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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Hey, is that you Danvee from S3 forums? Thanks for the feedback.

clean install (wipe data in safestrap recovery)

This is what I thought to do. Thanks for the confirmation

Safestrap is your only recovery option if your bootloader is nc5 (check about phone); thus you cannot use TWRP.

Is this still the case once Eclipse is loaded. Or at that point can I used TWRP? Or is SS a version/design similar to TWRP but for locked B/L's?

This is from last night and you can see the screenshots I posted in post 4839. It seems upon every reboot or turn on of phone it's set to Enforcing and I have to set it to setenforce 0 in Terminal Emulater. Do you know why this happens or is it just a hiccup I have to deal with to get SS operational/allowable? Thanks again :)

For SS I followed Root Junky's steps/video to go to Terminal Emulator (which I've had for years but never used too much) to set Enforcing to Permissive. (1) su (2) setenforce 0 Did that Sat p.m. and it showed Permissive. Just checked About Phone now and it says Enforcing Does this happen upon every reboot? Or at least until I have Eclipse & then it stops and stays Permissive? Once Eclipse is up & running what do I do with SS? Get TWRP which I used on my S3 and just dump SS? Or will I have to use SS anymore? Sorry again for my ignorance regarding SafetyStrap, I've just never used it before.

So for now I can run SS with things set to Permissive. Right? Reboot to recovery and flash Eclipse apk from File Explorer. Then flash nc2 wifi fix or surges nc5 modules. Is it a good idea since I've been forewarned to get this apk pre-Eclipse and back it up to Ti Bu so I can simply run post-Eclipsed?

Sorry for all the 3rd grade questions guys. I have the knowledge of root & ROM for 4-5 yrs but this locked B/L has me panicked and this Knox nonsense pushes it further on me since my S4 is only 5 weeks old and I'm doing my R & D before ROMing this locked B/L. Thanks for your help & patience
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] danveB:
Yes, you will not be able to use TWRP because our bootloaders are locked. Even though you install Eclipse you will still have to use safestrap, it does not matter. So do not uninstall safestrap.

If you still have trouble let me know. You can still browse this thread for installation steps

Im a different user :) never had an S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
I just added this to my post from 15 minutes ago. Can you give me any help on this one?

It seems upon every reboot or turn on of phone SE Android status is set to Enforcing and I have to set it to Permissive (setenforce 0 in Terminal Emulater). Do you know why this happens or is it just a hiccup I have to deal with to get SS operational/allowable? Thanks again :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Itzamistry:
Hi I just used towel root to root my att s4 and I used selinux to change to permissive so that I can get safestrap. So i finally got safe strap and backed up my phone. How exactly do I download this. Do you just install the rom and then gapps? Also do you need to download any modems? And finally are there any issues or bugs? THANKS!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sherdog16:
The stock Rom sets it back to enforcing with every reboot. With eclipse it'll stay at permissive. I assume nitro has a script or something that changes it at boot. Either way he made it easy for us so you'll be all set once eclipse is installed.

On another note, to help clear it up, Safestrap IS your recovery. It's TWRP based so it works and looks much like it, but it's a lot different on the backend, which you don't have to worry about. It sort of runs on top of the stock recovery so those of us with a locked bootloader can run custom ROMs. Remember that ROMs generally require modules from our bootloader version to be flashed post ROM flash to have working Wi-Fi. In other words, if you're nc5, use the nc5 modules.

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Use the link in OP to download.

You don't flash gapps with touchwiz ROMs. Some are included and the rest are in the market.

You don't need to flash modems but for Safestrap you'll need bootloader modules for working Wi-Fi. Although some have had luck with nc2 modules while not being on nc2. Ymmv

I haven't seen any bugs yet...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Itzamistry:
I am on nc1 so do I still need the nc1 modules or the nc2 modules? If so where can I find them. Do i even need the modules? Some say it works without installing modules... Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
2 Sleeps of death today, how can I help contribute to figure out what is causing it?

Screen is black, no hard buttons work, status light still blinks, must pull battery to reset phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Thanks for helping me get all this cleared up

. I had a feeling about Permission/Permissive being set *for us* in Eclipse & you helped me now forget about that :good:

I'd been using TWRP since last Aug on my S3 and I really liked it's design and simple use. It's nice that SS is a similar design.

I sent nc5 modules to ES File Explorer on my S4 last night (File Explorer is backed up in Titanium) so that should help me get WiFi up pretty quickly. :confused:

So this is all I need to do, right?

1. Flash Eclipse (be patient and let that go)

2. Load Titanium Pro

3. Go back into SS to flash nc5 from ES File Manager?

4. Get/buy some Eclipse apps from Nitro

5. Send Nitro donation once my eBay weekend sale $ clears PayPal

6. Have a fun phone :victory:

Thank you and the other contributors who have been fielding my FAQ's the past 48 hours.

You were all very helpful & patient w/ my 3rd grade questions ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
Try using ktoonsez recommended settings or up the low CPU voltage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
Just wipe data/ factory reset in safestrap. Then install eclipse. The SS version should have the modules you need. Some people have to flash the WiFi fix for some reason. When you use titanium make sure to only restore market app data and not system data. You will have issues if you do. And thanks for the support!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Itzamistry:
You don't need to flash a module after you flash eclipse?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
What app controls those settings?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Only the one's that are white in Titanium. Right? Red = System...Green = Titanium...White = User.

Or will these colors be different and or inverted in Eclipse?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Going great so far. Haven't had a single SOD yet since I applied those settings. Hopefully I won't jinx myself here.

KTweaker. It comes with the KT kernel when you flash it. I would raise the Min MHZ from his settings to the next step up.

He's saying to only restore data to apps you downloaded from the Play Store (or side-loaded) in white text, not the system apps in red text. I can atest to this tactic.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jpen:
Did you apply every setting in this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52985270&postcount=12725

Or did you just do the highlighted red ones? My music is skipping a bit with the screen off and I def need that fix lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Yeah just the red highlighted ones for now, taking it one step at a time like Luigi suggested. Since I haven't had an issue yet, I'll leave it where it is. As far as the music goes, I remember having music skipping issues a lot on Pandora recently, though not on these settings and I'm even sure which ROM it was.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mugsy77:
It's not working properly on AT&T for me. It comes in with a +1 and I do not see my contacts.

Nitro, is this ROM related, APN, or because I am using VZW based ROM on AT&T?

I can't use this ROM without it working, though I love the ROM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jpen:
Ok one more dumb question. Not familiar with this stuff at all lol

When it says "block_cycles_raise_screen_off + 1" does that mean make it 1 or add 1 to whatever the number I have is? Mine is default at 11 so do I make it 12?

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Make it 1. I think the "+" is a typo, because none of the others have a + and the + symbol is on the same key as the = sign on a standard computer keyboard. He probably held shift too long or something.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] touche112:
I hate that my work blocks AndroidFileHost. I was going to flash this ROM today, but now I have to wait until I get home...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Ryukouki:
Hey all, random question. By any chance, does SMS here have GIF support, in programs such as stock SMS or hangouts?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
So I successfully flashed Eclipse (incl wipe/factory reset from SS) and it looks awesome. WiFi works "out of the box" so I didn't need to find/load nc5 WiFi Fix :victory: The 1st thing I had to do (cause the option was right in front of me upon the 1st reboot) was enter the password for my home router and all is well so far. I'm now having trouble finding the SD card to install Titanium from SS Recovery - or anywhere else. I can get to the Recovery Screen in SS but of the choices I cannot locate Titanium or the SD. Maybe I do see it but don't recognize its name in Eclipse? I have the usual suspects on the Recovery screen and before I make a mistake need some guidance on where to find SD card & Install, Flash or Mount from SS

Do I want to download Titanium from Play Store? I didn't think so cause this would just be a stock version without everything backed up - like it is supposed to be on the SD card. Right? So far all I've done was enter my Google name/password to set that up. The phone is off to avoid any OTA's or security updates and I'm typing this from my computer. Is all this SDM & OTA & Knox going to have to be frozen again? Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
I dont use SS so I don't know all the ins and outs but can't you just complete the setup and download TiBU from the play store? That's what I've always done.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Yeah, this could be ok for you, but what about my TiBu and all the backed up user apps/data that was backed up to /mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup?

Getting it from play store would just be TiBu stock without the backed up apps/data that's on the SD card & is what I'm trying to find and load.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
I'm not sure you understand. TiBU doesn't store the backups within itself. It acts like a middleman between your apps and your SD card. Even without the app, the backups are still there, stored in the TitaniumBackup directory on your card. The app acts as the interface to allow you access to those backups.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. How come I see this when opening TiBu? Nothing is white for me to restore from backed up user apps/data
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
No problemo. lol do what the first attachnment's dialog box says and enable Debugging within the system settings of the phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Trust me, I looked around per that picture/message and cannot find Development. I wouldn't have asked & posted a photo which tells me what to do right there if I could do it :p (Lane feels a bit dumb not finding what was always there). Is that why nothing is white to restore?

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FWIW Contacts and Gallery were automatically re-installed once I flashed Eclipse
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] toknitup420:
You have to go into settings and go to developer options and turn on USB debugging. Here's a pic.

Sent from my sexy s4. Oooooooooh you know you like it. Go on and give that thanks button a little push. You know you want to.

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If developer options aren't there than you have to go into settings about phone and then tap on the build number until it say developer options enabled.

Sent from my sexy s4. Oooooooooh you know you like it. Go on and give that thanks button a little push. You know you want to.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Yeah, that's where it used to be but it ain't there now which is why I'm asking

Solved!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] toknitup420:
You have to turn developer options on then. Check the second part of my post.

Sent from my sexy s4. Oooooooooh you know you like it. Go on and give that thanks button a little push. You know you want to.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Sorry I replied to your last too quickly without seeing the second part. I forgot all about the good 'ol tap the build number 5 times to get Developer Options & USB Debugging is now checked. Good to go now :good:

But I'm still not seeing any of the apps & data to restore in TiBu. What am I doing wrong? Should this be from TiBu "on the phone" or should I load/flash it from SS Recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] toknitup420:
Did you force close titanium and restart now that you changed USB settings. Actually better off to reboot.

Sent from my sexy s4. Oooooooooh you know you like it. Go on and give that thanks button a little push. You know you want to.

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Oh yeah in safestrap scroll down further. SD card is at the bottom.

Sent from my sexy s4. Oooooooooh you know you like it. Go on and give that thanks button a little push. You know you want to.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Yes, rebooted phone (no battery pull) and that's something I actually knew to do ;)

I found SD card > TitaniumBackup > This folder is empty. How or why? Any idea? I did TiBu last night 3 or 4 times and confirmed the backup.

Does the SD card need to be mounted - from Mount versus Install in Recovery (3rd photo)?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gimpy1:
If you haven't found it, yet. In tibu, go to the settings button, then click on preferences. Scroll down to back up folder location and click on that. Then click on the detect button. That will bring up one or more locations to go for your back ups.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Great idea. But when I opened TiBu the 'overview' screen shows Backup directory /mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup - so isn't that then supposed to show up like it didn't in my pics a few minutes ago? Plus TiBu has been "searching application data" with that white spinning circle for about 10 minutes now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gimpy1:
I'm not sure what's wrong. But, today, I reinstalled eclipse, ver 4.02, but I am on mdk, not safe strap (if that makes any difference). I did a factory reset wipe (I wanted to start a new). One of the first apps I installed was ti bu. (I have the pro version). To install it, I went to my apps in the play store. I then went thru the process from my prior post to you. I have three or for options when I use detect. I try to store the app backups on my external sd card and that is how I find it. But being on ss, it may be completely different.

Hopefully,I didn't mess you up too much. Sorry, if I did.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
I also have TiBu Pro. It has been "Searching application data..." for like 20+ minutes. Just did a battery pull and when I opened TiBu it immediately went to "Searching application data..." I don't want to reinstall Eclipse (yet) so I was wondering if I should reboot and uninstall TiBu? Perhaps is was a bad install. Your thoughts (and anyone else seeing these recent posts). Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
Sorry but all you need to do is go to batch options and select to restore missing apps with data. It will know where your backups are. You do not even have to enable debugging. Make sure your backups only consist of market apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
Its an att thing. I will look into a fix soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mugsy77:
Thank you nitro! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
Today I had my first serious issue involving sleep of death.

I've had my S4 on Verizon since it came out. I've ran eclipse 4.2.2 from the start until now switching to 4.4.2.

This is my second time encountering this sleep bug. I've installed fresh wipe cache everything.

Something is causing my phone to remain on but no hard buttons will turn the screen on...yet the blue notification light will blink.

I woke up late for work because my phone went into this mode overnight (yes my fault for not having a real alarm clock) -- this is a serious flaw and I have to figure out what's causing it..

Can anyone advise me how to troubleshoot. Or how to log my phone history and upload it here so it can be analyze by professionals on why this is happening?

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ricupg:
Hi guys,

First of all I want to say that this ROM is incredible. I love the simplicity and the fact that everything worked on first install. Have not had any issues so far. For that Thank you Nitro.

I very rarely post anything because 99% of the time I'll find the answer within the thread, but I'm having a hard time with this one. I would like to use S Planner as my calendar, but somehow I can't. I don't see it within the ROM, but if I try to install the APK, it tells me that a similar signature exists and therefore it's not going to install. I see within the thread some people have asked for it, but no answer was given. Is this something that cannot be done or is there a tweak I can do to make this app work.

TIA
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Do a "Search this thread" search for "SOD". I was talking about this earlier this week and last. Had a SOD within a week on this ROM but I made some kernel tweaks and it's gotten better (none since).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Itzamistry:
Hi, I have a gs4 att 4.4.2 kit kat on nc1 build. Would I be able to install this rom with safestrap? If I am able to, would I wipe, then flash the rom , then flash nc1 modules? Or will I have to flash more (such as superuser and Safestrap). Also does safe strap stay installed after you flash this rom? Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
thank you i will search
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 4ndroid99:
Is there a s planner apk file in the system/app folder or the system/priv-app folder? If there is then delete it or add .bak extension.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
(alphabetically) @DanveB [MENTION=5420028]gimpy1[/MENTION] [MENTION=4486292]sherdog16[/MENTION] @Toknitup420 [MENTION=4904029]Velocifero[/MENTION] and of course @nitroglycerine33

Thank you all for your help & patience the past few days as I asked some rather elementary questions (then again the 8 year old might know these answers) ;)

All my previous smartphones were rooted and all had Titanium Pro and even though I "knew" how to do this I was really learning it again on my S4. I got my S4 on 5/3 & magically a few weeks later Towelroot came into existence (which was instant and was super easy to do). Then maybe 1 week later I caught wind of Nitro's Eclipse in XDA. Wow! Not even a month after I was bellyaching "Cr@p I traded my S3 with a broken screen for a new S4 and lost root & ROM on this dumb S4 :crying: Flashing Eclipse was also super easy - thanks [MENTION=272210]Nitro[/MENTION] for our not needing a PC to do this.

But as you guys probably figured, I was kinda in a panic mode after wipe/factory reset & not being able to get TiBu back. It was my fault and I'll admit it although this comment may help others - because you don't need to (at least I eventually didn't need to) open SS Recovery to "get" TiBu on the phone. All that had to be done was get TiBu from Play Store (Pro Key too) and open it up. I rebooted 2-3 times so TiBu & my S4 could recognize the install like rebooting a PC. Open TiBu and scroll allllll the way to the bottom and amongst the removed bloat and other BS what I needed that was backed up

and data

was in white and just needed to be restored :victory: @Nitro posted last night "from batch restore missing apps with data" and just to avoid anything I spent a little time and did each one individually. Done and I am psyched! The Eclipse wallpaper just had to be done too as the photos show.

Hopefully for all of us this is my last 2 questions - Anyone know how to remove the Lock icon at the "turn on" and or lock screen? Also, I saw somewhere in XDA last week but couldn't find again someone who posted a list of "safe to remove". Does anyone know which.com.verizon.permissions can be removed (photo #3)

Thank you guys for all the help :)​
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ricupg:
Thank you for the advice, but it didn't work. In system/app I saw SPlannerWidget.apk and renamed it. I then try to install SPlannerWidget.apk or SPlanner.apk and it would not install. Not sure what's going on, but thank you anyway.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] 4ndroid99:
Hmm...maybe you need to manually push the apk file to system/app or system/priv-app and set permission to rw-r-r? That might work.

Also, check to see if files SecCalendar_SPen.apk or SecCalendarProvider.apk or others exists. Remnants of the old s planner could be causing problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ricupg:
Thank you again. Pushed the files manually and it didn't like it either. There is something with this rom that it's not liking the app. Oh well, just have to find a calendar app on play store that will be similar to it. I really like this rom so I'm not going to replace it just for an app,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Awesome dude! Glad I could help. To answer your first question, the "lock icon" lockscreen is the AOSP (aka stock/vanilla Android) lockscreen and at the moment, it can't be changed. You don't like it?! I was apprehensive at first myself, but then I discovered I could add virtually any additional app to it using GravityBox and I've been in love ever since. Instead of the TW lockscreen, where you unlock it, hit the home button, and find the app you want, you can set shortcuts for the most useful/used apps. Right now, I have up the phone, SMS, camera, browser, and of course the unlock one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
But now I'm getting this. Am away from computer so I can't search this thread or XDA cause S4 locks up with this screen. Has any solution for this been posted yet?

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] toknitup420:
How often. Try clearing cache and dalvick cache.

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Could also be the XDA app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Only been happening today. Eclipse up and running for only 2.5-3 days now. I did a clean flash of Eclipse to fire up Eclipse during the 1st (and only) time I flashed Eclipse.

Wasn't that wipe/factory reset enough? How could cache & dalvick cache already be doing this in 2-3 days?

Dunno that it could be XDA cause this has happened when Tapatalk is not being used. Then again it is running in the background even though I'm not using it? :confused:

FYI this never happened the past 3-4 weeks since I towelrooted the S4. Thanks for your help, again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] toknitup420:
I would still try clearing the cache and dalvick cache. Its possible that you downloaded something that has left over cache files that are corrupting you system. Just give it a shot and see what happens after that. You didn't flash any themed apps or anything right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Lane W.:
Nothing flashed per se but I did get xposed going (that I had for a few weeks pre Eclipse) last night and that was just for the clock color, WiFi color and rainbow signal strength. Perhaps I should look at any other modules there, whether downloaded within Eclipse or not. Gonna clear cache & dalvik & will report back - meanwhile I am at desktop computer in XDA if you have any more suggestions.

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2

6:26 pm edit - Cache cleared but I didn't see and option there to clear dalvik. Will see how this goes and will only report back if this trouble persists with the .com.andoid.sysemui. Thank you

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