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[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fresh_TD:
User error:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Sent from my S4 Active
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Dunno if this has been mentioned. Flame me if I'm wrong. When I was looking at the box my Active came in it arrived with SW version Ucuamf2. That night it immediately forced mf3 on me. I know MF3 is rootable with geohots exploit. But has anyone dissected the MF1 baseband designgears posted on roots wiki? Have we tried to downgrade and run root on that baseband then attempt to Loki, if I missed this I apologize. Just overthinking.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] scott14719:
LOKI will still not work. MF1 was the first test LOKI failed for.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Ok thanks must have missed that. Was gonna give it a shot.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Yep, Mr. Loki himself (djrbliss) confirmed that the Aboot had a patch for it
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Just have a hard time understanding MF1 was leaked before the phone was released. ATT must have patched it prior to shipping. Makes me wonder...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Yeah, you have to remember that phone companies pay attention to us. When we find an exploit we help them locate it so they can patch. They do this to keep the carriers happy so they promote their phones and for security reason. They probably patched right after loki was released and AT&T made sure it was set before the phone rolled out. Sad but true... We all had hopes that this sliced by but it didn't. Remember loki was mentioned on a lot of tech sites.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Ok i odined to MF1 rooted phone and tried to install custom recovery just to **** around. Obviously couldn't install recovery. So I reset phone with with Odin to be fresh. Now I'm stuck on MF1 no update available when I try to update phone.Any ideas? I have a TB back up so when I do get back to MF3 so I can have my phone to " my original state"
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] scott14719:
Oops...Nevermind... disreguard...all of this new firmware has me spinning around.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
I was originally on MF2 when I got the phone. A OTA updated my phone the same night to MF3. After GeoHot gave us root, I used TB to Back up everything.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] scott14719:
Yea, I got the threads confused, I really wish they would move the "Active" threads to their own forum or at least give the "Active" it's own sub forum.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Anyone know if there is a 1537UCAMF2 or 1537UCAMF3 odin package. I still haven't been able to update since downgrading to MF1. Any ideas on why? Att updater says software is up to date. Checked with Kies and no updates found. Has anyone who has downgraded been able get any updates? Sucks being stock on old firmware.

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I was able to find the UK version of MF5, I am downloading now, its over 1gb. Couldn't I technically use this package to update? I think I would have to unzip it and change some files from American version. If so what files would I have to flip? I haven't messed with Odin since my captivate days and im rusty. Any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
It will probably fail because ODIN will check to make sure it is for the i537. You can try but I do not think you will get anywhere. Also make sure that there are NO hw differences between the two before flashing. If we could just flash any ODIN package for our device we would get TWRP, and custom roms real easily. The write protection changes everything.

I have no heard of any updated ODIN packages for our devices. Make sure you do not root until you are at your desired version because that may block the update or cause it to fail
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
Yeah that's why I haven't rooted or done anything to phone since the MF1 restore. Thanks for your help, if you have any ideas please LMK. One other thought is it possible for a stock MF3 user to dump there files to create a Odin flashable Odin package?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
ME TOO!

I will if I see a way. Not sure if anyone can help you. It would have to pass the ODIN checks so idk. Hopefully it will come soon
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
ok so I'm getting kind of annoyed. It seems I'm stuck on MF1 (pre-release firmware) http://rootzwiki.com/topic/44121-sgh-i537-i537ucuamf1-galaxy-s4-active/.

I downgraded to further investigate the possibility of a custom recovery.

Well now that I'm done playing around with MF1 I tried to update back to MF3. I have no success using ATT OTA update, or Kies. I'm completely stock, just says I am on current firmware. So anyone have any ideas?

I have downloaded the MF3 kernel source for our device, but I am no linux expert and dont know how to compile. Wouldn't help anyways since we cant flash custom recovery/roms. I also downloaded the Odin files for the UK version of our phone MF5, but I am to chicken to flash any of the files in case I brick my phone or lose any chance of rooting my phone in the future.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
Worst that'll happen is Odin will throw an error as soon as the flash starts and your device's partitions wouldn't be touched.

Edit: and I'm on MF1 too, who cares? No discernible differences
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
But you wont have all the super secret features that I have. I'm sorry for your loss
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] TwoStroker37:
I'm MF3 with root, google wallet (doesn't say unsupported device), factory unlocked with AWS on T-Mobile. That's all I need out of my S4 Active. I'm one happy camper.

Seriously thinking about putting it on ebay and asking $1000 lol
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] davidusr:
Took the plunge (pun intended) today and took some pics and video in the water. No issues, no water inside. Must have checked the back cover ten times before sinking it, then had a heart attack cause I never thought about the charge port plug, but it was good.

We were working on the drain at the bottom of the pool.

PH was high, so the water was a bit cloudy.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] firemedic1343:
We should start an underwater pic thread!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
there is already one

Can you do me a favor and tape a close up phone of your seal around the glass? I have gaps and I am scared to take it underwater unless someone who has the same type of gaps has and they have no issues
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] davidusr:
Took several for ya. Hope they help. No good lighting in my house.

Sent from my IP67 cert. rooted Galaxy S4A
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Dang, yours has the seal.. Mine is missing in parts. Not fair ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Ok well AT&T is sending me another replacement. I have the worse luck.. this is my 4th Active

1st bad power button

2nd not sealed right

3rd not sealed right

I hope the 4th is the winner. I will know Monday :) I'm sick or setting up my phone but root makes it easier
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] fresh_TD:
Can you post pictures of your phone to compare?

Sent from my S4 Active
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I have tried but it does not show up well on camera. My last phone would have been better to take a photo because the bezel gap was bigger. This is something that you would have to see in person. Image the picture from a few post ago without the little glue around it. If you look close you can see the top of the ear piece internals
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] davidusr:
I'm curious to see too.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
How do you know it has the seal? I can't tell the difference with my phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
You have to look really close and you will see this thin line of adhesive... here's a pic:

Mine does not have that on the top... Every where else but the top
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
Are you talking about the little gaps? Mine has 1/8" gaps is what I call them but they're probably not. I'll see if I can get a macro shot of one.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] yankeesfan714:
I have these. Hard to see but I used a pointer.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Yeah, I think most have little one but mine is over the full top of the phone. I think if it got exposed to water it would die quickly. I have a few small ones at different spots but that isn't my worry
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ShimaMiku:
You should pin this also to the first post:

If you register your S4 Active on Samsung's website, they'll send you an email coupon for 50% off all Samsung accessories under $50.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/account

I'm using it to buy the spare 2600mah battery and charger for $25 (and yes, it uses the same battery as the S4)!

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB-K600BUWESTA
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Done.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] _MetalHead_:
Wish I knew about this before I bought that battery/charger kit. It's awesome, but would be even better if it was only $25 :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] androitri:
Is Triangle Away working with S4 Active, I need to return this phone...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dew.man:
yes
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ShimaMiku:
Triangle Away only applies to an unlocked bootloader, which we don't have.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] strikeIII:
Does anyone know of a mod for the S4A that disables Screen Wake when recieving SMS/MMS notifications? I installed the Xposed Nottach mod but don't see an option for it.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] strikeIII:
Nevermind, I didn't realize there was an option is the Message settings to disable Screen On when receiving SMS/MMS messages.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ShimaMiku:
Nevermind. Come to find out, when you try modifying the system files (in my case, the boot animation), it gives you the dumb pad unlock.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Try rebooting a couple times, it went away for me and I still have a custom boot animation among other things.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
Never went away for me, but that's because I installed Nottach Xpose mod. Even uninstalling it does not remove it. :mad:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
Mine sometimes appears custom boot animation (gray), specially when I turn off the device.

Is there a way to remove it?

MIne is rooted (geohot) and installed some apps as cpu spy, set cpu, titanium, app quarentine, etc..

I'm still waiting for unlock code from sim-unlock dot net, is there any problem to root even before unlock from at&t? anyway...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] strikeIII:
I honestly don't care that the unlocked icon shows up. It's just on reboot anyway. But I think mine showed up as soon as I modified the system files to stop the updates and the ATT messages. I also had busy box installed too.

Sent from AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
That's true! Mine also.

Got an update from AT&T right after get root access, then accepted and device rebooted (don't remember if custom appears, I don't think so). After reboot root access persists and then I modified files. So custom boot shows up every time I turn off and turn on (when reboot custom boot doesnt appear).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] thatbigmoose:
If your phone can boot so far as to show that "modified" lock icon then you can also boot into download mode and flash back to stock.

Really no need to worry about it unless you're just super OCD
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dajabec:
Mine randomly goes back to official, even through a reboot but then goes back to custom once the phone fully boots back up. Then at some point it goes back to official. Might be because I renamed the updater instead of just freezing it.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] raydi07:
Great, all bloatware gone. Unlocked and on T Mobile with 4G and 4G LTE. All i have left is to figure out how to enable the 1700 band and find a t mobile wifi calling apk. Can we use the wifi calling apk from the s4?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
You might want to check out this discussion. It looks like somebody is already working on it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2302313
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
What firmware is everyone on ? I'm rooted but can't update to xx firmware
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
How did you unlock the phone? Did AT&T provided the code?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
Ordered through http://sim-unlock.net/simlock/Samsung/SGH_i537/ and after almost 40 hours later they did the code properly, works flawlessly at first attempt. I Recommend! Only 5 Euros (cheapest one I found).

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Can you gently do a list with all apps you took away. I mean, what you consider bloatware. Thanks a lot in advance!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] raydi07:
AT&T provided the unlock code after approx 1 week. I purchased it outright at Best Buy for my wife to use but it ended up being to large for her hands.

I deleted all the AT&T apk's like att drive, att update, etc, the yahoo apk's and then rebooted.

There is a discussion I am watching and have tried to add the 1700 band since there are area's where my Z10 picks up 4G but the S4A is only on Edge but it has not worked for me yet. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2291589

Right now I am on the edge considering selling the S4A since I use the Z10 as my daily driver and the wifi calling is already available if i upgrade to a leaked 10.2 OS.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
mine is build JDQ39.I537UCUAMF3 and the same modem UCUAMF3

rooted with geohot method
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Mine tooo. But I see that theirs an update to the firmware.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
where?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
http://androidcular.com/update-samsung-galaxy-s4-active-with-xxuamf5-jellybean-4-2-2-firmware/
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
Did you try it already?

Does root persists after update? If not, geohot's root works onto new fw?

I'm at work, will give a try when I've some time.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Thats exactly what I want to know
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
I turned off NFC but in the process (WakeLockDetector and BetterBatteryStats) shows the NFC Service is running.

How do I turn this off? Why is it running even when NFC hardware itself is off?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] echonc:
That update is for the European version.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
Do u have the changelog?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
yeah... it will probably fail in ODIN
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Haha yup it jus failed lol
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] sc0tty8:
Anyone have an UCAMF2 for Odin?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
I wish...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Isnt that the one in page 1 ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
no that is the pre-release MF1
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
After flashing that one cant u try updating ? And then rooting ?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
You can root but not update.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
I meant after u flash the one on page 1. B4 rooting. When u click software update it wont bring u to our current version ? Andbthen Root
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
No, it will not update
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] vdsvdroid:
Hi to All, I am newbie Android user and I really appreciate all the helpful information that can be found here on this forum.

Can somebody post the files ( .apk and odex ) for the original (white) Phone dialer , Contacts and MMS on S4active ? I would like to restore original apps, but the backup i made with file explorer don't work, needs to be done with Titanium backup or something similar.

Also, just a question, is there a mod to change the time for screen rotation from portrait to landscape or vice verse?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] paleh0rse:
Did you manually set the proper file permissions and then reboot after copying the files into system/app using file explorer?

File permissions are key. Set them to match the permissions of the other files in system/app.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
got tethering working
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jl449:
Details please!!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Bevoo86:
gs4 active water damage.

Hello all,

I recently started this phone.

Loving it. Every time I use it underwater it really does feel like I am dancing with death.

today I danced with death a little too far. As far as my knowledge goes the case was properly sealed. Ie all the clicks on the back were done and the sorry excuse of a flap was indeed shut properly. However the 30 seconds I used my phone in my pool yesterday from a depth of maybe a foot in the water, my phone received a solid amount of water damage. Again no biggie, that is what I got insurance for and sort of expected to happen.

The phone is working properly however appears to be in dock mode however the phone has no external hardware connected. This allowed me to discover the watchon apps ability to be in the notification tray (actually super useful!) But this leads me to my next inquiry/point. My lcd is cracked. Only slightly 2 slivers around where the spacebar is on the keyboard. ( it looks like a crack as it is fine pointed and water damage usually is blotchy or bar graph-esque in most cases ive had.

Upon ricing my phone anyways. I noticed that the lcd display underneath the glass was cracked and not only marred by the usual water under the screen problem which marred only the left portion of the screen from the notification tray to about 3/4 down the screen. For about 5 millimeters wide.

I was wondering if any users have experienced any damage like mine. Im assuming that my seal was not quite properly snapped somewhere again probably lower left by the looks of the damage.

pm or reply responses.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] greeneyez15o:
Delete tethering monitoring apk. Download any tether app. Vuaaalaa
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
I got Settings Has Stopped error...
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Blackberrynomore:
S4 Active cases and accessories

Just wondering why all of the manufacturers have still not released any cases or real accessories for this phone? I really want the Otterbox Defender case as I had one for my Skyrocket and it saved my phone many times. I had to buy a cheap POS belt clip holster just so I could carry the phone other than in my pocket which I hate doing. I am really disappointed with the support for this phone. I again may have made a poor choice buying this phone just like getting the Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE no support no accessories no fun.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
Didnt realize people were still having problems with tethering/hotspot.

If you do NOT pay for a tethering plan, and get the "call att...blah blah" when you try to use mobile hotspot, this is what worked for me on ATT:

First make sure you have a browser with root access.

Go into system/app and rename the tetheringprovision.apk to tetheringprovision.bak and do the same thing for the tetheringprovision.odex file, adding (.bak2) to the end. This is your saftey net just encase you want to revert back.

Now copy over the attached TetheringProvision.apk and move into system/app. Change the permisions to rw-r-r and reboot.

You now have tether....when you turn on Mobile Hotspot you will get a screen that says to call or visit att to enable tether...click ok, it will ignore the warning, and turn on wifi hotspot... :)

The first time a new computer connects to the phone, it will take a bit until it finds internet access and then asks you the standard "Is this public or private connection"

After that, you should be good to go,
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] strikeIII:
Yeah, you might want to exchange it for the S4 if you want all the "Fun Stuff".

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Thanks, this is definitely a different approach from what I've seen in other threads. All the other threads just say to freeze or disable TetheringProvision from the Applications Manager or by using Titanium Backup. I've also used the Xposed Nottach option which also works pretty good. I get a settings error once in a while still but Tethering stays connected when it closes out.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
Apparently this is from Nottach himself :)

The link I got it from here:

http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-tutorials/how-to-wifi-tether-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337/

sends "Credits/Thanks" to XDA at the bottom and brings you right to Nottach's thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2257190

So it may be doing the same thing as the Xposed that your running :)

I have never tried the simple "freeze it in titanium" approach.

Wonder if that works just as well?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
I did exactly what you said and when I turno on the toggle called "Mobile Hotspot" it gives me a message: "Mobile data is not available or invalid SIM"

any ideas?

In time, how can I take a screenshot on S4A i537? I did a search and can't find it anywhere on this thread.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
hold power + home
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
Are you on ATT?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
No I'm not.

Mine is unlocked (sim-unlock dot net)

I'm brazilian, Oi telecom
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
thats your problem this is for AT&T only :(
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] rafael_mfr:
Got it. Thats no problem, device is awesome anyway.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] dudeicon:
wifi tethering

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43273674&highlight=tethering#post43273674
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] vdsvdroid:
I asked few pages back if somebody can post backup from original ( white ones) Phone, Contacts and MMS apk. I just want to restore to original app.

My S4 active is rooted, on current (black) Phone, Contacts, MMS I have all permissions set right , I just want to get the original apps, because with modded ones the "Favorites" tab in Contacts app do not work.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
My favorite tab works perfectly with the dark contacts app... are you sure you installed it right and deleted the odex files?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
What file names do you need and where are they stored at. I'll gladly send them to you.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Secphone.apk and sec contact . apk from system/app
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] strikeIII:
Mine works fine too. Make sure you rename or move the odex files too, not just the .apk

Sent from AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] skeppley:
Try these for stock dialer.

http://db.tt/4U5q1bKE
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] vdsvdroid:
[MENTION=303314]skeppley[/MENTION]

Thank you for those files.

[MENTION=4315861]joshuadjohnson22[/MENTION], i installed them several times, can you check if you can add or remove contacts from "Favorites" tab when you start phone app, and which .odex files you deleted?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] joshuadjohnson22:
Don't forget to reboot after you deleted the odex. Pretty much on a reboot your apk will re-odex to the new apks. The reason you have to delete those is because it has the old apk odex. Once deleted on reboot it will say "Android is updating X of 2"

If I long press a contact and do the add or remove from there it works. If i hit menu remove from list it crashes. Simple work around. Or add/remove them from https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts