yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tanis64:
The ZIP Files of PhilZ are not signed (the I9100 Versions was), so the stock Recovery is not able to flash them (here the red lines come up)

There are two possible ways to flash

Over Odin using tar for PDA

or if you have Root

via SGS4 Flasher apk (also using tar)

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Idebutterpiep:
Help with Philz Touch

Thank you for your quick respons. Now I understand.

What about my 2nd question, flashing new firmware. Shall I 1st flash Philz 5.14.9 or shall I 1st flash new firmware with Odin?

Or shall I flash 1st flash Philz and then firmware with Mobile Odin?

Or 1sr new firmware with Odin and then Philz with Odin?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Fauert:
Flash Philz first (Odin), place rom on sdcard, go recovery (POWER ON+Volumeup), FULL WIPE , flash desired costum rom....... Reboot :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Idebutterpiep:
Help with Philz Touch

Now it is clear to me.

Thank you for your quick respons.

When I try to open Mobile Odin on my device it couldnot detect device model.

Working with Mobile Odin 3.76
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
About last 5.14.9 version and time:

To make it more clear: if you were affected by time bug and need cmos reset, it will not fix it. However, it should give right time for others
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hawkerpaul:
Time still incorrect for me on 5.14.9

Showing 18:15 in Recovery when it was in fact 07:50

I will try a CMOS reset tonight

Phil

I was wondering would it be possible to have a time+date input screen in Recovery to allow those affected to manually set it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hawke84:
So 5.14.9 won't fix the bug for people having it but will stop it happening for others? That right? Thanks for all your work!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sswagonman:
Strange the latest version has fixed time an date for me.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MRDOCA:
Do the cmos then reboot into recovery and flash the latest. Then reboot. I actually remember I flashed a recovery where a few people had said there time was correct. Read this thread and find a recovery that has time bang on for people. Then do the 12 hours cmos trick and flash it. Dont touch the time part of recovery till you see the times right. Be sure to reset all to default in recovery before you do the cmos trick aswell. If this is message is all messed up it's cos im a bit drunk lol yay friday!

Swyped on my Omega driven I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Idebutterpiep:
When I try to open Mobile Odin on my device it couldnot detect device model.

Working with Mobile Odin 3.76
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] SunSide:
What Firmware is on your phone?Chainfire said that mobile odin is not compatible with the latest firmwares,MH5,MGG,MH8... maybe this is the reason?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hawke84:
lol thanks for your help mate. i flashed back to complete stock so and my phone is at home with the battery out waiting for 24 hours to try and fix it!. i'll root and flash recovery when i get home to see if that fixes it.

thanks again!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Idebutterpiep:
Need help flashing Philz Touch on I19505

I indeed have I9505XX4BMGA, I9505OXEDMH6, I9505XXUBMGA.

But SGS4 flasher doesn't work eather.

So only possibility now Is Odin??
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Let us know please

The cmos trick fixed all reports I am aware of.

Latest version shouldn't affect the cmos. Probably there is some low level bug there. Because of i9505 I even had to revert to a very conservative approach. Before, I always used a direct time set that only i9505 did not support. I will look at it once, maybe new kernel now properly support settimeofday function
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hawke84:
ok will let you know. give me a few hours then i'll be home and can test. thanks again for your work and quick fix!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Help! I just got on a bootloop after restoring my backup of MH8 rom on latest Philz's recovery!

It stays on the Galaxy S4 i9505 logo for a few second then it reboots itself over and over again.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nzill:
the usb storage do not work in recovery ? i click on mount but nothing happend in windows !

I do not have sd card, only internal storage
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Internal storage cannot mount in any actual recovery
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hawke84:
[MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] the cmos reset trick worked!! my phone needed more than 12 hours to fix and with your new recovery the bug hasn't come back again, been rebooting and turning on and off for a while and time is fine! thank you so much man!:D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nfribeiro:
I installed the last version and noticed the time bug. Downgraded to the last version that I had time right but same wrong time. Then after rebooting two times to recovery from recovery the time is now correct.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sachs:
Today I received the 9505 and I wonder if I can put the recovery .zip in external card and flash by default recovery. Updated the phone alone for MH8 after I get on the internet today. I am in the Usa in vacances e bought the phone here.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] radmarsh:
Don't think so buddy, need to flash via Odin. Then you can flash updated versions through recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tanis64:
No you can't!

The zip files are not signed!

You have to use Odin or if already rooted you can try SGS4 Flasher apk.

Both using tar files for flashing.

When you installed successfully this recovery then you can also use unsigned zips.

Regards
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
zip files are signed, but using non Samsung keys

Samsung will never make his private keys public

i9100/n7000 were an erroneous exception they now fixed on new devices
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nzill:
How can i format my sd in fat32 on android? (without card reader on windows)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maglise:
CMOS Trick - A little step by Step ?

[MENTION=801630]Hawke[/MENTION], hello can you, please explain step by step what you did to correct the time bug.

In my case, the time bug only affects the recovery, which is a little bit annoying but not a big problem, once rebooting I have correct time in my phone. Anyway I would like to correct it, mostly for the nandroid backup.

I understood that you have to pulled of the battery, but I wonder few things.

Do I have to let the sim card ?

Do I flash before a PHIL recovery (5.08.5) that gives me correct time ?

You said more than 12 hours, how many hours exactly ?

What you did after the hours, did you enter right after with the hard keys in recovery mode to flash the latest PHIL'Z version ?

Thank you very much for your help,

Maglise.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
I am using CWM right now... can't I flash PhilZ via CWM? I must use Odin? :/
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Fauert:
Dl the zip. and flash from

CWM, OK.. :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
Thank you.

I am asking just to make super sure. I may know many things about Android, but for this new phone, I guess I'm still a bit retarded =} .
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Fauert:
+1 thats ok, just flash the zip, and you are ok....... ^_^
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Can I use Philz to update CyanogenMod inside the ROM? (OTA Updates)

Or should I change to CWM?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
You can download latest v5.15.0 just released a few minutes ago

There, you can format to vfat (aka fat32)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
Erm... What is this CMOS bug / thing that seems to be in the talks here? My attempts to search for something relevant related have failed :/

*freak out mode activated*
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] pepe2909:
For me best speed for backup/restore is version 5.11.2
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] tata_brada:
MGA ROM + Adam kernel.

When I install 5.14.9 recovery I am expirience occasionally reboots.

I can't confirm that recovery related because I haven't time to investigate.

But, I return to 5.13.9 and everything is fine.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
But recovery has nothing to do with ROM partition :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] muamers:
And 5.15.0 ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] sanoc69:
1 hour to restore my backup in 5.15

never happen to me more than 20 minuts:crying:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
As said, nothing changed in that regard

since last couple versions

Just disable Size progress in options if needed
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] MaKTaiL:
Can anyone help me?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] victag:
i did this few times and it worked ok..

i think this is because philz recovery is based on cwm recovery
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] edwardtobia:
Yes cm ota works fine for me with this recovery
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
[MENTION=643734]Philz[/MENTION]... not sure if this info makes any difference or not... up until not too long ago, well actually a little over a month maybe, I was not having the time problem in recovery ( I think my problem started around the 5.09.00 builds) but I didn't pay it much attention because I never did nandroids in recovery, always used Online Nandroid... well when the 5.10.xxx builds started rolling out, each time I rebooted I was getting the message from WhatsApp that my time was incorrect (and yes it was upon reboot) and I would have to go into settings, uncheck Auto Adjust time and recheck it and my time would be OK again...

Well earlier this week I got tired of that and started trying to do the CMOS reset... first I tried 12 hours (no difference in recovery or ROM asking for time update

Next I tried 24 hours, same results

Lastly I tried 48 hours, still no difference with hours being off in recovery... but I did a factory reset this time and it no longer asks for me to fix time on boot because the time is correct...

As I said, the first two months with my phone, my recovery always displayed the correct time, and up until the 5.09.xxx builds it was always correct... but after that, I have not been able to correct the time

Just my observations from my device
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Tylog:
Latest build, all was fine for me.

Time Zone correct ( Germany )

Backup fine and fast

Restore after full wipe fine and fast

No other problems found. Thank you again, Good job :)

GT-I9505 ~ SlimBean 4.3
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Good to know

But latest version shouldn't cause issues when you don't have
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] hisname:
OT

what do you mean by erroneous exception? did they leaked the keys?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] cdzo72:
I just can't wrap my head around why in the beginning in recovery I had no time issues and remember thinking to myself how relieved I was that I didn't have one of the devices plagued by the time problem... and now I do have it... but as I said, I've had it for a while now, didn't the first two months I had the phone
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starbucks2010:
Phil,

Could this time problem be related to the kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Probably

I remember that early versions triggered it badly. I was using settimeofday() function. It was just like setting a definite time in main system. A very effective way.

The error message reported by people at that time could mean kernel has the function implemented in an incorrect old way.

Since then, I moved to volatile environment variables, a very conservative approach.

Now, since last version I stopped loading time daemon. A driver that was needed on early kernels.

Probably the recent kernel I use fixed this.

I think people that were affected previously will need the cmos reset or factory reset. New users should not have their cmos corrupted anymore on last version.

When I have time, I will check if current kernel can now use settimeofday() function to give user option to set time at their wish
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] z-vet:
Just flashed the latest version, timezone is set OK (GMT +2, DST on), but the time is 06:30 instead of actual 21:30. What is this CMOS trick and how do I do it?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Milchbeck:
For me not working perfectly time and date is not right (Germany)

Date ist Year 1970 and time +2 hours

Send with I9505

super-slim pre-rooted MGA

3Minit Framework 3.4
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] ionutzvio:
Pull the battery and keep it out for 12 hours :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] z-vet:
12 hours without the phone will be a pain. I already spent a month with old SE 995 when SGS4 was sent to repair, lol. :D
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Hawke84:
Hello, sorry for the slow rely.

The issue i was facing is that the time and date were resetting to 1970 every time i rebooted so basically it couldnt save the time. Right now in recovery the time is off slightly but i dont really care too much as its close enough, the year is right!

to clear CMOS I had to take the battery out for more than 12 hours, it was more like 16 ish. sim card was out too as i needed my phone. after that the date saved on each reboot.

hope this helps. Props to Philz recovery :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] nfribeiro:
I don't understand why but if I downgrade to 5.14.5 and reboot twice in recovery after (using power options) the time got fixed.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
That's the CMOS trick?

If yes... What is the bug/danger initially? :confused:

Sent from hyperspace
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maglise:
Time bug

Thank you Hawke for your answer,

Tried it this weekend, but still wrong time in recovery (I waited more than 24 hours).

Maybe next factory reset, as I read in a previous post It will be fixed.

Anyway I can live with it.

Maglise
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starbucks2010:
Phil,

Everytime I double click the bottom line under the last item in the cwm menu, it starts aroma file manager. It is intender to be like this or ... :) ? I use the latest version of your cwm for I9505.

---------- Post added at 01:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:33 AM ----------

Have you tried different kernel to see if the time problem persist?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
you can configure gesture shortcuts to your wish in GUI Settings
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] dktblade:
I tried to install Cm. Pac or any rom in Original Android Development forum, but cannot wake up, althought i can flash other rom like Omega, GE working well? I would like to ask can we use PhilZ Touch to install Pac or CM?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
I have the impression that clear cache from recovery isn't working.

I tried it twice but the Rom booted without the Android upgrading message.

When I use ZipInstaller and tick the wipe cache and dalvik option I'm getting the Android upgrading message.

Any one else experiencing this?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Clear dalvik triggers that. Clear cache only won't update apps list

Dalvik is under Advanced menu

Anyone can ensure last version is ok with latest cm-10.2 roms?

Also, keep in mind that cm-10.2 nightlies are highly unstable
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
My bad, I thought I also tried that, but apparently not.

It's working as expected now :o
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Karchikumar:
Let me have a try on it..
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Milamber:
Does philz_touch_5.15 work with CM 10.2?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] David78130:
Yep

From my Galaxy S4 tuned with CM10.2/Ktoonsez kernel & Philz touch recovery.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] roan67:
hi all !

where the fix permission on the last recovery?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] zhuchella:
Phil3759

Is it possible to add dualboot to this recovery ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Diabl0z:
that what I looking for

EDIT:about "fix permission on recovery is missing?"
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] kantjer:
Fix permissions is removed from recovery because it's absolutely useless and causes more problems than it solves.

You really don't need it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] neophyte1983:
Still wrong clock and date i have with 5.15.0

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] timberwolf60:
My clock and date still correctly stated except I need to plus 8 hours for the clock for my country. I considered no problems.

Send via i9505 using Tapatalk,

ROM: Stock I9505XXUBMG5

CSC/Modem: OLBBMG1(STH)/DXUBMG5

Kernel/rec: Stock/Phil 5.07.6

SuperSU Pro 1.65, 64GB exFAT Card
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] neophyte1983:
I have 23. March 1970 when i have a log file lol. 43 years back in time god an philz is a womderkid he made a timemachine hehe. Just joking my date and time is wrong dunno why i live in good old germany

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] jokapo:
when flashing using a tar file what slot in odin do i choose?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] phil.o:
PDA.

°°° transformer prime'd °°°
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nicotin3:
On 5.15 is the biggest improvement. 64 card, no progress, 5.7gb, no compression, md5 created it took 17 min. Best time until now.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
impressive with md5 sum

Probably you can cut into 2 if no md5 generation

It is very sad to see how i9505 has a slow storage under some conditions while exynos i9500 and all other devices can support even a 5x more aggressive mode I was using

Hope it is not a hardware issue that we will never see a fix except disabling all progress
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] marcoxx626:
Hey Phil, hoping you can help with this. I switched over to your recovery but when I try to restore a TWRP backup it only let's me restore one partition at a time (system, data, etc) is this supposed to be this way?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Nicotin3:
Md5 sun took around 4 to 5 minutes. Before this all the backups were around one hour or more.
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Formhault:
You're saying that the internal storage of the Galaxy S4 is not as speedy as it should be / was expected to be? If that's so, I agree :)

Compared to the Galaxy Note 1 and 2... the Galaxy S4 is almost on par (if not slower). I was expecting it to be lightning fast(er)...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
In my case I see I can select what ever I want!

Only a few partitions require this, mainly efs

Stock partitions shouldn't

If it is not teh case, let me know + exact info to reproduce it
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
So you go to Custom backup and restore and select TWRP backup and restore then restore.

The next screen is where you select what partitions you want. I generally leave it as it is. Even though Recovery is selected, my backups don't include it.

Then tap on Run job (or whatever the second last item is called).

The next two displays let you select the location of the backup (internal or external SD card) and the actual backup you want.

The next display is for information only. It makes no difference what you tap on. [MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION]: this is one screen I would happily get rid of

The next screen is the go/no go screen.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I will check why recovery is not included. It should

I did not get what screen you want to get rid of?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
Ok just checked

recovery.img.win is there...
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] neophyte1983:
[MENTION=4666971]Phil3759[/MENTION] will time and date get fix?

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] muamers:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45849222
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
Sorry for any confusion - I don't backup recovery in my backups. The option to back it up is set by default, buy I always turn it off.

The screen I'd like removed is the one showing you the contents of a backup you've selected to restore. I realize that there may be a reason for it being shown, but I personally find it an unnecessary additional step.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Netuser:
Phil just need a small help.

The people who have Canadian videotron/Wind mobile version M919V which is more close to US T-Mobile. Should flash which version ? Canadian or T-Mobile ?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I found it useful during debugging when I have many backups of same rom without same partitions backed up. I could browse to select the one containing the partition I need.

I plan to make the step optional by long press on the folder to restore to show contents.

I understand it is confusing for many and useless for others
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] neophyte1983:
[MENTION=2238598]muamers[/MENTION] i hope this will fix the time bug in recovery i will try it out.

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[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] maglise:
Time Bug fixed !

Hello,

I was affected by the time bug in recovery (date 1970 etc.) and did last weekend the CMOS trick (40 hours), by this time I had OMEGA ROM V11 and Audism kernel v17 (It was the same bug with the previous OMEGA version with kernel stock anyway).

Yesterday I have updated with OMEGA ROM v12 with Abyss 1.6.0 Kernel, I did a factory reset and a Wipe clean Rom in recovery (5.15.0 with the 1970 date and wrong time), before a full wipe installation with OMEGA ROM AROMA installation (I read the previous post witch said that a factory reset helped).

Next time I rebooted in recovery, the time and date bug was gone ! Since yesterday, I had several occasions to reboot in recovery, the time and date are still correct, I made a nandroid back up by the way :

in external EXFAT SD 64 GB card, 2783 MB in 7 minutes no compression, md5, no progress enable, just default settings.

I can't say if it's the CMOS trick or the factory reset responsible for the time bug fix, but If it's the CMOS trick, it takes also a factory reset to be effective/visible in my case.

I wanted to share my experience, and hope that it's not coming back even if I change my kernel (back to Audism for instance).

Thank you very much Phil for you fantastic job.

Maglise
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
v5.15.8

http://d-h.st/users/philz_touch/?fld_id=16685#files

uploading, should be online in a few minutes
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Pard0ned:
Is it available yet? I keep on getting error messages in chrome. :(
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] djtosh:
download not working
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Me Gusta:
Dev-host is down.. Will just have to wait!

Me Gusta!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] :
When did this happen. You got to many files Phil ;) you're killing their servers with your good work and let it be that way
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Me Gusta:
Ita back up again!

Me Gusta!
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] djtosh:
can i get a version of this recovery from anywhere else?
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] BillGoss:
I get an error when trying to take a screenshot in 5.15.0. Log file here: https://db.tt/kPYpygbY

D-H still down so can't test latest version.

Sent from my GT-I9505 running CM 10.2
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] Phil3759:
I removed fb2png as it doesn't work

Until I or author fixes it

In GUI Settings, you can set Gesture Actions to not use fb2png
[Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development] starbucks2010:
Phil,

Is it possible to change the aroma file manager path to ext sd card. If I format my int sd card, I will lose aroma.

Thank you,