yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .::Alien::.:
How to flash Blotware removing script in recovery mood ?

Can any body tell me how I can flash the below script on my GT-I9500 :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50971493
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
You'll have to flash this through a custom recovery. Just choose to install zip from sd

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xByt3z:
Hi there XDA,

Today around 1/4 of my screen broke and it's fully unusable, I wonder if there's a way I could change the screen resolution so I only use the top part of my screen instead of just the broken bottom part?

My phone is flashed with Omega v24 by ::indie::, could I still send my phone to Samsung and use the warranty? It's definitely a hardware and no software issue so it's nothing to do with the root/custom firmware - would they still repair it?

Thanks in advance.

Thread link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2676891
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .::Alien::.:
I have KitKat 4.4.2 Official and rooted by chainfire's CF-Auto-Root.

Can explain the detailed steps.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
You'll need to flash a custom recovery through odin. The same way you flashed CF-auto-root.

Try philz_touch:

http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/i9500

Download the md5 file for the latest version and flash that. Then boot in to recovery and flash the script.

The link above is for the GT-I9500 that's your

phone right?

Edit: after flashing the recovery make a backup of your phone before flashing the script. If anything goes wrong you can simply restore that backup

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davy4475:
Is there anywhere or does anyone know what bloatware can be safely removed from my GT-I9505 4.4.2 running foxhound rom. I just want to get rid of the crap
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .::Alien::.:
Will it not work without custom recovery ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .::Alien::.:
Thanks for info mate.

One more question after flashing custome recovery can I go back to chainfire's CF-Auto-Root.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
The custom recovery doesn't effect CF-auto-root so you'll still be rooted after flashing

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---------- Post added at 05:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:41 PM ----------

Try the script alien posted a page back make a backup first

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DukeofPhone:
Trying to move apps from the phone storage to the external card and getting the below message. It seems the apps are only being moved to the emulated and memory? Just updated to 4.4.2 unrooted. I have a SanDisk 64GB class 10 card with over 30GB available mounted.

Any help would be appreciated
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DangerousB:
guys i rooted my i9505 and i saw now my knox waranty void is on 0x1 i tought it don't change when i only root my phone :S

**** i used cf autoroot :/ i should use the safe root method
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WOnken:
Hi guys,

I have a little problem with my S4 9505. I rooted it and installed PhilZ Touch Recovery Version 6.19.6 anf then flashed the Google Stock Rom 4.4.2. All works finde. But when I charge the phone and then turn it off, it turns offf and then restarts by itself. Not into Recovery but to normal Android 4.4.4. What I would like is that it remains of while charging. Now as I understand it has something to do with the recovery. What can I do or do I have to change to keep it turned off while charging?

Wilhelm
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpandemic:
OK i did as you said with a stock 4.4 rom (I9500XXUFNB3_I9500SERFNB3_I9500XXUFNA6_HOME.tar), factory reset and cache wipe before and after flashing with odin. Unfortunately I'm still in the same position. When I wipe or boot recovery I get the message

"E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)"

Any ideas on the next step from here? Really appreciate your help, cheers :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Did you make an efs backup?

If so , now would be the time to restore it.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpandemic:
Nope. No backup. Do I need to find someone with a programming box of some kind? If so, where to start? I'm in the UK
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
Try to flash official firmware through odin using the PIT file posted in the first post of this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265477

See if it helps you.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
any answer?

my problem still running
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
I don't no if it will help, but perhaps wipe your cache partition in recovery?

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterpandemic:
I have tried this from a different thread before, but i tried this again just in case. Still the same issue. It doesn't appear that i can fix this /efs corruption by doing anything with stock firmware.

Am I at the point where I should be advertising this on ebay as broken? I have made peace with the fact it may be game over for this phone :crying:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowBlack666:
I understand that there are 4.4 roms for i9500 all over. Can't anyone possibly write a deoindexed flashable through cwm or twrp. I'm a noob have to assume there is a reason we aren't seeing this. If so why not.

Thanks for all of your hard work to those of you that really know what you are doing. I have been rooting for years with your instructions.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Are you trying to install a legal version through Google Play?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dafonehacker:
I' m rooted using safroot on 4.3. I'm considering to trip knox but I want to know this first. I understand that when I update to TW kitkat, I can't downgrade back to 4.3 TW, but is it possible to use for example use Cyanogenmod 10.2 on the 4.4 bootloader without any problems?

And another question

If I make a nandroid backup, is it safe to backup and restore the boot.img file or could that brick my phone?

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevendeb25:
Hi. To my earlier question about mkf bootloader/modem using TW 4.4

All TW 4.4 roms work on 4.3 boot loader mkf. Not needed to update modem to KK everything works great.

Only problems I encountered is by changing kernels

Wi-Fi may not always work

Storage becomes UNwriteable

Jeebo kernel

Kt kernel seems to work fine.

Just posting incase anyone else wanted to know

Cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zz1049:
Help Reverting Versions OR Unrooting

Hey everyone,

I put a stock image of 4.3 on my phone - T Mobile to remove root, update to 4.4.2; then realized that it's really not worth the issues I'm dealing with in customizing the phone. I really regret doing this!!! I have no idea how to roll it back because when I do so in odin 3.07 or 3.09 with UVUEMK2 I have to reflash the "stock boot img" in order to get my S4 back alive as trying to roll it back that way "FAILS" in odin and breaks the stock boot and the phone asks me to plug it in and use kies to troubleshoot; when I just flash the bootloader and it's fine again.

ULTIMATELY:

1- Can ANYONE tell me how I can roll it back to 4.3 until I JUMP to my S5 in April?

2- If not how does one go about removing - ROOT - by Chainfire or CF-AutoRoot?

=> so I can at least trade in my phone for the 5 and be done with this mess in a month.

Reason I want 4.3 is because I had much more control over the system and was able to perform tethering tasks and APN tricks that have been blocked by the Kitkat update.

Thank you to whomever has the capacity to help me I've spent all day trying to figure it out and I have a 4 page grad paper I'm postponing because I gotta figure this out first, for some apparent reason. So any help APPRECIATED!!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
Take a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/guide-recover-phone-formated-efs-t2197515

This whas written for the S3 so commands in adb are slightly different. In this thread you'll find the right commands for the GT-I9505:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2283325

Your phone is screwed all ready so I would try as much as possible myself before bringing it away and paying a lot of money for something I could try to do myself.

Edit: sorry I've just read it trough and you still need your backup.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghent31:
error status 7 - CWM Rom Galaxy S4

Hello,

I face an issue while updating NB8 DeOdex SuperSlim CWM version on my galaxy S4:

error status 7

Is anyone know how to solve it, and if yes, how ?

Thanks a lot for your answer.

BR
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Look at Q10 and 11 of this post
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghent31:
error status 7 - CWM Rom Galaxy S4

Trying to install after changing the option in PhilZ Touch like explainted in Q11

---------- Post added at 10:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:06 AM ----------

Update finished successfully.

Thanks for the tip !
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dafonehacker:
Anyone?

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asbanoglou:
I flashed another firmware and all worked like a charm :D thnx for the help mate
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
From reading your post you now have the 4.4 boot loader! There is NO WAY of reverting back to stock 4.3, you are stuck (Stock wise) with 4.4.2!

To remove root flash stock 4.4 again!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
I only have the apk file
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
The PAID one from google play? Or have you acquired this by other means? If you have not paid for the app then I would suggest getting a legitimate version from google play.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbtwister:
[quote name="sbtwister" post=50455387]If I buy a new S4, will it (still?) come out of the box with android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) when I buy from Amazon.de and if so, canI prevent the Samsung updates ?

Is rooting the S4 with Android 4.2.2 possible without voiding the knox warranties (if I leave the knox app remains non-activated)?[/QUOTE]

What would be the safest and simplest way to just root a pre_knox S4?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
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<br />

I doubt that a new one still has Android 4.2.2 but that's something you'll have to find out. <br />

<br />

If it's on 4.2.2 it's easy to avoid the updates just don't except them. You can root it whiteout triggering knox because knox just isn't there on the 4.2.2 version. <br />

<br />

What would be the safest and simplest way to just root a pre_knox S4?[/QUOTE]

Hi,

If you get a pre-knox phone out of the box at this time , then , you are very lucky.

You can keep it knox-free and OTA-free by rooting it and installing custom recoveries and ROMS.

All of these are reversible , and it is very easy to get back to stock.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
In that case you are doing something illegal.

It's a paid app and can only be legally installed using the official outlets like Google Play.

Don't expect any help here.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tlassmohamed:
Hello.

I have recently installed MIUI v5 for the i9500, it is actually awesome, except for one issue: my kik won't sign in! It takes about two minutes after hitting log in button, then it says failed. I researched and found somewhere that it is a permissions related issue, but the issue still persists even after disabling the permissions manager! Any idea?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Agreed!

Maybe my comment does not belong here and may be deleted, but so be it! It really annoys me that some can be so sly and cheap! Dev's and alike work so bloody hard to bring some really great apps and things and only ask for very little for them to be used (even if its just ad free). People that try to exploit it by getting these apps illegitimately and then wonder why they don't work properly and then ask why???:mad::mad:

One of my pet hates.:cyclops:

DON'T BE SO CHEAP.

Rant over:p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Perhaps [MENTION=3492338]veer1238[/MENTION] can help with this matter.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dafonehacker:
Does anyone knox if it is safe or dangerous to nandroid backup or restore the boot.img from a knox bootloader?

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladyxxx:
Locked SIM S4

Hi , i want to buy a locked S4 and the seller says that the phone dont need the Unlock Code , he says that the phone displays " Invalid SIM" and if i install Custom ROM the SIM will work .

Is this right?

Thx.

(Really sorry for my English) :laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muiacir:
you are right my friend but i could not pay for the app

i know that all of the peoples in whole world should pay for paid apps but i live in iran and the google play is not available for me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renanrolim:
Hi guys. I upgraded my i9505 to 4.4.2 last week. And I've been notice that the battery life got pretty bad. So, using the gsam battery monitor app, and the stock battery app(on settings), I saw that kernel/Android OS is draining almost 50% of my battery life on na regular day using. The 4.4.2 firmware that is running on my phone is xxufnb9, and everything is stock and official, not rooted and only upgraded OTA. Anyone else having the same issue?

Thanks guys
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
Guys i am buying a refurbished S4 9500 india version with 6 months warranty from samsung with 4.2.2 firmware on it

so i wanted to know that is it safe to upgrade and root it to 4.3 without having knox bootloader ?? i dont want to get into knox thing and dont want to void the warranty also. so to avoid knox should i do this ?

1. root 4.2.2 + install custom recovery

2. flash 4.3 knox free stock rom ( i want only stock rom no custom rom)

is this the only things i need to do mor do i need to keep in mind something else also ?

i am from nexus 4 so u guys must be knowing how we are addicted to flashing :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryanrioz:
not really man...

u need to get some unlocked tools that before u flashing your roms :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Hi there,

I am not that familiar with the i9500 firmware, but as far as I am aware you will not find any 4.3 stock firmware that is KNOX free. So if you want to stay KNOX free you will need to stick with 4.2.2.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
oh no sad because we have knox free 4.3 rom for note 2 :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
go into GPS settings, disable the one related to wifi. most likely cause, common problem for all android devices.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steven.svde:
Hi, sorry for disturbing, I have a weird connection problem and I am pretty sure it is not the internal antenna... When i use the phone for Internet, mail etc etc.... Everything goes fine it uses a 4G connexion and I almost never have a problem, I do have a problem Sometimes when I am not in a 4G covered area... Than i have to change the network modus to wcdma /gsm automatic because if I leave it on lte /wcdma /gsm the phone is jumping all the time between hspda /h/edge gprs... And this goes fast like that that connection fail... This problem stops when i change modus than I get a stable 3g connection.... A little bit disturbing but Okay..... The biggest problem is that I m always connected with my messenger services like for example WhatsApp.... When i have the phone in my hand no problem at all.... But when he stays on the table or in my pocket it is kinda weird.... Sometimes I don't recieve my messages and than suddenly when I pick up my phone I get like ten messages in once starting from like half hour before.... All this started like three weeks ago, network provider say there are no network problems, I didn't drop my phone or something... Internet connection is just acting very strange lately and this started before I updated to the official 4.4 rom and didn t change after...... I also have to tell that I don’t have problems at all with phone calls or texts messages..... It's just those two mobile Internet issues.... Since i m only good for using the phone and don't know nothing about the technical parts or something... I wanted to ask the question to all of you experts.... And wanted to ask for help and if possible a solution? I want to thank you in advance and hope you guys can help me soon.... Kind regards...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
it means all those people who are on 4.3 are either not rooted and those who are rooted have void their warranty?

so no way to reset it to 0?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Depending on where you live will be dependent on the warrenty regarding KNOX. ALOT of people are just not worried about it as it is limiting people who want to use custom ROMS etc.

It is entirely the users decision to trip KNOX.....there are root methods that won't trip the flag (cannot guarantee this though). A custom recovery however WILL trip the flag!

And NO, there is no way of resetting the flag to 0x0 once it is tripped to 0x1!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Knox is not the same thing as warrenty. If you tripped the knox flag it's only an indication for Samsung you flashed something that was not issued by them.

If it influences warranty is something up to local law and how Samsung deals with it.

No
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

As well as what CarlM34 says , the problem with the i9500 , is that Triangle Away does not work either.

Otherwise , you could keep everything custom and stay knox-free from the 4.2.2 firmware.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
sad :(

in note 2 we reset counter to 0

so if i flash 4.3 stock rom or update through kies i will have knox so i have to search a rooting method which dont trigger knox .., hmmm lot of things :(

i am geting refurbished with 6 months warranty for Rs 20,000 ($ 326) new is Rs 28,000 ($ 457)

but this knox thing is very irritating from samsung thinking for LG G2 also dont know what to do

what do you guys suggest as you all are using S4
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
In terms of suggestions this is ultimately YOUR decision! But to avoid knox you need to keep firmware at 4.2.2. Again, I am sure someone else can help but you may be able to go custom and use 4.3/4.4 firmware on an i9500 4.2 boot loader????
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
so it means u have void ur warranty :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mussels84:
since they always update the firmware before they send it back, if you plan to go back to custom you really only get 'one free repair' on warranty from avoiding knox anyway.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
YES! Along time ago!! I am not having Samsung restrict me to what I want to do with my phone!

EDIT - I have no use for the KNOX application either....so it made my decision even easier:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
Not necessarily, I'm on a custom KitKat ROM but still have the old knox free bootloader :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
oh so another trick is to have old bootloader and flash new roms with patches great

i did this in my note 2
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeroAE:
Is there a way to disable the hardware keys?

I installed soft keys with GravityBox, so I don't need the hardware keys anymore.

They kind of annoy me.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andre_X_X:
dont worry about root, you can use SafeRoot method if you want to keep knox 0
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mor_1228:
wow thats great link plz :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarlM34:
Have a good read HERE
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andre_X_X:
i've used it with Omega v18 rom for my i9500 phone..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2565758
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdo jouma:
That mean warantty will stay ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andre_X_X:
yes, warranty will stay, it will only set Custom flag on knox. Just read the OP on that thread...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdo jouma:
Im in 4.4.2 I think the new boatloader. :(

No problem. Thanks man :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepezpz:
I am using blackbox rom 3.0 android 4.4.2. Can you help me how can i get samsung services and some samsung apps installled in this rom? Is it possible? I think it is becouse it is TW based rom.. I must get my galaxy gear working and samsung account installed because in samsung cloud i got stuff that i need sync to my phone. And sorry for my bad english, please help me with this, thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

You started a few posts in the BLACKBOX Q&A THREAD

You should give the information requested .

They can help you more than anyone here.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VictorLallemand:
Hi everyone !

I'm planning on selling my I9505 but i'm currently on a custom ROM. I was wondering which firmware i could flash through Odin. I looked on Sammobile but can't find any from Belgium. (This is the international one, not branded by any service operator.)

I already tried with the Luxemburg NB9 one but can't get passed the pin code because something crashes (dont even have to time to read what) and then the phones reboots, have to type pin code again, then reboots, then .....

So which firmware should i try ?

Thanks for your help !
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kantjer:
So even Samsung don't consider Belgium to be a real country ;)

Sorry but this was an opportunity I had to take :o

It's weird that Belgium isn't in there but from what I have been reading is that most online bought S4's in Belgium are dutch and most in shop purchased ones are from Luxemburg.

Did you wipe data in stock recovery after flashing the ROM?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepezpz:
Ok i will keep asking help there, but thanks anyway :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theunderling:
For my information, can someone verify if there is ANY situation that you can downgrade from stock 4.4.2 back to stock 4.3?.

Ive read a few posts that say you can, and some that say you cant.

Someone said basically that you make a nand backup on 4.3, then flash 4.4.2.You get back to 4.3 by restoring 4.3 nand backup.

So is this true, meaning you cant get back using odin, but can using say cwm?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joery1983:
No you can't flash 4.3 stock over 4.4.2 stock.

Using cwm means you're not flashing completely stock.

People that used there nandroid backup reported all kind of issues one I often read whas loosing sound. So I wouldn't try it. Once on 4.4.2 your best bet would be to stay on 4.4.2.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VictorLallemand:
Ahah you deserve the F word m'y friend :D

No i didnt, i'm going to try it out this weekend ! Thanks for the tip !
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulbax:
Since upgrading to the official kitkat rom, all the artwork on the stock samsung music app are slightly squashed and not the right aspect ratio like they used to be, has anyone else's done this?

I use Player Pro mostly anyway, but just making sure that it isn't just a bug on mine!