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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryShareef:
Very Very Thanks alot sir. I got my phone working :)

Flashed TWRP. Then Pushed a ROM through ADB Pusher and then Flashed SuperSU. :)

Can I flash another ROM Now ?? Any precautions for me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
Download any rom you want but make sure the correct super su zip you are flashing.

For 5.X based roms there is specific supersu.zip and some come pre rooted and the developer will mention it in op check for it.

For 6.X based there is stable V2.7X

Even if your twrp says superSU not installed and if twrp says it will install pls dont install like that because it will end you in a bootloop.

If you need any help in finding a better rom or kernel or anything i will be there to help.

Born to help. Have a great day buddy.

Dont call me sir. We are here to get our problems sorted out.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cambapo:
E300 are Exynos variants, E330 are all Snapdragon variants. In fact, I installed TWRP and it has an unified recovery for all Snapdragon 800 variants, or so I think. The solution that I need is to fool the recovery to install this ROM that I patched, or that the ROM itself allows to be flashed on my device since it's basically the same as S/K variants, save for the LTE bands. How can I change the ROM identity or something so that the recovery installs it anyway?

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I did some research and I found that the installer verifies that mbtool.installer.device in info.prop matches one of the following properties. However, if mbtool.installer.ignore-codename is set to true, the check will be skipped. How can I do this and where?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
Actually try flashing the rom zip without the zip file verefication in the twrp settings this might also help. If this doesnt work( mostly it works)

Then i will try searching for another solution for you.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cambapo:
It was always unchecked, and now I modified the info.prop file so that it recognises my device, and now the installation doesn't stop because of the device name. Now I try to flash and fails. The MultiBoot log file says near the end "Failed to copy data: No space left on device" on the folder /system/multiboot/dual/system/xbin/, even when I have 20 GB of free storage. What's the problem now? Now I'm really stuck :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
Is that a 32gb version?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cambapo:
Indeed. E330L.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMikMc:
So I am now trying to flash a rom onto my SCH-R970, I've tried the Sprint Stock Rom for the SPH-L720, got a message saying

E: Footer is wrong

E:Signature verification failed

so I tried a custom rom for the SPH-L720, same message. I am assuming the phone is bootlocked, but otherwise not sure, can't seem to find any good info on actually getting this done, do I have to do something special to unlock the boot loader? I thought Rooting did that for the phone...

Anyone have any suggestions? I want to get this thing working on Sprint, it has the proper hardware, it's just a matter of getting the software to install, I'm a novice at programming but understand a how computers function well. Again, this should be possible.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
The SCH-R970 is a US cellular S4. It doesn't have a locked bootloader.

Flashing Sprint's firmware will not necessarily make it work with Sprint SIM cards, your phone still has to be unlocked in order to work with SIM cards other than those from US Cellular.

And official firmwares can't be flashed with recovery. You need a special program designed to do that. The program is called Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMikMc:
Yes, (Sorry I didn't include all of my info, This will give you more detail)

I have already unlocked the phone with USC, I also tried using Odin and it wouldn't let me flash the Sprint firmware, Odin is a samsung program and unless someone can tell me or link me to how to get Odin to do it (I have already downloaded the sprint firmware and tried uploading it with odin and the phone in download mode, I had to do the same thing when installing the stock firmware for the device to get it SIM unlocked in the first place, having done that I then gained root access on the device, So the only reason it doesn't work on Sprint now (That I can figure) is that USC is CDMA and Sprint is GSM. The phone has BOTH and is dependent on the firmware to dictate which one to use and how. Sprint ALSO has 4G LTE which is compatible with the device, but again, I need the Sprint firmware to properly operate the radio software.

I have ALSO tried loading the firmware onto the SD and using a flashing app to run it but it wont get past rebooting into recovery mode, then it just sits there, when it should be running the flash, but alas, it lets me try manually, so when I tried that it gave the error I showed in my last post, which you quoted.

Odin will load the tar.md5 and it says "checking finished successfully," then "Leave CS," The com ID goes blue when I connect the phone, Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checked, nothing else is.

After I press start it runs through some things, then after "Nand Write Start" comes "FAIL! (AUTH)" which I assume means I don't have the full root or there is another firmware barrier I need unlocked...

The Phone says "Secure Check Fail : aboot"

... I will be doing more digging around the interwebs today but again if someone has a helpful suggestion I would certainly welcome it!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Odin does not require root to flash.

Odin fails are a result of bad cable, USB ports, Windows and Odin version combinations.

Plugging the phone into the wrong USB port can result in an Odin fail. Same goes with the cable.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMikMc:
...right, but as I mentioned I successfully used Odin before with the same cable and version to install the USC stock rom, nothing has changed but the ROM I am installing, which Odin has verified.

What I am taking from what you're saying is that I should be able to install the stock rom from Sprint SPH-L720 onto the USC SCH-R970 with no issue. It is possible the Rom was bad in some way, am downloading a new one now, I did install the stock SCH-R970 to see if maybe it was because the current version was 5.01, now it's just sitting there with the samsung logo flashing blue. Is that updating? it's been doing it for an hour, is it some kind of Boot Loop?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Some custom ROM zips have an updater script that checks the device compatibility. If the device does not pass that check, the flash fails.

It is possible that Odin has a similar check. That would mean you have to modify the firmware file somehow.

Have you tried any of the custom TouchWiz ROMs here?.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cambapo:
Last year I bought a R970. It was a complete waste of money. In my country all carriers are GSM, and believe me, I did EVERYTHING to make it work but it never recognised the SIM card. I even messed around with the build files so I could change it's identity and so I could flash another variant radio, and it was impossible. I sugest you to save the effort and time because I don't think you'll be able to make it work on GSM. What I can think of right now that might help is to flash a I9505 ROM, because I could do that, and try to flash a Sprint radio through recovery. Just fool the radio file so it accepts your variant, but I think there's a risk of bricking.

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Btw, I forgot to say that I'm trying to flash a dual boot ROM using the Dual Boot Patcher, and indeed my phone has 32 GB of storage. I'm trying to install CM 13 as the second ROM but it keeps saying that there isn't enough storage. It happens whith whatever it tries to writr on /system/multiboot/dual/system/xbin/.

Does the internal storage has anything to do with this?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMikMc:
Thank you for that! At least I won't drive myself insane trying to get it done, I was thinking of making a custom build but don't have a great background in that sort of thing and would be winging it.

So now I have decided to simply find a good custom ROM to flash and use (regardless of getting mobile signal the device will still be useful to me) but guess what?!?!

I CAN'T GET ANYTHING TO INSTALL!!

Oh happy day, just when I thought this would get a bit simpler life decides differently.

I've fixed my soft brick, and gotten stock firmware updated, then CF-Rooted through Odin, then downloaded TWRP, then loaded the most recent version of PACrom, TWRP said it was corrupted, tried cyanogenmod, corrupted, tried 2 different versions of both, the latest nightly, and the latest stable, no good, and yes, I made sure they were for my phone model and carrier.

both I got from the supposed "official" release sites for each rom.

Anyone have a suggestion on a WORKING Rom for the S4 or how to get uncorrupted versions of those Roms?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cambapo:
Now that seems weird. I could succesfully install custom ROMs including CM. My phone is now useless, not just because of the CDMA issue, but because of a damaged screen. Out of that, it works normaly with a custom ROM that I downloaded here on XDA. I don't remember it's name but was a very slim one. You won't have problems on finding it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
The systam rom has a fixed space given for it and in any case system partition should not exceed that space. So this might be a problem for you. Try a debloated samsung rom and a cm based rom then the space might be enough.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FakerS3:
Stuck on 4.3

Hi i bought s4 i9506 (int.) and the s4 is on 4.3 jellybean . :rolleyes:

i tried to update phone to lolipop like all others it says its latest version (no even kit-kat) :confused:

I had s3 before flashed some roms etc. it worked

But i wanted to manually update s4 to 5.x or 6.x (tw based) and in post they said u need lolipop bootloader and etc.

And i didn't flashed so many things with odin only rooted some phones and i downloaded some firmware from sammobiles site and im aware if i flash it the network will lock and it will need to be again unlocked? :(

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMikMc:
I didn't have busy box installed, I did that and tried again by installing from TWRP's app, so I finally got Cyanogenmod 10.2, then got a snapshot of cm 11 to install, now I am retrying the Pac-Rom because it has the functionality I want, but also will try to put the sprint version of Pac-Rom just to see if it will take.

I have a solid backup there if needed, and TWRP recovery has been pretty stable thus far. Thanks for the help!! Everyones input was much appreciated! I will probably be back on here at some point for my next project, I have a Note 3 which IS my current phone, rooted, with TWRP, but I REALLY can't afford to brick it so I am doing all my testing on the S4 which is just a toy at this point. with luck I will have a lot of powerful functionality when I can tether the S4 to the Note 3 and could then use the S4 as an interface in my car, or as a remote for my GoPro without disrupting my mobile internet on my Note 3, oh the joys of technology after suffering through the hell that is getting them to work properly!! :D:cowboy::good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olaleyelukman:
how to fix not support sorry on rom switcher when trying to download tools gor my gt i9500 s4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatzuya:
HI, my samsung galaxy s4 (i9505xxuemke) is still running on JB 4.3. when i tried to check for updates it says that i have the latest version installed.

and I can see everywhere you are all having android 4.+++ kitkat versions.

how can I update my S4? please help…

P.s. also i tried on kies 3… still no update for kitkat

thanks all...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
The latest version is lollipop, so it will update to that.

You can always try manual update through Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatzuya:
but i confuse on pda or bootloader which one should i download?? need help plsss ::crying::
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olaleyelukman:
pls link to download the installation tools for rom switcher on my gt i9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
You download the ROM from sammobile.com. They have flash instructions there.

Here
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatzuya:
Ok thanks...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shannyholtz67:
Hello everyone! I tried to put TWRP on my S4 (i rooted it myself, but that was my first attempt at something more advanced) but i must have made a mistake. My S4 still boots up fine, but the rom itself must be damaged. Many of the apps dont work, but the basic functions still do (phone, SMS, internet, etc.) Since it is no longer my main phone, i want to try out a custom rom like CM. I am just asking for someone to point me in the right direction, a link to a good walkthrough for beginners would be perfect. I am new to the site and am having trouble weeding through all the threads. Thank you in advance!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonbz:
I don't find the guide to how make microsd all together with internal memory to have a bigger internal memory storage (Internal + microsd) is there a guide? Is there a method? THank you very much. Sumsung s4 with google play edition rom rooted.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondJohn:
I dont know if this is the best way, however, I have a 64GB EXternal SD card which is partitioned to use 8GB as Internal and the other 50+GB as portable. I did the following on my GT-i9506 with a 64 GB SD Card, running Resurrection Remix ROM.

The above has worked well for me. You can do a web search on each command to understand what each step actually does. The 179_64 may be different for your phone, the line above it gives you the actual name.

The "86" means 86% as portable, which gives approx 8GB as internal on a 64GB card.

The first few ADB steps will leave the internal partition as F2FS and the Portable partition as vFat. So I added the steps in TWRP to reformat as F2FS. I am sure it could of been done in ADB, but I knew how to do it in TWRP (as I have both my cache and data already formatted as F2FS) NB: Grey is in command shell in windows, while blue is in adb shell

The only thing I cant seem to work out is how to rename my portable storage from the random string, to something more human like (eg SDCard1)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Most ROM threads offer install instructions. It's very simple:

1) Download the ROM of your choice

2) Download a gapps (Google-apps) package (Most threads offer links to such packages)

3) Put the ROM zip and gapps zip on the internal or external storage (doesn't matter)

4) Reboot to recovery

5) Do your wipes (system, data, cache, dalvik)

6) Select install and navigate to the folder containing the ROM/gapps zip

7) Flash the ROM first, then gapps.

8) Reboot and profit.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonbz:
So if I'll do this procedure i'll have a big internal memory consisting of the internal memory plus the micro sd card, isn't it? You have sure understood that i will to avoid the problem of installing anything on the microsd.

Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondJohn:
I have since reformatted my card as a single large portable device reformatted as F2FS as I could not find a way to use the second adopted storage effectively. My phone has 16GB internally, so running out wont be a problem. Also, on speed tests, the physical phone internals were about 4 times faster than the SDCard (Class 10, UHS-I SandDisk Ultra). As I reformatted the portable device as F2FS, it should have most of the benefits as if it were Adopted internal, and its easy to transfer apps and data onto the card. Just my preference after trying the other way. I just could not see the benefits of having a second internal partition. I didn't try it, but maybe setting "pm set-install-location 1" or "pm set-install-location 0" before installing an app you may be able to direct to which internal partition the app is installed. Too much hassle for me.

On a previous attempt, I formatted the whole 64GB as an Adopted internal partition and created symlinks to various locations so that the media scanner could see my media files etc. But it as getting to be a hassle with all the boot scripts and it also meant the whole card as encrypted and useless outside of that phone.

If you create "a big internal memory" using the "Adopted" feature of Marshmallow, then everything you install on the adopted partition IS installed on the external SDCard. By formatting the portable partition as F2FS, I think it will get the main feature of the Adopted storage. There will however by some apps that will still not allow you to transfer them to the SDCard (16GB should be enough for me), and there will be no encryption (which is more of a hassle if you are not concerned with security of your data)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonbz:
Only Another question, I use a gt-i9505 with GPe rom android 5.1, my cell should have 16gb of internal memory but when I go to the settings I see only 9,15 gb of memory and it is almost full without any video or Image on it... why I don't see 16 gb of total internal memory. Maybe 7gb are reseved for android, isn't it?

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
It is to do with the 8gb pit and 16gb pit. So if have time to spare just clean install the rom again or flash a different rom and then flash this rom clean. It should work.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonbz:
Ok, before installing the rom I clear all the cashes like dalvik too, this isn't sufficient to avoid the pit problem? And thank you all for the answers.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhuvan9111:
It is not actually related to cache but just install the rom again with different gapps. Or like what i have said in previous post. If you still have problems feel free to ask me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corduroysack:
I've tried a lot of browsers (Tugabrowser, RsBrowser, Opera, Chrome, Chrome Beta, Naked, UcBrowser, etc) , whats everyone using?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
There is no way for us to get the full 16 GB internal storage. I don't know why Android would need 7 GB of space, especially since most apps use the internal storage to store cache and data anyway.

A full backup of my ROM is 2.5 GB big, the stock ROM was 3.5 GB. I kinda doubt there are any secret partitions that contain files so big as to sum up to the other 3.5 to 4.5 missing GB..

I currently use TugaBrowser and Opera Mini, and Download Accelerator Plus for downloading.

Opera Mini is for when I need to save data. It's the best data saver I have found, shrinking most sites to a few hundreds of KB.

Dolphin seems sluggish to me, and I'm not talking about loading times (which also seem sluggish), I'm talking about the UI. Compared to others, it didn't seem as smooth.

Chrome was great and smooth, but it didn't have a pause and resume feature when downloading.

UC Browser was also great, smooth like Chrome, and it had a pause and resume feature. Unfortunately it had some flaws with displaying some pages.

I chose TugaBrowser because it has the same qualities as Chrome, but more features. Unfortunately it still doesn't have a pause and resume, but that's why I use ADM+ for, which also increases the download speed (tested and confirmed, not a placebo).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corduroysack:
i do use tugabrowser on every install i will try opera mini and DAP for downloads cheers [MENTION=6312707]GDReaper[/MENTION] :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondJohn:
I've been using chromium.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corduroysack:
I've used that as well but not recently :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DiamondJohn:
You will never get the full space available on the physical device, after it is formatted. Some space is actually used up storing information about the format itself. For example, my 64GB SD Card has only 59.5GB available space ie it lost 4.5GB with formatting info.

Now, on your data partition (which is shared with your internal SD), you have your Dalvik and cache; without Dalvik the OS wont run. So my 16GB internal becomes 11.7GB after formatting (ie loss of 4.3GB just by formatting to make it useable) , another 1.7GB for the apps, 0.4GB for Dalvik, 0.3 for App data, 0.8GB is lost to "System Data" (not sure what that is...) So, my free space, before any media is just over 8GB. No space is really "reserved" (apart from the formatting), its actually used by something. Hence I use a 64GB external SD Card (which is only really 59GB after formatting...)

Use an app like "DiskUsage" (with root) from the market to see the breakdown of where your space has gone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Royostos:
Can u tell me how to install custom recovery plz.5anx
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
You download twrp.tar from their site and flash it with Odin. They offer detailed instructions on the TWRP site.

Or, if you're rooted, download twrp.img and flash it with flashify on the recovery partition.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fede01_8:
Does every firmware have its own kernel? I screwed up with my phone's default :/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

I've made a more detailed explanation on another post, although it was among some other replies of mine

Hope it can clear up a bit how it works :). All the best,

~Lord

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Hi,

Depends on what you mean. The stock firmware has its own kernel in the Odin tar, however the custom ROMs are kernel independent most of the time, so you can flash it and flash whichever kernel you want. Although some ROMs, like CyanogenMod, if memory serves well, comes with its own kernel as well inside the zip package. So, basically if you messed up your kernel you can just install a custom one as long as it's compatible with your ROM.

All the best,

~Lord
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stonebear:
Hi

How can I unlock and install a custom recovery on my i9505 please?

I found Skipsofts toolkit but it only supports the 9505 up to 4.4.2 or something and this phone is on 5.0.1 so that's out.

I have used ADB/Fastboot with my Nexus devices in the past so I tried enabling usb debugging and did "ADB Devices" and it showed up, (after installing Kies which installed drivers but won't connect to the phone, I am using Win 8) I tried "ADB reboot bootloader" but it went to a screen saying "downloading, do not stop" or something like that, which isn't the bootloader. So I assume the bootloader is locked?

I downloaded ODIN 3.04 and installed that but have never used it before.

I can't find a simple guide that isn't out of date/has missing links/only works for 4.4.2 etc and I have never tried to install a custom rom on a Samsung device before, only Nexus which have always been easy (flash custom recovery - use custom recovery to flash rom).

Can anyone link me up or help me please, I have been searching and trying and nothing is working for me and I am total Samsung noob. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stonebear:
I just used Odin to install CF-autoroot and it went fine. So, if there is a way of flashing a custom recovery with Odin or a custom ROM containing a custom recovery (does such a thing exist?) I will be ok! lol

I am rooted but I want a custom ROM and I can't do that yet, dunno how.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xode:
In the same way( via Odin) install a custom recovery (see my signature) [emoji6]

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