yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TommyIceRocking:
i tried that. Is my battery dead or is the S4 just broken? The thing never fell or anything.....Past couple of days i had a problem charging it with the USB, and now this happens.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] komkommerr:
S4 Won't boot

Hello guys,

I have a problem with booting my s4, it won;t past the s4 screen and also it powers down after you go in download or recovery mode, is there a solution for this problem?

thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtayabkk:
can any one help me here.... is there any way to signature unlock feature of note 3 THNXX IN ADVANCE :victory:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
what does 'signature unlock' mean?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawke84:
Hate to quote myself but im really stuck. Anyone had any luck with ntfs?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breaksomeoff:
Hello everyone,

Got a new Galaxy S4 i9505 which was running 4.2.2, it however, had knox so pretty annoyed from the start. Updated to official 4.3 and saferooted it without issues to keep the warranty. I have a few questions though that I need clarification on.

1) I assume flashing a custom kernel via any method will trigger knox

2) Is there any stock kernel tools I can use to change CPU frequency and governor? I cannot limit CPU frequency speed via setcpu or root toolbox.

3) Can I switch to the Google Play edition without triggering knox?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwl99:
Can you give any details of this saferoot method? I assume it will not trip knox? Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breaksomeoff:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2565758

It will not trigger knox, but I believe it only works for 4.3.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwl99:
Thanks - can I ask which 4.3 ROM you used and was it from sammobile or an OTA update?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kifel Jatt:
Hi guys.

When ever I play MC4 my phone literally burns my fingers. I check the temp using system tuner and it shows 70-85°C. Is there anyway I can keep it cool.

I have both wifi and data connection switched on and can't turn either of them off as I don't have home wifi but i leave it on to trick the game into thinking I'm connected to wifi.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thnx
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
undervolt. if you have no idea how to, install the relevant Ktoonz kernel for whatever ROM you have, and use his Ktweaker app to do it. -50mv on CPU and GPU is possible at stock clocks in every S4 i've tested.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breaksomeoff:
I searched in the stock roms for the latest 4.3 which was released for my carrier, which is EE.

I used the mk9 rom, works fine.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

1) You assumed right, the Knox will be tripped when you flash a firmware unofficially.

2) I don't know if this will work, but you can give it a try ;)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.cputweaks

3) Unfortunately no, switching to GPE needs a custom recovery, therefore it goes to the same problem of flashing a kernel ;).

~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] dwl99:
Thanks, it's good to know that it works on MK9. I couldn't find that ROM on the sammobile site for some reason but as you say, it's on the XDA stock firmware page. The Mega download service for the I9505XXUEMK9_I9505VFGEMK2_VOD.zip file seems to be down at the mo but I'll just need to keep trying!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Breaksomeoff:
You can flash custom roms via safestrap which won't trip knox, but there seems to be little information about what trips knox while using that.

All CPU tools I have tried do not work, surely someone else has tried to get stock kernel running slower on a different governor?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blondie99:
Flashing original firmware with different CSC

Hi,

Via OTA and Kies there is still no upgrader 4.4.2 available for my S4...

CSC code is MJ8 (BOG) --> Bouygues Télécom France.

My phone is an I9505 ... I suppose I can just use Odin to flash another 4.4.2 firmware for the I9505 with a different CSC code? Correct?

I used to do some modding with previous phones ... but so far I 've only been using a 'standard' S4. Thus therefore I would like to get confirmation from some people who have more experience with flashing S4 phones.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy Ibanez:
Heya.

Like many people, I am looking to update my Galaxy S4 (I9500) to KitKat.

My phone was purchased in South America and it has the following relevant info:

Baseband Version: I9500UBUBMG9 (double-checked before posting it here).

It is currently rooted, so OTA is not an option. I'd like to update it via ClockWork if possible (I don't have a computer with Windows nearby so it's not possible to use Odin). Would that be possible?

My main two questions are...

1. How can I really update this phone keeping root? Since I have no Windows and all tools for doing so are for Windows, I won't be able to root again in a while if I accidentally un-root myself.

2. Can I install any official ROM for this? provided it is for the I9500 and not for I9005 and other variants. I can't seem to find one for my country. See, my poor third-world country sucks (Bolivia) and no careers officially support the phone, so none of them have their own version of the official Samsung ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoCorral:
Hey here from Argentina, like stock use Omega Rom for the i9500 rooted deodex, up to 4.4.2 no provider crap and with aroma installer so as to remove Samsung bloat were. Search for its thread it's installed via recovery... Good luck
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kifel Jatt:
Ok thnx will do.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethmc:
Rooting S4 GT-I9505

Hi All

Completely new to this but am looking to root my S4, i have downloaded odin but i keep getting a light blue screen instead of the yellow one??

Can anyone with a lot of patience please help?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
yes light blue for odin 3.04 version and up
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethmc:
So are you saying it should be light blue and NOT yellow as posted on youtube?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroBey:
Which rom is best for i9500

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
sir, it depends on what version you are using. for odin 3 it is blue, for odin 1.8- it is yellow

all works fine.

use odin 3.07 or 3.09

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no best rom, try and judge :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroBey:
just say your idea which is stable and insane battery performance:D

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geejayoh:
i9500cn - unique phone?

Hi there,

** N.B. ** I have done searches for my problem, and found a couple, including one discussion that was really quite long, but didn't really address my issue and the language was too taxing to follow (I mean level of broken English rather than technically ).**

A non-techy friend of mine recently asked me to help him out - he bought an i9500 here in China, which as you all know, doesn't have access to the play store and has lots of Chinese bloatware too.

He wanted me to help him out and restore access to the Play store and general make it western user friendly.

I previously owned a i9100 which I successfully rooted and flashed with custom ROM images using Odin and CWM and chainfire's root.

After a little bit of searching, I found a suitable ROM, chainfire's autoroot and also a CWM recovery for the 19500.

However, after successfully rooting and then flashing CWM recovery (no issues in odin) I tried flashing the ROM after a full wipe and it seemed to install OK. However, the system wouldn't boot (there was no bootloader screen) and just sat black.

There was one curious part I noticed, that in download mode the model was listed as "i9500cn". Luckily I'd done a nandroid backup and was able to restore back to whatever firmware was there before. However, the warranty bit was tripped and it lists "custom" rom now, even though I restored the old one.

The warranty bit being tripped is not such a biggy, but what I'm concerned about is the inability to flash the ROM package. Has anybody heard about there being this strange model of i9500 only for China, and how would I go about turning the phone into an "international" version so I can flash normal stock roms and custom roms?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
all custom roms are good to flash and have their dev, i see to review some posts on rom thread for multiple roms that you can build an idea on what you should flash.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kameeeleon:
Yes, yes it does. Guess it's just a matter of timing! :silly:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avadis99:
Thank you for your reply, but there is nothing to update, neither Kies which I have the latest, nor anything on my PC which uses Windows 7, nor the phone as such, that is why I am puzzled that every morning when I come to work and connect my phone, if I do not restart the phone it does not recognize the phone till than?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uae_1990:
Hi I have the I9595 and is working great with 4g but the only problem I have is when turning off 4g I cannot connect to 3g

And I tried flashing stock firmwares more than 10 times with no solution

Thnx for any help
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exsing:
To get into recovery, turn off phone, then hold Power and Volume Up (No need to hold Home button) and let go when you see the blue writing on the top left corner.

Alternatively, download Holo Reboot from the Playstore. :)

Sent from Tapatalk
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veeruchinnu143:
No not yet...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noufel:
My loudspeaker crackles is there a way I can fix it?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D™:
playing on such a high volumes?

Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4

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we may say it a bug. but after rebooting, it was working great for me. it might b problem of controller. also, have u updated ur mobile to newest version?

Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zahnstocher:
does anyone know how to enable the stock navigation bar in 4.2.2

the pretty commonly spread "build.prop" - mod: adding the line "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0" obviously does not work in 4.2.2 anymore.

someone suggested creating a file "system/data/local.prop" containing aforementioned line

but this doesn't do anything either. Nor does fixing permissions or wiping cache/dalvik afterwards.

does anyone really know what the new required settings or modifications are to achieve this?

thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shafz_:
Hey guys so I'm new to rooting and custom ROMs etc.

I wanna know if its possible to flash a stock ROM with a different baseband firmware version released for a different country (India for example) which Samsung have released latest firmware update for, as opposed to my country (South Africa) which hasn't had latest release yet.

My baseband firmware version is I9500XXUAMDK.

And my device has been recently Rooted.

Thanks in advance :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D™:
u can flash the latest firmware from any other country but it give u signal problems. so i would suggest u to flash near by firmware only. else upto u.

Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymihail:
Can you help me with this information?

I want to make an EFS backup before I start flashing roms. What is the easy way to do it on i9505?

Also, I need to know which recovery is better at this point, because I must full wipe before flashing...

I am on i9505xxuamdm stock, rooted with cf autoroot.

It looks that to get omega v5 I must first flash another stock rom xxubmea...

Just don't want to end up with a brick.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
see here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41536475&postcount=8

i do not advise toolkit, since you dont know what is going and for learning purpose ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Look HERE

Recoveries are not quite 100% ,yet.

So ,cannot suggest anything at the moment.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zahnstocher:
i was heavily using these a few days ago, so there might already be newer/better versions. but here what i wrote down:

openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.2-jfltexx - sideload not working properly

i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2-5 - no internal storage mount (external sd-mount works) - i'd suggest u use this one. stable enough

CWM-i9505_EXP4 - crashes sometimes when trying to full-wipe

philz_touch_5.06.0-i9505 - smashed my /cache and /data (do not use)

if u end up with a softbrick because of messed up partitions or whatever:

just flash a stock rom with Odin (they are about 1.7Gb in size)

and do a factory reset with the stock - recovery. then try again. (with different custom recovery :)

have fun!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjakub:
Hi,

Could anybody who has a Galaxy S4 with stock 4.2.2

run in terminal (or using adb shell) following command

(while connected to WiFi or mobile network): "ip rule"?

It is harmless, doesn't require root and displays routing rules :)

I am interested to know if the output from this command contains something like:

"32764: from 192.168.0.123 lookup 2"

or just "from all lookup xyz" lines...

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjakub:
Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smeroni69:
Yo, is there a way to change the animtion/transition when entering quick settings panel in notification drawer? I tried searching in system and frameworks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alph4dog:
Help me name the icon

I can't figure out what this icon represents. It doesn't matter if GPS is on or not. Driving me crazy. Thanks.

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2037926&stc=1&d=1371063574
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebilrulz:
Try disabling wifi finder? It does look weird
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroBey:
i cant choose correct. just say your idea

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
show the download mode pic please

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hmmm... arrow rom is not bad (self opinion, it may not yours!)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nniicckkss:
It's been so long since I was rooted and I've been back on stock that I've lost track of what's what what with regards to rooting.

I'm thinking of rooting again to allow me the access to create folders in Root Explorer, which seems to have been restricted in the 4.4.2 update...

I would like to get the facts about rooting, it's a bit of a noob question but searching isn't very black & white due to too many one word answers and multiple threads on various ROM versions:

I'm on the latest BTU version of 4.4.2 (as per my signature below), totally stock installed via Odin and factory reset.

Can I root this version without tripping Knox? I think I can root by using Auto-root - but it does trip Knox - is this right?

Is it right that Auto-root will up my flash counter and make my ROM status 'Custom', and that I can't set it back again to 'Official'?

Sorry for these questions, I'm out of touch and searching is mixing my responses with various opinions from different people.

Any facts about rooting are appreciated. Thank you!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renanrolim:
Guys, after the 4.4.2 update on my i9505, instagram is draining almost 50% of my battery. Anyone having this issue? And knows how to fix this? Cause my battery is incredible bad.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
safe root will not work on 4.4.2 so you must use cf auto root for rooting and yes it will trip the knox

yes, your binary counter will increase, but you can still use TA app to reset
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jp876th:
Encryption

Hi! I'm completely new to Android, thanks to my Galaxy S4 i9505 running KitKat 4.4.2 (I9505XXUFNB9). I already rooted my phone succesfully, but haven't found a way yet to overcome this ridiculous encryption "feature" of android / samsung:

I'd like to encrypt my phone, using a secure and long password. But there's no way I'd be using that password every single time when unlocking the screen. Still, Android / Samsung forces you to use the same password/PIN by default.

I've tried to encrypt the phone via the terminal, as targetjr explained some time ago: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1680857&page=3

The "EncPassChanger" also seems to be outdated: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1732856&page=5

Does anybody here know how to end up with a lengthy encryption password that differs from the PIN used to unlock the screen?

Thanks in advance!

*Edit: Apart from rooting the phone, I am still using the stock rom*
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] balazsyb:
as i know,it doesn't have affect on anything, but what exactly "write protection enabled" mean? sorry if somebody already asked :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
nothing to worry

it means that write protection for bootloader is enabled. you can not flash wrong bootloader
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kifel Jatt:
I really liked my old kernel by Ktoonsez. I can't remember what it was called but it had Ktweaker so that I could undervolt and overclock my phone. Can anybody show me a good kernel thread which is easy to understand. I want to undervolt my phone as it gets too hot.

I have paranoid android 3.99 RC2 ROM
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Hi there....THIS link is in the OP also.....Has a number of Kernels you can check and research to see what suits you ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Fast question : does anybody have issues with the Menu - Show hidden apps?

When hen I'm trying to do that the Crapwiz stops. Don't know if I should format the phone or something.

GT-I9505 with stock 4.4.2 here.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
No probs here, but I am on Custom 4.4.2 (Omega)....May be worth clearing the cache in Stock Recovery in the first instance before formatting anything!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Well... I meant stock Samsung with Touchwiz. I guess you don't have Touchwiz to stop on your Omega [emoji2]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
I am using the TW launcher (although its a custom ROM its still very close to stock with a few mods, but still TW)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Maybe that's enough to not crash TW for you. I have this issue since the 4.4.2 upgrade
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
If its been like that since you upgraded to 4.4.2 then I would take it to a service center and tell them the upgrade has caused problems and see what they will do about it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Too much hassle for such a small issue. I can reset first or wait for the next update, but I have so many things on my phone I don't want to lost. I'm thinking to clear Touchwiz cache, but I need a backup with the location of any app
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotaHue:
Download Limit

I9505 limit download is 2mb/? Because in speed test i got 20 21 mb, on notebook i got my real speed in the same site 35 megabytes / Download at 3.5 4 MB/s? This is a modem problem? Im on NBH, live in brazil...

Current on CM 11 0431, same limit on stock 4.4.2 NBH
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blondie99:
I hate to bump my own question but since I still hope for answer I will do it anyway ...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroBey:
Friends I have a question with wanamlite i9500. wanam says " I can not develope this device anymore" it seems wanam stopped to develope his rom foe i9500. I want to know wanam certainly finished rom or not?

GT-I9500 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
If that is what he has said then I guess that's what he meant. The only person that can answer it for definite is wanam ;)

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Hi there,

You should be able to flash the latest 4.4.2 firmware for your device providing its not carrier specific though (afaik).......Try to choose one as close to your region as possible though.

There are a few to choose from in post 2 HERE
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spitzie:
Help please

Hi,

I have a GT-I9505 LTE, which was getting low on internal storage even after moving every app I could to the external SD card. So after read all the excellent posts (that weren't way beyond me technically), I decided to root the phone and remove some of the samsung apps I don't use. I used the CF Root and removed the apps that I didn't want. As some of the apps I use, will not work on a rooted phone, I did a full unroot in SuperSU. Great more space and less resources in use

Unfortunately I have I couple of problems

1. Not apps can be installed on the phone from the play store. They fail with a unknown error -110.

So a search of the forums, and a solution "clear the cache", which gives the second problem.

2. In App manager, the clear cache option is not enabled on any app and all the sizes are set to 0.00, I still have force stop, disable, uninstall but nothing else.

Any advice gratefully received.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vagaBond07:
Boot to Recovery. power off your phone then press and holding vol. Up + power + Home. Up until you'll see recovery in blue font on the upper right part of the screen.

You can clean cache in recovery
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jp876th:
This isn't the thread to post such questions, is it? :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

This is the place for such questions , it is just that the user with the answer to your question has not seen your post , yet.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samersh72:
AFAIK

If there is no a necessary reason to encrypt, so dont encrypt.

Encryption is irreversible

Every time you need to access phone you must put the encryption pass

To decrypt, there is one only way that is factory reset your phone
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lentia:
F2FS

Hi.

Im using i9500 on stock 4.4.2 rooted with philz . And can't figure what filesystem is on my phone. How to check it?

And is there a way to put F2FS on phone? on card? I had read that this file system is fast.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Are you talking about the external SD?

AFAIK know you can only check that using a card reader and and a PC.

Converting your phone to F2FS sounds like a brick guarantee to me.

F2Fs on external SD should in theory be possible but I think you will need both a recovery and kernel supporting it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lentia:
Well, Moto G uses F2FS for /data partition. As far as i know. Is there any custom rom with enabled f2fs?