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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jdegroot:
Good idea! Do you have a link to a trusty TW rom you'd recommend? I actually got the phone used with your 4.6.1 already loaded.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] roscoe08:
I would suggest sbreens hyperdrive or dubbsys blukuban port
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chaos2092:
I'm beginning to get rather curious about the possibilities of custom ROMs being built off of this stock base much like normal Touchwiz... I understand a lot of that is just debloating and optimization but I honestly feel as though I'd greatly miss a lot of the customization options AOSP offers, but the battery life is oh so tempting.

I generally understand development processes in general but know nothing about coding so can we ever expect something like this? I wouldn't expect customization as ridiculous as AOKP or where we can change DPI etc., but basic lockscreen editing built right into the ROM, hardware key edits etc. etc. would be a godsend.

Also, this isn't a request lol I realize Dubbsy is hard at work just getting this to work for everyone and keeping it up to date and I'm still considering flashing it, I'm just quite curious about the potential future of this ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ejhollyer:
I think we need a wireless network guru. I'm on the wireline side of things, not too versed in wireless protocol haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
LOL you bought the phone used and it had it on already? that's great.

I personally use a custom rom I made early on in my blukuban porting as my testbed. It's a mash up of synergy and blu kuban. I'd suggest synergy as a good solid rom to test things working.

I don't mind if people want to build custom ROMs off of it. But I'd suggest those people wait until things are fixed. No reason to swamp the forum with a bunch of ROMs that all depend on me fixing things. I already get enough messages, I don't need messages for fixes to ROMs I'm not even remotely supporting.

And like I said awhile back, if others want to join in on this development I am open to it. I already am bringing on hlx as his interest in this ROM and his mods have already been a huge help.

There is something I am clearly missing in relation to the carrier name. The signal bars shouldn't be a hard fix, I just need more time to track everything down. I haven't had any time today to work on android other than downloading the latest aroma package and briefly looking at it's updater information.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jdegroot:
Yup. He had already rooted it, but when he asked me what I wanted on it, I linked to this thread. In fact, this ROM is the reason I decided to buy the phone.

Do you have a link to that test ROM you use? I was also thinking it might be a good idea to install one that was very close to the one Verizon ships it with. That way, if I am still having radio problems, I can bring it to a Verizon store and try to make it their problem. I was looking for the stock Verizon ROM but was having trouble finding it on here. Anyone know where it is?

I really want to try to get this working. I got a taste of it over the weekend and it was working perfectly and now to have lost it is so painful. GPS locks are also taking a really long time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I can't link my test ROM. I won't post anything that uses another devs work without permission prior to me building it.

The regular Synergy is a solid ROM though. I'd use it as a stocker if I didn't have my Blu-Synergy.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbutler755:
Phone Unable to Boot

I have been running the 4.6.1 ROM for a while now and it is beautiful, fast and problem-free. Today though, I had an issue where I had to restart my phone. It wouldn't boot back up. I couldn't get it to load at all past the bootloader.

After a battery pull, I was able to get into TWRP, but it was asking for a password I never set. I tried my google account since it's a google apps for business but no dice. I had never seen the prompt before. I was able to hit cancel and it still took me to TWRP.

I noticed my internal storage was set to 0. I immediately though encryption may be on for some reason, but I didn't do it. I formatted using TWRP the entire internal storage and then reset my mount points. After re-flashing, the phone is acting normal again.

Has anybody else had this issue? It could be just my internal storage going out, but it's highly unlikely. Thought I would ask here to see if anybody else experienced anything similar.

Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening in the future?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Sounds like you somehow setup encryption. Do you have a kid that just presses things? Its happened to a friend of mine before lol

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jkbane:
Just want to say I am enjoying this rom. I love the look and feel of stock android!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbutler755:
I do have kids, but you have to get in the phone with a 6-digit PIN.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
That's really odd. I've never had any phone that I didn't setup ask for passwords for anything. And almost all phones that my friends got locked out of, I was still able to access recovery with no password. :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] budwizer:
I got this a couple of times when I was using TWRP. Just ran into too many TWRP related issues like that and hanging on reboots. Have since moved over to the touch version of CWM. Really hoping that a newer version of TWRP comes out that is more stable for me as I prefer it however for the time being CWM is working just fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Oh, I suppose I should say that after trying 2.6 TWRP I jumped back to 2.5.0.2 again. It works great with no hangups. And it's infinitely better than CWM's poorly laid out menus.

Couldn't stand the hangs on 2.5.0.3 and 2.6 TWRP though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mbutler755:
I've always used CWM, but TWRP was recommended to me by a friend and I love it so far. It's so nice -- if I experience the issue again, I will switch back to CWM. We shall see.

Thanks for the info.

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I will keep this in mind in case it happens again and just downgrade
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] heath2805:
Just curious but how did you downgrade back to TWRP 2.5.0.2 ? I have the file in my goo folder ext sd but tried to install via root explorer with no luck. Sorry to jump off topic :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Try this. Originally when v2.6.0.3 came out and was buggy I posted a v2.5.0.2 flashable and when 2.6.0.0 was released and just as buggy I did it again. It is nice to have any easy way to go back to a working recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43545596

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] heath2805:
Nice! OK now that i downloaded 2.5.0.2 do i just flash it in recovery? So use to goo installing for me lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Yeah, just flash in recovery. Simple flashes like this I usually use GooManagers flash ROMs option

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] heath2805:
Thanks appreciate it. 2.5.0.2 ran so much better. 2.6.0.0 is hanging up at the splash screen for me. 2.6.0.0 is like playing a slot machine just to make it in recovery lol

Edit: well after goo hung up at splash trying to flash, took 3 battery pulls and finally made it into recovery to downgrade to 2.5.0.2.... Smh
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] reinert012:
Pardon the ignorance, but what is the difference between this and AOSP?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HeroOfTime:
This is technically de-touchwizzed (if that's a word) Samsung Android. So it's based off of Samsung's additional framework overtop of AOSP. It isn't AOSP, but it is directly from the Google Edition S4. I hope that explanation helps. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ericerk:
This is built from AOSP but it has a bit of the TouchWiz Engine left for some touchwiz app dependancies.

Aosp with some proprietary samsung apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] reinert012:
Sounds sexy....think i'll have to flash this. Currently running an cynaogen nightlies,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
On the surface? This is virtually identical to a stock nexus device, meaning it is full of Google apps. AOSP would be free of gapps which would require them to be flashed separately but again very close to the factory software and ota packages Google would push.

The real difference between this and aosp is within the framework of the ROM. Behind the scenes where most users don't look it has most of Samsung's touchwiz frameworks, which is why for example the IR blaster works on this ROM. So this is really touchwiz before any extra software and theming is applied.

But again, the user experience is nearly identical to a nexus device and pure aosp.

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] an21281:
I had the same problem with 2.5.0.3, randomly hung on splash screen. Had to pull battery several times to make it boot to recovery and also noticed holding the volume up the whole time until it booted to recovery helped... Another problem was it hung a couple times wiping, or took a really lone time. Also had to flash back to 2.5.0.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
Well now my carrier name is all messed up again. This must be some kind if location problem. I am now in back in upstate NY coming from my college orientation where it was actually showing Verizon wireless.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
Hey guys, I've been using this ROM for about a day or more and it's been running pretty well. I've been getting some really solid results with battery life and performance on this phone so I'm stoked on that. Using it day to day, I notice a couple little nuisances which I wanted to bring to your attention to see if there are any fixes. The first two are the LTE signal bars and the Carrier name jumbled up characters banner that you two are very well informed of but the third thing I noticed is that when I'm in the TouchWiz camera app (the mod that was provided in the first post of this thread), if I hit the thumbnail on the top left of the screen to get into my gallery/view the picture that I just captured, it makes a notification sound but doesn't actually allow me to get into the gallery app...have you guys experienced this yet or know of any fixes for this particular issue? The carrier name and LTE bars don't really bother me but for some reason I'm being picky about this camera app/gallery fix haha. Let me know if there are any leads on the issue! Thanks guys!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HeroOfTime:
To get the IR blaster working, what app are you using? Are you sideloading the Samsung provided .apk and libraries? I was wondering if that would work to get it going.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
The camera was a quick build for those who kept asking for it on a daily basis. When I posted it I posted a general message that " not everything works, the gallery still points to secgallery, and that I will be doing no more work on the camera until I get both other projects done."

After that I'll fix everything with the camera :)

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] iDrift88:
I just downloaded WatchOn from the play store and it worked like a charm for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Here is the play store link for WatchOn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.peel.samsung.app

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
Sweet deal man! Thanks for the quick reply. I'm stoked on this ROM and I definitely see it be a very stable and well liked ROM all around. I appreciate all the hard work you're doing for us and I'll keep an eye out on the camera bug fixes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] heath2805:
WOW! Gotta say this beast fly's. Never seen this device so responsive. Great job Dubbsy!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] reinert012:
So if i was going to flash a kernel on this ROM, do i need to flash an AOSP one or a TW one?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
TW

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Crooke356:
TW good Sir.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
For those that want to play a bit with the included tunables in the kernel

Set your lo speed freq to 135. Hi speed to 2106. Scheduler to fiops. Gov to interactive. Tunables in interactive to 70 go hi speed load. Hi speed freq 2106. Min sample time to 90000.

Under extras:

Gpu screen off 200

GPU 545

Internal read ahead 2048

External 1024

I'd post my inits but they are a bit more complicated. Forgot I said I'd post my settings.

sent from my blu vzw gs4 :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] HeroOfTime:
Wow. Sorry guys. Just experienced a huge case of DERP! I didn't even check the play store for it. Thanks for the heads up. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
I just set those settings up let's see how much longer my ZeroLemon 7500 mAh battery last.:p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I think you have things a little misunderstood. Those settings will not give you better screen on time. But it'll be a lot snappier while in use. You should get better screen off time though.

I generally don't mod for battery. Actually... It's not generally, I just do not mod for battery life. :P

For battery life I'd change the governor to ktoonservative and set the hi speed to 1998 and GPU to 504.

sent from my blu vzw gs4 :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
I really don't care about killing my battery :D or saving battery LOL. I guess it will really test to see how quickly I can kill my 7500 mAh battery. :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Here is a battery mod I have been working on. Any body like it? Worth my time to make a hundred of them?

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
I think its a cool mod :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] roscoe08:
Freaking sweet I hate not seeing a actual percent
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
I dig it buddy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I like it

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ejhollyer:
I'd certainly appreciate it.

Also: I posted a while back about Factory Mode and FactoryKeystring wakelocks and battery drain and found the culprit: DashClock. It's a shame, because I love Dashclock, but I kid you not when I say my battery life has almost doubled without it. Not sure if it was a particular extension or the base itself, but if anyone is getting random battery drains from either of those, it may be DC.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] loldi:
So THAT'S what is causing those wakelocks on my device. Damn. I'm gonna Greenify Dashclock and see if it helps lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
On 4.7-71613-build2. Hoping to get to build 4 before I upload. Doing things systematically that way if I loop I know what made the loop.

Updated google music, talkback, google plus, google maps, chrome, superuser, permissions, updated google lib files, updater script to added the correct permissions for superuser, included ges4 light control app because I got tired of installing it everytime I flashed a test rom, updated kernel and ktweaker, updated carrier name lists to MAYBE fix the carrier branding issue(which hasn't been an issue for me before or now), update prop to read what GE version you are on to make it easier to ID version, and verified all google apps opening and working.

For v3 if it boots, update firmware files from the 9505 to the mdk i545(no not the me9, and I have zero plans to update to the me9 so don't ask)

For v4, cookies and magic
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshw0000:
I'm not a huge fan of conserving battery. I've got 4 Anker batteries. I do sometimes charge at night though.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I'm a huge fan of discharging batteries. :good: Gently sipping on my battery's juice when I have the fastest phone out is not appealing to me at all. If I had an HTC that I couldn't replace the battery maybe I'd be a bit more concerned about battery consumption. MAYBE.

I'm uploading build 2. It runs great. The firmware swapping worked but it's glitchy so I'm not going to upload that one today. Gotta do some work on blu today too.

Still no signal bar fix. Really, until it's posted in the first post...it didn't happen. So don't ask. :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gwallers:
Any luck on the signal bars with the new builds?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
Same reason I bought a ZeroLemon battery. :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Updated OP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sherdog16:
I see what you did there
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
About to flash this bad boy now. Looking forward to it Dubs! Do you happen to know if we can "save" our current layout widgets and apps on the homescreens? For example, with NovaLauncher, I can arrange my apps and widgets however I like, and then make a backup of that layout, then if I flash a ROM, I can restore the layout instead of manually moving the apps over from the app drawer. Do you know if this is available?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Backup data of launcher2 and then restore data on new install

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
I'm using TWRP...I don't see an option for launcher2 while in the Backup tab...any suggestions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Use ROM toolbox pro, or titanium backup, or carbon, or your preferred app backup tool. The app name is launcher2.apk you need to backup it's data in order to be able to restore it's data

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iskateforfree:
I uses TiBu. So all I need to look for it the launcher2.apk file and back that up?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
No you need to backup it's data. The apk doesn't change.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
Dubbsy,

With ver 4.7 as well as 4.6 I can't get Windows to recognize the phone as a device so I can copy files to and from it. It shows up as Samsung_Android with a Yellow Exclamation.

Y2J
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
What did you break? It works for me. :eek:

Try going into Ktweaker under extras and DISABLE samsung MTP then reboot.

If that doesn't work, reinstall the rom. The only one I've had mtp issues with was the test NoCSC build I did.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
Clean flash from recovery, didn't touch anything in any settings, wiped data, cache and dalvik before installing. I will try some things and let you know. Just trying to give you some feedback on the ROMS, great job by the way, do you take donations?

Y2J
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] joshw0000:
Downloading 4.7 now. I'll take her on a test drive tonight. Thanks Dubbsy!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
That's strange. Let me know if it doesn't work after you mess with it. Are you on windows?

And yeah I take donations. Address is under my profile or in the first post :good:

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
An update...I tried the following...Windows 7 and Windows 8...

1. Force Samsung MTP mode in KTweaker, I then rebooted, still have the yellow exclamation. Says Samsung_Android in Device Manager with Exclamation.

2. Disabled USB Debugging and now get Samsung Mobile MTP Device in Device Manager, but the phone doesn't show up in File Explorer.

3. Installed a clean flash of Pure and it works fine, the device shows us in File Explorer and I can copy files to internal and external SD.

Y2J
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
For number 1 mine is disabled not enabled.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Sidewind75:
I just Flashed 4.7 however i cannot find KTtweeker is it not added in this version?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
I just rebooted with KTweaker MTP disabled and USB Debugging in Dev Options disabled and it seems to be working now.

Y2J
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
It should be there. Bottom row of included screen shot

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Glad it's working! :)

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
Just installed 4.7 Thanks for the update. :laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Anyone that had the gibberish in the carrier bar let me know if you still do or not.

That's really the one thing I have no way of testing myself because mine worked before.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Exodus885:
I still have it :(

On a brighter note, GPS works for me now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] clapper66:
my is still gibberish :( would it be easier to just remove the carrier logo? or make a mod for it for now until it gets fixed to remove it? not a huge deal i would rather have my 4g bars fixed over the logo getting fixed. :p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
If you just want it removed make an empty file named eri.xml and put it in /data. Seems to work for me at fully removing network names.

But removing the network name entirely is not a fix. And all the things I've tried for the network name come out to about 1/256th the time I've spent on the signal bar fix. So really they aren't even comparable as far as time spent is concerned. :eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
Still have the gibberish as well. But my bigger problem now is I have lost GPS again on 4.7. Seems to be random, one flash it will work, and then another it won't...No satellites found in GPS test nor in Maps.

Y2J
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Is it possible that the 2 are a related issues? Seems on both, the phone is just incorrectly reading network stats

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] y2jdmbfan:
Very strange, just rebooted, ran GPS Test, and it was showing zero satellites...Got back out and went back in and set it by the windows and it is now reading all the satellites...Something very strange is going on here...LOL
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] cheeto:
Yea i find the pause when hitting home annoying, I enabled the navbar but it has the same pause and double tap.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
:silly:

potentially. Staring at bools and other various xml strings for hours is mind numbing. Latest effort is doing a compare between the ge and stock.

Oh and the "decompile all" command is beautiful.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Eloquence:
I am still getting the gibberish for the carrier logo also :( Anyhow, I'm gonna try that eri.xml fix just to get rid of it for the time being.

Oh, I was a total noob and didn't realize that the 4.7 ROM install wiped /data and didn't back up my stuff. So I'm a little bummed about that too. Any reason why you wipe data on install by default? Do you not like us to dirty flash [MENTION=5168775]Dubbsy[/MENTION]? Lol. That sounded funny.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Dirty flashing while at this early stage of work where I need reliable bug reports is a problem. It is a common misconception that system files only write to system. Many system files(systemui and settings included) write information to /data also. In fact, anything in system that has any options at all, write information to data.

But like I said to some others who wanted to dirty flash, open the ROM zip and delete wipedata.sh and rezip. Just know that any bug report you may have may or may not be related to the non-wipe.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Because I haven't built the mod yet to disable double tap recent AND enable the navbar. It is the logical step (with the recent on the navbar who needs a second inferior method), just havent done it yet. I might try and do that when I get home for you all.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I've successfully gotten a headache. It could be due to an ear infection coming on but it's more fun to blame it on smali and bools :P

Found plenty on lines that point to network signal. Are any of them the answer? Who knows. :batsh!tcrazyface:

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] loldi:
Is anyone elses MMS pictures sending sideways? Can't figure out if it is just something wrong on my end.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] edif30:
Take the pic in landscape mode. Boom.

It's a known AOSP bug.