yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Loop4zil:
AudismV13 because I think I read that was what Dubsy was using. So far so good... Not sure about the others.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I don't use Odin to flash kernels.

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Cruiserdude:
You flash kernels in recovery with this phone. My favorite at the moment is ausdim v13 that's in the Aroma installer. Try them all and see which work well, then spend some more time with each of those.

Sent from my VZW Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] s0m3f00l:
I like the Elite kernal. It gives me the most stability. And when I use it with Trickster Mod its fantastically customizable. Sometimes I go to parties and show ladies my Elite kernal'd Google Edition phone and let me tell you " 60% of the time it works every time"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
In my experiece with all the kernels the most stable 2 kernels are the stock GPE kernel and Audism's which is essentially an enhanced, updated, GPE kernel.

I can get good results from any that are included in the installer, but for the person who just wants to install and not touch kernel settings and it just to be great. Audism is what you want.

And while I am on This rom it is what I use. If I'm on other things I'm working on I'll normally use elite or KT's tweaked out with my init scripts I wrote to set the defaults. :good:

I've always like tweaking kernel settings, I don't know why I've never made my own. The difference if I was using my own is I wouldn't have to tweak anything after install with my own kernel. It would just default to F*ing Awesome Mode. Maybe I will in the future :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Audism's kernel without modification won't install. I changed it and made a flashable zip for proving it out before it went into the aroma package. I'm not releasing the installer zip because it's not my own original work and XDA has a rule against posting kernels without your source posted.

But as you said, if you run through the installer and choose everything the same except the kernel you'll be good to go.

The thing some may not realize is the reason things like MTP or Wifi or Bluetooth or whatever might not be working after a kernel install is not because of a bug with the ROM or with the kernel. It was the install itself. Further detail:

The stock GPE kernel has something like 16 or 17 drivers in it. Coupled together it all works great. KT's has like 24 drivers in it. If I first installed KT's and then decided to install the stock GPE, all the extra drivers could cause havoc. And have in the past, if people remember the MTP and wifi issues I battled for a bit.:eek:

The files for the kernel are entirely in /system(/system/apps, /system/etc/init.d, /system/lib/modules, and some place config files in /system/etc) and in the boot partition is where the boot.img goes(this is where the init.rc and other inits are written). A rom install with no-wipe, still formats the system. Just leaves data. So it will fully wipe out the old kernel and install the one desired. :good:

I don't normally suggest dirty flashing for an upgrade BUT if the rom is the same version as the one installed, just with a different kernel. I see no reason for it to cause any issues.:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] cbaty08:
Music to my ears, and thanks for the explanation!!!:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] royredman:
Please help quickly!! :eek:

it asks at the end of the install "Rom may flash stock recovery on boot... Fix? This can NOT be undone" Should I fix it or say no?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Say no. And that's why I use TWRP.

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] royredman:
Hey. Thanks for the info. Can you also tell me how I can flash a loki compatible TWRP? I have clockworkmod on right now and dont know how to switch it. also, a link to a TWRP thread would be awesome!! :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] docnok63:
The easiest way is to use GooManager from the Play Store. Give it superuser permission and then hit the menu and select Install Custom Recovery Script (or something like that.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwattt:
I happen to be quite familiar with this lol so in order to switch to TWRP you can do it all on your phone. First use root explorer to text edit your Build.prop. edit the lines to

ro.product.model=SCH-I545

ro.product.brand=Verizon

ro.product.name=jfltevzw

ro.product.device=jfltevzw

then download goomanger from the play store

then open it up hit the menu key and click flash Install OpenRecoveryScript (this is TWRP)

once installed it will ask to boot into recovery. Mind as well test it right? lol

after that change your build.prop back to the defaults which are

ro.product.model=GT-I9505G

ro.product.brand=Samsung

ro.product.name=jgedlteue

ro.product.device=jgedlte

if you use wallet just to be cautious i would go with odin installation method

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Don't do it lol it wont realize your bootloader is Loki'd and will flash the normal recovery due to the edits in the build.prop with this rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
Goo manager installed the borked 2.6.0.0 version. You don't want that. You want the 2.5.0.2 version

Flash this via cwm recovery

http://db.tt/KFKEqy0q
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
NOT IF YOU ARE ALREADY ON THIS ROM!

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
And really you don't want to use 2.6 TWRP either. The best recovery for the vzw galaxy s4 is hands down 2.5.0.2 TWRP. There is a recovery flashable zip for twrp. Just find that and you're gold

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] docnok63:
Oops. I forgot about the build.prop edit. My bad.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Tsukasa Buddha:
If I have 2.6 and am already on the ROM (which is awesome), do I need to change the build.prop and flash 2.5 to downgrade?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
If you mean from the zip I posted, no just download it, boot into your current recovery, and flash it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] pmaxx:
Just wanted to check back in now that I've done a clean install of 5.6. I went with the modified GE kernel, and included the performance tweaks. Of the issues/requests I had when using 5.4, here's where they stand:

Hardware button remapping: Same as before. Modifying Generic.kl has allowed me to remap the menu button to be recent apps (see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44456818&postcount=1907 for details), and MoDaCo Toolkit has allowed me to always include the action bar menu button. I'd still love to remap home long-press or menu long-press to be "menu", and I'd love to get rid of double-tapping to get rid of the home key lag, but I'm reasonably happy with my current setup.

Custom tiles: Gravity box took care of this nicely. And includes the right-hand quick pulldown, to boot. No more janky Notification Center app.

Volume Up/Down cursor controls: Again, Gravity Box does this perfectly.

DSP Manager: I cannot get viper4android to work properly. I've tried with the Elite, modified G.E., and KT kernel, and I always get sporadic results. Reading this thread indicates I'm not the only S4 owner with this problem. I wonder if it's some sort of hardware inconsistency across units (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42875652). I also tried to install DSP Manager from here (http://d-h.st/eTP) which was linked to by an i9505 GE ROM thread. I found that it did process sound correctly, but the buttons controlled the wrong thing (e.g. the bass boost on/off toggle would control the EQ). I'm still using the Music FX that comes with this ROM, which works reliably.

I think I'm at a happy, stable place with this ROM now. Thanks again Dubbsy and everyone else for the ROM, mods, and support.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Jleech330:
Keyboard

What is the stock keyboard used in this rom? Anyone have the APK
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] theycallmerayj:
I couldn't get a gps lock on 5.6 and navigation app was acting up in general. Is this a known issue?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwattt:
I use viper4andriod everyday and I have no problems what kind of settings are you using on your kernels? if you under volt too much viper will not be able to operate its a bit of a cpu hog. I run kt kernel with a lot of changed settings and it works great, if you would like to see them i can attach a back up of them.

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clean or dirty flash?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] thadialeckt:
needs to flash back to touchwiz get lock and then reflash rom. gps will work then
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] cbaty08:
This works, and can actually be quite painless:

-Backup this AROMA rom

-Restore from older TW backup

-Get GPS lock

-Reboot and restore AROMA rom in recovery

You will now have GPS!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Eeiden:
I believe it is google keyboard and its available on the play store.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] theycallmerayj:
Thanks! I love this rom and yesterday I tried to use gps and had to flash back to tw while driving. I did the fix and it worked perfectly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Yep.

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gleggie:
How do you mount usb storage? My PC can't seem to recognize the SD card, even after unmounting and remounting

Edit: I'll just use an SD Card reader since i guess USB storage isn't working for the VZ S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Unless you are using one of the kernels maked "MTP is broken" there should be no problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gleggie:
I'm on stock kernel hmm.. i'll wipe and reflash
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Cruiserdude:
Dunno what happened, but this rom has been running great, until today. The signal dropping got much worse, and I found myself frequently having to toggle Airplane Mode every few minutes in some locations. Obviously this gets worse in marginal areas. Also, Google Services has been chewing through my battery, never had a problem with it before.

Still running snappy and stable, it's those 2 issues which haven't been nearly this bad before. Anyone else have this?

Sent from my VZW Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Nothing RIL related has been messed with for a few updates.

The next update I'd like to try to fix the eri text again, potentially get a better signal, add 4 more kernels(I did what I said I should, I made my own. The other 3 are abyss, Agat, and An insecure stock gpe boot image I built to potentially make stock be able to use init.d), and add an optional script to odex at the end of the updater. + updated apps of course. :good:

I'm being a beta tester currently for another teams work. :highfive:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheWhiteChallenger:
call recording

Hello. Amazing work here Dubbsy. This ROM was the reason I bought the s4. The only thing I need to make this perfect is call recording, I was previously on a RAZR HD and using Skvalex's Call Recorder app, I worked seamlessly on my HD but is completely useless on the s4. If I read ur last post correctly you are making your own kernel for this ROM correct? Would it be possible to include the ability yo support 2 way call recording? I'm pretty sure there is one ROM for the s4 that already has this but again this one is why I have the phone. I really need this feat and I'm sure others do as well if this is something you could attempt to work in i would greatly appreciate it. I'd hate to have to give up my new phone over this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] CrookedKnight:
I'm not sure if this is an error or just a setting I didn't realize I ticked, but I flashed the tweaked/optimized version with Audism and now every time I hit the volume button the phone reboots.

Edit: Huh, it seems to have something to do with either Xposed or the GravityBox module in particular. Happens just the same with the stock ROM and kernel. That's annoying, I really like that module.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
In your GravityBox settings, open the media section and disable the second to last option as it is the culprit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Just go into gravity box and go to media. Then uncheck those 2 boxes and reboot. :good:

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
I'll look into adding it.

I'm building my own because I was complaining about how I never run the kernel the way it defaults. Since people want performance but don't want to have to mess with settings I'll just build one that defaults to my preferences. :). It's built off of audism's v13 source.

I picked his versus brood's or stock source because it was the most up to date, which means less work for me lol

sent from my GE gs4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
The kernel controls a lot. But it only calls on the radio. It doesn't dictate what radio is used.

And no this isn't based on mdk. It's based on the original Google Edition. It's modded to read mdk to the system.

Make a backup and flash clean. Dirty flashing never goes well for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Cruiserdude:
Looking forward to it and everything else in the next build, ausdim's kernel runs great for me, and I like the idea of making a few tweaks to the stock GPe source then keeping it updated with kernel.org. I always change a few things myself, so I look forward to seeing what you can do with it.

As an update, I seem to have addressed the two issues I was having yesterday, namely the Google services drain. I simply removed my Google account, wiped caches in recovery, and added it back. Now it doesn't even show up in battery usage, so I'm good on that front.

Flashed back to MDK radios from the ME7 I was on, and I haven't had as many issues with data drops. Still get a few, but it seems to be back to normal. Guess the ME7 radios are less reliable than MDK.

Just out of curiosity, any more luck with 4.3 GE?

Sent from my VZW Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
For my kernel it is essentially the same audism's but setup for just performance only. It defaults to 2.106 GHz, tuned deadline, tuned interactive, SD read ahead set to 2048, and all the various vm-kernel tweaks I've used. Should be great. I won't be making a battery sipping kernel. So if people want that they should use a different kernel. :P

I wasn't a fan of me7's radio at all either.

Have some new ideas for GE-4.3 but haven't gotten any real accomplishments done for that project. Got MIUI almost completed, got BluKuban themed Verizon apps made, and been beta testing for team elite and treken's ROM ChaOS. :good:

sent from my AOSP-4.3 vzw galaxy sIV
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jayochs:
cool rom! my first time trying it out.

question though, it seems like that option that changes screen tone to save battery is defaulted to on....or something like that, bc i noticed the tone/brightness changing despite the fact i have auto brightness off. is there any special menu for the specific samsung featuers?

for example, to change backlight time out on the capacative buttons?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwattt:
I still cant get LTE working after a fresh install... I'm just stuck with 500kbps 3g :/ lol I even went so far as to wipe my data, system,cache well pretty much everything you can wipe without bricking it lol and I'm still stuck on 3g lol Fml I'm going back to stock and seeing if I didn't burn up my lte radio or something
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dubbsy:
Your radio is more than likely fine. You probably haven't tried all your options.

Go into mobile network settings.

Verify that your CDMA subscription is set to RUIM and not NV.

For good measure go into the rest of the options and set it to CDMA/LTE, automatic, and allow data roaming.

Then go into Phone Info app.

Scroll to bottom and tap radio off.

Open the drop down list and select CDMA/LTE auto (PRL).

Turn the radio back on.

Reboot.

Upon reboot open Phone Info again.

Verify it is set to CDMA/LTE auto (PRL)

** you should have full service now * *

** if not * *

In Phone Info:

Try CDMA auto (PRL)

Then try CDMA/GSM/LTE

If those still don't work then I'll go into the next step because then you really did foul up your radio. But I've fixed that on mine already twice. :good:

sent from my AOSP-4.3 vzw galaxy sIV
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jamz2277:
Let me start by saying, This ROM is absolutely beautiful. I love its smoothness and the stability of it. With that said, I can not get GPS to operate using this ROM. (Using the latest AROMA, GE5.5) I have tried everything to get GPS to work and it just doesn't. When the little GPS symbol appears in the top left corner as if it is in use, the center is normally supposed to blink, as if it is trying to locate me. The symbol will appear but will never blink as if GPS is trying to activate but will never attempt to find me. I reverted to the stock ROM and GPS works fine, blinks for a few seconds, then finds me within feet of my actual location. I really want to continue using this ROM so please, someone tell me there is a way to resolve the issue. I have tried turning GPS on and off, I tried the AOSP browser settings (I downloaded the AOSP browser just to try and set it), every setting in Chrome, setting permissions for Google apps over and over trying to see if that was the case. I have even tried those GPS fix apps from the Play store to no avail. I am using the Verizon edition of the Galaxy S4. Please Help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] theycallmerayj:
Members helped me with this the other day. Restore to a touchwiz rom get a gps lock then reboot into recovery and flash this rom. It should work after that. Worked perfectly for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwattt:
Unfortunately I have done this many times lol i think im gonna need step 10 severe radio overhaul haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jamz2277:
Unbelievable. It worked perfect! I don't know HOW that worked but it did! Thank you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jdegroot:
Compass Calibration

I am currently running v5 and I have been very happy with it. Is it the first version of this ROM that hasn't been SOD'ing on my, so that's very exciting.

My one issue is that the compass/magnetometer is not working correctly. Even when I try to calibrate it using GPS Status and Tools, the readings from the sensor are clearly wrong and the calibration doesn't help. Is this another case of needing to flash a touchwiz rom, try to get a good compass reading, and re-flash? Any other suggestions to get the compass working?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gwallers:
My GPS works fine for Google maps and navigation but doesn't seem to work when other apps call for GPS. AccuWeather is just one example...

Seems to work if I disable some of the location access

All in all beautiful ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheWhiteChallenger:
over heating plz help!

I'm using TempMonitor just browsing I've been getting 135 to 150 readings for CPU temp! What's going on! Oh and BTW mine is showing "LTE" above my signal bars but only when I'm NOT in extended 4g coverage areas.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jazzman97:
Dubbsy: Gotta say bro, this is the best ROM to date. No issues on my end. Thanks for all your hard work. I couldn't give alot on the donation, but I figure that anything is better than nothing :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dr_g_baby:
I followed these steps but still I only have 3g... This happened last time I flashed this ROM and I ended up going back to stock. My 4g worked fine before I flashed this. Plzz help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Loop4zil:
I had to go back and reload a touch wiz based back up. Once a 4g was re-established, I re-flashed the latest ge Rom...Walla...4g and Google edition on my s4

Don't open the phone info app...Or the lte on off app. That is what breaks my 4g.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dr_g_baby:
I did that when I flashed this for the first time a bit ago. Went back to my stock tw based and had to mess with the settings to get my 4g back. But I just rewiped and flashed and haven't played with any network settings
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Loop4zil:
Just wiping and re flashing a ge rom does not do the trick for some reason. You have to restore a TW based Rom to get 4g back. THEN wipe and flash latest ge Rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheWhiteChallenger:
chrome issues?

I'm having some weird issues with chrome. I have data service, apps that use data work fine and Google search pages work fine but when I go to click a link from a search it says web page unavalible. And if I try to go direct to that same site I get the same thing. Its not doing this for all sites its very random but happens often. Only fix is to reboot. Very annoying. Any one else getting this?

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Idk if this has anything to do with my issues but I'm using v5.6 zip but my build number says v5.5 is this right or did I screw up somewhere?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheWhiteChallenger:
More stuff that seems odd. When I got into download mode, everything says official, is right? Shouldn't it says coustom on something or dost it not do that since this is a port of and official ROM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] markwebb:
Same here. Also, is it possible to get separate volume controls for ringer and notification? Most ROM's enabled you to change each volume level separately.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Cruiserdude:
Everybody's says 5.5, Dubbsy said he just forgot to change it. It's the 2nd line of build.prop though if you'd like to fix it.

As for the volumes, I don't know of any fix that will work as far as a settings UI. But if you have SQLite Editor you can poke around in SettingsStorage.db and manually set volumes. I am not positive this works, as I keep my notifications the same as my ringtone, but it seemed to work when I turned notifications down a tad. Do note that you have to reboot after making most changes in here for them to take effect.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] CrookedKnight:
If you install XPosed Framework, the GravityBox module has a setting for that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] markwebb:
Thanks. That did it!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheWhiteChallenger:
OK so I'm now sure its the phone it self causing my overheating issues. I tryed running an antutu benchmark and it jumped to 180 degrees! And it ended up only scoring 18000. Something is way wrong. Its charging now (hopefully doesn't burn the house down) I'm going to take it back to full stock tonight and return it tomorrow and hopefully get a working one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] CrookedKnight:
I just got my first random reboot running this ROM. It's been rock-stable up to now, so I just thought I'd ask if anyone's run into problems during long (20+ minute) phone calls; the first time I stayed on the line that long was also my first crash, so I'm wondering if there's a connection.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
This goes out to everyone. Within the aroma installer is an app called SysLog. I included it for this very reason. Get a random reboot, boot back up, and this app can pull the needed logs in a way that is virtually noob proof. With out a log, unless you can tell us how to repeat the issue we cannot track down the issue. There is a xda adage . . logcat or it didn't happen.

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] CrookedKnight:
Edit: actually, wait: does the app need to be running during the crash, or just after the next boot? If the latter, I've got fresh logs.

And of course I didn't flash it... It's installed now though. Will post logs if it happens again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hlxanthus:
It just needs to be installed, then when you run it pulls the various logs from the phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jazzman97:
Really random question for anyone...

I have been tempted to try a T-Mobile Sim Card in the S4 and wonder if it would work. I know there has to be an APN change to get the data to work and since the S4 has both the GSM/CDMA tech inside of it, I can't imagine it not working.

Any thoughts on this? (I would back up obviously, just in case)