yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] NICEGYPT:
Thanks buddy. I tried again today. It was working fine. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
lawl :eek:

nice! glad to hear it was a one off :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
thanks for posting. maybe ausdim will give it some love. i won't go to 4.3 unless he makes a kernel. otherwise we lose all the goodies that are in the 4.2.2 Kernel.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] norml:
I sure hope ausdim does too. Everybody and their mother are loving his kernel since it has come out, a lot of positive buzz about it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
server is getting hammered now. 3hrs to upload :eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] scorpio_bpl86:
new update coming ?

:fingers-crossed:

any major update or just adding wifi calling feature

appreciate you effort

thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] sofakng:
Yikes... that's definitely not good news :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
this changes depending on what you're recording...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] roblxskye:
I check the recording from 4.3ge with fps meter apk. And it was only getting 20fps on any recordings.I recovered the 4.2 touchwiz and recordings were 30fps Im sure there has to be a fix to this.is anyone else expericing this issue on 4.3ge?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
i've posted about this a countless number of times.

and that apk is wrong because it's a variable FPS. try MediaInfo on your computer for free...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] roblxskye:
I check with the program on my PC and it's also 20fps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Leontx:
custom slider targets

Hello,...Is there some way to get more option in the lockscreen settings?like assign targets(app)with the slider,not only the unlock one.thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
yep, if i code it in
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Love love love this rom. 3hrs screen time, 8+ total hours, and still 50% left wow!

GS4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Having issues upload image with xda premium app....

GS4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
i have issues with both tapatalk 4 and the xda app. every now and then one of them will FC if i try to check PM's. they're not the best apps. i think they're the only two out of the 46 i have downloaded that ever FC.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
Google Services got me recently because i opened Google Now. big mistake. i just uninstalled Google Search lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Lol. Funny thing. Google services got 2 of our GS4's recently. I researched my [MENTION=237736]SS[/MENTION] off on the issue and finally solved it. It's not gnow unless you have location reporting on. Turn it off and everything works fine even with gnow running. So I researched more. And more. Etc.... Finally found the culprit. Ya know in security settings where it says "device administrators"? In there is a recently added feature by Google called android device manager. It's an awesome feature and works very well....sans Google services wake lock issues! Uncheck it. That's it :) of course give your phone half day to settle once unchecking that feature. That's what worked for 2 GS4's like a charm they both no longer have any Google service or play service issues nada.

GS4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
that's never been checked on mine. i disabled all Location Reporting, though, and think that fixed it. i hate GNow man. i love what it stands for but the wake locks kill it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Ahh okay yeah gnow location reporting is just silly. I do use web history though.

I have an N7 and run gnow on it and it has never caused an issue, wakelock, nothing. Weird.....

I use it often on the N7, but just don't need all that info on my phone.

I agree the wakelocks if they're happening kills gnow, especially on phones
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
Video Review

hey guys, rootgalaxys4 did an awesome review of the ROM. you can check it out here

[YOUTUBE]2Oyr33PQWTg[/YOUTUBE]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] AngrySalad:
So it gnow and location reporting that's killing my batt so fast on this ROM? I loved it otherwise.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
yes sir. there's an app on xda called better battery stats. it can show you what's holding a wakelock. mine is always Nplservice/Google Services. or something like that. but it's because i opened Google Now. was fine until i did that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reignzone:
So, naturally being relatively new here; my first question after successfully flashing this beautiful ROM is... What alternatives can I use to mount the USB on my Mac?

I have looked into a few Marketplace options, but so far, no dice. :(

Kies via Wi-Fi has it's limitations from what I have gathered. Granted, I only delved into that for about 20-minutes or so.

Kies doesn't seem to detect my device, any longer. Meanwhile, beforehand... It was working quite well, and fully-functional on a TouchWiz ROM.

Otherwise, OP... All appears to be running buttery smooth, here. And I absolutely love the appearance of as-close to completely STOCK, as currently possible.

Thanks-a-mil.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
this could be a driver issue. it will be almost 12 hours before i'm back on a computer with Kies to test myself. may i ask why you're trying to use Kies?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] sofakng:
Is there any way to automatically disable the Wi-Fi Hotspot after a certain amount of inactivity?

It looks like previous versions of Android had this feature but I don't see it in 4.3?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
maybe Tasker? i'm not sure why this was removed with 4.3...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] oquinones:
Is HD Voice working for sure? I had 2.3 installed before moving back to TouchWiz because I couldn't get HD Voice to work. It said that it was on in the service menu but calls weren't going through as HD Voice. Would it have anything to do with the build.prop saying i9505G instead of M919?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darren.wlsn1:
have you tried to make Google Services framework a user app instead of system app? im not on this rom but i might be soon so not sure it works like it does on all other roms i have tried, saved me a ton of battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Pinan:
mrvirgina: *cough* Call Blocking/Blacklist *cough*

:) :fingers-crossed:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
yes. i posted in this thread previously of where Google had set it to false while on 3G. i have re-enabled this by changing it to true. if you're on anything lower than 3G, it's not going to work...

has nothing to do with the build.prop

yes, i have it installed in data/app

it's fine now. after disabling location services and just completely uninstalling Google Search, battery has been normal again over night with wifi on.

lawl i'll have to look into this. i ran into a road block today. i was working on adding the old lockscreen targets back to our lockscreen (camera/google search) and then went to adding phone and sms as two more but turns out there is no LockScreen.smali in android.policy.jar :eek: what i was looking at was part of 4.2.2. so much has changed in 4.3 that old mods are not completely compatible even if you're just trying to merge code...

rest assured, i'm working on new things regardless. i have an insatiable need to tinker :p

if there isn't a mod on xda where someone has added call blocking/blacklist to a ROM, it makes it more difficult for me to produce. i use what i have at my disposal. sometimes i'm able to "wing" it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darren.wlsn1:
on google services framework im talking about making it a "user app" instead of "system app" ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
when you say "user app" i think of an app that has been installed from the market which goes in

/data/app

when you say "sytstem app" i think of an app that is installed when the ROM first boots up in

/system/app

is this what you're trying to say? because otherwise, i have no idea what you mean lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darren.wlsn1:
user apps you can control and system apps you cant as in greenifying them so google services framework is at time very battery unfriendly but if you convert it to a user app it can be controlled using greenify app thus saving battery. help at all? (sorry)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Pinan:
They only other places (other than stock) that I've seen it are on some ASOP roms. Slim Bean and PA have it.

If that doesn't help, see below. :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
yes

data/app = user app

system/app = system app

google services is not an actual app that the user can launch and is therefore not something that greenify can "hibernate" unfortunately. i had google search in there but it made no difference. this is prob because location reporting was prob the culprit but i don't need search functionality anyway :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] darren.wlsn1:
im sorry its Google Play Services and that can be made a user app instead of a system app and then greenify, im sorry for my mistake.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] oquinones:
Well I'm on 3/3.5G in the same spot as I always am and I get HD voice on Touchwiz Roms but I do not on any Google Edition Roms.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reignzone:
I was under the impression that Kies was a more "simplified" way to more-or-less transfer whatever multimedia that I wanted, to these Samsung devices. I mean, because for some reason... I cannot seem to just peer into the device storage, to then drag-and-drop files onto the USB storage.

If it's a driver issue, and it isn't recognizing my device now, I'm wondering where I can track down the drivers for Mac. I've done some pretty thorough searching, but most everything points me to Android File Transfer, which also doesn't detect the device.

I imagine if I uninstall the drivers, reboot my Mac, then plug my S4 in, perhaps it will automatically download and initialize whatever installation needs to take place.

If anyone else has any insight, please feel free to pitch in. :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyute74:
Fitbit sync

May be an odd question... I can't sync my Fitbit via bluetooth with this Rom. (It very well could be user error on my part.) I was able to on stock and modified stock roms as well as another GE rom. The sync feature is an option on few android phones s4,s3 and the note 2 and with this ROM I'm not getting the option to connect? I'm wondering if the option is disabled and I need to remind the app that I'm on an S4? Maybe trick it in the "App Settings" App or the prop build?

Thanks..

PS.. Love the ROM. Clean, fast and unencumbered.

Christopher
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
it's possible it could be deeper than what i originally thought in regards to making HD voice work on 3G. i'll take a closer look and see if i can find anything else.

i don't know much about Mac's and how they work with Kies, nor how our devices work with Mac's. i do not own one. i have learned, however, that Mac's tend to be most compatible with other Apple products...

i especially know nothing about how drivers work on Mac's.

uhhh sounds like the app, to be honest. what other GE ROM did you try exactly? they're pretty much all the same in regards to functionality. different ones only add/tweak other things. i don't believe any of us are in the habit of removing functionality without providing a way to add it back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyute74:
I was on Jamesons. Like I said... it is probably just user error.

I'll wipe and reflash (or wait until the next release) and setup a new fitbit app from scratch then.

It just seemed odd to me that I had no option to sync in the app like I did before and thought maybe it was an issue with google play serving me up an app designed for something other than the s4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] guyute74:
User error - I should have read the fitbit play store comments. Looks like it's a 4.3 issue. Thanks for the quick reply Mrvirginia. Excellent rom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
no problem. that was going to be the next thing i was going to say since Jamison's is stil 4.2.2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
who's confirmation number is this?

5W2967414F059913P

i wanted to say thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Rcommander:
so do i have to install t-mob specific CSC after installing the rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Are you on tmo? If yes, then that's a negative

GS4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Rcommander:
I am using M919 but will be using ATT sim card
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
so are you saying you're on att's network? flash the att csc zip
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reignzone:
Interestingly enough...

It seems as if, when you DISABLE all of the location-based services, on this particular bit of framework, it drastically improves basic fluidity throughout the menus, within the OS.

Is that an Android 4.3, "issue"...?

Some form of strange, "lag" that is hardly noticeable, but is showcased while performing tasks such as, loading my text messages inbox, which usually houses 500-1,000 messages, at any given time, in multiple thread.

I've read in a few other threads that disabling those locations services actually does help improve system performance.

Any insight or confirmation on this, elsewhere? :good:

EDIT: I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestions for improving signal and connectivity. I seem to have some pretty consistent issues with significant lose of signal; to the point where text messages will have difficulty sending. They will hang, or occasionally NOT send, at all. I'm using T-Mobile, and I live in the Denton, TX area.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
for the first part of your comment, yes disabling location services seems to at the very least improve battery performance. in regards to system performance and lag... i haven't noticed anything personally. it's always be relatively snappy.

for the second part of your comment, i've been experiencing the same thing as of late. it's because of T-Mob's shoddy network. last week, thursday specifically, i was trying to send a text to someone and it would just not send. when it finally did send, it sent it like 4 times in a row. i need to switch back to AT$T but i just can't do it right now. maybe next device... maybe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
2J250568NT2786536

thank you, Ray!

i'm not sure who you are, but thank you! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reignzone:
I'm sure this was recently addressed, but naturally I figured that shedding some light on this once more, won't hurt...

I think it would make for an excellent addition to have an adjustable or INCREASED MMS size, for sending and receiving.

It seems I can't even receive images more than 1MB in size. Whereas, I've seen MODS for up to 1, 3, and 5MB MMS increments.

If this is a possibility, that would be fantastic; as I send a lot of MMS whether it be screenshots, or otherwise.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Sauron@Mordor:
You're not kidding. I'm just outside of D.C. where you'd think the coverage would be amazing. Office parks everywhere and the richest counties in the country....but still really poor signal strength. I'm even considering <gasp> moving to Verizon and just taking my lumps on what I paid for the S4. It's THAT bad. Love the device...hate the network.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
i attempted to increase this to 2MB. i need to go back in and change one more thing to see if it makes a difference. in the meantime, there are alternative SMS apps that you can use on the market if it's that important to you to have right away.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
lock screen targets

so, this is the first type of merge that i've been working on. the phone and sms don't work yet. the lockscreen.smali moved or changed to something else in 4.3 so my team is currently trying to help me find it. anyway i know some have mentioned their dislike of the codecs/framerate. i'm still working on that, as well as an MMS increase (that may never happen). just showing that i am working on new things in the background and not just slacking off :silly:

call blocking is last on the list lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Pinan:
Oh just kill me now! :crying: ;) :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
haha sorry mate. as you can see in my screen shot, i just forward my calls to one of my old numbers that i know doesn't work. not many people call me :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Sweet Mr V looks nice. Will this be an option or will this be the way it will be. Thanks for the time you put in for all of our enjoyment :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
thanks

it won't be user configurable i don't think. it's not right now. unfortunately, there aren't many mods out for 4.3 yet so it really makes it difficult on me to put this stuff together. i'm getting with one of our team members tonight to go over AOSP syncing and will ask about pulling from repo's and seeing if i can merge with our code that way.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ajr12388:
I have been running this ROM (4.3 version) for about two weeks now and I thought I would be back to tw after two days.

Nope. Runs smooth, fast, and reliable. I have location settings on and can get through a full work day without charging. I am loving this ROM. Thank you very much!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Add On - TW, CM, & MIUI Notifications, Ringtones, Alarms

I've been using this Rom for some time and I got to say that this is THE BEST AOSP rom...Period...:good:

I have a question on the add on though, Should I just dirty flash the "TW, CM, & MIUI Notifications, Ringtones, Alarms"? Any help is appreciated...

Way to go "mrvirginia"....Thank you very much...Loving it...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
thanks

yeah, you don't have to wipe anything with that particular add-on. just flash in recovery

you can even just pull the sound files out of the zip and throw them on you sdcard if you prefer. that's actually how i have them stored.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] caloyzki:
Camera not so good

I hope we can install another. Camera. Rom is really fast and smooth. Any other camera we can install on this rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Thank you Mr. V, you are the best. A token of appreciation on your way 2361-1737-3186-4587.

By the way my GS4 used to get hot on stock TW, not on this ROM though. Not sure anybody else experienced that but just wanted to throw in here.

Thanks again...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] johnny crapple:
This ROM is awesome, no issues. My phone keeps switching from hspa to 3g, the 3g won't load and it will switch back to hspa and will load, it does this constantly where I live. I don't know if this is from the ROM but I don't remember things taking that long to load, any ideas?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
it's the network

thank you :highfive:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
there have been a couple mentioned in this thread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
I am on Clockworkmod 6.0.3.6 recovery right now, it is ok to flash with that?

EDIT - Don't bother...Just flashed it with Clockworkmod...All good...thanks...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jbdan:
Is this the first ge rom you've run on the s4? Are you used to TW? The way tmo network works on an ge or aosp rom is exactly as you say. It idles on 3g and when active it will switch to H or H+ when transferring data. When you say "load" what are you referring to?

GS4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] johnny crapple:
Yes it is the first one I've ran on here. By load I mean if I click on something it doesn't go to the webpage until hspa pops up, thanks for letting me know that it explains everything. And thanks for the reply MrVirginia nice ROM I love it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
I think I accidentally deleted the Clockworkmod folder from my phone. Now even though I can reboot in cwm however at the bottom on main cwm screen I see a warning "No File_Contexts".

Can I still go ahead and flash any mods, do a nandroid back up/restore existing back up with the above warning I see?

OR

Do I need to install latest cwm recovery? If yes how can I do that?

Any help is appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Reignzone:
So, seeing as how some of the conversation topics have drawn some attention to the connectivity issues or signal, in general... I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on how pictures are sent on T-Mobile. I'm only familiar with CDMA, as my last carriers were Verizon & Sprint. Ha.

Anyway, so to curb the lack of file size sending capabilities, I downloaded Go SMS, of course.

I adjusted the settings to 1.2 MB, to keep it on a modest scale.

But I was told recently that allegedly T-Mobile doesn't send their picture mail over Wi-Fi, but instead almost as a standard text, which would in theory, always exclusively use the network coverage, as opposed to the convenience of Wi-Fi.

I think that was proven true, because for the first time tonight, I put that to the test, and noticed that through Go SMS MMS services, that the images upload and send instantly. But when I perform the "normal" sending procedure, it hangs and takes quite a while, because sadly this hotel room is only providing me with Edge, for Christ's sake.

Any insight to assist me with my ranting...?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
i'm not sure. i've never deleted this folder but i've always figured that this folder was solely for backups. so, i am pretty positive you can't restore a backup since you shouldn't have any now from deleting that folder. you might be able to create one. i would try that first. if it fails, then i would suggest a re-flash of CWM. this question would prob get a more detailed response in the CWM thread ;)

picture messages are sent over T-Mobile's network and not Wi-Fi unless you are on a T-Mobile TW ROM and have Wi-Fi calling enabled.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Thanks Mr V. The reason I asked it here because after installing this ROM the ROM Manager wouldn't recognize my device. I figure it's because the model number is changer to "GT-I9505" from "SGH-M919". I did try to do a nandroid back up and it was successful. Do I still need to be worried about then?

My previous back up was not deleted, this folder size was pretty small about 9.5 mb so I'm sure I didn't delete my back up. It's still there on my external SD card.

Also going forward I should be flashing recovery that is meant for TMobile Galaxy S4 even though the model number says otherwise?

Do you recommend to flash any other recovery than CWM, I would appreciate If you could point me to that thread.

I know I'm asking too much but just wanted to be sure :) BTW my phone is working normal.

I'm planning to post this question in CWM thread as well one I get a chance.

Thanks again for your time and hard work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] mrvirginia:
no, i wouldn't be worried about it if all seems to be working normal in regards to nandroids and etc.

always use recovery meant for our M919. the model changes are just imported from build.prop and such so our device looks like a GPE one and works similarly.

i use OUDHS which is a CWM variant.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] a103:
Thanks for the quick turnaround, I think that's one of best thing about this thread, you can expect to get quick response.

I'm relieved to hear that.

I'll search for the recovery you mentioned in this thread try to flash it. Will keep you posted ;)

Thanks :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] showson1:
That's so interesting how different people's tastes can be..

The camera is one of my favorite things about this ROM!

With stock ROM (stock camera), just about, every indoor pic I took was blurry and outside pics were fine.

With this ROM, every single picture I take (indoor or out) is crystal clear.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] roblxskye:


Have you tested the video recording? That's the only thing I hate about Google edition,the fps is slower then touchwiz camera.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] DOTC:
Flashed the latest of this ROM yesterday. Love it. Thanks!

Is this the latest revision for the GS4 that's out? I see some other roms popping up that have a newer? version it seems.