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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] DerekZ10:
Is my phone about to die?

I've been using this Eclipse Rom for over a month now and I've found overclock/undervolt/Governor settings that worked great. I've been using the same settings without changes for about 2 weeks or so.

Yesterday around 7PM the phone started suddenly having issues. It was on my desk and received a message, the screen lit up, I went to read the message, but I was to slow and the phone did the CRT Off animation. Immediately after the animation finished I hit the home button, but it just gave a slight vibration. It was completely lifeless for about 30 seconds, then it vibrated, waited 10 more seconds, then vibrated again and displayed the "Samsung Galaxy S4" boot screen. It booted fine. However, I haven't seen the Galaxy S4 boot screen since it's been rooted, normally it displays "Samsung Custom", so that was out of the ordinary. Once booted, I still had Root.

Between 7PM and 9PM the phone did this 2 more times. And each time, It always happened after re-waking the phone directly after the CRT Off animation. After the third random reboot I went into KTweaker and put everything back to stock then rebooted. I was out and didn't want to have any more problems, just a working phone.

Around 10PM, in the middle of typing a text message, the phone just froze. I had to do a battery pull.

Half an hour later, the phone received a call. The vibration notification for calls is, "BUZZZZZ Buz Buz, BUZZZZZ Buz Buz" - that's how I knew it was a call. During the second iteration it just froze in the middle of a vibration and then just kept vibrating and not responding to any input. This happened right before the point the screen usually turns on to show who's calling. After a minute of vibrating it finally stopped and the screen finally turned on, but with the greeting "Samsung Galaxy S4" boot screen. This time after it booted, Android said it was in "Safe Mode." Also non of my contacts were showing, all calls and texts were referenced by the persons number and not their name.

I rebooted it again to get out of Safe Mode, after it booted, I noticed that all my contacts no longer had display pictures. It froze and rebooted 2 more times last night. Each time it seems to happen at the point when the screen is supposed to turn on, except for the time it froze during texting.

Last night it was able to successfully run, "Sleep As Android" sleep tracking without restarting and seemed to be working fine. It's worked fine all day until a little bit ago. I was browsing on chrome and the screen shut off due to the 1 minutes display timer. I went to wake it back up with the home button, but it just sat there again, and again after about a minute it was rebooting.

In the last 24 hours, its crashed and rebooted 8 times, once going into safe mode. Prior to this, the phone had 3+ days of uptime.

Is the phone suddenly dieing? What should I do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] doctordroid:
What ktweaker shop kernel settings are you guys having the most success with? I want performance but of course the best battery. I am between super bull or undisputed. Haven't tried any of the icarius ones yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
Whatever stock is works great for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
Hard to say exactly. The voltage settings very well could have started your issues. You could try reflashing the kernel. I'm not sure now which version Nitro was using originally but the 8/20 version is very stable. 9/17 has been very stable as well. 8/25 not so much. Go to the ktoonsez thread OP and download the latest version and flash.

If that doesn't stop it.

Dirty flash the rom.

If it doesn't work after that.

Wipe Clean and flash rom again.

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Nightmare to remember settings.

The only thing that I changed about those settings were the screen off mhz settings. It was a little low. Made the phone slow to wake when receiving calls etc...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] doctordroid:
Hey Nitro what are you thoughts on Killjoy?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2411161
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] sherdog16:
Interested in this answer as well...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] doctordroid:
Correct me if I am wrong.. But i believe some of the ktweaker shop stud interferes with the script? I am currently running undisputed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Is anybody having sub-par battery life with this rom? I love the looks and feel but I just can't get good battery life :( i'm on like 10-12 hrs of light usage...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] JBeXX:
What does your battery stats show is eating it? If Google services is up there, disable wifi location and try a reboot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Yes Google Service is definitely in the top 3... But if I disable location settings don't I lose location based features?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
Today has been light usage for me. My phone has been unplugged for 8 hours and I'm at 75%. I'm on the stock kernel though, I don't get good results with the included kt kernel.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] JBeXX:
I'm my case, if I've had the Google service drain issue I can re-enable after the reboot and it is usually good for a while.

Most apps do not need it to always be enabled tho depending on what apps you use so not much harm done leaving it off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Where can I find the flashable stock Kernel?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
Check this post.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45599443
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
I already found the Odin one but this was what I was looking for... Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dseda86:
If google services is killing your battery just go into maps and turn off location reporting and location history and watch the usage drop big time, all while keeping your location based services. Cheers!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
I occasionally have long delays from the time I press my power button to the time the phone responds. What causes this or how can I fix it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Little note... Stock kernel did the trick... Battery life is now what it should be..

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If you are talking about waking the phone up it could be to much of a low voltage in the cpu...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
Does stock kernal exhibit low voltages that would cause this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
As far as I know it's not possible to modify stock kernel's voltages... So no... Stock kernel works the way it came out of mama Samsung's belly... Which is perfect if you like a balanced device..

Anyways if the problem is your voltage it's because you must have touched something in the performance menu (maybe by accident)... If you are not interested in over clocking then you can go ahead and flash the stock kernel and try if that solves the issue..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
I'm showing a kt kernel. Performance opens up the kt tweaker. I think kt is "stock" for eclipse, right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Black6spdZ:
so I should flash the AT&T i337 ROMs? I've been a little cautious of venturing out since I tried a i9505 ROM after I first got this phone and got the dreaded triangle and had to odin back to stock and start from scratch one.. a PITA
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
You just have to loki the kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
I meant stock touchwiz... Someone posted the link a few posts back...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
Thanks. Since I didn't have your issue I assumed the link was for the eclipse stock kernel.

Now... Is anyone else getting double notifications on tapatalk?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Black6spdZ:
dont they usually come Loki'd since they're in the same boat as the i545?

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you my friend are a genius.. I don't know why I never thought to flash an ATT ROM but that absolutely fixed the calling issue. Do you know if I can flash an i337 recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
You running ktoonsez kernel? And nightmare to remember settings?

Edit: check your screen off mhz in ktweaker. Mine was to low causing it to be slow to wake. I bumped it up. I think the setting is called screen off profile mhz. Resolved the issue. No lag on wake up now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
No. I went back to default (on demand). I don't remember why. I found the screen off though. It is set to "selected scaling max". Where do I find that (selected scaling) so I know what it is set to?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
Under general. It's your min and max CPU scaling.

I was running nightmare to remember settings and the screen off max was set to 378. Was very sluggish to wake. So I set it to 1782 which is the top of these settings for the CPU. Resolved it immediately. But your settings should allow it to scale to the wherever the CPU is set to max. Maybe try to just set it for the top like I did then get some one to call you and see if it wakes quickly. If it doesn't work you can resort back the default setting easy enough.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Not sure what happened last night but my alarm failed to make a sound (it went off just didn't make a sound). I tested it this morning twice and the sound went off, so I don't know. Another wtf moment was when I woke up and the wallpaper and keyboard had reset themselves. Blue TouchWiz wallpaper was set as default and also the stock Google keyboard was set as default instead of SwiftKey. Is that a kernel issue?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
putting camera into slow motion 1/8 will cause a reboot. Camera freezes...fails...phone reboots. Doesnt happen on 1.5. Everything on 1.5 works as expected..so I went all the way back to 1.5. Its stable for daily driver. I can live with the mms self contact fc.

On 2.0 slow motion camera just doesnt work at all. Nor does smart stay.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris123NT:
I have an S4 dev phone on the way and just saw this ROM, I'm impressed, definitely going to give this a shot. I'm a die hard CM guy but the data dropout issues lately that affect the S3/S4 have been killing me, and this looks perfect for me, TW stability without the bloat and it looks like AOSP everywhere. Great work man.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Everything works for me....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Travisdroidx2:
On 2.0 the slow motion settings you mention work fine for me. No reboots and I recorded and viewed it back in the gallery. Looks like you have a different issue and it is not the rom itself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
Same here. Everything works as expected.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
smart stay works for you?

as for the other stuff I noted. I have not done anything in addition to flashing the rom and the non inverted package. I dont like the blacked out crap...it has no depth to it. ff000000...and everything just sits in front of that single color. I prefer gradients and an overall 3d appearance. Not just simple dark 2d images. And blacked out is played out nowadays anyway.

slow motion has 3 settings. 1/2...1/4....1/8. First 2 speeds work for me. 1/8 is the one that doesnt work. Thats the slowest slow mo.

could be a bad download? i doubt it...but ill give it another shot later. I absolutely must have a backup because Ive flashed several roms lately and Im tired of setting my phone up again. lol.

Ill redownload.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Yes smart stay works... Also do a clean install... Make sure you wipe cache dalvik and data...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Travisdroidx2:
Don't try a back up do a clean install or you will have your same problems you had before. And 1/8 slow motion video works fine here. And I happen to use and love the inverted look. You could have left your inverted rant out of your comment.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
I did before too. I always start clean unless its the same rom. (ie aokp build 9-28 update to 9-30...unless otherwise stated by dev). If switching to a new rom...its a must I wipe.

Im downloading now...but damn.....2 hours DL time. geez.

For backup...I mean...backup my rom now. Not restore one. Maybe the clean install on a fresh download will do the trick.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Also fwiw I run stock mdk kernel...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
i just used the kernel included. Ktoonz 6-10 build based on 3.4.0...which smart stay and stuff all worked on any rom using that kernel. And battery life is great too.

Honestly though...I actually like the TW dialer and contacts vs aosp on a TW rom. Other than that and the systemUI.apk...1.5 is solid. Those only seem to be the differences I notice running the 2 roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Well I could not get decent battery life and my phone ran hot all the time with ktoonz... I never looked it not even for s3... Just preferences.. I always run stock kernels.. Don't like to oc anyways... But that's just me..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris123NT:
I think the only things that don't work on this ROM with the newer KT kernels is smart stay and smart scroll, and IMO I'd be willing to sacrifice those 2 features which i never use for the kernel updates.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
Out of curiosity what do you change in the kernel settings and why? What kind of improvements do you achieve? (This is a genuine question... No mocking... Lol)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris123NT:
Well I don't have my S4 yet, but on my S3 I usually undervolt a tad, play with screen off mhz profiles etc... And I've usually had better luck with battery life.

But if that fails I'll use the factory MDK kernel, do you need to flash the dev modules to have working wifi though? (noticed you have a dev phone)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
I can say for sure that one thing Ive gotten using KT over stock is just by changing to ktoonservativeq governor...no overclocking...my battery life improved greatly. Especially if i havent used my phone much.

However...I dont agree with the previous statements about the newer KT kernels. 9.17 build wont even boot on 2.0 or 1.5. Also...in addition to smart stay and smart scroll...the dual camera wont work either. Im referrring to both ffc and rear facing simultaneously.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris123NT:
Oh, good to know. Yeah now that I think about it, his newer kernels seem to be geared towards an OTA that VZW doesn't even have yet, although ME7 based ROMs would probably work OK with the newer kernel versions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
This is one of my gripes with KT. It sips battery when not in use but as soon as I use my phone, it heats up quickly and battery plummets.

IMO this ROM is nearly perfect my only request would be to have the latest CM dialer only because its fewer steps to a call. But I don't really care since the included dialer is so far superior to the TW dialer which is, from my experience, the worst and slowest T9 dialer available.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
I see your point... I just like balance in general... Stock kernels usually have everything working properly and a decent battery life on debloated systems preserving the CPU over time...

I could see the appeal of the oc but I don't play heavy games or such... So the already fastest CPU on the market is fast enough for me :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
I tried using the stock dialer/contacts app but it's still too clunky. Like you said, too many steps. Sometimes the dialer isn't the first thing that pops op when you open the dialer. That bugs me. I'm using ExDialer instead and have been for years. Very intuitive, pretty, and is quick. I'll include a screenshot. I'm using the "Black ICS" theme.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
I used to use ExDialer awhile back but I totally forgot about it. Right now I think the T9 modified AOSP dialers are great. I'll keep EsDialer in mind if I go back to a different TW ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
Nice! I started using this now. Had no idea about it. I went ahead and bought it. lol

I like it better than TW or aosp dialers.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Themistah:
I'm on S.Strap running OTA update.... Will this rom work I know it has to run a stock kernel do I just flash it right after I flash the rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Travisdroidx2:
You need to run the me7 version of this ROM. Here is a list of Roms safe for SS. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2448726

Here is a link to the me7 version of eclipse http://www.elementalxdesigns.com/ec...-S4-TW-Edition-ME7-Progress-build-01-(8-15-13)

I believe there is a zip from hashcode that you have to flash after you flash the rom and before you reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Themistah:
Thank u brother for helping me out......
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Hah awesome. I've tried a bunch of dialers myself, but this was the quickest, the best looking, and easiest to use. Glad you like it. I recently paid for it even though I've been enjoying it for years.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
I figured out what is causing camera to fail...fc...reboot etc when recording slow mo .....kt kernel. Even the 6-10 build. I can get slow no to work on that kernel but its iffy. Usually changing framerates causes the problem back to stock kernel for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
That was my point... Stock kernel, no issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] shindiggity:
I wish 3minit worked on this great rom, xposed just isn't the same .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] imablackhat:
Stock mdk kernel flash able zip?..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17559037/Stock_Kernel_S4.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] imablackhat:
Can you remove am pm in this build without third party addons?..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Roland_D:
I have no am pm...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Jephre:
For some reason, I was allowed to update my Google search app. Shortly afterward, I realized that all my Google apps (hangout, music, etc.) Had reverted back to the white UI. Just wanted to point that out to fellow ROMers and nitro. Is there a fix to get the modified Google apps back?

Edit: nvm, I went to manage apps, then uninstalled the updates. And then went back into play store, selected the Google search update and disabled auto update. Works again!

Edit 2: it seems that the modified Hangouts app was never installed when I flashed the ROM, has this happened to anyone else?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] yakitori2:
One thing that sucks about stock kernel is it takes way longer to charge. Just noticedafter using all day.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] imablackhat:
Light flow doesn't work with this cuz of the talk back glitch right? I remember mdk ROMs having this issue
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] JBeXX:
Works fine for me on this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] slackwaresupport:
anyone have the 5 row keyboard?/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] imablackhat:
Yeah but the talk back glitch. To where everything talks..happens on mdk ROMs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
Yes. I get the talk back glitch using Light Flow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] imablackhat:
You can use light manager. Same thing but free and works fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
Got my first error. When clicking on manage messages on sim card in the sms app phone FC's.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5HhaDIAOgeUUFk0Z2tSbldUYUk/edit?usp=docslist_api

Link to log.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] spearoid:
I've tried it. I don't remember now why I didn't like it, but I remember it didn't do something that Light Flow does do. I'm fine with Light Flow's talkback problem. I have Tasker control my media volume so I rarely hear any random voices.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
Does the black play store stay current or does it have to be manually updated like the other eclipse apps (I didn't see it on Nitro's website).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
Woke up this morning and my wallpaper, keyboard, and custom LED notification colors were reset AGAIN. Sounds like a kernel issue...but KTweaker seems to be real good with battery life. I'll have to suck it up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
You'll have to update from Nitro's site if you want it to stay black. I'm pretty sure his inverted play store is up to date. It is on his site.

http://www.elementalxdesigns.com/ec...Gmail-Hangouts-Music-YouTube-Google-Now-G-9-3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ckelly33:
Wow. I looked over that website and competely missed it. Sad...it is in the title and the first app shown. No idea how I missed it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Chris123NT:
This ROM is awesome. Nitro did such a nice job with it that I actually don't even realize it's touchwiz. Awesome work sir.

Also a tip for everyone talking about poor battery life on the KT kernel, if you're using the default ondemand governor enable the auto hotplug feature, this will allow the phone to shut off CPU cores that aren't in use and will lead to better battery life. This is why the stock kernel does better for some, the factory pegasusq governor has built in hotplugging, whereas ondemand does not.

You can also change to one of KT's governors that DO have native hotplug support (ktoonservativeq etc...)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mlin:
My poor battery life was experienced while using ktoonservative. I appreciate the advice and understand the KT is a nice kernel for some, but for me nothing has given a better overall performance than stock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Velocifero:
I have KT on "ktoonservative" when the screen is on and "powersave" when the screen is off and my battery life is noticeably better than it was (not that it was bad before). Powersave kicks ass.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
Suddenly my contacts stooped working. I now get a force close every time I open it. I can't make any calls because it feezes and shuts down contacts.

I tried davlik cache and fix permissions. Neither of these work.

Any ideas
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] nitroglycerine33:
Logcat. You are not running an old version are you?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] gt5oh:
How do I check.. Its been awhile since I updated but I had no problems at all so I had no need
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Mightycaptain:
Your right the stock kernel is very good. I do use KT Kernel the 8/20 build. With a slightly modified nightmare to remember settings so it wakes up better.

The chase is always the best performance for the most battery I know.

I thought this sad fantastic results and is pretty much my average. Auto screen by the way. I'm to lazy to adjust it all the time.

If you'd like to give it a shot I'd be glad to upload my settings for the KT Kernel for you to test drive and see if you get better results than stock as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] halloween240:
Big thanks Nitro for providing us with an awesome rom, i have been using Eclipse for years on my Bionic and now my S4. Just the best

Sent from my Galaxy S4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] innocent:
I'm trying to install the default galaxy s4 keyboard and it won't work. Any ideas? It doesn't show up