? Nobody likes KNOX :0
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
sometimes just using wording a little wrong can cause a lot of confusion, and we're a fairly multi culutural forum here (guess what country i'm from, it sure aint america)

glad i could help explain it to you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
thnx for the answer,one more thing because i am really new to samsung andoid universe :P if i flash stock firmware through ODIN i get automatically back stock kernel and recovery?

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In my country knox warranty doesnt apply :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Nope. Completely stock 4.2.2, just rooted. Like I said, it's literally only when I stress the phone a bit (Not that Cut The Rope is all that stressy, but meh.)

I had a look in another forum (Android Central and apparently it really is a bad battery. So I've got to either buy a new battery or get sent a new one by the Telekom...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Yes
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Says who? o.O

As far as I'm aware, KNOX is in every ROM 4.3+ (Sammy stock)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
Thank you both guys you were really helpful keep up the good work :D

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I mean in my country (greece) we dont lose warranty if our device has knox flag :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
You lucky son of a gun :D Lol

Now I wish I'd live there :p Except for the fact that I'd get discriminated because I'm part German :0
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
Haha dont believe everything you see mate on social media,i met many germans during summer and it was great :) anyway thnx again and i will be back if something come up.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rojo_salas:
I used my S4 without a MicroSD first. I just noticed that it emulated an SDCard in its Phone Device. Now I have my 32Gb memory. Still, the default save path is my Phone Storage? For example, I saved a photo from Facebook. Instead, the pic was saved in my Internal memory and created another Facebook folder in there? The same goes for Instagram? I installed a map, the maps is in the External, but the app wants it to be in the internal? Why is the default path the emulated SDCard(Internal)? How can I get rid of that? I'm on I9505 LTE. 4.3 stock. Rooted phone. THANKSS!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
the emulated part is because modern versions of jellybean support multiple users that are independent of each other.

so you could be '0' and your child could be '1' with different settings and apps.

because most apps were made before this feature was implemented, it emulates the old system and pretends to be a different location to what it actually is.

all your apps will go to the internal SD card, because thats the way android works. external SD cards are used for storage of media like movies, TV shows and music.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
It wasn't just social media, but news and stuff. Like with all those protests against Germany, and that Merkel is a nazi and stuff (She is a bit weird, to be fair, and I didn't vote for her, but you know).

But it's good to see that there are still some normal and legit people in Greece. Makes me happy all the time :)

Oh, let's not hope that you get more problems ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Look in the apps setting if you can select the storage location and set it to the external sd. Not every app has the option to select the storage location, in that case you are stuck with the internal sd as storage.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rojo_salas:
Thanks for the response!! Is there anyway to set the default path for some apps? Like for my maps, Facebook or like Instagram default save path? :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eirik_smo:
Hello!

A month ago I made these changes with my SS4 (GT-I9505) purchased unlocked, (technobuffalo.com/videos/how-to-turn-a-galaxy-s4-into-a-google-edition-phone/), Google Edition 4.3. This has worked great. (Not allowed to post links yet..)

But now is the time to put into version 4.4 of jamal's room (coming soon). I have TWRP 2.6.0.0 as recovery. The apps I have ROM Manager (paid) and Titanium Backup (paid).

What I wonder is, how can I most easily update / flash the ROM? Is it possible to prevent the loss of apps and settings with the the setup I have? Will I lose root of this?

Best regards, newly convinced root-user!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Going from 4.3 to 4.4 you are changing bases.

You will need to start from scratch on a clean phone.

So, use TB to back up your data.

Make sure you do not install system data on the new base.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rojo_salas:
Thanks for the response!! Is there anyway to set the default path for some apps? Like for my maps, Facebook or like Instagram default save path?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
sorry can't help you there, Maps doesn't seem to have the option to set a storage location and I don't use the other apps.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jean_85:
Hello there. I'm having some difficulties with my GF's I9505. I had to restore it because she was getting reboots after the 4.3 update, and it was just updated since 4.1 without any wipe.

Restoring fixed the reboots, but now it just hungs up sometimes, she said the screen stays black and doesn't respond for some time. What can I do? I don't wanna root or change ROM BTW...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Welcome to the forums! :)

All you need to do, is create a backup of your apps using TB, then download the desired ROM, reboot to recovery and select install-> file.zip

Once the install has completed, wipe your device (Dalvik Cache, Data/Cache - Basically a factory reset).

Boot up the device and wait for about five minutes, it will take this long to build up the necessary cache, and then set up your ROM. If you installed a custom ROM, you'll have root, most likely, so you just need to download TB and restore your apps.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
And do yourself a favour and start with flashing TWRP 2.6.3.1, it's gives less problems than 2.6.0.0.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eirik_smo:
Should I download TWRP 2.6.3.1 jfltexx or 2.6.3.0 jgedlte? My phone is really a i9505, but now a "i9505g".
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Your phone has not changed ,just the software.

You need the jfltexx version.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kjc99:
I've tried with S3 to S4 and it never works..... But I can get S4 to S4 to work and S3 to S3 to work also S3 to my other tablets but the S4 is different from other Samsung devices when it comes to group play.... Doesn't make sense since my S3 will connect to most other Samsung devices pre-2013
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mostwantedht:
I've been facing battery issue after updating my s4 to 4.3.Battery life is comparatively a lot shorter than it was on 4.2.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
Some times , some apps like shou(in this forum) or automatic call recorder have a chooide with the name audio source.sometimes i need to choose internal audio source from that but it said your device does not support thia.take a look at my post and the reply od the builder of shou app :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47680896&postcount=216

According to the response , i send an email to my builder of rom , tamirda , phoenix rom v5 , and he said it is the bug of samsung roms

So my friends , why?why i have this problem?how can i solve thos?

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any answer?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ya Rahman:
I don't know

I must compare again

But this time I reset camera setting

And thank you for your answer

sent from my galaxy s 4 using my fingers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3winder:
Installing New Rom - GPE 4.4

Hi everyone,

I have some questions regarding installation of the new firmware for Kit kat 4.4. Jamal has released a new rom for 4.4 and i was previously on 4.3 Gpe. Do i have to do a factory reset after flashing the rom? Or can i safely continue and just clear dalvik/cache.

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

You are changing bases.

It highly advisable to back up your stuff,clean the phone(factory reset,cache and dalvik wipe) before installing the new ROM.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3winder:
Oh shucks, i read on some other thread that factory reset is not needed if i was coming from the previous version. Thanks anyway!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
You can always try, who knows you get lucky. If you run into problems you can always wipe data later.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yogg:
I just accidentally removed the com.sec.android.youtube folder through root browser would that do any serious damage to the phones data or processors? I was going to download a modded youtube apk push it to /system/data. But i went too far to and *sigh* accidentally removed the file, lol. Does it cause any serious damage to the phone at all? Or what do you experts think of it when removing a com.sec file. .
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3winder:
I think i just did! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jserrano0628:
Told yah!.. :D try to replace it asap..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvtm:
I have been in the moon and have disconnected with most technologically advances.

I updated about a month ago to 4.3 and noticed the Knox security. What's the deal with Knox and I9500?

Been reading that is a security implementation of sammy. That it seems to only affect i9505? and everyone is talking about their root counters/warranty.

I have a I9500 how Knox may affect me? What good things does Knox bring to the table? I have had the application but just the install is 170MB
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamikaze.df:
ok, here we go ...

i read many pages in this "thread" but not find a similar case.

I have a i9505 lte international, upgraded it from 4.2.2 to 4.3 with kies. Normal, no issues.

Then i root it with cf-auto-root and discover what means the crap KNOX. Ok, flag set to 0x1.

I not worry about the warranty and knox to 0x1, I think if you need the guarantee shall be for a serious problem that probably will not be covered under warranty anyway.

questions:

1) i have a branded stock rom with root and knox 0x1, i want to change the rom to same version (4.3) UNBRANDED, is that possible? Just flash with odin the "new" rom and after that install root or other software tha i want/need ???

2) I read in some place that is possible downgrade the rom to older versions, just remove some .img from the rom related to bootloader, and with the original pit file, flash trought odin ... here i read that's impossible ... wel, what is the truth ??

3) OK, knox f..c.d me, flag set to 0x1 and SELinux set to enforcing ... what can i do ??? flash odin? custom roms through CWM ??? is my phone restrict to the actual rom and no more is possible??

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Hi, First of all Don't panic:p Your phone is not restricted to original Stock rom even though the KNOX flag is tripped. All this means is you cannot use KNOX features anymore.

1. Yes you can flash UNBRANDED firmware via ODIN and rooting and installing a custom recovery is still possible! For unbranded firmware click on the Back to Stock link in my sig and look through there!

2. Not too sure about this but afaik you cannot downgrade.

3. You are not restricted as I mentioned in point 1. Rooting/custom recovery still possible so you can still flash whichever compatible ROM you find.

For more on KNOX - Link in my sig also

Hope this helps;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N3rG@L:
Revert from GPE to Tochwiz ?

Hi Guys

Quick question, I was thinking of flashing my I9505 with the new official 4.4 update from Google for the GP edition. The question is, can I revert back to samsung rom if I don't like it ? And how and links would be appreciated, haven't been able to find any information on going back to Samsung rom after GPE rom.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Not too familiar with GPE but you should be able to go back to TW after flashing custom GPE. Back to Stock link in my sig:good:

EDIT - I would think you should be able to revert to custom TW also after a clean install!

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You may be able to get a free one - HERE
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N3rG@L:
Thx for the reply, I think it's probably easier from custom roms, but I was thinking of trying the Google ROM directly, should probably be the most stable.

Any sugestions on 4.4 custom ROMS that are as close to stock as possible ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badskull:
try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2348272

:good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3winder:
Try Jamal's 4.4 GPE! I flashed it yesterday and am loving it :) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2544474&page=29

One thing to note, try to update your custom recovery to the latest version as i read somewhere that there might be some issues with the updater script when upgrading to kitkat. Maybe this is why some people are experiencing random reboots. Make sure you flash your modem too as some people lost their signal.

For me, i upgraded directly to his 4.4 from Jamal's previous 4.3 GPE so it was pretty smooth sailing for me. Not sure if you're comign from another rom.

Cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] den10:
Don't update to 4.3, people seem to be having real issues with that. Either stay on 4.2.2 or find somewhere where you can get 4.4 (mmm that kit katy goodness)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gouveia00:
Is there any possibility for a ROM to break recovery to the point it doesn't flash anyother ROM? It happens on my i9505 whenever I try to flash a CyanogenMod ROM. It says there's incompatibility in the .zip, then it breaks everyother ROM installation untill I flash stock TouchWiz with Odin. Pretty bizarre, or common behaviour?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

What recovery are you using?

Have you tried other recoveries?

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gouveia00:
I'm using CWM recovery (don't recall the version, but I'm pretty sure it's the latest) right now, but I've also tried TWRP. That one just went bezerk on me (I couldn't even get back on Recovery mode after trying to flash CM11). Same solution, then: open ODIN and re-flash original 4.2 TouchWiz.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
I have never had issues with the latest versions of Philz...:good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fcesario2:
PC does not recognize phone

My phone is no longer being recognized by my PC, it only loads. Not even a message unknown device appears. So I can not use ODIN to try to install a new modem, compatible with my version of android 4.3. Have desisntalei thousand times and reinstalled the KIES and samsung driver. I've taken the battery and recoloquei. Have called and turned off the USB debugging. Nothing worked ... Can anyone help me? My main problem is q need this recognition to try to change my modem because my internet drops too far in these newer versions of ROMs.

data:

Model: GT-I9505

Android version: 4.3

Baseband Version: I9505VJUBMG3

Kernel version: 3.4.0-1.3 + talexop

No. of compilation: Omega v16 - XXUEMK9
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Silly question:

Did you reboot your PC after new installation of drivers?

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T69:
First of all im super noob. I wanna know if there is any way to root my 4.3 i9505, only root it without recovery or rom, but being all safe with Knox warranty void thing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mostwantedht:
Guys I've been facing battery drain issue since I updated my s4 to 4.3 . Another problem I'm facing is wifi disconnections.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
I do not believe there is a 100% guaranteed way to achieve this:(

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Sorry, are you completely stock or custom?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fcesario2:
Yes, I tried rebooting the computer. But finally managed to find the answer. I simply replaces the USB cable I was using. I could not understand it before cause I could charge the cell connected to the computer, but just could not recognize it. Now is working perfectly.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arjav23:
are u on stock rom?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mostwantedht:
Stock.

4.3 btu firmware.Initially it was h3g's 4.2.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martikp:
[i9505] XXUEMK8 Download Size

A'right ,here is the question, If I want to update my S4 via "Kies" how much would be the firmware size? (the new XXUEMK8 build)

I've try to update it via kies, but it did not show the "download size". Is it over 1 GB? or less?

(it is important to me). If you know please let me know, too. I am currently at android 4.3 XXUEMJ6.

And I also know that if I want to update my S4 via odin I must download the stock firmware (which is almost 1.5 GB) which is not my answer!

Second question, Is it worth to update to the latest version? for me, It doesn't seem to have problem with current build.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skipjacks:
If you are happy with what you've got, then it's probably not worth it.

But only you can decide if it's actually worth it or not. The features in the update may be of value to you or they may not be. We can't tell you that.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.wtf:
i know that aosp doesn't support tw functions and the google-edition is kind of based on aosp. but i read somewhere that the google edition rom is based on tw. you can also use the s-view cover with the i9505g as i saw.

so does for example this rom support s-view?

and i read that:

but i still don't understand. if this is google-edition then this at least should work
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamikaze.df:
Thanks a lot :laugh::laugh::laugh::good: