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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euroclie:
Yes, I confess I was on a hurry (less than one hour to get a usable phone with all the data from the previous one, before leaving home), so I decided to start from a clean state instead of handling the problem with the help of the initial posts on this thread. I guess there's a price to pay for being impatient!

I've flashed my previous phone a couple of times using CWM, so Iwas surprised as well by this message. I did get the green "PASS!" message in Odin, btw. My thoughts about it is that it may be some kind of script launched after the initial boot?

I know I should have taken a picture of the message before even trying to grab the phone, but as I said the phone was lying on my desk and when I took it, I involuntarily touched the side buttons (too sensitive for my big hands) so I can't know what I validated. As the next reboot went normally, it didn't bother me too much...

After thinking about it again, here's another piece of informations. Might be unrelated, but on the other hand it might be a piece of the puzzle: when starting to install stuff on the phone, I tried to launch SuperSU from the launcher, but got a popup dialog stating that I had to apply an update. I can't remember for sure if it was before or after installing philz, thuogh...

So I rebooted in recovery and applied SuperSU 1.34 update from a zip on the root of my SD card, but after the next reboot I still had the same message. The phone was rooted (I got popups for root access when launching TitaniumBackup), but it didn't seem normal/smooth enough to me, which made me decide to install SVA ROM (not enough time to play with the stock ROM, even if it's still one of my goals for later).

To PhoenixA: Did you manage to get an AZERTY French keyboard? I downloaded the French language and was able to get it without much trouble (SVA 2.5 ROM) instead of the original QWERTY keyboard. See attached pics for the various settings pages, and let me know if you still can't get it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Hi Phoenix,

Thanks for the help. However I can't get the ES3 to work properly, i.e. I try to rename but the file refuses to rename, and/or try to "move to ext SD card" but the move only copies to the ext card and does not delete the file from the System Framework folder, and/or try to actually delete the file(s) but it states "operation failed".

Would you know why this doesn't work?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Can someone tell me how to port international Keyboard (SamsungIME) to this phone with an official rom?

I searched and didn't found how to.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
First, if you use the custom Tom you won't have this problem at this first place.

Second, you need to be rooted and you need to allow the explorer to root access. Different explorer different way to activate root access. You should fond it in settings
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmyl19:
Hi, i'm using root explorer, i'm not sure if you have this choice in es3, r/o w/c is read only and r/w read write, you have to put it in r/w to rename or delete. hope this will help.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Hi Omid,

Thanks for your reply. In short, my device is rooted already and I want to go back to the Samsung (unrooted) ROM to then install SVA's custom ROM. However, I am a complete noob, never done this before and have a particularly expensive phone that I don't want to brick / I don't want to bother SVA with trivial questions.

Could you therefore help me out? ...

1) The current custom ROM I have is installed from SD card and included SuperUser/Titanium back-up. Obviously, I got it in order to get Gapps etc. However, it does not allow apps to SD and there are also the force close/upgrade on boot-up issues.

2) What is the best way to go back to the stock ROM? Will this still be "in the phone" or will I have overwritten it with the Custom ROM?

3) If the stock ROM is still in the phone, should I just to a factory reset/wipe and do I do that from recovery mode? Or is it best to use ODIN and flash a downloaded, stock ROM back to the device via USB? If it is the second option here, am I obliged to delete the custom ROM first before I do this (if so, how)?

4) If I do any of the above, should I do a back-up of my files/apps to ext SD card (via Titanium) before I do this? (Obviously, I would then keep this to do a restore of the apps on installing the SVA ROM which would again allow Gapps)

5) Does the 1.9ver of SVA allow apps to SD card? If not, do you know how I can get 2.5ver so I can install that instead?

6) When I download the 1.9ver of the SVA ROM, will it have SuperUser preinstalled - or do I have to immediately download that app on installing the ROM (same with Titanium BU)?

7) Last question: I have heard about counters for ODIN/flash. How many "shots" do I get at flashing/resetting before a potential brick? Is there any way that I can reset these counters so that I can install more custom ROMs in the future?

Many thanks.

---------- Post added at 09:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:02 AM ----------

Hi Jimmy,

You were right about the r/w for ES3 ... I needed to do that in the setting (I had just assumed - what with it being a rooted app for SuperUsers - that it would allow me to over-write right out of the gate).

However, even checking the r/w access for the files specified they still refuse to rename/move/delete ... so I have posted for help in installing the SVA ROM (have a question first about deinstallation of current, custom ROM and whether or not I then need to go back to the stock ROM first/where the stock ROMs location would be).

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alzadjali:
SVA & callerid

I have a problem after I installed SVA2.5 rom my caller id is not working right even though i have followed every step in the instruction. my 8 digit callird is no longer working. can you help?

Update

2.5 does not change others.xml to 8 you have to do it manually even though you select 8 during installation.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
i got my I9502 from china, a chinaUnicom one, i'm in morocco now and using french too, and all work fine with all roms i tried, from I9502ZNUAMDG to the last one I9502ZNUBMG2, i had to fix few little bugs with help in this thread and little search online, now i'm using SVA V1.9 rom and all work fine for me, i use "swiftkey" as keyboard,with azerty ,installed french,arabic and english languages, and have T9 for all languages enabled.

i installed sva rom to kick off some chinese apps that didn't want to be deleted and now 10 days with this rom all is perfect.

Morocco is not Europ but i think it follow all european rules and stuffs... concerning gsm and more lol.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Can someone please send me a link for the SVA 1.9 rom. I cannot downloaded properly using oficial link...

(can be as a private message if you want)

Please. I am trying to help a friend.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
-i can't tell you how to get the SVA 2.5 here. sorry

-i'm not sure about the V 1.9 if it allows apps on SD card or not. 2.5 does

- the best thing to do is to download the original (already rooted) rom and flash it by odin then flash SVA from Recovery.

- i didn't flash the original rom and i don't have any problems so far but it's all up to you.

- this is the first time that you're cleaning up your phone from Chinese apps so i recommend FULL data wipe before flashing SVA.

- of course you can backup your apps using titanium and restore later , but make sure no system apps, and i suggest not to restore apps that are easy to download from play store.

- now that you're going to SVA's custom rom you won't need to do any changes to the system files (if you still want to let me know and i'll recommend an app and how to)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahzadsk:
Fix for Alphabetical List for Apps (Bookmarks)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmecchi:
Got Recovery Boot

Hi All,

Later last night I trow some sleep hours away and decide to try again factory reset + root through Odin. After 3 tentatives I finally got Recovery Boot working again. Phone war already working.

Then I Instal google apps as post #13 and yep I got actualization/optimization message on regular boot and yep I got two camera apps and two galery apps.

For boot message I reboot my cellphone only about 2 times a month, so no big problem.

For double apps (camera, galery and so on) I'm wondering if is it possible to uninstall from app manager menu at settings...

Suggestions?

WBRGDS

Braulio Mecchi

Recife - PE - Brasil

bmecchi@gmail.com
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
Congratulations !

But on #13 is nothing with gapps !? Just how to root !

But now you are one step further. Dont waste time with stock go to sva and everything is fine !

goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanuc:
I just did like the first pages and I don't have any of these issues.

Did you try the stock for a while to compare?

What's the RAM average usage of it?

What version of SVA are you using?

Think I'll give it a try this weekend.

Cheers
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
No ! I dont want chinese apps. First i had etotalk rom on my first 9502 and Stock on my second.

Then i switch to SVA !!!

I dont care about that !

2.3 and 2.5

goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Yesterday I flashed SVA 1.9 and the phone freezed and rebooted 4 times...

Can't tell why, I wipe everything before the flash.

Had to restored to the official rom.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _SVA_:
before flash SVA v1.9 you must flash stock I9502ZNUCME4 with Odin, then make wipe data /factory reset from stock recovery

then rooting and flash cwm and then flash sva v1.9

Downdload:

stock I9502ZNUCME4

SVA ROM v1.9 ZNUCME4_MD5_4EAFE513B0B99D3129ED24A13E47281B.zip
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Maybe it was because I had the last firmware when I flashed it.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmecchi:
#13 (my Lucky Number BTW)

#13 has at the very end:

The only difference is that I could not manege to transfer file from PC to S4 through usb, so I type the web address on S4 internet browser and download it directly to cellphone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronnylaborada:
Nice, will try this. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
as i mentioned, i tried supermanager but it didn't work for me so i used

"Solid Explorer

" app, then i could cut and past the 2 files in sdcard and upgrading bug stopped. id din't need to get them back,system worked fine without them.

don't forget u have to root your phone first, solid explorer need to be root to acess to system files.

now i'm using SVA v1.9 rom, and it working fine till now, i don't have this bug, i didn't have that bug too with last rom "I9502ZNUBMG2".

good luck.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
Called ID Fixed

So, i got the fix after all.

i was doing one step wrong, which was instead of clearing the data for "contacts Storage" i was doing it to "contacts"

now i use the SVA fix and, i'm on 7 digit fix.

- just wanted to share it here, maybe other people don't do the same mistake.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Thanks bdrddnn,

This worked great ... however, I am still getting the forced shut-downs (although without the Android optimising apps on re-boot!) so will install the SVA ROM in the next few days (ver 1.9).

Wish I could get the 2.5ver though (for Apps to SD card), but the website's PayPal function is down :(
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
- honestly i don't remember if i had forced shutdowns issue

- Apps to SDcard work in SVA v1.9, i didn't have issue with apps to sdcard,it worked with all roms i tried!!!

- i don't know what you mean about website's paypal function!!, but you can install paypall app.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
he means for the SVA 2.5 you have to pay (they call it donation) to get the link, but their paypal didn't work (it's working again now).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
Ahhh thanks, got it, lol my mind is slow and fasting makes it more slow i guess lol.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarrkDaviid:
Does anyone know why I would be able to root one I9502 with this file (i9502-csc-root.tar.md5), though not another? Do you need to be on a specific firmware for this root file to work?

<ID:0/008> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> i9502-csc-root.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..

<ID:0/008> File analysis..

<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/008> Initialzation..

<ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/008> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/008> cache.img

<ID:0/008> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/008> FAIL!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
why don't you do the root by using chainfire, flashing it after getting the CWM from Odin ?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarrkDaviid:
It's alright, used the one key root from LBE on the previous page, which worked pretty well.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claytonlau:
I just download and flashed SVA 2.5 today, but seems the caller id fix is not working for me even i install 8 Digit fix when i flash the rom. (+852 aaaa bbbb), Can you explain a bit more detail how u got it fix?

I also figure another problem (Maybe just me), which is the "Hide Lock Icon" in SVA rom Setting. I try to remove it in setting, but everytime after i reboot the phone, the lock icon pops up again. So i have to goto setting to disable it again. (Just a minor problem, I can live with it.)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omid_freesky:
after you choose the caller id fix you must do these things:

backup your contacts, if it's on google account you're fine.

go to system/CSC/ and open "others.xml" (you must change the permissions to be able to edit it and open it with a text editor

at the end there is <CscFeature_RIL_CallerIdMatchingDigit>11<

change the 11 to the selected number (for you it's 8 )

then save and out and change back the permissions back to normal

now go to application manager ( Settings/More/Application Manager/ALL ) and clear data of "contacts storage"

now reboot your phone and get your contacts back and if it's on google account just wait till it's synced again.

- the problem with the lock icon in the statusbar i confirm (like you said it's not something you can't live with)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _SVA_:
Yes, there is such a bug to v2.5. But it was fixed.

Download archive with fixes: SystemUI_patch.rar

Download patch: SystemUI_pach.zip

In the archives of the four types of batteries. Open (for example) with WINRAR archive, pickup needed SystemUI.apk from archive SystemUI_patch.rar

and copy replaced with the patch SystemUI_pach.zip in /system/app, then flash the patch through cwm recovery.

By default, the patch is the normal circle battery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claytonlau:
Thx alot!!! Problem totally solved. Have a nice day ^_^

Sent from my GT-I9502
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvargas12:
I just installed the SVA ROM 2.5 and it is really awesome :D

Thanks all who have posted useful links and replies...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarrkDaviid:
I have written up a guide for those who want detailed instructions on how to flash CWM, install Google Play and to root / remove the bloatware from the device.

http://marrkdaviid.com/2013/07/how-...-play-on-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-duos-gt-i9502/
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
That is really cool ! Thank you for your great effort !

The community will thank you !!

Goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nissartman:
omg mark david

i will try tomoroow

it worked for you goes like hell???
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Hi Mark,

Is this the same method as the one you posted on Youtube last month, i.e. are there any steps that are different (the LBE root certainly seems to be)?

I ask because I followed your Youtube guide 10 days ago and, while it works, there are still a lot of "forced shut-downs" and "upgrading/optimisation of apps" on reboot. I managed to correct the optimisation of apps with a file name change (see earlier posts) however I am still suffering from a lot of shutdowns.

I just downloaded the SVA ROM but am nervous about flashing it, mainly because I am a noob and have heard that I need to reinstall the old, stock ROM first before I do this ... and I am unsure how to do this 100%.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
No, i didnt try it because both of my 9502 are already rooted,CWM and SVA-flashed.

Thats ("forced shut-downs" and "upgrading/optimisation of apps") not nice to hear. Thats what SVA not does.

How noob you are ? Whats you hesitation ? Odin ? Or what

goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Hi Goes,

I can follow a set of instructions ... its just that everyone here glosses over the reflashing of the stock ROM step.

I.E. With Mark's older solution on Youtube he just installs a CWM recovery zip file, along with SU and Gapps. There is no LBE root of the device which he now does in his new guide.

Maybe this is the key to removing the shutdowns? I don't know however because these are my first attempts at understanding such issues.

In short, if you have SVAs ROM installed and working, then why would you actually try Mark's solution as well?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
Whats the problem of flashing Stock before ? I dont read that somebody glosses but anyway when you have that phone you will

flash more then once a stock. My meaning !

You didnt read my post. I dont want to test Marks solution because i have already good working root,CWM,SVA (2.3 and 2.5)

goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g_gourlay:
Hi Goes,

Sorry for the misunderstanding ...

Yes, the problem with flashing the stock is that no-one really explains how to do it for a noob.

Do I just do a factory restore and wipe without the need for Odin ... then install the SVA via Odin?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarrkDaviid:
Thanks mate, took a while to write up. :)

The main difference between the old and the new procedure is how you root the device. The old procedure worked with most (though not all) i9502's, whereas the new root procedure hasn't failed me yet (successfully followed the procedure on three devices yesterday).

Which apps are force closing? I haven't personally come across this issue with either procedure.

The main benefit that my procedure has, is that you only need to download 26MB worth of files, opposed to a whole ROM. Flashing CWM and installing Google Play then only takes 10 minutes max, a little longer if you want to root the device and remove the bloatware. I am sure that SVA's ROM is really good, haven't had a chance to play around with it yet.

I haven't personally tried flashing this yet, though based on what I have read, you need to check whether you are on the I9502ZNUCME4 firmware. If you are not, then the first step will be downloading it from a website such as samfirmware.com . It will then simply be a case of putting your mobile into download mode (volume down + home button + power button, volume up to confirm), using Odin, and navigating to the ROM under 'PDA' before clicking start.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euroclie:
Hi all,

I've had the chance to get again the prompt that was mentioned a while ago in this thread. After installing (in my case an unsuccessfull installation) a zip file from Recovery, I got the same prompt again (see attached screen capture), when trying to reboot.

The prompt says:

ROM may flash stock recovery on boot

THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE.

- No

- Yes - Disable recovery flash

- Go back

I suppose that if you chose No and you're unlucky, the Recovery gets flashed on the next boot, hence the impossibility to boot to recovery again until you reinstall CWM/PhilZ...

Hope this helps others someday...

Comments or explanations by the gurus are welcomed, of course! ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euroclie:
Dual SIM Statusbar Icons

Hi again,

A different post for a different matter: I'm not too familiar with the statusbar icons on Samsung devices, especially for dual SIM phones.

I couldn't help noticing, though, that the various icons displayed eat up quite some valuable space in the statusbar, for a limited added value.

I mean, my previous dual SIM phone was a Wiko Cinq Peax, and the statusbar icons were nice and compact: One icon for each SIM slot, the color of the icon (which you could chose from a selection) lets you know how strong the signal is for each slot, and a small letter (E, 3G...) in the top left corner of the icon would let you know what kind of connection you have.

On the S4, on the other hand, you get an icon for the signal of each slot, both are monochrome, one shows black bars on a gray background, the other white bars on a transparent background. Then you get two additional icons, one for each slot, with the type of connection (active or not, Edge, 3G, H+...), and there's even a fifth icon in the shape of a SIM card, which I suppose lets you know which slot is used for data. I mean, 5 icons, that's about one third of the available space.

Does anyone here know if some custom S4 ROMs have altered the Samsung statusbar icons design to a more compact one, in which case I'd be willing to try and port this to the 9502?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
Philz's post 4 in this thread

"when in recovery, if you choose option "reboot system now" and you get "yes - disable flash recovery", select that option to avoid stock recovery overwriting cwm"
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bdrddnn:
is it possible to take off dual sim icons?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarrkDaviid:
Hey Guys,

I have been mucking around with the boot animations and sounds on the device.

The below two files are for the startup boot animation:

\system\media\bootsamsung.qmg

\system\media\bootsamsungloop.qmg

These can be changed with the stock Samsung files (attached). When I however tried removing these completely, the device would no longer lock and unlock, the screen stayed on constantly. So I only recommend replacing these, not deleting them altogether. Also, when these are deleted, the boot process isn't any quicker, you simply see a black screen instead of a logo, which makes the startup feel longer.

The below file is for the shutdown animation, you can either replace this with the Samsung one (attached) or delete it altogether.

\system\media\shutdown.qmg

These two files are for the startup and shutdown sounds, you can replace them with the Samsung ones (attached) or remove them altogether.

\system\media\audio\ui\PowerOn.ogg

\system\media\audio\ui\PowerOff.ogg

Still trying to figure out how to remove the WO 3G boot screen that displays on the device as soon as you turn it on, not sure where this file is located.

I used Root Explorer to move the files around on the device, and recommend renaming the old files (add .bak to the end) rather than deleting.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nfribeiro:
You cannot delete the boot animations because they make part of the process. The only thing you can delete is the power off ogg that does not exist in the official rom for e.g. i9500.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 881kevin:
Hi there!

New offical ROM CMG3 was just released.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goes_like_hell:
Where do you see that ? Or better where do you get it ?

On SamMobile isnt available.

goes like hell
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 881kevin:
Sorry for wrong information. Some guys made a mistake on a Chinese forum.