yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] phrotac:
CWM Recovery is so inferior to TWRP Recovery IMHO. I will tell you how to fix cwm's blunder. First, move anything you wish to keep from your internal sdcard to your external sdcard since we will be wiping the internal sdcard). Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP installed.

1) Pull battery and wait 5 seconds before you put it back in (this will insure ram is wiped).

2) Press and hold the volume up button and the power button simultaniously and then release as soon as you see tiny blue writing in the upper left corner (if you have a non T-Mobile version then you may also have to hold the home button with the volume up and power buttons to enter recovery).

3) Enter the wipe menu and slide to perform a factory reset (this will also wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache).

4) Enter advanced wipe and check only "System" and "Internal sdcard" (be careful not to select external sdcard).

5) Slide to wipe.

6) Now back out to main menu, choose install zip and then choose install from external sdcard.

7) Navigate to the rom you wish to flash and flash it (if you have a kernel you wish to flash, press "Home" and repeat steps 6 and 7.

8) Once complete, press "wipe cache and dalvik" and then press "Home."

9) Go to "Advanced" and choose "Fix Permissions."

10) Reboot system and profit!

First, follow the instructions above. Your problem is usually caused by one of two things, improper wipe (something left behind by a previous rom) and/or is kernel related. I highly recommend ktoonsez kernels with a profile.

If either of you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask ;)

Good luck to you both!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] 4umexdeeay:
Thanks for the reply.

My phone is not rooted, so these instructions are over my head.

The permissions problem persists. ..if anyone can advise, it would be appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] phrotac:
Then THAT is your problem. KitKat OTA has known issues that our devs strive to resolve in their custom roms. I'm sorry but I don't know how to resolve your issues without root. Maybe skipjacks can help. He is quite knowledgable ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
I have no idea. That's the first time I'm hearing about that problem. I don't even have a guess, unless it's due to an install glitch.

I'd just move to one of the custom 4.4 stock based TW ROM's that likely have that fixed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Gentei:
How to save video's on SD card?

Hello

Have a little question.

I bought a Galaxy S4, when my iphone died, I also bought a 64gig SD-card for the phone.

Now my photo's save by default on the sd-card, but the video's I record the galaxy says it's being stored on the phone while continues recording is on....

but when I check the pad of the file it's leading to the sd card....??

So i'm confused here is it now on the phone or the sd card.....??? If it's on the phone, how do I change it to the SD-card?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
That is less of a question and more of a testament to how awesome you are!

As for the sd card thing, what version of Android? That will help diagnose it.

Custom rom or stock?

Stock camera or one from Google Play?

Also are you sure the files are ending up on the phone memory? Or is it just saying they are there? Are they actually on the sd card?

Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Gentei:
170956458345

Why am I awesome because I choose Android above the ****ty iOS?

I'm running the newest Android Kitkat, no custom rom, just stock.

Also stock camera.

That's the problem when I check the path of the image it says on the SD card but, i'm not 100% sure.

I'm 100% sure of the Photo's because when I put the SD card in the phone it said by default that photo's were saved on the SD-card.

But recording video's it said it wasn't possible while continous recording was on....?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] phrotac:
Accourding to Samsung, the external sdcard is not fast enough for coniuous recording. That's why it video records to the internal sdcard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
Yup. That was the reason.

Being stock might be your problem. See Phrotac's answer above this one.

Now on AOSP ROM's I don't have that problem. I can record video all day long onto my SD card using a CM based AOSP ROM. Now you do need an SD card that's got the guts to keep up with HD video recording. But my class 6 card does a fine job.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Gentei:
So basiclly turn off continous recording, and it will save it on the sd card?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] phrotac:
I don't know, but you can try it and let us know ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] baseballfanz:
My videos has always save to the extsdcard.

☞ Sent from here ☜
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] g0ldm4g3:
Hey XDA!

I have a quick question about recovering a 'hidden' folder that I can't find.

I recently just wiped my device and installed a new ROM with Philz Touch Recovery.

I looked through my photos and I can't find a special folder I had 'hidden.'

There's no option to 'show hidden content'

Is there any other place I can look? I backed up that particular DCIM folder from internal memory to my computer.

Then after I couldn't find the hidden folder in phone, I replaced the old DCIM folder to my phone's memory.. STILL can't find it.

Any help is appreciate at this point..

Thanks again!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gabcab:
No sound at all after rooting, installing CM

My problem is that i have no sound at all, all began after rooting the device, installed CM 10.2.1 and trying severals modem.bin for fixing the a wifi problen (wifi don't turn on), right now i can't make phone calls, have no sound, no wifi. HEEELLLPP

This is my first post, i'm a rookie.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
You will need to give more information on what exactly you did before all those thine stopped working.

I.e what boot loader you are on? Which several modem. bin you flashed? Also when everything was working what ROM you were using?

With this info people will be able to help more that they would with the current info you gave.

I also see airplane more turned on in the screen shot you posted. Did you try to toggle it? Just in case you haven't tried it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gabcab:
With the stock rom from Samsung (4.3.1 i tried also 4.4.2) almost everything was working, i only had the Problem with the WIFI wich don't turn on.

Modems i have used, I tryed several others that i already deleted from my pc:

modem_CWM_UVUAMDL

-- moden.bin

-- non-hlos.bin

Right now i'm trying

--4.4.2 Modem with cm11

How i can see my bootloader ?

Yes i toggle airplain mode and nothing

Thanks in advanced
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lalec:
In the S4, "sdcard" refers to internal storage and all your external storage (which is your 64GB card) is referred to as "extsdcard" so maybe that will help you. Another thing to be aware of is that photos taken quickly as in an action series will still be stored internally due to disk performance restraints so you will need to occasionally review the internal DCIM folder as well even when your settings point to external storage.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Since you were on stock 4.3 ROM I'm sure you have tripped knox when you rooted. Did you try to restore your back up? I think the issue is because you flashed the modem on 4.3 bootloader. I think going back to stock is best bet, you will need to do it through Odin. Please search the T Mobile forum on how to do that. I will certainly post a link if if find one. I will need to know which ROM/base band you are on.

You can get into download mode:

1. Power off the phone completely.

2. Re-insert the battery back into its place.

3. Press and hold Volume Down, Home and Power buttons, all at the same time.

4. Release the buttons only when the ‘Warning!!’ message appears.

5. Next, press Volume Up button to confirm that you wish to enter Download Mode.

6. Your device will now show a green Android with the ‘Downloading… Do not turn off target’ text listed under it.

All the best :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] gabcab:
Thanks for evreything
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] caloyzki:
hello im on tmobile s4, runing 4.4.2. but im still on MK2 baseband? where and how i can find the latest baseband that comes with official 4.4.2? im already rooted. thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Shynash21:
hello i have stock 4.4. I want to to install the 4.4.2 google edition rom by dan.

Please can anyone tell me detailed instructions on how do it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] baseballfanz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2678774

☞ Sent from here ☜
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] g0ldm4g3:
My Google Play Music has been acting weird when caching data. Normally, I would let the phone play songs overnight so that it can load up songs to the cache folder. Lately, even though I let a playlist run... It doesn't cache the music unless I play it one or two more times.. Even then when I do it, it greys out (uncache) other songs that were cached before. Has anyone heard of this problem or have an idea on how to fix this..?

Greatly appreciated

Sent from my SGH-M919
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JJGLive:
Rom help

I have been looking around for a while and can't seem to find any answers... Does the latest wicked rom v10 include the new bootloader and knox security???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
The new boot loader has Knox and the ROM OP says it's Knox free and MK2 base.

This means that it certainly does not have Knox as mentioned in the OP. I would search the ROM thread to find out about the boot loader or even post this question in the ROM thread or the q&a thread for the ROM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] JJGLive:
Oh, sorry must have missed the knox part. Also the mk2 base... I have a Gt i9505 but as the rom is in the t-mobile section I am asking here. Do I need to update to mk2 modem or what modem should I use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Goldbatt:
Bricked Phone

I need help guys, i think I may have bricked my phone. Yesterday I tried updating the modem on mobile odin. I put the bin file on my phone and found it under modem # 2 and I flashed it. It then got stuck on the start up screen. I then tried to use the PC odin to install the new 4.4 update to see if that would rectify it, it now get hung up at the tmobile page of the start up process. I was on wicked V-10 w/MK2 before all this happened. Is there anything I can do to fixed this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] baseballfanz:
Have you tried a factory reset?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] SheepReaper:
To perform the factory reset:

1. Reboot into recovery mode

2. Wipe your Cache and Dalvik partitions

3. Wipe your Data partition

4. Then reboot

Any reboot after deleting the caches will cause the boot process to take much, much longer than a normal boot. We're talking 10-15 minutes in some cases. This is normal. Once the phone finally starts, let it sit for another 5 minutes without touching it. Then immediately restart, don't do anything with the device after waiting the 5 minutes other than restarting. Then you'll be able to use your phone.

If your phone still hasn't booted after 30 minutes, then it's time to start looking at how to restore your phone to stock using Odin. (not mobile Odin). After you're stock, you can try again.

2+3 are what a factory reset does.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluegreenandroid:
New to Android from iOS

Hello All,

I came into the Android community from iOS and my iPhone 4S after using an Android device for work. My first phone was a HTC One M7 with Android 4.3 on AT&T. Now my wife and I have switched over to T-Mobile and the Samsung Galaxy S4. I was set to root my M7 and now want to root the S4 having run into Samsung's imitation of I was leaving behind. I have updated to Android 4.4 and baseband M919UVUFNB4 and desperately want to root this device. I came to Android because to the wealth of customization available and iOS's lack thereof. What is the preferred method to root my device and then install a custom ROM using Mac OSX?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] SheepReaper:
I have wicked v10. The rom is fully knox-free. The bootloader is not part of the rom. Any bootloader will work including the newest bootloaders that are knox-enabled. However, if you don't want to have the knox fuse bit, you can still use your old bootloader just fine (if you're lucky enough to have one). There's really no reason at this time to upgrade your bootloader, unless of course, you want knox. A knox-enabled rom will not run without a knox-enabled bootloader. but you can run a knox-free rom on a knox-enabled bootloader. Also, you can't downgrade a knox-enabled bootloader. So stick with your old bootloader, if you have one.

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Here is an excellent tutorial on how to root the s4 on a Mac.

WARNING:

You have the latest stock firmware for your device. This includes the knox security suite. During the above process, you will permanently void your warranty. Knox is implemented at various levels including the device hardware. There is a bit-fuse that trips during the operation that will permanently flag your phone as modified. Even unrooting and flashing a stock firmware will not revert this. If you're OK with this, by all means feel free to continue.

Disclaimer:

I do not take any responsibility for any damage that your device may incur do to you following the above instructions. You are modifying your device AT YOUR OWN RISK!.

Also you may look on this thread, which has other useful information for beginners:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluegreenandroid:
Thanks, that site was informative. However, would that method work with my baseband version, NBK? The instructions seem to designed for another version MDL.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lalec:
I think you are correct. I don't know much about rooting with a Mac but if CF-Auto-Root works on a Mac it is by far the easiest way to root an S4. Have you looked at Chainfire's thread?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] futiless:
SO I rooted my wifes S4 with the Cyanogen N1 auto flash utility for fun and it worked until I got 920 errors getting apps and missed half of them (anyone else get this all the time is there a way to fix this. Seems like something everyone must get pretty down right peeved at. As in my case it floods in about 40-50 app 920 errors and then ceases to download more which makes for quite an unsolvable mystery as to what the other apps were better off getting none at all. Next I can't clear the 920 very easily as all the various ways : 1) phone reboot : 2) wifi reset 3) google services app data a cache flush provide no reasonable responses. Often the method is fixed by removing the google account entirely doing all three a few times and it come back online. In any case this is is a mess and generally leaves me frustrated with the finished product sometimes I get google play service and other errors and the play store ceases to function what so ever. The only reasonable response is to wipe and rebuild. !?! Why is there no fix for this after soo long ?

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The Other question I have and I thought I would just make it two because this is likely my fault somehow. But when the s4 is in power off charging mode it now just freezes with the white circle when charging screen stays on and when the cable is removed and the charging battery remains on screen /!? So I have to hold the power for what seems like 6 seconds : this can't be normal but I have tried 2 different recovery roms (CWM,TWRP) clearing everything including boot and loading a bunch of roms: NOTHING HELPS or changes a thing. where does this leave the situation. My wife is going to be mad if I don't put it back to stock I assume.. :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] buntobo:
I just flashed the 4.4.2 baseband for the MDL bootloader from shiamatsu: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2678774 and it stuck fine.

Was wondering if it was fine flashing any ROM like VirginROM or ViSiOn-X?

Would I also need to upgrade the version from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2 KitKat?

Sorry for the earlier questions that I had posted a few weeks back, I was still rather confused but now it seems like I have enough time to devote to the topic of flashing a 4.4.2 ROM on my phone now.

Also I am still on an 4.2.2 international ROM (the ROM was made for the international version of the S4), will it affect anything with the flashing process of a 4.4.2 ROM?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
You should be fine flashing Virgin ROM. I'm assuming that you have T-Mobile S4 since you posted the question here. You'll have to do a clean flash since you will be going from a TouchWiz ROM to a GPE (Google Play Edition) one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Toti2706:
CVyanogenmod Andrtoid 4.2.2

Da steht seit einer Std.Downloading Do not turn off target!! Aber das ist doch schon Überlänge?!

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Hbre mir eine kleine Lupe besorgt im die Schrift zu erkennen!

Ersten beiden Zeilenin grau eMCBurst mode enable

Write Protection: Enable

jetzt in weiss:CSB-CONF-IG-LSB: 0x30

Knox warqantyVoid0x1Knox KernelLock:0x0

Systejm Status: Cust5omCurrent Binary: Cust5om,Product NameGT-I9505

Letzte Zeile Rot: Odin Mode

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Hallo? Wer kann mir helfen?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
A couple of things...

1, never quote the entire first post. Ever. In any thread.

2, by posting in German you are significantly lowering the odds that someone will be able to assist you as this is an English speaking board. If you can translate that our ability to help you with whatever issue you are having would increase dramaticaly. (And we're happy to help! But I failed German miserably in high school so I'm totally unable to assist right now)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mamdroid:
odin

hello and good morning i was wondering which odin i should be using on my galaxy s4 there are a bunch of them i noticed right now i have odin3v185 and odin 3.07 will any of those work for a galaxy s4. thank you for your help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
There is an app on the play store called screen off and lock.

It will allow you to add many screen off animations, including CRT off. The catch is that it doesn't work with the power button. You can add a home screen button to make it happen or possibly reassign one of the hardware keys to make the screen go off using a different launcher.

Or you can flash Cyanogen and CRT is native.

Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] creesh:
Ok so I tried it today with the md5 and it was matching and everything was cool with the rom. As soon as I try to flash the rom it fails. Then I cant boot normally. I have to do a nandroid flash in order to get my phone back to normal. I dont know why ir is doing it. I will try to unroot it and flash the stock rom at home and will start all over again :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
I read somewhere that lots of people are having problems with the latest Infamous update. So you probably aren't doing anything wrong. It may just be a bad update.

Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] creesh:
Yea well I understand but I have tried 2 roms so far. The wicked rom v4 and infamous s4. Both of them have failed. I dont believe its the rom but something else. I dont know what to do beside to re-root the phone and flashing the stock rom and trying again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Biker1:
Start from scratch and dl the Firmware, then do what you have to do to get set-up to flash the ROM again.

Hopefully things will mesh ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skipjacks:
The fact that you nandroids work but clean installs or updates don't is baffling.

You did try a full wipe before installing Wicked right?

Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] creesh:
Yes I did a full wipe. After the nandroid, I have to factory reset my phone to factory settings because the nandroid is not loading everything completely . I cant say that its flashing the nandroid backup the way it should.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Toleraen:
Sorry I haven't been following the thread, but it sounds like something that happened to me before. Odin the full stock image, odin cwm/twrp, and go from there. That'll make sure everything is 'as it should be.'
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] creesh:
Yea I will try that tonight since everything else is exhausted. Thanks for the help guys
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Soldier 2.0:
OK, I've been searching all over. I flashed the 4.3 leaked ROM from sammobile and I cannot mount neither SD card to the computer or open MX Player or Modern Combat 4. Please someone point me out in the right direction.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Toleraen:
Can't comment on the apps, they might not be 4.3 compatible. SD card will have to be formatted as FAT32...guides here
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Soldier 2.0:
It's kind of weird that only some apps do not work with 4.3, but it makes sense. I do all my gaming on my Nexus 7 anyways.

So the external sd has to be FAT32. I did not know that. That's an easy fix, but why are we able to mount the internal storage on TW ROM but not on GE ROM?

Sent from my GT-I9505G using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Toleraen:
TW Roms come with exFAT support, which is probably how you're formatted right now. exFAT is licensed by various manufacturers from Microsoft, and isn't something AOSP can (choses to?) support in their kernels without paying for the license.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Soldier 2.0:
I was able to mount all my previous smartphone to my PC, that's why it doesn't make sense to me. All I want to do is move movies from my PC to my internal storage.

Sent from my GT-I9505G using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Toleraen:
Ack, my apologies! I read your above post incorrectly. Ignore all the exfat stuff, i thought you weren't seeing the sdcard at all!

The ability to mount your sd cards through your PC (USB mass storage) was removed in favor of using MTP. I believe there were mods on the SGS3 to get this back, but I haven't seen any for the SGS4 yet.

You should still be able to connect your phone and drag/drop files to both sd cards. On Windows 7 it mounts as a portable media player under Portable Devices. They just don't have drive letters associated with them. If you're not getting this with your phone I'd recommend uninstalling and then updating to the latest Samsung drivers. It looks like you can get them here, although I can't verify that site.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Soldier 2.0:
You Sir have made my night. I will look into this and report back. The phone is not showing at all on the PC. If I flash stock, it shows both cards.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2

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Confirmed. It works! Thanks again brother.

Sent from my GT-I9505G using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] sofakingpimp:
In regards to your second question upload your books to your Amazon/Kindle account then you can download them through the app itself. If you use multiple devices this has a second benefit it syncs your progress with the other devices.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] creesh:
Hi Guys,

I finally installed the wicked ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S4 M919V with no issue.

Steps i have taken:

Flashed Stock Rom back to original ---> Flashed CWM Recovery, installed Superuser ( Rooted ) ---> moved the ROM into my internal SD ( not external ), --- >> Installed Rom Successfully.

After many failures....finally installed a ROM that i wanted.

Thanks everyone for your guidance and help :)