yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Bejda:
About screenshots from/of recovery...i guess it is of no help here to tell that this way works fine (I mean works fine unlike others fb2png solutions) on i9505?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2371035

I prefer ask this straight rather than post here my long and probably useless suppositions lol.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
thank you

I see the frame size change could be a trick

However, I tried with a prebuilt android ffmpeg binary, no success on my i9505

If someone jumps there and debug the command line...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
As far as why I would guess for the same reason that you can't flash either the GSM or LTE modems with recovery. I have zero expertise in the area and can't say why. But there's no need seeing as the only way to rewrote either modem is flashing them in Odin either with an Odin ROM or Odin modem files. Not to mention that all modems both GSM and LTE are readily downloadable and all you'd need to do is flash in Odin or Mobile Odin
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I remember it was discussed before. Seems like a kind of locking there

Maybe selinux stuff broken at that time, I am not sure about it. Would need to test again
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
We have never been able to flash modems through recovery on the i9505. Odin or Mobile Odin is the only way to do it. This had been discussed many times in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39176955

Note that you *can* use recovery on the i9500.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sarbe:
It worked for me before, no change to the phone whatsoever and now it says n/a, so I was curious as to why. The backup I made previously with it working restored no problem.

---------- Post added at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 AM ----------

Read my post it is not about flashing modems in recovery it was backing them up.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
I think you're gravely mistaken... You're thinking about another phone but to my knowledge it's never been available on the i9505 for the same reasons as myself and Bill Goss already mentioned
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sarbe:
No READ my post, in Phils recovery it gives you the option to back up modem etc, when I first installed it it allowed me to tick them and back it up, also restoring it later was ok. I am NOT on about flashing a modem in recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
Nor am I... You must remember that PhilZ is not just for our i9505... It's for MANY devices... You notice it says N/A for modem and radio and it's always been like that as long as I could remember for the 9505 and you definitely restore something from a nandroid that you couldn't flash from recovery to begin with.

Now I may be mistaken and if I am I'm hoping the more experienced will correct me
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sarbe:
I understand what you are saying and yes I know it's for other phones also, if it hadn't been available I wouldn't have asked why it had changed to n/a, I still have the backup if anything is needed I can send to prove it, I know what I saw and did.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
That's what I'll have to set eyes on... See where the nandroid backed it up and ACTUALLY contains a file AND that you were able to restore it
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BrunoSlivar:
After flash philz rec., can i get shortcut on power button? If you understand me, push power button and there is power off, reboot, reboot in recovery,.....? Tnx
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Until recently, backup of modem was active. I disabled in some v6.x release I think.

About restore, it could be related to some selinux permissions, have to see. Unless it was proven to be a lock in bootloader. I remember someone said it works in adb, so not really a lock.

Are there new things I am missing?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
This is entirely up to the ROM developer if he chooses to implement this option or not. It has nothing to do with PhilZ recovery, or any other recovery for that matter.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] shoey63:
del.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sarbe:
Thanks for your input and clarification Phil.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nfribeiro:
I updated to 6.04.0 and sometimes the recovery doesn't boot, kept with s4 logo and blue words on the top.

I revert back to 6.03.4 and everything happens like it should... strange.

Sent from my GT-I9505 using old but gold bootloader
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BrunoSlivar:
Same to me. Then i need to pull off baterry after i put bat. in then phone boot in rec.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Seems a kernel issue as I am usin cm one

I will revert to a prebuilt kernel like previously

And no need to pull battery, just hold power button for a moment

It happens about 1/10 here
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] HaTrED_:
+1, happens randomly...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nfribeiro:
Maybe but for me only happens with 6.04.0

Sent from my GT-I9505 using old but gold bootloader
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
As I said, it uses the new kernel, unlike previous ones
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
PhilZ I'm not seeing that behavior at all... Yesterday I decided to have go at the Google Edition 4.3 and 4.4.2 ROMs and thus entered recovery some 20 times and never experienced a hiccup... Yes on 6.0.4.0
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kfallz:
Tried it again earlier when flashing some other stuff, still not working for me :/

It has worked for me once before though, no idea why it doesn't now. Are you on old or new BL? I'm on the new one
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zicovsky:
Guys, read the faq and some pages but can't figure it out. How do I fix the date shown as 1970 in recovery? I read I have to flash another kernel?

I really do not care about incorrect date as the restores work fine, but it's confusing if I have multiple nandroids.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Qualcom disabled write time on all their new boards.

A hack is to use their proprietary time_daemon, but quick tests showed random results.

There is no workaround for now. I am still on old bootloader and rom and I have no issues

Once migration to new cm11 is done for all devices I will upgrade to new roms and see what's going on
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zicovsky:
Thanks Phil, I'm on old bootloader as well, but no problem, I can live with it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Vessina:
Ello... Have a problem with date in MB.. Backups with philz are in 1970.. Dont know how to solve it.. If somebody wanna help me..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2574983
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MVKA:
Hello

Just couple post before yours...

-MVKA
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Good news!!

I was playing with time_daemon to fix date on Note 3 and I broke time on my S4

Now, happily, I am affected like you by the time bug

The assumptions I have from my quick readings:

- Qualcom disabled write time/date for some reason

- we need time daemon custom binary to load date + a correct tzdata file

- [MENTION=3084245]Chenglu[/MENTION] managed to fix it in his Note 3 recovery

- My last 6.04.4 release for Note 3, using Chenglu trick seems to work

I will try to reproduce the thing on S4 to find a good fix

For now, I feel if Qualcom disabled it, they have their reasons. So not willing to revert to force writing it like in early versions of my recovery or like Abyss kernel seems doing from users reports

There are some challenges as the time_daemon is closed source, at least in my knowledge, dynamically linked, and I am not sure if it is the same across devices/kernel versions

Will do some testing asap

But will first update recovery to cm-11 for all supported devices and add new ones
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ansh1996:
Hey..i tried to flash this recovery on my i9505..all process gone fine but the prob is i guess my recovery is broken as i cant access it..the device says 'recovery booting' on the bootloader screen but then it just reboots and starts normally

Please any help will be appreciated..thanks in advance! :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Seth25:
Since nobody posts just to say things are ok, I just wanted to say that this works just fine, restored my backups a couple of times today because I experimented with some ROMs and everything went butter smooth.

Date, time and everything else is ok here, running on an i9505.

Thanks for this great recovery!!!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Vessina:
Thanks Philz.. Nice recovery and tools inside.. Best Regards fu n family in this cristhmas dates..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] radiobicho:
Hi, all. I have a Galaxy S4 I9505 unlocked. Id like to flash Philz Recovery. But first id like to know: is it necessary to root my device with CF Root or do I get root if I just flash Philz Recovery by Odin? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] David78130:
It's not an obligation to root your phone and your it won't be rooted after install philz recovery. You can root it in philz recovery settings.

From my Galaxy S4 tuned with CM11/Ktoonsez kernel & Philz touch recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] aresbv2000:
Any chance to have official Philz Recovery for i9506(Snapdragon 800 based Galaxy S4)?

There are some unofficial ports but can we make it official? :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
links to ports and the github device tree they use
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] aresbv2000:
Here is the post with the ported recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I see

I remember Chenglu told me to port this

However, when I do not own a device, I am not comfortable to port from scratch as it can be risky for early testers

I think this also uses dt.img new stuff

Basically, it is a repack on my recovery binary

Please ask a dev or advanced user owning the phone to repack it or port it. Will need a lot of debugging on my side because of new selinux and not having a device tree to build.

Then, if he needs help or want an official release, he can contact me providing tech info needed

Sorry, but no time to start on this from scratch, it is already very hard to continue updating all these devices while working on new features in code
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] aresbv2000:
Ok man...thank you...since i don`t know how to do all the things you asked about the device tree....I will wait until the development for this phone goes further.Thank you again!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
So .. should I select it when I reboot to system or not?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Uhu911:
If you want to keep phils custom cwm then yes

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
It is not my feature, but a stock cwm one. Even if the script is empty, cwm will detect it and ask to chmod it to no exec

Say yes or either live with it nagging you or have cwm overwritten by another rom
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
v5.04.7

mirror until dev-host is back up

http://www.mediafire.com/download/smhw67u6sbzhaht/philz_touch_5.04.7-i9505.zip

Let me know about any bugs please + a log

Also drop a message if backup now is ok
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] g-one-ger:
Is the aroma file manager now working with touch? Or still with buttons?

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Aroma is not my program and I have no time to fix his touch code for now. It has nothing to do with recovery as it has its own touch code

I could look at it once if author didn't meanwhile
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] AMDPOWERFIST:
Testing now - will post results in a few minutes

Updated: Log added
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Looks great. Nothing wired in log now. Many thanks.

I will release 5.04.8 for people with exfat issues. It will use a different approach then Chenglu. If not enough, let me know and i will repack with his method
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
Must ask again .. sorry .. is there a way to increase font size?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Eyghon:
I've tried to install 5.04.7 from within stock recovery using zip from external sdcard (first attempt to install recovery on my S4) but it failed. The following message appeared during the installation for a really short time (so no guarantee, that the message is right in every letter ;)): "...failed verifying whole signature file".

What may be the problem. Did i something wrong?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Not for now

Not from stock recovery
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Eyghon:
Do you mean I have to install an other custom recovery before installing yours or wait until you have released an odin file?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Ah, sorry, did not release tar for this one as i wanted some testers to debug it first

Yes, you need a first flash with odin
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] fbatti73:
The zip file Recovery must be flashed from CWM Recovery no from Stock Recovery... or using MobileOdin if you have root permission :highfive:

Ciaooooo
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Eyghon:
Thank for that info. I'm not in hurry and can wait.

I will think about it. But first, my coffee cup waits to be refilled. Have a nice day. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] fbatti73:
Sorry...

Now realize that flashing zip using Mobile odin on I9505 may not work.

For now Mobile Odin not support i9505.

Then the best way to flash zip recovery is using a cwm recovery installed using Odin.

Ciaooooo
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
Used SGS4 flasher to flash recovery with tar version. Cheer!

Send via i9505 using XDA premium,

ROM: cf auto rooted ME2. CWM

superSU 1.30
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
There are very little info on the partition table to flash modem

Looking at pit info and stock kernels, I ended up with this:

/apnhlos	emmc	/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 # NON-HLOS.bin
/modem	emmc	/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 # to confirm before allowing flash bin files

Partition by name is respectively

/apnhlos /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apnhlos
/modem /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/mdm

Is the modem.bin enough? do you really need the apnhlos as part of a modem flash?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] SunSide:
I installed your latest Version and did a full backup to my external sd.There is some ....cannot open.... in the log,Don't know if it's important,when you want to have a look here is the log.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Log is perfect

errors are: sd-ext: normal as you do not have

.android_secure, as it seems to not exist

And you are using stock settings, so no settings file

I am uploading 5.04.8

I need to confirm that it doesn't break exfat mounting

Also, people that had issues with large exfat cards, can test this if it fixes their issue, else I release a repack optional for these
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Sly955i:
Lost root today and Philz touch saved my ass awesome recovery Thankyou :D

Sent from my Gt-i9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] otcd:
Hi,

I started to get "set warranty bit kernel" yellow note during boot process. any idea how to delete this? TX
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
RMA :cyclops:

----> FAQ / General section
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] otcd:
Couldnt find there anything on this warranty bit, but anyhow tx, i will manage. Tx for the good work.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Ozonep:
Phil,

Does option "Clean to install new ROM" wipe dalvik cache? Or I have to wipe it manually?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
dalvik is in /data
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ibm_A3:
Hi,

Looking for a rexovery that doesnt change knox to 0x1,i've found this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2500823

So if its possible to flash knox friendly recovery in that device,will it be possible in the S4?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
delete
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
6.05.6 (21.12.2013)

This should be the final stable cm-11 release

I kept cm-11 kernel, it seems it doesn't hang anymore on my side

Please, look at the new features and give it a hard debugging shot

I am updating other devices on the next days, so if you can spot a nasty bug somewhere, post it asap

Thanks to all who contributed to push it where it is now :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] jigarbond:
I've tried to search for the answer and could not find it. So, I finally decided to ask here!

Can anyone guide me how to make the External SD as the default place to take back ups?

Thank you!

Nevermind. Found it!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
Test of 6.05.6 shows all the things I normally do (backup/restore/ORS) work fine.

There's one bug, which I really should have mentioned before, namely that when an action completes and says "Press any key to continue", pressing a key does take you back to the last screen but, and this is the problem, it also performs the action of the key on the previous screen!

Example: I take a backup, which completed successfully. I'm looking at the "press any key to continue" message and I press the enter key. I then find that a new backup is starting! That's because the first command on the "previous screen" is backup to sdcard.

The behaviour I expect is that pressing any key will take me back to the menus screen and nothing else. I should have to press a key again on the menu screen to perform an action.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Mkhant30:
In recovery, select "Backup & Restore", then choose " Misc Nandroid Setting". And select "ORS Backup Target" as sdcsrd 1.

Hope it helps.

Rgds,

Mkhant30
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] daniello8:
Hmm .. my phone has problems rebooting into recovery .. doesn't get passed the Samsung splash screen every time. Noticed this twice when I wanted to use zipinstaller .. enhanced reboot menu worked right now .. turning off and pressing vol-up also worked.

Any clue why this is unreliable?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Yes, you should have mentioned it :D

I could only reproduce it using bottom virtual keys, not hardware device keys. Will fix it before pushing a final build

I will look at time bug also. Now that I am affected it is really pissing me off
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] supertomi:
Hello PhilZ,

please, can you use another download server? If I download your recovery, I'll get the mobogenie...apk 5 times. It's annoying.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maharu567:
The same thing is for me... A good server for xda it's hard to obtain :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
You mean devhost is full of nags and forced apk download?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tanis64:
Visiting the site from PC no problems at all, but if you go there via a mobile device you have to fight this grap.

Send from the outback with my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I will ask in private dev area why this and what can be done
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Bejda:
Hi :)

Check latest pages of this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1696660

Don't know what's happening lately but I'm more annoyed by this while browsing xda than Dev-host specifically.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zicovsky:
I have to say it's starting to seriously piss me off as well, took a nandroid yesterday, and now I have 4 nandroids, all with 1970 as date and different timestamps, have no idea which one is newer.

I need to start renaming the folder whenever I take a nandroid so I know what's what.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
This is taking me ages to fix properly, damn it

I always used the back key and never thought at using others to spot the bug :p

Finally, I could fix it now

Still a few GUI fixes for the sight of perfection
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Vessina:
Me too, and back in time.. Im going to see Dock at tower clock because im going crazy with this galaxy s4.. Maybe him will know what can i do with that ****.. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
Even the back key has the bug. Pressing it takes you to the last screen and then does a back, so you end up two screens back. This is not so much an issue when taking a custom backup, but it can be a pain if you are flashing multiple files from the same folder.

While I'm at it, would it be possible for the version information displayed at startup to include the full version number (eg 6.05.6) instead of just the major number (6)? Yes, I know it's in the About menu, but I think it would be nicer if it was displayed at the start.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Yes, the bug revealed some deep bad things

I am back now working on my old i9100 as it is revealing some causes of these issues

They are related to different ways the driver reports things

I fixed that part

Now, just working on some low level touch bugs that can trigger only on some rare circumstances on a few devices

About the version, I found it less sexy to put all the numbering

But if you really find it vital, I can do you a favor :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Update 6.07.1

- Touch and GUI fixes

This one killed me, just look at the version bump to get how many builds it took

Fixes various bugs and issues when returning from sleeping screen, gesture actions sensitivity, sideload GUI fixes, touch issues when returning from pause on logs...

Give it a test while I sleep :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] networkn:
I was wondering about how upgrade from 6.0.3.7 to 6.0.4.4, but I see bugs in the latest version, should I hold off?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] khaled_ksa_511:
Exuse me I have stock rom and rooted but the recovery not have command ( install zip )

Why? Am I need something else
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tanis64:
Missing tar file on dev-host,

But thanx for your hard work!

Send from the outback with my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hanspampel:
For those who searching for a tar file, i made one. But extract it first and flash it via Odin.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I too have noticed this behavior. Never thought it was a bug - I thought it is just me forgetting what I'm doing :silly: lol.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tassos_i:
Just to report an unexpected behavior (of minor importance) : when double tapping on an empty screen area, aroma file manager is automatically launched! This holds since several versions now.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
:cyclops:

Congrats, you discovered a unique feature in this recovery: Gesture Actions, supported since so many months now

In GUI Settings, you can set them to what ever you like or disable them

Please read main thread
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
when you find a glitch, let me know, small bugs can hide mountains

Like this one I am still fighting...

Current uploaded version a few hours ago still has a small bug on unblanck screen. Hopefully no one finds it until I fix it :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
LOL! So... That's why the recovery .zip is so large :cyclops:

I can finally delete that AROMA FM .zip I had on my SDcard for so long now. :silly:

You should make a new menu line for AROMA... Now that I know of its (hidden) existence, I will subconsciously double tap, by mistake, ruining the user experience. :p

Edit: tassos_i was talking about AROMA FM and you mentioned gestures... That makes it two hidden features. How many more are there? -.-

Sent from hyperspace