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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
You just need to know the basics, then youll be ok.These s4's are different because of seperate partitions combined with that knox cr@p.

You can flash stuff with odin, recovery, cwm and mobile odin.

I normally only root my phone, then make an efs backup/nand backup, then remove apps I dont use, but you can do what you want.

I prefer using odin (pc), because that can be the only way out of unbooting/bootloop phone situations.

Before you start anything, download the stock firmware your phone has initially, so you have it at hand.

Then you just start rooting etc paying attention that the stuff your flashing is meant for your model, since I presume you have a US variant.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeshwar.singh.maini:
galaxy s4 i9500 without any rom

I installed TWRP recovery and while cleaning dalvik and normal cache, I accidentally also deleted the system and many other things

Now my phone is nothing to boot into..

When I try to start the phone it shows the GALAXY S4 and then nothing else..

It successfully boots into TWRP recovery

I tried installing MIUI V5 which I downloaded from the official site for i9500 but it gives a 'ja3g' error

i also tried flashing the stock room, I downloaded from torrents from the SD card, but it is not flashed. (It's unable to open the zip file)

please guide me from where to get the suitable stock rom and flash it.

my

Mobile Phone:-GT-I19500ZKAINU

(indian)

the phone is only booting up into Teamwin recovery and nothing else..please help..im not an expert! :(:(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joku1981:
The STOCK firmware u downloaded is a .zip. Unzip it in ur pc and take a look inside is a .tar.md5 file. I recommend u:

- Make a full wipe in TWRP recovery (wipe data, system, cache and dalvik cache)

- Reboot ur phone in DOWNLOAD MODE and conect it to the pc by USB

- In ur pc: Open Odin and select the .tar.md5 by the button PDA/AP

- Click in START

- Wait till finish the process and ur phone will reboot

- Enjoy ur stock phone again :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajeshwar.singh.maini:
Works

thankyou!!! :victory:

enjoying my stock rom!! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Our's D'Airdrie:
Stock firmware problem SG4 GT-I9505

I have a SG4 on O2 which is 6 months old and came with 4.2.2. Fairly recently I upgraded to 4.3. I had issues with my mobile signal and wireless connectivity so I decided I wanted too go back to 4.2.2.

I downloaded Odin (v 1.85) and followed he instructions but it won't flash the stock Rom (I9505XXUBMF8_I9505O2UBMG1_I9505XXUBMF8_HOME)

I get the following error: sv rev. check fail : fused : 3. Binary : 1

I unplugged the usb conection and on my phone I get:

Odin Mode

Product Name: GT-I9505

Current Binary: Samsung Offical

System Status/; Offical

Knox kernel lock 0 x 0

knox warrenty void: 0x0

csb-config-lsb: 0x30

write protection: enabled

eMMC burst mode enabled

"Firmware upgrade encountered a Issue. Please Select recovery mode in Kies & try again"

When I tried Kies it doesn't recognise the device

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

When you went from 4.2.2 to 4.3 , you installed the knox bootloader.

Once this is installed,it is no longer possible to downgrade the firmware.

It would have been nice if samsung had told you about this restriction.

However, in their wisdom , they did not,and now you find yourself without a phone.

My advice would be to take it back to the shop and scream blue murder.

You upgraded to their firmware,it did not work for you,you tried to go back to the original firmware and now you have no phone.

What are THEY going to do about it?

Good luck

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

That's quite a weird issue, I've faced high temperatures on my S4 because of GPS too. I will recommend you installing CPU-Z app and checking for the load of your CPU. But as you said, the external temperature may be the problem, when I'm in hot cities and such my device gets hotter easily.

Also, keep in mind that using the camera may heat up your device way easier. I just re-read your post and I believe the problem of the high temperature when you were using the device was the camera, and according to what you posted too, the temperature while idle is not that dangerous too, as the weather there is 30°C, did you try going into a room with AC to see if the temperature gets lower?

Hi,

Try checking for a .odex file in the /data folders, it might be the cause of your problem. The file might be *Facebook package name*.odex ;).

Good luck,

~Lord

"Time is too short to cry, long enough to try." - March of Time (Helloween)

Sent from my KitKat Nexus 10
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ContextM:
Hello, I have the cyanogenmod 11 - number 10.01.2014 installer XNPQ02R - jfltexx and it was updated from 4.3 - via the check for updates from the about menu. While it works good, the camera only records at 16fps no matter what resolution it is, can this be fixed?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xv1nX:
hi guys, anyone else got RR with jamal rom R4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maurocds:
nop, using 4.4 tw modem
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
1 - why samsung release a leak or beta version of 4.4.2?

2 - When does the 4.4.2 final version release?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
1. only Samsung knows the answer to that question

2. see 1 :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D™:
You made my day..:p:cyclops:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sillynilly:
Camera app logo missing!

Hi everyone!

Just a few minutes ago, I was using my phone when I realized that the logo/picture/icon for my standard S4 camera app was nowhere to be seen. In other words, on my home screen, there was the app shortcut with Camera underneath it except there was no icon. This is also the case when opening the menu. I'll include some photos to be more specific. If anyone knows how to maybe fix this, let me know please! Thanks!

imgur.com/a/ch580
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Our's D'Airdrie:
Cheers

Thanks for your help Malybru. I went to my O2 shop but they were closed. I decided to take a chance and tried flashing the stock 4.3. This worked perfectly and I'm now working again although I've still got the poor signal strength issue.

Thanks again
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
could your aerial have just come loose in the back of the phone? its a short wire that clips onto a tiny socket.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misterjunky:
re: compatible roms

Don't yell!

There are a lot of roms compatible with the MK2 baseband, however since you don't let us

know the model of your phone like i9500 or i9505 I can only guess that it's a i9505.

If that's the case then most any of the roms found here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop

would be compatible as long as they are based on version 4.3 or higher firmware.

You should do a lot of investigating and reading before flashing any roms,

also be sure to make a nandroid backup before flashing anything.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nishantbhatia84:
Help!

I tried rooting and installing a custom rom on my i9500 (india).

I accidentally wiped something in the custom recovery mode, now my phone won't boot!

I re-installed the cf-auto root package and cwm recovery, but am unable to flash any rom because cwm wont mount my external sd!!

I've even formatted the sd card on a pc, but not go. I'm in deep poo! Somebody please help me!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
If you can't mount your external SD try to mound the internal sd in recovery so you push a ROM to that.

If that doesn't work flash a stock ROM through Odin and start from scratch (I trust you can still get into Download mode)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
mount as USB in recovery and copy the file to the internal SD card?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uberto.costanzo:
hi, my official i9505 have received update from 4.2 to 4.3 and now S Voice work only when wifi is on with 4g no work. any suggest or solution please? thanks for reply
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NingaR:
Hi Guys I own an i9505 (MKF) and its on 4.3 rooted with CF-AutoRoot but I cant wipe Catche on Recovery, I dont know about wiping data as I don't want to test it yet, when booting to recovery mode it says No Command and it enters on recovery anyway, and when wiping catche it says Error and then reboots normally, what would be a problem and how to fix it??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

If your phone is 100% official, you should take it back to the shop.

This is the fault of samsung.

They should fix it.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Audiotrash:
Or you can take this opportunity to flash something better than stock :P
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uberto.costanzo:
thanks for reply my phone is 100% offiial, i call samsung for this problem i have also s3 official with 4.3 and svoice no work. my problem is tim italy. i change apn from wap to web and now s voice work good. :good:thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magikmichael:
Is it possible to enable ART in the leaked tw 4.4? And how?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9505 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
System Rom size full!!

i'm using Galaxy S4(I9502), i wanted restore rom but i did something wrong i think, now my "system Rom size" is full,i can't install new apps or restore...!!!

i tried factory reset, wipes, format system.. used philtz_touch recovery to get system clean for installing new rom but the problem still there, the system size is full!!!,

i'm talking about system rom size not internal memory card in case someone think that.

i think any solution that can work for any galaxy S4 ,should work for the I9502 so pleaaase Help.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
I installed a zip file but do not want it now

Someone told me install my rom without full wipe.1-

is it true?

2- is it the only way?

3- what does install a rom without full wipe do?

4 - does it need to backup sms and contacts and apps?

5 - my rom has aroma , does it need install files again in atoma(for example install battery modes , stock apps and etc...)?

6 - i heared always that install rom with full wipe but does it cause the problem for my phone if i install it without wipe?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
1. Yes

2. Depends, if you know which files where flashed, and they didn't replace any other files, you can manually delete them. But it's tricky if you are not 100% sure.

3. wipes system partition and copies all system files back

4. No, they will be still there after flashing the ROM

5. Yes you will go through aroma again and select all option you want

6. You don't need to do a full wipe if the Android version doesn't change or you're installing a completely different ROM
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
1- All of my applications and themes and modes do not clear without full wipe?

----------------------------------

I have some question about nandroid backup

2 - if i create nandroid backup before install any mode , can i use that for restore the phone before the install of that mofe?

3 - does nandroid backup create backup of our app and sms and contacts?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Wipe data it's all gone as far as apps and themed apps.

Wipe system all themes/themed apps are gone

Make back up before mods etc and your phone will restore to what it is now before you added any mods themes etc etc

Nandroid back up backs up everything. If you restore a back up from a year ago and open sms the texts from a year ago will be there. Same with contacts.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funky-kun:
Is the Factory data reset (found in system settings -> accounts -> backup and reset) dependent on stock recovery in any way? Can I use it although I have PhilZ touch recovery?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Not sure I never used the backup and reset function in any ROM. I would just do it in custom (PhilZ) recovery if I where you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Dooooo notttttttt do it. Trust me. It depends on the stock recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Do not do what?

Not use it in ROM (like I said) or not in custom recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Don't use it within the settings without the stock recovery.

Going thru cwr/philz /twrp is obviously fine tho.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Then we agree, just wanted to be 100% sure before we gave advise that would break someone's phone :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
is there a way to do a kind of "full factory reset", i mean is there a higher/lower wipe that factory reset.

is it possible to wipe all the system rom "area" and install fresh and clean rom for the galaxy s4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

PhilZ recovery has a "full wipe before flashing new ROM" : wipe user data + format /system and /preload. SD card content is not affected

Look HERE

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
thanks ,i tried PhilZ_touch option but it didn't work, system rom size doesn't change i tried the code *#9900# ,it gives back 100Mo, i'm deleting apps and i will see, but i still will keep looking for better solution..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

What exactly are you trying to do?

Remove bloatware?

You could try ROM CLEANER

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
So i had no idea where to ask this, figure id give it a shot here :D Anyway,um, i dont knwo if this is a stupid question but, is there a mod for the S4 that looks like 4.4 but still has touchwiz's features? (airview,gesture,camera features,smartscroll etc) Because i do love the features but i abhor how touch wiz looks lol.any recommendations? :o
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
just change the launcher, i use nova,.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Derp never mind :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natious:
How does one achieve 12gb storage space like on ge gs4s, I have flashed a ge ROM but still have 9gb.

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
You need to repartition your phone, bricking is I think guaranteed.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natious:
That's a shame, is there any dev threads that are currently working on a solution to this?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
There were 1 or 2 in the past but AFAIK they all gave up. It's a very little gain that comes with huge risks. Just buy a large external SD and move as much data as possible to that, and you will have all the card space you need (I still have ~7 Gb free on my internal sd)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Hi there,

I have had a quick look and found HERE by [MENTION=4323143]Skipjacks[/MENTION]........Pretty much advises that its not a good idea and also what [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] has advised to just get a large external SD..........As trying could very well render your phone a very expensive paper weight:eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Yeahhhh resizing your partitions just isn't something that should be attempted. That's like the second worst thing you can attempt behind flashing HTC, LG or Sony kernels onto your Samsung.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hey man,yeah i know that changes the icon,but i want kitkat's transparent status bar and their scroll down notification bar and their settings and their menu layout etc etc,but keeping samsungs features :/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
then you need a samsung based rom, and possibly add those tweaks yourself. you've got some very specific requirements, so you may have to add the mods yourself through xposed/gravitybox etc (i am not an expert in those, i cant help beyond telling you the names)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ok thats ok.thanks man will do some research into those :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venneke93:
Knox flashing

So yeah, I have tried several searches, but couldn´t find what I wanted (maybe didn´t look hard enough).

The deal is, my s4 went back to samsung for repairs on the usb connector.

Unfortunately, they have upgraded my software from 4.2.2 to 4.3.

Now my questions are:

Is it safe to flash without knox interfering? If so, does it void my warranty?

Is it possible to downgrade back to 4.2.2?

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

There is no current way to downgrade. :(

Flashing anything "Custom" will trip the knox flag.

Whether that voids your warranty,depends on what part of the world you are in.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
1. knox will interfere. you are stuck on the new bootloader. not sure if it voids warranty tbh, i know it voids 'knox warranty' but not sure if its the same thing.

2. nope.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
At the moment flashing custom recovery/rooting will void your knox warranty 0x1....And there is no way back to 4.2:(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venneke93:
Thanks for the fast responses.

One last question:

Is resetting an old backup on the 4.2.2 bootloader an option or won't that work?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

That will not work,as the bootloader is not saved in the backup.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattdt:
hi, quick question... after flashing a few roms etc i noticed a few random folders appear on the folder structure. is there anyway to know which folders can be safely removed without causing issues to the current rom? for example i had miui on my i9500 and have changed over to Cyanogen. now there are a few folders created by miui left behind which need to go.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Where do these folder appear, on the phone itself or on the internal or external SD?

If they are on the phone itself don't touch them. If they are on the SD and they don't have a name you can't link to an app you're still using look at the folder date. If it's from before flashing the last ROM just rename it to something like foldername.old. Leave it like that for some time and if you don't get any errors delete it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattdt:
thanks for the reply. it appears on the internal memory. along with the usual folders of Movies, Music, Pictures etc. Was thinking of a factory reset and then flash again if that is possible. that way it would just be the needed folders and nothing else.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
By internal memory you mean internal sd I guess?

If so, doing a factory reset is a bit drastic and I'm not even sure if that will wipe your sd (I have never done that)

If I were you, I would connect my phone to a PC, copy all files on the internal sd to your computer and either be brave and delete what you don't think is needed, of rename first as I suggested earlier. If something is deleted and it turns out to be of any importance you can always copy it back.

Usually there are no ultra important things on the SD's so you will be fairly safe.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
theyre just leftover files and folders on the SD card, because you didnt format the SD card when you did a wipe.

as suggested, simply move or rename the folders, see if you get any crashes or unhappy apps - and then delete them.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattdt:
thanks for the advice guys. i have renamed them and will leave them for a few days and then just send them off to the bin. appreciate the help on this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
smart move :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTM_rhinox:
Guys when I use usb OTG, it gets detected but doesn't appear in file manager... It says blank storage or unsupported file format... ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narkyz:
Did you unlock your phone ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
how is your OTG storage formatted?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTM_rhinox:
Unlock? What you mean?

---------- Post added at 07:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:50 PM ----------

Nope...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funky-kun:
I flashed latest stock 4.3 firmware today, but the phone fails to boot into stock recovery - it just vibrates, and proceeds to boot normally. I tried flashing latest PhilZ Touch, but the phone just boots normally, even with the autoreboot turned off in Odin. I managed to boot into PhilZ once, rebooted (checking yes to disable flashing stock recovery) but when trying to enter recovery after that it still fails.

Is there anything I'm missing? I followed the instructions when using odin, but it doesn't seem to work. And is there an easy way to bring back stock recovery? Might be best to just factory reset through it, I have everything backed up anyway...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narkyz:
I mean if your phone is locked you have to unlock it (with the slide, or the code or the sign, depending on the method you use to unlock).

Maybe I'm wrong but when I plug my USB cable, I don't have access to the storage if my phone is locked... If it's already the case the problem is somewhere else and I'm not going to be very usefull...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
It sometimes helps to remove the battery for a minute and try again.

Also make sure you release all the buttons as soon as you see the blue text appearing in the upper left corner of the screen.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narkyz:
Yes I confirm... I already spend some time to enter in recovery... juste because I was holding button too much. You have to release keys as soons as you see the blue text on the top of the screen
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
nope is not really a valid answer to what i asked. whatever it is you're connecting, how was the file system formatted? fat32? exfat? NTFS?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
LOL, is that a new file system. How did you format you're OTG device Nope :silly:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
between this guy and someone on facebook trying to buy a 'double swag' (its camping gear, but you all know the alternate meaning) my mind has broken. its 2am and 35c here... i'm going away before my mind breaks. night all.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wezmic:
s4 charging problem

My s4 will only charge in usb mode, even plugged in with the ac charger it still charges in usb mode. It is very slow taking 6+hours to fully charge, and if I use the phone while charging the battery percentage sometimes drops! Also it isn't recognised while connected to my laptop.

I did a full factory reset, replaced the usb port assembly, tried different cables, all with no luck!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTM_rhinox:
Oh, I'm sorry! I thought u asked if I formatted usb! N I'm not sure which format... How to find out?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
Someone told me that if i have 4.2.2 then flash directlly a custom rom base on android 4.3 then i loose wifi and i should first install syock 4.3 and then custom 4.3

Is it true?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
No that's not true, you might need to flag an other LTE modern. Just follow the installation instructions for the Rom you are going to flash.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
What is difference between lte modem and modem?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
The modem only controls the radio layer. The LTE men controls things like LTE but also seems to have impact on WiFi and sound. The LTE modem is much more sensitive to the Android and boot loader version.

Sent from my GT-I9505