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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluegender7DoD:
Hi I'm having trouble figuring out what I should do about this:

I broke my S4 screen to the point that it won't turn on nor will the digitizer work. the phone turns on and loads into android and everything, just no screen functionality

all I want is to be able to use a screen casting program on it to make a couple backups of some apps and transfer them out to my computer so I can use them on my new phone

I have been reading around and I found that I need to have ADB enabled on my phone which it is not. I read in several places that I need to flash a kernal with adb enabled but I have no idea where to find that kernal. I am rooted with TWRP and Cyanogenmod installed

Please help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] reilus:
Google Text to Speech installs, again and again, after every reboot..

So, I tried installing other applications -- after this problem started -- and nothing is wrong with them. But, after every reboot, Google Text to Speech needs to update in the play store. How can I fix this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
Are you rooted? If so uninstall it, go to system/app or system/priv-app and delete the apk, reboot and download it from the play store and should quit
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] reilus:
Thank you; when I look in my system/app and system/priv-app, I can't find it under Google or under Text-to-Speech... I ran a search string for "speech" using RootExplorer and no dice there either. The only thing I found were two .so files:

/system/priv-app/Velvet/lib/arm/libgoogle_speech_jni.so

/system/priv-app/Velvet/lib/arm/libgoogle_speech_micro_jni.so

If I install it again, the same thing happens...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
Look for tts
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] reilus:
Nothing in either directory, but I ran a search and found a /system/tts but no apks in there...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ashwinmudigonda:
I had this trouble. I ended up manually downloading Gmail from APKmirror and installing it. After that, the next update to TTS was legit, and the problem disappeared.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] reilus:
That's interesting, I think this ROM removed gmail... You think that could be the problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PanchoPlanet:
Sounds like porn. Lol.

Pp.:sly:

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Your using ancient Odin, you should be using 3.07 or better.

Look up Chainfire in original development and d/l Cfautoroot that will fix your wagon.

Pp.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] somedudeouthere:
cm-11-20141112-snapshot to Lollipop

Hello - I am using the above version of Cyanogenmod and would like to upgrade to Lollipop. My questions are:

1. Is there anything special to do to go from CM 11.12 to Lollipop or simply wipe cache, flash, and reboot?

2. And what is a good stable version for Lollipop (is it JFLTE-GPE-5.0.1)?

Thank you for your patience and help!!! sdot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluegender7DoD:
Can someone please answer my question. I don't mean to be pushy, it just seemed like everyone skipped over it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
1. You'll need to do a clean install. You'll find the exact instructions in the ROM thread itself.

2. I found GPE and TW Lollipop to be stable. So you'll need to decide which ROM suites you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] legaylord:
Help unrooting and installing OTA

Hi,

A while back I rooted my M919V using Odin and had SuperSU and everything.

Android Version: 4.3

Baseband Version: M919VVLUEMK5

Kernel Version: 3.4.0-2139049 se.infra@SEP-116 #1

I didn't install any custom recoveries and never got around to doing anything with my root access, so I decided to try to unroot the device. I used triangle away and reset my counter to 0 and updated SuperSU. I used the full unroot method, but it wasn't finishing and hung a few times, so I tried to reinstall it from the play store. After that, when I try to start SuperSU, the binaries aren't found and it seems I lost root access.

How can I procede from here?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
What exactly is your question here how to root again or how to unroot?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] somedudeouthere:
Thank you so much. I guess a clean install is just wiping the cache and a factory reset? I have a sim card in my phone, would that makes a difference?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
No, it won't.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] legaylord:
Sorry it was how to unroot so I can download the OTAs. When I try downloading the OTAs it is still saying the device is modified.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Flash the full firmware through Odin. You'll be fully unrooted.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] legaylord:
I flashed the 4.3 firmware from the sammobile site through Odin, but I still get the message that my device is modified.

I've tried flashing the firmware again and doing a factory reset, but under settings the status is still custom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
Just bought a used S4 to replace my S 4G ( which I've used with several different ROMS sucessfully over its time), and updated to NK2 baseband, rooted & installed TWRP.

Tried a couple ROMs , but they're all having issues, constant reboots etc. Someone mentioned that I'm on the wrong baseband

for the particular ROM (needed NH7 for one)

Stupid me, I assumed that "newer is better" like software, such is not the case.

So which Android ROMs are compatible w/ NK2 baseband? Is it for LP only?

Some of the ROM OP threads mentioned which baseband is needed, but others don't , or at least it isn't made clear to me.

Just looking to have a great experience with this new phone, have had it a week & still not able to use it.

Thanks for any help here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
You'll get that message if Knox is tripped.

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For T-Mobile Galaxy S4 NK2 is the latest baseband so you're good there. As far as ROMs are concerned it's a personal choice and you would need to try to find out what suites your needs. You can also flash ROMs meant for I9505 as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
No. Thats actually the flash counter. Reset flash counter with triangle away and it'll go away
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
OK, finally after trying several ROM/kernel combos, I was finally able to get (at least so far) a stable phone. Turns out the stock kernel works best on mine.

But now a new wrinkle. My SD card is showing mounted and available in the phone, but I cannot d/l anything onto it. I had partitioned it to have an ext4 part to use with Link2SD, created & formatted using MiniTool Part Wiz. It's a 64 GB Sansa. I can see it in ES File Explorer, I can read it inserted on my PC, but I can't save anything to it. I've reformatted it again, just to make sure but no joy. If it was corrupted, I assume I wouldn't be able to read or access it. Tried Googling this, but haven't found anything matching my scenario.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PanchoPlanet:
Downloading directly to external sdcard?

Don't know about that because all downloads usually go to emolated/0

which is internal, you can move apps to external sd, and you can setup to save images to external sd, so what's the problem.

Could be the custom rom itself.

Pp.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
Well, I may be wrong about that, however the issue is that initially, I am able to d/l a book from my DB account to the phone, and FB Reader open it & off I go. FB saves it in one of it's folders. But once I close the reader & try to open it again later, it gives me an error msg about the file location no longer exists.

After trying 3 ROMS and 5 kernels now, I'm thinking that it is a hardware issue, perhaps power switch is getting dodgy as several have suggested, with all the RB and partial RBs it is doing.

At this point, I just need to try & get it back to pure stock KK 4.4.4 like it was and send it back.

Last update: Got the phone Odin'd back to stock 4.4.2, then the OTA upgrade to 4.4.4. It is definitely the phone & not the custom ROMS, as it continues to reboot itself at every opportunity, pointing to a faulty power switch as the likely suspect.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pauquiamco:
baseband

M919UVUFNB4 on CM12.1 do I need to upgrade? My LTE is slow. Sorry I'm new.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
You can if you want to
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
A Q regarding flashing baseband FW, when I first got the phone I odin'd from NH7 up to NK2. After I had all my phone issues, I odin'd it to NB4 successfully, even though I've read elsewhere that you can't "downgrade" to a lower version. I assume NB4 is older than NH7, which is older than NK2?

So what is the story regarding versions?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pauquiamco:
What is the latest version? I'm really confused, I can't tell which one is the latest.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
The most recently released is NK2

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SGH-M919/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
Faster download

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2816508
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pauquiamco:
Thank you!

I have the MDL version right now. All i need to do is odin nk2, root, custom recovery, and flash back my current lollipop rom? Do i still need to sim unlock? I am using a carrier from the philippines. :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
Yes.

And no. Once you Sim unlock nothing you flash can affect it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pauquiamco:
Thank you so much! :good:

update:

RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING

Set Warranty Bit : recovery

what does this mean?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
That's normal. Just saying it's not the stock recovery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] GameX2:
I actually never understood the logic behind SIM unlocking, for some reason, and I'd like to figure this out, please;

I once unlocked my LG P500 by paying 11$ for an unlock code, and I just unlocked my Galaxy S4 few weeks ago, using the free offer by Sammobile (King's day, for 24 hour only.http://www.sammobile.com/2015/04/27...-free-on-occasion-of-kings-day/#comment-66794).

I figured out nothing you can flash can modifiy a unlocked state or not, otherwise we could just restore a Nandroid Backup with a SIM unlocked, to unlock our previously locked phones for free, would be ridiculous.

But I never figured out WHERE in the phone the "Network unlocked" information is stored ?? I have no idea about LG, but regarding Samsung, informations could be in EFS, but even then, you can't just write stuff in EFS and unlock your phone so easilly, while people do sometimes manage to find loopholes to unlock a phone for free using root (Did this once with a different phone, worked).

Why can't we just figure out where the SIM unlocked info is stored (Which partition in case of Samsung devices?), and what prevent us from restoring an unlocked Nandroid Backup to this special partitition (Well, such partition, wonder what it is, is obviously unlisted in TWRP/CWM. But why not? What would prevent us from writing to it using root (That being probably really dangerous)) ?

Obviously I'm asking this knowing it would be extremely hard to do / impossible, so that's why people never did this. But I just wonder, what makes this impossible.

Thanks for explaining this to me a bit. Looked around for infos but somehow didn't found much :/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] karansa:
Sorry. I dont know?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] hotshot247:
I'm using the metropcs version of the galaxy s4 which is SGH-M919N and i know them and t-mobile merged and i went to Samsung-updates.com to find my stock rom but i didn't see it, i seen the t-mobile one (SGH-M919), will that work since they merged? Also, I just got my s4 and was wondering if I have to unlock the bootloader before I root it? I don't know much about locked bootloaders but i'm not a noob at modding android devices, i've been modding tablets for a while now so I understand all of the terms. Thanks in advance for the help!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Check sammobile.com to check for the latest firmware for your device. Also just because T-Mobile and Metro PCS merged doesn't mean that SGH M919 firmware will work on SGH M919N.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] hotshot247:
Yea, i didn't have a good feeling about using the t-mobile one so i wasn't even considering it. thanks for the other link, i forgot that they had two sites to get firmware from
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluegender7DoD:
Reposting because no one responded.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
There's actually a guide in the general section to unlock our s4 ourselves for free.

But honestly I don't know which partition. Educated guess would be the carrier partition which is /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 but honestly could be wrong since I have no clue
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bhaska:
Flashing I9505 FW on to SGH-M919

Can the I9505 Lollipop Stock FW be loaded on to SGH-M919, using Odin? Has anyone tried that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] hotshot247:
Do i need to unlock the bootloader to root my s4 (SGH-M919N)? I don't know much about locked bootloaders
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
No and please don't try unless you want your phone to turn in paperweight [emoji14]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] GameX2:
Thank you. I did saw the guide for unlocking the S4 for free but people said it could be dangerous and modify maybe reception quality, not sure. Well I wasn't ready to take such a risk (Or I did looked at, and it didn't worked on the Canadian variant. Not sure).

Did managed to unlocked a S2 for free once, using the hidden service menu and stuff. I actually don't know what's all the service menu is about, but heh, that worked. Look really advanced stuff.

I opened up DiskInfo, and the partition mmcblk0p29 is indeed labelled as "carrier". 20MB, unmounted. Make me wonder why TWRP and custom recoveries don't list this partition and some other at all. Maybe because it's simply useless to mount/backup, or it would be too dangerous to modify.

I might dump mmcblk0p29 and take a look a the content on a computer out of curiosity. If I'm able to open it at all, I would expect some hexadecimal stuff / encrypted I probably won't understand. Curious.

Thank you :)

EDIT: Dumped it - But I have no idea which extension it should be, IMG (Probably not - WinImage can't open it) or BIN or anything else. No idea how to open that, but if you know, I would be interested to know please. :D (I would suppose that the reason why people don't mess up with such partititions, is maybe because we don't have access to the tools to open them, which may only be owned by the carriers? Might be completely wrong)

EDIT 2: Having dumped my carrier partitition, while I do not know which file extension, another question comes to my mind: just dumped "carrier.img" (Or BIN?), and my phone is currently unlocked. What would happen if someone would take my dumped partition (Which network is unlocked), ASSUMING the SIM info is stored in "carrier" partition, and just dd it back to a different device ?! Crazy idea... Assuming both devices use the same carrier.

Would imagine it relies on the IMEI, for sure.... Which would be I believe in EFS.. And maybe it would be necessary to dump/restore more partitions for getting a SIM unlocked.

I would assume it shouldn't work a all and break the network or possibly even worse. That was a crazy idea that I won't attempt ever, but I'm just curious. Don't think many people attempted such crazy thing XD

Huh, or alternatively, right now I'm on Koodo network, so my dumped partition would work with Koodo devices. But what if my friend is on Bell, and I dump my Koodo partition on his Bell phone?! Would he get locked to Bell instead? (That's insane and can't possibly work simple as that huh - IMEI would also be related, and the radio/modem I suppose, as well).

But.. Doing that can't hard-brick (Or even soft-brick) a device.. Right? I mean, the bootloader and /System remains untouched, I would expect a bootloop.. even if this partition look critical. No idea. :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bhaska:
Forgot to mention that my SGH-M919 is unlocked. Would I still be facing issues?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] GameX2:
Deleted - wrong thread =/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
If you're planning to flash stock I9505 firmware through Odin on SGH M919, it's not a good idea and I won't advise it. Flashing a I9505 ROM through custom recovery is something you can do, I've done it multiple times without issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] betexino:
hi :)

i had flash cm , du 5.0/5.1 roms with twrp 2.8.4.0 but when i restor my nandroid stock backup all apk crash ans the screen is black

any help to get it work like befor !

yeah i had flash a KK custom ROM , then restore my backup (thé stockrom was KK) without issues
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Bhaska:
Thank you for the prompt response. I will be loading a custom ROM for the first time.

Can you kindly suggest me a good ROM for SGH-M919 and point me to details on loading it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Search online/YouTube and you'll find tons of video tutorials on how to flash a rom. Google is our friend. You can flash ROMs from T-mobile thread as well as I9505 thread. Please read the op instructions carefully before flashing the ROMs.

Also you don't have to say thanks, we all are here to help, just hit the thanks button [emoji6]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris.Ortiz626:
Question

Is there any lollipop based roms for the s4 but have the feature of unlimited tethering or unrestricted native tethering ? Any help would be appreciated I looked and I can't find :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Guatiao:
Hi all, I'd like to know how I can use Catlog or a similar app in identifying a troublesome app that may cause my phone to freeze, forcing me to restart it. It happens without any errors message, no specific app apparently is the main culprit, and rooting my phone and debloating has not helped.

Thanks in advance!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] preacherjoe123:
I have a rooted S4 and want to know how to get my WiFi calling on Cm 12.1 nightly ROM any help would be appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
WiFi calling only works on TW. It doesn't work on CM or any AOSP ROMs.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] preacherjoe123:
Why is that since T-Mobile released the source code for it why would Cm or the other Aosp roms not incorporate it into their software? Btw I'm not entirely familiar with the difference between Asop and non Asop ROMs could you shed a little light on that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
It's designed to work on TW ROMs only. You can search online for the difference you're looking for [emoji4]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gaurav gaba:
i m running my galaxy s4 SGH-M919 on cm12.1 NIGHTLY.... BUT on this exposed does not work..so i want to be back on stock rom... how can i do that... i flashed cm12.1 thru twrp recovery ....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] preacherjoe123:
You should try to find the stock T-Mobile S4 ROM somewhere then flash it through TWRP like a custom OS and don't forget to flash Google apps as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gaurav gaba:
tried that method...with the s5 official rom for s4...but wifi nd hotspot doesn't work with that rom...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
If you find a stock rom, odds are its already got gapps built in.

Flashing gapps over top of gapps COULD cause issues. Probably not. But could.

Its always best to check first
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] stdly:
I have a m919v with Android 4.4.2 unlocked and rooted also Knox is 0x1 can I install a stock 5.0.1 from sammobile with odin?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] preacherjoe123:
You should either use Clockwork Recovery or TWRP Recovery that way you can flash them from the device. I personally use TWRP to flash custom ROMs. As to the question of can you use Odin to flash them: there might be a way go to YouTube for information as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pitmanr2003:
Phone Is really screwed up

Ok so I think I really screwed up now. I have no data. When I Odin to stock then oden to rooted I installed twrp and restored my backup to gpe. In still on MDL modem. I want to put latest modem on it for T-Mobile phone that is on at&t Sim via straight talk. What is best route to go? Would it be a good idea for me to convert to i9505 firmware?. I even tried to flash to MD 1.3 stock rom and still no data. I think i need to start over i must of screwed up my modem when i oden back to stock MDL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pr1nc3ssbytchfac3:
OK use Odin 3.04 put MDL modem .tar file in pda slot. When it tries to reboot, manually reboot into download mode. Put MDL modem.bin file in phone slot, then manually reboot into download mode again. Flash the modem.bin file in phone slot once more. Reboot manually again. Then u can flash any of the updated modem files in the phone slot ONLY. You may have to flash the modem file twice to get it to stick.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] pitmanr2003:
ok where do i find the updated modems? and once i do that can i just flash GPE lolipop or would i be better off converting to i9505? thanks and im sorry im a little confused
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] stdly:
To answer my question yes i used odin to upgrade to android 5 without problem

Also cf auto root 4.4.2 worked on android 5
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] j21098:
I'm currently on NH7 using hispasian rom and I would like to try MD rom or the s6 port but they're using NK2. How would I upgrade to NK2 and if I want to return to hispasian would I be able to use it while on NK2 since it's NH7 rom? I heard you can't downgrade and if anyone knows what's the difference between NK2 and NH7? Sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure before doing anything. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] j21098:
Would lollipop TouchWiz roms from the I9505 threads work on SGH-M919?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lalec:
No. That's a different phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] j21098:
Sorry I meant I9505. Didn't see I put 6 instead of 5.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
You should be fine then. Read thru each ROMS OP to see if they specify which phones work with them.

Any models with similar hardware (Snapdragon 600) will work with most i9505 ROMS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jose6326:
Is there anyway to disable the wifi on my S4?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
?? Just don't turn it on?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jose6326:
i need to completely disable it from my son.

i dont want him to be able to connect to any wifi network
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] christoophat:
No way to turn it off permanently on the phone side, you might be able to set up a block filter for the phones MAC address in your router settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jose6326:
I did that already

i didnt want him to connect to wifi networks outside of my house.

i guess i will get him a cheap flip phone with no wifi lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] PanchoPlanet:
You will be able to when 5.0.1 becomes official for the S4.

As of now it's not possible.

Your only choice would be to flash a custom version of the international 5.0 with missing features like WiFi calling and S features plus modem and GPS problems among other things.

Pp.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
If the phone is rooted, just flash a international kernel. They don't support wifi and it will never connect
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jose6326:
thanks for the info but the phone is not rooted

but that is another route i can take but i am complete noob and i will probably end up bricking the phone if i try to root it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ben7337:
This is a pretty noob question, but I can't find any simple instructions or way to do this that won't take hours.

How do I update the baseband on my Tmobile Galaxy S4 running a custom rom. I think I need to plug it in and use odin or kies but not sure which or if it matters, not sure what buttons to push, and can't find a file that just has the baseband to flash. Can anyone help please?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] preacherjoe123:
Just curious why do you have the need to update the baseband?