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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Then your phone isnt stock and you were running an aosp based rom and not a stock touchwiz rom. Latest stock firmware is 4.4.2 and latest firmware version is GNG8

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If you backed up right now, if you restored it next week, apps, phone numbers,call logs, text messages, settings, etc etc etc would be like you traveled back into time to the time you made the back up. It however does not back up internal or external storage
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ritchiejoe:
So would I be able to go back to a 4.4.2 stock rom?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
I suggest you to use Titanium Backup Pro to make the backup of the apps you want.

In general, when I flash a new ROM, these are the steps i do:

1- Open TB pro, and make a backup of every app you want

2- Activate the Auto-sync option, so your device will backup the contacts (and evrything else associated with samsung or google account) on cloud.

3- OPTIONAL STEP: if you want to be 100% sure, connect the S4 to PC, and make a copy of all the additional files you want to keep (photos, documents an TB folder etc).

4- Enter recovery (my favourite il Philz touch) and make a nandroid backup (maybe on external SD, where there is more free space).

5. Wipe data/factory reset, Wipe Cache, Wipe dalvik chace

6. Reboot, set up your device

7- Re-install TB pro, and restore all the backups you have (apps + data). Then you can delete all the backups you've done to free more space in your s4

8- FINISH :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
thank you SO much!

just a couple of questions:

by "every app you want", do you mean every single app or just the essential ones (ie. whatsapp, gallery, contacts etc.)?

and would you mind watching this video to see if this is safe please? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBrYiqgReqE he uses the ClockworkMod Recovery here. and where would i be able to download CWM? is it just in the play store?

really want to know all of these and perfect it so i can test out other roms!

oh and one question, do nandroid backups also backup how launchers are set up? like once you restore them, does everything fall back into place (ie. launchers, folders, widgets etc.)?

again, thank you so so much!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Yeah you can

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What s4? i9505, i9500, ect ect

Yes. When you restore your nandroid everything will be just how it was when you made the back up.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ritchiejoe:
Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
i9505, 4.4.2, NE5. And if it helps, I live in the UAE and Etisalat being my carrier :)

also, i have another weird problem now! man, a lot of problems came up since rooting.

i can't interact with the camera now! the touch screen simply stops when i open it. although the camera itself works while using the volume rockers, however the screen refuses to work. i cant do anything besides take a picture! is there a fix around this? i have not found any sort of fix on the internet. i tried rebooting but nothing. :( thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
What have you deleted?

CWR attached

Flash in odin in pda slot
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HassanM:
R u on Stock or Custom Rom??? Moreover which kernel r u using???

By the way, from what uve explained, its by no means related to rooting your device...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
KNOX 2.0.0

KNOX Notification Manager 2.0

KNOX SetupWizardClient 2.0.0

KNOX Store 1.0

KNOXMigrationAgent 4.0

New enrolment 1.0.6

RCPComponents 1.0

thats about it. backed up and uninstalled because they all showed up when i searched for KNOX on Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
Well, let's start explaining a couple of things:

1- About the nandorid backup, ShinySide already answered to you. However, it is used only when you have problems of device not booting etc, it will not fix nothing, also after a full wipe

2- Philpz touch is an advanced version of CWM, with a lot of different feature. In the play store the is an app that allow you to install the lastest CWM, however i'm not sure if it works with our i9505. If you want to use Philz instead, you have to flash it with Odin tool.

3- I suggest you to backup only the user app with TB Pro. TB doesn't backup evrything, it backups only the data related to the app (for example saved games, things you've saved / searched with the app) and something like that. Fell free to backup evrything you want (yes, WA too), excepted system apps.

4- About the contacts and evrything bounded with samsung or google account, use the auto sync to backup on the cloud (u can check under options -> account if it has synchronized evrything you need).

5- About the photos, screenshots, documents and TB folder (after you've done the backups) ect, backup them manually on your pc. But it's an additional step, beacuse a normal wipe (data + chace + dalvik) shouldn't delete your personal files.

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Don't worry, a good wipe will solve evrything :)

Yes it's boring, but somethimes a good wipe can do miracles :highfive:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
1. oh okay! so if i do a factory reset, i dont necessarily need a nandroid back up? either way, can i still make one so everything is backed up, even the layout of everything? (i've worked a lot to customize my phone as much as i can before rooting it ahahha)

2. okay thank you so much! i'll be trying to play around with Odin tomorrow!

3. great! thats exactly what i wanted! thank you so much. hopefully this and a nandroid back up will work together and making it seem like nothing happened after a factory reset.

4 and 5. awesome, thank you! i'll probably still back them up on my computer.

and okay, i'll be wiping everything tomorrow. :) once i do that, i'll probably be playing around with ROMs too. do you have any suggestions? my top priorities are speed and battery life (just like everyone else). no fancy animations or whatnot. what really stood out for me is cyanogenmod and paranoid android.

and to hassan, everything is stock, including the kernel.3.4.0-1567293.

and yeah i know, but these problems were not there before i rooted my phone. :/

thank you though!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
1. exactly

2. About the custom rom... it'vs very subjective. If you want something really slim, similar to stock android, flash one ROM based on AOSP, but you will loose a lot of functions that samsung has addes, and you will loose also touchwiz interface.

If you want a better version of touchwiz, you could choose WanamLite v3.0 (then install Xposed Intaller and Wanam Xposed module for extra customization). Then you could debloat it from all the system apps you don't use and zipalign it (I still need to learn how to do it).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
i definitely do not want anything that resembles touchwiz ahaha, stock android looks great to me. nothing wrong with tw, im just so sick of it and its slow interface. i dont even use 90% of samsung's features, so i dont think i'll miss it. the only one i actually use is reading mode and power saving mode, and they are both very replaceable. thank you so much for helping me! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
You'll miss the camera. Trust me haha
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
i guess, i dont take a lot of pictures with my phone though. got a proper camera for that. plus all the pictures i take on my phone only go on social media so i dont think i'll be needing such an advanced app ahaha thanks though!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mp3elv:
Guys I hope you are really friendly and answer my question cos I don't know for sure something you see I have a galaxy s4 i9500 international edition with the exynos processor not the so much talked i9505 so i want to root it but I'm worried about the whole padlock at boot thing and the word custom appearing I am fine with the Knox warranty void bit but I wanna know that if I root my i9500 that's running the latest update (4.4.2) I would get the damn padlock or not I still can't figure out if such a thing is a problem that only happens on i9505 and not in i9500 because in all the tutorials I have seen some as recent as just 2 weeks ago Noone says anything about this please clarify it to me those who got a i9500 rooted with kit kat and can assure me that no such thing appears I would be very grateful thanks

Enviado desde mi GT-I9500 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] night1218:
Recently i flashed a custom rom(PhoenixRom) on my s4 i9505, and im cant help but notice im having trouble getting my network signal.

here is the below issues:

1)Screen Lock = Network Signal lost

2) Random times network signal lost

What i did:

I downloaded the modem for XXUGNF1 and flashed it thru ODIN,but still it didnt help..

Require kind assistance here..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
hey sorry for posting again but one more question:

after i make a nandroid back up and wipe everything, do i just go back to CMW (volume up, home button and power button) and restore immediately? or is there something else i need to do? thank you!

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hi im sorry for posting again but i REALLY REALLY NEED HELP!

so i backed up everything, did all of the wipes, and then i rebooted system with cwm.

now i cant turn cwm on!

whenever i normally boot it, it goes back to its stock phone, and whenever i try to hold power button, home button and volume up button, it just goes on the Samsung s4 page with the blue stuff on top, but nothing appears after that. please, how do i get back to cwm?

i cannot restore anything unless i do!

please help!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Remove the battery for a minute and try again
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
okay trying that now. im panicking so much, is this normal? i cant seem to launch cwm!

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i am getting very worried. the phone is just back to stock now, im so scared of losing the entire thing! should i reinstall CWM using odin again and see if that works? please do reply asap, im having a massive panic attack D:

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hi i'm so sorry for posting again and again, but i really need help!

to make everyone comfortable, i'll just post what my general problem is and how it started:

so yesterday, i rooted my galaxy s4 i9505 using the towel root method. everything was fine, installed some xposed modules.

however, i realized that there was an excessive battery drain, and the solution i found was to factory reset it.

so after some posts, i learned that i can use CWM to make a nandroid back up. (mind you, i was not usign a custom rom, everything was stock)

after making a back up, i wiped everything, then i rebooted system.

it rebooted fine, but then now i cannot access CWM to restore my backup!

im back to stock everything, please i want to go back to before!

i'm getting so worried about everything.

please do try to help and thank you in advance!

just an update, my KNOX WARRANTY VOID is now 0x1!

i tripped it! is that normal? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP! thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkerTimes:
Flash cwm again and try to boot into recovery after that. Maybe you can enter it then
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
i have tried that multiple times and it is not showing up! :(

i'll try it one last time. this is honestly killing me, i'm regretting a lot already.

it did not work again! there is in big red letters after like three lines saying RECOVERY IS NOT (something then it went black).

PLEASE is there a way out of this? i'm begging anyone. :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgershko:
so can anyone help me?

i would post in the appropriate forum if not for the restriction on dev forums.....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Try a different kernel. "Alphas" aren't for the weak at heart. Least wait till it hits beta stage for be near "perfect"
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkerTimes:
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing. I know.

Do you have the right timing pushing the hardware keys?

The next thing you can do is flash you current firmware again and then repeat everything. Root, install CWM and try to enter it you know?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
thats all to much i guess. i can just reinstall everything and i did not lose root access. its just a massive pain and makes exploring custom roms so much more complicated and scarier. thank you though, i'll just do everything from scratch :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
You've probably done something wrong with the procedure. However it's really strange that you can't access the recovery.

As I already said, use Philz recovery pls, and follow the instrucions:

1. Download Philz the lastest philz recovery: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jflte/philz_touch_6.57.5-jflte.tar.md5/

2. Download the lastest Odin (3.10)

3. Connect the device in download mode, be sure Odin recognize your device.

4. Click on AP and select the recovery .tar.md5 file

5. Install

After you're done, the device will reboot and vibrate. Immediatly after the vibration, you can simply press (and keep pressing) the up volume button until you will see displayed, in the top left corner, "RECOVERY BOOTING" (yes, written in blue). After it appears, stop pressing the button

If it doesn't appear, don't panic: turn off the device, and press and kept pressing again voleme up + power + home buttons, until "RECOVERY BOOTING" appears. Immediatly stop pressing the buttons after the notice is shown
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
thank you so much! i'll try this when i gather enough courage to do so, it took me months to decide on whether to root my phone or not ahaha

however, the camera problem was not fixed by the swipe. it is still unusable and everything is not working, however it's not that big of a deal to me. i can always use a different app. i dont use the camera much. still keeping an eye out for the battery life though. :)

thank you everyone! hopefully all of this was worth the trouble and multiple cardiac arrests i went through.

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hi, unfortunately there is no difference in battery life. it's still quite bad. i do feel like its one of the modules i've installed.

DoubleTapToSleep

Greenify

Never Sleep (Only on Youtube and Flipboard

ScreenOffAnimation

Screenshot Delay Remover

Snapshare

Statusbar Scroll to Top

Swipeback

WanamXposed

XuiMod

Youtube Ad Away

Are any of these modules known for draining battery?

In WanamXposed, Enable TouchWiz DVFS is enabled. should this be disabled?

and it really does seem like Android System is taking much more battery than it used too.

I already lost 20% with 26 minutes of Screentime.

thanks to everyone for helping! i guess ALL of that trouble with wiping the device and not being able to restore it went down the drain. :(

I guess if this continues to happen I'll unroot my phone and maybe properly root it instead of doing it via towelroot (a very very big regret of mine. do not reccomend it at all).

edit:

after doing some more research, it seems that uninstalling the KNOX apps are whats causing the battery drain. would it be safe to install them again? i uninstalled them before to stop the random rebooting. will the fact that its tripped stop that now? thank you and sorry for the spam ahaha, i'm still a MASSIVE noob to all of this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.wtf:
could someone please list some cm-based roms supporting sview? those seem to be pretty rare...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ritchiejoe:
Alternative to Titanium backup?

All of a sudden titanium backup has stopped backing up some apps and also fails to restore them. I have to go back into the app and restore each manually.

does anyone know of an alternative to titanium backup pro?

:good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkerTimes:
So why du you want to install Knox again? That doesn't make sense, because then the reboots might start again. And they don't cause battery draining, i guess.

What du you mean when you say "bad battery life"?

Help us to understand you. 20% in half a hour screen on is the only information you have us. When you game this is quite normal and when you use the Internet it's not unusual that 20% is lost in this period.

I would recommend you to take a further look at your battery for a longer time now and don't start flashing everything you can get. Wait a while. And when the battery continues draining then you have to look again what to do next ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
well during my screentime, i literally did not do anything that should cause any battery drain. i checked whatsapp, looked at some pictures, probably went through some settings. this should not at all take 20% battery (compared to my pre-root experience).

i'll try my best to keep this root for another week, and i REALLY REALLY REALLY hope my battery goes back to normal. for most days, i'm on 4G signal all day w/out access to wifi so my phone would die in like half an hour.

if my problems still persist, i'm definitely definitely going to unroot my phone. nothing is worth this ahaha

thank you though!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
Post a screenshot of you battery stats. Also download Better Battery Stats from the play store to see if there is something unusual that's draining your battery.

Remember that if you want you can change your ROM and install an AOSP rom, much more battery friendly, smoother and with less problems.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
yep that was the original plan after rooting the phone but i guess this will happen in the next couple of weeks. :)

i'll be waiting for my phone to get to 0% fully. the thing is, there are no wake locks whatsoever. i experience absolutely 0% battery drain when my phone is asleep. watched an entire movie and my phone was asleep the entire time, on 20% for a good two and a half hours. its just whenever my screen is on, my battery starts to drain like crazy. around 1% a minute. i really suspect something in Android System is doing all of this. also, Media has become the third most battery draining app too. my SD card is semi new- i got it a couple of days before i rooted my phone and it was completely fine. then i rooted it and i wiped everything and it started to drain as well, no idea why.

i'll install Better Battery Stats to see whats really draining everything and i'll post everything here. :)

thank you all for helping me! :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmniSlyfer:
Yes and then post some screens. But I guess it could be caused by one of the xposed modules you've installed
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idr3s:
Im running the latest CM11 mod with KK 4.4.4, and Im facing trouble with the call quality. The voice of the other person is very low .. even on loudspeaker.

Does any one know what could be done about this? I've checked the settings and found nothing useful there.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SMan14:
GT-i9500: CM11 Nightly to Prism Barebones Beta 0.1

I would have liked to post this on the

[ROM][4.4.2][NG3][31/7] Prism™ Barebone V8.5 | Stable | Clean | Fast | 574 Mb | [New Beta Update 477Mb] thread, but I don't have enough posts yet.

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Device: GT-i9500

Recovery: Koush's Recovery: recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.2-i9500.img

ROM: CM11 i9500 Nightly from 20140824 (cm-11-20140824-NIGHTLY-i9500.zip from CyanogenMod Download Page)

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While I really like CM11, the non-existence of support for bluetooth handsfree protocols means I can't use this as my daily driver.

I would like to install the Prism Barebone Beta ROM instead of CM11 (

[ROM][4.4.2][NG3][31/7] Prism™ Barebone V8.5 | Stable | Clean | Fast | 574 Mb | [New Beta Update 477Mb] ) however I can't seem to flash the ROM successfully. Here is the procedure I followed and the results:

[1.] Nandroid backup of CM11 to external SDCard

[2.] Copy ROM zip to external SDCard

[3.] Reboot into recovery Koush's Recovery: recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.2-i9500.img as mentioned previously

[4.] Wipe cache, dalvik, format preload, wipe data and reset

[5.] Install ROM from zip on external SDCard

[6.] Reboot

The recovery warns me that the stock recovery might be flashed by the reboot, and I select YES.

The device reboots and gets 'stuck' at the SAMSUNG logo animation (not the model number animation, the subsequent animation).

I can get back into CWM and restore my nandroid.

Any suggestions? :eek:

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanzva:
i guess. i suspect it is. but this is really over the top. android system is taking SO MUCH battery its ridiculous. ive only had 23 minutes of screentime and and im already on 77%. android system is taking 22% and screen 24%. there must be a fix to this. :/ thank you! also, i can't install BetterBatteryStats since its paid, so i'll post GSAM screenshots instead and the stock battery stats.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drakorcarnis0:
Can I install 4.3 Cm10 on my 4.4 Cm11 i9505 (with 4.4 bootloader) without any risk ? That's because I want microsd liberty back to install big apps.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icu.:
Problem accessing SdCard on Samsung S4

Samsung s4 GT-I9505 Int.

Cm snapshot m9 jflte

Today I got a message on my phone that my 'Sd card was not inserted correctly and check if it is inserted correctly etc etc.'

Checked it but it was all good.

>Then I checked if everything was good with the NextApp SDFix app and no problems there.

>Then I tried to approach the sd card via the CM file manager and I got the message that I had to switch roots access mode on.

>So I switched over to Towelroot and check if everything was ok but I got the message that my phone is currently not supported.

>When I access the Storage setting on my phone my SD card is not displayed.

Until today everything worked well. What should I do because I'm outta options.

Thanks in advance

..cant post screenshots bcoz I'm new, sorry
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ode_:
Hi,

I need a way to disable expansion SD card slot on S4 9505, running Paranoid Android (4.45) with KToonsez kernel (3.4.94) and internal SD is encrypted.

Some app or mod what disables microSD slot, or takes auto mount off, so no card would be read/scan/etc until user manually decides to do so.

Hopefully same solution can be used to disable OTG media auto mount.

Also some suggestions for microSD encryption app would be nice.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Santorrr:
I9505ZHUFNB3 root?

Hi,

I tried searching everywhere in the forums and even googled this a dozen times, but still couldn't find a proper answer (only a pretty shady site IMO where the instructions were written with bad english).

I'm looking for a way to root my beloved SGS4 GT-I9505 running the ZHUFNB3 firmware but couldn't find anything with the exact same firmware number as mine. I'm still a noob in this whole rooting business (only rooted one phone before) so I didn't want to go on on my own and mess something up.

Is there a way? Thank you in advance.