yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Only official packages.

You could root and try FlashFire. It's an app that allows you to flash stuff, including stock ROMs as far as I know. It should also have the permission to write the modem and bootloader partitions (only if you're on stock ROM).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidatar:
Somehow my son soft bricked his rooted s4. I've tried everything. I finally gave up and I'm now installing upgrading thru kies. I believe its downloading newest avail software.

Does this mean I will not be able to go backwards? And re-root?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prohibeat:
This explains everything. I will get a windows machine and do it a proper way. Thanks for advice.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebestiam:
You can download stock firmware off of sammobile and use Odin to return it back to stock.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidatar:
Thanks, I already have the stock from when I rooted the first time. Somehow there was no recovery so I did the last resort and upgraded with kies. I thought once I did the Verizon update there was no going back.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidatar:
Now that the phone is fixes he wants an LG

I have my note 4 so I don't mind giving him my upgrade.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Clean flash is really troublesome so I usually avoid to do it. I search playstore apk and install the latest version, strangely it works now, and the store appear. I use titanium backup and see app named com.android.vending with middle strike line so I don't know what it means, because it's not disabled or frozen, but install the apk did fix it.

I want to ask something about marshmallow, there's option to use external as internal storage right? The problem arise when I enter the cwm recovery, it always stuck when I tried to navigate to the sd card, any fix?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Dude, CWM is older than the phone itself and hasn't been updated for years!

Just switch to TWRP, It's waaay better and it isn't hard to do either, for God's sake.

Also, I'm pretty sure your play store problems were caused by CWM. I've flashed maybe hundreds of gapps by now with TWRP and never had such an issue like you described.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Did u use the same cm13 latest version?

I try twrp before with the latest 3.0.2.0 and it stuck on the twrp splash when I try to boot in recovery. What version u recommend?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
I'm on android 7.

TWRP 3.0.2-0 should work fine, I use it myself.

But maybe try TWRP 2.8 and then use it to flash the TWRP 3.0.2-0 img.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Maybe it will be fine if I don't use sd card as my internal storage, but I don't have any choice since the internal storage only 8gb. I can use twrp and cwm properly too in the past, but everything change after I use the sd card as internal. Which rom do u use for android 7? I want to know any features that get ur attention ? If it's good, maybe I will change android 7 too.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Do you really have to keep all your stuff on the internal storage?

I mean, that's why you have an microSD card slot.

I use Optimized CM because it feels faster than the others.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Unfortunately yes, I am crazy about game and the data just take many gb, so I don't have much choice to use it. what version do u use?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
I already told you it's android 7. There is only one android 7 optimized CM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Ok, I thought it was different user reply earlier, lol. I successfully flash twrp with odin and can access it perfectly now without stuck on splash screen, cheers ! :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eminem4ever:
Currently I'm running stock lollipop and stock kernel just download Rom toolbox pro,open the app and head to performance tab and lower the cpu frequency.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squarecut:
I have Verzion Samsung S4. I rooted it with Kingroot a while back.

Now the latest OTA update fails to install. I then removed the root using the Kingroot PC application. However the OTA update still fails to install.

Please let me know how can I install the OTA update, or if there is any workaround to it?

I have done a lot of research on the net over this issue, but not been able to resolve this. Would appreciate any help

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AshTechsoft:
By rooting, your device status was changed to custom from official .......that's why when you trying to updae via OTA it pop up that your device has modified or something.....

So, if you want to recieve OTA just flash stock firmware via odin you will be able to recieve OTA update as before.........
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eminem4ever:
Works on custom/stock rom,custom roms have more options as they support custom kernel but shouldn't be a problem on kitkat or lollipop stock
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eduardopreuss:
what is the name of the piece that is being removed (the plastic one)

what is the name of the piece that is being removed, the one made by plastic with a kind of metal on the edges? (link of the image below)

I have to buy a new one but I need the name to search on ebay for it

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/1TGJLFLIC1XTnE2H.huge
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Midframe. You may also find something under "bezel".
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamanth:
Hi Everyone

My partner recently got an S4, since her Nexus 6P broke. It was purchased off Ebay and I have realised it's a T mobile variant (m919)

I'm based in the UK, is their any way of getting this phone onto UK firmware ? (without rooting or custom ROM, just want stock)

Would be awesome if someone could give me a quick tutorial or point me in the right direction if this is possible for this variant.

Thank you :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Complete firmware no. Bootloader modems etc would fail in odin. I actually forced flashed the modems once using the DD command and lost all service/radios lol

But if you took the system.img cache.img and boot.img out of the uk/international firmware, tar'd them, you could flash them onto the phone with odin without having to be rooted, having custom recovery, or be a custom rom.

Can't guarantee no little hiccups but worth a shot and easily revert able by flashing the m919 firmware back with odin
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VnnAmed:
Link to the most current, best flashing Custo ROM Guide please? I have stock 5.0.1 now.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Your phone model, please?

This is to avoid me and other users to give i9500 ROM links while you've an i9505, vice versa, and other similar case.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VnnAmed:
9505 - the European Snapdragon 600
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMX_CHETAN:
thats called as "housing", You cant but just that part you'd need to but entire housing which comes along with front pannel, middle and battery cover and few screws as original housing and replacement housing are only 99% same. 1% makes terrible job.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Download links and install methods.

After you've done that you can go to any custom ROM thread from the GT-I9505 section and follow the instructions on how to install that ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VnnAmed:
Thanks, will read, even though I type this from my 9505 with RRemix. Basically I tried to do it right and flash recovery from Odin but I couldn't boot to recovery afterwards for it to work properly. I did a workaround - root with odin, then flash from system and that went ok. Maybe there is a better way somewhere in the provided knowledge tho, so again many thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicSurvivor:
I am having a Problem. Not sure if I should create new Thread or Post it here. But anyway. I keep "Turning Off" Apps on my phone, but a few minutes later the same APP I just turned off is being Updated again? This used to not happen. When I "Turned Off" some APPS they used to never Update (Turn ON) how can I stop the phone from doing this?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Does official lineageOS is not coming to I9505 ?

I see the wiki http://wiki.lineageos.org/devices.html and supported device only for s4 mini and i9506.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
What does "turn off" mean exactly?

If you do not want your apps to auto-update then turn off the auto-update option from the play store settings.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
No device maintainer = no official LineageOS.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gladi01ator:
s4 sound very low

Hi all

i have a samsung S4 i9505 with lolipo official rom 5.0.1 i have a problem with the speaker sound is working i can hear but its very low i tryed using sound boost mod but didnt work pls help

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AshTechsoft:
I think its your hardware problem....[emoji4]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicSurvivor:
Great that's what I needed. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElIT3ShOOT3R:
After the latest Google App the "G" on the recent menu of my i9505 is big and ugly. My friend owns an I9515 but his icon is normal sized.

Any clues about this issue?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AshTechsoft:
Just tap it and (it will ask to open with) select Google app and tap on always.....the icon will be normal as before.....

I also faced this problem in my I9505.

Actually, it is happening because of similar apps installation of same task....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElIT3ShOOT3R:
Actually I already did that but now it stays like this (SS attached), did you update the Google App?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AshTechsoft:
Goto task manager and clear all defaults then do that again....

Yaa, my Google app is latest.....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElIT3ShOOT3R:
Already tried that. Can you please send me a snapshot of your recent menu screen?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tepits:
Hi can you help me unlock my s4 globe locked. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russy23:
morning guys..

so i thought id post here instead of opening another thread..

ive never experienced android 7.0, and ive got itchy feet to try it..RR looks pretty stable now..

my question is with all open source roms the camera quality suffers, but i saw someone post a while back that some camera apps install there own libs/drivers (errrr yea i think thats right) so camera quality loss is never a worry, is this true..i must admit im not a huge picture taker but when i do take a snap id like it to be the best quality it could be..babbling over, cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalxayS4J:
Nandroid restore does not survive second start

Hi to the experts,

I feel a little lost finding the solution to my problem so forgive me if it was already answered. Any hint to the solution would be great.

My Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 has TWRP 3.0.2.0 flashed via Odin. I took a nandroid backup of the 5.0.1 stock ROM in November last year.

In the meantime I flashed some newer CM-Roms but now I want to go back to the state of November. So I tried to restore all partitions (boot, cache, data, system, efs - I backed up everything I could and restored everything backed up) and rebooted. All went well: my system looked just like I had left it in November. I updated 16 Apps and thought I was fine.

But when I restarted the phone - it took some time to boot - it presented to me what looks like a factory reset version with all the bloatware, the original home screens plus all my apps but without my passwords bookmarks etc. that belong to the various apps.

So I restored the data partition only again and everything looked perfect after rebooting from TWRP. But on the next restart it came up with the factory reset again.

It looks as if the stock ROM set some flag telling the phone to do a factory reset on next boot. How can I keep it from doing this?

Thanks

Jay

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Hi,

I've had this from time to time. A reboot helped in my case.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdelkader azhar:
Hello everyone

If can someone help i will be really appreciate for him

I have samsung i9505 with official TW rom

Rooted

PK2 modem

But i have a problem that sometimes when playing a game or using Facebook my phone locks itself

This problem happen to me when i used super wizcayan rom.

So i decided to back to the original rom to fix the problem

But it happend again last night

My phone was in 20% of battery and was plugged and i was playing yo-gi-oh and in the match my phone locked itself twice

Any one have an idea and thanks so much
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tlailaxu:
Does the Phone get unusual hot at times you play? Could be temp related,you should monitor that and see if it causes the issue

@ ALL

I have a question too. On Android 4.4 you could just edit 3 lines of build.prop to let the playstore think you have a totally different phone. if you do that on Android 6.0, you end up with a phone that has no audio. Is there a new,better way to edit build.prop to recieve apps from the playstore that google thinks are not compatible?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdelkader azhar:
Thanks for you reply

No when playing there is no temperature issue

My phone doesn't become hot

About your question i so sorry i really don't know anything about it
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Yes, some cameras install their own stuff.

And I believe people tend to exaggerate with this "quality reduction" stuff. Either that, or the people reading that stuff - such as you - tend to believe the quality degradation is really really bad.

There may be some quality loss, but it is still a 13MP camera. So it won't magically take VGA pictures.

It is the post-processing that gives the impression of better or worse quality.

If you were to use an app, that has its own libraries, on stock and custom ROM, there wouldn't be any difference in quality.

You can always manually download the apk.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tlailaxu:
While this is indeed a possibility, it get inconvinient when you have to update them all manually. Worst case scenario:you end up leaving the house and notice after starting,that the app need an update and doesnt start anymore.

I'd prefer a more "native" solution but as i said above i am not sure if it is wven possible to mock-device on Android 5 upwarts
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tlailaxu:
Then it could be anything,from kernel problems to black magic. Maybe you could run logcat and check the logs for unusual behavior right before shutdown but its not easy if you don't know what to look for
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VnnAmed:
Which one do I flash in Odin and as what?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
AP -> AP

BL -> BL

CP -> CP

CSC -> CSC

PIT on PIT.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VnnAmed:
I am a very, very dumb human being aren't I...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] berraffarouk15:
hey null imei fix

please any null imei and unknown baseband fix for sure

i tried alot of methods flashing back to stock upgrading then downgrading (with a methode that says it prevents null imei)

xposed and imei changer

aloot flashin modems flashin .... :P please help i have S4-i9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilrocker007:
Sir what will i do i flash the aryaMod 6.5 for my s4 and its successful but when i call someone they can't hear me and i can't hear them .
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omran Zendaki:
Hello everyone:

I have a charging issue on my galaxy s4 GT-I9506 running on RR nougat 7.1.1 rom

I downloaded Ampere app to see how much ma my phone is taking from the charger, using the original cable the app shows charging 300ma (min: 300ma and max: 300ma), I tried to connect an unoriginal cable to the same charger and it raised to (min: 640 - max: 1200 ma) which mean it's still slow charging,

But when I tried an asus cable on my original charger the app showed (min: 1900ma - max: 1900ma) and that's how my charger supposed to work but will this has any negative effects in the future on my battery life??

And is there anyway to make it charge normally on the original cable??

Sent from my GT-I9506
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasniteowl:
Hi group. I have an i337/AT&T variant S4...and yes, I do know there is a separate area for that. Sadly, the traffic there is almost non-existant. I posted a thread on 22 Jan and have had no replies at all. So please, let me in here!

Now, my i337 is on bootloader MDL, so I do have the exploitable bootloader (loki). And I have TWRP 3.0.0-0 [JDCTeam] recovery. My android version is the very old now 4.2.2.

My 2 questions:

1. I'm considering either the OctOS Oct-N 7.1.1 rom based on LineageOS 14.1 OR the JDCTeam 6.0.1 AOSP. Even though Marshmellow is older, it would still be very new to me! Any particular feel on which I should go with? For what it is worth, camera function (pics, not vid) and bluetooth (synced to car for calls at least) are important to me.

2. I still have my stock kernel from 2013. Do I *need* to upgrade the kernel when I flash one of these roms?

Thanks for any feedback!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibuprophen:
I, personally, would recommend that you backup in TWRP (be sure to backup on your MicroSD storage so it won't be lost when testing out another ROM) and see how the OCTOS does and if you don't like it then try another.

It's hard to get a good opinion when personal preferences for everyone is so different. Many don't use any of the LineageOS ROM's because of various reasons (primarily because of the XPosed Framework for Nougat not being released YET).

It's called Trial and Error...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasniteowl:
Thanks...I did do a nandroid backup a few hours ago, so I guess it is time to "just do it!" re: XPosed...since I don't even really know what it would do for me, it's not a consideration. I never really meant to leave my phone stock for 3+ years and now that I want to flash it, I'm trying to re-learn what *very little* I had figured out back in 2013. I'm just lucky I rooted, installed TWRP, and froze OTA updates back when I first got my phone in 2013...even though I didn't do anything else!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ldjcdo:
I guess you will see the difference quite clearly when you install a new rom. If Bluetooth is a major concern, it is important to know that cm13 and 13.1 (6.0 and 6.1 Android) had a Bluetooth issue. I could not connect to my car when I was on 13.

Last year, I migrated from Synergy's cm13 that I had used most of the year, and followed synergy's advise and found Jdc team's cm14.1 optimized rom. Believe me. When I installed it (was beta 1 back then), I was amazed that this phone could almost out maneuver my wife's s7... Almost.

Today it is almost without any glitch... I do recommend it fully, and battery life is incredible...

Just my 2 cents

Enviado desde mi SGH-I337M usando XDA Forums PRO
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasniteowl:
Thanks very much for that input! Yes, BT is a concern...I definitely want it to pair with my car for calls, etc. I am about to flip a coin between trying the OctOS Oct-N 7.1.1 LineageOS base and the JDCteam optimized one. I'm just going to give those threads another quick glance.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Read this.

Should give you a better idea.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mirsaneli:
Need help: I flashed an Aurora Note 4 Port ROM for I9506 from this link: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/i9506-develop/rom-aurorarom-note-4-v6-t3322967/page8

Now, my phone is E330 (Korean) variant, but every ROM made for I9506 worked for me. With this ROM, however, I cannot hear anything when I make a call, and the other side as well doesn't hear me. So, basically, I cannot use calls at the moment because of that. I flashed the Arter97's Kernel for E330S, so I'm 100% sure Kernel is ok. I think it's the modem or driver related to calls, but I don't know where it is located. I have my stock ROM files, just if someone could tell me what needs to be replaced and where?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Does there any kernel compatible for rom RR 5.7.4 MM i9505 ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Is that Marshmallow or Nougat?

Marshmallow - No.

Nougat - Yes. But the kernel is not stable yet and battery is bad at the moment.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucius100:
Oh, I am using MM since nougat not so stable atm. the thread to RR MM get closed, I ask the op, and he said to use other kernel or lower the cpu frequency to solve the overheat issues. I tried lower the cpu freq with the built in kernel auditor, but it doesn't stick, and there's no kernel available yet for MM i9505. So any advice to reduce overheat? Does 60-61 celcius normal for the phone? And what cpu governor is better in battery life ? I only get powersave , conservative, userspace, performance, interactive, ondemand. :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
When gaming I get around 60 °C.

With normal usage I get around 50. As I'm writing this the temperature is around 49-50 °C.

This is on a Nougat ROM.

Conservative and powersave are the better for battery, but performance will be very bad, especially with powersave.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fahadsul3man:
why is the international version of the galaxy s4 getting less attention form the developers ???? as far as i can remember the galaxy s2 and galaxy s3 both had more roms for their international variants :/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiLLBOXJKT:
Triangle away on i9500?

Hello, i am new to XDA. This is my first post, so please forgive any mistakes on my part.

As the title says, when will Triangle Away support the i9500? or is there any other way to remove the flash counter?

Thanks,

KiLLBOX
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaTrED_:
I've already tried that... but somehow it doesn't seems to work! :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
Most of S4 users

have the I9505 variant, it is one of the main reasons.

No TA app for now and it seems that not in the coming period. But the weirdest thing that some users flash stock firmware on their I9500 after rooting and they get binary + status official and they sent it to service center and it still under warranty.

sent from my Galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marionite:
Hi. I just flashed MF8 and then I decided to wipe data. Suddenly my stock gallery doesnt show the images in my ext sd card? Why is that so? This frustrates me a lot :( Please help thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lither:
I'm still undecided whether I should get the i9500 or i9505, is there anymore guides or websites I should look at?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
Be sure that there is no ".nomedia" file in the folder.

Clear gallery data from setting.

Scan media with a rescan media app from store

sent from my Galaxy

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If your service provider provide 4g, and if you are interested in flashing more custom roms, go to 9505. Those at least 2 reasons.

And it is up to you

sent from my Galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
try formatting the sd card using the S4 (transfer folders to your pc before formatting).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanw5489:
This is gone to sound weird but could someone help me copy my framework. Jar so I could upload it an send to someone one else.