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[Galaxy S 4 General] [^IcEmAn^]:
Beside this I have also noticed that screen isn't responding sometimes (when phone wakes up by sms and I want to unlock the screen immediately or when ending call and screen turns on - these two are the most recent that I remember).

Anyone else experiencing this?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Yuna:
i have 7 & 8. but 7 i don't notice all time, but 8 is a bit annoying
[Galaxy S 4 General] nevillejb75:
Every single thing you put here has happened to me. I love the phone but the Lagg and camera crashing especially does my head in. Also , crackling when using headphones, although doesn't seem as bad when adapt is turned off.
[Galaxy S 4 General] ipmanwck:
Went on a trip today. Camera crashed about 10 times !!!!!!
[Galaxy S 4 General] Webster200x:
After seeing all of the problems that s4 has I think I might be getting the HTC One...
[Galaxy S 4 General] ipmanwck:
Dude I had both and can tell you HTC has other issues. Camera blur on edges. Dead pixels on most handsets and worst of all gaps in the so called gap less construction !

Saying all this I am still considering going back to htc one ! S4 is annoying me with the headphone issue of low impedance and camera lag. Seems both have issues just what can you live with most it comes down too..... how did it come to this I will never know !

Are we expecting so much more or are manufacturers cutting corners to reduce costs ? I think some of both.
[Galaxy S 4 General] sohebq:
Hold your horses and wait for note 3 :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] tretiy:
1.Overheating

Yes, and it is really a problem.

2.Camera Crash

Phone can also reboot sometimes when I open the camera app.

3.Phone turns off all by itself.

Didn't happen at all.

4.When I turn the phone on again, the battery levels jumps down to 10-15 percent less of what it was before. It is also displayed in the settings battery status graph.

(see #3)

5.When the volume is set to max during a call through earpiece, the slight vibration made because of the sound emission is felt on the back of the device (in a cheap way) every s4 has this issue.

And if you hit your device against your palm, you'll hear this very sound.

6.Launcher redraw (Even after updated ME1 firmware but its improved)

Happens rarely, somewhat irritating.

7. Screen smearing issue

Didn't notice at all.

8. Slight pinkinsh/purple tone on the lower right half of the screen when the brightness is set to lowest.

I don't use lowest brightness, so can't make sure that I don't have this issue.

9. Flash light less bright than other phones eg nexus or s3

Is it really a problem?:confused:

10. Camera Lag when opening

YES, very irritating

10a. Shutter lag when taking photos

YES, especially after camera app is opened

11. Gallery lag when opening

Maybe it's just building cache?

12. Dialer lag

I don't use default dialer.

13. Contact app lag

I very rarely use this app, so can't confirm.

14. When the keyboard is popped out on say a white web page, the screen does a slight brightness adjustment that it almost feels like a screen flicker on low brightness. Then it changes colour tone from reddish to greenish.

Boy... very irritating, especially noticed while browsing web pages.

OP, maybe you should create a voting?
[Galaxy S 4 General] matheus_sc:
I simple install a custom rom of my choice. Not issues here
[Galaxy S 4 General] forzanetti:
Good for you then.

However, a lot of people don't know how or can't be bothered to install a custom rom.

Also, what I was trying to say is that it's really disappointing for samsung to release a high end device with numerous (and somewhat serious) issues. It's just unacceptable.

Sure it can be fixed with custom ROM. But hey, samsung has more resources than individual developers out there. Shouldn't they at least come up with better ROM?
[Galaxy S 4 General] Webster200x:
I just might do that and wait for the note 3
[Galaxy S 4 General] hinook:
I flashed the newest AOKP ROM and it's actually really stable - I'm getting pretty good battery life, considering everything I've stuffed into the thing, and it's smooth as hell, I love this phone!
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Good to hear that it is running smooth. I wonder if the overhearing issue is still there or not ?
[Galaxy S 4 General] hinook:
I'm not experiencing any problems with the temperature - I'd say flash away ^^
[Galaxy S 4 General] Webster200x:
Are you running the octacore device or the regular 4 core?
[Galaxy S 4 General] body150165:
I also confirm the following problems, which usually (3 times in 4 days) occur together:

2.Camera Crash

3.Phone turns off all by itself.

Wonderful. I thought I got rid of those problems which I faced with my stupid LG P990 before. And now...out of the frying pan into the fire.

GT-I9500

JDQ39.I9500XXUAMDL
[Galaxy S 4 General] hinook:
GT-I9505, the quad core version :)
[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Please try updating your firmware. The latest "ME1" is more stable.
[Galaxy S 4 General] jassari:
Good thing is that all the issues are software issues

Hope Samsung will release an update soon
[Galaxy S 4 General] chrisinleedsuk:
Am I the only person that thinks s voice sucks beyond recognition? Google have been good enough and intelligent enough to make offline voice recognition that truly works and then Samsung have to mess with it. I love the interface but it's so distractingly bad at voice recognition it's only a matter of time before I crash my car whist arguing with it.

S-memo has no way of editing notes from the web. It also lacks proper page wrapping when editing longer notes that fill a page.

Occasional lag in every aspect of the phone. This should be impossible with the level of processor employed here.

S-planner isn't on multi window menu and quite frankly looks awful.

Gallery is a joke if used with cloud services.
[Galaxy S 4 General] thatsupnow:
1) everybody knows that s voice sucks 2) don't use your phone while you drive and you'll have zero chance of crashing.
[Galaxy S 4 General] chrisinleedsuk:
​

Cheers for that. Both hilarious and incredibly useful.
[Galaxy S 4 General] zaki aziz:
mine also got some issues, but it can be solve each time i re-root my device.The only one thing still annoying me "freezing" everyday.
[Galaxy S 4 General] buffblueyes:
I have the same problem but it only started happening after the last few updates to my S4 and I use a SanDisk class 10. I had never had this problem before the updates then all of a sudden it's a constant thing and I keep all my apps on my sd card so when it happens then my apps are useless until I restart phone etc
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joplin48:
Hi

Lots of people are upset that there isn't a S4 32GB in Canada.

I just got off the phone with a supervisor from Samsung Canada(Hayden)

Call 1-800-726-7864 cell phones and ask to speak to a supervisor and let him know you want a 32gb version of the S4

Or go to this link right hand side voice of customer click on email and request a 32gb version of S4

http://www.samsung.com/ca/info/contactus.html

The quicker and the more people that do this will result in us getting the 32gb sooner than later.:good:

Thanks

Greg Joplin:good:
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnsi02:
Yes, I know there are multiple threads about this for various phones but none of that troubleshooting has fixed this for me yet.

I have a Razr M, stock. I haven't rooted it, nor unlocked the bootloader. Got it in Oct, and it worked beautifully, including GPS. Locked within seconds. Sometime during the first week of February GPS stopped working. It hasn't worked since. Inside, in a car, outside doesn't make a difference.

I have GPS status installed and it tells me helpful things like 0/22 with the first number always being 0, second number varies. I have used that app to reset the AGPS data and redownload it, no change. Also used it to calibrate the compass, no change. I have tried with Verizon and Google location services off (so just GPS on). I have turned off 4g using a different app. I have do a factory reset of the phone, and today used rsdlite to flash 4.1.2 stock.

I haven't tried any of the t/s that requires root. For example editing the settings files for default location and that kind of thing. I have done that the none root way. Turn it to airplane, reboot, reset AGPS, reboot. Make sure I am outside, turn off airplane mode. Wait five minutes. Growl in frustration.

I did drop it once, in approximately the time frame it stopped working, not sure if it coincided. I haven't blamed it on that yet because everything else works. Screen is fine, all the other radios work (cell, wifi, bluetooth), only way to notice it is a scratch in the case. I have assumed that GPS is sharing a chip and antenna with some of the rest of the radios, so their working would eliminate a hardware failure. Is that correct?

I haven't tried unlocking the bootloader and flashing a new ROM. I thought flashing stock would reflash the radio as well (.xml file has a line for modem). Is this correct? Is it worth unlocking and flashing CM10.1 just to try? I haven't done any of that with this phone, but did quite a bit with my dx, so I am comfortable with the processes.

Or do I need to bite the bullet and call Verizon about a repair, possibly not under warrenty?

Any help appreciated

JS
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandon71:
If your still on dead stock and your gps is not working I'd send it in for a replacement because if you unlock your bootloader kiss your warranty goodbye if if your gps problem was a defect
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dees_Troy:
Reserved!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yyhd:
wooooohooo!!! ty.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Proweedsmoker:
Yay!!!!!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dansan382:
niceeeeee!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] JBeXX:
Awesomeness! Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dutchy716:
Thank you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] justreboot:
Great news / That LOKI thing was killing me :)... (downloads as I comment)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] BladeRunner:
Works...like...a...charm

Thank you!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Made a backup. Has anyone tested restoring a backup?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
how long did a complete backup take you?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
A lot longer than I expected...between five and ten minutes. Way faster on my n7.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbh87:
I was just curious, but you have to remember that the stock ROM is 2GB+ in size so backups are going to take longer. It just took me around 10 minutes with compression enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] arcanexvi:
I was just going to say the same. The stock Sammy rom is huge compared to aosp.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Neuspadrin:
Yep. Another reason I can't wait to get some slimmed down roms.

Twrp installed great for me, super easy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 318sugarhill:
Sweet. I'm hoping to get a windows computer real soon. Looking forward to rooting this thing and making full backups.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mexiken:
Didn't work for me. When I run the script, it downloads the file, but then doesn't do anything.

What am I doing wrong ????

Update: Nevermind, looks like a reboot fixed it.

P.S. It looks like flashing this caused the "Custome" padlock icon to come back on during boot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
For me, too. I don't think that really matters functionally, though. Everything seems to work. Have not flashed the one ROM posted yet our tried to restore a backup.

One question, though. The default mount points to backup were boot, system, and data, but I read somewhere it may not be a good idea to restore the kernel. Any thoughts on that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] flyingcowofdoom:
It installed flawlessly, although the recovery doesn't seem to be able to get the correct date/time. My backup was created with the date 1970-01-02 06:26:45.

--FCOD
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] oC|-TiTaN:
So it's as simple as downloading from play store and running as it says in the OP? Nothing else as long as you're rooted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] shawnten:
my data partition is still messed up when i try the backup. i was hoping the update would fix this. it says my data partition is 1260058mb which is obviously not right so i cant back up data ever
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] swieder711:
I downgraded from 2.6.0.0 to 2.5.0.2 after getting an SD card error that said I needed to reformat. This happened right after creating a Nandroid in 2.6.0.0. TWRP 2.5.0.2 also has a much faster start up time getting past the splash screen much quicker. Thankfully I did not have to reformat the SD card since the error message went away after downgrading TWRP.

Neither version of TWRP is picking up the correct date and time. I am okay with using ROM Toolbox as an application to work around that problem. ROM Toolbox picks up the correct date and time and uses that information for the Nandroid backup name.[/QUOTE]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dmarden:
I've had no issues with 2.6.0.0 over various backups and restorations. No issues with date or time either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] leemsami:
[/QUOTE]

How did you get back to 2.5.02 from 2.6. I'm also having problems with 2.6 getting stuck
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Delakit:
Weird. I haven't had one single issue with TWRO 2.6. It's the best version I've used since 2.3.3.0 on the LTEVO. Or 4Ext on the 3D :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bizack:
TWRP 2.5.0.2

Can we get a copy of a flashable zip for 2.5.0.2 if we are having issues with 2.6?

That would be great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Here you go. I had put this up a while ago and here it is again. I added a mirror too !!

Download - twrp-2.5.0.2_jfltevzn.zip [MIRROR]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bizack:
Hey thank you very much.

I'm just not getting that warm fuzzy from 2.6.

I am sure that you guys will have it cruzin soon.

Thx again,

~B
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] paulg1981:
I am having this issue as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
I'm having issues with 2.6 as well. More than half the time it stalls at the TWRP screen and I have to reboot recovery one to 2 times to get in.

Reverted back to 2.5.0.2 and all is good again.

Thank you for this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bizack:
It was hanging for me aswell. Then i wated and it finally came up. Its just not polished. It was giving me 1 out of 0 zips...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] macravin:
where can I get 2.6? There's no download for it on the OP...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gonzlobo:
Not sure I'd load it after all the problems I've read about in this forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
GooManager but I would suggest not installing this version. The older version is more stable

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
The Nexus 7 of 2.6.0.0 had issues, too. Permissions problems that a member of the community fixed. Wonder if there is something similar here?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] NiteQwill:
2.6 led to me to a bricked phone. It worked 2 or 3 times then BAM! Couldn't boot anymore.

I got the infamous "password screen."

Had to revert back to stock via odin, re-root, restore from nandroid.

I've learned that there is no reason to flash a new recovery if the existing one is working just fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] swieder711:
I used the 'all in one' tool found on xda. It has an option to install 2.5.02
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Delakit:
Still can't believe all of these problems everyone is having. I haven't experienced a single issue with 2.6. Maybe because I installed it twice in a row before using it. Who knows.

...sent from my SCH-I545 ME7 Rooted using xda app-developers app
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
Not sure if this could have anything to do with it but normally when installing TWRP through goo manager I have always got a box to confirm your device.

I did not get that this time, I even installed it again and the same thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] reebz:
I had an issue a few weeks ago and have a question. I have TWRP 2502 and tried to restore a backup of HyperDrive. I restored from a backup I had on my

ex-sd(32 g) card and got the "successful" screen. I rebooted system, but it would only reboot to the stock recovery screen. I'd have to power down and restart with same results. I was able to get back to TWRP via power and volume up/down(can't remember which at the moment), and was able to restore my stock rooted ROM that is on internal storage with no problems. I was wondering if there was an issue restoring backups from ex-sd cards? I didn't format card when I inserted it. Is there a certain way I need to format the card before I use it? Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ookees:
I was having problems with 2.5.0.3 then I went to 2.6 and I haven't had any of the same issues. Seems a lot more stable to me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] rdefino:
Having issue install latest TRWP from Root and recovery all in one tool.

I had CWM installed and I reflashed the stock recovery that booted fine. Then I used the latest all in one tool to flash TWRP and I'm getting this error:

LOADING FILES AND PREPARING TO SEND

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

2611 KB/s (8219136 bytes in 3.073s)

Doing the hard stuff.............

Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

/dev/block/mmcblk0p21: cannot open for write: Permission denied

Almost finished.

Finished rebooting into TWRP Recovery

Have a Nice Day!

Press any key to continue . . .

Any ideas on how to get trwp installed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 00negative:
Tried goo manager? Or you can use ROM manager to install twrp if you have the file already
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jrkruse:
Revert Back to 2,5.0.2

If anyone hates the new 2.6.0.0 like I do I cant stand the hangups when booting into recovery this worked fine for me but I take no responsibility if it bricks your phone. Here is a flashable zip of 2.5.0.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
I'm with you on this one, that's the same one I used.

Works like a charm :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] asianrage:
How do I flash this? You can't update TWRP while IN TWRP, right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dmarden:
You can.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Yep. You can even boot into recovery directly from an image file on your pc using fastboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Not on the vzw version. NO NOT FASTBOOT OR ODIN recovery.IMG into place.

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Did not realize that. First Sammy device. Can do it on everything else I have.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Boot loader is locked. Upon initial release you could flash a prerelease boot loader to allow motochopper to do its thing and gain root. Then flash back to the proper boot loader, then use too manager to install twrp. Even that is blocked now on the newest build.

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] brizey:
Understood...wasn't thinking it through. Locked bootloader= no alternative recovery, duh. Loki kind of lulls you into complacency. My derp.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] asianrage:
Did it. Thanks

---------- Post added at 03:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:56 PM ----------

Thanks for your suggestion though. It's definitely getting harder with Samsung.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] robwege:
i installed twrp 2.6 and I cannot get into recovery now. I get the twrp splash screen and it never loads. I need to downgrade back to 2.5.0.2. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
Look up...

Post #204

Sent from a Galaxy S4... Far far away.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] macravin:
If you can flash a prerelease build, what stops you from flashing the developer-edition bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
The device specific keys are different

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] andybones:
Worked great.

Thank you for this.

I just got the phone and loaded the 2.6.0.0 TWRP and couldn't understand if the hangs on splash were normal.

I've never pushed a recovery or boot.img to the phone using adb push on a Samsung phone, only on HTC, so this came in great handy.

Thanks again.

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Sorry to get off-topic, but basically the SG3 also had a Dev Edition, but basically sold 0 as it was unlocked.

If feels Samsung is now making sure we have to buy the dev edition if we want unlocked bootloader.

Which is fine, I'm sure my sg4 will sell quick since it's rooted, but the dev edition isn't even in stock for about 4 weeks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
Wish they would offer the dev edition in 32gb
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] abe_cedar:
Dev Edition & TWRP

Dees,

I wonder if for a dev edition phone we need a lokied trwp?

I also think that the lokied file would work fine on the dev edition. Correct?

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
As much as I like this recovery I cannot stay with it due to the date/time issues (1970, really?). I really cannot understand this and have not found any solutions. This just undermines my confidence too much.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Checkm8:
Hi I believe 2.6 has been out for quite some time now. I have it currently installed on my device and am experiencing no issues. The goomanager app is the recommended installation method as described on twrp's official site and that has worked for me. I hope this helps others.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dmarden:
Just reminding that he has stated a couple times that he is unlikely to see posts here unless you PM him. He's got a zillion of these threads and cannot watch them all.

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I don't have this issue with 2.5.0.2 or 2.6.0.0.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
Just flashed 2.5.02 again and the same problem. Had the same issue on 2.6.0.0 as well. I was having a problem with my SD card and was hoping that may have had something to do with it but obviously not. If not for this I'd like this recovery but fortunately we have choices so I'm not totally out of luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HowardZ:
TWRP has a setting screen where one sets the time zone, and a few other things.

It can take a few tries for new settings to stick, but this should resolve the problem.

BTW, Unix time is the number of seconds since January 1 1970. So this shows that time is set to zero.

Good luck

Regards

Howard
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
Understood, and I've been working with Unix (indeed at Bell Labs) since the 70s so the 1970-01-01 thing is familiar. I've tried the time zone setting multiple times. Is there some magic incantation - like set it, reboot, set it again, reboot, etc.? This really puzzles me as I know it's an odd problem - maybe just with my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HowardZ:
I had this 1970 problem and it went away. I don't remember, but I think I set the time zone several times.

The problem I have which still persists is TWRP often freezing after displaying the initial TWRP flash screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AliceBToklas:
Tried several times again and the time is off roughly 8 hours 50 minutes. For instance, it was 5:40pm here but the recovery showed 2:30am - not really sure if it was early or late. If I'm the only person having this sort of issue it must be some quirk with my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gadget!:
In the time settings in TWRP there is a setting for time offset, I can't remember exactly what is labeled but there are like 4 options.

Play with those and you can get the time close, I have mine within about 10 minutes from being accurate.

Sent from a Galaxy S4... Far far away
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] WhiteReign:
question

I had to use clockworkmod and I want to use TWRP like on my S3. How can I remove clockworkmod and install TWRP the right way with out killing my phone?

PS I did it to my S3 don't want to go there again. lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] swieder711:
Adjusting the time zone and offset let me get close to the actual time. Any suggestions on how to get the right date? This is actually a bigger issue as the backups say 1970.