yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
Don't misunderstand. I like this phone very very much.

I have Note 2, and except the pen and battery, S4 is way better. However, these are too important for me to change to S4. Besides, I bought the S4 with 30% sale off, so I can have some profit from selling it. After using the phone for a week, here is my mini-review

Feel: A little bit angular, but still much better than S3 and Note 2. Feel quite gorgeous. However the side is a little bit iPhone-alike.

Screen:

- Brightness: Oh well, the maximum manual brightness is not as bright as my Note 2 (A Brighter Note app activated), but outdoor visibility is way better. Under sun light with auto brightness, white is much whiter (brighter), black under s much less blueish - mean darker. I can feel a little better in reflective level. I think most reviewers forget to turn automatic brightness on.

- Color: colors with Standard mode or Professional mode (AdobeRGB mode) are great, sometimes I prefer the formal, sometimes I prefer the latter (actually it's still a little bit over saturated compared to Note 2 - master sequence Perseus kernel, but I feel more pleasant with it. Black is, true black. Every AMOLED screen I had before is still bright in dark room, but not S4. Don't worry about ink spots or black spots, even there are some you cannot recognize, believe me,

- Viewing angle: better than Note 2, truely

Best screen I have ever had so far.

Heat and Battery: Oh well. It's quite hot with 3G browsing or benchmarking, but still bearable. Battery is quite good, at the middle between S3 and Note 2 (both with mature kernels, so battery of S4 will be greater later)

Camera Compared to Note 2: better white balance (a bit), similar color reproduction and saturation, much sharper (I like zooming and cropping, but for most it's not very easy to recognize), better in shooting moving objects (not as good as One). Night photos is much similar to Note 2 (brightness, color) but much less noise.

But I could not find outdoor visibility mode like Note 2, a minus point.

User experience: benchmark king in almost any area: 630 ms in Sunspider, 13k Quadrant, 28k Antutu, 40fps GLBenchmark, 2600 Browsermark, 3630 Geekbench 2,... (I recorded the best scores). It's quick like Usain Bolt, shooting a low-light photo 2-3 times faster than Note 2.

However, there are still a few strange hipcups in browsing (when zooming maximum and then scrolling) but I'm sure that it's software problem. But the browser is bad, really bad. No quick control and flash support (or I didn't find out how), tab-switching is a pain in the ass. No direct bookmark syncing from desktop chrome. I used Ocean Browser, much much much better (I recommend everyone uses this app)

Sound: The same speaker as Note 2, but better with amplifier.

I don't want to spend a lot for phones, so I decided to wait for Note 3, which is surely better than S4 in important areas (screen, camera, speed) or at least on par.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ilabs:
Thank you for the review. Apart from benchmarking, does the phone tend to heat up a lot in normal use? Also, which variant of the S4 did you have, the snapdragon one or exynos?
[Galaxy S 4 General] cell128:
How did you get 30% off?
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
I9500 octa.

It's hotter than S3 and Note 2 in almost any case, but not much
[Galaxy S 4 General] Lulabby:
Special sale event in Vietnam where first 100 get 30%, second 100 get 20% and last 100 get 10% off :p
[Galaxy S 4 General] POLO_i780:
Yeah, I think if you're a Note user who enjoys the S Pen features and huge display as well as the incredible batt life then the GS4 isn't for you.

Your benchmarks are pretty much the same as mine, I also got the Octa beast :D
[Galaxy S 4 General] Masonfield:
Quick question but now that there's Air View does the S-Pen still have any advantages over just using your fingers? Besides some people finding it easier to draw with the pen then by hand.
[Galaxy S 4 General] tuxonhtc:
Yes. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7ydrYmOmc
[Galaxy S 4 General] Masonfield:
Ah so if I'm understanding correctly the S-Pen still works on other browsers and things that aren't supported by the normal air view with Samsung on stock browser?
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
There is no "dot" presenting the location of your finger, I think SS will update this feature soon.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jinsuke32:
This just makes me sad :( hope it doesn't get noticebly hot while using on wifi atleast......Was hoping they wouldve improved this by now.
[Galaxy S 4 General] POLO_i780:
I've been using mine on WiFi non stop with no major heating up for 5h32mins now, still got 55% batt.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jinsuke32:
Is that the screen on time or the general use time?
[Galaxy S 4 General] prodigyX:
Snap bro, picked my 32gb Black Frost Octa from Vodacom in Durban :good::D
[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
They say the octa gets warmer then the snapdragon version
[Galaxy S 4 General] ilabs:
Maybe thats the issue samsung was having with the octa, overheating. I doubt you could overclock the octa much without it overheating.
[Galaxy S 4 General] POLO_i780:
How awesome is it??? :D Must say, Samsung spoilt us, most other regions got 16GB S600.

By the way, its Tsepz_011 from MyBB.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ap3604:
Glad to hear about this directly from users :victory:

The poor outdoor visibility and ultra-slow charging were the main problems that Samsung needed to fix before I switched from my iPhone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] bjy8138:
day 2 of using it... trade in my s3... love it so much.. definitely not selling (i said the same thg for my s3 :P)
[Galaxy S 4 General] femiro:
probably general use time. I think that 5 and half hours of screen on time would be more than a dream for a smartphone.
[Galaxy S 4 General] -]Megacharge[-:
Thanks for the mini review.

You can follow this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40787725&postcount=1 to get Flash working on the GS4.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
Thanks, but I meant the stock browser. I used Ocean Browser for S4, it's great.
[Galaxy S 4 General] fade2green514:
i'd rather the thinner lighter s4 over the note 2 personally. maybe the note 3 will be great as well but i'd rather plug in a slightly smaller lighter phone, myself. if i need to be away from the wall i have a 5000 mah external battery that i got for 30 bucks a few years ago.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Jooosty:
I have the Note 2 and my wife has a ATT S4. I must say the fit and finish of the phone is superb. None of the build issues like the HTC.

The screen is beautiful. Heats up with light use though.

Overall I like it but its not enough to sway me from the note 2

Sent from my Note 2 hehehe (:
[Galaxy S 4 General] -]Megacharge[-:
AFAIK Flash should work in the stock browser once those are downloaded and installed.
[Galaxy S 4 General] Hunt3r.j2:
I had user reports that Flash doesn't work with the stock browser, but Firefox/Maxathon support it.
[Galaxy S 4 General] 12MaNy:
Got the Sprint 16GB Black Mist GS4 (S600) on Friday and the only thing I hate about it is the stock browser. It's horrible. It lags, it stutters, there is no option to auto-fit pages & no option to sync Google bookmarks. Also, there is an option to delete browser data, but after you do it's still there.

Example: After deleting browser data, then killing the browser and rebooting the device. I opened the browser and hit the back key and it went back to the pages that I was on before deleting all browser data. The only way to truly delete all browser data is to go to Settings/More/Application Manager and Clear Data, but that deletes all the app data, not just browser data. Not very secure IMO. :(
[Galaxy S 4 General] kirdroid:
^^ why not use chrome or chrome beta?
[Galaxy S 4 General] 12MaNy:
I do now.....
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
Try Ocean, if you wanna Flash:D
[Galaxy S 4 General] tuxonhtc:
Does flash work flawlessly on Ocean? For me so far it's only worked on stock browser (Note II) without any errors, despite having multiple flash elements on a single page.
[Galaxy S 4 General] hung2900:
It's based on ICS stock browser, so it works well for me, not sure about multiple flash elements (haven't tried)
[Galaxy S 4 General] tuxonhtc:
Ahh okay, will probably try it out then. TY :good:
[Galaxy S 4 General] Tigerman82:
What I don't get in most S4 Mini consumer comments (I'm not referring to this thread) is that they are calling it crap because it has lower specs than e.g. S4. Isn't one of the major points of S4 Mini that it's, well, a mini phone? I always put my phone (currently using Samsung S3 Mini) inside my jeans pocket and some of my jeans are tight. I often run and even dance with my phone inside the pocket. While something like an S4 is thin enough not to make a huge bulge, I've read that e.g. these 5" displays are more prone to crack: more inches means more pressure on the glass screen. I always buy a good case (usually Case-Mate Tough) but there already seems to be so many reports on S4 displays' cracking even with a case on.

That said, I did have a hard time deciding on ordering S4 Mini. I don't mind the non-HD screen as while I've used an HD screen with my iPad 4, I haven't had difficulties with S3 Mini's screen. No, the biggest problem was with HTC One and the up 'n' coming HTC One Mini. You see I do like a good camera and most of my mobile pics seem to be on the low light side. If the One Mini has the same camera as its big brother, it would give me better results. On the other hand, I need a durable phone that has a good battery life. Based on One reviews and threads about e.g. cracked camera lenses with One, it seems that Samsung is more durable and with a significantly better battery life (I would think the non-HD screen helps in this department).

Anyway, those high-end are tempting, but the display size is just too big for my use. That's why I think it's great that manufacturers are making these Mini devices.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
DISCLAIMER:

Your device, your responsibility. I am not liable for anything you flash, including this.

As a result you'll probably want to read the rest of the thread and at least be aware of what you're flashing.

You've been warned.

CM: CWM Based Recovery for SPH-L720 (jfltespr)​

Features:

This is comes from CM as it is provided in the source repos. I will be keeping it as such at this time.

Only deviations are to allow it to build properly and are generally from CM repos.

If modifications deviate from CM source we will set up a new repo.

Screenshots:

None

Latest Build: v1.0

Tar/ZIP Mirror: [CWM][RECOVERY]Team SXTP CWM for Galaxy S4 (Team SXTP Site)

Flash Instructions:

Boot to Odin Mode and flash via Odin.

Summary Changelog:

v1.0 - Final Prealpha, successful operations and display
Prealpha Builds - Initial Buildup.

Source:

CyanogenMod Official Repositories

Device Dependencies:

android_device_samsung_jf-common

android_device_samsung_msm8960-common

android_device_samsung_qcom-common

Sprint GS4 Device Repository

NOTE: Due to potential copyright issues I do not include a vendor repo.

You can extract the files from the phone or ROM as needed - should you decide to build on your own.

Credits:

Early Bringup Advice:

Entropy512, Shabbypenguin, Cordell12

Current Advisors/Collaborators:

Noobnl (CM CDMA Maintainer)

Testers:

Mohogalore, robbyamor, crawj and others

Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) for CM development and jf common work

The CM maintainters who continue to improve CM along with Mr. Kondik

The crew that is Paranoid Android - Pure Hybrid!

...and of course! You, the community, for your support as well! Thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Heard this has bad graphics so will revisit asap
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] harrybozack:
Sorry for not reporting that here. Ever since I screwed up my phone I've been killing time by flashing every recovery firmware I got my hands on. I'll probably keep testing before the stock image comes out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
Running this now... as stated graphics do not redraw every other click but it does function normally otherwise. Just made a backup which completed normally.

edit... navigation is also a little touchy vol down will sometimes register as enter.

did a full wipe booted fine now to restore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Thanks - working on a possible graphics fix at the moment.

Will post Alpha 4 when it's ready.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Define screwing up the phone... just curious if can get it back running.

I have a stock ROM that is uploaded but will have to rename to pull from web.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
restore completed and looks good :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
Very nice! So you're functioning normally?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] LG710S34LYFE:
I will test this CWM to see how it works, i did test shabby penguins version and got a bug where it would only let me select every other selection and didnt recognize the selection.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Alpha 4 posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
yes everything restored that I can tell. navigating cwm is difficult though at the moment with the graphics error
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] LG710S34LYFE:
same result on Alpha 3 for me. Will test Alpha 4

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just tested Alpha 4 and same results. Only lets me select every other selection and when i do make a selection the menu goes away and im left with the CWM logo and label on the bottom. Have to hold power to reboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
when you have a blank screen hit vol down to enable the graphics
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Sounds like need to play with recovery keys a little more. Glad it is functionally working though!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] harrybozack:
Well it's stuck in a boot loop. I flashed recovery firmware for the i9505 instead of my model phone and one of them screwed up big time. My own fault for being careless.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] LG710S34LYFE:
well i did that but then it goes to a loose root access type screen. i always check no but then it reboots.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] harrybozack:
Wait so you have the stock rom for the SPH-L720? I'd love to try flashing that to fix my problems.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
Alpha 4 works, except you need to count key presses. Every other press changes highlighted selection but every press registers for choice (if that makes sense.) When pressing enter to make selection, press volume down to "wake up" the screen.

Backup successful. Restore successful.

I can make a video if that would be easier to explain what I'm seeing, if needed.

:edit: Location for backup is normal - /data/media/clockworkmod/backups - Must have been something I did. Disregard previous statement.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
You had the same experience as I did. Worked fine just hard to navigate.

In other news I just activated my phone and it did a factory reset and installed on the sprint crap. It did not wipe sd so my backup is still there. attempting to restore now.

update: restore successful :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
Update with Alpha 4 and testing of Garwynn's test builds: Actions taken in this order;

(Started with Alpha 4 already flashed)

1. Backup - Successful

2. Restore - Successful

3. Flashed Stock Dump Recovery - Successful

4. Flashed Stock Dump Kernel - Successful

5. Flashed Stock Dump Rom - Successful

6. Flashed Alpha 4

7. Performed Wipe Data/Factory reset- successful

8. Rebooted system

9. Restored previous backup - Successful

(Used Odin 1.85 for Stock build flashes)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
very good. Is the stock kernel and rom posted somewhere?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
Lol.. ya nija'd me. But glad to know we're on the same page! :D :beer:

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It's not public (yet). Garwynn is in the process of moving and making public. Don't forget he's spending time with his family today too (for those looking for it) :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] Shadow_God:
Very nice...:thumbup::thumbup: can't wait to get stuff going for this phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] crawrj:
You get the S4 or getting it? Oh and I just scratched the sh** out of my pc screen :mad: Thanks for that!

J/K :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] sextape:
STOCK Rom sooon!! We hope
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
You rock. :p:D:beer:

Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
New build coming soon.

But it sounds like the screen issues will need a display fix.

Because I'm doing these at the same time as CM it means it would be fixed same time CM is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] rlmiller:
Very nice... THANKS sextape

Got my S4 last Friday 4-26-13 ... rooted within 1 hour by motochopper and hotspotmod by CRAWRJ....THANKS GUYS

flashed Alpha 4... looking for next test build and now... STOCK ROM soon... my mouth won't stop watering lol :highfive:

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garwynn can you please check your PM [MENTION=2919141]sxt[/MENTION]p... THANKS
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] harrybozack:
This would make my day!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] crawrj:
MDC?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
CWM Alpha 5 posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] Shadow_God:
Yea I got it Saturday morning :D:beer:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] crawrj:
Awesome :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lilmikeyv:
Great to see so many of the great development members from touch coming over to this phone...this is going to get fun in a hurry:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] agat63:
I pulled the recovery.img, boot.img and system.img from my phone Saturday but system.img is about 2.9 GB.

I don't have any hosting site that would allow to upload file of this size.

:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
If you'd like, I could post to my d-h for you. Or we could sweet talk RWilco.. maybe rub his leg a little.. And Sir Garwynn has options as well..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] agat63:
If it's needed and wanted I'll upload it to any host/site that accespts files of this size.

We can do it tonight when I get home. About 6pm PDT.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
I'll be available then and can host it on d-h. I'll speak with RWilco12 for a preferred method of choice if he allows. He does have a section set aside for this phone. Either way, you are covered.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] lafester:
Alpha 5: small text and same navigation issue :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Alpha 7 posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] likearaptor:
Any news on what changed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] rlmiller:
larger letters, easier to read

still same selection/navigation issue

won't be long....

THANKS FOR THE .ZIPS
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] likearaptor:
Thanks for the update
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] crawrj:
Also the back button doesn't work. Garwynn is aware of the issues and is working on the next release.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] MoHoGalore:
Have you noticed jitter in the graphics? I haven't.

Sent from my SPH-L720 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Building a new CM/CWM attempt - should be done when I get home.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] crawrj:
Nah nothing that I have noticed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] rlmiller:
I haven't noticed any jitter either

sent from my Rooted/Hotspot hacked/CWM S4 looking for some GOODNESS
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Alpha 9 posted based on Cyanogen trees. This should be fully functional with no issues.

Once verified I'll start adding the additional partitions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] likearaptor:
Alpha 9a worked perfectly. Thanks :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] rlmiller:
GREAT NEWS !!!

Flashed with Odin just fine. Rebooted. let sit few minutes. In Recovery making backup to external SD now.

Button advancement is working

display is very clear, just the words are still kind of small, need my cheaters, really. lol (can they be made bigger, if possible?)

In my opinion, this is no longer Alpha

Great progress

Will flash CM Port once this is done and report in proper thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] Unknown_Hero:
I cannot flash this through Odin, says Md5 is invalid. Any Ideas?

Fixed: Sorry saw your link for the fixed download thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] rlmiller:
See GARWYNNS POST HERE make sure that the version is 9a..or higher.

he may have pulled it to do more work???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Use garwynn.rainmotorsports.net 9a version. Also mirrored cm over there and will move it all to dev host in the morning
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Version 1.0 posted. At moment only RainMotorsports mirror... will add dev host shortly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] evilbeef54:
just flashed the newest version, you rock, been testing everything so far, i love the look of this, my eye sight is better than 20/20 so i am ok with the small text but bigger would be better, shabby managed to fix the small text issue over here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2254678

but he ended up going with a rainbow theme which is... strange... lol, not sure if you can use anything he has to get the bigger text but the size he is using is good...

as always thanks for all your hard work you rock
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Going to see what can be done fot that today as well as see if we can get TWRP to behave.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] mjs2011:
Is there anyway to flash this without a computer yet? I'm betting mobile Odin isn't compatible with our phone yet.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Now without cwm flashed first. If have CWM you can use the zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] mjs2011:
Okey dokey. When using Odin I just use the pda option then?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Yes. And I'll suggest download again if you did more than 10 mins ago... had to update the tar to right image name.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] ChadH42:
FYI... this version won't mount the SDcard (internal or external) nor will it backup to the external sdcard.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
I'll have someone verify that. Heard there were issues with EXFAT but last I heard everything was working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] ChadH42:
I heard that exfat is not support so I re-formatted to FAT32 and it still won't mount.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Develop] garwynn:
Waiting on a tester to be available to test/confirm/obtain additional details.

Just curious because this is conflicting from results from others posted above. :confused: