yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ritzo90:
I cant find much on this sorry. Ive just moved from a s3 to an s4 baseband xxubmk7. I cant find much information. Even kies doesnt work.

I would like to move to 4.4 if possible.

Is there a new firmware or do i have to root the device and can i install CM? It doesnt seem to be compatible.

Thank you

Edit: well scrap that kies part. Run as administrator did the trick. But still sayong 4.3 is the current version unfortuntetly.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwissLightning:
4.4.4 google edition. how can I reach engineering mode?

Hey. I have been at this for about a week but I figured out how to root my s4 and i flashed android 4.4.4 but I am having an issue with the imei and need to access the "engineering mode" menu. I have tried several codes from the call screen but nothing has worked.if anyone can help me out I would be grateful. So far I've tried*#7465625# and *#*#3646633#*#* but no menu appears. Please help :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali4436:
hey guys

Well i soft bricked my phone sometime ago but its all fine now. And i decided to root again , last time a store saved my phone but i bought this phone (s4 i9505) from germany but right now it seems the basis band version or something like that shows that it gots the software from russia how can i kernel flash it back to germany and then root it?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Use phone info samsung app from the playstore and post its screenshots here. Only then one can help you in a proper way. :)

"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali4436:
are these enough?

I hope these a enough
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Erm why do you want to change it to germany? There should be no problem IMHO.

If you want to root it, just use towelroot amd everything will be fine. :)

Rest you have to flash a full firmware to change that to germany. You can download the firmware from www.sammobile.com/firmwares

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali4436:
it's a little unstable

I mean there a quite few problems in the software so i thought changing it back to its original would solve it
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Ohh okkay..

Just update to a firmware of 4.4.2 of around august to root it using towelroot.

Updating to the latest 4.4.2 would not allow towelroot to function.

"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ali4436:
why towelroot

Is there any difference between odin and towelroot? :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Ohh :/

Odin is a program that helps in flashing firmwares. :)

Towelroot is an app that roots yoyr phone without tripping knox :)

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

Here we usually use Odin to flash the latest firmware, as I'm on Linux I never used Kies and can't help with it. Can you please provide more information regarding your phone (model, country?)? So I can help you better with a guide to flash 4.4.4 ;).

Also, yes you can flash CM, but as I said it'll depend on your model.

Hi,

Are you on stock? AFAIK these codes only work in stock. If you just want to check your IMEI, maybe this app can do the work: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blinkinblu.getDeviceId.

All the best,

~Lord

"This Story Ends Where It Began" - Octavarium (Dream Theater)

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lor99:
Hi all. I found to buy a galaxy s4 gt-i9500 or gt-i9506 for 275 €. Which one is better for daily usage, a little gaming and maybe some roms? Because I see the gt-i9506 has poor rom developement compared to the other. My daily usage is not so heavy, only some whatsapp, small games, mails, navigation and sms. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
I9500...atleast it has SOME developement...

And theyre all the same..no difference..except for the processor..but they all fare equally :)

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ritzo90:
Hey Lord thanks for the reply.

It's a GT-I9506. Baseband in my original post (sorry hard to get from my phone).

I can't believe the lack of support from Samsung. Personally I like the normal os. But that said I am used to the newer ones. The main reason I need to flash is the Bluetooth is crackling and I can't fix it without a newer OS.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

It's worth mentioning that i9506 variant has the Snapdragon 800 processor, which is, at least on my opinion/usage, way faster than the SD600 on the i9505 variant, I can't tell much about the Exynos variant OTOH, as I never used it.

I believe you'll do better with i9500, after all you won't need all the power that SD800 gives you. And also you'll have the possibility to get better ROM support.

Hi,

Please download the firmware from this link: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/39412/I9506XXUCNJ2_I9506TELCNJ1_TEL.zip

And then install it via Odin, following this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265477.

Hope it helps you ;).

~Lord

"And people think so supersonic and they make their bombs atomic" - Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)

Sent from my Nexus 10
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ode_:
As owner of i9506 and i9505 I could say take i9506 if price tag is similar to that i9500.

Few months ago there was hardly zero roms for i9506 but now [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5291759]solk2[/MENTION] have changed situation to way better, there is stone stable roms from arter97 and he's even pushing out now CM 12 lollipop to i9506.

If i9500 is noticeably cheaper than i9506 then get it, but I highly recommend to get i9506 if it's running on same price.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeroone82:
I9500 Baseband Unknown Problem

I've been trying to install custom roms for a few days now but I always get the same problem, "Baseband unknown/IMEI null" after installing a custom rom. I even tried flashing different modems with Odin but they still won't work. The only way I can use my phone is with stock firmware, anyone know how I could fix this? I'm currently using the latest Russian firmware with modem version XXUGNF6.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fleming.patel:
See tha chain fire post for supported model i9500 is supported so u can use this for your mobile.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anusy_81:
Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ControlNode:
I just looked and I don't see SM-S975L in the first post. Was it removed?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasebasto:
Cannot upgrade CM11 (installed with CM Installer)

I have installed CM 11 on my Intl i9505 using the installer a few weeks ago.

I'd like to update it, but no OTA update is available. (which is already weird,as new snapshots are available, e.g. cm-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-jflte.zip).

So I tried installing the latest zips (tried with nightly and snapshot), but it fails, with the error message: "Can't install this package on top of incompatible data."

I really want to AVOID a factory reset. Is there any way I can upgrade ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stealthmoe:
help un**** my phone please!

I am a noob so be gentle... I'm new so I can't post a link so I'll share the details:

I337UCUAMF3 on 4.2.2

A while back I used Odin to root my phone and put some ROM on there. For some reason my phone was losing battery by half the day so I decided in my infinite wisdom to Factory Reset. Well this didn't work and now my phone is constantly trying to download the new update and if successful, reboots itself into a soft-brick which I've learned how to go around...

What I need are some instructions to get my phone back to normal. The phone works now, but going through this process daily is really annoying.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maltinbay:
Hi all,

Which is the most stable and daily using aosp Rom?

I am using i9500, most Roms doesn't officially support our device :(

Which one is most stable?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightfury04:
[Q] Apps lost write access to internal memory after nandroid restore TWRP

Dear developers,

I recently restored a nandroid backup through TWRP, and after that my apps can write to external sdCard but they fail to write on internal memory/internal sdcard.

Can't rename or delete files through ES explorer, unable to download media in whatsapp etc.

I have tried restoring the backup two to three times, still no luck.

Please help.

My device details:

Samsung galaxy S4 GT I9500

android version: 4.4.2

custom recovery: TWRP 2.8.0.1

Stock rom

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxen:
Okay guys.. I have used towelroot.. and rooted the my S4 device (International version) now I want to make a complete backup of my stock rom before trying out the amazing roms out there but didnt find some conclusive answers as in not to trip knox by installing custom recovery. Can I just install TWRP manager via google play and then TWRP recovery without tripping knox? What would you guys recommend? Thx.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warriorand:
Need help, cant root my phone and dont know what to do anymore

HI, I have a samsung Galaxy S4 I9500, I Have tried a lot to root it, but nothing seems to work form me, I flashed the last version of cwm,

try to root using the root your phone option in cwm and when I entered the super user app, the famous binary files problem comes up, I tried installing the super us by cwm

manually and the app just doesnt appear in my phone anymore, I want to try using philz touch method, so my question is, can I just flash by odin philz

even if i already have cwm already installed, or I have to do something extra before I tried to install philz? or do you know of any method that maybe I havent

tried yet that can make the root work?

plz help, Im tired of trying different options and nothing seems to work, everytime the binary options comes up, and now I dont even have or see the super user app anymore .

I thanks in advance for your replies.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NandishV:
Okay, I have an Internal storage problem or what I think is a problem anyway, my S4 is 16gb, and when I check on the storage, I understand that it shows 9.11 as usable due file system type and system data but what I don't understand is the following, it shows the 6gb has been used and only 2.x GB is free whereas I have moved all of my apps onto my external storage and then when I check where the data goes all I get is 2gb in apps, where has the rest of the data gone as it's really annoying and what apps should I not put on my external? Also I use a 64gb ext so if I remove the card and reinsert will I have to download all the apps that are in the ext again as I had to do it this time when I just copied the files from the old sd to this new?

Thanks anyway - Nandish
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Sorry , I saw AT&T.

It seems that model is quite obscure

Try going through these threads for any help:

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sm-s975l+++xda+site:xdaforums.com

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

As far as I know , ANY custom ROM/kernel/recovery will trip knox.

You can use Titanium Backup , but if it's a nandroid you are after , then , custom recovery = tripped knox

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

What did you use to move the apps to your sd card?

Was it android?

If so , it can only move the app , NOT the data.

If you want to move the whole thing , use Foldermount

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

My suggestion would be to flash a stock firmware , but you are in the wrong forum.

Try asking here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2320430

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

2 things came up when I searched.

Use a different recovery ( or a different version of the recovery you are on) , or factory reset.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The assasin:
My i9505 getting very hot even normal use and drain battery very fast (100% drain to 0 in 1 hour net browsing) even charging, instead of battery increase it drained the battery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Check your battery. Maybe it has gone bad :)

Is it swollen?

"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxLordxX:
Hi,

I'll tell you the same as always. The only one who can tell it is you! Go to then"Original Development" and "Development" forums, then check the threads that seems interesting for you, there you'll read the OP carefully, and specially check for bugs. Then, if you find convenient, read the last pages of the thread for any bug report. If the ROM seems okay for you, then download it, it's very likely you'll enjoy it.

If it was not what you were expecting and you felt you lose all that time reading it all, do a favor to the developer and post in the thread the bugs you're experiencing along with a logcat, then it's expected that in some time you'll have a new download package with stuff working ;).

Good searching!

Hi.

No need to do anything to flash PhilZ, but I'll recommend you to try CF-AutoRoot, it works quite well! Then just reflash the custom recovery you were using to flash ROMs, Mods, or do backups.

I'm not one to recommend stuff directly, but as far as I've seen CWM Recovery has given some users more problems than others, so I will recommend you using either PhilZ (my current one) or TWRP (my previous one, just changed because of a specific ROM that required PhilZ).

~Lord

"And people think so supersonic and they make their bombs atomic" - Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)

Sent from my Nexus 10
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warriorand:
Finally root it

HI! thanks for your reply, the cf - autoroot didnt work for me, I found I super user package and istall it by cwm, the went to the play store and download the super user app by chainsfire, runt it and finally could get the root without the binnaries issues.

Thanks:D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The assasin:
I changed my battery with a new one. Thanks! About battery draining, i read a lot of user having same problem. Is it a bug on s4 OS right? How do you guys solve the problem? Or even just make s4 i9505 make battery last longer?

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidlinger:
Guys,

Anyone know how can I get my system alarm app back? I accidentally deleted it :(

My phone is a i9505.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Have you checked the first post of this thread?

There are a few battery saving tips.

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malybru:
Hi,

Try unzipping the ROM you loaded...

In System/app you should find the alarm apk.

Put it on your phone and click it.

It should install

:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
it is a jflteud
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
-Block/disable/remove all google apps that you dont use.

-Remove all bloatware (if youre rooted and wilking to flash a custom rom)

-Greenify stuff (greenify is an app and required root)

And many more....

"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "

---------- Post added at 05:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:30 AM ----------

You can see the unified developement thread .it might have sth for you :D

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
I used the search on xda and find nothing really
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Unified developement buddy :)

Ormaybe you van just flash CM as

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
As far as I know it is close to the att version of the s4. I am afraid of bricking it because my phone model isn't listed on any recovery or rom. Supposedly a person on a different forum has twrp and cm on theirs but can't find anyone else to confirm it and how it was done.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Cm flasher app. :)

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
Couldn't installing a rom that isn't listed as supported brick my phone. I found the original firmware for kies, but what scares me the most is hard bricking the phone? Someone said installing twrp or cwm wouldn't brick the phone, but I thought that installing a custom recovery would be the riskiest part of it all of causing a hard brick. I have only came up with a result of someone stating they have twrp installed and another saying they have CM installed, but it wasn't on this forum, so I don't know how reliant the information is.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ode_:
[MENTION=4955472]ndowens[/MENTION], download official firmware and flash it to your phone, then you know at there is way back.

Probably all unified s4 recoveries what works with 4.3 bootloader are fine with you. You don't have official bootloader above 4.3 so keep that in mind.

Same with roms, of they are working with 4.3 bootloader just try.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/28755/S975LUDUANB1_S975LTFNANB1_TFN.zip/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
Which part would cause a hard brick? The recovery, rom, kernel, modem flashing? From what i have heard is Samsung it is harder to not be able to recover the phone. This phone is expensive. I thought about if I can get twrp or cwm on it safely, then I would maybe try and build cyanogen for my phone and not flash something from here though i have never done it before but there seems to be instructions on how to do it. Seems it pulls stuff from the phone and sorta wraps it in the source code and puts it in the source to be built, which in theory I would think would be safer.

Sorry but I want to confirm and hopefully feel comforted, because this phone is valued at 449 at walmart while i got it for 249 at the black friday sale.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebestiam:
[MENTION=4955472]ndowens[/MENTION] I believe you have the S4 from Straight Talk.

Sent from my Galaxy S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
That is correct, it is Straight talk's version of the s4. That supposedly has the same hardware as AT&T's S4(i377) according to a person on a different forum. If it is true, the i377 boot-loader is locked. From what I can gather they are really closely related, hardware wise. I think they both have 4.3 as well. As far as I can remember on the top of my head, to use custom recovery and roms on the i377, safestrap has to be used.

I know how to flash roms and recovery when they are available for a device, but when it comes to something newer like mine where there is none posted and would think it would be because it is a s4, just a different variant, it is scary ;) Part of me wants to try the i377 stuff, but a part of me is scared to even try it.

Sent from my Galaxy S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ode_:
[MENTION=4955472]ndowens[/MENTION], googled a bit and really seems at you just have to pioneer or wait proper information, tracfone with locked bootloader.

http://www.christophercantwell.com/2014/11/30/straight-talk-galaxy-s4-sm-s975l-root/#

^ you got soul mate.[emoji12]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NandishV:
Hey Malybru,

I used Clean Master which did it automatically?

Yeah it's android and could it be that that's where the missing data is and how could it be in gbs?

I'll use that though, does that mean I basically don't have to back up my apps as they'll always be on my extsd (implying my extsd is invincible) but like if something goes wrong with my phone, my apps and game data will all be on the extsd?

Thank you!

-Nandish
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
I figured it would be locked since the att version is as well

some people used loki flash f for their locked boot loader though unsure if it would be safe to use. I read that the modem flashes are what is the most dangerous. Is that correct. Thought installing custom recovery would have the highest chance of hard brick
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C0n5pir4cy:
Getting application data off of phone

My Galaxy S4 is broken and I want to recover the app data for one App. The screen doesn't turn on but I still have access adb in both recovery and normal boot mode. Unfortunately all the methods I have tried so far have not worked. I am trying to restore an account for LINE messenger who has a contact that I have no other contact with and stupidly didn't sign up for the email registration. The /data/data folder on the device will always give a permission denied and for some reason su isn't working. If I pull a screen grab from the phone I can see the loading screen.

I have also tried booting into recovery and using the adb busybox shell to try and access the files but all the data folders are empty! so I tried doing a dump of the data partition but the simg2img tool does not recognise the img file and an fdisk -fu data.img just returns a message stating that there is no valid partitions.

run-as jp.naver.line.android "cp -r /data/data/jp.naver.line.android" /external_sd also fails, stating that the package is not found.

Finally adb backup -all -apk gives me a message saying to unlock my device and and give permission but the screen doesn't work and the device still appears to be booting if I do a screen dump, so key commands over adb shell don't work.

I have tried the following:

Boot into recovery and go to /data/data to get files. (the package folders are there but are empty apart from libs folders)

Use run-as to try and save the file. (It says it doesn't know the package)

Dump data partition and try to mount it. (The image I created with dd can't be mounted with anything I've found, if someone knows a good tool let me know)

adb backup. (Phone isn't booted fully so it waits for input on a screen that doesn't exist)

I'm lost as to where to go from here. Is there any way to force root on the device (a su file I can push via adb for example?). Is there any way to mount the image I created? Anything else I can do?

Thanks in advance for your help.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
I looked at my partition by doing ls -la /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name and it matches this exactly http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40557141&postcount=1

the partition is the same. Is that a good sign that the s975l and the i377 is the same and would be compatible?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
No.

Just about all qualcomm samsungs and many other Qualcomm devices use /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name

Ex. S4 s5 note 3 note 4 etc etc all use

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/boot

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/system

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/cache

Etc etc. Even nexus devices use it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
I mean each partition is linked exactly by each partition like aboot links to mmcblk0p6
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Still no. Case in point mmcblk0p6 is aboot on my s5 also.

Still involves more then just partitions matching. Depending on every spec of hardware, what drivers that hardware uses, etc.

You can try anything you want, but just expect a brick before you expect it to work.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
Darn was hoping I was coming up on something. Supposedly they have the same hardware. Does any one usually port stuff for straight talk if it is something as popular as the s4? Meaning is there a decent chance of getting something made for this phone
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShinySide:
Is your bootloader locked like att?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ndowens:
From what posts have read it is locked like at&t's s4 as well. Same cpu,gpu,motherboard, not sure what else.